Thirty miles north of Fenglingdu, is a rocky river beach, there are big mountain walls on both banks, the locals call it Shimen - there is also a stone gate in Zhongtiao Mountain in the southwest of Anyi, as if there are many red cliffs on both sides of the Yangtze River, more than 100 years have passed, time has passed, Qin Xiangong beheaded 60,000, where was the battle of Shimen fought for the first time to defeat Wei, Qin Wei has not been very clear.

But this area is really not suitable for crossing the water, the surging river turns over the white waves, washes the knife-like cliffs on both banks, and makes a deafening sound of waves, only a path on the rocky beach leads to the top, let alone crossing, even standing on the shore and looking down, it will also give people a feeling of vertigo.

Because of this, there was almost no Wei army defense here, only a beacon pavilion was placed every five miles on the high bank, and a few rangers were sent to and from Pusaka to take a look by the way......

The guards of the beacon were also dutiful, always waiting on the watchtower, but in the middle of winter, the weather was cold, the river was foggy, and he could not see anything clearly from the west bank, so he stared at it for a while, and was shivering by the wind, so he got off the watchtower and wanted to drink a bowl of hot soup.

He could not see that under the cover of the mist on the water, an army of six or seven thousand men had been waiting behind the high bank for a long time.

The Qin soldiers had their backs against the loess and their shoulders close together, which would have warmed them up, and even though they were wearing thick woolen coats and dogskin hats, their fingers were still slightly red from the cold—because Captain Dong strictly forbade ignition of fires.

Occasionally, there was a low-pitched chatter in the authentic Xihe dialect, and these thousands of people were all young and strong people from Xihe, who were victims of the Six Nations Alliance's ravages in Xihe a few months ago, and they were either serving in the old Qin army or fleeing with their families, but there were also families who were victimized, and women and goods were all robbers and robbers of the Six Kingdoms.

In short, when everyone returned to Xihe, they were faced with a ruined home.

They hated, hated Zhao Gao, who betrayed Qin, and even more hated the "group of thieves" of the Six Kingdoms who ruined their hometown.

The wheel of hatred seems to have turned in a circle, in the past, it was the enmity between the people of the Three Jin Dynasty and the Qin Dynasty, and they were beaten to migrate and die, and now it is the turn of the Qin people to suffer.

Fortunately, the regent loves the people like a son, not only sends the imperial kitchen and the imperial doctor in the palace to help Xihe, but also arranges a hundred operas to condolence performances.

Over the past few months, vengeful people have been intensively trained,

Now, the opportunity for revenge has finally arrived.

"The division of the West River, as the forward of the heel army, will be the first to cross the river!"

When Dong Peng, the Eastern Governor of the Inner History, announced the news, the entire Xihe Division was boiling, which was a real joy when he heard the war.

But not everyone could be happy, and in the end, Dong Peng only chose 3,000 people, because they would be good at water......

3,000 people were trained under the play in Weinan, and the rest pretended to be stationed in Xihe, but in fact they moved to Fenglingdu little by little.

Today's war is now, when Dong Fei was patrolling among the soldiers, in the follow-up troops, many people asked him to fight.

"Captain, I'm already proficient in swimming! Let me join the heel army too! ”

"Me too!"

Although this so-called mastery is nothing more than a few dog planings.

Dong Fei's face turned pale, and he said to these hometown disciples who were eager for revenge: "You can't wait for half an hour to reach the east coast, can the thieves of the Six Nations still be killed by the forward?" ”

"Not necessarily." A middle-aged man with a scar on his face said coldly, he is a distant relative of Dong Fei, named Dong Chuan, who was originally a small official in the old Qin army, and his parents died in the massacre of Linjin, after Dong Chuan returned to his hometown, he almost cried to death in front of the ruins of the house that was burned to charcoal.

He then politely refused Dong Peng's order to let him be a personal guard, and willingly joined the camp of dead soldiers, practicing offensive skills all day long.

"The military heart is available."

From the beginning to the end, when the night was approaching, Dong Peng received a total of thousands of requests to join the heel army, and he understood that this was the sharpest moment for the Xihe people......

While letting people stare at the time of the engraving at the tent, Dong Fei stood on the high bank and looked southeast.

At this moment, the feints of Puban and Longmen have begun, which will firmly drag the main force of the Wei army and the reinforcements of the Zhao army there, and the clouds of what happened in the south are foggy.

And when night falls, the Fengling Ferry in the distance is lit up with a bright beacon flame, which is the code for the beginning of the operation of the West River Division!

"Han Xin's feint is loud, it's really big enough." Dong Fei secretly said in his heart, and asked people to pass the word one by one:

"Raft and cross the river!"

With Dong Peng's order, the 3,000 forwards who were trained in Weinan immediately got up, carried sheepskin rafts to the river, and threw them into the water

This is the way of crossing the water that Liangjiazi learned from the Hu people in the north, the leather bag is made of sheepskin or cowhide, after the cattle and sheep are slaughtered, a small opening is cut from the neck with a knife, and a thin tube is inserted into the skin to blow air, so that the air flow between the skin and meat is generated, and then the sheepskin is beaten hard, and the sheepskin will be separated from the mutton.

Cutting off the head and limbs of the sheep, then tearing the sheepskin down from the head, the sheepskin will be completely peeled off, as long as the holes in the head, limbs and tail are tightened, and finally blow into the skin, the sheepskin will expand into a bulging leather sac. This single leather bag can be used by one person to cross the river, and if several leather bags are tied together, it can even carry a raft while allowing many people to float over without making too much noise.

The 3,000 men had been training by the Weishui for a period of time, learning how to blow up the bag and how to swim across, and after a while, they successfully filled their leather bags and hung them on their chests one by one, and there were also several rafts carried by leather bags to transport weapons in a unified manner.

The first batch of forced crossings were 80 people with the best water nature, eight rafts, Dong Fei specially marched for them, and poured a bowl full of the strongest liquor in the West River, and after they took the wine, they drank it all!

Then he didn't smash the bowl, there was no imposing chanting, just silently wiped the wine from the corner of his mouth.

The wind is bitter and the wind is biting. Anyone standing by the river would shiver a little - either because of the cold, or because of fear.

But these eighty people, it was because of excitement.

"Do you remember the last scene in "Zhan Xi He"?"

Dong Chuan, the scar-faced man who threatened to "kill all the thieves of the Six Nations when he goes ashore", suddenly said.

"The Xiang thief was able to escape, and Qin and Guan stood on this big river and made an oath."

"The two of them will pursue the thief and his accomplices until the edge of the cape! Let him pay for his crimes, and pay for it with his life! ”

The roars of the two protagonists in the hundred operas have always been remembered in Dong Chuan's heart - they did what he wanted, and now, it is the turn of the people of Xihe to tell the story by themselves!

"And now, we're going to chase after it." He held on to the raft and stepped into the water with one foot.

Everyone rushed into the water, the river water in winter was cold and biting, but they were driven away by the vengeful anger in their hearts, even if it was ice water, they had to pass, and plunged the blade of revenge deep into the chests of the thieves of the six nations

The raft with leather bags struck the waves of the river, and rose and fell in the water, carrying ten people on each side, and if it were an ordinary small river, it would have passed in a moment, but it was a big river, and it was several miles wide, and it was impossible to see how far the other bank was in the night.

Some of the rafts were halfway up and overturned, and the people on them struggled to show their heads, and they were obviously closer to the west bank, but they were ashamed to turn back, and still struggled to swim to the east bank.

Although after a period of training, the raft was also equipped with a large river boatman, but some of the rafts successfully rowed to the middle of the river, some were swept back by the rapids, and some directly capsized the boat, but even the person who fell into the water still gritted his teeth and continued to swim, without looking back, chopping the waves and swimming straight to the opposite shore.

Some had an accident when they landed on the shore, because it was dark and there was no fire, they could not feel the direction, and it was easy to deviate, and finally they were hit by the waves on the rocks on the shore, and the whole raft was scattered, and some soldiers broke their heads and bled out, and they were swept into the water and never showed their heads again.

Despite the perilous process, dozens of people eventually touched the shore a few miles downstream, ignoring their shivering bodies from the cold, and bent their waists towards the enemy's beacon on the high shore.

To the second batch of 800 people, nearly 100 rafts into the water, this time the momentum is a bit huge, and the Wei army on the east bank of the beacon finally found out that something is wrong, but just after they lit the beacon and blew the horn, they were attacked and killed by the first batch of Xihe soldiers who landed on the shore.

Countless pairs of feet kicked violently, the fire was extinguished by the sand, and the residual smoke that was still slowly rising may be very conspicuous during the day, but no one could distinguish it in the night sky, and the fleeting light of Fang Cai was far worse than the thousands of people in Fenglingdu shouting in unison, and the torches were swirling......

At this point, it was much simpler, the first and second groups of people had already controlled the pavilion beacon and the beach mouth position, and the raft and wooden poppy behind were quickly launched, and the Xihe people held back their strength for a long time, and they were all used in their hands to paddle desperately.

In the end, even Dong Fei went to the east bank, looked at the wet soldiers, and grinned.

"It's done."

At the cost of several thousand sheep skin sacs, 3,000 men successfully crossed the landing, although the landing point was stretched several miles long from south to north, and even as soon as the troops came ashore, they fought with the roaming enemy cavalry, and their forced crossing was no longer a secret, so they simply lit torches to make the enemy tremble - at this moment the general attack on the side of Fenglingdu had also begun, and Wei Jiang could not spare manpower to come here.

But the thousands of people in the back and the tens of thousands of people in Fenglingdu can't cross the river like this! Dong Peng's top priority was to gather troops to launch an attack on the enemy forces holding the ferry on the west bank, and cooperate with the forced crossing forward sent by Han Xin to occupy the ferry in one fell swoop!

It will be a tough battle, and the opponent will have at least seven or eight thousand men, and many of his own soldiers have already died in the river.

When the number of people was counted, the first batch of dead soldiers who crossed the river, two of the eight boats were missing, probably after the raft dispersed, it was washed downstream by the current, including the scarred Dong Chuan, there was no trace.

"It's a pity." Dong Peng couldn't help but regret a lot.

But what is needed now is an overall victory, and he can't care about the casualties of a few people, Dong Fei tried his best to gather more than 2,000 people, one by one, and marched towards the bright fire.

When they arrived at the next pavilion ten miles away, they found that the battle here had long since ended.

Wei Zu's body was everywhere, and he was stabbed after death, and Dong Chuan was sitting outside the house, he had another scar on his face, and there were two heads in his hand that were still bleeding, squatting on the ground to roast the fire.

"Why is it too late? I even dried my clothes. ”

The new injury on Dong Chuan's face hurt when he smiled, which made his smile even more hideous, Dong Fei went over to help him up, patted him on the shoulder, and laughed: "Sure enough, there are more water routes than land routes!" ”

When Dong Chuan and a few of his surviving men returned to the team, the sky was about to dawn, and the dead soldiers of Xihe who had marched overnight could already see from afar, the chaotic Wei army camp, and they were rushing to deal with the Qin army's forced crossing.

The Wei army was originally a rabble composed of rangers, soldiers, and local armed forces, and at first saw another fire in the northwest, and regarded it as reinforcements, but when the flag was seen clearly at dawn, it couldn't help but be shocked......

When the sun rose, hundreds of ships began to leave Fenglingdu and advance towards the east bank, and the three thousand men on the shore did not hesitate to launch a fearless charge towards the west bank of the ferry......

"Don't let a group of thieves go!"

"Leave not a single captive behind!"

In this cold weather, they marched forward with their spears and ran over the enemy troops who stood in their way with unwavering footsteps.

And at this moment, Dong Chuan and others were finally able to shout the oath chanted by the two protagonists at the end of "Zhan Xihe" - it is said that this word was changed by the regent himself.

"Thirty years in Hedong, thirty years in Hexi!" As he roared, a new scar on his face was dripping with blood.

"It doesn't take thirty years, three months, and the West River will be rewarded!"

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In mid-November, Zhang Er, who was in Anyi, was happy to eat a bowl of rice after getting the good news that Pusaka and Longmen had "repelled Qin Kou", and a guest from outside hurriedly came to report:

"Xiangbang, the Qin army has crossed the river from Fenglingjin and Shimen, Zhang Huang and Chen Ze led 8,000 people were attacked by their abdomen and back, and they were almost slaughtered, the commander Zhang Huang died, Sima Chen Ze was killed in battle, Ruicheng fell, the main force of the Qin army did not know how many tens of thousands, all of them have boarded the east of the river, and their chariots and horses have been in the front, and they have reached the Jiechi!"

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