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Chen Mi frowned. He was about to transfer Longzhong's ship, but the military advisor ordered him to send the ship to Longzhong.

Although Chen Mi was a little reluctant, Chen Mi dared not refuse to obey Jia Xu's order. He turned to a general and said, "General Zhou, you can lead the headquarters to Longzhong Wharf, patrol the river surface, and go immediately."

The general Zhou Xin agreed, got off the big ship, led fifty warships to leave the defensive formation, and headed towards Longzhong Wharf dozens of miles west.

Pin led 5,000 soldiers to chase after him. The army was still several miles away from Tanxi. He found a fire in front of him from afar. Pin was puzzled and immediately sent an escort to check. Soon, the escort ran back and reported, "Report to General, the Tanxi Bridge was burned by Cao's army."

Pin was stunned and looked south again. He saw a faint light of fire rushing up more than ten miles away. It was another bridge, which was also set on fire by Cao's army. This made Pin feel angry and immediately ordered: "Cut down the trees immediately to build a floating bridge."

Tanxi is only a few feet wide, and a floating bridge can be built directly with a big tree to cross the river. Several soldiers quickly cut down more than a dozen weeping willows on the shore and dragged them to the river. Unexpectedly, as soon as they arrived by the river, a sudden sound of buzzing sounds on the other side of the river, and dense arrows shot towards them. The soldiers were caught off guard and fell to the ground. The soldiers behind were so scared that they turned around and fled.

"General, Cao's army is ambushing the other side." A military marquis urgently reported to Pin.

This news made Pin immediately alert. Cao Jun was actually ambushed. He thought about it and turned to his general Zhang Yanling and said, "Take a thousand brothers to build a bridge across the river, be careful of the other party's cold arrows."

Zhang Yan agreed and led a thousand soldiers to run towards Tanxi, and looked at the other side with full concentration. If arrows still attacked, he could forcefully cross the river. If there was no movement, he would have to be careful, and there might be ambush ahead.

At this time, the Han army cut down dozens of big trees and built a simple floating bridge on the river surface, but no cold arrows were shot. It seemed that Cao's army, who was shooting archers, ran away. Zhang Yan was about to cross the river, and immediately sent someone to stop him. He urged him to go forward and said, "This is the enemy's plan to lure troops. There must be ambush on the upper side and you should not move forward recklessly."

Zhang Yan was puzzled and asked, "I don't understand. Since there are no arrows, it means that Cao's army is just harassing us across the river. There should be no ambush. Why do the general think there is an ambush?"

Pin sneered, "The military strategy is the truth, and the virtual one is the real one. The other party is Zhang Liao. How could he not know that the little Tanxi is not my army? He burned the bridge and deliberately sent someone to fire a cold arrow just to lead me to pursue him. If I rush across the river and drilled into the enemy's encirclement and then broke, we might be wiped out."

"The general makes sense, so it's better to send a probe to explore first. If there is no abnormality, we will cross the river and pursue it."

Pin nodded, "Yes"

Zhang Yan immediately sent several scouts to the front to inquire about the news. He was recruited at 5,000 but was not in a hurry to cross the river. He patiently waited for the scout's news. After half an hour, a scout came back to report, "There are no ambushes within ten miles ahead."

Pin was a little confused. Did he make a mistake in his judgment? At this time, Zhang Yan asked for instructions again: "May I ask General, do you continue to march?"

Pin nodded and immediately ordered: "The army crosses the river, continue to march."

Five thousand Han troops crossed Tanxi and continued to pursue. After chasing for more than ten miles, Zhang Yan rushed over to report: "Report to General Qi, the situation is a bit wrong. All the scouts sent by Beizhi have disappeared and have not returned."

Pin was shocked and quickly strangled his horses and looked around. They had entered the Longzhong Mountains. Two miles ahead was Longzhong Town. There were mountains and valleys around him, which were easy to ambush the enemy. He immediately realized that something was wrong and immediately ordered: "Go back to the army quickly."

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard drums in the valleys on both sides, and fires were everywhere. Two armies, one left and one right, rushed out of the valleys on both sides. It was impossible to see how many people were in the darkness. In the fire, a general was seen wielding a gun. It was Li Dian, the general of Cao's army.

The marching team hired was several miles long, and it was difficult to gather together to meet the battle. It was immediately divided into two by Cao's army. The marching army was in chaos. The marching team shouted to Zhang Yan quickly: "Staminate the army and break back to Xiangyang."

He waved his willow-leaf sword and urged his horse to greet Li Dian, shouting, "The thief will take me a knife."

The sword was slashed towards him, and the sword was fierce. Li Dian also shouted, swinging his gun to fight. The two of them intertwined their war horses and fought fiercely on the official road.

He was a well-known general of martial arts. He was once one of Liu Biao's powerful generals. Later, he was listed as one of the five tiger generals in Jingzhou. It was not until Ma Chao and Pang De surrendered that he retired from the five tiger generals. Li Dian was also a famous general under Cao Cao, who was both martial and had strategies. The plan to cut off the bridge to lure troops was his arrangement, and he eventually attracted the recruitment.

However, in terms of martial arts, Li Dian was weaker than Yu Jin, Zhang Liao and others, and they were slightly inferior to recruitment. The two fought fiercely for more than twenty rounds, and Li Dian gradually became dissatisfied. He made a flaw and pulled out of the fierce battle circle and urged the horse to defeat the west. His retreat immediately weakened the Cao army's offensive a little.

Bien seized this opportunity and shouted, "Brothers, break out."

At this time, Zhang Yan had stabilized the morale and formation of the Han army. Under the leadership of the gui, they rushed out of the encirclement of Cao's army and quickly retreated to Xiangyang City. At this time, Li Dian killed him again. Seeing that the Han army had retreated, he stopped chasing him and led his army to the direction of Longzhong Wharf to run towards Longzhong Wharf.

Longzhong Wharf is half smaller than Xiangyang Wharf, and the other side is Deng County. The terrain on this area is gentle, and even if it is not on the wharf, it is possible to cross the river. The available river banks are several miles wide. Since the Cao army is mainly concentrated in the Xiangfan area, the river surface in Longzhong is not the focus of Han warship patrols, and there are less than twenty warships.

The warships mainly defended the north shore, and there were almost no warships patrolling in the area near the south shore. Zhang Liao's army had stopped about one mile from the dock. The soldiers blew all the sheepskin rafts, and soon, thousands of sheepskin rafts were ready.

At this time, an inquirer rushed to report: "Report to General Qi, there are no enemy warships on the south bank of the river, but there are on the north bank."

Zhang Liao was even more worried that Xiangyang's warships arrived, so he immediately ordered: "Go to cross the river."

More than 20,000 Cao army soldiers carried sheepskin rafts and rushed towards the riverside. Rafts rushed into the river one by one. The soldiers jumped onto the rafts one by one. According to the Cao army's system, there were tithings and rafts. Such a leader led the command and division of labor. Four soldiers paddled with wooden oars, and the other six soldiers raised their bows and crossbows to be responsible for the surrounding vigilance.

In just a moment, thousands of sheepskin rafts appeared on the river surface, struggling to paddle to the other side, looking down from a high place, I saw countless small black dots floating on the river surface, with a huge momentum and spectacularity.

It was already four o'clock, the night was dark, the river was covered with darkness, the spring was chilly and the wind was roaring. The Han army's warships finally discovered the abnormality on the south bank, and more than twenty warships turned around and rushed towards the southern river.

The Han army warships on the Longzhong River were mainly five-stone warships, and there was also a thousand-stone warship, commanded by a military marquis. He saw that the situation was critical and immediately ordered people to rush to Xiangyang for help.

"Crash them over" the Han army commanded loudly, and the sound of war drums sounded on the river surface. More than 20 Han army warships quickly rushed into the Cao army group. When the ships approached slightly, Cao army on the raft raised crossbows and shot arrows. Arrows on the river surface flew like rain, shooting towards the enemy ships that were hitting towards them.

With a loud "boom", the warship hit a sheepskin raft, and the huge waves stirred up overturned the raft. Amid the screams, ten Cao soldiers fell into the water and asked for help on the river in horror.

The warship ignored it and hit another sheepskin raft head-on. Although most of the warships were only five stones, they still looked huge in size and had a huge difference in strength, but in terms of number, they were far fewer than thousands of rafts. Although the warships rushed across the river, the number was still small. More Cao's rafts rushed through the Han River blockade and crossed the Han River.

Zhang Liao was behind the team. He was about to wait for Li Dian's army to come. At this time, soldiers came to report that Li Dian's army had passed Longzhong Town and was coming quickly towards the dock. Zhang Liao then boarded a large sheepskin raft with his fifty personal soldiers and two war horses on the raft. The soldiers rowed hard and drove towards the opposite shore.

But at this moment, the low trumpet sound came from the river in the distance, and the whistle trumpet sound echoed on the river surface. Then the drums rumbling, and dozens of Han warships appeared on the river surface. These were warships sent by the navy leader Shen Mi to support Longzhong, about fifty. They also knew that Longzhong had military information and were sailing west quickly.

At this time, half of Cao's army had not crossed the river. Zhang Liao's face changed drastically and he immediately ordered: "Order the guards to fight."

Zhang Liao also trained a Nanyang naval army of 2,000 people in Wancheng. Compared with the soldiers from the north, they were better at water and could fight on the river. In the plan to cross the river, Zhang Liao did not consider water battles with the Han army, but just wanted to cross the river as soon as possible. However, at this time, the arrival of the Han army's reinforcements forced him to change his plan.

The sound of the war drums of the Cao army were also ringing, and the fierce and rhythmic war drums echoed on the river surface. This was the order to fight. The two escort rafts that were crossing the river began to gather quickly and headed towards the oncoming Han warships.

The Han army's tooth general was named Zhou Xin. He was the one who caught Guan Yu in Jiangling and was promoted from military Hou to tooth general. His bravery and good fighting were recognized by Gan Ning. He specially appointed him as Shen Mi's deputy general. Zhou Xin was a native of the southerner and had never seen a sheepskin raft. He was also quite surprised. However, at this time, nearly two Cao army strange ships attacked his fleet from all directions. Arrows on the river were like rain. Many soldiers were caught in arrows. He did not dare to underestimate the enemy and ordered: "Attack with stone cannons."

The stone cannon is a stone generator. Cao's army called the thunderbolt cannon. It is like a giant crossbow that launches stones. It is much smaller than the trencher and has a range of more than fifty steps at most. However, its advantage is that it is relatively accurate and is especially suitable for use on ships.

The warships led by Zhou Xin are different from the Longzhong Patrol Ship. At least half are the main warships of Thousand Stones, most of which are equipped with stone cannons. As the sound of rocks banging sounds echoed on the river surface, large stones weighing more than ten pounds were smashed towards the sheepskin raft.

With a loud bang, a big rock hit a sheepskin raft. Several Cao soldiers were hit and screamed, and they fell into the water from the raft. The big ship immediately rushed in and knocked over the raft. More than 50 Han army warships were very sharp, knocking over dozens of leather rafts in a row. The river was full of Cao soldiers who fell into the water to seek help.

However, Cao's fierce counterattack also severely damaged the Han army's warships. Several rafts surrounded a thousand stone warship. On the raft, Cao's soldiers threw pots filled with tinder oil onto the large ship and lit the tinder oil with rockets. The large ship began to burn rapidly and was soon engulfed by the flames.

The Cao army acted as usual and lit eight Han army warships in a row. The flames soared into the sky and the smoke rolled. On the river where the two armies were fighting fiercely, countless Cao army soldiers paddled desperately, and dense sheepskin rafts sailed towards the opposite shore in the waves.

But many Cao troops who fell into the water also found a way to survive. They used their knives to cut the rope of the sheepskin raft, held an air-filled sheepskin bag, and swam to the other side.
Chapter completed!