Chapter 372 Crossing the River

Chapter 372 (Xie teenager Abin 666, Baitou Mountain Godman, Xiaobai Xiaotian, leisure ron's monthly ticket, thank the leisure ron brothers's reward. By the way, the subscription to this book has never been available, and the editor has talked to me. If you have the ability and think this book is still eye-catching, please help me subscribe to subscribe, otherwise it will be a little embarrassing. Thank you on your knees!)

Tanma, who was sent to Xin'an County to deliver letters, arrived the next morning. Song Nan, who was wearing a silk thin coat and dancing swords in the courtyard, hurriedly met the guests. He took the letter handed over by Tan Ma and only read a few lines. Song Nan slapped the case and cursed angrily.

"Dass, the dog thief Valley has harmed others and himself. Now the matter is so big that it makes the thief run away."

When they heard the news, the people rushed to ask what had happened. Song Nan handed the letter to the people and gave them a stack of orders: "All the cavalry immediately set out and prepared to go north. Except for the cavalry left to go north with me, the rest of the people returned to Baoding to do our own business."

Zheng Da asked, "Is Xin'an not guarding?"

Hou Dabiao handed the letter to Wang Yong and scolded, "Fight the ball, the thief was released."

After reading the letter, everyone scolded endlessly. Since the thief did not go south, he must have taken advantage of the empty block of the Bauhinia Guard to rescue Baoding Mansion and went northwest.

"It's really cunning that it slipped under my eyelids." Wan Zhi sighed.

Song Nan said with a green face, "It's not the thief soldier who is cunning, but Gu Dayong's damn it. You should go to the whole army quickly and set out an hour later. I'm going to report this matter to the court. I had no reason to report it before. Now that the thief soldiers have slipped away, I'd like to see how Gu Dayong prevaricates."

Everyone responded and hurried to prepare. Song Nan rushed back to the back hall and spread paper to make Gu Dayi unmoved for more than ten days, so that he was transferred from the mountain by the thief soldiers to escape from the encirclement. He led 1,300 brocade cavalry to follow and asked the emperor to order the capital of Shanxi to gather troops and horses to do it. Good preparation for interception.

After the memorial was written, there was a fast horse waiting in the courtyard. Song Nan gave him the memorial and told him to go to Beijing quickly, turn around and order the two guards to wear horses for him.

Song Nan walked out of the room and came to the courtyard. She saw Liu Yuerong standing in the porch with shackles. Seeing Song Nan, Liu Yuerong shouted, "Your Excellency."

Song Nan waved his hand and said, "Miss Liu, your brother is very cunning and turns the officers and soldiers around. I'm going to chase him now. As for you, I will send someone to escort you to the capital."

Liu Yuerong lowered her head and whispered, "The slave family understands that the slave family wants to help adults. Now it seems that they can't help."

Song Nan sneered, "What can you do for me? Liu Qi committed another heinous crime in Ansu County, wrapping 2,000 young men into the gang, and the city turned into scorched earth. I will cut off his head with my own hands.

Liu Yuerong said palely, "The slave family is ashamed of what my brother has done. The slave family originally wanted to see him and advised him to surrender and not harm the people. Lord Song, take me there. Maybe the slave family can really persuade my brother to turn back."

Song Nan sneered and said, "I haven't reached the point of using women as hostages."

Liu Yuerong said, "No, Lord Song, the two brothers of the slave family love the Nu family very much, especially the seventh brother, who listens to the slave family the most, and the slave family wants to persuade him face to face."

Song Nan said, "Since I love you so much, why didn't I take you with you?"

Liu Yuerong bowed her head and said, "The slave family hides and doesn't want to go with them. If the slave family can see the seventh brother, they will definitely touch him. He will definitely listen to me, so that the two armies will not fight and die of the people who are trapped in it.

Song Nan's heart moved and thought for a moment, "Do you really think so?"

Liu Yuerong looked up and looked at Song Nan and said, "The slave family knows that adults are suspicious of me, but this is the Nu family's heart. On the way, I saw my brother's atrocities, and I am also deeply ashamed. If I say that I can save anything, I'm afraid I can only persuade them with the feelings of brother and sister, and then I will avoid the death and injury of the slave family. No regrets, and you won't be ashamed to see your parents when you die.

Song Nan stared into Liu Yuerong's eyes for a long time. Liu Yuerong's eyes were clear and did not hesitate to look at Song Nan. Song Nan said, "Can you ride a horse?"

Liu Yuerong said, "I can ride."

Song Nan stepped out and ordered without looking back: "Prepare a horse for her and set off immediately."

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Tan Zhang led 700 cavalry to pursue quickly along the traces of the thief soldiers' breakthrough, and the fallen bodies could be seen everywhere along the way. The thief soldiers slaughtered the old and weak people who were trapped in the bandits in order to speed up.

A day and a night later, they merged with the 800 cavalry sent by Gu Da to pursue. After chasing several hours, the two teams of cavalry arrived at the south ferry of Yishui. Facing the vast water, the 1,500 cavalrymen who were tired had to stop chasing.

There are two ferries on Yishui. One is in Heyang Town in the east, and the other is the jackdaw ferry in front of him. After crossing the jackdaw ferry, less than 30 miles north is Yizhou City. However, 20 or 30 ferries were normally on standby, but now the ferry is empty, and the houses and facilities of the ferry are also burned.

Liao Ping, the commander of Tan Zhang and Mao Shanwei, ordered people to search for seven or eight miles along the upstream. A single-plank bridge in the upstream * has been demolished. Dozens of the bodies of boatmen were found in the reeds on the other side of the downstream and the monk's own steaming ferries. Obviously, the thief burned the ferry after crossing the river and slaughtered the shipmen. Shun The rapid water rushed into the reeds downstream.

The two had an ominous hunch in their hearts that the thief soldiers had crossed Yishui, so the defense of the empty Yizhou would be troublesome. The northwest of Yizhou was to defend the equally empty Bauhinia Pass, and to the north of the Bauhinia Pass was the continuous mountains separated from Weizhou. Both of them are guard stations. If they are captured, it is equivalent to their hometown being taken away. Secondly, what is more terrible is that there are a large number of weapons and armor in the two armors of Yizhou and Zijingguan, as well as many firearms. After the thief soldiers get these, they will be reborn and no longer a mob.

The two were anxious, but they were helpless. It was getting late and they had to camp on the south bank. In the middle of the night, the north bank was full of fire. Although the distance was too far to hear and could not see what was going on, the side of the dark mountains reflected half of the sky, but it was the direction of Yizhou. Their hearts were cold. I know that Yizhou is no longer guaranteed.

The gray-faced two people didn't sleep all night and stood on the shore looking at the north bank. The two thick-lined military attacharies couldn't help crying and crying like children. When the sky was bright, the two woke up the tired soldiers and ordered them to cross the river.

Although it is clear for many days in September, the water level originating from the Taihang Mountains is high due to the melting of snow on the top of the mountain, and the water is deep and rapid. Tan Zhang ordered a small group of cavalry to go into the water to try to cross the river. In the middle, more than a dozen cavalry rushed downstream with horses and could not cross it at all.

The two looked up to the sky and sighed, hesitantly. The smoke and dust rolled in the rear, and a large group of cavalry rushed to the ground. It was Song Nan, the commander of the Jinyiwei. Song Nan led the cavalry for two days and finally met Tan Zhang and Liao Ping, who were chasing in front of them. The two guards quickly met them. Although they did not belong to the same government, Song Nan's rank Don't be obviously taller than both of them.

Song Nan Tieqing ignored Tan Zhang and Liao Ping at all. He came to the ferry to see the situation and asked coldly, "Have all the ferries been destroyed by the thief soldiers?"

"Yes, Lord Song, a single wooden bridge ten miles upstream has also been demolished."

Song Nan toured the river with her eyes for a while, turned her head and ordered, "All go down to the river and cut off all the reeds in the river."

The Jinyi Wei Ti riders didn't ask why, and acted immediately. Tan Zhang asked, "Your Excellency, is this?"

Song Nan shouted, "Why don't you kill your men to help you work? What do you do with your hands?"

Liao Ping said, "What do you do when you cut the reeds?"

Song Nan scolded, "You two are still in the mood to ask questions here. I'm ashamed for you." After saying that, he got off the horse and rolled up his trousers, picked up the embroidered spring knife and went down to the river bank and began to wipe the reed pole more than one person high.

The two were ashamed and could not attack. Naturally, they knew why Song Nan scolded them. In fact, they were also very wronged. Gu Da was not allowed to attack with a strict order, and the two of them were helpless. The thief soldiers broke out of the siege and made it uncontrollable, and they were also helpless.

Hou Dabiao went ashore with a large bundle of reeds on the ground and threw them on the ground. He looked at the two people standing in a smile and said, "The two adults really look like adults. My commanders have done it themselves, and the two are still here as spectators."

The two woke up and quickly ordered their cavalry to go down the river to cut the reeds. More than 2,000 people worked together. After a while, they cut off all the tall reeds along the river and piled them up like a hill.

Song Nan personally tied a bunch of reeds into thick reed bundles all the way. Everyone worked together. An hour later, several 20-foot-long thick reed ropes were tied up.

Song Nan said to Li Daniu, "Da Niu, the Huhe River in Weizhou has been turned upside down by you, and this time it's up to you."

Li Daniu had been stripped off for a long time and patted his chest and said, "Look at it."

Song Nan selected more than 20 water-like soldiers in the team and went into the water with Li Daniu. Li Daniu tied a rope around his waist and struggled to swim to the opposite shore. One end of the rope was held in the hands of a soldier riding a horse on the shore.

The water flow was too rapid, and the huge impulse rushed Li Daniu and others downstream. More than 20 people slanted down the water and rushed straight down three or four miles downstream, and then they landed one by one. The soldiers on the south coast rode horses for three or four miles to ensure that the ropes were always held in their hands.

More than 20 people went ashore one after another. They were exhausted. Two of them almost drowned and spit out more than a dozen mouthfuls of water. Then they rushed back to the river bank on the other side of the ferry. The ropes here were tied to a thick reed bundle. The soldiers picked up and sent one head into the water. Li Daniu on the other side took 20 soldiers. The soldiers pulled the rope desperately, and the thick reeds finally floated firmly on the water at both ends.

In this way, at noon, six thick reeds crossed the river side by side, and people stepped on it steadily. In addition to a little shaking, it was so that people could cross the river at ease.

Tan Zhang and Liao Ping were convinced that they had also had the idea of building a bridge, but they felt that it must have taken a long time and no materials. I'm afraid it would take a few days to complete, so they hesitated. The Song commander did it in half a day without saying anything. Not to mention his ingenuity, this boldness was also beyond the reach of the two of them. For the first time, their hearts awed Song Nan.