The son of Yuan Shao who traveled through the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 155

When the news reached Jizhou, I immediately held an emergency military meeting.

In the middle of the hall of the General's Mansion is a sand table with the specific terrain and roads on both sides of the Yellow River from Liyang to Sishuiguan.

Jia Xu, Tian Feng, Zhang He, Zhang Xiu, Zhang Yan and others were all present.The atmosphere in the room was tense and dignified. Everyone was staring at the sand table. One by one, soldiers came in with letters passed on by flying pigeons, and read aloud the battle reports from the three military regions.

Tian Feng first analyzed the current situation our army is facing.

"Mao Jie, who was staying in Luoyang, heard that Li Dian was defeated, and immediately reacted. He urgently ordered Luoyang defender Guo Huai to lead an army of [-] to help Baima. In addition, it is estimated that Cao Cao has received the news at this moment and is preparing to return to the north. Ma Teng and his son in Guanzhong have also changed, and there seems to be a tendency to plot Hedong."

Jia Xu shook his feather fan and said, "It really moves the whole body. The world is in chaos." I said, "What I mean is that the whole army rush to the white horse immediately and cross the Yellow River before Cao Cao returns to defense. Order the second Xun Yu, the commander-in-chief of the group army, gathered heavy troops to stand by for the battle. The third group army, Xia Zhao and Fan Xian guarded Hedong, and the high-ranking officer Guo Yuan personally attacked Hulao Pass. Mr. Tian Feng was asked to go to Qingzhou to supervise the battle in person. Invade Xuzhou at a fast speed and encircle Cao Ren in Runan with Fengxiao and Zilong. Mr. Chen Deng is invincible."

Jia Xu said: "Jizhou's 30 troops have been assembled, and they can start at night." I said; Mr. Guan Tong is the central guard and supervises military discipline. Liu Xinpi and Han Juzi guard the city of Jizhou. Zhang He and Zhou Cang are the vanguards. Zhang Xiuzangba is the central army, and Gao Lan Zhang Yan is the rear of the two armies. All over the country Soldiers, each army is 5000, each division has 30 people, [-] divisions, [-] troops go out at the same time. The governor of Handan Juhu, the three armies, the food and grass. The rest of the people perform their duties, and there must be no mistakes.”

Zhang He said: "Bingzhou is short of grain and grass, I'm afraid it will be difficult to support the war." Tian Feng said: "You can order Yin Kai, the chief of Wu'an, to station Maocheng and transport grain from Baigou to Bingzhou to supply high-ranking officials."

After the assignment here, we have to go back to the inner house for a small meeting.Attending the meeting were Zhen Mi, Cai Yan, Mrs. Gan, and Diao Chan.Although Diao Chan hasn't been married yet, everyone treats her as one of their own.

The four wives were a little worried and reluctant to part.There is no time to comfort one by one, and I don't have that strong skill.Just come to worship.

"For my husband, I will go on an expedition tonight. This expedition is related to the surname of Yuan or Cao in Hebei. It has been nearly two years for my husband to prepare for this. Ladies and gentlemen, please bless me."

Zhen Mi said: "My husband is fighting outside, don't worry about the rear, your wife will take care of everything at home." Mrs. Gan said: "Don't worry, my husband, I will help Mrs. Zhen, you just need to take care of yourself and remember everything." return."

Diao Chan felt the most emotion in his heart, no one knew better than him the vicissitudes of the battlefield.Lu Bu must be brave, didn't he die as usual, when he got to that kind of bloody place, no one could guarantee that there would be a mistake.Could it be that the reliance I just obtained is about to fly again.Due to blood loss, Diao Chan's body was still very weak, her face and lips were abnormally white, she said in a low voice: "You are gone, I will kneel before the Buddha every day, praying for your safe return, General—you— —You must take care.” Staring at the crystal clear tears in my beautiful eyes, the waterfall gushed out like a torrent.

I can feel the intolerance and concern in her heart, at least she always has a bit of nostalgia for me.

Cai Yan approached and said with a smile; "Tread through the thousands of heavy white clouds, and look up to the sky where the water dissolves. The mountains are swept across the sky, and the Cao thief Wei Xianggong is overwhelmed. Husband, I wish you every success, sweep Hebei in one fell swoop, and cut off Han Thief Cao Cao."

As expected of a poetess, she speaks eloquently, and I said: "This poem is majestic and majestic. I can spread it widely in the army and greatly boost the morale of our army."

Cai Yan blushed; "That can't be done, the last sentence, others can't say it."

Diaochan pursed her lips and said with a smile: "It's easy, just change Xianggong to Yuangong and everyone can recite it. Mrs. Cai, the meaning of the words is meaningful, and the words are written, and my younger sister admires them very much." Cai Yan thought to himself, Diao Chan is a well-behaved person, always picking something nice to coax people's ears.But she is also very useful in this flattery.Immediately responded with a sweet smile.

Unity time.

After a series of preparations, 30 troops left the south gate of Jizhou and began to march towards Liyang.This is the third large-scale expedition of Jizhou soldiers in that direction.The first two times all failed and suffered heavy losses.Some surviving veterans still have lingering fears when they think of the fiasco at Guandu.I don't know if I can come back alive this time.

Many soldiers held such negative thoughts, and most of them participated in the battles of Guandu and Cangting.Just thinking about those two battles can wake even a deep sleep.Although the second son, Yuan Xi, has been lenient in prisons, emphasizing farming, and treating the people generously since he succeeded the general, the Jizhou army has also been expanded and reorganized, and its combat effectiveness has been increased several times.But it is really possible to win the fight, that Cao Cao who is invincible in the world?If Cao Cao was really so easy to deal with, then the battle of Guandu would not have been so miserable.Having said that, he is the prime minister of the great Han Dynasty. To fight the prime minister is to fight the emperor and rebel. He will definitely be reviled by the people all over the world. How can this inhumane battle be won?

This kind of thinking has spread among the three armies halfway through the march.

After hearing the secret report from the soldiers, Jia Xu immediately said: "It seems that there are spies of Cao Jun among the soldiers, we must try to find out."

Playing spy warfare is what I am good at.

I laughed and said, "Let my special forces go down and take a look around, and they will be able to find out these ghostly bastards." Jia Xu said, "Don't find out, it's useful to keep them."

I said: "It's not a way to let them influence the morale of the army and incite the soldiers." Jia Xu said: "Isn't the lord under the guise of a big man Anyang's son-in-law! It's time to show it."

I laughed and said, "This general not only has the cover of a son-in-law, but also the clothes belt edict written by today's son, I have been forgetting to show it."

Jia Xu had heard of the Yidai Edict long ago, but he had never seen it with his own eyes. He always thought it was faked by Dong Cheng. The emperor had the guts to make an enemy of Cao Cao?Jia Xu didn't believe it.Dong Chengke may not be sure, they are old acquaintances, and they used to be Mr. Dong Zhuo's old Xiliang army.It sounds like the old department, but in fact it's all the remnants of Dong Zhuo's old thief.

In Jia Xu's eyes, these people who were born in Dong Jun in Xiliang didn't have sores on their heads and pus on their feet, and they could do anything except good things.One by one, they are bold and reckless, and they do all kinds of evil.Compared with Li Jue, Guo Si, Duan Yan, Fan Chou, Yang Feng, and Han Xian, Dong Cheng was considered a good minister. At least he never rode on the emperor's neck to shit or pee.

But Jia Xu felt that this was just old Dong pretending to be better than others.In fact, my brother's heart may not be stronger than those of the above three super treacherous men.

Can Dong Cheng have a clothes belt edict? !
Not to mention that the emperor would not issue such an edict, even if he issued an edict, it would be impossible to give it to Dong Cheng!Unless Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty was a congenital idiot, he couldn't see the real face of Old Dong.

Jia Xu rolled his eyes and thought, my Brother Dong will serve the Han Dynasty, I would rather believe that both Dong Zhuo and Lu Bu are still alive!

Jia Xu unsteadily took my belt on the horse, pouted more than a foot long, and stared at it with lost eyes.That meaning seems to say, it must be false.

"This—this is really written by His Majesty. Xu has seen Wansui's handwriting when he was in Luoyang. It is not fake at all, not fake at all." Jia Xu's eyes were as big as a bull's for the first time, and he quickly caught up. Zhang Fei and Zhou Cang are gone.Hearing what he said, I dare to confirm that this stuff is real.Stop bullshitting for morale boost?I took the bridle, leaned over, and whispered: "To be honest, is this thing real or fake?"

Jia Xu coughed and said, "It's true, but Xu has a question in his mind. Since the edict is true, why didn't Ma Teng mention it all the time? Didn't he always say that he is loyal to the emperor and patriotic, and lives and dies with the country?" With this edict in hand, even if Cao Cao's identity as a national traitor is confirmed, he can no longer use the guise of the prime minister of the Han Dynasty to bluff and deceive."

I thought to myself, if there is a photocopier, it will be great, make hundreds of thousands of copies, distribute them all over the country, hold a press conference on TV, broadcast the crime of Cao thief on the prime time news network, and then find a few A bitter and vengeful loyal minister cried out, telling of his atrocities of beating the emperor and abusing the empress!With such a hype, he became a street mouse that everyone shouted and beat.But now an imperial edict cannot be shown to the princes of the world one by one, right?
My eyes turned and I thought about it; "Let's openly play the banner of 'the son-in-law of Anyang, the son-in-law of Anyang, will fight against the national traitor Cao Cao'. Anyway, we have the real imperial edict in our hands, so we are afraid of what he will do."

Jia Xu said: "Make it bigger, more eye-catching, and make more copies. Send some spies to infiltrate the folks to publicize among the people, saying that Cao Cao has ridden the queen and beat the emperor every day. Take the lie as the truth. In other words, he must be stinky."

sharp!I took a breath and said, "I strongly agree."

It took less than an hour for the order to be handed down, and the three banners were ready. They were written by Cui Yan himself.

Jia Xu looked quite satisfied and thought, now he is not afraid that Cao Jun's spies will spread rumors and disturb the army's morale.

When he arrived in Baima City, Wen Chou first thought of Yan Liang.They used to be best friends and comrades in arms.Old comrades are buried here.He thought of Yan Liang holding a big sword, wearing a robe and gold armor, and looking down on the world in the South and North Wars, how did the two of them put anyone in their eyes.Once upon a time, they were all thinking of sweeping the world with the lord Yuan Shao and drinking the Yangtze River.Unexpectedly, in the battle of Guandu, the whole division was defeated, and the brothers would have a final battle forever.

He felt his heart twitch, as if it was gradually splitting open, and hot blood poured out.

"Brother Yan Liang, brother Wei is back again, just wait and see, the Hebei army will sweep the Central Plains and dominate the world. Brother Wei will fulfill your unfulfilled wish."

Baima City, surrounded by water on three sides, is located at the southwest end of the Yellow River bank. Except for some lonely and sporadic island-like hills and low slopes in the west, the terrain on three sides is flat, slightly higher in the northwest and lower in the southeast, gently sloping towards the north bank of the Yellow River. .On this flat and wide plain, the big and small rivers branched from the Yellow River meander through Baima City like a long snake, and then converge in a big circle and flow into Luoshui.

The supporting facilities in Baima City are very complete, with thousands of crenels and four archery towers. Cao Cao built an earthen wall with a circumference of one thousand meters outside the city.Form a solid outer city barrier.After that is the moat, the current is very fast.It has been said that there are abundant water resources here, how could Mr. Cao not make use of them.

The rammed earth layer, which is khaki and somewhat whitish, looks to be five or six meters long. Not to mention the imperial road sandwiched by two walls, even a single wall is enough to run a horse.Prime Minister Cao put a lot of effort into building it, and it is not easy to break through.

Xu Shu said dully: "It's only wise to attack, not to attack by force, or you will lose money." Wen Chou said: "Li Dian will not fight if he is afraid of being beaten." Xu Shu pondered: "We must avoid attacking the city. , don’t necessarily let him play, let me go back and design it.”

The two rode horses and stood on a high slope, spying on Baima City from a long distance, followed by two hundred soldiers.Behind the soldiers is a camp.People in the camp were neighing and clinking, and the soldiers were cutting down trees and iron to build tents, and they were busy building the camp.As the sun set, everyone behind them was shrouded in a red light, as if a raging flame was burning in the sky.

When Wen Chou and Xu Shu entered the commander's account, special forces spies broke in and reported: "Mei Cheng, the county magistrate of Ji County, wanted to compete with Li Dian for meritorious service. He gathered 1 troops and attacked the back village of our army from the mountain path in the west. , it looks like you want to sneak attack."

Wen Chou nodded with a smile and said, "With 1 people coming to rob the village, is the county magistrate Mei Cheng sick?" The special soldier, tall and thin, with long hands and feet, and a high-pitched voice, immediately laughed and said, "General, Not sick, and quite smart." Wen Chou knew that these special forces were very capable, and asked, "Why?"

The special soldier is an admirer of Wen Chou. He nodded and bowed his head and said: "This subordinate was originally the captain of Lord Deng of Bingzhou. He has always admired General Wen's reputation as the No. 1 general in Hebei. I am so happy to see you today. General, my surname is Ma. shield."

Wen Chou thought to himself, I didn't ask your surname or name, you just reported your family name.In fact, Ma Dun just wants to claim credit in front of Wen Chou, and wants Wen Chou to remember him, so he puts out his name first.Then he said: "General Wen, guess what, this Meicheng is not easy! He has thoroughly understood the terrain of this generation. As for the road he took, there is no such thing on the sand table. Really, subordinate When I was training in Jizhou, I personally did countless sand tables between Baima and Guandu, but I have never seen that road. I bet no one knows about it. Because it is a deserted dead end."

Wen Chou frowned and said: "Then you don't know there is such a road, how can you know that Mei Cheng will attack from there." "

Ma Dun blushed: "Just now the general sent me out to the west gate to inquire about news. My subordinates thought it would be too far to go on foot, so they made the decision and dived from the river outside the camp. This is like walking a straight line with a bowstring, which saves a lot of money. And there is no way for this bowstring to be crossed by hills on the sand table. So you have to go around the distance and bow your back. Who knows, when I dived there, I discovered a secret—"

Wen Chou gasped, Xu Shu was surprised from ear to ear.My mother, there are at least dozens of miles of water from the nearest river here to Ximen, and he dived there.Who do you want to scare to death?

Wen Chou calmed down and said, "What did you find?" Ma Dun said, "This is a trap. The general has already seen it. The surrounding area is not suitable for camping. Only here is high and sunny, and our army can Go, the enemy can't come to the 'light place'. Anyone who knows the art of war will set up camp here, and the enemy must have already calculated it. Therefore, the enemy has opened up the original dead end, and the camouflage is very good, exactly the same as before of."

Wen Chou said: "How to get through?" The special soldier Ma Dun patted his thigh, and gestured exaggeratedly: "The general doesn't know something. They hollowed out the whole hill and dug a hidden tunnel. The tunnel is not very wide. One person is tall, and soldiers need to walk forward on their knees inside, and bump into a wall when they raise their heads. Three or four people should pass side by side. There are a lot of lush weeds planted outside. When not in use, they are built with big stones. When in use, Push it hard and then push it away. Go around directly behind our army, if you come over at night, it will be over. Set fire to the food and grass, and our entire army must be wiped out."

Xu Shu had been listening quietly all this time, but now he couldn't listen anymore, he jumped up abruptly, took Ma Dun's hand and said, "Brother, if Xu Shu returns to Jizhou alive, he will definitely repay you. Do you know that? You did a great job this time."

Ma Dunxin said, I know about meritorious service, but I don't know about great merit. Is this considered a great achievement?

Wen Chou calmly asked, "Have you found a way to defeat the enemy, Mister?" Xu Shu said, "Yes, yes, and Li Dian will be dead in this way. This is really the lord's great fortune." Xu Shu said with a smile: "Victory or defeat is between this thought, God's will, God's will, it seems that Cao Cao should be unlucky."

Ma Dun proudly said: "Cao Cao has done too many immoral things, he must be unlucky, even my grandma knows this."

Wen Chou excitedly said: "What is the plan, tell me quickly, your reaction is too fast, I haven't thought of it yet?" Xu Shu laughed and said: "I also had a flash of light. This is it, I think- —" He glanced at Ma Dun and did not continue.Ma Dun said wittily, "If there is no other order, the last general will leave."

(End of this chapter)