Three Kingdoms: Heir of Wolong, my father-in-law is Guan Gong

Cao Xiu was frustrated in the battle and returned to the camp angrily.

Xiahou Ba came up to him: "Brother Wen Lie, why are you angry?"

Cao Xiu's anger continued: "Zhuge Villager, you are too humiliating!"

"This thief actually prepared wine and meat for the sergeants at the gate of the camp, and asked these sergeants to scold me."

In all my life of fighting, I have never encountered anything so outrageous!

There is too much wine and meat, don’t you know how to eat it yourself?

If you don't eat it, won't you pile it up at the village gate and stink?

A group of mud-legged soldiers, how can they eat meat and wine?
Cao Xiu was furious, and Xiahou Ba was also surprised.

This wine and meat are inherently luxuries, and are usually given to ordinary soldiers when they reward the three armies for winning a battle, or when recruiting dead soldiers.

On weekdays, the generals and elites of the army share and eat the food, but they are not as extravagant and wasteful as Zhuge Qiao.

"Brother Wen Lie, Zhuge Qiao doesn't know how to distribute food and wine. Sooner or later, he will cause complaints from the generals in the army."

"Don't bother."

Xiahou Ba held it in for a moment and then uttered a sentence of contempt.

Since ancient times, most of the high-ranking dignitaries have been urinary.

While the rich wine and meat smell, the road with frozen bone.

The milk would rather be thrown away than sold to the poor at a low price.

Although he was surprised that Zhuge Qiao would use such a strategy, it did not prevent Xiahou Ba from despising Zhuge Qiao.

Return to the handsome tent.

Cao Xiu informed Cao Zhen of the setback in the battle, but he was still angry.

After hearing this, Cao Zhen once again firmly believed that Zhuge Qiao would not avoid the battle, and told him: "Cao Xiu, Xia Houba, you two go to the camp to prepare."

"When the troops from Wancheng and Xi'e arrive at dusk, I will have my own strategy to break the stronghold."

Cao Zhen's tone was cold.

Obviously he didn't care about Cao Xiu's defeat in the battle.

Marching, fighting, and attacking cities are the basics. How can your mood be affected by failure in the battle?

It's dusk.

Cao Hong and Liu Ye led ten troops of infantry and cavalry from Western Hubei to the south of Wancheng. Five generals in Wancheng, including Cao Tai, Cao Kai, Le Wei, Shi Jing and Han Rong, also led twenty troops to wait for Cao Zhen's dispatch.

This way.

After Cao Zhen got rid of those who stayed in the camp, he had 60,000 infantry and cavalry that could be mobilized to attack the camp.

"Your Majesty has a decree: If you don't fight first, you will be killed from the general down!" Cao Zhen directly took out Cao Pi's imperial edict.

As soon as the imperial edict came out, Cao Hong, who had looked down upon Cao Zhen, as well as Cao Tai, Cao Kai, Le Wei, Shi Jing, Han Rong and other Wancheng generals were all frightened.

Cao Zhen directly skipped the process of showing off and slapping him in the face, not giving the generals any chance to object.

Establish prestige?

Killing chickens to warn monkeys?
Cao Zhen doesn't need to think about these trivial matters at all, he is more direct and decisive than using the authority of Jiajie Yue!
Disobey?

If you dare to disobey the imperial decree in front of you, you are a traitor to the country and you will be cut off!

Not convinced?

Then hold it in!

The only thing Cao Zhen has to consider is to defeat Zhuge Qiao!

Everyone will have a deeper understanding of Cao Zhen: He is a ruthless man and cannot be offended!
"Cao Xiu, Xiahou Ba, listen to your orders."

"exist!"

"You two each lead five troops to be the vanguard of the stronghold! Destroy its antlers and fill in its trenches."

"Order!"

"Dianman, Xu Yi, listen to your orders."

"exist!"

"You two each lead five troops to build a wall a hundred steps away from the Han Dog camp. Early tomorrow morning, I want to see an earth wall six feet long and one foot high."

"Order!"

"Cao Hong obeys the order!"

There was no response, and Cao Hong looked unhappy.

Cao Zhen took the order and stared at Cao Hong coldly: "Cao Hong obeys the order!"

Cao Hong unclenched his fist and stepped forward to obey the order: "Here!"

Cao Zhen ordered: "Invite your troops and horses to cut down trees and set up a stronghold to the west of the Han Dog Camp; set up more banners."

"Yes!" Cao Hong turned around and left.

Cao Zhen didn't care about Cao Hong's attitude, as long as he was willing to obey orders.

"Xiahou Mao, Cao Shuang!"

"exist!"

"You two will lead five troops and horses, set up another stronghold in the water between the two strongholds, and wait for my orders."

"Order!"

"The remaining armies will recharge their batteries tonight; tomorrow morning, we will attack the Han Dog Camp." Cao Zhen waved his hand and issued various military orders.

Cao Tai asked suspiciously: "The army is resting in the camp. What if Zhuge Qiao sends troops to attack the front army tonight?"

Cao Zhen snorted coldly: "This is not what you should ask, execute the military order!"

Seeing that Cao Zhen was unwilling to say anything, Cao Tai withdrew angrily.

Liu Ye thought about it secretly for a moment and said, "The general's intention is to provoke Zhuge Qiao?"

"If Zhuge Qiao sends troops to attack the front army, the soldiers will not get any rest tonight."

"If we don't send troops to attack, the general can not only destroy the antlers and fill the trenches, but also erect an earth wall a hundred steps away."

Cao Zhen was polite to Liu Ye: "Liu Shizhong made it clear that I did have this intention."

"I heard that Liu Shizhong has lived in the water towns of the south of the Yangtze River for a long time, and he is familiar with the method of preparing herbal decoction to remove summer diseases and insect pests."

"How about asking Liu Shizhong to help me supervise the medical officer of the camp to make the soup?"

Liu Ye raised his eyebrows and guessed Cao Zhen's true intention: "General, do you want to——"

Cao Zhen waved his hand to stop Liu Ye: "I may not be able to use it. We'll see how we attack the stronghold tomorrow."

Liu Ye was shocked and secretly feared Cao Zhen.

From Cao Zhen, Liu Ye saw some shadow of Cao Cao.

On the surface, he looks gentle, but in reality he is ruthless, brutal and unscrupulous.

In the Han military camp.

Zhuge Qiao sneered in his eyes when he heard that Wei soldiers had destroyed antlers, filled trenches, and transported earth to build walls. There were also Wei soldiers setting up camp in the west.

"How can you hide such a trick from me?"

Zhuge Qiao summoned Fan You and Zeng Xia, and ordered them to lead a thousand soldiers to transport the earth and rocks piled in the camp to the entrance of the camp.

These earth and rocks were dug into trenches and purification pools and left in the camp, and they were all packed in sacks in advance.

The soldiers only need to carry it to the entrance of the camp to build the earth wall.

After Ma Jun improved the damask weaving machine, Zhuge Qiao asked Ma Jun to simplify the damask weaving machine and dedicated it to the production of linen, which was despised by the powerful.

These linen cloths are also divided into two types, one is fine linen suitable for making clothes, which takes a long time; the other is rough-made linen, which is specially used to make linen bags and other items that do not require fine linen silk.

Cao Cao once adopted a strange strategy. He built a city out of sand and filled it with water. In a moment, it turned into ice and was as solid as iron stone.

However, this method is too dependent on climate.

Compared with the wall made of earth and rocks packed in sacks, Cao Cao's ice wall can only be regarded as a heresy.

Science and technology are the primary productive forces.

Although these sacks are made of crude linen, they are still precious pieces of cloth to most people.

Those who are pampered feel uncomfortable with burlap, but there are still many people in the world who cannot even wear such crude burlap!

When Zhuge Qiao asked Jiang Wei to send people to transport these sacks from Longyou to Jingzhou, he was scolded by Guan Yu for half a day!

Especially when he learned that these sacks were only used to fill earth and rocks, Guan Yu was so angry that his beard trembled.

Zhuge Qiao was scolded in public for squandering natural resources and not caring about the officers and soldiers. If the linen cloth from these sacks can be used to add clothes to the soldiers, it is no less than a reward of wine and meat!

It wasn't until Zhuge Qiao promised to directly distribute finer linen cloth when the production speed of Longyou's workshop caught up with him in the coming year that Guan Yu calmed down.

Fan You and Zeng Xia received military orders, took sacks from the military supplies office, and led the sergeants to fill them with earth and rocks.

"If a sergeant hides a few bags, is it considered theft of ordnance?" Looking at the sacks filled with earth and rocks, Fan You felt his eyes hurt.

It's like seeing flowers stuck in cow dung.

Zeng Xia sighed: "The Central Plains is indeed vast and rich in resources. Even linen is used to hold earth and rocks."

"I remember when I was in Jiaozhou, if my family had linen to make clothes, they would be happy for several years."

"Not everyone can afford silk clothes."

Fan You looked in the direction of Cao Zhen's camp: "What would Cao Zhen's reaction be if he saw us using sacks of earth and rocks to build the walls of the camp tomorrow morning?"

Zeng Xia suddenly became happy: "The linen can be used to hold earth and rocks to build the walls of the village. It must be normal for the sergeants to be given new linen clothes."

"The General of the Fu Han Dynasty promised in front of the General and other generals that next year he will distribute finer linen to all the sergeants to make new clothes."

Not only Fan You and Zeng Xia thought so, but the sergeants carrying earth and rocks also thought so.

If it weren't for Zhuge Qiao's strict military law, some of these thousand soldiers would have secretly hidden sacks.

Cloth and silk are inherently related to money.

in short.

Zhuge Qiao used linen to make a linen bag, which was only used to hold earth and rocks. In the eyes of the soldiers, it was no different from throwing money on the ground!
Because Zhuge Qiao did not send troops to prevent the Wei soldiers from destroying the antlers, filling the trenches, and transporting earth to build the wall.

Cao Xiu, Xiahou Ba, Dianman and Xu Yi's military affairs were carried out smoothly.

After completing their military duties, Cao Xiu and other generals left only a few troops to guard the earthen walls and returned to the camp. They did not notice the changes in the Han camp at all.

The next day.

When the Wei soldiers who were left behind to guard the earthen wall opened their eyes, they were dumbfounded when they looked at the high earthen wall at the village gate opposite.

Especially when a sergeant came closer and saw the earth and stone bag made of linen, he even cursed "Han dog".

Cao Zhen, who was shocked by the news, personally rode his horse to the gate of the Han soldiers' camp.

Looking at the earthen walls filled with earth and rocks one after another in sacks, even though Cao Zhen came from a wealthy family, he couldn't help but be stunned.

Just setting up a camp, is there any need to be so extravagant and wasteful?
The purpose of Cao Zhen's earthen wall was to have a commanding view of the layout of the Han military camps and to allow archers to more easily shoot arrows into the Han military camps.

Overnight.

Zhuge Qiaodui's earthen wall is one foot taller and several feet wider than Cao Zhenli's earthen wall. It is no less generous than the wall of a small city!
"General, are we still going to attack the stronghold?" Xiahou Ba swallowed his saliva.

We are here to attack the stronghold, not the city. Can we show some face?

"Go back to camp and build siege equipment first!" Cao Zhen spurred his horse and turned around.

Attacking a stronghold and attacking a city are two different methods.

No siege equipment is needed to attack a stronghold.

When Cao Zhen said the words "siege equipment", you can imagine how angry and helpless he felt in his heart!

Cao Zhen wanted to fight urgently, but Zhuge Qiao kept delaying the decisive battle.

The attack on Cao Xiu and Xiahou Ba allowed Cao Zhen to establish a stronghold and reorganize his army for a few more days.

Building a wall of sackcloth and earth comparable to a city wall overnight forced Cao Zhen to prepare siege equipment, which would delay him for several days.

All the Wei generals came to take advantage of the excitement, but returned in defeat. Their morale did not build up, but instead dropped by three points. Cao Zhen returned to the camp with a cold face, and immediately summoned Liu Ye: "Liu Shizhong, within one day, prepare the decoction to remove the summer disease and insect epidemic."

"Do you really think that if you build a wall, I won't be able to do anything to you?"

The generals didn't know what it meant, and Cao Zhen didn't explain much.

Liu Ye went to prepare a decoction and mixed it with water, which was used by all the soldiers to eliminate summer diseases and insect pests.

It's dusk.

Cao Zhen's military order reached Xiahou Mao and Cao Shuang's other camp.

Upon hearing this military order, Xiahou Mao's head almost exploded.

Although it is said that you can use all possible means when marching, you can easily injure yourself by using such tactics.

"No wonder we have to set up a separate stronghold. This is too dangerous!"

Xia Houmao looked at Cao Shuang, holding his stomach, frowning, his face turned blue, and blood oozed from the corners of his mouth.

Cao Shuang didn't know why and asked with concern: "Uncle, what's wrong with you?"

Xia Houmao said with difficulty: "Maybe it's because I'm not accustomed to the climate. I've been enduring it these past few days, thinking it would get better. I never thought it would get worse today."

"Can you please send someone to send me to Wancheng to find a good doctor, and then report back to the general of the army."

Seeing this, Cao Shuang hurriedly said: "Since uncle was sick, why didn't you tell me earlier? It's common to be acclimatized during the march. Uncle, you shouldn't hide it."

Xia Houmao sighed: "You and I are both generals. If you have any symptoms, you have to rest. How can the generals in the army be convinced?"

"Send me to Wancheng secretly, don't alert the generals."

"Otherwise, people will mistakenly think that I am timid in the face of battle. It will not only damage my reputation, but also make it difficult for the general of the army to restrain the generals."

Cao Shuang nodded repeatedly: "Uncle, don't worry, I have discretion."

Immediately.

Cao Shuang arranged for his cronies to send Xiahou Mao to Wancheng, and then asked the sergeant who conveyed the military order to return to the main camp to report the matter to Cao Zhen.

After leaving the camp, the pain on Xiahou Mao's face disappeared instantly: "Bastard Cao Zidan, can't you change someone for such a dangerous matter?"

"I managed to escape from the prison with my life, but I almost got trapped by you again."

"You don't want fame, I still want it!"

Deliberately creating a plague will definitely be condemned if it is revealed.

In the past few years, many people in the Central Plains states died due to plague; among them, several of the Seven Sons of Jian'an died.

Cao Zhen didn't let anyone else do it because Xiahou Mao and Cao Shuang were Cao Cao's son-in-law and his own son. As long as they didn't tell anyone, no one would know whether it was intentional or unintentional.

Xiahou Mao didn't want to offend Cao Zhen, nor did he want to do anything that would affect his reputation.

Thirty-six strategies, walking is the best strategy.

Cao Shuang was young and didn't know the importance, so he faithfully carried out Cao Zhen's military orders.

Hot weather.

Rotten chickens and sheep were thrown into the water.

I have to say, Cao Zhen is really ruthless!
When rotten chicken and sheep carcasses floated down the river upstream, Liu Chan, who was in charge of water purification, was immediately alerted.

"Salvage and incinerate immediately and cut off the water source!"

"Dong Yun, please inform the general of Fuhan immediately about this matter!"

Liu Chan's eyes were a little more stern.

Fei Yi was puzzled: "Prince, it's just some chicken and sheep carcasses floating here by chance. There's no need to mobilize troops like this, right?"

Liu Chan scolded: "Drinking water is a big deal. It affects the lives of 40,000 soldiers in this village. How can we be negligent in the slightest?"

"Since General Fu Han has entrusted me with this important task, I cannot make any mistakes."

"Do it quickly!"

Fei Yi did not dare to ask any more questions and immediately rode his horse to the commander's tent to report to Zhuge Qiao.

There is nothing wrong with being cautious, the ancients will not deceive me!

Zhuge Qiao sighed secretly and told Fei Yi: "Go back and tell Fan Cheng Ling that any sergeant who comes to get water must be warned three times not to drink raw water."

"Anyone who disobeys my general's orders will be expelled from the Han Dynasty and punished to go to the puppet Wei to fend for themselves."

Fei Yi was taken aback and did not dare to be negligent, so he hurried back to see Liu Chan.

After Fei Yi left, Zhuge Qiao issued a strict order to the entire army: "Any sergeant in the army who is good at diverting water will be punished by sitting in the same corps company for fifty years; all generals and lieutenants above the corps commander will be punished with ten sticks and there is no upper limit." "

Before today, although Zhuge Qiao had a rule not to introduce raw water, there was no serious punishment. He just gradually changed the sergeant's habits.

However, today, Zhuge Qiao directly promulgated the law of continuous sitting. All generals and lieutenants above the rank of corps commander will be punished with a cane, and there is no upper limit to the cane punishment.

In short, a soldier drinks raw water with ten sticks; ten is equivalent to a hundred sticks.

Although the recorded cane punishment can be redeemed by military exploits, these military exploits are earned in life and death. Who is willing to atone for such a sin that has been affected?
For a while, no one in the village dared to neglect him.

Simultaneously.

Zhuge Qiao also ordered the military medical officer to immediately prepare medicinal soup and distribute it to the officers and soldiers in the camp. The military medical officer also visited the camps.

Due to the timely response, most of the sergeants were effectively prevented except for some weak sergeants who drank raw water because they were thirsty before the military order and were infected and quarantined in time.

Zhuge Qiao asked the military medical officer to take the opportunity to once again popularize the relationship between the epidemic and diet to the sergeants.

Although medical officers often say these words, few sergeants take them seriously.

It was not until they learned that some sergeants were infected with the disease that the sergeants in the camp became alert.

If Zhuge Qiao hadn't responded promptly, I don't know how many sergeants would have gotten sick from this.

"I didn't expect that after decades of military service, I wouldn't be as thoughtful as Bosong."

Although he sighed, Guan Yu's heart was more filled with admiration for Zhuge Qiao.

This means that Zhuge Qiao has grown into an excellent commander!

Although an excellent commander does not necessarily have to win every battle, he must not suffer a major defeat!

Once you are defeated, no matter how many victories you have won before, you will become a stepping stone for others, and then you will be ridiculed as a "certain soldier".

The Han military camp was as stable as a mountain, and there was no "large number of soldiers contracting diseases" as expected, which surprised Cao Zhen.

Cao Zhen had studied this method of epidemic prevention with Cheng Yu humbly, but the result was a huge disappointment to Cao Zhen.

"Sure enough, whether this kind of heresy will work or not depends on fate."

"After all, we still have to fight with real swords and guns."

"The siege equipment has been built, so what if you can build a wall overnight?"

"I will destroy your stronghold!"

Cao Zhen took a deep breath and stopped worrying about why the method of defeating the epidemic failed.

This is a clever plan in building siege equipment. Regardless of success or failure, it will not affect Cao Zhen's subsequent deployment.

"Send the order, early tomorrow morning, all the troops will attack the stronghold!"

The military order was issued, and all the generals in the camp cheered up.

The next day.

The troops pushed the built siege equipment towards Zhuge Qiao's camp.

In addition to ladders and dash cars, there are also thunder cars!

Mount the machine pivot to eject stones. Because the sound is like thunder, it is called the Thunderbolt Chariot.

Cao Cao used this thing in the Battle of Guandu.

Zhuge Qiao stood on the earth and stone wall, looking at the Wei soldiers marching in formation below and the thunderous chariots, and couldn't help but laugh: "How dare a few broken chariots show off in front of me."

"Push the stone car forward and let these ignorant Wei soldiers see what a real thunderbolt is!"

Not long after.

A group of soldiers brought ten stone-pulling carts that were very different from ordinary stone-pulling carts.

This was Ma Jun's idea after seeing Zhuge Liannu. He believed that the existing catapults could only launch one stone at a time, which was not conducive to siege.

So "If you want to make a round, use dozens of large county stones, and use machine drum wheels as a regular basis. Then use broken county stones to fly and attack the enemy city, causing the head and tail to be electrocuted!"

Ma Jun's idea naturally won the support of everyone in Longyou. He once tried to use the wheel to fly dozens of times and fly hundreds of steps.

When Jiang Wei sent people to deliver sacks to Jingzhou, he thought that Zhuge Qiao might need them, so he asked the craftsmen to bring the blueprints to Jingzhou.

After Zhuge Qiao saw the drawings, he immediately ordered people to build these ten stone-making carts.

Although time was tight and only ten vehicles could be built, they were enough for guarding the stronghold.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

The stone was thrown hundreds of steps and fell directly into Cao Zhen's army.

Looking at the rocks falling from the sky, Cao Zhen's expression changed greatly: "Zhuge Qiao also has a thunderbolt chariot?"

"No, that's not right! How can the Thunderbolt's range be so far?"

An ordinary thunderbolt car only has a distance of more than a hundred steps, and no longer it has any destructive power.

Cao Zhen never expected that Zhuge Qiao would launch a king bomb at the beginning, directly hitting Cao Zhen's middle army.

Cao Zhen was caught off guard and was almost hit by a stone!

Looking at the bodyguards beside him who had their heads smashed and bloody, Cao Zhen was horrified and quickly urged his troops forward.

Cao Zhen also had calculations in mind about the launch interval of the catapult.

As long as the troops move quickly, they can avoid the catapult attack.

however.

Before Cao Zhen's military order could be conveyed, another ten stones were thrown at the Chinese army.

Even though Cao Zhen was a calm person, he couldn't help but panic at this moment.

How many catapults does Zhuge Qiao have at this projectile interval?
thirty? Fifty? Or a hundred?
Dozens of rounds of projectiles were fired, like hundreds of thunderbolt cars firing rocks.

Fear all stems from the lack of firepower.

Before approaching Zhuge Qiao's camp wall, Cao Zhen suffered a heavy loss.

Seeing that the rocks were no longer being fired, Cao Zhen shouted with a livid face: "Attack the stronghold! Fight back!"

Dozens of Cao Zhen's Thunderbolt vehicles also reached the launch distance.

"General, please go back to the stronghold first, be careful not to be accidentally injured by the thieves firing stone carts." Ma Zhong stood in front of Zhuge Qiao and urged Zhuge Qiao to leave the stronghold wall.

Zhuge Qiao did not force himself to stay on the wall.

As a general, you cannot die before the officers and soldiers in the army.

If the general dies, no matter how advantageous he is, he must withdraw his troops.

Pang Tong has taught him a lesson, Zhuge Qiao will not be stupid enough to gamble on luck.

Zhuge Qiao did not return to the commander's tent, but came to the west gate of Dazhai.

At the west gate, Wudang Feijun was already in formation and on standby.

"Cao Zhen deployed his camp outside the west gate and set up so many banners."

"We will not use this stronghold to attack the stronghold today. I think Cao really wants to use this stronghold as a surprise force."

"We are not afraid of thieves stealing, but we are afraid of thieves missing us."

"Zijun, I will leave the traitors and soldiers in this village to you."

Zhuge Qiao shook his feather fan and stared at Cao Hong's camp with burning eyes.

Wang Ping's eyes were stern, he licked his lips and showed a ferocious smile: "A camp of this level cannot stop the unworthy flying army!"

Zhuge Qiao Zhuang said: "As the leader of an unworthy flying army, you must have the arrogance to tactically despise all enemies."

"After breaking this stronghold, I personally celebrate your success!" (End of Chapter)