Qingyi water, also known as concubine water, clear water, is? The water is also a tributary of the Yongding River, located in the northwest of Jixian County and west of Jundu Mountain. The former general, Youzhou Muyan Zhongqing's captain Zhang Lian led more than 3,000 Liaodong Jianlang to block the enemy here.

In fact, this is also the first time that Zhang Nian has led the army since the defeat of Gongsun Zhan in World War I. At the earliest, he was just the leader of the Yan army, the military marquis.

He was born in Liaodong, grew up listening to the story of Gongsun Zan like Yanbei, and when he grew up, he went to study Liaodong Academy, learned the art of war, strategy, etiquette, loyalty, and filial piety. In the battle to destroy Gongsun, it was not only the people admired by Yanbei who were destroyed together, but all the admiration of the young people of their generation in Liaodong and Liaoxi were disillusioned.

Standing on the bank of the Qingyi Water River, the sand and dust close to the river bank is not too heavy, squinting his eyes, Zhang Nian can still see the dust flying low and wide range over the forest ten miles away, Zhang Nian clenched Changge, beckoned the soldiers behind him to wave the flag, and the soldiers near the tidal flat are hiding in the deep pits of the trenches dug in advance, and Zhang Nian is no exception.

Mr. Xi, the art of war instructor of the academy, said that when you see the dust flying low in the forest, it must be the enemy's cavalry rushing forward; From the range of dust, the approximate number of enemy troops can be observed, and at most a deviation of 50% will not be wrong.

The fifty percent is the deviation between the cavalry and the foot soldiers.

The riverside is not like a plain, and the sand, gravel and mud in the trench dug half a person high will be mixed with the river water to leach out a foot, so that the soldiers hidden in it are completely wet, and it is very sticky to step on. No one complained, and the conscripts were huddled in the trench with half their heads exposed, looking nervously across the river.

They came from all over the world, and most of them were displaced people who migrated after Yanbei ruled Liaodong. In the early years, the population of Liaodong was sparse, in order to recruit sufficient soldiers, Yanbei implemented the whole county in the second year of the reclamation of Liaodong, and the strong men of the whole county were selected by the county and township to lead the drill, and the county government provided them with food, and taught them how to use weapons every ten years, in order to be able to recruit enough soldiers when they could fight. Roughly calculated, even the youngest of them should have been trained in Liaodong for nearly two years in military exercises and military formations.

However, the long military training could not eliminate the numbness and panic that they suppressed in the face of war, and they were a group of new recruits, even if they had participated in military training for two or even four years, even if they had joined Zhang Nian's lieutenant department for eight months...... In the eyes of those battle-hardened Qu Chang and Tun generals who followed Zhang Nian and transferred to the school captain's department, they are still a group of newcomers on the battlefield.

Even Zhang Nian may not be stronger than those veterans who followed Yanbei to fight in the south and the north, and what he is strong is not that he has learned the art of war.

But sometimes, the experience of the veteran on the battlefield is obviously more useful.

"After passing the order, all the soldiers are optimistic about what their chief is doing." Zhang Nian's breathing was heavy, his beard was all open, and he lowered his head and whispered to the messengers who were huddled in the trench beside him holding short swords: "Do it, you can live!" ”

The galloping horses' hooves made the trench vibrate, and through the reeds on the shore, more than a dozen riders could be seen running out of the dust on the opposite bank, followed by the silhouettes of more riders looming in the smoke and dust...... It was an enemy army several times their size, the Xianbei people.

The cavalry of the Xianbei vanguard wandered along the riverbank, and it seemed that there was no trace of the Zhangnian Division, and a sharp whistle sounded on the riverbank, and groups of Xianbei soldiers and horses began to cross the river. First of all, those foot soldiers who showed fatigue when they walked with spears, and Zhang Nian, who was familiar with Xianbei soldiers and horses, knew that sixty percent of the foot soldiers were slaves; Then there were a small number of cavalry, each with a corps of sturdy soldiers leading the horses, and they were the warriors and minor nobles of the Xianbei tribes; Finally, there were the most elite cavalry of the Xianbei soldiers, who were clad in bronze or iron armor, with powerful bows and sharp blades, and were the most formidable enemies.

No one could tell how many Xianbei people were on the other side of the river, the foot soldiers in front had crossed to the middle of the river, and the cavalry behind were still hidden in the wind and sand, and only a black silhouette could be seen. Zhang Nian's soldiers no longer had to suppress their breathing, because the sound of the Xianbei foot soldiers crossing the river was far louder than their breathing.

As the leader and chief general of the army, Zhang Nian seemed to have lost the ability to judge the battle situation, he could only feel his scalp tingling and his ears buzzing, his heart was beating faster and faster, and his head kept thinking about the orders that Yan Bei gave him.

'Able to fight, slowly retreat; Unable to defeat, slowly retreat. ’

There is only one order, and the military formation cannot be chaotic.

Behind them were thirty miles, and every few hundred paces were staggered ditches and trenches and pitfalls that blocked the cavalry, and as long as they retreated calmly, it would be difficult to form an encirclement of them even if the Xianbei infantry caught up.

Once the formation is scattered, even he himself may not be able to escape to Jundu Mountain.

"Ahh

At this moment, a shrill wail rang out from the trench, like a scene of a big hand tearing through the river on a Xianbei horse. Zhang Nian turned his head in horror to look at the westernmost ditch, and a figure crawled out of the ditch with his hands and feet on his hands and feet, and ran behind him, throwing the spear skin on the ground as he ran.

His soldiers collapsed under the menacing menacing Xianbei cavalry under the black pressure.

Running crazy and messy.

In a few breaths, the Han troops in the ditch faced each other, stunned by the change; Xianbei soldiers and horses looked around, but there was no response. But this was only an instant, in the blink of an eye, the Xianbei rider who was the first to react grabbed the horn of the ox on his waist and put it to his mouth, and the low whining sound shook the battlefield, and for a time the army sent out several horn sounds of different lengths and heights, followed by groups of Xianbei slaves crossing the river in a big way, menacing.

The reaction of the Han army was a little sluggish, and the first to rise up was not the captain Zhang Nian, but a few veteran soldiers under his subordinates who had been in battle for a long time, and the most rapid middle-aged military marquis quickly turned out of the trench, and the soldiers who stood in front of him raised their knives and shouted at the soldiers in the trenches: "Foot soldiers rush to kill!" ”

Immediately afterwards, the rest of the army and marquis also shouted orders, some of them led swords and spears to rush out of the trench and launch an assault into the river, in order to stop the enemy army in the shallows of the riverbank; Some got up in the trench and showed half of their bodies, urged their subordinates to wind their bows and crossbows, and shouted: "Three hundred steps, throw!" ”

These veterans survived the difficult and dangerous battles, each with their own abilities, as a lieutenant, Zhang Nian was the most sluggish of the officers in the lieutenant department, until the first to jump out of the trench has led his troops to rush out of dozens of steps close to the river, Zhang Nian rushed out of the line with Changge, foaming at the mouth and roaring to order the soldiers to go to the river to garrison.

The marquis who had jumped out of the trench first fell into the reeds at the water's edge, and the Xianbei people filled his chest with arrows in a volley, and followed the large group into the river and drove towards the shore.

On the other side of the river, Kebineng raised his hand and rubbed his hair on his head, with a cruel sneer on his face, took the bronze sash from the horse's neck and buckled it on his head, and drove the horse into the river.

"That's it, you still want to attack halfway?"