Chapter 855

Hexin island is about 100 feet away from the north bank, but it is less than 50 feet away from the south bank. Generally speaking, ships in huaishui River pass through the waters to the north of Hexin Island, and few are willing to go to the south bank.

So all along, Yuan Shujun's camp in the middle of the river was connected with the south bank through the floating bridge, which is why Le didn't destroy the floating bridge.

Every move of the water army on the other side was clearly explored by Huang Zhong. After he got the news that there were only 1000 water army garrisons on Hexin island to defend, Huang Zhong knew that his time to cross the river had come.

With his command, 30000 troops began to prepare for crossing the river.

As soon as the third shift arrived, the Anton army began to get busy in the camp. A group of soldiers gathered in the weak light of the fire, had dinner first, and then walked towards the river under the leadership of the general. Because the camp was ten miles away from the river, in order not to attract the attention of Yuan Shujun on the other side of the river, the soldiers in the rear pulled the front soldiers' lapels, and then walked every ten steps I just lit a torch.

As early as after dark, dozens of boats hiding in Qingshuihe river outside Xinxi city had quietly gone down the river, reached the huaishui River, and then quietly drove to the reed marshes in the north of Hexin island to hide.

At four o'clock, sporadic torches finally appeared on the North Bank of huaishui River, in the water army camp on Hexin island. When the guard taxis saw this scene, they didn't give any warning, because in recent times, sporadic torches could be seen every night on the north bank from time to time, but after a while, the torches would disappear, so the guard taxis thought it was the Yuzhou army on the other bank In the evening, he was also inspecting the river, afraid that his army would cross the river at night.

After this phenomenon appeared for a period of time, the taxi drivers on duty were not surprised. They knew that in half an hour, the fire would disappear. Sure enough, at the end of the fourth watch, the fire disappeared, and the North Bank of the huaishui River fell into darkness again.

In the darkness beyond their vision, several generals, under the protection of their own guards, carefully observed the water barracks of Yuan Shujun in the middle of huaishui River in the darkness.

"General Zhou, what's the situation?" In the dark, the voice of a middle-aged general sounded. It was Huang Zhong's voice.

Another general next to him said, "don't worry, General Huang. At the end of this time, we will bring the most elite 2000 soldiers in our Hengjiang camp and nu Tao camp. Most of them are the old bandits I brought from Jingzhou. In the past few days, someone has gone to the island in Fushui quietly to explore twice, but they haven't been found by Yuan Shujun."

In the middle of the conversation, Zhou Tai, the general of the water army under Huangfu Chaobo, not only Huang Zhong led the elite of Anton's army, but also Zhou Tai led 2000 elite of the water army to control Yuan Shu's army and the floating bridge.

Huang Zhong added: "it's just that we have too few warships. If we have too few troops to cross the river at one time, can we resist the counter attack of Yuan Shu's army? What's more, there are few boats. How can the army cross the river? "

Zhou Tai laughed and said, "General Huang, don't worry. There are a lot of troop carriers in Yuanshu army's barracks. We just need to control the way to the barracks and the floating bridge. It only takes one hour for thousands of troops to cross the river. It's no use even if Le comes from tuoguo county."

"Moreover, in the first round of the boat, I've asked several of them to carry large cables. As long as they occupy the water stronghold, they can use cables and rafts to cross some soldiers to the island first, and then use ships to cross the river and set up floating bridges at the same time."

After waiting for a while, he still didn't find anything on the opposite island. When Huang Zhongzheng was about to open his mouth to inquire, suddenly a "Gulu Gulu" of water birds came from the middle of the river. On hearing this, Zhou Tai was very happy and said, "yes, I've already landed on the island."

Sure enough, after a short time, Huang Zhong heard the light sound of the river, and then saw the ropes rising from the water and slowly stretching on the river.

"General Huang, the second group of taxi soldiers on the island are led by general Youmo himself. Let's go first!"

Then, in the light of the weak fire on the other side, Zhou Tai led his subordinates to touch the position of the ship. Soon, the 40 or so boats that had been ready for the long time slid along several ropes to the small island in the river.

Because they were afraid that the sound of rowing would disturb the garrison on the island, the first batch of ships crossing the river were only ten. Their role was to pull the ropes on both sides of the river, and then let the subsequent ships reach the island directly by pulling the ropes instead of rowing.

With the help of rope, the second group of soldiers soon boarded the island under the leadership of Zhou Tai. After leaving some soldiers to guard the ropes, Zhou Tai led hundreds of soldiers to the naval barracks on the island, while the ships in the river were dragged by the boatman and returned to the north bank to continue transporting the soldiers.

Soon, Zhou Tai led hundreds of soldiers to the front of the water army barracks. Looking at the quiet barracks in front of him, Zhou Tai was also relieved. Finally, he boarded the island without alerting the water army patrol. The next time was waiting. After the third group of soldiers boarded the island, he began to attack the water village and control the floating bridge.

However, at this time, he did not wait in situ, but sent dozens of good hands, quietly touched the water village patrol around, trying to remove these tour sentries.Half an hour later, another thousand soldiers boarded the island. This time, Huang Zhong sent Yuanrong crossbow soldiers. With the help of the thousand crossbow soldiers, Zhou Tai was more confident about the next war.

When all the soldiers were ready, Zhou Tai waved, and all the 2000 soldiers stood up and rushed to the water village without saying a word.

When it was only ten steps away from the water stronghold, the footsteps of two thousand soldiers finally woke up the soldiers on duty in the stronghold. With the cry of "enemy attack", Zhou Tai knew that he could no longer hide his whereabouts, so he raised his voice and yelled: "the crossbow soldiers are shooting! Others, follow someone into the camp! "

"Kill..."

With Zhou Tai's order, hundreds of the 1000 crossbow soldiers who had already been prepared stopped running immediately, and they lined up to fire crossbows and arrows on the wall of the Shuizhai. Hundreds of the crossbow soldiers continued to move forward for dozens of steps, and then stopped to fire in formation. So back and forth, step by step toward the direction of the village wall.

Zhou Tai led hundreds of water soldiers to rush towards the wall and gate of the village. They had to rush into the camp before Yuan Shujun reacted.

The distance of dozens of steps was just around the corner. The continuous firing of 1000 crossbow soldiers made Yuan Shu's soldiers dare not stand up to fight. Occasionally, one or two of them were immediately shot into hedgehogs by crossbows and arrows like locusts.

When Zhou Tai's leaders rushed to the gate of the stronghold, there was no effective threat to the enemy outside.