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After Gao Yi got the news that Yin Feng and Sun Ce divided their troops to go north to Xuzhou, he was not idle, he also mobilized a total of 65,000 troops from Bingzhou, Sili, Songshan, Runan, and Jiangxia, and he brought 20,000 horses from Nanyang, led by Wen Ping and Wu Anguo respectively, Xiao Yi was the vanguard, Gao Yi led the Chinese army, and attacked the rear of Cao Cao in Yanzhou, so that he could not attack Xuzhou with all his strength.

The five-way army is Pei Yuanshao, Liao Hua, Zhou Cang, Li Tong, Chen Dao, except for Li Tong only 5,000 people, the other four roads have as many as 15,000 people, of which Pei Yuanshao started from Shangdang, through Hanoi County, to attack Dong County, Liaohua this road from Henan, to attack Chenliu. Zhou Cang sent troops from Songshan to attack the eastern part of Yingchuan, and Li Tong set out from Runan to attack Chen State. Chen Zhi set out from Jiangxia and attacked Huainan.

And Gao Yi himself, with 20,000 elites, went straight to the direction of Xu Du.

Got this news, the whole Yanyu land fell into a panic, because Cao Cao himself was leading a large team of men and horses in Xuzhou to besiege Lu Bu, only Cheng Yu and Xun Yu, Cao Ren, Cao Chun, Cao Hong Renjun and others left behind Yanyu, and the people in each city were less than 10,000 people, because Pei Yuanshao came the fastest, Cheng Yu personally asked for orders to go to Dongjun to defend Pei Yuanshao's way, Cao Chun led the tiger and leopard cavalry to meet Liao Hua, Ren Jun guarded Chen Guo to meet Li Tong, Cao Hong guarded Huainan to meet Chen Dao, Xun Yu was full of favor to guard Xudu, Cao Ren led heavy troops to garrison Changshe to defend Zhou Cang, and sent a letter to Cao Cao in Xuzhou to report the urgent military situation in the rear.

People from all walks of life stepped up their marches, Pei Yuanshao was the first to arrive at Guandu in the west of Dongjun, Cheng Yu arranged a thousand men and horses here to defend it, and burned all the boats, the Yellow River was frozen, Cheng Yu also ordered people to chisel it, and when Pei Yuanshao arrived, he could only stare dryly and anxiously.

"General, we have searched all the vicinity of the ferry, and the enemy burned all the trees within a radius of dozens of miles before we came, just to prevent us from having time to build boats to cross the river!" Deputy General Pei En gasped and reported to Pei Yuanshao, and the white air that came out was bursting one after another, and his face was also red from the cold.

"It's really hateful, I was robbed of the opportunity by that Cheng Yu, when Mr. Xun Yu sent a book to me, he said that this Cheng Yu is very powerful, I don't believe it yet, now I have to believe it!" Pei Yuanshao flew into the Yellow River with a mouthful of saliva, but before he reached the surface of the river, he froze into ice lumps, but the strange thing was that he fell into the river and did not float.

"Strange!" Pei En's eyes widened in surprise, on such a cold day, it doesn't matter if the river doesn't freeze, the ice melts so easily, it obviously goes against common sense.

"You kid just found out, I found out about this unusual phenomenon last night!" Pei Yuanshao continued to spit and watched it freeze into ice in mid-air and quickly melt in the river, hehe, laughed at Pei Enlai.

Pei En scratched his head, couldn't think of a reason, and said to himself: "Could it be that the enemy has boiled the water of this entire river?" ”

At this time, another member of the horse came to report to Pei Yuanshao: "General Qiyu, the villain rode along the upper and lower reaches of the Yellow River for more than 20 miles, and the river surface did not freeze, and the trees were burned as clean as here!" ”

Pei Yuanshao nodded: "Got it, you go down!" ”

"No!"

"General, why don't you seem to be in a hurry at all?" When Pei En heard the news of Tanma, his heart was even more cold, but when he saw Pei Yuanshao's expression, he seemed to be relieved, and he was even more confused.

Pei Yuanshao only said six words: "The secret of heaven must not be revealed!" ”

It was soon dark, and several people dressed as civilians came to Pei Yuanshao's tent, and after everyone left, they entered the tent and said, "Chen Chong, the leader of the eagle eye, has seen General Pei!" ”

After that, he took out his nameplate and showed it to Pei Yuanshao, Pei Yuanshao ordered to follow the results in person, carefully studied the patterns and words on the nameplate, and confirmed that it was the person of Eagle Eye, so he returned the nameplate to Chen Chong, and said in a deep voice: "Three days ago, I received a flying pigeon from General Chen Zhi, he said that he sent two hundred Eagle Eye elites to assist me in attacking Dongjun, I didn't expect you to arrive so soon!" ”

Chen Chong nodded: "The general is polite, as an eagle eye, good foot strength is naturally the first, now that the other brothers are outside, we have also discovered the abnormality of the Yellow River, tonight I will send a few brothers to dive into the bottom of the river to find out!" ”

Pei Yuanshao frowned: "It's cold, I'm afraid I'll get frostbite now!" ”

Chen Chong smiled: "The general is too worried, as a person in the eagle eye, if he can't even bear this hardship, can he still be regarded as the elite army of the lord?" ”

"Hahaha, it's me who lost my words, I wish the little brother good news as soon as possible!"

Chen Chong came out of the camp tent and came to the river with his own people, and saw that in the night, several people were shirtless and tied ropes around their waists, just waiting for Chen Chong to come, and they were about to go into the water.

"Brothers, this trip may be dangerous, but for the great cause of the lord, even if there is a sword mountain and a sea of fire in front of you, you must break through!" Chen Chong picked up the wine bowl that had been poured long ago, handed it to several people one by one, and said generously, "Dry this bowl of wine and warm up!" ”

"!"

After a few pops, several people entered the river, and after a while, the river was calm again, as if nothing had happened just now, only the lights of the Guandu garrison on the other side of the river were lit, flickering in the bitter north wind.

Chen Chong turned to the rest of the people and said, "Are everything ready?" ”

"Ready, captain, it was already at the mouth of the river twenty miles away an hour ago!"

"Okay, let's go too!"

On the other side of Guandu, Cao Jun's guard general Bian Xi nervously ordered people to investigate the news on the other side from time to time, although according to Cheng Yu's plan, he cut through the ice and burned the forest, but he was still very uncertain, after all, this time the opponent was the world-famous Gao Jiajun, not an ordinary cat and dog, and I heard that Gao Yi also ordered someone to secretly train a special force, proficient in all kinds of sabotage and assassination methods, which is difficult to guard, and if you are not careful, you will go to see Lord Yama.

"How's the situation on the other side?" Bian Xi was already covered with cold sweat unconsciously, he wiped a handful, and asked Tanma, who had just returned.

"General rest assured, that Pei Yuanshao has been stationed on the other side of the Yellow River for three days, there are no boats to cross the river, there are no trees to build ships, and the ice surface has been damaged by us with undercurrents, and he wants to cross the Yellow River, unless his men and horses can fly!" Tanma had a happy expression, and said that Bian Xi finally fell to the ground in his heart.

"Everyone has worked hard, we can sleep well tonight, Lord Cheng Yu has already sent a message to the lord, as long as we hold on for a while, we can wait until the lord arrives, Gao Yi, this villain, wants to sneak attack the rear of the lord, it's a dream!"

Bian Xi clenched his meteor hammer and held it high, his voice excited.

"Roar, roar, roar!" The soldiers in the gate also became excited and cheered.

At this moment, a person came to Bian Xi's side and said to Bian Xi: "General, I just got a secret letter from the river, which contains shocking news that Lord Xun Yu is a traitor planted by Gao Yi in the lord's place!" Prepare to sacrifice Xu Du when Gao Yi comes to attack Xu Du this time! ”

"What?" Bian Xi was taken aback when he heard this, he took the secret letter, read it carefully, and his tone trembled a little, "This trace is the detailed Pei En that we planted in Pei Yuanshao, it seems that he also just got this news, so he hurriedly sent it over!" ”

Several lieutenant generals present were also taken aback at first, but then came to their senses: "By the way, general, at the beginning, didn't Xun Yu come as Gao Yi's person to assist the lord in governing Yanzhou's internal affairs?" ”

Another person also said: "Yes, his family is not in Yanzhou, and he has always called the lord Duke Cao, that is to say, in his mind, Gao Yi has always been recognized as the lord!" ”

Bian Xi's face, which had just become relaxed, was nervous again, if what the secret letter said was true, then maybe Xun Yu had already begun to plan to sacrifice Xu Du, with Xun Yu's connections, it was likely that he had rebelled against many generals, Bian Xi couldn't think about it anymore.

"Now I can't trust anyone, everyone get ready, Pei Yuanshao must have prepared a secret plan to attack him, we can hold out for a while, if we can't hold it, we will retreat with me to the front line in Xuzhou to see the lord!"

"No!"

At this time, Chen Chong had already ridden his horse and rushed to the bank of the Yellow River twenty miles away, and a number of huge wooden boxes had been piled up on the bank, which were filled with thick iron chains.

"Let's get moving!" Chen Chong gave an order, pulled a fixed iron chain and jumped into the river first.

The moonlight was sultry, quietly shining on the lake on the surface of these eagle-eyed elites who swam across the lake, because of the cold in the river, everyone's hair and eyebrows were frosted, and their bodies without water gradually stiffened, but they still insisted on moving forward, they knew that they could not achieve nothing when everyone pinned their hopes on them.

The sound of a large group of men and horses marching came from the riverbank behind him, Chen Chong knew that Pei Yuanshao had brought people here, so he did not look back, but accelerated the speed of his march.

"Brothers, there are people watching us from behind, let them know why Hawkeye is called Hawkeye!"

"Good!" Everyone shouted the trumpet one after another, and as Chen Chong crawled forward, they all had a determined look on their faces.

"Chen Chong, you don't want to die! Come back to me! When Pei Yuanshao received the news that Chen Chong was going to build a chain bridge, he immediately felt that something would happen, so he summoned people and horses to rush to the river, and at this moment saw that Chen Chong and others had reached the middle of the river, almost frozen into icemen and still swimming across, and his heart was full of regret.

A soldier hurriedly reminded Pei Yuanshao at this time: "The general is not good, there seems to be an enemy ambush on the other side of the river!" ”

Pei Yuanshao was startled and looked at the opposite bank, and sure enough, the lights were lit up, and hundreds of archers rushed to the river, aiming in the direction of Chen Chong and the others!