On Bagong Mountain, Sima Daozi's brows gradually twisted together, although in order to maintain the dignity of the prince, he did not sweat profusely like other Wenchen generals, walking around and sighing, but his frowning brows and the ice cubes that kept stuffing his mouth clearly showed his anxious mood now.

Finally, Sima Daozi couldn't help it, watching the Qin army's boulder bombardment, which shocked the Jin soldiers running from the bridge to fall into the water, and many of the soldiers running in the rear turned around and began to run back, and the bridge began to crowd together, he said hatefully: "How did Liu Gaozhi fight, now these soldiers don't dare to cross the bridge, and he can't afford to play it?" ”

Sima Daozi's gaze still fell on Xie Yan, who was standing beside him, and said coldly: "General Xie, you are a famous general, a general, and you are the most trusted person in the military now, you can take down the Qin army on the opposite side today?" ”

Xie Yan's eyes were shining, his red face was red, his expression was serious, he groaned for a while, and said, "Lord Wang, looking at the last general, today's situation is not good!" ”

Sima Daozi stood up all of a sudden, and said in a lost voice: "What, the situation is not good?" What do you mean? Could it be that my 100,000-strong army can't even help the Qin army on the other side? ”

Xie Yan shook his head, pointed to the water in front of him, and said: "Lord Wang, please look, this water is more than 200 steps wide, and now the water flow is beginning to become rapid again, and there is ice floating in the river, but the river cannot be frozen, this is really God's disadvantage to our army, in this climate, it is very difficult for the soldiers to force the crossing, the Qin army only needs to defend the river and shoot with bows and arrows, and it will be difficult for our army to gain a foothold on the other side." ”

His hand pointed to the three pontoon bridges again: "The most fatal thing is that these three pontoon bridges, were bombarded by the trebuchet of the Qin army, the left pontoon bridge was broken, and it was finally broken immediately after being connected, today is actually good luck, the two pontoon bridges in the middle and right have not been broken, but they are too unstable, when our soldiers are running on it, they are pushed into the river by the waves in the water, in this weather, wearing iron armor, they will sink to the bottom of the water and drown, not that the soldiers are not desperate, the conditions are too difficult." ”

Sima Daozi gritted his teeth: "I don't believe it, I don't believe that this little water can stop my 100,000 army!" This water is not the Yangtze River, there are 100,000 athletes, that is, one person carries a sandbag and throws it in, and it is not too difficult to block the water! ”

Wang Guobao and Diao Kui hurriedly said: "Lord Shengming! ”

But Xie Yan's brows were still tightly wrinkled: "Lord, this takes time, this Huainan land, it is not yet spring, the soil is still frozen, not to mention digging the soil and filling the river, even when camping and going down to the village, it is difficult to erect this wooden fence, and it is difficult for the soldiers to sleep on the frozen soil at night. ”

The corners of Sima Daozi's mouth rose slightly: "Could it be that there is nothing to be done?" ”

Xie Yan smiled slightly: "Lord Wang doesn't have to worry too much, today at least you can see that the tactics of pontoon bridges are feasible, as long as our army erects more pontoon bridges, erects thirty or forty roads, and sets them up in all directions of the river, the Qin army can only take care of one and lose the other!" ”

Xie Xuan's expression soothed a little, and nodded: "What General Xie said is very lonely, it's just ............" His brows furrowed, looked ahead, and said, "It seems that there are one or two thousand soldiers in our army who died on the other side of the bank today, and now there are still hundreds of sergeants left on the east bank, waiting for rescue, do you want to watch them die?" ”

Xie Yan shook his head: "Lord Wang, the vanguard of our army was ambushed by the Qin people, I didn't expect them to have so many arrows, so fast, now these three or four hundred remnants of our army are left on the east bank, and it is impossible to make a difference, Lord Wang, please forgive the last general, now it is the best policy to collect troops, the vanguard of Liu Gaozhi's department, now the spirit has been lost, the soldiers are afraid of the enemy, their morale is low, and it is difficult to gain anything if they fight, it is not worth sacrificing thousands or even tens of thousands of lives in vain for three or four hundred people." ”

Sima Daozi's face sank: "What is General Xie talking about?" Is it for Liu Gaozhi's exoneration? Hum! Although Lone had not directly commanded the war before, he was also familiar with military books, and Lone still knew the truth of the courage of the generals. He Liu Gaozhi is a former army commander, and he does not bravely charge into battle, but he commands his subordinates to cross the bridge to die, so who is willing to rush forward? Lone didn't believe it, if Liu Gaozhi personally led people to charge, he would not be able to rush through the 200-step pontoon bridge! ”

The corners of Xie Yan's mouth hooked, and said: "What the prince said is extremely true, and the end will not be able to reach it!" But he was secretly proud in his heart: Liu Gaozhi, aren't you a barbarian, don't you want to grab this pioneer? Take your life and grab it! Even Lao Tzu doesn't dare to be this vanguard general, you should be at ease, okay, let you have no return!

Sima Daozi's mind was immediately decided, and he said in a deep voice to Wang Guobao on the side: "Wang Shangshu, quickly order, send a herald to go, and tell Liu Gaozhi that Lone is watching him from behind, if he doesn't personally lead the team to charge, come and see him!" Also, he ordered Xie Xuan to supervise the battle well, and he was not allowed to withdraw from the army unless he had Lone's will! ”

Liu Gaozhi was at the edge of the river, beating the drum anxiously, seeing that there were three rounds of charge, but each time it was shallower than the other, the first time he rushed over half of the bridge, the second time it was only eighty steps, and the third time it was only more than fifty steps later, two big waves came, and more than 100 soldiers were washed into the water, and the rest of the people did not wait for the order, they retreated, and he cut down two teams by the river that took the lead in escaping, but to no avail.

A sound of horses' hooves came, Liu Gaozhi looked back, but only saw that it was a herald wearing gold armor, riding a handsome white horse, with four small flags on his back, at a glance it was the sergeant of the imperial camp, he hurriedly threw down the drumsticks, adjusted the military uniform, walked forward, only to hear the herald said loudly: "The prince has an order, the eagle Yang general Liu Gaozhi listens to the order, Lone is watching you from behind, if you don't personally lead the team to charge, come to see you!" ”

Liu Gaozhi gritted his teeth and said in a deep voice: "The last general will obey the order!" ”

He turned around, and the three main generals of the three armies around him, Zhuge Kan, Sun Wuzhong and Gao Su all walked over, Liu Gaozhi looked at the three of them, and saw that the faces of the three were sad, and he was obviously very dissatisfied with Sima Daozi's practice of not caring about the life and death of the soldiers, not only not comforting, but forcing people to rush to death.

Liu Gaozhi sighed: "It's hard to disobey the fate, three generals, let's prepare, each army picks out two thousand elite strong men, General Sun and I, General Gao will attack separately, and General Zhuge will lead the army to respond!" ”

The three of them clasped their fists in unison and saluted: "Follow the general's orders!" ”