The Jagged Cavalry of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 329

On the bank of the Yellow River in Liyang County, military camps are stationed on the embankment of the Yellow River. Teams patrolling the embankment wander around the bank. Basically, a patrol team passes by every once in a while.

And on the bank, there are many barriers, each of which is like a small blockhouse, standing along the bank of the Yellow River, and in the middle of the barrier, a beacon tower will be set up every three miles. A watchtower was also set up, and the soldiers on the watchtower were responsible for watching the situation on the Yellow River. Once they found any enemy situation, they would immediately light the beacon to notify everywhere.

Jianwei General Guo Huai was in charge of guarding the embankment. The army he led included his old troops in Bingzhou and the Jizhou army who had surrendered, totaling 3 people.

Among them, there are only 5000 people in the old department of Bingzhou, and the remaining 5000 people are from the Jizhou Army. But basically the [-] old Bingzhou Departments are scattered in the establishment of the Jizhou Army. The positions they hold are not high, but they are very important. Monitor the role of the Jizhou Army.

After Cao Cao occupied Yecheng and usurped the power in Hebei, in order to buy the Jizhou army, he promoted a group of new generals. The positions of these generals were much higher than those of the old ones.

Of course, Cao Cao did not forget his old department, but sent someone to secretly send rewards to the old department in order to comfort the old department.

It is precisely because Cao Cao handled this matter very well that the Bingzhou Army and the Jizhou Army can live together peacefully.

Guo Huai was a talent that Cao Cao accidentally discovered when he was in Bingzhou.

Later, Xia Houyuan went to quell the rebellion in Xihe County. Guo Huai performed very well in this battle, and also beheaded the leader of the rebels, and was promoted by Xia Houyuan to the army Sima.

Not long after he served as Xiahouyuan's army commander, by chance, when Cao Cao came to Xiahouyuan's army to inspect, Xiahouyuan praised Guo Huai a lot when he talked about pacifying the Xihe rebellion.Cao Cao became interested, so he proposed to see Guo Huai, and talked with him for a while, and Guo Huai often answered each other fluently, which made Cao Cao very happy.

After some questioning, Cao Cao found out that after Guo Huai was a general, he was born in a family of officials. He felt that Xia Houyuan's army commander was a bit inferior. From then on, Huai led the army alone.

After that, Guo Huai made many military exploits, rose to the top, and has been serving as the current general Jianwei. He has gradually become one of Cao Cao's confidantes, and he is often entrusted with important tasks by Cao Cao.

Since Guo Huai replaced Jiang Yiqu as the important task of guarding Li Yang, he has been devoting himself to every day, and every detail has been reviewed by himself, for fear of mistakes.

Even this defense system was conceived by him himself.

The last time Guo Huai had just taken office, he met Zhang He and Gao Lan who came to attack him. Fortunately, he found out in time, so Zhang He, Gao Lan and others would not sneak across the Yellow River. Lan, repelled Zhang Yun, and captured many troops.

Afterwards, when Guo Huai heard that Yu Jin had led his troops again, he led his troops to lie in ambush on the bank. When he saw Yu Jin commanding his soldiers to land, he suddenly led his troops out, defeated the enemy halfway, and successfully repelled Yu Jin's attack. The line of defense of the Yellow River.

However, the only fly in the ointment was that after the captive Gao Lan surrendered, he heard that Chunyu Qiong, Jiang Yiqu and others had been wiped out of the three tribes, and he began to feel uneasy, so he escaped quietly one night.

Since repelling the attacks of Zhang He, Yu Jin and others in a row last time, Guo Huai has gained a reputation in the Jizhou area, and he has also convinced the Jizhou army who followed him.

Today, Guo Huai repeats several things every day, one is patrolling the embankment, the other is training the army, and the third is reading.

Not long after dawn, Guo Huai woke up very early, and before it was time to patrol the embankment, he held a book of Sun Tzu's Art of War and studied it carefully.

The Art of War by Sun Tzu in Guo Huai's hands is a book printed by Zhang Yan. He bought it from a bookstore at a high price, and keeps this book with him all the time, and he can't put it down.

When Guo Huai was watching with relish, a soldier suddenly broke in from outside the tent, and hurriedly reported to Guo Huai: "General, the enemy has been found on the river bank, and a beacon signal has been sent."

After hearing this, Guo Huai immediately closed the Sun Tzu's Art of War in his hand, then placed it on the table in front of him properly, and asked: "Call the army immediately, and follow me to the bank of the Yellow River to see what happened!"

"promise!"

The embankment of the Yellow River is still seven or eight miles away from the bank of the Yellow River. After Guo Huai gave an order, he assembled the army on the embankment of the Yellow River, and followed the direction of the beacon fire until he arrived at the bank of the Yellow River.

At this time, many armies gathered on the bank of the Yellow River. Seeing Guo Huai's arrival, they all paid attention to Guo Huai and made way for Guo Huai and others.

Guo Huai rode his horse to the shore, but he could vaguely see a dozen fishing boats on the wide surface of the Yellow River. Some people dressed as fishermen were sitting in the boats, holding sculls and gently rowing the fishing boats.

In order to deal with Zhang Yan, a large area was expanded to the middle of the river at the ferry of the Yellow River. A water village stood on the river. The water village was formed by countless fishing boats. These fishing boats were connected together to form a fan shape. A fence was built with wooden boards, and warships of all sizes were covered in the water village for crossing the river.

There are [-] garrisons in the water village. They are proficient in water skills and are the soldiers guarding the camp.This water fortress is not used much at ordinary times, it just gathers together large and small boats collected from various places, and strictly guards it so that people in this area are not allowed to communicate with each other on both sides of the strait, for fear that the enemy army will plant spies in the army.

Usually, once a boat is found to cross the river, Guo Huai often orders people to arrest the boat, and completely block the river bank in this area.

Now, more than a dozen fishing boats suddenly appeared on the river, which made Guo Huai a little cautious.

"Order the navy to send people forward to stop these fishing boats from docking, and let them go back wherever they came from. If these fishermen don't obey, they will be shot!" Guo Huai stood on the shore and said to the flag bearer behind him.

"Promise!" The flag bearer responded, and immediately played the flag into the water village.

The army in the water village received Guo Huai's order. Seeing that there were not many fishing boats, they dispatched a light boat and five soldiers, opened the gate of the water village, let the light boat out of the water village, and then went to stop the approach from the other side. fishing boat.

Gan Ning hid in the cabin of the fishing boat, peeked at the entire naval camp from the dark, and thought secretly: "Sure enough, as expected by the Regent, the enemy really only sent a light boat..."

"Get ready to shoot the arrow!" Gan Ning said to an archer beside him.

The archer nodded, drew out the arrow, put the arrow on the bowstring, drew the bow fully, and aimed at the light boat slowly approaching them, only waiting for Gan Ning's order.

At this moment, the archers on the other dozen fishing boats were also ready.

After a while, the light boat was about to approach the fishing boat. Five soldiers stood at the bow of the boat and shouted at the fishing boat that Gan Ning and the others were riding on, "You have entered the isolation area. If you are sensible, get back quickly, otherwise, you will be killed." Don't blame us for being rude!"

The words were shouted, but the fishing boat on the opposite side continued to move forward as if they didn't hear them.

"Didn't you hear, stop quickly, go back where it came from, otherwise, shoot and kill..."

"Fire the arrows!" Gan Ning shouted to the archer beside him without waiting for the soldier to finish shouting.

The archer was a sharpshooter in the army, and he had already aimed at the approaching light boat. After hearing Gan Ning's order, he immediately shot the arrow on the bowstring.

"Whoosh!"

The arrow pierced the sky, and shot towards the enemy standing on the opposite light boat at an extremely brisk speed, like a flash of light.

"puff!"

The soldiers on the light boat were not prepared at all, and were directly hit by an arrow, pierced through their throats by an arrow, and their bodies fell backwards, and fell into the river with a "plop".

The other four soldiers were suddenly surprised. Just as they were about to draw their bows and set their arrows, they saw more than 30 arrows flying over from the other dozen fishing boats. Before they could react, they were all killed by the arrows and fell down. Among the Yellow River.

On the watchtower of the water army camp, after seeing this scene, the soldiers shouted loudly into the water camp: "Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"

After hearing this, the soldiers in the water village boarded their warships one after another, and drove out of the water village in order to avenge their dead brothers.

All of a sudden, more than ten fighting ships sailed out of the water village one after another, and rushed towards the dozen fishing boats, trying to sink them.

Seeing this, Gan Ning immediately divided the fishing boats into two echelons, one echelon went to stop the enemy's fighting ships, while he himself led five fishing boats towards the water village.

Ten fishing boats lined up. The soldiers on the boat first set fire to the fodder, and then jumped into the water of the Yellow River with a plank prepared in advance. Relying on the plank and the buoyancy of the water, they swam aside.

The fishing boat was on fire, and with the help of the southeast wind, the ten fishing boats quickly rammed into more than ten fighting ships of the enemy. As soon as they collided on one side, there was a loud "boom" on the other side. They were immediately blown to pieces, and the soldiers on the battleship were also blown to pieces, falling into the river water one after another, and pushed to the lower reaches of the Yellow River by the Yellow River water.

Immediately afterwards, the sound of "Boom! Boom! Boom!" came continuously, and the fishing boats that were on fire exploded one after another, smashing the fighting ships that were close to the fishing boats to pieces.

In an instant, the dozens of fighting ships were all blown up, and here, Gan Ning and others were unstoppable, and sailed very briskly to the vicinity of the water village in a fishing boat.

The guards on the water fortress all witnessed the spectacular scene of the battleship being bombed and sunk. They couldn't close their mouths in surprise for a while, and they all said to themselves: "What weapons did the enemy use? Why do those people say It's gone if you don't?"

(End of this chapter)