Yang Yan was silent, and after a while, he said: "Brother, there is indeed a river in the north of Huaicheng, but this river is dry all year round, how to store water?" ”

Geng Gong waved his hand and said: "Brother Yan don't worry, yesterday I climbed the mountain, and saw the waves rolling in the river, I thought about it carefully, probably the temperature rose, and the ice and snow on the Tianshan Mountain melted, and it was injected into the river, and then it became a torrent." ”

Fan Qiang complained: "That mountain is full of Qiang soldiers and Huns, and it is very dangerous, why doesn't my brother take me there?" No wonder I couldn't find you. ”

Geng Gong smiled slightly: "Although the enemy soldiers have thousands of mountains and mountains, I treat them as if they are grass, I can go if I want, I can leave if I want, and no one can stop me." Okay, without further ado, two brothers, let's go. ”

Fan Qiang and Yang Yan led a thousand soldiers and galloped to the north of Huaicheng. There are not many Huns guarding the river, but more than 100 people, seeing the sudden arrival of the Han soldiers, they can't help but be shocked, scatter and flee, all of them are captured by the Han soldiers, and none of them escaped. Yang Yan saw that an embankment had been built in the river, but the embankment was not high, and he couldn't help laughing: "Brother, the Huns like to cut off people's water and food the most, and now the old trick is repeated, obviously to kill Ma Fang and others in the city." ”

Fan Qiang said: "The Huns are really stupid, I don't know how to retreat the troops to the high mountains, and then release the water to flood the city, and then drive the troops to kill four times, how can the horse defense be the enemy?" ”

"Brother, don't you hear that the wise man has a thousand thoughts, there will be a mistake, the Huns can't think of this, and it is also the blessing of our Han army."

So, Fan Qiang and Yang Yan built the embankment day and night, and after a few days, the embankment was several zhang high, and the waves in the river were rolling, and the sound of lapping the shore was like the cry of a beast.

However, it was said that Geng Gong sent Fan Qiang and Yang Yan away, took the remaining 1,000 soldiers, and sneaked to Xiqiang. sent secret agents, pretended to be Qiang people, and mixed into the territory of Xiqiang. On this day, the spy came to report, saying that the Xiqiang guard general Gaidu was drunk excessively, and after being drunk, he whipped the Qiang soldiers, and the Qiang soldiers complained, and recently they didn't know where to get a woman, who was born with a natural and beautiful country, and would be celebrated with wine tomorrow.

When Geng Gong got this report, he couldn't help but be overjoyed, and he sneaked to the border. On the second day, seeing that the guards were lax, one by one drunk and smoky, Geng Gong led the troops to stand out, such as the gods descending, the Qiang soldiers were taken aback, and they wanted to fight, how did they expect that their hands and feet were numb, their heads were dizzy, and their heads were swollen, and they could not even walk the road, and they could not afford to hold their weapons, how could they fight? One by one, they have become knife-headed ghosts. Nagadu also drank a lot of wine, was holding the beauty, playing the dragon and phoenix, heard the screams again and again, knew that it was not good, the beauty did not want it, got up from the bed, hastily put on two clothes, grabbed the clothes, and rushed out. The beauty hissed and begged, and Gaidu was hard-hearted, but she didn't care about it, and fled straight out of Xiqiang to find Miwu. Geng Gong took this opportunity to kill the Qiang soldiers with a river of blood, and even took down more than 20 cities in Xiqiang. The Qiang soldiers were afraid, and they cowered in the watchtower, not daring to take half a step.

Geng Gong then set up flags all over the place, but at night he led his troops back to the vicinity of Huaicheng. The Qiang soldiers didn't know the strategy, looked at the Han banner, and were frightened, but they were still glad that the Han soldiers did not attack. Yao Guo led the army to come impatiently, and also saw that the watchtowers, forests and other places were Han flags, hesitated, and sent detectives to investigate. After a while, the scout rode back, panting, and said hurriedly: "General Yao, the Han soldiers are gone, but the flag is false." ”163TXT

Yao Guo was taken aback and said: "Geng Gongding is going back to Huaicheng, which is obviously to encircle Wei and save Zhao." He didn't have many soldiers, and it would be useless to go there. But why did he go? Yao Guo frowned, pondered, suddenly jumped up, and shouted: "I understand, I heard that in the north of Huaicheng, there is a river, the river is dry, and King Huyan has sent people to hold it and build an embankment to store water, does Geng Gong want to release water to flood the city?" ”

The general said: "General, if Geng Gong releases the water, our army can still move to the high ground, and the Han soldiers are all in Huaicheng, and the position is low-lying, like a turtle in an urn, won't they all be drowned?" Besides, I have seen the river, and the water is scarce, so where can it be flooded? ”

Yao Guo sighed: "What you said is also reasonable, but the soldiers, the tricks, it is a false and real thing, since there is nothing here, I still hurry back to the army and go to the river to find out." ”

The general said: "General, as soon as our army retreats, if Geng Gong invites an attack halfway, what can I do?" ”

Yao Guo couldn't help but be stunned, hesitated again, and finally returned to the army and rushed to the north of Huaicheng. How do they know that they are still on the way, Fan Qiang and Yang Yan heard the sound of killing and screaming to the sky, and the Qiang soldiers and Huns on the high mountains on both sides have come down to help in the battle, and they broke the embankment, and the water roared, rolling several feet high waves, sweeping past. When Yao Guo saw this, he hurriedly fled, and the 10,000 soldiers he led were rushed to pieces.

Geng Gong retreated to Huaicheng, took a high ground, and rushed to make boats and rafts day and night. As soon as the flood came, he was very busy boating in Huaicheng, saving Han soldiers and killing enemy prisoners. That Fan Qiang and Yang Yan led their troops to kill from the north, flanked the Xiongnu and Qiang soldiers, and won a complete victory, but only killed 10,000 enemies, lost 8,000 themselves, and the Han soldiers were drowned countless times.

But he said that Ma Fang entered the camp and didn't say a word, just drank stuffy wine. Soon the twilight was four, the cold wind gusted, Geng Gong ordered the soldiers to set up the gods, erected the tablets of Wu Meng, Ma Juan, and Ruyan, and offered the head of King Huyan in front of the table, he looked at the dancing candle flame obsessively, his face was full of tears, and he murmured: "Brother Meng, Sister Juan, princess, today, I killed King Huyan with my own hands, and avenged this deep hatred, under Jiuquan, you can rest in peace." He sat on the ground in a daze, those past events, one by one, Geng Gong's heart was like a knife, unconsciously, it was already dawn, Geng Gong was still motionless.

The soldiers were all moved, Fan Qiang said: "People can't be resurrected after death, my brother still takes care of his body, besides, the enemy is current, the war is in the air, once my brother has something, how can he be worthy of Wu Meng's spirit in the sky?" ”

Geng Gong was silent. After another day like this, Yang Yan hurriedly ran over and said, "Brother, it's not good, Ma Fang has run away!" ”

Geng Gong looked confused: "Run, where did you go?" ”

"Brother, you have been in front of the spirit all day, but you don't know that Zhang Wu and Hou Jing recruited the old department from the Ma Defense Secret Envoy, and got more than 10,000 people, and saw that the water had receded, so he led his troops back to Luoyang, leaving only this letter and more than 2,000 old and weak soldiers."