The follow-up reinforcements of the Han army came far faster than imagined, and far more than imagined, and the Han army even divided its troops to fight the idea of the ferry in the lower reaches of the plain, in the face of these sudden changes, Tian Du, Ding Gu and Zhou Lan and others of course could not be indifferent, fortunately, the high-level of the Chuji coalition army were all on the scene, and there was no need to go back to call people, directly at the scene, Tian Du and others discussed the next countermeasures on the spot.

"We must immediately divide our troops to reinforce the ferry in Xuxian County, although this king has issued an edict to let the defenders of Qixian County collect the ships and block the ferry, but after all, the west bank of the river is the land of Zhao, and the head of Zhao will not be willing to hand over all the ships honestly, if they are greedy for the heavy money of the Han thieves, and really let the Han thieves collect enough ships, it is really possible to grab the ferry in the county, so we must immediately divide the troops to go to the county for reinforcements."

Tian Du's decisive decision was unanimously approved by Zhou Lan, Ding Gu and others, and then just after a little discussion, Tian Jiao, the general of the Jibei Army, took over the arduous task of immediately going north to reinforce the county, in order to gain time, Tian Du also decided to let Tian Jiao lead the army to the county by boat to reinforce the county, and then Tian Jiao couldn't wait to return to the camp with Tian Du and others, and immediately returned to the camp with the horses, and led the headquarters of 5,000 troops to set off urgently, and rushed to the east bank of the plain to set off by boat, and quickly went to the county to block the ferry. And then, General Ding asked another important question, "King Jibei, General Zhou, will we fight the plains tomorrow?" ”

Tian Du and Zhou Lan both frowned and thought nervously, but after a while, Zhou Lan said: "I think we should fight, because the reinforcements of the Han thieves are far more than we imagined, if we don't take the plain quickly and let the Han thieves collect enough ships to launch the crossing, then not only will we not have any chance to take the plain and capture the families of the Han thieves, on the contrary, we have to prevent the thieves in the plain city from going out of the city to assault and receive the reinforcements of the Han thieves to cross the river, so that we have no way to deal with the robbery of the Han thieves with all our might." ”

"That's right." Ding Gu rarely gave a helping voice to his juniors, and said: "If we don't seize the opportunity to take the plain, Feng Zhong's thief army will become our hidden danger, only by taking advantage of the opportunity that the Han thief cannot launch a rush to cross the river in a short period of time, and make every effort to take the plain, we can deal with the Han thief crossing the river without distraction, so that we can have more hope of blocking the Han thief on the west bank of the river for a long time, and hold on until our main force comes to the rescue." ”

Tian Du kept silent, and finally began to regret his refusal of the Han army's initiative to release the kindness, and fell into the current situation, but considering that he was too close to Xiang Yu, his main force was far away in the territory of Xiang Yu's ally Zhao State, as well as Xiang Yu's brutal methods and fiery temper, Tian Du could only make up his mind, gritted his teeth and said: "Then fight, first take the plain to eliminate the hidden dangers on the east bank, and then go all out to deal with the Han thief army on the east bank." ”

Zhou Lan and Ding Gu said yes together, and then Ding Gu hurriedly reminded: "King, always keep in touch with the county, if the thief really succeeds in the county, don't forget to inform us immediately." ”

"Old thing, it turns out that you are also weak-hearted."

Tian Du rolled his eyelids, knowing that Ding Gu was worried that the Han army would suddenly kill from the lower reaches of the Yellow River, but he still nodded, promising that if such a situation really occurred, he would immediately inform the Western Chu army, and then said helplessly in his heart: "The main reason is that the Han thief can't do Xiang Yu'er in the front, and there is no such natural danger as a big river between Jibei and Chudi, if this king defects and Xiang Yu'er sends troops to take revenge, this king will have to bear the brunt immediately, otherwise, hum!" ”

Although he was not very reluctant, but for the sake of his own interests, Tian Du still accepted the proposal of the Western Chu army, and even though he had already divided his troops to rush to Qixian County for reinforcements, he still decided to continue to attack Pingyuan City according to the original plan. Then in the early morning of the next day, the Jibei Army under Tian Du and the Western Chu Army Zhou Lan and Ding Gu set out together, carrying the siege weapons that had been rushed to the city of the plain, and launched an attack on Feng Zhong's army, which could not be directly reinforced by the Han army.

Seeing the arrival of the Chuji coalition army, of course, the gong alarm sounded one after another on the plain city, Feng Zhong's soldiers boarded the city to prepare for battle, Feng Zhong himself also rushed to the city wall at the first time, personally checked the situation of the enemy, and when he saw the many siege weapons and tall ladder carts brought by the Chuji coalition army, Feng Zhong's brows were also twisted into a knot, and he couldn't help but glance back at the Han army camp on the west bank of the Yellow River, and sighed in his heart, "Why is there no boat?" Even if the friendly forces on the west bank have twenty or thirty large ships, I can easily fight this battle. ”

At this time, Li Shiqi also came to Feng Zhong's side, and when he saw the twelve tall ladder cars brought by the Chuji coalition army, Li Shiqi, who was quite familiar with military affairs, also changed his face, and hurriedly asked Feng Zhong: "General Feng, is our tung oil sufficient?" Are you sure you can deal with so many ladder trucks? ”

"If it had enough, I wouldn't have been so troubled." Feng Zhong's smile was very bitter, and he said: "I asked the soldiers to search the whole city, and they only found more than forty barrels of tung oil, whether they can deal with so many ladder trucks can only depend on luck." ”

Li Shiqi was silent, and only after a moment did he say: "Temporarily block the city gate with earth, stone and sand, save the tung oil, and deal with the ladder truck of the thief army." ”

Feng Zhong nodded helplessly, and could only quickly order the reserves in the city to carry sandbags to block the city gate, so that all the precious fire oil could be used to deal with the enemy's ladder truck, but after giving the order, Feng Zhong changed his mind and ordered: "Only block the three gates of the southeast, north and south, don't block the west gate, if our friendly forces find a way to find a boat, they are likely to rush to reinforce us, and leave the west gate so that they can come in." ”

Time flies, and before Feng Zhongjun has time to block all the southeast, north, and south gates of Pingyuan City, the Chuji coalition army has already lined up outside Pingyuan City, and at the same time, they can't wait to send long shieldmen to set up temporary fortifications under Pingyuan City, covering the crossbowmen to release arrows to suppress the defenders in the city. As a result, to the secret joy of the Chuji coalition army and the dark depression of Feng Zhong, during this period, the reinforcements of the Han army camped on the west bank of the Yellow River did not make any movement, and did not send troops to the wharf to board the ship as Feng Zhong hoped, and used the only dozen or so small boats on the wharf on the west bank to cross the river to reinforce the battlefield on the east bank, and the camp was so calm as if it did not know that a major battle was about to start on the east bank.

The time will be outdated, the Chuji coalition army completed the final pre-battle preparations, and then accompanied by the rhythmic beating of the war drums, the Jibei army and the Western Chu army were dispatched at the same time in three ways, each carrying two ladder cars, two crash cars and a large number of flying ladders, and at the same time launched an attack on the southeast, north and south of the plain city, and also invested 3,000 troops in the first attack, putting on a posture of the plain city.

Not only that, the Chuji coalition army was also very cunning, knowing that it would definitely be difficult to get to the city by relying on the simple flying ladder alone, and the slow-moving bulky ladder car was the greatest hope for the army to break the city, so before the ladder car entered the range of Feng Zhongjun's bow and crossbow, the light infantry of the Chuji coalition army had already launched a charge with the flying ladder and forcibly attracted Feng Zhongjun's bow and crossbow firepower. Feng Zhongjun's officers and men had no choice but to quickly release arrows to suppress the enemy's charging momentum and try to reduce the frontal pressure on his own army.

The real highlight is of course in the back, the ladder cart of the Chuji coalition army only entered the range of Feng Zhongjun's bow and arrow, and the plain city immediately seemed to be boiling a pot, and immediately released countless rockets wrapped in oil-soaked linen at the front, densely packed and shot at the tall and bulky ladder cart, just in an instant, the ladder cart of the Chuji coalition army stared at many burning rockets.

No, after all, the combustion performance of tung oil is not as good as the fierce fire oil of later generations, and the amount of oil carried is too small to immediately ignite the ladder car, and the ladder car of the Chuji coalition army has undergone a certain amount of fire protection treatment and is coated with a thick layer of mud, and the combustion effect of Feng Zhongjun's rocket is naturally smaller, so even if many rockets are inserted, the ladder car of the Chuji coalition army did not rise to the fire quickly, or after pushing forward twenty or thirty steps, there were two ladder trucks of the Chuji coalition army that caught fire.

At this time, the flying echelon of the Chuji coalition army, which rushed directly to the city, had already begun to attack with ants, and it also began to affect Feng Zhongjun's rocket casting, Feng Zhongjun's soldiers had no choice but to resist the enemy's ant-attached attack while trying to shoot rockets at the enemy's ladder car, and the city wall was also killed up and down, shouting constantly, "Release the arrow!" Hurry up and release the arrows! Don't let the ladder truck lean against the city wall, and don't let the ladder truck of the thief army lean against the city wall. ”

The six ladder cars that gradually started the fire were pushed hard by the Chuji coalition army, getting closer and closer to the city wall, and the Feng Zhongjun soldiers in the city had no extra choice, so they had to use the dovetail torch with high cost and more fire oil to deal with the ladder car, fortunately, the dovetail torch with a double hook at the rear end was also worth the money, and the fire on the ladder car could hook the wood and burn, and the fire on the ladder car was therefore greater, and the first two ladder cars on fire had not been able to cross the moat that had been filled before, and they became two huge fire clusters, completely losing the siege effect, the remaining four ladder trucks were in different fires, and the non-commissioned officers of the Chuji Coalition also kept shouting, "Push!" Push! Push up and up against the wall! ”

Relying on the hard work of the soldiers of the Chuji coalition army, among the first batch of six ladders, three of them still successfully leaned on the east gate and north gate of the plain city, the soldiers of the Chuji coalition army cheered and stepped on the ladder to charge, Feng Zhongjun soldiers roared and fought hard to block it, and at the same time threw dovetail torches and firewood bundles one after another at any cost, racing against time to set fire to the enemy's ladder car, Feng Zhong was also so nervous that he completely forgot the weakness of the serious shortage of fire oil from the army, and roared just urging the soldiers to throw torches quickly.

Fortunately, relying on the reckless investment, the three ladder trucks that leaned on the city wall finally ignited a sky-high fire one after another, and collapsed and disappeared under the trampling of the soldiers of the Chuji Alliance, and could not continue to threaten the safety of the plain city, and at the same time, relying on the desperate counterattack of Feng Zhongjun's soldiers one after another, the enemy who rushed to the city wall did not last long in the city, and was also expelled to the city one after another. However, before Feng Zhongjun could breathe a sigh of relief, three more ladder trucks rushed into their range separately, once again posing a mortal threat to the head of the plain city.

"How much tung oil is left?!"

Of course, Feng Zhong was most concerned about this question, but the answer he got made Feng Zhong's face pale, and there were less than three barrels of tung oil left on the east gate of the main battlefield! It is even more difficult to deal with the ladder trucks invested in the follow-up of the Chuji Coalition Army, let alone deal with the remaining three ladder trucks of the Chuji Coalition Army!

At the same time, it was found that the number of rockets released by Feng Zhongjun had decreased significantly, Tian Du, Ding Gu and the others were of course all full of smirks, and the old general Ding Gu Ding, who was in charge of the South Gate battlefield, also scolded proudly: "Piff! See how many of your rockets and dovetail torches are left? When you enter Plains City, let's see how the old man cleans up your ....... ”

"There are boats! A ship is coming! ”

The sudden exclamation interrupted General Ding's smug shout, because these shouts were too chaotic, including many of his own personal soldiers, General Ding suddenly became a little angry, turned his head and shouted: "What are you yelling about?" What ship is coming? How many ships ...... came? ”

Before the words were finished, General Ding stopped himself, and then quickly rubbed his eyes, pinched his thighs, and looked at the Yellow River to the west of the self-army position in disbelief, and then screamed like a pig, "The old man is not dreaming, right?!" ”

For the Chuji coalition army and Feng Zhongjun, the changes on the surface of the Yellow River are indeed as incredible as a dream - at this moment, the upper reaches of the Yellow River, as if a divine soldier descended from heaven, countless large and small ships appeared, and a conspicuous military flag was inserted on each boat, the crimson military flag of the Han army! Riding the wind and waves, cleaving the waves and sailing, it is rushing towards the plain ferry at a flying speed!

"The fleet of thieves is coming! The fleet of thieves is coming! Countless ships came! ”

"Our fleet is coming! Our fleet is coming! Our reinforcements can cross the river! It's time to cross the river! ”

The huge noise and cheers resounded in the upper and lower parts of the plain city at the same time, among which Feng Zhongjun was of course thunderous and thunderous, resounding throughout the city, while the Chuji coalition army was panicked, as if the end was coming. Hearing such a voice, and seeing the huge scale of the Han army's fleet high up outside the city, Tian Du, Zhou Lan and the others almost pinched their thighs, and yelled one after another in disbelief, "How is it possible? So many ships from the thieves? The fleet of thieves fell from the sky?! ”

Of course, the Han army fleet did not fall from the sky, in fact, the main force of the Han army Zheng Bu on the west bank of the Yellow River actually knew that there would be a fleet of the own army arriving today, and had long been ready to rush to attack, so before the suddenly arrived Han fleet landed on the west bank dock, countless Han soldiers had already lined up to camp and strode to the vicinity of the dock to prepare to board the boat to rush to the ferry, Zheng Bu, Li Zuoche and Zhong Liwu and others also came to the dock on horseback, waiting for the arrival of friendly troops with smiles on their faces.

In a short time, the Han army fleet docked to the dock on the west bank of the Yellow River, and before the boat stopped, the largest boat had already jumped down, and Ding Ji, the general of the Han army who was stationed in Puyang with Xiang Kang, yelled at Zheng Bu as soon as they met: "Lao Zheng, I'm not late, right?" How are my Weng, my mother, and my brother? ”

"Don't worry, they're all fine, they're all in the plain city opposite."

Zheng Bu pointed to the plain city on the other side of the Yellow River and replied with a smile, Ding Ji was overjoyed when he heard it, and hurriedly shouted: "Then what are you doing here?" Immediately call your soldiers aboard the ship and rush over to save me, my wife, and your parents and family! The Western Chu thief army raised by the son of a bitch and the Jibei thief army, dare to bully me like this, look at how Lao Tzu killed them all today! ”

The banks of the Yellow River in Pingyuan are the territory of the Zhao army and the Jibei army, and it is of course difficult for the Han army to raise enough ships to cross the river in Pingyuandu, but fortunately, Baimajin, another extremely important Yellow River ferry, and Puyang Wharf near the Yellow River, have long been in the hands of the Han army, where not only there are a large number of large and small ships, but also because the Han army continues to transport grain from Aocang through the waterway to supply the front line, you can requisition from the grain ship to transport troops across the river, Puyang is not very far from the plain, and there is no obstruction along the way, From Puyang to Julu, there is a gallop road that can be passed, and it is convenient to communicate, which is why the Han fleet suddenly arrived from the upstream.

As for why the Han army fleet arrived at noon on the second day when the main force of Zheng Bu's army arrived at Pingyuandu, and why the Han army had light cavalry to go downstream to collect boats, pretending to be going to cross the Yellow River in Qixian County, and luring the Chuji coalition army to send a fleet to Qixian for reinforcements, these are of course from Li Zuo's handiwork, who is good at calculating time and scheming.

Getting back to the point, with Zheng Bu's order, the soldiers of the Han army, who had been gathering momentum for a long time, immediately rushed to the dock and boarded the boat in turn, smiling and preparing to launch a rush charge. On the east bank of the Yellow River, of course, the Chuji coalition army had already panicked, and had to take the initiative to give up the siege, and instead urgently deploy on the east bank of the Yellow River to prevent the Han army from launching a rush to cross. This king has fallen into the trap of a thief! If the king's fleet is still there, then why is there such a hurry? Just relying on the fleet to block it can also relieve us of countless pressures! Han thieves raised by handmaids, you are too cunning and treacherous! ”

It was finally Feng Zhong's turn to be in high spirits, and the Chuji coalition army had just thrown down the siege weapons and retreated on their own, Feng Zhong couldn't wait to organize the army to assemble in the West Gate City of the Plains near the wharf, ready to rush out of the city at any time, kill to the wharf, and receive the Han soldiers to land directly from the wharf, and the Feng Zhong soldiers who were ready to go out of the city to assault were also excited, gearing up, holding their weapons tightly and waiting for the moment of attack.

After hurried discussions, the Western Chu Army, which had been arrayed at the north and south gates of the plain, had no shirk responsibility, and could only take on the important task of fortifying on the spot to prevent the Han army from crossing the river, and the Jibei Army, which was arrayed outside the east gate of the plain, became a general tactical reserve, preparing to reinforce there when the battlefield was urgent. However, although the tactical task was clear and clear, the soldiers of the Chuji coalition army did not have the excitement and excitement before the big battle, on the contrary, they were all worried, looking at the huge fleet on the other side with a timid expression, and they all beat drums in their hearts, "So many ships? Can we stop it? ”

More than half an hour later, the first batch of Han soldiers to rush to the ferry all boarded the ship, and Zheng Bu, the general of the Han army, waved his arms vigorously and shouted: "Go!" Weng, my son, come to save you! ”

The war drums sounded, the soldiers of the Han army struggled to paddle the oars, drove the boat slowly away from the west bank of the Yellow River, and then gradually accelerated, rushing to the east bank of the Yellow River by the river wind, and the loud slogans had already resounded on the surface of the Yellow River......

"Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill ——! ”