Meng Haigong led hundreds of cavalry to run wildly until noon the next day to stop the horse and rest. The Sui army no longer chased him, which made him feel a little shocked, but at the same time he began to worry again. His son Meng Yi led his army to the back, and he must have been caught up by the Sui army, which made Meng Haigong's heart rise to his throat. What is his son's current situation?

At this moment, a soldier pointed to the distance and said, "King, there are cavalry coming, it seems to be our people!"

Gong Meng Hai quickly stood up from under the big tree and looked north. He saw a team of cavalry running from the north, about a dozen people wearing dark red breastplates. It was his army. After a moment, the cavalry rushed closer. The leader was a general. He also saw Gong Meng Hai and waved to him with excitement.

Meng Hai recognized this person as Li Zhang, who was Hong Rentao's general. He felt disappointed in his heart. He thought his son was catching up with him.

Li Zhang stepped forward and knelt down to salute, "See the King!"

"How is General Hong's situation?"

"General Hong wanted to fight Zhang Xuan alone, but his head was cut off by an axe by an opponent's general. The army could not defeat the Sui army, and the entire army was defeated. The king, the Sui army had a great night battle, but we did not have any night battle training. Why did we think of retreating at night?"

Meng Haigong's face immediately turned dark. He was so annoyed that he wanted to cut the bastard in front of him with a knife. His tone began to disrespect him. However, he wanted to know his son's whereabouts, so he restrained his dissatisfaction and asked, "Do you know the whereabouts of the young master?"

Li Zhang said: "We met a group of fugitive soldiers this morning. They said that the Sui cavalry had defeated our army. The young master led thousands of people to resist the Sui cavalry, and it seemed that the entire army had been destroyed."

Meng Haigong's heart suddenly hurt. Has something happened to his son?

Li Zhang felt the pain of his lord and hurriedly said, "King, this time the Sui army mainly focuses on capturing and does not massacre surrendered soldiers. If the young master cannot escape, he will be captured. However, the young master has personal guards, so he should be able to fight a path of blood, perhaps taking another path, even we can escape, and the young master should be able to escape."

Li Zhang's words also made some sense. Meng Haigong felt a little better. At this time, Mao Wenshen walked forward and said, "King, this place is still far from Qiantang River. We must set off and go south immediately and cross the river as soon as possible."

Meng Haigong didn't care about his son for the time being. He had to save his life first, so he immediately ordered: "Get on the horse and set off!"

Meng Haigong led hundreds of cavalry to rush south. They kept hearing the news of the pursuit of the Sui army's cavalry, making them like frightened birds, and did not dare to take the official road. They specially selected remote paths to go south, and all the plants and trees were all soldiers. Three days later, they finally arrived in Fuyang County on the north bank of the Qiantang River.

Meng Haigong led his men to hide in a remote woods about ten miles away from Fuyang County, waiting for news from the spies uneasily. At this time, two men rushed from a distance. He ran into the woods and turned over and dismounted. Meng Haigong stepped forward and asked anxiously: "How is the situation in Fuyang County?"

"Fortunately, the king did not go to Fuyang County."

"Have the Sui army reached Fuyang County?" Meng Haigong asked in surprise.

The spy nodded, "The Sui cavalry had just arrived, and it was half an hour earlier than us. There were a total of five thousand cavalrymen. I dare not enter the city, and I don't know what the situation of the brothers in the city were?"

Meng Haigong seemed to be struck by lightning, and he couldn't say a word for a long time. The Sui army arrived first. Wouldn't he be unable to cross the Qiantang River?

Mao Wenshen said anxiously: "King, let's go to Wenxing Town now, there is also a crossing river there. The Sui army may not be as good as it has passed, but we don't have much time left."

Meng Haigong was reminded immediately that there were three caves in the cunning rabbit. They set up a total of three crossings in the river, one in Fuyang County and one in Qiantang County. In addition, there was also one in Wenxing Town about fifty miles west of Fuyang County, which was closest to them. Since the Sui army had just arrived in Fuyang County for only half an hour, they still had a chance.

Meng Haigong immediately led the cavalry through the woods and rushed towards Wenxing Town to the west.

Wenxing Town is named after its close proximity to Wenxing Wharf. Due to the war, the residents of the town had already fled. When Mr. Meng Hai arrived at the wharf, he could see that the Sui army had not yet come, but he could not see a ferry on the wharf, which disappointed Mr. Meng Hai.

Suddenly, a soldier pointed to the distance and shouted, "King, is that a floating bridge?"

Everyone looked at his soldier's fingers and saw a black line faintly on the water three miles away. Everyone looked at each other. If that black line was not a floating bridge, then what was it?

"Look at it!"

Gong Meng Hai turned his horse and ran westward, and his subordinates followed closely. Soon, they arrived at the black line. It was indeed a floating bridge built on the river. Gong Meng Hai was extremely ecstatic. It must have been built by his subordinates. But according to his plan, the floating bridge should have floated across from the opposite side when he arrived at the north shore. Why was it set up early? And why were there no soldiers waiting for him on the north shore?

Although he had a trace of doubt, he had no time to delve into it. At this moment, he felt the earth trembling slightly, and there were cavalry coming from a distance.

"Lord, go!"

The personal soldiers urged urgently, "If you don't leave, you won't have time to tear the bridge."

Meng Haigong suddenly realized that they not only wanted to cross the Qiantang River, but also demolish the floating bridge. He immediately urged his horse to run towards the floating bridge. The floating bridge shook violently, and Meng Haigong's war horse almost fell off the river. This typical example is a floating bridge without a wooden stake. He could not ride a horse, but could only lead the horse to walk. Meng Haigong cursed inwardly, and had to turn over and get off the horse, and walked carefully onto the floating bridge with the war horse.

The subordinates behind were also very anxious. They dismounted and followed Meng Haigong slowly led their horses forward. At this time, the Sui army in the distance had already appeared, and about a thousand cavalry had already reached Wenxing Town and ran towards the floating bridge.

Meng Haigong was afraid that the Sui army would go up the bridge, so he urgently ordered Li Zhang and his men to walk at the end and demolish part of the floating bridge to prevent the Sui army from following him on the bridge.

The Qiantang River has a very wide river, second only to the Yangtze River in the south of the Yangtze River. The river surface is 300 feet wide, equivalent to one thousand meters in later generations. At least more than 300 small boats are connected to the head and tail to build it. Due to the strong wind on the river surface, the floating bridge is shaking and difficult to move. It takes at least half an hour to reach the other side.

The Sui army cavalry stopped on the shore and did not come to chase after him. Meng Haigong breathed a sigh of relief and felt inexplicable uneasy. It seemed a bit unreasonable that the Sui army did not go up the bridge to chase him. Is there something wrong with this floating bridge? He thought about the inappropriate problem of no soldiers on the north bank, and felt even more confused.

But even if there are ten thousand doubts, it is useless. They cannot retreat again, so they can only continue to move forward with doubts.

Gradually, the other side was getting closer and closer. Suddenly, Meng Haigong stopped and stared blankly ahead.

"Master, what's going on?"

Mao Wenshen squeezed up, and he was stunned. He saw that there was no road ahead, at least fifty feet away from the shore, but there was no more pontoon bridge. It turned out that this was an unfinished pontoon bridge.

Everyone thought that Meng Haigong would definitely curse the soldiers who built the floating bridge, but Meng Haigong was extremely calm at this time and turned to Mao Wenshen and said, "Do you think that this is the Sui army's trap? To prevent me from escaping to Xuancheng County, I built a floating bridge for me."

"Does the king think the Sui army has arrived long ago?"

Meng Haigong nodded, "I was a little surprised just now. Since the pontoon bridge was not destroyed, why did no soldiers respond to me? Because the pursuers behind came in a hurry, I didn't think about it carefully. Now it was a broken bridge, which proved that my suspicion was correct. This must be a trap."

Mao Wenshen thought for a while and said, "Otherwise, we rowed over, it was not far from the south bank."

This was a good idea. Meng Haigong immediately ordered the soldiers to dismantle the ship. At this moment, a fleet suddenly appeared on the river, with as many as fifty or sixty ships. Each ship's hull was very slender and had a row of oars on each side, like a winding rushing on the water.

Meng Haigong's face turned extremely pale. He saw the black-edged blue dragon and red flag on the head ship. This was the Sui army warship, and they were finished.

The general on the warship was Zhou Meng. The fleet led by him arrived at Qiantang River five days ago. They found that the thieves in Qiantang County and Fuyang County had already escaped, and there was no thief soldier on the south bank. They simply swept away all the ships in the river and set up a trap in Wenxing Town. They waited for Meng Haigong to get into the trap. Meng Haigong was indeed trapped.

Zhou Meng shouted loudly at this time: "Accelerate and crash the floating bridge!"

The dozen snail ships in front accelerated their speed and got closer and closer. With a desperate scream, they heard the continuous loud noise of "Boom! Boom!", and the floating bridge was knocked into several sections. Meng Haigong and hundreds of war horses and soldiers fell into the Qiantang River together.
Chapter completed!