After the Yellow River flows eastward at the big bend of Fenglingdu, the river surface is wide and the water flow is gentle, which is more suitable for shipping, but the calmer the place, the more hidden murderous opportunities.

Tens of millions of tons of sediment are wrapped in the river water and flow to the east, the Yellow River water is particularly turbid, like syrup flowing, the slightest ripple will bring a whirlpool, once the viscous river water is a whirlpool, it is difficult to stop, dragged by a strong inertia, the huge pulling force brought by the weight of the river itself is enough to tear ordinary boats to pieces.

A dark whirlpool is hidden under the river, like a poisonous snake lurking in the grass, once disturbed by the boats, it will appear, and the huge mouth of the blood basin will swallow the passing ships, so most of the boats sailing on the Yellow River sail along the two banks, and they dare not go to the middle of the river easily.

However, the river surface of the two river crossings, Xiaopingjin Ferry and Mengjin Ferry, is much better, first, the water flow is relatively rapid, and it is not easy to form a dark vortex, and secondly, even if a dark vortex is formed, it is relatively small, and the suction force is not large, and the boats above a thousand stones basically cannot be pulled.

After learning that the Jin army invested in 3,000 stone carts and ships, the boatmen were no longer worried, and they signed up for recruitment one after another, earning the high employment money offered by the Jin army, and giving five times money back and forth, who doesn't want to do it?

The boatmen held the bar, barefoot, like walking on the flat ground and pedaled the crutches, sweat rolled down their backs, their mouths were panting, the keel drove the paddle wheels on both sides of the boat, and the boat was moving rapidly, because it was a big ship of 3,000 stones, basically there was no need to consider the underwater vortex, but there were still experienced old boatmen squatting on the bow of the boat, engrossed in observing the changes in the water surface.

Pei Xin also looked at the water, he could clearly feel that the ship was undulating violently from time to time, this was encountering a dark vortex, but the ship was huge and sturdy, and this small dark vortex was a little powerless against it.

Captain Qiu, the boatman, smiled at Pei Xin and said: "In fact, this kind of car and ship seems to stir up surging waves, and the momentum is amazing, but in fact, it will be safer, and the general does not have to worry." ”

"Why?" Pei Xin asked puzzled.

"I'm afraid of paddling on the Yellow River, especially the kind of big oars that are a few zhang long, every time I row, I will row a spin, although it will soon dissipate, but if you row in a hurry, the front spin has not disappeared, and the back spin will come again, and the power will accumulate, and it will definitely form a whirlpool, and once the whirlpool is formed, it will not stop."

Pei Xin understood, he nodded and said, "I heard that the local government will throw Zhenhe stone beasts into the Yellow River, just to eliminate the dark vortex?" ”

"There are all kinds of considerations, and eliminating the dark vortex is one of them."

At this moment, there was a rapid horn sound on the opposite shore, 'woo~woo~' horn was short, Pei Xin was startled, and hurriedly strode to the bow of the boat, it turned out that they were less than a mile away from the south bank.

The soldier pointed to a sentry tower several feet high on the shore and said: "The sound of the horn is coming from the sentry tower, please look, general, there seem to be people on the top!" ”

The sky was clear, and they could see very clearly that there were indeed people blowing horns on the watchtower.

Pei Xin nodded, it was normal for them to be discovered, the key was the reaction of the enemy army.

Mengjin Pass is not only by the Yellow River, it is still two miles away from the Yellow River, it is built on a high place, built according to the mountain, the terrain under the mountain is narrow, can not open the battlefield, resulting in the pass is easy to defend and difficult to attack, choking the only way to Heqing County, and Heqing County is on the only way to Luoyang.

Under Mengjin Pass is woods and undulating mounds, and a stone wall dozens of miles long was built on the bank of the Yellow River, this stone wall is both a breakwater and a defensive wall, and thousands of people will be deployed to defend behind the wall in normal times, but today is a special holiday, most of the soldiers go to the county town on vacation to drink and have fun, and there are less than 1,000 people left on duty in the defensive line of 4,000 people in peacetime.

Eight hundred soldiers on duty were alarmed by the sound of the trumpet, and threw themselves on the defensive wall, looking in horror at the approaching ship.

The first big ship leaned on the shore, and the defending soldiers immediately fired arrows, but the Jin army had already prepared, they held short spears and big shields, and rushed down from the big ships in formation, they immediately formed a bow and crossbow formation, and used shields to cover and shoot at the enemy, and then the second and third big ships docked, and more and more soldiers joined the bow and crossbow team, and gradually suppressed the enemy behind the stone wall.

More and more large ships came to the shore, and the spear soldiers appeared behind, and two thousand men rushed to the stone wall with a shout, which was about eight feet high, and could be climbed by building a human ladder without a ladder.

The soldiers of the Jin army climbed the stone wall one after another, and the crossbow team behind also turned into attacking soldiers, three thousand soldiers covered up, and eight hundred soldiers couldn't resist at all, and after more than three hundred casualties, General Lang shouted, "Retreat!" ”

The remaining 500 soldiers turned and ran wildly, and the crossbow arrows were fired in dense rear, and more than 200 soldiers were shot by the crossbow arrows and fell into the grass, and less than 300 fled back to Mengjin Pass.

At this time, the alarm bell sounded loudly in Mengjin, and the wolf smoke was lit to warn it, the wolf smoke in Xiaopingjin Pass was also lit, the beacon in Beibi Mountain was also lit by wolf smoke, and the wolf smoke in Luoyang City was also lit.

Several carrier pigeons took off into the air and flew towards Jianghuai with the urgent news that the Jin army was attacking Mengjin Pass.........

'When! While! While! The alarm bell sounded in Heqing County, there was a big chaos on the street, and Wang Ling, the coach celebrating his birthday, was stunned, what happened?

Several cavalry galloped into the city and came directly to the Jinshan Restaurant, where Wang Ling and a large number of guests had already arrived at the door.

"What happened?" Wang Ling asked sharply,

The first messenger stepped forward and knelt down on one knee and said: "Commander Qiqi, the Jin army is attacking Mengjin Pass on a large scale, the defensive wall on the side of the Yellow River has been lost, and the city is in danger, please return quickly!" ”

'Dangchang! ’

The wine glass in Wang Ling's hand fell to the ground, and he suddenly shouted: "Cancel the vacation, and all the soldiers will return to the customs immediately!" Back to the customs! ”

'Boom! There was an earth-shattering loud noise from the direction of Mengjin Pass, the earth was shaking, and the people around were screaming, covering their ears and squatting down.

Wang Ling's ears were buzzing. He also squatted down, looked up to the north, and saw a cloud of smoke rising from the direction of Mengjin Pass.

"Boom!" There was another earth-shattering explosion, and smoke rose into the air again in the direction of Mengjin Pass.

When the explosions stopped, there was chaos in Heqing County, and the people and soldiers rushed to flee outside the city........

The explosion of the two iron fire thunders was caused by Yang Xuanying, and the matter was also wrong, Yang Xuanying led the army to pursue the enemy, and chased all the way to the Mengjin Pass, the defenders on the pass were worried about accidentally injuring their own people, so they did not release the arrows, and Yang Xuanying seized the opportunity, just a firearms battalion soldiers arrived, they carried two large iron fire mines, Yang Xuanying detonated one at the gate of the pass, detonated one under the east city wall, and blew up the entire northern city wall, and thousands of soldiers were killed or buried by the collapsed city wall.

When Pei Xin led thousands of people to kill, the Mengjin Pass was empty, and thousands of defenders retreated in terror.

"Why don't you obey military orders and attack the city without permission?" Pei Xin was very dissatisfied.

Yang Xuanying's face was flushed, and he muttered and explained: "The lowly post didn't plan to attack the city, there was no archery at the head of the city, and it happened to be a team of brothers from the firearms battalion, so the lowly post couldn't help it. ”

Pei glared at him fiercely and said: "His Royal Highness has a deep meaning in arranging to attack Mengjin, when to send troops, when to attack the city, and when to attack Luoyang, all of them must be considered holistically, so we must strictly implement the military order, our task is to capture the beachhead, whether to attack Mengjin Pass is one thing, but you ......"

Yang Xuanying clenched his fists and knelt down on one knee, "Guilty of despicable duty!" ”

Pei Xin was really helpless, so he had to wave his hand, "Since it has been captured, we will arrange defense to prevent the enemy from recapturing the pass." ”

"Obey!"

Yang Xuanying went in a hurry, Pei Xin sighed, I really don't know how to explain to the main general?

At noon, the second batch of 3,000 troops arrived on the south bank, and Li Bing was the first to step off the big ship.

Pei Xin stepped forward and knelt down on one knee and hugged his fists and said, "The lowly man is here to ask for sin!" ”

"Why plead?"

"He did not obey the military order and captured Mengjin Pass."

Li Bing said coldly: "I guess that's the case, why didn't you follow my orders and give the order to seize the pass without authorization?" ”

"The lowly position did not order the seizure of the pass, but the lowly position did not explain it clearly, and when the opportunity appeared, the subordinates couldn't help but use the iron fire thunder, this is the responsibility of the lowly position, and everything is borne by the lowly position."

Li Bing stared at him for a long time and said: "His Royal Highness the King of Jin confessed that he was putting pressure on Mengjin Pass, encircling but not fighting, and forcing Zhu Zhu to withdraw his troops from Jianghuai, although the effect of capturing Mengjin Pass is the same, but it will be difficult for us to attack Mengjin Pass next time, you have actually created trouble for ourselves." ”

"Do we still want to evacuate Mengjin Pass?" Pei Xin was stunned.

Li Bing nodded, "We surrounded Luoyang, why did Zhu Zhu attack Li Na for us again?" ”

Pei Xin was covered in a cold sweat on his back, and said with shame: "Guilty of despicable duty!" ”

"It was Yang Xuanying who captured Mengjin Pass!"

"It's the humble position that didn't make it clear to him."

Li Bing pondered for a moment and said: "You violate the military order, you should indeed be severely punished, but I don't want to hit morale, so I will not punish you publicly, I will write to His Royal Highness the King of Jin and propose a demotion to you, if His Royal Highness the King of Jin does not approve, it will be your luck, so be it!" ”

Pei Xin sighed secretly, he knew that the master general had already tolerated himself and did not openly hit his own board, which was to save his face.

"Thank you General for your leniency!"

Li Bing patted him on the shoulder, and said meaningfully: "His Royal Highness the King of Jin thinks differently from us, after all, this world is still the world of the Tang Dynasty, His Royal Highness the King of Jin will be scolded by the world if he starts too early, it is better to borrow Zhu Zhu's hand to erase the mark of the Tang Dynasty, if you want to grow into a main general, you must understand this." ”

This sentence flashed in Pei Xin's mind like a bolt of lightning, and he suddenly had a kind of awakening, and many things that were confusing before were now suddenly clear.

He hurriedly bowed and bowed, "Thank you for the general's teachings, Pei Xin is grateful!" ”

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