Chapter 253: Scoop a Scoop of Yellow River Water and Bury It Back to Its Hometown (1)
The fat man's surname is Xu Mingzhen, although he is only a teenager, he has already been in the army for two years. The soldiers will see that they are walking on the ice as if they were walking on the ground, and they will not help but move to the ice together.
Cao Bao stepped on the ice, but felt slippery and difficult to stand, and almost fell on his back several times, but fortunately, he had been marching on horseback for many years, and his kung fu was particularly steady, and Kan Kan maintained his balance.
And the rest of the soldiers were not so calm, one by one staggered on the ice, and some even lay on the ice and did not dare to get up.
Everyone used to experience the Yellow River, all on a boat, never so close contact, heard the river flowing under the ice, even though they knew that the ice was strong enough, but there were still many people who couldn't help but feel weak in their legs.
Cao Bao was not at ease and only checked at He'an, and ordered the soldiers to scatter around to see if the ice was strong enough, and went to the middle of the river with Xu Zhen to check. Thousands of people crossing the river must not suffer unnecessary losses because of carelessness.
Coming to the middle of the river, the two found that the ice here is much more transparent than the river bank, and it looks much thinner, the ice on the river bank is pure white and thick, and it is impossible to see the low situation at all, but the ice in the center of the river is already transparent like a mirror, and they can almost see the river flowing slowly under the ice.
Cao Bao trembled and didn't dare to move a little, for fear that the ice would burst open as soon as he exerted force, and this was what it felt like walking on thin ice. Xu Zhen is a young man with enthusiasm, and he is at an age when he is not afraid of heaven and earth, and he wanders on the ice recklessly, not taking the danger under his feet to heart.
"Brother Leopard, you see that this ice layer is strong enough to definitely undertake the task of passing through the army, do you want to tell the general immediately?"
Xu Zhen said briskly, and stomped his feet on the ice.
But with a crisp click, a long crack appeared on the originally transparent and clear ice surface at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the crack reached the end of the ice, increasing the broken ice in the distance by several feet.
"No!" Cao Bao didn't have time to stop it, but this crisp sound shocked everyone on the ice.
More than a dozen people stood on the ice in a daze, maintaining their previous postures, not daring to move, for fear that the ice would suddenly collapse because of their movements.
"Run, the ice is broken!" I don't know who shouted loudly, more than a dozen people are like frightened fleas, crawling on the ice and crawling to the river bank, but the ice under their feet is slippery and abnormal, there is no way to borrow strength, the more panicked the more difficult it is to leave half a step, only after the power of the two tigers was wasted, everyone finally climbed out of the ice, standing on the stable riverbank, listening to the sound of rags flying from top to bottom, the three souls and seven spirits seem to be missing one percent.
The ice did not crack, only a crack spread outward from under the waterfall, and the thin ice of the falling water spread outward, knowing the end of the ice breaking, and a small crack was clearly visible on the huge mirror-like ice surface, drawing a whole piece of ice in half. Perhaps because the thick part of the ice has not yet completely cracked, the cracks are still tightly connected, as if a line was just drawn on the surface of the ice.
"Xu Zhen and Wu Shun, the two of you will go back immediately to report the situation to General Wei, be sure to tell the truth, and ask the general to decide whether to cross the river or not."
After the test just now, it has been clearly shown that the ice is not as strong as it seems, and a fat man's stomp will make the entire ice split in half, how can it bear the weight of thousands of people crossing the river!
Wei Yue received news from several ice formations one after another, each of which made him take advantage of the excitement to come and return in disappointment, either the ice was too thin and brittle, or the terrain was too treacherous. If the ice is too thin, there is a risk of ice cracking, and a person will already crunch when he goes up, let alone thousands of troops, and some places seem to have thick ice, but most of them are in places with steep terrain and rapid river water, and the slope is too large to make people unable to stand on the ice at all, and it is impossible to wade through the ice.
Until he received Xu Qian's report that it was already dark and night, Wei Yue had no hope, just waiting for dawn to jump into the river here, to die to apologize, at the moment of receiving the news, Wei Yue did not think so, thinking that it must be just an empty joy like the previous few times, but he had a fluke in his heart, or personally led dozens of soldiers and generals to the waterfall while the night was dark.
The mountain road here is difficult to walk, and it is even more impossible to march quickly at night, so the group walked for half an hour before reaching the bottom of the waterfall.
When Wei Yue saw a whole bright smooth ice surface against a waning moon, he finally had a look of relief.
"General, after our testing, the ice is still quite strong, but when I waited for a dozen people to walk on it during the day, a crack suddenly appeared, I am worried that the ice cannot bear too heavy weight, how to cross the river, please ask the general to decide."
Wei Yue had a little bottom in his heart, since he couldn't pass too many people at a time, let the soldiers line up in two columns to pass through the ice, so that the number of people walking on the ice would always remain at about a few dozen, and then let people pass through the ice in advance, and connect them with ropes on the trees on both sides of the riverbank, so that the people who passed through the ice would have a little help, which would also reduce the force on the Xiaoice layer to a certain extent, and also allow the soldiers and generals not to be unable to walk an inch on the ice because of the slipperyness.
As for whether the ice will break in the middle, this is no longer in Wei Yue's consideration, the current situation is extremely urgent, and if you don't hurry up to cross the river, you will miss the pre-agreed action time, when the time comes, General Gao Shun launched a general attack, Wei Yue himself can not reach the designated position on time, Ma Chao has no worries, Luoyang's 10,000 soldiers and horses are only afraid that it will be difficult to resist Ma Chao's 50,000 Xiliang army.
It is imperative to cross the river, at all costs!
A horn broke the silence of the night, far away from ten miles away, this is the rallying call, after hearing the horn, thousands of troops on standby quickly pulled out of camp, and marched towards the place where Wei Yue and others were, the rockets that exploded in the sky guided the direction of the army, and thousands of people formed a winding firelight long line in the rugged mountain road, like a writhing fire dragon in the dark night.
After the army arrived, there was no delay, and immediately crossed the river according to Wei Yue's order, and the flat ice surface was much stronger than expected, and half of the troops passed through, and the ice was still not moving, and it didn't seem to be in danger at all.
Cao Bao and Xu Zhen and other members of the team were familiar with the terrain because they were here in advance, so they were arranged by Wei Yue as a leading team, responsible for the command and guidance of the passage of the army.
"Click!"
Just when everyone thought they could pass through the ice safely and soundly, a piercing sound penetrated everyone's ears, even in the deafening waterfall waterfall, they could hear it clearly, stimulating everyone's sensitive nerves.
On the smooth ice, countless fine cracks spread rapidly along the original cracks, like a huge spider web, spreading rapidly under everyone's feet at a speed visible to the naked eye.
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