The Dan River is far less wide than the Yangtze River.

Wang Ping's fleet could only line up in three rows at most, and then stretched to the rear.

From a distance, it seems that the boats on the river are spread out to where the water and the sky meet, with flags fluttering and waves hitting the shore layer by layer, which is quite spectacular.

Xia Houyuan also saw that Wang Ping's fleet was just an ordinary sailing boat with no combat effectiveness. If the navy could be driven down the river, Wang Ping's fleet would be vulnerable to a single blow.

However, no one has ever raised such a stupid opinion.

Because Xia Houyuan didn't even have the ability to walk.

Ding Fei said: "Looking at the size of the ships and the depth of the water, there are about seven or eight hundred people on each ship. It seems that Li Qi's main force is here."

Xia Houyuan asked: "Have you discovered anything over there in Cangye?"

Ding Fei said: "No news has come back so far."

…

Cangye.

A Cao Jun spy is running on the grass.

Although he didn't find many enemy troops, and they looked more like sentinels like himself, it was enough to show that the enemy troops had plans for the Cangye route. He had to report this news to General Xia Houyuan.

As for the horse he originally rode, it had been eaten by the tigers in the wild jungle.

At that time, there was a roar of a tiger, and the horse was frightened. It dropped him and ran away. When he was bending his bow and arrow, he saw the tiger chasing the horse directly.

Cao Bing simply took back the arrow, saying in his heart that you are unkind and I am unjust. Who told you to throw me off the horse? If I missed the arrow and attracted the tiger back, why would I follow?

Who can reason?

Just as he emerged from the bushes, he looked in the direction the tiger was running, but he heard a rustling sound coming from behind him. When he looked back, he saw that it was a soldier who was not worthy of being a flying army.

The two looked at each other, and then each placed an arrow on the bowstring.

Before Cao Bing could secure his position, he saw the opponent's crossbow arrow suddenly approaching with a black light, and he panicked and hurriedly buried it in the nearby pit.

Repeating crossbows can be fired continuously. Regardless of the accuracy of the opponent, at least in terms of speed, Cao Jun felt that he suffered a big loss.

So he moved like a maggot in the pit, and then escaped down a slope.

The enemy's shouts came from behind, seeming to call for more men to come and surround him, so Cao Bing concluded that this was probably the vanguard sent by Li Qi to clean up Cao Jun's sentries. This also meant that Li Qi

It is very likely that Shangluo will be attacked from Cangye. He must report this news to General Xia Houyuan.

However, he no longer had a horse, but he could faintly hear the sound of horse hooves behind him.

After a while, two crossbow arrows were fired, and Cao Jun suddenly felt a chill on his back and a sharp pain running through his body.

On his chest, a black arrow had penetrated...

Ding Pei looked at Wang Ping's fleet carefully and felt more and more that something was wrong.

"General, I see why that fleet doesn't seem to be moving forward, but retreating?" Ding Pei asked Xia Houyuan.

"I've seen people walking backwards and sailing boats backwards. I really don't know." Xia Houyuan wondered. Could it be that the other party discovered the sentry post on the shore and retreated? Or was it pretending to retreat with the purpose of luring the enemy deeper?

After rowing all the way upstream, we could finally see the port of Shangluo. Even if we found the sentinel, we should speed forward and there would be no possibility of retreat.

Therefore, Xia Houyuan felt that Li Qi was probably trying to lure the enemy into pursuit, and then rely on the superiority of Jingzhou's navy to annihilate Cao's army on the river.

The last Cao Jun spy in Cangye also had his throat crushed by Wutu Bone.

Zhao Yun led the front army across Yanzi Mountain, behind which were well fences, rams and other large siege equipment quickly interspersed in the forest, followed closely by Li Qi, Pang Tong's troops, and finally Chang Ya, who was escorting the grain cart slowly.

Li Qi asked Pang Tong: "Can you cross the Dan River in the dark and cross the wild fields secretly? Can you hide it from Xia Houyuan?"

Pang Tong said: "It depends on whether the Cao Jun spies in Cangye have been cleared away. Generally speaking, if no Cao Jun spies go back to report our whereabouts, it means that we did not appear in Cangye, and there is no need for Cao Jun spies to go back and report.

However, Wang Ping's fleet appeared in the upper reaches of the Dan River, but they could see it. Moreover, Cao Jun was not good at water warfare, so he could only wait for the enemy on the shore, and would never dare to lead his fleet to challenge Wang Ping. As long as Wang Ping did not show anything obvious

The flaw is difficult for Xia Houyuan to detect."

Li Qidao: "What is the obvious flaw?"

Pang Tong said: "I feel now that the number of people we assigned to Wang Ping is still too few. Five people have to row a large ship with a thousand people, and it is going upstream. It may be difficult. If Wang Ping's fleet is exhausted due to physical weakness, it may be difficult.

If the fleet moves very slowly, Xia Houyuan may suspect that Wang Ping's fleet is a suspicious force."

Danshui Riverside.

Xia Houyuan said: "The speed of this boat is too slow. Is it intentional to attract our attention?"

Ding Pei said: "We cannot rule out the possibility that they used the navy to attract our attention by the Danshui River, while the army came from Cangye and attacked Shangluo directly."

Xia Houyuan said: "Is there no news from Cangye yet?"

Ding Pei said: "No. Either no trace of Li Qi's army was found, or they were all killed by Li Qi's army."

Xia Houyuan said: "Although the possibility of them all being killed is very small, we have to take precautions. In this way, I will ambush Li Qi's navy here, and you take a team of troops back to garrison Shangluo. If there is any movement of Li Qi's army,

, send someone to report immediately."

Ding Pei obeyed the order and was about to set off when suddenly a soldier on the sentry post shouted: "Here we come, the enemy ships are speeding up and heading in our direction."

Xia Houyuan wondered, could it be that he just wanted to lure the enemy, but when he saw that the lure was unsuccessful, he simply sailed over and tried to land directly?

"General Ding, wait a minute, everyone is lurking and getting ready to meet the enemy." Xia Houyuan waved his hand, and all Cao's troops were ready to attack.

After two sticks of incense, Wang Ping's fleet had basically arrived at the Shangluo River. They only needed to turn around and sail to the shore.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Cao Jun’s bows and arrows were all pressed on the strings, and he held his breath, waiting for the enemy to start landing, and then he would attack.

Unexpectedly, Wang Ping waved the yellow flag, and the fleet began to slide down the river again, seeing it getting further and further away from the river bank of Shangluo.

Xia Houyuan: "???"

What about playing with us?

Ding Pei said: "General Xiahou, return to the city."

Xia Houyuan nodded: "Yes, you go back to the city first!"

Ding Pei bowed and retreated. Xia Houyuan said: "Come out and make some noise to let the enemy know that we have left."

Ding Pei obeyed and led a third of the sergeants to raise the military flag and left the riverside with great fanfare.

Wang Ping looked over the railing and saw clusters of flags moving toward the rear, so he said: "That's it!"

The soldiers on the same boat were puzzled and asked: "Cao Jun obviously saw through our plan to mislead the soldiers and returned to the city to defend. Why did General Wang say yes?"

Wang Ping said: "If the other party sees through that we are suspicious troops, they will only leave quietly, and will never leave with such a big fanfare. So I concluded that they also used the suspicion tactics to make us think that they have left, and then they can safely and boldly disembark.

.In fact, they may only leave a small number of people, and this small army will be stopped by General Zhao Yun."

Ding Pei led his army towards Shangluo City.

There was a hint of uneasiness in his heart, but he couldn't explain why.

This place is about fifty miles away from Shangluo City, so we need to speed up.

About an hour later, Ding Pei's troops entered a narrow, low-lying area with dense jungle on both sides.

It was very quiet in the jungle, but Ding Pei always felt like there were countless pairs of eyes staring at him.

Because the jungle is so quiet, there is not even a bird chirping.

However, other than rushing back to Shangluo as quickly as possible, he had no reason to stop moving forward.

Suddenly, pieces of black crossbow arrows shot out from the forest, which could be said to cover the sky and the sun. Cao's army was immediately in chaos.

Ding Pei said: "Quickly, report to General Xiahou that the enemy has crossed the wilderness. Return troops quickly to rescue Shangluo."

However, where can Cao Jun go back?

From the moment Ding Pei felt someone was staring at him, he was really being stared at.

However, the people who were watching him did not attack him immediately. Instead, after all Ding Pei's troops had passed, the ambush troops in the front launched the attack first, while the ambush troops in the back shot back the informants.

Ding Pei saw that each of his men were shot into sieves, and he had no choice but to rush to kill them.

As a general, Ding Pei's armor was much thicker than that of ordinary soldiers. Several crossbow arrows were fired on his body, but they were all protected by the armor. There was also one stuck in his helmet.

Even so, a crossbow bolt hit his right waist because it was too accurate.

Just as they were about to break through the crossbow formation, a group of enemy troops from the front surrounded them. The leading general held a silver spear and shouted sternly: "I am Zhao Zilong of Changshan. Why didn't the enemy generals surrender earlier?"

Ding Pei slapped his horse and wielded his sword, and took Zhao Yun directly.

Zhao Yun sighed silently in his heart: Since he followed Li Qi and raised troops from the ancient city, he has shouted "I am Changshan Zhao Zilong" countless times, but after all, he has not been able to gain this reputation.

Is it because everyone who heard this sentence died?

Zhao Yun came to fight with his horse and his spear drawn. In less than three rounds, he stabbed Ding Pei under the horse with one shot.

Ding Pei's soldiers were almost completely slaughtered, and a few who wanted to beg for surrender were also killed.

Now is not the time to collect surrender troops. The most important thing now is to keep the news that our army has arrived in Shangluo.

It’s just that Cao Bing felt that it was fine when he came here, so why can’t he go back?

Danshui Riverside.
To be continued...