The first year of Dashun Yongchang, April 2, early morning. The morning light had not yet risen in the east, and the night was like a curtain, enveloping everything, except for a crescent moon and countless stars like a mosaic of stars, which flickered and released a faint light.

Although the light was faint, it could already allow the soldiers of the old battalion of the Dashun Army under Li Guo to see the road ahead. In the darkness, a team of up to 2,000 people was quietly crossing a pontoon bridge from the north bank of the Wei River to the south bank. The man's title, the horse's hooves, the halter and the chew tightly locked the neighing of the warhorse. The surging water of the river was accompanied by the sound of dense and faint footsteps.

Li Guo, like the soldiers under his command, did not march on horseback, but led the war horse on the narrow bridge deck that was constantly floating. After walking for a while, he finally stepped on the land on the south bank of the Wei River, and he looked up at the sky, which was still dark and gloomy. It looks like it will take at least an hour before the sky starts to lighten.

And the moon and stars are in the sky, and tomorrow is obviously a sunny day. Tonight is another breeze, and there will be no strong southeast wind to interfere with Li Yan's fire attack.

In addition, the onslaught on Tianjin Weibei City for three consecutive days should have mobilized Zhu Thief's soldiers and horses to the maximum.

Most of the southern cities of Tianjin Wei are empty and poorly prepared, and the elite soldiers must be in the northern cities. As long as the pontoon bridge is destroyed, the Zheng family's sailors will be expelled. The soldiers and horses of the Zhu thieves in Tianjin Weibei City will not be able to support the southern city, and the southern city will soon be broken by the Dashun Heavenly Soldiers.

At the same time, on the mounds piled up on both sides of the Wei River in the southeast of the Tianjin Acropolis, many archers would also be placed. When the Zheng family's navy passed by, it would be ten thousand arrows, and they were all rockets! Burn to death those hateful "honest merchants...... As long as the Zheng family's fleet is finished, Tianjin City will be a turtle in an urn!

In short, the faint monarch father and son in the Tianjin Acropolis have only one way to die!

Just thinking of this, the horse's hooves ahead of me have been obtained. Dozens of knights were coming towards Li Guo's banner. When he got closer, Li Guo found that there was a fiery red on the horse, and he knew that it was the red lady who came.

"Is it the Red Lady?" Li Guo asked with a smile.

"Brother Tiger, it's the little sister." The voice of the red lady is very crisp, revealing a kind of boldness unique to the heroine. She was also very athletic, and when the horse was close, Li Guo realized that she was sitting sideways in the saddle. Then he jumped lightly and stood firmly in front of Li Guo.

"Hongmei, how's it going?" Li Guo smiled and asked, "Can you fight a water war?" Do you want my brother to send a few hundred old brothers to help? ”

"Brother Tiger's old brother knows how to water?" The red lady smiled like a flower, "My sister grew up on the edge of the Huai River, and there are some heroes on the Huai River." ”

The Red Lady is a heroine in Xinyang, Henan, strictly speaking, she is not a northerner, but a person from Huaixi. The first was to revolt in the Xinyang area, and of course there was a bit of a water coward under his hands.

"That's fine," Li Guo said with a smile, "With Hongmei's shot, the Zheng family's pirates are definitely no opponent...... Those people are just merchants on the sea, how can they fight against the great Shuntian soldiers? ”

The red lady smiled: "Brother Tiger Mo is making fun of my sister, my sister knows her own catties." How can the fish and shrimp in the Huai River fight against the dragons in the sea? However, with dozens of fireboats to help, they can always force back the Zheng family's sand boats for a while. ”

"That'll do." Li Guo said with a smile, "Tianjin Weinancheng can be taken, if the emperor of Zhu Thief is in Tianjin, he will definitely be in Nancheng...... In half a day, Mr. Chen and Mr. Chen will be able to conquer Tianjin Weinan City! Hongmei, can you and your father-in-law resist for so long? ”

"Do your best!" The red lady's expression has become serious, "My boss and I only brought 2,000 people over, and we can't last too long to fight." ”

"Don't worry!" Li Guo patted his chest, "There are 2,000 people in Nancheng and 10,000 people in Chen Yongfu, it's foolproof!" ”

The red lady's eyebrows twisted, "What about Beicheng?" Tang Tong's thousands of people have already spent three days, can they still hold on? ”

"It's not a big problem." Li said, "Judging from the previous fight, Wu Sangui is nothing more than that, and his Yiding Tuqi is not particularly powerful, even if he goes out of the city, he will not defeat Tang Tong at once." ”

It turned out that the plan of the Dashun army after dawn was carried out in three parts. Li Yan and Hongniangzi dealt with the "Zheng family fleet" and pontoon bridges on the Wei River, Li Guo and Chen Yongfu attacked Tianjin Nancheng, and Tang Tong bluffed outside Beicheng to contain Zhu Cihong's main force.

Nancheng and Weihe don't seem to have much of a problem, but Tang Tong, who is in charge of Beicheng, worries the red lady.

Li Guo actually didn't have the bottom in his heart, after all, he treated Tang Tong too ruthlessly. But the problem is that he only has this little force on hand, his 2,000 post-battalion veterans, 2,000 Li Yan and Red Lady, 10,000 Chen Yongfu, and 8,000 Tang Tong. That's 22,000 people in total.

The soldiers and horses of the Zhu thieves who were surrounded in Tianjin Wei were more than 10,000 people, and the "Zheng family caravan" along the Wei River was estimated to have 5,000 people.

In terms of troops, Li Guo and Li Yan did not have much advantage. If you don't ruthless Tang Tong, how will this battle be fought?

The current situation is chasing to the root, in fact, the old battalion of the Dashun Army is a little tired. If they don't have a lot of rewards, they won't fight with their lives.

The red lady also knew that it was useless to say anything, so she had to arch her hand at Li Guo, so she took her subordinates to the side, and watched Li Guo's 2,000 soldiers and horses pass through the pontoon bridge, and then got on the horse and ran to the south of Tianjin Wei.

After Li Guo left, dozens of knights who followed the red lady dismounted, and what they carried with them were not swords and bows, but tools such as axes and saws.

The pontoons were soon turned into light boats, each of which was already loaded with flammable materials such as firewood, grass and tattered cotton cloth, and poured grease and gunpowder.

The red lady and the knights who demolished the bridge were all close to the water under their coats, and they each got on a light boat. They are all good at boating and are familiar with the water. At that moment, I drove the light boat, followed the current, and slowly drove to the pontoon bridge between the north and south cities of Tianjin.

Behind these dozens of light boats, there was another fleet of ships going down the river.

This fleet used large ships, which were collected and concentrated by Li Yan on the Weihe River west of Tianjin, and were slightly modified and used as warships.

However, it was not Li Yan's generals who were responsible for the helm, but the original shipwrights on the boat. In addition to the boatmen, thirty or forty veterans of Li Yan's department were arranged on each boat. Although they are not very water-sensitive, they still ventured on the boat under the encouragement of Li Yan and the Red Lady.

On each boat, side signs are set up on both sides. There is enough gap between the side cards to fire a bow. There were also ten sturdy warriors on each boat, each with an oar, who worked hard to row the oars under the command of the steward.

It was already the early morning of April 2, and the morning light was shining from the eastern sky, illuminating the land around Tianjin Wei. However, after several days of heavy rain, the humidity on both sides of the Wei River was very heavy, so there was morning fog. Above the Wei River, there was a foggy patch, which well covered the actions of the fleet led by Li Yan and the Red Lady.

Patrolling on the pontoon bridge is the son of Wang Qingtuo's Cao family, the leader is named Cao Yu, twenty-four or five years old, originally a scholar, but also a little martial arts, so he was incorporated into the new army of overcoming difficulties and became a captain. Now he is taking about 20 children of the Cao family to stand guard on the pontoon bridge.

They had been on duty all night, and now they were all exhausted and yawning, and few of them were paying attention to the foggy river.

Suddenly, someone yelled in horror: "Fire! Fire...... There is fire on the river! ”