Chapter 203 Wagang Su will be Chang He

Loaded with oil, the bow of the ship is also equipped with an iron hook, and the fire ship will collide with the Donggong guard fast pulp ship in front, and the fast pulp boat will not be able to get rid of it. Soon four or five fast pulp boats were ignited by the fireboats, forming a large fire.

Under the leadership of Wei Chigong, the clearing rate of the East Palace was strictly trained and the response was also very fast, some of them extinguished the fire, and some quickly operated the boat to evade.

However, they were not good at water warfare, so they made mistakes in their busyness, but they knocked over two of them, and seeing that less than half of the dozen or so fast pulp ships behind the palace were left, at this moment, Wei Zheng's face showed a thoughtful expression.

Li Jiancheng looked at the increasingly fierce shore, threw away the flashy saber at his waist, and took a horizontal knife from the soldiers beside him. The saber is just a decoration, and when facing the target with armor, it is very powerless, even if it is a sword that sharpens iron like clay, it is also powerless in the face of armor, after all, the sword that is good at thorns is far less useful than the horizontal sword.

Wei Zheng suddenly said in a loud voice: "Your Highness, I'm afraid this is a trap!" ”

"What? What was found? Li Jiancheng turned to look at Wei Zheng and said, "Did you find something?" ”

"Yes!" Wei Zheng said unabashedly: "This kind of water warfare method of blocking and chasing after is the water warfare method of Wagang Village, among this group of attacking enemies, it should be commanded by the old general of Wagang!" ”

"Wagang veterans?" Li Jiancheng's gaze froze.

After the death of Li Mi in Wagang, other generals, Qin Qiong, Cheng Zhijie, Xie Yingdeng, and Niu Junda all took refuge in Li Shimin, but Li Shiji and Wei Zheng took refuge in Li Jiancheng, and Luo Shixin took refuge in Chen Ying. Just relying on the old Wagang general to make a move does not mean anything.

Li Jiancheng really saw that although the horse infantry led by Zuo Qingdao of the East Palace was said to be elite after going ashore, they fought on an unfamiliar ship, and the combat output they could exert was greatly reduced, and there were even people who stood unsteadily on the boat and drove them down to the lake. For armor-piercing soldiers, it is too inconvenient to pierce the armor underwater, if they can't take off their armor in the water, they are more likely to drown, and if they surface their heads, they will also kill the enemy water ghosts attached to the nearby ants.

At this moment, more than a dozen centipede boats quickly surrounded Li Jiancheng's boat. This kind of centipede boat is actually a kind of small speedboat, just like the dragon boat of the Dragon Boat Festival dragon boat race, usually a boat has more than a dozen or twenty paddlers, fast rowing, extremely fast, and very flexible. The draft of this centipede boat is extremely shallow, even if the water depth is only more than three feet, it can sail on the surface of the water.

Li Jiancheng stood on the deck and saw that there were more than ten or twenty people standing on each centipede ship, all shirtless, with knives in their mouths, gesturing to climb the boat, and some people in the bow of the boat threw ropes with nail hooks over to hook the ship.

The building ship is about four stories high, very tall, in order to avoid capsizing, are loaded with many ballast stones, these ballast stones are large pieces of long granite, one has hundreds of catties, the East Palace soldiers are easy to move, as a stone. With the help of the tall body of the building boat and the ship, smashing the rocks down, not to mention smashing people into brains, maybe you can smash a big hole in the bottom of the light and thin centipede boat.

Li Jiancheng was also worried that Wei Chigong was a general and did not understand water warfare. Who would have thought that Wei Chigong only ordered people to use axes to cut off the hooks and ropes thrown by the loach boats, and then used a long bamboo penny with a long iron nail at the tail to poke at the centipede boat to prevent the centipede boat from approaching, and let the half-raised sail swing the hull to the right by the wind, and by virtue of the height of the ship, he immediately overturned the two centipede boats, swept all the thirty or forty people into the water, and did not shoot the enemies who fell into the water, let them escape, and only prevented them from climbing onto the boat.

These enemies have few bows and arrows, seven or eight ships have eight or nine hunting bows, sparse archery over, the side panels of the cabin of the building ship are already high, the guards of the East Palace are wearing armor, holding shields to cover them, and they shoot all the arrows in a mess, only two soldiers accidentally shot one in the arm and one in the calf.

When the centipede boat saw that the ship was difficult to gnaw, it lit the oil-soaked grass and threw it at the boat, and smashed the clay pot full of oil. The oil floated to the deck and flowed everywhere, burning a large area, the fire was very scary, and the guards of the East Palace were in a hurry to carry buckets to fetch water to extinguish the fire.

At a critical time, Wei Zheng stopped it. Wei Zheng said: "This kind of fire just looks scary, the deck is covered with cooked cowhide, and it has been soaked beforehand, this fire may not be able to burn the cooked cowhide thoroughly." Besides, water can't extinguish the oil fire, and if you pour water, the oil fire will spread around when it floats on the water, and it will be more difficult to clean up. ”

More than a dozen East Palace guards quickly extinguished the fire, which was very orderly.

Li Jiancheng can be regarded as a person who has seen the world, he has never encountered such a large-scale water battle, and his heart is pounding in panic, and he has calmed down a little at this time.

At this moment, a slightly larger square-stern ship was turned over, and I saw several strong men standing on the bow deck, holding long bags like cloth pockets, and one of them was loaded with things. The men vigorously slammed the bag over their heads, and after two laps on the top of their heads, they let the bag fly over.

One of the guards took a shield to block it, but he couldn't withstand the force and was knocked over on the deck. Wei Zheng stepped forward with courage, picked open the cloth bag with a knife, and found that it was actually pine charcoal soaked in fire oil.

Wei Zheng said: "The enemy is ready to attack!" ”

Without Wei Zheng's reminder, Wei Chigong also gave the order to cover the archers.

With the terrible sound of breaking the air, the dense arrows rained down towards the enemy, and in a short time, the square stern ship was shot into a scream, and several ballast stones smashed past, and immediately several people could not dodge and hit the ballast stones, and the flesh and blood were blurred. Even the square stern was smashed into a big hole.

However, in this case, the building boat finally slowly docked, relatively speaking, Donggong Qingdao, who is good at land warfare, would rather face the enemy on land, anyway, the waterway has been blocked, and Li Jiancheng has no way to walk along the river in a short time.

With strips of pallets paved ashore. Li Jiancheng and Wei Zheng quickly landed on the shore.

Li Jiancheng and the others had not yet come to the shore and breathed a sigh of relief, but they had heard a group of cavalry rushing out of the dense forest in the east of the shore, led by a black-faced man who shouted: "Don't go Li Jiancheng......"

The Hebei rebels, together with the Turkic cavalry, slaughtered in the direction where Li Jiancheng was.

Wei Zheng and Li Jiancheng's eyes met in the air, and they seemed to understand that the enemy in the water was just to force them to go ashore, and then let Liu Shishan kill Li Jiancheng, once Prince Li Tang died in Hebei, I am afraid that the Hebei clan gate lord would have to go to the dark with Liu Shishan.

Liu Shishan took the horse and shouted loudly: "Don't let Li Jiancheng go!" ”

Hundreds of Turkic cavalry surrounded Wei Chigong, and Wei Chigong could not take care of Li Jiancheng for a while. Yu Chi Gong was so anxious that he shouted, and Yu Chi Gong picked up the horse lance and killed the Turkic cavalry on their backs.

Just when Liu Shishan rushed towards Li Jiancheng with a team of cavalry, suddenly an arrow flew in, hitting Liu Shishan's ribs, Liu Shishan fell off his horse, and the Hebei rebels were shocked.

Chang He led a team of personal guards into the battlefield and fiercely cut down the Turkic cavalry around Li Jiancheng to protect Li Jiancheng's retreat.

Liu Shishan got on the horse and tried to regroup his men and horses to attack Chang He.

At this time, Wei Chigong killed the surrounding Turks, led Zuo Qingdao of the East Palace to lead his men and horses to help, and defeated Liu Shishan.

Liu Shishan fled in a hurry.

The Tang soldiers shouted excitedly: "We have won." ”

Li Jiancheng looked at the Tang soldiers around him in horror and shouted victory!

All the generals congratulated Li Jiancheng one after another.

Li Jiancheng said in surprise: "Which general was the one who relieved the siege of the palace just now?" ”

Chang He bowed down and said, "The last general, Chang He, see His Royal Highness the Prince." ”

Wei Zheng turned around quickly, looked at Chang He in surprise, and said, "Old Chang! When did you arrive?

Chang He said: "Master, a certain family was ordered by Xu Shuai to be transferred to the Hebei Army to listen to it, and he just arrived." ”

Li Jiancheng watched in amazement as Chang He and Wei Zheng talked.

Li Jiancheng stepped forward and asked, "Xuancheng...... Do you know? ”

Wei Zheng smiled faintly, pointed at Chang He and said: "Your Highness, Chang He is the general of the Wagang army, after Li Mi was defeated, Chang He was absorbed by Wang Shichong and guarded the Tiger Pass. The battle of the Tiger Prison was his dedication to the Tang Dynasty. ”

Li Jiancheng asked curiously: "Chang'an ordered troops, why haven't you seen General Chang?" ”

Chang He said with a wry smile: "After the battle of the Tiger Prison, the last general was ordered to transfer the defense of Jinyang in Hedong. ”

Li Jiancheng asked more curiously, "Why is this?" ”

Wei Zheng hurriedly explained: "General Chang, Xu Shiji, and Shan Xiongxin, when they were in Wagang, were friends of life and death. After Wang Shichong was defeated and surrendered, General Chang and Xu Shiji interceded for Shan Xiongxin, which annoyed His Royal Highness the King of Qin and was transferred to Huaizhou.

Li Jiancheng said suddenly: "If Dou Jiande listened to Xuancheng's words, he would have gone south two months earlier, wouldn't it be ...... Tiger Prison Pass?"

Chang He spoke: "Then the general will definitely lock up the tiger and dedicate it to King Xia." ”

Li Jiancheng sighed: "This is the destiny of heaven." Dou Jiande doesn't need Xuancheng, he can't get General Chang, the tiger prison is gone, and his foundation is gone. ”

Wei Zheng and Chang He bowed their heads and were silent.

Li Jiancheng continued: "General Chang has a meritorious escort, from today on, General Chang is the right Qingdao rate of the East Palace of the Palace, and General Wei Chi personally guards the Palace, and General Chang returns to Chang'an with Jiancheng, which will be of great use." ”

Chang He looked at Li Jiancheng calmly and said, "The last general thanked His Royal Highness the Prince." ”

………

In Taiyuan City, a harrier eagle swooped down and landed in front of Du Yan's window, Du Yan took out a note from the bamboo tube with the length of the harrier eagle's legs, Du Yan looked happy, he picked up the note and quickly ran to Li Shimin, who was fighting with Cheng Zhijie on the school field, and said: "His Royal Highness the King of Qin, the matter is done, the fish has bitten the hook." ”

Li Shimin took the note and glanced at it hurriedly, and said with a stroke: "Old Cheng, let's get here today, inform the auxiliary machine, Xuan Ling, Keming, come to discuss the matter." ”

Cheng Zhijie breathed a sigh of relief in his heart and hurried away.