Great Han Empire

Chapter 804 The Heroes of Troubled Times Compete in the Central Plains
In the middle of March, Henan Yin and Ji Shuijin.

There is no cloud in the gray sky, and the pale sun is like a patient recovering from a serious illness lazily opening his cloudy eyes, looking weakly at the boundless land.

On the surface of the Yellow River, dozens of large ships were loaded with soldiers in bright armor, sailing through the wind and waves with huge sails.

On the ferry, the war drums rumbled, the sound of killing shook the sky, and the sky was full of arrows like locusts.On several beachheads under the river embankment, soldiers from both sides exchanged and fought, and the battle was unprecedentedly fierce.

Lao Wai was curled up in a shallow pit, splashed with muddy water all over his body, with a long shield erected in front of him, and whistling sharp arrows were nailed to the shield from time to time, making a terrifying "dongdong..." sound.

"Lie down, lie down, don't move." Lao Wai kept yelling, and the vicious curses that rushed out of his mouth were drowned out by the huge fighting sound on the battlefield in an instant.

From the moment we set foot on the river beach, I and my soldiers were suppressed by the enemy's dense arrow array, making it difficult to advance.

"Old Song..." Old Wai turned his head and shouted back, "Look quickly to see if the fleet has arrived. If they don't come, we will be shot into moth nests."

Lao Song carefully exposed half of his head from behind the shield, blinked at Lao Wai, and then retracted at a very fast speed, "What are you howling...you miss me."

Old Wai yelled, "Will you die if you look at it? I tell you to look at it and you just look at it. How can there be so much trouble?"

Just as Lao Wai was cursing, Lao Song's surprised voice sounded, "Here they are. Brothers... Get ready and kill them!"

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Dozens of large ships approached the ferry, and the ballistas on the bows were fired in unison, and the deafening sound resounded up and down the river embankment in an instant.

The fierce battle drums were beating one after another, and groups of soldiers waved their weapons, screaming and roaring at the top of their lungs, rushing up the river bank like a tide.

The strong archers lined up on both sides of the ship, pouring their angry long arrows at the enemy on the embankment.

Under the fierce shooting of the northern Xinjiang army, the enemy's momentum suddenly weakened, and the defensive position was immediately torn apart.

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"Go...go... go up, go up..." Lao Wai jumped up, raised his knife and shouted, "Brothers, stand up for me, go up..."

The morale of the soldiers in northern Xinjiang was like a rainbow. Under the cover of their own dense arrow array, they were brave and shouted forward.

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Standing on the big boat, Xu Huang looked at the bloody battlefield ahead, took a deep breath, then raised his hands high and roared loudly, "Beat the drum... beating the drum... we must take down the ferry today."

The sound of war drums shook heaven and earth in an instant, like bursts of spring thunder exploding, and the heavy sound waves set off were majestic and rolled towards the embankment.

"Kill..." The soldiers' blood boiled with enthusiasm, their blood-red eyes widened, and they shouted loudly, like a roaring tiger, fiercely pounced on their prey.

For a moment, blood was everywhere, and broken limbs and arms were flying all over the sky.

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Lao Wai pulled out the bloody saber from the enemy's chest, raised his foot, and kicked the screaming and convulsing corpse fiercely, then raised his head to the sky, opened his mouth and let out a painful and tragic howl, " what……"

The young bannerman was lying face up at his feet, the long hair piercing his heart was still piercing his body and trembling violently, the scarlet blood was spurting upwards from the wound, his wide eyes were full of tears. Fear of death.

Lao Wai stretched out his big blood-stained hand, bent down and picked up the battle flag from the flag bearer.He took one last look at the brother who had lost his life, slowly straightened his body, then raised the battle flag high, suddenly turned his head and shouted, "Brothers, kill..."

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Sixty miles away, Guangwu Ferry.

Wang Dang stepped onto the embankment.

The embankment was covered with corpses, the soil was soaked in blood, and the air exuded an unpleasant smell of blood.

In the distance, war drums sounded softly, and under the guidance of the battle flags, teams of soldiers were regrouping and preparing to advance to Aocang City ten miles away.

The follow-up part of walking off the ship, while cleaning the battlefield, unloading heavy equipment from the ship.

Ding Bo, Xue Lan and a group of school lieutenants and army Sima walked in front of Wang Dang.

Ding Bo bowed and saluted, "My lord, will the army enter Aocang City immediately?"

"Don't stay here, start immediately. Before the enemy's reinforcements arrive, take Ao Cang and force Xingyang City." Wang Dang waved his hand vigorously, "If we can't take Xingyang City, we won't be able to gain a foothold in Henan, let alone hold Yuan Shao down." army."

"My lord, Yuan Shao's main forces are now in the area of ​​Zhongmou and Chenliu. They are only two or three hundred miles away from Xingyang. Their return will be very fast. The time left for us to attack Xingyang is too short." Xue Lan said worriedly.

"No confidence?" Wang Dang asked with a smile.

"Xingyang is the gateway to Luoyang, and hitting Xingyang is like hitting Yuan Shao's throat." Ding Bo said, "Once Yuan Shao gets the news, he will definitely do his best to rescue him. We don't have enough troops, so we may not be able to..."

Wang Dang shook his hand, interrupted Ding Bo's words, and then walked forward.Ding Bo and the generals hurriedly followed.

"Let me ask you, under the current circumstances, can we take Luoyang?" Wang Dang asked as he walked.

"No." Xue Lan said after hesitating for a moment, "Luoyang has an army of tens of thousands, and there is the danger of a tiger prison. Zhongmou and Chenliu have Yuan Shao's main force. Yuzhou is also close at hand. If we are not careful, we will be caught Surrounded by the enemy."

"Yes." Wang Dang nodded, stretched his legs and stepped over an enemy's corpse.When his gaze accidentally swept over the head of the corpse, he couldn't help but let out a "huh", and immediately turned his head to take a closer look.It was a thin old man with white beard and hair.

"There are still such old soldiers in Yuan Shao's army?" Wang Dang was quite surprised.

"I heard that after the Yizhou War, Yuan Shao, Cao Cao and other rebels all recruited a large number of soldiers, and males between the ages of 14 and 60 became the targets of conscripts." Ding Bo said, "There are rumors that Yuan Shao has [-] troops. Because Liu Biao in Jingzhou was attacked by Liu Zhang in Yizhou and Sun Ce and Zhou Yu in Jiangdong last year, he also recruited a large number of troops last winter, and his total strength is said to have reached [-]."

"It's useless to have too many people." Wang Dang snorted, turned around and continued walking forward.

"Lord Xue was right just now. We think so, and Yuan Shao should think so too. The purpose of his gathering troops in Zhongmou and Chenliu is to wait for an opportunity to enter the Central Plains, but before entering the Central Plains, he must make sure that our relatives in Luoyang The threat has been minimized, so he is very likely to attack Yizhou while our northern army is gathering in Hanoi, cutting off our retreat and forcing us to withdraw." He stopped, looked at the generals behind him, and smiled He asked: "You tell me, what should Yuan Shao do when he hears that we are crossing the river?"

"Give up going north to attack Jizhou, and instead fight us fiercely in Henan, trying to kill us on the south bank of the Yellow River." Xue Lan said, "If Yuan Shao succeeds, he can not only retake Hanoi, but also occupy the Central Plains."

"My lord, when the time comes, we will have to retreat back to Hanoi in time. We have nothing to gain from going south this time except to hold Yuan Shao back and prevent him from attacking Yizhou." Ding Bo shook his head, "If this is the case, I think the imperial court will It is really a failure to order [-] troops to enter Hanoi and go south to attack Henan."

Wang Dang smiled, "It's too early to say it, it's too early to say it. The general must have another purpose." Then he pointed to the generals and said with a serious expression, "Since we are the first to cross the Yellow River, we must fight The prestige of our northern border army."

"In two days, take down Ao Cang for me and march to Xingyang City."

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In the middle of March, Weijun, Jizhou, Changshoujin.

"Puchi..." The muffled sound of the spear piercing through the body was creepy, and then the bloody spear tip spurted out with a smear of blood.

Xiao Hei stared dumbfounded at the bloody spear tip, and at the corporal leader's tall body staggering back.The corporal leader's shrill scream rushed straight into his ears. The sound was so clear and long that it covered up all the sounds on the battlefield. Huge fear suddenly invaded Xiao Hei's whole body like a bone-chilling wind.

Xiao Hei trembled, he wanted to run, but his legs were motionless as if he had lost consciousness.

The "sizzling..." sound from the blood spurting out of the corporal leader's body pierced Xiao Hei's heart like a sharp arrow, making Xiao Hei feel a heart-piercing pain, and at the same time a huge His fear was overwhelming him too.Xiao Hei instinctively opened his mouth wide and screamed loudly, "Help me..."

The tip of the spear suddenly disappeared, blood flew all over the sky, and the corporal fell down with a crash.

Xiao Hei saw the corporal leader's eyes, saw the hatred soaring into the sky, and then he saw the tip of the spear, the blood on the spear tip flew into the air, they were flying like blossoming flowers The flowers bloomed suddenly, gorgeous and strange, and a gloomy murderous aura rushed towards her.

"Little Hei, raise your shield...raise your shield..." Stick yelled hoarsely, the spear in his hand pierced into the enemy's lower abdomen at an alarming speed, then he turned around and rushed towards Xiao Hei, his right hand was almost at the same time. Out of the back of the saber.

An enemy came head-on, the thin stick roared, and unimaginable strength erupted from his whole body, knocking the enemy upside down and flying upside down.

The spear hit the shield with force.Xiao Hei couldn't stand upright, even the shield and others fell to the ground together.With a loud roar, the enemy merged with their spears and culled them again.

Three spears blocked the stick, and he was powerless to charge.Stick howled in despair, "Xiao Hei, kill him, kill him..."

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Xiao Hei fell into a pool of blood, staring helplessly at the spear that fell from the sky.

He saw the enemy's face clearly, heard the panting sound from the enemy's mouth, and he could even see his fearful expression in the enemy's eyes.At this moment, he suddenly forgot his fear, and his helplessly waving hand touched the hand crossbow hanging on his waist.This is his father's hand crossbow, and his father has taught him thousands of times to practice shooting.

Xiao Hei subconsciously pulled the trigger.

The crossbow arrow pierced the enemy's chest and rushed into the sky with a little blood.The flying body suddenly stopped for a moment, and then slammed into Xiao Hei on the ground viciously, even with a spear.

Xiao Hei turned over at this moment, rolled and crawled, and grabbed the long shield that fell beside him.

The spear plunged into the ground, the tip of the spear sank into the soil.The enemy's body fell to the ground.

The little black soul was scattered, lying on the ground, staring blankly at the three pillars of blood spurting from the wound on the enemy's back.I killed him, I killed him.Xiao Hei stared blankly, forgetting the noisy, bloody and cruel battlefield.

"Cut off his head, cut it off..." Stick's excited and hoarse voice came again, "Cut it off..."

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Five miles behind Changshoujin, there is General Wu Yi's camp.

The messenger jumped off his horse and almost rolled towards Gao Lan, "My lord, the enemy has withdrawn..."

Gao Lan nodded casually, "What? They stopped after only three days of fighting?"

"My lord, the enemy is retreating across the board and is retreating towards Puyang."

Gao Lan frowned slightly, leaned over to look at the map, "The news is accurate?"

"The scouts just sent news from the other side, saying that since last night, Yuan Shao's army has been retreating one after another." The messenger said out of breath, "When Master Li Feng got the news, he immediately sent me to report grown ups."

Gao Lan was secretly surprised, and walked up and down the grass with his hands behind his back.

Yuan Shao retreated so quickly and gave up his strategy of attacking Jizhou, obviously because the army of Yan Liang and Wen Chou had already crossed the river and attacked Henan.

Calculating from the schedule, the time for the Northern Xinjiang Army to attack Henan is no more than three to five days at most.In such a short period of time, the Northern Xinjiang Army will definitely not be able to take Xingyang.If Xingyang cannot be captured, the Northern Army will have no foothold. As long as Yuan Shao's reinforcements rush back, plus the reinforcements from Luoyang, the Northern Army will soon be defeated under the attack from east and west.As a result, the strategy of dragging Yuan Shao's army to the battlefield in Henan failed.

The most urgent task at the moment is to immediately hold back Yuan Shao's army, so as to give enough time for the Northern Army on the Henan battlefield to capture Xingyang.

If he wanted to hold Yuan Shao back, he had to change his strategy and immediately cross the south to approach Baima and Puyang.I have only 6 troops, while Yuan Shao on the opposite side has [-] to [-] horses. Can Yuan Shao be held back?
Gao Lan waved his hand, "Go and tell Master Li Feng to prepare the boat and go down the river immediately."

Gao Lan hurried into the army tent, wrote a letter in a hurry, ordering a fast ride of eight hundred miles, and immediately sent it to the Xingyuan of General Handan.Then he rewrote a letter to Lei who was stationed in Liyang, ordering them to prepare ships, and once the Yuan army in the direction of Liyangjin retreated to the white horse, they would immediately cross the river and go south to fight.

"My lord, as long as we take down the three cities of Pinggao, Wenxian and Heyang in Hanoi, we can directly threaten Luoyang. Why does the general insist on recruiting [-] troops to enter Hanoi, and order them to open up the battlefield in Henan?" Xiao En Looking at the map on the case table, he asked puzzledly.

After Gao Lan asked his personal guard, Chief Qishi, to protect the safety of the messenger, he walked to the side of the case.

"The main purpose of the general is not to capture the three cities of Hanoi and threaten Luoyang, but to use the Henan battlefield to drag Yuan Shao's main force so that he cannot capture the Central Plains." Gao Lan scratched his forehead and whispered, "But I always think this way It’s a foolish move, if you are not careful, the Northern Frontier Army going south to Henan may suffer heavy losses.”

"Does the general have another purpose?"

"Maybe..." Gao Lan laughed, "There must be a reason for the general to come to Handan secretly."

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(End of this chapter)