"The killing was too fierce." Suqian and Jiang Shangyan stood on the embankment on their shoulders, looked at the roaring river water, shook their heads and said, "It's just ignorant people."

"When they picked up their weapons and rushed towards me, they were no longer people." Jiang Shangyan said coldly. "When they cut off my subordinates' heads and hung them on the fortress to show off, they were my life and death enemy."

Suqian looked at Jiang Shangyan in surprise: "The hatred in your heart is too strong. I thought you would be in a complicated mood just like me?"

Jiang Shangyan laughed: "My mood is not complicated at all. General Su, in order to return to Da Chu to fight against the invasion of Qi army, I knelt outside the Daming Palace for several days and nights. His Majesty did not allow me to come back at first."

"I know this!" Suqian nodded.

"At that time, I was really very affectionate about Da Chu." Jiang Shangyan said: "But later, these feelings were worn out bit by bit. I couldn't understand. Da Ming had been fighting and never stopped. But why did the Ming Dynasty become richer and richer as the battle was fought? The people became richer and richer as the battle was fought? But our Da Chu became poorer and poorer, and the people couldn't afford to eat. Every time when I led the army to return victoriously and saw the old, weak and weak women and children who were still working hard in the fields, I didn't feel happy about returning victoriously."

"No one can dominate the country with His Majesty the Emperor of Ming Dynasty." Suqian said seriously. "You probably like me, you hope that the people on this land will live a good life sooner before they can surrender to the Ming Dynasty, right?"

"There is this factor, but more importantly, I only hate this country now." Jiang Shangyan said coldly: "When General Cheng Wuben died outside the outskirts of Shangjing, all I had hatred was left in my heart. I wanted to go into Shangjing, grab Min Ruoying's clothes, and ask him, why? So, those who blocked me were my enemies."

"Your Majesty may scold you. You must be prepared to accept punishment. Only half of the people in Yafan County were killed by you." Suqian was silent for a while and said: "This is actually harmful to our attack on Xiangzhou in the future. People there will fight to the death to resist us."

"It's the same. If I don't kill them, they will still fight against us." Jiang Shangyan said coldly. "Ma Xiangdong's plan has left them with no way out, so starting from Xiangzhou, there will be no easy battles. Every step will be paved with blood. Sometimes the Ming army is too kind and righteous, which will suffer losses. Wars are always cruel. It's better for me to start this, which can also be regarded as a reminder for all the Ming army that from now on, everyone we meet may be our enemy."

Suqian took a deep breath and reached out his hand. He saw the rain drops falling in his palms. He looked at the river water under his feet, "It's hard to cross the river. The spring flood is coming, and the river water is already rising. I found a county annals in Yafan County. I looked through it and found that at this time of year, Gaoliang River will surge. Now it's just the beginning. I am going to launch an attack in advance, hoping to set up a bridgehead on the other side and establish a landing position. Otherwise, when the river water rises, it will be even more difficult to cross the river."

Jiang Shangyan nodded: "What kind of help do I need?"

"Your cavalry has nothing to do with your left and right now, but you can't let them stay idle. You spread to the left and right wings and try to pull the cordon farther. I don't want the Chu army to secretly cross the river from time to time to hit us. There is no way to find a ship on the Gaoliang River, so of course they have been hidden. Furthermore, let the coolies you arrested have to cut down wood, and people also need to guard them. I guess your cavalry will greatly improve their efficiency when they guard them."

Jiang Shangyan smiled without comment, "No problem, but this battle may not be easy to fight, and the opponent's defense is very strict."

"No matter how strict you are, you must fight." Su Qian smiled. "The commander on the opposite side was Sun Runze. Seeing the battle you fought, this man is also a tough guy. He used the two idiots to cover him and retreated to the other side of the river without blinking."

"He is Sun Chenglong." Jiang Shangyan said." "One of Min Ruoying's personal bodyguards was once one of Min Ruoying's personal bodyguards. Don't underestimate this person, it's very difficult. This person used to be the personal bodyguard of the old emperor Min Wei, and he has fought a war with the old emperor for a lifetime."

"Don't worry, I have been in the Western Army for many years, but I haven't learned anything else. I have learned it with caution. Not to mention that there is a big tiger opposite me, even if it is a little white rabbit, I will try my best." Suqian smiled.

The bridge connecting the two sides of Gaoliang River was originally a large stone bridge, but after Sun Runze retreated over the bridge, it was destroyed immediately. In fact, before the Ming army arrived, the bridge was ready for destruction. The Chu army did not want to send an army to guard the bridge and then launch a desperate duel with the Ming people.

If you destroy it, you will be finished. If the Ming people want to cross the river, they will prepare to build a bridge or swim across it. The Chu army has already been ready to fight on the other side.

Under the surveillance of the Ming cavalry, tens of thousands of coolies began to cut down trees in the sluggish spring rain. The trees as thick as bowls were cut down, and then tied up ropes and dragged them step by step to the river bank. As Suqian said, these Yafan people who eventually became prisoners had been killed by the cavalry of the Yan River. Even if they were given a sharp weapon such as axes to cut trees, no one had the idea of ​​resisting, and even did not dare to think of throwing away the axes and escaping into the mountains. They worked honestly, chopping down, chopping off the branches, and then dragging the wood to their destination in the mud.

Others who were slightly weaker, connected the woods one by one on the shore, and then wrapped them tightly with thick hemp ropes to make wooden rafts one by one. Others were sharpened one end and prepared to build bridges.

When the wood on the embankment was piled up like a mountain, and the rafts were densely covered with slap on the river surface of Xingzhou, Suqian finally issued an order to cross the river on a rare sunny day.

The banner of the central army moved directly to the river embankment. The three thousand soldiers who were the first to cross the river to fight were assembled. These people took off all the armor on their bodies and only wore a helmet on their heads. Wearing armor can certainly improve the protection effect, but when fighting on the water, wearing armor, once it sinks into the water, the heavy armor will become your life-destroying talisman.

The war drum sounded, and the soldiers shouted teams of rafts rushing towards the river. The pole rod lightly tapped on the river bank, and the raft slowly drove towards the opposite bank. The soldiers half-squatted on the raft, leaning against the soldiers beside the raft, waving the short paste in their hands, dancing desperately, while the soldiers in the middle held the shield in their hands, covering themselves and their companions who were rafting on the side.

During the process of crossing the river, they had no power to fight back.

When the first batch of rafts left the river bank, more people rushed down the river bank, and rafts took off the river bank one by one. The soldiers on the raft began to press the tips of the logs on the piled raft into the river, then waved the sledgehammers in their hands and hammered them heavily until the logs only showed a short piece on the water surface.

Two rows of such logs followed the soldiers towards the center of the river, and the logs planted into the river became longer and longer. Behind them, more soldiers carried logs one by one on the two piles in front of them. The tenons had been cut long ago, aimed at the tenons, waved the hammer, and nailed the wood into it, and a door frame-like rack was formed.

Such door frames continue to extend forward, becoming increasingly dense. When the last piece of wooden boards are put on, a road surface begins to extend forward on the river.

The soldiers who built roads on the river were extremely fast. Three thousand people were preparing to cross the river to attack, but behind them, there were tens of thousands of people doing road paving work. When the soldiers crossing the river barely landed in the middle of the river, more than a dozen bridge decks were also taking shape not far behind them.

The sound of war drums sounded across the river, accompanied by a deafening whistling sound, countless stone bombs flew into the air from behind the river bank, and smashed into the raft that crossed the middle of the river in black.

The stone bomb was not big, and the largest one was only about one pound. Chu Jun used their net bags to trap them and fired them into the sky. The huge force teared the net bags apart, and countless gravels fell like flowers in the sky.

Don't underestimate these small stone bullets. When they fall from the sky, their destructive power is quite amazing. At this time, the Chu soldiers on the raft had no room to hide. Apart from waving the wooden oars desperately and speeding forward, they could only curl up as much as possible. Everyone no longer supported the shield with their hands, but picked up wooden sticks that had been prepared long ago from the raft and used them to support the shield. The arms could not withstand such a blowing force no matter what.

The dense water columns above the river surface rose into the air, accompanied by the sound of banging and banging on the raft. The sound of shields on the shields were broken from time to time. The soldiers who had lost their protection approached and were hit by stone bullets. They screamed and turned over and fell into the river. One raft after another was dispersed in the river. The soldiers on the raft fell into the river like dumplings.

Suqian's eyes did not fall on the soldiers crossing the river. Such a scene was already as he expected. He was more concerned about the team that was nailing piles and laying bridges on the river. When the bridge finally reached the center of the river, he took a long breath and then looked at the first group of soldiers crossing the river.

The team of three thousand people was about two-thirds left at this time. They were lucky enough to avoid the attack of stone bombs. The raft was approaching the shore quickly. Some of the soldiers who fell into the water had already floated downstream with the river water, while some were still waving their arms to swim towards the opposite bank. On the opposite river bank, there were already dense soldiers, with sharp arrows flashing in their hands, aiming at the Ming soldiers who were about to land.
Chapter completed!