Longquan Mountain is very steep on all three sides. If it is a powerful warrior, there is no problem with going up and down. If it is a large army, it is basically impossible to go up and down. Under normal circumstances, this mountain is a treasure land for defense, but if it is arranged, it will become a Jedi.

This mountain is easy to defend but difficult to attack, which also means that the Eastern Qi army is inconvenient to enter and exit. Once trapped here, it will be difficult to fly and the entire army will be destroyed again.

After the army of Nanchu arrived, Ye Xiangfo took action. The three armies of the city were surrounded by Longquan Mountain. They also dug soil and trenches and traps to start to arrange defenses to avoid being charged from top to bottom by the cavalry of the East Qi.

This is a normal fortification, and Dongqi did not care if it was discovered. Nan Chu wanted to waste it with them, Bailiyuan was ready to waste it dead. Dongqi's military strength was stronger. As long as the morale of the army stabilized, Bailiyuan would prepare to counterattack and defeat the Nanchu army.

This time, it was almost a decisive battle between two armies. Once Nan Chu was defeated, it would be a battle to destroy the country for Nan Chu. On the contrary, if Dong Qi was defeated, they could retreat and hold on, so they would not be defeated in a mess. So no matter how you calculate it, it would be a good deal for Dong Qi.

Both sides built fortifications in the first two or three days, and Dongqi was built very beautifully. After occupying the advantage of geographical advantages, Lao Jin inspected and concluded that the fortifications would not be built for another two days, even if Nan Chu had the lives of a 500,000 army of people to fill them, he would not have thought of attacking Longquan Mountain.

The two live springs on the mountain have become the most important place. If so many large armies do not have water, there will be big problems. So both of these two live springs have stationed large armies, and several grand masters are in charge. Avoid the grand masters from Nanchu to raid, destroy the live spring or poison them.

A lot of trees on the mountain were cut down, and more than a dozen isolation belts and several large open spaces were cut out. This was to prevent the leaves from attacking Buddha with fire. After cutting out the isolation belt, even if some trees caught fire, it would not cause all the forest fires. It would be that all the fires had occurred, and the army also had a place to hide.

As a famous general of the Eastern Qi Dynasty in the Southern Chu Dynasty, Bailiyuan naturally considered these things and could not take advantage of Ye Xiangfo. The only flaw was that the army carried not much food and grass, which was only enough for the army to use for a month. However, Bailiyuan was not panicked at all. He was confident that he could defeat the Southern Chu army in one month. As long as he defeated the Southern Chu army, he would not be short of food and grass.

Nanchu has been building it for the past two days. They have dug a lot of earthen walls, most of which are more than one meter high, and look like a short city wall. Because the earthen wall is very wide, a low-lying ground in front has been dug out.

Especially in front of the main road up the mountain, a large pit was dug out, and there were many dense trenches. If the Eastern Qi cavalry wanted to rush down from the mountain, they would definitely have no way to charge. The war horses could not rush to this depression at all.

Bailiyuan was not careless after receiving the news. The cavalry could not charge, so the infantry would go first. If it really wasn't possible, use the corpses of the soldiers to fill the depression and trenches. Isn't this a joke? There are moats outside many big cities, so is it different to fill them?

The next two days, the two sides of Dongqi and Nanchu continued to arrange fortifications, and found something was wrong with Dongqi...

Because the depression in front of the main road up the mountain was getting deeper and deeper, bigger and bigger, the area had reached several miles of radius, and there were bumps inside, and many places were two meters deep. However, Nanchu was still digging. Are they planning to dig an artificial lake here?

"What's wrong..."

After Bailiyuan received the news, his keenness as a top famous general made him feel something was wrong. Ye Xiangfo is not an idiot and will not do useless things.

He thought for a while and started to sing: "Lao Jin, arrange a few top scouts to check nearby, focusing on whether there are big rivers nearby! In addition, arrange a few masters to take a flying beast and go around to determine whether there are big rivers nearby! Go quickly!"

Lao Jin hurriedly arranged it. After a few hours, Lao Jin came back. He said with a quiet expression: "A dozen scouts sent out were all killed. The Grandmaster went out and two groups. The Grandmasters from Nanchu just arrived. We sent out the Grandmasters and did not dare to fight in the air, so we were forced to retreat. However, I arranged for two Grandmasters to secretly lurk out, and they should come back in an hour."

"Um!"

Bailiyuan's face became silent, and he waited quietly without saying a word. The light flashed in his eyes, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

More than half an hour later, a master came back and brought news that there was a big river more than 20 miles south, and there were troops stationed near the embankment of the big river, and it seemed that the river was being dug secretly?

"really……"

Bailiyuan's face looked even more ugly, and he said in a calm voice: "Ye Xiangfo's move is cruel, and he will trap us to death in Longquan Mountain."

"He wants to attack with water?"

Lao Jin's face also darkened. He pondered for a moment and said, "He just dug a small pool at the foot of the mountain, which can't trap our army. At most, it's a bit of trouble for us to attack. Just a pool, we can spend some manpower to easily fill the pool."

There are more than one million troops on the mountain, each carrying a stone, so it is easy to fill the depression, right? So Lao Jin disagreed.

Bailiyuan shook his head and said, "Ye Xiangfo is an old fox. I have studied his previous battles with the Western Jin Dynasty. He either doesn't take action, but he will be a chain of things when he takes action. He can't just make this arrangement, but I can't understand where the rest of his arrangements are?"

"Report—"

At this moment, a scout outside rushed over, entered the commander camp and knelt down on one knee and reported: "Report to General Jin, the enemy has diverted water from the mountain and watered the depression at the foot of the mountain. Now the foot of the mountain has become a land of water."

"Go and have a look!"

Bailiyuan couldn't sit still anymore and walked out with Lao Jin and his guards. They stood halfway up the mountain and found that the foot of the mountain had indeed become a land of water. Now the land covered by rivers has been several miles, and it is estimated that it will continue to spread, and finally reaching a radius of five or six miles. The road down the mountain was completely blocked by the pool. It was very difficult for the army to attack the Nanchu army, unless the pool was filled.

Bailiyuan did not immediately order action, but continued to watch on a small mountain. At the same time, he mobilized countless scouts to investigate the situation on the mountain and risked to investigate the situation nearby.

It’s just that a small pool cannot trap the more than one million troops in Dongqi. Bailiyuan wants to find Ye Xiangfo’s backhand. As long as he finds the backhand, he can only rest assured if he can break it early, otherwise he will not even sleep tonight.

The water continued to irrigate, and when it was dark, the mountain had turned into a vast ocean. Bailiyuan was still standing on this small mountain peak. He looked at the dense torches and ignitions in the Nanchu Camp in the distance from the sky, and felt particularly heavy.

The scouts kept reporting the news, but no abnormalities were found on the mountain. Many scouts risked being killed and paid a great price to bring back some information. Many catapults were arranged on the Nanchu Camp, and there were as many as hundreds of them near the entrance and exit of Shangshan Avenue.

"Takes?"

This news made Bailiyuan feel a little more serious. The catapult is definitely not used to attack the mountains. Longquan Mountain is so high that the catapult cart makes no sense. He spent so much manpower to transport hundreds of catapult carts, and his only purpose is to prevent the Dongqi army from approaching!

What should I do to stop the Dongqi army from approaching? Naturally, I will stop them from filling the pool!

Ye Xiangfo wanted to trap more than one million troops in Dongqi to death in Longquan Mountain? Let them starve to death? Their food was only one month, and in more than one million troops would turn into rabbits, and they would come up with butchers' knives and easily slaughtered.

"go back!"

Bailiyuan took a group of people back with expressionless face. He did not sleep that night and sat in the coach camp for the whole night. After dawn, he issued many military orders and the army began to get busy.

The Dongqi army was also very unstable that night. The road below was blocked and they were trapped. This made the Dongqi army very uneasy and restless. Bailiyuan did not issue a notice to comfort him, and it was useless to comfort him. He could only rely on practical actions to boost the morale of the army.

In the afternoon, the army of Dongqi was dispatched. However, Bailiyuan did not dispatch too much, but only dispatched more than 10,000 troops. At the same time, tens of thousands of archers were mobilized to stand by several small hills near the Shangshan Pass, and set up a crossbow to aim at the pool below.

More than 10,000 troops were holding huge shields and pressing down the mountain step by step. They lined up beside the pool and built a wall of human shields. The army behind them brought the stones collected from the mountains to throw them into the pool. Their task was not to fill the pool, but to fill a way out.

“Dududu~”

A dull sound suddenly sounded across the pool, and the catapult on the opposite side started, but what was thrown out was not a huge rock, but bags of powder and cowhide bags.

The trencher was very accurate and hit the edge of the pool. The cloth bags and cowhide bags were broken. The powder in the cloth bags and liquid in the cowhide bags spilled all over the floor, and many soldiers were covered with their heads.

"It's mineral powder and tinea oil. If it's not good, run away quickly!"

Some soldiers woke up in shock, threw down their shields and stones and ran up the mountain. Some soldiers were smarter and jumped directly into the water.

"Swish swish swish!"

Rockets were fired in the Nanchu camp, and a raging fire suddenly lit up beside the pool. The road to the mountain was so narrow. How could tens of thousands of troops escape in one go? Soon, many soldiers lit up fires, rolling on the ground and howling, and the scene was extremely tragic.

"Dive in the water!"

Many sergeants realized that the road up the mountain was too narrow, and it was impossible for so many sergeants to rush up. The only way to survive was diving.
Chapter completed!