Under the pressure of increasing troops from Xiliang on the other side of the river, Li Le, who was confronting across the river, had to increase troops again and again in order to ensure the stability of the front. Finally, he stationed 15,000 troops along the Fen River, leaving only 5,000 troops in Linfen City.

In addition, Li Le himself led 4,000 old soldiers to station on the west bank of the Fen River to personally resist the Xiliang army that was about to move on the other side.

However, over the past few days, the Xiliang Army, which had been trying to cross the Fen River, has become quiet. Although they send troops and horses every day to pretend to attack and disrupt the rest of the Baibo Army's soldiers, they use this to mobilize the Xiliang Army's troops in the field to further survey the hydrology and explore the flaws of the Baibo Army's troops on the other side.

Although Li Le did not fully see the plans of the Xiliang army on the other side, in order to be cautious, he still sent a lot of troops to patrol day and night to prevent the Xiliang army from smuggling through the Fen River and attacking his Linfen City.

The soldiers and horses of both sides confronted each other through the Fen River, just like two yaks pressing their horns against each other's heads, carefully tentatively attacking, ready to take advantage of a favorable opportunity to arch the other party to the ground and break the belly.

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"Come on, keep up!"

Meng Tu was organizing the cavalry around him to wade across the river. He and Zhai Hao brought the Xiliang cavalry of his troops to the lower reaches of the Fen River and prepared to swim across the river. Because the flood season of the Fen River had passed, the excellent cavalry of their troops could drive the horses to wade through shallow water with their horses' necks.

And tonight, the moon is dark and the wind is high, which is destined to be a good opportunity to fight.

The hydrology of this section of Fen River is not complicated, and it is covered by night. Therefore, the Xiliang cavalry was not slow. The leading cavalry had already swam across the middle of the river. Meng Tu followed behind, watching the Fen River crossing halfway through the Fen River. He was secretly glad in his heart, thinking that after a while, he would lead the cavalry to the other side. This is his first achievement in breaking Linfen City.

But unexpectedly, the idea in Meng Tu's mind had just arose. A gong suddenly sounded on the other side, and many pine and bright torches suddenly lit up on the other side, and what was immediately heard was the sound of a large group of people moving out.

"No, the White Bo thief on the other side has been wary of it!"

Meng Tu shouted in his heart, as if to verify what he was thinking. The next moment, the sound of arrows breaking through the air continued to sound, and countless arrows turned into black shadows, hidden in the dim night sky, shooting down towards the shallow water of this section of Fen River.

"ah!"

The Xiliang soldiers leading the way were already in the middle of the river. At this time, they encountered the dense rain of arrows on the other side, and they were immediately hit by arrows and fell down. The Xiliang cavalry following the swimming in the back were suddenly a little confused, and they raised their shields high to defend. However, in the dark, just like the opponent's arrows were dense and chaotic, the Xiliang cavalry raised their shields to defend, and the number of people who were shot by the flowing arrows in the dark was gradually increasing as they approached the center of the river.

What's even more terrible is that the horses arrived at the center of the river. Although it was a shallow water area, the speed of wading by the water was greatly reduced. There were many feather arrows on their heads. The Xiliang cavalry who were swimming across the river were shot to death for a moment, and many people were injured.

Listening to the constant wailing sounds and the sound of falling into the water around him in the dark night, Meng Tu was anxious, but the arrows on the other side did not decrease and were still shooting here. And then the light of torches on the other side, Meng Tu could see the outline of the other side's array along the river. Unexpectedly, the other side's white wave thief must have set up a spear formation, waiting for his cavalry to swim over, exhausted, and then plunged in.

Under the circumstances, although Meng Tu felt unwilling, in order to reduce the casualties of his soldiers, he had to order a loud retreat. So he tried to wade through the shallow waters downstream of the Fen River, and gave up halfway under the threat of the Baibo army on the other side, retreating and returning in a mess.

Because he retreated too quickly, some of the Xiliang cavalry were still turning around, and their mounts and horses slipped, and their men and horses fell to Hedong. Their men and horses became wet and almost couldn't come back alive.

"Damn it, the group of white wave thieves on the other side have very strict defenses. They have discovered that we have swam here. And while we were waiting for half the crossing, a sudden attack caused us to damage some elite soldiers. We just bumped into bad luck tonight!"

As soon as Meng Tu got ashore, he complained to Zhai Hao, who was leading the subsequent Western Liang cavalry and had not officially launched the water.

He was also wet now. He was originally half soaked in the water and was eager to make contributions. He wanted to take over the hands of Linfen City. He didn't feel much about the cold river water at night, but now he failed and even broke some soldiers in vain. This made Meng Tu not only feel irritable inside, but also wet and felt extremely uncomfortable.

Zhai Hao listened to Meng Tu's complaints and said nothing. They were not the vanguard troops that regained Linfen City along the way, but were brought here by Yan Xing, to assist Xu Huang's troops to cross the Fen River.

Tonight, Xu Huang's troops were about to sneak across the Fen River, and there was no mistake. Therefore, Cao Yuan and Zhai Hao who came to assist, both Cao Yuan and Zhai Hao attacked in order to cooperate with Xu Huang's troops to attract the attention of greater white wave thieves to Xu Huang's troops to ensure that they could successfully cross the Fen River.

"Don't stop the horns and drums. The Baibo thieves on the other side think that there are many soldiers and horses waiting for us, and there are strong attacks at night. They can only stay here to guard against our troops. They keep consuming us here. I want to see who can consume whom?"

After Meng Tu and others came ashore safely, Zhai Hao began to act according to the original plan. For a moment, the sound of drums and trumpets on his side were continuous, and Zhai Hao and Meng Tu also saw and heard the movement coming from the upstream area in the distance.

There was Cao Yuan and Hutou's other soldiers leading the feint attack, with the same purpose as Zhai Hao and Meng Tu, all of which were to cover up the whereabouts of Xu Huang's troops who didn't even know the specific whereabouts of Xu Huang's troops.

Judging from the movements upstream, I am afraid that Cao Yuan's feint attacking troops were also discovered by the Baibo thieves stationed along the river, and the plan to cross the Fen River with boats was also vain. Therefore, Cao Yuan, Hutou and others simply started to raise more torches and whistle the drums and trumpets, and acted as if they had to force the river to attack while the night was dark, in order to concentrate the Baibo thieves on the other side as much as possible on their upstream.

But the two groups of soldiers who were feinted attack were discovered by Baibo thieves garrisoned on the other side, and arrived in time to block the Xiliang army's crossing and successfully defended the defense line along the river. Therefore, Cao Yuan, Zhai Hao and others who retreated to the east bank were also secretly worried when they sighed that their side's bad luck was not good, Xu Huang's soldiers who crossed the river, with the help of their feint attack, could cross the Fen River as soon as possible and complete the established goal tonight.

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"HaQiu"

When the people arrived in the river, Xu Huang, who was walking along with the soldiers, sneezed. He didn't know that Cao Yuan and Zhai Hao were already being thieves on the other side of the river, were thinking about his situation, but he also heard the movements upstream and downstream, and knew that Cao Yuan and Zhai Hao's two feinted troops had exposed their whereabouts and were still working hard to attract the vigilance and attention of Baibo's army on the other side as much as possible.

"Quick, speed up, we must get ashore as soon as possible!"

Xu Huang knew that time was tight, but he finally started to exit, motivating and urging the soldiers who crossed the river in his rank, hoping to get them to speed up and wade by.

The place where Xu Huang swam across the Fen River was neither the upper reaches nor the lower reaches, but the middle reaches with complex hydrology. Thanks to the tentative attacks these days, although he could not successfully occupy the position of the Fen River West Case, at least he had a rough situation with this large section of the Fen River in Linfen.

Therefore, Xu Huang decided to go against the rules, not playing according to common sense, neither using boats to cross the river upstream, nor intending to use horsepower to swim downstream like the Xiliang cavalry, but chose to swim in the middle.

In this middle section, the hydrology is complex. Although there are shallow water areas with low water levels, the location is not fixed and connected. When swimming, you need to constantly change directions, avoid the deep water areas in front, enter another shallow water area, and slowly approach the other shore.

Moreover, in order to hide his whereabouts, Xu Huang also ordered that the river bank not be lit without reaching the middle of the river. Although doing so, it would be a little more dangerous to cross the river by using the dim moonlight to smear the river in the dark, but it has to be said that this largely avoided the defense of the Bai Bo army, which was very cautious on the other side.

While Xu Huang was swimming, the Baibo army's troops and horses that Xu Huang saw on the other side were all heading towards Cao Yuan and Zhai Hao downstream. His swimming actions on this side had not been discovered by the Baibo army defending along the river.

However, after the soldiers leading the way arrived at the center of the river, in order to speed up, the subsequent wading movements became much louder. These ordinary sounds that seemed unsurprising in the past easily attracted the attention of Bai Bojun tonight.

That's right, the movements that happened in this middle stream were discovered by Li Le.

Li Le was originally defending the downstream and ambushed the Xiliang cavalry in the half-cross. In his opinion, the shallow water area downstream is the easiest place to cross the river, and more defense is needed, so more troops were sent to ambush the Xiliang cavalry there.

But then, after the Xiliang cavalry was ambushed, although they retreated to the other side, they did not withdraw their troops in shame because of the dilapidated plan. Instead, they tried to force the ferry in the night. Although the noise was quite disturbing, the real action was not good. After several rounds of arrow rain fell, the force the ferry in the downstream was interrupted again.
Chapter completed!