Gao Yuan and Yuan Xuan left Guiling to inspect the situation of the naval army, and it only took three days, and in these three days, Daliang had already sent five urgent messages in a row, urging Gao Yuan to send troops as much as possible and rush to Daliang to take up the town. Obviously, the situation in Daliang began to become tense, and Wei Zeng hoped that Gao Yuan would rush to Daliang as soon as possible to stabilize people's hearts.

During the period when the plateau left Guiling, Ling Feng also led the scout army and figured out the arrangement of the Qin army by five or six points. At this time, the Qin army besieging Daliang had exceeded 200,000, about 150,000 in the west of Daliang City, and about 60,000 or 70,000 troops in the east of Daliang, and set up two Dazhai in the north and south respectively.

The arrangement of the Qin army was basically carried out around the chasm. Because the chasm surrounded the girder, it was originally a peripheral defense line for the girder, but at this time it became the support of the Qin State to besiege the girder. However, a large fortified city like Xiang Daliang could not be surrounded by a million troops without a million troops, so the Qin army could only rely on the chasm, build several settlements around the Daliang, and control the roads leading to the Daliang.

And this also brought certain difficulties to the Dai army's rescue of the Great Liang, because all the bridges on the chasm were occupied by the Qin army and sent troops to guard them, and the Dai army had to cross the chasm if they wanted to enter the Daliang. Of course, the Qin army will not let the Dai army cross the chasm so easily, and will definitely take advantage of the time when the Dai army crosses the river, so this time to march into Daliang, it also needs to be well planned. So Gao Yuan immediately gathered the generals to discuss.

However, in the past few months of Yuan Xuan's stay in Guiling, he has not been in vain, he has already figured out the situation around the girder, and has drawn a detailed map, so after the generals arrived, Yuan Xuan spread the map on the table for the generals to watch.

Ling Feng pointed to a point on the map and said: "This place is called Fengjikou, in the southeast of Daliang, although the river section is wide, the water flow is very flat, and the riverbed is not deep, and it has not yet reached the high water period, so people and horses can wade across the river." After a pause, he added: "Near both sides of the Fengji Pass, there are large woods and a few small hills, which can ambush the army and cover the army crossing the river. Moreover, it is almost twenty miles away from the nearest Qin army Dazhai, as long as we move quickly, it will take at least half an hour when the Qin army receives the news and rushes over, and we have already crossed the chasm and entered the Daliang area by then. ”

Gao Yuan nodded and said, "It's very detailed." "Because the chasm is actually an artificial canal, itself is not wide, and after more than 100 years of operation, because of sediment deposits, the riverbed of the chasm has been greatly raised, and there are many river sections that can directly wade across the river. Therefore, there are many places to choose to cross the river.

Jiang Huanwu said: "The cavalry and infantry are easy to handle, but there are still nearly three hundred vehicles in our brigade, and if these vehicles also wade across the river, it will be much more difficult, so we still have to build a few pontoon bridges." ”

Ling Feng said: "It is not difficult to build a pontoon bridge, as long as you bring enough materials and tools to erect a pontoon bridge, I can guarantee that within half an hour, you can build three to five pontoon bridges, enough for vehicles to cross the river." ”

But Yuan Xuan shook his head and said: "Since this is a good place to cross the chasm, then the Qin army will not let it go, and will definitely send troops to patrol here frequently, so it is impossible for us to have half an hour to calmly build a pontoon bridge to cross the river, unless we do not cross the river with vehicles." ”

Gao Yuan shook his head and said, "Although we are traveling lightly, we still need basic baggage, so it is definitely not possible to bring any vehicles, so we still have to think about how to cross the chasm." In fact, it is not difficult, as long as we can buy a period of time, at most half an hour, we can build a few pontoon bridges and cross the chasm. ”

Ling Feng said, "But will the Qin army give us half an hour?" ”

Gao Yuan smiled: "Why not. He turned to Yuan Xuan and said, "General Yuan, if you are the chief general of the Qin army, how do you plan to attack our river-crossing army?" ”

Yuan Xuan thought about it seriously and said, "I will let us set up a pontoon bridge, and then take advantage of the time when we are halfway to attack us, and attack halfway." After a pause, he said: "And it may be that they will attack separately from both sides of the chasm, because the Qin army has enough troops, and it is easier for them to cross the river than us, so they will attack and contain it at the same time, so that the certainty of victory will be greater." ”

Gao Yuan then asked, "Then General Yuan will focus on the attack on that side, and contain the other side." ”

Yuan Xuan said: "Of course, it is a real attack on the south bank and a containment on the north bank, because we are the first to reach the north bank of the chasm, and we will inevitably establish a solid defensive position on the north bank first, and ambush the covering army, and then cross the river, and we have just landed on the south bank of the chasm, even if we are in array, but in a hurry, it is impossible to establish a solid defense, if the Qin army concentrates its forces, mainly attacks the south bank of the chasm, and focuses on containment on the north bank, it is indeed difficult for us to deal with it." ”

After listening to this, the generals also thought that what Yuan Xuan said was very reasonable, so it was not easy to cross the chasm smoothly.

Gao Yuan said with a smile: "If we think about it from another angle, we will take the first step and ambush a group of men and horses on the south bank of the chasm in advance, and when the Qin army attacks our men and horses crossing the river, we can suddenly kill it, and we can be caught off guard by the Qin army, and then we will be the one who wins." ”

Yuan Xuan listened for a long time, but still didn't think clearly, and said, "How can we cross the chasm first to ambush the next people?" ”

Jiang Huan Wuton's eyes lit up, and he said: "I understand, we can divide some of the men and horses and wade through the water in other places to cross the chasm, can't we cross the chasm first?" ”

Gao Yuan nodded and said: "That's the reason, when we reach the chasm, General Jiang, you take three thousand cavalry troops, first wade across the chasm, ambush in the dense forest, and after the Qin army arrives, you will kill from the rear of the Qin army, and you can defeat the Qin army in one fell swoop." ”

Yuan Xuan said with a smile: "The lord is really resourceful, as long as the Qin army dares to attack our river-crossing army, he will definitely beat them and return with a broken stream, let them know that our army is not easy to mess with." ”

Gao Yuan said: "Okay, everyone go back and prepare, we will set off early tomorrow morning, General Yuan, you immediately inform Daliang, we will arrive at Daliang tomorrow." ”

Early the next morning, the army and horses and vehicles set off from Guiling and marched in the direction of Daliang.

Because all of them had war horses to walk, they marched very fast, walking for nearly three hours, and at about one o'clock in the afternoon, they arrived at the bank of the chasm, the planned place to cross the river. And along the way, with the cooperation of two kestrels, a total of three teams of Qin scouts were found, although the Dai army sent men and horses to pursue, killing more than 20 Qin scouts, but still let the other scouts escape.

Gao Yuan ordered Jiang Huanwu to lead 3,000 brave troops, replaced the war horses, and began to wade across the river. The remaining 4,000 or so warriors, divided into 2,000 men and horses, ordered the commander of Ah Ran Shi Qi to lay an ambush in the nearby woods, and asked the engineering soldiers to start erecting a pontoon bridge over the chasm, and put two kestrels into the sky to patrol the sentry. At the same time, he ordered Zhao Jiang to lead the Beiwei army, line up by the river, and rest the rest of the men and horses to rest on the spot.

The chasm in this section of the place is only more than 30 meters wide, and it doesn't take too much time to wade across the river, but Jiang Huanwu still didn't dare to be careless, first only sent 300 horsemen to cross the river, and after arriving at the south bank of the chasm, he immediately scattered the surrounding areas on the bank, while being on guard, while looking for whether there was an ambush by the Qin army. Then Jiang Huan Wucai led the team to cross the river.

Despite this, it still took less than half an hour for the men and horses who crossed the river in advance to reach the opposite bank, and the army that crossed the river in advance also patrolled the surrounding area, and did not find the whereabouts of the Qin army, so Jiang Huanwu immediately reorganized the team, and then led the men and horses into the woods on the bank to ambush.

After Jiang Huanwu led the army to completely disappear on the other side of the chasm, Gao Yuan also breathed a sigh of relief, and the first step was already a success. After all, there is only a river channel more than 30 meters wide, and it does not take much time to cross the river or erect the pontoon bridge.

At this moment, I saw a crisp chirping sound in the air, and I saw two kestrel flying up and down, screaming sounds, obviously discovering the movements of the Qin army.

Gao Yuan was also quite surprised, because it was originally calculated that the arrival of the Qin army should be about half an hour, that is, an hour, but now only half an hour has passed, and the Qin army has arrived, and the time taken is much shorter than expected.

However, Gao Yuan immediately ordered the soldiers to prepare for battle. In fact, at this time, the 3,000 Beiwei army had already lined up on the bank of the river, and also formed a simple defense line with 30 chariots, and was ready for battle. But there were still more than 2,000 cavalry troops of the Fan Yong Army, who had mounted their horses and lined up, preparing to meet the Qin army.

And at this time, I saw the dust in the northwest rising, and at the same time there was a muffled thunderous sound, which was deafening, and the plateau was even more surprised, looking at this style, the Qin army that came should be a cavalry army, no wonder it would come so quickly. However, would the Qin army actually send out a cavalry army to attack the Dai army?

Gao Yuan immediately rode his horse to the top of a nearby hill, and when he looked up, he saw that three or four miles away, there was a group of black-armored cavalry, which was rushing towards the bank of the river, and the number was about four or five thousand.

After looking at it for a while, Gao Yuan immediately ordered the two thousand Fan warriors in the formation to attack and meet the Qin army. Although the Beiwei army has lined up the formation and covered it with some vehicles, the infantry army is always on the inferior side against the cavalry, and the plateau also feels that something is wrong, the Qin army will not understand the strength of the cavalry of the Dai army, and will send the cavalry to attack, there must be a reason for this. Therefore, Gao Yuan ordered the Fan Yong Army to attack and meet the Qin army, and see what tricks the Qin army had.