Chapter 356 Fighting on both sides of the Yellow River
In order to attract the main force of the Zhenbei Army, they gathered in the central part of Xihe County. Leaving the area from Tongtian Mountain to Xiliuzhuang in the south, Lu Zhi ordered Huya general Zhang Fei and deputy general Deng Zhi to lead 20,000 foot soldiers to the vicinity of the Yellow River in the western section of Lin County, where they cut down trees to make pontoon bridges to create the illusion of preparing to cross the Yellow River eastward.
The so-called illusion is naturally used to confuse the opponent, but what should the opponent do if he discovers that this is an illusion but is not fooled? Then the fake drama is really done, and the direction of the feint attack is changed to the direction of the main attack! Lu Zhi asked Zhang Fei to go out of the Yellow River section west of Lin County, and this was the idea.
Regardless of whether Zhang Fei really crossed the river or made a fake feint, Zhao Xing couldn't sit idly by. In order to ensure the smooth flow between Shangjun Fushi and Xihe Lishi, Zhao Xing prepared to make a move with the fierce man Zhang Fei. Counting the current generals around him, the first-class force is basically guarding one side, such as Zhao Yun, Tai Shici, Xu Huang, Zhang Liao and others, Lu Bu and Guan Yu are in the north of Shangjun, Dian Wei is by Xu Shu's side, except for Li Jinwu, the only person in the base camp who can fight Zhang Fei alone is Zhao Xing himself.
Although Zhang Fei's prestige in history is very remarkable, but Zhao Xing since he worshipped Guan Yu, Zhao Yun and others, he often learned and exchanged martial arts. Zhao Xing knew that it would be difficult for him to take Zhang Fei within thirty or fifty moves, but it was also difficult for Zhang Fei to defeat him in a head-to-head head-to-head situation. If you add Zhao Xing's endless small means, even Lu Bu had planted a heel in his hands back then, so this time, Zhao Xing is still very confident and sure.
A few days after Zhang Fei camped west of Lin County, Zhao Xing took the Xiongwu Army and the Dingyuan Army to the area of Lin County and confronted Zhang Fei across the Yellow River. After Lu Zhi got the news, he immediately ordered Sun Jian to rush forward with his 20,000 Wu troops to support Zhang Fei, while the rest of the troops remained still.
If Zhao Xing led his army to cross the Yellow River by force, Zhang Fei could lead his troops to attack halfway across the west bank of the Yellow River, which was naturally not the result Zhao Xing wanted. In the same way, if Zhang Fei had crossed the Yellow River eastward, he would have encountered the same situation. Today's Yellow River is the Chu River and Han border on the chessboard, which cannot be easily crossed. Although Guan Yu and Lu Bu, the two "kidnapping horses", are already on the other side of the Han border of the Chu River, Lu Zhi, the old handsome man of Shixiangquan, has no choice at all.
When Sun Jian also rushed to the edge of the Yellow River with 20,000 Wu troops, Zhao Xing couldn't help frowning, thinking hard about how to break the situation. In this situation, the cavalry of Lü Guan and Zhao Xing's foot soldiers formed a certain clamp on the 40,000 horses and horses that Zhang Fei and Sun Jian went out, but Zhang Fei and Sun Jian's soldiers and horses and Lu Zhi's army not far behind them formed a clamp on Guan and Lü. Lu Zhi had a large number of men, so he was naturally not afraid of a head-to-head duel with Zhao Xing, but Zhao Xing was unwilling to raise the battle to the highest level so early.
Zhao Xing thought about it, and the heavy task of breaking the situation could only be handed over to the 10,000 Xiong Zhen army led by Xu Shu. Originally, I wanted to count on the 20,000 dragoons led by Zhang Liao to revitalize the whole situation, but the sudden change of Xianbei in Western Liaoning and Zhang Yan in Montenegro completely disrupted Zhao Xing's deployment, and now he had to temporarily appoint Zhang Liao as the commander-in-chief of the Northeast Division of the Zhenbei Army again, responsible for the defensive operations of Yanmen County, Dingxiang County and Taiyuan County.
Although the army could not cross the river to fight, Zhao Xing still planned to do something to boost the morale of the Xiongwu Army and the Dingyuan Army. Zhao Xing thought about it, but it was still feasible to fight the generals, so he sent his messengers to cross the Yellow River in a small wooden boat and go to Zhang Fei's camp to write a war letter. Zhao Xing clearly stated in the letter that the armies of the two sides took the Yellow River as the boundary, each retreated ten miles, and sent a general to each other to cross the river to the other side's side to challenge, regardless of whether they won or lost, they must not use any conspiracy, otherwise heaven and man will abandon each other.
After Zhang Fei received Zhao Xing's battle report, he did not make a decision immediately, but discussed with Sun Jian, the leader of the friendly army, and the two felt that Zhao Xing did not dare to play too many tricks in front of tens of thousands of soldiers on both sides, and besides, the two sides were fighting at the same time, and one person each went to the river bank controlled by the other party, so they decided to fight. After an agreement between the two sides, the Zhao coalition army determined that Zhang Fei and Sun Ce would go to battle against Zhao Xing and Li Jinwu of the Zhenbei Army respectively.
After the time was set, the generals of both sides involved in the fight began to prepare, and the wooden boats responsible for transporting the generals to and from were also controlled by soldiers from both sides.
Three days later, Li Jinwu crossed the Yellow River by boat to the west, preparing to face Sun Jian's eldest son, Sun Ce, on the bank of the river. At the moment when Li Jinwu boarded the ship on the east bank, Zhang Fei also boarded the boat on the west bank, preparing to come to fight with Zhao Xing. Because it involved fighting on horseback, the two sides deliberately found two rather large wooden boats, and then transported their horses to the other party's position.
In order to show fairness, Zhao Xing's horse accompanied Li Jinwu to the west bank, and then let people transport it back to the east bank. Similarly, Sun Ce's horses arrived on the east coast with Zhang Fei and then had them transported back to the west coast. In this way, the war horses of the four people on both sides have all experienced the baptism of the Yellow River, even if the state declines, it is basically not much worse.
After the two sides took their positions, the two sides of the strait lit fires at the same time and announced that the struggle would officially begin.
Zhao Xing looked at Zhang Fei, who had a relationship with each other in the distance, and had mixed feelings in his heart, and he didn't know what to say for a while. However, Zhang Fei looked very relaxed, and he didn't feel any discomfort, he hugged his fists and saluted Zhao Xing, and said: "In the past, I said goodbye to the outside of the city, but I don't want to meet the general again on the battlefield today." Everyone said that General Zhenbei was very brave, and today Zhang came to ask for advice!"
After Zhang Fei finished speaking, he urged the horse to gallop, carrying a snake spear about eight zhang long and black all over his body, and rushed towards Zhao Xing with extraordinary momentum. Not to be outdone, Zhao Xing urged the Chitu BMW under his crotch, carried a domineering spear, and went away to Zhang Fei.
At the same time that Zhao Xing and Zhang Fei were fighting, Li Jinwu and Sun Ce on the west bank of the Yellow River were also polite, beating their horses and whips, ready to fight.
Because the two pairs of generals in the competition, the strength is relatively close, in the case of full concentration and all-out, it is difficult to have a few moves before someone is hit by the situation of falling off the horse, so you go back and forth to play very exciting and intense, it is really a chess opponent, will meet a good talent, so that the soldiers watching the battle from a distance are addicted.
I saw Zhang Fei's snake spear as fast as lightning, slashing sharply, and wielding a black afterimage, which made people dazzled; Zhao Xing's overlord spear was like a swimming dragon, and it was so powerful that it could always shine in the shadow of Zhang Fei's spear.
Zhang Fei's snake spear is lighter than Guan Yu's broadsword, but it is a few points heavier than Zhao Xing's spear, and it will use more stabbing action when fighting, that is, it has the fierceness of the slashing action, and it takes the path of piercing, which is very difficult to defend. Zhao Xing was almost swept by Zhang Fei's snake spine spear several times.
In order to recover the declining situation, Zhao Xing also used his ability to watch the house, and applied all the essence of the overlord gun to the marksmanship, and gradually stabilized his position between lifting, captling, blocking, taking, winding, turning, ringing, and ringing, and then with the help of the red rabbit horse's vigorous and tall advantage, he gradually forced Zhang Fei's momentum back.
After more than 100 rounds of fighting, Zhang Fei's crotch was also a good war horse, which was suddenly kicked in the chest by the front hooves of the red rabbit horse, and he screamed sadly, and he was very unwilling to lie on the ground, and it seemed that he was not lightly beaten, so Zhao Xing and Zhang Fei fought a draw, and the two sides boycotted, just waiting for Li Jinwu on the other side of the river to fight against Sun Ce.