Longquan Mountain is very steep on three sides, if it is a powerful warrior, of course, there is no problem to go up and down, but it is basically impossible to go up and down if it is a large army. This mountain is normally a treasure place for defense, but if it is set up, it can also become a Jedi.

This mountain is easy to defend and difficult to attack, which also means that it is inconvenient for the Eastern Qi army to enter and exit. Once trapped here, it will be difficult to fly, and the whole army will be wiped out again.

After the arrival of the Southern Chu army, Ye Xiangfo took action, and the three-way army fanned the city to become Longquan Mountain to surround it, and dug the soil trench trap and began to arrange defenses to avoid being charged from above by the Eastern Qi cavalry.

This is a normal fortification, and Dongqi didn't care if it was detected. Southern Chu wants to spend with them, Baili Yuan has no way to prepare to die, and the Eastern Qi army is stronger, as long as the morale of the army is stable, Baili Yuan will prepare a counterattack and defeat the Southern Chu army.

This time it is almost a decisive battle between the two armies, once Southern Chu is defeated, it will be a battle of annihilation for Southern Chu, on the contrary, if Eastern Qi is defeated, they can still retreat back and hold on, so it will not be defeated, so it is a good deal for Eastern Qi.

In the first two or three days, both sides built fortifications, and the Eastern Qi side built them very beautifully. Occupying the advantage of geographical advantages, Lao Jin inspected and concluded that if this fortification was built for two more days, even if Southern Chu used the lives of 500,000 troops to fill it, he would not want to attack Longquan Mountain.

The two living springs on the mountain became the most important place, and if there was no water for so many armies, there would be a big problem. Therefore, both of these living springs were garrisoned by large armies, and there were several great grandmasters in charge. Avoid the great masters of Nanchu from raiding, destroying the living spring or poisoning or the like.

The trees on the mountain were cut down quite a bit, and a dozen separation zones and a few large clearings were cut out. This is to avoid Ye Xiangfo attacking with fire. After cutting out the separation zone, even if some trees catch fire, it will not cause all the mountain fires, that is, all the fires will be on fire, and the army will have a place to hide.

Bai Liyuan, as a famous general of Southern Chu and Dongqi, will naturally take these things into account, and it is impossible for Ye Xiangfo to exploit loopholes. The only flaw was that the army did not carry much grain and grass, which was only enough for a month. However, Baili Yuan didn't panic at all, he was confident that he could defeat the Southern Chu army in a month, as long as he defeated the Southern Chu army, there would be no shortage of food and grass.

Nanchu has also been building in the past two days, and they have dug a lot of earthen walls, most of which are more than one meter high, and they look like low city walls. Because the earthen wall is very wide, the ground in front of it has been dug out of a low depression.

Especially in front of the main road up the mountain, a big pit was dug out, and there were many dense trenches, and the Eastern Qi cavalry wanted to rush down from the mountain, but there must be no way to charge, and the war horses could not rush through this depression at all.

After Bailiyuan received the news, he was not careless. If the cavalry can't charge, then the infantry will go first, and it really can't use the corpse of the sergeant to fill in the depression and ditch, and want to rely on a depression to block the Eastern Qi troops, isn't it a joke?

In the next two days, the two sides of Eastern Qi and Southern Chu continued to arrange fortifications, and the Eastern Qi side found that something was wrong......

Because the depression in front of the main road up the mountain has been dug deeper and deeper, bigger and bigger, and the area has reached a radius of several miles, and the inside is full of potholes, and in many places it is two meters deep. Nanchu is still digging over there, are they going to dig an artificial lake here?

"Something is wrong......"

After Bai Li Yuan got the news, his acuity as a top celebrity made him feel that something was wrong, Ye Xiangfo was not an idiot and would not do useless things.

He pondered for a while, and then sighed: "Old Jin, you arrange for a few top scouts to go to the vicinity to investigate, focusing on whether there is a big river nearby! In addition, arrange a few grandmasters to take a flying beast to go around and make sure there is a big river nearby!"

Lao Jin hurriedly went to arrange it, and after a few hours, Lao Jin came back, and he said with a silent face: "More than a dozen scouts were sent out, and all of them were killed." The grandmaster went out twice, and the grandmaster from the Nanchu side just vacated came, and there were few grandmasters sent out from our side, so they didn't dare to fight in mid-air, so they were forced to retreat. However, I have arranged for two Grandmasters to sneak out secretly, and they should be back in an hour. ”

"Hmm!"

Baili Yuan's face fell silent, and he waited quietly without speaking, the light in his eyes flickered, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

After more than half an hour, a grandmaster came back and brought the news that there was a big river more than twenty miles to the south, and there was an army stationed near the embankment of the big river, and it seemed that they were secretly digging a river?

"Sure enough......"

Baili Yuan's face became even more ugly, and he said in a condensed voice: "Ye Xiangfo's move is ruthless, he wants to trap us to death in Longquan Mountain." ”

"He's going to use water?"

Lao Jin's face also sank, and he groaned for a while and said: "He just dug a small pool at the bottom of the mountain, which can't trap our army, at most we have some trouble attacking." A waterhole can be easily filled up with some manpower. ”

There are more than a million troops on the mountain, and one person can easily fill in the depression with one stone, right?

Baili Yuan shook his head and said, "Ye Xiangfo is an old fox, I have studied his previous battles with the Western Jin Dynasty. Either he doesn't make a move, or if he makes a shot, it's a chain game, he can't just be this arrangement, but I can't figure out where the rest of his arrangement is?"

"Newspaper—"

At this moment, a scout commander outside rushed over, and after entering the camp, he knelt down on one knee and said: "Great marshal, General Yujin, the enemy army has diverted water from the bottom of the mountain, and the depression under the mountain has been watered, and now the bottom of the mountain has become a land of water. ”

"Check it out!"

Baili Yuan couldn't sit still, and walked outside with Lao Jin and his guards. They stood halfway up the mountain, and found that the bottom of the mountain had really become a land of water, and now the land covered by the river has been several miles, and it is estimated that it will continue to spread, and finally reach a radius of five or six miles, and the road down the mountain has been completely blocked by the waterhole, and it is very difficult for the army to attack the army of Southern Chu, unless the waterhole is filled.

Bai Liyuan did not immediately give the order to take action, but continued to watch from a small mountain. At the same time, he mobilized countless scouts to investigate the situation on the mountain, risking the danger to investigate the situation nearby.

It's just a small waterhole that can't trap the more than one million troops of Dongqi, Baili Yuan wants to find Ye Xiangfo's back hand, as long as he finds the back hand and cracks it early, he can sleep peacefully, otherwise he won't even be able to sleep tonight.

The water continued to irrigate, and by the time it was dark, the mountain had turned into an ocean. Baili Yuan was still standing on top of this small mountain, and he looked at the dense torches and fires in the Nanchu camp in the distance, and his mood was extremely heavy.

The scouts kept reporting the news, and nothing unusual was found on the mountain. Many scouts risked being killed, paid a great price, and brought back some information, and there were many trebuchets arranged on the side of the Nanchu camp, and there were hundreds of them near the entrance and exit of Shangshan Avenue.

"Trebuchet?"

This news made Baili Yuan's heart a little more solemn, the trebuchet is definitely not used to attack the mountain, Longquan Mountain is so high, the catapult has no meaning. He spent so much manpower transporting hundreds of catapults, and the only purpose was to prevent the Eastern Qi army from approaching!

What are you doing to stop the Eastern Qi army from approaching? Naturally, it is to stop them from filling in the waterhole!

Ye Xiangfo wanted to trap more than one million troops of the Eastern Qi Dynasty in Longquan Mountain, let them starve to death? Their food was only one month, and after more than a month, these more than one million troops would turn into rabbits, and they would come up with butcher knives to slaughter them easily.

"Go back!"

Baili Yuan went back with a group of people with an expressionless face, and he didn't sleep that night, and sat in the handsome camp all night. After daybreak he issued a lot of military orders, and the army began to get busy.

This night, the Eastern Qi army was also very unstable, the road below was blocked, and they were trapped. This made the Eastern Qi army very restless and restless. Bailiyuan did not issue a notice to appease, and it was useless to appease, so he could only rely on practical actions to boost the morale of the army.

In the afternoon, the Eastern Qi army was dispatched. However, Bailiyuan did not dispatch much, but only dispatched more than 10,000 troops, and at the same time mobilized tens of thousands of archers to stand by on several small peaks near the upper mountain pass, and set up a crossbow to aim at the waterhole below.

More than 10,000 troops with huge shields pressed down the mountain step by step, and they lined up by the waterhole to build a wall of human shields. The army behind them took the stones collected from the mountains and threw them into the waterhole, and their task was not to fill the waterhole, but to fill in a path.

"Doodoo~"

Suddenly there was a dull sound on the other side of the pool, and the trebuchet on the opposite side was activated, but instead of boulders, bags of powder and cowhide bags were thrown.

The trebuchet was so precise that it smashed on the edge of the waterhole, and the cloth bags and the leather bags were broken, and the powder in the cloth bags and the liquid in the leather bags were spilled all over the ground, and many of the sergeants had their heads all over them.

"It's mineral powder and oil, it's not good, run away!"

Some of the sergeants woke up in shock, dropped their shields and stones and ran up the hill, and some of the sergeants were smarter and jumped directly into the water.

"Woohoo!"

Rockets were fired one after another from the Nanchu camp, and a raging fire broke out on the edge of the waterhole, and the road up the mountain was so narrow, how could tens of thousands of troops flee at once? Soon many sergeants were on fire, rolling on the ground, howling, and the scene was extremely tragic.

"Dive into the water!"

Many sergeants reacted that the road up the mountain was too narrow, and it was impossible for so many sergeants to rush up, and the only way to survive was to dive.

Many of the sergeants immediately jumped into the waterhole, but at this moment the arrows from behind the earthen wall were thrown from the sky, all covering the entire area, and soon the waterhole was dyed red......