The Nameless of the Common Clans

In the early morning of winter, the morning breeze blew across the earth with a bit of winter's unique coldness. As the garrison commander of Guandu, Chen Gan woke up early to take over the shift.

As the frontier bordering Cao's army, the area from Guandu to Zhongmu was a place where disputes with Cao's army often occurred. Now, the people of several nearby counties have been relocated. Looking around, there are empty villages and cities everywhere.

Chen Gan's surname is Chen, but he has no blood relationship with Chen Mo. He is a general from Nanyang Wuyuan. After Lu Bu surrendered to Chen Mo, he followed Lu Bu and Chen Mo to fight Wuhuan. Later, Lu Bu went to Bingzhou to take up his post. He was promoted to school lieutenant for his merits and stayed in the Central Plains. Now he was transferred to Yu Sheng's command as a school lieutenant and led troops to garrison in Guandu. As a strong shield under Chen Mo, Yu Sheng's defense arrangement for this area is not weak. He almost thought of all possible offensive routes of Cao Jun and made careful deployment. Guandu is behind Zhongmu. It seems inconspicuous, but it is an important hub.

Yu Sheng saw the key to the location here. Even if it is not the first line, he still deployed two schools of heavy troops here.

It doesn't sound like much. The two schools, even if they are full, are only 4,000 people, but in non-war times, deploying so many people in one place is already a lot. At the beginning, the permanent garrison in Lulongzhai was only 800 people.

In the distance, the creaking sound of wood came from the carriage. As soon as you hear it, you know that the evacuation is full of goods.

Chen Gan, who came to the top of the city, looked far away and saw a convoy slowly coming here. Calculating the time, the supplies should have arrived.

Taking the command flag handed over by his subordinates, Chen Gan waved the command flag and played the flag signal when the convoy gradually became clear. This is the characteristic of Yu Sheng's subordinates. When the troops and horses are handed over, there will be three requirements for checking the information, namely the flag signal, the password and the token that must be shown. If any of them does not match, they will be treated as enemies.

In addition to the token, the flag signal and the password will change every two or three days. This is a method to prevent the enemy from infiltrating.

The convoy came from the direction of Luoyang, and this kind of information verification is carried out almost every once in a while. Everyone is numb. At first, Chen Gan did not care.

But...

Chen Gan looked at the flag signal of the other party's response, and his brows suddenly frowned. This flag signal is wrong, and he quickly ordered someone to call another lieutenant.

"What's the matter?" The lieutenant looked at Chen Gan in confusion. Although they were of the same rank, Chen Gan was the chief commander in the Guandu camp, and he had to listen to Chen Gan during the war.

"Has our flag signal changed today?" Chen Gan asked.

"It was changed yesterday, why would it change again today?" The comrade laughed. Although Yu Sheng was cautious, the changes in the password and flag signal had never changed every other day.

Chen Gan's face became serious when he heard this: "Notify all the soldiers to prepare for battle!"

"These people..." The companion frowned.

"Enemy." Chen Gan nodded. If any of the flag signals, passwords, and tokens did not match, he would treat them as enemies. In order to ensure that the other party made a mistake, Chen Gan waved the flag signal again. The other party also responded, but it was still wrong.

"Yes!" The comrade nodded and began to give orders calmly. The soldiers in the camp prepared for battle and were alert to the movements around them. The most important thing was to pay attention to the woods on the south side of the camp.

Guandu is a flat land. If the enemy has an ambush, it can only be here.

Although he didn't know how the enemy appeared behind them quietly, as the enemy approached, Chen Gan began to shout: "Where are you from?"

This is the password. It seems to be an ordinary greeting, but the next password to receive the order should be: "There is a token, don't talk nonsense!"

But the enemy sent someone to the front of the camp and said loudly: "We are from Luoyang."

It is basically confirmed that it is the enemy. Even if there is no password, this sentence is not right. Yu Sheng's food and grass are usually sent from Ao Cang to various camps. The food and grass in Luoyang are only sent to Ao Cang, not directly to the camps.

Seeing that the enemy had entered the range, another captain was ready to order the arrows to be fired, but was stopped by Chen Gan, who whispered: "Fight close, open the gate, let the enemy relax their vigilance, and it would be best to lure out the ambush."

At this time, there was no need to check the token, but the enemy's troops were not large in number. It was simply a dream for two hundred people to capture a large camp like Guandu!

The captain glanced at Chen Gan, nodded, and ordered his men to hide, waiting for the enemy to approach the gate and take action when they were most relaxed.

The convoy slowly approached the gate, and seeing the gate slowly open, many people breathed a little heavier. The leader made a gesture behind him, and someone quietly raised a crossbow and shot at the sky.

"Swish~"

The sound of the arrows was very harsh, and there was a commotion in the woods in the distance, but the next moment, looking at the slowly opening gate, the rows of crossbowmen, the leading general's face suddenly changed, and he shouted sternly: "Go and seize the gate!"

"Puff puff puff~"

Rows of crossbow arrows were shot out, and the Cao army soldiers who rushed to the gate fell to the ground one after another. The soldiers on the gate also began to shoot arrows. The two hundred Cao soldiers finally failed to break through the arrow net. Some began to flee, and the soldiers in the camp immediately chased them out.

In the stunned eyes of Chen Gan and the captain, just as the two sides were chasing, the straw covering the grain carts suddenly exploded, and the agile Cao soldiers jumped off the frame and fought fiercely against the Han soldiers who rushed over. These chasing soldiers were caught off guard and many were killed in an instant. The formation was disrupted, but the Cao soldiers rushed straight to the gate without saying a word.

"Close the door!" Chen Gan looked coldly and shouted sternly.

"Our people are still outside!" Another captain frowned.

"This is a military order!" Chen Gan shouted sharply. In the woods in the distance, a large number of Cao's troops were already rushing towards this direction. As long as there was a stalemate with these Cao's troops outside the camp for a moment, the camp gate might be lost.

The captain sighed helplessly and ordered the door to be closed. At the same time, the soldiers who were still outside the camp quickly retreated. Chen Gan took a long bow from his subordinates, bent the bow and nocked arrows, and shot and killed as many of the pursuing Cao soldiers as possible. Protect some soldiers and retreat to the camp.

"Boom~" The camp gate was closed, and the Han soldiers who were locked up outside the camp fled in all directions. Chen Gan immediately ordered people to shoot the remaining Cao soldiers outside the camp.

After a fight, the soldiers of Cao's army outside the camp saw that there was no hope of seizing the gate and quickly withdrew. The soldiers on the gate quickly used ropes to take the remaining soldiers back to the camp. In this first confrontation, the Han army successfully defended the gate and the enemy's surprise attack After being broken, Cao Jun, who came out of the woods, saw this and wanted to attack by force. However, the construction of the camp failed. It was too strong and the camp was well-defended. Cao Jun failed to successfully attack the camp and had no choice but to retreat. The crisis was temporarily relieved, but Chen Gan sensed something was wrong. Although Guandu was close to the front line, Cao Jun's stragglers would occasionally appear. , but it is obviously wrong to let a large number of troops sneak in so quietly.

After confirming that Cao's army had retreated, Chen Gan immediately wrote to Yu Sheng to inform him of the incident. At the same time, he sent people to explore the Zhongmu area to see if Zhongmu was still there.

The next day, in an abandoned village fifty miles east of Guandu, Guo Jia immediately led his people to evacuate from the place after receiving the news that Guandu failed to break the camp.

"Military advisor, why didn't you seek to make a profit, but instead sought Guandu?" Le Jin, who was following him, looked at Guo Jia in confusion. He had put a lot of effort into capturing Guandu, but now it ended in failure. Le Jin felt a little uncomfortable. value.

"Why?" Guo Jia sighed: "Guandu is very important. If we can get here, Zhongmou will be trapped in a pincer attack from both front and rear, making it easier to attack. Moreover, with Guandu in hand, we can take advantage of the enemy's attack on the river to attack Yangwu. We can also go west and approach Xingyang. Once we fall here, the cities east of Xingyang will be unable to move and will only be removed by our army one by one. Unfortunately, Yu Sheng was too cautious and I failed!"

Guo Jia probably knew the process from the soldiers who had retreated to seize the gate. From their descriptions, the other party had corrected the code at least twice during the time they were approaching the camp gate. Unfortunately, they never got it right once. Guo Jia The token that Jia worked so hard to obtain expired before he could use it, which made him quite helpless. This Yu Sheng... was worthy of the title of the iron-armed general.

"Then what should we do now?" Le Jin also said helplessly.

"Wait and see." Guo Jia thought for a moment and smiled.

"Wait?" Le Jin looked at Guo Jia in surprise.

"If you were that Yu Sheng, what would you think if you knew that our army bypassed Zhongmou and suddenly appeared in Guandu?" Guo Jia asked.

Le Jin thought for a moment and said, "Zhongmou has been defeated, or... there are spies in the army?"

"It is a taboo for a military strategist to be disloyal when a general is disloyal." Guo Jia looked back with a smile and said, "Let's go, this battle will be fought!"

"Here!" Le Jin nodded with admiration. Should he be called a military advisor? Before it even started, I had already calculated the enemy's reaction. If it were me, I would be suspicious by now, right?

Yu Sheng was indeed suspicious, and Chen Gan's reaction made Yu Sheng quite appreciative. However, as Guo Jia said, Yu Sheng immediately began to suspect that there was a spy around him. Otherwise, how could the opponent's troops cross the front line of defense? Appear directly in Guandu?

"What do you think, Mr. Yuan Zhi?" Yu Sheng turned his head and looked at Xu Shu and asked.

The war was approaching. In order to avoid losses on the front line, Chen Mo specially sent Xu Shu to Yu Sheng to assist Yu Sheng.

"If the enemy doesn't move, I won't move." Xu Shu said with a smile: "Although the general is cautious in defense, it is not difficult for the opponent's army to get past the general's eyes and ears. This is a tactic of alienation."

"Sir, please make it clear." Yu Sheng frowned. He didn't think of any loopholes in himself.

"I really don't know where the other party came from, but they have to avoid all the eyes and ears to get to Guandu. Judging from the general's deployment, unless all the soldiers in the two camps in Guandu and Zhongmu rebelled, the other party may have used the river to cross the river. So it's not noticed." Xu Shu thought.

All the soldiers in the two important places under his command rebelled. If this really happened, then Yu Sheng should commit suicide and apologize. How incompetent is this?

"That's it. Thank you for your advice, sir." Yu Sheng nodded and did not delve further into this issue. Instead, he began to study and improve his own defenses.