Chapter Twenty-Three: One Man Saves Ten Thousand Nations
Years later, in a small village in Beihai County, several veterans recalled the eventful years of the past, and one of the veterans talked about what he saw that day.
At that time, he was lying in a sea of fire, and he struggled to soak himself in the water, but he saw a red lightning bolt suddenly burst out, and crossed several feet from the shore to the burning boat.
Immediately after, another flash of white lightning leaped along the path of the building ship.
After that, in the sound of "squeak", the anchor of the building boat was let go by someone for nowhere, and the huge building boat was hit by the current and hit the boat next to it.
In the loud sound of "dong dong", the building boat changed from parallel to horizontal and vertical water.
After that, the two bolts of lightning rushed again from the bow of the ship farthest from the shore.
"Whirring" twice, and two bolts of lightning jumped back to the shore.
The veteran said that the lightning bolt was actually two handsome horses, and at once sat two generals, one of them, with long hair fluttering, who could not distinguish between men and women, and the other, young and handsome, roaring in the sea of fire.
He shouted: "The banner of the general road is here, come and assemble!" ”
Soon, the two bolts of lightning were gone.
Later, he learned that the god-like figure was the general of Beifu, Cao Wu, and his wife...... One of Cao Ah Da.
Ah Da leaned over and leaned against Cao Wu, who pulled the reins of the little white horse with one hand and caressed the neck of the little red horse with the other.
Both horses were snorting and panting.
He looked left and right, and found a high point to plug in the big thread.
That night, the army in the sea of fire panicked, but when the Chinese army of the road recruited was raised high again, everyone knew where the commander was.
But the situation is too chaotic, and relying on the appeal of the road moves alone, it is no longer possible to gather all the troops.
Cao Wu wiped his face with his sleeves, and saw that the people gathered were not as many as he imagined.
"What should I do?"
Ah Da Urgent.
Cao Wu ordered a few soldiers who had gathered and shouted, "Shout with me!" ”
The little soldier nodded yes, and Cao Wu shouted: "Brother Cao Mengde, Prime Minister of the Han Dynasty, I am Cao Wu, the general of Beifu, the younger brother of the Prime Minister, come and get close to the Chinese army!" ”
The soldiers were taken aback, they may not know Cao Mengde's words, but everyone knows who the four words of the prime minister of the Han Dynasty are, Cao Mengde's younger brother, in their eyes, has a status even higher than that of the emperor's relatives and relatives, because it was not the Son of Heaven who led them to victory, but the former Sikong and the current Prime Minister Cao Cao.
The soldiers trembled, did not dare to slack off, and shouted in unison.
Not long after, shouts were being shouted everywhere in the barracks: "Prime Minister's brother Cao Wu, General of Beifu, is in the Chinese army, go to the Chinese army to assemble quickly!" ”
Soon, the thousand-man team of Qingzhou soldiers who were far away also heard the shout, and the captain of the thousand-man team, a young and incredible young general, immediately ordered the thousand-man team to maintain the formation and slowly advance in the direction of the shore erected by Daxu, while pressing down, while collecting the rout.
Cao Cao's name, like a god in the army, and the name of Cao Cao's brother is also very loud, even Cao Wu didn't expect Cao Cao's name appeal to be so strong, shouting like this, gathering people's hearts, many soldiers heard the shout, and even crossed the sea of fire to get closer to him.
Da Xujia shouted, and the hearts of the defeated soldiers finally settled down, and they gradually gathered together with the Chinese army, and the situation stabilized.
On the river, those small boats saw the Chinese army regrouping and routing, and they were a little anxious and ready to move.
The soldiers on these small boats are all experienced in water warfare, and they know that now is not like just now, just now it was chaotic, and they could shoot at close range, but now they can't, they have stopped a stone's throw away.
The bow and arrow at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty generally had a range of less than 120 meters in later generations, and it was difficult to break through 150 meters if there were one or two strong ones, unless it was a hard crossbow used for siege. Now the Road Recruitment Department obviously does not have this kind of hard crossbow.
Although the width of the Han River at this time was wider than that of later generations, the widest point was only 400 meters, and now this section of the river is only more than 300 meters wide.
On a fast boat, there was a Jinyi general standing at the bow of the ship and said: "I don't know who set up the big sword later, but he has some ability, but he is only a defeated general." Cao Cao's Seventh Army, but that's it! ”
This general is the Jinfan thief Gan Ning Gan Xingba that Cao Wu said.
Gan Ning was born in a wealthy family, and had a bold personality when he was young, but because he did not obey discipline and was brave and ruthless, he came out to be a water bandit on the Yangtze River.
Later, he changed his ways and became a petty official under Liu Biao, and because of discord with Shangguan, he defected to Sun Quan.
This time, I heard that Cao Cao was coming with 800,000 troops, and the Jiangdong officials wavered, and Gan Ning was not ashamed of their surrender, so he directly drove a boat to visit Cao's army.
I didn't expect that it was just a night attack that would achieve such great results.
The northerners are not good at water warfare, which can be seen from this.
The general next to him echoed: "The general has won this great victory, and the good news will be brought back to Chaisang, which will definitely stabilize the morale of the army!" ”
Gan Ning thought so and laughed out loud, and suddenly, the sound of "whoosh" breaking through the air sounded, and a sharp arrow shot from the shore.
Gan Ning was frightened and dodged, he was very far from the shore, how could there be arrows?
Gan Ning dodged, but the arrow hit the auxiliary car by mistake, shot the neck of the general who spoke, and the school mouth was bleeding, and he saw that he was not alive.
Gan Ning turned around angrily and saw from a distance that there was a white-horse general on the shore, standing on a bamboo raft on horseback.
The white horse general drew his bow and shot arrows, and shot again, and Gan Ning took his strong bow while dodging.
With a "bang", General White Horse shot an arrow at the flag standing on his ship, breaking the flagpole directly.
The soldiers on Gan Ning's many ships fired back with arrows.
However, their arrows fell into the water without reaching the shore, and the farthest one fell a few feet from the shore.
It's the same archery, and the white horse general shoots so far farther than them!
Gan Ning roared angrily, and he also fired back with an arrow, this arrow was much farther than ordinary soldiers, and went straight to General Baima.
The white horse general turned over and dismounted, and the arrow pierced through the air, and he got on the horse again after just a little ground under the horse.
The bamboo raft swayed, and the white horse general shouted: "Who are you, leave your name!" ”
"Jiangbiao Gan Xingba is also, which one are you!"
Along with Gan Ning's answer, it was Gan Ning's new arrow.
This time, General Baima was prepared, the crescent halberd in his hand pulled away the arrows, and shouted at the same time: "General Zhang Wenyuan is here, and he will take revenge for robbing the camp today!" ”
Gan Ning laughed: "Just come!" ”
The two generals, one of whom broke 100,000 in the later generations, and the other who robbed the Wei camp in the later generations, looked at each other across the river today, as if it was fate.
On the other side, with Cao Wu's efforts, more and more soldiers and horses gathered.
The captain of the Qingzhou army finally joined Cao Wu's Chinese army, and the young captain didn't wait for Cao Wu's orders, nor did he come to see Cao Wu, so he went to order the soldiers first, and let his herald read the numbers of each department.
Through this comparison, the generals of each ministry were combined with their own soldiers.
When the situation gradually stabilized, the young captain rushed to Cao Wu, he was an infantryman, looked up at Cao Wu, who was disgraced on the little red horse, and saluted with respect on his face: "Captain Biqiu Jian, meet His Majesty General Beifu!" ”
Cao Wu looked at this captain, who was obviously only sixteen or seventeen years old, and said with a stunned expression: "Who? ”
"Biqiu Jian!"
Biqiu Jian thought that his surname was uncommon, but Cao Wu didn't hear it clearly, which was normal for him, so he repeated it.
He acted as a young man and was completely out of step with his age.
Seeing that Cao Wu did not react, he said again: "In the previous chaos, our department killed friendly troops, and it was the responsibility of the subordinate alone, not the fault of the subordinates, please blame the general!" ”
Cao Wu turned over and dismounted, supported Biqiu Jian and said: "Captain Biqiu is young and promising, he is not chaotic in the face of danger, he maintains the formation, and he can collect the rout, so he is a hero of the battle, hurry up." ”
Ah Da, who was already hiding on the side, couldn't help but nod with satisfaction when he saw that Cao Wu had finally done something to enhance his prestige.
How did she know that what Cao Wu was thinking at this time was, obediently, Biqiu Jian who destroyed Goguryeo, and she must take good care of it.
Hearing Cao Wu's words, Biqiu Jian's face was finally moved, and he said gratefully: "General Beifu obtained Daxu in the fire, and saved 10,000 people by himself, which is really a model for my generation!" ”
The soldiers next to him nodded their heads.
At this time, there were waves on the river again, and Gan Ning's Jinfan team was also on fire for some reason.
……
When it was, the general entered and exited three times in the fire, and set up a large army in the Chinese army, and the crowd gathered, and there were countless living people.
First, Emperor Taizu Wu whipped Yunei, and the general often hid behind the scenes, and no one knew. However, in this battle, the general saved 10,000 people with one person, and the name of the general was known in the army.
After the fierce battle of Chibi, the reputation of the Beifu general in the army gradually increased.
Excerpt from the history of the roadside field "The Great General of the Universe", the author, the historian Cao Aliu, who did not want to be named.