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At dusk, above the muddy water, a piece of golden waves scales.
Gao Ran stood on the bow of the ship with his hands in his hands, and glanced down at his businessman's dress, which made him feel quite uncomfortable.
Looking back at the back, more than 20 merchant ships were following closely behind, and on the mast, the merchant flag with the word "Zheng" was fluttering in the wind.
Gao Ran's trip was ordered by Zhang He to take the water village quietly.
On the surface, these merchant ships are marked with the Zheng merchant ships, and the boats are busy with some boatmen who are rocking and sailing, all wearing the uniform dress of the Zheng business, but in the cabin, there are hidden crossbows, steel swords and armor, and the soldiers on the ships are all selected from the 100,000 Taiping Army.
It was nearly evening, and the merchant ship sailed to the waters of the south bank, and slowly approached the water camp downstream of the south bank.
As soon as he saw a ship approaching, a vigilant group of Cao Jun quickly rushed to the trestle, and the military Sima led by him ordered his subordinates to bend their bows and arrows while standing on the shore, shouting loudly, so that the merchant ships could not approach the shore.
"Don't let go of the arrows, the grass people are the caravan of the Zheng family in Xingyang, if it is too late today, I don't dare to continue sailing, I just want to stop at the ferry for a night, and I hope that the military master will be gracious."
Gao Ran smiled with his hands, the boat had not docked, and the person had jumped off and waded ashore in a few steps.
When Sima heard that it was the Zheng family's caravan, his guard was a little lax, but he said in a deep voice: "There is an order from the upper peak, and any idle people are not allowed to enter the ferry without permission, so you better leave quickly." ” "It's dark this day, and the guys are tired, so it's convenient to ask the military master to travel."
Gao Ran approached with a smile, and casually gave a piece of mutton fat jade pendant, pretending to give it to the military Sima.
The military Sima is a knowledgeable person, and he took a photo in the afterglow of the sunset, and he knew that it was pure mutton fat jade, worth thousands of gold, and it was available to ordinary people, and he couldn't help but be overjoyed, and secretly admired that this Xingyang Zheng family was really a big family in the Central Plains, and the shot was indeed generous, and only the Xingyang Zheng family would have such a big deal as soon as he made a move, and his doubts were reduced by a few points.
The military Sima immediately put the mutton fat jade pendant into his arms, immediately changed his face again, waved his hand, and said: "It is really dangerous to sail at night, so I will open the net and let you stay at the ferry for a while, but you all have to stay on the boat and are not allowed to get off the boat, you know?"
"Little understand, thank you Jun Ye."
Gao Ran thanked him again and again, and hurriedly called the rest of the merchant ships to dock, and called for the wine and food prepared on the ship to reward the soldiers on the shore guard.
The money was also taken, the wine was drunk, and the Cao soldiers were even more relaxed, and they relaxed their vigilance after the release.
A sober-minded military marquis couldn't help but ask: "Is it inappropriate for so many merchant ships to dock here, it is better to ask General Man and General Liu first" The military Sima couldn't help but be angry, he had just received a heavy gift from others, if the mother asked Man Zhong and Liu Ye, it would be a bad trouble, not only would the jade pendant be handed over, but he might also be punished The army Sima said angrily: "Some small things, Lao Tzu has done the master, there is no need to bother the two generals" The marquis was yelled at by him, so he had to bow his head and stop talking.
Looking at those soldiers who were eating and drinking, a sneer flashed in Gao Lan's eyes, and he muttered: "General Zhang said that money can make ghosts grind, and sure enough, it's just a pity that my family heirloom jade pendant, which has been passed down for three generations."
Before you know it, it's nightfall.
The moon is as cool as water, although it is the middle of spring, but the night is still cold, the Cao Jun Water Village in the night fog, a silence, the lights are dim, there are still teams of patrolling soldiers shuttling back and forth.
There are crossbow arrows on top of the arrow tower, and there are still sentinel boats cruising on the river.
In the dry village on the shore, a team of soldiers and horses galloped slowly, and one person in the middle, wearing refined chain armor, hanging a sword at his waist, and riding a white horse on his hips, was Liu Ye, the chief general of the Cao army.
Cao Cao's main army has reached more than 100 miles away, and it will be reached in less than three days, Man Zhong and Liu Ye naturally know that the more critical the moment, the more they can't take it lightly, especially at night, and it is when the enemy attacks at night, so the two of them will take turns to inspect it in case anything goes wrong.
Liu Ye slowly came to the front of the water village surrounded by a group of generals, then turned over and dismounted, and patrolled all the way along the water village.
Liu Ye and Man Chong are both strict in governing the army, along the way when they meet dozing off, only chatting sergeants, they are severely reprimanded, and when they meet the soldiers who stick to their posts, they praise and comfort them, for a while, where Liu Ye walked, everyone looked solemn, stood straight, and was full of energy.
It's just that the sky is not satisfactory, maybe Cao Cao's gas is exhausted, and the direction of Liu Ye's inspection this time is to go upstream first, and plan to inspect the upstream and then inspect the downstream, otherwise Zhang He's plan will be empty after all.
Seeing that Liu Ye was gradually moving towards the upstream direction of the northwest, the Gongsun army in the downstream direction of the southeast had already begun to move.
At the second watch, Gao Ran saw that the time was almost up, so he ordered all the soldiers hidden in the cabin to get off the ship.
More than a dozen elite scouts, like raccoon cats, had already sneaked to the bank of the river and killed the guards on the watchtower on the bank of the river.
Hundreds of elite soldiers of the Gongsun Army, like ghosts, took advantage of the cover of night to walk through and quietly touched the shore.
A patrol group of soldiers just arrived, and when they saw this group of uninvited guests, before they could react, they heard the sound of crossbow arrows, and this patrol team of more than 20 people died under the random arrows before they could make a sound.
Hula-la Hundreds of Gongsun soldiers poured into the water village like a tide.
Click, click, click The hand rises and falls, a drunken guard on duty, all in their sleep to do the ghost under the knife, occasionally meet the sober, after all, not defeated those wolf-like elite soldiers, either become a ghost under the knife, or be shot into a hedgehog by random arrows.
Gao Ran successfully held the shore and hurriedly ordered three piles of trumpet fires to send a signal to the main army on the north bank.
At night, on the north bank of the Junshui River, boats of all sizes are like clouds, and there are countless bamboo rafts, crowding the riverbank.
Zhang He held a hundred steel-making long knives in his hand, standing proudly on the largest warship in the middle, his expression was solemn, his eyes were like lightning, and he stared at the opposite shore tightly.
Whew On a high mound of earth on the opposite bank, a fire rose into the sky, illuminating the sky above the entire dredging water, and also igniting the blood and passion in the hearts of 100,000 Taiping soldiers.
Zhang He's spirits were greatly lifted, and he raised his knife and roared angrily: "Pull the sails and set off" Ho ho Tens of thousands of soldiers behind him roared like thunder, the sails were pulled up, countless boats and oarboards waved in unison, and the sound of water on the entire river was loud.
After a short time, one by one, the rafts, under the guidance of the fire, smoothly sailed into the water village on the opposite bank.
Pei Yuanshao and Zhou Cang, the second general, led hundreds of Gongsun soldiers and soldiers, jumped off the boat and fought all the way into the enemy camp.
Lost vigilance, defenseless, the enemy in the water village was killed to cry wolf, and then countless torches were lit, lit everywhere, the water village was lit, everywhere was firelight and smoke, making the enemy in the water village more and more chaotic.
Tens of thousands of soldiers took advantage of the chaos to slash and kill everywhere in the enemy's water village, and the Cao army was suddenly attacked, and the troops and equipment were at a disadvantage.
When the Gongsun army had all landed on the north shore and swept most of the water village all the way, Liu Ye hurriedly led his troops to come, but unfortunately it was too late, even if Zhang He maintained a gentlemanly demeanor at this moment, and let Liu Ye and Man Chong organize a queue to meet the battle, it was only a share of being crushed, not to mention a chaotic army.
Liu Ye is not a person who does not know the current affairs, seeing such a scene, he knew that the general trend had gone, and immediately led the two or three thousand people temporarily organized around him to rush to the dry village.
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At this time, Man Chong also hurriedly came with four or five thousand Cao Jun's elite who had gathered temporarily, and the two met at the exit of the dry village.
Man Chong asked urgently: "Ziyang, why is the military situation so far?"
Liu Ye sighed helplessly and said: "I didn't notice it for a while, I was concealed by the thief army, and I attacked the water village, I can't do anything, it's useless to stay longer, let's withdraw quickly."
Seeing Liu Ye's expression, Man Chong knew in his heart that he was powerless to return to the sky, so he immediately ordered the horn to withdraw his troops, and joined forces with Liu Ye and fled south.
Zhang He, who climbed on the riverbank, had already turned over and got on his horse, dancing with a long knife in his hand, riding like the wind, killing all the way from the shore and beach, the thirty-two pounds of long knives swept over, and his head was cut off like cutting a watermelon.
Tens of thousands of troops soon entered the dry village, but the dry village was similar to the water village, there were deserters everywhere, and many soldiers who could not escape raised their hands to surrender.
At dawn, when the first rays of sunlight penetrated the morning mist, Zhang He, who had not slept all night, did not feel the slightest sleepiness, looking at the banner of the Gongsun Army looming in the morning mist, fluttering above the water village, his cold and iron-like face, couldn't help but swell with a happy smile.
In this battle, more than 2,000 of the 30,000 Cao troops were killed, 10,000 people were captured, thousands of people were scattered, and finally those who fled with Liu Ye and Man Favor were only more than 10,000 people.
After cleaning the battlefield, it was already noon, and at this time, a horse came running.
"Report that the army of the Duke of Wei is twenty miles away, and it can be reached before sunset" Zhang He laughed and said to the generals behind him; "The vanguard Taiping Army, fortunately not dishonored" The third watch has arrived, fortunately not disgraced, by the way, I ask for a few monthly passes to be renewed
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