Fifteen Mid-Autumn Moon Bright Night.

In Chang'an New Town, the doors of some large households are lit with wind lanterns, and when viewed from a high place, they are like clusters of flames of hope, which are burning indomitably and tenaciously under the strong wind.

Inside the Shenhou Mansion.

Several black locust trees are growing luxuriantly, and patches of locust flowers are falling from the branches, bringing a burst of fragrance.

Li Yuan asked the servants to set up a square table in the courtyard, and then made four wooden stools, and paid the three confidants of Ying Yushu, Gu Yunniang, and Xin Chai to the moon.

This is the first full moon night that Li Yuan has had in four years.

Compared with the previous three years of the Rongma campaign, this time, Li Yuan has a group of like-minded comrades-in-arms and confidants who know each other well.

"How? What do you think? Is there a way to overlook the whole city, all in the sense of mastering. Xin Chai leaned on Li Yuan's side, holding Li Yuan's rough hand tightly, with a proud look on his delicate face, this is a new city, a city designed and supervised by her Xin Chai.

Pride is written on the little lady's face.

With satisfaction, with longing, being able to show your strengths to your loved ones is an irreplaceable happiness in itself.

Under the moonlight, compared with the lively Xin Chai, Ying Yushu had a tolerant smile on his face, and just looked at the man in front of him carefully with dignified eyes, as if he wanted to melt him in his heart at this moment. Gu Yunniang, on the other hand, lowered her head and focused on the plate in front of Li Yuan, which contained the dishes she had cooked herself.

Women are like water.

Men are like fire.

When water and fire merge, it is the night of the moon and stars.

Dead.

This night, Li Yuan's mood was extremely relaxed, not thinking about the beacon smoke in the north, not thinking about the future of the Qin State, and not thinking about the stability of the counties under his rule.

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Li Yuan's Mid-Autumn Festival night is very comfortable and romantic, in contrast. Sima Mao, who was determined to do something earth-shattering, was very sad this night.

Thousands of miles of Luliang Mountain.

The undulating layers of mountains and the mountain roads that are constantly collapsing and changing will cover the road leading to the west of the river for a while, and wash away for a while.

The Hedong army risked being hit by a mountain rock at any time, and Sima Mao, who was talking on paper, looked embarrassed, and the war horse kept going up and down on the rugged mountain road, making him almost vomit.

"What have the pioneers done, this road is not open at all, if it continues like this, when will it be able to reach Hexi?" I finally found a col to stop. Sima Mao yelled at a captain who was leading the way.

"Great King, the road around this Gu Shefeng is the only way to Hukou, the nearest ferry in Hexi, if we want to bypass this section, we must detour from the big bend of the big river in Yunzhong County, in that case, it is very likely that we will encounter the border army of the Qin State." Captain Lou, who was scolded for no reason, defended aggrievedly.

"So, how long is the mountain road ahead, and how many days will it take to reach the ferry?" Hearing what his subordinates said, Sima Mao asked with a slightly pale face.

"It will take at least five more days. This mountain stretches for hundreds of miles. It's really hard to get out on just two legs. Faced with Sima Mao's questioning, the captain of the Hedong Military Academy was very helpless.

From the east of the river to the west of the river.

There are two main traditional routes, one is to take the southern part of the river. The second is Yunzhong County on the northern route, and now, Sima Mao has to find a place to cross from the middle unexpectedly, how easy is it to say?

King Yin was angry. As long as we hold on any longer, Zuihou's victory will definitely belong to us. Think about it when the Qin people found out that a large army appeared in front of them. How frightened will it be? Zhang Er's expression tightened and comforted. For Sima Mao's violent temper, Zhang Er looked down on it from the bottom of his heart, from the great joy at the beginning, to the current hesitation, Sima Mao's ability is like this.

"Sir, this is very true. Come, prepare the tent wine, and the king wants to have a drink with his husband. After Sima Mao was complimented by Zhang Er for a while, he commanded in a big mood.

The Hedong Army camped at Gu Shooting Peak. The exhausted soldiers simply set up their tents, collected dry firewood, lit the stoves, boiled cold water, and nibbled on dry food.

Straight cooking smoke rises from the mountains and forests.

From less to more, from near to far, the scouts of the Hedong Army are composed of Lou Fubing soldiers who are familiar with the terrain, and after being scolded by Sima Mao, these are just the resentment in the hearts of the hired Lou Furen people began to accumulate, and with it, the sense of responsibility for the scout's own work has also been greatly reduced.

Lou's annoying relaxation allowed the Qin army scouts who went out to investigate the enemy's situation to find an opportunity, and from the analysis of the number of cooking smoke, the Qin scouts basically figured out the number of troops of the Hedong army.

Hukou South.

Thousands of miles of river, all the way from the north to here, forming a river waterfall with a huge difference between the top and bottom, a huge amount of water was pushed and fell in an instant, splashing countless water mist.

In the south area of Hukou, the river channel has changed from wide to narrow, and the water potential has gradually flattened because of the disappearance of the drop, and the Lou Furen built a simple ferry port here, and Menghu, who learned about the marching movement of the Hedong army from the intelligence of the scouts, decided to start a battle with the Hedong army here.

Yes.

The Qin army waited for work, Menghu gathered 4,000 cavalry and lurked in the plain valley area on the west side of the river, and in the direction of the ferry, 200 county soldiers were the lookout to make the illusion of guarding the west bank of the ferry to paralyze Sima Mao. Once the Hedong army began to cross the river, the Qin cavalry quickly came out from behind the mountains, taking advantage of the huge advantage of the cavalry to drive half of the Hedong army into the river in one fell swoop.

Whether Menghu's strategy can be realized, the key lies in whether Sima Mao will be fooled, Hedong soldiers are numerous, if the small force repeatedly attacks the Hexi crossing, Menghu's cavalry physical strength will be consumed again and again, in this way, the advantage of the Hedong army will become more and more obvious.

August 21, noon.

After five days of difficult marching, the Hedong army finally walked out of Luliang Mountain, came to the bank of the long-awaited river, the spectacular and steep natural landscape of Hukou made the Hedong soldiers who had only seen the trickling stream look nervous and uneasy.

"This is the ferry?" Sima Mao's face was pale as he approached the riverbank, and a big wave hit him, drenching his armor to a soak.

"Your Majesty, this ferry port is the most suitable place within a radius of 200 miles, and our building is here where people come and go." Captain Lou replied with a disdainful face.

Nomads, advocating brave warriors, rather than cowards who shrink when they see danger, Sima Mao's cowardice made Captain Lou feel humiliated for a while.

In desperation, the Hedong army began to cut down trees, bundled into wooden valves, and prepared to cross the river, the Qin army guards on the opposite side saw this scene, and while urgently lighting the beacon smoke to warn, they began to fire rockets towards the east of the river, but their arrows were scarce and could hardly pose any threat to the Hedong army.

"Hurry, hurry. An hour later, the whole army rushed to cross the river. In a tense atmosphere, the generals and colonels at all levels of the Hedong Army shouted loudly and reprimanded the soldiers under their command without any scruples.

From Gaonu to Hukou, there is no fast gallop that can be straightened through, if the Qin cavalry moves quickly, it will take two hours or so, and Sima Mao is very confident that he will successfully cross the river.

Soon.

A simple wooden valve is completed under the poke force of the Hedong soldiers, this one-time wooden valve is not strong, and it is likely to be knocked over in the face of the torrent waves, but at this time, the Hedong military generals have no care to further strengthen the wooden valve.

Crossing.

Encouraged by such slogans, the soldiers of the Hedong Army turned from pure and virtuous young men into bloodthirsty war machines.

High slopes on the riverbank.

Under the strong sunlight, if the backlit Hedong soldiers do not look up carefully, it is difficult to find that in a corner of the mountains, there is a man and a horse watching every move of the Hedong army coldly.

One after another, the wooden valves were launched, and then swirled in the rapids, slowly drifting to the opposite shore.

On top of each wooden valve, there is a building annoying person who is familiar with the water situation and is in control of the direction of the wooden valve, so as not to overturn the tragedy, and that's it, there are still one or two unlucky wooden valves in the collision, which were swept by the vortex to the reef at the bottom of the river.

The valve overturned, and several soldiers who had fallen into the water screamed and fluttered a few times before they were silent.

"Get ashore!" The soldiers, who were finally lucky enough to escape the catastrophe, looked at their unfortunate companions in a daze, and began to move closer to the west bank under the urgent call of the captain and the general.

At this time, what they heard was the sound of the water of the river beating on the riverbank, and what they could see in front of them was a riverbank, but they ignored the sound of horses' hooves from behind the mountains.

The Hedong army had more than 7,000 people, accounting for a quarter of the total, and Meng Hu decided to do it. If he continued to hesitate, it would be difficult for the Hedong Army to break through the improvised position established on the beachhead.

Seven thousand foot soldiers, for the four thousand Qin cavalry, there is not much difficulty to solve, the cavalry back and forth repeated rush can offset the numerical advantage of the Hedong army to the greatest extent, at the same time, those soldiers on the wooden valve who are still circling in the river are panicked, and the probability of manipulation errors will be greatly increased.

"Kill!"

"Great Qin, Great Qin!"

The screams of the Qin cavalry who came out of the col approached almost instantly, and the soldiers of the Qin border army, who had witnessed the rampant movements of the Hedong army, urged their horses to stiffen and wave their swords, and began to harvest the heads one by one on the dense river bank.

"Qin people! The cavalry of the Qin people. The unprepared Hedong soldiers wailed and fled in all directions, and occasionally a few fierce Lou Fu warriors jumped up violently and knocked the Qin army cavalry on the horse to the ground. But then, with a smug look on their faces, they were pierced in the chest by a spear from the cavalry who followed behind. (To be continued......)

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