Gan Ning and Zhang Liao fired three arrows at each other. Each arrow consumed a lot of energy. After three arrows, they both began to rest.
At this moment, a clipper in Gan Ning's fleet suddenly caught fire.
The sails of Luzhao's ships parked on the shore were all lowered, so they did not burn so quickly, but Gan Ning's ships were all full sail. Once the sails were set, the fire was extremely intense.
Gan Ning took a closer look and saw that the boat was full of corpses, and there was not a single living soldier in the boat.
On top of the corpse stood a big man holding a long-handled battle ax. His appearance was unclear in the darkness, but he could be heard shouting: "The big man is here to attack the general! The traitor will die!"
It turned out that Gan Ning was inspecting Cao Cao's Seventh Army, turned off the lights, and sailed upstream from the lower reaches. He looked at Li Dian's, Zhu Ling's, Yu Jin's, and Feng Kai's troops who were in front in order, and launched a night attack when he was recruiting troops on the fifth line. Then he continued to go upstream, and then set fire to Zhang Liao's and Zhang He's tribes, and then came back along the current.
When he was recruiting troops on the road, his men were all good at making money in the waves, and the northern soldiers had never experienced sneak attacks on the water. They were poorly prepared. His men swam to the side of the boat, poured oil on the boat in the dark, and set the boat on fire. .
At that time, Lu Zhao was staying overnight in Lou Chuan. When the fire broke out, he was trapped in Lou Chuan's room. It took a lot of effort to cut open the window and jump into the water. However, his water quality was average. After falling into the water, he could only grab a piece of it. The driftwood was floating on the river, looking at the chaos in his camp, his eyes were about to burst with anger.
Just at this moment, Gan Ning came back. Lu Zhao tried his best to sneak up to avenge the attack on the camp. When everyone's attention was on Gan Ning and Zhang Liao's exchange of fire, he suddenly attacked and with the courage of an ordinary man, he cut down a boatload of soldiers. , lit the fire again.
Many of Gan Ning's ships were roughly arranged in an arc formation. When a ship in the middle caught fire, the ship's direction was messed up. In addition, Gan Ning's flag was shot off, and the ships at the front and rear had no idea what to do. .
It happened that the fire ship hit the side of another ship. Lu Zhao knew that he had neglected his duty and did not care about life or death. He laughed loudly and jumped to the side of the ship that was hit. Immediately, blood and flesh flew everywhere.
When Cao Cao occupied Xuzhou, Lu Zhao was already a veteran in the army. His survival to this day was due to his martial arts. He was certainly far behind Zhang Liao and Zhang He, but he was still like a wolf among sheep and chopping up melons when killing ordinary soldiers. Cutting vegetables is average.
Gan Ning said angrily: "Let's all shoot him to death!"
"Swish, swish, swish" came a rain of arrows. Lu Zhao was hit by several arrows, but he still fought hard.
"Dong dong" drums sounded, and Gan Ning turned around. On the river, Zhang Liao's ship and stern were brightly lit, and they were coming towards them.
Thirty fast boats set out together, but Lu Zhao killed two of them by one man. Gan Ning's heart bleeds, but with the ships from the opposite side pressing over him, he can no longer fight.
Gan Ning gritted his teeth and said, "Retreat!"
Gan Ning's fleet immediately turned its sails and ran downstream.
In the chaos, another ship was hit by a fire ship and a fire broke out. The soldiers shouted and put out the fire, but with little effect.
Lu Zhao laughed loudly: "Thieves, please go away and fight your grandfather for another 300 rounds!"
Gan Ning turned around and shot an arrow. Lu Zhao was so frightened that he ducked back and almost lost his life. He immediately shut up.
"Gan Xingba will avenge today's revenge sooner or later!"
After saying this, the clipper's sails were full and everyone ran for their lives.
After they escaped, the captain on the building boat breathed a sigh of relief.
Zhang Liao's tribe also experienced a night attack. In such a hurry, there was no time to repair the building ship. Apart from the necessary sailors, their ship had no soldiers at all. It was a complete paper tiger and could not bite anyone.
But Zhang Liao made a decisive decision before the battle and ordered all the ships to light up lights to come to his aid. This scared away the invincible Gan Xingba on the water.
Gan Ning didn't know this, and was congratulating himself that his clipper ship was faster than the tower ship and passed Feng Kai's tribe without any problems.
As a result, within five miles, another large boat came over, but Yu Jin saw a fire in the tent behind him from a distance, so he sent a large boat to come to the rescue.
The river was not wide, so the large boats blocked the river like tigers blocking the road. There were other small boats from Yu Jin nearby to support them. The Ganning tribe had to break three boats before they could pass through this water area.
However, Yu Jinbu also broke ten small boats, which shows the strength of Gan Ning's fleet in water warfare.
When Yu Jinbu passed by, Zhu Lingbu passed quietly and safely.
But further forward, it’s Lou Chuan again!
A general stood on the bow of the building and said loudly: "Li Mancheng has been waiting here for a long time!"
It turned out to be the Confucian general Li Dian.
He and Zhu Ling's troops were ranked first and second. They were far away and happened to be at the corner of the Han River. No fire was seen. However, Li Dian was meticulous and his march was organized. He felt that since he was on the first day As the vanguard, we should get things done, stay overnight on the boat in the building, and send a small boat to patrol and be on guard.
When Gan Ning came, he did not light a lamp and was more careful. The patrolling soldiers of Li Dian's department who were not familiar with water warfare did not notice them.
But when he escaped, the lights were bright, anyone who was not blind could see, and Li Dian's boat was launched in time.
Seeing another big ship, Gan Ning angrily threw his bow to the ground and said angrily: "What a bully! Why does Cao Cao have so many big ships! Go back this time. Let Zhang Zhao and Yu Fan see the joke." Got it!"
Little did he know that the Seventh Army was only allocated seven large ships, but Cao Cao's large army that had just set off from Jiangling had ninety-three such ships!
Gan Ning called on the clippers to break out, and there was another bloody battle. In the end, out of the thirty clippers that came, only 16 returned. In terms of the battle loss ratio alone, it was even more serious than Lu Zhaobu.
But compared to the quantity, the losses suffered by the Luzhao Department were worse.
When the situation calmed down slightly, Zhao Yan had already taken a quick horse to contact various ministries to check the damage, repair the tents, extinguish the fire, and rest in place.
By the time I finished resting, it was already morning.
According to the final statistics, except for Zhu Ling's and Feng Kai's troops who were unscathed, Zhang Liao's troops suffered the lightest losses. Only three people were killed by fire and some tents were damaged.
Then came Zhang He's tribe. Zhang He also gathered his troops and horses like Zhang Liao, and even sent reinforcements to Zhang Liao's tribe, but it was useless. His soldier losses were within double digits.
Yu Jin's Ministry and Li Dian's Ministry experienced the first water battle in Cao's large-scale campaign. They each lost some ships and more than a hundred soldiers died.
The situation was serious for the Luzhao Department. Half of the military tents were destroyed, almost all the ships were destroyed, more than 500 people died, and thousands were injured.
For a team of ten thousand people, this loss is already very high.
If it weren't for Cao Wu's desperate efforts to snatch back the big banner, and Guan Qiu Jian's unwavering efforts to save his team in the face of danger, the losses would have far exceeded this amount.
But Lu Zhao himself also fought hard to kill the enemy, wiping out more than 20 enemies by himself and destroying two ships.
Seeing Lu Zhao, who was covered in blood and shot like a hedgehog, was rescued from the river, Zhao Yan could only sigh and said: "There are merits and demerits, and faults are greater than merits. They will be recorded in the record for the time being. Wait for this battle." Let’s talk after it’s over.”
Cao Wu also went to take a look at Lu Zhao. When he gathered the defeated troops, he thought that Lu Zhao had escaped or was killed. However, Lu Zhao's bravery far exceeded his expectations. None of Cao Cao's military veterans were simple. people.
In addition, because Zhu Ling's troops were far away, it made sense that there would be no support. However, Feng Kai's troops were right in front of Lu Zhao's troops. When they saw the friendly forces in trouble, not even a centurion came to help, so Feng Kai became the only victim that night. Punishment of generals.
Feng Kai showed his teeth and confessed, but he did not admit his fault. He did not feel that he had made a mistake by sitting back and watching friendly forces catch fire but not sending help.
This is the difference between famous generals and non-famous generals. Feng Kai can also do well in marching, setting up formations, and leading troops to charge, but he does not have the overall view of Zhang Liao and Li Dian.
On the other hand, Zhao Yan rewarded those who had meritorious service, Zhang Liao's assistance, and Li Dian and Yu Jin's contribution to robbing the river were all recorded.
When it was Guanqiu Jian's turn, Zhao Yan was surprised and said, "The son of the Marquis of Gaoyang?"
Guanqiu Jian nodded and said, "My father died early, and I have ascended to the throne."
Cao Wu on the side finally understood why Guanqiu Jian was able to become a captain and lead a thousand-man team at the age of sixteen or seventeen, and he was still an elite Qingzhou soldier.
It turned out to be because he had a title.
Zhao Yan admired this unsmiling young man very much. He patted him on the shoulder and took credit for his achievements.
Finally, Zhao Yan turned to Cao Wu with a smile: "General Beifu saved ten thousand troops by one person, which should be regarded as the first achievement of this battle! I will report it to the prime minister and rectify the general's name!"
Zhao Yan was smooth in dealing with things, but these words came from the bottom of his heart.
During yesterday's battle, the name of Beifu General Cao Wu was widely circulated among the Seventh Army. For the first time, the soldiers knew that in addition to famous generals such as Xiahou Dun and Cao Ren, the Cao family also had an extremely powerful Cao Wu.
Cao Wu grinned, he saved people because he saw his army was in trouble, and he had no interest in recording merit or anything like that.
Ah Da did not think so, and rushed to say: "Then Mr. Lao can speak kindly to my general."
Zhao Yan glanced at A Da a few more times. When he met A Da for the first time the day before yesterday, he, like Zhang Liao at first, thought that General Beifu was a young man who went to the military camp and brought beauty with him.
Unexpectedly, A Da and Cao Wu leaped across the river together, and they were indeed heroes among women.
Ah Da doesn't care what others think of her. She only cares about helping Cao Wu gain fame, and she just smiles while wearing a mask.
Cao Wu joked with Zhao Yan for a few words, and then returned to the camp with A Da.
As soon as he entered, Cao Wu asked with concern: "Is the burned place healed?"
Ah laughed and said, "It's just that my hair was pulled up, it's nothing."
Cao Wu felt reassured, sat and thought for a while and said: "I thought that following the army would have enough time, but I'm worried that Gan Ning will come again, and the time will be delayed, and we can't be with Zhang Wenyuan."
Ah Da nodded and put away the details.
But he said that in Nanyang County, a carriage was slowly heading north.
The maid Ah Liu drove the car and walked slowly.
When he came, the general told him not to leave too fast, and secretly told him that Sun and Liu would definitely form an alliance, and Zhuge Liang would come back to help Cao Wu with advice.
Ah Liu was a little confused about this. Of course she hoped that the general and her husband would work together to clear up the chaos, but she was also worried that something would happen to them on the front line.
As I was thinking wildly, I didn't notice that there was a little boy in front of the carriage.
The little boy was about eleven or twelve years old. He was carrying dry food on his back and a sickle tied to his waist.
The little boy was also walking north, in the same direction as Ah Liu, so he turned back when he heard the hoofbeats of the horses. When he saw two horses approaching, he had no time to hide. He pursed his lips, touched the sickle with one hand, and protected the dry food with the other.
Seeing that he was about to hit him, Ah Liu pulled the reins in time and passed by the boy.
She stopped in front and quickly got out of the car to see if the boy was injured.
When the boy saw her coming, he drew out his scythe like a wild cat guarding its food, with a guarded expression and sharp eyes.
In the chaos of war, a little boy showed such an expression, which was both reasonable and pitiful. Even though Ah Liu was usually very sharp-tongued, he didn't know what to say.
Fortunately, Zhuge Liang got out of the car and showed a gentle smile: "Don't be afraid, our car almost hit you, and we need to apologize to you."
Oddly enough, Zhuge Liang was handsome and courteous, and he was dressed as a scholar. As soon as he appeared on the scene, the little boy's wariness was lowered.
He said: "I...I, I...I don't need to accompany you!"
As soon as it came out, it turned out to be a stutter.
Zhuge Liang didn't feel dissatisfied and asked, "Since we don't need to accompany you, how about we go north and take you along the way?"
This suggestion obviously moved the little boy's heart. He was still a child after all, and the journey was too tiring.
"well!"
After hearing the answer, Zhuge Liang nodded and asked by the way: "Then, little friend, let's get in the car. What's your name and where are you going?"
The little boy followed the two men towards the carriage, putting the sickle back into his arms as he walked.
"Ai...Ai, my name is Deng...Ai."
…
Deng Ai stuttered and was called Ai Ai. General Beifu joked and said: "How much moxa is your cloud of moxa?" He replied: "The phoenix is like a phoenix, so it is a phoenix."
"Shishuoxinyu·Words"
