In fact, Wang Jian also had great expectations for Yang Duanhe on the north bank of the Yellow River. Because the Qin army is now unable to open the situation in the frontal battlefield of Daliang, it is also a new breakthrough to open the gap from the north bank of the Yellow River and insert it directly into the back of the Daliang, forming a trend of pincering the east and west of the Daliang.

Although the Qin army was inserted into the back of the Great Liang, it may still be difficult to conquer the Great Liang in a short period of time in the end, but it can cut off the supply line of the Great Liang, so that the Great Liang City can no longer receive the supplement from the Qi State, so that even if it is consumed with the Great Liang, the Qin army can also see the hope of consuming the victory. Otherwise, Daliang can get a steady stream of supplies from Qi State, Taoyi is only more than 200 miles away from Daliang, and the grain and grass materials of the Qin army are transported from Guanzhong to Zhongmu, and they have to be transported for thousands of miles. Although Qin's national strength is strong, it must have suffered a lot, and even if it wins in the end, it may be a disastrous victory. Therefore, during this time, the Qin army has been harassing the attacking coalition forces again, hoping to attract the attention of the coalition forces and also create conditions for Yang Duan and crossing the river.

Of course, Yang Duanhe also knows his own responsibility, but it is not easy to open the situation from the east of the Great Liang, in Yang Duanhe's opinion, it may not be difficult to cross the Yellow River, but what should the Qin army do after crossing the Yellow River? After all, even if the Qin army gained a firm foothold in the east of Daliang, it would not be possible to conquer Daliang in a short time. However, the Qin army needed supplies to the east of Daliang, and all the grain and grass materials had to pass through the Yellow River, so a large number of ships had to be prepared.

At this time, Yang Duanhe had collected more than 700 ships of various sizes, and Yang Duanhe felt that it was almost the same, so he was ready to cross the Yellow River.

However, Yang Duanhe also knew that the coalition forces had now built beacon towers on the other side of the Yellow River and had collected a large number of boats, which obviously showed that Gao Yuan had also noticed that he wanted to cross the river, and had also made some preparations to prevent the Qin army from crossing the river. According to Yang Duanhe's estimate, the tactics adopted by the plateau would be to line up on the shore and wait for the Qin army to cross the river. But now the main forces of the coalition forces are concentrated on the line of Daliang and Xingkou, and there are no extra troops stationed on the banks of the Yellow River, so they can only rush to the Qin army's crossing site to block after receiving the beacon message.

But this will take a considerable amount of time, even if the Dai army sends out cavalry, it will take at least a while, so if the Qin army can cross a group of troops first during this time, establish a defensive position on the bank of the Yellow River, block the Dai army, and buy enough time for other follow-up armies to cross the Yellow River.

Therefore, Yang Duanhe also made careful preparations for crossing the river, and chose to cross the river at Suxukou in the lower reaches of the Yellow River, which is about 120 miles away from Xingkou. Moreover, the cavalry galloped here, and the army crossing the river was enough to resist for a while. Moreover, Yang Duanhe also made an appointment with Wang Jian, and when he crossed the river, Wang Jian led the Qin army to attack Xingkou and Daliang to contain the strength of the coalition army.

After making this preparation, Yang Duanhe also felt that he was at least seventy percent sure of crossing the river this time, so he started crossing the river at the agreed time with Wang Jian early in the morning.

The first batch of boats to cross the river had a total of 120 boats, some large and some small, the large boat could accommodate sixty or seventy people, and the small boat could hold twenty or thirty people, plus the helmet weapons of the Qin army, arrows, dry rations, etc., a total of 5,000 soldiers could be crossed. After crossing the Yellow River, Yang Duanhe also repeatedly asked the Qin army to cross the river, and immediately found land on the bank of the Yellow River to form a formation, and could move a few boats to the shore as a cover, guarding with bows and crossbows, waiting for the follow-up army to cross the river.

Watching the first ship full of Qin troops go off the shore, Yang Duanhe also saw that on the beacon tower on the other side of the Yellow River, thick black smoke rose one by one. At this time, Yang Duanhe could also watch from the shore, and he could not do anything about the transmission of the beacon tower, so he could only pray silently in his heart, hoping to cross the Yellow River before the coalition forces reached the opposite bank.

The boats went off the shore one by one, heading for the river, and for a while hundreds of boats competed for the current, and all kinds of large and small ships also covered the entire surface of the Yellow River, with the waves of the river, up and down to the opposite bank.

Although Yang Duanhe is also a battle-hardened general, he is also very nervous at this moment, because the situation is no longer under his control, and he can only pray in his heart that the ship can sail faster, faster, and arrive at the other side earlier.

As if deliberately against Yang Duanhe, the boat moved very slowly in the Yellow River, and it didn't seem to move a little for half a day, but it just rose and fell with the water, and there was a boat capsized in the middle of the river. Although the surrounding boats immediately rushed to the rescue, only six or seven soldiers were rescued, and the rest of the soldiers who fell into the water were all swallowed in the waves.

Yang Duanhe could only watch from the shore with his eyes fighting, but he couldn't do anything, he just walked around the shore anxiously, and then simply stopped looking at it and lay on the ground to sleep. Of course, Yang Duanhe couldn't sleep, just closed his eyes to recuperate.

I don't know how long later, someone came to report to Yang Duanhe that one of them had reached the other side of the Yellow River.

After Yang Duanhe heard this, he immediately perked up, immediately got up, and rushed to the shore again, only to see that there was indeed a ship docking, Qin soldiers jumped down from the boat, held up the wooden boat, and walked to the shore, and then the second, third, and fourth, the ships docked one after another, and the Qin soldiers jumped off the boat, some lifted the wooden boat ashore, and some carried weapons and armor. The soldiers in the beacon on the other side of the bank fled from the beacon and fled to the east.

The Qin army that went ashore did not pursue, and according to Yang Duanhe's previous instructions, they formed a formation on the shore to defend themselves, and quickly established a defensive position.

Yang Duanhe breathed a long sigh of relief, although in the process of crossing the river, five boats had capsized, but the first batch of Qin troops who crossed the river basically crossed the Yellow River one after another, and some boats were carried ashore by the Qin army to use as cover, while the other boats turned around and sailed back to the north bank of the Yellow River, and the Dai army had not yet appeared.

The first batch of Qin troops who crossed the river successfully reached the opposite bank, then the overall situation was decided, so Yang Duanhe was also very excited, and hurriedly ordered the second group of Qin troops to cross the river to get on the boat immediately and prepare to cross the river.

The second group of Qin troops who crossed the river totaled 25,000 men, used 600 warships, and also carried some chariots, horses, and a small amount of food. Including Yang Duan and himself, they all crossed the river with the second batch of Qin troops. After this group of Qin troops crossed the Yellow River, they would ferry grain and grass materials.

As the second group of Qin troops who crossed the river boarded the boats one after another, horses, chariots, food and other items were also carried onto the boats, and some boats that were already full of soldiers had moved away from the north bank and headed for the river. And this time there were more boats crossing the river, and there were many empty boats returning from the other side, so for a while, the whole river was crowded, like dumplings.

Seeing that the second batch of Qin troops who crossed the river had basically boarded the boat and set off, Yang Duanhe also boarded a big boat with excitement, sailed away from the shore, and headed for the opposite bank.

However, Yang Duanhe was happy, but also had a trace of doubt in his heart, at this time, at least an hour and a half had passed since the Qin army crossed the river, and the beacon tower must have already sent the signal to Xingkou, why haven't you seen any trace of the coalition army until now? Even if the Qin army was storming Xingkou and pinning down the strength of the coalition army, but the defense of the city did not need cavalry, why didn't the cavalry of the Dai army arrive? At the speed of the cavalry, even if it is not rushing, even if it is a trot, it is time to arrive. Why haven't you seen the Acting Army Cavalry? With Gao Yuan's ability to use troops, he shouldn't have made such a mistake, so would he have any tricks?

It was this trace of doubt that made Yang Duanhe very uneasy in his heart, but at this time, the first batch of Qin troops had crossed the Yellow River and formed a formation, and the second batch of Qin army's ships crossing the river had reached the center of the Yellow River at the earliest, and it was estimated that it would take more than half an hour to reach the opposite bank.

Just when Yang Duanhe was restless, suddenly a soldier said, "General, look, there's a ship coming over there." ”

Yang Duanhe was suddenly startled, and looked in the direction of the soldier's finger, only to see that at the turn of the Yellow River in the west, countless large and small ships were rushing towards his fleet along the flow of the Yellow River.

After the collection and collection of the Qin army and the Wei army, the ships in the Yellow River basin in this area were basically all collected, so there were basically no other ships on the Yellow River, even if there were some ships that slipped through the net, but there were very few, and it was impossible to have such a large-scale fleet. Then there is only one possibility, this is the fleet of the coalition army, or the fleet of the Dai army, that is, the Dai army intends to block the Qin army on the river.

In this era, the development of water warfare is not as good as cavalry warfare, only in the southern countries of Chu, Wu, and Vietnam will carry out some water warfare, and it is said that it is a water war, it is better to say that it is a land war on the water, the mode of combat is that the soldiers on both sides approach by sitting on the boat, and then use each other's guns, swords, halberds and other weapons to fight on the warship, and seize the other party's warship, so it can be said that in addition to the boat, this mode of battle is basically no different from the land battle.

Although Yang Duanhe didn't expect that Gao Yuan would choose to intercept him on the river. However, since the opponent attacked from the water, the Qin army naturally could not fight, and Yang Duanhe also believed that even if it was fighting on the water, the Qin army was also brave and invincible.

So Yang Duanhe immediately gave an order and prepared to meet the enemy.

Of course, there were no flags in this era, so the order mainly relied on gongs, drums and horns, but fortunately, Yang Duanhe was the chief general of the Qin army, and of course he carried gongs, drums and horns on his boat, so he immediately beat gongs and drums, blew horns, and sent orders to the Qin soldiers on the river to prepare for battle.

Sure enough, after hearing the sound of gongs, drums and horns, the Qin troops on each ship turned their bows and faced the enemy's ships, and the soldiers of the Qin army also clenched their weapons and prepared to fight the enemy.