On the banks of the Luo River, the Zhou army marched upstream to Yiyang, was chased by the Chu cavalry.

The Zhou army retreated from Luoyang, together with nearly 100,000 young and strong soldiers, the cavalry drove away the pursuit of Chu cavalry on the periphery, and the guard infantry and baggage chariots continued to move forward.

But there were also many cavalry chasing the Chu army, and more and more, and even a large number of donkey infantry riding and riding around the Zhou army like flies, lingering.

The Zhou army fought with the Chu army for several days, and walked and headed towards Yiyang southwest. When they arrived at the river section near Jiuquban, they were stuck by more and more Chu troops, and the infantry could no longer advance.

Jiuqu, also known as "Jiua" (generally refers to the high and low mountains). It has a ten-mile area and a nine-curve saka (hill slope), so it is named after it.

Not far from the upper reaches of Jiuquban, it is Yiyang Sanguan. Sanguan is about thirty miles away from Yiyang upstream of Luoshui.

The Zhou army, who could not escape, set up a formation on Jiuquban's north of the Luoshui River, confronted the Chu army, and sent troops to respond to Yiyang.

Peng Jun, the Minister of the Henan Daoxingtai, led his army to pursue Peng Jun, but did not let the soldiers gather in Banxia to prepare for a strong attack. Instead, he divided his troops across the river and gathered on the high ground on the south bank.

Most of the troops went up the hillside, and only a few soldiers were waiting by the Luo River, staring at the Zhou army on the other side.

The two armies looked across the river, from morning to afternoon.

Only the Luo River in the middle flows quietly, and its water level is very low. People can hike across the river, but the water is nothing but waistless.

It is rainy now, and the water level of Luoshui is somewhat abnormally low.

Jiuquban, deputy commander of the Zhou army, and Duke Yuwen Xian of Qi were a little anxious when he saw that the Chu army was so cunning and he was not deceived.

The Chu army was entangled all the way and could not get rid of it, but in fact, it could continue to advance, reach Sanguan and enter Yiyang.

But he had to plot against the other party, so he deliberately stayed in this Jiuqusaka, "forced" to climb the saka to form a formation, and wanted to fight to the death.

If the other party set up a formation at the bottom of the saka, the Yiyang defenders in the upper reaches will break the dam and release the water. At that time, a large amount of river water that had accumulated for a few days will roar down, rushing the Chu army beside the Luo River in the sakaxia to clean up.

This can be regarded as avenging the battle of Pingyang.

As a result, the other party was not fooled!!

Yuwen Xian looked at the Chu army gathering on the hillside opposite Luoshui, frowned. The commander, Yuchi Jiong, Duke of Shu, came over, looked at the Chu army opposite, and sighed:

"The Southerners are accustomed to using water to attack, so they are more careful and are not trapped."

Yuwen Xian asked: "Then how should our army deal with it next?"

Yuchi Jiong replied: "Confrontation, when the Yiyang troops arrive, they dare not act rashly, and our army can retreat slowly west."

That's all, Yuwen Xian didn't say anything else.

By generation, Yuchi Jiong is Yuwen Xian's cousin, but by age, Yuchi Jiong and Yuwen Xian are two generations: Yuwen Xian is now in his early thirties, while Yuchi Jiong is nearly sixty years old.

Yuchi Jing is similar to the current Otsutoku Jailu Yuwen Hu. When he was young, he followed his uncle Yuwen Tai to fight south and north, and was a long-time general on the battlefield.

Now Yuchi Jiong's decision is quite safe, which can ensure that at least 100,000 troops can retreat to Yiyang safely, so Yuwen Xian turned his attention to the current situation.

Thinking of the current situation, he was still worried.

No one expected that Wei Xiaokuan, the Duke of Yun who had been through war for a long time, would be wiped out by the Chu army with water outside Pingyang City.

However, if you put yourself in your shoes, Yuwen Xian felt that if he led his army to station outside Pingyang City, he would never have thought that the Chu army could launch a water attack.

After all, no one would have thought before that the Chu army would build a dam in the Fenshui River Valley north of Pingyang to store water, and launch a water attack on the Pingyang area downstream.

Yuwen Xian felt that such an enemy was too cunning and could not be defended.

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Therefore, I don’t know how the situation is in Tongzhou; I don’t know if the Chu army that broke into Hongnong, Shaanxi Province had been driven back to the north shore.

Yuwen Xian thought about it and couldn't help but sigh.

Before the news of Pingyang's defeat reached Luoyang, the Henan Chu army rushed out of Hulao and approached Luoyang.

At that time, he was preparing to fight with all his might. As a result, the news of Pingyang's defeat arrived in Luoyang, and then he realized that the situation in Luoyang was critical:

Luoyang is alone, and once it is stuck by the Chu army in Henan, Guanzhong will not be able to send reinforcements in a short period of time.

Then, news came that the Chu army was coming to Puban, and Yuwen Xian and Yuchi Jingdong realized that they had to give up Luoyang in order to protect the nearly 100,000 troops under their command.

As soon as the order of the Otsukakuya retreated to Luoyang, bad news came: the Chu army went south from the north of Shanzhou, near Jiechi, and crossed the river to enter the Shanzhou area.

Although the Hongnong defender defended the city, the Chu army had already gained a foothold on the south bank, and the Luoyang official army's way back to retreat to the west was seriously threatened.

At the same time, the Chu army advancing west from Hulao had already reached the remote suburbs of Luoyang.

So, the Zhou army in Luoyang immediately withdrew and retreated upstream along the Luoshui River to Yiyang, but was followed by a large number of Chu cavalry and could not be shaken off.

The water that built a dam near Yiyang in advance cannot be used now, which made Yuwen Xian's expectations fail. Next, he could only wait for Yiyang troops to come and take over and retreat to Yiyang.

While thinking about the current situation, Yuchi Jiong, who had been using a thousand-mile mirror to observe the movements of the Chu army opposite, suddenly said: "Note that something is wrong in the south!"

Upon hearing this, Yuwen Xian also picked up the Qianli Mile Mile Mile and looked at the opposite side with several other major generals.

But I saw the Chu army on the opposite hillside, which seemed to be fiddling with some vehicles. It seemed that these vehicles were considered to be ordnance.

Yuwen Xian looked at it for a while and couldn't see what kind of ordnance these vehicles would be. He put down the Qianli Mileage Mileage and looked at the lens tube.

This Thousand Mile Mile Mile is indeed a good thing. It can make people see the movements of miles and miles away. It was originally made by the South.

Later, Zhou Guo got some Qianli mirrors through different channels. After craftsmen pondered the structure, they used crystals to grind the lenses and imitated some.

Therefore, many Zhou army generals have good things like Qianlijing and are also distributed to scouts to facilitate investigation of enemy situations.

Yuwen Xian looked at the Qianli Miles Miles in his hand and used it to observe the situation of the enemy on the other side again.

According to Qi State, the Chu army had several powerful weapons, and the other side defeated the Qi army repeatedly.

Therefore, our side should pay attention to using cavalry, and not foolishly set up large formations to confront the enemy.

Because the cavalry gathered and dispersed impermanently, they would not give the other party the opportunity to use these powerful weapons.

And now, our troops gather on the hillside, wouldn't it be...

Yuwen Xian thought about it again and thought it was impossible. Now the two armies are confronting north and south, and they are at least three or four miles apart. The powerful weapons of the Chu army mentioned by Qi cannot reach such a long distance.

At this moment, on the hillside to the south, a large number of fires flashed at the gathering of the Chu army, and a sharp whistling sound was heard.

Then, the flames pulled the white smoke and flew northward.

Yuwen Xian thought he was dazzled, so he put down the Qianli Mile Mile Mile and looked with his eyes. He did see a large number of fireballs pulling white smoke flying towards the Jiuquban where he was.

He was amazed in his heart: No, the distance is at least three or four miles...

"Shield, shield!!!"

The subordinates shouted, not because they called on the soldiers from various departments to raise their shields, but because the soldiers around the guards gathered and used the shields in their hands to build the walls to protect the main generals.

The soldiers moved very quickly and quickly raised the shield wall. After all, they had noticed the abnormal movements on the opposite side.

After Yuwen Xian was pulled to the shield, he heard the whistling sound approaching quickly, and then the movement of landing.

He looked through the gap between the shields and saw a large number of firelight falling into his own formation. After a moment, the explosion sounded, and the firelight was shattered:

The fireballs that fell to the ground burst out with dazzling fire, splashing fire-filled liquid around them, igniting the crowd.

In terms of effect, it is similar to arson of fire arrows, but its power and arson range are much larger than that of fire arrows.

On the hillside where the Chu army was opposite, fireballs kept flying towards this side with white smoke. Some flew in a tilted way, and some fell in mid-air and landed on the banks of the Luo River.

But more fireballs fell into the last Zhou army formation of Jiuquzhang.

The fire kept blooming in the crowd and ignited living people. The people on fire were shouting and struggling, and the people around them went to put out the fire, but their bodies were ignited.

Gradually, fires broke out in the Zhou army's formation, and the fire had already started to burn, and the ignited crowd began to disintegrate.

Major generals such as Yuwen Xian and Yuchi Jiong witnessed all this. Although their locations were not attacked by flying fireballs, they were stunned to see the whole army being in such chaos.

Yuchi Jiong, who had fought for decades, and Yuwen Xian, the rising star, watched nearly 100,000 troops being attacked by the Chu army with strange weapons, resulting in chaos in the morale of the army.

The fire caused the formation to gradually collapse, and for a while, the generals didn't know what to do.

Only the generals of the various departments shouted loudly, trying to maintain order, but the soldiers had no choice but to avoid the flying fireball.

To the south, Peng Jun watched his long-range attack weapon named "Rocket" fly into the enemy formation, and the arson effect was good, and he was very satisfied.

As expected, the other party set up an ambush here and engaged in water attacks, so he started fire attacks, which brought a large number of "rocket nest cars" to this end.

He looked at more than half of the "rocket nest vehicles" that had not been launched and ordered them to be shot in the air: there were nearly 100,000 "guests" on the opposite side, so we can't "neglect".

And let the messenger come forward and obey the order: "Send the order and let the front army prepare to cross the river and give them a pleasure!"

A general reminded: "During the festival, if the Zhou army in the upper reaches breaks the dike and releases water..."

Peng Jun smiled: "Okay, our army crossed the river in batches, each batch of only a few thousand people. There are nearly 100,000 soldiers running around the mountains and fields across the streets. If you really want to enlarge the water, see which side drowned!"
Chapter completed!