The last three kingdoms

Chapter 1223
The shattered area of ​​this piece of river ice was so huge that nearly a thousand people fell into the icy cold water at the same time.

It happened in a hurry, and everyone was stunned. They didn't expect that the seemingly solid ice surface would suddenly break. Fortunately, the place where Murong Shegui fell was closer to the intact ice surface, and several soldiers jumped immediately. When they reached the river, they hurriedly pulled Murong Shegui up.

The river water in the cold winter was bitter and bitter. Murong Shegui fell into the river and his clothes were soaked. Now that he was fished out, he was shivering from the cold, and even the water stains on his hair and beard turned into ice balls. I couldn't stop trembling.

"Father Khan—" Murong Xin heard that Murong Shegui had fallen into the water, so he rushed up quickly and shouted anxiously.

At this moment, Murong Shegui's face was blue from the cold, his lips were trembling unceasingly, but he couldn't speak, Murong Shegui was so anxious that he couldn't do anything, he didn't know what to do.

Someone still reminded him to ask Murong Xin to take Da Shanyu ashore immediately, return to the warm tent, take off the wet clothes and put on dry clothes, this will save his life, otherwise, if he continues to freeze like this, he will have to die. Frozen.

As soon as Murongxin heard this, he immediately picked up Murong Shegui himself. Before he could run back, he heard shouts of killing from the other side of the Zhang River. come over.

It turned out that Zhang Le and Zhao Zhuo took Liu Yin's order to have Wudang Feijun and Yang'an Army all put on winter clothes, quietly went around to the north bank of Zhanghe River, and hid in ambush on the north bank of Zhanghe River.

If the Xianbei people fled north, the Zhanghe River must be the place to go. Liu Yin expected that the Xianbei people would go to the Zhanghe River, so he sent Zhang Le and Zhao Zhuo to set up an ambush on the north bank of the Zhanghe River in advance to intercept the Xianbei people.

To use infantry to stop the cavalry, it is necessary to predict the route of the cavalry and set up an ambush on the road that the cavalry must pass. Otherwise, at the speed of the cavalry, it is completely impossible for the infantry to catch up.Moreover, the infantry generally needs to set up an ambush in the dangerous places of mountains and rivers. If it is a plain area, it is infinitely difficult for the infantry to stop the cavalry.

The Jizhou Plain stretches as far as the eye can see, and it is as open as a di, and there are no dangerous passes to be found at all, so Liu Yin decided to set up an ambush on the north bank of the Zhanghe River, using the natural dangers of the Zhanghe River to stop the Xianbei people.

When Zhang Le and Zhao Zhuo arrived at the Zhanghe River, there was no snowfall at that time. Although the weather was already very cold, the water in the Zhanghe River had not yet frozen. Unexpectedly, suddenly heavy snow fell overnight, and the entire Zhanghe River was completely frozen.

Now Zhang Le and Zhao Zhuo are a little worried. They set up an ambush on the north bank of the Zhanghe River, just to use the water of the Zhanghe River to stop the Xianbei people. After all, it is not an easy task for the Xianbei cavalry to cross the river. They only need the Zhanghe River. Arranging archers on the shore is enough to block the Xianbei people.

But at the moment the Zhanghe River is frozen, Zhang Le has personally tried it on the ice, the ice is so thick that it can completely withstand people and horses, if the Xianbei people kill them, there is no need to prepare any ferry and pontoon bridges, and they can directly cross Zhang The river comes.

This time, the Wudang Flying Army and the Yang'an Army traveled lightly and secretly, and did not bring a van. It was difficult for the Xianbei cavalry to be stopped by archers and pikemen alone.

How to do?
With an idea, Zhang Le sent people to dig ice on the bank of the Beihe River, digging a hole that was only half a foot wide but several miles long. In this way, the entire ice layer on the Zhanghe River would become floating ice.

However, the weather is cold, and those cuts will gradually freeze again, but the ice layer is still quite thin, and it is covered with a thick layer of snow. Anyone who walks here will not doubt that there is something wrong .

Moreover, the ice layer floats on the river as a whole. If only a small part of it steps on the ice surface, it will not affect the breaking of the ice layer at all.

But Murong She was eager to cross the river. After confirming that there was no problem with the ice on the river, he rushed to the ice first. On the surface, the ice layer was overwhelmed and finally broke completely, allowing Murong Shegui and thousands of Xianbei soldiers who were on the ice to fall into the water.

Seeing that his trick had succeeded, Zhang Le was so excited that he immediately laid out all his ambush soldiers and fired a volley of arrows.

No, I fell for it!Murongxuan yelled secretly, but at this moment he was already innocent enough to pay attention to the ambush of the Han army. He hugged Murongshegui's and ran towards the south bank. Murong Xin was lucky and was not shot by random arrows.

After he fled back to the south bank, the arrows of the Han army could no longer reach here. Murong Xin immediately ordered his men to erect a tent, lit a fire inside the tent, and gave Murong Shegui all the wet clothes. Instead, after feeding him some ginger soup, he saw that Murong Shegui's complexion eased a little.

"What's the situation outside?" Murong Shegui regained some anger, but at the moment he was so weak that he couldn't even hold back the wind, and asked feebly.

Murong Xin had no choice but to tell the truth, saying that the traces of the Han army were found on the north bank of the Zhanghe River, and that the sudden breaking of the river ice must have been caused by the Han army.

Murong Shegui was speechless for a while, since there was an ambush from the Han army on the north bank of the Zhanghe River, it meant that Liu Yin had already estimated that they would withdraw their troops to the north and they would definitely go to the Zhanghe River, so they set up their nets here. treat.Now that the Han army is surrounded on all sides, Murong Xianbei's army is already besieged on all sides, and the situation is in danger.

If Murong Shegui dismissed the encirclement of the Han army before it snowed, encircled it if it was ten times, and attacked it if it was doubled. That's not what the lion's mouth is, Murong Shegui is not afraid in his heart.

But now that it was snowing heavily and the roads were slippery, the combat effectiveness of the Xianbei army was greatly reduced. Facing the siege of the Han army on all sides, they couldn't produce any resistance.

"Father Khan, what should we do now?" Murong Xing was helpless. Now that the Han army was blocking the north bank of the Zhanghe River, if he tried to cross the river, he would try to reach the sky. Moreover, the troops on the left and right flanks and the rear were also attacked by the Han army cavalry. , The Xianbei army is in a dilemma, and I don't know how to deal with it.

Murong Shegui pondered for a moment, and said: "Order the troops to break through to the east at all costs!"

Now crossing the Zhanghe River to the north has become a luxury. Even if the ice in the river can be re-formed, as long as there are Han soldiers stationed on the north bank and constantly destroying the ice, the Xianbei army will not be able to successfully cross the river.Now the only way out for the Xianbei people is to break through to the east, bypass the Zhanghe River to the Bohai Sea, and then flee from the Bohai Sea to Youzhou. There is no other way out.

(End of this chapter)