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Chapter Three Hundred and Thirty Nine

Huazhou is unfortunate. Just after the previous battle ended, but a new offensive and defensive battle will soon usher in a few days. Of course, the military and civilians in Huazhou don’t know at this time, and they are still busy sorting out the battlefield.

The first city that Huangshui passed through from the capital was Huazhou. This section of waterway did not flow inside the city but along the outside of the city. Since Huazhou was recaptured by Daliang, the control of this section of waterway has returned to Daliang's hands.

Emperor Liang realized that the Tang Dynasty would never give up, so he sent Guangyuan Army Yang Zhong to lead the Wugong Guard and Tenglong Guard to garrison. As soon as the 30,000 troops entered Huazhou City, they immediately began to strengthen the city defense day and night. After all, after the battle, Huazhou City became the front line for the confrontation between Daliang and Xiatang.

Since the city defense is reorganized, the bodies of these Tang soldiers need to be disposed of immediately. So Yang Zhong ordered the army to throw all of these corpses into the Huangshui River. This practice is really unkind and also burys a lot of hidden dangers. The first thing to be affected is the pollution of downstream water sources. In the downstream of the Huangshui River, many cities rely on the Huangshui River as drinking water. These tens of thousands of corpses were thrown into the river, but I was afraid that the river water would become smelly.

Yang Zhong was very calm about this. Even if he died of thirst, he would die of thirst among the people of the Tang Dynasty. As for the people of Daliang in the city, he once said, "As a Liang people, we always have to sacrifice some for the country."

It was not spring yet, and the weather was cold and the ground was frozen. These corpses were just ice slabs floating on the river surface, blocking the narrowest section of the Huangshui River for a while. After being blocked for a long time, they formed a layering of the broken stream and the river water. On the side close to Huazhou, the water surface was high and towards the downstream direction caused a drop.

Yang Zhong had no time to take care of Huangshui. There were still many things waiting for him to deal with in Huazhou City. As the days passed, he had already expected Xia Tang's counterattack, but he always focused on the cavalry, so he was very attentive to the city defense and his subordinates' combat tactics. Unfortunately, Yang Zhong, like almost all the Liang people, forgot that half of Xia Tang's territory was on the sea. In addition to the cavalry with good combat effectiveness, they also had naval troops that several other countries did not have at all.

Five days after the Battle of Huazhou ended, Yang Zhong was awakened by a horn sound that had passed by tightly in the early morning. Before he could ask, someone rushed into the room and said loudly: "General, come down to the Tang Navy to attack the city!"

Navy? Yang Zhong was stunned for a moment, and he ran towards the city before he even put on his clothes. The cold wind in the winter made Yang Zhong wake up in the shortest time. When he came to the city to look at it, there were already ships of large and small distributed on the waterways of the Huangshui River. From the perspective of the big flag, you can tell that it was the Navy of Tang.

Going to the Navy of Tang! At this time, Yang Zhong

It was too late to scold me no matter how much I scolded me. I completely ignored this killing move from Tang. I forgot that Tang had the same combat power as the navy, who still existed in ancient books, had appeared in the first time in so many years, and he actually bumped into him!

Yang Zhong's lips were purple. I don't know if it was because of the cold, fear, or both. In short, his blood was gradually cold. His years of fighting experience were on land, and he had no idea how the navy should deal with it. However, it took not long for Yang Zhong's concerns to fade away because he found that the ship that had arrived at Tang had encountered obstacles.

"Send someone to lay out the bodies immediately!"

The orders from the ship spread, and the navy in the Tang Dynasty hurriedly fiddled with the oars to spread the congested corpses. During this process, the navy finally saw that these floating and sinking corpses that had frozen into ice were all their own robes. The military uniforms on their bodies were enough to explain everything. Some of these people were killed in battle, while others were slaughtered. The navy officers and soldiers in China had heard of the news of the massacre of the Liang Dynasty, but now they saw it with their own eyes. The flames that wanted to revenge in their hearts were ignited.

"These Liang people are really hateful!" Dugu Ju said viciously: "They knew that we were going to attack from the waterway, and they actually used the corpses of the soldiers as obstacles to block the river. Where did they look like a cultural country? Commander, this battle must make them suffer a little!"

"Xiao Xiang, we sent troops so quickly and so secretly. Do you think Liang Jun will get the news in advance?" Yong Wuya analyzed: "You are just raising them. From my perspective, it was because of the haste that time did not have time to deal with the corpses, so he rudely threw the corpses of our soldiers into the river. If the corpses rot, it would be just the river water of the downstream cities. It was just that because of winter, these corpses were frozen, which caused obstacles to our fleet."

"Yes, the leader's analysis is too reasonable!" Dugu Ju said that his official title is still above Yong Wujia, but in the army he knew very well that he was just a literati. Although he was a military supervisor in name, all he could do was prepare some military rations, so it would be better to listen to the commander's words.

"The order is to move the corpse away if it cannot be removed, and to transfer it to the ship. After all, when we are triumphant, we need to bring the corpses of our tribe back!"

It is obviously unrealistic to take them all away. There are no tens of thousands or thousands of corpses as hard as stones on the surface of the river. However, when facing his own tribe, it would be too inhumane to remove them as obstacles. Therefore, Yong Wuya still felt that choosing some to take them back for a good life to bury them is more beneficial to his army.

To clear these blocked rivers

The body of Dao, the offensive momentum of the Tang Navy's attack weakened, which gave Yang Zhong time to prepare. Yang Zhong made three arrangements: First, archers were densely packed on the top of the city, and the help of feather arrows gave the first round of attacks on the Tang Navy's who entered the range; second, sent people to fetch water in the city and pour it on the city wall; third, sent people to quickly whip the battle situation in Huazhou to the emperor, this third point is the most important.

In the early morning, this layer of mist was still spreading on the water surface, which made both armies unable to see each other. As the sun gradually rose, the fog began to gradually dissipate. As a result, the battle situation of the confrontation between the two armies was formed.

The Tang navy was still very fast to clear the corpse. Under the opening of dozens of small boats, the large fleet was finally able to pass through this narrow waterway and officially entered the range of Huazhou.

"Very good. Since you are here, don't leave easily. Have a taste of my methods!" Yang Zhong had already put on his armor and stood on the top of the city to supervise the battle. He was planning the location of Tang Navy from the city, and once he entered the attack range of the feather arrow, he immediately gave the strongest rain of arrows.

Unfortunately, Yang Zhong miscalculated again. Before the Tang navy entered the ambush circle, before the Guangyuan army launched the first round of attack, the Tang Dynasty took the lead in attacking. They also used feather arrows. However, these feather arrows were different from the Guangyuan army's feather arrows. In simple terms, they were transformed bed crossbows. Window was opened on one side of the ship of the Tang Dynasty. Each window had a bed crossbow, and three bed crossbows were shot out at one time. Moreover, Mars was slightly shining on the heads of these crossbows, which was a kind of green Mars.

"Qingying!" Yang Zhong had seen the power of this kind of ghost fire. His heart had already reached his throat. This was not surprising. Anyone who had seen it can know the power of Qingying, and it was the most suitable for combat.

These crossbow arrows burning with green fireflies were finally fired out. Someone had crossbow arrows as thick as an arm roaring towards the city of Huazhou. A group of crossbow arrows in the front plunged into the city wall. The first collision between ice and fire triggered crystal crystals and spots of Mars. Although the crossbow arrows were very powerful, they were unable to plunge into the city wall in the end. The green firefly, which was burning as long as it was stained, only drew a light and shadow on the city wall, and then flashed like a meteor.

When Yong Wuya saw this scene, he did not understand why Qingying could not exert its due power at first, but as more crossbow arrows shot out, they hit the city gate, city wall, and head of the city, he began to understand the mystery.
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