Chapter 203 Where is the Wagang stay?

Like a fire loaded with tinder oil, the bow of the ship was equipped with an iron hook. As long as the fire ship hit the East Palace Guard's fast slurry ship in front, the fast slurry ship could not be shaken off. Soon, four or five fast slurry ships were ignited by the fire ship, forming a large fire.

Under the leadership of Yuchi Gong, Qing Daosu of the East Palace trained strictly and responded very quickly. Some of them put out fires, while others quickly drove the ship to avoid them.

However, they were not good at water warfare, so they made mistakes in their busy schedules. Instead, they knocked over two of them. Seeing that less than half of the dozen fast-paced boats behind the palace were left, at this moment, Wei Zheng's face showed a thoughtful look.

Li Jiancheng looked at the increasingly intense shore and threw away the flashy sword at his waist and took a horizontal sword from the soldiers beside him. The sword was just a decoration. When facing the armored target, he was very powerless. Even if it was a sword that was cut like iron, he was powerless when facing the armor. After all, a sword known for its piercing is far less useful than a horizontal sword.

Wei Zheng suddenly spoke, "Your Highness, this is probably a trap!"

"What? What did you find?" Li Jiancheng turned to Wei Zheng and said, "Did you find something?"

"Yes!" Wei Zheng said without any concealment: "This kind of water battle method of blocking front and chasing back is the water battle method of Wagang Village. Among these incoming enemies, the old generals of Wagang should be in command!"

"Old general of Wagang?" Li Jiancheng's eyes narrowed.

Since Li Mi's death, other generals, Qin Qiong, Cheng Zhijie, Xie Yingdeng, and Niu Junda, all defected to Li Shimin, but Li Shiji and Wei Zheng defected to Li Jiancheng, while Luo Shixin defected to Chen Ying. Just relying on the former generals of Wagang to take action does not mean anything.

Li Jiancheng saw it clearly. Although Zuo Qingdao of the East Palace led the horse infantry to be elite after getting ashore, the combat effectiveness of fighting on an unfamiliar ship is greatly reduced. Some people even couldn't stand firmly on the ship and took them down the lake. For soldiers who were armoured, it was too inconvenient to move under the water. If the armor could not be taken off in the water, they might be drowned. If they floated up, they would also kill the enemy water ghosts attached to nearby ants.

At this moment, more than a dozen centipede boats quickly surrounded Li Jiancheng's boat. This centipede boat is actually a small speedboat, just like the dragon boat racing dragon boats on the Dragon Boat Festival. Usually, a boat has more than a dozen or twenty pulpmen, which can paddle quickly, and is very fast and very flexible. This centipede boat is extremely shallow in the water, even if the water depth is only more than three feet, it can sail on the water surface like flying.

Li Jiancheng stood on the deck and saw more than a dozen or twenty people standing on each centipede boat, all of whom were bare-shirted and bare chests, biting a knife in his mouth, and pretending to climb the boat. Someone at the bow threw a rope with a hook to hook the boat.

The tower ship is about four floors high and very tall. In order to avoid overturning, it is equipped with many ballast stones. These ballast stones are large pieces of long strips of clams, which are hundreds of kilograms. The soldiers of the East Palace can easily carry them up as stones. With the tall body of the tower ship, they will smash the stones down, not to mention smashing people's brains, they may be able to smash a big hole in the bottom of the thin centipede ship.

Li Jiancheng was also worried that Yuchi Gong was an immediate general and did not understand water battles. Who would have thought that Yuchi Gong only ordered someone to use an axe to cut off the hook rope thrown by the loach boat, and poked the centipede boat with a long bamboo pole with a long iron nail at the tail to prevent the centipede boat from approaching. He also asked half a liter of sail to swing the hull to the right by using the wind. With the tall hull, he immediately overturned the two centipede boats, swept the thirty or forty people into the water, and did not shoot the enemies who fell into the water, allowing them to escape, only preventing them from climbing onto the boat.

These enemies have few bows and arrows, and only eight or nine hunting bows were set on seven or eight ships, and the sparse arrows came over. The side panels of the cabin of the building were already high. The guards of the East Palace were covered with armor and shields, and shot arrows in a mess. Only two soldiers accidentally shot one of them and the other shot the calf.

Seeing that the ship was difficult to chew, the centipede ship lit the oil-soaked grass and threw it onto the boat, and then smashed it with a pot full of oil. The oil floated to the open space on the deck, and it was a large area when it burned. The fire was very scary. The guards of the Eastern Palace were all panicked and wanted to carry the bucket and fetch water to put out the fire.

At the critical moment, Wei Zheng stopped it. Wei Zheng said: "This kind of fire just looks scary. The deck is covered with cooked cowhide and is soaked in advance. This fire may not burn the cooked cowhide thoroughly. Besides, water cannot extinguish the oil and fire. If water is poured, the oil and fire will spread everywhere on the water surface, making it even harder to clean up. Warriors with experience in water war know that they should use the prepared fine sand and soaked cotton to extinguish the fire."

More than a dozen Eastern Palace guards quickly put out the fire, which was very orderly.

Li Jiancheng is also a person who has seen the world. He has never encountered such a large-scale water war. He was so nervous that he was thumping that he calmed down a little until then.

At this time, a slightly larger square boat was transferred over and saw several strong men standing on the bow deck, holding long bags like cloth bags, and stuffed them all over the head. The people swung the bags vigorously over their heads, swung them twice over their heads and let them fly over them.

A guard was holding a shield to block it, but he couldn't bear the power and was knocked over to the deck. Wei Zheng plucked up the courage to go forward and used a knife to open the cloth bag, and found that it was actually pine charcoal soaked with tinder oil.

Wei Zheng said: "The enemy is ready for fire attack!"

Without Wei Zheng's reminder, Yuchi Gong also issued an order to cover the archer.

As the shrill sound of breaking through the air sounded, arrows as dense as rain were covering the enemy. Soon, the square boat was shot in screams, and several ballasts were smashed. Immediately, several people could not avoid it and hit the ballasts, making them bloody and bloody. Even the square boat was smashed into a big hole.

However, under this circumstance, the stairs finally slowly landed. Relatively speaking, Donggong Qingdaosu, 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.

As pallets were laid on the shore, Li Jiancheng and Wei Zheng quickly climbed to the shore.

Before Li Jiancheng could breathe a sigh of relief when he arrived on the shore, he heard a team of cavalry rushing out of the dense forest in the eastern part of the shore. A black-faced man in the lead yelled: "Don't leave Li Jiancheng..."

The Hebei rebels, together with the Turkic cavalry, rushed towards 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 just wanted to force them to get ashore and let Liu Shishan kill Li Jiancheng. Once Prince Li Tang dies in Hebei, the Hebei aristocratic families will have to go to the dark side with Liu Shishan.

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

Hundreds of Turkic cavalry surrounded Yuchi Gong, and Yuchi Gong couldn't take care of Li Jiancheng for a while. Yuchi Gong was so anxious that he screamed. Yuchi Gong swung his horse spear and killed the Turkic cavalrymen.

Just as Liu Shishan was rushing towards Li Jiancheng with a team of cavalry, a sharp arrow suddenly flew over and hit Liu Shishan's ribs. Liu Shishan was dismissed, and the Hebei rebels were shocked.

Chang He led a team of personal guards into the battlefield, fiercely chopped over the Turkic cavalry beside Li Jiancheng, protecting Li Jiancheng's retreat.

Liu Shishan got on the horse and tried to gather troops to attack Chang He again.

At this moment, Yuchi Gong killed the Turks around him, led Zuo Qingdao of the Eastern Palace to lead his troops back to the rescue, killing Liu Shishan to defeat him.

Liu Shishan fled in a hurry.

The soldiers of Tang soldiers shouted excitedly: "We won."

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

All the generals congratulated Li Jiancheng one after another.

Li Jiancheng said in surprise: "Which general was the one who rescued the palace just now?"

Chang He went out and bowed and said, "I will come to Chang He to see His Royal Highness."

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

Chang He said: "Master, a family was transferred to the Hebei army to listen to it, just arrived."

Li Jiancheng looked at Chang He and Wei Zheng in surprise.

Li Jiancheng stepped forward and asked, "Xuancheng... do you know each other?"

Wei Zheng smiled faintly and pointed at Chang He and said, "Your Highness, Chang He is the longest general of the Wagang Army. After Li Mi's defeat, Chang He was incorporated by Wang Shichong and guarded Hulao Pass. In the battle of Hulao, he offered the pass to the Tang Dynasty."

Li Jiancheng asked curiously: "Chang'an, why haven't I seen General Chang before?"

Chang He smiled bitterly and said, "After the Battle of Hulao, the last one will be ordered to be transferred to Jinyang, Hedong."

Li Jiancheng asked even more curiously: "Why is this?"

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

Li Jiancheng suddenly said: "If Dou Jiande had heard Xuancheng's words, he would have gone south for two months, then wouldn't Hulao Pass..."

Chang He spoke: "Then, I will definitely present Hulao Pass to King Xia."

Li Jiancheng sighed: "This is the destiny. Dou Jiande does not need Xuancheng. If he cannot get General Chang, Hulao Pass will be gone, and his foundation will be gone."

Wei Zheng, Chang He bowed his head and said nothing.

Li Jiancheng continued: "General Chang has made great contributions to protecting the emperor. From today on, General Chang will lead the Youqing Dao of the East Palace of our palace and will protect the palace with General Yuchi. General Chang will return to Chang'an with Jiancheng, which will be of great use."

Chang He said calmly to Li Jiancheng: "I will thank His Highness the Crown 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 long legs of the harrier eagle. Du Yan looked happy. He picked up the note and ran quickly to Li Shimin who was fighting Cheng Zhijie on the school ground and said, "Your Highness, the matter has been done, the fish bit the hook."

Li Shimin took the note and glanced quickly. Chong Cheng Zhijie said, "Old Cheng, let's go here today, notify the auxiliary machine, Xuan Ling and Keming to come and discuss matters."
Chapter completed!