Han Dang is stronger

Chapter 379 Divine Soldier descends from heaven
The follow-up reinforcements of the Han army came much faster than expected, and far more than expected, and the Han army even divided up to fight the idea of ​​the Ge County Ferry in the lower reaches of the plain. Faced with these sudden changes, Tian Du , Ding Gu, Zhou Lan and others could not remain indifferent. Fortunately, the high-level officials of the Chu-Ji coalition forces were all on the scene, and they didn’t need to go back to call for help. .

"It is necessary to immediately divide the troops to reinforce the ferry in Ge County. Although the king has ordered the defenders of Ge County to confiscate the ships and block the ferry, the west bank of the river is the territory of Zhao State after all, and the head of Zhao State will not hand it over willingly. All the ships, if they covet the Han thieves for a lot of money, and the Han thieves really collect enough ships, they might be able to snatch the boats in Ge County, so we must immediately send troops to Ge County for reinforcements."

Tian Du's decisive decision was unanimously approved by Zhou Lan, Ding Gu and others, and after a short discussion, Tian Jiao, a general of the Jibei Army, took over the arduous task of immediately going north to reinforce Li County. It was decided to let Tian Jiao lead the army to go to Li County for reinforcements by boat, and then Tian Jiaolian, Tian Du and others could not wait to return to the camp, so they immediately rode back to the camp and led the [-] troops of the headquarters to set off urgently to the east bank of the plain. The boat set off and hurried to Li County to block the ferry.And then, Old General Ding asked another important question, "King of Jibei, General Zhou, will we still fight the plains tomorrow?"

Both Tian Du and Zhou Lan frowned and thought nervously. After a while, Zhou Lan said: "I think we should fight, because the reinforcements from the Han thieves are far more than we imagined. If we don't take Pingyuan quickly, Let the Han thieves collect enough boats to launch a rush to cross, then we will not only have no chance to capture the plains and capture the family members of the Han thieves, on the contrary, we have to prevent the thieves in Pingyuan City from going out of the city to make an assault, and to meet the reinforcements of the Han thieves to cross the river , so that we have no way to fully deal with the robbery of the Han thieves."

"That's the truth." Ding Gu seldom helped his younger generation once, and said: "If we don't seize the opportunity to take Pingyuan, Feng Zhong's bandit army will become a hidden danger for us. Only by taking the opportunity to cross the plain, we can concentrate on dealing with the Han bandits crossing the river, so that we have more hope of keeping the Han bandits on the west bank of the river for a long time, and persist until our main force comes to rescue."

Tian Du kept a straight face and said nothing, and finally began to regret that he refused the Han army's offer to release him, and ended up in the current situation, but considering that he was too close to Xiang Yu, and his main force was far away in the territory of Xiang Yu's ally Zhao Guo , and Xiang Yu's brutal methods and violent temper, Tian Du could only make up his mind, gritted his teeth and said: "Then fight, first take down the plain to eliminate the hidden dangers on the east bank, and then deal with the Han bandit army on the east bank with all our strength."

Zhou Lan and Ding Gu said yes together, and then Ding Gu quickly reminded: "Your Majesty, keep in touch with Ge County at all times. If the Han bandits really succeed in crossing Ge County, don't forget to inform us immediately."

"Old man, it turns out that you are also guilty."

Tian Du rolled his eyelids, knowing that Ding Gu was worried about the sudden attack of the Han army from the lower reaches of the Yellow River, but he still nodded, promising that if such a situation really happened, he would definitely notify the Western Chu army immediately, and then he said in his heart Rather helplessly, he said: "The main reason is that the Han thieves can't attack Xiang Yu'er from the front, and there is no natural danger like a big river between Jibei and Chudi. Bear the brunt, otherwise, hum!"

Although he was not very willing, but for his own benefit, Tian Du accepted the proposal of the Western Chu Army, and even though he had already sent troops to Ge County for reinforcements, he still bit the bullet and decided to continue attacking Pingyuan City according to the original plan.Then, in the early morning of the next day, the Jinbei Army under Tian Du's command and the Western Chu Army Zhou Lan and Ding Gu's two divisions went out together, carrying the siege weapons that had been built before, and arrived at the city of Pingyuan. Feng Zhongjun, who was directly reinforced by the Han army, launched an attack.

Seeing the arrival of the Chuji Allied Forces, the gongs and alarms sounded one after another on Pingyuan City. Feng Zhongjun's soldiers rushed to the city to prepare for the battle. Feng Zhong himself rushed to the city wall immediately to check the situation of the incoming enemy. After the many siege weapons and tall ladder carts brought by the coalition forces, Feng Zhong's brows were also twisted into a knot, and he couldn't help but look back at the Han army camp on the west bank of the Yellow River, sighing in his heart, "Why are there no boats? Even if there are [-] or [-] large ships on the west bank, I can relax a lot in this battle."

At this time, Li Shiqi also came to Feng Zhong's side. When he saw the twelve tall ladder carts brought by the Chuji Allied Forces, Li Shiqi, who was quite skilled in the military, also changed his expression and hurriedly asked Feng Zhong: "General Feng, Is our tung oil sufficient? Are we sure we can deal with so many ladder vehicles?"

"If there were enough, I wouldn't be so worried." Feng Zhong smiled bitterly, and said, "I asked the soldiers to search the whole city, but only found more than 40 barrels of tung oil. Can we deal with so many ladder trucks? It’s just a matter of luck.”

Li Shiqi remained silent, and said after a while: "Temporarily block the city gate with sandbags of earth, rocks, and save the tung oil to deal with the bandit army's ladder vehicles."

Feng Zhong nodded helplessly, and could only quickly order the reserve team in the city to carry sandbags to block the city gate, so that all the precious kerosene could be used to deal with the enemy's ladder vehicles. However, after giving the order, Feng Zhong changed his mind again. He changed his mind and ordered: "Only block the three gates in the southeast and north, and don't block the west gate. If our friendly forces find a way to find the ship, they will probably rush to reinforce us and leave the west gate so they can come in."

Time passed quickly, and before Feng Zhongjun had time to block all the three gates in the southeast and north of Pingyuan City, the Chuji Allied Forces had already formed a formation outside Pingyuan City. The crossbowmen fired arrows to suppress the defenders on the city.As a result, the Chuji coalition forces were secretly happy and Feng Zhong was secretly depressed. During this period, the reinforcements of the Han army camped on the west bank of the Yellow River did not move at all. They did not dispatch troops to the pier to board the ship as Feng Zhong hoped. , using only a dozen small boats on the pier on the west bank to cross the river to reinforce the battlefield on the east bank, the camp was as calm as if they didn't know that a big war was about to start on the east bank.

When the hour was about to pass, the Chu-Ji Allied Forces completed the final pre-battle preparations, and then accompanied by the rhythmic beating of war drums, the Jibei Army and the West Chu Army dispatched in three groups at the same time, each carrying two ladder carts and two collision carts. The city carts and a large number of flying ladders launched an attack on the southeast, north and south gates of Pingyuan City at the same time. They also invested [-] troops in the first attack, posing a posture that they were determined to win Pingyuan City.

Not only that, but the Chu-Ji Allied Forces fought very cunningly, knowing that it would be difficult to climb the city with simple ladders alone, and the slow-moving and bulky ladder carts were the best hope for the self-army to break through the city, so Feng Zhongjun hadn't waited for the ladder carts to enter the city The light infantry of the Chuji Allied Forces had already carried the flying ladder and launched a charge, forcibly attracting the firepower of Feng Zhongjun's crossbow.General Feng Zhongjun had no choice but to quickly release arrows to suppress the enemy's charge momentum and try to reduce the frontal pressure of the self-army as much as possible.

The real highlight is of course at the back. The ladder carts of the Chuji Allied Forces entered the range of Feng Zhongjun's bow and arrows. The city of Pingyuan immediately seemed to be boiling, and immediately released countless rockets wrapped in linoleum, all of which were densely packed. In just a split second, the ladder carts of the Chu-Ji Allied Forces were staring at many burning rockets.

No way, the combustion performance of tung oil is not as good as that of later generations of fire oil, and the amount of oil it carries is too small to ignite the ladder truck immediately. The burning effect of Feng Zhongjun's rockets is naturally smaller, so even though many rockets were plugged in, the ladder vehicles of the Chuji coalition army did not quickly rise to the flames. After pushing forward another [-] or [-] steps, there were only two Chuji vehicles. The ladder truck of the Economic Union Army caught fire.

At this time, the Flying Echelon Squadron of the Chuji Allied Forces, which had rushed directly to the city, had already started the ant-attachment attack, which also began to affect Feng Zhongjun's rocket launch. Shooting at the enemy's aerial ladder carts, there was a roar of killing above and below the city wall, shouting constantly, "Shoot the arrows! Shoot the arrows! Don't let the aerial ladder carts lean against the city wall, and don't let the bandit army's aerial ladder carts lean against the city wall. "

The six cloud-ladder vehicles that were gradually ignited were pushed closer and closer to the city wall under the vigorous push of the Chuji coalition forces. The soldiers of Feng Zhongjun on the city had no choice but to use the high-cost swallowtail torches that consumed more kerosene to deal with them. Fortunately, the dovetail torch with double hooks on the rear end of the ladder car is also worth the money. When it hits the ladder car, it can hook the wood and burn it. After being able to cross the previously filled moat, it turned into two huge fireballs, completely losing the siege effect, and the remaining four ladder carts had different fires, and the soldiers of the Chuji coalition army kept yelling, "Hurry up! Quickly push! Quickly push up and lean against the city wall!"

Relying on the hard work of the soldiers of the Chuji Allied Forces, among the first batch of six ladders put in, three still managed to get close to the east and north gate walls of Pingyuan City. Fighting hard to kill and block them, at the same time throwing swallowtail torches and firewood torches one after another at any cost, and setting fire to the enemy's ladder trucks against the clock, Feng Zhong was also so nervous that he completely forgot the weakness of his own army's serious shortage of kerosene, and roared just to urge the soldiers Hurry up and throw the torch.

Fortunately, thanks to the reckless investment, the three ladder carts leaning against the city wall finally ignited into the sky one after another. They collapsed and disappeared under the trampling of the soldiers of the Chuji coalition army, and failed to continue to threaten the safety of the Pingyuan city. At the same time, relying on Feng Zhongjun's desperate counterattack one after another, the enemies who rushed up the city wall failed to last long on the city, and were also expelled from the city one after another.However, before Feng Zhongjun could heave a sigh of relief, another three ladder vehicles rushed into their range separately, once again posing a fatal threat to Pingyuan City.

"How much tung oil is left?!"

Of course Feng Zhong was most concerned about this question, but the answer he got made Feng Zhong's face turn pale. There were less than three barrels of tung oil left on the east gate of the main battlefield!It is even more difficult to deal with the ladder vehicles that the Chuji coalition forces invested later, let alone deal with the remaining three ladder vehicles of the Chuji coalition forces!

At the same time, it was discovered that the number of rockets released by Feng Zhongjun had decreased significantly. Of course, Tian Du, Ding Gu and the others were all grinning, and the old general Ding Guding who was in charge of the South Gate battlefield even proudly cursed: "You man! Look at you!" How many rockets and swallow-tailed torches are there left? When we enter Pingyuan City, we will see how this old man will deal with you..."

"There's a boat! There's a boat coming!"

The sudden screams interrupted Old General Ding's triumphant yells, because these yells were too chaotic, including many of his own soldiers, so Old General Ding suddenly got a little angry, turned his head and shouted: "What are you shouting about? What ship is coming? How many ships are coming...?"

Before he finished yelling, Old General Ding stopped himself, then quickly rubbed his eyes, pinched his thigh, and looked at the Yellow River west of the self-army position in disbelief, and then He screamed like a pig butcher again, "Isn't this old man dreaming?!"

For the Chuji Allied Forces and Feng Zhongjun, the changes that occurred on the Yellow River were indeed unbelievable like a dream—at this moment, the upper reaches of the Yellow River seemed to be descended from heaven, and there were countless ships of all sizes. , And every ship is planted with a conspicuous military flag, the red flag of the Han army!Riding the wind and waves, cutting the waves and raising the sails, he is rushing towards the plain ferry at a flying speed!

"The fleet of traitors is coming! The fleet of traitors is coming! Countless ships are coming!"

"Our fleet is coming! Our fleet is coming! Our reinforcements can cross the river! We can cross the river!"

Huge uproar and cheers rang out from the upper and lower parts of Pingyuan City at the same time. Of course, Feng Zhongjun's cheers resounded throughout the city, while the Chuji Allied Forces panicked, as if the end was approaching.Hearing such a voice, and seeing the huge size of the Han army fleet from a high place outside the city, Tian Du, Zhou Lan and others almost pinched their thighs, and shouted in disbelief, "How is it possible? There are so many ships here? Did the fleet of Han thieves fall from the sky?!"

Of course, the Han army fleet did not fall from the sky. In fact, the main force of the Han army Zheng Bu's troops on the west bank of the Yellow River had already known that there would be a fleet of their own army arriving today, and they had already made preparations for a rush crossing attack. Prepare, so before the sudden arrival of the Han army fleet docked at the pier on the west bank, countless Han army officers and soldiers have already lined up and strode to the pier to board the boat to rush across. Zheng Bu, Li Zuoche and Zhong Limei The others also rode their horses to the pier, waiting for the friendly army to arrive with a smile on their faces.

In a short time, the fleet of the Han army approached the wharf on the west bank of the Yellow River one after another. Before the boat stopped, the largest boat jumped off. Looking at Zheng Bu, he shouted: "Old Zheng, I'm not late, am I? How are my uncle and my elder brother doing?"

"Don't worry, they're all fine, they're all in the opposite plain city."

Zheng Bu pointed to the plain city on the other side of the Yellow River and replied with a smile. Ding Ji was overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly shouted: "Then why are you still in a daze? Immediately ask your soldiers to board the boat and rush to rescue me, my wife, and yours." Parents and family members! The son of a bitch, the Western Chu bandit army and the Jibei bandit army, dare to bully my old lady like this, let’s see how I will kill them all today!"

The two sides of the Yellow River at Pingyuandu are the territory of the Zhao army and the Jibei army. Of course, it is difficult for the Han army to raise enough boats to cross the river at Pingyuandu. Puyang Wharf has long been under the control of the Han army. Not only are there a large number of large and small ships there, but also because the Han army continues to transport grain from Ao Cang to the front line by water, they can recruit grain transport ships to transport troops across the river. It is not very far from the plains, and there are no obstacles along the way. There is a clear road from Puyang to Julu, and the communication is convenient. This is the reason why the Han army fleet suddenly came from upstream.

As for why the Han army fleet arrived in time at noon on the second day after the main force of Zheng Bu's army arrived at Pingyuandu, and why the Han army would have Qingqi to go to Ge County downstream to collect ships, pretending to rush to cross the Yellow River in Ge County Li Zuoche, who is good at timing and scheming, lured the Chuji allied forces to send a fleet to Ge County for reinforcements.

Closer to home, following Zheng Bu's order, the soldiers of the Han army, who had been preparing for a long time, immediately rushed to the pier and boarded the boat one by one, grinning grinningly and preparing to launch a rush to cross.On the east bank of the Yellow River, of course, the Chu-Ji coalition forces had already panicked and had no choice but to give up the siege, and instead deployed emergency defenses on the east bank of the Yellow River to prevent the Han army from launching a rush to cross. I've been fooled! The king has been fooled by the Chinese thieves! If the king's fleet is still there, why do we need to be in such a hurry? The fleet alone can relieve us of countless pressures! The Han raised by the maidservant Thieves, you are too cunning and treacherous!"

Finally, it was Feng Zhong's turn to be full of spirits. The Chuji allied forces had just dropped their siege weapons and retreated on their own. Feng Zhong couldn't wait to organize his troops to gather in the west gate city near the pier, ready to rush out of the city and head towards the pier at any time. , The officers and men of Feng Zhongjun who responded to the Han army directly landed from the pier and were about to go out of the city for an assault were all excited, gearing up, holding their weapons tightly and waiting for the moment to attack.

After a hasty discussion, the Western Chu Army, which had previously lined up at the north and south gates of the plain, had no shirked responsibility. The general reserve team is ready to reinforce there in case of an emergency on the battlefield.However, although the tactical mission was clear, the soldiers of the Chu-ji coalition army did not have the excitement and excitement before the war. On the contrary, they were all worried, looking timidly at the huge fleet on the other side, and each of them was drumming in their hearts, "So many ships? Can we stop it?"

More than half an hour later, all the first batch of Han soldiers boarded the boat. Zheng Bu, the general of the Han army, waved his arms vigorously and shouted, "Let's go! Weng, old lady, my son is here to save you!"

With the sound of war drums, the soldiers of the Han army rowed their oars vigorously, drove the boat slowly away from the west bank of the Yellow River, and then gradually accelerated, rushing to the east bank of the Yellow River with the help of the river wind. ...

"Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill—!"

(End of this chapter)