Now that the river is blocked, the land route is surrounded, and if you want to send a letter but can't fly over, Bai Liyan can only think of this next step for leaking military aircraft.

It is believed that the town guarding the junction of the Jin Kingdom, the Xian Kingdom, and the Zhiguo Kingdom is the Zhiguo generation of loyalty, the famous general "Gongliang" family, is the pillar of the Zhiguo, four generations up, are the henchmen of the Zhiguo Lord.

As long as Zhao Xun's emergency military situation can reach the hands of the Gongliang generals, the Gongliang family can't watch the Jin army push the soldiers to their throats, so the news will eventually reach Xianguo.

Zhiguo is a sick cat at the moment, if you want to say that you have no power to resist, go and brush the tiger's beard, he can bite you to death, and the camel is bigger than a horse, and a sneeze can also make you catch a cold. The Jin army first attacked Xianguo, and if Zhiguo's national strength was acceptable, he had already sent troops to attack Jin at this time.

Now that he is standing still, watching the Jin State annex a large area of land east of the Xianguo Wangqin River, it is obviously powerless. The food is insufficient, the financial and material resources are insufficient, and the rash dispatch of troops may hurt the national capital.

Of course, Zhiguo knows it, so Baili Yan expects that Zhiguo can't see death without saving, even if he doesn't send troops, he has to let Xianguo and Jin Guo fight hard, drag Jin Guo to death, and severely cripple Xianguo. When the time comes, if you attack Xianguo again, will Zhiguo not take advantage of the fisherman.

At the same time that Bailiyan (Wei Xian) was planning to cross the river to deliver the letter, the Jin army camp began to feint, mobilizing manpower and material resources on a large scale, and making a gesture that a pontoon bridge might be erected at any time.

In wartime, pontoon bridges are usually set up with small boats parked horizontally on the river, then wooden planks are laid to fix the planks and boats, and so on until the opposite shore is reached, and then wooden stakes are fixed on both banks, and ropes are used to fix them back and forth.

However, this kind of pontoon bridge is not completely invincible, especially in the process of construction, when encountering enemy shore bow and crossbow attacks, the progress is blocked, and the casualties will be large. At the same time, the pass rate of a pontoon bridge is very low, so it is necessary to start construction of multiple pontoon bridges at the same time, and if there are many enemy soldiers, it is difficult for the pontoon bridge to take shape in most cases.

At this time, Zhao Xun and others stood on the north wall of the city and looked at the Jin army on the other side, the Jin army made a bridge posture but did not move, Zhao Xun thought for a moment and said:

"The Jin army has been delaying the passage of the Fu River, fearing that it is intended to lure our army out of the city."

"I'm afraid so." Bai Liyan affirmed, and then said: "Han He was confused by the decree of reducing the stove last night, so today I want to try to cross the river to observe the strength of our army. ”

"In this case, the general thought that our army could hold out, and when it was about to cross the river, he ordered the crossbowmen to fire arrows fifty paces away from the shore to expel the Jin army."

"It's better to shoot with rockets, and so and burn the pontoons."

Zhao Xun planned to let the crossbowmen shoot the Jin army's bridge-building soldiers fifty paces away from the river bank when the Jin army had crossed the river to two-thirds of the way. Fifty steps away from the river bank to release arrows, because the northern section of the Fuhe River is eighty steps wide, light bows, hard bows can be picked up to the center of the river, except for heavy equipment, the archers of the Jin army on the opposite bank can not catch the Xian army.

Except, of course, crossbows and ballistas.

In addition, the Jin army is not a fool, there must be a shield to open the way, so Bailiyan suggested using rockets, not only to burn the shield, but also to burn the bridge.

The rockets are wrapped in cloth strips and drenched with flammable fuel grease, and then launched with bows and arrows.

So when the two armies were observing the movement across the river, Han He took the lead in ordering the bridge, and the Jin army began to erect a number of pontoon bridges from the north and south directions.

At this time, I suddenly saw the three gates of Yin Yangcheng, southeast and north open.

The north gate and the south gate found the Xianjun archers one after another, but there was no movement at the east gate, which made Han He wonder why no one came out of the east gate. Seeing this, Wang Shuo said:

"Old General Han, there must be fraud inside the East Gate. The Xian army will definitely take advantage of the situation when our army crosses the pontoon bridge outside the city. ”

"Well, the old man thought it was very likely. The old man ordered the army on the east bank to take the river as the boundary, the bows and crossbows were in place, and the sergeants were ordered to row across the river. ”

"No!"

Wang Shuo received the order, immediately waved the flag, and ordered the Jin army ferry fleet on the east bank to carry boats down the river and force the crossing, and land on the east bank. So at the sound of an order, thousands of Jin troops formed a team carrying small boats and began to go down the river.

The east bank of the Fu River is not wide, but the water is still as deep, making it very convenient for rowing across the river. However, this kind of small fishing boat that can be carried by a few people has a small capacity, and it can barely fit four people in the front and back, and it can capsize if you are not careful.

Seeing that the Jin army began to cross the east bank of the Fu River, the news was reported to Zhao Xun, and Zhao Xun immediately ordered that all the cavalry in the city came out from the east gate, and one person held a large bag in his hand, which contained unknown white powder.

Before the Jin army was about to go ashore in the eastward boat, the cavalry changed formations and threw out the parcels in their hands along the riverbank.

Without waiting for the Jin army on the other side to start firing arrows, hundreds of packages disintegrated in the air, a fairy scattered flowers and threw a large amount of white powder, the Jin army had just crossed the river, and some were still in the river, looking up at the sky.

looked at the eyes of a burst of fire, and then it was unlucky, a large number of Jin troops crossing the river were on fire in front of their eyes, and they fell into the water in a panic, that is, such a fall into the water, good guys, the burning in front of them was even worse, and some even blackened directly in front of their eyes.

Originally, the soldiers who crossed the river could swim, but after entering the water, their eyes were on fire, and they only cared about rubbing their eyes, where could they still swim.

This scene was seen by Wang Shuo, and he was immediately heartbroken:

"Old General Han, the Xian army is clumsy, and he actually sprinkled poison!"

Han He was also angry and angry:

"Let people save the drowning soldier and heal quickly!"

"No!"

Wang Shuo received the order, and at this time, Ji Chang felt a nest:

"Why didn't the old general kill the pontoon!"

"The cavalry of the Xian army is hidden at the east gate, and our army rashly crosses the river, and it will definitely be defeated."

"In that case, our cavalry can also cross the river."

Ji Chang said reasonably, and Han He repeatedly persuaded him with benefits:

"The terrain under Yin Yang City is narrow, if the Xian army retreats to the city, and Yin Yang's defenders attack with bows and crossbows, our cavalry will not throw themselves into the net."

"This can't be, that can't work, when will we be able to capture Yin Yangcheng!"

Ji Chang was annoyed, he hadn't been so cowardly along the way, and the enemy had not seen it, and he had suffered so many casualties, which was simply Han He's incompetence.

Of course, this is unspeakable, but with a breath in his heart, Ji Chang can't swallow it.

In a few moments, seven or eight out of ten of the soldiers who crossed the river fell into the water and drowned, that is to say, more than 1,000 people who crossed the river drowned, and the eyes of the rest who were rescued from the shore were blind. After the medical officer ordered Qiu Yan to remediate, it was judged that the white powder sprinkled by the Xianjun before was likely to be raw white ash, that is, quicklime.

Hearing the news, quicklime was blinded, and Han He asked Qiu Yan if he had a solution:

"The medical officer ordered, is there a way to cure this poison?"

"The raw white ash is heated by water and burns people's eyes, so once it falls into the water, it is afraid that it will be permanently blind, so it is blindfolded by quicklime, which should be washed with vegetable oil, and then rinsed with water. Now the soldiers are in the water, and most of them are blind. ”

Qiu Yan regretted that Han He felt troubled:

"That being the case, quickly call for vegetable oil to prevent the salty army from poisoning again."

"Back to General Korea, there is not much vegetable oil in the army, and it is difficult to gather enough vegetable oil for the army in a short period of time."

"You step down, General Ben has his own way."

"No!"

Soon after Qiu Yan retreated, Han He immediately ordered to cross the river and repair the bridge, and when the soldiers found that the Xian army was throwing white ash, they all closed their eyes to avoid it to prevent the quicklime from burning their eyes. In order to prevent the Jin cavalry from sneaking attack, Han He ordered, but whenever the Xian army was dispatched, there was no need to give an order, and they shot their own arrows to prevent the Xian army from poisoning again.

At the same time, Yin Yangcheng Baili Yan found that the Jin army was not only crossing the river from the east of the river, but also crossing the river while repairing bridges on the north and south banks, so he immediately said:

"General Zhao, the south and north banks of the Jin army have begun to row across the river, and in my opinion, the crossbowmen on the north and south banks can be withdrawn, and the war horses will be released!"

"Well, pass on my military order, order the crossbowmen to withdraw and release the war horses!"

"No!"

Yao Sheng got the order, waved the flag to the city, and in an instant, thousands of war horses and pack horses in the city swarmed out under the wave of the leather whip, and each war horse had a bamboo strip tied to its head, and a piece of salt hung one and a half feet from the horse's head at the length of the bamboo strip.

Under the stimulation of the leather whip and the lure of salt, the horses were frightened and chased after the salt that could not be eaten, like a loose horse gushing out.

Seeing this posture, the Jin army was about to set up a bow and release arrows, but found that there was no one right away. At this time, the Jin army in the southeast, north and south had crossed the Fu River and went ashore, and more than 1,000 war horses and pack horses chased the salt that could not be licked in front of them and galloped wildly, and for a time the entire beachhead thousands of horses galloped wildly.

The Jin army had not gained a stable foothold on the shore, and the war horses swarmed out and killed by surprise. Countless people were hit, trampled on, and trampled on, and the Jin army who landed on the shore was immediately driven back to the river.

That's not all, no one rode the war horses, only knew that they ran casually after the piece of salt in front of the nose, so many war horses ran into the river, and the Jin army that fled down the river was beaten to pieces, and a lot of them drowned.

At this time, Han He, who was watching the battle in the Jin army camp on the east bank, had his face turned black to the ground, and he decisively ordered to shoot the war horse on the other side. So in the blink of an eye, ten thousand arrows were fired, and the arrows were as dense as locusts and fell to the opposite bank. However, the effect is not good, the war horses are running around, and the range of bows and arrows is limited, even if it is a salvo, the killing effect is not satisfactory.

At this time, only a human whistle was heard in Yin Yangcheng, and the war horses didn't care about the salt hanging in front of them, and turned back and ran to the city, so that less than 600 of more than 1,000 war horses and pack horses finally returned to the city, and the remaining 500 or more were either planted in the river or shot to death.

However, a dead horse is always better than a dead man, and the Jin army suffered a lot of casualties, and the Jin army that landed in the east, south, and north was disturbed, trampled, and killed by the Xianjun war horses, which made the battle-hardened Han He unexpected, and his face at this time can be imagined.

"The Xianjun is too deceitful!"

Han He couldn't bear it, and what he said was gritting his teeth. At this time, Wang Shuo had already obtained the casualties:

"General Han, a total of more than 3,000 people crossed the river this time, and more than 600 people were trampled, rammed, and drowned by the horses of the Xian army, and more than 500 people were injured. Now that our army has not yet crossed the river, it has lost more than 2,000 people, and if the Xian army still has a trap, our army should make preparations as soon as possible. ”

"......" Han He clenched his fists: "Pass on the general's order, cross the Fu River again!" ”

"No!"