Three Kingdoms: At the beginning, Lu Bu was mistaken for his father-in-law

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In Cao Jun's tent, more than 20 scouts with dripping water on their armor knelt on the ground on one knee, trembling.

From which gates did Lu Jun leave the city?Not sure.

How many people did Lu Jun come out with?Not sure.

Did they all go to Yanhuiling in the end?Not sure either.

The co-author Guo Jia deliberately sent three times more scouts than usual, but they didn't bring back any news.

Regarding this, the scouts explained that it was raining too hard and fast at that time, and they could only confirm that Lu Jun had indeed left the city, but they couldn't get close to check it because the grass in the area was soaked under the heavy rain. In the mud, war horses are very easy to trap hooves. Once Lu Jun finds out, there is no chance to run away.

The scouts who were assigned to guard at the foot of Yanhuiling Mountain were even more wronged. They cried and explained that after the heavy rain for a long time, the previous low-lying areas turned into rivers, and if they did not withdraw, they would not be able to return. Yes.

In fact, Xia Houdun had surveyed the terrain in this area many times. Of course, he knew that the scouts were not lying. This kind of heavy rain could turn the originally dry riverbed into a rushing river within an hour.

Especially in the area of ​​Huainan where there is abundant rainfall, many ditches and streams will be washed away during the rainy season in previous years. As soon as these places encounter heavy rain again, they will immediately turn into a small river.

The soldiers in the Central Plains were not familiar with the situation here, so it is understandable for them to turn their heads and run away in fright when they suddenly saw such a battle.

Therefore, he could only scold them a few words, and punish them with two months' salary as a symbol, and it would be a hasty end.

"Sir, I don't think you need to worry too much. Even if you didn't see Zhang Liao's men go up Yanhui Ridge with your own eyes, where else could they go? They can't fight and attack under heavy rain, so they won't cut off our army's retreat.

Of course, there are several county towns [-] miles east of Anfeng City, but if they run that far, unless it is because Anfeng doesn't want it anymore, sir, don't have to be too cautious. "

Looking at the pensive Guo Jia, Xia Houdun waved his hands carelessly, expressing that there is no need for too much pressure.

It is of course great to be able to watch their people go up the mountain with their own eyes, but if they can't see them, they can guess that they have no other place to go.

It was raining heavily in Anfeng area, counting him [-] Lu Jun in the city, he was always looking for a place to hide from the rain.

If you don't go to Yanhuiling, you can only go to the nearby county town, but in that way you will lose the initiative to seize Anfeng, which is unreasonable.

"The scouts only know that someone has escaped from Anfeng City, and they don't even know the number or whereabouts."

Seeing Guo Jia shaking his head melancholy, Xiahou Dun asked in a muffled voice, "So what?"

Guo Jia glanced at him and found that what the commander had done was a bit of a failure, "That proves that even if the people who came out of the city were ordinary people, as long as they carried the Lu Jun's banner, we would not be allowed to seek refuge in other cities." And know."

After being dull for a while, Xiahou Dun slowly got up and walked towards Guo Jia, leaning down with his hands on the desk, and said in a deep voice: "What you mean, Mr. Lu Jun may not have left the city at all, or there may be a large number of elites stranded there." in the city?"

Guo Jia didn't answer, but Xiahou Dun instinctively followed this line of thinking.

If this is the case, after the heavy rain, when the water level drops, he will rush into the city with Cao Jun in the village. The attack on Anfeng was even more tragic.

If Lu Jun played harder, the thousands of people on Yanhui Ridge would recklessly attack their own Dazhai, and they would lose their shelter by then, and tens of thousands of people would all be buried in Huainan.

This thought made him a little terrified, so Xia Houdun's heart sank, "After the rain stops, I will lead the army into Anfeng, and directly slaughter the city to control whether he is Lu Jun or the common people, and kill them all in one go to avoid future troubles!"

Guo Jia slowly shook his head, "Although Anfeng is not a big city, there are still 5 to [-] people as a government office, and it will not be possible to kill them all in a short time. Besides, after the general enters the city, should he fortify first, or slaughter the city first?
If we fortify first, there is really Lu Jun in the city, how to parry?If the city is slaughtered first, what if Lu Jun enters from outside the city when our army is exhausted? "

The speechless Xiahou Dun who was asked turned around directly, paced back and forth in the tent, walked for a while, then turned back, and said quickly: "If Anfeng is flooded directly, even if there are Lu Jun in the city , we can do it once and for all!"

Guo Jia still shook his head and vetoed, "If Anfeng can't be used by me, then I won't be able to plunder the several counties south of Anfeng in the future, and I won't be able to deter Lujiang River, and then the battle line will move eastward.

Therefore, Anfeng cannot be destroyed. "

Xiahoudun, who had completely lost his patience, snorted coldly, "This can't work, that can't work, we can only stay in this big village, and watch Zhang Liao return to Anfeng after the rain stops, right?"

Guo Jia sighed, frowned and said, "This man has a lot of scheming, and he has already taken all these into consideration, which is admirable."

"If Lin Mo were here, I believe that this kid would be able to do such a thing with his devilish ingenuity, but he is now in the Northland, isn't it a bit unfounded, sir, to imagine such a powerful opponent?"

A few days later, Xiahou Dun began to think that Guo Jia was too cautious. Although such a character would not make any big mistakes, he would not be able to win a big victory after all.

He admitted that he underestimated the enemy in the first battle, and fell into the opponent's trick to surrender, but if he was tied up because of this, he might as well go back home as soon as possible.

Guo Jia looked up at Xiahoudun, stood up and explained patiently: "General, this man saw through my plan to flood Anfeng, and also transferred strategic materials by luring the enemy, which shows that his talent is by no means inferior to Lin Yunwen's, and he is not inferior to him. Guess."

After Xiahou Dun breathed out impatiently, he looked a bit messed up, "Okay, according to what the sir said, there may be Lu Jun hiding in the city, how should our army deal with it, should we send people into the city to find out the household registration? Check each household, and kill those who don’t agree with each other?”

Guo Jia, who was teased, was not annoyed, but was a little tired, and said slowly: "That's not necessary, the rain will last for four or five days, and it will take another five or six days when the ground dries up and the water level drops. Therefore, our army will eliminate the Lu army in Anfeng City within ten days, and seize the city first."

Xiahou Dun folded his hands on his chest and leaned back against the handsome chair, very much like the attitude of the students in the back row in the previous life when they faced the teacher in charge.

Seeing his behavior, Guo Jia felt a little bitter.

In front of Cao Cao, he was full of spirits and scolded Fang Qiu, and no matter what kind of opinions he had, he could have meaningful discussions with each other.

At this moment, Xiahou Dun gave Guo Jia a sense of Yuan Shao's déjà vu.

When he was in Beiguo, he offered advice several times, and Yuan Shao also had the same attitude.

However, here, he couldn't just leave a piece of dictionaries and leave in a big way.

After all, there is only one Cao Mengde in this world. Whether it is Cao Cao's kindness to him or his friendship, Guo Jia can't do without this hero.

For Cao Cao, he is also willing to restrain his inner pride.

Life will always give you different difficulties and tests, which cannot be circumvented. Such difficulties and tests may not necessarily be your opponents, but may also be your own people, such as reckless people like Xiahou Dun.

Guo Jia continued calmly, "After the rain stops, the general, please send a group of people into the city to post a notice saying that our army will slaughter the city in three days. If this is the case, ordinary people will definitely flee when they hear the news, and the rest , of course it's Lu Jun."

Xiahou Dun thought for a moment, his eyes lit up, he smiled and said: "It's wonderful, this plan is very clever! Use this bluff to scare the people away, if there are not many people left in the city, then kill them all at once; If there are too many people, then divert water to flood Anfeng!"

This time, Guo Jia didn't refute him anymore, and Xiahou Dun smiled even more happily.

Although I don't like Guo Jia very much, I have to say that this plan is really perfect, and it can be called invincible.

Xiahou Dun leaned on the handsome chair, looked up at the crackling dome washed by the rain, feeling very good.

Just now, he thought that it was just Guo Jia who was suspicious of the dark ghost and conceived a peerless hero, but now, he hopes that it is true.

Moreover, this person had a deep scheming plan and let the people go out of the city pretending to be an army. In fact, they left the army in the city. When the flood came, they would be able to avenge the shame of Anfeng's defeat.

Master, don't let me down.

Just thinking about it, Xiahou Dun couldn't help getting excited.

From the third day onwards, the rain finally slowed down, and on the fifth day, the sky cleared completely.

In the past few days, the water has risen by more than one foot, overflowing the embankment, and the entire boundary of Anfeng is muddy, with dozens of water streams, large and small.

Under such circumstances, the army could not fight in the wilderness at all.

Of course, according to Guo Jia's calculations, Lu Jun must wait for the earth to dry and the flood to recede before he dares to act.

Fortunately, on the road from Cao Jun Dazhai to Anfeng City, there was no river section out of thin air, so Yiqu people, that is, [-] teams, were sent to Anfeng City.

Although the terrain of Anfeng City is low-lying, all counties in the Huainan area have drainage systems. As long as there is no heavy rain that has not been seen for decades or artificial irrigation, the city will not be flooded.

The 500-man team entered the city very smoothly, because the city gates were wide open, and there were no basic patrol guards in the city. They were divided into four groups, and after posting notices at the four gates in the south, east, west and north, they left swaggeringly. .

The people in the city gathered around to have a look, pointing and pointing, but they didn't know what was written on it.

There is no way, the popularization of knowledge in this era is too low, and ordinary people can't read at all.

With great difficulty, a literate village sage came, and everyone was looking forward to it.

As a result, I heard that Cao Jun entered the city three days later, slaughtered the city directly after entering the city, and left without leaving any chickens or dogs.

This time, the pot was fried, and there were no sergeants around, and the people immediately turned on the mouth-to-mouth mode, and cordially greeted Cao Cao's three generations of ancestors, and wished Cao Cao an early victory over the disease.

As a demon who had a precedent for massacring a city and slaughtered tens of thousands of people in three counties in one massacre, the people did not think that he would have kind thoughts for the people in Anfeng City.

Scolding can be scolding, but after all, they were just incompetent and furious, and honestly went back to tidy up.

In fact, such things as running away are no strangers to people in this era. Years of constant war and smoke, people often leave their homes.

As for the people here in Huainan, they were no strangers to a series of bad follow-up effects after Yuan Shu proclaimed himself emperor.

But this time, they scolded harshly and packed their things while crying.

Because in the past two years, in Anfeng, a once dilapidated prefecture, they finally found a sense of home.

Lu Buweng's son-in-law rented them cattle and Quyuan plows so that they could farm in places outside the city that were not enclosed by the aristocratic family, and also distributed fertilizers to make their harvest better year after year.

What's more intimate is that Lu Buweng's son-in-law will also allocate money to deal with the floods that the local government never cared about in the past.

Therefore, life is a bit bitter, but at least they will not be unable to afford the government's taxes. It is an exaggeration to say that they live and work in peace and contentment, but there is really no problem with food and clothing for a family.

Where can you find such a good day?

Now, just because Cao thief is here, they are leaving this paradise, how can they not be sad.

So much so that when they were packing up and leaving the city, everyone was cursing Cao Cao, and hoped that Lu Buweng's son-in-law would take down Xuchang as soon as possible. In the end, Cao Cao was skinned and cramped, so that everyone could be happy.

In the next few days, the scouts carried out investigations every day. Although the mud kept swallowing the horseshoes and made their efficiency very low, they learned from the past and dared not return without success even if they were exhausted. The salary was like this Point, can't stand the deduction.

It can be confirmed that although the road conditions outside the city are very poor, the people still dragged their families and embarked on a journey of escape with a few bags.

Based on the density and footsteps of people leaving the city, at least 4 people have left the city in the past few days.

Three days have passed, and the force of the breaking water has slowed down a lot. In two days, there should be no more breaking the embankment to threaten Anfeng.

At the same time, the ground has dried up a lot, and the large and small river sections have also dissipated.

Even so, Cao Jun did not rush out of the village. According to the time calculation, it would take two days before they could seize Anfeng.

But it is already possible to check and accept Guo Jia's harvest of knocking mountains and shaking tigers.

Although the road conditions have improved a lot, the people who went to investigate are still the same as the previous 500 people.

After they entered the city, they checked very carefully, and even the private houses were not spared.

In the end, I found that Anfeng City was really empty, empty of people and nothing.

Xiahou Dun was not very happy when he heard the news, because in his prediction, it would be best to be someone who could drown Zhang Liao. As a result, not only did there not be a large number of Lu Jun, but there was not even a small group of elites. .

So, of course, Guo Jia is too suspicious, there is no such thing as a bullshit.

In fact, Guo Jia herself was very confused.

There's no reason, even if you don't leave a large number of Lu Jun, the elite will definitely keep a wave.

According to the soil and moisture in the Anfeng area, it is impossible to dig any tunnels to hide soldiers, and it will collapse immediately.

Could it be that they all really went to Yanhuiling?
However, this is good news after all. According to this situation, after two days, the Lu Jun who returned to the ridge would probably not be able to catch them.

Both of them were about the same distance from Anfeng City, but after the heavy rain, the scouts from Yanhui Ridge reported that there were several landslides on the mountain, which would definitely affect their march.

Wait for another two days, and you can take Anfeng with peace of mind?

Just as he was thinking this, a scout started yelling from a distance, "Urgent report! Urgent report! Get out of the way!"

(End of this chapter)