403. Crossing the river, a small crisis for the convoy

The southward migration convoy was light and simple, running south frantically, and soon passed through Wuyin County, Ye County, Duyang County, and Xinye County...... In front of the famous Fancheng, at this time Fancheng has been empty, not only Gongsun Jun withdrew, even the people of Fancheng heard that Dong Zhuojun was coming, they also moved away in large numbers, and the entire county was empty.

Looking at the rolling river in the south, Yuyang Taishou Zou Dan's whole person was about to collapse, and he finally escaped here, Dong Zhuojun's vanguard had been following closely behind the convoy, and at this time they were already approaching within twenty miles. Hanshui is in the way here, how is it good?

Mi Zhen, Hua Tuo, Kong Rong, and Zheng Xuan walked to the water's edge together, looking at the rolling Han water, everyone's hearts were heavy.

In the midst of anxiety, a huge fleet of ships suddenly appeared on the Han River, with three or four hundred warships, and many merchant ships, cargo ships, ferries, and even small fishing boats. The sails of each ship are hung with colorful Nishikawa Nishiki.

Mi Zhen, Hua Tuo, Kong Rong, and Zheng Xuan all thought that this was Liu Biao's fleet, and they hesitated for a while.

But I saw that the fleet was close to the Fancheng dock, a beautiful woman stood at the bow of the fighting ship, she was wearing a short dress, with a silver chain wrapped around her waist, and the copper bells on the chain jingled, drifting away with the river wind, and the woman shouted loudly to Mi Zhen and others, but unfortunately her voice was too small for everyone to hear.

Everyone's hearts tightened, and they secretly thought: Didn't you declare war on us? Or is it to make us surrender or something?

Just when everyone was panicking, a man came out next to the woman with a very small voice, and helped her to speak loudly: "The old lady is Gan Ning Gan Xingba, the governor of the Gongsun Army's navy, and I am ordered to meet you here, hurry up and cross the river." ”

The Governor of the Navy? When did our Gongsun Army have such an official position? We haven't seen this woman before, everyone looked at each other, and they couldn't believe it.

Looking at their suspicious eyes, Gan Ning was furious, and suddenly took out a seal of the Governor of the Navy from his waist...... Everyone took a closer look, and this seal was actually carved from a radish...... Gan Ningqiao's face was slightly red, it turned out that after Sun Yu jokingly said last time that he used radish to carve a ribbon for her. She kept this in mind, and then the real seal ribbon arrived, she was bored, so she took the radish and carved one in imitation of her own seal, but she didn't expect to accidentally touch it out at this time, cough cough...... This is a serious damage to her image, she quickly reached out to the other side and touched it, this time she found a seal made of jade, and a talisman made of pure copper.

"See, this is the old lady's talisman and seal, like a fake. The old lady is not a thief, there is no such thing as banditry, the old lady is the real governor of the navy. Meng Xiang helped Gan Ning shout for a while, and added another sentence before the end: "We are mixed in the rivers and lakes, say one is one, say two is two, I won't lie to you!" ”

"Poof!" Gan Ning kicked Meng Xiang into the water and scolded: "You last sentence of the rivers and lakes, the gangster has come out!" ”

Meng Xiang smiled bitterly and said, "Governor Dadu, I just repeated your words as they were. ”

Mi Zhen on the shore wiped a handful of sweat and whispered to Kong Rong next to her: "Master Kong, this Governor of the Navy doesn't seem to be very reliable, one moment he says that he is not a thief, and then he says that he is a gangster in the rivers and lakes, should we believe her?" ”

Kong Rong spread his hands and said, "What can you do if you don't believe her?" It wasn't that Dong Zhuojun was forced to die on the north bank of the Han River, and now whether you believe it or not, you have to get on her boat. ”

Everyone had to shout a few words of gratitude to the Metropolitan Governor and the like, and Gan Ning sent the fleet to the shore to meet them across the river.

The family members on the convoy gave up the cart and boarded the boat brought by Gan Ning, the 600 carts were loaded with thousands of people, most of these people were just ordinary people, not soldiers, and they couldn't get on the boat in an orderly manner, and because there were chasing soldiers behind, these people were very flustered, crowded around crying, and the shouts were shocking.

Gan Ning did not have many boats in his hands, and could only transport some of them across the river at a time, because the Han River was too wide, and the ships of this era sailed slowly, so it took more than two hours to go back and forth between the two sides of the river.

This kind of transportation efficiency is obviously not very good, thousands of family members plus Gongsun Army and the North Navy are nearly 20,000 people, even if Gan Ning fights for fate, it will take a day or two to transport all of them to the shore. But the chasing troops of Dong Zhuojun behind him have approached twenty miles, and the forwards are all cavalry, and they will arrive in half a day at most...... Kong Rong and Zheng Xuan looked at the north and were worried.

At this time, Wu Anguo suddenly walked to Kong Rong's side, saluted her, and then said loudly: "Lord, I am not asking for my life, I am willing to lead the Northern Navy to defend the north gate of Fancheng to block the pursuing soldiers." ”

"Ahh The women exclaimed in unison, "How can this work?" ”

Everyone is not stupid, everyone knows how dangerous it is to go to the palace at this time, and it is very likely that they will be besieged by the enemy army and will not be able to get out.

Wu Anguo gritted his teeth and said, "If no one goes back to garrison, we simply don't have enough time to cross the river." ”

Tong Yuan raised his spear and said, "I will also go with you to defend the city." ”

Wu Anguo shook his head and said, "Miss Tong, you can't go, your task is to protect the lord and Mrs. Mi." If you follow me to fend off the enemy's pursuers, who will protect the lord and Mrs. Mi all the way south? I asked General Gan Ning just now, Xiangyang City on the other side of the river is still in the hands of Liu Biaojun, and it is very likely that you will encounter enemy troops after crossing the Han River, and at this time, Miss Tong cannot leave the princess and Mrs. Mi. ”

Where is everyone willing to agree, once she goes back, it will be a certain death.

Wu Anguo said loudly: "The lord has the grace of knowing me, and he didn't take this life to be the lord's. In addition, General Sun also saved my life, I said that I would also ensure the safety of Mrs. Mi and Adou, some time ago, I had agreed to hand over the command of the battle to me, so I have the right to give orders to arrange everything, and you must not stop it. Now I want you to cross the river quickly, and there is no need to say more. Anyone who fails to comply with it shall be dealt with by military law. ”

Then Wu Anguo dragged Zong Bao aside and said sharply: "General Zhao wants to protect Mrs. Mi and Adou, and our lord will be handed over to you for protection, and you must protect the lord and retreat to the south of the Yangtze River." ”

Zong Bao wept silently.

Wu Anguo grabbed the copper hammer with his left hand, took 5,000 northern navy, and ran towards the north gate of Fancheng, and the 5,000 soldiers hurriedly occupied various key positions at the head of the city and closed the city gate. Since there were almost no inhabitants in the city, all of them fled, and the soldiers had to carry their own hands, destroying the houses and turning them into rolling logs, rocks, and other objects to be piled up on the city walls to defend the city.

The walls of Fancheng are short, only two zhang high, lack of bows and arrows, no fire oil, and rolling wood and stones, and the Northern Navy is a newcomer, unfamiliar with the city, so it is impossible to support it for too long, and can only hope that the pursuers will not come too quickly.

However, although Dong Zhuo herself was slow, her forward was not slow, and after half a day, the shadow of Dong Zhuojun's forward suddenly appeared in the north of Fancheng, and the overwhelming Xiliang Iron Cavalry rushed in.

Black iron armor and neat iron spear formations appeared from the plains to the north.

Dong Zhuojun's million-strong vanguard troops, 100,000 Xiliang iron cavalry, under the leadership of generals Zhang Xiu and Zhang Liao, finally approached the north gate of Fancheng County, and the two "Zhang" banners flew in the wind.

Wu Anguo's heart sank...... If it is better for the red generals, I may still be able to resist, but these two monsters are here, how can I be the enemy?

Although he knew that he was invincible, Wu Anguo did not want to lose his momentum. She lifted the copper hammer with one arm, stood on top of the city wall, and shouted: "Stop when the enemy comes, if anyone dares to violate Fancheng, he will not be spared." ”

Zhang Liao and Zhang Xiu, who had just arrived under the city, stopped their horses together under the city, and the two raised their heads and looked at Wu Anguo, who was one-armed on the low city wall, and the sunlight cast her shadow obliquely down the city, looking murderous.

Zhang Liao recognized Wu Anguo at a glance, the two had fought each other in the battle of Tiger Prison Pass, and fought for more than a dozen rounds without winning or losing, Zhang Liao knew that although she was only a blue general, she had a high fighting spirit and was a good girl.

Zhang Liao raised his knife, pointed at Wu Anguo at the head of the city and said to Zhang Xiu: "Do you guess what she is doing?" ”

Zhang Xiu shook his head and said, "This kind of thing needs to be guessed?" She was behind the palace and helped the old and weak in front of her to buy time to cross the river. ”

"That'...... To fight or not to fight? Zhang Liao frowned, she was a general with noble ambitions, and she was not interested in chasing the enemy's family members, but she just went south to catch the escape pet, and just happened to bump into this southward convoy, she actually didn't think about bullying this family member at all.

Zhang Xiu shrugged her shoulders, she really didn't want to fight, because according to intelligence, there was a "gun god" Tong Yuan in this family army, Zhang Xiu has been stumbling about the gun god letting her surname live, although the last time she released Sun Yu was a bit of a ruckus, but she still didn't want to find trouble with the gun god in her heart, so she smiled and said: "Sister Wenyuan doesn't want to fight?" ”

Zhang Liao nodded and said, "My knife is not waved at the old, weak, sick and one-armed people!" ”

Zhang Xiu nodded and said, "Neither is my gun!" ”

The two of them glanced at each other, and they both saw in each other's eyes a sense of arrogance that only true heroes have.

Zhang Liao shook his head and said, "I just found that an enemy army is heading west, and I decided to pursue that enemy army and then attack Fancheng." ”

Zhang Xiu blinked and said, "I also found an enemy army heading east just now, well, I'll go after this enemy army first." ”

The two of them turned left and right in unison, Zhang Liao led 50,000 cavalry to the west, Zhang Xiu led 50,000 cavalry to the east, and actually gave up Fancheng at the same time.

Wu Anguo at the head of the city was preparing for a bloody battle, but the enemy army under the city suddenly abandoned her city and ran headless to the west and east, which is really a big joke in the world: "What's going on?" I roared and scared Zhang Liao and Zhang Xiu, the two golden generals, away? They're not such scary people......

After a long time, Wu Anguo finally understood: "The two of them ...... It was a deliberate release of us! ”

(To be continued)