In the big tent, Liu Bei discussed with the generals about sending troops, and Liu Bei asked, "Who wants to be the vanguard?" ”

Before the words fell, Zhang Fei jumped up and said, "Big brother, little brother is willing to be a pioneer, don't you rob me." ”

After that, Zhang Fei glanced at the others around him threateningly, as if he was saying that whoever dared to grab the striker with him would be in a hurry.

"Okay, my brother is really a hero, so I will let you be the vanguard, lead the three thousand soldiers first, and set off early tomorrow morning" Liu Bei said, glanced at Xi Zhicai again, and asked: "Sir, is this feasible?" ”

Although Liu Bei now has some experience in warfare, he still doesn't dare to assert himself, so he asked Xi Zhicai.

Xi Zhicai looked up, and saw Zhang Fei looking at him with blank eyes, and held back his laughter at the moment, so as not to laugh himself, nodded at Liu Bei, and said: "General Zhang is brave and brave, and he can be the vanguard of the front." After crossing the river, the man does not unarmour, and the horse does not unsaddle. If the Yellow Turbans come to clash, they can be killed. In everything, covering the crossing of the river by our army is the first priority. As long as our army successfully crosses the river, General Zhang will be the first to make a contribution. ”

Zhang Fei was overjoyed and took the order.

The next day, Zhang Fei led 3,000 men and horses to go first.

Near Gaotang County, the Yellow River has a wide surface and a slower current. As a result, a small ferry crossing has been formed. However, no matter how wide the water surface is and the current is slow, it is also the Yellow River, which is not an ordinary boat, and can cross the river casually.

And Guan Yu, to be precise, is the shipbuilder sent by Liu Bei to Guan Yu, there is still a way, and this method is a chain ship.

Zhang Fei led a large group of men and horses to cross the river, 500 personal soldiers, surrounded by Liu Xuande, on a barely relatively high mound, looking at the Yellow River in front of him, and the chain boats on the Yellow River.

At this time, on the Yellow River, hundreds of large and small ships seemed to be spreading all over the Yellow River.

Of course, this is not the point, the point is on these ships, according to their respective sizes. Ships of similar size were selected, nailed together with planks, arranged in two columns, and then joined into one large ship for each of six or eight boats. Such a large ship, twice as wide and three or four times longer than a single small ship, is naturally extremely stable. Don't say it's a person, it's just that you go right away, and you are all standing safely.

It turned out that Guan Yu took a group of shipbuilding craftsmen to prepare ships and wanted to cross the Yellow River. There are also ferries in the area, but there are very few of them. And it is impossible to build a large boat that can cross the river in such a short time.

So, as soon as a certain craftsman opened his brain, he came up with such a solution for a chain boat. Pin six or eight ships together to make one. Naturally, speed is not to be talked about, because one side of the ship is nailed, and the oars are less than half. However, the stability of the chain ship is much better, and it is better to use it to transport troops.

It's just that Liu Bei looked at the serial boat in front of him and was dumbfounded. The heart said, if someone in the Yellow Turban Army has watched the Romance of the Three Kingdoms and gives me a fire to burn the serial boat, where will I cry. By the way, the Yellow Turban Army died the big head Zhang Jiao, and it is said that he is also a spellman, and I don't know how much the Yellow Turban Army in Qingzhou has learned from Zhang Jiao.

Fortunately, the Yellow Turban Army on the opposite side did not have the slightest reaction, which made Liu Bei breathe a sigh of relief, and said in his heart that those who could play with fire and burn serial ships were characters such as Zhou Lang and Zhuge , and if the Yellow Turban Army had a big bull of this level, it would not be mixed up to such a point.

Zhang Fei successfully crossed the river and occupied the Yellow River crossing for two days, and Liu Bei followed the team across the river.

When Liu Bei led the army to cross the river and ordered people to transport war horses across the river, Zhang Fei led the vanguard soldiers and horses to sweep the Yellow Turban Army south of the Yellow River.

At this time, the Yellow Turban Army reacted. However, the Yellow Turban Army is not a regular army, and it can't be assembled at all without a period of effort.

Zhang Fei, as the vanguard of the front, led the troops first, and along the way, the Yellow Turban Army fled.

Those who didn't run away were all arrested by Zhang Fei, transporting grain and grass and baggage, and many people were needed. Caught the Yellow Turbans and did just that.

The leader of the Yellow Turban Army here was originally a horse thief. Seeing that the Yellow Turban Army was strong, he came to take refuge and got the name of Qu Shuai.

Perhaps this person is used to running rampant, and when he heard that the officers and soldiers were coming, they were all foot soldiers, and he actually brought hundreds of cavalry under his command to meet the battle. As for saying that the officers and troops are powerful and there are many people, this leader does not believe it, the soldiers and horses in Qingzhou are all in Jiao He's hands, and Jiao He has never dared to go out of the city to fight a decisive battle with the Yellow Turban Army, and how many officers and soldiers can there be in other places.

These hundreds of cavalry are the core men and horses of the Yellow Turban Leader, and as for the other Yellow Turban Army, they are just cannon fodder.

At this moment, Zhang Fei commanded a total of 3,000 people, divided into six divisions, each department, with 300 soldiers and 200 baggage soldiers. was divided into four divisions by Zhang Fei, and at this moment, Zhang Fei only had 600 soldiers and 50 personal soldiers, and most of them were foot soldiers. The Yellow Turban Army looked at it from a distance and thought that the official army was just like that, so they didn't put Zhang Fei on it.

These six hundred horses, although the training is strict, but after all, most of them are new soldiers, and when they saw hundreds of cavalry rushing towards them, they were suddenly a little flustered.

At this time, Zhang Fei's trademark loud voice sounded, and he shouted loudly: "Queue, queue!" If there is chaos, those who retreat will be reformed, beheaded, and lined up! ”

The rigorous training of the usual days finally came into play at this time, and six hundred men quickly lined up, with two hundred pikemen in the first row, two hundred sword and shield soldiers in the second row, and two hundred archers in the last. There were also fifty cavalrymen lined up behind the team, and these people were Zhang Fei's personal soldiers.

The team, which was originally a little restless, quickly stabilized. Liu Bei has long let everyone know clearly through propaganda again and again. It is better to die in battle than to be reformed or beheaded.

If you die in battle, your family will have some preferential treatment such as exemption from forced labor, less or no tax, so to speak, if one person dies in battle, the whole family is happy.

And Kai Ge is not a simple dismissal, not only will he lose his low taxes and free from forced labor, but even the cultivated land will be taken back by Liu Bei, and he will never be accepted as a government soldier again.

Not only that, but the initiation is generally carried out in conjunction with the decapitation. In other words, the government soldiers themselves were killed and the land was recovered! The families of the soldiers who were killed were either facing the dilemma of starving to death, or being slaves for others, which was almost a severe punishment for the whole family to be wiped out!

This method of controlling the peasants' land and then forcing the peasants to go to the battlefield has been tried and tested again and again in China's thousands of years of history. Anything that can be successfully done is basically swept across the world.

Zhang Fei held the Zhangba snake spear in his hand, and he didn't ride a horse, so he stood in the middle of the team. Although the cavalry's war horses have not yet been delivered, the generals' war horses are still available.

The Yellow Turban Thieves sent more than 100 people to ride and come to the conflict. Many times, the ordinary rabble, forced by the momentum of the charge of the hundreds of cavalry, will scatter and flee.

Fortunately, these soldiers withstood the test, and although there was some commotion, they did not collapse in the end.

"Archer, put!" Zhang Fei ordered loudly, and the archers behind him immediately released their arrows, but they were a little nervous, and the arrows shot a little sparsely. However, after all, it was two hundred archers, and this rain of arrows still caused this wave of cavalry to lose seven or eight people.