On the banks of the Yellow River in Liyang County, military camps are stationed on the embankment of the Yellow River, and teams patrolling the embankment wander along the bank, and basically every once in a while, a patrol team will pass by.

And on the bank, there are a number of ramparts, each rampart is like a small bunker, standing along the Yellow River, and in the middle of the rampart, a beacon tower will be set up every three miles, on the edge of the beacon tower, there is also a lookout, the soldiers on the lookout are responsible for watching the situation on the Yellow River, once they find any enemy, they will immediately light a beacon fire to notify everywhere.

In charge of garrisoning the embankment was the Jianwei general Guo Huai, and the army he led included his old department in Bingzhou, as well as the Jizhou army that had surrendered, totaling 30,000 people.

Among them, there are only 5,000 people in the old department of the state, and the remaining 25,000 people are all in the Jizhou army, but basically these 5,000 old departments are scattered in the establishment of the Jizhou army, and the positions they hold are not high, but they are very critical, and they play a role in monitoring the Jizhou army.

After Cao Cao occupied Yecheng and usurped the power of Hebei, in order to buy the Jizhou army, he wantonly promoted a number of new generals, whose positions were much higher than those of the old department, and to a certain extent, achieved the goal of stabilizing the morale of the army.

Of course, Cao Cao did not forget his old department, but sent someone to secretly send the reward to the old department in private, so as to comfort the old department.

It is precisely because Cao Cao handled this matter very well that the state army and the Jizhou army can live together peacefully.

Guo Huai is a talent that Cao Cao accidentally discovered when he was merging states, this person was born in Jiangmen and was young. And both civil and military. At first, he was just a pawn in the army. Subordinate to Xiahou Yuan's army.

Later, Xiahou Yuan went to quell the rebellion in Xihe County, Guo Huai performed very well in this battle, and also killed the leader of the rebels, and was promoted to military Sima by Xiahou Yuan.

Shortly after serving as Xiahou Yuan's military commander, by chance, when Cao Cao came to inspect Xiahou Yuan's army, he talked about the pacification of the Xihe rebellion. Xiahou Yuan praised Guo Huai a lot. Cao Cao was interested, so he proposed to see Guo Huai, and talked with him for a while, Guo Huai always answered fluently, which made Cao Cao very happy.

After some inquiry, Cao Cao learned that Guo Huai was born in a family of eunuchs, so he felt that Xiahou Yuan's military Sima was a little condescending, so he promoted Xiahou Yuan to be a cavalry captain and gave him 500 cavalry. Let Guo Huai lead the army alone from now on.

After that, Guo Huai made many military exploits. has been in the ascendant until he is now the general of Jianwei, and has gradually become one of Cao Cao's henchmen, and he has always been entrusted with important tasks by Cao Cao.

Since Guo Huai took over from Jiang Yiqu as the important task of guarding Liyang, he has been working hard every day, and every matter is up to him, for fear of mistakes.

Even this defensive system was conceived by him himself.

The last time Guo Huai had just taken office, he encountered Zhang He and Gao Ran coming to sneak attack, but fortunately he found it in time, so that he would not be smuggled across the Yellow River by Zhang He, Gao Ran and others, and set up a clever plan, beheaded the frustrated birds, captured Gao Lan, repelled Zhang He, and captured many troops.

Subsequently, Guo Huai heard that Yu Ban led the army to come again, so he led the army to ambush on the shore, and saw Yu Ban commanding the soldiers to land on the shore, so he suddenly led the army to kill, attacked the enemy Bandu, successfully repelled Yu Ban's attack, and held the defense line of the Yellow River.

It's just that the only fly in the ointment is that after the captive Gao Ran surrendered, he heard that Chun Yuqiong, Jiang Yiqu and others had been wiped out, and he began to feel uncomfortable, so he quietly fled one night.

Since the last time he repelled the attacks of Zhang He, Yu Ban and others, Guo Huai has made a name for himself in the Jizhou area, and the Jizhou army that followed him was convinced.

Today, Guo Huai repeats several things every day, one is to patrol the river embankment, the second is to train the army, and the third is to study.

Not long after dawn, Guo Huai got up very early, and before the time to patrol the river embankment arrived, he held a book of Sun Tzu's Art of War and studied it carefully.

The Art of War that Guo Huai is holding in his hand is a book printed by Zhang Yan, which he bought from a bookstore at a high price, and he has always carried this book with him and can't put it down.

When Guo Huai was watching with relish, a personal soldier suddenly broke in from outside the tent and hurriedly told Guo Huai: "General Qiyu, the enemy situation has been discovered on the riverbank, and a beacon signal has been transmitted. ”

After Guo Huai heard this, he immediately closed the Art of War in his hand, and then properly placed it on the table in front of him, and asked, "Gather the army immediately and follow me to the bank of the Yellow River to see what is going on!" ”

"No!"

The embankment of the Yellow River, which is still seven or eight miles away from the bank of the Yellow River, after Guo Huai gave an order, gathered the troops on the embankment of the Yellow River, and came to the bank of the Yellow River with the direction from which the beacon fire came.

At this time, many armies gathered on the banks of the Yellow River, and when they saw Guo Huai coming, they saluted Guo Huai and made way for Guo Huai and others.

Guo Huai rode his horse to the shore, but saw that on the wide surface of the Yellow River, more than a dozen fishing boats could be vaguely seen, and some people dressed as fishermen were sitting in the boats, holding oars and paddling the fishing boats gently.

In order to deal with Zhang Yan, the crossing of the Yellow River was extended to the middle of the river A large area was expanded, a water village stood on the surface of the river, the water village was formed by countless fishing boats, these fishing boats were connected together, forming a fan, and the fishing boats used wooden planks to build a fence, covering the large and small war boats in the water village, as a purpose for crossing the river.

There are 3,000 garrisons in the water village, and they are proficient in water and are the soldiers who guard this camp. This water village is not used much in ordinary times, but gathers large and small ships collected from all over the place, and strictly guards them, preventing people from this area from coming and going between the two sides of the strait, for fear that the enemy army will plant spies in the army.

In normal times, once a boat was found to be crossing the river, Guo Huai often ordered people to arrest people, detain the boats, and completely block the river shoreline in this area.

Now, more than a dozen fishing boats suddenly came on the river, which made Guo Huai a little cautious.

"Order the navy, send people to stop these fishing boats from docking, where did they come from, let them go back, if these fishermen don't listen, they will be killed!" Guo Huai stood on the shore and said to the standard-bearer behind him.

"No!" The flag-bearer responded, and immediately waved the flag into the water village.

The army in the water village received Guo Huai's order, and when they saw that there were not many fishing boats, they sent a light boat and five soldiers to open the gate of the water village, let the light boat out of the water village, and then went to stop the fishing boats coming from the other side.

Gan Ning hid in the cabin of the fishing boat, peeking into the entire naval camp from the shadows, and secretly thought: "Sure enough, as the regent expected, the enemy really only sent a light boat......

"Prepare to release the arrows!" Gan Ning said to one of the archers beside him.

The archer nodded, drew his arrow, placed it on the bowstring, drew his bow and arrows, and aimed at the light boat that was slowly heading towards them, waiting for Gan Ning's order.

At this moment, the archers on the remaining dozen or so fishing boats were also ready.

A moment later, the light boat was about to approach the fishing boat, and the five soldiers stood at the bow of the boat, cleaning and shouting at the fishing boat that Gan Ning and the others were riding: "You have sailed into the isolation area, hurry up and retreat, otherwise, don't blame us for being polite!" ”

The words were shouted, but the fishing boat on the other side continued to move forward as if they had not heard.

"Didn't you hear, stop quickly, go back where you came from, or else, you will be killed......"

"Shoot the arrows!" Gan Ning didn't wait for the soldier to finish speaking, and shouted to the archer beside him.

This archer was a sharpshooter in the army, and he had already aimed at the approaching light boat, and when he heard Gan Ning's order, he immediately shot the arrow on the bowstring.

"Whoosh!"

The arrow pierced through the sky and shot at the enemy standing on the opposite boat at an extremely brisk speed, like a flash of light.

"Poof!"

The soldiers on the light boat were not at all defenseless, and were directly hit by an arrow, and were pierced through the throat by an arrow, and their bodies fell backwards, and with a "poof", they fell into the river.

The other four soldiers were suddenly surprised, and just wanted to draw their bows and arrows, but they saw more than 30 arrows flying from the other dozen fishing boats, and before they could react, they were all killed by arrows and fell into the Yellow River.

On the watchtower of the water army camp, after the soldiers saw this scene, they immediately shouted loudly into the water village: "Enemy attack!" Enemy attack! ”

After hearing this, the soldiers in the water village boarded the warship one after another, and drove the warship out of the water village to avenge the dead brother.

For a while, more than a dozen fighting boats sailed out of the water village one after another, and rushed towards the dozen or so fishing boats, trying to sink these fishing boats.

Seeing this, Gan Ning immediately divided the fishing boats into two echelons, one echelon went to stop the enemy fighting boats that were rushing over, and he himself led five fishing boats towards the water village.

Ten fishing boats lined up in a line, and the soldiers on the boats first set fire to the forage, and then jumped into the water of the Yellow River with a wooden plank prepared in advance, relying on the plank and swimming to the side with the buoyancy of the water.

The fishing boat caught fire, and the ten fishing boats quickly collided with more than ten fighting boats of the enemy army with the help of the southeast wind, and as soon as they collided here, there was a loud sound of "boom" over there, and the fighting boats were immediately blown to pieces, and the soldiers on the fighting boats were also blown apart and shattered, and they fell into the river one after another, and were pushed to the lower reaches of the Yellow River by the water of the Yellow River.

Immediately after, "Boom! Rumble! Rumble! The sound kept coming, and the fishing boats that were on fire exploded one after another, blowing up the fighting boats close to the fishing boats.

In an instant, all the dozen or so fighting boats were blown up, and here, Gan Ning and the others were no longer hindered, and they sailed to the vicinity of the water village very briskly on the fishing boat.

The guards on the water village all witnessed the spectacular scene of the fighting ship being blown up and sunk, and their mouths couldn't close in surprise for a while, and they all said to themselves: "What kind of weapons did the enemy use, why did those people say that they were gone?" (To be continued......)