Looking at the little sparks in the distance, Xu Yuan's horse was a little restless, perhaps due to the animal's instinctive fear of firelight, but Xu Yuan felt that it was more because the war horse knew his mind and was ready to cross the river and compete with the Qin army.

The weather in May is still a little cool, and the figure of the river seems to be dormant, ready to wait for the next time to be free and unbridled. The surface of the river is about 10 zhang wide and the water depth is about 1 zhang. According to the guide, if you want to cross the river, this is the best time, and in the next month, the river will rise sharply, and the river surface can reach about 20 zhang, and the water depth will be about 3 zhang. However, the mudflats here are so deep that even a horse can easily stumble in the mud.

Starting from Ningwu to the west, Xu Yuan and Li Zhuo led the 6,000 cavalry of Zhao State, all the way through the mountain road, over the valley bottom, at the beginning, you can still see the plain, and from the fourth day, they entered the depths of the mountain. In order to prevent getting lost, Xu Yuan also found a local guide and led them west. At this time, people rely on the mountains to eat the mountains, although the mountains are densely wooded, the mountain roads are winding, but there are also some beasts that can be hunted and sold for money, so the people here are still very interested in how to get to the big river. Finally, under the guidance of the guide, they finally walked out of the mountains on the twelfth day and arrived at both sides of the river. At this time, the upper county of the Qin State was already displayed in front of their eyes.

Zhao Yong once judged the princes of the Warring States period, thinking that Wei Wenhou of Wei State should be the first male lord of the Warring States. During the 50 years of his reign, Wei went from a state in the Three Jin Dynasty to a succession of Qi in the east, Qin in the west, and Zhongshan in the north, achieving supreme prestige. In particular, Wei was the first country in the Warring States to open the road of reform, with Li Kui governing his people and Wu Qi governing his army, both internal and external, in order to achieve hegemony, which is very similar to Zhao Yong's idea of changing the law, and it is because he admires Wei Wenhou so much.

In the thirty-eighth year of Wei Wenhou, Wei not only gained a firm foothold in the land west of the river, but also occupied the land of the Rong people entrenched here, and more importantly, suppressed the Qin state on the west bank of Luoshui, and built fortifications on the west bank, and built the Great Wall on the east bank. Wei Wenhou named this piece of land in Hexi Shangjun.

But what Xu Yuan and Li Zhuo cared about was not this history, but Zhao Yong later said to the two: "I hope you wait for the two of you to become the Wu Qi of my Zhao Kingdom!" It is really tempting, who is Wu Qi, Wu Qi's prestige resounded throughout the Central Plains, and even after his death, his prestige is still often mentioned, without him, the rise of Wei, its role cannot be mentioned, after leaving Wei to Chu, helping Chu to carry out Wu Qi's reform, is still an important reason for the strength of Chu. Zhao Yong gave the two of them such high hopes, naturally hoping that they could make a difference here.

And to become the Wu Qi of the Zhao State, the first step is to cross the big river and fight a blocked road in the border area of the Shangjun of the Qin State, so as to enter the Hetao area.

"Brother Xu," Li Zhuo appeared in front of Xu Yuan on horseback, and in order not to be discovered by the patrols of the Qin State, the people of the Zhao State did not light torches all the way. "It's been detected, and this patrol shows up around about once every two hours."

Xu Yuan looked at Li Zhuo's slightly immature face, and couldn't help but feel a feeling of jealousy. Because at Li Zhuo's age, he was also a young man in fresh clothes, but at that time, he had never achieved such a position as Li Zhuo, let alone participated in such a groundbreaking battle.

"In this way, there will only be about two hours before we have the opportunity to start crossing the river, and at the same time we will have to finish laying the bridge plank, crossing the river, and dealing with the attack of the Qin army." "Time is a bit of a short press," he said. ”

"According to the previous calculation, if our army wants to cross the river unnoticed, and when the other side patrols and discovers it, it will take at least three hours to counterattack, otherwise, the river crossing will fail."

Xu Yuan nodded, this point, Li Zhuo's analysis is correct. Before crossing the river, Xu Yuan and the others didn't know anything about the situation on the other side, but they only knew that it was the jurisdiction of the Shangjun of the Qin State, and it was also the seat of the Shangjun. And this section of the ferry that he wants to cross the river, in the upstream of the common ferry of the Qin State, a small bay place, according to the survey of the two, is already the closest place on both sides of the river, of course, this is due to the dry period, if this is the case on weekdays, I am afraid that the Qin people have already fortified on the opposite side. But one thing Xu Yuan is also very sure, soon after crossing the river, it arrived at the northern Great Wall of Qin, and the gap before the Great Wall is a river valley, because of the large difference in terrain, it is not to build the city wall, only two beacon towers, and here, it is also the only way for the Zhao army to go north.

From the perspective of strategic concept, talking on paper can provide a genius-level strategic preset for the march of the army, so that the army can advance and retreat with evidence; However, in actual combat, the issue of putting strategy into action needs to be cautious and cautious. At least in Xu Yuan's view, Niu Qian's plan to cross the river to the north is riskier than he had previously thought.

Li Zhuo looked at Xu Yuan's thinking appearance, and said cautiously: "Brother Xu, junior brother has a suggestion, why don't you and I refer to it in detail?" ”

Xu Yuan was thinking about it to a critical moment, and was interjected by Li Zhuo, a little annoyed by him, and he didn't look back, and said coldly: "Oh, I don't know if the plan will come out?" This sentence is a little sarcastic.

Li Zhuo didn't care, and said, "Divide the troops." ”

"Division?" Xu Yuan raised his eyebrows, chewed for a while, and turned to look at Li Zhuo, the young man also looked at him, "Let's talk about it in detail." ”

"Yes."

Li Zhuo stood on the bank of the big river and said slowly: "With my 6,000 men and horses, it is extremely dangerous to complete a one-time crossing of the river within two hours, and it is easy to be discovered by the Qin people. The fastest and most reliable way to do this is to cross the river in batches. ”

"There are also disadvantages of crossing the river in batches, that is, it is not easy to hide and expose the whereabouts of the Qin army on the opposite bank when it is not clear about the deployment and distribution of the Qin army. Once such a situation occurs, it will not only arouse the vigilance of the Qin people, but also cause a situation of futility in crossing the river. ”

"A certain suggestion, you and I will lead the troops to cross the river in batches. A certain general was the vanguard force, and a certain general appeared near the Qin army's station, pretending to be a Hu person; And Brother Xu led the follow-up river crossing troops, striving to break out of the Qin Pass first when the Qin people closed the river valley valley, and then go north after meeting us there. ”

Xu Yuan looked at Li Zhuo with a complicated expression, he knew that the implementation of this plan was far more dangerous than what Li Zhuo said. First, the purpose of dividing troops is to attract the attention of the Qin army, in fact, it is also to attract the firepower of the Qin army, as long as the Qin army finds that someone has illegally crossed the border, it will definitely be surrounded and intercepted, and this cross-border place will be completely annihilated; Second, in order to prevent the enemy from escaping, the key passes of the Great Wall of Qin will also be closed, and if you want to escape, you can only break through.

The Qin army is not from Zhongshan, nor is it from Yanguo, not to mention that in the territory of the Qin army, once discovered, it is almost a desperate situation.

He was indeed jealous of Li Zhuo, because he boasted that his war experience was no less than Li Yan's, and his talent and ability were similar to Li Zhuo's. But he has been living under Niu Qian's wings and has never been able to show his ability. Of course, he knew that Niu Jian loved him very much, but this was equivalent to a disguised strangulation for Xu Yuan, who was eager to make contributions.

And now, Zhao Yong has unprecedentedly handed over the heavy responsibility of this strange soldier to his shoulders, although he said that he could not do anything, and he could retreat to the river, but this was impossible for Xu Yuan, who had strong self-esteem.

However, this did not make Xu Yuan make up his mind to let Li Zhuo take this risk.

"It's a good plan, but it's too risky, so you should find another way."

"The king promised me to wait for a month, but most of it has passed, and if I neglect it for two more days, I am afraid that I will not be able to complete the king's order."

"You can't joke with your life, even if you have to do it, it should be a horse that takes the lead, not you."

Li Zhuo didn't say anything anymore, he didn't doubt Xu Yuan's intentions, but he was just worried that Xu Yuan's hesitation would delay the fighter. After two days, Xu Yuan still did not come up with any other way, so he had to order Li Zhuo to lead a thousand cavalry to cross the river first, and find a suitable place to camp on the other side of the river to protect the remaining troops from crossing the river. However, he strictly ordered Li Zhuo not to act without authorization, otherwise military law would be involved. Li Zhuo could only agree.

"The Book of Poetry, Daya, Daming" records: "Greet in Wei, build a boat for the beam", when King Wen of Zhou married his wife, he built a pontoon bridge in Weishui; When Qin Jinggong's younger brother Houzi Needle fled from Qin to Jin, he erected the first Yellow River pontoon bridge over the river. At that time, the car weighed thousands of times, and it was all the wealth of the rear needle.

Although it is now a period of peaceful water, in order to avoid being discovered by the Qin army, Xu Yuan and others adopted a conservative and simple method. Zhao Jun cut down the bridge deck in three days, and on the night of the fourth day, he first crossed the river by twenty or thirty water-based soldiers, fixed wooden stakes on the opposite side, pulled the thick hemp rope brought from Ningwu, and then let all the water-based soldiers go into the water, and tied the bridge deck and rope to fix, because it was a flat water period, the water surface flow speed was not large, and it was not afraid that the bridge would be blown too far from the axis, but in some places, soldiers were still required to lift near the bridge deck to prevent the bridge deck from deviating.

In order to prevent neighing after falling into the water, all the horses were put on the halters, the bridge plate was narrow, and all the horses were pulled across the bridge by one person, and they were not connected in series, mainly because they were worried that one horse would fall into the water and the other horses would overturn the bridge deck. In this way, an hour after the inspection of the Qin army, Li Zhuo's 1,000 cavalry could be regarded as crossing the bridge safely. At this moment, it is already three quarters of the unitary time.

After crossing the river, Li Zhuo immediately arranged for his scouts to reconnoiter within a radius of about ten miles, and found that the Qin patrol soldiers were killed on the spot and immediately reported back without delay. The remaining troops will do a good job of supporting the follow-up river crossing troops in order to speed up the river crossing.

However, both Xu Yuan and Li Zhuo knew very well that before the next patrol of the Qin army appeared, these people would definitely not be able to cross the river completely.

Yesterday I drank too much and didn't update it, so I'm sorry I'm sorry guys.

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