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Chapter 322 Preset Battlefield
Is it true that logs are thrown into the river to cause blockage, and then the buoyancy of the logs is used to build pontoons with nailed planks?You can say yes, you can also say no, things are not that simple.

In an uncomplicated direction, building a pontoon bridge really requires buoyancy from wood, which can also be carried by boats or boats.The problem was that Yao Yizhong didn't have enough boats or boats to block the river, and he put so much effort into it because of one purpose, which was to prevent the Han army's ships from affecting the army's crossing of the river.

Just imagine, there are floating logs everywhere on the river, and even some flammable materials such as hay are placed on top of the logs. What is that for?There is nothing wrong with it, it is for the convenience of blocking and setting fire.

The erection of any pontoon bridge will not be simple, and the casualties during the project cannot be avoided, especially for those who are not good at water, but the necessary engineering casualties for a military goal are nothing.It should be said that blocking the river with floating objects and erecting a sufficiently exaggerated pontoon bridge with nailed planks will cost far more casualties than using boats as footholds to build a pontoon bridge to reduce the casualties of Yao Yizhong's men.

"Still no ships of the Han army have been found?"

"Yes, Commander."

"The Han army didn't stop us from crossing the river?"

"At present, no similar situation has been found."

Yao Yizhong really confirmed one point, the Han army was really waiting for the Qiang army to cross the river, and it was too obvious.

The Qiang army set up as many as 23 river-crossing points, which were divided into several river sections and erected pontoon bridges. When they erected the pontoon bridges in the middle of the river, according to previous information, the Han army had a strong crossbow with enough range to block them. The Han army didn't do that. The Han army just watched the Qiang army doing their homework and didn't react at all.

Of course there are Han troops on the south bank of the Yellow River, but what are those Han troops doing?They were watching from the bank of the river, and found no defense line other than that.This phenomenon was completely abnormal, so weird that Yao Yizhong felt uneasy in his heart, always feeling that the Han army had dug a huge pit and waited for them to jump into it by themselves.

If the Han army blocked the Qiang army and caused casualties to the Qiang army in action, even heavy casualties would not surprise Yao Yizhong, and he even felt that this was a matter of course.

On the contrary, it was the fact that the Han army did nothing that made Yao Yizhong extremely uneasy. This was due to worry and fear of the unknown situation.

"Is there any sign of wanton mobilization of the Han army?"

"Temporarily... not found."

Yao Yizhong frowned like twisted vines, he wanted to stop crossing the river, but he couldn't make up his mind.

Didn’t part of the previous Qiang army disappear?The Qiang army of about [-] actually detoured to the direction of Sizhou, and crossed the bridge there to the south bank of the Yellow River. After they met with Sun Fudu's troops, the two armies approached the Han army in Dongping County.

The intelligence obtained by Yao Yizhong showed that there were nearly [-] Han troops in Dongping County. The leader was a clan leader who defected to the Han tribe from the south of the Yangtze River. He was the original leader of the Huan clan named Huan Wen.

According to the military system of the Han army, Huan Wen's headquarters, as a partial general, would only have [-] soldiers. In this way, the remaining [-] Han troops should be second-line troops such as auxiliary troops, servant troops, and new auxiliary troops.

In addition to Huan Wen in Dongping County, there was also Wang Pu, a school lieutenant, who was close to Jishui. He led [-] Han troops and an equal number of second-line troops, located thirty miles north of Huan Wen's headquarters.The reconnaissance and careful reconnaissance of the Zhao army in Shijie could not figure out what this Han army was doing. They only knew that they were carrying out large-scale construction projects on the edge of Jishui River.

Yao Yizhong's request to Sun Fudu was to let the friendly forces on the line of Dongping County pose enough threats to the Han army, and hold down the strength of the Han army here, so that they could not go north to help along the Yellow River.

In addition to Sun Fudu's side, Yao Yizhong also sent people to Yuzhou to ask Liu Kai and Lu Yong to cooperate as the governor of the ten counties and six barbarians and the champion general. The Han army in the direction of Yuzhou has the opportunity to go north.

Liu Kai and Lu Yong were both generals of the Eastern Jin dynasty who surrendered to Shijie Zhao.

Yao Yizhong has enough status and rights to use the resources he wants, and everything can serve the Qiang army to fight across the river.

As far as the actual situation is concerned, since [-] of the Qiang army under Yao Yizhong can cross the Yellow River from Sizhou, it also indicates that more Qiang troops can cross the river from Sizhou, not necessarily along the Qingzhou line. The section of the Yellow River was crossed.

Yao Yizhong's choice to cross the Yellow River along Qingzhou is nothing more than a starting point from a military point of view, not only to cause multiple attacks, but also to draw in the troops that Liu Yan can mobilize manually.

Seriously speaking, Yao Yizhong really got what he wanted. He involved Liu Yan himself along the Yellow River, which was beneficial and harmless to the Shijie Zhao army in other directions.

Furthermore, Yao Yizhong believed that if Liu Yan mobilized enough troops to go along the Yellow River, then the Han army would be less facing both the Sizhou direction and the Yuzhou direction. A better development would be to prevent the Han army from continuing to expand. Shijie Zhao Jun was able to counterattack.

Fortunately or unfortunately, Liu Yan only mobilized [-] Han troops to the Yellow River, leaving Yao Yizhong not sure whether it was good or bad.

On July [-]th, the day when the traditional gate of hell was opened, the Qiang army working on the Yellow River built multiple pontoon bridges to connect the south bank without any blocking action by the Han army.

Of course, there is currently no saying that the ghost gate is open, which means that the Ghost Festival has not yet become a festival, and it will not appear until the Northern Wei Dynasty.The Northern Wei Dynasty was a social environment in which the rulers believed in Buddhism extremely. Buddhism held a Obon Festival, and since then there has been a saying that the door of hell will open.

The first batch of the Qiang army to cross the river without encountering any resistance was about [-] cavalry and about [-] infantry. After they arrived at the south bank of the Yellow River, they carefully began to build camps along the bank, showing enough caution.

On the other side, the command center of the Han army, who is always paying attention to the Qiang army, is Liu Yanxingyuan of Dongping Mausoleum. They have a slightly strange attitude towards the Qiang army finally crossing the river. They are not worried but happy.

"The widest terrain from the Yellow River to Jishui is no more than a hundred miles, and the narrowest terrain is only less than twenty miles." Ji Chang said in an excited tone: "This terrain will become the decisive battle between us and the Qiang army. land!"

Yes, the Yellow River and Jishui are close neighbors, they are not connected, they just face each other across, and Jishui is also connected to the Bohai Sea, and even directly connected to Daze.

There is nothing wrong with Wang Pu bringing his troops close to Jishui, but whether they are stationed or constructing large-scale construction projects is just a function to confuse people. The real site where the Han army is carrying out large-scale construction projects is the Yizi River next to Daze, where the construction The densely packed docks were arranged by Liu Yan for "violent soldiers". A large number of ships have been added to the production sequence, and they will be shipped out in the near future.

The "泒" of Yizi River should actually be a "糹" plus a "melon" to read "gū". It is very long, and it is directly connected to Puyang in the west. tributary.Its east side re-enters the Yellow River from Linyi, and its total length is definitely more than five hundred miles.

To put it bluntly, it's not that Liu Yan didn't prepare the fleet to enter the Yellow River, but it's not that Yao Yizhong and others wanted to divert the river from the sea into the Yellow River. Who let Liu Yan have the means against the sky, right?

The long and narrow terrain between the Yellow River and the Jishui River is really suitable as a battle location. It is for the Han army who wants to block the back of the Qiang army.Precisely because of this, why did the Han army stop the Qiang army from crossing the river?They wished that Yao Yizhong would cross the Yellow River as soon as possible and enter the long and narrow battlefield.

"Yao Yizhong didn't understand what we wanted to do. He was cautious enough and just allowed [-] cavalry to enter first." Ji Chang actually admired Yao Yizhong's caution. If it were others who could cross the river, he would be eager and eager to do so. Commits all troops at once."Are we sending troops to fight it?" he asked.

Doing nothing will only make Yao Yizhong more hesitant, and may even make Yao Yizhong stop. If the Qiang army retreats, it will be a disaster for the Han army's northern battle.

Liu Yan asked: "How many troops is appropriate to send?"

This is a big problem, too many Han troops can't be mobilized, too few will cause unnecessary losses, and they can't really drive the Qiang army crossing the river back to the south bank.

"Is that so..." Ji Chang pondered for a while and asked, "Order Xu Zheng and Huan Wen to take the initiative?"

Liu Yan nodded in approval.

Xu is the main general of the Han army in the direction of Yuzhou. He is facing the resistance army of Shijie Zhao Guo in Yuzhou. The number of defensive troops in Yuzhou is very objective, reaching more than 20. It can be said that except for [-] to [-] county soldiers, the rest are improvised mobs.

Of course, what Huan Wen was facing was Sun Fudu's headquarters and the Qiang army separated by Yao Yizhong. The small-scale battles between the two sides never stopped, and generally speaking, they were in a stalemate.

After all, Liu Yan still had to mobilize troops from other places, after all, Yao Yizhong had really huge troops.When to mobilize and from what position to mobilize troops, there are many particular points.

Later, they agreed to dispatch the cavalry from Jinan County to harass the Qiang army that had already crossed the Yellow River. The number of cavalry dispatched was only [-].

The number of [-] cavalry in the Han army was really not many, but Yao Yizhong was slightly relieved by their dispatch.

Yao Yizhong hasn't figured out Liu Yan so far...or what the Han tribe thinks, it's not Yao Yizhong's fault, it's because the Hu people have always ignored the mountains and rivers, and even if they pay attention to them, they are only partial battlefield.

That is a matter of cultural heritage. The Hu people are not like the Chinese civilization. They don't have their own words, and they can't even carry the history. Some of them are compiled into songs and sung from generation to generation. It is conceivable what the lack of things that can be passed down. look.

The Qiang people have absorbed a lot of command from the Chinese civilization, but how long have they risen?The carrying of culture cannot be fully absorbed in one or two generations, it needs enough attention from several generations.

The three thousand Han cavalry who went to harass the camps on the banks of the Yellow River moved very frequently. They directly approached the Qiang army's camps from the beginning, forcing Yao Yizhong to dispatch cavalry to confront them.

They are all light cavalry, and everyone is cautious enough.Once the battle between the light cavalry becomes more cautious, it will be a time-consuming battle in which you chase after me.

The movement of the battle made Yao Yizhong's generals more certain about their previous guess, that is, Liu Yan's troops are seriously insufficient.

Later, the military situation in the direction of Dongping County and Yuzhou was passed to Yao Yizhong successively.

"Both Han armies launched an attack." Hu Yansheng looked quite excited: "Is Liu Yan eager to move his troops north?"

There has always been a fog in war. It is not only unclear about the opponent's intentions, but also not aware of the opponent's mobilization of troops.As far as Yao Yizhong's army was concerned, they hadn't figured out whether Liu Yan's intentions were true. Although they didn't know the mobilization of the Han army well, they could still be aware of the large-scale mobilization of the Han army.

"What does Liu Yan want to do?" Yao Yizhong's confusion didn't decrease much, on the contrary, it became more intense: "If they are eager, shouldn't they try their best to prevent us from crossing the river?"

That is the contradiction between intelligence and reality. What Liu Yan should have done was to try his best to prevent the Qiang army from crossing the river, but Liu Yan did not do that.

"No matter what, we have already crossed the river!" Hu Yansheng couldn't understand what Yao Yizhong was worried about, and said eagerly: "We are going to cross the river, and only by crossing the river can we fight the Han army!"

Yao Yizhong looked at Hu Yansheng silently, and said coldly: "I am the coach."

The muscles on Hu Yansheng's face stiffened, and he smiled embarrassingly.

Of course Yao Yizhong knew that no matter what, he should cross the river. Only by crossing the river can he fight the Han army, and only by fighting can the winner be determined.The problem is that he has too many doubts in his heart, and he always feels that no matter what is wrong, but he can't find out where there is any trap.

One thing Hu Yansheng said was right, no matter what doubts Yao Yizhong had, he couldn't stop moving forward. After crossing the river with [-] cavalry, Yao Yizhong sent another [-] cavalry to the south bank of the Yellow River.

After Yao Yizhong sent [-] cavalry to cross the river, the [-] Qiang light cavalry were not used as a defensive force. Once they crossed the river, they immediately divided into three groups, dispatching [-] each to the west, east, and south, and pretended to take a look around attitude.

The cavalry may not be able to march long distances, but the short march within a hundred miles is still very fast. In less than a day, [-] Qiang cavalry can walk around the surrounding area thoroughly.

Liu Yan, who learned about Yao Yizhong's new news, only had a smile on his face at that time.

"Yao Yizhong is really a cautious person!" After Ji Chang said with some emotion, he narrowed his eyes and asked, "They couldn't find any ambushes, so they should safely transfer the rest of the troops to the south bank of the Yellow River, right?" ?”

……Dividing line……

Recently, the schedule and update time are completely messed up. I will work hard at night and resume two chapters tomorrow. Chapter 1 is at 2 o'clock, and Chapter [-] is at night at the latest.

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