The southern part of Ningyang Prefecture.

Tongjia County, outside the city, a continuous camp surrounded the entire county.

It has been almost half a month since Wendi stationed troops here.

During this period, he seemed to have done nothing, but in fact, the news from the other side of the river was constantly summarizing in his hands.

In a camp of the central army, Wendi stood in front of a large table with his hands on his back. The table was full of mountains, rivers and cities, and it was a huge sand table.

Although it is not very clear, it is roughly not much different.

He inserted a flag on a miniature city on the sand table. This is Yu County opposite the Green Water River. He just got the latest news that Yu County fell or surrendered. With the surrender of this county town, the northern part of the Green Water River was officially included in the hands of Liu Zhe.

You can see the sand table, along the banks of the Green Water River, dense red and black flags confronting the river.

Looking at the entire situation, after Liu thieves on the other side captured Yu County, they immediately built a defense line by the river. Obviously, the other party did not intend to go south immediately, but was preparing to confront the imperial army across the river.

There were more than 100,000 people gathered there. These people were no longer the hungry people who had just picked up their hoes, but the soldiers who had been baptized after bloody battles. In comparison, the soldiers on their side had never fought a decent battle, and their combat power was worrying.

Wendi claimed that he had learned a lot of people, including mountains, rivers, geography, medicine, astrology, and military tactics, but now he thought about it, but he did not think about any way to swallow these tens of thousands of people in one bite.

After a long time, he sighed and murmured: "For the sake of the present, we can only rely on the national army."

Because looking at the posture on the other side of the river, I was preparing to build the defense line as iron-connected. In addition, the river surface was full of the other party's ships, and the army in my hand was okay to defend the city. If they were asked to cross the river, it would be like letting them die.

Throwing away the small flag in his hand, Wendi walked out of the big tent, and the guards outside immediately saluted, "Master Wen!"

"Go, bring my horse over, I'm going to go out for a walk."

"yes!"

The personal soldiers responded, ran out immediately, and soon walked over with a white horse.

Wendi turned over the horse, clamped his legs and drove the horse's belly toward the outside of the camp, and the personal soldiers behind him hurriedly followed.

As soon as he ran out of the camp gate, a team of light cavalry chased after him.

"Where is Lord Wen going?"

A general in armor asked with a smile on his head.

"I'm bored staying in the camp. Let's go out for a walk, General Xiao together."

"Extremely happy."

The two of them ran along the direction of the Green Water River with the people behind them. Not long after, they appeared on a hillside and looked at the Green Water River in front of them.

At this time, the river was covered with passing ships.

"Have General Xiao noticed that there are so many more ships coming and going in the Green Water River recently?"

Wendy looked at the endless ships ahead and spoke.

"That's true. I see that the draft of these ships is a bit deep, and I don't know what they are carrying?"

The general named Xiao frowned tightly.

Wendi's heart moved, "Do you think it's possible that it's food? After all, what the north lacks the most is food."

"It's possible, but where did they get so much food? It's been a few days since this situation."

General Xiao pointed at the endless ships in the river.

"It should be the south, but just like this, it is impossible for Huzhou to have no movement. So much food is not a small amount."

Wendi always felt something was wrong.

"Maybe someone has concealed it for them. Lord Wen, I think it would be better for us to report the situation here to the Second Prince and King Qing."

The general surnamed Xiao said.

"It makes sense. After I go back, I will immediately have someone report the matter."

Wendi nodded.

After watching for a while, they approached the riverside again. Through the river surface, they could see a defensive building on the other side of the river.

"Sir Wen, if this defensive line is built, it will be even more difficult for us to attack."

"What do General Xiao have any ideas?"

"Look at the construction materials, many of them are wood. Why don't we find an opportunity to send someone to burn these defensive buildings with tinder oil. Even if they can't burn them down, they will be able to make them unable to build these lines of defense."

He has been unable to hold back these days, and he has become a little relieved.

Wendi nodded slowly, "You can give it a try."

At night, the moon is dark and the wind is high.

In the southern part of Green Water River, more than a dozen soldiers carried hemp ropes and swam to the other side of the shore in the dark. On the shore, Wendi and others hid in the dark with thousands of soldiers, staring at the faint heads on the river with all their attention.

After the dozen soldiers successfully swam to the other side, they immediately fixed the hemp ropes and asked some people to take the ropes back.

Not long after, pieces of tied rafts were pushed into the water, and the rafts were fixed one by one on the hemp rope across the river. In this way, seven or eight simple floating bridges were built.

But these floating bridges are not too stable. The middle part has obvious bends due to the impact of the water flow, but it is better to be able to hold on for a while now. After all, tomorrow, when the day is dawn, Liu Zhe will definitely be discovered and destroyed.

After seeing the construction of the floating bridge, Wendi breathed a sigh of relief and said to the people around him: "Prepare to cross the river."

After receiving the order to cross the river, the soldiers around him immediately carried a large amount of tinder oil across the pontoon bridge.

"Not good, ship, there is a ship!"

Just when they were just halfway through, I don’t know who shouted loudly.

Wendi immediately turned his head to look upstream, but saw black shadows floating in the darkness, which was undoubtedly a ship from the outline.

Seeing this scene, everyone's faces suddenly became ugly, especially the soldiers standing on the pontoon bridge, one by one, began to retreat in a hurry, and some even jumped into the river.

At the same time, Wendi took a deep breath, tried to calm himself down, and ordered: "Retreat quickly, all the soldiers immediately retreated from the floating bridge."

However, this order is too late for those ships that go downstream.

Dozens of ships of all sizes went down the current, like arrows off the string, with strong inertia, hitting the floating bridges on the river surface. In just a moment, the floating bridges exploded one by one and split into pieces, and the soldiers on it were killed and injured.

"Go back to camp."
Chapter completed!