As expected by Zhang Yi, rain slowly began to fall from the sky just ten miles after Zhang He and his army left Xinye City.
Zhang Yi learned from Zhou Tai that according to his understanding of the weather in Nanyang County, the rain would only get worse and would not stop.
After hearing Zhou Tai's analysis, Zhang Ni's face showed a solemn look.
I am really afraid of what will happen.
In order to conceal his whereabouts, Zhang He did not lead his troops on official roads.
And even the official roads of the current world cannot be compared with the asphalt roads of later generations.
As the rain gradually fell, the mountain road at the foot of tens of thousands of Han troops became muddy.
This greatly affected the progress of the Han army's march.
Although the Wu army had marched in heavy rain before, their situation was different from that of the Han army.
No matter how heavy the rain is, a large part of the journey from Xiakou to Yong'an is by water.
Wu Jun has a large number of warships with advanced technology.
Those warships ensured the Wu army's marching speed to the greatest extent.
But the Han army did not have this advantage.
They could only rely on their own feet to climb over mountains and ridges step by step, walking on muddy mountain roads.
People who grow up in rural areas in future generations will understand how difficult it is to walk on muddy roads.
The most important thing is that since it was a surprise attack, tens of thousands of Han troops set off carrying weapons with them.
With the physical quality of the Han army, it is not impossible to carry out a surprise attack of nearly a hundred miles with equipment.
However, the harsh weather environment made what was usually an easy task for the Han army become difficult now.
After walking for more than ten miles, many Han soldiers felt numbness in their calves and sore hands.
Not only ordinary soldiers feel this way, but also general officers with slightly lower physical fitness also feel this way.
Even due to carelessness, some Han soldiers accidentally slipped and fell into the mountain stream below.
Those Han soldiers who fell let out screams before losing their lives.
And those screams, relying on the depth of the mountain stream, floated in the ears of tens of thousands of Tiance troops for a long time.
After enduring for a long time, Zhang Yi finally couldn't bear it anymore.
Zhang Ni strode forward to Zhang He and asked for orders:
"General, let the boys rest for a while!"
"At least we can wait until the rain subsides before our army can continue to set off."
Zhang Yi was afraid that if the march continued like this, the non-combat attrition of tens of thousands of Tiance troops would become more and more serious.
This was a heavy blow to the combat effectiveness and morale of the Tiance Army.
But Zhang He's determination exceeded Zhang Yi's expectations.
"There is no turning back when the bow is drawn.
Now that I have set out with my army, I must attack the city and return."
Zhang He was not unaware of the screams caused by the Han troops falling into the mountain stream.
But Zhang He knew that this was an inevitable and necessary sacrifice.
After leaving Xinye City just now, he sent many scouts to follow the march of the army and observe the status of the Wei army sentry posts ahead.
When each scout returned, they reported to Zhang He that the Wei army's sentries were in a careless state.
What does this prove?
It proves that Mi Yang’s judgment is correct!
Since it is a correct judgment, why should we give up a great opportunity because of some necessary sacrifices?
Zhang He glanced at his feet that were already soaked in mud, his eyes never wavered in the slightest.
Then Zhang He lifted his feet hard and landed heavily on the dirt road, causing a few splashes of water.
"Follow me and keep going."
Zhang He's attitude made Zhang Yi helplessly close his eyes.
Seeing that Zhang He did not change his mind, the next thing Zhang Yi could do was to walk around the team with several generals and use words to boost morale.
Listening to the footsteps that gradually picked up speed under Zhang Ni's encouragement, a smile appeared on Zhang He's face without anyone noticing.
Although Zhang Ni had repeatedly remonstrated with him, Zhang He not only did not hate Zhang Ni in his heart, but rather liked him.
This is not because of Zhang Yi’s status as Mi Yang’s confidant, but because every word Zhang Yi speaks is based on public conscience.
Such quality is rare in Cao Wei.
And for people with such qualities, their future is bound to be bright.
After Zhang He came to Han Dynasty, he found that Wei Chen who had surrendered before was doing some things in unison.
That is to find the potential players in the Han Dynasty and the public, make friends with them, and hand over your skills to them.
This is Wei Chen who surrendered and is thinking about the future of his family.
Among those Wei officials, the most successful was Yu Jin.
After the Public Security War, Yu Jin almost disappeared from the world, but in the capital of the Han Dynasty, he had always been very active.
Anyone who visits Yu Jin will definitely mention the glorious years he and Mi Yang spent in the police.
After talking a lot, and Mi Yang never expressed dissatisfaction with this matter, gradually every Han official came to know that Yu Jin had a good relationship with Mi Yang.
This fundamentally improved Yu Jin's status in the Han Dynasty.
When Liu Bei died, Yu Jin was a subordinated general, and he was ranked higher than Zhao Yun and others in mourning for Liu Bei.
With such a good example in front of him, it is impossible for Zhang He not to follow his example.
And after many observations, he had such expectations for Zhang Yi.
Since the expedition, every word he said to Zhang Yi was actually teaching.
Thinking of this, Zhang He mustered up his strength again and climbed towards the top of the mountain.
Since he was very familiar with the terrain of Jingbei, today's march route was decided by Zhang He himself.
This marching route can avoid most Wei army sentry posts and greatly shorten the distance, but it is quite rugged and difficult to travel.
But Zhang He believed that the Tiance army behind him would not let him down.
When he was in Yizhou, didn't Zhang Fei lead his army across the mountains, surprise him and beat him to a pulp?
The Han army could do it in the past, there is no reason why it can't be done now.
I don’t know how long they continued walking, but when the sky gradually darkened, tens of thousands of Han troops finally walked out of the dense forest full of dangers.
After walking out of the dense forest, Zhang He asked someone to count the number of people.
After taking inventory, Zhang He found that the Han army was missing hundreds of men.
Almost all of these hundreds of people died on the road due to various reasons.
The bad weather in today's world is sometimes more ferocious than wild beasts.
In addition to hundreds of lives lost, Zhang He also learned that many people in the army were injured.
Most of these people are attacked by poisonous insects and beasts in the mountains and forests.
After learning about the current situation of the Han army, Zhang He felt happy instead of worried.
Today's march can be described as very difficult.
Zhang He had been prepared in his mind that the attrition would be quite serious.
But unexpectedly, the attrition situation was much better than he expected.
Zhang He couldn't help but secretly praise the elite of Tiance Army in his heart.
Zhang He then made battle arrangements.
Zhang He first ordered Zhou Tai to be the vanguard and led an army of three thousand to capture a village below as quickly as possible.
Zhang He, who was familiar with the Wei army posts, knew that the people stationed in that village were Wei troops, and it was a hub of communication between Wancheng and Bowang.
After Zhou Tai led his troops to leave, Zhang He let the remaining troops take a good rest.
The remaining troops did not rest long before Zhang He learned the news that Zhou Tai had captured the village.
After learning the news, Zhang He quickly arranged other tasks.
"Zhou Tai led his troops to rest in the village, and when the rain stopped, he sent troops from behind to seize various sentries and important roads between Wancheng and Bowang."
After assigning Zhou Tai's tasks, Zhang He looked at Liu Yin.
"You lead more than a thousand people, stay here to take care of the wounded, and always be vigilant about our army's retreat.
If you find any abnormality in the back road, you must report it in time."
After arranging this stage, Zhang He turned to look at Zhang Ni, who was thoughtful, and said to him:
"You will lead the remaining five thousand soldiers and go to Bowang with me."
After Zhang Yi heard what Zhang He said, he quickly accepted the order.
Soon after, the sky became completely dark.
Taking advantage of the dark sky, Zhang He and Li Ye led their troops towards Bowang.
Even though the sky had darkened, many Han soldiers could not see their surroundings clearly.
But from the moist feeling on the body and the loud sound of rain in the ears, it can be judged that the rain has not decreased, but has become stronger and heavier.
In addition, day and night are two different environments.
Although Tiancejun strictly followed the food standard of "one meat every seven days" set by Mi Yang, this could only slowly improve Tiancejun's night blindness, but was not enough to allow Tiancejun to see at night as well as during the day.
For people today who are superstitious about ghosts and gods, when night falls, some of their deepest fears will be triggered unconsciously.
No matter how elite the soldiers are, they will not be exempt from this.
In particular, the Tiance Army had never entered Jingbei. For them, the environment they were in now was completely unfamiliar and pitch black.
An unknown sense of terror is slowly invading the hearts of every Tiance Army.
And this sense of terror has a tendency to be detonated after something happens.
As the rain became more intense, strong winds also blew on the road.
The strong wind blew even the general's flag into pieces.
Marching in the dark night, the military flag is the guiding light for the whole army and also their spiritual sustenance.
So when the military flag was blown down, many people in the army couldn't help but scream in surprise.
When Zhang He heard the exclamations from Tiance Army, Zhang He's first reaction was to turn around and calm the soldiers down.
But before he could take action, Zhang Yi took the lead like daylight, running in front of and behind the team, shouting:
"I am Zhang Yi, and I am acting under the orders of Grand Sima today. Don't worry!"
Zhang Yi's words are quite simple, but the information revealed is not simple.
As we all know, Zhang Yi is the beloved general of Great Sima Mi Yang.
In addition, everyone also knows how high Mi Yang's prestige is in the Tiance Army.
When Zhang Ni's shouts rang out in the Han army, the exclamations that followed quickly began to disappear.
Thousands of Tiance troops believed that Zhang Yi would not falsely convey Mi Yang's orders.
And they even believed that Mi Yang would not harm them.
After realizing this, no matter how dark the sky was and how heavy the rain was, Qian Tiancejun's heart gradually calmed down.
After they calmed down, the speed of thousands of Han troops suddenly accelerated a lot.
By the time of the third watch, thousands of Tiance troops were already quite close to Bowang City.
When he got here, Zhang He found a pond with poultry near him.
After realizing this, Zhang He immediately ordered Tiance's army to pick up the stones on the ground and throw them into the pond.
Many poultry were sleeping in the pond, but were suddenly hit by stones from the sky.
Their bodies were in pain, and they soon began to chirp one after another.
This loud cry almost perfectly covered up the sound of thousands of Tiance troops marching.
By the time of the fourth watch, thousands of Tiance troops, led by Zhang He, had already arrived at the city.
However, because the Thousand Days Army arrived so secretly and suddenly, all the Wei troops in the city were sleeping soundly, and no one noticed anything unusual.
Upon seeing this, he opened and closed without delay.
Zhang He, who once led an army to garrison in the north of Jing, was no stranger to the defense of the city of Bowang.
He knew that although Bowang's city defense was not bad, it had a fatal flaw.
Zhang He led Tiance's army around to a place on the northern wall of the city, and then ordered people to find the strong men in the army and start smashing them somewhere on the wall.
After seeing Zhang He's behavior, Zhang Ni's face inevitably showed a look of doubt.
He admitted that the people he was looking for were all famous strong men in the army.
But what they are smashing now is the city wall. How can they break it?
But before Zhang Yi could be confused for a long time, with the help of firelight, the next moment his face showed an expression of disbelief.
I saw that before the strong men smashed for a long time, holes slowly appeared in the wall they smashed.
After noticing Zhang Ni's surprise, Zhang He explained with a smile:
"In the early years of Jian'an, the late emperor launched a Northern Expedition with the support of Liu Biao.
During the Northern Expedition, the late emperor once occupied Bowang and approached Xuchang.
Later, Cao Cao led a heavy army to attack Bowang and forced the late emperor to retreat.
Although the Wei army successfully captured Bowang during that Bowang campaign, it also caused damage to the northern wall of Bowang that was difficult to repair.
In addition, in the past, Cao Wei's defense line was in Fancheng, and he did not expect that Bowang would one day face the enemy, so no major repairs were made to Bowang's city wall.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! In the past when I was in Cao Wei, I had suggested to beware of this.
But looking at it today, it is obvious that my proposal has never been adopted."
Zhang He slowly revealed the secret he knew.
When Zhang He finished speaking, Zhang He looked at Zhang Ni and said:
"Now that the city wall has been opened, I wonder if Bo Qi would like to enter?"
In words, Zhang He actually wanted to give up the credit of being first to Zhang Ni in vain.
It's just that although being first means first success, it also involves a lot of risks.
But it was obvious that Zhang Yi was not afraid.
So Zhang Yi bowed excitedly to Zhang He and led hundreds of warriors into the city through the opened hole.
After Zhang Yi arrived at the city, he immediately led hundreds of warriors and ran towards the city wall.
Due to the cover of the chirping of poultry and the sound of rain, the Wei army on the city wall did not hear any unusual movement, so they were still in a deep sleep.
In order to ensure that the victory of Bowang was safe, Zhang Ni showed no mercy to these sleeping enemies.
Under Zhang Yi's order, the sleeping Wei troops guarding the city were quickly killed in their sleep.
And before they died, they didn't even have time to issue a warning.
After clearing the Wei troops on the city wall, Zhang Ni quickly came to the city and opened the city gate.
As the city gate was fully opened, thousands of Tiance troops, who had already been unable to restrain themselves, rushed straight into Bowang City like tigers and wolves.
Coincidentally, the moment thousands of Tiance troops rushed in was when the first light of the morning emerged.
"It's five o'clock.
August 30th arrives in the sixth year of Huang Chu!"
The watchman's chime sounded loudly throughout the city.
But soon, the faces of several watchmen near the northern city wall showed fear.
Zhang Ni came to the watchman with a sharp blade in his hand, picked up the watchman's wooden hammer, struck the gong hard and said:
"No!
It should be August 30th, the sixth year of Zhangwu’s reign!”
This chapter has been completed!