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The water in the district is a tributary of the Yellow River and is also a relatively important medium-sized river. The river water is wide and the water surface is calm, but the undercurrent is quite rapid. Both sides of the river are highlands. The Han army built fortifications on the south bank and built a small castle.

A heavy yellow crossbow was installed on the castle. This yellow crossbow was controlled by two strong soldiers. It can shoot a five-foot-long arrow to 150 steps away. It can penetrate the wooden rafts on the leather rafts and is an important weapon to deal with the Hu people's leather rafts.

In addition, eight soldiers were deployed on the shore. They were hiding behind the sandbag wall about two miles long, and were tense and ready to fight. The chief general responsible for defense by the river was the captain Wu Lan and Zhang Ren's general. At this time, he had heard the sound of trumpets from the other side and turned to the soldiers and said, "Tell me my order and prepare for combat. When the war drums sound, you can shoot."

He said to another soldier: "Go to report to the governor, the Huns' army is about to launch an attack."

The soldier turned around and ran away, and rushed to the city for a moment and shouted, "Report to the Governor, the enemy is about to attack."

On the top of the city, Zhang Ren also faintly heard the sound of the horns on the other side. He looked at the river and saw a thin white mist rising from the river, which was not conducive to defense. He was a little worried and leaned over and shouted: "Tell General Wu, don't defend it, if the situation is not good, withdraw immediately."

The report soldier returned to the river to report to Ulan. Wu Lan ordered: "Preparation of catapults"

The cross medium-sized catapults on the south bank creaked away, and the soldiers set off fireballs. With a command, they ignited the fire and threw them. Ulan's eyes turned to the river surface again, and the light fog on the river surface obscured the sight. Although this was beneficial to the attack, it also caused certain obstacles to attacking the enemy.

Several rafts were striding hard in the undercurrent and turbulent rivers. There were not many river sections suitable for crossing the water. In the river sections in the area where the water was left were either covered with rocks or cliffs on both sides. Only the section close to Gaonu County was slightly slower and the sides were flat, making it suitable for crossing the river.

The soldiers of Qianjie were desperately paddling the raft. A quarter of an hour later, the rafts of the rafts had arrived at the center of the river. Shi Tan stared at his army closely. They disappeared in the looming white mist. Shi Tan immediately turned around and said, "The second team went to fight."

The second thousand soldiers rushed to the river, threw out several rafts, climbed onto the raft and followed the vanguard team. At this moment, the sound of rapid war drums suddenly sounded on the south bank.

The sound of war drums is an order. A big yellow crossbow was shot at the same time. A five-foot-long arrow broke out of the string and shot into the river vigorously. At this time, several rafts were already looming in the mist. The rafts broke out into the air and suddenly appeared in front of the Jie soldiers. The rafts were caught off guard. A soldier was penetrated by a long arrow and screamed, turning over and falling into the water. The soldiers with the rafts were suddenly in chaos.

Long arrows kept breaking through the air. Although most of them were shot into the water, many long arrows still shot into the raft. The soldiers screamed and fell into the water. The raft capsized. In just a moment, seven or eight rafts were sunk.

At this time,

Several long arrows broke out of the air and shot towards a large leather raft at the same time. The raft was carrying more than one soldiers. The Jie soldiers were so scared that they dodged one after another. The long arrows shot through the wooden raft and pierced the several leather rafts below. The leather raft began to become unbalanced. Although a large leather raft consisted of dozens or even leather rafts, the leather raft also paid attention to balance. Once the balance was broken, the air raft could still remain stable, but the situation was very different if it was full of soldiers.

During the violent shaking, the large raft sank, and Yu Ming's soldiers yelled and fell into the water, struggling in the river for help, but the undercurrent was turbulent under the river. After only a few struggles, they were swept into the bottom of the water by the undercurrent and disappeared.

A series of large leather rafts capsized, and more than 50 soldiers fell into the water. The Jie soldiers were frightened and shouted for the leader of the thousands: "So quickly and quickly."

At this moment, a strange noise came from the heads of the soldiers crossing the river. Everyone looked up and saw dazzling fires appearing in the air. Then dozens of huge fireballs rushed towards each other, or hitting the raft. The raft swelled over and the soldiers fell into the water one after another.

More fireballs were smashed into the water, but this did not mean that they were safe and sound. On the contrary, the threat was greater. The fire was not extinguished because of the inlet. The fireball continued to burn in the water and quickly approached the raft. The sheepskin raft was most afraid of fire. It would break when it was touched. The soldiers were so scared that they shouted and desperately used their spears to poke the fireballs that were approaching. An accident happened. A large amount of liquid gushed out of the fireballs, which burned when they caught fire, and the water surface also burned.

This is a method that a craftsman came up with. The inner core of the tinder oil ball is filled with a thin sheepskin sac and wrapped with a fire cloth on the outside. Once the fire cloth burns through the skin, the tinder oil inside will flow out and burn on the water surface, posing a fatal threat to the sheepskin raft. This is a powerful weapon for the Han army to deal with the Huns' skin rafts crossing the river.

But before the fire cloth was burned through, the impatient Jie soldiers pierced the skin inside with their spears, and a large amount of tincture oil flowed out, turning the river surface into a sea of ​​fire. The soldiers were so scared that they shook their souls and shouted, many rafts were ignited by the flames, and the skins were burned out. The soldiers screamed and dived to survive.

Sudden fireballs fell from the sky, and the fire on the river surface became bigger and bigger. The raft in front was trapped in a sea of ​​fire. There were screams on the river surface, and the raft behind them turned around and fled back.

On the north bank, Shitan was stunned by the fire on the river. He originally did not allow the soldiers to retreat, but at this time, looking at the soldiers who were fleeing back, he had no choice but to do anything.

Not only were the Jie people panicked, thinking that the heavenly fire was coming, and they could actually burn in the water. Thousands of people knelt on the river to pray. Even the Huns' Chanyu Huchuquan and the Right King Liu Qubei were alarmed and urged them to come and inspect immediately.

Hu Chuquan's face looked very ugly. Of course, he would not think that this was a heavenly fire. It must be a weapon of the Han army. He could see clearly just now that it was a fireball thrown from the city, but this kind of fire could actually burn on the water, which really made him feel incredible. However, Hu Chuquan was very dissatisfied with Liu Qubei. He had been dealing with the Han army for so long, but he didn't tell himself that the Han army had such a powerful fire weapon.

Hu Chuquan glared at Liu Qubei with dissatisfaction, "Youxian King, you should know."

Liu Qubei shook his head quickly and said, "I have not been dealing with the Han army for a long time. I only know that their bows and crossbows are powerful, but I don't know that they use fire so sharply."

In fact, Liu Qubei knew a little bit. Didn’t the Han army destroy the Wuhuan camp with fireballs? But Liu Qubei didn’t expect that this kind of fire could burn in the water, but he didn’t dare to explain too much, and the more he explained, the worse it was. At this time, the chief of the Jie people, Shi Le, immediately stepped forward and said, “Shanyu, before the offensive was launched, my army had already lost more than a thousand people. If I continue to fight like this, my army would be burned to death in the river.”

Hu Chuquan snorted heavily, "I lost my first battle, why are you going to fight in the south? Don't explain the reason to me. In an hour, I will take the South Bank."

Shi Le wanted to defend again, but Hu Chuquan no longer gave him a chance. He turned his horse's head and left. Liu Qubei shook his head and left together. Shi Le couldn't say a word for a long time. At this time, he urged him to come forward and asked, "Father, he can agree."

Shi Le smiled bitterly and sighed: "He didn't take our lives or death at all."

"Battleman" Shi Tan cursed softly.

His eyes turned to the river again, gritted his teeth and said, "We will be wiped out by attacking like this."

As soon as he finished speaking, a dark laugh rang behind him, "Actually, the fireballs of the Han army are not without loopholes."

When Shi's father turned around, he saw a middle-aged Han scholar standing behind him. Shi Tan was once a general under Liu Qubei's tent. He knew this person. Li Ling, a Han aide of Liu Qubei. He was overjoyed and hurriedly bowed and said, "Sir, teach me."

Li Ling pointed to the river and said with a smile: "I just looked at the distance of the opponent's fireball carefully. Their pitch is about two steps. In this way, as long as you move northward, you can avoid the opponent's fireball attack by crossing the river."

"But what to do with the fire on the river?"

Li Ling laughed, "The river flows eastward, can the fire burn westward?"

Shi Tan slapped his forehead heavily, and he was really anxious and confused. Why didn't he expect that, at this time, Li Ling said again: "The catapult with more than two steps is at least medium-sized and must be fixed, so you don't have to worry about the chance of catapulting moving westward, but be careful of the other party's crossbow arrows and big yellow crossbow."

"I understand, sir's reminder, stone tan should be remembered in mind."

Shitan urged the horse to run towards the shore, shouting loudly, urging the soldiers to change their way west. At this time, Li Ling also returned to Liu Qubei. Liu Qubei asked with a smile: "How are they accepting the advice of the gentleman?"

Li Ling nodded, "It seems that he accepted it, but even if you seize the South Bank, it doesn't make much sense. It's hard for us to seize the city."

"You and I don't have to worry about this. Shanyu's purpose is to force the Han army to come for assistance. I believe he will have a solution." Speaking of this, an indeceptible sneer appeared on Liu Qubei's face.

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Li Ling's suggestion was not wrong. The range of the fireball could not exceed the steps. When the raft of the five thousand Jie soldiers changed to walk upstream and cross the river, they finally got rid of the bad luck of burning fire, but the crossbows of the Han army were ready for battle.

Amidst the shouts of shouting, the five thousand Jie soldiers launched a second attack. This time they no longer hesitated, tried their best to paddle the rafts, and several rafts sailed to the opposite bank like flying. The Han army on the south bank had already been erecting crossbows, waiting for the enemy to come.

However, as the main general of the South Bank's defense, Wu Lan's responsibility is not only to defend against the enemy's attacks as much as possible, but also to prepare for the worst. Since the ten catapults on the South Bank have lost their defensive effect, Wu Lan ordered the demolition of the catapults without hesitation, and could not be obtained by the Huns. At the same time, the yellow crossbow also changed from fixed shooting to mobile shooting. The soldiers moved the yellow crossbow to the sandbag wall and laid long arrows.

"General, he has entered the range of the yellow crossbow." A soldier urgently reported to Wu Lan.
Chapter completed!