Li Shi Ziren, the eldest son of Shou (the youngest son of Li Teji's younger brother Li Xiang). With a length of seven feet and nine inches, a belt of 14 girths, he is good at pitching, and people are different. Shou is the emperor, and the emperor is amnesty. In the first month of the first year of Taihe (the second year of Jin Jianyuan, 344 AD), his mother Yan was the queen mother, and his wife Ji was the queen.

———- excerpt from the introduction

Only a few plops were heard, and more than a dozen sergeants with excellent water properties carried gourds on their backs and pulled a thick rope to dive into the black river water first, and soon disappeared from the sight of Zeng Hua and everyone.

It is now the dry season of the Yangtze River, and the north and south rivers are about less than five miles wide, and people with good water quality can swim through it in just a moment (half an hour). More than a dozen sergeants did not say anything about their water nature, and with gourds on their bodies, there was no problem in swimming across the river in this dark night. The key is that they pull this thick rope on their bodies, and pulling the thick rope across the river is the hope of victory for the Changshui Army.

Then hundreds of people carried another thirteen thick ropes on their backs, and soon disappeared into the black water.

Watching the thick rope gradually extend towards the moonlit river, Zeng Hua suddenly said to Che Yin: "Wuzi, what trouble do you think we will encounter in this battle?" ”

"Lord, I don't think there will be any trouble. Unless......? Che Yin replied.

"Unless what?" Zeng Hua kept staring at the thick rope that continued to extend, and asked without looking back.

"Unless God is jealous of you!" Che Yin said with a smile.

"Jealous of me? What is he jealous of me? Zeng Hua was a little puzzled.

"People think that Duke Huan dares to be Bo, but they don't know that you have Xuping's courage several times greater than him. Only you can come up with this crazy plan. No wonder Huan Gong saw you at the beginning, and after chatting a few words, he began to value you, fate! Providence! A person like you, who is bold but can plan and move, is simply a dragon swimming in the sea in this troubled world! You are simply born for this troubled world, and of course God is jealous of you! Che Yin said with a sigh.

Zeng Hua was a little depressed, you can just say the old car, just say that I am the hero of the troubled times, and praise me without turning a corner. I really have such a bull X, and the cow X has to make God a little jealous. Zeng Hua couldn't help but want to touch his handsome face, and the old car's words praised me a little narcissistically. But I believe that God has a good relationship with me, otherwise more than 6 billion people would have chosen me, so that others would think that it is blacker than Chinese foot ball.

Zeng Hua didn't want to dwell on the topic of how to get involved with God, so he changed the topic.

"There are three kinds of Bo, one is to hit the stone with an egg, Wuzi, you said that if there are 10,000 eggs to touch the stone, who will win?" Zeng Hua asked suddenly.

"Stone wins!" Che Yin turned a few corners, and finally made the essence of the problem clear.

"There is also a kind of two tigers fighting each other," Zeng Hua smiled faintly and continued, "The two are equal in power, or not far apart. This kind of depends on the narrow road and the brave wins, and it depends on who can hold on to the courage to the end. Of course, luck is sometimes better than courage here. ”

"The third kind of Bo is the Eagle Strikes the Sky, the Tiger Bo Rabbit." Zeng Hua finally turned around and said to Che Yin.

"The eagle strikes the sky, the tiger and the rabbit." Che Yin hummed, "That's really a good point! ”

"But who can see what it really means?" Zeng Hua turned his head and continued to look at the thick rope that disappeared not far away, while saying, "The eagle strikes the sky because it is condescending, keenly observes the prey, and once it finds the shortcomings of the prey, it will strike a thunderbolt immediately, just like the book of war says: The attacker moves above the nine heavens." The most important thing is shape, potential, and knot! The book of war is on the clouds, if the water is accumulated in the stream of a thousand people, the shape is also; The disease of the torrent, as for the drifters, the potential is also; The disease of the bird, as for the destroyer, the festival also; The eagle hovers over its prey, entrusts it, loses its courage, makes it panic, and forces it to make mistakes. The disease of the drifting rock torrent, the fall of the nine days, unstoppable, forcing the prey to be captured, this is the potential; One blow is formed, the momentum is like a bamboo, and there is no obstruction in it, this is the knot. ”

Zeng Hua then asked: "Tiger Bo Rabbit, Wu Zi, do you say that Fierce Tiger Bo Wolf and Bo Rabbit will both use all their strength?" ”

Che Yin thought for a moment and replied: "Whether the tiger is a wolf or a rabbit, it should be a full fight." Oh, I see. Che Mou bowed to him, and the military master was really a master. ”

Zeng Hua waved his hand and smiled, "I'm not a master, I like to fight while pondering the military books I have read before." No matter how subtle it is said in the book of war, if you can't pay attention to its essence on the battlefield, you still talk about it on paper. Books are dead, but people are alive. ”

"Back to the army master, the outpost has swam to the other side, and fourteen thick ropes have been pulled across the river." Before Che Yin had time to come back to his senses, he saw Zhang Qu come over and say.

"Good! You lead the second building to cross the river immediately. Zeng Hua immediately ordered.

"Obey!" Zhang Qu replied.

I saw a dozen thick ropes lying across the river surface with the silver moonlight flashing, swaying gently with the river waves.

"There were fourteen thick ropes, each three inches (about 7.35 centimeters according to the size of the time) thick, made of hundreds of fine hemp ropes, several miles long, running through the north and south of the general. The first twelve thick ropes are specially used to help the sergeants swim across the river, the lower one is specially used for fishing boats to carry weapons and armor back and forth, and the last two are in the most downstream, with fishing nets hanging on them, a total of two layers, to prevent the swimming sergeants from being physically exhausted and falling down in case of emergency. ”

Liu Jin explained to Che Yin and Feng Yue behind Zeng Hua. Che Yin is okay, he already has a certain immunity, but Feng Yue, who has just joined the gang, is different. He saw that the thick rope and gourd he had collected were actually used like this, and his mouth was so wide that he couldn't close it for a long time.

The second building in front is headed by Zhang Qu, first tie the clothes and armor and weapons together, put them on the light boat in the team camp, and then wear shirtless shorts, and then put a gourd on his back, and then divide into nine rows with the tun as a unit, and go into the water. The sergeants let their bodies float on the surface of the river, and then gently pulled the thick rope and slowly swam north on the surface of the river.

At the same time, the light boat carrying weapons and armor also began to move. There were only two people sitting in front and back of each light boat, and at the same time pulling the thick rope next to them, more than a dozen light boats rushed north, and disappeared into the vast distance together with the nine elements sergeant a little upstream.

Because swimming was the basic training subject of the Changshui Army when they were training in frustration, these "northern landlubbers" swam carefully and clumsy in the Yangtze River, but they didn't produce any stubble.

Looking at the sergeant in the second building finally looming on the silver river, Zeng Hua muttered softly: "Fortunately, it's not very cold tonight!" ”

Half an hour passed, and a bean-sized fire suddenly appeared on the opposite side, quickly extinguished three times, and finally disappeared into the vast night.

The second building of the advance team has successfully crossed the river, and now it is time for the first building to depart.

When the first sergeants were unloading and carrying gourds, about 100 sergeants with good water quality put bundles of about 100 coarse bamboos and cloud ladders made of dozens of moso bamboos into the water one by one, and then pushed them across the river one by one along the three empty thick ropes in the middle.

"Captain! What are you doing? According to the plan, Che Yin and Feng Yue, who should have led five hundred sergeants to stay in the Houjun camp, shouted in surprise.

I saw Zeng Hua quickly take off his clothes and armor and weapons, pack them together, bundle them with hemp rope, and then put them on the light boat. Shirtless, he turned around and picked up a gourd and carried it on his back.

"What's all the fuss, the sergeant can't swim me?" Zeng Hua glanced at the two people who were chirping crookedly in front of him.

"Captain! You shouldn't have risked your life, and now you have to abandon the boat and swim in the water, this ......" Feng Yue's face turned red with excitement, but everyone couldn't see it clearly, but he was so anxious that he couldn't speak, but everyone heard it.

"Bo An (Feng Yue's character), forget it. Tonight's battle is very important, and I am afraid that you will not be able to do it if you want the military master not to take the lead. "It's still that Che Yin has been with Zeng Hua for a long time, and he already understands the personality of his military master, so he persuaded Feng Yue to come.

"This ......" Seeing Mr. Che Wuzi, whom he respected very much, say this, Feng Yue couldn't say anything, and finally held back a sentence: "Military master, you have a heavy responsibility, don't take it lightly!" ”

"Thank you Bo'an and Wuzi for sending each other!"

Zeng Hua smiled and bowed his hand to Che Yin and Feng Yue, turned around and grabbed the thick rope, and walked into the river first, while Liu Jin followed the second into the water, and the first sergeant behind him followed into the river with gourds on their backs.

Seeing Zeng Hua disappear into the night river, Che Yin suddenly turned his head and said to Feng Yue: "You still don't know our lord, when you stay for a long time, you will understand that following such a lord in this troubled world is our greatest luck!" ”

Zeng Hua had already seen the other side, and there was a vague figure above. Zeng Hua spit out a few mouthfuls of river water, and comforted himself in his heart: "The river water at this time is not polluted, it belongs to the green water source, and it doesn't matter if you drink two sips." ”

Zeng Hua stumbled onto the riverbank, and the second sergeant who came to pick him up took a closer look, only to find that the NO.1 of the first building was actually his own military master, and hurriedly protected him left and right.

Zeng Hua adjusted his breathing, smiled and waved away the support of the left and right sergeants, walked straight to the light boat that had been docked on the north shore, took his clothes and armor, and put them on. At this time, Zhang Qu, who rushed to hear the news, had already come to Zeng Hua's side and said, "Military master, my second building has been laid off for sentry scouts within a radius of several miles, and the rest are already on standby on the old post road to Jiangzhou. Everything was normal around us, and no one seemed to be aware of our actions. ”

"Okay, Suiyuan, you continue to go to the guard, and send scouts to spy in the direction of Jiangzhou. Qianfu, you immediately gather the first building, pack up the bamboo ladder, move to the post road, vacate the river bank, send a signal to the south bank, and respond to the rear team. ”

"Yes!"

Soon, the rear team of 500 people also crossed the river, and 2,500 people crossed the river, and it took about an hour and two quarters of an hour (three hours) in total, because of the careful planning and proper preparation, so that only a dozen people lost their strength on the way, and fell on the bottom two safety net ropes, and were rescued by the two light boats on patrol, and no one was missing or injured.

After his team was assembled on the old post road, Zeng Hua ordered the thick rope in Jiangbei to be loosened and let Jiangnan pull it over. Soon, the water surface of the Yangtze River returned to calm, as if nothing had happened. Just after a pillar of incense, the scouts in front and downstream came with a message of vigilance. While the 2,500 long sailors held their breath, more than a dozen river boats quietly went up the river with the sound of rushing water, and soon disappeared on the river surface to the west.

"Whisper to the ear, connect the tail, follow the team closely, don't make a noise, go!"

Soon, the order was passed down among the sergeants, and quickly spread throughout the army, and the ranks were immediately launched.

In addition to the sound of neat and sharp footsteps, there were many soft pantings. By the bright moonlight, 2,500 Changshui troops had been running fast on the old post road for an hour.

It's already two o'clock in the morning (two o'clock in the morning), and it's only more than 20 miles away from Jiangzhou. Suddenly, a red firelight broke out somewhere far away in the south of the Yangtze River, because it was too far away, only the orange firelight could be seen flashing in the dark night, and there were screams that seemed to be floating in the wind, as if floating from the sky, and it was almost impossible to hear what the sound was.

The ranks of the rapid march did not become confused, and continued to advance towards Jiangzhou in the east.

Looking at the surprised eyes of Liu Jin and the others, Zeng Hua said softly: "This is the five thousand Shu army led by Lord Yuan to counterattack and follow our army at night. Those Shu soldiers didn't stay well in Jiangzhou, and they had to run to Jiangnan to die. ”

No wonder Zeng Hua was so contemptuous of those Shu troops, and they didn't ask who were in the Jin army in front of them? Huan Wen, Yuan Qiao, Zhou Fu, Mao Muzhi, and Sima Jizhi are all characters who have left a mark in the history books, and any single pull can make the generals of the Jiangzhou Shu Army who led the troops chase a pot to drink.

They thought that they were dozens of miles apart, and they could avoid being beaten by being beaten by caution. But they didn't know that in order to cover Zeng Hua's crazy plan, the Jin army camp decided that Yuan Qiao would go out and lead the 3,000 rear army to entertain the Shu army that followed.

Yuan Qiao, both civil and military, was a strategist and general that Huan Wen relied on, otherwise he would not have been awarded the very important post of Jiangxia Minister. It's really an expert who makes a move, and he knows if there is one. Yuan Qiao led the 3,000 rear army to turn around and march eastward in Youshi, sneaking all the way in the night, marching for four hours in a row, and suddenly counterattacking the 5,000 Jiangzhou Shu army forty miles away. Yuan Qiao led the elite soldiers of the Guard's Mansion under Huan Wen, and it was not something that the miscellaneous Shu army in Jiangzhou could resist.

The rear army of the Jin army was like a wolf entering a flock of sheep, setting fire to the panicked Shu army while slashing and killing it. In less than an hour, the Shu army was defeated, the leading general Mou Ce died in the chaos, and more than 3,000 Shu troops who escaped desperately fled to the Yangguan ferry more than 20 miles to the east. And Yuan Qiao hastily cleaned up the battlefield, followed the rout eastward, and went straight to Yangguan.

Suddenly, the chickens and dogs on the south bank of Jiangzhou jumped, and the more than 500 defenders of the Yangguan ferry who heard the news hurriedly gathered, while reorganizing their defenses and receiving the defeated army that was about to flee back, they immediately crossed the river to report to Jiangzhou.

Just when everyone's eyes were attracted by the sudden war in Jiangnan, no one thought that in Jiangbei, not far away, there were 2,500 Jin troops quietly entering the village, and those who did not shoot were rushing all the way to Jiangzhou.

All the people in Jiangzhou and the Jin army camp were trying hard to understand and guess what the opponent was doing at this time, they looked at the silent night, and the beating firelight, and secretly looked forward to it in their hearts, hurry up and dawn, everything will be clear when the day dawns.