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Chapter 253 The general doubted himself, and Fan Chou was confused

Above Tongguan, General Fan Chou, who was sent by the two thieves Li Jue and Guo Si to guard the gate of Chang'an, has been very unhappy recently.

Originally, everyone used to be Dong Zhuo’s Xiliang army lieutenant general, and each led his headquarters in this Yongliang land where Dong Zhuo relied heavily on them. Their official positions were not much different. In order not to be liquidated by Wang Yun, Jia Xu persuaded them to counterattack Chang’an. At that time, Fan Chou was also an active member of them. He really made great contributions to the fact that the two thieves Li Jue and Guo Si were able to control Chang'an and hold the emperor hostage.

After successfully controlling Chang'an, it was okay at first, Li Jue, who was wanted to replace these old generals of Dong Zhuo in front of the emperor, got the high position of General You and Wannianhou from a mere post of a school captain, and he was originally satisfied .Therefore, Li Jue and Guo Si ordered him to guard Tongguan, the east gate of Chang'an, and he was also very happy.

After all, although this place is not as prosperous and lively as Chang'an City, it is the throat of Gyeonggi, which shows Li Jue's emphasis on it.In addition, Li Jue is also a generation who understands the military well. After getting Dong Zhuo Meiwu's food storage, the food supply to Fan Chou's army is the most generous among the 20 Xiliang cavalry, and it also makes Fan Chou give birth to some soldiers who are confidantes. thoughts.

But the good times didn't last long, because he was born in Jincheng, Liangzhou, and Han Sui, who came here to attack Chang'an due to personal grievances with Li Jue, was old. In the past few months, Fan Chou had clearly felt the change in Li Jue's attitude towards him. From the previous wooing and valuing, they gradually became a little indifferent. Even when they were stalemate with Ma Teng and Han Sui in the attack and defense of Chang'an, they even sent the reason for surrendering to prevent the Kwantung princes from attacking Dong in the past. Yang Feng, the Baibo thief, came here to assist in the defense, but in fact he was doing surveillance, which really chilled Fan Chou's mind.In Fan Chou's eyes, Yang Feng was nothing more than a bandit leader, but Li Jue named him General Chariot and Rider, who was above him and was in Tongguan. The original Baibo thieves under his command were a group of mobs who could not be compared with the famous Xiliang iron cavalry. It would be fine if nothing happened, but if something happened, it would not be enough to fight.

Facts have proved that Fan Chou still has a certain foresight. Just when Ma Teng and Han Sui could not attack Chang'an for a long time, and Li Jue's doubts about him became more and more serious, Cao Cao, one of the original Kanto princes, suddenly came to attack. Yang Feng, who relied on high-ranking officials and refused to listen to good words, deliberately wanted the whole army to "rise up" and killed the enemy outside the closed gate. Not only did he use less than [-] Yanzhou elite soldiers to kill more than [-] Baibo soldiers who had already been recruited. The thieves were wiped out, and most of them were surrendered, and the general Xu Huang was not mentioned, and he insisted on taking Yang Feng out of Tongguan, lest he would lose it privately, and he would also give countless military supplies enough for tens of thousands of troops for several months. , and now he is leading a force that has more than doubled in strength, fighting all the way, and was not stopped by himself until it was under Tongguan.But Tongguan is less than a hundred miles away from Chang'an.

In Fan Chou's view, this Cao Cao is worthy of being valued by Dong Taishi at the beginning. Although he failed to attack the pass several times, he also caused immeasurable losses to the Tongguan defenders, especially at the beginning. In addition, Fan Chou was unable to defend against it, and coupled with the act of driving the surrendered troops to forcibly attack the city, it was even more difficult for Fan Chou, who was unable to explain to Chang'an because Yang Feng's army was completely wiped out. As a result, the Hulao and Sishui Passes were forced to evacuate, and the Kwantung Allied Forces took advantage of the opportunity to gain power again.I had no choice but to give up my face and use such shameful things as hanging up the waiver card in order to delay for a while and attract the attention of Chang'an Li Jue, Guo Si and others, and came up with a surefire strategy to deal with the encirclement. month, but the morale of Cao Jun still did not drop.

But what made Fan Chou speechless.I don't know if it's because my hometown Han Sui and his allied army Ma Teng are too much trouble, or if my military intelligence and battle reports are simply not taken by Li Jue, who has already had a rift with Guo Si because of sharing high positions, or I still think This is the trick of the general guard of Tongguan, who is thinking of Han Suimateng, and mobilizes Chang'an's military forces for ill intentions.In short, after a distance of more than a hundred miles, Fan Chou sent back to Chang'an almost every other day an urgent military report from Tongguan calling for help, but it seemed like nothing was heard from him, and there was always no news.So much so that after waiting left and right, not only did they not wait for the reinforcements from Chang'an, but they sent out the secret agents to investigate the military situation and brought back Yuan Shao who had stayed in Jizhou honestly and competed with the original ally Gongsun Zan for the Hebei territory. He even joined in the fun and mixed in the news.

The Tongguan garrison was less than 15. Because of the arrival of Yang Feng, the previous army, the strength once reached nearly [-]. However, because Yang Feng insisted on going his own way, he was defeated and died. The offensive in the past month, apart from Fan Chou's headquarters of Xiliang's elite [-] cavalry in Tongguan, there are only more than [-] defenders left in Tongguan. These people were originally the auxiliary soldiers of the Xiliang army, or It was formed by the Xiliang forces who later took over the local bandit army, and their combat strength was worrying.Relying on the pass to defend Cao's army is already very difficult, and now, adding to the news that Yuan Shao claims to have an army of [-], at least half of the actual strength will be joined by [-] to [-] Hebei forces.This made Fan Chou live up to his name, and he was really worried.

Fan Chou had been in Xiliang for a long time, so he didn't know about the quarrel between Yuan Shao and Cao Cao.I just heard that these two are childhood friends, young friends, and now they are allies who help each other. Back then, they also jointly organized and participated in the campaign against Dong Zhuo by the princes of the Kanto region. Subconsciously, they thought that Yuan Shao’s visit was probably invited by Cao Cao. "Reinforcements".

On his own side, Yang Feng was killed and most of his troops surrendered. In Chang'an, Li Jue suspected that he was conspiring with his fellow countryman Han Sui and alienated him. Doubtful; probably if it weren't for the fact that Tongguan is really important, and Fan Chou in the Xiliang army also had good friends with Zhang Ji and Han Siam, which the two thieves relied on, and Zhang Ji was occupying Wancheng to guard against Cao Cao, Liu Biao, and Han Siam Zheng led the rest of Baibo's troops to fight Ma Teng, fearing that he would be suspicious, so he "replaced" the foreign enemy and took him down.Right now Fan Chou is in Tongguan, with strong enemies outside but no reinforcements, almost only because of his origin, he has been reduced to the point of isolation and helplessness.

"General, then Cao Cao is here to scold the pass again, let the general go out and fight with him!" Inside Tongguan, Fan Chou was annoyed that the army report sent the day before yesterday had disappeared like nothing, and suddenly there was another burst of clamor and clamor. After hearing the sound, a military academy lieutenant came to report and asked: "Please show me, the general, how should we deal with ourselves?"

"How to deal with yourself? I also want to know how to deal with myself!" Regarding the 3000 Xiliang cavalry under his command, Fan Chou knew that this was probably the last thing he could rely on under the current situation of external difficulties and internal worries, so There was nothing to avoid, and he smiled bitterly at the captain who had been with him for at least ten years and said: "You pass on my military order, and the whole army guards every pass, and the defense is tight. Sili Xiongguan Hulao and Sishui, as long as they stick to it and ignore it, no matter how many people there are from Cao Cao and Yuan Shao, they will not worry about it. If they persist for a while, they will naturally retreat when their army supplies are exhausted. It is inconvenient to go to war, otherwise it will definitely fall into the hands of small people."

"No! It's just..." As a member of Fan Chou's army, the captain had heard about the affairs of his own family and knew what Fan Chou meant. However, after this person responded to Fan Chou's words, he seemed a little embarrassed It's normal, and he didn't quit immediately.

"What else is there?" Fan Chou asked, rubbing his head, seeing that the captain hadn't left yet, but he didn't have the mood to get angry immediately.

"General, just now the ration officer of the Central Division urged me. I don't know... I don't know when Chang'an will deliver the rations?" The lieutenant hesitated for a moment, looking at Fan Chou's worried face, he was no longer in command of the cavalry with Grand Master Dong. After learning about Jia Xu's scheme, he followed the remnant army from Xiliang to attack Chang'an with high spirits, and he didn't know how Fan Chou would react to what he said next, so he asked with a troubled expression on his face.

"Food transport? What? Is there no food in Guanzhong?" For more than a month, Fan Chou was worried about Cao Cao in Guanzhong, the upcoming Yuan Shao offensive, and Li Jue's chilling actions in Chang'an City. He seldom asks about the affairs of the army. Hearing what the captain said, Fan Chou was startled, suppressed his anger and asked coldly: "I remember that since I was stationed in Tongguan years ago, the military rations allocated by Chang'an should be enough for us. Waiting to eat for more than a year without worrying about it, how come there is no food in just a few months?"

"General calm down, the last general and others have also told Yan before that when General Yang came to Tongguan nearly two months ago, he said that the food supply of the army he led had already arrived at Tongguan, and Tongguan should be responsible for it; his departure to meet the enemy At that time, in addition to the military rations carried by his headquarters, he also took away part of our military rations as military supplies. At the beginning, the general once said, "Let him go"..." The captain's voice became weaker and weaker, Because Fan Chou's eyes widened because of the captain's words, and finally almost protruded from his eye sockets.

"Yang Feng is a thief! Baibo old thief! Even if you put on official clothes, you still don't change your nature as a thief?!" Fan Chou remembered what the school captain said. At that time, because Yang Feng was the one who was personally recruited by Li Jue, he treated him again. Even if Fan Chou knew about Yang Feng's actions of "taking advantage", he had to turn a blind eye to the "big picture".I thought that no matter how greedy Yang Feng was, he wouldn't dare to go too far, but now I learned that Yang Feng didn't know whether his own thief nature hadn't changed, or maybe he secretly served Li Jue to weaken his military strength His private life, under such a pretext, actually moved Tongguan's abundant food and grass, leaving only one month's food for Fan Chou's headquarters.Originally, Fan Chou still had hopes for Li Jue, and he thought in his heart that maybe when Ma Teng and Han Sui failed to attack Chang'an, and after they ran out of food and retreated, they might be able to repair their relationship with Li Jue and return to the place where they first ruled in Chang'an. A honeymoon period is not out of the question.But what I didn't expect was that Yang Feng did such a great job.

Taking a ten thousand step back, Li Jue may have something to hide, and Yang Feng may also be following orders, and everyone has a last resort reason, so just take a step back.The hateful thing is that Yang Feng was carrying so much food and grass, he didn't want to stay in Tongguan well, even if he went back to Chang'an to "return to his life", but he went to tease Cao Cao.In the end, Cao Cao was sent soldiers out of thin air, not to mention, not only the food for his troops, but even the food stored in Tongguan was "gifted" to Cao Cao for free.Now Fan Chou finally knew the real reason why Cao Cao was able to go against the norm on the battlefield. When the severe drought was raging in the Central Plains, the supply line was so long, and the real reason why he could not retreat for nearly a month.At this moment, Fan Chou wanted to bring Yang Feng, who had already died, to life and kill him again.

"General..." Seeing Fan Chou's wry smile at times, and his expression of cruelty at other times, the captain stood aside tremblingly, not daring to disturb him lightly. Seeing Fan Chou's long sigh as if he had made up his mind, he took a careful look at Fan Chou's face , asked in a low voice.

"The battle report is hidden, and there is no hope of reinforcements. Three thousand brothers are still waiting to eat. I, Fan Chou, am not a human being this time! That's all! Since someone is unkind, don't blame someone for being unrighteous!" There was a flash of determination, blood was bitten on his lips, he looked at the pro-military captain who was still hanging his head, waiting for his order, sighed heavily, patted the captain's shoulder, and the corner of his mouth showed With a hint of a smile, he said: "Go and tell the brothers, don't worry! Among you waiting, the least one has been with Fan for five or six years. When I brought you to Chang'an, I didn't want you to suffer this humiliation with me. Go hungry! Tell me to go on, Fan has already made up his mind on this matter, but it is inconvenient to say more right now. But no matter what, I will definitely give an explanation to my brothers!"

"This... General!" The captain wanted to say something more, but he saw that Fan Chou had already turned his head away, and roughly guessed what Fan Chou wanted to do, with a bit of bitterness on his face, he could only cup his fists and rush forward. Fan Chou gave a heavy military salute from behind, and replied in a deep voice: "No!"

(End of this chapter)