Silver Fox of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 246 Weaving a Big Net for Cai Mao

"woo woo woo woo!"

With a loud horn, in the dense forest, arrows rained like clusters, shooting at Han Hu's army head and face.

It's just that the arrow's momentum is actually not big, and it seems to be more of a deterrent. It didn't aim at the crowd, but shot randomly towards the forest on both sides of the road.

However, Han Hujun didn't expect to be ambushed suddenly, and he lost his position all of a sudden. Many people ran around in the jungle on the left and right in a panic, and shot hundreds of unlucky people to death because of this.

Countless soldiers rushed out of the forest on the hillside, waving their swords and shouting at the same time.

"Kill!"

"Those who surrender will not die!"

"If the Jingzhou army doesn't fight the Jingzhou army, surrender!"

The soldiers of the Han Hu army came from Linyuan, and today is the third day. They had eaten and slept in the open all the way, so they were very tired.

They rested for a while in the medicine mountain just now, all of them were top-heavy and had no strength to fight back. For a while, Han Hu's army was in a mess, unable to organize effective resistance at all.

"No chaos, no chaos!"

Han Hu rode on horseback, saw this situation and became furious, beheaded several fleeing soldiers with his own hands, threatened the surrounding officers and shouted angrily: "All Sima, Qu Junhou, Tuen Zhang, Captain, give me Take care of your soldiers and end up in place, ah!"

Before the words could be read, Han Hu let out a scream, and there was an extra feathered arrow on his neck, and the feathers at the end of the arrow were still buzzing, his head tilted, and he fell off the horse.

On the foothills in the distance, the old general Huang Zhong with a gray beard stood on a big rock and glanced down. He was only more than 50 meters from the ground, and he shot Han Hu to death with an arrow.

In the era of cold weapons, having such a master of bow and arrow with perfect shots is comparable to a highly skilled sniper in the modern army!
Once the main general died, the army became more chaotic, and the officers did not gather soldiers and joined the fleeing team.

And Liu Pan's army rushed towards the Hanhu army on the road like a torrent surging down from the mountain, still shouting to surrender and not to kill, and also used Runan, Guanzhong and Nanyang accents in a very targeted manner Shout.

This slogan obviously has a huge effect, because Liu Pan's army used to be from Nanyang, Cai Mao also had a lot of Nanyang troops, and the source of Nanyang troops was the refugees from Guanzhong and Runan and the remnants of the Yellow Turbans that Liu Biao accepted in his early years. Cai Mao's sense of belonging has not been very high.

After Han Hu was shot, when the soldiers heard these familiar accents, they almost instinctively discarded their weapons and equipment one by one, kneeling down and surrendering.Even Sima, Han Hu's lieutenant general, joined the surrender team.

"Brothers, we are all in the Jingzhou Army. We used to serve for the late emperor, but Cai Mao, Kuaiyue, and Zhang Yun stole the throne for the second prince. We are the team of the eldest prince, so we have to help the eldest prince take it back. Anyway, who is it? Help? Waiting for the eldest prince to take back Jingzhou, can I still treat you badly?"

"Are you from Guanzhong? I am also from Guanzhong. We are all homeless people who fled from Guanzhong to Jingzhou. If the late emperor hadn't taken us in, we would have died long ago. Now I follow the eldest prince to repay the late emperor. Thank you for taking me in."

"Everyone, don't resist, put down the weapons in your hands. Think about it, even the invincible General Shen has been helping the eldest prince, so it can be seen that the eldest prince is the lord of Jingzhou, why do you follow Cai Mao?"

After Liu Pan's army rushed down the mountain, it quickly took control of the situation. A large number of Hanhu troops knelt down and surrendered. They took away their weapons and equipment one by one, and officers at all levels began to brainwash everyone.

According to Shen Chen, in fact, it is best for this kind of slogan and concept to go down to the grassroots soldiers, so that every grassroots soldier should remember that not only should they shout slogans when attacking the enemy, but they should also be shouted at ordinary times, so that the soldiers should know What are you doing.

However, it was still too difficult to do ideological work in the ancient feudal period. So far, except for the three thousand Huangmen soldiers, it is almost impossible for other armies to achieve it. We are responsible for this kind of ideological propaganda.

Just like Han Xin's embarrassment on all sides, he used the song of embarrassment to disintegrate the morale of Xiang Yu's army.Shen Chen also made them choose to surrender on the condition that they were both in the Jingzhou army, that they could sacrifice their lives for Liu Cong, and for Liu Qi.

Even Yuan Shao's [-] troops surrendered in the Battle of Guandu. Now that Han Hu's army was mobilized by such slogans, they felt even less guilty and joined Liu Pan's army at the speed of light.

Soon the captive work was successfully completed, but Huang Zhong did not order to leave, but ordered the soldiers to disguise again.

The scouts came to report that there were Wang Jie's troops about ten miles behind Han Hu's army.

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Zikou is about thirty miles away from Yiyang County.

When Cai Mao's fleet arrived, the fishing villages and townships at the port of Zikou had already been occupied by the vanguard.

Cai Mao got off the boat with his nephew Cai Du and chief bookkeeper Hu Zheng. Several generals under him had already been waiting for him outside the boat. After he got off, they crowded around to report the situation to him.

"Taiwei, we have already occupied Zikou, and several townships around the village have also sent troops to garrison."

"Yiyang has also sent people to investigate, and the scouts should be back soon."

"We found a local guide, and learned from the guide that from the south of Yiyang to Xinyang Township, the east of Xinyang Township is Linxiang."

The generals reported their results one after another.

Cai Mao nodded in satisfaction and said: "Shan, at the latest tonight, Han Hu and Wang Jie from Linyuan will arrive, and then let them surround Yiyang, and our army will go straight to Xinyang and seize Changsha County!"

"only!"

All the soldiers responded one after another.

Xinyang is Ningxiang, a county-level city under the escrow of Changsha in later generations. The straight-line distance from Yiyang to Ningxiang is less than [-] kilometers, and it can be reached within two days.

Cai Mao's army had 3000 people, Han Hu and Wang Jie led 1 troops to attack Linyuan Hanshou, Sun Yi and Qian Bo led 1 people to Nan'an, and Han Xi led 2 people to Luo County. Bringing [-] people to the capital.

In addition to these few troops, nearly ten thousand troops were stationed scattered in Huarong, Chanling, Jingling and Linlin, especially in Jiangling, where there were 1 troops, who were sent by Zhang Yun a few days ago.

So the current situation is that Cai Mao and Zhang Yun have more than [-] horses in their hands, almost all over South County, and there are basically no major problems in terms of army deployment and strategic and tactical guidelines. must.

After Cai Mao disembarked, he set up a temporary camp in Zikou, and he was waiting for the arrival of Han Hu and Wang Jie.It's just that until the next morning, there was no news about the meeting that was originally planned.

On October 29, after three o'clock in the morning, Cai Mao had breakfast in his camp and began to deal with today's official duties.

"Is there any news from Hanhu Wangjie?"

It wasn't until the beginning of Yuzhong that Cai Mao, who had been waiting impatiently, summoned Hu Zheng, the master bookkeeper, to inquire about the situation.

Hu Zheng replied: "Taiwei, I have sent someone there. It has been raining lightly for the past two days. It is more than 200 miles from Linyuan to Yiyang, and we have to cross the mountains. The time of three days is really urgent. Maybe it is because of the urgent The rain delayed."

"Well."

Cai Mao pondered for a moment, and said: "Let Lu Jie lead 5000 people to Lanxi, Hanhu Wang Jie is too late, if they arrived yesterday, we will have already set off for Xinyang now, these two guys missed the military plane, it is really hateful, if we can't Break through Yiyang, and I will kill them as an example to others!"

"only!"

Hu Zheng saw that Cai Mao seemed to be angry, so he didn't dare to say anything, so he went out to handle errands.

Lanxi is located in the east of Yiyang, which is a branch of Zishui. After passing Lanxi, all the way to the south is Xinyang. Obviously, Cai Mao intends to send the vanguard to occupy Lanxi. After the troops of Han Hu and Wang Jie arrive and surround Yiyang , and immediately marched into Xinyang.

But at this moment, a scout came hurriedly outside and shouted at the door: "Report!"

"Come in."

Cai Mao replied.

The scout entered the tent, knelt down on one knee and said, "Report to the Taiwei, a large number of enemy troops have appeared in Lanxi, stationed in the east of Yiyang City, blocking our way to go south to Xinyang."

"How many people are there?"

"No fewer than [-] people."

"what?"

Cai Mao was very surprised and said: "A few days ago, I heard that the defenders of Tang, Linyuan, and Hanshou retreated to Yiyang. They combined less than 5000 soldiers, and Liu Pan had only 5000 soldiers in total. How can there be [-] people coming to Lanxi? ? Could it be that he only stationed [-] people in Luo County?"

"I don't know how humble this is."

The scouts were helpless, and they couldn't fly to Luo County to have a look, so they didn't know.

"Explore and report again!"

Cai Mao said immediately.

"only!"

Scout out.

Hu Zheng quickly said: "Taiwei, things have changed."

"No, how did Liu Pan conjure up so many people? Even if he temporarily recruited troops, wouldn't he train and build weapons, blades and ordnance supplies?"

Cai Mao was puzzled for a moment.

Conscription doesn't mean recruiting some young men and giving them weapons. It's the Yellow Turban Army, and the regular army needs to be trained.

And not only training, but also providing them with weapons and equipment, clothes, food and other materials.

Changsha County is actually quite rich, with a population of more than one million. The problem is that no matter how rich it is, it is impossible to get so many people in a short time, unless...

"Unless those big clans in Jingnan support the eldest prince and send clan soldiers."

Hu Zheng himself came from a small family in Xiangyang, so he immediately realized this, and said: "I heard that the Kou family in Luo County and the Liu family in Linxiang have defected to Liu Bei. Won’t these people be left to help Liu Pan?”

"Ah."

Cai Mao felt that Hu Zhengyi's analysis was as fierce as a tiger, which made sense, so he nodded and said: "It should be so. If it's just some local ethnic soldiers, it shouldn't be a big problem. Counting Liu Pan's 1 people, we have [-] to [-] troops. , what is there to fear?"

At the moment Cai Mao was unmoved, and in addition to sending people to inquire about the news, he continued to be stationed in Zikou.Lanxi and Zikou met for less than [-] miles, and the two sides were confronted by Yiyang, Lanxi and Zikou.

At the beginning of November, the scouts who went to Yaoshan to inquire about the news had not returned, and Han Hu and Wang Jie had not been seen. Cai Mao couldn't sit still, and immediately sent troops to Yaoshan.

It's just that he doesn't know.

At this moment, a big net is approaching quietly.In addition to Jingnan's troops, Berkshire Jiangzhou, with the help of Berkshire businessman Zhou Lin, Liu Bei raised more than 3000 ships, and they sailed down the river, and they were about to go to Jiangling!

(End of this chapter)