Soon, King Yu also led an army and stopped on the east bank of the Tianhe River.
The Tianhe River is five hundred miles wide, and the west bank cannot be seen from the east bank. The archers' crossbows cannot reach the other bank.
Therefore, if you want to fight the Xiliang army in a decisive battle, you must cross the Tianhe River.
Because the effective range of crossbowmen is ten kilometers.
If it exceeds ten kilometers, it is basically impossible to shoot.
Xiao Zhan chose to wait on the west bank of the Tianhe River, waiting for King Yu to come over for the decisive battle. This had to make King Yu suspect that Xiao Zhan had arranged an ambush under the Tianhe River, and wanted to take advantage of them to cross the river and launch a crossbow from underwater.
At that time, to fight back against the ambush soldiers underwater, the crossbows will be fired downwards. Affected by the buoyancy of the water, the power of the crossbows will be weakened, making it difficult to hurt the soldiers underwater.
So King Yu had to be careful!
An hour later.
Zhou Tai came back with the dead soldiers.
"Father, I led the soldiers to search from the east bank to the west bank, but no soldiers were found under the Tianhe River!" said the adopted son Zhou Tai.
"No ambush?"
King Yu felt incredible.
"Yes, Father, there is not a single ambush!"
King Yu was immediately puzzled.
"Since Xiao Zhan didn't arrange an ambush underwater, why did he wait on the west bank of the Tianhe River for us to cross the river for a decisive battle? What is his purpose in doing this?"
Zhou Yanjun said weakly: "Father, could it be Xiao Zhan? We are expected to send people into the water to search, so we have not set up an ambush underwater for the time being. We want to wait until we cross the river and then set up an ambush underwater to attack us?"
Prince Yu nodded: "What you said is possible. Since Xiao Zhan chose to let us cross the river to fight him, he will definitely make a fuss in the river. Otherwise, why would he choose to wait on the west bank for us to cross the river for a decisive battle?"
"So, in order to prevent them from setting up ambushes underwater, we must first occupy the underwater area and not give them a chance!"
At this point, he shouted: "Su Meng."
"The end is here!"
"I order you to lead 300 million cavalry down to Tianhe and occupy Tianhe. If any enemy troops go down to the river, they will be killed without mercy!"
"The general will get the order!"
Then, King Yu said again: "Zhou Tai, Zhou Wu, Zhou Yuan, you lead your respective dead soldiers down to the river, assist Su Meng in occupying Tianhe, and ensure that the army can cross the river smoothly!"
"My son, take your orders!"
soon.
Three hundred million troops and three groups of dead soldiers descended to the Tianhe River together.
At this time, on the west bank of the Tianhe River.
"Report!!!"
Someone came to report: "Your Majesty, the scouts are reporting that a large number of enemy troops have entered the river!"
Xiao Zhan was overjoyed when he heard this: "How much is a large number? Do you have an approximate number of people?"
The scout chief replied: "The scout said that densely packed enemy troops are descending into the river, and they are continuing to descend. The exact number is not yet known, because it has not finished yet."
"Okay! Very good!"
Xiao Zhan was extremely excited and said: "It seems that King Yu thought that I would set up an ambush underwater. In order to ensure that the army crossed the river, he arranged for the army to go down the river and occupy the Tianhe River to prevent my men from going down the river to attack their army crossing the river."
"This actually gives me a better chance to eliminate them."
"It seems that in this battle, more of their troops will be wiped out than previously imagined!"
Originally, Xiao Zhan planned to wait for King Yu to lead his army across the river, and use his magic to make the water of the Tianhe River rise into the sky, dragging some of the enemy troops into the water, and then use the thunder to roll down from the sky and hit the water.
Through the conduction of water, enemy soldiers caught in the water will be electrocuted to death, and at least 100 million enemy soldiers can be eliminated without spending a single soldier.
But he didn't expect that King Yu would send troops underwater to occupy Tianhe.