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Chapter 1139 Crossing the River

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"Cross the river." Li Chengxian uttered three words with difficulty, and then decided to take people over first.

Each small boat can carry three people and three horses, and seven boats transport twenty-one people and twenty-one horses at a time. When Li Chengxian and twenty-one people successfully boarded the boat with his war horse, the people present did not feel any passionate or intense, but only had an extremely funny feeling.

"Damn Golden Crown..." Lu Zhijia scolded again angrily, but then he thought that he, the deputy general, seemed to be the person who was responsible for supervising the water camp. He didn't take the water camp seriously. He hadn't visited it twice a year. He ignored the water camp's promotion and daily maintenance. To be honest, where the water camp is stationed, how many ships are there, how much training, and how equipment and supplies are there, he seemed to be ignorant. I'm afraid even Ma Shilong didn't know much, he knew how many water camps were on the books. He thought of them when crossing the river, and then waved his hand and asked to be deployed in place. It seemed that he was not so confident on his side?

Even Sun Ge's troops probably only know the general trend and pay the most attention to the military farms and Iron Cavalry camps everywhere, followed by the chariot and cannon camps, and finally the water camps took turns?

But now is not the time to reflect. Lu Zhijia frowned and counted the time. He transported twenty-one people and horses at a time. It looked like there were not many. However, the river surface of Liuhe River was very wide, and the ferry opposite had been abandoned for a long time. It would take a long time to go ashore. Then the boat would row back. The boat could not be fast. The war horses were afraid of water, and they were not as adaptable as people. After slowly transporting the twenty-one war horses onto the boat, they would slowly row over...

Lu Zhijia's face was dark.

On the evening of the 23rd, around darkness, the last batch of people and horses were transported to the other side. Seeing the reeds on the other side light up the bonfire, Lu Zhijia sighed with great thoughts. He ordered the transport of personnel to continue at dawn, and he would also cross the river by the last batch tomorrow night.

Today, I couldn't transport two hundred people away for a whole day. It was a failure in failure. Lu Zhijia felt like his heart was frying in a pan, which was simply a torture.

The next morning, they started transporting people again. This time, it was Zhang Wenju and others' troops. Previously, Ma Ji and other troops from Dingwu Camp. Early in the morning, people and horses started to line up on the boat. Many people at the end of the team simply used long spears to fix the reins of the horse, and then lie on the ground to rest or chat.

Because they were worried that they would be attacked after crossing the river, everyone was wearing armor and wearing dozens of kilograms of heavy armor. They would be so tired after standing for a while, and sweat flowed down like rain. Therefore, Lu Zhijia did not require the soldiers to be on guard at any time.

To put it another way, even if the ambush on the other side is now coming out and cutting Li Chengxian and the others into pieces, they can only watch here. Can the soldiers still fly over?

In the afternoon, a pond horse came over and reported the latest news.

First, Sun Ge's troops declared this operation as a military operation of the river patrol by the sentry, and used his Shangfang sword to grant General Ma Shilong the right to make decisions on the occasion. This means that this time was a general's sentry patrol by the imperial edict. Lao Sun's actions clearly defined the raid on Yaozhou as an occasional action of crossing the river patrol, and paid more attention to suddenness and accidentality. If Yaozhou is successfully captured, then the soldiers in the front will win a great victory when they take action, and Lao Sun will not seize the merits. If the war is unfavorable and the entire army retreats, then it cannot be said to be defeated, because it was originally a sentry patrol operation, and there was no problem of victory or defeat.

"The Lord of the Pavilion is really good at it." Lu Zhijia sighed.

The second is that General Ma reported the latest news about the water camp. Jin Guan still claimed that he would not be able to arrive in the short term, and it would take at least ten days. Ma Shilong no longer had any hope for the water camp. Lao Ma decided to cross the river with a fishing boat. At the same time, he said that he would lead the officers and soldiers of the Dingwu Chongwu battalions to the Liuhe Ferry on the 26th.

"If you want to figure it out," Lu Zhijia thought to himself: "It just happened that we all crossed the river the day when Ma Shuai arrived, and we could reach the outside of Yaozhou City that day."

It is very close to Yaozhou City from the ferry crossing, and there is a Tianfei Palace in the middle. Those who crossed the river in advance have rested outside the ferry for two days. On the last day, refugees crossed the river, asking them to support their strength and lead the way with the fugitives on the shore. Anyway, they don’t expect these fugitives to fight. As long as they take the soldiers from the Iron Cavalry Camp to the city of Yaozhou, the battle will basically be over.

"I hope I can use the head of the Donglu to announce the good news to Ma Shuai."

It was just now that the sun was still very hot. Lu Zhijia saw the situation of crossing the river for a while and felt really drowsy. He was also covered in thick iron scales, so he simply found a shaded place and half-lying down to start resting.

At dusk, someone woke up the sweet sleeping Lu Zhijia. Everyone surrounded the deputy generals and boarded the boat. After boarding the boat, Lu Zhijia was blown by the cold wind on the cool river surface, and the cold water when the boat paddled on his face, and he was immediately excited.

The surroundings were full of rustling when paddling, as well as the neighing of horses and sniffing sounds. The soldiers were also whispering. Those who followed Lu's armor were his servants, and they were much more relaxed in military discipline than ordinary soldiers.

After a quarter of an hour, everyone saw the boat approaching the shallows and rushing to the shore.

Several fisherman-like people rushed over, pulled the boat up with a rope, and then a few Needs led the horse down first, and someone came to support Lu Zhijia.

"No need." Lu Zhijia said: "I don't need anyone to support me."

At this time, the sky was getting darker. Now the more than 500 people crossing the river were all cavalrymen from the Iron Cavalry Camp. Hundreds of people scattered on the banks of the three-mile radius. Before and after dark, many soldiers were fishing and setting up the wood they picked up and the dead reeds lit up the bonfire. The team was quite scattered, and most of the people took off their armor and the horses were locked together in groups of more than a dozen.

Lu Zhijia was quite dissatisfied, but when he saw Li Chengxian take off his armor and sit on the ground to rest, he couldn't say anything for a moment.

"Thank you for your hard work, Lord Lu." Li Chengxian quickly presented a pot of fish soup, and then whispered: "Sir must be dissatisfied, but there is no way. In addition to a few internal and external soldiers, all of them are recruits, and they cannot withstand long-term constraints and hard work. They have already complained and their morale is low. If the Mo will forcibly restrain them from equipment or keeping in the queue, they will have to wait until tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. The Mo will be afraid that their physical strength and morale will fall to the bottom, which will be bad at that time."

Lu Zhijia looked around and saw that all the new recruits who came with him had run away on their own and had no awareness of waiting for the order. Only then did he realize that whether it was Ma Jiqian's 25 or Zhang Wenju and others, these soldiers were all new recruits. The inner lieutenants around the generals were less than ten, and the staff of several Qian Zheng and the Guards were only more than 30. In addition, there were less than 100 servants of him and Li Chengxian. Tomorrow, there will be iron cavalry crossing the river. A total of 90% of the soldiers of the 800 soldiers were new recruits. They had no battlefield experience at all, and the military discipline was not very serious. Only the military strong soldiers were strong and the military was still qualified.

In addition, Lu Zhijia remembered that if he had to wait for all the fugitive troops to cross the river, he would have to delay another day, so he sighed and said, "Tomorrow, the remaining cavalry will cross the river, and that Liu Boliu will just come over and be guides."

"Where is Liu Boliu?"

"Of course he has to come over. There is a Song Sheng who is waiting there. I want them to be the preliminary guide."

"Okay," said Li Chengxian: "Please rest assured. The last time he will be the striker tomorrow night, he will definitely break Yaozhou City in the shortest time."

"Well." Lu Zhijia suddenly felt unconfidence for some reason, but he didn't know why he was like this. Like most generals in Liao Town, Lu Zhijia could only recognize some simple words and had never read military books at all. As for war, he followed Li Rusong to North Korea when he was a young man. Later, Liao Town soldiers withdrew, and his brothers died and were killed. Lu Zhijia also went from being a general to being the deputy general. The old man in Liao Town, Li Rusong and Zu Chengxun, had long passed away. Lu Zhijia didn't remember how these old men fought. However, deep in his memory, it seemed that the camp soldiers set up a large formation, set off guns and cannons, and Needen cavalry in armor to charge, and then the enemy was thrust. It was like this when fighting Japanese pirates, Wang Gao and Dong Wutang, and it was still the same as those of the Mongolians. The Liao Town cavalry was invincible, and they were always the best at the clerk.

As for how to train and manage camp soldiers and cavalry on a daily basis, they are also following the rules of the past 20 or 30 years. However, I heard that in the prime of the old general, Li Chengliang, Ningyuan Bo, had strict training on the infantry and cavalry formations. However, that was quite a long time ago, at least forty years ago. The generals of Liao Town now had no idea how they practiced military tactics. Ten years ago, Liao Town was poor and had only money on Needen. Now the court has given so much money to equip the majestic iron cavalry battalion in front of him. However, how to make good use of these iron armored cavalry, Lu Zhizhi's armor is already ignorant and has no clue.

"We are now Zhouzi Ding." Liu Boli pointed around and said, "It is best to attack Yaozhou City forward, it is best to cross the Reed Bridge and attack Yaozhou City directly, and it is best to set off in the middle of the night and start attacking the city at dawn. This is surprisingly unexpected, and the city can be broken in one go."

Lu Zhijia looked at the student surnamed Song, and saw that no one opposed the other party and the fugitives, and knew that this was the best route.

Along the Liu River to Yaozhou, there are swamp areas with rivers. After crossing the Weiqiao Bridge, it is Yaozhou City. Lu Zhijia decided to set up a battalion at the Weiqiao Bridge. If the war is not going well, set up a battalion at the Weiqiao Bridge in the swamp area to garrison, because tomorrow is the 26th day, Ma Shilong has arrived and arrived with the infantry and cavalry of the two battalions. Even if it is in a stalemate, more than a thousand war soldiers will cross the river in a few days. At least they can cooperate to take Yaozhou and then withdraw quickly. However, if the war is not going well, they can directly cover Lu Zhijia and the others to withdraw.

At least from Song Sheng’s latest information, the Jurchens did not increase their troops to Yaozhou. It seems that the Dongjiang activity has been rampant recently. A large number of troops have gone to the Taizi River and Suzi River basins, the four guards in southern Liaoning and the Phoenix City in Lianshanguan. Even if the Jurchens found out, it would take more than five days to register for Liaoyang and then dispatch troops from various places in Liaoyang. This time it would be enough to take Yaozhou.

The only thing Lu Zhijia is worried about now is that after the Jurchens get the quick recession, the entire Niulu will give up Yaozhou and run away. However, in theory, this possibility is not great. The Jurchen military law is quite cruel. Niulu is ordered to defend Yaozhou. He must defend Yaozhou before he gets the military order, even if it is really just some old, weak, women and children.

"Send troops tonight," Lu Zhijia decided: "Take Yaozhou City before dawn tomorrow morning."
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