Chapter Seventy-Six: Determination

Fang Guoan nodded, knowing that time could not be delayed, he immediately ordered, and tens of thousands of infantry troops pressed up from three directions, each direction had an overwhelming advantage, and even carried a lot of large and small artillery.

Before Fang Guoan sent cavalry to assault first, he may not have wanted to entangle the other party first and let the team gather.

War is the most tricky thing, and the application of many schemes may not be able to win more with less, but it is also the most unmanageable place. Tens of thousands of troops pressed over from three sides, even if it was tens of thousands of pigs, it would put a lot of pressure on Zhang Xuan.

Not to mention, the other side also has large and small artillery, hundreds of them.

Immediately suppressed.

Immediately, the officers and soldiers pounced again and again. The two sides fought without giving an inch, and Qin Meng also sent cavalry to catch the officers and infantry off guard.

The two sides fought bloody battles one after another. For a while, on the land one or two miles square, the sound of shouting and killing was earth-shattering. The voice spread far away.

Zhang Xuan stood on top of the big banner, a big banner of "Zhennan General Zhang", in the smoke of gunpowder, kept swaying.

Zhang Xuan led his soldiers to win battles one after another, and he has already become the backbone of the army, even if he is at a disadvantage. Zhang Xuan sat firmly on the Diaoyutai platform, and the minds of the soldiers below were also stable, and the so-called generals were brave.

"Report." Zhang Yuanchu said: "My lord, General Cao asked you to cross the shore to preside over the war. ”

Zhang Xuan sneered and said, "No matter what crisis I Zhang Xuan has, I have never abandoned my brothers, tell Cao Zongyu that I am here, and let him watch it." ”

"Yes." Zhang Yuanchu.

The broken pontoon bridge on the Baisha River was still burning, and many ships passed by on the Baisha River for a while, and there were still many warships on these boats, which blocked Cao Zongyu's crossing route for a while. And a little or two away in the south, there were shouts of killing, explosions, and the volume was higher and higher.

Cao Zongyu didn't need to look at it to know that the battle was fierce.

"General Cao, where is General Zhang in crisis. You're going to figure it out? Luo Dai said.

Yang Shenzu and the others all looked at Cao Zongyu.

Cao Zongyu's eyes swept over everyone and said: "I and General Zhang have long been connected by love and righteousness, living and dying together, and today I, Cao Zongyu, swear that if General Zhang dies on the other side, this is the place where my Cao Zongyu will be buried." ”

The ancients still swore an oath after all, so as soon as Cao Zongyu's words came out, everyone had some criticism.

Luo Dai didn't care and said, "Cao Da, don't talk about those useless things. Say, what are you going to do? ”

Cao Zongyu pointed to the warships in the Baisha River and said: "This river is not wide, I have already sent people to urge the artillery, after the artillery comes, immediately bombard the ships and drive these ships away." The rest is the river crossing

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"How do you cross the river?" Luo Dai said.

"The best thing to do is to build a pontoon bridge again, but it will take about a day and night." Cao Zongyu said.

The previous pontoon bridge was rebuilt from ready-made boats, and it was only necessary to tie the boats together with iron chains and cross the Baisha River.

But now the raw materials must be prepared by themselves, Cao Zongyu thought of a way, is to demolish the house, a village door panels and timber all gathered together, I don't know if it is enough to build a pontoon bridge, so the time is estimated to be longer.

"When the time comes, the daylilies will be bright." Luo Dai said.

"So, I'm going to send reinforcements across the river now." Cao Zongyu said.

"How's it going?" Luo Dai said.

"Forcible crossing." Cao Zongyu said: "The current situation is that we must not lose confidence in the other side, and once we lose confidence, I am afraid that we will not be able to hold on to the time to cross the river." ”

"Boom, boom." The sound of cannon comes to mind.

Cao Zongyu's previous arrangement worked, and some temporary artillery was assembled to cover the entire river. In the Baisha River, there are no regular warships, after all, real warships can't be hidden, at least the scouts under Zhang Xuan, no matter how bad they are, they won't be bad, turning a blind eye to a big ship in the middle of the river. Small awning boats, which can be hidden in the reeds, can even be pulled ashore from the water, buckled to the ground, and covered with something.

But the ships could not be hidden.

Therefore, under the bombardment of artillery, several ships were sunk in just a few moments. The rest of the ships retreated.

"I'll go." Luo Dai said: "At the beginning, the palm of the plate sent me to protect my uncle, once my uncle had any mistakes, I didn't know how to explain to the palm of the plate, this matter, I will go." ”

Cao Zongyu said: "You have to think clearly, the official army can kill a horse gun at any time?" ”

At this moment, although the officers and soldiers left. But the rebels have no boats, and it is very likely that the officers and soldiers will come back, after all, the shells do not have long eyes, and if the official fleet kills them when Luo Dai crosses the river, I am afraid that the cannons on the shore can only be thrown into the rat trap.

"I'm dead, what's there to be afraid of." Luo Dai said.

Luo Dai did what he did, and selected three or four hundred horsemen from his command, and he was ready to take them over.

Contrary to what some people know, horses are creatures that can swim, but they are not very capable of swimming, and if they swim at high intensity for a long time, they will drown. Therefore, some small rivers and the rebels dragged their horses across.

But the Baisha River is much wider and deeper than the original small rivers.

You know, it's autumn now.

It is natural that the autumn water will rise sharply.

Luo Dai stroked the head of a white horse, stuffed a handful of black beans into the horse's mouth, and said

Said: "Old man, this time you have to come on." ”

Bai Ma sniffed Luo Dai's familiar smell, but just snorted, as if tempted by the taste of black beans, and ate vigorously, without any other indication at all.

Hundreds of horses followed their masters into the water. It's still the same old way, putting everything on your head and pulling it on the ponytail to move forward.

It didn't take long for Luo Dai to immediately feel that his feet were empty, and he immediately knew that he had entered the deep water area. The horses are already swimming.

Fortunately, the Baisha River is not too wide, the embankment has a sand and gravel bottom, which is famous for its white sand as white as snow, and there are few silt places.

At that time, not all mounts were the same as Luo Dai, they were one in a thousand war horses, and their abilities could not support the other side at all, and some horses swam halfway to the road, but they lost their traces, and his knights disappeared into the Baisha River.

Although the Baisha River is not long, the underwater situation in autumn is also very complicated, and there is some turbulence or something, which is also normal.

Luo Dai waited on the shore for a long time, only to find that no one came out of the water, and the number of people counted and lost dozens of people, which was the result of Luo Dai's careful selection. Luo Dai's mind was also very hard, so he didn't think about it anymore, and ordered everyone to turn over and prepare for battle.

The three hundred horsemen did not play a big role in this battle, but they were only used to boost morale.

But Luo Dai is a person who is unwilling to be a mascot-like existence.

Therefore, he must be silent and endless.

At this moment, the official army and Zhang Xuan's department have entered the short-handed encounter.

Linying camp Xiping camp, the formation is the city, everyone firmly sticks to the place, and the official army fights back and forth, just do not take a step back, and the firecrackers are in a team of 100 people, and they use muskets to suppress the enemy, and the cavalry of Qin Meng's department is even more busy.

Every now and then a short counterattack was struck, and the officers and troops were pressed back.

The battle between the two sides is scorching, Zhang Xuan's troops are all elite, and in terms of casualties, the official army is superior, but the advantage of the official army is too strong. These casualties can be ignored, but Zhang Xuan's department is not more than 10,000 people, and some casualties can be borne by the officers and soldiers, but Zhang Xuan's department cannot bear it.

Although the official army has been defeated repeatedly, in the midst of one victory after another, Zhang Xuan has already felt a little powerless. The officers and soldiers can fight on wheels, and Zhang Xuan, together with his subordinates, has been fighting for several hours, eating dry food when he is hungry, drinking cold water when he is thirsty, and even cold water has nothing to drink.

At this point, it was only a matter of time before it collapsed.

"Am I going to die here?" Zhang Xuan secretly said in his heart: "No, I never, I still have a lot of things to do." A strong desire to survive erupted from Zhang Xuan.

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