As soon as the sky was dark, half a moon hung in the sky, and the scenery on the ground was faintly visible, but there were only more than 100 steps as far as the eye could see, and it was hazy in the distance. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

At the head of the city of Liyang, Gong Du counted the stoves of Feng Yaojun's army outside the city, there were only more than 400 stoves, according to each tithe, all of Feng Yao's troops were in the camp, Gong had a trace of wanting to rob the camp, but after asking his daughter Gong Yinglian, Gong Yinglian immediately persuaded: "Father, Feng Yao is a scheming person, and his thoughts are completely different from ordinary people, you must not fall for him, our army is still safe to stick to the city!" ”

Gong Du agreed with his daughter's opinion, put away his thoughts of wanting to rob the camp, and ordered the soldiers guarding the city to carefully defend every inch of the wall, so as not to let the enemy soldiers sneak up at night.

Feng Yao and more than 100 other cavalry went into battle lightly after dinner, except for each person with a shovel, they only brought their own weapons, not even armor, and the horses were quietly wrapped in leather to prevent excessive noise during the run, and each person only brought a day's dry food and a bag of clean water, and quietly left the camp and rode towards the upper reaches of the Lihe River in the west.

Xu Chu was at the front, Yang Wu was at the end, Feng Yao was faintly guarded by the Shishi cavalry in the middle, and at the front of the team, there was also a scout commander Liu Shun who also rode a horse to lead the way.

The momentum of ten horses running is enough to make people fearful, and the momentum of more than a hundred war horses can be imagined! These more than 110 cavalry are the most elite troops under Feng Yao, whether it is martial arts, loyalty, or even equestrianism and archery, these more than 100 people are well-deserved leaders, nearly half of them were selected from Lu Fan's original 100 knights, some were selected from Xu Chu's seventy-two knights, and only a very small part was selected from Feng Yao's tens of thousands of soldiers.

These more than 100 elite cavalry were all Feng Yao's personal entourage, and they were directly under Feng Yao's orders, even if they were the commander Yang Wu, they only had temporary command.

In the night, Liu Shun, who led the way, tried his best to choose a deserted path, and sometimes had to pass through some sparse pine forests, so the entire cavalry team was three horses in parallel most of the time, and the cavalry team was like a big dragon, which appeared and disappeared from time to time under the cover of night.

It was not far from the camp to the destination, although it was a circle walk, but it was only more than ten miles away.

In front of Feng Yao's eyes was a small river only two or three zhang wide, and the bottom of the river did not look deep, less than one zhang by eye.

"Liu Shun, are you sure this is the Kui River?" Feng Yao asked.

"Yes, this is indeed the Lihe River, I personally walked here from Liyang City along the river bank during the day, only this section of the river is the narrowest, the terrain is also the highest, and there is no one living within two or three miles around, according to your instructions, this section should be the most suitable area for excavation." Liu Shun replied.

Feng Yao rode a horse and walked along the riverbed for dozens of steps, and carefully looked at the distant terrain trend, shook his head and said: "You can't excavate here, although the terrain is higher in this section, but the low potential of the north side of the river is too low, once excavated, the river water will quickly flood the north side, and then it will follow the terrain again, or it is very likely to flow under the city of Liyang, so the excavation is just to change the river from the original flow through the south of the city of Liyang to the north of the city of Liyang, it is not of much use." ”

"We had to find a new place to excavate!" Feng Yaodao.

Liu Shun bowed down ashamedly and said: "Lord, Liu Shun is not effective, please punish the lord!" ”

"Liu Shun, don't blame you, digging the river itself is more complicated, and it is easy to cause flooding!" Feng Yao stroked.

"Thank you for your grace!" Although it was under the moonlight, Feng Yao could still see the grateful expression on Liu Shun's face.

After observing for a while, Feng Yao decided to take a few steps back along the river, and he was impressed that there was a small ditch on the road that seemed to lead to the vicinity of the Kui River, so he said: "Xu Chu, you lead ten people to follow me, Liu Shun, you also come along, the others stop here first, don't move, wait for me to go to the front to take a look, if there is a suitable place, I will ask Liu Shun to come back to pick you up!" ”

Yang Wu and the others were ordered to wait on the spot, and Feng Yao led Xu Chu, Liu Shun and the ten horsemen to ride their horses along the river bank.

After walking less than half a mile, Feng Yao found that the very small ditch was like a black ribbon winding in the field, the ditch was not connected to the Kui River for some reason, and the water level in it was very low, only a foot deep.

"Dig right here!" Feng Yao excitedly pointed to the ground in front of his feet.

With this ditch, not only can the problem of river flooding after digging the embankment be solved, but the excavation process can also save at least half of the time! About 10 zhang to the east of the ditch, there is a small forest with dozens of trees that can be used for horses, and trunks and branches are also needed to cut off the river.

"Liu Shun, you go and inform everyone to come here immediately!" Feng Yao ordered.

"Yes, my lord!" Liu obeyed the sound and left.

After a while, all the relatives under Feng Yao arrived, Liu Shun led ten relatives to be distributed around the guard, and the rest of the relatives dismounted one after another, and after giving the horses water, they tied the horses to dozens of trees, which were specially guarded by a few people, and the rest of the people took off the shovels used for digging and gathered around Feng Yao.

"Lord, what are we going to do?" Yang Wu asked.

"Well, divide into two batches, and come over with ten people to cut down the trees! The rest of the people first dig a little bigger along the vicinity of the ditch, and when everything is ready, they will dig the embankment together! Feng Yao said.

Everyone had no objections, so Feng Yao pulled Xu Chu over and said, "Zhongkang, you are powerful, it is just right to cut down trees, and choose a few more people with knives to come with me!" ”

After Xu Chu was ordered to choose a good person, Feng Yao found a small tree with a thin spot and said, "Just cut down this tree, it should be able to stop the river across the waist!" Cut down the tree and put it in the river, and then fill the tree with dirt, and the dirt will not be washed away by the current! ”

After understanding how to do it, the following things are simple, everyone quickly divides their labor, cutting trees and digging trees, digging and digging, they are very busy, Feng Yao stands aside and directs at any time, the rest is to wait for time slowly, Feng Yao estimated, it is expected that one night and half a morning can be completed.

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In the middle of the night, except for the Yellow Turban soldiers who patrolled the city all night, most of the people had already fallen asleep.

For the common people, whether the Yellow Turban Army occupies the city, or the officers and soldiers occupy the city, it is just a change of county monarch who is an official and collects taxes, the poor will still be poor, the rich will still be rich, as long as they don't want their lives, there is nothing to be afraid of!

The river does not pass through the city directly, but flows under the city of Liyang, and after connecting with the moat, it flows downstream along the south of the city.

The guard general Gong Du sat in the gate tower of the East City Gate all night, staring at Feng Yao's camp outside the city in the distance through the panes, this battle was actually not as optimistic as he said to his daughter, Langling Li Tong's city government is very deep, whether he will send troops to attack Feng Yao, there are only five or five, and it is not the best way for Li Tong to send troops or not! If Li Tong does not send troops, it will only be a matter of time before Liyang City is breached!