Qian Yu hid under the water and didn't come out, at this time, the Jin army camp had been observing for a long time, and he wanted to attack the city, but he hesitated, he was worried about whether there was any fraud. After thinking about it, Han He and Wang Shuo said:

"General Wang Shuo, rest for the time being, and wait until night to cross the river."

"It's according to General Han's wishes."

Wang Shuo agreed to cross the river at night and attack the city tomorrow morning. However, as soon as the words fell, a report came from the front, saying that the Xian army had withdrawn from Yizi City, not only withdrawing, but also opening the city gate. Hearing this, Han He was taken aback and asked the scout carefully:

"All withdrawn?"

"The Xian army has withdrawn from Yizi City."

"How many people do you know!"

"About seven or eight hundred."

"Only seven or eight hundred?" Han He asked.

"The retreat of the Xian army from Yizicheng will not exceed 1,000 at most." The scout affirmed.

"Stand down." Han Heling said.

"No!"

The scout retreated, and Han He felt even more suspicious in his heart. The door of this word city is open, isn't this putting the road for him to occupy a word city. Thinking of this, Han He said:

"The Xian army must be more than three or five thousand men and horses, and there must be fraud among them!"

"How can the old general see it?" Wang Shuo asked.

The old man put on a three-sided siege posture, intending to make the defenders retreat and burn down the pontoon bridge of the city. In this way, the old man could build bridges on three sides, while the Xian army had to be tired of running in three places, and it was often exhausted by our army over time. Then the old man placed the parallel warship on the river and crossed the river in a big way, which was far more stable and reliable than the pontoon bridge, so that the Xian army could be broken.

Now the Xian army has opened the main road and lured our army to enter the city of Yin Yang from the main road, so that our army is concentrated under the city by it, and then the arrows suddenly come, and our army has become a live target. ”

"That being the case, why doesn't our army brake with static, but not the river, take advantage of the night to use the warship as a trestle bridge, cross the river directly, and then occupy a word city, but do not attack Yin Yangcheng, wait for our army to gain a firm foothold during the day, and then make plans to attack the city."

"This method is feasible, I think tonight paralyzes the Xian army overnight, and tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, our army will attack the city again."

Han He decided to continue to observe this night, so on the evening of the day when Zhao Xun withdrew from Yizi City, the Jin army was delayed in crossing the river, and there was no plan to build a pontoon bridge, Zhao Xun was happy:

"Wei Xian (i.e., Baili Yan), how do you know that Han Heding will not dare to cross the river to seize the word city."

"If it's a general, will the general cross the river?"

"Hmm...... No, it wouldn't have been. ”

"But the general can't say so, but that's it."

"Exactly, could it be that Han He and Ben are in the same concern?"

"Exactly, Han Hehe is not sure who the commander of our army is, second, I don't know how many defenders there are, third, there are few outside Yin Yangcheng City, and the maximum number of garrisons is limited. Therefore, Han He did not dare to cross the river for the time being, and he had to observe all night.

Therefore, it is determined that he will not dare to cross the river tonight. ”

"What if you miscalculate."

"The general can order the stove to be reduced for cooking tonight, and Han He will definitely stand in the Jin army to look at the tower, and then spy on the smoke of our army's cooking, so he can reduce the stove and make it suspicious."

"Then why don't you increase the stove and increase the smoke, you have to reduce the stove."

"Fiction is real, truth is false, truth and falsehood are also true, Han He has always suspected that our army is very large, so he does not dare to cross the river easily. In order to convince them that our army deliberately concealed the number of troops, they could reduce the number of cooks, so they must have thought that our army was hiding its strength and deliberately reduced the stove. Therefore, the number of stoves should be sufficient for 3,000 men, and the time for cooking should be extended, so as to convince them that the number of our troops is very large, and the reduction of stoves is to hide the strength of the troops. ”

"Exposing the strength of our army in this way, if it is taken advantage of by Han He, wouldn't it be a cocoon."

"No, what Han He thinks in his heart, is it the same as what he thinks? I don't think so. Our army's 3,000 people can burn 6,000 people's stove food, or 10,000 people's stove food, or 13,000 people, how dare Han He believe that our army has 13,000 people. ”

"Hiss......" Zhao Xun seemed to have an understanding, so he immediately said: "You mean, the plan to kill the nest can catch him off guard." ”

"Exactly. Han He could not predict that our army numbered more than 13,000. When the Jin army crosses the river tomorrow, and it is very likely that at night, our army will suddenly kill out, in batches, Han He will definitely reinforce, and then our army will kill again, Han He will reinforce again, so back and forth, how can Han He know the strength of our army. Moreover, the cavalry of the Jin army is useless, and our army also has the advantage of surprise attacks, which can make it difficult for Han He to deal with. ”

Baili Yan expected that Han He would definitely land on the beach side by side with warships at night, and when the Xian army poured out, and it was killed in batches.

The purpose of the Hanhe beach-grabbing landing was to forcibly occupy the beachhead, not to attack the city in the dark, and then secretly use the warship as the fulcrum to erect a trestle bridge to connect the two sides of the strait, which is faster and safer and more reliable than directly erecting a pontoon bridge, and the amount of personnel carrying weight is also large.

However, the Fu River is a river after all, and the widest place at the moment is no more than 80 paces, so the dispatch and maneuver space of the war ships in the river is limited, and at the same time, the night is dark, and it is necessary to ensure that the ships are connected side by side, so the number of people landing cannot be too large.

Even if Han He landed at many points, he only needed to attack a little and defend the city, Han He heard such a big battle at night, he could know how many Xian troops there were, but he didn't know at all. By the time he responded, the Hammy army had already withdrawn.

But why not land during the day? Where can you see the black light and the fire?

In fact, the landing of warships during the day is not only ineffective, but may also expose the attempt, and it will not achieve the sudden effect of surprise. Of course, Han He knew about this drawback, so he chose to land quietly at night, and then quickly build a trestle bridge and transport troops across the river to occupy the beachhead.

So on the night of the same day, a high platform was erected in the camp of the Jin army, and the high platform was far higher than the city wall of Yin Yang City, Han He, Wang Shuo, and Ji Chang took advantage of the night to climb the high platform to look at the movement in Yin Yang City.

The rising smoke and bonfire quickly caught Hanha's attention:

"There are so many fires in the city, why are there only so many?"

"General Han Lao is suspicious of the Xianjun army." Wang Shuo guessed.

"General Wang Shuo, you see, the Xianjun army has been cooking for half an hour, and there is still no sign of extinguishing, and the cooking smoke is billowing and the stove is vigorous, and the number of buried stoves can be used for more than 3,000 people."

"Oh, so far away, how can Old General Han know the difference between the common people and the Xianjun cooking smoke."

"The military must use a large pot to make rice, and a stove can be eaten by 50 people, while the small people in the market have a small pot, so the cooking smoke is not as good as the military stove, so we can know the difference between the military stove and the people's stove."

"Even so, it may also be that the military stove is giving porridge to the people."

"Hehe......" Han He smiled and said: "General Wang Shuo must know that at the moment when the war is tight, the Xian army will definitely give priority to their own food, and then the people in the city, so the military stove must not have too much porridge on credit." Moreover, there is no sign of turning off the fire in the Xianjun cooking, and it is obvious that it is deliberately reducing the number of stoves, so that we do not know its strength.

If it is calculated according to this, the old man thinks that the number of Xian troops is set at more than 7,000, not 4,000. ”

Hearing this, Wang Shuo couldn't understand it:

"Seven thousand! How can there be seven thousand? ”

"Or the people's army, or the remnants of the stragglers who bravely gathered up the defeated generals. If this is the case, it will be difficult to capture the siege in this battle within ten days. ”

At this time, Ji Chang said:

"Since it is difficult to get out of this city in ten days, why didn't our army take the city at night, and then attack the city by surprise."

"It's not advisable." Han He vetoed Ji Chang's suggestion: "The prince needs to know that the Xian army abandoned the city on purpose, and there must be ambushes in the city, if our army rashly crosses the river, if just over half, the Xian army suddenly kills, our army can do nothing!" ”

"When the brave meet on a narrow road, thousands of defeated troops will fight, and the tiger and wolf division of our Jin army, how can they not lose."

"Shizi, although the Xian army is at the end of the strong crossbow, the rabbit knows how to bite when it is in a hurry, not to mention that there are masters in the Xian military camp, and if you rush to cross the river, you will be conspired against."

Last night, the cavalry was plotted, Han He still remembers it vividly, this is a snake bite for ten years afraid of the well rope, tonight is not a single Xian army in Yizi City, and he Han He does not dare to cross this river. Baili Yan expected that Han He would not dare to cross the river tonight, so he slept very soundly that night.

Waiting until the next morning, the good news came, someone had itchy hands, and fished a few caissons that were thrown into the Qinjiang River yesterday and fished them ashore, and more than 300 fish were caught in the caissons, and the largest one was about 200 catties.

As soon as the news spread, Zhao Xun hurriedly rushed to the west wall, and saw that the soldiers and ordinary people were already dividing the fish, waiting for the pot. Zhao Xun didn't know about this matter in advance, so the sergeant who caught the fish asked whose attention was this, and finally pulled Baili Yan's head:

"Wei Xian, could it be that before you came here, you had people cut down the bamboo, just to catch fish?"

"Our army has been trapped here for a long time, and the grain is only enough to last for April and May, and there is no other source of food. Therefore, the bamboo was prepared in advance and made into a caisson, and the caisson had an entrance and was cast with bait to catch fish. ”

"Well, I never thought that you had such planning and insight at a young age, it seems that General Ben underestimated you."

"General Zhao, don't be too happy, if the Jin army can't attack for a long time and besiege instead, I'm afraid that our army will have a hard time fishing in the future. The Jin army is bound to cut off our army's foreign supplies, even if it is the catch in the river. Therefore, caisson fishing still needs to be considered in the long run. At present, the Jin army's siege is still secondary, and how to cross the river to contact the Xian army to rescue is the first priority. ”

"This matter will be planned, but I don't know if you have a clever plan to send the news across the river."

"General, please speak first."

"General Ben wants to order a raft to be made, and people take advantage of the night to cross the river to deliver letters, what do you think?"

"The Jin army's warships patrol the river, and it is almost possible to cross the river. But the more impossible things are, the more opportunities there are. ”

"How so?"

"What if it's Jin Jun's own people."

"What do you mean?"

"Tonight or tomorrow night, the Jin army will inevitably land outside Yin Yang City, so when our army sneaks up, people pretend to be the Jin army, carry the news to blend in with the defeated army, take advantage of the Jin army's defeat and retreat to escape, and reach the mouth of the Chajiang River all the way south.

The small river at the mouth of the fork river can lead to Zhiguo, but because the canal is small, large warships cannot pass. And the mouth of the fork river is the three kingdoms of Xianguo, Zhiguo, and Jin State to transfer the water network, the Jin army will inevitably patrol heavily, and even have the Zhi army to do it again, so the general can dismantle people to find the Zhi army, and surrender to it, and report the emergency military situation to the Zhi army. ”

"Attract the Zhijun into our country! Wouldn't that lead a wolf into the house? ”

"No, although Zhiguo is strong, he is already a strong foreign force, so the Jin army is powerful this time, but it is actually waiting for the opportunity. If the Zhi army is strong, it should take advantage of the Jin army's attack on Feicheng to suddenly attack the Jin army, which is the best policy. Now the Zhi army is not moving, but in fact it is unable to send troops. In addition, this year's drought has left the country with no grain and corn, and the war is not conducive to the country, and it is necessary to feed the people occupied by the salty country.

Therefore, when the Zhi army gets the general's emergency military information, it is bound to weigh the weight. Therefore, the general must write the 100,000 urgent military information, either death or death. Zhijun felt that if Xianguo changed banners, he and Zhiguo would be cold, and he chose a person with sharp teeth to send the letter, which could ensure that the news was transmitted back to Xianguo. ”

"It's a good plan, what if it is found out by Han He."

"So you need to take some risks, but it's much less risky than sending people across the river. In addition, it is difficult to think of other ways in the next time. ”