On the 11th, it was already the middle of February.

This was the fourth day after Cao Cao's defeat, and Le Jin retreated to Nieyang, and at the same time the scouts sent out to inquire about the news also returned.

Knowing that Cao Cao had retreated to Wuyin, he immediately prepared to cross the river and go east to Cao Cao.

In mid-spring February, the grass grows and the warbler flies.

The weather has been good these days, the sun is shining, and everything is taking root.

From the early morning of the morning, the sky was just dawning, and the weeds outside the city were still hanging with dewdrops, and Le Jin had already left the city.

He sent people to investigate the surroundings, but there was no Xiliang army in the surrounding area, and the bridge leading to the other side of the river in the south was not damaged and could be passed.

However, for the sake of safety, he did not choose to cross the river immediately, but first sent a few small troops over, went to the other side of the river to patrol around, and only after confirming that it was safe did he set off this morning.

The army made food on the third watch day, marched on the fifth watch, walked for nearly two hours, and finally arrived at the bank of the Shushui River, which was about 20 kilometers away from Nieyang County.

Le Jin rode on horseback and kept observing the situation around him, there were countless township pavilions on both sides of the Shuishui River, and on both sides of the road were endless villages and farmland.

It was the time of the spring flood, and the upper reaches of Funiu Mountain had recently fallen heavily and the water level in the upper reaches of the river had risen, driving the flow of water downstream, and the people of the nearby villages were working in the fields at the moment.

At this moment, when an army was coming, all the people put down their hoes and consciously went away from the road.

From the Yellow Turban Rebellion to the present, so many years of experience have taught them that no matter whether they are a good army or not, it is better to stay away from them than to lose their lives for no reason.

Le Jin didn't bother to take care of these township people, and followed the official road The army had approached the river, saw the wooden bridge on the river from a distance, and pointed ahead: "The front part will go over first and occupy the bridge." ”

"Yui!"

The front generals were ordered to go.

Although the water level of the river is high, the white river of the later generations is still a relatively large river, with wide banks and no bridges washed away.

Fifteen hundred men in the front reached the river and began to cross the river one after another, occupying the position on the other side of the river.

Because the bridge is used by the people of the nearby township pavilion to cross the river, its own bearing capacity is not good, and the width is not enough, so the speed of crossing the river is very slow.

Fifteen hundred people walked for almost half an hour.

When the front passed, Lejin observed that there was no movement on the other side of the river, and prepared to personally lead the Chinese army of 2,000 people to cross the river.

Behind him were fifteen hundred people.

This is a very conventional model of front, middle and rear armies, which is suitable for marching and encamping.

"Hurry, hurry, hurry!"

Lejin rode by the bridge, constantly urging the soldiers to cross the bridge.

A lieutenant general beside him said: "General, this bridge is too narrow and not very strong, and I am afraid that it will be unstable if you cross too much at once." ”

Le Jin saw that the wooden bridge was indeed shaking, and then looked up at the sky, he was also very anxious, but there was no way, so he had to be in a hurry, and said: "Try to let the soldiers be faster, don't be rubbing, you have to go to Jingyang before dark." ”

"Yui."

The adjutant general made arrangements as ordered.

After a while, when the troops of 2,000 men were almost halfway gone, a few black spots appeared on the river in the upper reaches of the river.

Immediately afterwards, the scout cavalry that Le Jin arranged to reconnoiter on the periphery galloped back like crazy, and only two of the more than ten people sent out were left, one of whom had an arrow stuck in his arm.

"Enemy attack!"

The scout's terrible shouts pierced the entire sky, and it also made Le Jin's heart suddenly tighten!

He instinctively looked north, and saw that in the wilderness to the north, countless dark shadows appeared densely, and an army was rushing towards them, although it was far away, but in a short time, it was impossible for them to cross the river.

"Oops!"

Le Jin suddenly remembered something, turned his head again, and sure enough, he saw a mighty river on the river, and four ships rushed towards the bridge like a fly.

Later generations of Nanyang people may know that the width of the Baihe River in the Han Dynasty and the Baihe River in the new era is still very wide.

It has 50 meters at the narrowest point in the upper reaches of the river, while the average width of the Nanyang urban area and the downstream is between 500-700 meters, making it the largest river in the Nanyang Basin.

However, the Han Dynasty did not expand the river as many times as in later generations, so the width at this time was still much narrower than that of later generations.

But because it is much narrower, during the spring flood, the water level rises so much that it almost reaches the riverbank.

The four ships on the river galloped like arrows, and dozens of brave warriors on board, rowing their boats at a rapid pace, until they were about to get less than a mile close to the bridge, and abandoned them and jumped into the river.

It stands to reason that if such a swift river were an ordinary person, even if the water was good, I am afraid that they would have drowned. However, these people are all Jinfan thieves under Gan Ning, who have been rampant and domineering in the Yangtze River in history.

The Yangtze River is much stronger than the Yangtze River in terms of width and water speed, and they are like white stripes in the Yangtze River, let alone in this small water.

Therefore, after jumping into the water, they took a deep breath and dived to the bottom of the river, touched the riverbed, and climbed to the shore from the west side of the water.

"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! ”

More than ten seconds later, before everyone could react, four huge collision sounds suddenly sounded, and under the terrifying force, the wooden bridge collapsed instantly, and sawdust flew sideways.

A large number of soldiers who had not had time to retreat on the bridge tumbled into the river with the wooden bridge and were drowned by the waves.

Seeing this scene, before Le Jin could scold, the people in the countryside in the distance stood on the edge of the field with hoes, and they were already dumbfounded.

The people gathered in the surrounding townships and villages were so bitter in their hearts, and they were shouting at their mothers to sell batches.

Because this bridge is the only way for them to travel between the east and west banks, the only communication channel between Nieyang and the two counties of Jianyang on the opposite side. Once it is destroyed, they will have to walk dozens of kilometers if they want to go to the other side of the river, so they are all angry.

But what can they do? I can only dare to be angry but dare not speak, and watch with my anger swallowed.

At this time, no one cared about the idea of gathering the people in the surrounding townships and villages, and a large army in the north was attacking Lejin like a surging tide.

In desperation, Lejin immediately issued an order and formed a formation on the spot.

The number of people around him is less than half, only about 2,000 people, facing the wolf-like enemy, fleeing is undoubtedly defeated, and only by fighting to the death can there be a way out.

"Flee, and you will perish. Only by fighting to the death can we live. ”

Le Jin is a brave man, and he roared loudly: "Soldiers, kill the enemy!" ”

"Kill! Fight the enemy! Fight the enemy! ”

Cao Jun's morale was high, and he fought to the death with his back against the water.

Gan Ning rode on horseback, he was the first again, looking at Cao Jun who had formed a formation in the distance, he waved his big knife and roared angrily: "Kill!" ”

"Kill!"

The Huyang garrison was originally under Liu Biao's command, but under Gan Ning's training, it was already a qualified army, relying on a large number of people, surging towards Cao's army.

Le Jin's eyes were red, he gritted his teeth, and he held the long knife in his hand, and he saw the road to the north densely packed with fields, and the overwhelming enemy troops rushed towards him like a tide, and then looked around him.

There were only about 2,000 people alone, huddled together one by one, although they were all elites of a hundred battles, and there was no lack of morale, but after all, they were weak and there was a big gap between them and the enemy in terms of strength.

"Ready!"

Seeing that the enemy was getting closer and closer, Le Jin roared angrily, and Cao Jun, who was standing in the front row, pointed the sharp spears in his hands at the enemy, and in an instant, like a flood, the two sides suddenly collided together.

In an instant, the sound of shouting and fighting, the sound of ping-pong weapons fighting, and the muffled hum of people when knives and guns entered the flesh...... A variety of voices echoed across the battlefield.

"There is a gap in the west, go to a person, hurry up, hurry up, hurry up."

"Retreat first, retreat a little."

"Don't go to the river."

Le Jin sat on the horse and kept shouting and commanding, in the past, he often served as the deputy general of Cao Hong, Cao Ren, Yu Ban and others, and they did the things of battlefield command, and he led the team to charge.

But this time, he was sent by Cao Cao for the first time to lead a team of men and horses to attack Anzhong, in addition to the fact that this task is not too difficult, it is not without the intention of training him.

If it was before, at this time, Le Jin would have already personally gone into battle to cut and kill, taking the lead and staring at the crowd.

But this is by no means the time to get caught in the battle and kill the enemy, once he also enters, it will inevitably collapse the entire chain of command.

Therefore, he could only sit by the river, observe the overall situation of the battlefield, and constantly command the rear soldiers to fill the holes.

Compared with him, Gan Ning's burden is not so heavy.

Because Gan Ning is not actually the commander of this battle, or rather, this battle does not need to be commanded.

In the rear, Deng Hong and Shen Chen were riding on horseback, and they only needed to sit there.

The difference in strength between them is still very large, more than 6,000 soldiers and horses fight more than 2,000, three times the strength, the advantage is mine, I only need to stud out, and the rest will wait for a big victory.

Soon Gan Ning was the first to rush into the enemy formation, slashing left and right with a big knife, killing a bloody path out, causing the first gap.

After the gap appeared, the rear was a steady stream of Ganning troops rushing inside.

From the beginning when the two sides collided like a torrent, to the soldiers at the front turned on their backs one by one, then Gan Ning rushed out of the gap, and then the formation in the northwest direction of Cao's army was scattered, it was only less than five minutes that passed.

Seeing this scene, Le Jin only felt anxious, and immediately shouted: "The gap in the northwest, quickly block it, go to a team of people, what about the people in the rear?" Where did they all die? ”

"General, we don't have anyone on hand anymore, everyone is fighting."

The adjutant next to him mourned.

In the final analysis, Lejin had too few soldiers, half of his troops crossed the river, and the other half remained here, and the bridge was crashed.

Gan Ning's troops numbered more than 6,000 people, in addition to his own 5,000 Huyang defenders, more than 1,000 Huangmenting soldiers also participated, led by Deng Zhao and Shen Zhen to assist Gan Ning in attacking Cao's army.

The difference in the number of enemies was close to three times, so that even in the case of formation, the Cao army did not hold out for long at all, and was soon broken through the formation by the Gan Ning army, and it was scattered.

So now the situation on the entire battlefield has become that after the formation of the Cao army was broken, he had no choice but to fight with Gan Ning's army in a chaotic manner, and there was no formation.

Le Jin hurriedly looked around.

I saw that his army was constantly slashed and stabbed by the Gan Ning army on the periphery with spears and broadswords, and the Cao army inside was constantly retreating, and after the outside was broken through, he could only be forced to fight the enemy in close combat.

Soon the wilderness on the bank of the river was full of fighting Cao and Gan Ning's army, some of them were rolling in the fields, some were pushed into the river, and some of them threw themselves together like stacked arhats.

Slashing with a knife, stabbing with a spear, even biting with teeth, picking out eyeballs, hitting the head with a stone, in order to kill the enemy on the battlefield, as long as you can survive yourself, do everything you can.

"Damn, follow me!"

Le Jin knew that the current situation was very unfavorable to him, so he turned his horse's head, pointed to the northwest and gritted his teeth: "That gap must be blocked, the formation can no longer support it." ”

Under his shout, dozens of guards around him immediately followed his pace and killed in the direction of the gap that Gan Ning had torn open.

The position of Gan Ning's charge was staggered with Le Jin, and he entered the formation alone, surrounded by dozens of Jinfan soldiers to protect him, rampage through the crowd.

A Cao soldier on the left saw the opportunity and stabbed his horse's leg in a low voice, the horse stumbled on its front hooves, and Gan Ning fell off the horse's back in a hurry.

Although he later had the experience of robbing Cao Ying with a hundred horsemen, Gan Ning's riding skills at this time were not as proficient as they were later.

Therefore, after falling off the horse, he also immediately rolled on the spot, and at the same time unloading the force, he came to the side of several Cao soldiers, and slashed with a knife, slashing at the cheek of a Cao Jun, knocking him to the ground.

Immediately afterwards, another Cao Jun on the right side attacked his neck with a ring head knife, and after being dodged by Gan Ning, he stabbed him twice with his backhand, resulting in the life of the Cao Jun who wanted to sneak attack him.

The surrounding Jinfan thieves swarmed up, wiped out the enemies around Gan Ning, and led him to kill the depths of Cao's formation.

"Look, General, someone is rushing towards us."

At this moment, a famous Jinfan thief suddenly noticed a general on horseback on the bank of the river not far away, with dozens of personal guards, who were also wantonly slashing their soldiers, rushing towards them, so he pointed at the man and said to Gan Ning: "This person must be the general of the Cao army." ”

"This person should just be happy."

Gan Ning bit the knife in his mouth, and then wiped his hands with the brocade cloth on his body, his hands were full of blood, and it was easy to slip when he held the handle of the knife. ”

"Kill!"

The Jinfan thieves roared angrily, attacking in the direction of Lejin like wolves and tigers.

Over there, Lejin's team fought hard against them.

Now that the battlefield has become chaotic, Gan Ning and Le Jin are some distance away, and even if they see each other, it is very difficult for the two sides to walk.

However, both of them were fierce generals on the battlefield, and under the cover of their own guards, they rushed left and right, slashed and killed dozens of opposing soldiers, and finally met.

Although Lejin was riding on horseback, he did not have the advantage of charging, the crowd gradually dispersed, there were corpses and obstacles everywhere, and it was impossible for the war horse to run.

Therefore, when the two sides met, Gan Ning jumped up and slashed at Le Jin, and Le Jin also raised his knife to aim at Gan Ning, who jumped up and slashed at him, and slashed head-on!