Chapter 31: The Great River War

Yanbei led his soldiers and horses to gallop in the starry night, but when he arrived at the bank of the Jishui River, he only saw an empty battalion and a hundred and ten Liangzhou soldiers who stayed behind. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

There was no need to fight at all, and those Liangzhou soldiers surrendered without hesitation in the face of the Liaodong soldiers who broke into the camp...... It's a very difficult battle to take one as two, and one to be forty? Is this kind of battle still to be fought?

"What about your general, the one named Guo Aduo." Yan Bei stretched his legs quietly, and galloped his horse overnight, which made his muscles sore, and asked a prisoner of Western soldiers who was squatting on the ground: "Where has he gone, and those soldiers, you have been stationed here for four ...... That's 5,000 men, right? ”

The little leader left by the Liangzhou soldiers glanced at Yan Bei with disdain, and then lowered his head and did not speak. Although they surrendered, it was because Yanbei's soldiers and horses surrounded the entire camp, otherwise they would have fled instead of squatting on the ground in humiliation like they were now.

The unruly Liangzhou people will not become prisoners of the weak Central Plains soldiers!

I heard that the leaders of the Kwantung Coalition Army are a group of scholars, and they will definitely not be able to kill the prisoners, so they will surrender temporarily, and wait for Captain Guo to come back and then have civil strife...... It's just that this little leader of the Liangzhou soldiers didn't expect that he didn't expect Yanbei's decisiveness to exceed his expectations.

Just when he lowered his head and didn't speak, Yan Bei gave the general next to him a look, Jiao Touch had already kicked this small Western Soldier team over, holding his hair bun in one hand, he pulled out the short knife at his waist and slashed his neck, ending his life like killing a rabbit.

Yan Bei didn't speak, kicked the prisoner next to him with his foot and asked, "Where did Guo Aduo lead the troops?" ”

After asking, Yanbei turned his head and shouted to Zhao Yun who was stationed in the camp: "Zilong, don't change my Yanzi flag first." ”

Hearing the Yanzi flag, the Liangzhou soldier trembled obviously, raised his head and looked at Yanbei cautiously, and hurriedly avoided it when he met Yanbei's lowering gaze, and asked in a low voice: "You, you are Yan, General Duliaoyan?" ”

"Oh, insightful." Yanbei smiled rarely, raised his finger and gently rubbed his nose, and said, "I am Yanbei, where did Guo Aduo go?" You tell me, I will spare you from death. ”

At this moment, the smiling Liaodong warlord was judged by the demon who had slit his neck without giving him a chance before. For the Liangzhou soldiers, there were two kinds of Kwantung princes. One is named Yanbei, and the other is the other Kwantung princes.

The people of Liangzhou respect the strong, and Yanbei, who took Xingyang with a small number of soldiers, is undoubtedly the strong. As for the other princes of Kwantung, they are not comparable to Yanbei at all, and they do not have the slightest respect.

If you want to be respected by the unruly Liangzhou people, it will only be because they are afraid.

The Liangzhou soldiers didn't have anything else to say, and after hearing that the person leading the troops was Yanbei, they did not hesitate to tell the news that Guo Yan led the troops to cross the river to attack Cao Cao, without the slightest laziness.

Yan Bei smiled with great satisfaction, he enjoyed the respect that the enemy soldiers had for him.

"Zilong, the herald guards are stationed in the camp, and you two will follow me to see the situation in the south."

His brow furrowed like a tiger, the current situation was very strange to be been, he didn't know why Guo Yan led his troops to cross the river south, and he couldn't even be sure if it was because of Cao Cao's lure or simply Guo Yan's plan to attack the camp in the south.

And after asking the Liangzhou soldiers, Yanbei determined one thing...... Cao Cao is very dangerous at the moment.

Four thousand new soldiers against nearly five thousand Liangzhou soldiers, can they have the slightest chance of winning?

When Yan Beibei looked south, he could only see the moonlight on the river and the light and fire on the opposite bank in the distance.

In the darkness that Yanbei couldn't see clearly, countless arrows and rain spears were fighting fiercely on the bank of the river.

The Liangzhou soldiers who were tossed into soft-footed shrimp on the boat did not expect to be attacked by the enemy on the shore, and they suffered heavy casualties after a short period of astonishment, the Liangzhou soldiers on the ship tried to hide and did not dare to get off the boat, and the Liangzhou soldiers on the shore were crazy and wanted to escape back to the ship, only a few soldiers dared to face the spear of the eastern soldiers, but they were invincible with two fists and four hands.

Guo Yan had galloped off the boat as early as the beginning of the sneak attack, and he was not convinced by anyone when it came to bravery, and he was close to superstitious force.

However, although the clan brothers under Cao Cao's command also had bravery, no one rushed out to fight him at this moment, only shooting at the Liangzhou soldiers who had just disembarked with a rain of strong bows and arrows.

Cao Cao suffered too much from the Liangzhou people, and was almost killed by Xu Rong in the last battle of Xingyang, where would he be willing to let his subordinates fight with the Liangzhou people again? Even though the army array pulled up the wooden fence, the arrows rained desperately and shot hard.

For a while, the people on the shore under the boat turned on their backs, and Guo Yan's subordinates suffered heavy casualties!

Guo Yan led his strong cavalry to charge three formations, but three times they were shot back by the archers of the Central Plains, and they could barely rely on the warships to fight back with the Central Plains soldiers on the shore.

But can a riding bow shoot at a foot bow on flat ground...... Little success!

Within a moment of the exchange of troops between the two sides, the number of casualties among the Liangzhou soldiers was as high as seven or eight hundred, and even the soldiers whose morale had collapsed climbed up and fled northward.

Where could Guo Yan bear such a price, he immediately ordered the soldiers to return to the ship and prepare to sail back to the north shore.

Cao Cao was unwilling to give him a chance to return safely, so he immediately raised his sword and raised his arms and shouted: "Put a fence, pursue the enemy, and don't let them return to the ship!" ”

"Yuan Rang!" Cao Cao turned his head and shouted, "Get on the boat and pursue!" ”

There was no need for Cao Cao to say more, Xiahoudun, who was guarding the left flank, had already called on his soldiers to pick up his bow and get on the boat, pushed the boat out of the shallows, and pursued the fleeing Liangzhou warship...... No one on the left or right is good at water warfare, so they chase with a rain of arrows, and catch up with one counts as one!

In addition to Xiahoudun, who pursued by boat, Cao Hong, Cao Ren, and Xiahou Yuan, who were besieging on three sides on the riverside, also led their foot soldiers to rush out and chase after the Liangzhou soldiers who had no time to escape to the boat.

Guo Yan could not have imagined that Nandu Dahe would be subjected to unimaginable resistance, and even because of the military discipline of the Liangzhou soldiers, the morale of the soldiers after the defeat was like a mountain, so that the fierce Liangzhou soldiers all became a rabble, unable to fight again.

"Quick, shoot them with arrows...... I don't care about you! Guo Yan took the fighting boat and grabbed the cable and ordered the soldiers to use bows and arrows to shoot back at the Central Plains soldiers who were dozens of steps away, but found that their soldiers on the boat couldn't even stand steadily, and the bows and arrows they fired didn't know where they flew. ”

As Guo Yan stared at the fighting ship with wide eyes, the Liangzhou soldiers looked for a place where they could catch it, and then under the control of the boatman, the hull of the ship slammed and rushed towards the two enemy ships not far away.

"Captain, the big ship has crashed in!"

Seeing that the fighting ship, which was more than three times larger than the Ke, turned the bow and rampaged, the boatmen who walked Ke were crying in horror and calling their fathers and mothers, where could they still dodge the ground, and they all looked at Xiahoudun helplessly.

Is there a way for Xiahoudun to face this situation? Of course he didn't!

He could only stare wide-eyed at the huge bow of the fighting ship rushing towards him, feeling the cold hairs that stood up all over his body, stepped on the bow of the ship, raised the short ring head knife high, tore the placket of his clothes and tied the ring knife tightly with his right hand, and shouted in a rough voice: "Prepare for battle, prepare for ...... Engage! ”

Xiahoudun's roar was a little trembling, compared to his trembling and straightening up in the face of strong pressure, the morale of the soldiers behind him was so low that they jumped down and walked away, preferring to swim into the big river rather than follow Xiahoudun to death.

Jumping off the Yellow River may not drown, but being hit by such a large fighting ship, let alone a person, even if it is a walk, it will be crushed to the ground, right?

But Xiahoudun didn't seem to have the slightest consciousness before he died, even though his face was already pale due to extreme fear, he held his head high, stepped on the bow of the ship, and watched the fighting ship get closer and closer.

Rumble! Click!

Almost at the moment when the fighting ship collided with the walker, the huge bow directly rushed the two walkers away, and the huge pressure made the boat where Xiahoudun was located be overturned by the huge waves, and the other walker was directly smashed in the waves.

And Xiahoudun, at the moment when he was about to collide, jumped up, and stabbed into the bow of the ship with the help of the strength of the ring knife, and his whole body hung on the bow of the ship, the huge impact almost made him faint, and the cutting feeling of his arm made him clench his teeth.

The two ships were overturned, and Guo Yan on the ship seemed to find the pleasure of destroying the enemy army in a water battle, waving the command flag and shouting loudly to order his subordinates to light torches and command the other two fighting ships to ram the enemy.

Although Guo Yan's subordinates had fighting ships, and their collision power was unmatched for a while, the two sides around them had already engaged in battle, and neither the Liangzhou soldiers nor the Central Plains soldiers had the skills to stabilize archery on the ship, so they invariably chose the simplest and most effective hand-to-hand combat.

Guo Yancai didn't care so much, commanded the fighting ships to rampage across the big river, crushing all the small boats around him without distinguishing between friend and foe, and let out an arrogant laugh.

Water warfare is no more merciful than land warfare, especially on such large rivers, where the slightest carelessness can lead to the destruction of a ship.

Although the fighting ship is already a big ship that can dominate the big river, but this kind of small ship is actually not good at ramming, after Guo Yan savagely collided with more than ten boats, the news of water leakage came out of the cabin, two of the six compartments have entered the water, if you do not withdraw to the shore, there is a danger of sinking.

Guo Yan gave up and beckoned the huge fleet to retreat to the camp on the north bank.

But now, his fleet is not as large as imagined, and the more than 3,000 soldiers and horses on the ship are now only more than 30 and 3 fighting ships, and there are only less than 2,000 soldiers left, and the hundreds of subordinates who followed Xia Houdun persistently pursued, and scattered arrows fell behind them.

From a distance, Guo Yan saw the outline of the camp, and the greeting department would take out the war horse and land on the shore, beckoning the soldiers in the camp to answer, but he saw a scene he couldn't imagine.

Hanging on the bow of the ship, Xiahoudun's eyes widened angrily, and he turned over from the bow of the ship and raised his knife and slashed at him, and after Xiahoudun, in the camp that belonged to him, countless soldiers and horses strode out, and the leader was very dazzling with the banner of swallow characters!