The first year of Chengtian, the first year of the republic, May 28.

The north gate of Luoyang, Mengjindu.

At this time, a bloody battle was being fought on both sides of the river, on the south bank was the partial division of the Eastern Army under the command of Zhu Jun, and on the north bank was the strong army of the Western Army of the Hedong series.

In order to fight for this crossing of the Yellow River, the two armies have been fighting for many days.

During this period of time, the Luoyang court was not a laissez-faire Zhang Chong, they knew better than any force in the world about the combat power of the Taishan army, so even if they fought two large-scale battles with the west, they still paid attention to the situation in Hebei.

originally thought that such a whale swallow like Taishan Army would inevitably be digested for a while, but who knew that at this moment, Zhao Wei, the most elite in Hebei, fell into their hands.

Therefore, the doctors in Henan are also anxious, knowing that now is the time to fight for speed. If Kansai cannot be suppressed and the world cannot be integrated, then the Han family will be in suspense.

As a result, the third western expedition began again, but this time they began to attack Hangu Pass openly and secretly cross Mengjindu.

Two days have passed since the fighting, but the Mengjin ferry is still firmly held by the Western army.

At this moment, a group of hundreds of horsemen was roaming the north shore, and the formation was not in order.

They had been in charge of cruising the river patrol on the north bank, but now they were all looking at the lower reaches of the river in distraction, where thousands of sails were racing, and a huge boatman was slowly driving downstream.

Most of these river patrol horsemen are from the Qianghu region, who has never seen such a scene, looking at the overwhelming boat division, they were frightened for a while. If it weren't for the bullet pressure of the chiefs, this would have been scattered a long time ago.

This boat division is the killer weapon prepared by the Yanyan princes of the Luoyang court this time, and it is also the decisive hand.

The whole boat division was expanded on the basis of the great river water division, with a total of 40 double-sailed boats, 15 shipwhelms, and 2 building boats, and they came from the downstream in a mighty way.

The sailor of the boat division will be Lou Chuan Zhonglang General Kuai Yue, whose person was promoted for his outstanding exploits in the Henan Haoqiang military mutiny and his familiarity with water warfare, and this battle was up to him to open the water communication channel and occupy a bridgehead on the north bank.

Soon, Kuai Yue's building boat began to beat the snare drum, and then the leaders of each boat began to drum in response.

After that, the Kwantung Army on the deck began to raise their shields, and then the rain of arrows was thrown at the Kwantung Qin and Han horsemen on the north bank.

The horsemen were overturned by this rain of arrows, and began to shoot back in a hurry, but most of the arrows were blocked by the planks erected on both sides of the ship, and had little effect.

Seeing that the counterattack was useless, these Qianghu horsemen could only drag their wounded robes and horses away, leaving behind a dozen corpses and an open shore land.

Seeing that the Qianghu horse soldiers on the north bank were repulsed, the Kwantung Army on the deck shouted congratulations.

Just when the cheers and shouts of victory echoed on the river, on a slope one mile away from the river, a crimson tiger head flag stood here, and there were several large flags on the side, all of which were made of various beasts.

Standing under the banner of the crimson tiger head was Li Dao, who had just been appointed as the general Sima, and he led 6,000 Guanxi soldiers to garrison here.

The air pressure in the observation position on the hillside was very low, and all the generals present knew that with the help of such a sailor on the opposite side, it would be difficult for their side to defend the river.

At this moment, a man with a full beard and a typical Qiang face came out:

"Sima, it seems that this place can't be defended, let's withdraw. For the little money in the west, there is no need to sell your life. ”

The person who spoke out was called Yang Bo, a warrior under Li Dao, who looked like a Qiang person, but in fact had settled down for several generations.

Yang Bo's words expressed the minds of the generals, and for a while, people such as Hu Feng, Wang Chang, Zhang Bao, Zhang Long, Wang Cheng and others were all echoing.

In this mess, Li Dao scolded:

"Shut up. Is it your turn to talk about war in front of me? ”

As soon as these words came out, the generals were as quiet as cicadas, obviously seeing that Li Dao's prestige in the army was not small.

Li Dao ignored these subordinates, who were more like bandits than soldiers, and paced forward, looking at the bank of the river in the distance, where the Han army was building a pontoon bridge in a small boat, ready to land.

Touching his beard, thinking of the secret letter that the angel had given him when he summoned him before, Li Wei squinted his eyes and said:

"What are you afraid of, what soldiers and horses haven't we fought? I haven't been beaten by boat. And these fleets are well come, so many ships have been captured by us, and we can cross the river directly. When the time comes, let's go to Luoyang, everyone can grab a few Kyoto aunts! ”

As soon as he said this, the fierce generals behind him each let out an unbearable laugh, obviously to inspire them, as long as there were women.

After seeing that it was almost there, Li Dao glanced at his nephew Li Li, who had just arrived, and asked:

"The news I got before said that this big river division was captured by the Taishan army during the previous battle of Xingyang? How did so many sailors come about? ”

Li Dao said here, and Hu Feng on the side clamored:

"Yes, someone said before that the Kwantung Army only has five or six boats, but now this big river is full, and it's much worse."

As he spoke, Hu Feng continued to give Li Li the eye medicine, and counted with his fingers:

"Now that pair of sailboats, one can pull fifty people. I'm afraid there are forty or fifty ships on this river, and this time we can send two or three thousand soldiers ashore, how can we fight here? ”

The relationship between Hu Feng and Li Li is not very good, one of them is Li Dao's nephew, and the other is Li Dao's nephew, both are older and powerful clan generals, occupying the same ecological niche, so the competition is extremely fierce.

Li Li listened to Hu Feng arranging himself there, his eyes were cold, but when he saw that his uncle Li Dao didn't speak, he was obviously angry in his heart, so he was waiting for himself to explain.

Li Li knew that Hu Feng wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to leave himself, and he also knew that it was best to be soft at this time, but Li Li himself was also a young man, so he glanced at Hu Feng and said mockingly:

"Since when did you Hu Feng start to be so afraid of the Kwantung soldiers? Where did you come from, can they go ashore or can they go to the sky? Is it to lose those thousands of soldiers to the shore, enough for our cavalry to rush a few times? Cowardly. ”

After saying this, Li Li squinted at Hu Feng, but he was directly shaved with a big ear.

Li Li was knocked to the ground by this one, and as soon as he got up and was about to jump, he saw that it was his uncle Li Dao who had just beaten him.

After a few words, he stopped talking.

After Li Wei finished pumping Li Li, he saw that his nephew was so weak and cowardly that he didn't dare to look up at himself, he sighed in his heart, and said lightly on his face:

"In the army, I am a general, a soldier, not your uncle. There are military rules and no clan feelings, don't risk your own life to try a certain family's knife, do you understand? ”

Li Li shook a moment and snorted:

"The last will understand."

"Can you tell what's going on now?"

Li Li took a deep breath, endured the suffocation and humiliation in his heart, and then replied respectfully:

"As soon as the sentinels patrolled the river to the river beach, they saw the Kanto boat division coming downstream, and they were shocked and didn't know where they came from."

This time, Li Dao did not punish Li Li, but asked him to go down and collect the Qin Hu horse soldiers who had been defeated before.

Li Li had the order, first glanced at Hu Feng with a smile on the side with resentment, and then went down the slope in a fit of anger.

Li Wei glanced at his nephew, and then saw Hu Feng's undisguised contempt, and scolded:

"You're going to show off your tongue and lose face to our Kansai people for nothing! Remember, we rely on the knife, not the tongue! ”

Hu Feng looked stunned, then smiled again:

"Uncle, Ali can't find out the information, I didn't say that I can't find it. Actually, I just found out the information about this boatmaster. ”

Li Wei glanced at Hu Feng in surprise and motioned for him to speak quickly.

Hu Feng said to the soldiers behind:

"Go and bring the scout horse from just now."

After speaking, the immature-looking sentry was brought up.

Then Hu Feng said to Li Wei:

"Uncle, this person is the sentinel who got the information, and I just got the news."

Then, Hu Feng turned his head to the sentinel and said:

"You are so good to talk, tell Sima everything you see."

The sentry also knew that the overall situation of the war was at stake at this time, so he hurriedly began to speak in a non-state dialect.

But after talking for a long time, Li Dao didn't understand a word, he looked at the sentry below in disgust, and said to Hu Feng:

"Let's go find someone to listen to it clearly, it's a waste of Naigong's good temper here."

Over there, Hu Feng also smiled awkwardly, and then turned his head and began to talk to this person in proficient concurrent dialect. Half a day later, Hu Feng figured out the information and said to Li Wei:

"Uncle, I asked. He said that these boats were the first batch of boats, and that there was another group of boats in the latter part of the water, and that they had already begun to land. ”

As soon as these words came out, the generals present were in an uproar, they didn't expect this group of Kwantung soldiers to be so treacherous, and they also learned to attack the west.

Hu Feng also saw that the situation was not good, and hurriedly finished talking about the rest of the information:

"This group of boat divisions anchored at Yedu, ten miles to the east, and there were quite a few of them, estimated to be two or three thousand, and the armored men were estimated to be five or six hundred, and there were still war horses on the ship at that time, and obviously there were cavalry inside."

After all the information was finished, Hu Feng stared at Li Dao and waited for him to give an order.

Li Wei thought for a moment, and then smiled:

"The Kanto on the other side will be a little interesting, and it will be a certain family to come to Zhengqi? In this way, Lao Yang, you take a 500 horseman to stay here. As soon as these Han soldiers start to land, you are responsible for the attack. ”

Yang Bo was named, and then he was ordered.

Then Li Dao continued to order:

"Lao Wang, Lao Zhang, you take your subordinates, as well as Zhang Long and Wang Cheng also follow me, I want to see how the strange soldiers in the east meet our cavalry."

After speaking, Li Dao was about to go downhill, preparing to leave Qi Daxu here as a cover.

But he was unexpectedly pulled by Hu Feng's sleeve, and then he saw his nephew sneering:

"Uncle, this soldier has made a great contribution, how can he be rewarded?"

Li Wei glanced at Hu Feng, then at the Bingzhou sentry who was lying on the ground, and said with a smile:

"You'll be gracious, okay, and let him be a general under your camp."

Hu Feng laughed, grabbed the sentry and said happily:

"Brother Cheng Lian, we finally got what we wanted. Ha ha! ”

……

Just when Li Dao was preparing to dispatch an attack on the enemy in the east.

On a wild ferry more than ten miles away, they were densely packed with Han soldiers. They had just been pulled across the river by a boat before they came ashore.

As soon as they went ashore, everyone was looking for their own officials and generals, so for a while, there was chaos on the river beach.

At this time, Liu Bei took Zhang Fei, Chen Dao, Gongsun Qian, Lu Zhao, Yan Shi, Zheng Yi and other generals to hurriedly find Yuan Shu, the main general of this aspect.

At this time, Yuan Shu was camping with people, and he was talking to a majestic warrior.

Liu Bei knew this person, it was Gao Lan, the cavalry general of this battle, who came to Luoyang from Hebei, and the more than 500 Hebei cavalry who crossed the river this time were under his command.

As soon as Liu Bei came, Yuan Shu stopped talking with Gao Ran, and said to Liu Bei enthusiastically:

"Xuande, you came just in time, the freshly iced honey water here is very sweet."

After speaking, Yuan Shu asked people to take out a piece of honey water from the cassette and gave it to Liu Bei to drink.

For Yuan Shu, Liu Bei is very grateful.

Because it wasn't for him, his brothers would have been sent to the southern line to fill the ravine, and they would not have had the opportunity to cross the river.

In fact, Liu Bei's situation is quite bad. Previously, on the Western Front, he was hated by his allies because he sat and watched the front army fight hard, and he had been squeezed out by the whole army.

Either Yuan Shu heard his plight later and deliberately transferred him to the northern line, or pulled him.

Of course, Yuan Shu is not so simple and righteous, although this is the most important, he Yuan Highway never looks at the background, because no one's background is as big as him, and he makes friends to see if he can be like-minded.

And Liu Bei didn't know how, so he fell in love with Yuan Shu.

They met at Cao Cao's banquet, and at that time, Yuan Shu felt that this northerner, who was more like a soldier than a scholar, had a temperament that he was unfamiliar with.

If Yuan Shu is a noble son who wants to travel the rivers and lakes, and he sings about brotherly righteousness on weekdays, then Liu Bei in front of him is a typical heroic person in Yuan Shu's heart.

Therefore, the relationship between Liu Bei and Yuan Shu was established from that time.

At this time, Liu Bei saw Yuan Shu sharing his honey water, and his heart was both grateful and weird.

Thanks, Yuan Shu really thinks he is a brother, but the weird thing is that whoever leads the troops to the battle also brings chilled honey.

But Liu Bei also knew that this was the style of the children of the fourth and third princes, and it was hard to say anything, so he could only take it and take a mouthful.

Don't say it's really sweet.

After drinking a little, Liu Bei handed the honey to Zhang Fei and asked him to taste it too.

Zhang Fei was not polite, drank all the remaining honey water with a snort, and then wiped his mouth and said boldly:

"Cool!"

Zhang Fei was refreshed, but he was bitter about Chen Dao, Gongsun Qian, Lu Zhao, Yan Shi, Zheng Yi and others standing behind. They looked at this Zhang Fei with their eyes, and thought that he would also share it with everyone like Liu Bei.

Chen Zhi These people are Liu Beixin's team, which he has accumulated in the previous two east-west wars. These people, such as Chen Zhi and Lu Zhao, are the heroes of Luo Yanwu in many counties in Henan, such as Gongsun Qian, Yan Shi, Zheng Yi, etc., are all military officials assigned to him before.

Not to mention, Liu Bei is quite talented. This time he was sent to the northern front, and the officers followed him without saying a word.

In this regard, Yuan Shu also saw it in his eyes, and his evaluation of Liu Bei was one level higher in his heart.

Now he saw Liu Bei coming in a hurry, and knew that something was wrong with him, so he asked:

"Xuande, I don't know what's going on!"

Family, who knows, do you ask for a monthly pass now? Shouldn't it all be given to Xiao Chen?

(End of chapter)