sweeping the world

Chapter 323

As the commander-in-chief of an army, what he hates the most should be worrying. A little ignorance of the situation may ruin the whole army, not to mention that Yao Yizhong's inner doubts are not just a little bit.

"We used three routes in the early stage, and then we simply spread out completely, and searched the south bank to the edge of Jishui. If there is an ambush in the Han army, they can only hide in the ground."

"Well……"

Yao Yizhong seemed to be grasping some key just now, his thoughts wandered for a while, and he was in a trance for a while, but... he couldn't remember what it was.

It is Jishui, that is, the place they are about to step into is the narrow space of a hundred miles between the Yellow River and Jishui. If there is a map spread out, it will definitely be clear at a glance.

The space between the Yellow River and Jishui is really very narrow. The length is more than six hundred miles, but the worst part is that the width is too narrow!

Can the Han army hide underground?It's not impossible, but even if it's hiding, the amount that can be hidden is absolutely limited, and what's the use if the amount is small.

In fact, there is another water system between the Yellow River and Jishui, which is Luoshui, which runs through the entire Qingzhou from the Bohai Sea to Jizhou, and approaches Sizhou, which is hundreds of miles long.

The length of Luoshui and Jishui are comparable, but the width of Luoshui is much smaller, and there are many places where horses can be directly driven across the riverbed.Therefore, Liu Yan's side didn't take Luoshui too seriously, and even Yao Yizhong didn't think from Luoshui that the terrain was suitable for being cut off from the waterway.

In fact, Yao Yizhong didn't think that the Yellow River would be cut off, but didn't he spend two or three months preparing to block the Yellow River with wood and other sundries?According to his thinking, the Han army had no ships in the Yellow River waterway, and the Han army's ships were basically mobilized from the sea, so as long as they blocked the Yellow River's outlet, there would be no problem.

What?Yao Yizhong never thought that Liu Yan would wantonly build ships in the Yellow River waterway?Yao Yizhong is a normal person. From the point of view of a normal person, who can build as many ships in less than half a year, even if Liu Yan can really build a limited number, then the Zhao army in Shijie has nearly a thousand ships along the Yellow River. Is the ship still unbalanced?

It was confirmed that there was no ambush of Han troops from the south bank of the Yellow River to the edge of Jishui River. Even the original three thousand Han troops retreated voluntarily after Yao Yizhong increased his troops. A new wave of Qiang troops crossed the Yellow River again, numbering [-].

The first is 15, the middle is [-], and the latter is [-], that is, [-] Qiang troops have crossed the Yellow River. Liu Yan, who confirmed this, was determined.

Yao Yizhong brought nearly 40 people, but the number of people who can really be used for combat is definitely not that many. 15 Qiang troops have already appeared in Dongping County, and another [-] have crossed the Yellow River. It is conceivable that they will stay in the Yellow River The ones on the North Shore are all the same stuff.

On this day, Liu Yan, who moved the army to Licheng, took people up to the watchtower and looked to the north of Jishui. From a distance, he couldn't see much.

"Where are the troops mobilized from the Yuzhou battlefield?"

"Returning to your lord, the fastest one has entered the boundary of Dongping County, and the slowest one is in the boundary of Lu County."

What is more strange is that the so-called fastest marching troops are the infantry returning east by boat, but the cavalry are left behind by land.

There are not many water systems in the Central Plains. The largest waterway is of course the Yellow River. There are also a large number of diversions around the Yellow River. Most of them can carry boats. If you make good use of them, they will definitely facilitate your march.

It is not uncommon for the army of Chinese civilization to use the water system to march, especially in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods. The former Qi army arrived in South Korea directly via the Yellow River, and even transported their luggage to Hangu Pass directly by boat. outside.I don’t know what’s going on in the back, except that Emperor Xiaowu of the Western Han Dynasty used the Yellow River, so he specially set up a building and boat general, but the Chinese civilized army after that seems to have forgotten that the Yellow River can also be used for boats and ships. .

Well, the truth is that the Yellow River has repeatedly changed its course. After repeated changes of course, certain areas have become extremely dangerous.

As far as the current situation is concerned, the location of the Yellow River is also different from that of the later celestial dynasties. Not only is the entire river course different, but the estuary is also different. The most outrageous thing is that even the coastline is different.

There is a huge difference between the current coastline and the coastline after 700 years. First of all, a large piece of land is missing. That is also because the Yellow River did not "push" out a lot of sediment. It has moved more than 100 miles further to the sea than it does now!
Liu Yan nodded with satisfaction: "The first batch of troops, [-] infantry, will return first, then..." He looked at Ji Chang.

"We have already erected the necessary bridges before, and we need to be able to connect them at any time." Ji Chang was talking about Jishui, and he added: "Actually, we should deploy our troops in the near future."

Seeing that Yao Yizhong is a cautious and suspicious person, the Han army has given enough doubts. If the Qiang army has 15 people crossing the river, but the Han army still does not make any big moves, there is no guarantee that Yao Yizhong will not do anything. The rest of the moves included retreating to the north bank of the Yellow River.

Liu Yan is not a person who is afraid of getting into trouble, he knows what he should do.

As the follow-up troops of the Qiang army crossed the river again, Liu Yan moved the Xingyuan again, and the Han army crossed Jishui, and [-] Han troops, including Liu Yan, marched directly into Luoyin.

Luoyin is a place with a long history. Hou Huo Qubing, the champion of Emperor Xiaowu of the Western Han Dynasty, forced him to surrender to King Hunxie, who was named Marquis of Luoyin by Liu Che later.During the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Wei assigned the northeastern part of the Qihe River to Luoyin County, and it was still under Jinan County until the Western Jin Dynasty. Now Luoyin has been abolished.

In fact, the abandonment of Luoyin was only a microcosm of the Central Plains under Shijie's rule. After all, the Hu people wanted to turn the Central Plains into pastures. There were countless abandoned cities, and even some famous cities became ghostly ruins.If history had not changed, this situation would continue in the future, and it would take until the Northern Wei Dynasty for relative improvement, and for the Sui and Tang Dynasties to be considered restored.

Liu Yan led the army to Luoyin, which was a booster for Yao Yizhong. Yao Yizhong was actually anxious that the Han army did not appear after crossing the Yellow River, and he became more and more suspicious as time went by. state.

"How much?" Yao Yizhong suddenly widened his eyes: "Only thirty thousand?"

How many Qiang troops crossed the Yellow River?Not counting the combat power, it has reached more than [-], which is a kind of resettlement situation with a radius of tens of miles. If you count the necessary grazing and other situations, it can spread out for a radius of nearly a hundred miles.

The fact is that Yao Yizhong did not encounter the Han army after crossing the Yellow River, and he had a great sense of hesitation about crossing Jishui under suspicion.He had thought of returning to the north bank of the Yellow River more than once. Just when he was about to make up his mind, the order from Xiangguo had just arrived, and Liu Yan personally led the Han army to Luoyin.

The Han army led by Liu Yan was indeed only [-], of which there were only nearly [-] cavalry, and the rest were all infantry.In addition, Han warships have already appeared on Jishui, and the number seems to be quite considerable?
Since it was Liu Yan who led the army, and the ships of the Han army appeared on Jishui, Yao Yizhong should have known that the prelude to the war had officially begun.

What surprised Yao Yizhong was that although Liu Yan mobilized a large number of ships to enter Jishui, he only had [-] army infantry and cavalry left. He had to ask: "Have you found any Han troops coming later?"

No one can answer Yao Yizhong at the moment. He will get the news from Sun Fudu in three days. That is Sun Fudu discovered that a Han fleet was passing through the Jishui River section of Dongping County, and it was extremely large in scale. huge.

By the time Sun Fudu's information was sent, Yao Yizhong had already brought his army to the northwest of Luoyin to set up camp. The cavalry on both sides had even fought several times, and even the Qiang army had tried to attack the Han camp. It's just that the Qiang army didn't get any advantage in the battle, whether it was a cavalry battle or an attack on the camp.

The camps established by the two armies faced each other at a distance of about ten miles, and the space left in the middle was of course the battlefield.If you look at it from a high altitude, you can see that the Qiang army, which has an absolute advantage in strength, has a camp that is more than twenty times larger than that of the Han army.When Yao Yizhong set up the Qiang army camp, he thought more about it, showing a crescent-shaped layout, almost half encircling the seemingly small Han army camp.

The two sides set up their own camps, and they have not stopped fighting since the moment they met, such as now.

Liu Yan likes to climb high and look far. Everywhere he goes, he will build a watchtower high enough in the central army area. Now he and his subordinates are on a high place to watch the Qiang army attack again.

The Qiang people do not have uniforms, and the dense crowd looks colorful. Most of them are wearing sheepskin jackets. According to Sang Yu, even the Hu people have a hard time wearing thick sheepskin jackets on such a hot day.

The sheepskin jacket has always been used as a layer of armor by the barbarians, and it can indeed play a certain role in preventing arrows, even if the temperature is about [-] degrees, it can be tolerated with great endurance.

At this time, Sang Yu was holding a monocular to watch the attacking troops. From time to time, he would comment on the previous sentence. For example, he said now: "Zhahu and Jin people still have the largest number."

In just six days, Yao Yizhong sent troops to attack every day and harassed every night, clearly bullying the Han army's small number of soldiers.

With a telescope, you can have a panoramic view of what's happening in front of you. If you have enough fun, you can even catch the arrows being shot and follow them as they move.

Outside the walled city is the enemy attacking, and in the front of the walled city are the necessary close-combat troops, behind it are the crossbowmen with distinct levels, and behind them are the crossbows, bed crossbows, catapults and other equipment force.

If you look at the past, with the range of various weapons as the boundary, there are layers of corpses with different degrees of freshness outside...

……Dividing line……

There must be another chapter today, and the honor will be adjusted gradually, trying to fix the update time.

(End of this chapter)