Chapter 789 - Clever Trick to Catch the Mole
At the critical moment, Chen Chong and others shouted: "Into the water!" Everyone immediately pulled the iron chain and dived to the bottom of the water, and at the same time, they saw countless rockets shot on the water surface, shining the water surface as if it were day.
"It's so dangerous, if you take a slow step just now, I'm afraid that you will become a hedgehog!" Encountering an attack was something Chen Chong expected, but he didn't plan to give up and continue swimming, but he couldn't take the lead now.
However, it is not a way to hold your breath in the water all the time, and now the sound of the arrow is weak, probably the enemy troops on the other side of the strait can not help Pei Yuanshao's men and horses on the other side, so they focus all their attention on Chen Chong and these people, just wait for the movement of the head to breathe, shoot it immediately!
Chen Chong gestured to everyone underwater, meaning to go to the nearby reeds to break a few reeds and stretch out of the water to breathe, and continue to swim across.
The people understood, and went at once, and in a short time brought back a number of reeds and distributed them among each of them, and at the same time became more cautious.
However, what puzzled Chen Chong was that after entering the water, not only was it not shivering with cold, but there was an inexplicable warmth!
Chen Chong thought it was his own delusion, he tried to dive a little, but found that it was getting warmer and warmer, just like bathing in a hot spring, he simply dived to the bottom of the river, and the water temperature became hotter and hotter.
Several companions also swam down and found the same weirdness, and at this moment, an undercurrent came from nowhere, and several people were scattered in an instant.
"Knock knock—" A few people made a small sound intermittently, and there was no movement.
When Chen Chong reacted, he knew that everyone had been separated, he was not washed away because of the tight grip of the iron chain when the undercurrent came in, and at this moment he found that what he was in was a huge whirlpool, all the water was being sucked in, and there was a water flow out in the center, sucking away ice water, and flowing out of hot water, so Chen Chong's doubts just now were answered, and even the melting of the ice on the river near here is probably due to this.
Thinking of this, Chen Chong didn't have time to grieve the death of his companion, because the attraction of the vortex was getting bigger and bigger, almost sucking Chen Chong in, Chen Chong tightened the chain, kept his balance from being sucked away, and pulled himself out of the range of the vortex attraction little by little.
Back on the water, Chen Chong seemed to have a new life, to his surprise was that at this time Pei Yuanshao also jumped into the water, and his soldiers organized a team of daring to help Chen Chong's people build a chain bridge, Chen Chong was moved, stepped forward to tell Pei Yuanshao about the bottom of the river, Pei Yuanshao was also surprised, but he glanced at Pei En beside him, and suddenly said to Chen Chong: "Bold Diao Min, I actually lied to General Ben that the river here is frozen and walkable, now what do you have to say, come on, pull him down and behead him for me!"
Chen Chong didn't understand what was wrong with Pei Yuanshao, and after being caught by the soldiers who came from the water, he was about to struggle, but he saw Pei Yuanshao winking at himself, and glanced at Pei En's direction with his spare eyes, and immediately understood, and also said: "Hmph, I kindly sent you information, but you don't know what to do, Gao Jiajun is just like that!"
Between the words, Chen Chong was dragged down by Pei Yuanshao's soldiers, and after a while, a miserable scream came, which startled everyone present, and Pei En stepped forward and said: "General, the Lord taught us to practice more benevolence and righteousness on the fair day, and not to kill innocents indiscriminately, but you just now-"
"What just now?" Pei Yuanshao stared at Pei En with straight eyes, remembering the scene when he first came into contact with this person, it was still last spring, when a group of Cao Army deserters came from the direction of Fancheng, claiming to be going to join the Gao family army, Pei Yuanshao naturally did not suspect that this Pei En was one of the deserters.
Pei En has made many military exploits since then, and has been promoted from an ordinary soldier to a deputy general in just over a year, originally Pei Yuanshao had the intention to continue cultivating this person, but not long ago he received a letter from Xun Yu, Chen said that he had recently found out that someone in the Gao family army often leaked news to Yanzhou, and knew that it was this Pei En.
So Pei Yuanshao decided to set up such a game and let Pei En show his feet.
"It's nothing!" Pei En saw that Pei Yuanshao's expression was not quite right, and he didn't say anything more, but said, "Now it seems that Guandu can't be crossed here, and the general should think of another way!"
Pei Yuanshao nodded and sighed: "That's right, in your opinion, what is the best way?"
"Me?" Pei En sneered, "I'm just a partial general, I only know how to charge, and I never have the slightest idea in my head, what can I do?"
"Oh, is it?" Pei Yuanshao rolled his eyes and asked casually, "No, last night, someone saw you secretly release a pigeon to the other side of the river to deliver a letter, which is also called a charge?"
Pei En's face turned pale suddenly, and cold sweat trickled down.
At this time, I only heard a sound of neighing in the distance, and a meteor horse came in the dust, Pei Yuanshao's soldiers were about to stop it, but when they saw this meteor horse take out a token from their bodies, they recognized it as something used by Gao Yi's exclusive meteor horse, and immediately flashed away.
The man rode his horse and stopped beside Pei Yuanshao, dismounted and bowed: "Participate in General Pei, the lord has an urgent military situation to inform the general!"
After that, the man got up and said something to Pei Yuanshao.
Pei Yuanshao was stunned for a moment when he heard this, but then nodded: "It's hard work, you go down and rest first!"
"The villain has to go to other generals to give orders, it's inconvenient to stay longer, say goodbye!"
After the herald left, Pei Yuanshao said to everyone: "The lord saw that our army had not gone to meet him for a long time, and knew that we must have encountered difficulties, so he ordered us to lead our troops down the river and cross the Yellow River at Baimajin, where our own people have already responded, although it will be a while later to meet with the lord, but it is better than not being able to do anything here in Guandu!"
Everyone agreed, but Pei En was the only one who frowned unnaturally.
Pei Yuanshao patted Pei En's shoulder: "What are you still doing in a daze, hurry up and pack your things and go on the road!"
Pei En suddenly clutched his stomach and cried out in pain: "Oh general, the last general suddenly felt a little stomachache, maybe he had eaten bad stomach during the day, or the last general would stay here in Guandu for a few days, first, to recuperate, and second, to find out the enemy's intelligence for the general!"
"It's okay!" Pei Yuanshao didn't doubt Pei En's unjustifiable lie, leaving hundreds of men and horses for Pei En, and left with a large army to pull out the camp.
Pei En didn't know that he had fallen into Pei Yuanshao's trap, and he was still complacent, he said to the hundreds of people left by Pei Yuanshao: "You continue to strictly monitor the movements on the other side, this general is going back to the tent to rest, don't disturb me if there is nothing to do!"
Everyone agreed, but after Pei En left, they muttered: "This guy is respectful in front of General Pei Yuanshao, and now that the general is gone, he is so arrogant, it's really hateful!"
"Hmph, the villain has a will!"
Pei En returned to his account, the more he thought about it, the more he felt that something was wrong, how could Gao Yi know so much about the situation of Guandu hundreds of miles away, and Baimajin, not far to the north, Yuan Shao's army was eyeing him, and not far to the east was Puyang, where the important town of Dongjun was located, such a large transfer of men and horses would inevitably attract the attention of Yuan Shao's people and Puyang people, in case the two places sent troops together, Pei Yuanshao would not be able to get out at all.
But after thinking about it, Pei En determined that at least one point, this news must be known to Bian Xi on the other side.
Thinking of this, Pei En did it, and quickly wrote a letter, originally wanting his confidant to send it to the other side, thinking that it would be better to send it himself, so he took advantage of the darkness to get out of the tent, came to the river, and swam straight to the other bank.
What Pei En didn't know was that a person was standing on the river bank behind him at this time, looking at Pei En in the water with interest, and smiled slightly: "The fish has been hooked, brothers, collect the net!"
Soon, an exclamation came, it was the sound of Pei En being caught by the eagle-eyed elite who was ambushed in the water, and not long after, the wet Pei En was tied up like a zongzi and brought to Chen Chong, when he saw Chen Chong's face, Pei En suddenly became excited: "You, you, you-"
"Aren't you surprised that I'm not dead?" Chen Chong looked at Pei En with a smile, stretched out his hand, took out the secret letter from Pei En, flicked off the water droplets on it, spread it out little by little, and the voice in his mouth was like thunder on the ground, "Pei En, you lurked in the Gao family's army and leaked secrets, do you think General Pei Yuanshao doesn't know anything about it!"
Pei Endeng's face was like earth, he couldn't imagine that he was arrested so easily, and he thought that he had been hiding it very well, and he wanted to use strong words, but the secret letter had been held in Chen Chong's hands, and he knew that it was useless to say anything, he knew that Gao Yi ordered his brother-in-law Chen Zhi to train an elite team, named Hawkeye, who was omnipresent and omniscient, and now it seems that this Chen Chong is the person in Hawkeye's eye.
Thinking of this, Pei En's face was completely dead, and he simply stopped talking, looking like he was waiting for death.
The hundreds of Pei Yuanshao people who stayed behind had already heard the movement here on the riverbank, and they all flocked to see Pei En being held by a few civilians, and they were a little at a loss, and a few people even said: "Could these people be Cao Cao's secret troops who came to assassinate our general?"
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone was immediately shocked, and quickly formed a battle formation, surrounding Chen Chong's people by the river: "Bold thief, let go of General Pei En, otherwise-"
"Stop!" At this moment, a woman's coquettish voice sounded in the distance, and in an instant, a horse galloped over, and the horse was like frost and white clothes on the snow, and when he arrived, a sword left his hand and was inserted on the ground, and under the light of the fire, the word "shock" on the sword body was particularly clear.
Thrilling Sword!
The people present were all shocked and bowed down in unison: "See the master mother!"