Because it occupies an absolute advantage on the waterway, the Jin army's temptation against Heluo is always ongoing. At first, it was only a little harassment, but as the army became more concentrated, the temptation became more detailed and purposeful.

In particular, the news that Guo Yu was directly demoted to white due to a momentary negligence spread to the armies, which was tantamount to a basin of cold water poured on the head, so that the generals and commanders of the armies did not dare to be arrogant anymore and treat this war with a more serious attitude.

Due to the strength of the naval army, the Jin army occupies an absolute advantage in this section of the Yellow River waterway, before the general attack order is issued, the commanders at all levels also drive large and small ships to frequent in this section of the waterway, or to monitor the strength of the current, or to test the coastal camp defense, and some even sail the warships directly into some of the coastal navigation tributaries, in order to grasp the enemy's military situation and all aspects of the combat environment as detailed as possible.

This is definitely an extremely cautious attitude and attaches importance to the opponent for the Jin army, which has just won a big victory in Hebei. You must know that on the eve of the previous Liyang War, the Jin army did not investigate the enemy's intelligence in such detail.

But for the Peach Leopard defenders on the shore, this behavior of the Jin army is simply unscrupulous, arrogant to the extreme, completely ignoring their existence! It's as if the executioner has already ascended the execution platform, but is not in a hurry to kill the prisoner, but carefully observes where the knife should be dropped. Such an act is simply an arrogant provocation.

Being so blocked outside the camp gate and scrutinizing and scrutinizing from a close position, it is naturally impossible for the enemy troops in the camp to remain indifferent. Whether it was to prevent the Jin army from snooping on the truth or simply venting his anger, several counterattacks were also organized in the Mengjin battalion.

Although they did not have enough boats, they had the home field and were able to mobilize a large number of troops for battle in a short period of time. Especially on the previous occasion, taking advantage of the convenience of the river bridge, he suddenly put down the rafts and floating boards in the upper reaches, and directly killed more than 300 soldiers and sailors on a fighting ship of the Jin army, which can be regarded as exhaling and raising his eyebrows.

But this time the exhalation and raising of eyebrows did not make them happy for too long, and the loss of a fighting ship by the Jin army was like a signal, and huge ships of great scale began to appear on the water. Three Chang'an ships appeared on the water, and there were nearly 100 large and small escort ships around!

Such a huge warship with a huge hull needs a huge amount of power to drive it on the water, especially in the case of going upstream, the water flow is not only insufficient to borrow strength, but because the huge hull bears a greater impact of the current, the sailing speed becomes extremely slow, in addition to the helmsman and oar power carried by the big ship itself, it also needs the help of other ships.

And although the current season has entered a dry season, the impulse of the big river is still not small, and once the boat encounters the undercurrent with too fast water, then many previous efforts will be in vain.

Therefore, the Jin army did not use such a huge ship when it was tempted, after all, although the Jin army's water advantage is obvious, but the upstream trend is still in the hands of the Heluo defenders, although the river bridge connecting Mengjin to the other side has long been destroyed in the war, but the river bridge from Mengjin to Hezhou has also been partially repaired through the unremitting efforts of the Taobao army.

Such a large ship is almost a fortress city floating on the water, and it is difficult to deal with it by conventional means. What's more, the army of the peach leopard does not even have basic conventional means, they have no enough boats and boats at all, as for making simple rafts and the like, it is barely usable to cross the river, if it is used in water warfare of this level, even if there are many dispatches, it is only a floating board to die.

Originally, the defenders on the shore hoped that the Jin army would give up using these large ships because it would be too difficult to go against the trend, but the Jin army finally chose to put them into battle.

Of course, this does not mean that the defenders are completely defenseless. On the original bridge of the Fuping River in Mengjin, the army of Taobao spent great effort to build many floating weirs made of bamboo and wood. These floating weirs can be used to pass and reinforce river bridges in normal times, but in the event of a war, they only need to disconnect the crossposts and cables, and they will be washed down directly by the current.

The giant wood that is as thick as the two people hugging each other is cut into two pointed fusiform shapes, and once it is cut off and bound downstream, the water helps the momentum, which contains more than a thousand strengths, and castration is especially powerful. Previously, due to the scattered distribution of enemy ships, it was difficult to collect enough effect even if such a powerful killing move was used.

But now that the enemy ships were in dense formation, and there were large ships that were heavy and not good at evading, they were in battle, and it was time for these floating weir fortifications to shine.

Therefore, when the Jin army fleet appeared in the field of vision and approached Mengjin, the defenders on the shore naturally made preparations for the battle, and nearly a thousand people, including animal power, were dispatched to the river bridge, and as soon as the Jin army reached the attack range, they immediately launched this killing move.

Although they are completely at a disadvantage on the water, because of the existence of this upstream killing move, they can also be fearless of the powerful fleet of the Jin army. On the contrary, the more troops the Jin army uses, the greater the lethality that this killing move can cause!

But it has to be said that although this kind of large warship looks mighty, it is too unsuitable for fighting against the current, and the speed of travel is simply outrageously slow. When it appeared in view, more than half a day passed, and it was not even ten miles ahead, almost moving forward little by little.

With such a slow marching speed, even the scouts of the Heluo defenders who were looking at the river to watch the enemy's situation were anxious, and they couldn't wait to help pull the fiber in person, so that these Jin warships could reach the area where their floating weir killing moves could exert their lethality as soon as possible.

When Peach Leopard arrived in Mengjin, what he saw was such a situation, which dragged on to an almost absurd battle situation. The Jin army seems to be full of obsession with the participation of large ships in the war, and they still refuse to give up those large ships that are simply out of place despite the slow pace of progress.

As the defenders, they were absolutely passive, and although the Jin army's ships were moving at an outrageously slow pace, they always maintained control of the river.

The peach leopard also tried to send some light boats to intrude, or cruising on the water in order to get more enemy information, but once the boats rushed out of the dock, the Jin army fleet would also rush out of some light boats, and the defenders on those boats and rafts would either break up or force them back, and they would not be allowed to gallop on the water at all!

As for the river bridge, because he had been thinking about killing a few large warships of the Jin army, he did not dare to act rashly for such a small-scale warship, so as not to startle the snake. After all, their killing move can only be miraculous once, and once the enemy army is prepared, it is impossible to expand the results of the battle.

"The thieves are disgusting!"

At this time, Peach Leopard and his generals saw the purpose of the Jin army, even if they were sluggish, where they insisted on putting the big ship into battle, and clearly only wanted to use it as a bait, so that the arrangement on the river bridge did not dare to launch the rat trap, so as to achieve the goal of full control of the river.

But seeing it does not mean that there is a good coping strategy, false and real, false and true, they rely on the arrangement of mutual restraint, forcing the enemy army not to dare to drive straight in. The same enemy forces took advantage of their high hopes and dragged them from a major counterattack.

Once these killing tactics came in handy in advance, but did not receive the corresponding results, the next thing would be for the enemy's ships to advance and rush directly to the Mengjin ferry, which they were guarding strictly.

On this section of the river, the atmosphere is unprecedentedly solemn, but the pace of the battle is unprecedentedly dronely, which is simply a kind of torture. The defenders on the shore were all attracted by the fleet with three large ships as the core on the water, and they did not dare to slack off.

Even into the night, the fleet still did not have the slightest intention of reining in its whereabouts, and the warships, large and small, were still approaching at that speed like a turtle. But in fact, everyone knows that they are only deliberate, once they abandon the three large ships that slow down the pace, the speed of the march will increase dramatically.

For such a large fleet, there are at least 10,000 soldiers. The total strength of the Peach Leopard in the Mengjin camp is only more than 10,000, and it is scattered on a defense line that is more than ten miles long.

In such a silent confrontation, the Peach Leopard army seemed to be inactive on the shore, but in order to prevent an attack, it was all on alert. As for the Jin army, it was only a part of their forces on the water. Although it seems that the Jin army still has to march in boats, and the physical consumption is greater, there will be a new force on the battlefield at any time.

In particular, the Peach Leopard army was confined to the small area of Mengjin, and there was no way to know the deployment of the Jin army on the larger battlefield.

You must know that the Jin army number is 200,000, and the combined army of Huainan and Xuzhou alone has at least 100,000 people. In a large-scale battle that has always liked to exaggerate the number of troops, the Jin army's claim to this level can be said to be undeceivable.

Of course, Taobao didn't know that before the war in Heluo, a considerable part of the Huainan Army had already returned to the south, and Shen Zhezi was sheltering a large number of refugees in Hebei who also needed to be guarded and suppressed by the army. After deducting the divisions of Jijun in Hebei, Hanoi including Huatai in Henan, Yanjin and other places, in fact, the army that can really be put into this battle is only more than 60,000.

But even so, the combat troops possessed by the Jin army were far more than several times greater than the Peach Leopard army. In the current situation of Peach Leopard, in fact, the most ideal response is to retreat to Kim Yong City, although Luoyang is dilapidated, but Kim Yong Yong can still be called a stubborn city, with Peach Leopard less than 30,000 troops, if all are placed in Kim Yong City, as long as the resources are sufficient, it may not be impossible to hold on for several months.

The Jin army, on the other hand, was under huge logistical pressure, and it was impossible to maintain the army for such a long time. In particular, there is a huge burden of millions of people, and it is even difficult to confront Heluo for a long time.

But the peach leopard itself does not understand the enemy's reality clearly, and the blow of the defeat of the tiger prison has made him almost lose his mind, and the sudden defeat of Shi Kan before, including the loss of Yecheng, also made him dare not put the Jin army in the eight passes. So naturally, this kind of stupid arrangement that seems to be well-founded, but in fact further dilutes the troops.

This night, the Peach Leopard army has been preparing for war intensely, and the soldiers don't even dare to close their eyes. It wasn't until nearly dawn that the peach leopard was sure that the night had passed safely, and then he realized that the Jin fleet had been floating on the water for nearly a day and night, and it must have been seriously consumed, and the advance and retreat might not be calm, so he immediately ordered Meng Jin to send 2,000 soldiers down the river to attack.

However, just as the sergeants in the camp were still scheduling, suddenly several dusty knights rushed into the camp, bringing shocking news: the Jin army had landed from downstream, and an unknown number of enemy troops were crossing the north and rushing towards the Shouyang Mausoleum between Luoyang and Yanshi!