Although the river has not yet frozen in early winter, it is also unusually cold and biting, even if the soldiers are all screaming men, but in such a harsh environment, it is not easy to survive.

Many of the Diren soldiers who jumped into the river were lucky enough to avoid the bows and arrows of the Shu army, but because they had been soaked in the water for too long, they did not have the opportunity to land on the shore and were frozen to death.

If you don't enter, you die! This is a difficult problem in front of all the Di people, from the broken end of the pontoon bridge to the south bank, there are only fifty steps, but it is this inconspicuous fifty steps, but it is not stopping to harvest the lives of the Di people.

Many people braved the rain of arrows to rush to the shore, but fell into the muddy tidal flats, even more difficult to walk, finally struggled out of the quagmire, the sharp spears of the Shu army can easily end their lives, these soldiers fell in the closest place to the south bank, and even when they fell, they could reach out and touch the embankment, but that's all, they had no chance to set foot on the land of Weinan again half a step in their lives.

A one-sided killing made the Di people realize that a one-sided assault did not work, and that the stragglers' courageous attack was completely in vain. After paying a bloody lesson, Qi Wannian quickly adjusted the way of attack, that is, before the Di soldiers reached the pontoon bridge and broke off, they first launched in the water at a stone's throw from the shore, and then formed a phalanx, with the shield soldiers as the lead and the archers behind them, forming a formation with both offense and defense, and then advancing together.

The dense shields can form an effective defensive line, and the archers in the back have the ability to counterattack, so that the attacking Di soldiers are no longer completely passively beaten, and the archers can carry out counter attacks, more or less can also hurt the Shu army on the shore, and it must also reduce the pressure on the attacking phalanx.

Each phalanx was as small as a hundred people, as large as four or five hundred people, and after the formation was completed, it slowly advanced and entered the range of the Shu army's bows and arrows. Due to the dense shield protection of the phalanx, the security was greatly improved, and the strong counterattack of the Di soldiers and archers also caused the Shu army on the shore to suffer slight casualties, and more importantly, let the Shu army no longer attack unscrupulously, they must also guard against the counterattack of the bow and arrow.

In the face of the new offensive method of the Di people, Fu Yan responded calmly, and ordered the two armies of Zhang Le and Zhao Zhuo to also discharge the corresponding defensive formations, and send the shield soldiers to the first line of the embankment or use sandbags to build defensive positions to resist the archers of the Di soldiers.

As for breaking this dense defensive phalanx, the Shu army called catapults and bed ballistas, and used powerful crossbow arrows and stone bullets to tear apart the formation of the Di soldiers, and at the same time, the archers used a 45-degree angle of upward shooting in addition to the horizontal shooting method, and directly locked the target of the attack on the archers behind the phalanx.

The rain of arrows was like a sudden rain, and the entire river surface was shrouded in one of the vast arrows, and the phalanxes of the Di people moved slowly and hard in the river. At this moment, the heavy equipment of the Shu army exerted its might, and the Diren phalanx moved slowly in the water, which completely became the target training of catapults.

Stone bullets roared out, drawing arcs in mid-air, and throwing them towards the Di military array. The shooting accuracy of the catapult has always been a difficult problem, and it is not an easy thing to hit the target within a range of fifty or sixty steps, and the larger the phalanx, the easier it is to become the target of the catapult.

However, the smaller phalanx is easy to avoid the stone bullets overhead, and when the stone bullets fall into the water, they stir up huge waves that make people palpitate to watch.

Catapults are effective against large battle formations, and small battle formations are difficult to hit the target.

In order to avoid being beaten, the phalanx of the Di soldiers was constantly broken into pieces, changing from a large phalanx of four or five hundred people to a medium phalanx of two or three hundred people, and from a medium phalanx of two or three hundred to a small phalanx of about 100 people, and increasing the distance between them.

However, in this way, the hit rate of the catapult has decreased, but the attack of the bed crossbow has not weakened in the slightest, and the extremely destructive crossbow arrows can easily shoot through the shields of the Di soldiers, inflicting fatal damage on the Di soldiers. Many phalanxes had not had time to reach the shore before they had already collapsed.

A part of the phalanx approached the south bank, which made Qi Wannian, who had been watching the battle from a high place by the river, suddenly nervous and saw a glimmer of hope.

However, Qi Wannian was soon disappointed, and these phalanxes that were lucky enough to reach the shore were immediately attacked and killed by the Shu army, a phalanx of about 100 people, it was exhausted to reach the south bank, and in the face of the strong counterattack and siege of the Shu army, the exhausted Di soldiers seemed to have no combat effectiveness, and they were soon wiped out.

Because each phalanx is independent of each other and far apart, when this one phalanx lands, it cannot be supported by other phalanxes, and when the other phalanxes come ashore, that phalanx may have been wiped out, and the almost bloodless Shu army immediately threw itself into the next round of siege.

The casualties of the entire Shu army were negligible, but the casualties of the Di soldiers were extremely heavy, the battle lasted for nearly a day, and the total number of casualties of the Di people had exceeded 7,000 people, which made Qi Wannian, who was originally full of confidence, suffer a blow to the head.

It was getting late, the wind was blowing strongly, the water on the pontoon bridge turned into a thin layer of ice, and the river became more and more cold, and the soldiers who jumped into the river were so cold that their lips were purple, and their bodies were trembling incessantly, and they were simply unable to resist this severe cold.

In the whole Weishui River, the floating corpses almost filled the river, the shot to death, drowned, countless, after the sun set, the turbid river became gloomy, the blood-stained river surface became much darker at this moment, and the color looked even more terrifying.

This seemingly not too wide river has become the protagonist today, thousands of corpses are ambushed, but they can't take a step beyond the thunder pool, Fu Tong led the Shu army to stubbornly hold the position on the south bank, standing still, so that Qi Wannian's plan was finally frustrated.

But Qi Wannian was not willing to fail, six or seven thousand casualties for more than 100,000 troops, but a drop in the bucket, after the first day of retreat, Qi Wannian still did not give up, the second day began, and launched a strong attack, Qi Wannian swore that no matter how much the price was paid, he would also break through the Wei River and take Chang'an. (To be continued.) )