To the east of Fushun, on the west bank of the Hunhe River, there were crowds of people, and various military flag camps were placed along the west bank for more than ten miles.

In the river, Ming army was riding dozens of small boats and building a floating bridge with all their efforts.

The way the Ming army built a floating bridge was different from before, because they connected the boats with iron chains and then laid big trees on them.

However, because this section belongs to the upper reaches of the Hun River and is faster than the middle section of the Chenyang section of the Zhongliu, even if the officers and soldiers of the Ming army tried their best, they could only barely fix the boat, and it was not time to lay the wood.

The person in charge of the construction of the floating bridge was Xu Xianchun, who rushed to Du Song's army a few days ago under the order of the steward Yang Hao.

Xu Xianchun was born in the Jinyiwei and was not supposed to participate in the war directly. However, he had a 1,500-man engineer unit under his command. He had participated in the construction of the Ming army fortifications in the Battle of Dadian and was very good at building bridges and roads. In addition, Xu Xianchun himself asked for battle many times, so Yang Hao sent him to Du Song's army.

Du Song, who was worried about how the army crossed the river, learned that Xu Xianchun's troops were good at building bridges, so he ordered Xu's troops to build bridges immediately on the Hun River.

After receiving the order, Xu Xianchun immediately ordered the engineer unit composed of former Yizhou civil servants and Korean servants to quickly carry out the bridge repair mission.

But just as Xu Xianchun was doing his best to command the bridge in the center of the river, he suddenly heard the horns on the shore, and then he saw a team of official troops coming out of the camp to the shore. Looking at the postures of the officials, they had to force the river to cross the river before the pontoon bridge was completed!

Xu Xianchun was shocked and quickly asked someone to row the boat to the shore, and hurriedly went ashore to ask the military supervisor Zhou Tiexin what happened.

"General Du ordered our army to cross the river tonight."

Zhou Tiexin frowned, and Du Song's military order surprised him. But although he was a military supervisor, he could not interfere with Du Song's deployment and command. Du Song became famous for a long time and did not listen to his military supervisor's opinions at all. So he couldn't dissuade him in the tent just now, so he came out in anger.

"The floating bridge has not been set up yet. How can our army cross the river with more than 30,000 troops?"

Xu Xianchun was shocked and anxious. The army swam across without a bridge and would have to abandon a large amount of baggage. After crossing the river, it would hit the main force of Jianzhou. How could the army defend and attack?

"You ask me, who will I ask?"

Zhou Tiexin glanced around, pulled the corner of Xu Xianchun's clothes, and whispered: "I'm afraid that there will be more dangers in crossing the river this time. You should act slowly with me. If something changes a lot, you can rely on my military supervision to gather people. Don't let these more than 30,000 soldiers run away."

Xu Xianchun nodded. Among the secret orders of Eunuch Wei he received, if Du Song's troops meet the main force of Jiannu, Xu Xianchun wanted to protect the safety of the supervisor Zhou Tiexin, and then gathered the defeated troops as Zhou. If Du Song wins a great victory, he will join the Du team with Liu Ju.

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In Du Song's military tent, General Zhao Menglin was also urging Du Song not to cross the river now.

"General Du, it's already dark. We don't know the truth and reality of the opposite side. Can we wait until the pontoon bridge is built tomorrow before crossing the river?"

Dusi Liu Yujie also disagreed with crossing the river now. He believed that there must be a large army of Jiannu hidden in the Congshan on the east bank of the Hun River.

The military supervisor Zhou Tiexin told him that each of the eight banners of Jiannu had more than 7,500 soldiers, all of which were strong selected from the various tribes of Jianzhou. Among them, the white-armored soldiers under the old slave's tent were even more powerful, and they were unprecedented enemies of the Ming army.

On the other hand, the soldiers who can be called soldiers are the servants of the generals, at most hundreds of people, at least dozens of people, and the other soldiers are gathered in the five platforms and six groups.

Don’t see that there are more than 30,000 people on the surface, but in fact, the only one who can really fight is at most 10,000. If Jiannu used the main force of the Eight Banners to wait for the Ming army on the east bank of the Hun River, he would have to go to the rescue, and he would have a guest to the enemy, and he hurriedly crossed the river and threw away a large amount of baggage, it would be difficult to win.

"General Du, I heard that the emperor's personal army belonging to the Imperial Horse Prison had fought with Jiannu twice, but they defeated Jiannu with the method of daring war."

Liu Yujie told Du Song in detail about the so-called "fighting stupid wars and building hard villages" tactics of Du Song.

After hearing this, Du Song shook his head and said, "This kind of tactic is good, but the logistics pressure is too great and it takes a long time. We can't learn it now."

"The last general is not asking the general to learn the tactics of stupid warfare. He really advised the general not to rush to cross the river. Jiannu is good at fighting in the field and has many cavalry. If our army throws large baggage carts on the south bank, it will be impossible to resist Jiannu's attack after crossing the river!" Liu Yujie said.

"If I hadn't been to my Du Song, I would have to go in."

Du Song sighed and told the generals that the governors sent someone to urge him to cross the river quickly.

"how?"

"How could Master Jinglei be so rash when he was in Liaodong for a long time?"

The generals were talking about it, and they all felt that Master Jinglei should not urge the troops. Du Song told them that it was not that Master Jinglei was coming to urge the troops, but that the Ministry of War was urging them.

"The army will be more than one day outside, and the money will be more than one day. The court hopes that we will fight quickly and decide quickly... I also know that when the river crosses the river in the middle of the night, once Jiannu attacks, the soldiers who cross the river will ignore the head and tail. If Jiannu does not attack, our army will also be in a difficult situation. Our army has been staying in the east from Fushun for several days. The court urges very strictly and the management is also very urgent. If our army is no longer in the river and mistakenly meet with General Liu, the military law will be ruthless."

Du Song was really helpless. In addition to sending someone to urge him to cross the river, Du Song also sent him 50,000 taels of silver.

Where did Yang Hao get these silver? Du Song can't control it, but he knew that once the silver was collected, Du Song would have to send troops even if it was a knife from the sky.

Under Jun Song's insistence, the generals had to summon people to prepare to cross the river.

General Zhao Menglin asked someone to test the water level of the Hun River and choose a shallow place to cross the river. Half an hour later, the person below came to report that he had found a place to cross the river, less than two miles away from the place where the floating bridge was built. The river water was not deep and only reached the belly of the horse. In addition, dozens of small boats were also collected.

At this moment, Du Song ordered the army to cross the river from where they could cross the river. General Gong Niansui and others were unable to cross the river due to the difficulties of crossing the river by the baggage camp, so they asked to cross the river from the built floating bridge tomorrow. Du Songyun ordered Xu Xianchun's troops to quickly build the floating bridge and not to be neglected.

Looking at the soldiers of each battalion rushing across the river downstream, Xu Xianchun and Zhou Tiexin were nervous.

Late at night, Du Song brought his personal soldiers to the riverside. He abandoned the boat and rode his horse directly into the Hun River. Du Song's personal soldiers hurriedly shouted that the general would wear armor.

Du Song laughed and said loudly: "Is it a real man who put on iron armor when I go to the battlefield? Since I was tied up with my hair and joined the army, I don't know how much armor is? Do you, the grandsons, think that my body is not heavy enough!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Du Song was already whipping his whip and horses. At this time, the troops crossing the river one after another, in addition to Du Song's headquarters, there were 5,000 cavalrymen from Liu Yujie of the Dusi and 10,000 generals and 10,000 soldiers from the General Wang Xuan's army.

In the mountains on the east bank of the Hun River, countless pairs of eyes were staring at the Ming army crossing the river.

"The brave one wins when they meet on a narrow road. It's okay. No matter how many ways I go or how many ways he goes, you still have to speak with courage when you meet. They want Ben Khan's head, and Ben Khan also wants their dog heads!"
Chapter completed!