It's been 5 days after the heavy snowfall, the cold wind is biting, every day, there are people to the bank of the Yellow River to check, the ice is getting thicker and thicker, there are two feet, not to mention pedestrians, even if they are riding horses, they can easily walk through.

The barrier to protect Linzhou is gone, and everyone dare not slack off.

Ye Hua used five days to complete the modification of the crossbow arrows, due to the rush of time, he could only use the brazier to create a high-temperature environment to accelerate the solidification of fish gelatin, which may affect the quality, but he can't take care of it.

In fact, every citizen of Linzhou is racing against time.

Women, day and night, steaming steamed buns, baking flatbread, rushing to make clothes, men are counting the items needed for the long journey, they will take the dry food made by the mother-in-law, go to the soldiers, in exchange for the skins of cattle and sheep, for children and the elderly to heat, some old people will also take out the treasure of a lifetime, buy some meat, fortunately, the salt price in Linzhou is cheap, with green salt pickled, carry, enough to eat all the way.

People are like locusts, sweeping away everything that is useful, and even the tendons and fish left over from boiling glue are swept away.

Every day, thousands of people help the old and the young, drive donkeys, or push carts, leaving their hometowns.

Before leaving, every man will silently put a handful of soil, be careful, close to the body, with this hometown soil, walking thousands of mountains and rivers are not afraid!

Almost all the people of Linzhou are gone, and only more than 3,000 Yang family's subordinates remain, plus less than 2,000 Ye Hua's subordinates, these 5,000 people, fighting side by side and running in with each other, have been able to command like an arm.

Yang Ye, Yang Chongxun, Chen Shi, Fu Zhaoxin, Zhao Kuangyin, Gao Huaide, Liu Yanqin, Wang Tingyi, each of them led 200 cavalry, took advantage of the night, crossed the Yellow River, and met the people separately.

In Lanzhou, Xianzhou, Shizhou, and even Fenzhou, thousands of people all moved. Some even entire villages, whole families, ran to the banks of the Yellow River together.

The large team has hundreds or thousands of people, and the small team has dozens of people, although they come from different directions, but they all have the same goal.

Among all the people, there are two folk songs like this: "If you want to starve, Jinyang has always stayed, you want to be full, there is a pot in Tokyo".

Even the most idiot knows the meaning of the ballad, how Guo Tianzi of Kaifeng treats the people, everyone has only heard of it, but it will not be worse than Liu Chong in any case!

Since Liu Chong ascended the throne, there have been no good things.

First he recruited the people, and then he tripled the amount of land endowment.

In order to fight the war, each family was also required to pay a tax on one cowhide!

The common people simply want to cry without tears, what are they like when they are poor, they want human skins, they want cowhides, no!

If it's just a rampant conquest, it's okay to endure and forbear, and it won't leave your hometown, but the Khitans are here again, an army of 100,000, where they pass, the chickens and dogs are restless!

The autumn harvest was delayed because of the war, and less than half of the grain was recovered.

Just when the people were desperate, many people dressed as Taoist priests appeared in various villages, and they recited folk songs and children's songs, telling everyone that if they went to Linzhou and Dazhou, they would survive.

Gradually, the folk songs spread, and the hearts of the people are alive, rather than waiting for death, it is better to fight!

At this time, more and more businessmen came from Linzhou and invited everyone to cross the river together.

There are also Linzhou soldiers and horses that are killed from time to time, and all the villages and towns near the Yellow River have been emptied.

One news after another shocked the numb people, even if they were honest and dutiful, they knew what to choose when they were drawn by this stick.

At the beginning of the blizzard, the Yellow River froze, like a signal, from all directions, flocking to Linzhou.

The actions of the people could not escape the eyes of the Northern Han Dynasty.

In fact, they were also aware of it, but the successive defeats made them unable to exert much strength to suppress them, and when they saw tens of thousands of people fleeing, they could no longer pretend to be deaf and dumb.

Liu Chengjun was alarmed, he was so angry that he was shot by Yang Ye last time, and his back was injured, and he had not fully recovered, so he had to fight.

"Yang family, I'm going to cut you one by one!"

Liu Chengjun was ruthless, and spent a day and night rushing straight to the bank of the Yellow River, no matter where the people came from, they had to cross the Yellow River, as long as they held the Yellow River, these chaotic people would not want to escape! Don't think about it yet!

What Liu Chengjun could think of, Ye Hua naturally expected, he was leading 2,000 people, waiting for the prey to come to the door. In the cold wind, Ye Hua was wrapped in a thick battle robe and looked a lot burly.

Although it is not the first time to go to the battlefield, he still has sweaty palms, and sometimes fear is not a bad thing, at least it can make people more cautious.

Ye Huasa went out to carefully inquire about the news, and finally at around noon, the scouts reported that the Northern Han people were 20 miles away and were approaching quickly.

"Prepare for war!"

Ye Hua gave a decisive order, and the soldiers immediately got busy.

Fighting with a bed crossbow is not as easy as imagined.

The bed crossbow, also known as the 8-cow crossbow, as the name suggests, requires the strength of 8 cows to be able to pull it apart. If you change to human manpower, you need dozens of people.

Even if Ye Hua and the craftsmen made improvements and increased the winch, it would take 20 people to exert force on both sides at the same time to be able to load the arrows.

50 bed crossbows used half of Ye Hua's manpower.

But fortunately, there were not so many people when it was activated, so he sent out people to load the winch crossbow. When everything was ready, Ye Hua asked the soldiers to move forward, covering the ballista with a big shield, and making a decisive posture.

The cavalry of the Northern Han Dynasty appeared, they saw the shield array in front of them, and they wanted to laugh out loud, and fight in the field with the Hedong soldiers, not measuring their own strength, purely looking for death! The men and horses of the Northern Han Dynasty divided into two roads and rushed towards Ye Hua.

Ye Hua was also sneering, and when he entered about 800 steps, he immediately waved his flag, and the shield hands instantly ran to both sides, revealing a hideous and terrifying bed crossbow.

The people and horses of the Northern Han Dynasty also saw it, they were terrified, some people restrained the war horses, some people continued to rush, and there was a brief chaos!

"Put!" Ye Hua decisively ordered.

The crossbowman raised his hammer high and slammed it down.

In an instant, 50 arrows shot out and pounced on the dense cavalry ranks.

I saw the arrows passing, and the people shouted and neighed, wailed in pain, and fell off their horses one after another. Some people broke their arms and legs, Bai Sensen's bones were exposed, some people were pierced through the chest, through the holes, and even bloody hearts could be seen, and they opened their mouths like dead fish, waiting for death to come.

Even the war horse could not resist it, and fell in a pool of blood, convulsive and died.

That's the power of a bed crossbow, cow!

It's a pity that Ye Hua didn't allow his subordinates to watch the results of the battle, and after shooting the crossbow arrows, they immediately got on their horses, pulled the bed crossbow, and didn't retreat with their heads.

The rest of the winch crossbows followed behind, and when the Northern Han people and horses were in a hurry, they stopped to shoot a round of arrows to block the pursuers, and then quickly slipped away.

In the face of the men and horses who fought completely by crossbow arrows, Liu Chengjun was also stunned, in the first round of confrontation, more than 100 cavalry were injured and died, and where the bed crossbow passed, whether it was a person or a war horse, all were penetrated, a puff of blood mist burst out, staining the ground under his feet red, and some arrows could even penetrate several people in a row, and people were stunned.

Last time, Liu Chengjun didn't have time to take a closer look at the power of the bed crossbow, but this time he understood!

It's sharp!

Such a good weapon, to a coward who can run with light, is simply a waste of things!

He gritted his teeth and went crazy, desperately pursuing.

But Ye Hua was familiar with the terrain, especially sparing his life, and when they chased after him, he would have disappeared without a trace.

Seeing that the pursuit was hopeless, Liu Chengjun remembered the purpose of this trip, immediately turned around and rushed to the bank of the Yellow River. But not long after Liu Chengjun turned around, Ye Hua appeared again, this time he climbed the hill, aimed at the place where the Northern Han army camped, and rewarded a round of crossbow arrows.

While they were looking for war horses and weapons, Ye Hua ordered another round of shooting, and then decisively withdrew, and when the Northern Han army caught up, they had disappeared into the night!

Without even touching the face, the Northern Han army lost almost 300 people, Liu Chengjun was crazy, he estimated that with the shamelessness of the other party, he would definitely attack.

"Immediately divide the troops into two ways to pursue, and if you don't kill them all, I swear not to be human!"