On June 12th, just one day after Sun Jian issued a declaration of war, early that morning, heavy rain fell again in the Qingshui River Basin at the southernmost tip of Nanyang.

It was summer and it was in the south again. Considering the climate of this era and this place, it seemed natural that such rain was. However, for Zhu Zhi, who was born in Jiangnan and had been through war for a long time, he noticed a strange smell from the heavy rain.

Or simply say bluntly that when the heavy rain fell, Zhu Zhi, who was divided into Chaoyang City on the west bank of the Qingshui River, had inexplicably gained more confidence in this battle. He began to believe that Sun Wentai's fighting spirit was not aimless... At least no one could deny it at this time. Under such rain, the power of Lu Bu's 800 cavalry would always be greatly reduced, and their whistle cavalry advantages would be obscured by heavy rain.

This is a fighter plane!

Sure enough, just after breakfast, Sun Wentai sent his trusted guards to Chaoyang County where Zhuzhi was stationed to pass the order.

"General," facing Zhu Zhi, who was promoted to the position of two thousand stone commanders in Sun Jian's camp as early as the Changsha period, and was even more deemed to be the general of the Central Army, the person who passed the order was respectful. "The king and the lord have an order, please ask the general to lead the entire army across the river to the east bank to meet him. Before noon, you must cross all the crossings! Don't have baggage, flags and drums, but you must bring all the straw mats in the city!"

Zhu Junli, who had been mentally prepared, was rarely stunned because there were too many incredible and unexpected aspects of this too simple military order.

Not to mention the fact that straw mats are not straw mats, it is likely that it is raining to facilitate the soldiers to rest on the way, nor does it mean that the whole army is lightly equipped, but just crossing the river is a bit off guard.

Speaking of this, we must first understand the terrain of the battlefield here... The water of the water is roughly north-south, but it is combined into one in front of Deng County (it is considered to be a water of the water that is injected into the water of the water), and then continues to travel south and then flows into the water of the water under the city of Xiangyang.

Among them, Xinye City, where Sun Jian's main force stationed, is located in the narrow and Yangtze River Delta between the Bishui River; and Liu Pan, Cai Mao, Huang Zhong and Lu Bu are stationed in front of Deng County, located in the open area west of the Bishui River; Huang Zu and Yuan Shu are under Caiyang City east of the Bishui River... Sun Wentai wants to attack the former, he needs to cross the Qingshui River, and to attack the latter, he needs to cross the Bishui River. In fact, the two opponents want to support each other, they only need to cross a river, because Bishui and Qingshui River are combined into one in front.

Or just look at the point where the water is versatile and water junction, three lines extend out, namely, the water versatile and water versatile and water after the merging. The three troops are in the three fan-shaped areas, with only one river between each other.

In this case, Chaoyang City, located on the west bank of the Qingshui River, not far from Xinye City, but also protruded four or five miles southward, is particularly important because it is not only an important barrier to the direction of Liu Pan, Deng County and Lu Bu during the defense, but also an outpost during the attack... Otherwise, Sun Jian would not have asked Zhu Zhi to come here immediately after hearing that the other party had increased its troops.

However, the problem now is that since we are going to attack the enemy in Deng County, shouldn’t the main force of the entire army secretly cross the river from behind Chaoyang City to the west bank through heavy rain? Why did we instead lead the entire army to the east bank?

Could it be that he had changed his mind temporarily and wanted to take advantage of the heavy rain to sneak attack Yuan Shu and Huang Zu under Caiyang City on the east bank of Bishui?

Thinking of this seems to be much more reasonable, because it is definitely not a simple matter to cross the river in heavy rain. As a tributary of the water, the water level is much slower than the water, and the river channel is much narrower. If you walk faster, it is easier to cross the river. Huang Yuan and the other two have no military strength and combat power advantages. In addition, they are both famous mixed players. In such heavy rain, they probably would have left their troops and hurried to the city of Caiyang to have fun.

"The whole army converged to Xinye City on the east bank?" As soon as he thought of this, Zhu Zhi immediately confirmed the military order seriously. "Or just cross the river from Chaoyang City to the east and wait for the army to converge in the wilderness?"

"It's not Xinye City!" The person who sent the order had already received Sun Jian's order, so he naturally pointed out the key points immediately. "The king and the prince asked the general to throw down Chaoyang City immediately, leaving all the flags and inconvenient things, just to try his best to collect things like straw mats, and the rest of the army crossed the river eastward while it was lightly raining, and converged on the other side of Chaoyang City!"

Zhu Zhi understood and nodded on his face, but nodded no longer hesitated and acted immediately.

Speaking of which, Chaoyang and Xinye were opposite each other across the river, and now they were even more connected to the army. Zhu Zhi naturally built a floating bridge in the safe area behind him with the protection of the city. At this time, heavy rain had just fallen and the river water had not risen. The floating bridge was naturally safe. In addition, Sun Jian had obvious fighting spirit before, and there were also logistics preparations... So, five thousand soldiers and horses threw down all the flags, golden drums, chariots, and even a few war horses, all of whom only brought dry food and drinking water for one day and night, armed with armor, and hurriedly collected more than a thousand straw mats from the people and merchants in the city, and they immediately crossed the river with light clothes.

I can only say that Zhu Zhi is indeed a steady person.

At noon, the rain continued to slow down, and there was a faint thunder. In the wilderness in Xinye on the other side of Chaoyang City, there were indeed a large army gathering, and Sun Wentai's entire army was riding the rain!

"Mr.!" Zhu Zhi saw the only big flag wet by the rain, and immediately met.

"June!" Sun Jian wore armor and knives, and there was a straw mat rolling outside the spear on his body. The man heard the voice of his confidant general in the rain, and he didn't recognize it. He just responded loudly. "Are all five thousand soldiers here?"

"All have arrived!"

"Good come! How many straw mats did you bring?"

"More than a thousand collars!"

"Enough!"

"June, where are we going?"

"Go to the east, and while the water has not risen, the whole army crossed the Bishui River from the shallow five miles downstream, and then went down the river from the east bank!"

Zhu Zhi felt very calm and did not hesitate any longer, and immediately ordered the officers from all levels of the headquarters to go southeast.

Although the rain has not diminished, the five-mile road is too close. In addition, the light-hailing raids, and the soldiers and soldiers have psychological advantages over Yuan Shu's defeated army, so they arrived at the shallows in just about half an hour. As Sun Jian said, the heavy rain started from the morning and did not gather to form a peak at this time.

So Sun Wentai ordered Jiang Qin to lead 800 Jianghan's children as the vanguard, and directly cross the river easily, and go down the river to Caiyang, which is further downstream.

Along the way, with the heavy rain covering and the rising water, with the courage of Jiang Gongyi, and the adaptability of Jianghan's children to the summer rainy climate, Sun Wentai's troops easily removed the strongholds arranged by Yuan and Huang along the way like rolling mats, and went south easily.

However, in the afternoon, after the entire army sailed south in the rain for a long time, Zhu Zhi suddenly realized a problem, that is, Sun Jian just walked along the river, but did not intend to turn to Cai Yang. After all, Cai Yang City was not Chaoyang City, it was not next to the river, but was fifteen miles from the east bank of the river... At the beginning, although Zhu Zhi noticed it, he instinctively thought that Sun Jian wanted to use the river embankment to facilitate marching and to be close to the river to hide his whereabouts.

However, seeing that time passed by, the entire army had already passed the three forks of water that poured into the water into the water, but continued to continue to move forward along the Qingshui River embankment. At this time, the light behind the clouds had gradually deviated above the drizzle of rain... Finally, when the rain stopped and Sun Jian ordered the entire army to rest temporarily under the river embankment, Zhu Zhi could not help it, and the man took the initiative to go forward to find his lord.

"Mr.!" Zhu Junli leaned forward and called out Sun Jian who was chatting and laughing with his soldiers in the drizzle of rain. "The more it rains, the more you need to pay attention to the lighting. At this time, you will not turn to launch a surprise attack. When it gets dark, tens of thousands of troops will probably not be able to touch Caiyang City. While you can still identify the road, go directly to Caiyang!"

"Who said we were going to Caiyang?" Sun Wentai stood among the soldiers sitting on the ground regardless of the mud. Seeing that he was his chief confidant general, he couldn't help but laugh. "Didn't my military order let the whole army cross the water and then go down the river? How about Caiyang?"

Under the rain, Zhu Zhi rushed to the other party and his face was covered in water. He raised his head in a daze... In an instant, the person's mind was blank first, and then there was an inexplicable panic.

This is of course... As a general in the army, the first general of the foreign surname recognized in Sun Jian's camp, a county official who was born as a filial and honest official, and as a person next to Sun Jian, who has always been famous for his knowledge of "literary affairs", Zhu Junli had no idea at this time.

It's really clueless!

At this moment, after facing Sun Jian's sudden denial of falling into Cai Yang and raiding Yuan Shu and Huang Zu's military plan, he had no idea what Sun Wentai was going to do, nor could he think of what the other party could do, but at this time the entire army was already under pressure!

Ten thousand people left Xinye and Chaoyang two strong cities with horns, without bringing supplies, had dried food for a day and night, and then crossed the river in a daze and came to the enemy-occupied area... How could he not panic? Why not panic?!

Unexpectedly, in the gradually eased rain, Sun Wentai saw that his confidant general was so disobedient, and he was happy without rushing: "If you can't even guess what I want to do when you reach this point, then this time will definitely be successful! It should be noted that soldiers are the tricks, and among the so-called strange words, the most deadly thing is to cover up their precautions. Since ancient times, there have been examples of using few attacks and many defeats, and many defeats of the army, all of which are like this..."

"I naturally know this, but Junhou..."

"Jun Li, my plan was learned from General Wei and Lu Fengxian himself, who was famous twice in the world!" Seeing this, Sun Jian simply pulled the other party to the river bank regardless of the wetness. "Did you see it?"

"I can probably think of some." Zhu Zhi was still confused, but blurted out. "When the heavy rain fell and the river water had not risen, the people on the other side could be unprepared. This should be the strategy of General Wei to counterattack Liucheng and cross the Daling River. Another strategy should be to use the river embankment as a signpost to keep the army from dispersing in the rain. This should be the support of Lu Bu leading thousands of cavalry to cross the Sanjin in the dark night... But Lord, it is precisely because of this that we have to march quickly. Caiyang has no river embankment to let us transport troops."

"I said it, not to go to Caiyang." Sun Jian, carrying a spear and a straw mat, said slowly in the rain, looking at the other side of the water, but finally revealed the answer. "But go to Deng County! Didn't I say the night before yesterday that I want to beat Liu Pan, Lu Bu, Huang Zhong, Cai Mao... Deng County is next to the river embankment. As long as I press the river embankment, even if it is dark and rainy, we can keep our strength to touch the other army camp."

Zhu Zhi was even more panicked and confused: "But Junhou, if you attack Deng County, why don't you cross the river from Chaoyang, and then we march along the river embankment on the east bank? Why..."

"Because of surprise," Sun Jian replied seriously. "Although I am full of fighting, I am not a fool. Lu Bu, Liu Pan, Huang Zhong and fierce, plus Cai Mao, the first native of the aristocratic clan, has more troops than us, and there are 800 cavalrymen. If I cannot be surprised, I will be dangerous in the battle..."

"But as the saying goes, the iron horses on the flat ground can flood people!" Zhu Zhi was stunned for a moment, then pointed at the water that had risen in front of him with a certain absurd expression and tried hard to persuade him. "June, I won't say that dozens of people had slipped and injured in the marching day, waiting for us to take down Cai Yang and come back to save them. I just said this water. Look at the water, the water has risen. This is the peak..."

"So I brought two thousand mats to cross the river!" Sun Jian still said seriously.

Zhu Zhi's mind became blank again.

"I can't imagine it?" Sun Jian sighed when he saw this. "The mat can cross the river. Just wrap the hollow reeds everywhere on the riverside in summer with a mat, and then connect them with ropes and spear poles to make a raft to cross the river easily... When he was a child, Xu Kun's mother wanted to paddle, but the boats at home were watching tightly. I only spent a quarter of an hour to make a small raft with reeds and mats, and then take her to the Fuchun River to pick lotus... Although you are also from Jiangdong, you have a very good background. I heard that you have some relationship with our Wujun Zhu family. You are a county official and have a filial piety. How do you understand these things? But it's good, you

Even if they don’t understand, how can Liu Pan be a boy from the Central Plains, Lu Bu is a Heshuoer, and Cai Mao is a noble family? Even if they are natives from Huang Zhong, they are appointed as the General of the Central Army by Liu Biao, they are not a small family... No matter how careful they are, they are good at fighting, and the heavy rain is as good as possible, and they are careful to be prepared during the day, and they will drive the sergeant to investigate the east bank as much as possible. If the sergeant comes back all day long, telling them that there is no one in the west of the Qingshui River, there is no one in my army and soldiers, how would they think that I would cross the river from Huang Zu at dusk? It’s still so heavy rain, and the river is still so turbulent?"

Zhu Zhi wanted to speak but stopped.

"Don't say it." Sun Jian became serious. "I know you still want to persuade me to turn around and attack Cai Yang... But Junli, how can there be a reason for not facing difficulties in the world? The current situation is that the enemy in Deng County is a real obstacle. If they can defeat them, then Huang Zu and Yuan Shu are like something in their pocket. If they defeat Huang, Yuan cannot defeat them, then we will never be able to pacify Nanyang, let alone advance to Jingxiang! The fighter is just tonight. You are the deputy generals beside me. You should have the wind of being the deputy general. At this time, you can only help me, not persuade me!"

Zhu Zhi immediately looked solemn.

"Has the entire army stopped?" Sun Wentai saw that Zhu Zhi stopped talking, and Jiang Qin, Li Tong, Zu Mao, Huang Gai, Sun Ben and other generals all surrounded him, but they simply ordered. "When the rain slowed down and looked at the clear light, they cut down reeds here and swept across the river!"

Everyone did not dare to neglect and took orders to do it.

By the way, reeds are the heart, straw mats are the surface, long poles are the bones, and then tied into rafts with ropes. Although it may not be a widely spread technology, as long as children from poor families in the south are familiar with rivers, they actually understand one thing at a glance. They may not have done this when they were young, but they definitely have similar things.

Reeds are everywhere, and the mats are broken at home and broken. The wooden poles are cut by themselves. The only trouble is that they need to rub the hemp rope. Who has never had a similar experience?

Of course, reeds and mats made of reeds cannot be soaked, and they will easily rot after a few times, so this kind of raft is destined to be a one-time job, so no one expected that one day they would come to the army to gain wealth and would just use this to cross the river.

No one expected that, let alone Liu and Cai on the other side, as for Lu Bu, who was born in Heshuo, he must know the sheepskin raft...

However, things are roughly like this, which is simple to think of, but extremely difficult to do.

The river was rushing and the rain kept going. The soldiers went barefoot to cut reeds under the river bank, but several people slid into the river and were swept away. More commonly, the wound was slippery, and the sharp blades and reed silk were easily cut out, and the blood and mud were mixed together, which made people feel very painful. Such a reduction in personnel, coupled with the slippery and falling roads on the marching road one day before, was actually over 100.

However, this is the army, this is the system under military law. It is just a daily marching and doing things. If you don’t use weapons, you will have countless strange reductions. Gongsun Xun had crossed the Daling River in the rain and sneaked to pursue the Wuhuan people. He also reduced countless troops along the way, and thousands of war horses were abolished... But on the other hand, this is the strength of the army compared to bandits. The sacrifices they made in other places due to discipline, marching, and combat preparations can save more lives on the battlefield.

Sun Wentai was preparing to imitate Gongsun Xun's attack on crossing the river and attack Liucheng, and rushed to the enemy camp in Deng County late at night. On that day, Gongsun Xun's battle in Liucheng was almost a tiny and inadequate overall loss, destroying the rebels' Wuhuan tribes that had been in western Liaoning for hundreds of years... I just don't know how much Sun Wentai can do today.

The sunlight behind the clouds was already dim, but fortunately, this kind of raft was particularly simple, and Sun Jian brought two thousand mats, not to use rafts to cross the people. It was obvious that he wanted to connect the reed rafts to build several incredible reed pontoon bridges. Once the pontoon bridge was formed, there was still no problem to cross the river successfully.

In fact, as Jiang Qin's men who were well versed in water led the rope into the water under the heavy reward, swam to the other side of the flood peak and successfully set up the stake, the whole army was excited for a while.

"Cross the river!" Sun Jian issued a military order without hesitation.

Then, the man wore armored guards and escorted the only big flag in the army to the shaking floating bridge to take the lead... However, the previous steps were barely able to move because of the wooden stakes under the river embankment and the ropes were fixed, but when he reached the center of the river, a small wave suddenly rolled upstream. This floating bridge made of grass swept through reeds immediately with the water below. The seven or eight armored guards in front could hardly stand firmly in an instant, and they rolled down like wooden animal cards and fell into the river.

Considering the iron armor on them and the turbid river water under the flood peak at this time, it can be imagined that these warriors who were most trusted and outstanding beside Sun Jian can no longer survive.

In fact, the only thing that can be seen is Sun Jian’s big flag pole.

The originally jubilant river bank was silent for a moment, and the soldiers naturally shrank.

Zhu Zhi opened his mouth, and the half-hearted aura that had aroused before was instantly extinguished, but he was preparing to step forward and persuade Sun Jian to turn to Cai Yang. He no longer expected to arrive at Cai Yang before dark, but in such a surprise attack, as long as thousands of people who dared to fight could touch the city of Cai Yang, there was still some talk about this battle.

However, Zhu Junli raised his head and was shocked to find that Sun Wentai had already started taking off his clothes.

The burqa outside and the armor under the burqa were removed one by one. Then Sun Wentai only wore an undyed single garment inside, wrapped in a red trouser and leaned on the river bank, facing the rain, and looked around: "You guys! Are there anyone from Jiangdong Township who heard my reputation in the village and followed me to the Central Plains to seek fame?"

Everyone was stunned and lost their minds. Zhu Junli's words of persuasion were blocked in his throat. Instead, he knelt down on the muddy river bank with Zu Mao... The two of them, one from Yuzhang and the other from Wujun, were exactly the kind of person Sun Jian said.

Not only the two, but many of the soldiers around them also knelt down one after another.

"But Xu Yang is a man with a hero who is not a man and is born in a rampant family. Because no one wants to accept it in troubled times, only Sun Jian, who has always been a savage man in Jiangdong, has he been looking for him all the way and entrusted his life with his life?"

Jiang Qin led the crowd to bend over and said his fate, but Li Tong hesitated for a moment and led the headquarters to bend over.

"Did someone come from a humid and hot place in Jingnan, first saw me crossing counties to attack bandits from all sides, and then heard that I went north to fight against Dong Dong, thinking that I was still a person who lived up to the country and left my family for loyalty?"

Huang Gai also led the crowd to bend over to pay his life.

"Only today's scene... I, Sun Jian, is enough!" Sun Jian looked at the rainy water and saw no one standing, but he spoke loudly on the river bank. "People all mocked us southerners for being careless and scheming, and died easily, but they didn't know why we died easily? None of the things in the world, fame, wealth, and even the so-called righteousness and tyranny are from our southerners. We have nothing to live, but only one life. If we don't take the fortune of life, how can we get one or two of them?"

The rain kept drizzling, and the clean water kept rolling. On the river bank, the river was below Zhuzhi, and most of the people were already in a row of air.

"I promised you to return home with wealth and honor, but today I want to tell you that Liu Biao and Lu Bu are in Deng County, and we will not let us go back, nor will we be allowed to make ourselves rich and honor... and we will not allow us to share our lives!" Sun Jian sternly, his voice almost hoarse. "There is nothing else today. The spirit of Guangwu is in Caiyang. If he thinks that I, Sun Jian, deserve to die, let me die. If he belongs to me, let me cross the river safely, expect great victory! And you, those who are willing to follow me will remove their armor, throw their soldiers, hand their lives to me, and fight with me! Those who do not want to follow me will go by themselves, go by themselves!"

After saying that, the man only brought an ancient ingot knife, picked up the food and water wrapped in a bamboo tube on the ground, turned around and stepped onto the tumbling bridge that had just flooded several of his confidants.

Zhu Zhi was the first to stand up and began to quickly take off his armor. When he touched the turtle crown on his head, which represented the identity of the Zhonglang General, the man stopped and unbuttoned it and threw it on the mud. Then he jumped onto the bridge of the sweeping mat with his hair, and caught up with Sun Jian with the generals.
To be continued...