Wei Ni

"Let the soldiers who haven't rested bury the pot to make food, well, let's take the share of 3000 people for the time being. Also, find a shelter from the wind and roughly tidy up, so that the soldiers of General Zhang's headquarters can have a place to rest."

Xia Houhui, who came back to his senses, told his subordinate Gou Quan to make preparations first.

Because just counting the time, you can know that General Zhang Ying rushed over without a moment's delay after breaking through Wancheng.And the soldiers who ate dry food around the fourth watch came all the way after the war. They must be hungry, thirsty and sleepy. Prepare food in advance to let them eat and rest quickly, which also saves time for attacking Shu County.

"only."

Follower Gou Quan took the order and went without mentioning it.

And Xia Houhui, who was interrupted, was no longer in the mood to continue talking with Cao Zuan and the three, and just said lightly, "Get up. Remember, this is not an example. Also, hurry up and get the [-] sticks, and find the medicine to apply it yourself, so you don't miss the battle of attacking Shu County."

Responsibility for twenty? !

Cao Zuan, who just got up, was stunned.

Even though Deng Ai and Jiao Yi, who got up at the same time, had respectfully accepted the order, turned around and walked out of the room, he didn't intend to move.

He is a son of the clan~
Even when he was on duty in the Luoyang Palace before, he occasionally offended the emperor Cao Rui by speaking unintentionally, but the emperor just laughed it off and didn't let him receive the punishment!

But now Xia Houhui is going to punish him?
Even if he made a mistake first, isn't this a bit too much~
However, he wanted to argue a few words, but he couldn't find a suitable reason.

And Xia Houhui didn't give him a chance to speak.

Seeing him standing still, Xia Houhui raised his eyebrows and asked, "Why, is Desi questioning my general order again?"

uh~
Ok.

Cao Zui let go of what was in his mind resentfully, and replied "Don't dare" very aggrieved, then turned and walked out the door.

And when he turned around, Xia Houhui smiled.

He deliberately punished Cao Zuan.

For Liwei.

When he felt that he had given too much favor to his subordinates and was not dignified, he originally planned to behead Cao Zuan's subordinates who drew their swords to show their prestige, but it was out of other considerations.

Therefore, I had no choice but to take the opportunity to use Cao Zuan to stand up.

Kill chickens and monkeys~
There is no better "monkey" than Cao Zuan, a son of the clan and a deputy, isn't there?
However, he didn't feel complacent for long.

Just when Cao Zuan walked out of the room angrily, he turned his head suddenly, looked at him and said viciously, "The next day will be New Year's Eve! I borrowed the money for the way home for my subordinates in Qiu Qiyue, don't forget to pay me back!"

It also made Xia Houhui black face for a while.

Isn't it just twenty-two thousand dollars?

Aren't you rich?

It's not that I won't pay you back, so what's the rush!

Just wait for this battle, the emperor will not hesitate to reward you, do you still worry that I have no money to pay you back?
Really, why worry!

Gritting her teeth silently for a while, Xia Houhui walked out of the house to urge the soldiers to cook.

General Zhang Ying is approaching, and he also needs to think carefully about his words to persuade him to accept his strategy of fraudulently attacking Shu County, so naturally he can no longer rest.Even when he just walked out of the room, out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of the back of Deng Ai, who had already received the responsibility of the staff, and couldn't help but move in his heart, beckoning for a follower.

"Go and talk to Shi Zai, and tell him that if he doesn't explain in detail when making plans in the future, then don't make suggestions."

"only."

This is a beating.

Because he was not sure that he could detect Deng Ai's selfishness every time.

Not to mention whether Deng Ai, who is very selfish, will be counted in the next time.

As for whether such words of faintly giving up on cultivating Deng Ai into a confidant will cause Deng Ai to renounce, he doesn't care.

There is no shortage of talented people in the world.

The most important thing in promoting a confidant is loyalty.

And if it is a double-edged sword that hurts others and himself, he would rather not have it.

About a quarter of an hour later.

General Zhang Ying, who had the deputy Le Fang to lead the soldiers, rushed to the front with more than ten retinues.

Everyone is exhausted.

But when he saw Xia Houhui, the joy on his face came from the bottom of his heart.

And with a ray of relief.

Oh, there is no way~
Although Xia Houhui made a strong promise that he would never lead troops to Shu County until he arrived, he chose to believe it, but he still couldn't feel completely at ease.

What if something happens? !

Is it difficult for Xia Houhui to find a reason why he has to shoot an arrow on the string when he is not accepted by the king's life?

Therefore, after Xia Houhui led his troops away, and before he ordered a sneak attack on Wancheng, he sent several of his own soldiers to the small village behind to find Sun Li, and asked Sun Li to lead the soldiers and scholars from Anfeng and Yiyang counties to Wancheng as soon as possible, so that he could also separate himself and join the new army as soon as possible.

After Sun Lide heard about it, he chose more than a thousand people and took them to Wancheng without caring about his sympathy for the soldiers and scholars in the county.

Because both he and General Zhang Ying knew that as long as Xia Houhui controlled more than a thousand farm tenants in Jiangdong, he would find an excellent reason to attack Shu County alone.
Of course, this kind of thinking cannot be said to Xia Houhui.

Therefore, when Xia Houhui came out to greet her, and praised Zhang Ying for her speed in breaking the city and the elite soldiers under her command, Zhang Ying just smiled lightly and took it away with the sentence "Wancheng is vulnerable to a blow".

It's not that he's being modest.

But even he himself felt that breaking through the loosely defended and unsuspecting Wancheng was really nothing to brag about.

During the sneak attack, the soldiers of the headquarters climbed up almost unimpeded to try their best, and it took only half an hour to seize the top of the city and open the city gate from the inside.After more than a year of dormant work, he had already found out the location of the military camp in the city and the residence of the guard Yan Gui. After he led his troops into the city, he sent [-] soldiers to surround the Wu Bing barracks to avoid large-scale street fighting;

At that time, Yan Gui, the general of the thief Wu Shou, had just woken up from his sleep.

After hearing the news of the Wei army's attack, out of the instinctive reaction of the army, he immediately led dozens of followers out of the prefect's mansion and rushed to the barracks, intending to dispatch soldiers to resist or abandon the city under the guard of the soldiers.

It also just happened to bump into the general Zhang Ying who was leading the troops to come head-on.

Zhang Ying didn't even give him a chance to surrender.

Directly let the soldiers rush forward, bullying the few and taking his head.

Then he took his head to the barracks in the city, completely disintegrating the fighting spirit of Wu soldiers.

The whole process took less than half an hour.

Even the Wu soldiers who were attacked by surprise, because they had no relationship with the organization and dispatch of the generals and the street fighting of the Wei army, the casualties were only more than [-];

The smoothness of the battle made Zhang Ying feel a little invincible.

I am also embarrassed to accept Xia Houhui's compliment.

Therefore, after he said a word, he changed the topic, "Zhiquan is absurd. The difficulty of attacking Wancheng is planning rather than destroying the city. Well, by the way, I don't know where Zhiquan has placed our army robes? Let me take a look."

robe Ze?

What robes?
Except for the two hundred-man supervisors who led the troops to the east to guard, all the soldiers in my department are here~
Could it be that most of our soldiers were resting in the camp, making him mistakenly think that I suffered heavy casualties when I stormed this place?
Xia Houhui, who was about to lure Zhang Ying to cook and take a look at the resting place under his command, was a little surprised when he heard this, and was slightly stunned before asking, "Does the robe that the general said refer to our soldiers?"

"Alas!"

And Zhang Ying's reaction was equally astonished, and instead of answering, she asked, "Did Zhiquan not notice Zexie in our army robe?"

what did i find~
What kind of soldiers are you talking about our army robes one by one?

Xia Houhui, who was getting more and more confused, muttered secretly, and when he was about to continue to ask more clearly, he was interrupted by a loud voice.

"Report!"

I saw a soldier running wildly from the east, and before reaching Xia Houhui, he reported loudly, "General! When Wang Dubo and Liu Dubo went east to guard, they found a small camp of Thieves Wu in front of the trailer. They have driven troops to break it, killed more than [-] soldiers of Thieves Wu, captured more than [-] people, and more than [-] Tiantian Dian. They also found more than [-] prisoners enslaved by Thief Wu, all of whom were captured in the Battle of Shiting."

uh~
Prisoner of the Battle of Shiting?
Xia Houhui was taken aback for a moment, and finally understood what General Zhang Ying meant by "our military robes".

Immediately, he urged the soldier to ask again, "Did you alarm the Wu soldiers in Shu County?"

Well, the trailer is in Tongxiang County. Before this valley was destroyed, it was a gap in the mountains that could be garrisoned, and it was already very close to Shu County.

"Back to the general, no."

The soldier returned with a loud voice, and continued to report, "General, Uncle Wang Du sent me back to ask, do you want to escort those captives and guards back?"

"No need."

Shaking his head, Xia Houhui looked up at the sky, and then continued, "Let Wang Dubo and Liu Dubo continue to guard there, and I will lead the troops there before nightfall."

"only."

The messenger soldier gave a military salute, turned and left.

On the other side, the general Zhang Ying saw his back, and sighed with some regret, "Ah! Earlier, the detailed work also claimed that the thief Wu left our army robes and Zeqian people to be slaves in the trailer. I don't think there are only more than [-] people left in just a few years~"

Yes, he had known for a long time that these Wei Army prisoners of war who were enslaved by Jiangdong existed.

Sun Li also knew.

That's why they were worried that Xia Houhui would attack Shu county alone.

After all, with these Wei Jun robes who were regarded as slaves, any general with a little strategy would know how to attack Shu County.

Regarding Zhang Ying's emotion, Xia Houhui was a little silent.

But it's not just the regret that most of the Wei army's prisoners were enslaved and died in Jiangdong, but also a touch of emotion.

Because he didn't know the existence of these Wei Junpao Ze.

It is quite outrageous to think that he who contributed to the surprise attack on Wancheng was not even informed of this kind of news.

However, he was relieved after a while.

Man Chong originally didn't intend to let the new army participate in the sneak attack!

For the sake of Emperor Cao Rui, it would be nice to have Xia Houhui and Cao Zuan involved, so how about telling everything in detail?
People who rub their merits, just follow orders and do it!
Therefore, Xia Houhui didn't feel emotional for long.

I just made up my mind to find a way to continue to raise money after the war, to support my subordinates and children, and to build a private intelligence system.

After that, he continued to lead General Zhang Ying to the cooking place and resting place, talking all the way.

"General, I have already asked my subordinates to make meals, according to the share of 3000 people, but there is no bacon and dried fish in the thief's residence and warehouse here, and the general's generals will use it."

"Also, the low hill over there is the resting place I asked people to find. It can block the wind, but there are too few mats here, so I asked people to find some dry grass and lay it on the ground to keep out the cold."

"By the way, General, I have a plan, maybe I can pull out the two garrison points of the thief Wushu County."

The next day, New Year's Eve.

At dusk, the setting sun dyed the Jiashi Pass of Wu Jun yellow.

This is the fracture of the remaining veins of the Yanshan Mountain, facing the Wuqiangkou on the south side, and the two are the only roads entering the Wancheng Valley from the direction of Chaohu Lake.

During the previous battle of Shiting, Jia Kui, who was in charge of the war, led troops to attack Ruxuwu. After finding that there were few Wu soldiers in Ruxuwu, he concluded that Cao Xiu who had penetrated into the valley of Wancheng must be in danger.But he decisively led the troops back, landed from Shukou of Chaohu Lake, and occupied Jiashikou before Wu soldiers, which also won a way out for Cao Xiu.

Because at that time Wuqiangkou had already been occupied by Wu Bing.

Now, after Jiangdong regained Wancheng Valley, he also built a pass here.

It's just that due to the fact that the corvee people have little power, and that the Wei State will not send a large-scale army to compete for this tasteless land, the pass to be repaired is not very steep.However, in the past few years, the rammed earth on many wall crenels on the pass has cracked gaps, exposing the stones inside, and there is a faint smell of dilapidation.

However, the scale of the base is nearly ten feet wide, the wall is more than three feet high, and the unique construction of the horizontal connection with the mountains is not something that thousands of soldiers can shake.

Even when tens of thousands of troops come to attack, they can defeat the enemy without any worries.

Therefore, the Wu soldiers guarding the pass became very peaceful after several years of no fighting.

Today is New Year's Eve, soldiers in twos and threes have just finished their evening food and are leaning on the crenel, joking boredly.

Some people cursed angrily that they didn't even have extra meals on New Year's Eve.

Someone quietly looked at the land of Wu, thinking of his wife and children whom he had not seen for a long time.

There are also people talking about how much the Shanyue women captured by various generals are worth today, how much money they have to save each other to buy one and go back to be a wife, and so on.

There are also those who are happy in the army.

An obviously aged veteran pointed his hand at the rock on the right, and said cheerfully, "My son, over there, that mountain donkey (serow) came out again!"

It also made the young soldiers who were still discussing the Shanyue women squeeze over quickly, threatening loudly at the leisurely serows on the rocks, for fun.

Because their days are really boring.

There are no villages here before and no cities behind. The Wei army will not come to attack, and Sun Quan's Xingbing Huainan will not come here to reward the army.An occasional serow on the Lianshan Rock, or a lone goose passing overhead, are rare scenery and topics to relieve boredom.

Of course, the grain convoy that comes once a month is the most popular.

Because the food transport team from Wancheng not only brought military food, but also family voices.

"Hey, look, is that the food convoy coming?"

A young soldier pursed his lips, looking at the disappearing figure of the mountain donkey with some pity, but in the corner of his eyes, he found a black line winding towards the pass.

Without waiting for anyone to answer, he leaned half his body out of the city wall again, staring wide-eyed and staring into the distance, "It's the grain convoy coming! I saw the leader Xu Dui led! Look, Xu Dui led is already waving!"

The old soldier stretched out his hand and pulled him back, and patted him on the head, "Young baby, if you fall, you will die! Hurry up and report to the Marquis."

"Yes!"

The name was not annoyed, and ran down the city after answering.

I still didn't forget to yell loudly, "Old Zhang, we made an agreement last time! Your mother-in-law brought you the wine, let me taste it!"

"Go away, I can't do without you!"

The old soldier cursed, then turned his head to stare at the grain truck slowly approaching, with some doubts on his face.

Didn't the food delivery team come here only in the middle of the month?
Why did you come here again after only half a month?

However, he didn't doubt for long, instead he had a bright smile on his face.

Because Captain Xu, who was walking in front of the grain convoy, shouted from a distance, "On New Year's Eve, His Majesty has given wine and meat to the army!"

Even though his voice was a little changed in the howling cold wind, there was no joy in it.

No one would be happy to have a short dagger stuck to his back.

The person holding the dagger is Jiao Yi.

He was wearing Tuntian Dian's clothes, and he and Deng Ai were supporting Xu Duilead on the left and right, as if the three of them were chatting side by side.

"Leader Xu, don't make a sad face, be happy."

"What? Can't you be happy? Then think about the hundred acres of fertile land promised to you by the general after everything is done."

"Yes, just laugh like this, the hundred acres of fertile land will soon be yours!"

The grain convoy was still the Jiangdong grain convoy, but the soldiers transporting the grain were all Wei Jun except for Xu Dui.

Deng Ai's scheme to seize Shikou by pretending to transport grain was finally put into practice.

Things are also going well.

Wu Bing on the pass saw Xu Dui led who often came and went, and did not doubt that he was there. As soon as the grain truck arrived at the foot of the pass, he opened the city gate from the inside.

"Huh? Who is this?"

The old soldiers who came out to meet him couldn't help asking Xu Dui led questions when they saw the strange faces.

"die!"

The answer he got was that Jiao Yi stabbed him in the chest with a short dagger.

At the same time, the cowhide covering the grain cart was lifted, and soldiers jumped off in twos and threes to rush to grab the door.

A Dubo also took out the horn and put it to his mouth, and blew it vigorously.He blushed when he blew, and let the bugle spread far away, echoing with the sound of drums farther away, urging countless shouts of killing from far to near.

Fraud!

Marquis Wu Bingjun, who had just ordered to open the city gate, was startled, and immediately shouted, "Enemy attack! Enemy attack! Close the city gate!"

But at this time, there were no Wu soldiers under the city gate.

Jiao Yi, Deng Ai, and the carefully selected elite soldiers rushed into the pass with one charge.

Not only occupied the city gate, but also had spare power to divide the troops and kill the city wall.

"Whoever descends shall be spared death!"

After cutting a Wu soldier to death with a single blow, Jiao Yi roared first, and rushed to the city wall to kill the army lord.

"kill!"

Seeing Jiao Yi rushing towards him with his face covered in blood, the Marquis Shangjun of Guan Pass fought back vigorously with his Huan Shou Dao.

At this time, at the Wuqiangkou garrison point, Gao Shou, the guard who was urging the soldiers to light the overnight warning fire, received a report, "General, it seems that the Wei prisoners at the trailer gate have made a disturbance and are chasing our soldiers to come here." (End of this chapter)