Dong Shouye's choice was to abandon the two best places to cross the river, Pingyin County and Xiaopingjin, and instead chose to lead the main force around Xiaopingjin and then slightly south, crossing the river at a place between Xiaopingjin and Pingxian.

The county seat of Pingxian is just north of Beibi Mountain, and the place chosen by Dong Shouye to cross the river is not far from the county seat of Pingxian.

In fact, Dong Shouye's choice of this location was beyond everyone's expectations.

Because the best landing place to board a ship from here is Mengjin Port, which is now no longer alive, it was burned down by Ding Yuan when he raised troops to respond to the general He Jin, so Dong Shouye could not choose to land from Mengjin downstream.

Dong Shouye chose to go upriver and risk landing on the tidal flats on the opposite bank, Dong Shouye had secretly sent people to investigate, and the terrain on the other side of the river was barely suitable for landing, but the advantage was that no one was here anymore, and there were no troops stationed there.

Wang Kuang never dreamed that the enemy would choose to land in a place that seemed to him the most unsuitable for landing. Most of Wang Kuang's forces were concentrated dozens of miles upstream of the landing site chosen by Dong Shouye.

On the night of the fifth day of the first month of March, Dong Shouye quietly boarded the ship with his people.

I didn't choose any tall ships, fighting ships, warships and other warships, but chose some merchant ships and transport ships, which looked inconspicuous.

It's easy to think of it as a caravan for some big family.

Due to the enemy, there was little defense, and it was very easy for Dong Shouye to lead his men and horses to land.

After the successful landing, Dong Shouye sent rangers to investigate everywhere on the one hand, and on the other hand, he commanded his men and horses to advance to Heyangjin, where Wang Kuang's army was stationed.

Wang Kuang himself was not in Heyangjin at this time, and it was Han Hao, a general under Wang Kuang, who was in charge of the defense of Heyangjin. This Han Hao is also a bull and a well-known hard bone.

Dong Shouye also knew about this person, some time ago, other troops under Dong Zhuo's command captured Han Hao's uncle Du Yang. Dong Zhuo took this as an opportunity to send someone to Han Hao to persuade Han Hao to surrender. But this guy gritted his teeth and refused, refusing to give in.

At this time, Han Hao led the main force of troops and horses according to Wang Kuang's subordinates to deploy defenses on the banks of the Yellow River near Heyangjin.

Wang Kuang is also holding on and is very confident in the soldiers and horses under his command. At the beginning, He Jin ordered Wang Kuang to recruit troops, and Wang Kuang returned to his hometown Taishan County to gather his wealth and recruit 500 strong crossbowmen.

The soldiers of these 500 strong crossbowmen are all strongmen with big shoulders and round waists, and their strength is extremely strong. And the strong crossbows they hold in their hands are all big yellow crossbows, five hundred crossbowmen may also have some strong princes who don't seem terrible, but ordinary people don't dare to underestimate it, five hundred big yellow crossbows are not something ordinary people can afford.

There are three main types of crossbows in the Han Dynasty, the crossbow, the crossbow, and the rhubarb crossbow, and the most powerful is the rhubarb crossbow. The crossbow is pulled apart with both hands, and the crossbow is pedaled with the foot, and the rhubarb crossbow is a powerful version of the crossbow. The big yellow crossbow is a ten-stone crossbow, the strongest crossbow in the Han Dynasty, and the person who can control this crossbow must be a strong person, with an effective range of more than 400 meters, and it is a great weapon for infantry to effectively restrain cavalry.

Dong Shouye led the men and horses to keep approaching Wang Kuangjun's station, and the other party seemed to be unaware.

Soon, the scouting horse sent out before returned, and found that there was still a soldier and horse forty or fifty miles away from Wang Kuang's army, and it seemed that the banner was the soldiers and horses of Han Fu in Jizhou.

At this time, Zhang Liao heard that the other party had two armies not far apart, and they were horns of each other, so he suggested to Dong Shouye: "Marshal, it seems that the enemy has been prepared, if we force an attack, halfway through the battle, the enemy's reinforcements arrive, and our army is attacked in front and back, and our army is attacked on the back of the enemy, then the situation will not be good." ”

Dong Shouye thought about it, smiled, and then said to Zhang Liao: "Second brother is too worried, before the younger brother sent a capable and meticulous work to Hebei to investigate. It turned out that since Yuan Benchu started the army, although he cooperated with Han Fu on the surface, in fact, he had been filthy secretly, this Han Fu was afraid that Yuan Shao would rebel against him and seek to seize his Jizhou, so he had been guarding against Yuan Shao and left a hand on Yuan Shao. Now Han Fu's soldiers and horses are near Wang Kuang's soldiers and horses, nine times out of ten they are to monitor Wang Kuang, when our army attacks Wang Kuang, Han Fu's soldiers and horses will definitely not come forward to rescue, but will happily watch Yuan Shao's jokes. ”

Zhang Liao was puzzled: "Aren't they an alliance, how can they still be like this." ”

Dong Shouye continued: "What kind of bullshit coalition army, each with a ghost. It would be nice if these so-called allies could not stab each other, and how could they be expected to help each other in a critical time. Then he said to Xu Huang: "Big brother, you lead the men and horses of your headquarters to ambush on the main road between Wang Kuang's department and Han Fu's department, if the enemy Han Fu really comes to support, big brother will help me snipe them and buy time for the army." ”

Dong Shouye led only 20,000 men and horses to cross the river this time, which is estimated to be slightly more than Wang Kuang's men. In the news found before, it was shown that Wang Kuang should have about 20,000 people.

The soldiers and horses stationed near Han Hao near Heyangjin were more than 10,000 people led by Zhao Fu and Cheng Jian under Han Fu. Dong Shouye gave Xu Huang only 2,500 soldiers and horses, of course, it could only play a blocking role, and if he wanted to defeat, it was basically impossible.

After arranging a qiē, Dong Shouye led a large group of people to slowly touch Heyangjin.

At this time, Han Hao saw that the Xiliang army on the other side had been trying to cross the river with great fanfare during the day, but he had never really boarded the boat, so when it was dark, after setting up a sentry to continue to monitor the other side of the river, he commanded the team to rest.

Dong Shouye led his men and horses to touch the enemy's garrison with his feet, and then launched the fiercest offensive. First of all, let Zhang Liao take a pair of warriors to get close to the enemy's camp, quickly clear the sentry around the camp, and then unknowingly approach the gate of the fortress and directly launch a strong attack. It was already late at night, and there were not many people defending near the gate at all, so Zhang Liao easily captured the gate of Wang Kuangjun's camp. Now that the gate has been opened, the Xiliang army unceremoniously rushed into the camp like a tiger from the mountain.

The men and horses led by Han Hao were still sleeping in the camp, and they were all in the clouds, and they didn't understand what the situation was at all.

Under Dong Shouye's lightning attack, he immediately couldn't bear it.

I saw that the men and horses of the Xiliang Army were in full swing at the moment, setting fires everywhere, and killing people when they saw them, Han Hao's men and horses were in chaos for a while, and they couldn't organize an effective counterattack at all.

For a time, Wang Kuang's nearly 20,000 horses were beaten with their heads in their heads. At this time, Han Hao fought and retreated under the cover of his own soldiers, retreating eastward, hoping to get closer to the friendly army, and actively tried to organize a counterattack, and sent his henchmen to the direction of Han Fu's army to ask for help.