When Li Rong saw the head of Qiqiang on the tip of their spear, he immediately rushed up with a cry of "wow". Hanru cried out in despair: "Aren't we friends, Jian? Why would you betray your friends so vilely? Then they were killed by the arrows.

In this way, the missions of both sides were all annihilated on the way home, and they did not bring any news back. However, the Gaoluo clan and Lirong had no time to negotiate anymore, because of the "inexplicable" and "frenzied" actions of Hanru, the two sides began to brew a large-scale war.

Soon, both sides asked for help from the Jin state, and the Gaoluo clan took the initiative to send back their captured Jin people and booty, and sent many children of high-ranking nobles as hostages. The people of the Jin Kingdom believed that Chidi and Jin were still very friendly in history, and they stood like a wall between Jin and Lirong; Lirong was the great enemy of the Jin State, and if the Gaoluo clan was destroyed, it would never be a good thing for the Jin, so they agreed to the Gaoluo clan's request and sent their troops to attack Lirong.

The Jin division set out from Jiangdu and entered the Taihang Mountain to the east, and after the army reached Jincheng, it turned south, and reached the north bank of Qinshui through Taihang Cheng, where Lirong had already defended on the south bank. The place where the Jin army camped was a flat and wide river beach, and behind the river beach was a dense jungle, which was a place that could not be defended. Jin Xiangong hid his pawn in the jungle, which made the Jin army not seem to be very numerous. Soon after, Lirong sent an envoy to the Jin camp, and the envoy asked with humility what had caused the Jin people to decide to make a big move against Lirong.

Hu Tu said: "The widow once mediated the dispute between you and the Gaoluo clan, but you did not listen; You promised to return the captive people and goods to the Jin Kingdom, but you never did, so the widow asked his courtiers to ask what was going on. ”

The envoy said: "We originally obeyed the order, but the Gaoluo clan wiped out our mission and continued to provoke, so we had no choice but to go to war again; As for the population and property, we are ready to return it, but Chidi occupies the road to the Jin Kingdom and cannot send the Jin people back. ”

Hu Tu said: "In this case, in order to show your sincerity, hand over the Jin people and their property to us, and you will not have to wait for a long escort." ”

The envoy said, "I will report to the widow." And when they had said that, they went back.

Li Rongzi did not want to fight on both sides, and thought that a large number of civilians was a heavy burden for the Jin army—people consumed military rations and got in the way, so he readily agreed to the Jin people's conditions.

Li Rongzi did not trust the Jin people, believing that the purpose of the Jin people's mobilization would not be just to bring back the captives. But Lirong needed a brief peace to win the war against the Gaoluo clan. Some generals offered to attack the enemy while the population was returned, but this plan was rejected because it was too risky.

The two sides then agreed that the handover site would be more than ten miles downstream, and that the two sides would need to erect an improvised pontoon bridge there, and each side could only send 500 soldiers to carry out the handover task.

Lirong's reason for choosing that location was that the river beach on the Jin side was flat and empty, and behind the river beach was a lush bamboo forest, and there was no shelter on the river beach; Li Rong could easily monitor the Jin people's every move, and the Jin people had no chance to engage in intrigues and tricks under the noses of the enemy.

The pontoon bridge has been built, and the time for handover has arrived. The captives were brought to the river, in front of them were old men and children, then women, and finally men, and people were lined up to fish through the pontoon bridge. When the procession almost all passed, Li Rong suddenly felt that something was wrong, it turned out that the people who crossed the river did not go far, but were all standing on the bank, their bodies blocking Li Rong's vision, making them unable to see the situation behind them clearly.

The accident happened immediately, and in an instant, countless Jin soldiers seemed to have come out of the ground (indeed they came out), and they rushed to the river in groups of eight, carrying large bamboo rafts and shouting loudly. Immediately, a hundred bamboo rafts rowed over. Shocked, Li Rong immediately drew his weapons and responded, and they hurriedly cut the bridge cable to prevent the enemy from passing through the pontoon. But more and more Jin soldiers rushed over, and the Lirong soldiers fought and retreated, and finally fled. The Jin repaired the pontoon bridge and built fortifications, and the ferry port was completely occupied.

It turned out that the Jin people deliberately made noise during the construction of the pontoon bridge to attract the attention of the other side, and the soldiers dug a lot of foxholes at night, and they went into the pits in groups of eight, which were covered with bamboo rafts, which were covered with gravel. When everything was ready, from Lirong's position, nothing could be found. Finally, when the captives gathered more and more, they moved away from the raft and rushed out.

The enemy received the news and immediately sent troops to seize the pontoon bridge, but when they mobilized their troops, the main force of the Jin army began to force the Qinshui crossing, and Lirong was overwhelmed by the enemy and could not take care of each other, so he had to abandon the Qinshui defense line.

The Jin army marched incredibly fast, and the army was overwhelming, reaching Jiyuan in five days. The Jin army and the Gaoluo clan besieged Lirong in a narrow strip surrounded by mountains on three sides. The Jin army dug a trench to prevent the enemy from breaking through to the east, while the Gaoluo clan occupied the entrance to Yiguan and various commanding heights.

In the face of Lirong, who could no longer escape, the coalition forces were not in a hurry to attack, and they were in a state of whiteness and fear, and they planned to respond to all changes with the same. Lirong attempted several attacks, but achieved no success other than the loss of a few soldiers.

In the end, Li Rong decided to break through from the defensive line garrisoned by the Jin army to the east. Li Rongzi ordered all the tents to be cut open and sewn into large pockets, and some even contributed clothes and trousers. They filled it with earth and stones, intending to fill the trench with these sandbags.

Li Rongzi chose to break through from the southernmost part of the trench, because the terrain there was steep and narrow, and the Jin could not command a large number of troops here; Lirong also piled up several high platforms on the inside of the trench, on which the soldiers could condescendingly shoot reinforcements.

The filling work began in the middle of the night, and the Lirong stood in several columns side by side, throwing sandbags into the pit one by one like a conveyor, and the Jin army heard the movement and began to shoot rockets at the opposite side, and the soldiers in charge of covering on the high platform returned fire.

At the dawn of dawn, the Lirong army actually filled in a ten-meter-wide broken road, and they began to break through later. The Lirong soldiers, riding their horses, rushed up the road and threw sandbags into them before withdrawing. If they were struck by an arrow, they tried to roll down and turn themselves and their horses into filler, and the plane of the accumulation of dying men and corpses gradually increased, and the soldiers finally threw themselves into the trenches and lay on the bodies of their dying comrades and horses.