Chapter 153

North of Lianqiao, on the official road.

A team of people came quickly, and their faces were dignified. They were all auxiliary soldiers sent by Xia Houyuan. The first step was to repair the bridge before Cao Cao's army arrived, so as to pass smoothly.

Everyone arrives to check the situation quickly.

Duan Yi, the assistant commander in charge, gazed at the river nearly eight feet wide. After thinking about it, he had a plan in his mind. He recruited people under his command and immediately arranged for it to be repaired.

At present, we have to salvage the chain of the bridge first, and then connect and lay the plank again.

Because there was no boat to cross the river, Duan Yi called the people together and quickly built a raft. He boarded the raft himself and took several soldiers across the river on the raft. Fortunately, it's just the beginning of spring, it's not the time for the river to flood in summer.

Even though the current is a little fast, the river is still and can easily cross the Shahe River.

After crossing the river, Duan Yi came to the position of the pier on the south side of the river bank.

He drew close carefully to salvage it.

"Be careful and slow. Don't worry. If it's an iron lock, it'll be easy for us to repair the bridge. But the iron lock is very heavy. Be careful not to be careless. "

Duan Yi keeps on giving orders.

If the boat capsizes when going up the river, it will be dangerous.

In particular, no one knows water.

Coupled with the freezing weather, the river is cold. Once it falls into the river, it is also very easy to be infected with wind chill.

Salvage soldiers, move carefully.

After a short time, the rope on the left side of the bridge was pulled up. It's just that the left and right ropes are connected by ropes. Just picking up the iron lock on one side is of no value.

Both sides must be salvaged at the same time.

Duan Yi put down his plan to salvage for a while, asked people to support the raft to withdraw, and rebuilt a large raft. He took the soldiers across the river again and salvaged the left and right sides of the bridge at the same time.

In this way, the rope was lifted.

Fortunately, the wood of the raft is thick enough, and the raft is huge enough to stand steadily on the river. In addition, the soldiers who supported the raft with bamboo poles, with the help of bamboo poles to stabilize the raft, picked up the iron lock little by little and went along the iron lock to the North Bank of the bridge.

This scene was discovered by the sentry who was lying in ambush nearby.

The sentinel soon came to Zhang Xiu and reported the news that Cao Jun had rebuilt the bridge.

Zhang Xiu was not surprised.

Whether it is to mobilize ships to cross the river or to rebuild the bridge, it is expected.

What Zhang Xiu wants to do is ambush nearby.

He will wait for the news of Cao Jun crossing the river.

Of course, Cao Cao's way of crossing the river by means of a bridge would be safer. Even if he was washed by the flood, there would be no more soldiers killed or injured than by boat.

If Cao Cao mobilized large-scale ships to carry soldiers across the river, once the surging river washes down, there must be ships capsizing, and countless Cao soldiers will fall into the water.

Because the bridge itself is not very wide, it is impossible to have too many soldiers crossing the river at one time. If the water washes over, even if it submerges the bridge and makes the bridge shake endlessly, even if it destroys the bridge, it will kill a little soldier.

It can't be too many.

But for Zhang Xiu, it's enough.

What he wanted to do was to weaken Cao Cao's forces step by step.

The last time Gan Ning attacked Cao ang, he captured 3000 troops of Cao Cao. Now Cao Cao's troops are only 27000, which is one tenth less.

A little bit of weakening.

It will be easier to deal with Cao Cao when Zhang Xiu's strength is enhanced and Cao Cao's strength is weakened.

Zhang Xiu hides in the distance, waiting quietly.

Time goes by.

Cao's auxiliary troops moved quickly, and after some efforts, they finally bridged the company again.

However, on the bridge, many wooden boards have disappeared under the scouring of the river. Now to cross the river, we have to lay boards again so that we can cross the bridge.

Duan Yi didn't dare to delay. He told the soldiers to prepare the wooden board, and at the same time arranged for the soldiers to continue to make the raft.

This time, ten rafts were prepared.

Each raft is more than 80 cm wide. Ten rafts are just eight feet across the river.

While the soldiers were laying boards on the two iron locks, Duan Yi arranged for his men to put a raft under the bridge and stick it in the river with a bamboo pole to fix it.

In doing so, we need more protection.

Even if the bridge body shakes, and even the wooden board on the bridge is a little unstable, there are still rafts under it. In this case, even if there is no bridge, it can cross the river.

This is a simple wooden bridge.

Double protection is more conducive to crossing the river.

After everything is done, Duan Yi looks at the newly paved bridge, and his face also shows a happy smile.It is finally completed.

"Newspaper!"

A sentry came quickly, stood beside Duan Yi and said, "Duan Xiaowei, the army of Sikong, is three miles away from Lianqiao. General Xia Hou asked you, "has the bridge been set up?"

"It's set up!"

Duan Yilang replied with a touch of pride on his face.

His auxiliary soldiers were very quick in building bridges, paving roads, setting up fortifications and setting up camps.

This is his specialty.

"Good!"

When the sentry got the news, he immediately returned to report it.

After a short time, the army led by Xia Houyuan arrived at Lianqiao. But instead of crossing the bridge at once, the army stayed in place.

Xia Houyuan came to Cao Cao's side and reported: "Lord, the bridge has been laid. Not only that, under the bridge, Duanyi also uses raft reinforcement to avoid shaking of the bridge. Are we going to cross the river now? "

Cao Cao nodded: "cross the river, let the soldiers who cross the river first set up fortifications to prevent attack."

"Here it is

XiaHouYuan responded with a solemn look.

Cao ang was standing beside Cao Cao at the moment. He looked at the figure of Xia Houyuan leaving and the flowing river. His face was cold and solemn, with a touch of regret.

I hate being reckless.

I hate that I can't save Cao Anmin.

In his view, it was this bridge that blocked Cao Anmin's way back.

Cao Cao glanced at Cao ang without saying much.

Some things can only be borne by Cao ang himself.

This is the battlefield.

Cruel!

More killing!

With Xia Houyuan's order, Cao's soldiers, armed with shields and spears, began to cross the river quickly. After crossing the river, this group of soldiers immediately set up a garrison around.

The next wave of soldiers is the auxiliary soldiers in the army.

After crossing the river on a large scale, these soldiers laid fortifications in place to prevent Zhang Xiu from attacking them.

When auxiliary soldiers set up fortifications, Cao Cao's soldiers did not cross the river. They did not cross the river on a large scale until all the fortifications were properly arranged.

Zhang Xiu led the soldiers to hide not far away. When he got the news that Cao Cao's army had crossed the river, he looked at the soldiers around him and ordered them to go down and inform Ganning upstream to break the dike and release water

He's not ready to attack now.

After the flood, it was not too late to attack Cao Cao's army.

At the beginning, one of Zhang Xiu's soldiers waved the flag every hundred steps. The follow-up soldiers could see it, and then they continued to send messages. When the distance is a little longer, it will be notified by the arrow, and every other period of time it will be notified by the arrow.

It's similar to wolf smoke.

One by one.

In this way, we can get the news to Gan Ning in the shortest time. It would be a waste of time for the soldiers to ride to inform. When the news reached Ganning, Cao Jun would have to cross the river.

It was not long before the news reached Ganning's ears. He heard the sound of arrows not far away and ordered, "break the dike!"

At the command, the soldiers dug up the river bank.

The river embankment built by Ganning was originally an existing one. At this location, the river channel is relatively narrow, and it is easy to block the river, so he can complete the construction of the river embankment in a short time.

As the levee was dug, the river began to surge.

"Boom!"

Under the turbulent River, the river quickly broke through the embankment, and then the river seemed to roar wildly, galloping down.

The water is turbulent and mighty.

"Withdraw!"

Ganning dug the dam and ordered to retreat.

The rapid flow of the river, not long, will reach the location of the bridge.

At this time, the river began to rise.

Cao's soldiers, who were crossing the river, found the rising water, and found that the visible rising water began to panic. In particular, the rapid impact of water down, hit the bridge, making the bridge began to shake up.

All the rafts under the bridge were submerged by the river and swayed endlessly.

The soldiers crossing the bridge are in a mess.

This scene, fall in the eyes of Xia Houyuan, his heart after seeing this.

It's a trick!

He was ambushed by Zhang Xiu again.