The wind is sluggish and the water is cold, and hundreds of years ago, Prince Yan Dan bid farewell to Jing Ke here. At that time, this river was a natural danger of the Yan Kingdom, and now that the dynasty has changed, the princes are fighting, and this river is still here to guard the southern gateway of Youzhou.

It's just that in the cold winter, even the most loyal Yi Shui has to rest for a while.

For more than ten years, things are wrong, and even more so for Jiang Jin, a boy from Jixian County; But for thousands of years, what has not changed is this river, and Jiang Jin will know how thick its ice is when he knocks on it!

Maybe Yi Shui can still support the brigade to walk in this early spring with the chill of midwinter, but it definitely can't support two teams of soldiers and horses counting more than 50,000 to fight on the river!

And on the surface of the river, the ice in the middle is the thinnest.

Jiang Jin stood on the south bank of Yishui, drew his ring knife and pointed at the chaotic battlefield on the Yishui River. The mission of his Liangqu Han army in this battle was to prevent the enemy from retreating to the south bank. Compared to the enemy's huge military strength, the more than 1,000 Youzhou Han troops seemed insignificant, but Jiang Jin told Bunton that the risks they needed to take were the same.

The risk that 20,000 Wuhuan soldiers needed to drive the Han army south on the north bank of Yishui was the same as the risk that Jiang Jin's more than 1,000 people blocked thousands or even tens of thousands of enemy troops. Because the ice in the middle of Yishui is simply not enough to support tens of thousands of people fighting on the ice.

Even if it was early spring, if it fell into the river, it would not survive.

The attack of the Wuhuan soldiers on the north bank has begun, when their brigade of men and horses circled to the north bank of the western section of Yishui, the main force of the White Horse Army has not completely crossed the river, most of the men and horses are left on the ice and cannot move quickly, tens of thousands of Wuhuan soldiers on the shore step on solid ground to launch a surprise attack on the vanguard of the White Horse Army crossing the river, the battle started suddenly, and the blood on the north bank flowed into a river.

The leader of this White Horse Army, named Zou Dan, was one of the old pillars of Gongsun Zhan when he started his family. At the same time, Tian Kai died in the melee between Yanglecheng and Yanbei in Liaoxi, Yan Gang died in the chaos of Zhuo County, and Gongsun Zan was the only general left.

Yanbei is like Gongsun Zhan's nemesis, although Yuan Shao is strong, but each battle is just to snatch some land and lose some soldiers, even if he loses, it will not bring Gongsun Zhan the pain of breaking his muscles and bones; But Yanbei is different, every defeat that Yanbei brings to Gongsun Zan will make their generals who can fight die.

When these generals are dead, where will they have the ability to take revenge?

This is where Gongsun Chan is most desperate.

Zou Dan never expected to encounter enemy resistance in this embarrassing place, and there were so many enemy troops...... Thousands of Wuhuan horsemen carried their crude bronze knives and drank a sip of the coarse Wuhuan clay wine and screamed into battle, and the hard-erected clay wine jugs were frozen to brittle in the cold weather, and when they were about to engage in battle, they were thrown on the heads of their soldiers and smashed to pieces.

Zou Dan wanted to retreat, but he could only shout and order his soldiers to stabilize their positions, and select the most courageous warriors from the more than 3,000 soldiers who had already crossed the river to the front, and send the rest to pile up their baggage on the bank of the river, laying out a defensive line that could stop the enemy, and at the same time ordering the troops behind to retreat slowly.

They had a lot of men, including the 20,000 farmers who had just been equipped with spears, and even 40,000 of them, stretching out a stretch on the Yishui River. Even the blind could guess that they had countless men and horses when they heard the sound of their army's movements, but these Wuhuan people still rushed forward bravely.

Based on this, Zou Dan judged that the number of enemy troops was not small.

Obviously, it would be unwise to fight the Wuhuan on the riverbank, as a large number of soldiers and horses walked on the ice, making it difficult to move quickly to the riverbank, but the enemy was able to step on solid ground and form a battle line to attack them...... It's not fair.

Zou Dan wants to pull them into the same situation as himself, and then use the huge number of the White Horse Army to defeat them.

The ice of the reed rhizomes on the south bank of Yishui has not yet melted, Jiang Jin, who is standing in the reeds, is steaming white from his mouth and nose, looking at the chaotic battlefield from afar, he has already inserted the ring knife under his feet, and his two hands are stuffed into the thick tie around his waist to keep warm.

The sound of shouting and killing on the riverbank shook the sky, and even if he couldn't see the exact battle situation here, he could hear it clearly in his ears. But that didn't matter to him, he just needed to know that the enemy was engaged.

"Sima, let's just wait here, and we won't do anything?" The young Yan Zhi was wearing armor that was one size larger, and the iron helmet almost covered his bright eyes, and the beating heart in his chest seemed to be uncontrollable, beating louder than the sound of fighting on the battlefield, making his ears rumble all the time. Although the weather was still very cold, his palms were covered with cold sweat, and his fingers kept shaking, making him uneasy to hide the strap around his waist like Jiang Sima...... But his lacing was not as wide as Jiang Jin's, which attracted Jiang Jin's ridicule.

"Ah Zhi, if you are too cold, your hands should be hidden in the two armors. You untie your ribs and stuff your arms in, keeping the wind out and warm. Jiang Jin squinted his eyes and still couldn't see the situation on the battlefield clearly, so he picked an archer with the best archery skills in his cronies to investigate, and got the news that the enemy army did not turn back, but the southernmost military formation was no longer advancing, which made Jiang Jin feel very relieved, so he relaxed and smiled and taught Xiao Yan Zhi how to avoid the cold, and kept complaining: "What else do you want to do, you see this shivering from the cold, hide your hands in it." ”

Yan Zhi stubbornly did not move, and said with his lips: "You can't hide, you won't be able to fight later, and you won't be able to get out." ”

Angry, Jiang Jin slapped Yan Zhi's head, flew the iron helmet, pointed left and right and scolded: "Do you really think that the enemy army is going to retreat, and we can stop it with more than a thousand people?" Lao Tzu tells you that if the enemy army really retreats here, you will turn around and run with me, run to Yi County, and you can still save your life when you enter the city, do you know! ”

Jiang Jin didn't explain after scolding, picked up Yan Zhifei's helmet with a ring knife and walked to the bank of the river, pierced it into the ice on the bank, and smashed it with a slapstick, the sound of clanging was endless, but the surrounding soldiers were so frightened that Jiang Jin said the deserter so confidently that they didn't dare to speak, and even Yan Zhi looked at Jiang Jin who was working with a suspicious look.

After a while, Jiang Jin took the slug and threw it to Yan Zhi, holding the middle of the ring knife in his hand and said: "The ice here is one foot thick, and the middle of the river should be five or six inches ......thick."

"Sima, are you sending the Wuhuan people to death?"

"What stupid things to say, either this battle will be won, or everyone will die together." Jiang Jin glanced at Yan Zhi, waved his hand to everyone, and said, "Give them a hand, and carve out a line of the surrounding thousands of steps of ice with weapons, go quickly!" ”

"Sima ......"

"What's wrong again?" Jiang Jin is really going to give them these little soldiers a moment and a half can't tell clearly, turned his head and glared at Yan Zhi angrily, only to hear this kid holding his helmet and cowardly said: "It's all a pit." ”

"I'll give you a set of well-fitting armor after the battle, don't be lazy, hurry up and dig the ice!"

On the south bank of Yishui, thousands of Han soldiers drilled out of the reeds, carrying weapons and tinkling on the shore to get busy, and on the opposite bank more than seven miles away, tens of thousands of White Horse troops and Wuhuan people were in full swing!