The wind was cold and the snow was flying. Yue Hailou was not welcome to report it. He and Meng Jie rushed straight into the camp surrounded by the cavalry.

At that time, Zhong Changqing, Mo Lihu, Jiang Zhaode and others stood in a crossing camp, and were in front of a narrow canal that used as a source of drinking water and discharged waste. After hearing the guard's reminder, they saw Yue Hai Tower rushing into the camp and climbing up together.

Front greeting: "When will the Shushushi come to the West Bank? Why don't you notify me to wait for the greeting?"

"The military situation is so urgent, what's there to welcome? I'm not without feet!" Yue Hailou waved his hand and said disrespectfully.

Yue Hailou said he was generous, but in fact he was still afraid that Chushan would penetrate and had too strong spy skills. He was worried that he would be ambushed in advance. It would be better to leave and come safely.

Yue Hailou looked at Zhong Changqing, Mo Lihu and others behind him, and asked curiously: "What are you looking at just now? There is no war in such a cold day, and you are still standing outside the house and blowing the cold wind."

"The scout discovered that the Chushan Mountains had a large amount of carbonite stored in the military villages on the north and south sides of the Huai River. At first, I didn't care. Two days ago, I heard an old kiln maker say that the carbonite would melt under the sun, and it would be much faster."

Changqing reported, "I'm in a hurry to find some charcoal today. At this time, the sun rises and crushes it on the ice to see if this is true."

"Oh, there is still this matter?!" After hearing about this, Yue Hailou was shocked and hurried to the ditch to see what was going on.

The weather is already very cold. Although the Huai River has not been frozen yet, the water is mainly vast and the water flows fast, the small streams and ditches are already frozen tightly.

Yuehailou walked across the camp, and was only three or four steps wide in front of the ditch. Looking at the ditch, a thick layer of ice had formed, and the crushed carbonite had covered the ice surface thirteen or four steps wide. Others

The ice surface is still exposed.

Although the sun was very good at this time, the weather was too cold and I couldn’t feel any warmth even when I stood under the sun. I felt the wind blew on my face, causing pain like a knife.

Under normal circumstances, this kind of sun cannot melt the river ice.

Zhong Changqing used a shovel to remove some of the gravel charcoal covering the ice surface, revealing the covered ice surface below. It was indeed much thinner than the uncovered ice surface. There was water melting in the ice nest, so it was not special.

cold.

This scene made Yue Hailou frowned and smacked his lips and shouted: "What a cruel trick! I was also wondering why the military camps along the Huai River in Chushan Mountain are used to reserve so much carbon. It is obviously too much for cooking.

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"What's the use of storing so much carbon? Could it be that they would like to use these carbon to cover the river hundreds of miles of rivers after our army crossed the Huai River and block our way back?" Meng Jie felt that Yue Hailou

Zhong Changqing made a big fuss and said indifferently, "How many men do you need and how much carbon is needed to be enough? Are the soldiers on the north shore blind and watched them walk around the sky and count them all over the world

Go to spread charcoal on the Baili Huai River?”

"You idiot, read more books if you have nothing to do!" Yue Hailou glared at Meng Jie and scolded, "It's not the first time you've seen Bing Pai, and you can't even figure out this trick?"

Water drainage is also known as ice flood and ice flood.

Most of the generals under Yue Hailou and his command served in the Western Army for many years and were very familiar with the incident of the Yellow River flood.

To put it bluntly, there is a big deviation in the temperature in the upper and lower reaches of the Yellow River, which will cause the lower reaches to freeze after winter, and the upper reaches will thaw first after spring.

These will cause the upstream flow to rise the water level due to the blockage of the ice layer in the downstream, which will often cause major disasters and flood the land on both sides of the river.

The Huaihe River Basin is short, and the seasonal temperature difference from Huaihe to Huaihe is extremely small, and usually there will be no ice flood disasters.

However, as long as Chushan has the ability to thaw the Huai River in advance in some sections of the upstream, for example, on a river three or four miles east of Chushan New Land, crushed charcoal is sprinkled on a large area to thaw the ice layer in advance.

It is possible to form a flood.

Although the embankment on the north bank of the Huai River in Zhenyang is relatively thick and the water level is raised after the blockage, and it may not irrigate to the north bank, but a large amount of broken ice is congested and the river water will overflow on the ice layer.

Especially when the temperature rises, these will make the ice layer in the downstream section become fragile.

In the past two months, Zhong Changqing has been promoted layer by layer from the east bank of Mingxi River to the west bank with the strategy of building a chain camp.

During this period, Zhong Changqing built sixteen big villages on the east bank of Mingxi River, besides Queshan and Zhenyang, on the basis of the original village Wuzhai, and nine big villages on the west bank.

Each village is between eight to twelve miles apart, and there are even larger whistle bases in the middle, which allows them to push the front line closely together to more than ten miles away from Chushan City.

When the Chushan Army attacked a small group of soldiers and horses, they were naturally not afraid. They were not afraid. If all the elite troops of Chushan were out, they would rely on the big camps to defend each other and reinforce each other, causing the Chushan Army and horses to return in vain.

This clumsy method is currently very effective, especially when Chushan's strong morale and military armor and weapons are generally stronger than them, and can effectively utilize its superior troops and limit Chushan's troops to the west of Mingxi River.

Next, they can approach the eastern foot of Shimenling.

Although this strategy was recognized by the Zhennanzong Palace and the second prince, there were still a large number of Red Gu Generals who were puzzled and dissatisfied, thinking that the Chu army in Bianliang was too slow to move.

The Pingyan army on the eastern road captured Fengtai City on the north bank of Shouchun, and sent envoys to come over several times, urging them to either attack Chushan City or divide a group of troops to prepare to cross the Huai south and cooperate with them to cross the Huai Huai to attack Shouchun.

Yue Hailou could not think that the strategy of entering the camp was effective, so he could do his own thing and completely ignore the repeated requests of the third prince Tuhuang and the general of the Pingyan Army.

He also secretly replaced the Huaichuan defenders with a group of elite troops. Molihu also ordered Kuoti's troops to enter Huaichuan City, preparing to wait for the Huai River to freeze, and then cross the Huai River to enter Huangchuan, Gushi, Huoqiu and other places to search.

Fighter planes cooperated with the Pingyan Army to cross the Huai River from Fengtai.

Yue Hailou did not expect that Chushan had reserved a large amount of carbonite in the military camps along the Huai River, and it actually hid such a vicious plan!

Especially at this time, Luoshan County, east of Jinniuling and on the southern bank of the Huai River, was still under the control of the Chushan Army.

Chushan can completely dig the embankment on the south bank of the Huai River east of the mouth of Shixi River. When the upstream is in a rush, it can guide the water to Huangchuan east of Shixi River and Gushi and other places to flood, which happens to be covered by water attack.

Attack their troops from crossing the Huai River.

Seeing the ice layer covered with crumbled charcoal in the ditches, it was indeed melting much faster, Yue Hailou frowned and said, "Our army is advancing layer by layer, but Chushan is just building a city, and there is no major counterattack.

They were all confused. How could Xu Huai be calm? Aren’t we afraid that we will build the camp to the eastern foot of Shimenling, completely cut off other external contacts, and then find a gap from Shimenling and continue wedging into the hinterland of Tongbai Mountain?"

"So this guy is sure that we will be unable to hold on and will definitely send troops to cross Huai south, so we set up a condom on it?" Meng Jie suddenly realized it and cursed, "Damn it,

This miscellaneous trick is so vicious! If Zhong Changqing had not been lucky enough to see through his plan, Feng Shizhao and Kuoti really wanted to lead his troops across the Huai River, wouldn't he suffer a big loss?"

"This is not necessarily true," Yue Hailou shook his head and said, "The use of troops is about concession. Chushan has a plan to break the ice, but it is just to block our troops from retreating. However, the troops crossing Huai are flooded. It is completely possible.

Going east, going to the hinterland of Huainan. The ice-breaking plan of Chu Mountain is impossible to make hundreds of miles of the south bank of the Huainan River overnight become water seeds. Currently, the third prince Tu Ge leads the main force of the Pingyan army to attract the main force of the Huainan army.

, I may not have any problems with my troops crossing the Huai River, but the situation will become more strange and complicated! In short, Xu Huai is definitely not a person like Yi Yu to keep his eyes open and he is resourceful, so don't

In the past, I could see through one of the secrets so carelessly!”

"I feel the same way," Zhong Changqing said with a frown, "Xu Huai would not place all hopes of rescuing the ice to defeat my troops crossing the Huai River. There are many uncertainties in this matter."

"What did Feng Shizhao say? He was just consuming it in Huaichuan?" Meng Jie asked.

Yue Hailou said that he had 60,000 Bianliang Chu troops, but after surrendering to Chihu, he received all the troops and horses from all over the country. The troops and grassroots military officials were mixed, and the combat effectiveness was also uneven.

For a long time, Yuehailou mainly used the Yingzhou Han army as its team to build an elite combat power. The soldiers, armor, weapons, and even money and food were tilted as much as possible, and they were all organized into horse and infantry troops to improve their mobile combat capabilities.

Yue Hailou was handed over to the commander of the direct general Feng Shizhao. No matter how much Yue Hailou respects Zhong Changqing, he would not be asked to be in charge of the command of this horse and infantry army.

Now Chu Shan is obviously trying to tamper with the ice of Huaishui River. Of course, Yue Hailou doesn't want to ask his few elite troops to cross the Huai River. Even if he can penetrate the hinterland of Huainan to avoid the flood, the horse and infantry army will be blocked from the sidelines.

On the south bank of the Huai River, Yuehailou could not transfer it back in a short period of time. If there was something wrong with the north bank, how could it be dealt with it?

However, the third prince Tu Ge was anxious and had agreed to send troops from Huaichuan to cross the Huai River. Suddenly, Chu Shan had the excuse of breaking the ice. Can the third prince Tu Ge be forgiven?

Yue Hailou looked at Mo Li with some hesitation and asked, "General Yan, what do you think we should do?"

"If we don't cross the Huai River, we will still put more pressure on Chushan!" Moli said.
Chapter completed!