In order to confuse the Qin army, Meng Heilong took great pains. Eight                                                     

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CoM's march for several consecutive days seemed to be for the army to find an appropriate crossing to cross the river, but in fact, it was to attract the main force of the Qin army away, and then quickly return, abandon the main force of the Qin army, and regain the captured camp. How could the Qin army, who lost the camp to rely on, be his iron cavalry opponent?

During the past few days of march, he had quietly ordered some troops to choose places to hide along the way. Then he secretly moved closer to the designated location. When he was waiting for him to turn back, he suddenly crossed the river and caught the Qin army off guard.

After a few days of marching, Meng Heilong felt that the time was ripe. He also sent many spies to sneak across the other side. According to the information from the spies' return, the Qin army arranged a large number of troops on the other side to guard against the army crossing the river.

Hearing this, Meng Heilong showed a reserved smile on his face, and his plan was successful. With a big stroke, he asked his son Meng Qingshan to lead an army of 10,000 to advance, but he quietly turned back with two thousand cavalry.

Meng Qingshan, the son of Meng Heilong, was only twenty years old. But his wisdom was above his father. When the Qin army captured Luo Weihu's village and brought a series of blows to the South Vietnamese army, he proposed to raise all the elites of Longchuan City and cross the river from the ferry crossings of the north and south. He thought that after the Qin army fought hard overnight, its combat effectiveness would inevitably be low, and although the Qin army's offensive was fierce, its military strength would definitely not be as numerous as Luo Weihu and Xiong Qi said. The number of enemies was just to alleviate his crime of defeat. With the bravery of the South Vietnamese army, it would be possible to regain the camp.

If Meng Heilong obeyed Meng Qingshan's words, Chen Sheng would probably have great trouble. Meng Qingshan guessed his shortcomings clearly. Fortunately, Meng Heilong was shocked by the disastrous defeat of Luo Weihu and Xiong Qi, and hesitated for a moment, so he came up with a bad idea and forgot his son's advice, giving Chen Sheng several days of buffering time. Not only did the soldiers' combat effectiveness recover, but he also compiled tens of thousands of soldiers in Nanyue, expanding a new army camp and an engineering battalion. He even built the camp into a real fortification. Now Meng Heilong wants to attack the Qin army, is it only bigger?

After a night of rapid growth, two thousand iron cavalry had appeared on the river beach closest to the Qin army's camp. Here, there were 15,000 infantry troops hidden by him. All the troops had already gathered and were waiting for Meng Heilong's order to cross the river.

The sky was just dawn. The other side was quiet and there was no sign of the Qin army's activity. Meng Heilong was very satisfied. He asked his subordinates who were left behind: "What is the news on Haifeng?" Haifeng led tens of thousands of troops and cooperated with him to prepare to cross the river from the upstream and attack the Qin army. Now several days have passed, I wonder if he has successfully attracted some of the Qin army's forces.

The general said quickly: "Yes. Yesterday afternoon, General Hai's messenger arrived and said that their army had begun to cross the river, but no trace of the Qin army was found."

Meng Heilong frowned slightly. He ordered Haifeng to march along the river with great fanfare and to see the traces of the South Vietnamese army to attract the Qin army. Why did the Qin army not respond to this?

After pondering for a while, Meng Heilong asked again: "What's the matter with Xiong Qi? What's the situation with Qin Jun?" Although he could receive reports from his subordinates every day, Meng Heilong was still worried that he would miss something.

"General Xiong still insisted on the camp and did not go to war. The Qin army did not move any abnormally, but just built the camp into a dirt city."

Meng Heilong nodded slightly and said, "You are ready to prepare a bamboo raft and light boat to cross the river?"

"It's already done. In less than an hour, 15,000 warriors will definitely be able to cross the river."

Upon hearing this news, Meng Heilong finally showed a satisfied smile on his face and said, "What are you waiting for? Hurry up and direct the crossing of the river. After dawn, the army must all cross the river!"

On the other side of the river, the sleepy Qin army was somewhat grateful, but also somewhat disappointed to leave the post that was standing by and replaced with a vibrant friendly army. At least five thousand infantry troops were allowed to set up defenses in this place, which was Chen Sheng's death order. Five thousand people were divided into two shifts, and they were taken as a turn every four hours to ensure that the combat effectiveness of the Qin army on duty did not decrease.

At this time, Chen Sheng and Li Zuoche appeared on the position.

From the news that the secret spy from the Heishui Pavilion was sent back yesterday, Chen Sheng had learned that Meng Heilong had led the cavalry back, and it was estimated that at dawn, he would cross the river and attack the Qin army.

After receiving this news, Chen Sheng was very excited and immediately twitched the troops he could mobilize and deployed defenses, giving Meng Heilong a big surprise.

However, the main combat army of the Qin army was really stretched. In addition to the logistics, there were only 25,000 people going south. In addition, the newly added 12,000 prisoners, only 37,000 were only 1,500 injured and sick. The actual combat power was only 35,000, but it was good that the newly added prisoners would not become an unstable factor. Can they still expect them to form combat power?

When the Tucheng and the position were built, Chen Sheng immediately ordered Li Shen to lead 5,000 new troops to replace Bai Long, confront the South Vietnamese army on the river bank, pretending to be the main force of the Qin army. Such an errand made Li Shen frightened. Although he knew that the South Vietnamese army would never cross the river and fight with him, in the new army formed by the South Vietnamese barbarians, Li Shen would sweat coldly behind him whenever he thought of this. In desperation, he had to bring all the guards and turn back and lead the army to fight in one step and three times. However, Chen Sheng was not so unreasonable. After arriving at the place, he also asked Bai Long to leave him with five,000 Qin troops. The new and old armies mixed together made Li Shen feel much more relieved.

Even so, Chen Sheng could only mobilize the actual combat power of the Qin army. This part also allocated 8,000 people to guard Xiong Qi's camp, beware of Xiong Qi's awareness of the weak power of the Qin army and counterattacked.

So only 12,000 Qin army's main combat power was left to Chen Sheng. Those logistics soldiers could only stay in the rear and engage in some non-combat things. But in addition to the main force led by Meng Heilong, Chen Sheng also learned that Haifeng's tens of thousands of troops were also ready to move upstream and cross the river to fight at any time. Chen Sheng knew the disadvantages of division of troops, so he decisively ignored them and left 3,000 people to guard the camp. In addition, he sent a newly formed engineer to build an incredible fortification in the camp that confronted Xiong Qi. This fortification was like this. The engineers surrounded Xiong Qi's camp and built a two-tall earth wall, completely surrounding Xiong Qi's entire camp. And that's not all, and in addition to the Qin army's camp, the same fortification was also built to surround the Qin army's camp.
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