Shu Han Confucian General of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 78
"Xingba, how's the situation?" Seeing that Gan Ning, who was ordered to investigate the water situation downstream, had also returned, Zhao Feng asked hastily.

"General, I'm afraid it's not possible." Gan Ning said with a bitter face, and then explained in detail: "The last general took a boat all the way from the downstream to the mouth of the sea, but there is not even a place where the army can cross the river."

"If not, forget it!" Zhao Feng also knew that there was little hope for this matter. After all, Sun Quan has been running Jiangdong for many years, and it is really unlikely that he will leave a big loophole for you.Since this trick doesn't work, it's time to try another trick.

"That's right, Wen Yuan and Wen Da, you two will lead 1 elite soldiers to the village opposite Sanshan Town; Wen Chang and Wen Xiang, you two will lead [-] people to the village opposite Niuzhu." Zhao Feng continued to arrange.

"The general will follow orders." Zhang Liao, Li Tong, Wei Yan and Xu Sheng agreed at the same time.Gao Lan on the side pondered for a moment and said, "General Zhao, do you want to advance in multiple ways so that the Jiangdong Army can't figure out our reality?"

"It's more than that!" Zhao Feng smiled when he heard the words, and immediately gave Gao Lan and Wen Pin some more detailed instructions.

"What's the recent move of the Xuzhou Army?" In Wujun City, Sun Quan asked Zhu Ran who had just returned from Niuzhu.Ever since he learned of Cheng Pu's defeat, Sun Quan did not dare to take Xuzhou's army lightly. "My lord, they attacked our army's Jiangbei Water Village several times, but they all returned in vain," Zhu Ran replied.

"So that's the case. It seems that the Xuzhou navy is nothing more than that. Previously, it took advantage of the location and the sharpness of the bow and crossbow to plot against General Cheng. If we really want to fight, how can we be the opponent of the Jiangdong navy." Sun Quan was secretly relieved when he heard the words .At this time, someone came to report that after Zhou Yu put down the rebellion in Kuaiji County, he went straight down the Gan River to fight the Jingzhou Navy.

"Gongjin is really powerful, and he put down the rebellion so quickly. I have Gongjin, why should I be afraid of Erliu!" Sun Quan laughed when he heard this, and all the civil servants in the hall also smiled happily.What they didn't notice was that there was a murderous look deep in the corner of Sun Quan's eyes.

"The Xuzhou army divided up and set up two villages again?" In the water army village in Hulingang, He Qi heard about it and came to report it, somewhat surprised by this.

"It seems that the Xuzhou army is preparing to advance both false and real, so that I can't figure out the true and false. Tell Tai Shici and General Jiang Qin to be careful." He Qi thought for a while, but couldn't think of any other explanation.At the moment, Tai Shici and Jiang Qin were notified, and at the same time, more scouts were sent to inquire about the news.

However, in the next few days, Xuzhou's army hardly resisted Jiang's harassment, but mobilized troops on a large scale every day.The army that was originally stationed in Lujiang City went to the battalion set up by Zhang Liao on the opposite side of the three mountains to increase troops every day, and sent five thousand soldiers every day.At the same time, after Zhang Liao established Dazhai, he also began to collect boats and rafts to prepare for water battles.

These actions were really not small, and they were frequently mobilized for nearly ten days in a row, so it was impossible to hide Jiangdong's secret work. "Zhao Feng sent more troops to the opposite side of Sanshan Town?" He Qi also felt a little strange.

"No, General, it seems that Zhao Feng wants to deceive General Jiang Qin because he has few soldiers, so he wants to fight across the river from the three mountains! General Jiang only has 3000 troops, how can he deal with Zhao Feng's army, send people to support him immediately! !" Lu Meng, the school lieutenant under He Qi's command, heard the words and immediately put forward his own opinion.

"I'm afraid it's not as simple as that. Send an order and send more secret agents to continue to investigate." He Qi pondered for a while and continued to issue another order.

"General?" Lu Meng was a little surprised when he heard the words, but was stopped by He Qi, who looked at Lu Meng, and then said slowly: "Zhao Feng is Liu Bei's capable general, and he usually marches and fights. It's not common sense, it's hard to guard against. Now that the situation of Sanshan and Niuzhu is unknown, if Zhao Feng takes the opportunity to attack Hulin, what should he do?"

"So that's it, the last general has been taught!" Lu Meng nodded again and again when he heard the words, a little ashamed of his instinctive reaction just now.At present, He Qi sent more secret agents to Sanshan and Lujiang to continue to inquire about the news.However, Lujiang City is still constantly adding troops to the three mountains, and five thousand a day can't be shaken. After a few days, Zhang Liao's big village has more than 5 horses. At the same time, Jiang Qin, who is opposite, has only three Thousands of defenders, the strength of the contrast is huge.

A few more days passed, and on this day He Qi suddenly summoned all the generals to discuss matters. "Everyone, I found out clearly. It turned out that Zhao Feng sent troops to reinforce Zhang Liao every day, but at night he secretly sent people to go to Niuzhu Wei Yan and Xu Sheng. This Zhao Feng originally wanted to play tricks, superficially to reinforce Zhang Liao, but in fact It's Wei Yan's reinforcements, it looks like he wants to start with Niu Zhu!" He Qi said with a smile as he put the two pieces of information on the table in front of him.

"So that's the case. Fortunately, the general acted cautiously and didn't rush to send troops. Then general, what should we do now?" Lu Meng was also afraid after hearing the words, and now he admired He Qi more and more.

"What else can we do? Since Zhao Feng thinks he's smart, let's give him a head-on blow. Ziming, you lead 2000 troops to set off overnight to join General Jiang Qin in Sanshan Town, and go to Niuzhu to join General Tai Shici. I'll ask again In Danyang City, General Sun sends troops, and you wait to set up an ambush day and night, and prepare to attack Wei Yan." He Qi finished all the arrangements in one go, although Zhou Yu ordered the three of them to guard one place, but among the three in terms of strategy, He Qi was the most outstanding. Therefore, both Tai Shici and Jiang Qin listened to him invisibly.

"The final general understands!" Lu Meng also bowed to accept the order when he heard the words, and then mobilized the army and horses to join Jiang Qin in Sanshan overnight.Marching in a hurry overnight, it was not until the early morning of the second day that they arrived at Sanshan Town.

"So that's how it is!" Jiang Qin suddenly understood He Qi's analysis after hearing Lu Meng's explanation, and then he said with relief: "I said why Zhang Liao's big village opposite Zhang Liao has been collecting boats and rafts recently, but every day there is little smoke in the village. It looks like there are 500 troops stationed, so it is a bluff. If so, let us join forces and go to help General Tai Shici!" Jiang Qin left [-] people to be stationed in Sanshan Town under the leadership of his own general, and he led his people to rush He rushed to Niuzhu to reinforce Tai Shici.

"Is that so?" Seeing Lu Meng and Jiang Qin leading the army to reinforce, and hearing He Qi's arrangement, Tai Shici was also startled into a cold sweat. "General Taishi, be careful, Wei Yan has 6 to [-] men on the opposite side, and they may smuggle in at any time!" Lu Meng quickly reminded.

"I've checked myself!" Tai Shici also paid attention to himself secretly, and sent many secret agents to inquire about the news on the other side without mentioning it.

"General, Wei Yan and Xu Sheng have been collecting boats and rafts these days. Instead of going to the people's homes to collect them, they ordered people to go to the nearby mountains to cut bamboo and wood, and then craftsmen secretly made them in the rear of the army. They made many inquiries before they were sure that they were correct. "That night, a spy came back to report in detail.

"So that's how it is. Wei Yan is really good enough to build a raft by himself. It seems that he will do it in one or two days!" alert.

Two days later, on this night, Wei Yan and Xu Sheng's garrison opposite Niu Zhu suddenly put down newly built bamboo rafts and small wooden boats, and then a group of soldiers in black boarded the boats one after another, and then went to the opposite side. Tai Shici's camp was rowed away in silence. "General Wei, everything is ready!" On one of the larger boats, Xu Sheng looked around and whispered to Wei Yan beside him.

"Pass down the order and tell the soldiers to be careful." Wei Yan also looked stern, and the ghost knife in his hand couldn't help but clenched even tighter.

Nearly a hundred small boats and bamboo rafts paddled silently to the opposite bank. This section of the river was not very wide, and the first dozen or so boats had arrived in a short time.Just as Wei Yan and Xu Sheng jumped off the boat, suddenly a row of torches lit up on the shore, and then countless Jiangdong soldiers were killed, and three of them were Tai Shici, Jiang Qin and Lu Meng.

"Haha, little Wei Yan, I've seen through your tricks, why don't you just catch me?" Amid Lu Meng's triumphant laughter, arrows rained down on the Xuzhou soldiers who hadn't gotten off the boat yet.

"Don't panic, use the rattan card to block the arrows, and follow me to kill!" Although Wei Yan saw that the opponent was on guard, he still rushed forward immediately.The Xuzhou sergeants on the boat also raised their rattan cards or wooden boards to block the arrows, and then jumped down to help in the battle. Some impatients simply jumped into the river and waded ashore to confront the enemy without waiting for the shore.

"Hey!" Wei Yan's ghost-headed broadsword made close contact with Tai Shici's Fang Tianji, and then both of them took a few steps back, and this hard fight was evenly divided.Although it was a foot battle at this time, but their martial arts had reached the level of the two of them, even if they were not on the horse, they still had their own style of fighting. Now the two of them are fighting with sabers and halberds on equal footing, and it is hard to tell the winner for a while.

"General Taishi, I'll help you!" Jiang Qin stabbed Wei Yan diagonally. "Hugh can bully more and less!" Xu Sheng quickly stopped him with a knife. "Wei Yan, you have no chance of winning today. It is better to surrender early!" Tai Shici took the time to look around the situation. Because Wei Yan's bamboo raft was too small, there were actually only about 2000 people crossing the river with him. It is both less and more neutral, and this is a lost game.

"Who says there is no chance of winning?" Wei Yan swung his sword twice to force Tai Shici and Jiang Qin away, then retreated a few steps and said with a smile: "General Wenyuan should have taken Sanshan Town by now!"

"What?" Tai Shici and Jiang Qin's expressions changed greatly when they heard the words. "Zhang Liao's Dazhai opposite Sanshan Town is a bluff. Every day, 5000 troops are transferred in during the day, but at night they are transferred to your military tent. Do you think I don't know?" Jiang Qinqiang said calmly.

"Hey, 4 people go there during the day, but only [-] at night, but everyone lights two torches, and now there are a full [-] people there. That's right, it's dark in the middle of the night, your meticulous work It's not that easy to count!" Wei Yan said with emotion.

"Bastard!" Jiang Qin saw Wei Yan's expression so awkward, and was about to go forward to fight him desperately in anger, but was grabbed by Tai Shici: "General Jiang, if Sanshan Town is lost, the big thing will be gone, hurry up!" Return to the army!" Tai Shici said in a deep voice.

"Understood!" Jiang Qin said bitterly, and quickly ordered the sergeant not to get entangled with the Xuzhou army, and to leave the battlefield as soon as possible.But Wei Yan didn't take it too seriously, and led the remaining people to board the raft and retreat back to the north bank.

"General Taishi, there will be a time later!" Seeing that his ship was beyond the range of Jiangdong Army's crossbow, Wei Yan immediately stood upright on the bow and waved goodbye. Taishi Ci and Jiang Qin were so angry that they had to retreat back to Dazhai temporarily. , and at the same time discuss the rescue of Sanshan.

(End of this chapter)