Silver Fox of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 78
On the [-]th, it was already mid-February.

This was the fourth day after Cao Cao's defeat. Le Jin retreated to Nieyang, and at the same time the scouts sent out to inquire about the news also returned.

Knowing that Cao Cao retreated to Wuyin, he immediately prepared to cross the river and go east to join Cao Cao.

In mid-spring and February, the grass grows and the warbler flies.

The weather has been good these past few days, the sun is shining, and everything is taking root and sprouting.

From early in the morning, when the sky just dawned and dewdrops were still hanging on the leaves of wild grass outside the city, Le Jin had already left the city.

He sent people to investigate around, and there was no sign of the Xiliang army in the surrounding area, and the bridge from Nanjiju to the other side of the river was not damaged and could be passed through.

However, for the sake of safety, he did not immediately choose to cross the river. Instead, he sent a few small groups of troops to the other side of the river to patrol around. After confirming safety, he set off this morning.

The army made meals in the middle of the night and marched in the fifth watch. After walking for almost two hours, it was almost noon, and finally arrived at the bank of the Feishui River, which is more than 20 kilometers away from Nieyang County.

Le Jin rode on horseback and kept observing the surrounding situation. There were countless village pavilions on both sides of the Feishui River, and endless villages and farmlands on both sides of the road.

It was the time of the spring flood, and there was heavy rain recently in the upper reaches of Funiu Mountain. The water level in the upper reaches of the Funiu River rose, which led to an increase in the flow of water in the lower reaches. People in nearby villages were working in the fields.

Seeing an army approaching at this moment, all the people put down their hoes and consciously walked away from the road.

From the Yellow Turban Rebellion to the present, so many years of experience have told them that no matter whether it is a good army or not, it is better to stay away from them than to lose their lives for no reason.

Le Jin didn't bother to talk to the people in the village. He had already approached the river along the official road, and saw the wooden bridge on the river from a distance. He pointed to the front and said, "Go to the front first and occupy the head of the bridge."

"only!"

The generals at the front left as ordered.

Although the water level of the river has risen, the Baihe River, as the Baihe River of later generations, is still a relatively large river with wide banks, and the bridge has not been washed away.

The 500 people in the front reached the river and began to cross the river one after another, occupying the position on the other side of the river.

Because the bridge is used by the people in the nearby villages and pavilions to cross the river, its bearing capacity is not good, and the width is not enough, so the speed of crossing the river is very slow.

500 people walked for almost half an hour before passing.

When the front part passed, Le Jin observed that there was no movement on the other side of the river, so he prepared to personally lead the Chinese army of 2000 to cross the river.

There are 500 people behind him.

This is a very conventional front, middle and rear three-army model, suitable for marching and camping.

"Hurry up!"

Le Jin rode by the bridge, constantly urging the soldiers to cross the bridge.

A lieutenant beside him said, "General, this bridge is really too narrow and not very strong. I'm afraid it won't be stable if you pass too many bridges at once."

Le Jin saw that the wooden bridge was indeed rickety, and then looked up at the sky. He was also very anxious, but he had no choice but to be anxious, and said: "Try to let the soldiers hurry up, don't dawdle, we have to arrive before dark." Jing Yang."

"only."

The lieutenant will follow the order to make arrangements.

After a while, when the 2000-strong troops were almost halfway through, a few black spots appeared on the river upstream of the Fau River.

Immediately afterwards, the scout cavalry that Le Jin arranged to scout on the periphery galloped back like crazy, and only two of the dozen or so sent out were left, and one of them still had an arrow stuck in his arm.

"Enemy attack!"

The scout's shrill shout pierced the entire sky, and it also made Le Jin's heart tighten!
He instinctively looked to the north, and saw countless black shadows appearing densely on the northern wilderness, and an army was rushing towards them. Although they were far away, it was impossible for them to survive in a short time the river goes.

"Oops!"

Le Jin suddenly remembered something, and turned his head to look again, and he saw the mighty river, four boats rushing towards the bridge like flying.

Later generations of Nanyang people may know that the width of the Bai River in the Han Dynasty and the Bai River in the new era are still very wide.

The narrowest part of its upstream is 50 meters, while the average width of Nanyang urban area and downstream is between 500-700 meters. It is the largest river in Nanyang Basin.

However, the water in the Han Dynasty did not expand as many times as in later generations, so the width at this time was still much narrower than that of later generations.

But because it is much narrower, the water level rose so much during the spring flood that it almost reached the river bank.

The four boats on the river came galloping like arrows, and there were dozens of brave warriors on board, paddling the boat quickly, until they were less than a mile away from the bridge, and they all abandoned their boats and jumped into the river.

It is reasonable to say that if the river is so fast and violent, ordinary people will drown even if the water quality is good.However, these people are all Jinfan bandits under Gan Ning's command, who have been domineering in the Yangtze River in history.

The Yangtze River is much stronger than the Floating River in terms of width and current speed. Even in the Yangtze River, they are like white stripes in the waves, let alone in this small Floating Water.

So after jumping into the water, they took a deep breath, dived to the bottom of the river one after another, touched the river bed, and climbed up to the bank from the west side of the river.

"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!"

More than ten seconds later, before everyone could react, four loud collision sounds resounded suddenly. Under the terrifying force, the wooden bridge collapsed instantly, and sawdust flew across.

A large number of soldiers who had no time to retreat on the bridge rolled into the river with the wooden bridge and were submerged by the waves.

Seeing this scene, before Le Jin cursed, the villagers in the distance were standing on the edge of the field holding hoes, all of them were stunned.

The people gathered in the surrounding townships and villages felt so bitter, and they were clamoring for their mothers to sell their batches.

Because this bridge is the only way for them to travel between the east and west banks, and the only communication channel between Nieyang and the opposite Jiyang county.Once they were destroyed, they would have to walk dozens of kilometers to get to the other side of the river, so everyone was very angry.

But what can they do?He could only dare to be angry and dare not speak, and waited and watched in silence.

At this time, no one cared about the idea of ​​gathering people in the surrounding towns and villages, and a large army from the north attacked Lejin like a surging tide.

In desperation, Le Jin immediately issued an order to form a formation on the spot.

The number of people around him is already less than half, there are only about two thousand people. Facing the enemy army like wolves and tigers, fleeing is inevitable, and the only way out is to fight to the death and not retreat.

"If you run away, you will die. Only by fighting to the death can you survive."

Le Jin was a brave man, he roared loudly: "Soldiers, kill the enemy!"

"Kill the enemy! Kill the enemy! Kill the enemy!"

Cao Jun's morale was high, with his back against the water, he fought to the death.

Gan Ning was riding on the horse, and he was the first again. Looking at Cao Jun who had formed an formation in the distance, he swung his sword and roared, "Kill!"

"kill!"

The Huyang garrison was originally under Liu Biao's command, but under Gan Ning's training, it was considered a qualified army. Relying on the large number of people, they rushed towards Cao Jun.

Le Jin's eyes were red, he gritted his teeth, and firmly held the long knife in his hand. He saw the roads and fields in the north densely packed, and the overwhelming enemy army rushed towards him like a tide, and then looked around him.

There are only about 2000 people alone, crowded together one by one, although they are all elites in battle, and there is no lack of morale, but after all, they are single and weak, and there is a big gap between their strength and the enemy.

"Prepare!"

Seeing that the enemy was getting closer, Le Jin roared angrily, and Cao Jun, who was standing in the front row, pointed their sharp spears at the enemy one after another. In an instant, the two sides collided like a flood.

In an instant, there was the sound of shouting and fighting, the sound of weapons fighting, the groaning and long hissing of people when knives and guns were piercing flesh... All kinds of sounds echoed on the battlefield.

"There is a gap in the west, go to Shishiren, go up, go up, go up quickly."

"Retreat back first, retreat a little."

"Don't go to the river."

Sitting on the horse, Le Jin kept shouting and commanding. In the past, he often served as the deputy generals of Cao Hong, Cao Ren, Yu Jin and others. They were responsible for commanding the battlefield, and he himself led the charge.

But this time he was sent by Cao Cao to lead a team to attack Anzhong for the first time. Apart from the fact that this task was not too difficult, it also meant to train him.

If it was the past, Le Jin would have already personally gone into battle to kill at this time, taking the lead and looking down on the crowd.

But this time is by no means the time to attack the enemy. Once he also enters, the entire command system will inevitably collapse.

So he could only sit by the river, observe the overall situation of the battlefield, and constantly direct the soldiers behind to fill the holes.

Compared with him, Gan Ning's burden was not so heavy.

Because Gan Ning is not actually the commander of this battle, or in other words, this battle does not need someone to command.

In the back, Deng Hong and Shen Chen were riding on horseback, they just had to sit there.

The strength gap between them is still very large, more than 6000 soldiers and horses fight more than 2000, three times the strength, the advantage lies with me, I only need to stud out, and the rest will wait for a big victory.

Soon Gan Ning was the first to rush into the enemy formation, slashing left and right with a big sword, and slashed a bloody path, creating the first gap.

After the gap appeared, there was a steady stream of Gan Ning troops rushing in from behind.

It took less than 5 minutes for the two sides to collide like a torrent at the beginning, until the soldiers in the front turned their backs one by one, then Gan Ning rushed out of the gap, and then Cao Jun's formation in the northwest direction was dispersed.

Seeing this scene, Le Jin felt anxious, and immediately shouted: "The gap in the northwest, quickly block it, go to a group of people, where are the people behind? Where did they all die?"

"General, we don't have anyone on hand anymore, everyone is fighting."

The lieutenant next to him mourned.

In the final analysis, Le Jin had too few soldiers. Half of his troops crossed the river, and the other half stayed here, and the bridge was crashed.

Gan Ning's troops consisted of more than 6000 people. In addition to his 5000 Huyang defenders, more than 1000 Huangmenting soldiers also participated. Deng Zhao and Shen Zhen led Gan Ning to assist Gan Ning in attacking Cao's army.

The nearly three-fold difference in the number of enemies and us made Cao Jun not last long even when the formation was formed, and was quickly broken by the Gan Ning Army, leaving them in disarray.

So now the situation on the entire battlefield has become that after Cao Jun's formation was broken, he had no choice but to choose to fight chaotically with Gan Ning's army without formation.

Le Jin quickly turned his head and looked around.

I saw that his army was constantly slashed and stabbed with spears and broadswords by the Gan Ning army on the outside. The Cao army inside kept retreating. After the outside was broken through, they could only be forced to fight with the enemy. Fight to the death.

Soon in the wilderness by the river bank, Cao Jun and Gan Ning Jun were fighting everywhere. Some of them rolled in the field, some were pushed into the river, and some jumped together like a stack of arhats.

Slashing with a knife, stabbing with a spear, even biting with your teeth, picking out your eyeballs, hitting your head with a stone, in order to kill the enemy on the battlefield, as long as you can survive yourself, you will do everything you can.

"Damn it, come with me!"

Knowing that the current situation is very unfavorable to him, Le Jin turned his horse's head, pointed to the northwest and gritted his teeth: "The gap must be blocked, the formation can no longer support it."

Under his shout, dozens of guards around immediately followed his pace, and killed in the direction of the gap that Gan Ning tore open.

Gan Ning's charging position was different from Le Jin's. He charged into the formation one by one, surrounded by dozens of Jinfan soldiers protecting him, and rampaged through the crowd.

Cao Jun on the left saw the opportunity and stabbed his horse's leg in a low voice. The horse stumbled, and Gan Ning fell off the horse's back unexpectedly.

Although there was an experience of a hundred cavalry robbing Cao Ying later, Gan Ning's riding skills were actually not as proficient as later.

Therefore, after falling off the horse, he immediately rolled over on the spot. While unloading his strength, he came to the side of several Cao Jun, swung his knife and slashed on the cheek of a Cao Jun, knocking him to the ground.

Immediately afterwards, another Cao Jun on the right took the ring head knife and attacked him at the neck. After being dodged by Gan Ning, he made two backhand swords, which ended in the life of Cao Jun who wanted to sneak attack him.

The surrounding Jinfan thieves swarmed up, wiped out the enemies around Gan Ning, and led them to kill Cao Jun deep in the formation.

"General, look, someone is rushing towards us."

At this moment, a Jinfan thief suddenly noticed a general riding a horse on the river bank not far away, with dozens of personal guards, who were also wantonly beheading and killing their soldiers, and rushed towards them, pointing at the man. Gan Ning said, "This man must be General Cao."

"This person should be Le Jin."

Gan Ning bit the knife into his mouth, and then wiped his hands with the brocade cloth on his body. His hands were covered with blood, and it was easy to slip when holding the knife handle. After cleaning up the blood, he took the knife and stared fiercely. Le Jin said: "Go, kill."

"Kill!"

The Jinfan thieves roared angrily, attacking Le Jin like wolves and tigers.

Le Jin's team over there struggled to kill them.

Now the battlefield has become chaotic, Gan Ning and Le Jin are separated by a certain distance, even if the two sides saw each other, it was very difficult to walk.

However, both of them are warriors on the battlefield. Under the cover of their personal guards, they rushed left and right, hacked and killed dozens of opposing soldiers, and finally met.

Although Le Jin was riding on horseback, he didn't have the advantage of charging. The crowd gradually dispersed, corpses and obstacles were everywhere, and it was impossible for the horse to run.

Therefore, the moment the two sides met, Gan Ning jumped up and slashed at Le Jin with his saber, and Le Jin also raised his saber to aim at Gan Ning, who jumped up and slashed at him, and slashed head-on!

(End of this chapter)