"Boatman, boatman." Xiahou Dun was overjoyed and waved his hand desperately. It doesn't matter if you dress up fiercely and scare people.

Although the weather had cleared and the sun was beginning to shine, due to a torrential rain, the river was very turbulent, and the boat was shaking very hard, and it took a long time to come over. This can make Cao Ying and the others anxious to burn their eyebrows, and they are afraid that if they slow down, the pursuers behind them will catch up.

"What do you have to say?" After seeing the more than ten people on the shore dressed and embarrassed, the boatman was a little nervous, and did not bring the boat ashore, but shouted loudly not far away.

"Come here, as long as you help a few people cross the other side of the river, you will be rewarded." Xiahou Dun touched his body for a long time, but he couldn't find a single gold leaf, and couldn't help but be a little annoyed.

"A few military masters, you also know when you look at this current, where can the broken wooden boat of the grass people be rocked to the other side."

Cao Ying and the Xiahou brothers looked at the river and felt that what the boat man said was very reasonable, if people agreed to come down, it would be a little weird. Cao Ying looked behind him, but fortunately there was no trace of the enemy, and he said helplessly: "Then is there any way to cross over?" ”

"Ten miles downstream, there is a place called Goma Beach, where the water level is shallow, and the speed is not very fast, but it can be crossed."

"Then come here, and go to Goma Beach first, and then cross to the other side."

The boatman hesitated again, looked at Cao Ying and them on the shore, and said half-loudly: "It's nothing, but you have a total of more than a dozen military masters, plus horses, it is impossible to cross at once." ”

Xiahou Yuan also asked anxiously, "How many people can you go?" ”

The boatman stretched out three fingers and gestured before saying, "At most, there can only be three people and one horse." ”

"That's okay, if you row a few more times, General Ben will be indispensable for the reward."

"Okay." The boatman's swarthy face smiled, and he was very happy, and in a short time the boat ran aground.

Xiahou Yuan was the first to jump up, and then he and Xiahou Dun supported Cao Ying down one after the other.

As soon as Cao Ying's feet stepped on the plank, he shook his history, and he was only frightened and shouted: "Boatman, steady." ”

The boatman still had a smile on his face and said, "A few generals may not usually go on the boat, right?" Just look at what you just did, you will definitely shake the experience like that. Sit down, the grass people are going rowing. ”

"Be safe." Cao Ying was shocked.

"Yes." The shipman shouted: "Class." "As the penny opened, the boat left the shallows, and began to drift down in the direction of the river, and the speed was getting faster and faster.

This boat is a good means, the ability of the slurry is really first-class, in the turbulent water, the use is like flying, stunned is safe and easy to go downstream, nothing happens. The boatman sang a ballad freely, but the three people on the boat were dizzy, and they wanted to vomit for a while.

At this moment, the boat man suddenly stopped singing and asked with a smile: "The three military masters are Cao Ying's soldiers?" ”

Cao Ying was stunned, and cheered up and said, "How can the shipman guess like this? ”

"The accent of what you say is from Yanzhou."

Cao Ying faintly felt a little bad and said, "Have you seen the Hebei Army?" ”

"Of course, during this time, the Hebei Army can often be seen patrolling on this river." As if he hadn't seen Cao Ying's gloomy face, the boat man continued to say happily.

"Oh? Boatman, can you avoid the Hebei Army? What is the situation at the Goma crossing? ”

"Not necessarily, it depends on luck."

These words made Cao Ying's three hearts beat again, could it be that they got out of the tiger's mouth and entered the wolf's den again?

After paddling for a while, seeing that the water was getting slower and slower, and the speed began to slow down, the boatman's smile became brighter and brighter, and his eyes flashed with an incomprehensible light: "The three military masters, the one in the middle is not tall, with small eyes and a dense beard, should be Cao Ying." As for the other two, they should be the Xiahou brothers. ”

"You're not a shipman?" Xiahou Yuan already felt that something was wrong, so he drew his sword fiercely and said angrily.

"Hahaha, the three military masters enjoy it." After saying this, the boatman suddenly dropped the wood pulp, jumped into the river, and jumped straight down, leaving three landlubbers with a shocked look Look at me, I look at you. However, Xiahou Yuan moved fast enough, immediately returned the sword into the sheath, caught the wood pulp, and desperately wanted to paddle to control, but it was a pity that Xiahou Yuan's horseback kung fu was first-class, but rowing was really not what he was good at, the small wooden boat kept spinning in the current, shaking for a long time, and was stunned that he did not advance a few meters.

At this moment, there was a sudden "bang" in the water, and then the hull of the boat began to shake violently, and before the three of them could understand what was going on, the whole wooden boat completely overturned.

Cao Ying, Xiahou Yuan, and Xiahou Dun fell into the water for the first time, and due to the weight of the armor, none of their heads were raised, and they directly "purred" and sank.

"Catch a big fish, start the net." With a cheerful voice, a big head emerged from the river, with a happy smile on his face, who is it not Gan Ning?

…… The first battle of Guandu affected the trend of the entire Central Plains.

Hebei repeatedly designed, trapping step by step, and finally lured Cao Ying's elite to come out and attack the black nest. The result can be imagined, Cao Ying suffered the biggest rout since the start of the army, the Guandu camp that had been painstakingly operated for half a year was broken, Cao Ying's younger brother Cao De, the eldest son Cao Ang, and the fifth son Cao Xiong were killed in battle, and the clan generals Xiahou Shang, Xiahou Jie, Cao Ling, and Cao Meng were killed, and more than ten members of its generals Li Tong, Shi Lian, Mao Jue, Qin Lang, Liu Jing and so on were successively defeated and sunk into the sand. Nearly 100,000 defenders of Guandu, in the all-night fierce attack of the Hebei army, held on for less than four days, and then the whole line was defeated, except for Cao Hong and Cheng Yu who led thousands of guards to evacuate, more than 10,000 soldiers were killed, and countless surrenders were lost. Liu Ye, Wang Lang, Wang Su, Jiang Ji and others were captured by the mutinous surrender soldiers when they retreated.

If this is the case, perhaps the Cao Group still has hope for a comeback. But what made matters worse in the snow-capped mountains was that Cao Ying, the leading banner figure, was captured alive on the spot by Gan Ning, who was pretending to be a fisherman, at the crossing of the Yellow River, including the fierce generals Xiahou Yuan and Xiahou Dun, who also could not escape the bad luck, and completely became a prisoner and was secretly imprisoned somewhere by He Chen.

As soon as the news of Cao Ying's arrest came out, it caused the entire Cao army to shake, and the morale was sluggish to freezing point, coupled with the death of the eldest son, it became a big question about who would replace Cao Ying's position. There are two sons Cao Pi, third sons Cao Zhi, etc., according to each word, the power group cannot be forced to fall apart.

Officer Cao was defeated, and the northern army was even more unstoppable, sweeping away the leaves with the autumn wind, and driving down the Yellow River. The whole Central Plains shook, the whole world was shocked, and after more than ten years of chaos in the Central Plains, finally saw the dawn of unification. In the remnants of the Cao army, Cao Ren retreated, and Hanoi, Dong'e, Xudi, and Chenliu counties fell in the wind, and overnight, He Chen's land was nearly 1,000 miles, and his power extended into Yanzhou, Sizhou, including Luoyang, and even the entire territory of Qingzhou.

Cao Jun was the core figure, in order to avoid He Chen's edge, he had to retreat to Runan, Yuzhou, and prepare to reinvigorate.

Now, the general trend of the world has begun to become completely clear, He Chen coerced the power of Guandu's great victory, sat on the four states of Hebei, swept Yan, Henan, and won the entire territory of Qingzhou, almost two-thirds of the entire territory of China into his arms, and the limelight was immeasurable. The small princes in various places have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, and Luo Luo is endless. The officials who came to Taiyuan to worship were even more like the Qing who crossed the river, and there were countless of them. They were impressed by He Chen's strong force and had to think about their future.

And now only the Cao Group is trapped in Runan and Shouchun. Although Liu Biao sits on the seven counties, he actually faintly feels a powerful threat from the north; And Sun Jian, although there are six counties and 81 prefectures in Jiangdong, plus some areas of Yangzhou, compared with the entire Hebei and Central Plains, it can only be a corner of peace, and there is a lot of gap. As for Liu Zhang, he hadn't felt the shock He Chen was carrying, but he had already felt the murderous aura from Guanzhong. Not long after Ma Teng pacified Chang'an, under He Chen's instructions, he began to use troops from the land of Qinchuan against Shuzhong.

Just when the entire Central Plains was looking forward to guessing whether the northern army would go south to Yuzhou to completely eliminate the Cao forces, He Chen suddenly stopped his troops and returned to the court. It's not that he doesn't want to take advantage of the opportunity, it's just that this war has been fought for too long, although the four states of Hebei still support the materials and military rations needed for the war, but the poor soldiers, the morale is exhausted, and there are many homesick thoughts, plus the northern army is going south from afar, which is not what He Chen expects, at least not at present.

Soon, He Chen went to the court to canonize Zhao Yun as the general of Zhennan and the Marquis of Zhenzhen, led 50,000 troops, stationed in Yingchuan, and left Gao Lan and Hao Zhao as the left and right deputies, controlling the inside and outside. At the same time, Deng Zhi was appointed as the pastor of Yanzhou, and he was asked to assist Zhao Yun, who was in charge of resuming production and resettling many internal affairs of the people. Then, He Chen worshiped Wei Yan as the general of Zhendong, and also led 50,000 troops, supplemented by Ma Dai, Zhao Jun and others. Dong Zhao, who is becoming more and more loyal, is also transferred to Qingzhou Mu to deal with internal affairs. Later, he asked Tian Yu and Tian Chou to go to Youzhou, temporarily serve as Zhang Liao's subordinates, prepare for two years, and then transfer back to Zhang Liao, and promote the two to the top to prevent Xianbei, Karasuma and other foreign races.

He Chen's painstaking management of the two states of Yu and Qingdao is obvious. He wanted to use these two places as a springboard to go out of the position fortress, preparing for the beginning of the next year, and after the rotation of soldiers came, he would let the two generals go south, completely wipe out the Cao group, and not give them a chance to recuperate.

From the moment he broke through Guandu, He Chen knew that the goal of this battle had been achieved, and it was overachieved. originally wanted to eliminate Cao Ying's living force, cripple and scatter his elite troops, and pave the way for the next southward trip, but he didn't expect to capture Cao Ying in a battle. Then this significance is too great, Cao Ying was captured, and his main cadres either died in battle or surrendered, and the remaining few stubborn ones were put in prison. In particular, Xu Zhen's tiger guards and Cao Chun's "tiger and leopard cavalry" were wiped out by the whole army, and there was not a single scum left, leaving the elite strength of the Cao army empty.

Who else can resist their own southward march today?

(To be continued)