Near the crossing of the Yellow River in Baima County, tens of thousands of Han troops were fully armed, and Zhang Yan rode a snow horse on a dark cloud, surrounded by Zhao Yun, Xu Chu, Zhang Liao, Gao Shun, Lu Meng and others, quietly waiting on the bank of the Yellow River.

Along the banks of the Yellow River, large and small ferries gathered, and these boats were also on standby, some of the people carried boxes of heavy goods evenly onto the fishing boats, while Gan Ning directed the people to load the fishing boats.

After all those heavy items were loaded onto the fishing boat, Gan Ning asked the people to pile piles of flammable forage on the items that had just been carried up, and the bow, stern, and hull of the fishing boat were covered with layers of forage, so that people could not see any clues.

After Gan Ning commanded the people to finish this, he landed on the shore, went straight to Zhang Yan, and said respectfully: "Qiyu Regent, according to the regent's orders, the last general has already loaded the fishing boat, and he can set off in a while." ”

Zhang Yan observed his every move just now on the shore, nodded with satisfaction to Gan Ning, and then said: "This mission is very dangerous, and it may be crushed, have you thought about it, do you have to go?" ”

Gan Ning hugged his fists and said: "Even if you go up to the Sword Mountain and go down to the sea of fire, the last general will not give up!" ”

Zhang Yan admired Gan Ning's courage, but after all, he still had some worries, originally he wanted to go by himself, because only he really understood the use of these secret weapons. But he is the commander of the whole army and the regent, even if he wants to go, he will be stopped by the generals, and he will not be put in danger at all.

In this way, the heavy responsibility falls on Gan Ning, who volunteered.

The secret weapon has been created by Zhang Yan, and its power is huge. In this day and age it is still a weapon that has never been seen before. It's a big killer. With this weapon, Zhang Yan didn't have to wait there for the appearance of the repeater, he could use this weapon to directly sweep Hebei.

After a few days of intensive training, Zhang Yan has taught all the generals under his account how to use secret weapons. At first, several generals competed to be the pioneer, but Zhang Yan Zuihou chose Gan Ning because Gan Ning was familiar with water. He is the perfect person for this task.

Now that Gan Ning has been chosen, there is no doubt about it, Zhang Yan looked up at the sky, and saw that the morning sun was rising, and the warm sun was shining on the earth, it was a good weather.

"Since you insist on doing this, go now, remember the method I taught you, and don't hurt your own people." Zhang Yan instructed.

Gan Ning nodded heavily, turned around and walked towards the shore. jumped and got on the fishing boat. He shouted at the twenty fishing boats waiting here, "Go!" ”

With Gan Ning's order, twenty fishing boats went off the shore, slowly sailed into the Yellow River, and headed for the opposite bank.

When Gan Ning and the others gradually moved away, Zhang Yan said to Lu Meng: "You can also go!" ”

Lu Meng clenched his fists and replied, "No! ”

Immediately afterwards, Lu Meng jumped onto a ship docked on the shore, then raised his hand, waved at the flag-bearer on the ship, and shouted loudly: "Pass the order, the whole army will go!" ”

When the flag bearer heard Lu Meng's words, he immediately boarded the mast of the ship, stood on the mast and began to wave the flag, informing the ships to depart.

After a short time, fifty ships slowly sailed away from the shore and headed towards the center of the Yellow River, always keeping a distance from Ganning's fishing boats.

Fifty ships, each carrying twenty soldiers, a thousand in all. These 1,000 people were carefully selected from Zhang Yan's guards and pro-army, and everyone could swim and dive.

The ships they were riding on were all offensive speedboats with good defense in ancient China, with a long and narrow hull, and a bumper wood was erected at the bow, and the top of the bumper wood was wrapped with a layer of iron sheet, which was specially used to assault the enemy's ships.

Among them, there are also double rows of oars around the ship, and if you feel that the speed is slow, you can also use the oars to row the boat to increase the speed of the ship.

After the fifty ships left the shore, Zhang Yan said to Zhao Yun, Xu Chu, Zhang Liao, Gao Shun and others who were surrounding him: "It's time for us to set off too." ”

Zhao Yun, Xu Chu, Zhang Liao, and Gao Shun replied in unison: "No! ”

So, everyone came to the bank of the Yellow River together, boarded several small boats docked on the shore, and then these small boats took them to the fighting ships and building boats that were still some distance from the shore.

The fighting ship is one of the commonly used warships in ancient water warfare, and its attack, protection and carrying capacity are much higher than those of the warship.

The warship is actually a small boat used for assault, while the fighting ship is a warship, and each fighting ship can accommodate a hundred soldiers in addition to the helmsman and sailor.

There is also a women's wall, three feet high, and the women's walls are equipped with arrow holes for shooting, which are specially used to attack the enemy. On the raised platform at the stern of the boat, soldiers are responsible for observing the surface of the water. There is a shed on the deck, and there is a women's wall on the shed, on which the soldiers can stand, and there are flags and golden drums erected in the front, back, left, and right, which are used to command the battle, and can be strong.

The building ship is the largest warship in this era, and it is a kind of warship with a particularly huge deck building, a high and wide ship, and a building-like appearance, so it is called a "building ship".

The ship building is high, can attack from a distance and close combat, because the ancient water warfare is mostly based on bow and arrow shooting, ship collision and jumping gang hand-to-hand combat, the size of the ship, directly determines the number of sailors and warriors that a single ship can accommodate and the impact force of the ship, so the building ship served as the main ship of water warfare to a large extent in ancient times. However, due to the high height of the ship and the unstable center of gravity, it is mostly used as the main force in inland water warfare, but it is rarely seen in the sea.

Zhang Yan boarded the boat, and the dark cloud snow horse under the seat was transported by the boat to the flank of the boat, and there was a door at the bottom, and after opening, the war horse could enter the cabin from there.

Zhao Yun, Xu Chu, Zhang Liao, and Gao Shun respectively boarded four fighting ships, and the four fighting ships were surrounded in the front, rear, left, and right directions of Zhang Yan's building ship, and each fighting ship was planted with an apricot yellow flag, indicating that this was the main general's ship, and Zhang Yan's building ship was hung with a golden flag, and the flag was embroidered with a dragon with teeth and claws, indicating that this was the flagship.

The dragon flag fluttered in the wind, Zhang Yan climbed to the top of the ship, and looked around at the more than 100 large and small warships docked on the river.

Because the time of this attack on Hebei was too hasty, Zhang Yan only built a building boat, and he also felt that after having a secret weapon, the building ship basically did not need to participate in the battle, but as the flagship of the whole army, the building ship was indispensable, which was a matter of image and majesty.

Yesterday, the ship was officially launched, and the trial voyage was successful, coupled with the successful development of secret weapons two days ago, and the news of the Wuhuan people sending troops from Li Cai, who had just returned, Zhang Yan decided to attack Hebei today.

In addition, Zhang Yan also deliberately gave a secret order to Tai Shi Ci and Xu Huang stationed in Hanoi, so that Tai Shi Ci and Xu Huang led the army to attack Bingzhou respectively, Tai Shi Ci led the army to a total of Tianjing Pass, and Xu Huang led the army to take the Taihang Mountain Trail, according to the topographic map of Taihang Mountain left by Zhang Yan before, bypassed the important pipe card, entered Bingzhou, and cooperated with Tai Shici to strive for a blow to take the Bingzhou.

The breeze was blowing, the wind was filled with the moisture of the Yellow River, the golden sun shone on all the boats on the Yellow River, the golden dragon flag echoed with the golden sunshine, Zhang Yan looked refreshed, and said to the flag bearer beside him: "Order, the army is leaving!" ”

With Zhang Yan's order, Dan saw that the flag bearer began to wave the flag in his hand, and then all the ships saw the flags flying, and they all set anchor and sailed away, and left the original place where they were stationed.

At the same time that Zhang Yan and others set sail, at the ferry port of Qiancheng County, Le'an County, located on the land of Qingzhou, Zuo General Zang Ba, with Zhang He, Gao Lan, Chen Ying, and Lu Yuan, as well as Kong Rong, Kan Ze, Wang Xiu, Buqi, Yan Jian and others, also boarded the boats and sailed towards the north bank of the Yellow River.

Cao Cao made Xiahou Yuan heavily guard the plain, and even sent Xun You as a staff officer to prevent Zhang Yan's army from attacking from Gaotang. But this time, Zhang Yan changed the line of attack, following the route of Yuan Tan's attack on Qingzhou last time, and counterattacked Hebei by the same route.

Moreover, Zhang Yan's target this time is not the plain, but Bohai County, which is located further north of the plain.

As long as Zang Ba's army arrived in Hebei, Zhang He and Gao Ran were the vanguard, and they went north along the three counties of Leling, Chonghe, and Dongguang to attack Nanpi.

Nanpi is the county seat of Bohai County, and it is the foundation of Yuan Shao's occupation of Jizhou, the east is by the sea, the north is adjacent to Youzhou, and the west is bordered by Hejian State, Zhang He is a native of Hejian County, Gao Ran is a native of Anping County, both of these people are Yuan Shao's generals, after Cao Cao usurped Yuan's power, although he killed many people, Cao Cao's behavior was shameful, so many people dared to be angry and did not dare to speak.

This time, Zhang Yan let Zhang He and Gao Ran serve as the main attackers, considering that he wanted to use the influence of the two in Hebei to call on the Hebei army and people to jointly resist Cao Cao, and after occupying Nanpi, this place can be used as a stronghold of the army, easy to defend and difficult to attack, both offensive and defensive, just like inserting a nail in Cao Cao's heartland.

At this time, it had only been a month since the battle between Zhang Yan and Yuan Shao, and Zhang Yan had already begun to carry out a counteroffensive, and he was also divided into three routes.

Cao Cao, who had just usurped the power of Hebei, was in the midst of internal and external troubles, and in the face of Zhang Yan's all-out attack, it was still unknown whether he could repel Zhang Yan.

And the generation of heroes in the history of the past, under the onslaught of Zhang Yan, will die in Hebei?

This battle will be a head-to-head confrontation between Zhang Yan and Cao Cao, and this battle is also destined to be a battle of fate between the two heroes.

On the surface of the Yellow River, Zhang Yan rode a boat, looking at hundreds of warships, large and small, and he was ambitious, and he let out a low cry in his heart: "Cao Cao, let me end your life......" (to be continued......