Chapter 39 Zhang He risked death to deliver a letter and rushed out of the Wei military camp overnight
Li Yong and the others have been in the car for almost all the past few days, and everyone is waiting for the sea to change their minds, hoping to receive his call and everyone can travel back together. In this way, they have been waiting in the car for four days, and everyone is very anxious and anxious.
After dinner on the fourth day, Wei Ying looked calm, but Li Yong and the others always kept a vigilant eye and observed outside the car.
Just as everyone was looking outside, they suddenly saw a few people walking quickly towards the vehicle from a distance, and the atmosphere suddenly became tense, and Li Yong shouted: "There is a situation!" So everyone immediately cheered up and entered a state of combat readiness.
The people were getting closer and closer, and Li Yong and the others saw that it was Zhang He who led a few people to run over. After arriving here, several of them quickly spread out around the vehicle and nervously observed the surroundings, as if they were "winding"; And Zhang He personally came to their car and knocked on the car body a few times.
Li Yong hurriedly opened the firing hole of the vehicle and asked him what was the matter? Zhang He looked around and whispered to him: "Brother, hurry up!" Cao Pi has sent a secret message to get rid of you, and I will risk my death to inform you as soon as I get the news, and now they are digging trenches and piling up earth and rocks at the back of the camp to block your retreat. ”
Li Yong immediately hugged his fists and said to Zhang He outside the car: "Thank you for the kindness of the eldest brother, the younger brother will say goodbye and reunite in the next life!" After finishing speaking, he immediately increased the electric door and drove the car to the back of Wei Ying, and at the same time asked the three of them in the car to gather all their ammunition and prepare for battle.
Cao Ren never dreamed that this future man would flee so quickly, when he first set out on the expedition, the king of Wei gave him a secret decree, once he achieved the victory over Xishu, he designed to control all these future people, and then seize their vehicles and weapons.
The previous battle had been going smoothly, but it was not expected that the attack in the ditch would be frustrated, and the many attacks launched for two consecutive days did not progress, and the ammunition brought by the future people was not much left, and it seemed that they would not be of much use when attacking Shu in the future.
So he thought about whether to take action against them immediately, just when he was indecisive, rumors circulated in the military camp that the king of Wei was going to eradicate the future people, maybe it was a coincidence, but he didn't expect to alarm the future people, and they were also on guard.
When he received Cao Pi's secret letter asking to get rid of them, it was also unexpected, when the prime minister came, he told him that he wanted to control the future people and not kill them, so Cao Ren was also a little hesitant, not knowing what to do, and finally he felt that since Cao Pi wanted to kill the future people, then he would do it according to Cao Pi's intentions, and he would take over Cao Cao's class in the future.
He thought about who to handle this matter for a long time, although Zhang He was extremely brave, he fought side by side with the future people and the future people were not very defensive against him, it should be convenient to let Zhang He kill them, but considering that they had been together for a long time, maybe there was a life and death friendship between them, so he vetoed the idea of letting Zhang He kill the future people.
Xu Chu is also a person who attaches great importance to friendship, and he also has a lot of feelings for future people, so he can't let him implement it. After thinking about it, he felt that he should let his own brother Cao Hong do this, after all, it was his own brother. So he secretly brought Cao Hong to discuss the plan to get rid of the future people, although Cao Hong also had ideas about killing the future people, but it was difficult to violate the order, so he could only carry out the military order.
But at this time, the future people were already alert, and Cao Ren was no longer good at using the method of Hongmen Banquet to get rid of them, so he could only let Cao Hong send people to secretly dig a trench behind the camp to prevent the future people from escaping, and then prepare to find an opportunity to get rid of them.
In addition, in order to prevent the failure of the operation, Cao Ren asked Cao Hong to send his deputy general Deng Wei to lead 1,000 men and horses, and immediately rush to the place where they came to find a narrow intersection to block the escape route of future people. Although they acted quietly, they didn't expect the movement to be too big and leaked the news to let Zhang He know, so he risked his life to send a letter to Li Yong and them.
After seeing the future people fleeing, Cao Hong immediately led two thousand soldiers and horses to chase after him, and again sent fast horses to take a shortcut to inform Deng Chao who had set out earlier, asking them to immediately block the future people with a large amount of earth and rocks in the narrow place of the mountain road, and told them that he would immediately send people over to reinforce them; Now that the people of the future are running out of ammunition, they will not do much damage, as long as they are blocked, they will be victorious and rewarded.
Li Yong, who rushed out of the Wei army camp, ran all the way to their vehicles, but because several of the wheels were shot and burned by arrows in several battles, they had been seriously deformed, and they creaked and jumped up and down, and the most worrying thing was that due to the excessive electricity consumption before, the nuclear fuel that provided electricity on the car had been consumed too much, although there was still nearly a month before the design life, but now the power supply has been much worse than before, so the driving speed has also dropped a lot.
Wang Yan said: "Now that Cao Ren wants to get rid of us, there must have been arrangements in advance, the road we passed through when we came was very narrow and steep, in case they blocked the road in front, how could we escape?" We also have problems with our wheels, and the power of the vehicles is a little unable to keep up, even if there is no Wei army chasing after us, we may not be able to go where we came. ”
Li Yong said while driving: "We can't drive back and forth to the place when we go, we must get rid of the pursuit of the Wei army, Wei Hong, you quickly check how far the Yangtze River is from us, we can only go down the Yangtze River now, although the Three Gorges water is high and the waves are high, but our vehicles can still adapt, as long as they are properly controlled, they can completely reach the place where they came." ”
Everyone thinks that this is the only way to go, because there is no need for any power supply to go downstream, and when the time comes, a strong current is needed to cross and return, so the saved power can just be supported.
Due to the slow speed of the vehicle, the pursuers behind slowly caught up, and several meritorious Wei soldiers had already overtaken their vehicles and ran far in front of them to try to find stones to intercept them, and were killed on the spot by Chen Tao with a gun from the roof of the car, and Chen Tao also deliberately injured a person, the purpose was to let him tell his companions that he knew that there were still bullets in the future.
Li Yong turned on the loudspeaker on the car and shouted to the people behind: "Brother Wei Jun! We are here to help the King of Wei unify the world and have captured many cities in Wu and Shu, but Cao Cao is ungrateful, not only not grateful but will take revenge on us, and now we have decided to return to my dynasty, Wang'er and others do not embarrass me, otherwise those who stand in my way will die. ”
Cao Hong and the Wei army who were chasing after him were actually reluctant to chase and kill the future people from the bottom of their hearts, and when they saw that the people who rushed in front and tried to stop them were all killed by the future people, they felt that they should not go against the future people, so they slowed down their pace, but they still shouted the slogan of killing the future people, and the vehicles that were far away from Li Yong and them were getting farther and farther away.
Now that the weather was completely dark, Wei Hong turned on the roof light and carefully checked the map, and found that there was a road to the southeast leading to Yangqu (now Wanzhou City, Chongqing), from where it could go down to the Yangtze River, and the distance was not too far, so Li Yong immediately turned the head of the car and drove in the direction of Yangqu overnight.
Although the road was narrow and winding, fortunately there were no pedestrians on the road, they took turns and drove cautiously, and finally reached Yangqu at dawn and smoothly entered the Yangtze River and drove downstream.
At present, the water level of the Yangtze River is still very high, and the flow speed of the river is also very fast, and the "Crossing Ship" is like a small leaf floating downstream on the river surface.
Because the water level difference in this section of the river is very large, the flow speed of the river is very fast, so the speed of the "crossing" down the river is also very fast, but the swing amplitude of the vehicle is also very large, although the people sitting in the car are tied to the seat belts, but they are still dizzy by the violently swaying car, everyone is very dizzy, some people also vomited, and the small car was suddenly filled with a bad smell.
Li Yong tightly grasped the direction of the vehicle, for fear of hitting the reef and other driving accidents, but fortunately, the vehicle was very water-suitable and there was no major danger.
Due to the severe dizziness and the unpleasant smell in the car, everyone had no appetite to eat. Li Yong immediately asked everyone to eat something, and he asked Wang Yan to take out the best food stored in the car and some melons and fruits for everyone to eat, and told them that only by eating can they have the strength to fight.
Fortunately, they were all born as special forces, and they also underwent various special trainings, and although they had no appetite, they also forcibly swallowed some food to ensure their strong physical strength.
In this way, their vehicle floated through Yunyang and came to the White Emperor City in Fengjie, and was about to enter the Three Gorges, the most dangerous part of the Yangtze River, when the flow speed of the river increased significantly, and the river was full of reefs and whirlpools, and it had reached a very critical juncture.
Li Yong looked at his watch, it is now two o'clock in the afternoon, the length of the Three Gorges is nearly 200 kilometers, and it is necessary to drive through this extremely dangerous section of the river before dark, otherwise the poor vision after dark may cause the tragedy of hitting the reef and causing the car to be destroyed and killed, so he said to everyone: "Now that we are going to enter the Three Gorges, everyone cheers up and is always ready to deal with emergencies." ”
After hearing Li Yong's order, the other three people in the car put on life jackets and tied the necessary equipment tightly to their bodies with ropes to deal with emergencies.
They take turns cautiously driving the vehicle on the river, while the others keep an eye on the front of the vehicle to see if there is any danger and inform the driver in time. In this way, they went all the way down the river, and although they also encountered many dangers, they finally crossed the dangerous Three Gorges and entered the relatively gentle river when it was dark.
At ten o'clock in the evening, the sky was completely dark, this section of the river was relatively wide, but there was a small island in the middle that divided the Yangtze River into two to form a large "human" shape, just as they were about to drive the vehicle off the river to the island to rest, suddenly felt that the vehicle was entangled in something in the water and could not move.
Li Yong and the others at first thought that they were blocked by some tree branch or something, and they tried to reverse the car, but it seemed that something under the car hit them, and then from under the water there was a sound that seemed to be someone moving the right tire of their vehicle.
Li Yong shouted: "Not good! Someone is in the water to tie our wheels! After finishing speaking, Wei Hong, who was about to drive immediately, quickly accelerated and retreated.
Wei Hong immediately increased the electric door and quickly reversed and turned the front of the car to rush towards the island in the river, Li Yong immediately opened the top cover and wanted to poke his head out to check the situation, but as soon as he stretched out his head, a sharp arrow hit his helmet, "Dang! The sound frightened him so much that he quickly retracted his head.
Li Yong then shouted: "There are ambushes on the island, Wei Hong hurriedly rushed to the island, and crossed from the island to the river downstream. With the help of the strong headlights, they saw a large group of people on the island, all of them standing up from their places with weapons in their hands, and they were looking here, and the man at the head was shouting loudly.
The magic car driven by Wang Weihong rushed onto the island at once, and rushed towards those people, so frightened that those people hurriedly dodged, and some people who couldn't dodge were crushed under the wheels by the car and let out a heart-rending cry; Some people hurriedly jumped into the river and were instantly washed away by the river without a trace.
Wei Hong drove on the island and ran over it for a while, then jumped back into the Yangtze River from the downstream of the small island in the river, and then drove downstream, once again getting rid of the ambush set by the Wei army.
It turned out that this ambush plan was planned by Cao Cao's military advisor Cheng Yu. Because after Xun Yu's death, only this Cheng Yu had the most ideas among all Cao Cao's military advisors, and he also planned the first few plans against future people, so he also won Cao Cao's respect.
This time, Cao Cao's plan to control the future people is actually the idea he gave, he wants to capture the future people, and then let them help them make the weapons of the future people and teach the future people technology to serve them, this is the result he wants, but Cao Pi must kill the future people's idea that he has no way.
He also thought that Cao Ren might not be able to kill the future people in Sichuan, so he still had a chance. After carefully analyzing the situation, he believed that the vehicles of the future people could swim in the water, and if the future people escaped Cao Ren's pursuit, they would probably have to flee from the Yangtze River to the place where they crossed, so he immediately reported his idea to Cao Cao, and received Cao Cao's support.
Later, he thought of setting up a blocking rope on the Yangtze River to stop the future people's vehicles first, and then send some people with good water skills to sneak into the water and tie the wheels of the future people with ropes and pull the ropes in the opposite direction, so that the future people's vehicles can be pulled to the bottom in the water, so that they can be controlled.
After the plan was made, Cheng Yu personally led a thousand troops and horses from Xudu to Jiangxia County by the Yangtze River overnight, and asked Lü Meng, who had surrendered, to arrange a sailor to prepare to intercept the future people. However, he felt that the vehicles of the future people were very powerful, and it was difficult for the current wooden ships to deal with them, but in case they failed to intercept the future people with blocking ropes upstream, they could only use these sailors, which was also a last resort.
He summoned a meeting of Lü Meng and the leader of the sailors found by Lü Meng to study countermeasures, and then asked them to strengthen the defense of the section of the river above Chibi to prevent future people from coming ashore from here.
Now he mainly implements the tactic of using ropes to block future people in the upper reaches of Chibi. Considering that the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River were too wide and it was difficult to block them with ropes, he decided that it would be safer to set up an ambush at a certain place in the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River.
This section of the river is not wide in the first place, but is divided into two rivers by a small island in the middle, each of which is only a few tens of meters wide, which is very suitable for blocking with ropes. After that, Captain Shi spent a lot of money to find a few local people with good water quality, and then laid a thick wooden stake on both sides of the Yangtze River and the north and south ends of the island, and pulled it with a special rope in the middle, no matter the vehicles or boats passing in the river on the left and right sides of the island will be stopped by the rope, and when they need to be released, they will untie the rope on the stake at the end of the island and sink the rope to the bottom of the water to release, so they have practiced many times.
The hard work paid off, and after waiting for several days in a row, they finally waited for the news of Li Yong's crossing. It turned out that after Cao Ren's action against the future people failed, Cheng Yu's people who stayed by Cao Ren's side had already sent a letter to Captain Shi and Cheng Yu overnight, so Captain Shi personally led people to this small island in the river to supervise the battle.
When he saw that the vehicle of the future people was stopped by a rope in the river on the south side of the island, he immediately asked those people with good water skills to dive into the water from the island with ropes to tie the tires on the right side of the "crossing", but what he didn't expect was that their actions were too big and were discovered by the future people, which finally led to the failure of the operation, and he was almost crushed to death by the future people with a vehicle.
This is exactly what happened: Zhang He risked his life to deliver the letter, and Li Yong resolutely rushed out of the camp
Cheng Yu designed to block it again, but the plan finally fell through