Mi Han

Chapter 223 Fire Surrounds the Water
There is a highland near the upper reaches of the Han River, tens of miles away from Cao Ren's army, and a young general is standing on this highland at this time.

This young general was Guan Xing, the second son of Guan Yu.

Guan Xing was holding a command flag in his hand, and his focused eyes were constantly staring at the downstream direction.

Anxiously waiting, Guan Xing took out a piece of herbal medicine from his arms and chewed it in his mouth.

As soon as the herbs were taken in, the bitter taste immediately filled Guan Xing's mouth.

But it was this bitter taste that stabilized Guan Xing's mood.

Guan Xing was weak and sickly since he was a child, so he developed the habit of carrying herbal medicine with him.

In today's world, many herbal medicines can be taken orally directly.

It is also because Guan Xing is weak and sick, so when assigning tasks to the generals, Mi Yang took special care of Guan Xing and asked him to take charge of a very important task that did not require rushing.

As long as Guan Xing completes this task well, his contribution will not be less in this battle.

Guan Xing knew that Mi Yang cared for him, so he couldn't live up to Mi Yang's expectations.

On this high ground, there is also a simple camp tent, which can accommodate thousands of soldiers.

While chewing the herbs in his mouth, Guan Xing stood on the high ground and looked into the distance.

Finally, in the midst of Guan Xing's eager anticipation, a boat is heading here quickly.

When Guan Xing saw that walker appear, joy appeared on Guan Xing's face.

Soon after, the extremely fast boat sailed and came to the Hanshui where Guan Xing was.

After the boat stopped steadily, Guan Xing quickly got off the high ground and walked towards the boat.

When Guan Xing came near the boat boat, a messenger who got off the boat had already come to Guan Xing.

The messenger bowed down to Guan Xing, and then said to Guan Xing: "The general's words can be struck!"

The messenger's words were very short, and it was self-evident who the general he was talking about was self-evident.

But these short six words fell into Guan Xing's ears, but made Guan Xing's face glow with great joy.

He has been waiting for these six words for a long time.

After receiving Mi Yang's order, Guan Xing didn't hesitate anymore, he immediately ran up to the high ground, and then waved the order flag in his hand.

Under the scorching sun, Guan Xing's actions were easily noticed by the thousands of Han troops on the ground.

Thousands of Han troops saw Guan Xing's order flag waving, and soon there was a surprising scene under the open high ground.

Under the command of their respective generals and schools, thousands of Han soldiers were respectively pushing many large rafts into the Han River.

Those big rafts are generally made of bundled reeds.

Because reed can be seen everywhere and it is flammable, it is an excellent fire starter in the minds of the people.

Under the impetus of thousands of Han troops, countless rafts were quickly pushed into the Han River.

But because one end of the raft is fixed on the shore by a rope, the white reed raft looks like waves of raging white waves floating up and down on the broad Han River.

Seeing the Han army under the high ground, they have pushed all the reed rafts into the Han River.

Guan Xing didn't hesitate anymore. Under his order, the soldiers of the Han army took off their torches one after another, and then lit the reed raft.

The flames burned quickly on the reed raft in an instant.

When hundreds of the first reed rafts were set on fire, Guan Xing ordered the Han soldiers to cut the ropes that were pulling the reed rafts.

After the ropes were cut and broken by the sharp blade, the reed raft, which had long been unable to hold back, quickly rushed downstream carrying the flames.

Guan Xing stood on the high ground, feeling a huge heat wave hitting him.

In Guan Xing's eyes, the space above the Han River in front of him seemed to be distorted by the flames.

Then that white heat wave, like countless wild horses running wild, headed towards the enemy army downstream.

This spectacular scene fell in Guan Xing's eyes, making his face flush.

His contribution today cannot be the same as last year, he is only responsible for cleaning the battlefield!

Water village, also known as "water village", does not refer to a military camp on the water, but refers to fences and camps used for defense on or above the water.

Because of the miraculous creation of nature, rivers experience different landforms when they flow through different places.

Some landforms are very suitable for building water fortresses to prevent enemy naval forces from entering their own waters.

For example, in order to stop the water army in Jiangdong, Huang Zu set up water villages in Jiangxia to wait for the enemy.

Those water villages brought a lot of trouble to the Jiangdong navy.

Even the Jiangdong naval forces, who are good at water warfare, sometimes have nothing to do with the water village, let alone the army led by Cao Ren, most of them are northern soldiers who are not familiar with water.

So when all the troops behind him entered the water village, Cao Ren breathed a sigh of relief.

Cao Ren ordered some soldiers to stay at the first water village to guard the rear of the army.

Then he led the rest of the tens of thousands of troops at ease, and continued to follow Meng Da towards the next water village.

At the beginning, Shen Yi knew that a small number of soldiers could not resist Cao Ren's army, so he spent a lot of manpower and material resources, and it took a long time to build multiple water villages, which were separated on the main road of Han River outside the west city.

And on both sides of each water village, there are still many tents lined up, and in the port of the water village, there are many empty ships docked.

In the past, these camps were inhabited by soldiers stationed in the water village.

When Cao Ren continued to lead the army to go deeper, standing on the tall ship, he found that the camps of the Mi army on both sides of the bank were very quiet at this time, and most of the people who wanted to come inside were transferred away by Meng Da.

Under the leadership of Meng Da's hundreds of warships, Cao Ren's army had jumped over several water villages and was heading towards the west city at a fast pace.

According to the information that Meng Da disclosed to Xia Houshang before, today Mi Yang led most of the elite in Xicheng to Fangling County for inspection.

Because of this, Meng Da suggested that Xia Houshang set the date of attack on this day.

The news revealed by Meng Da represents the emptiness of defense in the west city.

Moreover, the west city is Mi Yang's governing place, and Mi Yang and the families of his generals and soldiers are all in the west city.

If Cao Ren can take this opportunity to take Xicheng in one fell swoop, then even if Mi Yang gets the news later and leads the army back to help, Cao Ren, who holds the family members of Mi Yang's army, will remain invincible.

It was precisely because of this consideration that after capturing several undefended water fortresses in a row, Cao Ren urged the army behind him to move forward more quickly.

But the channel of the Hanshui River is not flat. On the channel of the Hanshui River leading to Xicheng, it is full of various hidden reefs.

Even the river course of the Han River is not straight, but has many corners.

These are undoubtedly delaying the marching speed of Cao Ren's army.

Who told others to be numerous?

On the contrary, Meng Da's hundreds of warships were light and familiar with the terrain, so after passing a water village, Cao Ren suddenly found Meng Da in front of him, who had disappeared at some point.

It's just that he didn't suspect anything else at this time, he just thought that Meng Da's hundred warships were traveling too fast, which caused them to disappear temporarily.

So Cao Ren hurriedly dispatched a few scouts to look for Meng Da.

But not long after Cao Ren dispatched several ships, General Chang Diao, who was standing beside him, noticed something was wrong.

Chang Diao's eyesight is excellent, and he saw a huge wave appearing in the upper reaches of the Han River in front of him.

But because he couldn't see it clearly, Chang Diao didn't pay much attention to it at first.

After all, the sky is bright and the sun is clear today, and there is no violent storm. How could there be huge waves suddenly on the broad Han River?

As the "big wave" got closer and closer, the soldiers on the battleships at the forefront of thousands of Wei army warships felt that the air seemed to be getting hotter.

But when the feeling in the hearts of those hundreds of soldiers had not surfaced for a long time, the scene that suddenly appeared in their eyes caused a huge shock to appear on their faces.

Not far ahead, countless rafts burning with flames suddenly appeared, driving towards them rapidly.

August and September are the times when the Han River flows the most violently, and the countless rafts are traveling downstream from the upper reaches.

Driven by the current of the Han River, the brisk reed rafts slammed into them fiercely like crossbows shot from the water.

After a while, hundreds of Wei army warships collided with countless reed rafts burning raging flames.

Under the collision, almost instantly, the hundreds of Wei Army warships quickly burned.

Reeds are inherently flammable, and Mi Yang has been collecting all kinds of kerosene some time ago in order to complete his work, and then smear them on the reed raft.

Under such circumstances, even building ships with rawhide protection would ignite when encountering such a flame, let alone most of the Wei army warships without rawhide protection?

After the countless reed rafts ignited the hundreds of Wei army warships, they continued to move towards thousands of Wei army warships downstream at an extremely fast speed driven by the current.

More importantly, after the hundreds of Wei Army warships were set on fire, the Wei Army soldiers on the warships were busy putting out the fire.

Therefore, when the hundreds of Wei army warships lost their helms, they were carried by the current towards a large number of Wei army warships downstream.

When this scene happened, most of Wei Jun's faces in the rear were frightened for an instant.

This naturally included Cao Ren who stood tall and could see far.

In the eyes of Cao Ren, Xia Houshang, Chang Diao and others on the building boat, a burning wall of fire seemed to appear out of thin air on the Han River ahead.

Then the wall of fire came towards them at lightning speed.

This extremely impactful scene fell in the eyes of Cao Ren and the others, making their faces full of horror.

It was only at this time that Chang Diao realized that the white waves he noticed just now were not water waves, but a whitish fire illuminated by the hot sun.

Fire is on water, and water carries fire!
It's just that it's too late to understand this.

Frightened, Cao Ren anxiously issued an order to disperse the thousands of warships behind him.

It's a pity that thousands of Wei army warships were originally traveling against the current. Under the resistance of the Han River, how could thousands of Wei army warships disperse so quickly.

Before the thousands of Wei army warships could make a move, the fire waves that seemed to be able to burn everything had already arrived at the place where thousands of Wei army warships were.

Then this wave of fire roared wantonly and ignited many warships of the Wei Army.

When thousands of reed rafts at the forefront rammed into thousands of warships of the Wei army, countless reed rafts with flames appeared not far away, and they quickly moved towards thousands of warships of the Wei army.

For today, Mi Yang has been preparing for a long time.

In the past month, he ordered his army to cut down the reeds for a whole month.

A total of millions of bundles of reeds were cut down. Given the raw materials of millions of bundles of reeds, the fire raft of reeds he prepared today must be enough.

As many reed fire rafts rushed into the array of Wei Army warships, thousands of Wei Army warships quickly burned.

Perhaps Lou Chuan has rawhide protection, so it can block the flames to a certain extent.

But raw cowhide is not a panacea. Once the flames are completely burned, no matter how good the building is, it will be impossible to escape the end of being burned.

Soon after, the wailing and shouting of many Wei troops resounded over the waters of the Han River.

Perhaps the flames hadn't reached them yet, but when the flames were quickly devouring their warship, the fear in their hearts inevitably grew rapidly.

Cao Ren on the building boat listened to the shouts of many Wei soldiers, and saw that most of the tens of thousands of troops he was proud of were engulfed in the sea of ​​fire within a short time, and his heart felt as if he had been hit hard by a hammer.

A look of great pain appeared on his face.

At this moment, on both sides of the flaming Han River basin, bursts of high-pitched drums began to sound.

This drum sound is not a common drum sound in the Wei army. This burst of drum sound belongs to the deadly enemy of the Wei army-the Han army.

Inspired by bursts of majestic drums, groups of Han troops in uniform began to appear from the mountains and forests on both sides of the strait.

Many crimson military flags representing the pride of the Han Dynasty also appeared one after another in this raging world.

Not far away, there are many Han soldiers rushing towards here.

Under the guidance of the proud drums and flags, tens of thousands of Han troops took firm and heavy steps, forming a murderous army formation, and surrounded the two sides of the Han River Basin.

Among the many flags of the Han army, a battle flag with the word "Mi" was raised the highest and most conspicuously.

Under the "Mi" battle flag, the figure of a young general in Mingguang armor appeared in front of Cao Ren and the others.

Seeing that figure, Xia Houshang on the boat almost fainted in anger.

Didn't it mean that Mi Yang was in Fangling?
Then who is this person!
Compared to Xia Houshang's anger, although Cao Ren's face was full of pain at this time, he could still maintain some reason.

At this moment, how could he not know that he had been tricked!
Meng Da concluded that the founding ambition was false, that Xicheng's military strength was empty, and that everything was false.

All of this is a game set up by Mi Yang.

Cao Ren's reaction couldn't be said to be unpleasant. When the flames surrounded his tens of thousands of troops, he had already led his confidant generals to transfer from the building to the boat.

Then Cao Ren used his big banner to gather more and more Wei troops.

Under the gathering of Cao Ren using his own prestige, thousands of Wei troops gradually gathered around his warship.

At this time, as the flames burned, the world was covered by smoke and dust all over the sky.

Many Wei troops crowded each other on the warships. What's more, many Wei troops jumped into the water for fear of being burned by the flames.

Under such circumstances, there are thousands of Wei Jun who drowned and trampled to death.

And these tragic scenes kept falling into the eyes of the Wei generals headed by Cao Ren.

Then there was a look of grief on their faces.

These are all the elites of the Great Wei!

But now they have died without knowing why before they contacted an enemy army.

What's the matter?

Cao Ren stared fiercely at Mi Yang on the shore with his teeth cracking, his heart was full of hatred.

Thief!Thief!
But Cao Ren knew that now was not the time to be angry, the most important thing now was to break out of the encirclement as soon as possible.

The reason why Cao Ren can still keep calm is because he is not yet at the end of his rope.

He still has a way out.

Cao Ren began to personally command the thousands of Wei troops gathered around him, and quickly retreated towards the rear.

There are Han troops on both sides of the strait, and it would be very disadvantageous if they forcefully landed at this time, so they had to go back the same way.

But it's a pity that Cao Ren's move clearly fell into the eyes of Mi Yang on the shore.

Seeing that Cao Ren was about to escape, Mi Yang frowned slightly.

It is not polite at all to bring tens of thousands of troops to his house as guests for no reason, and now to leave without saying goodbye.

The last person he met who was so rude was Sun Quan.

Come and come, how can it be so easy to leave?
Under Mi Yang's signal, the general beside Mi Yang waved the command flag in his hand.

Under the command of Lingqi, tens of thousands of Han troops on both sides of the strait put the arrows at their waists on their longbows.

Tens of thousands of arrows shining with cold light were aimed at the thousands of Wei troops who were about to flee in an instant.

This scene was also noticed by Cao Ren who was observing the surrounding situation, and it was this scene that made cold sweat appear on his face.

He is no longer calm!
(End of this chapter)