Great Han Empire

Chapter 751: A Storm of Troubled Heroes

On the pitch-black night sky, there are dots of stars, and a crescent moon floats quietly in the clouds, looming.

Dahei turned over, opened his eyes to look at the fire in the distance, and slowly got up.He was a little uneasy.At dusk, the scouts brought news from the other side that the Yanzhou Army had stopped its routine training today.Maybe the enemy is about to start attacking.

At the beginning of last year, the imperial court implemented the recruitment system. Without hesitation, he brought his family into the army and came to the north bank of the Yellow River to start his life as a soldier again.The lives of myself and my wife and children were saved by the Northern Xinjiang Army. Without the general and this army, my family would have been reduced to dead bones.To be a man, you must repay your kindness, you must repay the general, and you must fight to the death for the Northern Frontier Army.

Dongwuyang Daying has 150 military households, each of which is allocated fields.My family of four has [-] mu of land, which is far more than the land I was allocated when I was in Mintun.If the year is good, life at home will be easy after a year.Soldiers do not need to pay taxes, they only need to pay a very small part of the fee to the camp.This part of the cost is mainly used for army training and maintenance of ordnance.Although military households are in danger of their lives at any time, in the face of such generous treatment, the suffering people still crave for it.

However, the long-awaited good days have not yet come, and the rebels in the Central Plains began to attack on a large scale.

Dahei stood up, rubbed his eyes, and stretched long against the fresh river wind.The Yellow River was covered by darkness, and only the sound of the river water beating the embankment could be heard.In the grass near the embankment, unnamed insects were singing non-stop.He turned his head and looked behind him, thinking of his wife and children who had already evacuated.

Before the evacuation, his wife deliberately took the children to the bank of the Yellow River to bid farewell to him.There is nothing superfluous, the fact that I can live to this day and be able to reunite with my wife and children for several years is thanks to the gift of the general, and the whole family knows what I should do. "If I die, take good care of your mother and your younger sister." At this moment, Dahei was the only thing he could say to his son.Calculated according to the time, they have already crossed the Qinghe River and entered the Anping Kingdom.

"Uncle, are you thinking about Auntie again?"

Dahei looked down.The one who spoke was a young man lying at his feet, very thin, with a hint of childishness on his face, and his thin neck seemed to be broken at any time.

"Stick, it's still early before dawn, you should sleep more." Dahei sat down and patted his head lovingly.The kid is only 15 years old and is his neighbor.Their family was originally from Qingzhou, and after fleeing to Jizhou, they joined the Mintun.After enrolling in the army and arriving in Dongwuyang last year, his father died of illness, and his 15-year-old son immediately picked up the spear.

"Uncle, did the rebels beat us because they had nothing to eat?"

Dahei shook his head.He didn't know how to answer, but he knew that the rebels didn't come to Jizhou for food.

"We were also hit by a disaster. They robbed us of our food. What do we eat?" Stick closed his eyes and said in a daze, "When will we be able to live a good life?"

Dahei looked up at the pitch-black Yellow River, listened intently to the sound of the waves, and sighed softly.

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The team led Huang Tong to walk over slowly.

Huang Tong was originally the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army, and was later captured by Gongsun Zan's Youzhou Army and became the Youzhou Army. Soon he was captured by the Northern Xinjiang Army and became the Northern Xinjiang Army.Now he settled down in Dongwuyang, married a wife and had a child, and when he was living a happy life, the rebels came.He was so angry that he was yelling and cursing on the embankment every day.

"Dahei, can't sleep anymore?" Huang Tong stretched out his legs and kicked Dahei, and joked with a smile, "Missing your wife?"

He knew Dahei very well, and he was from the same village as the hundred soldiers.When fighting, he was the leader of the team. When not fighting, he led the hundred soldiers to plant crops in the fields.

"Yeah, even though I'm old, I'm thinking harder." Dahei smiled, "You can't sleep either?"

"Not only do I miss my mother-in-law and my children, but I also miss those cows." Huang Tong patted his chest and said, "I can't sleep, I can't sleep every day..." Then he cursed bitterly, Then sat across from Dahei and talked.If the cattle are not easy to serve, the autumn planting in the second half of the year will be very troublesome. Our village can only count on those few cattle to plow the land.

Dahei chatted with him for a few words, but his heart became more and more uneasy, and his eyes looked at the dark river from time to time.

"What's wrong with you? What are you looking at?"

Dahei didn't speak, but stood up solemnly and listened carefully, and then sniffed the air vigorously.

"Dahei, is there something wrong?" Huang Tong followed suit and stood up.Although Dahei never said that he had fought in the Northern Frontier Army for seven years and fought in the desert with the great general, but Dahei's proficient and superb martial arts skills and familiarity with various battle formations made Huang Tong and the rest of the team The soldiers admired him very much.

"Dahei, we are ten miles away from the ferry. Even if the enemy wants to cross the river, they will not choose this poor place." Huang Tong said nonchalantly.

"Quickly, make the fire bigger..." Dahei said as he quickly rushed to the nearby fire, bent over to pick up firewood and threw it into it.

The fire increased immediately, and although it could be seen farther away, nothing was found.

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Suddenly, Dahei's face changed drastically, and he shouted hoarsely, "Get up, the enemy is attacking, the enemy is attacking..."

The cry instantly tore through the night, frightening.

The soldiers sleeping on the embankment suddenly woke up and looked around in a daze.

Dahei rushed to the face of the stick, grabbed him by the collar, and dragged him away, "Hide under the embankment, hide under the embankment..."

Dozens of soldiers rushed down the embankment without even thinking about it.

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Huang Tong ran at the end, he kept looking back, and finally at the moment he rolled down the embankment, he saw the sky full of long arrows covering the twinkling starry sky.

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Drums of war resounded through the night.

On the dam on the north bank of the Yellow River, piles of flames soared into the sky, like a roaring fire dragon, flying ten miles in an instant, illuminating the night sky.

On the surface of the Yellow River, countless boats and rafts were loaded with heavily armed soldiers, riding the wind and waves, roaring.

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Huang Tongtong hit the ground with his fist and roared loudly: "Copy guy, give me a fight to the death..."

The soldiers who were still in shock lay dead under the embankment, wishing to bury their bodies in the ground, and did not hear Huang Tong's cry at all.Several soldiers shot by arrows hugged their wounds, screaming in pain, their shrill voices made one's hair stand on end.

The stick curled up into a ball, the great fear made him unbearable, and he burst into tears.

Several chiefs ran back and forth under the embankment, yelling non-stop.A dozen soldiers who planned to escape into the night were dragged back by them.

The long arrows shot wildly like rain, endlessly.

Holding up his shield, Dahei quietly stretched out his head to look at the river.Enemies are densely packed on the surface of the river.Dahei took a deep breath.What bad luck, why did the Yanzhou army choose this place to cross the river?

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Lei Zhong stepped out of the big tent, looked at the flames illuminating half of the night sky in the distance, and exclaimed excitedly, "Finally, I thought you were going to hide until autumn."

"Order, all ministries retreat to the city."

The messengers standing by the side suddenly agreed, and galloped away one after another.

"Urgently call Mr. Gao Lan, please send out cavalry to meet him along the way."

Then Lei Zhong got on his horse, turned his head and shouted to the guards who were waiting in line, "Brothers, follow me to the front and see who is the first to cross the Yellow River today."

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Xiahou Dun strode up the embankment.

Hundreds of steps ahead, Yanzhou's assault army was fighting bloody battles with the Jizhou army who came to support them from all directions, and the sound of fierce fighting was deafening.

Xiahou Dun looked around, waved and said, "Tell Cao Ren, Li Dian, and Yu Jin to speed up crossing the river and quickly advance to Dongwuyang."

"My lord, the Jizhou army is blocking fiercely. You should wait here for a while." One of his subordinates hurriedly stopped Xiahou Dun when he saw that he was about to move forward.

"What are you afraid of? The front is just Jizhou's field soldiers, vulnerable." Xiahou Dun walked to the fire, took off his combat boots while talking, and poured the river water remaining in the boots on the fire, " Although we have never had a direct battle with the northern border army, with our Yanzhou elite, we can definitely kill them."

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Dahei kicked the enemy's corpse away, followed by a step, the spear roared fiercely, and pierced into the enemy's chest fiercely, "Little stick, follow me, lift up the shield, lift up..."

Stick was pale, holding a shield in both hands, and followed closely behind Dahei.His spear was thrown on the river bank, and his sword was also lost during the run. The shield was snatched from the enemy by Dahei and stuffed in his hand.

When several enemies saw Dahei killing more than a dozen people in a row, they were very fierce and rushed up at the same time.

"When..." There was a loud noise, and the big black round shield swung up, smashing the enemy head-on, and the saber in his hand penetrated another enemy's chest in this short moment.

"Get out..." Dahei roared angrily, raised his foot to kick the howling enemy, and leaned back, his saber slashed at the back with a smear of blood.

Stick was dumbfounded, watching a head screaming in the air, and the shield in his hand dropped down involuntarily.

The spear burst through the air.

Dahei was about to burst into tears, stepped on the enemy's corpse and flew into the air, "Little stick, raise your shield..."

Stick opened his mouth wide, looking at the bloody spear point with a look of despair.

"Go to hell." Dahei's saber pierced into the back of the enemy, and his flying body knocked the enemy away with amazing force.

The spear tip brushed against the stick's neck, and flew into the air with a stream of blood.

The stick screamed in horror, turned over and fell to the ground.

"Go, go..." Dahei pulled him up and yelled repeatedly, "Run back, run fast..."

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Army Marquis Wang Shi withdrew quickly with his men and horses.

Lei Chong rode over and asked loudly, "Who is crossing the river?"

"It's that traitor Xiahou Dun." Wang Shi gritted his teeth, "I want to counterattack."

"Get out first." Lei Zhong waved his hand and said, "We'll beat him hard when we get to Tobu City. Has everyone pulled out?"

"No, Ban Yun's men and horses are entangled by the enemy and cannot get out." Wang Shi shouted, "I'm going to rescue them."

"Withdraw." Lei Zhong said decisively.

"My lord, those are our own brothers." Wang Shi was extremely sad and angry, "You give me 100 people, and I will rescue them."

"You take the troops and retreat first, and I'll go rescue them." Lei Zhong raised his spear, turned his head and shouted, "Brothers, kill, follow me to kill..."

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The shield shattered, Dahei flew upside down, and fell heavily to the ground.

The two spears stabbed down with strong blood.

Huang Tong, who was a few steps away, exclaimed, and threw the spear out of his hand, "Dahei..."

Stick stopped abruptly, "Uncle..." Stick's eyes turned red, and he suddenly ran up, howling like a wild beast, and using his thin body as a weapon, he slammed into the enemy fiercely.

"Puchi..." The spear thrown by Huang Tong pierced through the enemy like a sharp arrow.Another spear paused briefly before plunging into Big Black's body as Mad Stick charged forward with his bare hands.Dahei grabbed the enemy's spear point in that instant.

The stick collided with the enemy, and he bit the enemy's nose like a beast.

Dahei jumped up, grabbed the stick with one hand, and thrust the spear into the enemy's chest with the other, "Go, go..."

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In the dark night, there was a sudden sound of horseshoes in front of the battlefield.

The sounds of hooves were dense, moving from side to side, and sometimes there was a long sound of horns one after another, as if several roads of cavalry were coming from different directions.

Xiahou Dun ordered decisively to withdraw from the battle, hold on to the embankment, and block the northern cavalry with dense arrow arrays.

Taking advantage of this rare opportunity, Ban Yun, Huang Tong and others took the remaining more than 100 people and withdrew from the battlefield as quickly as possible.

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Holding a spear in one hand and a torch in the other, Lei Zhong stood quietly on his horse in the darkness.

"Lord Ray..."

Ban Yun, Huang Tong and others greeted them in surprise.Lei Zhong smiled slightly, shaking the torch continuously in his hand.

"Lord Lei, has our cavalry arrived?" Huang Tong asked excitedly.

"Here we are." Lei Zhong smiled, "Tomorrow, we will fight the rebels at the foot of Dongwuyang City."

Not long after, dozens of guard knights rushed out from different places.

"It's you?" Ban Yun said in surprise, "I thought the cavalry army was coming."

"Hmph..." Lei Chong looked at the brightly lit distance, and sneered, "Thirty riders are enough to deal with Xiahou Dun."

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Li Yang.

On the surface of the Yellow River, sails and masts are like forests.

Standing on the tower, Yu Po, the middle base captain of the Northern Army, looked at the slowly approaching boats on the river, full of murderous intent.

Yuan Shao, you are finally here.

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(End of this chapter)