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Chapter 720 Fire Attack
The Yellow River is full of waves.

Standing on the pontoon bridge, Pei Yong's feet were trembling a little. He was originally from Wenxi in Hedong, from the Pei family in Hedong.If one traces back the genealogy, he is also related to Pei Ji, the prime minister of the dynasty, and Pei Ju, the secretary of Zhao Guohonglu Temple.

But when it came to Pei Yong's grandfather, he was appointed as an official in Hanoi, and he didn't move around with the clan members less, but he became estranged.

This time to select the government army, the Tang army mobilized on a large scale in Hedong, and selected soldiers from the government households with three or five orders.As the Qiangzong Pei family who has always had his children as government households, he was among the selections.Therefore, Pei Yong, who was only 16 years old this year, volunteered to let his two elder brothers take care of his wife and children at home, honor their parents, and brought his two slaves to join the army.

Captain Zhechong of the government army met Pei Yong, and liked his filial piety, coupled with his father's official system, so he appointed him as the captain.

Now Pei Yong is wearing a military uniform, holding a bow and arrow, and standing on the pontoon bridge. On his left and right are the soldiers of the Tang army. They raised their bows and looked nervously at the Zhao army fleet upstream. .

"This is really unwise!" Pei Yong said in a low voice.

The servant at the side heard this and asked, "Why did the young master say that?"

Pei Yong pointed to the floating cities near the sandbar in the river and said, "If we can resist the Zhao army, these few floating cities will be enough. If the Zhao army's warships even break through the floating cities and approach the floating bridge, we will What good can thousands of people gather on the pontoon bridge? On the contrary, the pontoon bridge is narrow, and thousands of people can't move forward or back on the bridge, which will cause chaos instead."

When Pei Yong said this, the servant nodded, but he was worried about affecting the young master's determination, and he persuaded him: "Fortunately, Zhao Jun's battleship is downstream, not upstream, so it is impossible to attack us with fire, otherwise it will be difficult."

At this time, Zhao Jun's warships had lowered their sails one after another, and slowed down as they approached the pontoon bridge.Three Zhao Jun building boats and five Zhao Jun warships approached the lower pontoon bridge.

Several warships of the Tang Army in front of them wanted to stop them, but they were immediately smashed to pieces by ballistas and catapults from Zhao Junlou's ships, and sank in the rapids of the Yellow River.When Pei Yong saw Tang's warship, he sank into the rushing Yellow River without even approaching Zhao's warship.

"Prepare!"

Seeing Zhao Jun's battleship approaching within a hundred steps of the pontoon bridge, Pei Yong roared, and his soldiers on the pontoon bridge lit their arrows to torches, and then shot at the approaching Zhao Jun warship.Tang Jun was good at shooting, and his soldiers had a bow in each hand.

Thousands of arrows pierced the air and swept away, the river made a sound like wind passing through the woods, and soldiers on Zhao Jun's warships screamed from time to time.

"Good shot!"

It was only after Pei Yong finished speaking that Zhao Jun's battleship in front of him was slowly turning around on the river surface, bringing the side of the ship parallel to the pontoon bridge.The ballista on the side of the ship is striking.

The range of the ballista is more than 150 steps, but Zhao Jun approached the battleship to only [-] steps from the pontoon bridge. Why is this?
But seeing the hull of the boat slowly turning in the middle of the river, the Zhao soldiers on the left and right of the ballista also adjusted the direction of the ballista up, down, left, and right.But Tang Jun who was pointed at by the ballista was pale and bloodless.They struggled to grasp the wooden shield in their hands, as if it was a life-saving straw.

clang!
Suddenly, the sound of a wooden mallet being struck came from Zhao Jun's battleship.Propelled by this huge force, even the huge Zhao Junlou boat swayed left and right on the river.

Pei Yong's legs went limp, and he didn't care about his face. The moment the ballista was fired, he fell down on the pontoon bridge.

The arrows from the ballista on the bow pierced through the pontoon bridge in one breath, blowing up countless sawdust.Several soldiers of the Tang army attached to the pontoon bridge couldn't stabilize themselves, and fell into the river under the shock of the surf.And more soldiers of the Tang army were lying on the river bridge like Pei Yong, not daring to stand upright at all.

Boom!
Boom!
The ballista on Zhao Junlou's boat fired a salvo, and several boulders were thrown from the bow of the boat, hitting both sides of the pontoon bridge far and near, causing countless splashes of water.Fortunately, Zhao Jun's trebuchet didn't seem to have a high hit rate. If one shot hit the pontoon bridge, the damage would be greater than that of the pontoon bridge.

The military uniforms on Pei Yong's body were soaked through. He knew in his heart that even if there were iron chains jumping up the pontoon bridge, it would not be broken, but the lives of the soldiers of the Tang army on the pontoon bridge on them were in danger.

"No, keep going like this." Pei Yong stood up with big strides, and ran towards Zhongtan City, which was protected by the city and the floating city on the river.

As for the Tang army's navy, seeing the river boats sunk by Zhao Jun one after another on the river, Pei Yong had no illusions at all at the moment.In fact, not only Pei Yong, but the soldiers of the Tang army on the pontoon bridge, seeing all the artillery arrows on the Zhao army's warships hitting the pontoon bridge, had already made preparations to abandon the pontoon bridge, and immediately went on the pontoon bridge to the floating city in the river. run away.

But Pei Yong knew that these soldiers were not the worst. The worst was the Tang army who stayed on the south bank of the Yellow River and had no time to retreat to the pontoon bridge.

Don't leave us alone!

The pontoon bridge fell, and the soldiers on the south bank originally attacked Heyang Nancheng. The soldiers of the Tang army shouted desperately, and they all swam across the river to escape to the pontoon bridge.The wounded soldiers couldn't move and could only watch helplessly, while the other soldiers who could walk rushed towards the pontoon bridge.

Coming from the south bank, Zhao Jun's battleship has already dispatched small boats to approach here.On the Yellow River, they intercepted the soldiers of the Tang army who were about to flee back to the pontoon bridge.But seeing Zhao Jun's boats rushing forward, many soldiers of the Tang army floating in the river were directly knocked unconscious by the boats and sank to the bottom of the water.

And the soldiers of Zhao Jun on the ship's side took long spears and speared into the water. This scene was like a fisherman fishing with a harpoon.

The river was full of blood.

The way back was completely cut off, and there were still nearly a thousand Tang troops left on the south bank. Now that the pontoon bridge was blown up, they could only watch helplessly as their own soldiers returned from the pontoon bridge, and they, as the abandoned party, , staying alone on the south bank.

On a tall ship, You Ying stood tall at the bow, with a shield in one hand and a horizontal knife in the other standing beside the captain.

You Ying looked at the water of the Yellow River, and remembered that she and her father rescued an unknown woman from a small boat to her own boat.He still doesn't know who this woman is, but he knows that when he sees this woman, he will never look at another woman in his life.

The old man saw his thoughts and told him that even if his old You's family had fished for another 500 years, he would never think that he would be able to marry this girl, even if he was not qualified to propose a marriage.After hearing this, You Ying understood that this girl was like a fairy in the sky in his heart, how could he have such blasphemous thoughts.

But You Ying told his father, I will stop fishing, and I will join the army in the future.

The father was very angry when he heard this, saying that he was the only son in the You family, how could he be allowed to join the army.You Ying insisted on refusing, he was not willing to spend all day fishing up and down on the Yellow River, he wanted to see the world, at least if he had a chance to see this girl again next time, he could tell her that her surname was You, A single name with a single word Ying, that's all.

So Youying is like many men whose dreams start from women, he wants to join the army.

In the last water battle with the Tang army on the Yellow River, he made a contribution and was promoted to the head of the Zhao army.But now he has been promoted to be the captain's lieutenant, serving around the captain all day long.This ship general is very good at water and is good at leading troops to fight. The last time he fought with the Tang army, he led his soldiers to jump on the Tang army's warships and captured three Tang army warships.

However, although this boat general is very skilled, he is not good at steering a boat. You Ying was born and raised on the Yellow River, so boat steering is a daily routine for him, and the water condition of the Yellow River is better than anyone in Zhao Jun. I understand even more.

So the general promoted him to be a lieutenant general, in charge of everything on the ship except for the battle. The general said that if he got military merits in this battle, he would recite his merits.

Youying's face was firm and resolute. Right now, the surface of the Yellow River under the south city of Heyang was already crimson. Countless corpses of soldiers of the Tang Army were floating on the surface of the river, rushing down with the waves.So far, the southern city of Heyang has been saved, but the Tang army's pontoon bridge has not been destroyed. As long as the Tang army's pontoon bridge is not burned, they can still cross the river continuously and attack the southern city.

You Ying stared at the floating cities on the sandbars in the river. If you want to defeat the Tang army, you must occupy the sandbars in the river. If you want to occupy the sandbars in the river, you must break through these floating cities.The floating city on the water is attached to the sand state in the river, which seems a bit difficult to handle.

But the captain is confident.

"Let's break through the Tang Jun pontoon first and rush upstream!"
You Ying listened to the captain's orders, and immediately became busy. Since she wanted to break through the Tang army's obstruction, she had to speed up.You Ying immediately ordered the soldiers on the ship's side to cut off the cables hanging from the safety basket on both sides of the ship's side.The peace basket full of ship-weighting stones was smashed into the water of the Yellow River from both sides of the ship's side, making several loud bangs.After missing the Taiping basket, the speed of the battleship suddenly increased by a few points.

You Ying personally steered the ship, hoisted half of the sails again, and moved forward with the wind, passing several ships and rushing directly to the Tang Jun pontoon bridge.

The pontoon bridge of the Tang Army had been beaten to pieces long ago under the ballista salvo of the Zhao Army's battleship just now.The two big iron bulls on both sides of the fixed pontoon bridge were overturned by soldiers of Zhao army killed in Heyang City, and even the iron chains were cut off by soldiers of army Zhao.

As the battleship approached rapidly, the ram at the front easily broke through the pontoon bridge and rushed to the upper reaches of the pontoon bridge.

Seeing this scene, the captain couldn't help shouting excitedly, and even boasted to You Ying: "Good job, brother, set sail for me and don't stop!"

You Ying was very happy to hear the captain's praise, and continued to drive the boat upstream. The dozen or so warships of the Zhao army followed suit and broke through the pontoon bridge to travel upstream.

"Hurry up and take out the good things in the cabin!"

The ship gave an order, and the sailors on the ship immediately entered the cabin and took out barrels of things that looked like sealed oil barrels and put them on the deck.

"Be gentle with me!" the boat general said loudly.

"Brothers, go to the firewood boat and set the boat on fire for me!" The captain shouted.

"Why?" Everyone was puzzled.

"Let me hear it, don't be wordy, I'll let you watch the show later."

When You Ying heard that the boat was going to be set on fire, he was very reluctant in his heart, but he also knew that the fire attack on the river required a fire boat.The ship general told himself that during the Battle of Chibi that year, the Sun Liu coalition army also defeated the mighty Cao army with fire attack.

So You Ying personally ignited the boat and sent the boat downstream.With no one at the helm, the battleship staggered downstream.

When the battleship rushed to the floating city of Tang Jun, there was a sudden violent impact, followed by a loud noise that shook the sky!

boom!
The surface of the river suddenly turned into a sea of ​​flames.

(End of this chapter)