Chapter 76 The Yellow River Suspension Bridge
There were craggy rocks everywhere, and Liu Wei and Dian Wei hid behind the rocks and looked towards the Yellow River not far away.
On the bank of the Yellow River, there are several soldiers holding short contradictory cards. The soldiers had their backs to the Yellow River, cruising on the north bank with their eyes on it, and occasionally someone would glance twice at the place where Liu Wei and Dian Wei were hiding.
The clothes and armor they wore were different from what Liu Wei had seen before, and even different from the Jizhou rout soldiers he had encountered in the middle of the road the night before.
Behind the soldiers, there was the roaring Yellow River. The rushing river is like an army of thousands of horses, surging through the river pond. The huge waves set off one by one are like yellow-scaled dragons with teeth and claws, thunder and lightning, roaring and dancing!
This section of the Yellow River, the riverbed is relatively narrow, and compared with the section of the riverbed where Liu Wei and others were at the upstream crossing, the waves here are turbulent and the momentum is even more majestic.
The monstrous waves crashed against the riverbed, making a loud "boom" sound, masking the subtle sound of Liu Wei and Dian Wei as they moved their bodies.
"Your Highness, do you want to go over?" After hiding in a pile of rocks for a long time, Dian Wei lowered his voice and asked Liu on the side.
"Let's go!" Liu Wei frowned slightly, summed it up, looked around again, and saw that there was no one else except for those soldiers, so he explained to Dian Wei, took the lead in leaving the chaotic rocks where he was hiding, and walked towards the river bank.
As soon as Liu Wei and Dian Wei appeared, several soldiers guarding the river bank immediately spotted them and hurriedly pointed their weapons at them, and one of them shouted at them: "Who is it? ”
"Who are you waiting for?" While walking towards the river, Liu Wei asked the soldiers rhetorically.
has not yet figured out the identity of the other party, Liu Wei naturally will not report his name and surname. Walking to a place only seven or eight paces away from the soldiers, he and Dian Wei stopped,
"Who's coming?" The soldier who questioned Liu Wei not only did not answer his question, but shouted loudly: "If you don't tell the reason, you will definitely take it down and escort it to the general's tent!" ”
"Presumptuous!" As soon as the soldier finished speaking, Dian Wei stepped forward with a roar of rage, raised his fist and slammed it into his face.
"Hugh their lives!" As soon as Dian Wei strode out, Liu Wei hurriedly commanded.
Liu Wei thought about it a lot, he thought that it was not clear who these soldiers were under at the moment, if they were rashly killed, after crossing the Yellow River, it would be difficult to talk to the princes.
Dian Wei didn't plan to kill these soldiers, otherwise he wouldn't have abandoned the halberd and chose to use his fists.
A punch slammed into the soldier's face, and as the soldier ducked sideways, Dian Wei withdrew his fist and kicked him in the chest.
With a muffled sound and a terrible howl from the soldiers, the soldiers who were struck by Dian Wei flew out like a kite with a broken string.
Kicking the soldier away, Dian Wei reached out and pulled out the two halberds inserted in his waist, and rushed towards the soldiers who were about to come forward to help.
Pity these soldiers, where will it be the opponent of Dian Wei who can kill the tiger in three or two strokes! As soon as they fought, they didn't use a few hands, and they were all knocked to the ground by Dian Wei.
Picking up the halberd and smashing the shield in the hand of the last soldier who was still standing, Dian Wei kicked the soldier to the ground, and then thrust the halberd into his waist, and with two empty hands, the soldiers who were knocked over by him were picked up one by one and thrown on the ground in a pile.
Dian Wei overturned the soldiers, Liu Wei raised his feet and walked towards them, walked to the soldiers who were humming and chirping in pain, and asked the soldier who had spoken to him before, "Who are you soldiers?" ”
The soldier was kicked in the lower abdomen, his painful intestines cramped for a while, and he was lying on the ground twisting his body and moaning in pain, hearing Liu Wei's words, he raised his face full of cold sweat, glanced at Liu Wei, but did not say anything.
"Speak quickly!" Seeing that the soldier fell to the ground, still with a stubborn face, Dian Wei twisted his brows, stepped on his chest, and roared viciously.
After seeing Dian Wei's toughness, the soldiers were afraid of him in their hearts. The chest was stepped on by Dian Wei, and the soldier glanced at Dian Wei, trembling with gray lips, and said to Liu Wei: "I'm waiting...... It's Hanoi's Taishou Wang Kuang's subordinates! ”
Hearing that they were Wang Kuang's subordinates, Liu Wei waved his hand at Dian Wei, put on a kind smile, and said to them: "I said that it was Wang Kuang's subordinates, and this king will not embarrass you." If you see Wang Kuang, tell him that Liu Wei, the king of Hongnong, has come! ”
Liu Wei reported his identity, and several soldiers who fell to the ground were suddenly shocked, and they couldn't care about the pain of being beaten by Dian Wei, so they turned over and knelt at his feet, and the soldiers who answered Liu Wei's question were trampled on the chest by Dian Wei, and wanted to turn over, but they couldn't move, so they could only tremble and say: "The villain doesn't know if His Majesty is here, and it is a capital crime to collide with Long Yan!" ”
"That's it!" Liu Wei waved his hand at the soldiers and asked the soldiers who replied, "The river is turbulent here, where can I cross the river?" ”
Dian Wei raised his foot that was stepping on the soldier's chest, and as soon as his foot was raised, the soldier turned over, knelt on the ground and said to Liu Wei: "Go back to Your Majesty, since then there is a rope bridge two miles to the west. Yesterday, General Yuan's subordinate went to the Tiger Prison Pass to challenge, and was defeated by the thief army guarding the pass, and many of the routed soldiers fled from the rope bridge to the north bank of the Yellow River......
"Hmm!" Liu Wei nodded and said to the soldier: "You wait to cross the river immediately, tell Wang Kuang and Yuan Shao, and say that Liu Bian, the king of Hongnong, is here!" Let them come to the North Shore to meet them! ”
"Go back to Your Majesty!" The soldier who replied knelt on the ground, probably still in pain, his body was trembling slightly, and his speech was somewhat trembling: "General Yuan and Taishou have gone to Suozao yesterday to unite the armies stationed in Suozao, and want to storm the Tiger Pass!" ”
"Yuan Shao is not here?" Liu Wei frowned and muttered, and then his eyes suddenly lit up, and he pointed to the soldiers and said: "You and others send two people to go north from here, and there is a team of more than 100 people three miles away, and that is the king's personal entourage!" Bring them here, and lead the king across the river! ”
"No!" The soldiers who were kneeling on the ground answered, and two of them got up with the pain all over their bodies, and ran quickly towards the north in the direction pointed by Liu Wei.
After the two soldiers left, Liu Wei frowned slightly, walked to the bank of the Yellow River, put his hands behind his back, and looked at the other side of the Yellow River.
The rolling Yellow River set off huge gray and yellow waves, and the waves hit the riverbed, emitting bursts of earth-shattering roars.
Dian Wei stood behind Liu Wei, and his eyes did not leave for a moment the soldiers who had just gotten up and stood timidly not far away.
In addition to the men brought by Liu Wei, Dian Wei maintained a high degree of vigilance against everyone he met on the road!
"Your Highness!" With his hands behind his back, he stood on the bank of the Yellow River with a stick of incense, and Liu Wei heard Zhou Cang's voice behind him.
He turned around and saw Zhou Cangzheng leading more than a hundred men towards him. Immediately behind Zhou Cang were two men who were escorted to report the soldiers.
The two soldiers were cut behind their hands, their upper bodies were tightly tied with hemp ropes, and under the escort of the two men, they followed behind Zhou Cang and walked towards Liu Wei.
"I told them to report it." Glancing at the two soldiers who were tied with hemp rope, Liu Wei said to Zhou Cang: "Let them go, let them lead the way, and I'll cross the river immediately!" ”
"No!" Zhou Cang replied and waved his hand at the two men holding the soldiers.
"Thank you, thank you, thank you!" As soon as the rope was untied, the two soldiers hurriedly knelt on the ground, kowtowing to Liu Wei while thanking him without a word.
"Take this king across the river!" Raising his hand to the two soldiers who were kneeling on the ground and kowtowing, Liu Wei gave an order to the soldiers on the shore.
Several soldiers hurriedly answered, lined up and stood aside, waiting for Liu Wei to lead the team to leave first.
Glancing at the soldiers, Liu Wei raised his feet and walked along the river bank to the west, while Zhou Cang and Dian Wei led more than a hundred men to follow closely behind him.
When Liu Wei walked by, several soldiers hurriedly followed, not daring to go too far ahead, nor daring to fall too far behind.
On the banks of the Yellow River, there are craggy rocks everywhere, because of the rapid flow of the river, the stones here are not as smooth as the pebbles on the side of the stream or small river, most of the stones have sharp edges and corners, and walking on them, the feet of the people hurt for a while.
The waves crashed against the rocky shore, causing splashes. The cold splash mixed with the mud and sand splashed on everyone's bodies, leaving small yellow-black mud spots on Liu Wei and the others.
After walking along the river bank for two or three miles, a suspension bridge appeared on the river in front of me.
The two sides of the suspension bridge, divided into three layers, are tied with ropes woven in hemp, which can be regarded as the guardrails of the suspension bridge. From a distance, the bridge deck should be paved with long wooden planks.
A long suspension bridge stretches across the riverbed to the opposite bank. This section of the riverbed is not very wide, but the waves are very rough, and the suspension bridge over the riverbed is washed by the huge waves thrown high, swaying back and forth, giving people the feeling that it will collapse in the next moment.
Seeing that the drawbridge was getting closer and closer, Liu Wei stopped, raised an arm, and stopped the advance of the team.
"Spread out!" As soon as the team stopped, Liu Wei whispered an order to the people who followed behind him.
More than 100 men who followed down from Woniu Mountain quickly dispersed and hid with the help of the rocks on the bank of the river.
The soldiers who led the way for Liu Wei and the others were stunned, not knowing whether to hide or stand still.
It was their companions who guarded the drawbridge, and Liu Wei's identity as King Hongnong came from his own mouth after all, and these soldiers did not see the real evidence.
In case Liu Wei was not King Hongnong, but a fine work sent by Lu Bu, their cooperation would most likely bring disastrous consequences to the companions guarding the drawbridge!