Please ask me to be the emperor

On a dark and windy night, it is the day of murder and arson.

Huang Shoucai, Zhao Lizi and all the naval forces rested for half the night until early morning, when people are most sleepy.

They put it down for the night, ate a few bites of dry food, carried oil and sulfur, and quietly boarded the ship.

The boats used by the rebels were all fishing boats and ferries. Large ones could carry seven or eight people, while small ones could carry three or four people. Their load capacity was poor.

In addition to oil, sulfur and other flammable materials, they are also equipped with small artillery, fast guns, three-eyed blunderbuss, harpoons, swords and other weapons.

When everything was ready, Huang Shoucai took the lead and led the ship to set sail. He knew the nature of water well and knew the nearby Yellow River well. He did not light the lanterns on the boats and just rushed to the officers and soldiers pontoon bridge.

Huang Shoucai lit an oil lamp behind the boat canopy to guide the ships behind. Only because the boat canopy was blocking it, no fire was visible from the direction of the bow.

In fact, if the rebels lived upstream of the floating bridge, there would be no need for such trouble. Just light the fire boat and sail down the river to burn the pontoon completely.

It was precisely based on this that Cao Wenzhao dared to be so rampant and directly build a pontoon bridge to connect Hezhou Guojiatan.

Although it was dark at night, the people on the pontoon still had a team of people patrolling back and forth with lanterns.

The group of them came in at a leisurely pace. Due to lack of sleep, everyone kept yawning as they walked.

Someone couldn't stand it anymore and said to the captain: "Captain, how easy is it to guard a pontoon bridge in the middle of the night? Why not choose a place leeward and rest for a while."

The captain frowned and reprimanded: "Our commander-in-chief has strict military laws. Now is a critical moment. If something goes wrong, how many heads do you have to chop off? Keep your spirits up, no!"

"Captain, look!" The captain was reprimanding vigorously when suddenly a trembling soldier interrupted, "Is that a water ghost?"

The captain looked along the soldier's hands and saw patches of black shadows appearing on the dark river reflected by the water waves. He was immediately startled.

There are often stories of water ghosts in places near water. Legend has it that they hide in the water on weekdays, wait until late at night, pull passers-by into the water and drown them, turning the drowned people into one of them.

The captain was immediately frightened, but after all, he was also a person who licked blood at the edge of a knife. He forced himself to calm down, quickly pulled out his sword, and yelled loudly: "I have spent my whole life killing people without planning, carrying evil aura, and having no taboos! I wonder who dares to act like a ghost here, without fear of causing death?"

It doesn't matter if the captain doesn't shout, the shout immediately calls Death Star. Suddenly several harpoons flew, and two harpoons were directly inserted into the captain's body. The huge impact caused him to fall into the water.

When the other soldiers saw that the harpoon was flying, they were even more frightened. They couldn't help shouting: "Ghost! Water ghost, there is a water ghost in the water!"

When Huang Shoucai saw that his whereabouts were exposed, he quickly shouted: "Get close to the pontoon bridge quickly and burn the pontoon bridge before the enemy reacts!"

It turns out, where is the water ghost here? This is obviously the arrival of the ship that the rebels attacked by surprise. Zhao Lizi took the lead and jumped from the boat to the bridge.

Both boats and pontoons are floating. Anyone else would have lost their footing and fallen into the river.

Zhao Lizi has lived on the bank of the Yellow River since he was a child. He has made a living on the water all year round. Setting foot on boats and pontoons is like walking on flat ground for him.

Zhao Lizi stood firm, raised his spear, and shot the patrol soldiers on the bridge into the river one by one.

The rebel army succeeded in a sneak attack, and Cao Wenzhao heard the commotion and rolled out of bed with a start. When he came out of the tent, he saw a fire on the pontoon in the river.

Cao Wenzhao was quite dissatisfied because of the loss of officers and soldiers since the battle with the rebels. As a general who started out by "bullying" the peasant army, he has always despised the fighting power of the rebel army.

The first two attacks were frustrated. Cao Wenzhao did not say anything, but in his heart he still thought that his nephew Cao Bianjiao was young and his commander-in-chief Zhang Quanchang was mediocre.

So this time after passing the pontoon bridge and occupying the beach in the middle of the river, he ignored the command of the army and personally led his own soldiers and elite troops to garrison here.

Although according to the information received by the officers and soldiers, the rebel army had no ability to cross the river, Cao Wenzhao was still cautious in every possible way.

He ordered his soldiers to keep their armor on and their weapons in hand, ready to stand up and kill the enemy at the slightest sign of movement.

Seeing that the rebels were indeed attacking, Cao Wenzhao quickly raised the spear in his hand and shouted: "Soldiers, don't panic, the one who comes is just a clown. Please follow me to kill the enemy. The rest of the people will follow the order to defend the beach and the artillery." Keep your artillery ready and ready to attack the enemy at any time."

After speaking, Cao Wenzhao led fifty personal guards to fight. By this time, the rebels had dispersed the patrol, but they tied two or three boats to the bridge with ropes and ignited the oil and sulfur on the boats.

The fire was all powerful, and it suddenly burst into flames. Before Cao Wenzhao arrived, the flames engulfed a section of the floating bridge.

Cao Wenzhao was shocked and angry. He quickly ordered half of his soldiers to get water, and he led the remaining 20 or 30 people to rush forward.

When they reached the place where the fire burned, some wooden boards had been burned through by the fire, fell into the river, and were washed away by the river water.

The blazing flames made Cao Wenzhao on the bridge a little hot. At this point, if we try to put it out again, it will still be too late.

Cao Wenzhao quickly thrust the spear in his hand into the gap in the wooden board on the pontoon, lifted it up with force, and flew out an unburned wooden board.

He shouted loudly: "Hurry and pick up these planks to prevent the fire from igniting the entire pontoon bridge." After hearing this, the soldiers behind him quickly imitated the example and picked up seven or eight more planks before blocking the flames from reaching the middle of the river. The beach is burning.

Just leaning towards the river bank, the officers and soldiers did not react and could not stop the burning of the wooden boards.

Cao Wenzhao quickly found a few soldiers who knew how to swim, took off their armor, jumped into the water, and prepared to swim to the pontoon on the opposite side to block the fire.

The officers and soldiers were busy here, while the rebels fell on the boat and watched the show for a long time. After just watching for a while, Huang Shoucai couldn't help but asked strangely: "It stands to reason that the fire was so big that it should have burned down the pontoon bridge long ago. Why is it that the wooden planks of the pontoon bridge have been burned out long ago, but the pontoon bridge still does not float?"

Zhao Lizi was stunned for a moment, suddenly remembered something, and said quickly: "No, it must be that the pontoon bridges are connected by iron chains, and are only covered with wooden boards, so the pontoon bridges are continuous!"

"I vaguely remember that I jumped on the pontoon and heard the sound of the chains."

"What should I do?" The other Ding Zhuangs were shocked when they heard this and asked quickly.

"Kill them back again!" Huang Shoucai gritted his teeth and said, "At any cost, whether it is cutting with a knife or burning, this bridge must be cut off to live up to the success of tonight's sneak attack."