Chapter 1074 Seeing through Zhou Gongjin's plan
On the side of the river is a rocky beach paved with stones as big as fists.
There are also a few huge rocks.
You don’t need to search. You can see everything while standing here. Not to mention thousands or hundreds of people, even a bird has no place to hide.
Zhao Yun had sent more people again to advance along the shallow stone beach to Luanshigang, and explored the road within ten miles over and over again.
Except for encountering Sun Ce's scout, no other discoveries were found.
Before arriving at Luanshigang, there were no ambushes in the ten miles.
Even if they met those scouts Sun Ce, both sides met, and then the other party retreated directly.
More than a thousand scouts searched back and forth several times, but found nothing.
Jia Xu was holding a telescope in his hand, and through the lens, he could see further.
The scenery several miles away is like seeing clearly in front of you.
Even if you stand in Jia Xu's position, it is more than three miles away from the other side of the river, you can clearly see the trunks of the big trees on the other side of the river through the telescope.
Even, you can watch birds fly out of the woods.
There is nothing good about the rocky beaches and rivers in front of you.
Jia Xu looked across the river through the telescope.
The telescope in his hand can be almost ten times enlarged.
Zhou Yu and others were hiding across the river at this moment.
However, Zhou Yu and the others hid in the forest by the river. Even if Jia Xu had a telescope, it would not be so easy to spot Zhou Yu.
But Jia Xu looked at it very carefully.
Rivers and rocky beaches, what's good to look at?
Using the telescope, Jia Xu could also directly see Sun Ce's army on the rocky hill from here.
His main focus now is on the other side of the river.
Jia Xu looked at it very slowly and carefully.
Zhao Yun was holding a telescope in his hand and was also watching carefully.
"Military advisor, why don't you send a few people to the other side?" Zhao Yun suggested.
"However, even if Zhou Yu is ambushing the other side, even if they use gunpowder to attack, the impact on us will not be very big."
The Zhao army passed by shallow stone beach and threw gunpowder from the other side of the river, about one mile away.
It is indeed possible to throw pots filled with gunpowder here by catapult cart.
But Zhao Jun can run away.
This area is just so big, just leave quickly.
Moreover, there is no sign of a catapult on the other side of the river.
There is no catapult cart, and it is basically impossible to throw the clay pot from the opposite side with manpower.
The clay pot will fall directly into the river.
"Wait a minute, Zilong, look there, what is that?"
Jia Xu did not move the telescope, moved his head away, and pointed Zhao Yun's eyes at the lens.
"This, it seems like a catapult." Zhao Yun took a look and determined the position. He used the telescope in his hand and looked carefully for a while.
The catapult was located in the woods on the other side, but it was not hidden very deeply, and a small part was exposed from behind a tree trunk.
If Jia Xu hadn't read it carefully, it would have been easy to ignore it.
"It seems that Zhou Yu is on the other side." Jia Xu said.
Zhao Yun said: "But, what's the use of Zhou Yu lying on the other side of the river? How many catapult cars do he have in his hand?"
If there are only a few or a dozen pots of pots bombed over at one time, it is far from enough to destroy the Zhao army on the other side of the river.
Jia Xu said: "What if there is gunpowder buried under this rocky beach?"
The catapult cart on the other side of the river can launch a pot and fall into this rocky beach, and it can detonate all the gunpowder underground.
Zhao Yun was shocked. If this were the case, 50,000 people would be wiped out in an instant.
Seeing the catapult cart hidden across the river, Jia Xu understood everything.
This stone beach, which seems to be the least likely to ambush, is the place chosen by Zhou Yu.
Zhou Yu gave up on the canyon because he knew that it was too obvious and Zhao's army would be prepared for it.
Sun Ce from Luanshigang came out from Linhai City openly, just to attract his attention and let him ignore the place in front of him.
Zhao Yun immediately asked someone to go over and check it out.
Although Zhou Yu hid it while burying gunpowder, it seemed that there was no change on the surface, but the gunpowder was not sold very deeply.
Several soldiers dug a foot down a little, and saw the buried gunpowder, and immediately took it out and gave it to Zhao Yun.
"As the gentleman said, gunpowder was really buried here."
Now just thinking about it, Zhao Yun felt his scalp numb.
If, he had just taken 50,000 soldiers to the rocky beach.
Now he may be dead.
"General, there is gunpowder under the rock beach."
Zhou Yu didn’t just bury a little, but there was almost gunpowder under the entire rock beach.
"This is too cruel."
More and more gunpowder was placed in front of Zhao Yun and Jia Xu.
"Military advisor, do you still have to send someone to the other side of the river?" Zhao Yun said.
Jia Xu shook his head: "It's useless to send a few people over just like this. And Zhou Yu probably has left."
Although Zhou Yu did not have a telescope in his hand, there was no cover on the stone beach. Zhou Yu could not see people's face clearly, but 50,000 people stopped here and could not move, so Zhou Yu could see it.
Zhou Yu was sure, especially when he saw a few soldiers walking back and forth on the rock beach.
Zhou Yu should also understand that these soldiers were digging out the gunpowder he buried under.
"Send some additional personnel to clean up all the gunpowder here as soon as possible." Jia Xu said.
If everyone didn't go to clean up the buried gunpowder together, it would be no different from being ambushed by Zhou Yu.
When Zhao Yun and Jia Xu stopped moving in front of the rock beach, Sun Ce's scouts kept reporting.
If Sun Ce had a telescope in his hand, he could see this place.
Ten miles away, the scout rode back and forth on war horses, less than half an hour.
Zhao Yun sent more people, and in less than half an hour, he basically cleaned up the gunpowder buried under the stone.
Then he led a large army and rushed directly towards the Lushigang.
When Zhao Yun and Jia Xu rushed to Luanshigang, Zhou Yu had already arrived at Luanshigang first.
"Bo Fu, retreat quickly. Zhao's army was not ambushed. He found gunpowder buried under the rock beach and was cleaning up."
When Zhou Yu came to Luanshigang, he was preparing to let Sun Ce retreat together and retreat from Linhai. They could continue to retreat to Jian'an.
As long as they are not dead, as long as these 50,000 people are still in their hands and are not destroyed by Zhao Yun, they still have a chance.
"Gongjin, it's probably too late." Sun Ce said.
Zhou Yu left one stick of incense before Zhao Yun.
Moreover, he was on the other side of the river and took a little detour and then took a boat to the south bank.
When he returned to Luanshigang, Zhao Yun and Jia Xu had already led the army, only five or six miles away from Luanshigang.
Before, Sun Ce had retreated one day in advance, and at that time it was fifty miles away from the Zhao army.
He has enough time to retreat.
Chapter completed!