The sound of water rushed, and under the night, countless black shadows were shaking. Literature bar xba.
"Hurry up, faster!" Chen Dao's low voice was masked by the sound of water. Only those closest to him could hear his order. In order to ensure that the order was conveyed to the ears of every soldier, he did not stop for a moment. Running back and forth.
"Uncle Zhi, don't blow so fast. Before the battle, we should let everyone take more rest." As he was running, the familiar gentle voice came to his ears. Chen Zhi felt warm in his heart and stopped.
"My lord is working hard personally. It's right for brothers to work harder. Besides, it doesn't take much effort." Chen Dao glanced at Liu Bei's side, and then quickly looked away. His movements were not big, but he was surprised in his heart. It's not small.
He couldn't help but be surprised. Liu Beijun was currently plowing up the grass man, and Liu Bei personally came to the end. His movements of plowing the grass man were very neat. Others had not finished one of them, but he had already completed three of them, and each one could stand neutrally in the grass without any hesitation. On the contrary, it looks very much like a real person hiding here.
"My craftsmanship is good, right?" Liu Bei keenly noticed the little movements of his general, and asked with a displeased smile, which made Chen's face heat up, and he asked: "My lord, have you done farm work before?"
"Haha, I don't know something. Before I met my second and third brothers, I made a living by weaving and selling straw shoes, which was lower than farm work." Liu Bei made no secret of his past.
"..." Chen Daotou has been working under Liu Bei for almost a year, but this is the first time he has heard about Liu Bei's past experiences. For a moment, he was stunned and speechless.
"That's nothing?" Liu Bei waved his hand and said gently: "No matter where a hero comes from, Gaozu was not a small official in the countryside back then. As long as you are loyal and loyal, you can work hard to serve the country and benefit the people. On this point, you and I are the same. of."
Chen Dao's words made Chen Dao feel warm in his heart. He cupped his fists and said humbly, "How could you be so virtuous and capable? How dare you compare yourself to my lord?"
"Why not? Bei doesn't have a few more eyes or hands than others, so why can't he compare? In my opinion, my uncle is both civil and military, resolute and courageous. Even if he is compared to Zhou Yafu and Feng Gongsun, he is still comparable. . Why belittle oneself? I only regret that Bei Tu has the name of a clan, but has no real reality. He cannot let Uncle Zhi show his talents and be known to the world and be in Bei's heart. It is a pity and shame."
"My lord is so kind that I will never be able to repay you even if I die."
What Liu Bei was most powerful about was not his martial arts or military strategy, nor his political strategies, but his ability to win over people. His method had little effect on Jia Xu and Xu Huang, but it was extremely lethal against grassroots like Chen Dao. Chen Dao was moved to tears by his words. Even if Liu Bei asked him to die immediately, he would not hesitate.
Chen Dao's background was very poor. Before he met Liu Bei, he was a bandit. Before he was carried up the mountain and became a bandit, he was a very ordinary farmer's boy.
He only learned martial arts and military skills after going up the mountain, but he showed his strong talent very early and was outstanding among the many bandits. If he hadn't been unwilling to be a thief, he would have reluctantly stayed in the village just for my mother. Liu Bei thought It would probably take a lot of effort to destroy his stronghold and subdue this general. It would definitely not be as effortless as it is now.
The win-over method worked. Just as Liu Bei was about to strike while the iron was hot, the neighing of war horses could be heard faintly from the other side of the river. It came together with the river wind and made a faint sound. His heart tightened, knowing that the most important thing now was not to win over Subordinates, we must seize the time to hide the troops.
"Brother, do you really want to fight this battle?" Just as he had time to wave to Chen Dao, Liu Bei heard Guan Yu sigh behind him. When he turned around to look, he found that the emotions contained in the other person's expression were extremely complicated.
"Yun Chang, you have also seen that I did not initiate the provocation. Xiapi and Pengcheng are not under the jurisdiction of Qingzhou. Why can't I defend them? What's more..."
Liu Bei considered his words, and first explained a few words sincerely. Then he changed the subject and his tone became sad: "Shou Chun's secret agent sent back the news that Wang Yu made an agreement on the condition of supporting Yuan Shu in proclaiming the emperor."
!Although Brother Yu is unworthy, he thinks he is not a treacherous person. With the strength of Qingzhou, if he wants to kill Liu Bei, does he need to make such concessions? He clearly regards the orthodoxy of the court and the justice of the world as child's play!
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The noise of men and horses coming from the other side became louder and louder, and the disgust in Liu Bei's tone became stronger and heavier.
The situation was urgent. Chen Dao could not wait for Liu Bei's order and had already gathered his troops to prepare for concealment and ambush. Even so, the expression on Liu Bei's face was only slightly mild.
"..." Guan Yu was silent for a moment. He didn't think that his elder brother would slander Wang Yu with such a thing, and the chance of Xu You's intelligence network making mistakes was very low. That intelligence network was the result of Xu You and many like-minded people who had gone through several years of
It was built from scratch in ten years. It had already taken shape when Xu You conspired to usurp it, and it did not rely on Yuan Shao's power to exist.
Since the feedback was that Yuan Shu intended to proclaim himself emperor, but Wang Yu did not stop him and instead signed an alliance with him, then the elder brother's hatred was due to this, so what could he say?
He spoke with difficulty, only to feel that his mouth was full of bitterness: "Brother has made a decision, and I must obey my order. However, General Wang has always been resourceful. To be ambushed so easily this time... there is no guarantee that it was not his plan."
"What Yun Chang said is very true." Guan Yu finally stopped raising objections, and Liu Bei secretly breathed a long sigh of relief. The feeling of internal and external pressure was uncomfortable, and the second brother finally got the idea, and it really relieved him of his worries.
"However, Wang Yu always behaves unexpectedly. Perhaps he just wants us to think this way so as not to be blocked from going south?"
Of course Liu Bei couldn't say it clearly. Xu You had gone north to contact Liu Yu and the Xianbei tribes. Even if Wang Yu didn't get the news from Yuan Shu, he wouldn't take the tense situation in Youzhou lightly. Wang Yu was in a hurry, even if
We can't defeat him in this battle, and if we can delay his schedule, we have achieved our goal.
"...It is indeed not impossible." Guan Yu pondered for a moment, and soon thought of the battle where Wang Yu laid out a siege plan and blocked the opening of the jaws, so he nodded slightly and agreed.
"Mencius said: If you turn yourself against yourself, you will retreat, even if there are thousands of people, I will go! For the sake of national justice, there are some risks that cannot be avoided even if you know them..." Liu Bei continued speaking with great justice.
He has already made an accurate assessment of the risks of this battle.
The main force in Qingzhou was far away in Liangcheng. As long as there was the slightest disturbance, he could receive the news. Therefore, he determined that Wang Yu only had 500 personal guards around him, and at most, Wei Yan's 500 hidden fogs would accompany him.
Since his troops did not belong to the Xuzhou establishment, it was impossible for Wang Yu to place too many spies in advance. The main force involved in the ambush was the elite Bai Qian reorganized with Chen Dao as the main general. Their number was only 800, and they had been screened countless times.
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There are no absolutes in the world. To say that there are no spies among them may be a sign of conceitedness, but to say that the movements of this team are also under Wang Yu's constant monitoring is too outrageous, and Liu Bei will not believe it.
Take the Qingzhou Army as an example. Liu Bei was well aware of the movements of Yulin in the East China Sea, but Wei Yan's five hundred hidden mists seemed to have disappeared out of thin air, and there was no news at all.
Liu Bei didn't dare to expect that his guards could have the same skills as the Hidden Mist Army, but he felt that the gap between the two should at least not be huge, right?
There may be problems on Cao Bao's side.
However, the information Liu Bei sent to Cao Bao was originally false. The time and place were wrong. Even if a trap was found, it would only alert the Qingzhou Army. But Wang Yu was already very cunning, and Liu Bei had no hope.
The other party will be like a silly roe deer. It will always lead to a struggle when it rushes into its own ambush circle.
If the other party didn't notice, it would be an ambush; if they were discovered, it would be a confrontation by the river. In this night, with more than a thousand people in his hands, it would be damned if Wang Yu could still encircle him.
Therefore, Liu Bei did not think there was much risk in this battle. In fact, he reported high expectations and was very eager.
Guan Yu stopped trying because the cavalry on the other side had already begun to cross the river.
It seemed that the Qingzhou Army was indeed in a hurry and was well prepared. When they arrived at the ferry, they did not spend much energy searching for the ferry. Instead, they directly removed various parts from the saddles of the horses and began to assemble them. After a while,
, there were dozens more sheepskin rafts in the river.
Those who were crossing the river seemed to be a vanguard force, numbering only a few dozen, but the general leading the troops was impatient. Before most of the people had finished blowing up the sheepskin rafts, the first few spies found out the strength of the other side and ordered the horses to be driven off first.
Entering the water. Horses are animals that are born to swim, but they are timid and unwilling to go into the water without being pulled.
Because the cavalry commander was urging hastily, some people whipped their horses and shouted loudly, but more people felt sorry for the horses. They not only carefully coaxed their own horses, but also protested against those who beat the horses, and the scene became chaotic.
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Guan Yu and Chen Dao looked at Liu Bei and asked him for instructions with their eyes. It would be a good idea to take advantage of the chaos to attack. With luck, they might be able to annihilate the vanguard.
Liu Bei shook his head of course. He likes to use surprise troops, which does not mean that he acts recklessly. It is easy to deal with the enemy now, but it will be troublesome after alerting the enemy.
After a while of fussing, the general seemed to have figured it out. He no longer rushed to drive his horses across the river, but sent more men, half of whom were assigned to cross the river first and search around the river bank.
Liu Bei still didn't move. He had already thought that his opponent might do this, and he chose a good ambush location. If Wang Yu was not in a hurry, crossing the river during the day would be a bit dangerous, but in this night, he really had nothing to worry about.
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Search found no exception.
The Qingzhou Army's scouts were very strong, but they did not have night vision devices or infrared rays. In ancient times when night blindness was still a common problem, it was already remarkable to be able to carry out night reconnaissance smoothly. They would certainly be helpless against an enemy who was well prepared.
War horses climbed onto the shore one after another, and walked in groups to graze close to the river beach. It was summer, and the cool river water would only make them more comfortable, not the other way around, but the long journey made them hungry.
, it is rare for them to have free time, so they naturally need to take more supplements.
More and more Qingzhou soldiers walked onto the river beach, sucking in the air-conditioning and taking off their wet clothes. The river water was not very cold, but the waterproof effect of the leather armor was much worse than that of the war horse's fur. The leather clothes soaked by the water stuck to their bodies.
My body felt cold and hard.
The opportunities were getting better and better, but Liu Bei still refused to issue orders. The eight hundred elites were like hibernating bears, motionless, just watching the enemy complete their rest and build a circular simple defensive position on the river bank.
Patience is rewarded. Just after the position was completed, the river breeze once again brought the rumble of the roar of horse hooves...