The pursuit of the Taishan army was pursued along the north bank of the Daling River, and the Wuhuan people sent troops from the north and south banks of the Daling River at the same time.

After Zhang Chong saw the mobilization of the Wuhuan people, he immediately realized that once they counterattacked the Wuhuan people on the north bank, the Wuhuan people on the south bank would easily infiltrate behind him and cross the river, and then form a situation of encircling himself before and after.

Seeing this, Zhang Chong immediately dispatched and ordered Xi Shenzhi's Flying Leopard Army to cross the river to the south and intercept Wuhuan on the south bank.

The Daling River is in a dry period at this time, and some sections are even in the process of being cut off.

But even so, because the Taishan army had not surveyed this waterway before, Xi Shen crossed the river at a great risk.

What's more serious is that once Xi Shen's troops cross the river, they will really stay away from the Chinese army, and no one knows what the situation is on the south bank.

In other words, Xi Shen is a pawn who crosses the river, and there is no advance or retreat.

When Xi Shen received this military order, he was still hesitating, and Huang Xu, one of the four major generals under his command, was embarrassed:

"Captain, the king's life is so strange, now that we are on the verge of war, and we want to cross the river to the south, this toss down, not to mention the danger of the water, it is the Wuhuan people who attack us halfway, and our Flying Leopard Army will shed its skin if it does not die."

Xi Shen looked at the Wuhuan people on the opposite south bank from a distance, and saw that they didn't step forward, but just stopped from a distance, and had a plan in his heart.

But he still asked another general next to him, Wu Xian, who was also a fourth-class general:

"Old Wu, tell me, how do you fight this?"

Wu Xian is a native of Juancheng, and he has followed Xi Shen since he was in charge of Heji, and he also has the most profound grasp of Xi Shen's thoughts.

He looked down and thought for a moment, then responded:

"The king asked us to cross the river, naturally considering the overall situation. Now because of the obstruction of this river, the Wuhuan people on the opposite side take advantage of the numerical advantage to fight on the north and south banks, which is like the two pincers of a crab, if you ignore the soldiers on the south bank of it, then this pincer will come to poke our buttocks. That's why the king let us cross the river. ”

It was still Huang Xu, and he muttered in a low voice:

"Then why is my department going south? Why didn't Lejin's Iron Cavalry go? ”

The sound was so small that it could only be heard by the three people present.

But the two, including Xi Shen, neither agreed nor reprimanded, but this itself also shows the attitude.

In fact, Xi Shen has a special character in the Taishan Army.

First of all, he joined the Taishan Army in his early years, when Zhang Chong and the others had not yet gone east to Mount Tai, Xi Shen and a group of evil boys joined them.

With the development and growth of the Taishan Army, those evil teenagers in the past also quickly became in important positions. Although there are many evil teenagers in the back, they gradually move away from Xi Shen. But there are still a lot of people still surrounding Xi Shen, forming a certain mountain.

For example, he now has four major generals, namely Huang Xu, Wu Xian, Qiu Gong, and Li Hui.

These people urgently relied on Xi Shen's side, one prospering and one losing.

In addition, Xi Shen is also the only commander in the Taishan army other than Guan Yu who can govern the local area. Previously, because of Dong's conservative administration, Zhang Chong was not allowed to let Xi Shen take charge of Heji.

Although Zhang Chong later transferred Xi Shen into the Cavalry Army, he still let Xi Shen's influence penetrate into the local and political circles. He promoted many shrewd and capable field officials in the Heji area, and these people later grew up to become the backbone of the Taishan military and political officer system.

In addition to these two reasons, his relationship with the chief of his subordinates is also quite ambiguous.

This made Xi Shen gradually form a mountain of his own, although this mountain is still very small and only stays within the scope of the Flying Leopard Army, but it is still a bad sign.

And this will, such as Huang Xu's speech just now, is exactly what this mountain means to protect its own interests.

Xi Shen touched his beard, his eyes narrowed slightly, he had already seen that the flying army on the opposite side was a little restless, and only then did he speak:

"You report to the king on my behalf, saying that I, Xi Shen, will complete the task of crossing the river to stop the enemy."

With this reply, the flying army was visibly relieved, and then the horse ran back.

Seeing that after Feijun carried the flag and left, Huang Xu on the side wanted to speak again, but he was stopped by Xi Shen, and he only had one sentence:

"In this battle, our army will win!"

After speaking, he took the Daxu military flag and drums and horns and took the lead in crossing the river to the south bank.

And in such a situation, Huang Xu, who was born as an evil boy, could only sigh and catch up with Xi Shen. He could only sigh in his heart for the confusion of the military master.

Our whole army is the family of thousands of people, and we will take risks because of the king's last words? It's really not worth it!

No one knows whether this kind of thinking is just Huang Xu's idea or whether it represents Xi Shen's meaning.

When Xi Shen led the army to the north bank of the Daling River, he said to a few cavalry generals on the side:

"Because our army is crossing the river, it is necessary to have someone to lead the team to cross the river first, and to be able to hold the foreshore position for the whole army, so as to cover the crossing of the river by the brothers behind. This is a very important task, which of you can take on it? ”

At this moment, more than a dozen horsemen present were silent.

These people are all middle and high-level riders above the team general, and they know very well that this is not only important, but also very dangerous.

The first team to cross the river needed to make a safe passage for the whole army, which was already dangerous.

And then you have to hold the foreshore position in a wet state?

The subtext of this statement is that after a while, these knights who cross the river first must cross the river in armor, otherwise they will not have time to dress when they reach the other side.

You must know that defending a tidal flat position is different from an offensive battle!

Cavalry battles can be interspersed with maneuvers back and forth, and if you can't beat them, you can also turn in reverse. But to defend their position, they had to dismount and form a formation, and without armor, how could they hold back the cavalry charge?

So don't look at Xi Shen's understatement, but everyone present knows very well that those who received this task can be said to be dead and alive.

Xi Shen was a little annoyed when he saw that no one spoke for a long time, he usually had a lot of kindness to these riders, but now he has assigned a task and no one has taken it?

Just when Xi Shen was about to directly order the general, Wu Xian next to him took over.

Wu Xian clenched his fists and said loudly:

"Captain, I am willing to lead my team to lead this task. I myself am a native of Juancheng, I was born near the water since I was a child, and most of these knights in this team are from Heji, and the water is good, even if they really fall into the water, they have a chance to survive. ”

In fact, Xi Shen knew that what Wu Xian said was.

No matter how good you are in the water, with iron armor on your body, can you still live after falling into the water?

But Xi Shen is not Zhang Chong, nor is it Zhang Dan, Guan Yu, and Ding Sheng. He is a result-oriented man.

Even if he was reluctant to take the risk with his henchmen, he knew that he could only let Wu Xian go at this time.

After all, if you don't choose someone who takes the initiative to ask for help, if you don't name him, then the army will think that he is cautious and unfair.

Although he didn't know why Wu Xian rushed to do this, Xi Shen still nodded:

"Okay, you take your own team as a pioneer. I can't give anything else, that's what the king has to do, I just tell you, after your team crosses the bank, the next one is me to lead the team across the river! ”

Wu Xian looked at Xi Shen in a complicated manner and nodded vigorously.

After that, he took fifty horsemen of his own army and crossed the river first, and he was the first.

……

Before Zhang Chong penetrated, he had watched a drama in which there was a game that tested human nature very much, called Deadly Glass Bridge.

Every piece of glass you step on under your feet can make you fall into the abyss.

This kind of uncertain death is even more cruel than real death.

And now Wu Xian's behavior of leading the team across the river is essentially like this.

But there is two pieces of good news.

The first is that Wu Xian's team is cohesive, and he is even willing to take the initiative to dedicate himself to Paoze. The second is that they have horses and ropes in their hands.

Before crossing the river, Wu Xian told the brothers that the horses in their hands were used to measure the water level, and once they could cross, they would stick the horses in place to mark them.

Then the people who walked in front carried the hemp rope, and then the people behind tied the rope to the horse, so that after the whole team had crossed the river, they could form a chain of hemp ropes, so that the brothers behind could cross the river safely along the hemp rope.

In this way, after doing what he could, Wu Xian took a hemp rope and prepared to cross the river first.

But at this moment, a knight nicknamed "Skinny Monkey" of his countryman suddenly rushed ahead, and began to jump into the water on horseback with a hemp rope.

Wu Xian was stunned for a moment, and then saw that the subordinates behind him began to grab positions one by one and began to cross the river on horseback.

At this time, Wu Xian's tears finally collapsed, he could only cry silently, and then wrapped the hemp rope in his hand and walked last.

Because of the problem of perspective, Wu Xian couldn't even see the back of the thin monkey in the front, so he could only follow the hemp rope safety line tied at the door of his subordinates in front of him, and then wade across the river.

A moment later, when Wu Xian finally stepped on the tidal flat on the south bank, he was eager to find that back in the crowd, but no.

Wu Xian was a little out of breath, his heart seemed to be clenched.

He sat helplessly on a rock, staring blankly ahead.

There, countless Wuhuan people are gathering, not to mention how neat, but the black pressure is even terrifying.

The Wuhuan cavalry has long been with the Han army in all directions, although the most elite and knowledgeable cavalry has withered away with the defeat of the Zhenbei army.

But these Wuhuan tribesmen in front of them still have flags and golden drums and horns.

Therefore, at this moment, Wu Xian saw that the Wuhuan people on the opposite side were waving their flags and horns, and from time to time they could see troops who had been mobilized.

Suddenly, someone patted Wu Xian on the shoulder, and he looked up to see that it was Captain Xi Shen.

Xi Shen didn't say anything, he saw the scene of crossing the river just now, and he didn't have any comfort, just looked at the Wuhuan people opposite.

"These Wuhuan people are just waiting for us to cross the river and go south."

At this time, Wu Xian said.

Yes, Xi Shen also discovered this.

These Wuhuan people didn't plan to attack while they crossed the river, but watched quietly like this, in order to let the Taishan army on the north bank divide half of their forces south.

Thinking of this, Xi Shen looked at the apricot yellow Daxu on the other side of the bank in a complicated way, and said calmly:

"So, the king is in danger!"