Three Kingdoms: The Guan Family's Rebellious Son, Long Blessing Jing Xiang

Chapter 384 On the battlefield, heroes should be judged by success or failure!

Li Miao, who returned to the mansion, knocked on the bamboo pole in the deep buried urn while recalling Cao Zhi's cry just now.

Cao Zhi told Li Miao: "My father said that he liked my benevolence more than my talents. My father has been fighting and killing all these years, flogging the world, and pacifying the wars in the Central Plains, but the sword has stained too many innocent people. blood..."

"He told me that this is the pain that I have to go through, but it is not the future that my father expects. He told me that Confucius said that if there is a king, he will be benevolent after the world. He said that he hoped that 30 years later, my benevolence, love Heart, let the people of the world understand the true achievements of the Cao family!"

"But now, when I really see this forced conquest, I can feel the picture scroll of Xiangfan battlefield's bones exposed in the wild, and no rooster crows for thousands of miles. Can you bear the hatred brought about by the killing and forced conquest of my great Wei?"

At that moment, Cao Zhi was talking, tears were rolling in his eyes, as if...he couldn't bear it anymore, couldn't bear the pressure brought by Cao Wei's crimes.

Li Miao, on the other hand, persuaded Cao Zhi a lot, and kept calming his emotions... He even brought up the story of Cao Cao's slaughtering of Pengcheng and Yecheng in the past.

So forced?At least compared to massacres?Much more relaxed!
However, the purpose is to ask this matter clearly.

Even now, Li Miao still has too many doubts in his heart.

If forced?

Even if Cao Cao deliberately covered it up, but such a big movement?How come there is no news?Didn't the beggars get the slightest news?
Conscripted soldiers?Without systematic training, what combat effectiveness can there be?

thinking about...

The sound of "treading" footsteps had already appeared outside the gate of the courtyard, and it was the arrival of a beggar who "arrived as scheduled".

Li Miao got up quickly, as if he was going to wake up at night, the beggar outside the door seemed to be tired after a day of begging, so he sat under the eaves to rest.

The two seemed to have their own affairs, but through a door, Li Miao asked, "Cao Cao's forced conquest, didn't you find anything? One thousand per county, five hundred per county, such a scale..."

When asked here, Li Miao paused suddenly, as if he had figured out something all of a sudden.

Yes…

He ignored the defenders of Cao Wei's original counties and counties. Which county did not originally have 2000 officers and soldiers stationed?Can that county have fewer than a few hundred officers and soldiers?

In other words, the so-called forced conscripts... only need to call out a group of defenders from the county guards and county magistrates, and then make a small amount of forced conscripts, which is enough to make up the number.

Then... according to Zijian's meaning.

Xia Houmao came to Sili for forced conquest, but because it was too close to the Xiangfan battlefield, the requirements were raised.

In other words, if Cao Wei really deliberately concealed such a large-scale forced requisition, the beggar gang might not be able to notice it...

Even, such forced recruitment, because half of the soldiers and horses are officers and soldiers, they have certain combat effectiveness.

This will only cause the counties and counties within Cao Wei to become more empty.

At this moment, Li Miao suddenly realized...

Lu Youjiao outside the door was still asking, "What do you mean?"

Li Miao also didn't explain, "It's nothing, you must pass the news to Mr. Yunqi as soon as possible, saying that Cao Cao is mobilizing troops from various counties, and at the same time forcibly conscripting the people, I am afraid that Wancheng will be able to gather more than 10,000+ soldiers and horses! Let him be careful, be careful!"

Yes…

10,000+ soldiers and horses!

Assuming that the number of officers and soldiers transferred is the same as the number of forced civilians, there are [-] to [-] combatants...

And the other half, even if they just stood there waving the flag and shouting, the overwhelming momentum brought by this crowd will be a huge blow to the morale of the Jingzhou army, and it will be a huge encouragement to the defenders of Fancheng.

——"What a cruel heart! 』

——"What a poisonous scheme! 』

Li Miao sighed with emotion in his heart, and he did not forget to emphasize: "There has been a change in the Xiangfan battlefield, and this matter has been reported to Mr. Yunqi. Hurry up, you must be quick!"

This was the first time Lu Youjiao heard Li Miao's urgent words.

He didn't dare to neglect, he repeated Li Miao's words in his heart.

Although his heart was throbbing, under the moonlight, he walked slowly away step by step at his original pace as before.

Li Miao couldn't help looking at Lu Youjiao through the crack of the door...

At this moment, his heart has become choppy, turbulent, and surging!
He kept murmuring softly: "There is no time, no time—"

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In Xinye City, a centurion of Cao Wei knelt down in front of Jin with a face full of shame.

"The last general lost a thousand stones of rations and lost troops, please punish him!"

Yu Jin, who has always been strictly disciplined, is uncharacteristically comforting him at this moment: "It is not your fault that Mr. Guan led the bandit army to attack. It is a great achievement for you to save the lives of hundreds of soldiers. Don't think so much, rest for a night." ...tomorrow will continue!"

The centurion was stunned and puzzled, "But...but now the Guan family army is stationed near Xinye City, and then they go to transport food, I'm afraid...they will come to intercept and kill them!"

Yu Jin said with a smile, "If you can be intercepted and killed five times by him, and you retreat completely, then I will promote you to be commander-in-chief! And reward you with a hundred pieces of cloth? How about it?"

what…

Under the astonished eyes of the centurion, Yu Jin patted him on the shoulder, "Be careful in everything. If you encounter an interception, don't bother to fight, just turn around and run away. Self-protection is the top priority. Just send a thousand stones of grain to the second son of that pass." yes!"

For a moment, Yu Jin's casual attitude completely puzzled the centurion.

After a while, the centurion withdrew...

Yu Jin let out a "deep" breath, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "Wen Yuan, before you come, I have to trick the Guan family army out!"

Speaking of this, Yu Jin clenched his fists and said fiercely: "This credit, we each have half!"

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Guan Ping is interrogating the captives captured by Guan Xing.

I only heard a low voice: "My general is a thief... No, it is my general who is going to guard General Guan's side. He ordered me to disperse food, raise troops, and ask for reinforcements. It is a long-term plan. I don't want to be killed Mr. Guan led his troops to intercept and kill..."

Guan Xing snorted coldly, as if he was still upset when he heard the word "material thief", and said with a sneer, "Return your general? Return the material thief? Do you really think this is your Cao Wei's place?"

Apparently, because of this great victory, Guan Xing became more confident. He who used to be taciturn has become a lot more talkative, and also a lot sharper.

Guan Ping gave Guan Xing a sideways look, "Second Brother..."

He pondered for a moment, and then said: "Untie it, and serve you with food and drink...Put it back later!"

Zhao Lei quickly asked, "Why didn't you kill him?"

Guan Ping did not answer Zhao Lei, but calmly said: "Go back and tell the soldiers of your family that Jingzhou has won many victories and Cao Wei has been defeated repeatedly. Instead of dying, it is better to abandon the dark and turn to the bright. Anyone who is willing to come here for refuge, my father will donate land to help them. Live and work in peace!"

The captives hurriedly bowed their heads in thanks: "Thank you, General, thank you, General..."

After the prisoners were taken down, Zhao Lei smiled and said, "Young Master Ping has also learned the strategy of attacking the heart."

Guan Ping said with a smile: "I always see Yunqi's strategy of attacking the heart. Over time, I have learned a little superficiality. I only hope that our lenient heart will distract the Wei army. But if we catch Wei soldiers in the future, we must treat them kindly." !"

"Yes!"

At this moment, Guan Xing seemed to think of something again, he pursed his lips and thought for a moment.

Guan Ping saw his thoughts: "Speak up if you have something to say, the second brother is not someone who can hide things!"

Guan Xingjin said: "Before I tortured, I learned that the guard of Xinye City is named Chen Jiao, the guard of Yan City is named Hu Zhi, and the guard of Pinlu City is Zhang Qiu...they are all low-level people. , plus...the prisoner said that Xinye City is asking for help and transporting rations everywhere. If you want to come...we can continue to test with a small group of soldiers! Even...not only Xinye City..."

Guan Xing's words blurted out, Guan Ping suddenly opened his eyes, and quickly scolded:

"Did you forget? What did Dad just say?"

Guan Xing didn't refute, but just waved his hands, "Okay, okay... don't test, can't you not test?"

He said so, but Guan Xing had already made up his mind.

——"Fourth brother, can you?Why can't I? 』

——"On the battlefield, heroes should be judged by success or failure! 』

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"Ugh--"

With a faint sigh, Lingju in Shouchun City, looking at the empty Zhang Liao mansion, couldn't help sighing faintly.

She came here to tell Zhang Liao the "dangerous" situation according to Guan Lin's orders.

I never thought about it... She persuaded and persuaded, and said everything that should be said, but Zhang Liao insisted on being loyal to Cao Cao and insisting on saving the female doctor Zhuo Rong.

He even went to the door to beg Cao Cao eight times.

It is simply disregarding life and death.

Lingju wanted to continue persuading Uncle Zhang Liao to pay attention to his own safety, reminding Zhang Liao to be careful about Cao Cao's naturally suspicious character.

But... I never thought, people go to the empty building.

After asking, I found out that Zhang Liao had already left Shouchun, heading west——

"This time, after all, I failed to complete the mission of Mr. Yunqi!"

Just when Lingju was depressed.

Suddenly, some soldiers broke into this place, searching for all the miscellaneous things here... It seems that even if Zhang Liao left, Cao Cao did not let go of searching for his mansion!

Lingju hid on the eaves, but heard the soldiers' discussions.

"You said, is the prime minister really going to let that woman go, and become General Wenyuan and that woman?"

"How is it possible? The prime minister just used that woman to let General Wen Yuan capture Guan Yu for him... After he relieved his great hatred, that woman is Hua Tuo's disciple. How could the prime minister let it go?"

"You mean to say that even if General Wen Yuan wins the battle, that woman won't survive..."

"What? Are you distressed? Seeing that a beautiful woman can't walk? Hahaha, you should just give up. No matter what, it won't be your turn!"

"That's not what I mean. I heard that the famous Zhuo's elixir was made by this female doctor. She is well-known in Huainan. If she dies like this, wouldn't the good medicine be lost? I think it's a pity..."

Speaking of this, another veteran said with emotion: "Unfortunately, it's useless... Who told her to be Hua Tuo's disciple? The prime minister will not let her go! I didn't say this, it was General Zidan (Cao Zhen) who said it." ..."

These words reached Lingju's ears.

Her eyebrows could not help but frowned deeply.

——"Uncle Wen Yuan is going to capture Guan Yu?" 』

——"Then Uncle Wen Yuan's all the way to the west is... yes... not good, bad! 』

Due to sudden tension, a tile fell from the roof...

"who is it?"

The Cao soldiers under the eaves shouted quickly, but Lingju was as light as a swallow. When they stepped back a few steps and could see the whole view of the eaves, where was Lingju's figure on the eaves?

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Eight days later, Chen Jiao, the nominal guard of Xinye City, could bear it no longer.

He said with shame and resentment: "General Yu, what's the matter? In eight days, food and grass were robbed five times. If this continues, Xinye City will run out of food... There are not many soldiers in the first place, and if we run out of food now, then... then ..."

In fact, Chen Jiao still had more incomprehensible words buried in his stomach.

A centurion was robbed of food five times in eight days, but instead of punishing him, General Yu Jin instructed Chen Jiao to promote him to be a thousand commander...

Although the person was transferred away, not many people knew about it, but it was outrageous!

From Chen Jiao's point of view, it's off the charts!
"General Chen, calm down, calm down—"

Yu Jin comforted Chen Jiao's emotions...

Chen Jiao was about to explode with anger, "Even if the Guan family's army is powerful, our army's morale can't be so severely damaged, can it? General Yu knows... what are people saying about me?"

Yu Jin is a secret in Xinye City, and only generals above the captain will know.

Therefore, Chen Jiao's name of "incompetence" would naturally be attributed to Chen Jiao after successive military rations were looted.

Although Chen Jiao is not as famous as the five good generals, he also joined Cao Cao in the Xuzhou period, and together with Chen Deng, he defended Jiangdong Sun Ce's attack.

Because of his and Chen Deng's contributions, Sun Ce never made it to Guangling City in his entire life!
In the 14th year of Jian'an, Chen Jiao followed Cao Ren and Niu Jin to garrison Nanjun. Cao Ren rescued Niu Jin like "Wu Shuang", and it was Chen Jiao who said, "The general is really a man."

Although in Caowei, Xuzhou people were not powerful, but Chen Jiao still had dreams, and he had made some achievements over the years, and he still wanted to continue to climb up.

But now, this reputation down?He crawls a caterpillar?There are four big characters written all over his forehead—disgraceful!
"General, General..."

Chen Jiao's tone of voice has become pathetic and somewhat hysterical.

Yu Jin said calmly: "If the Great Wei wins Guan Yunchang, General Chen will be the first!"

Chen Jiao raised his head in confusion and asked, "What? The last general..."

Yu Jin said bluntly: "General Wen Yuan has come, and he led his troops to ambush outside Xinye City."

Chen Jiao's eyes lit up and said, "General Yu is trying to lure the Guan family army?"

Yu Jin smiled lightly: "In the past, Guan Jiashiro made great achievements in rebellion, and later he had five thousand shi of military rations. Five defeats are enough to feed a Guan family son's temper to the point of 'pureness', right?"

Speaking of this, Yu Jin exhaled softly, "General Wen Yuan, I, General Pang De, General Xu Huang, tens of thousands of people, thousands of military rations to play with him, should this Erlang of the Guan family be fed?"

"Hehe, having said that, which young general of the Guan family army doesn't want to be such a rebellious son as Guan family Shiro?"

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Outside Xinye City, in Guan Ping's military stronghold, Zhao Lei was speaking generously.

"The eldest son should not punish the second son. Although there was no military order five times in a row, these five times were all great victories!"

Zhao Lei truthfully stated: "Five plunders, five victories, more than five thousand shi of grain...these are not important, the important thing is that after such a great victory, the morale of Cao Jun in Xinye City and Cao Jun in Fancheng collapsed even more. "The general will not accept the orders of the king outside", and the second general is not here... the second son is good, so what is the punishment?"

"I'm worried..." Before Guan Ping could finish speaking.

Guan Xing has already stepped into the big tent: "Brother, don't worry, this is my brother's private action, and I have a share in my meritorious deeds. What happened is all caused by my brother alone, and has nothing to do with my brother!"

Guan Xing has enjoyed the benefits of being a "rebellious son".

He even thought of his own past, when he was a "good baby" in the past, he was so lonely!

Want meritorious deeds... meritorious deeds;
If you want skills...there is nowhere to put them.

Apart from having the title of Mr. Guan, Guan Xing is absolutely useless.

It's all right now, according to my own thinking, one shot is a big victory, and these five consecutive big victories made Guan Xing feel a little smug.

"Second brother, you..."

Guan Ping still wanted to persuade him, but...Guan Xing waved his hand, "Another batch of military rations will arrive early tomorrow morning. I'll go and rob them again. During this time, don't our Guan family's troops all eat the Cao family's rations? say what?"

Having said that, Guan Xing turned around and stepped out of the big tent.

Guan Ping frowned: "Look at what he has become?"

Zhao Lei couldn't hold back at the side: "At first I also thought there might be a fraud? But this is the fifth time to rob food? Once it was a fraud, twice it was a fraud, and if it was the fifth time...could it really be Cao Jun? There are no more soldiers? But for food supplies, knowing that there are tigers in the mountains, I prefer to go to the mountains! Even if it is against being robbed, I still have to transport..."

Speaking of this, Zhao Lei added a sentence, "Speaking of Cao Wei having no soldiers to recruit, then again, according to the fourth son's attack on Jiang Xia and Xiangfan's arrow rain attack, if I were in Cao Wei, I would not dare to be a soldier." Soldiers? Don’t dare to be ten daughters-in-law? This is life to marry, life to enjoy, hahahaha..."

Zhao Lei is more optimistic than Guan Ping. After all, he has won the battle...why bother?
Guan Ping said with emotion: "I have already sent someone to inform the fourth brother about this matter, the fourth brother is more active, maybe...he has a way to persuade the second brother!"

On this side, Guan Ping and Zhao Lei were still discussing each other, while on the other side, after Guan Xing walked out of the big tent, he went directly to his 2000-strong army camp.

He saw several captives of the Wei army sitting on the ground, with a bread in front of each of them...these people ate hungrily.

Guan Xing leaned forward and looked at the prisoners with a smile, "Do you want to go back?"

"I don't want to!" The captives replied resolutely.

"Why?" Guan Xing asked curiously.

One of the captives shouted bread, but said, "10,000+ people have died over there in the past few months, and I have to die when I go back. I want to live, but here is good. It's better to die than to live... "

Hey…

Hearing the prisoner's words, Guan Xing's eyes moved, and his eyes were fixed, "You are here, what will your family do? Are you afraid that Cao Wei will embarrass your family?"

"My family is dead long ago, and it's just a woman who treats me badly." The prisoner said aggrievedly, "Besides, under the widowhood order, I was here, and this woman was conscripted, so I killed her." Is it different or was conscripted? I don’t know whose wife I will become tomorrow.”

His words blurted out, and another prisoner sighed: "Hey...Major General, let me tell you, there is really nothing to do in the north now. We are the daughters-in-law of military households. Who can guarantee that we will get it today and tomorrow? People miss? Who cares about that..."

At this moment, a veteran soldier among the captives said bitterly and deeply: "How come the life in the Central Plains and the north is... just like this?"

Listening to the complaints of these soldiers, Guan Xing suddenly understood their pain and could feel their pain.

His eyes narrowed, "Since you all say that, let me ask you? Your daughter-in-law has been taken away, do you want to take it back?"

"Think about it!" All Wei Bing's eyes were bright: "It's not bad anyway, so what if it's used by others? Wouldn't it be clean after washing?"

Uh... What a strange brain circuit.

Guan Xing laughed, and then he asked: "How many soldiers are there in Xinye City? And Yancheng? Pinlu City? The situation of the defenders in Fancheng? Do you all know?"

Following Guan Xing's words...

These Wei soldiers looked at each other, and one of them couldn't help opening his mouth: "The common people have all been moved, so how can there be any soldiers? They are all... all empty cities! There are only a few hundred people stationed... and they are all old, weak and disabled! "

"Yeah..." Another veteran nodded: "Just to make a show, so that the soldiers under siege in Fancheng have hope. In fact... there are no soldiers in these small cities north of Fancheng!"

Following Wei Bing's words, Guan Xing's eyes sparkled——

As if, he saw a "huge contribution" right in front of his eyes.

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(End of this chapter)