please make me king

Chapter 1586: Pontoon Bridge
Liao Ze is vast, and reed flowers are flying catkins.

In Russia, a group of egrets spread their wings and landed on the river bank, and then stretched out their long necks to catch shrimps and crabs in the river.

There are also flocks of mallard ducks swimming freely in the water, and occasionally a fierce one plunges down, and when the mallard comes up, it already has a lively small fish in its mouth.

Everything is so still, everything is so beautiful.

In this area where humans have never set foot, everything presents a kind of natural beauty.

However, at this moment, several arrows flew over and shot the two egrets to death on the spot by the river.

And other frightened egrets, wild ducks and a large group of unknown birds could not help but spread their wings and fly into the sky, quite like covering the sky and blocking out the sun.

And just as the birds were flying away, several tightly wrapped people came out from the nearby reeds.

These people carried bows and spears, and were dressed in light armor. Their heads and hands were covered with cloth, leaving only two eyes outside.

"Ha, I've been hit!" One of them couldn't help but exclaimed excitedly when he saw the two egrets splashing blood in the water.

"Hey, why are you fishing for it? This meat is fishy and sticky, not tasty at all!" The leader glanced at him and frowned.

"It's better to have something to eat than to have nothing to eat!" The man shook his head and smiled wryly while picking up an egret.

It turned out that these people were Hou Jin's scouts. They suffered from not having scouts to investigate the ambushes.

Even as elite scouts, they can only eat seven to eighty percent full now, and have to hunt some birds and animals to make up for the lack of food.

"This is the Liaohe River, right?" The leader knew his own family affairs, so he didn't ask any more questions, instead he built a shed with his hands and looked across the river.

"It's so wide, if it's not the Liaohe River, which one is it?" The man who fished the egret up, took off the arrow carefully, and continued the conversation.

"There is neither a boat nor a river on this river. Haven't we swum across it?" At this time, another person probed the depth of the river with a long gun, and he couldn't help but look ugly.

The leader took a look, and saw that most of the barrel of the gun had been soaked, and his expression was also grim.

It was late autumn, the weather turned cold, and the river had begun to freeze at night.

If the boss forcibly crosses the river, even if it is fatal, I am afraid that he will suffer a serious illness.

"Forget it, it's not something we should worry about, let's report it later!" The leader hesitated for a moment and couldn't help but said.

When everyone heard this, they also had the same reasoning, so they nodded, turned around and got into the reeds again.

With a rustling sound, everything returned to calm.

The frightened egrets, wild ducks and other birds gradually became more courageous and landed one after another, continuing to be at ease just now.

However, a few miles away from here, there is a group of humans who are not so lucky.

"Quick, pour it in!" With a loud shout, groups of Houjin elite soldiers like mud monkeys were pouring bags of dirt into the road ahead.

While these people were covering the soil, a large number of people also harvested the nearby reeds with swords and covered them with the soil.

It turned out that the closer to the Liaohe River, the more the swamp flooded.

The Houjin Pioneer Battalion had to bring drier soil from the vicinity and spread it on the muddy road.

However, after being paved, the soil will soon become soft again as the soldiers trample on it.

These people had no choice but to harvest some reeds and lay them on the ground, so that the main force of the later gold could pass.

But one or two miles behind these vanguard battalions, it was Duoduo and his [-] army.

It was just because of the previous attack by Yang Guozhu that Duoduo's canopy was lost, and some of the food and grass were burned, and some people were burned to the ground, looking quite embarrassed.

"Report, Your Majesty, the spies are here to report. The Liaohe River is just a few miles ahead, and we have already arrived at the Liaohe River!" At this moment, a person hurried over to report to the rather embarrassed Duoduohui.

Duoduo was thrown into the mud pit by the war horse earlier, although he escaped a catastrophe because of this, it is impossible to see the whole body.

Although later, with the assistance of the guards, he did a little freshening up, but due to the limited conditions, there was still a lot of dirt left.

"Oh? Is there a way to cross the river?" Duoduo asked hastily.

"No, the spies have checked carefully. Firstly, there is no bridge, and secondly, there is no boat. Moreover, the water in the river is biting, not less than ten feet deep!" The man responded quickly.

"One zhang?" Duoduo gasped when he heard that.

If it is this depth, even riding a horse fording will not be enough.

"The army is discussing how to cross the river?" Duoduo had no choice but to ask.

"This..." Everyone couldn't help lowering their heads when they heard the words, and there was no good way for a while.

Fortunately, one person happened to see the reeds under his feet, but he remembered the scene of the soldiers standing on the roots of the tangled reeds. He couldn't help but said quickly: "I have a way that is not a solution. I just don't know if it will work or not!"

"Let's hear it?" When everyone was at a loss what to do, they couldn't help being stunned.

"Your Majesty, although this reed is light, Patriarch Bodhidharma was able to cross the river with one reed in the past. Although we don't have the skills of Patriarch Bodhidharma now, if we form a boat with grass and connect the boat as a bridge, we can cross it!" the man said. Can't help laughing.

"Okay, let's do it like this!" Duoduo couldn't help being overjoyed when he heard this.

In Liaoze, although there are few trees, it is difficult to build a boat, but if we use reeds, we need as many as possible.

Not to mention how Duoduo cares about it, let's say that after Zhang Sanbai gave the order, some navy divisions went up the Liao River to repeatedly check for movements on both sides of the river.

On this day, two Cangshan boats and several fishing boats went upstream again and penetrated deep into Liaoze.

"Sentry officer, why do we check this place every day, can someone come to such a place where the birds don't shit?" After three or five days of continuous patrolling, the soldiers on the ship were tired of it and couldn't help complaining.

"Stop talking nonsense, if you are asked to investigate, you can investigate. Isn't this much better than working hard with others?" The sentry officer couldn't help reprimanding.

Although he said so, in fact, the sentry officer also felt that this was "Zhang Shuai messing around".

"Sentry officer, look!" Just when the whole ship was a little impatient, someone suddenly pointed out.

Everyone heard the sound and looked around, only to see at some time, a clump of reeds across the river, blocking the front.

"What is this?" The sentry officer couldn't help being surprised.

"Could it be that the water here is shallow, and the reeds grow along it?" Someone couldn't help guessing.

"Nonsense, which reed do you see can grow across the river sideways?" the sentry officer couldn't help scolding.

"Send the order down, send two small boats to take a closer look, and be careful not to be discovered by others. The others obey the order, quickly drive the boat into the reeds, and hide first!"

Following the order of the sentry officer, everyone couldn't help but took action. Most of the boats hid in the reeds on the river bank, while the other two small boats approached under the cover of the reeds.

"Huh? I seem to have seen a few boats just now?" At this moment, a late-gold scout rubbed his eyes and looked towards the south of the river.

"What kind of boat? Can there be a boat in this barren and inhabited place?" His boss built a shelter with his hands to look at it, and couldn't help cursing, "Don't talk nonsense, be careful with your head!"

"Hmm!" The man shrank his head when he heard the words, he thought he was dazzled, so he didn't take it seriously.

And at this moment, Hou Jin's army drove in, set foot on this floating reed bridge, and walked towards the other side of the river.

"Not bad, very stable!" Na Duoduo also came to the bridge, stepped on the bridge for an interview, and nodded in satisfaction.

As the man said, weaving a large number of reeds into a boat first, and then connecting it together, although it is not as good as a pontoon bridge connected by boats, at least it can ferry people.

"Your Majesty, please move!" Not long after, seeing that the Vanguard Battalion had already crossed the Liao River, someone hurriedly said.

"Okay, let's cross the river with me!" Duoduo nodded in satisfaction, and couldn't help but invite the same.

Although Liaoze was formed by the flooding of the Liaohe River, the Liaohe River did not evenly divide the Liaoze into two halves.

In fact, after crossing the Liaohe River, it takes another thirty to fifty miles to leave Liaoze and arrive at Zhangyi Station.

Zhangyi Station, that is, Zhangyi Station, was originally a post station in the Yuan Dynasty, sixty miles away from Shenyang and eighty miles away from Liaoyang.

Once the Houjin soldiers arrived here, it only took a day and a night to rush to the city of Liaoyang, so Duoduo's mood improved.

However, at this moment, someone suddenly shouted in panic: "Fire, fire, fire!"

"Nonsense, it's not lunch time yet, where did the fire come from?" Duoduo was furious when he heard the words, and wanted to find someone to disturb the morale of the army.

"Your Highness, look!" At this moment, the left and right couldn't help pointing to the south river in panic.

Na Duoduo turned his head subconsciously, and saw two small boats coming from nowhere, billowing thick smoke, rushing towards the middle of the pontoon bridge quickly.

"Quick, stop him!" Duoduo ordered hastily.

Just where is it too late?

But after the Jin soldiers fired two rounds of arrows, only a few plops were heard, and the "dead soldiers" on the boat jumped into the water, and disappeared after a sharp stab.

And the two fire boats just caught fire and hit the pontoon bridge.

The soldiers on the bridge hurriedly pushed with the spears in their hands, but how could they push away?

When the reed meets the fire, it is instantly ignited.

The blazing flames spread immediately, and the soldiers on the pontoon bridge turned and ran away in shock.

It's just that on the narrow pontoon bridge, how can you run away?

Immediately, some people were squeezed out of the river, while others jumped into the water on their own initiative, creating a mess for a while.

Na Duoduo was staring blankly, but still reacted quickly to the left and right, and hurriedly took him off the bridge again.

After finally getting out of danger and settled down, Na Duoduo looked up and saw that the pontoon bridge had already turned into a bridge of fire, how could they cross it?
"Zhang Sanbai, labor and capital are irreconcilable with you!" Duoduo couldn't help but shouted in grief and anger, and for a moment he was so angry that he fell headfirst to the ground.

(End of this chapter)