After walking for more than ten miles along the cliffs on the bank of the river with Dian Wei and two soldiers, Liu Wei found that in the slightly upstream part of the river, the riverbed was relatively much more spacious, and the river was not as turbulent as downstream.

"Let's go! Hurry up! Seeing that the river upstream was relatively gentle, Liu Wei quickened his pace and greeted Dian Wei and the two soldiers who were following behind him.

Leading Dian Wei and the others, they trotted and approached the relatively wide riverbed, Liu Wei stood on the cliff and looked at the Yellow River below the cliff.

The riverbed below the cliff flows gently, and from a distance, the sparkling waves glow silver in the night, and there is no trace of daytime turbidity.

Standing on the edge of the cliff, Liu Wei turned his head to look around.

Not far behind him, there were several large trees. He turned and walked briskly to the edge of the tree, crouched down beside the trunk, and reached out to pull the dirt from the base of the tree.

"Go back!" After inspecting the soil under each big tree, Liu Wei stood up, beckoned to Dian Wei and the others, and led them back to the place where the officers and soldiers were stationed.

Walking back and forth along the riverbank, it was close to dawn when Liu Wei returned to the garrison with Dian Wei and the two soldiers.

The earth was shrouded in a thick darkness, and it was not very clear to see it with five fingers stretched out in front of him. When Liu Wei, Dian Wei and the others were about to approach the station, two soldiers with long swords and shields burst out of the darkness on the side.

In the darkness, I couldn't see the armor on the two soldiers, only their sparkling eyes.

"Stop! Who are you waiting for? After jumping out, one of the soldiers pointed his long sword at Liu Wei and the others, lowered his voice and asked.

The soldier spoke with a Jianghuai accent, and just from what he spoke, Liu Wei could already tell that he was the Huainan army that had taken refuge.

"It's me!" Liu Wei stopped, turned his head to look at the two soldiers, and replied in a low voice: "King Hongnong, Liu Wei!" ”

"Your Majesty!" Hearing Liu Wei speak, the two soldiers hurriedly put away their long swords, held the shield in one hand, pressed the other hand on the shield, bowed slightly and said, "See Your Majesty!" ”

"What about General Zhou?" Nodding to the two soldiers, Liu Wei took Dian Wei and the others to walk towards the place where the officers and soldiers were sleeping, and just a few steps away, he turned around and asked the two soldiers who were in charge of guarding.

"General Zhou hasn't slept all night, this should still be on patrol!" The two soldiers who bowed down and clenched their fists to see Liu Wei bowed lower, and one of them answered.

Liu Wei didn't say anything more, and led Dian Wei and the others to turn around and walk to the place where the officers and soldiers were sleeping.

The night was dark, and close to the place where the officers and soldiers were sleeping, Liu Wei heard a series of heavy snoring. However, under the cover of the roaring waves of the Yellow River, if you don't get closer, the snoring is impossible to hear.

"Yuanfu!" Walking in front of the sleeping officers and soldiers, Liu Wei faintly saw several figures in front of him walking towards them, and hurriedly shouted.

Hearing Liu Bian's shout, Zhou Cang walked two steps quickly, and when he arrived in front of him, he bowed down and hugged his fists with the four soldiers behind him, and said to Liu Bian: "Your Highness is not here, and the last general is afraid that there will be thieves approaching at night, so he patrols all night!" ”

"You don't have to patrol all night in the future!" Liu Wei nodded and said to Zhou Cang: "As a general, if you encounter the enemy, you still need to charge into battle, if you don't have a good spirit, how can you fight with the enemy?" But after today, there will be no more encounters with the thief army in the short term, so it doesn't hurt! ”

After being reprimanded by Liu for a few words, Zhou Cang bowed and did not dare to respond.

Liu Wei is not bad, as a general, in the battle must be the first soldier to charge, if you stay up late, resulting in bad spirits, martial arts can only play six or seven percent of weekdays at most, when you meet a stronger opponent, let alone win, I am afraid that even your life will be lost.

Under Lu Bu, the fierce generals are like clouds, aside from Lu Bu, only Zhang Liao, Gao Shun and others are all fierce generals with ten thousand enemies! When you meet a fierce general like Zhang Liao and Gao Shun in a narrow way, if you are mentally depressed, you don't have to start the battle, and you already know who wins and who loses.

"Call all the soldiers up!" Glancing at the sleeping officers and soldiers lying on the ground, Liu Wei said to Zhou Cang: "Now the sky is almost dawn, find all the ropes that can be used in the generals, and when the day dawns, I will cross the Yellow River!" ”

"No!" Hearing that he was going to cross the river at dawn, Zhou Cang hurriedly responded and said to the four soldiers behind him: "Call all the soldiers up, put all the ropes in one place, and tell the soldiers who are on the night watch, as soon as I set off, let them follow!" ”

The four soldiers answered, and hurriedly ran to wake up the sleeping officers and soldiers. However, the first thing they woke up was not those officers and soldiers who were blind at night, but the officers and soldiers who were sleeping with normal vision.

After these officers and soldiers with normal visual ability were awakened, they also woke up the people around them one by one, and it didn't take long for them to sit up, even more than 1,000 people.

It was still dark everywhere, and when most of the officers and men woke up, they couldn't see anything at all, and they just sat there blankly.

Some officers and soldiers with normal visual strength, in accordance with Liu Bian's instructions, searched for ropes in the army, and it didn't take long for Liu Bian to pile up a lot of strong hemp ropes in front of him.

The eastern horizon finally glowed with a fish-belly-colored white light that pierced the darkness and brought a dim light to the earth.

"You can see it!" The morning was approaching, and when the glimmer of light shrouded the officers and soldiers, Liu Wei raised his voice and asked everyone.

At this time, the light was not very strong, and the eyes of the night-blind officers and soldiers were still hazy, but they all stood up and groped their way to form a line.

Looking at the officers and soldiers who were messing around, Liu Wei didn't speak, just frowned slightly and waited quietly.

The morning sun finally poked its head out at the end of the horizon, spreading the golden light on the ground, and the scene in front of the officers and soldiers became much clearer, and soon the chaotic queue was sorted out in order.

"Go west along the riverbank, and march quickly!" After making sure that everyone's eyes were back to normal, Liu Wei raised his hand and waved it, shouting to them: "Let's go!" ”

Along the riverbank, Liu Wei led the officers and soldiers to march quickly for more than ten miles, and only then did he see the gentle riverbed that he had surveyed at night with Dian Wei and others in the distance.

A few old locust trees on the cliff swayed their canopies in the wind, like a few old dancers dancing, shaking their not bewitching figures.

"Pick a few delicate people and connect the ropes!" trotted all the way to the side of the old locust tree, and Liu Biancai shouted to Zhou Cang, who was following behind: "The length must be enough to throw to the bottom of the cliff!" The junction must be strong, otherwise someone will fall off the cliff! ”

"In addition, there is a longer rope, which must be more than 300 steps long, enough to cross the Yellow River!" Turning his head to look at the stable Yellow River on the riverbed under the cliff, Liu Wei then gave an order to Zhou Cang.

"You guys, go get the rope!" Zhou Cang stopped and shouted to the more than ten soldiers who followed him: "You must be tied to it, don't deal with it loosely, this is related to the lives of the brothers!" ”

"No!" More than a dozen soldiers answered, ran to the old locust tree with the rope, squatted under the tree, and knotted the rope.

"Array!" Glancing at the more than a dozen officers and soldiers who were tying ropes, Liu Wei shouted to the more than 1,000 officers and soldiers standing in line: "Prevent the enemy from suddenly attacking!" ”

The team of fifteen or six hundred people did not make any shouts, and all the officers and men silently ran to the south of the old locust tree, turned their backs to the old locust tree, and formed a formation.

With their backs to the Yellow River, the fierce river wind blew on their backbones, and the officers and men all felt a chill on their backs.

Liu Wei stood beside the old locust tree and looked down at the more than a dozen soldiers knotting ropes. Dian Wei and Zhou Cang walked in front of the officers and soldiers in the array, holding weapons and facing the mountains to the south, guarding against the possible appearance of Dong Zhuojun.

It didn't take long for more than a dozen soldiers in charge of knotting the rope to stop what they were doing, and three or four of them ran to the edge of the cliff with the rope in their arms, and threw one end of the rope off the cliff, while the other soldiers tied the other end firmly to the trunk of the old locust tree.

In addition to the two ropes tied to the trunk of the tree, there was a large bundle of coiled rope on the ground. The bundle looked longer than the two ropes tied to the trunk of the tree combined, and it was supposed to be the one that Liu Wei was going to use to pull across the Yellow River.

"Your Majesty, it's done!" After doing all this, a soldier ran up to Liu Wei, clenched his fists, and told him that the rope had been secured.

"After the Yuanfu Palace, Dian Wei will bring a few water-based people and go down the mountain with me!" Walking to the coiled rope, Liu Wei shouted to the two soldiers standing aside, "Throw the rope off the cliff!" Don't throw yourself into the river, the soldiers who don't have water to cross the river have to rely on it! ”

The two soldiers hurriedly stepped forward, lifted the rope with difficulty, and walked towards the edge of the cliff with it, and when they reached the cliff, one of the soldiers stretched out his head to look at the cliff, and nodded to the other soldier, and then the two of them erected the rope and pushed it down the cliff.

The rope was pushed out of the cliff, tumbling, and falling towards the bottom of the cliff in a free-fall shape. The waves of the Yellow River here are not very loud, and the gentle riverbed just makes a "whooshing" sound of water. The rope fell off the cliff and smashed on the hard rock below the cliff, making a dull loud sound of "Peng", and the sound could even be heard clearly by Liu Wei and others standing on the cliff.

Hearing the sound of the rope falling to the ground, Liu Wei first walked to the rope hanging on the edge of the cliff, lifted the rope with one hand, and beckoned Dian Wei and several soldiers who followed Dian Wei with the other hand, and shouted to them: "Follow me down the mountain, remember, hold on to the rope, cross your legs, and slowly loosen it down, don't loosen too much at once, otherwise you won't be able to hold it!" ”