Chapter 147: Breakthrough of Yaosha River

The cavalry of the Tianfang Cult saw that the Tang army on the other side were piled up the soil higher and higher. It was like a mountain of earth in one day. The next day it increased by almost doubled, and the third day it increased by several feet.

But the cavalry of the Tianfang Cult did not feel feared because of this, but instead laughed at it. The water flow of Yaosha River is one of the best in the inland water, and this season is close to the peak of its flood season. Most of the rivers in Central Asia are wide and shallow. Although shallow, they are relatively different from the Yangtze River, the Yellow River, etc. After all, this is not something that can be wade through by people and horses. In addition, the width of this section of the river reaches more than 20 meters. If you want to cut off a big river, it is impossible to rely on human and animal power in this era, but it is not something that can be done in ten days and half a month.

Some people on the Tang army disagreed with Guo Wei's behavior, but Guo Luo did not interfere with him, but continued to send other troops to attack from other places. Even Guo Wei's subordinates were mostly complaining, thinking that General Guo had been defeated by Governor Guo.

"It was obviously a thigh, but why did my head break?" Of course, this was just a low complaint behind my back.

Guo Wei ignored the ridicule of the enemy and us, and still urged 27,000 people to carry the soil and prepare to fill the river. By the dusk of the third day, two-story high soil had been piled on the north bank, and Guo Wei immediately ordered: "Fill the river!"

This is a pile of soil that stretches for several miles! If you throw it into the river with a dustpan, you will probably have to throw it for another three days!

At dusk that day, both the Tang army and the Tiance army came to watch, but Guo Luo did not come, but Ma Jirong came. Even Ista on the other side of the shore ambushed the elite soldiers and came to monitor them personally. He learned through his spies that the other side of the shore was Guo Wei, a famous Tang army general who became famous in the Battle of Beiting, so he did not dare to neglect it, and he had to see how Guo Wei filled the river.

But Guo Wei organized more than 4,000 civilians to carry the huge bumper wood for the project. Forty people carried a bumper wood, attacked a hundred teams, and ********* rushed forward!

The soil was piled too high and not compacted, and the base was unstable. It collapsed one by one by one by one by the bumped wood, and in just a moment they were poured into the Yaosha River! The soil was leaking, pouring over the entire Yaosha River, and it was indeed filled with a huge piece along the river! Even the water of the Yaosha River rippled! The momentum was indeed amazing!

One hundred hits the woods under the command of Xi Weinan, and they rumbled and rumbling, and the stones and mud kept falling into the water, making a thud, and thousands of people were busy and finally pushed all the dirt on the north bank into the river before the sun sets!

Under the sunset, the entire Yaosha River was turbid. There was no water pollution in this era. Yaosha River flowed from snow water, which was originally very clear, but at this time the river was mixed with soil, and half of the Yaosha River turned into mud!

But the mighty is powerful, and the momentum is powerful, and the impact is huge. However, after the mud and sand poured down, most of them were washed away by the river. Only three or four were piled up along the coast. Twenty-seven thousand people spent two and a half days to fill the river, but in the end they were only three feet tall. This was actually an amazing achievement, but compared to the wide river surface, this was not enough!

The cavalry of the Tianfang Cult on the other side laughed out loud again, and Ista was relieved. At the speed of the Tang army, even if they continued to dig mud and fill the river, it would take at least one month to really cut off the river. Moreover, the river water was flowing, and once the river was blocked, the river water had nowhere to vent, the consequences caused were unpredictable, and the more it was filled, the more difficult it would be.

The Tang generals on the shore shook their heads when they saw this effect.

Only Guo Wei seemed to be unstoppable. The commander continued to dig the dredge and prepared to fill the river next time. The sand and stones on the surface that could be moved nearby have been moved in the past three days. Guo Wei ordered to dig on the east bank of Yaosha River. He rested for two days, and the scars on both sides gradually merged, but he had not yet stood up. But he lay on the stretcher and continued to force the civil servants, Hu Qi, and the Duke of the Mansion to work. Many people thought: "This method is obviously not good! General Guo is now treating the dead horse as a living horse." But under Guo Wei's urging, he did not dare to slack off at all.

In this work, more than 20,000 people were mixed, but most of them did not notice that from the early morning of the fourth day, elite soldiers were drawn away. The number of people transferred was 2,000 - the number of soldiers transferred to Guo Wei reached 10,000, and these two thousand were selected by one in five. The Tang army's soldiers could be considered elite troops wherever they were placed in the Western Regions, and these two thousand were even the elite among the elite. This group of elite soldiers not only had high quality and sufficient training, but also wore light iron armor and were holding sharp weapons - some of them were cavalry and archers!

However, even the Tang army itself did not notice this potential change, let alone the Tianfang Cult cavalry on the other side. What Ista saw through Yaosha River was that the Tang army continued to dig, transport soil, pile up soil, and calculate the days. Even if the Tang army could successfully fill the river, it would be a month later.

"By then, they would probably be exhausted long ago. I'll see how they fight after crossing the river!"

After three days of work, the two thousand people who were transferred were indeed exhausted, but what made them feel depressed at this moment was not fatigue, but doing nothing.

Suddenly he was transferred to this secret military camp. Everyone ordered that no noise or go out, only to polish their weapons and feed their horses. In addition, they were not allowed to go out in one step, and those who violated the order were killed!

Yang Xin and Xu Congshi are the leaders of these two thousand people, each leading the elite soldiers of one thousand people, but they themselves do not know what is about to happen.

It was not until the evening of the sixth day that Guo Wei came to the barracks and said, "Today, have a good rest, eat and sleep well, tomorrow is the last day, and before tomorrow night, you will cross the river for me! Even if you don't get Ista's head, at least you have to defeat the other party's river defense for me! I have already informed Governor Guo, as long as you succeed, the entire army will take action immediately!"

Yang Xin whistled and said, "But the river has only been filled with four or five feet, and it is still far from filling the river! How can I go over! Fly over? I am just a silver spear general, not a flying general."

He is Guo Wei's direct subordinate, and he has always been a little indifferent. The lieutenant who gathered to discuss knows their relationship. Although he knows that Yang Xin is making fun of Guo Wei, he also laughs with awkwardness.

Guo Wei said: "Before I started to fill the river, I had already sent people to survey the camps and mixed into the raft that forced the river to attack, and looked at the depth of the waterways dozens of miles away. Although the two sides of the river were narrow, the water flow was more rapid and the heart of the river was deeper, and the more trouble it would be. Even if we were given another month, we would probably not be able to fill it. However, what you want to rush over is not this section of the river, but the section of the river that is more than ten miles northwest - the river surface is the widest, but the gentlest, and the river water is the shallowest. You are riding on the first-class horses in the Western Regions. Then you don't use the raft, just put the horses over!"

Xu Congshi had long thought that Guo Wei must have other plans. He was not surprised to hear this, but said, "Although that section of the river is shallower, it is not something that can be used to wading over the horse. I have also asked the people who are investigating the camp that the water in the heart of the river can flood the chest. People and horses will still swim when they fall into the water. Once we enter the water, we will become the target of the other party's arrow. Two thousand people can be invincible in the ground, but when we get to the water, we will be useless in heroes! If the river is so shallow that we can wading over, we don't have to wait until now."

Guo Wei said: "I know this, so I think about how to lighten the river these days!" He waved his hand and ordered everyone to prepare: "In short, tomorrow, I will order you to take action immediately. After dark tonight, you will all be broken into pieces and go to the military camps near the river to hide and rest - I have already aired those military camps!"

He looked downstream and said, "Although the three of us have different differences, I actually think you are a comrade. Please work hard for both of you! If my calculations are wrong, then I can only use my head to meet Governor Guo the morning after tomorrow."

His words were simple and not as inflammatory as Zhang Mai. But these two sentences were out of true feelings, and the blood of the generals in the tent boiled. Yang Xin stood up and said, "Don't worry, General! What's the point of breaking through tomorrow! If the river water does not become shallow, we must swim over even if we swim! Our good men in the Middle Ages will not be looked down upon by the old guys in Lingxi!"

On this day, the Tianfang Army and the Tang Army both seemed very calm, there was no particularly intense atmosphere, nor was there any strange tranquility. Everything seemed to be the same as usual. Only some people thought of the "seven-day appointment" between Guo Wei and Guo Luo, and secretly worried and anxious about him.

At dusk, under Guo Wei's order, the team hit the wood and hit dozens of earthy mountains, but the effect was getting smaller and smaller - the closer we got to the center of the river, the greater the impact of the river water, and the mud and sand poured down, it was quickly washed downstream.

The cavalry of the Tianfang Sect on the other side laughed loudly when they saw it. The laughter even floated across Yaosha River and reached the ears of Tang Army. Everyone was indignant!

Guo Wei said angrily: "The thief dares to insult me!" Because he ordered: "Work overnight, I vow to fill this section of the river before midnight!"

Half of the more than 20,000 people responded in unison. Although they all knew that it would be impossible to fill out a quarter of the river after seven days before filling in one night, they could not lose the momentum even if they lost the battle! I thought it was the last day of the seven-day appointment, and everyone motivated themselves. After nightfall, they lit a torch and worked hard under Guo Wei's command.

When the cavalry of the Tianfang Sect on the other side saw it, they started to mock it without any trouble!

It was almost midnight, and suddenly, a loud bang sounded loudly on the east bank of Yaosha River! It seemed like something had collapsed! Then tens of thousands of people exclaimed in unison! But the screams were soon covered up by the extremely loud sound of water flowing!

The sound of water is like a dam collapse!

"Have you been flooded? Is you flooded?"

Everyone was a little frightened.

The Tang army was not in trouble after being ruled by Guo Luo's troops, but the cavalry of the Tianfang Sect on the other side were guessing something. Maoyan Deng gathered from all over the place, and finally had a very sharp eye to see the situation on the other side, shouting: "Tang Kou dug the soil to fill the river, and dug the river embankment over his side!"

With this impression in my heart, Maoyan Deng gathered and looked again, and found that the river water could not stop going east and tilted north! Such a dyke collapse was the most feared thing for military use, but the collapse of the other party's dyke, which was the most fortunate thing in the world!

All the cavalrymen of the Tianfang Clan were overjoyed, and they were all happy. Everyone touched their foreheads and shouted: "Bless the true god, bless the true god! These Tang bandits wanted to fill the river, but they drowned themselves! Flooded, drowned!"

The water of Yaosha River surged from the collapse of the east bank embankment and poured into the lowland with an area of ​​dozens of square miles. Moreover, since this side of the embankment had been dug several feet into the ground by Guo Wei, the river water was even more fierce when it poured in!

In the darkness, the soldiers of Tianfang only saw the collapse of the other side's embankment, but who noticed that the embankment collapsed. While the river water was diverted, the flow rate downstream suddenly decreased in an instant! Although it was not cut off, the water level of that gentle water surface had dropped by more than half in just one meal!

"General Guo's wonderful trick!" Guo Luo sighed downstream Pinghe: "This method is useless in the Central Plains. The rivers on our side are often several or tens of feet, unlike the Western Regions where there are mostly wide and shallow rivers..."

Then, after hearing a few bangs, the military camps that were very empty during the day suddenly rushed out of two hundred tiger-like soldiers! Everyone rode a tall horse and stepped into the Yaosha River! Guo Luo was overjoyed and quickly ordered reinforcements!

In the dark night, Yang Xin didn't care about anything and just rushed forward!

The riverbed in the Western Regions is not like the south of the Yangtze River. It has more sand and stones and less mud. Two thousand cavalrymen stepped into the water, and the water only flooded the horse's knees! Although the riverbed was uneven and hundreds of cavalrymen drew water because of their horses, more than a thousand people successfully crossed the heart of the river!

Maoyan Deng was originally focused on the collapse of the river embankment on the east bank, but he quickly mobilized it, but where was there any time?

Archers were shooting at the river, but Yang Xin and others had different flexibility on horseback and on rafts! With the visibility of the night, with the hundreds of archers who rushed to attack on the other side of the river, what were the more than a thousand cavalry that could move?

At a distance of more than 30 feet, the cavalry charge arrived in a flash! Although it was blocked by the water flow, more than 800 cavalry rushed to the shore in just one meal!

Before the Tianfang Army could react, the thousands of cavalry of the Tang army had already assembled!

Ista heard the news and attracted elite troops! The Tang army on both sides of the Yaosha River had far greater strength than the Tianfang Army, but at this point in time, Ista gathered far more troops than the Tang army that had just crossed the river!

But facing the Tianfang Cult troops that were several times more than him, Yang Xin just laughed: "The one that blocked our iron hooves these days is this broken ditch. Now that we have crossed the river, Tianfang children, come to Grandpa Yang to kill him!"

Under the bright moonlight, silver light flashed like pear blossoms. The sweat-blooded horse also turned into a dragon under the moonlight. More than 800 people were like a treasure knife, and they had been holding it up for many days and bravely slashing towards the alien race!

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The momentum that finally gathers together cannot be stopped!

Will continue tomorrow!

Kill, kill, kill!
Chapter completed!