"Is there a suitable place to cross the river?" Ni Liang was anxious, if he was trapped on the east bank of the Fuchun River, it would take at least a day for the river to fall, or even longer, because no one knew when the rain would fall this time and how wide the upstream rain would be, but he knew that the more he was at this time, the more calm he became, and as the commander of the army, he couldn't show an anxious look, otherwise his subordinates would be even more panicked.

"Dutong, why don't we seize the ferry port in Fuyang County and cross the river from there!" Sun Jin wiped the rainwater from his face.

"No, Fuyang County is in Jiangxi, and our capture of the ferry will inevitably alarm them, and the Yingzhou army will get the news soon." Ni Liang shook his head and said.

"Dutong, it's better than staying by the river!" Sun Jin said impatiently.

"If we miss Changhua, we can still rush to Lin'an County to intercept them. But let them find out, retract, or hide in Changhua City, that is regret! Ni Liang said in a deep voice, he knew that the conditions for setting up an ambush in Lin'an County were much worse than those in Changhua, and he needed to lurk for one more day, and the chance of being discovered was much greater.

"The Admiral understands." Sun Jin nodded and said, he didn't expect that Dutong already had an alternative, and he wondered if His Majesty had already secretly given it the opportunity, but thinking about the incident, His Majesty suddenly had no time to possib, so Dutong really opened up.

"Dutong, the Wuli River is wide and the water flow is relatively calm, but we lack the tools to build a bridge, and it is difficult to erect a pontoon bridge of nearly 100 zhang!" Pang Zhao, the commander of the baggage battalion of the Third Brigade, said.

"Let the troops rest on the spot, you and I will go and inspect it, and arrange for men to put away the available boats along the river." When Ni Liang heard this, he immediately ordered, and then asked people to take the horse and Pang Zhao and a team of personal soldiers to gallop westward.

Five miles away, riding a horse is very fast, but Ni Liang still has a cold heart, in the rainy night, he can't see the opposite shore at a glance, and the sound of the water is much smaller than in front. But Ni Liang also knew that as he said before, if the pontoon bridge was erected at a distance of thirty zhang, the ropes they carried could not withstand such a large pull force anyway, and even if it was successfully erected, it would be torn off by the river at any time.

Just when he was at a loss, two lightning bolts crossed the sky, illuminating the river, and Ni Liang saw several small islands towering in the river at a glance. I think that the river here is wide, the water speed is slow, and the river surface in front of it suddenly narrows, which affects the discharge of the water flow, so that there is sediment here, and I don't know how many years have passed to form a small island on the river surface.

"Commander Pang, can you erect a pontoon bridge with the help of a small island in the river?" Ni Liang asked, pointing to a few small islands looming on the river.

"Dutong, it should be possible!" Pang Zhao put his hands on a pergola to cover the rain, squinted his eyes and looked at the direction pointed by Ni Liang for a while, twisted his face.

"Okay, you immediately organize people to measure the speed of the water, calculate the maximum weight that the pontoon can carry, and then bundle the bamboo raft to build the bridge!" Ni Liang listened to the thought for a moment and ordered, and then asked his own soldiers to send an order to mobilize officers and soldiers to make rafts. He knew that the rain was still falling, and the river level would rise higher and higher, so it would be very inappropriate to use the caisson cage as an anchor stone to erect a pontoon bridge, so that the pontoon bridge would likely be pulled into the river by the anchor stone. And the bridge can rise as the river rises, so it will not be affected.

"Yes, the last general will immediately start making plans to build a pontoon bridge!"

After the order was issued, the men of the baggage battalion were responsible for designing and directing the construction, undertaking the most important work. The other officers and men who assisted cut down wood and bamboo, tied rafts, and made bridges according to the design requirements. At the same time, he sent people to drive several wooden boats to the small island in the middle of the river, surveyed and selected ferries, built temporary wharves, set up anchor piles, and marked directions.

The simple pontoon bridge is not complicated, and the bamboo rafts are first connected in series in the direction by cable on the riverbank, and then one end is fixed, and then the bamboo rafts are pushed into the river in turn. Under the action of the river, the bamboo rafts connected together will draw an arc with the fixed end as the center of the circle, like a dragon swinging its tail across the river. The most important thing at this moment is that the people on the island quickly tighten the cables, secure the bamboo raft strings to the anchor piles, and finally lay and fix the bridge plank, and a pontoon bridge is erected.

The three brigades of 10,000 people worked together to build three pontoon bridges by using two small islands in the river, crossed the Fuchun River in the middle of the river, and then marched 20 miles in spite of fatigue and rain, wading a waist-deep stream into a mountain forest. At this moment, the rain was pouring in, and the sky that should be brightened was only a touch of white under the skyline, and although everyone was drenched, they also washed away the traces they left behind.

Because the lightly armed tent and bedding were left in the camp, fortunately there was still a raincoat left. However, this raincoat is very distinctive, using drawstring and lacing to turn into a poncho when it rains; When all unfolded, it is a five-foot square tarpaulin, which can be used to build a simple tent for only one person to shelter from the wind and rain; Combine several people to turn it into a canopy.

At the time of the heavy rain, the various departments camped in various parts of the woods, and everyone showed that they could use the terrain and features to set up tents of various colors. The tent was set up in a clearing in the forest, which was built by the soldiers of the baggage battalion with more than 20 pieces of rain cloth, and it was covered with branches and leaves, which did not leak the wind and rain, and the drainage ditch was dug around it, and it was quite dry, at least there was no need to stand in the water.

"This hellish weather is really depressing!" Xiao Ting, the Marquis of Luyu, got into the tent and said while taking off his military uniform.

"Yes, are there any people left behind on the road!" Sun Jin had just changed into dry clothes, and his feet were white from the military boots, and they were drying!

"Fortunately, our third brigade is not ashamed this time, all the staff are fully equipped to follow, and we only contain some falls and sprained legs and feet in the back." Xiao Ting found a dry suit and put it on.

"Well, it's not bad, I've been worried that someone won't be able to keep up with the team on the road, after all, this is not a drill, and once you fall behind, you will lose your life." Sun Jin breathed a sigh of relief.

"But this time it was hard enough, some people fell into the water when they crossed the river, everything was wet, and now they are not allowed to light a fire, and their clothes are wet and they can't be baked. Some soldiers threw away all their dry rations in order to lighten their loads, and now they can only go hungry. There are also many people who sit down and fall asleep tired, and they are going to get sick! Xiao Ting sighed lightly.

"Yes, but I can only hold on for now!" Sun Jin said that although this place is in the wild, the smoke from the fire is still easy for people to find.

"Where's the capital?" Xiao Ting suddenly remembered something at this time, poked his head out and looked out at the tent next to him and asked.

"It's possible that the capital has gone to patrol the camp, right? Anyway, I haven't seen him come in! Sun Jin is not sure about the authenticity.

"Have you found out that Sun Tongzhi is acting more and more like Your Majesty!" Xiao Ting said softly.

"Hehe, you have been in the army for a short time, and you don't know them yet, Your Majesty and Ni Dutong are completely two people." Sun Jin smiled and said, "Your Majesty is meticulous, adventurous, and extremely shrewd, and can see what you think at a glance. However, His Majesty is also very concerned about his subordinates, thinking that he was only six years old at the time, so that we can eat rice and dried fish like us, and so far he has only eaten according to the standard of the commander, and it is not as good as you and me. But Ni Dutong is a real person, he can't play with his heart, he is loyal to His Majesty, and he is really good to his subordinates, but if he makes a mistake, he is absolutely ruthless. Although he acted rigidly, he acted according to the plan, but he was steady and rarely made mistakes. ”

"But my guards prefer to follow His Majesty to fight, and they seem to have some complaints about Commander Ni." Xiao Ting asked again.

"You're right, but it's not true!" Sun Jin said, "Your Majesty has led the troops since childhood, it can be said that the Qiongzhou Army was created by him, I think the whole army was only a thousand people, but the situation is extremely critical, and only by commanding His Majesty can he win more with less and gain a foothold in Qiongzhou." However, His Majesty's use of troops is strange, and the results of the dangerous battle are also great, so everyone is willing to follow His Majesty to fight. And when we set off, we only said that it was to protect the tomb, who would have thought that His Majesty would launch a war to restore the country, and to annihilate the enemy's three thousand households in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces with the strength of the protectors! ”

"I don't think I need to say anything about Commander Ni, and the first task of our army is to protect His Majesty's safety, Commander Ni can't, of course, he doesn't dare to take risks, this is his duty. And the reason why Commander Ni led the army to fight this time can be said to be for the sake of His Majesty, or if he led the troops to come, it would be His Majesty who is sitting here! ”

"Well, that's true!" Xiao Ting nodded and said thoughtfully......

The rain did not stop until noon, and the three brigades did not begin to move until dark in the forest cats, and by the time of Shen, the troops had a meal, and sent out the vanguard battalion and scout cavalry. The rest of the road was shorter than last night's, but they had to make careful detours through several market towns along the way, which delayed a lot of time. After arriving at the bank of Tianmu River, go north along the river until Huihang Avenue. Forty miles east along the main road here is Changhua County, and at this time the scouts came to report that they had found the Yingzhou army outside Changhua City, and they had already crossed Zixi to arrive first.

Changhua Creek originates from Jixi, Anhui Province, west of Jingzhou, and steamed state. From the southwest to the northeast into Lin'an County, near the purple water Hui Tianmu River south into Tonglu County border for the water river, because most of it is in the territory of the old Changhua County, so there is this name, in Longgang below the river surface width of about 60 steps, belongs to the mountain stream river, the river channel is bent, the drop is large, the water is surging, it is difficult for people and horses to wade in vain, and here the continent is divided into two streams, forming a triangular area, that is, the battlefield of Ni Liang's preset.

At present, the Yuan army rushed into Changhua County, although this was somewhat different from Ni Liang's estimate, but it was not beyond expectations. He decided to move the battlefield twenty miles east, adjacent to the Tianmuxi Bridge, and as long as he controlled this bridge, he would cut off the eastward advance of the Yingzhou army. When the enemy entered the ambush area, the whole army drove the enemy into a 'dead end', and then annihilated them one by one.

At this moment, the first problem faced by the 3rd Brigade was how to conceal itself, because it was too close to the official road and easy to be discovered by the enemy's reconnaissance cavalry, and it was far away and could not intercept the enemy in time; Another problem is the timing of the bombing of the bridge, which makes the enemy alert if it is blown up early, and allows them to escape from the ambush area if it is blown up late, resulting in a failure, and if they don't get it right, they have to bite themselves back and trap them in Changhua.

It is not long before dawn, and the business traveler who travels early is about to hit the road, and it is not a matter of staying on the road for a long time. After Ni Liang and Sun Jin suggested and discussed, it was decided to use rapid-fire guns and thunderbolts to be arranged 300 steps away from the main road, their small number was convenient for concealment, and the artillery fire was fierce and quickly disrupted the enemy's formation; The infantry troops, on the other hand, were deployed in battalions at a distance of 500 paces, and after the artillery was fired, they launched a column attack on the enemy, cutting off the enemy's head and tail, and forcing them to retreat to the triangle. As for the bridge, they discussed setting up the bombing point first, and reserved personnel to blow up the bridge as soon as the enemy first went up to the bridge and walked to the middle of the bridge, and the artillery used this as a signal to open fire.

It is not easy for tens of thousands of people to hide well in a short period of time, and the conditions are not very good, and there is only a low mountain beam to use in the north of the road. The artillerymen, on the other hand, could only hide in the fields that had just been harvested in front of them, and they had to hide under the nose of the enemy, and after hearing the explosion of the bombing bridge, they had to quickly set up their guns and open fire before the enemy could react.

Fortunately, most of the middle- and low-level officers and non-commissioned officers of the Guardian Army have received training in this area in the training camps of the new army, and they are orderly and busy. You must know that the enemy army is also a brigade march, and the team of thousands of people stretches for miles on the road, and as long as they have a flaw, the whole army may be exposed, so after the completion of the concealment of each battalion, they first checked themselves, and then each regiment checked again, and finally Ni Liang led the officers of the third brigade to conduct a comprehensive inspection again, and removed the traces of the brigade's march left on the road before it was finished.

At the beginning of the Yin period, when the sky was not yet dawning, there were early business trips on the road, and the most worrying thing was that Jiangnan had already realized the rotation of rice and wheat, and now it was the time to prepare for autumn planting. Everyone was worried until the end of the hour, only to find out that the enemy reconnaissance horse was coming, and at this time everyone did not dare to breathe for a long time, for fear of being exposed. However, the enemy scout rode back after a so-so turn, as if he was afraid that the mud on the side of the road would trap the horse's hooves, and did not go deep at all.

After waiting for another half an hour, the enemy brigade appeared in sight, and by this time the sun had risen, and their march to the east was just dazzling, and the march in the hinterland was inevitably careless, so that the enemy did not find the Song army hidden in the north of the road. In the anxious waiting of everyone, the vanguard of the Yingzhou army finally stepped on the Tianmu River rope bridge, and the various departments also received the signal to prepare for battle, but at this moment the time seemed to freeze, and the footsteps of the enemy marching were like beating on the chest, but they finally waited for the loud noise, and before the enemy could react, there was a series of loud noises with deadly projectiles......