Chapter 222: Fire on the Water Surrounded by Clusters
There was a high ground on the upper reaches of the Han River, more than ten miles away from Cao Ren's army, and at this time a young general was standing on this high ground.
This young general is Guan Xing, the second son of Guan Yu.
Guan Xing held a command flag in his hand, and his focused gaze was constantly staring at the direction of the downstream.
Because of the anxiety of waiting, Guan Xing took out a piece of herb from his arms and chewed it in his mouth.
As soon as the herbs entered his mouth, the bitter taste instantly filled Guan Xing's mouth.
But it was this bitter taste that stabilized Guan Xing's mood.
Guan Xing has been frail and sickly since he was a child, so he has developed the habit of carrying herbs with him.
In the world, many herbs could be taken directly by mouth.
It is precisely because Guan Xing is weak and sick, so when assigning tasks to the generals, Mi Yang took special care of Guan Xing and asked him to take charge of a very important task that did not need to be killed.
As long as Guan Xing completes this task well, his contribution in this battle will not be less.
Guan Xing knew Mi Yang's care for him, so he couldn't live up to Mi Yang's expectations.
On this high ground, there is also a simple camp tent, which can accommodate thousands of soldiers.
Guan Xing chewed the medicinal herbs in his mouth while standing on the high ground and looking into the distance.
Finally, in Guan Xing's ardent anticipation, a boat is speeding towards here.
When he saw the place appear, Guan Xing's face was full of joy.
Soon after, the extremely fast boat traveled and came to the Hanshui where Guan Xing was.
After the boat stopped steadily, Guan Xing hurriedly got down from the high ground and walked towards the boat.
When Guan Xing walked to the vicinity of the boat, a messenger who came down from the boat had also come to Guan Xing.
The messenger bowed to Guan Xing, and then said to Guan Xing, "The general's words can be attacked!"
The messenger's words were brief, and it was self-evident who he was referring to as a general.
But these short six words fell on Guan Xing's ears, but Guan Xing's face appeared with great joy.
He had been waiting for these six words for a long time.
After receiving Mi Yang's order, Guan Xing no longer hesitated, he immediately ran to the high ground, and then waved the order flag in his hand.
Under the scorching sun, Guan Xing's actions were easily detected by the thousands of Han troops under the heights.
After thousands of Han troops saw Guan Xing's order flag waving, under the empty high ground, a surprising scene soon appeared.
Under the command of their respective generals, thousands of Han soldiers and soldiers were pushing many large rafts into the Han River.
Those large rafts, mostly made of reed bundles.
Because reeds can be found everywhere and because of their flammability, they are an excellent fire source in the minds of the people.
Pushed by thousands of Han troops, countless rafts were soon pushed into the Han River.
However, because one end of the raft is fixed to the shore by a rope, the white reed raft in the past is like a raging white wave, constantly floating up and down on the wide Han water.
Seeing that the Han army under the high ground had already pushed all the reed rafts into the Han water.
Guan Xing did not hesitate any longer, and under his order, the Han soldiers took off their torches one after another, and then lit the reed raft.
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The flames burned rapidly on the reed raft.
When hundreds of the first reed rafts were set on fire, Guan Xing ordered the Han soldiers to cut the ropes that held the reed rafts together.
Under the crackling and breaking of the blades, the reed rafts, which had long been unstoppable, carried the flames and galloped downstream.
Guan Xing stood on the high ground and felt a huge heat wave coming towards him.
In Guan Xing's gaze, the space on the Han River in front of him seemed to be a little distorted because of the flames.
Then the white heat wave, like countless wild horses that have escaped from the reins, headed towards the enemy troops downstream.
This spectacular scene fell in Guan Xing
In his eyes, a flush appeared on his face.
Today's credit for his work can no longer be the same as last year, but he is only responsible for cleaning up the battlefield!
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Shuizhai, also known as "Shuizhai", does not refer to the military camp on the water, but refers to the fence and barracks used for defense by the water's edge or on the water.
Because of the miracle of nature's creation, rivers experience different landscapes as they flow through different places.
Some landscapes are ideal for building water walls to prevent enemy sailors from entering their waters.
For example, in order to block the water army in Jiangdong, Huang Zu set up water villages everywhere in Jiangxia to serve the enemy.
Those water villages have brought great trouble to the Jiangdong Water Army.
Even the Jiangdong naval army, which is good at water warfare, is sometimes helpless against the water village, not to mention the army commanded by Cao Ren, most of which are impassable northern soldiers.
So when the army behind him all entered the water village, Cao Ren's heart breathed a heavy sigh of relief.
Cao Ren ordered a part of the soldiers to stay at the first water village and guard the back road of the army.
Then he led the remaining tens of thousands of troops with confidence and continued to follow Meng Da towards the next water village.
At the beginning, Shen Yi knew that he could not resist Cao Ren's army with few soldiers, so he spent a lot of manpower and material resources to build a number of water villages for a long time, which were separated on the Hanshui main road outside the west city.
On both sides of each water village, there are many camps, and in the harbor of the water village, there are many empty ships docked.
In the past, these tents were inhabited by soldiers stationed in the water village.
When Cao Ren continued to lead the army and continue to go deeper, he was standing on a high-rise ship, and found that the Mi military camp tents on both sides of the strait were very quiet at this time, and most of the people who thought to come inside were transferred away by Meng Da.
Led by Meng Da's hundreds of warships, Cao Ren's army had already jumped over several water villages and was speeding towards Xicheng.
According to the news that Meng Da revealed to Xiahou Shang before, Mi Yang led most of the elites in Xicheng to Fangling County to inspect today.
Because of this, Meng Da suggested that Xiahou Shang set the day of the attack on this day.
The news revealed by Meng Da represents the emptiness of defense in Xicheng today.
Moreover, in the west city is Mi Yang's place of governance, and the families of Mi Yang and his generals and soldiers are all in the west city.
If Cao Ren can take this opportunity to take Xicheng in one fell swoop, then even if Mi Yang gets the news in the later stage and leads the army back to help, Cao Ren, who holds the family scroll of Mi Yang's army, will also be invincible.
It was precisely because of this consideration that after capturing several undefended water villages in a row, Cao Ren urged the army behind him to move forward quickly.
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However, the course of the Han River is not a flat river, and the Han River channel to Xicheng is full of various reefs.
Even the river of Hanshui is not straight and has many corners.
These are undoubtedly delaying the march of Cao Ren's army.
Who calls others many?
On the contrary, Meng Dana's hundreds of warships, because they are light and familiar with the terrain, so after passing through a water village, Cao Ren suddenly found that Meng Da in front of him had disappeared at some point.
It's just that at this time, he didn't suspect anything else, he just thought that it was the speed of Meng Da's hundred warships that was too fast, which caused him to disappear temporarily.
Therefore, Cao Ren hurriedly sent a few search boats to the front to find Meng Da's traces.
But not long after Cao Ren sent a few ships to leave, Chang Ku, the general standing beside him, noticed that something was wrong.
Chang Wei's eyesight was excellent, and he saw that there seemed to be a huge wave in the upper reaches of the Han River in front of him.
But because he didn't really see it, Chang Wei didn't pay much attention to it at first.
After all, the weather is clear today, and there is no violent storm, how can the wide Han water suddenly set off huge waves?
As the "great wave" drew closer and closer, the soldiers on the front of the thousands of Wei warships actually felt as if the air was getting hotter.
But when the feeling in the hearts of the hundreds of soldiers hadn't surfaced for long, a scene suddenly appeared in their eyes
A huge look of horror appeared on their faces.
Not far ahead, countless flaming rafts suddenly appeared, speeding towards them.
August and September are the fastest times when the Han River flows, and the countless rafts are flowing down the river from upstream.
Driven by the current of the Han River, the brisk reed rafts slammed into them like a powerful crossbow shot on the water.
After a while, the hundreds of Wei warships collided with countless reed rafts burning with raging flames.
Under the collision, almost instantly, the hundreds of Wei warships quickly burst into flames.
Reeds are already flammable, and Mi Yang has been collecting all kinds of oil and smearing them on reed rafts in order to complete his work.
In such a situation, even a building ship protected by raw cowhide will ignite when it encounters such a flame, not to mention most of the Wei warships that are not protected by raw cowhide?
After the countless reed rafts ignited the hundreds of Wei warships, they continued to move towards the thousands of Wei warships downstream at a very fast speed, driven by the current.
More importantly, after the hundreds of Wei warships were ignited, the Wei soldiers on the warships were busy extinguishing the fire.
Therefore, the hundreds of Wei warships were carried by the current and headed towards a large number of Wei warships downstream, when they lost their helm.
When this scene happened, most of the Wei troops in the rear were instantly frightened.
This naturally includes Cao Ren, who stands tall and sees far away.
In the eyes of Cao Ren, Xiahou Shang, Chang Ku and others on the boat, a burning wall of fire seemed to appear out of thin air on the Han River in front of them.
Then this wall of fire came towards them with lightning speed.
This extremely impactful scene fell in the eyes of Cao Ren and the others, making their faces full of fear.
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Chang Wei only reacted at this time, and the white wave he noticed just now turned out to be not a water wave, but a whitish fire shining in the blazing sun.
Fire on water, water on fire!
It's just that it's too late to understand this at this time.
Frightened, Cao Ren anxiously issued an order, telling the thousands of warships behind him to disperse quickly.
It's a pity that thousands of Wei warships were originally going against the current, and under the resistance of the Han River, how could thousands of Wei warships disperse so quickly.
Before the thousands of Wei warships could make a move, the waves of fire that seemed to burn everything had already arrived at the location of the thousands of Wei warships.
Then this wave of fire roared and wantonly ignited many Wei warships.
When the thousands of reed rafts at the forefront crashed into the thousands of warships of the Wei army, countless reed rafts with flames appeared not far away, quickly heading towards thousands of Wei warships.
For today, Mi Yang has been preparing for a long time.
In the past month, he ordered his army to cut down reeds for a whole month.
Millions of bales of reeds have been chopped down, and with millions of bales of reeds from raw materials, the reed raft he has prepared today must be enough.
As many reed rafts rushed into the Wei army's array of warships, thousands of Wei warships soon burst into flames.
Perhaps the ship is guarded by raw cowhide, so it can block the flames to a certain extent.
But raw cowhide is not omnipotent, once the flame is completely burned, no matter how good the building ship is, it will not escape the end of being burned.
Soon after, the wails and shouts of many Wei soldiers resounded in the waters of the Han River.
The flames may not have yet reached them, but the fear in their hearts grew as the flames rapidly engulfed their ships.
Cao Ren on the boat listened to the shouts of many Wei troops, and saw that in not too much time, most of the tens of thousands of troops he was proud of were trapped in the sea of fire, and his heart felt like a hammer had been hit.
A great look of pain appeared on his face.
At this moment, it ignited in this area
On both sides of the flaming Hanshui Basin, bursts of high-spirited drums began to sound.
This drum sound is not the common drum sound in the Wei army, this drum sound belongs to the Wei army's sworn enemy - the Han army.
Inspired by the sound of majestic drums, groups of neatly shaped Han troops began to emerge from the mountains and forests on both sides of the river.
Many crimson military flags, which represent the pride of the Han family, also appeared in this fiery and noisy world.
Not far away, there were many Han soldiers running quickly towards this place.
Tens of thousands of Han troops, guided by the proud drums and banners, marched with firm and heavy steps, lined up a murderous military formation, and surrounded both sides of the Han River Basin.
Among the many Han army flags, a battle flag with the word "Mi" was held up the highest and most conspicuous.
Under the battle flag with the word "Mi", the figure of a young general wearing Mingguang armor appeared in front of Cao Ren and the others.
Seeing that figure, Xiahou Shang on the boat almost fainted angrily.
Didn't you say that Mi Yang was in Fangling?
Who is this man?
Compared to Xiahou Shang's anger, although Cao Ren's face was full of pain at this time, he could still maintain some sanity.
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At this moment, he didn't know that he had been tricked!
Meng Da concluded that the invention was fake, the emptiness of Xicheng's troops was fake, and everything was fake.
All this is a bureau set up by Mi Yang.
Cao Ren's reaction could not be said to be unpleasant, and when the flames surrounded his tens of thousands of troops, he had already begun to lead his henchmen and generals from the building ship to the ship.
Then Cao Ren used his own Daxu and began to gather more and more Wei troops.
With Cao Ren using his prestige to gather, thousands of Wei troops gradually gathered around his warship.
At this time, as the flames burned, the world was already covered by smoke and dust.
Many Wei troops crowded each other on the warships, and even worse, many Wei soldiers jumped into the water for fear of being burned by the flames.
Under such circumstances, thousands of Wei troops died by drowning and stampeding.
And this tragic scene continued to fall into the eyes of the Wei generals led by Cao Ren.
Then their faces were filled with grief.
These are all the elites of Great Wei!
But now they have not yet come into contact with an enemy soldier, and they have died without knowing it.
What's going on?
Cao Ren stared at Mi Yang on the shore with cracking teeth, his heart full of hatred.
Thief! Thief!
But Cao Ren knows that now is not the time to be angry, and it is important to break out as soon as possible.
The reason why Cao Ren can still keep calm is because he has not yet reached the point of exhaustion.
He still has a way out.
Cao Ren began to personally command the thousands of Wei troops gathered around him, and quickly retreated towards the rear.
There were Han troops on both sides of the strait, and if they forcibly landed at this time, it would be a great disadvantage, so they could only return the same way.
But it's a pity that Cao Ren's move fell clearly in the eyes of Mi Yang on the shore.
Seeing that Cao Ren was about to escape, Mi Yang frowned slightly.
He came to his house with tens of thousands of troops for no reason, and now he wants to say goodbye without saying goodbye, and it is not polite at all.
The last person he had seen so rude was called Sun Quan.
It's all here, how can it be so easy to leave?
At Mi Yang's signal, the general beside Mi Yang waved the order flag in his hand.
Under the command of Lingqi, tens of thousands of Han troops on both sides of the strait lost the arrows on their waists on their longbows.
Tens of thousands of arrows flashing with cold light missed, aiming at the thousands of Wei troops who were about to flee in an instant.
This scene was also noticed by Cao Ren, who was observing the surrounding situation, and it was this scene that made a cold sweat appear on his face.
He is no longer calm!
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