The Horse of the Three Kingdoms Treads the World

() "The general's bravery is well known. However, the way to use troops is to be prepared with both wisdom and courage, so that you can be invincible. Now the general is guarding Yangcheng and facing ten times the enemy. When the enemy fights to the death, if you are brave, you will be brave, but you will be a little unwise. As a general, you should judge the situation and use your strengths to attack the enemy's weaknesses. In this way, you will be almost invincible. In the next step, I ask the general to think about the tens of thousands of soldiers under his command and use the situation Decide to attack and defend, and retreat in time if things cannot be done, so as to last long and to win again. Brother Ma Yue will worship again."

Hua Xiong looked at the letter just sent from Luoyang, but there was a smile on his face: "This Ma Zhongling is so cautious, he even wrote a letter to advise me to be careful, and advised me not to be arrogant Going out of the city to fight is really a bit of a worry."

It turned out that after trying to persuade Dong Zhuo to no avail, and knowing that some things were inevitable, Ma Yue still didn't want to just watch the Xiliang army defeat, so he wrote another letter and sent it to Yangcheng, where it was handed over to Hua Xiong.He had been with Xiliang soldiers for two or three years, so he naturally had deep feelings for these people, and he really didn't want to see these people die unexpectedly.So even though he knew that this matter was very difficult, he still tried his best, hoping that Hua Xiong would be more cautious after accepting his letter, and not rush to win and give the enemy an opportunity to take advantage of it.

But for his painstaking efforts, Hua Xiong's generals were somewhat disapproving.A flesh-faced man named Hu Yu said: "General, Ma Zhongling is too self-righteous for acting like this? He is just an aide, why is he so dictating to our military deployment?"

"That's right. From my point of view, he is jealous of the general's meritorious service. Now that we have repeatedly defeated the enemy, we are deeply trusted by the lord, but he can only stay in Luoyang and watch. He must be worried that the general will be in the lord's heart." His status is very important, and he is likely to surpass him, so he wrote this letter to disturb the general's mood. We must not fall into his tricks!" Another general named Zhao Yuan also echoed.

Hearing what they said, Hua Xiong, who was still smiling, darkened his face: "Presumptuous, don't talk nonsense! Ma Zhongling is definitely not that kind of person. If he hadn't been helping you all the time, this general wouldn't be where he is today. He wrote the letter out of good intentions, so don't save him with a villainous heart!"

"Here!" After hearing Hua Xiong's words, the generals realized that Ma Yue's status in the general's mind was so unusual.

The fact is also the same, Hua Xiong still has a good impression of Ma Yue, because Ma Yue has helped him a lot.When Hua Xiong first emerged two years ago, many Xiliang generals in the army wanted to suppress him.At that time, if Ma Yue hadn't always come forward to help talk about Xiang, even with Dong Zhuo's trust, Hua Xiong would not be where he is today.So now, after Hua Xiong's position in the army has been stabilized, he is still very grateful to Ma Yue.Now someone said Ma Yue's fault to his face, Hua Xiong naturally didn't want to listen.

At this time, another general named Xu Zhen said: "General, in fact, what Ma Zhongling mentioned is not unfounded, we'd better be careful this time."

"How do you say that?" Hua Xiong glanced at the general, thinking that he was also an opportunist, and found that belittling Ma Yue would not work, so he agreed instead.

This Xu Zhen didn't care about Hua Xiong's suspicion, but analyzed on his own: "After these days of fighting, although we have won many victories, the exhaustion of the soldiers still appeared. Especially the day before last In a great battle, we defeated Bao Xin's troops with the same strength, and we lost thousands of enemies, but the losses were not small. The horses were also exhausted by this battle. In the opinion of the last general, our army should still defend the army in a short time. The city is above all, and we can no longer easily go out of the city to kill the enemy."

"Is the horsepower exhausted?" Hearing what he said, Hua Xiong also became serious.As the leader of this mostly cavalry team, he naturally understands how exhausted horsepower affects combat power, and this is indeed a question that needs to be considered.

"Old Xu, what you said is really demoralizing our army. We have just won a big victory. How dare the Kwantung Allied Forces come to provoke us in a short time? Presumably when they regained their morale and launched an attack on us, we each The army's horses have recovered a long time ago, and then they will naturally be able to teach them a good lesson!" Zhao Yuan retorted disapprovingly.

"But..." Just when Xu Zhen wanted to say something more, he was interrupted by a soldier walking quickly: "Report to the general, tens of thousands of enemy troops suddenly appeared outside the city, and they are attacking the prefect of Changsha." Under the banner of Sun Jian, they asked the general to send troops to fight against him by name!"

"What? Someone really came to attack the city again?" All the generals were surprised when they heard this, not because they were afraid, but because they were greatly surprised by Ma Yue's guess.

And Hua Xiong's complexion darkened, and he began to calculate in his heart.With his heart, he naturally hoped to go out of the city to meet the enemy immediately. As a belligerent, he always thought that the defenders of the city could defend outside the city and use offense instead of defense!Moreover, this Sun Jian had rescued Bao Xin from him before, which also made him want to avenge this arrow on the battlefield.But Ma Yue's letter first, followed by Xu Zhen's words, made him hesitate a bit, wondering how much chance his soldiers would have in winning if he went out of the city to fight now.

"General, most of our troops are cavalry, but now our horsepower is exhausted, which will imperceptibly weaken our combat power. If we fight rashly at this time, we may not have a good chance of winning." Xu Zhen saw Hua Xiong's expression. With a look of hesitation, he hurriedly stepped forward to persuade him.

Although the other generals were dissatisfied, they were also aware of the fact that their men were exhausted, so no one stepped forward to refute Xu Zhen this time.It's just that everyone's eyes fell on Hua Xiong, waiting for him to make a decision.

"...Today the general is guarding Yangcheng and facing an enemy ten times stronger. If he only shows his quickness and fights the enemy to the death, he will be brave if he is brave. It would be a little unwise..." Hua Xiong, who was hesitating, suddenly flashed through his mind. After reading the sentence I just read, I finally made a decision: "Order the three armies, ignore the provocations of the enemy troops outside the city, and just stick to the pass. If they come to attack, they will greet you with arrows, trees and stones, and we will defend first. Two or three days, and then make plans."

Finally, because of Ma Yue's timely advice and the fact that the facts were right in front of him, Hua Xiong gave up the idea of ​​fighting again, and decided to really defend one time.

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Outside the city, Sun Jian's army lined up, looking at the gate of Yangcheng, everyone was waiting for the moment when the Xiliang army broke out.From Sun Jian down, everyone believed that as long as the Xiliang army fought, they would be able to capture the city after this battle.

The reason why they had this confidence was not only that Sun Jian and the others had confidence in the fighting power of this elite army, but also because they knew that the Xiaoliang soldiers in the city were exhausted.The successive days of fighting, coupled with the big battle with Bao Xin's army the day before, must have drained the vigor and physical strength of the Xiliang defenders.Sun Jian, the descendant of his grandson, can see this very clearly, and this is one of the reasons why he dared to ask for his life to seize the city at this time.

However, Sun Jian's army had lined up for a long time, and there was still no sign of the Yangcheng garrison over there, which surprised everyone.General Han Dang couldn't help returning to the central army from the front line: "General, why don't these Xiliang people not fight? There is no way we can wait..."

Sun Jian also lost his previous confidence. He squinted his eyes at the city in front of him and said, "It seems that we still underestimated these Xiliang people. Presumably they also realized their own problems, so they didn't attack as brazenly as before. Come on, it will be a little troublesome for us to take this city."

"What trouble can there be! General, as long as you give an order, Zu Mao will lead his men to attack. My Jiangdong men are not afraid of death, even if they have the city wall as a guarantee, they can't stop our attack." Zu Mao said loudly.

"Of course I know that my subordinates are all heroes who are not afraid of death, but this Yangcheng is only the first pass on our way forward. It would be unwise to lose too many people because of this!" Sun Jian shook his head and rejected Zu Mao's proposal The meaning of siege.Although he didn't pay attention to this small Yangcheng in front of Yuan Shao and others, in fact he also understood that when the two armies were of equal strength and combat power, the defender occupying the city's advantage was There are great cheap ones.If it is a hard attack, the loss will be huge!

"Then what should we do? Judging from the situation, the Xiliang army guarding the city is not going to come out to fight us."

"The only solution now is to find another way!" Sun Jian frowned as he looked at the tall city of Yangcheng.But after thinking about it for a long time, there was still no proper way, so in desperation, he had to order the troops to stay in the city for the time being, and wait until later.

Sun Jian wanted to wait, but the other generals of the Kwantung Army over there were not so patient.From time to time, they sent troops to urge Sun Jian to send troops as soon as possible.If he was not sure of taking Yangcheng, he would simply retreat and let others lead the army to attack the city.

Facing them, either inadvertently or deliberately, all the soldiers under Sun Jian's command became a little anxious.The purpose of their coming here is to fight. What is the reason for facing the enemy without attacking like now.So after three to five days, many generals petitioned Sun Jian one after another, asking Sun Jian to agree to send troops to attack the city immediately.

Even if Sun Jian won the hearts of the soldiers, he had no choice but to obey the wishes of the people under such circumstances.So on the fifth day of March, he gave the order to attack the city.However, even the generals around him didn't know that at the same time, an elite team of 500 people had quietly circled behind Yangcheng from the other side, and it was Sun Jian who led the team. The eldest son Sun Ce who is over 15 years old!

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The temperature dropped too fast in the past two days, and the mat was still sleeping at night, which caused passers-by to finally catch a cold yesterday.I'm clearer today, I should be able to recover