Chapter 137 Burning the Red Cliff (5)

After several days of training and building the pontoon bridge, Cao Cao's army felt that the time to cross the river was ripe and prepared to cross the river to attack the hinterland of Jiangdong.

By chance, when Huang Gai sent someone to send the news, Cao Cao also finished discussing with his advisers and set a time to cross the river. He started building a floating bridge at the third update of November 21st. By dawn, many troops had already crossed the river and deployed defenses, so he was not afraid of Zhou Yu's attack on the halfway.

When he received news from Huang Gai, because the time when Huang Gai came to surrender was only one hour apart from the time when Cao Cao launched the crossing of the river, Cao Cao discussed with the generals in the big village whether to change the plan to cross the river.

The final conclusion of the discussion was to cross the river according to the original plan. After Huang Gai came, he built a floating bridge to cross the river.

Therefore, almost all Qingxu Jingrui from Hanzhai had entered the water camp to wait, preparing to cross the river and deploy defenses on the first batch to ensure the smooth crossing of the entire army.

At the second update that night, everything was about to stop, and Huang Gai led twenty fire boats to Cao's camp.

Huang Gai has always been the leader, so he sat on the third fire boat, covering his heart alone, holding a sharp blade, the flag on the boat fluttered, and the big book on the flag was "Pioneer Huang Gai".

Because the southeast wind has not blown, but the northwest wind has stopped. Huang Gai is still illusioning that the southeast wind will suddenly come, and he ordered his soldiers to row slowly, delay time, and slowly head towards the north of the Yangtze River.

After only a few miles of water, Huang Gai walked for half an hour. Cao Cao looked across the river from the central army, looking at the moon, shining on the river, like thousands of golden snakes, waving the waves.

Cao Cao was full of energy and thought that tomorrow would be the day to defeat Zhou Yu, so he couldn't help laughing in the wind and thought he was successful.

Suddenly, the alert sergeant reported: "There are a bunch of sails and curtains in the south of the Yangtze River, causing the wind to come." Cao ordered him to look up to him.

The soldiers reported: "The ships all come to the Qinglong Teeth Flag. There is a big flag inside, and the name of Pioneer Huang Gai is written on it."

Cao Cao was overjoyed and said, "It was Huang Gongfu who came to surrender as promised. This is God who helped me!"

As the boat approached, Cheng Yu watched from a distance for a long time and said to Cao Cao: "Prime Minister, the boat will be deceitful. Don't teach me to get close to the village."

Cao Cao looked at it and asked in surprise: "How do you know it?"

Cheng Yu replied: "The food in the boat must be deep in the water, and the boat must be steady; now the boat is light and floating. If there is any deception, it will catch fire when entering the village and catches fire?"

Cao Cao understood and asked, "Who will come up to block the Huanggai fleet and do not let him approach the water camp?"

Wen Pin stood up and responded: "I'm quite familiar with the water, I'm willing to ask for it." Cao Cao promised.

Wenpin jumped off the boat, pointed with his hand, and dozens of patrol boats were out with Wenpin boat.

Wen Pin stood at the bow of the ship and shouted to Huang Gai's fleet: "Prime Minister Jun's order: Don't go to the south to the village, so just throw it away in the middle of the river."

The crossbowman guarding the village shouted in unison: "Stop the boat quickly, don't shoot arrows!" Before the words could be heard, Huang Gai's fleet shot arrows first. At the sound of the bowstring, Wen Pin was shot into his left arm by an arrow and fell into the boat.

When Huang Gai heard Wen Pin's call, he knew that the false surrender was exposed. The matter had come to this point and had to make a desperate attempt. Therefore, he took the lead in shooting arrows, hurting Wen Pin.

The two sides began to shoot each other with crossbows. Because Huang Gai's fire ship was not well protected, many soldiers were killed or injured. Because there was no strong wind in the southeast, Huang Gai's fire ship slowly approached the water camp.

Because Wen Pin was injured, although the Jingzhou naval fleet led by him was in chaos and rushed back, they were still guarding the edge of the village. The Huanggai fleet was still two miles away from the Cao Cao water village and it was difficult to get close to it.

When Huang Gai saw that things had come to this point, he saw that the sky had already been in the third update, and sighed and prepared to take a desperate bet and sacrifice his life to ignite the fire!

Huang Gai used a knife move, and the ships in front of him all got angry. He took the lead and rowed hard in the fireboat, trying to rush into Cao Cao's water camp.

Wen Pin was shot in the left hand by Huang Gai. He poured into the cabin not because he was injured, but because he avoided other arrows.

After the bandage was stopped, Wen Pin was fine, so he hid on the boat, bent his bow and arrow, preparing to seek revenge on Huang Gai.

Huang Gai forced the fireboat to enter the water camp, but Wen Pin saw it clearly and shot an arrow directly. Huang Gai fell down and fell into the river.

Just when Huang Gai thought this fire attack would end in failure and was completely lost, a strong wind in the southeast suddenly came. The fire took advantage of the wind and helped the fire. Twenty fire boats were like arrows, and smoke rose to the sky.

Huang Gai's twenty fire boats crashed into Cao Cao's water camp, and the ships in the camp were all there for a moment; they were locked by iron rings and had nowhere to escape.

The cannons were fired across the river, and four teams behind him were in charge. The fire boats rushed towards Cao Jun Water Village. But they saw the fire flying across the three rivers, and the wind was red, and the sky and earth were covered with fire.

Cao Cao returned to the camp on the shore, and there were no more people and only a few sporadic fireworks. Seeing that the situation was critical, he jumped onto the boat under the protection of Zhang Liao and others.

Zhang Liao and dozens of people protected Cao Cao and rushed to the shore. When Cao Cao abandoned his boat and landed on the shore, he was searching for his horses and left, hundreds of thousands of troops were already in chaos.

Han Dang came to attack the water camp with smoke and fire, and suddenly heard a report from the soldiers: "A man on the back rudder, shouting the word "General"."

Han Dang listened carefully, but heard the Gao shouted, "Yi Gong save me?"

Han Dang had already heard Huang Gai's voice and hurriedly said, "This is Huang Gong's refusal!" He urgently taught the soldiers to rescue him.

Seeing Huang Gai hurt by the arrow, he bit out the arrow shaft and the arrow was trapped in the flesh. Han Dang quickly took off his wet clothes, cut out the arrow with a knife, pulled out the flag, took off his battle robe and Huang Gai, and sent him back to Dazhai for treatment.

It turns out that Huang Gai knows the nature of water well, so when the fire attacks, he falls into the river and can escape his life.

The fires rolled all over the river that day, and shouts were shaking the ground.

On the left is Han Dang, and Jiang Qin and his army came from the west of Chibi.

On the right is Zhou Tai, Chen and Wu's army came from the east of Chibi.

In the middle, the ships of Zhou Yu, Cheng Pu, Xu Sheng and Ding Feng arrived.

Fire requires soldiers to respond, and soldiers rely on fire. Cao's army was shot into arrows with guns, and fire burned water and drowned. Hundreds of thousands of Cao's army no longer had the power to fight back.

Gan Ning led his troops into the depths of Cao's army's dry village. Ning cut Cai Zhong down the horse with a knife and set fire on the grass.

Lu Meng looked at the fire in the army, and even set off dozens of fires to meet Gan Ning.

Pan Zhang and Dong Xi set fire and shouted separately, and the drums were loudly sounded.

Cao Cao and Zhang Liao led hundreds of cavalry and rushed in the fire forest, looking at everything in front of them.

Just as he left, Mao Jie saved Wen Pin and led dozens of cavalry to arrive. Cao ordered the soldiers to find a way forward.

Zhang Liao pointed, "There is only the Wulin ground, and it is empty and can be left." Cao Cao waved his hand and rushed to Wulin. While he was walking, an army behind him arrived and shouted, "Don't leave Cao thief!" The banner of Lu Meng appeared in the fire.

Cao Cao urged his army to move forward, leaving Zhang Liao to cut off the rear, and resisted the enemy Lu Meng...

But when the torch was rising in front, a army emerged from the valley, shouting: "Ling Tong is here!"

Cao Cao's liver and gallbladder were broken. Suddenly, a stinging army arrived and shouted, "Prime Minister, don't panic! Xu Huang is here!" Xu Huang led the army out, fought each other in a melee, and Cao's army seized the road and walked north.
Chapter completed!