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Chapter one hundred and sixty-three

The battalion was set up by using a chain of supplies and vehicles. Of course, the speed of setting up a battalion was much faster than cutting wood and setting up a fence. As soon as it was getting dark, the Jin army's camp had been successfully built. However, the biggest weakness of this kind of camp is its weak defense and is very easy to be sneak attacked by the enemy. Therefore, even Wang Chen, who lacked experience, did not dare to be careless. He quickly summoned the generals to carefully arrange night defense, and arranged the order of crossing the river the next day.

When Wen Yang and Gong Zun and other poor generals were surprised and told this chore, Wang Chen was selfless and handed over the task of staying up late to Guo Zhang and Hu Lin, who were from Zhongzheng Courtyard. As a result, even Guo Zhang and Hu Lin were very puzzled. He hesitated and refused to hold their fists and sang promises. He secretly winked at Wang Chen and quietly whispered to the poor generals.

Understanding the thoughts of the two playmates in the courtyard, Wang Chen smiled and said, "General Guo, General Hu, don't worry, it's very hard to keep you at night to guard the camp, but don't worry, you won't suffer any losses. When you cross the river tomorrow, you two will lead your army to cross the river first."

Finally understood Wang Chen's intention, Guo Zhang and Hu Lin quickly hugged their fists and sang their promises. As expected, when they arranged the order of crossing the river, Wang Chen indeed arranged for the Zhongzheng children to lead the army to cross the river first, then the Jin cavalry led by Huangfu Chang, and then the poor families. As expected, the last two armies crossing the river were indeed the two Wen Yang and Wen Hu, who were the most capable and reliable at present.

Also knowing that Wen Yang and Wen Hu were definitely not happy, Wang Chen took the initiative to say: "Don't misunderstand, two generals Wen, I trust you so that I asked you to retreat in the end and be responsible for covering the main force across the river. Don't worry, I will draw soldiers from other troops to replenish your troops. After crossing the river tomorrow, how much troops you have lost, and how much troops I will also replenish you."

After saying that, Wang Chen actually drew some soldiers from the Zhongzheng's children to strengthen the troops of the Wen brothers, and emphasized that it was necessary to draw strong soldiers to compensate the Wen brothers. The Wen brothers felt a little fair in their hearts, and hurriedly sang a promise and thanked Wang Chen.

After making these arrangements, Wang Chen was about to announce the resignation of the meeting, but his personal soldiers suddenly came to report, saying that Zhang Zhi sent an envoy to come with a white flag, saying that a letter was to be submitted to Wang Chen in person. Wang Chen was curious and ordered to meet him. Then, within a moment, the Han army envoy was taken to Wang Chen and the civil and military officials of the Jin army.

To Wang Chen's surprise, the letter brought by the Han army envoy was actually a letter of surrender signed by Zhang Zhi, who strongly advised Wang Chen to lead the remaining Jin army to put down his weapons and surrender. He clearly said that after Wang Chen was defeated in the Mianzhu Battle, even if he was lucky enough to escape from the fate of being imprisoned and questioned. Therefore, Wang Chen advised Wang Chen to lead the Jin army to surrender collectively for the sake of his own sake in exchange for the glory and wealth rewarded by Zhang Zhi and the title of marquis.

After reading Zhang Zhi's letter, Wang Chen, supported by the Wang family in Taiyuan, couldn't help laughing and said, "Zhang Zhi's rebel thief is really amazing. He actually wants to persuade the coach to lead the crowd to surrender. He didn't think about what kind of person he was, how could he surrender to him, a rebel who barked the Japanese rabies?"

"Master, our rear general is also in good intentions." The Han army envoy persuaded: "Mianzhu is defeated. It is difficult to explain after you return to the court. Now our army has pursued the Fushui Ferry again. When the Master is halfway through, we will immediately launch an assault. Kill a head-siege of your army and cannot take care of each other. At that time, your army will be defeated again. When the Master returns to Luoyang, your country's emperor will definitely be even more decreed to punish. The Master is worse than being humiliated by the humiliation of the court..."

"shut up!"

Wang Chen rudely interrupted the Han army envoy's persuasion and roared: "In the Battle of Mianzhu, you thieves are just lucky enough to succeed. When our army crosses the river tomorrow, if you thieves dare to stop them, our soldiers will definitely fight you to the end! Get out! Go back and tell Zhang Zhi that if you want to make this general surrender, unless the iron tree blooms and the horse has horns, the sun rises from the west! Go immediately!"

He did not dare to disobey Wang Chen's expulsion, and the Han army envoy could only say goodbye and leave obediently. Wang Chen tore Zhang Zhi's letter of persuasion to pieces and shouted again: "When crossing the river tomorrow, if the bandit army comes to stop it, the army must fight to the death with the bandit army to the end and buy time for our main force to cross the river!"

The generals sang their promises, and Wang Chen ordered the meeting to be dismissed, and then said in his heart: "Your Majesty, have you seen it? Weichen flatly rejected the thief army's persuasion to surrender. For this reason, after returning to the court, you must not demote the position of Weichen too much."

Not to mention the little abacus Wang Chen was thinking, after he just said that Guo Zhang and Hu Lin went down, they immediately discussed guarding the east and west with the south gate of the camp. They quickly led their troops into their posts to guard the vehicle barriers to prevent the Han army from attacking at night. During this period, Guo Zhang and Hu Lin's generals and soldiers were of course complaining that they had been in such a difficult task and had to go so far to marching. In the end, they had to stand guard and let other troops sleep peacefully.

In this regard, Guo Zhang and Hu Lin must explain to their generals and soldiers that although their army suffered some losses tonight, they would be able to take advantage of crossing the river tomorrow. At the end, Hu Lin said directly: "Also, you should be willing to give a hundred hearts. The thief army is clearly planning to attack when we cross the river. We will definitely have a good rest to rest and maintain our energy tonight, so we don't need to worry at all. The thief army will never take a risk of attacking tonight."

After hearing the words of Guo Zhang and Hu Lin, the soldiers of the Jin army under their command stopped complaining. At the same time, it was natural that the Han army would take action when crossing the river. As the night gradually darkened, Guo Zhang and Hu Lin's soldiers also leaned on the baggage truck and fell asleep. The other Jin army teams even slept in the open air in the temporary camp, with snoring waves higher than the waves, including the scheming Shi Bao, who were also lying on the blanket and snoring loudly.

In fact, the soldiers of the Jin army should not be so careless, because just as the third hour approached, a group of black shadows with white cloth wrapped around their heads suddenly sneaked into the Jin army's temporary camp, and everyone was holding stones in their mouths to avoid making unexpected noises. It was confirmed that after the Jin army soldiers were sleeping well on the baggage truck, the black shadows even cut the ropes of the baggage trucks with knives, and cut the ropes of several baggage trucks in a row. The black shadows then took the knife and slashed the necks of the soldiers on guard of the Jin army, and directly killed several Jin soldiers in their sleep.

Then, after quickly pulling out several large baggage carts, the group of black shadows imitated the magpies and called out a few times. Then more mysterious black shadows with heads tied out of the darkness, hugged and quickly walked to the gap, confirming that the road to enter the camp was opened, the black shadows suddenly shouted, roaring and storming into the Jin army camp, "Kill--!"

"kill--!"

More shouts sounded from the rear, and more black shadows rushed out fiercely from the dark fields, followed the front team into the Jin army camp, killing people when they see them, and stabbing them when they see them. What is even more incredible is that these black shadows who suddenly entered the Jin army camp not only attacked the Jin army flags—slightly different, with white flag teeth, but also everyone was wearing the Jin army's black uniform. They just tied a white cloth on their foreheads to distinguish the enemy and us. At the same time, they also killed people desperately while shouting, "Master Shi has an order! Kill Wang Chen! Establish the Ba Kingdom!"

"Kill Wang Chen! Establish the Ba Kingdom!"

Hearing such a shout, he saw Jin soldiers everywhere in the bonfire rushing back and forth and killing people everywhere. Of course, the Jin soldiers who were awakened in a coma were in chaos. Most of them turned to their heads and didn't know what happened. A small number of people mistakenly thought it was Shi Bao's rebellion by shouting, and they also screamed, "Shi Bao has rebelled! Shi Bao has rebelled!"

At this time, although the reserve team led by Guo Zhang and Hu Lin also responded, when they saw the firelight everywhere, Guo Zhang and Hu Lin were extremely stunned. They could not tell who was the enemy and who was a friendly army in a hurry, and they did not know who should attack them to kill and set fire. What's worse is that because the sudden change came too suddenly, many dizzy Jin soldiers even began to kill each other in the dark, making the scene more chaotic and indistinguishable, and making the Jin army reserve team even less clear about the enemy and us.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the Han army commando led by Mao Jiong took the opportunity to make trouble. While killing the enemy who was caught off guard, he shouted various slogans to confuse the enemy's audio-visual...

"Those who want to survive, establish a Ba Kingdom with our General Shi! Surrender to our General Shi!"

"Don't beat me, it's your own people! It's your own people!"

"I am a soldier under General Wen, and I am my own!"

"Behind you, look behind you, there are enemies behind you!"

Similar slogans certainly made the unexpected Jin army even more confused and chaotic. In order to survive, when they could not distinguish between enemies and us, the soldiers of the Jin army could only wield weapons desperately to drive out their companions. After being mistakenly thought by his companions, they would inevitably kill each other more. The Han army commando seized the opportunity to drive in and rushed straight to the place where Wang Chen's flag was located.

At this time, Wang Chen was of course awakened, but in the dark, he saw the soldiers everywhere in the army killing each other. Wang Chen, who had no experience, was of course helpless and could only shout in vain. Then, when the rumors of Shi Bao's rebellion were reported to Wang Chen, Wang Chen was of course even more at a loss. Sun Chu cursed: "Old Che Nu, Nai Weng has indeed read you wrongly. You are indeed Zhong Hui and Deng Ai are all the people."

At this time, the Han army commando had already rushed to the vicinity of the Jin army's commando. Seeing that the situation was not good, Wang Chen, Sun Chu and others could only quickly throw the commando down and flee to the place where Guo Zhang's flag was located. The Han army took advantage of the situation to cut down Wang Chen's commando, and shouted under Mao Jiong's commando, "Wang Chen is dead! Run! Wang Chen is dead! Run!"

Not to mention, seeing Wang Chen's flag falling to the ground and hearing Wang Chen's death shouts, many soldiers of the Jin army began to flee in the chaos. However, by this time, the experienced generals such as Wen Yang and Huangfu Chang had also discovered the enemy-to-me identification signs of the Han army, and they shouted: "Kill those who have white cloth wrapped around their heads, and those who have white cloth wrapped around their heads are the enemies."

As they shouted, Wen Yang, Huangfu Chang and other generals led their troops to siege and beat the Han army assault team, which was actually only 2,000 people. However, Wen Yang, Huangfu Chang and others were cruel. Mao Jing, led by the Han army, was even more cruel. After discovering that the discerning objects of his own army had been noticed by the enemy, Mao Jing simply took off the white cloth and shouted: "Tear off all the white cloth, fight with the flag, and wait for reinforcements!"

The order was quickly conveyed, and the soldiers of the Han army pulled off the white cloth on their heads to identify the enemy, and instead fought with Mao Jiong's flag. In this way, Wen Yang, Gong Zun and other generals naturally had no targets of pursuit, and all became blind and only knew to fight in the camp. At the same time, they inevitably began to kill each other. The soldiers of the Han army fought closely with the flag, and continued to rush around in the huge camp of the Jin army with relatively few kills, trying to create more chaos.

There were also ruthless people. Seeing the chaos in the Jin army camp, Huang Wu, the grandson of Huang Quan, who had been interested in the Han army from the beginning, made a quick decision and decisively led his private troops out of the camp to escape. While desperately destroying the Jin army's vehicle barriers and opening the road out of the camp, they shouted: "We lost, run quickly!"

Of course, this method also showed results. Seeing the chaos in the camp and the enemy could not be found at all, many companions went out of the camp to escape. Of course, many Jin army soldiers began to follow suit, especially those Jin army soldiers who had tasted junk food, escaped faster than the other, and at the same time, it also led more Jin army soldiers to escape.

Under such circumstances, the troops of Wu Ma, the elite Han army, who came afterwards, easily broke through the Jin army's vehicle barrier defense line and entered the Jin army fiercely. After seeing the Han army coming in large numbers, the Jin army soldiers, who were already in chaos, were of course even more unwarranted to fight. They rushed out of the Jin army camp and fled to the ferry bridge and fled to the ferry crossing to seize the bridge to escape. The Han army soldiers took the opportunity to rush and attack, killing the Jin army camp so dark that the sky and the earth were dark and the sun and the moon were gone.

As more and more soldiers came out of the camp, the twelve floating bridges at the ferry were soon overcrowded. The senior officials of the Jin army, including Wang Chen, Sun Chu, and others couldn't wait to rush up the floating bridge to escape. In order to cross the river as soon as possible, Wang Chen also asked his personal soldiers to face the Jin soldiers who were blocking the road, making the already chaotic ferry even more chaotic as boiled rice soup.

In order to prevent the enemy from jumping into the wall to fight to trap beasts, the Han army did not intentionally rush to destroy the floating bridge and cut off the Jin army's retreat route. However, this was enough. In the chaos, I don't know how many Jin soldiers fell into the water, and how many Jin soldiers trampled on each other and died. There were even more crowds of people on the twelve floating bridges, and everyone was suppressed. All of them were filled with Jin soldiers, almost directly pressing the floating bridge.

Jiang is always old. In the chaos, Shi Bao and his son did not foolishly go to grab the bridge and escape, and chose to escape to the open and swim in the open space. Then, relying on the water-like nature he had learned in the Huainan area, Shi Bao and his son successfully escaped from Fushui with more than a dozen personal soldiers, and escaped by chance. However, even so, the old and weak Shi Bao was still frozen enough by the cold river water in winter, and when he got ashore, he sneezed and was really infected with the wind and cold.

The same is true for the Wenyang brothers, who were also from Huainan. After the Wushuang Cha shone, they could not withstand the beatings of a large group of generals. The Wen brothers could only fight to the death to break through the siege, leading soldiers who could still restrain themselves to dive across the river, and relying on the advantage of Huishui to escape to the east bank of Fushui, which was heading north and south.

It was nothing that Shi Bao and his son and Wen Yang brothers had water. However, Gong Zun and Yin Ju and other Longxi generals who did not know how to escape to the river were stunned. There were pursuers behind them, and there were big rivers blocking the road in front of them. The floating bridge was crowded with people. Gong Zun and Yin Ju and others, who did not know how to go to the sky and the ground, of course, they also realized what it means to go to heaven and earth and have no doors. Forced to helplessness, Yin Ju and Gong Zun and others could only grit their teeth and squeeze onto the bridge, allowing their personal soldiers to cut and kill other soldiers to open the way.

At this time, seeing that the elite Han army had already reached the ferry, and seeing the sky full of fire in the south, knowing that Zhang Zhi personally led the main force to reinforce, the Han army commando mixed with the defeated Jin army also began to move - quietly cutting the rope of the floating bridge that had been stretched straight with a knife, but it only cut off a rope of a floating bridge. The floating bridge, which had been overwhelmed, immediately broke. The Jin soldiers on the bridge screamed and fell into the water.

Then, four other floating bridges were quickly quietly destroyed by the Han army commando. The number of Jin soldiers who fell into the water was inevitably too large, so the river was densely filled with Jin soldiers struggling to seek help everywhere. Among them, Yin Yu, who had just stepped on the bridge, unfortunately fell into the water and drowned while seriously injured.

The slogan of "Surrender and not kill" has echoed on the battlefield. Then, because the Han army's captive policy was too good, countless Jin soldiers kept putting down their weapons and surrendering. The elite Han army led by Wu Ma took the opportunity to strode forward, destroying the remaining floating bridge before the main force arrived, turning the Jin soldiers on the west bank of the Fushui River into lambs to be slaughtered.

After a while, when Zhang Zhi led the main force of the Han army to rush to the near the floating bridge, seeing that the situation was hopeless, the number of Jin soldiers who put down their weapons and surrendered was inevitably larger, including Shantao, Sun Shanxia, ​​one of the seven sages of the bamboo forest, and some of the Central Master's children were also forced to put down their weapons and kneel down to surrender because they could not water. Shanxia still screamed with a sad face: "General Han, you said that you would not kill prisoners. During the Chengdu Rebellion, I was in Luoyang and did not participate. Don't kill me."

Although the battle at Fushui Ferry Crossing was far less intense than the decisive battle in Mianzhu, the losses of the Jin army were far greater than that of the decisive battle in Mianzhu. In more than half a night, more than 90,000 Jin army, including the released soldiers, were beheaded by the Han army by more than 14,000. The people who fell into the water and fell into the river and died were astonishingly close to 20,000. More than 30,000 were captured by the Han army. Another part followed Qiao Xian's private soldiers and fled to the downstream of the Fushui River and crossed the river eastward. More than 90,000 troops finally escaped from Fushui and gathered under the Fu County city, and there were only 30,000 people.

What's even worse is that all the military supplies, food, grass and weapons were lost, so that after the Jin army crossed the river, they could not even find a single camp in the military tent. They could only sleep in the camps left before Shibao in the cold wind in the winter. The food and grass could only be supplied by the small town of Fu County, and it could not last for a few days.
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