In response to Dong Zhuo's troops' actions to station troops on the south bank of the Yellow River, Yang Rui temporarily docked the fleet on the north bank of the Yellow River in Mengjin, and also set up camp not far from the shore, temporarily relocating the Iron Guards, the water soldiers and the archer soldiers to block the opponent's crossing the river.

Although Dong Zhuo sent about hundreds of thousands of troops to recover the Young Emperor Liu Bian, with the support of Heyang County, Yang Rui was not worried about the opponent's siege in the city wall battle with the Iron Guards. Now the fleet has obvious advantages. Yang Rui just tried his best to make use of it and earn merit and points while the opponent crossed the river again.

As expected by Yang Rui, Dong Zhuo's camp was resting for half a day, and after noon, he conducted several tentative crossings of the river. However, he was intercepted by Yang Rui's boat halfway, contributing a lot of merits, points, equipment, skill books and other items to Yang Rui, but it had no effect.

During the process, Yang Rui even had time to go back to Heyang City and mobilized Zhang Ning, Wu Anguo and Zhang Liao, leaving only Gao Shun to lead his troops to fight around Dong Zhuo's camp, while Chen Lin guarded the city in Heyang City.

Dong Zhuo's camp can mobilize so many troops at one time to try to cross the river, so it is necessary to have a general lead. Yang Rui general Wu Anguo and Zhang Liao brought them to prepare for the opponent's military generals, and Zhang Ning also brought them to prepare for possible opportunities so that they could set fire to the time.

After several tests of returning without success, Dong Zhuo's camp lost more than 3,000 soldiers and a large number of ships of various types. The merit and points given to Yang Rui were nearly 100,000 points, regardless of other skill books, equipment and other items. Dong Zhuo's camp seemed to realize the needlessness of this test, so he gradually stopped moving.

Yang Rui did not wait for the opponent's active attack, and also tried to send a ship to the south bank of the Yellow River to attack Dong Zhuo's camp, and also used a transport ship to bring Zhang Ning. Dong Zhuo's various ships were almost all piled up together. It was impossible to say that all of them could be solved with just one fire.

However, before Yang Rui's spear ship approached Dong Zhuo's camp, it was shot by the archers arranged by the other side on the shore. The soldiers on the boat would probably suffer any losses, so Yang Rui asked Zhang Ning to set a fire and then returned with all the ships.

Although Zhang Ning's casting distance is longer than that of the archers, the ships in Dong Zhuo's camp are also very concentrated. However, Zhang Ning's Tianling Fire Rain skill covers a relatively wide river surface. After the skill is used, the opponent's ships flee in panic and flee in all directions. The losses are only a small part.

Even so, Zhang Ning's fire also brought Yang Rui 20,000 to 30,000 points of merit and points. It can be seen that although the ships he lost seem to account for a small proportion of Dong Zhuo's camp ships, the absolute number is also quite large.

After being attacked by a fire, Dong Zhuo's troops seemed more cautious, and the ships did not dare to continue to gather together. Instead, they lined up along the south bank of the Yellow River, for fear of being attacked again. However, they did not know that the cooling time of Zhang Ning's Tianling Fire Rain skill was as long as 3 hours, and Dong Zhuo's troops were unnecessary.

It was not until the night came that Dong Zhuo's camp made other moves. Perhaps it was inspired by Zhang Ning's Tianling Fire Rain, and Dong Zhuo's men also learned their lessons this time, and they still placed the ships word by word, stretching for more than ten miles and starting to cross the river at the same time.

In this way, Yang Rui had only a hundred Ge Ships, and could no longer completely intercept Dong Zhuo's troops crossing the river. Even other small clutches other than Ge Ships, small transport ships might be affected. Therefore, after Yang Rui discovered the actions of Dong Zhuo's troops, he immediately asked these ships to flow downstream along the water.

Yang Rui even evacuated all the troops on the shore in advance, and ordered Zhang Ning, Zhang Liao, Wu'anguo and others to lead their soldiers to move towards Heyang City in advance. It was a foregone conclusion that Dong Zhuo's troops could cross the river. At that time, facing dozens of times their troops, Yang Rui's troops would definitely suffer a loss.

If Gao Shun and Zhang Liao and others had cultivated their special troops, they might still be able to face so many enemies head-on. However, after the opening of the special troops of historical generals, Yang Rui only learned that Gao Shun's special troops were "stalking camps". Before he had time to train, Zhang Ning's special troops showed an inactive status. As for Zhang Liao and others' special troops, Yang Rui still had no idea about them!

The process of Dong Zhuo's troops crossing the river was just as Yang Rui expected. Although Yang Rui's spear ships killed a large number of soldiers from Dong Zhuo's camp during the process, because the opponent's front line was very long, 100 spear ships were completely unable to block Dong Zhuo's thousands of various ships. After the first quarter of an hour, soldiers had already boarded the north bank of the Yellow River.

Yang Rui ordered hundreds of spear ships to shuttle through Dong Zhuo's large number of ships to attack and kill freely. He himself drove the Taoist wind away from the main battlefield, observing the situation on the river surface, and thinking about the next way to deal with it.

After so many Dong Zhuo's troops crossed the river, Yang Rui had to rely on the city to resist, so a large number of soldiers would inevitably be besieged by the city in a short period of time. Thinking of this, Yang Rui ordered the 100 small transport ships and 100 small fast ships that had just returned from transporting troops to go down the river first, preparing to continue transporting troops.

Currently, Yang Rui's troops in the territory of Hanoi County have a total of more than 29,000 people. It should be no big problem to be able to defend Heyang City. However, it is not too realistic to quickly destroy the opponent. The number of soldiers on the opponent is there. After this day of observation, Yang Rui found that the previous estimate was probably still small. The number of Dong Zhuo's troops should be no less than 400,000, and the ratio of the offensive and defensive sides will exceed 10:1!

In addition, defending the city involves a problem of food and grass. After Yang Rui's rough estimate, Yang Rui's transportation of food and grass to the west of Hulao Pass and obtained from the various strategies and territories, at present, all the food and grass in Heyang City is only enough for the soldiers to spend half a month and twenty days. It is better for Yang Rui to have a stalemate with the other party to not exceed this time limit.

That's why Yang Rui continued to order the fleet to go downstream to dispatch troops. When the newly transferred troops arrived, they could be used as a travel notes on the periphery. The efficiency of the guards in the city was to fight against each other on both sides, and the efficiency of the merit and points could be higher.

It took about half an hour for Dong Zhuo's troops to reach the north bank from the south bank of the Yellow River. This time, the other party should have given a death order. No matter how Yang Rui's spear boat attacked, the other ferries around had no signs of escape. Even the attacked ferry was still holding on and no longer escaping, causing chaos to other ships.

In this way, Dong Zhuo's various ferry losses were greatly reduced. Within half an hour, he could only lose thousands of soldiers and thousands of ships. This can be seen from the contribution value and points obtained by Yang Rui. Yang Rui's two items of income did not exceed 250,000 points.

After Dong Zhuo's troops completely crossed the Yellow River, the soldiers on the boat gathered ashore for a while and headed towards Heyang City. All the ferry boats were no longer protected by long-range archers like before on the south bank of the Yellow River. The ferry drivers naturally understood this, so the soldiers on the shore left radially and rushed to all directions.

Although these ferries are also messy, they have learned from the first attack. At this time, most of the ferries chose to escape from the upstream or downstream directions, and the directions were relatively consistent. Therefore, there were fewer scenes of various ferries colliding with each other in the first time.

In fact, there is another point that is thanks to Yang Rui's dispatch of the Ge Ship. Almost as Dong Zhuo's troops rushed to Heyang City, Yang Rui also gathered the Ge Ship, which basically broke off contact with various ferries, which gave the other party some opportunity to escape.

The reason why Yang Rui gathered the Ge Ship was of course to chase and escort the small transport ships and small clutches that left first. Compared with the small transport ships, the speed of the small crutches was even higher. And along the way, it could also lead many Dong Zhuo's ferries, and the majority of the other ships flew downstream.

After arranging the fleet, Yang Rui drove the road to Heyang County, but he did not catch up with Zhang Ning, Zhang Liao, Wu Anguo and others along the way. It turned out that they had arrived in Heyang City one step ahead of Yang Rui and began to deploy defenses on the surrounding city walls.

After Yang Rui returned, he assigned the city gate and wall on one side to guard the four people. Zhang Ning, Gao Shun, Zhang Liao and Wu'anguo were allocated to guard the city gate. Zhang Ning was responsible for the direction of the south gate, Gao Shun was responsible for the direction of the west gate, Zhang Liao was responsible for the direction of the east gate, and Wu'anguo was responsible for the direction of the north gate. All kinds of iron guards, warriors, archers, etc. were evenly placed on all sections of the city wall by Yang Rui.

The reason why Zhang Ning was placed on the side of the south gate closest to the Yellow River was because Dong Zhuo's troops came from the south, and their main business was likely to be located in the south direction, so there were more troops siege to the south gate. Yang Rui wanted to use the power of Zhang Ning's Tianling Fire Rain skill to kill and injure the enemy on a large scale.

At the same time, Yang Rui arranged for Chen Lin to be responsible for the support of the center, and only gave him 1,000 troops to convey the news about the various sections of the city wall. At the same time, he tried to mobilize some NPC people to gather, transport some rolling stones, woods, etc. The long-range archer soldiers that Yang Rui had were really limited, and some other means needed to assist in defending the city.

"...Dong Zhuo is terrified and is in trouble. He took advantage of the distance of the prefect Wang Kuang to seize the six counties in the west of Hanoi, and the civilians were tragically damaged. Now Dong Zhuo is coming again, and he is trying to make justice. I also ask all the villagers to help..."

Yang Rui had no great hope for mobilizing the NPC people, but after Chen Lin's words, the people within a thousand meters around him responded one after another, which was much beyond Yang Rui's expectations.
Chapter completed!