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While Guo Nian entered the Song army camp, several places around the large Song army camp were attacked by the Divine Guards. In this era, due to the lack of nutrition, most of the people suffered from different degrees of night blindness called the Crimson Blindness. The corresponding methods of night attacks were not fully utilized in military science. Since Chen De took over the Srimson Blindness, in addition to the soldiers who had increased their salary, they were so that these soldiers who were busy training would eat and drink well. Therefore, most of the soldiers of the Divine Guards had been curled up by the Srimson Blindness. After that, Chen De had targeted many modern night attack tactics to train. Therefore, he sent five battalions of troops to attack the Song army camp at night, and only then did he receive a miraculous effect. The soldiers who entered the Song camp were slashing loudly while slashing and slaughtering everywhere. When they set fire, the Song army camp was surrounded by flames and killing sounds.

Jing Si, a military academy of the Crane Controller, tried desperately to entangle the Tang army rushing into the camp. Unexpectedly, when most of the Song army soldiers were still wearing armor and looking for swords, the Tang army that rushed in instantly formed a local advantage against the sentry guards led by Jing Si. They had been an imperial guard for ten years. Bao Yong, who had been extremely brave in the battles of Pingshu and Pinghan, was surrounded by several Tang corps as soon as he rushed to approach. Five or six horizontal knives were greeted together, and the fierce soldiers were cut into pieces on the spot. Zhang Feng, who was so scared that he immediately shouted "Oh my God" and ran away. Jing Si was also slashed at his right leg by a Tang army and fell to the ground. He had already closed his eyes and waited to die. Unexpectedly, the Tang soldiers ignored him and threw out a few turbulent oil bottles and then killed them deeper into the camp.

Cao Bin has been unable to sleep these days. Li Jixun was teased by the Tang army several times. Although he did not directly question his general order, his prestige, which was not very high in the army, was even more shaking. Even Cao Bin himself was somewhat doubted whether he had been caught in the suspicious plan of Jinling to delay the army's siege. However, he was afraid of Wang Zhi's right to report secretly, and did not dare to directly verify the suspicion from Wang Zhi, and became more and more worried. When the sound of killing fire on the outside of the camp was first raised, Cao Bin was almost the first to jump out of the couch. He hurriedly put on his armor and rushed out of the camp tent.

, picked up the waist knife handed over by his personal soldiers, looked around, and felt that there were fire and shouts of killing in all directions, and secretly called out the Tang army general in his heart. He attacked from all sides at night, so that he could not judge the direction of his real raid. Thinking of this, Cao Bin's heart moved and said in a deep voice: "Speed ​​my general's order quickly, Li Huaizhong, commander of the East and West squad, Du Yuhou Zhao Tinghan, commander of the hall in front of the hall, Dai Xing, deputy commander of the Yulongzhi, gathered the elite team of the squad, and Cao Han, commander of the vanguard, and listened to our camp. The other troops were guarding their camps and not allowed to move. If there was any reason, the soldiers would be killed immediately."

Because it is important to protect the floating bridge across the river, Tian Qinzuo, the left wing of the camp, stayed on the naval tower boat at night. He also heard the sound of killing around the camp on the shore, and the personal soldiers beside him asked: "Tian Dujian, the camp was attacked at night. Should the navy be allowed to approach the south bank and launch bows and arrows to help the camp repel the invading enemy?"

Tian Qinzuo glared at the personal soldier and said, "What do you know? What if it is the plan of the southern thieves to attack the west? All soldiers will rise up and defend their positions. Those who have not received the order of this general will be executed immediately."

The shouts and fires from all sides were getting louder and louder, but Cao Bin stood steadily in front of his camp. He believed in his judgment that the Tang army had no strength to raid the entire Song army camp. So the purpose of this night attack by the Tang army was not the only one that was the purpose of the Tang army's night attack. It depends on their next action. Suddenly, his subordinates came to report and rushed out of the direction of Jinling City, and advanced along the water and land. About 20,000 people rushed straight to the Caishiji Pagoda, which was connected to the floating bridge across the river. This pagoda was built by Nantang. It was now built by Shuzhou military advisor Fan Ruoshui under the name of worshiping Buddha. Just imagine that the wind and waves above the river were surging. If this stone tower had not been tied to the buoyant bridge, the floating bridge would have been washed away by the water. If the Tang army wanted to destroy the floating bridge, they would either rush hard from the upstream with a huge boat or try to destroy the buildings with floating bridges on both sides of the Yangtze River. There was no other way.

When Cao Bin heard that the Southern Army was indeed heading towards the pagoda, he was secretly happy. In order to destroy our boat bridge, if the army was stalking a group with the Southern Army here, it would be difficult to pull out people to cover the floating bridge. Fortunately, he was holding such an elite soldier in his hand and immediately ordered: "Li Huaizhong, Zhao Tinghan, Dai Xing quickly led the leader to directly intercept the bridge and seize the bridge. Cao Han took the front army to cut off the retreat route of the rebel army. Tian Qinzuo led the navy to block the river surface and block the rebel army's navy from the floating bridge."

Seeing that all the troops were taking the orders, Cao Bin had just calmly sent the command of Shang Yu's army in the camp, Zhongmeng and Guangde. Under the leadership of their respective deployments, inspections and other generals, he fought back with all his strength to attack the Tang army units that were harassing. In addition, he ordered the generals of Xiaowu, Long Jie and Hu Jie to listen to the tents and prepare to take them out in person to slash the main force of the Tang army that raided the boat bridge.

Just as the Song army's water camps all launched anchors and slowly sailed to the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, preparing to intercept the Jinling Navy. A group of people rushed to the north end of the floating bridge. Huai Gourong, the eighth commander of the Pingyuan Army who was on duty tonight, stopped them and asked, "The boat bridge is prohibited at night, why don't you understand the rules?" The leading general lifted his mask and showed a distorted and ferocious face and shouted: "I am Zhao Tinghan, the commander in front of the palace. The Jiangnan camp was attacked by the enemy at night. Cao Shuai urgently dispatched us to cross the river to rescue. The military situation is like fire, but you can't get out of here quickly!" After saying that, "Bang

"With a whip, the whip flower exploded just half an inch in front of Huai Gourong's face. The soldiers under Zhao Tinghan rushed over like a wolf and a tiger to move the horse away. Then he surrounded the commander and pushed a small cart full of shields, crossbows and arrows and other weapons to hurry to Jiangnan. When the elite soldiers of the hall in front of the hall all left the bridge, Huai Gourong dared to touch his cheeks, be sure that he had not been bleeding from the whip. Looking at the south bank of the river, Huai Gourong spat hard into the river and cursed: "The gray grandson of the hall in front of the hall is rushing to reincarnate, the uncle will not stop him."

"It's so dangerous, commander, what if the military academy didn't let me wait for the bridge just now?" asked Zheng Bin, the captain of the Divine Guard, who pretended to be the imperial guards in front of the Great Song Palace, asked.

"If we are really the imperial guards in front of the palace, he is ordered to cross the river to rescue camp, he dares to stop him and cut him off on the spot." Chen De looked ahead and said proudly. He couldn't help but stomp on this large floating bridge a few times. Even if his mission is to destroy it today, he still can't help but be proud of it. The Yangtze River Bridge a thousand years ago, although it was completely built with wooden boards on boards, it seemed particularly stable on the wide river surface. Chen De looked at the bridge from the city tower more than once, and the long bridge made of boats and boats were closely attached to the water.

The Yangtze River crosses the Yangtze River, and it has a unique sense of excitement, and the unique delicateness of the wooden structure is undoubtedly displayed on this temporary boat bridge. A solid wooden arrow tower was built on the front and back bridges. In order to prevent the Tang army navy from coming to destroy the bridge, most of the people-high guard walls were built on both sides of the bridge, and bed crossbows were set up, guarding them with vigilance by the Song army soldiers. Even at the bridge head just now, Chen De saw that the lintels and pillars of the arrow tower were carved with delicate and exquisite patterns. It was a work of ingenious art, and Chen De thought of it with regret.

After entering the bridge, the five commanders of the Divine Guard Rear Army led by Chen De pulled out the plugs under the vehicles advancing with the army. The carts covered with crossbows and heavy shields on the surface were actually filled with tinder oil. As they drove from Jiangbei to Jiangnan, the entire bridge deck was filled with these leaking tinder oil flowing everywhere.

Perhaps because he was used to the army driving from Jiangbei, the Song soldiers guarding the south of the bridge did not question it seriously. Until Chen De and others were about to walk out of the overlapping fortification bridgehead area, Chen Defang took a torch from Xin Gu, turned around and looked at the magnificent first Yangtze River Bridge with regret, and threw the torch to the ground.

In an instant, a fire dragon gushed with its scorching tongue and quickly meandered from the bridge to the entire floating bridge. Because the bridge was made of wooden structure, the blazing flames quickly burned all the bridge bodies. The fire dragon danced wildly, and as the wind rotated, it quickly burned into a sea of ​​fire. The vast river surface was red. At this time, the river wind was strong, and the wind helped the fire. The ignited wooden boat bridge made crackling sounds from time to time. The blazing flames rushed straight into the air. Many of the Song soldiers who were originally guarding the pontoon bridge rolled and crawled out of the bridge deck. More soldiers who could not escape could not withstand the scorching fire, regardless of the unfathomable river below, they were all miserable.

He shouted and thrust into the water. For a moment, the Song soldiers struggling in the water were everywhere on both sides of the pontoon bridge. The Song soldiers who were desperately carrying buckets on both sides wanted to rush up to the bridge to put out the fire were scorched before they even got on the bridge, and even their armor was ignited. Daozhou Governor Wang Jixun, the army's transport envoy Shen Lun, and the Bazuo commander Hao Shourong forced dozens of elite soldiers to pour cold water all over their bodies, and tried to get close to the bridge to splash water to put out the fire. Before the water fell, the fire was roasted into steam by the fire tongue. The fire tongue several feet long even licked the boat ships anchored nearby to cover the floating bridge, causing several warships to burn, forcing the navy warships to leave the floating bridge and watch it burned little by little.

Seeing the fire on the river, the various units of the Divine Guards, who were originally desperately clamoring and setting fires on all sides of the Song army camp, rushed out one after another. Since most of the main forces of the Song army went out of the camp to encircle the Tang army that was water and land and rushed towards the pagoda in Jiangnan, the Song army in the camp only wanted to drive the Tang army out of the camp and did not blindly chase them. The Tang army, which was astonishing in the direction of Jinling City, retreated almost immediately. Even the front army of Cao Han who arrived quickly only cut off torches and flags discarded all over the ground.

Looking at the brisk river surface, Cao Bin's face turned pale, and Cao Han, the commander of the vanguard around him, even pointed at the direction of Jinling and cursed: "If one day capture this city, there will be no living prisoners and behead all of these bandits."

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