"After all, my energy is not as good as when I was young, but I feel sleepy when I march for 500 miles in three days. I think of it...ah."

On the eighth day of the eighth month, Zhao Yun, with 5,000 cavalry, had been patrolling the river for a day, trying to find a gap for the south bank where there was no enemy station, and searched for enough ships to continue crossing the river south.

However, Gongsun Kang defended very steadily, with defenses almost everywhere along the Han River Plain, and there were tall and strong beacon towers every twenty miles. Zhao Yun's troops were all cavalry, and it was impossible for him to attack the fortifications just after crossing the river, so he could not advance for the time being.

Zhao Yun felt quite tired and helpless, so he felt so moved. He took advantage of the patrol break and found a high ground in Jiangbei. He stopped to rest for the time being and looked up high.

"Why did General Cavalry say this? You are still in your prime. There are very few people in the world who can compete with the generals." Faced with Zhao Yun's feelings, the generals below him certainly wanted to give a compliment, indicating that General Zhao was too modest.

These complimentary deputy generals were headed by Wei Yan. Wei Yan had been Zhao Yun's old subordinate for many years. He had followed him since Jingnan and fought with Zhao Yun in Jiaozhou and Linyi.

In the final decisive battle of unification four years ago, Wei Yan was also in the Youzhou War Zone, but at that time he was Zhang Fei's deputy general and followed Zhang Fei to the south from Zhuo County.

At that time, Zhao Yun's deputy general was Taishi Ci. Now Taishi Ci is transferred back to the south and leads the navy. Zhang Fei is idle again, so Zhao Yun also transferred Wei Yan to help him handle specific military affairs, while Xu Rong is still guarding Liaodong and is responsible for defense.

Strictly speaking, Wei Yan's words are not flattering. Zhao Yun is only 40 years old next year, and he is indeed not old among military generals. Moreover, in history, he will have to encounter the Battle of Red Cliffs and break through the Yang Changban. He was 42 years old at that time, so he is still brave enough to be brave.

Just 39 years old, Zhao Yun, who has the potential to become stronger and stronger, is indeed nothing.

Zhao Yun waved his hand, stopped Wei Yan's compliment and went straight to the military affairs: "Tell me, how to cross the river? Where to cross the river?"

Wei Yan and other deputy generals obviously did not expect Zhao Yun to be so anxious. They thought for a while and said, "I am eager to cross the river, so wait a little longer. I heard that General Taishi has already landed. As long as we go around the peninsula on the west bank and enter the Han River, we can take our army away.

Why bother? Moreover, the general was moving too fast, and the military supplies and civil servants could not keep up. It would be better to wait for Tian Chengjun to catch up with him in two days."

The Tian Senjun mentioned by Wei Yan was Tian Choo Tian Zitai. He followed the Youzhou Army south during the War of Unification. However, Zhao Yun's progress was too smooth, and Tian Choo didn't need to help him with many ideas.

Tianchou is not very good in strategy, but he has a lot of experience in geography. In history, when Cao Cao attacked Wuhuan Tadun in 207, he relied on Tianchou's "not selling Lu Long" to help Cao Cao lead the way to find the easy-to-going Yanshan Canyon and go straight to Liucheng.

Tian Choo's contribution to Gongsun Kang's military use was mainly in the planning of the marching route. He served as an official in Liaodong for more than ten years, followed Mi Zhu to manage the local area, and was also very familiar with the mountains and geography of the Korean Peninsula.

Therefore, the route planned by Tian Chou for Zhao Yun was so smooth. Unfortunately, because it was too smooth, Tian Chou himself was relatively weak and could not keep up with the main force's marching speed. The march was so fast that he lost all the civil servants in the army, which was also considered a strange thing.

Zhao Yun was obviously not very satisfied with the opinions of Wei Yan and others. He got up and walked a few steps, moved his joints, and pointed at the beacon tower on the other side with a high height:

"Of course I can wait for Ziyi to come, but Ziyi has tens of thousands of troops. When he arrives, Gongsun Kang is even more afraid to fight."

Wei Yan couldn't help but feel confused: "But... the order given to our army by Your Majesty was to bluff and restrain Gongsun Kang, forcing him to transfer all the main forces to the Han River side to guard the enemy to create fighter opportunities for other roads. Isn't that just right?"

After Wei Yan finished speaking, he thought to himself: General Cavalry was the most cautious in his life, why are he eager to fight now? He has already reached such a high position, and it is impossible for him to move the positions of General and Grand Marshal. What should I be eager to make a contribution?

But he didn't know that Zhao Yun was not eager to make contributions, but time would always change people. The world has been peaceful for more than three years, and Zhao Yun has been idle for more than three years and has never fought any wars. Now he is going to let go, even if he is given a task of seducing the enemy, he will still be itchy.

Back then, the Prime Minister had been asked to take on the task of fraudulent defeat! He had all been defeated to the high position of General Cavalry. If he continued to lure the enemy, even if he did not defeat, he would damage the reputation of the Han Dynasty! What's more, his opponent was just Gongsun Kang! It doesn't matter at all.

If you don’t make any war, you will rust!

After observing the enemy situation opposite, Zhao Yun had an idea: "It has been two days since he arrived in Jiangbei. How many civilian ships have our army collected on the north shore? How many soldiers can cross the river?"

Wei Yan didn't care about this, so Tian Yu, who was responsible for military logistics, was responsible for answering: "Report to the general, there are about 100 civilian ships in the inland river, and each trip can transport thousands of cavalry across the river. Our army has a total of 5,000. If we insist on crossing the river, we have to travel five times back and forth, and then count the whole team assembled and loading and unloading, it will take at least half a day."

Zhao Yun's eyes lit up: "That's not bad. Gongsun Kang is really short-sighted. He is actually under the clearing of the countryside. He didn't even burn the civilian ships on the north bank to collect them, so that we could find so many ships. Such an incompetent person, wouldn't it be too sorry for the military expenditure of the court if he doesn't fight."

Tian Yu didn't understand why Gongsun Kang was so stupid at first. After being commented by Zhao Yun, he remembered a possibility and replied:

"General, is there such a possibility that we are here to implement a bluffing and suspicious plan. Gongsun Kang is so hiding, so he obviously fell into this suspicious plan and thought our army was powerful.

Since this is the case, he still thought that the general had tens of thousands of cavalry under his command, and General Taishi Ci would arrive in a few days. So no matter whether he searched carefully for civilian ships on the north bank, he would not be able to stop the general from crossing the river at that time, so he would not bother to do this.

If he searched carefully, he would definitely think that our army would not be able to use it. After all, if our army had tens of thousands of people, how could he expect this boat to cross the river dozens of times? Wasn't that a half-cross the enemy on the south bank to attack the flaws?"

After hearing this wave of analysis, Zhao Yun's eyes finally lit up and thought about what he should do.

Indeed, if he had 30,000 to 40,000 cavalry, he would cross the river and operate one thousand cavalry at a time, and operate at most two or three times. The defenders on the south bank would have already reacted and gathered from all directions to counterattack, killing the Han cavalry that had just gained a foothold into the Han River and drowned them all.

That would be a free tactic to give it to the big army little by little.

But the problem is that Zhao Yun does not have 30,000 to 40,000 cavalry, but he only has 5,000 people. And he doesn't think he needs 30,000 to fight in the field with Gongsun Kang.

Gongsun Kang had been away from the Central Plains for a long time, and he had no idea how fierce the battles between the princes of the Central Plains in the past decade were, how fast the upgrade of military technology equipment was, and how brave the elite soldiers who came out of the dead were.

As long as Zhao Yun selects three thousand cavalry to successfully cross the river and gain a foothold on the south bank, Gongsun Kang dares to come to "half-cross" to seek field battles, and swallow Zhao Yun's vanguard first...

That's simply undesirable!

"Very good! Guorang, your analysis reminded me. I immediately assembled the iron cavalry to cross the Han River with existing civilian boats, seduced Gongsun Kang to annihilate our vanguard!"

Wei Yan and Tian Yu were both shocked: "General! We are only 5,000 people, and I don't know how many of them are opposite us. According to the information, there may be 40,000 to 50,000 people south of the Han River! The barbarians of Fuyu and Fenghua have not yet been counted!

Once we cross the river, we will have to support ourselves for at least two or three days, because at that time we are surrounded by the enemy, our army, as cavalry, must fight back and forth, and it is impossible to defend and fight positions.

If we land on the beach, we will definitely not be able to hold on. If the boat we used up after crossing the river by Gongsun Kang's people, we must rely on our own fighting to survive in the next three days! It's too dangerous!"

Once you cross the Han River, you may be surrounded by a much larger number of superior enemy troops! Even if the enemy cannot be completely wiped out and is broken through by cavalry, as long as there are many enemy soldiers, the ship that burns your beachfront can still be done! Isn’t that just going deeper alone?

Wei Yan was not afraid that he could not beat him, but he was even more afraid that people would be in panic and morale would collapse. After all, the food road was cut off and the ship could not return to Jiangbei. This would be a serious blow to people's hearts.

This is almost like Xiang Yu's "I am sinking a ship, breaking a pot and holding a three-day diet". Of course, there is more benefit than Xiang Yu. When Xiang Yu burned his boat, he really had no way out. Zhao Yun can tell the soldiers:

"After crossing the Han River, if the ship is burned by Gongsun Kang, we have to fight bloody battles to ensure that we survive for three days. In three days, General Taishici will arrive with a large number of sea boats."

In this way, it seems that Zhao Yun can better motivate the soldiers to maintain their confidence and fight to survive these three days. After all, there is hope for life ahead.

After thinking through these pros and cons, Zhao Yun ordered to act as planned immediately!

Wei Yantianyu's persuasion was fruitless, so he had to execute it. Zhao Yun led the cavalry and found a relatively slow shallow between the two beacon towers of Gongsun Kangjun about thirty miles upstream of Tunnan County, and crossed the river in batches about thirty miles above Tunnan County.

...

Of course, Zhao Yun's abnormal movement was less than a quarter of an hour before the rapid beacon tower was transmitted to Gongsun Kang's mansion in Tunnan County.

Gongsun Kang had already decided on a strategy of strengthening the walls and clearing the wilderness the day before, but he really didn't expect that Zhao Yun was so anxious that he could not wait for a few days before Taishi Ci arrived, so he crossed the river alone!

"What? How many people have Zhao Yun crossed the river? Where did he come from so many ships to cross the river?!" Gongsun Kang was so anxious that he grabbed the messenger's collar and shook it wildly.

"King... Cough cough... Zhao Yun only had more than a thousand people crossing the river, and there were only dozens of ships. It was our army that did not search clean on the north shore."

Gongsun Kang left the messenger: "Just this little ship, dare to divide so many batches of crossing the river? Being attacked half-crossing is a big taboo in military tactics since ancient times. Zhao Yun is too arrogant. He really thinks that the three Korean warriors are cowardly and cowards!"

His younger brother Gongsun Gong was quite cowardly and reminded him after hearing this: "Is it Zhao Yun's plan to lure the enemy? Moreover, our army has already decided on a plan to strengthen the wall and clear the world. Will it be inappropriate to change the plan to seek war temporarily?"

Gongsun Kang directly rejected: "What he wants is a coward idea like you! What Zhao Yun lacks now is time. The sooner our army organizes a counterattack, the fewer people will be able to gain a foothold on the shore!

I think he is probably just a big shot. Seeing that our army is not in the field, even if we want to block him from crossing the river, it would not be fast enough. When our main force arrived, he should have thousands of people coming. He just depends on how many people come to calculate the number of people. Thousands of people dare to fight with us in the field!

It’s also my fault that I didn’t expect him to be so bold to cross the river in advance. It was really slow to assemble the troops. Because of this, I didn’t have time to explain. I immediately assembled all the cavalry troops in the city, and immediately reported to Fuyu Wang Wei Qiutai, and asked him to take Fuyu cavalry to fight together.

The king's cavalry is temporarily handed over to him to coordinate the commander, and he must use his life! Quickly! The sooner he arrives at the crossing point, the fewer the number of Zhao Yun cavalry they have to face!"

After all, the bait was too tempting, so Gongsun Kang chose to gamble all the cavalry mobile troops under his command. He actually had more troops than his brother-in-law Qiutai, but Gongsun Kang's soldiers were Han people and Dongyi people from the Three Hans, and the proportion of cavalry was not high.

Wei Qiutai is King Fuyu, and the people of Fuyu are fishing and hunting ethnic groups in Changbai Mountain, so the proportion of cavalry is very high. The field commander can only be handed over to Wei Qiutai for coordination.

(Note: The Fuyu people are fishing and hunting people in the Changbai Mountains. At the beginning, Goguryeo was a fishing and hunting people in the Xing'an Mountains. It was separated by the Liaoji Plain where the Han people lived.)

In order to seize the time, the military order was delivered very quickly. The cavalry troops around the capital Tunnan County of the Guodu gathered quickly under the beacon fire and rushed to the place where Zhao Yun crossed the river in batches.

Unfortunately, although Zhao Yun was attacked by the side of "half-crossing", because Zhao Yun was too brave and suddenly, the opponent could not imagine that the cavalry gathered in a hurry on the three Korean sides could not reach the battlefield at the same time, and they would always be beaten to the time difference, both early and late.

When Zhao Yun saw this scene, he saw that the three thousand iron cavalry who had crossed the river in three or four groups, and he was very confident.

It’s not certain who beats whom and defeats them one by one!

Zhao Yun directly aimed at the three Korean cavalry who had arrived at the earliest and was closest to the crossing point at the river and launched a charge.

The three Korean cavalry on the opposite side were not prepared at all because they felt that Zhao Yun did not dare to attack, and should have defended the landing field and provided cover for more troops to cross the river and go ashore.

If Zhao Yun directly launched a recoil and gave up the landing position, how could the follow-up troops get ashore? This is unscientific!

Who would have thought that Zhao Yun had no intention of waiting for the follow-up troops at all, and he did not have the so-called "ten thousand cavalry" and the three thousand people who had already landed were all his iron cavalry.

The remaining two thousand people on the north bank made a bluff, extending the scale of the camp very wide. They were just suspicious soldiers, and those left by Zhao Yun were light armored archers.

Zhao Yun knew that when he crossed the river this time, the enemy would take the initiative to attack him and seek war, so his mobility was no longer important, and combat effectiveness was the most important. Anyway, the enemy would bump into him.

"This is impossible! Zhao Yun brought such two or three thousand people to retaliate against us? Kill! Let Zhao Yun also see the bravery of our three Korean warriors!" Several grassroots generals of the Gongsun family also disbelief and retaliated against us with at least twice as many cavalry as Zhao Yun. Who told them that they had never seen the iron armored cavalry?

"Puchi phuchi"

"Uh"

Suddenly, a terrifying scream began to resound across the south bank of the Han River. With just one hedge between the two sides, the three Korean cavalry were suffocated by Zhao Yun, and the broken arms and limbs fell all over the ground, the headless corpse, the armor was flat, and blood was like a spring.

The two unknown commanders under Gongsun Kang's command failed to survive in one move. They were targeted by Zhao Yun and then killed in an instant.

When you see it, you will be killed.

Not long after, the first batch of three Korean cavalry were defeated. At this time, Fuyu Wang Wei Qiutai had just arrived at the battlefield with the main force of the assembled cavalry.

Because Zhao Yun chased the first group of three Korean cavalry and chased them a little far away, Zhao Yun's men were now far away from the landing ground.

So when Wei Qiutai arrived, he saw that there were no enemies on the preset battlefield, but there were shocking shouts of killing coming from farther west.

However, the boat left by Zhao Yunjun crossing the river was still left on the mudflat because of too haste time and did not have time to push it back into the water and return to the north shore.

Wei Qiutai didn't know what was going on ahead, but he was happy to find a bargain and immediately ordered:

"Hurry, the light cavalry with torches immediately burned all the ships left by Zhao Yun! As long as the ship is burned, there are no fear of Zhao Yun's remaining cavalry on the north bank! We just need to kill all the remaining Zhao Yun's troops that have reached the south bank and win!"

In just one cup of tea, hundreds of torches were thrown away in large numbers. Wei Qiutai really achieved his first strategic goal, burning Zhao Yun's ship all, and the rest was enough to close the door and beat the dog.

Taishici will arrive in two or three days! Zhao Yun cannot find the ship to cross the Han River again! He is seeking death by himself!

"The soldiers follow me! Those who kill Zhao Yun will be rewarded with a thousand gold coins! Except for the capital, they can be granted a city!"

There are still a large number of feudal remnants in the Sanhan and Fuyu areas, so the rewards offered by Wei Qiutai are also very local culturally distinctive.

Those who kill Zhao Yun can directly enclose land as lords, which is equivalent to a small prince.
Chapter completed!