Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 444

When the artillery roared, Yu Zigao had already led more than [-] Spike warships into a river channel with a width of more than [-] feet.

There are a total of more than ten rivers around the Siam King City, but in order to avoid alarming the snakes, they did not enter these rivers to investigate in advance.

In other words, he didn't know whether there were pontoon bridges on these rivers.

He only knew that all floating bridges must be cut down in the shortest possible time.

Therefore, he directly divided his warships into more than a dozen groups. For each river channel, more than [-] warships went to check. If there is a pontoon bridge, then cut it off directly. If there is no pontoon bridge, then go back and return to order.

He chose the widest river near the Siam King City, which runs between the east and south sides of the Siam King City. He believed that there must be a pontoon in this river, otherwise the enemy would not be able to connect to Siam. The east and south of Luowang City.

Sure enough, the fleet had just turned a bend, and a pontoon bridge appeared less than two miles away.

He glanced through the binoculars, then decisively raised his hand and said: "The shield wall is erected, loaded with shells, and ready to bombard."

"Ha", the pawns who were neatly arranged on both sides of the deck immediately stacked their shields to form a shield wall higher than a person, protecting the sailors on the deck inside the shield wall, while the sailors Then he lifted out the ammunition box and quickly loaded the shells into the four left and right cannons.

These Donghu people like Yin people the most. Although there seems to be no one on both sides of the river at the moment, as long as they enter their ambush circle, they will definitely rain arrows.

In this regard, Lu Xiangsheng has suffered a loss once, and Yu Zigao will naturally not be careless again.

Therefore, even if he couldn't see a single figure with the binoculars, he ordered the pawns to erect the shield wall to cover the sides of the warship.

This trick of Donghu people is really a bit disgusting, they always like shady people in the woods.

No wonder there is no guard on such a long pontoon bridge!

Sure enough, when the fleet was still one mile away from the floating bridge, countless arrows suddenly flew out from both sides of the river bank.

These arrows are not all rockets, there are also ordinary arrows, anyway, they are densely packed without warning.

The river is only fifty feet wide, and these arrows can easily cover the warships in the middle.

However, after they were prepared, these arrows were useless.

There was a chaotic sound of "ding ding dong dong", most of the arrows were intercepted by the shield array and fell into the water. Of course, some rockets also landed on the cabin in the middle.

"Puff puff puff" several muffled sounds, and flames burst out of the cabin immediately.

Yu Zigao also ordered no one to put out the fire, because the wooden boards of the cabin had been specially treated, and the fire would not burn for a while.

He didn't need to send someone to put out the fire at this moment.

Because once he sends people to put out the fire, the shield wall will be dismantled, and the deck will be exposed at that time, and it will be more troublesome for the rocket to fall on it.

He directly ordered: "Fire."

"Boom boom boom", there was a violent roar of artillery, and hundreds of shells immediately fell into the jungle on both sides.

He didn't know whether the bomb hit the enemy, anyway, it was enough to scare the enemy.

Because their goal is not to kill the enemy, but to cut down the pontoon.

The effect of the artillery seems to be not very good, and the rain of arrows on both sides has never stopped.

However, at this moment, the Kung Fu fleet had already approached the pontoon bridge in the middle of the river.

At this time, the arrows on both sides stopped instead, and a group of Donghu soldiers suddenly sprang up from the river banks on both sides, rushing towards the pontoon bridge quickly.

They also understood that the Ming army wanted to cut down their pontoon bridge.

It's just that they didn't expect that the Ming army would not even put out the fire, and rushed directly to the pontoon bridge.

Now that everyone is leaning on the pontoon, they naturally can't just watch others chop.

They had no choice but to rush out of the hidden jungle and rush up to stop them.

The pontoon bridge built by Donghu people is just a temporary piece of iron chains and wooden rafts.

Moreover, too many people can't pass. After a bunch of people are on both sides, the pontoon bridge is almost sinking below the surface of the water.

Yu Zigao just looked at it for a while, and then ordered loudly: "Musketeer, fire."

"Papa papa", a burst of intensive gunfire sounded, and more than a dozen enemies in the front row on both sides were turned over.

The pontoon bridge was not very fast. After more than a dozen people fell down in front, the people behind were basically blocked, and Dong Hubing had to push the people in front into the water to continue to rush forward.

With such a resistance, the speed of Donghu soldiers rushing over was also stagnant.

Seeing this, Yu Zigao swung the big ax with both hands without hesitation, jumped up, and chopped down an iron chain on the pontoon bridge with one blow.

With a sound of "clang", an iron chain was cut off by him, and the pontoon immediately shook violently.

The Donghu people never expected that there would be such a fierce man in the Ming army, who could cut off an iron chain with a single axe. How much effort is that?
The enemies on both sides were caught off guard and many of them were squeezed into the water by their own people.

Yu Zigao stabilized his figure, then shouted again, raised the big axe, and slashed at the other iron chain with one blow.

With a sound of "clang", he also cut off the other iron chain, and the pontoon bridge was immediately disconnected from the middle.

He directly chopped the ax into the raft, stabilized his body, and then took the rope thrown from the boat with one hand, and then pushed a little on the raft, the whole person rolled on the raft as if rolling in the air. up the deck.

Although this posture is a bit embarrassing, it is indeed the fastest way to get on the boat.

After rolling a few times, he got up and ordered directly: "Turn around, retreat."

The pontoon bridge was broken, and his mission was completed, so there was no need to entangle the enemy here.

At this time, the pontoon bridges outside the Siam King City were basically cut off by his soldiers, and the entire east, west and south sides of the Siam King City were separated into isolated islands by various rivers.

The Ming army has warships, and the speed of building pontoon bridges is very fast, so it is natural to go where they want to go.

Donghu's army didn't even have a single boat, so they didn't know how long it would take to cross the river with wooden rafts.

As for repairing the pontoon, that's more troublesome.

Because the Ming army cut off the iron chain from the middle, he had to pull the iron chain from both sides to the middle to connect it.

It is difficult to control the direction of the raft in the river, and the speed of the horizontal row is extremely slow. Moreover, it will be pushed downstream by the current. Not so difficult.

On the side of the Ming army, the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion and the Shenwu Battalion passed through the widest tributary of the Chao Phraya River and began to divide into three groups, and launched an offensive to the east, west, south, and east of the Siam King City at the same time.

To the east is the infantry of the [-] Shenji Battalion, to the west is the infantry of the [-] Shenwu Battalion, and to the south is the cavalry of the [-] Shenwu Battalion.

With the cooperation of the naval warships, their advancing speed should not be too fast, especially the cavalry of the [-] Shenwu Battalion on the South Road. They killed through the enemy army for more than ten miles in less than half an hour, and rushed to Lisiam In front of the nearest river in Luowang City.

At this time, hundreds of naval warships were already engaged in battle with the enemy on the other side.

This river is actually only forty or fifty feet wide, and the pontoon bridge should not be built too quickly.

It took less than a quarter of an hour for the navy officers and soldiers to build the pontoon bridge after defeating the enemy army on the opposite side with muskets and artillery.

As soon as the iron cavalry of the Shenji Battalion crossed the river, they were less than ten miles away from the Siamese Dynasty, and there were only more than ten thousand Donghu infantry in the middle. How could they hold back a hundred thousand cavalry? Scared out of my wits.

Cao Wenzhao and Cao Bianjiao led the army to hack and kill, and in less than half an hour, they had already rushed to the south gate of Siam King City.

In fact, they were not responsible for clearing out the enemy troops in the south. Their goal was the enemy troops in the north of Siam King City.

Therefore, they rushed all the way crazily and went straight to the south gate of Siam King City.

At this time, the king of Siam and the fierce general Zu Dale who was in charge of leading the troops here had already been waiting on the city wall for a long time.

The King of Siam was stunned when he saw the cavalry from the Shenwu Battalion swarming over.

My God, how many armored cavalry are there so densely packed that you can't see their heads at a glance?

Cao Wenzhao, on the other side of the moat, yelled, "General Zu, quickly let them put down the suspension bridge."

The King of Siam came to his senses after hearing the words, and ordered people to put down the suspension bridge quickly.

As soon as the suspension bridge landed, Cao Wenzhao led his iron cavalry straight to the city. As soon as he passed the city gate, he waved at Cao Bianjiao, then turned his horse's head, and came directly to the stairs on the city wall.

Immediately afterwards, he flew off his horse and leaped to the top of the city wall in a few strides.

He didn't talk too much, and directly said to Zu Dale: "General Zu, an order from Lu Xiang to ascend to Master Lu ordered you to immediately gather your troops and go out of the city to wipe out the enemy army in the south."

Zu Dale hastily said he obeyed, and then arranged for his personal guards to send orders to gather the troops.

Seeing this, the King of Siam couldn't help asking: "This is General Cao, right? Master Lu has an order, what should we Siamese defenders do?"

What can you do?
Cao Wenzhao clasped his hands and said loudly: "My lord, Mr. Lu said that you can lead the army to defend Siam King City, and I will leave at the end."

After finishing speaking, he hurriedly rushed under the city wall.

Soon, [-] iron cavalry passed through the Siam King City, swarmed out directly from the north gate, set up their positions, and prepared to charge the enemy in the north.

(End of this chapter)