In the early morning of the next day, heavy fog broke out on both sides of the river.

Li Dian continued to go south with his troops, and by the time he arrived, the fog had not yet dissipated.

When he was lamenting the bad weather, the scout horse who opened the road ahead brought back a person, who was also a scout stationed at General Ridge.

The scout sent a new piece of information, that is, yesterday evening, there were 30 large ships that stopped at the artificial canal at the southern foot of Jiangjun Ling to unload their goods, and it seemed that they were grain ships from Jiangdong, and the grain army was only a few hundred people.

Li Dian hurriedly took out the map to check, and it was a straight line from the southern foot of the General Lingling to Lu'an.

There are only 100 miles between the two places, but the grain convoy moves slowly, and it takes three or four days at the earliest.

Li Dian keenly spotted the fighter plane, and he thought that if he rushed to the south, he would have time to intercept this batch of grain.

There are only a few hundred people to protect the food, so don't you hold the handle?

Tai Shi Ci besieged Lu'an at this time, and the Jiangdong people chose to transfer by land, which was better than detouring by water from Huashui and Shaobi, which not only saved the time of transporting grain, but also would not be detected by the defenders of Shouchun, which was completely in line with the way of using troops.

In the cold early morning, Li Dian encountered a favorable fighter.

Thinking of the opportunity to cut off Tai Shi Ci's military rations and resolve the danger of Lu'an in advance, the cold body in the early morning was ignited with excitement.

Li Dian then urged his troops to march quickly, intending to find a suitable position to cross the river first.

The more upstream the water becomes, the more rapid the water becomes, and the upstream is in the Jiangjunling Ridge extension, and the closer to the upstream, the terrain gradually rises.

Climbing up the hill will consume more physical strength, and Li Dian will not do thankless work.

Coincidentally, the journey was less than five miles.

Li Dian found a river crossing point.

The wide channel of the river divides the water from the upstream, and in addition to the dry season, the water level has dropped a lot, exposing part of the riverbed.

Standing on the shore and being able to see the underwater stones, Li Dian sent someone to take a wooden stick into the water to measure, and found that the edge position was only about five feet, and he guessed that the deepest part was only seven or eight feet, and at most it would not be more than one zhang high.

Li Dian's tribe is from Yanzhou, with an average height of more than seven feet, much taller than the southerners.

Even without the help of tools, they can cross the river on tiptoe, and where the water is deep, they can cross it with a few splashes.

In winter, there are few natural resources, and Li Dian thought of the speed of the soldiers, so he couldn't wait to cut down trees to make rafts.

Li Dian chose a team of people to explore the way, and everyone reached the other side smoothly.

Crossing the river saves time and effort, and the only drawback is that it is cold.

The soldiers had to soak in ice water for a long time, and if they didn't do it, they would catch a typhoid emergency, but Li Dian didn't worry about this at all, he planned to find a place to make a fire to ward off the cold when he crossed the river.

As long as you act quickly, most people can control cold sickness, except for a few who are infirm.

Even if there is a little risk, compared with sending someone to cut wood and make a raft, you have to save time and energy, and if you don't do it well, you have to make a fire to drive away the cold.

Li Dian briefly tangled his heart and personally took the lead in crossing the river.

As a result, the 6,000 parts went down the river like a duck.

The soldiers were lightly armed and walked easily, and the two thousand miscellaneous soldiers needed to carry grain carts across the river.

Fortunately, there is buoyancy in the water, but the longer you soak in the water, the more damage will be to the body.

As the saying goes, a general can be a general, and the general who can leave a name in the Three Kingdoms era, which one really loves soldiers like sons?

Especially the miscellaneous servants like this kind of grain transporter, in the eyes of the main general, are not even as good as cattle and horses, and they are not treated as human beings at all, let alone care about their life or death.

When Li Dian led the army to wade, he ambushed Xu Chu on the other side of the river and looked at it with a clairvoyant mirror for a while.

He was waiting for Lu Su's order, but Lu Su just raised his mirror to observe, and had no intention of attacking at all.

Xu Chu couldn't help but ask: "Mr. Zijing, when will you attack?" ”

"No hurry, no hurry, wait a little longer."

Seeing Lu Su waving his hand perfunctory, Xu Chu continued to ask: "I heard that there is a military art of half-crossing and attacking, and now that Cao Bing has waded more than half of the water, if I order to release arrows or throw stones, they will be live targets in the water." ”

"Hehe, Zhong Kang still understands the art of war?"

Lu Su put down the clairvoyant mirror, turned to look at Xu Chu and smiled, and then said: "It is true that a half-crossing attack can indeed win a big victory, but this move will inevitably scare away some of the Cao soldiers, if they are allowed to flee back to the other side, how can we take Shouchun skillfully?" ”

"Oh"

Xu Chu bowed his head slightly and asked, "Then when can you attack?" ”

Lu Su stroked his beard, looked at Cao Bing who crossed the river in the mist, and said meaningfully: "Let them soak in the water more, the river water at this time is cold to the bone, and when you go ashore, you will definitely strip off your armor and bake, and then you will lead troops to attack it, and you are afraid that you will not be able to win a complete victory?" ”

Putting aside the bravery of the soldiers, it is crushed with and without armor, not to mention that the other party is soaked in ice water.

While Xu Chu was pondering, Lu Su reminded him again: "Today's fog is not dissipating, although it is beneficial for us to hide our form, and we can also help the enemy escape when the war starts, so once we attack, we have to bite the opponent, we can let them run south, and we must not let them escape back to Shouchun, especially those generals who are riding horses, there are mounts under them to carry them across the river, so the body has not been affected much." ”

Xu Chu glanced at the river in the distance, followed by a fist and said sonorously: "Sir, don't worry, I will arrange for people to watch one by one, and I will not let a cavalryman escape." ”

"Very good." Lu Su bowed slightly.

Li Dian led his troops across the river until it took more than an hour, when the last grain cart was carried ashore, and all 6,000 people crossed the river.

After soaking in ice water for a long time, many soldiers began to swing when they came ashore, and it was still cold when they wrapped themselves in spare clothes.

After Li Dian inspected, he found that the problem was not big, at least everyone had crossed the river and no one was left behind.

As long as the soldiers return from collecting firewood, the soldiers can make a fire on the spot to roast away the cold, and the fog around them should also dissipate, and the warm winter sun should be able to restore as before.

Li Dianzheng wondered if the firewood pickers had not returned for a long time, and suddenly the two sides of the northwest were killing at the same time, and the Tiger Guards were divided into two ways and shouted to kill the river.

Seventy or eighty miles away from Liu'an, how could there be an ambush? Is it Tai Shi Ci or .

Li Dian's eyes were like copper bells, and a terrible thought flashed in his mind, could it be that there was something wrong with the scout just now?

He swallowed, it was too late to think deeply, because the enemy was getting closer and closer, and he had to solve the immediate problem first.

I don't know if the people around me are cold, or if they are timid in the face of the enemy, many people are shivering.

"Don't panic, the miscellaneous soldiers will push the grain cart to the front, the rest of the men will quickly put on their armor and form a formation, and the archers will assemble behind the grain cart."

At the critical moment, Li Dian still calmly gave the order.

It's just that this military order is very cruel, which is equivalent to letting 2,000 miscellaneous soldiers be used as cannon fodder to buy time for the rest of the combat troops.

However, the Tiger Guards were heavily armed and moved quickly, with bows and arrows and stones raining down on their heads.

Before Li Dian's people had completed the formation, Xu Chu and Hao Meng had already rushed to them from the east and west.

Swords then intersected, and the two sides fought hand-to-hand.

As soon as they clashed, Li Dian realized that something was wrong.

The enemy in front of him is too strong in combat, and his own troops are falling too quickly.

In the end, a terrifying conclusion was drawn: they were not Jiangdong's soldiers!

(End of chapter)