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Chapter 807

"Have you ever thought about why Li Xia came to Hancheng?"

This is a question that Shi Tianze has often asked the generals since the start of the war.

There are many answers.

For example, further north of Hancheng is the Loess Plateau and the Luliang Mountains, and the terrain is steep.Hancheng can be regarded as the northeast corner of Guanzhong. Li Xia defended Hancheng and occupied the most critical corner first by playing chess.

For example, after the Yellow River passed Yumen in the upper reaches, the surface of the river suddenly became clear, and the ice surface in the south was thick enough, and only the section of the river from Hancheng to Heyang could cross the river on ice.

Heyang Daying and Hancheng, Li Xia has to guard one...

"Yes, but why did Li Xia come to Hancheng?"

After getting many answers, Shi Tianze continued to ask.

"Why doesn't Li Xia guard Chang'an? He can send a general to garrison Hancheng, sit in Chang'an, and dispatch it in the middle. In this battle, our army's five armies are attacking, and each army is far stronger than him. He only needs to break through all the way. He is bound to be defeated. In that case, he should sit in the middle, why should he guard all the way alone?"

"As for defending all the way alone, Li Xia is just like that. After fighting for so long, we haven't seen any difference between him defending Hancheng himself and sending a general to defend it?"

"..."

With these doubts, Shi Tianze, who commanded the [-] troops of the [-]th Route Army, refused to do his best in the face of Li Xia's weak Yellow River defense line.

He Bichi was in a hurry, Shi Tianze explained patiently, he thought he was stable.

Although Zhang Hongfan raised objections, Shi Tianze believed that the princes of all walks of life wanted to preserve their strength and would support him to fight steadily.

He was wrong.

This Western Expedition is different from the pacification of Li Fen. This time, the generals led by the princes of the world are all younger generations selected by Kublai Khan.These young generals think more about making contributions than preserving their strength.

Moreover, Li Xia's line of defense was not only weak, but also dispatched troops to support other places.

Everyone is urging Shi Tianze to order a general attack.

Finally came to this step.

Shi Tianze stood on the chariot, where his eyes looked, the soldiers under his command rushed towards the small Han City like a black wave.

It's like a huge wave is set off, trying to smash a small raft into pieces.

When the waves push up, the little raft looks so fragile and fragile...

Shi Tianze couldn't help feeling a little puzzled, and thought to himself that he was worrying too much, that's how Li Xia came to Hancheng to die.

Just then, the chariot shook.

As if thunder was about to strike, a dull sound came from the ground, rumbling.

Shi Tianze raised his binoculars and looked north.

To the north is a continuous glacier, and a row of soldiers spread out, the end of which cannot be seen with the naked eye.

If there is an end to it, it might be Yumen.

It is said that Yumen was chiseled open by Dayu, and the two mountains are facing each other, which looks like a chisel.The broken wall sandwiches the Yellow River, only a hundred paces wide.

When it is not frozen, the Yellow River rushes out of the gorge, and the sound shakes the mountains and fields. The so-called "Three Surging Waves at Yumen, One Thunder on the Flat Ground".

Yumen is also called Longmen, and it is the Dragon Gate of "Fish Leaping over Dragon Gate".

Every December, the dragon gate is sealed by ice, and the ice disappears when the sting of insects occurs in March of the following year.When the ice disappears, yellow carp will gather here, competing to jump, and once they climb the dragon gate, clouds and rain will follow.

It is also one of the eight scenic spots in Hancheng, the so-called "Yumen Chunlang".

There are not only scenes in Yumen Bingxiao, but also occasional ice floods.

Ice flood is the sudden opening of a certain river section, and the melted ice and water storage are wrapped in ice and flow down rapidly.While the downstream has not yet thawed, it is pushed by the upstream river water, the water drums open, the ice dam is blocked, and the water level soars.

Of course, it's only the 22nd of the first lunar month, and it's still early before the March Waking of Insects.

Shi Tianze originally still had a lot of time to slowly and steadily consume Li Xia, and today the time has not been used up.

"Rumble..."

The voice was very loud and dull, as if it was covered by something, but it continued and became louder and louder.

"Rumble..."

"what happened?"

The chariot under his feet shook more and more violently, Shi Ge and Shi Ji rushed up roaring, tied Shi Tianze and dragged him to the chariot desperately.

The thunder in the sky became louder and louder, but Shi Tianze seemed to be deaf, he couldn't hear what Shi Ge and Shi Ji were shouting at all.

The binoculars had fallen somewhere.

It doesn't matter if you don't stand high enough, or if you hold a binocular or not.

He was dragged, and looked northward, seeing the snowstorm all over the sky, and the Mongolian army in the snowstorm was already pushing and running towards the east bank.

"boom!"

There are cracks in the ice...

Shi Tianze finally understood why Li Xia came to Hancheng.

Because there is "Yumen Spring Wave" in Hancheng, Longmen ice melts and snow melts, which can form a flood that can swallow up thousands of troops.

Only when Li Xia came in person, would he be attracted by the Li character flag, and push all the troops to Hancheng, under the overwhelming Ling Xun.

Li Xia was simply using his life to attract the Mongolian army to attack the most dangerous place.

It was the trick to lure the enemy into an ambush again, he had already foreseen it, and he would not have been fooled.

"You miss me! Mistake me!"

Shi Tianze was furious.

He was angry at He Bichi, Zhang Hongfan and others who urged him to join forces to send troops, and angry at his failure to stick to the original strategy.

But no one cares about these anymore, the sky is filled with panicked shouts.

The ice floes in the upper reaches have hit the ice in the lower reaches, and the sound of explosions continues, and the entire ice surface of the Yellow River may be cracked.

"Run! Run!"

"..."

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A yellow dragon jumped up from under the ice.

It still had a month of deep sleep, but it was awakened by the explosives, so it became angry, roared, bared its teeth and claws, and slammed into the dragon gate heavily.

"boom!"

It didn't break the dragon gate, but jumped out of the dragon gate, its body quickly enlarged, and it lifted the ice block in front of it heavily and smashed it down.

"boom!"

The ice cube was smashed by it and rolled up, Huanglong continued to roar and rushed downstream.Keep smashing the ice cubes, keep arching your body...

Not Huanglong.

When it got a little closer, people who watched this scene from a distance could clearly see that it was not a yellow dragon, but the rushing water of the Yellow River.

The Yellow River comes to the west to fight against Kunlun, roaring thousands of miles to touch the Dragon Gate.

……

Li Xia stood on top of Han Cheng and watched.

This is a long-planned ambush.

It wasn't Shi Tianze who came to attack him, even if Shi Tianze sent troops on the night of the first day of the first lunar month, it wouldn't be considered a sneak attack.

Because Zhang Jue told Li Xia early on that "the Mongolian army may cross the Yellow River on ice", even Zhang Jue said, "I'm really afraid of winter".

Therefore, it is necessary to start spring earlier, so that the ice surface of the Yellow River can be thawed.

What if there is no spring?Blast off the ice.

The reason why I came to Hancheng was to blow up the Yumen section.

The high mountains on both sides of Yumen are facing each other, which is not the place where the Mongolian army crossed the river, and the river under the ice is turbulent.

The blasting of ice is not so much to cause ice floods, but rather to "prevent ice floods". Before the thawing, the detonation was carried out in a narrow section of the river at an appropriate time to make the water flow down smoothly.

Although the gunpowder used by Li Xia, after Hao Xiuyang's improvement, is far more powerful than it is today, if it goes to the Jiuyuan City section of the Yellow River further north, it may not be able to blow up the river, and it will be even more difficult for the rivers further north.

Of course, specific cases are analyzed in detail, and the ice blasting in this section of the Yellow River in Yumen depends on the time.

The weather is cold, and the ice layer is frozen hard, so it cannot be exploded.And if it comes to February and March, it can crack by itself without frying.

The key is to grasp the weight and timing.

It should have been more than half a month at night.

But the situation can't be delayed until then, so Li Xia actually said that sentence in a helpless tone today.

"Order, one at a time."

It's a pity.

The effect Li Xia originally wanted was that the upstream ice floes could crush the downstream ice, but it was still early, so this effect must not be achieved.

Even so, Huang He has shown enough momentum.

This is the power of heaven and earth.

Even if Da He just turned over, it could make people look like ants.

The sound of the explosion has not stopped, no matter whether it can blast the ice or not, Li Xia has at least frightened the Mongolian army.

The sound of the Mongolian army's golden bell had already sounded, and Shi Tianze's banner was about to move to the east bank.

No one could guarantee what would happen if they continued to stay on the ice, so they frantically ran towards the east bank.

Seeing this scene, Li Xia was truly relieved.

He has no control over how much the ice surface can be broken, but it is possible to crush the enemy and expand the results of the battle.

Li Xia ordered directly, quickly got off the top of the wall, and got on his horse.

"Go out of the city and kill the enemy."

Dang Li, the drummer of the Song Army, began to beat the drums.

The explosion in the distance hadn't stopped yet, and the drummer tried his best to make the loudest drum sound, but it still seemed so weak in the thunderous sky.

The Song army no longer guarded the city, but went to kill the Mongolian army outside the city...

(End of this chapter)