Chapter 70 Backwater Battle

Seeing that Liu Yaoben had become the target of the officer's shelling, several guards immediately rushed up and dragged Liu Yaoben. Despite his opposition, they pulled him down the river embankment: "Sir, it's too dangerous to stay on it. You'd better come down! Once you have something to do, we can't explain it to the general!" These guards all know that Xiao Tianjian likes Liu Yaoben very much. Although he does not explicitly accept Liu Yaoben as his adopted son, the relationship between the two is still quite unusual. What's more, although Liu Yaoben is young, after becoming the general of this teaching camp, he is quite bold and witty, so no one despises him. On the contrary, I admire him very much.

Liu Yao spit out a few puffs, spit out the sand that fell on his mouth, and sneered, "What are you afraid of? When was our general afraid? We are all fighting men. How can we be scared when we hear a few cannons? It's not that I underestimate those officers and soldiers. As for their ability, even if I stand in the front, they can't beat me! If it were our own cannons and gunners, I might hide! Humph!"

However, under the dissuasion of his men, Liu Yaoben still listened to their opinions and retreated to the bottom of the river embankment. From time to time, he would probe to look at the situation on the other side of the river.

Poor those people who were driven off the river, some people stood in the cold and piercing river, trembling with cold and blue lips, but the officers and soldiers still did not allow them to go ashore a little warmer, and even did not even give them a mouthful of hot soup to drink, but struggled to build a bridge for the officers and soldiers in the river.

Some people soon froze and stiffened because of the heat. They staggered in the water and could no longer stand up. Then they were drifted down the water by the slowly flowing river and became a wronged soul in the Luo River.

Liu Yao looked at the bodies of these people who were frozen to death by drifting down the river. What he hated was that he gritted his teeth, but he still endured and ordered his hands to prepare some fire oil, while ordering his men gathered under the river embankment to prepare for the battle.

One by one, the gunners had already loaded the ammunition and were ready to rush out to fight, and the knife players also checked the iron Thunderbolt bullets they carried with them.

Wang Shaoyu couldn't help but feel very strange when he watched the thieves on the other side of the river dodging the river embankment one after another and did not shoot arrows or fangs to stop the people from setting up a pontoon bridge.

In today's situation, if the thief army wants to stop him from crossing the river, the best way is to shoot the people who built the bridge with fire or crossbows when the people build the pontoon bridge. In this way, the people must not be able to build the pontoon bridge safely, but the thief army of the other party obviously did not do so. It seemed that they were afraid of their shelling, and they all hid behind the embankment on the north bank, watching their side slowly extend the pontoon bridge to the other side.

After seeing this, Wang Shaoyu was not without doubts, but it was just a flash. When he led his troops, he was sure that the number of thieves left in Yongning County was very limited. The thief army in the city should be auxiliary soldiers or something, and there was not much combat effectiveness. He had a cannon on his side. When it sounded, they were immediately scared, so they hid and dared not show their heads.

Then it's easy to do. Since these thieves are unbearable, what else is there to be afraid of? So he immediately greeted his men, drew some soldiers who dared to fight from various departments, and gave them a lot of rewards in public, including allowing them to plunder after entering the city.

As soon as these soldiers who were drawn heard such good things, they also knew that Yongning County had suffered relatively few military disasters in recent years, and the people in the city still had a little savings. If they enter the city, if they let them let go and grab it, they will make a fortune. In addition, the lives of the Taoist people in this world are worthless. If they can grab one, they can't do it. You can also get a little wealth! So these people suddenly became excited, put away their slackness, and began to prepare one by one on the south bank.

Seeing the extension of the pontoon bridge inch by inch, finally after freezing to death dozens of civilians, the board was still on the land on the other side. Wang Shaoyu immediately shouted, "Brothers, rush over, defeat those thieves and seize the city!" The first one to enter the city, I will reward a hundred taels of silver! Kill it!"

After listening to the three or four hundred officers and soldiers who had already gathered at the end of the pontoon bridge, they immediately cheered and ran up the swaying pontoon bridge one by one, waving weapons and rushed to the opposite bank.

At this time, several general's guns rumbled and tightened, hitting the shells on the embankment on the other side, raising a piece of sand.

After Liu Yaoben stretched out his head and looked at it, he turned around and shouted, "Brothers! It's time for us to do it. Seal the pontoon bridge and kill me! Let these bastards know that as long as we have one more person here, they will not want to step on the north bank! Go!"

After hearing Liu Yaoben's order, the two companies of soldiers who had already been waiting under the embankment, jumped up one after another with a roar and rushed up to the embankment. Under the command of their respective officers, they immediately occupied the embankment.

After the officers and soldiers who were rushing up to the pontoon bridge looked up and saw the thieves flocking to the embankment on the opposite bank, they were slightly shocked, but they had no way to turn back. They accelerated their pace one after another, stepped on the wobbly pontoon bridge, and also shouted something shocking and rushed to the other side.

Some officers and soldiers were unstable on the pontoon bridge. If they were a little careless, they were squeezed out of the pontoon bridge by their companions. They fell into the cold river and immediately made an exclamation. However, these people were basically covered with armor. Once they fell into the water, there was no chance to rescue them at all, and they were immediately dragged by the armor on their bodies. He sank into the cold river with bubbles.

However, at this time, more officers and soldiers still rushed to the pontoon bridge and rushed to the other side crazily. At this time, they could only hear a series of pop-like sound of fire on the other side.

The officers and soldiers who rushed on the pontoon bridge suddenly let out a scream, and only heard a fluttering sound. The officers and soldiers who were shot fell into the river of the Luo River one after another. Many people didn't even have time to struggle, so they immediately sank into the river, but they immediately surfaced on the water. The red blood color, even some ice floes are stained with blood red.

Wang Shaoyu stared at the tragic situation on the pontoon bridge. He immediately opened his mouth wide and almost fell to the ground. He had only heard that Xing Tianjun was very powerful, but he had never experienced how powerful it was. Today, he thought that the other party was just an auxiliary soldier of a thief's army, and his combat effectiveness must not be much. But in just a moment, he saw the power of his opponent.

There are no birds in his army, but they are not as powerful as the other party's hands. A hundred steps away, they can even overturn people, and it is also very accurate. This is only two rows of birds shot in unison. These officers and soldiers who caught up with the pontoon bridge were knocked overturned like dumplings. There are a lot in the river.

The officers and soldiers on the pontoon bridge exclaimed. The officers and soldiers who had not been shot immediately panicked. Some people were immediately scared and wanted to turn around and escape back to the south bank. Some people were unwilling to retreat like this, squeezing and wanted to rush forward. In this way, the narrow pontoon bridge suddenly became chaotic. Come on, when you pushed me, someone was pushed under the bridge and fell into the glacier.

"Don't return! Rush to this officer and kill them! Don't retreat! Come on! Adjust 500 archers. If anyone dares to retreat, shoot arrows for me! Hurry up! Block the bridge and rush over to me!" Wang Shaoyu saw that the officers and soldiers under his command who rushed up the bridge wanted to withdraw, and immediately became anxious. If he was blocked by the thief army opposite him here, he would probably not even be able to touch the Yongning County. Once Zu Kuan led his troops to kill here, he would even get the credit. No, so I crossed my heart. Instead of being like this, it's better to fight back and fight down! Suddenly, he pulled out his waist knife and roared loudly.