Three Kingdoms.

  Chapter 1242 Whose idea is right

  After Zheng Tai besieged the Shoushan Academy and caused Cai Yong's death, even Wu Qiuxing felt a little tricky.

  Cao Cao can kill Bian Rang, but he is unwilling to kill Mi Heng. Although both of them have reputations, they are actually completely different in nature. Bian Rang was the vanguard of the Yanzhou gentry against Cao Cao at that time, and it was a trailblazer. Cao Cao's killing of Bian Rang itself also had the intention of deterring the Yanzhou gentry, but it had the opposite effect.

However, the time when Mi Heng appeared was after Cao Cao welcomed Emperor Xian, and officially changed from a prince of a place to a powerful official of the Han Dynasty. This is the time when the image needs to be maintained most, so even though Mi Heng is worse than Bian Rang, scold Cao Cao For example, scolding his son caused Cao Cao's nameless anger to rise into the sky, but Cao Cao still had to endure it and find a way for himself to step down.

  Yang Biao is the same.

   Now is the time when Yang Biao wants to establish a positive image of helping the country, and at the critical moment when he needs to attract talents from all over the country to regroup Heluo under his command. How could such a thing be allowed to happen?

  Although people don't do it themselves, they are somehow inseparable, and Wu Qiuxing is also extremely distressed.

  Of course, swords and guns have no eyes, and Cai Yong bumped into it by himself. If it is normal, such an accident is also Cai Yong's own fault...

  Knowing the danger and rushing forward, the more you live, the more confused you become, right?

  According to normal, Cai Yong should not be in the academy, so how could he appear on the mountain road?

  What's wrong with shooting a bow and arrow, even if it's a hand or foot, it's okay, but it hit the chest and abdomen?

   When Guan Qiuxing heard that Zheng Tai had returned, he almost couldn't help but want to open his mouth to curse.

   But the problem is, even in the later generations where cameras are everywhere, helping an ordinary old man who falls has the risk of ruining his fortune, not to mention that this is in the Han Dynasty, and the one who died was a well-known and famous literary figure...

  The behavior of a reckless man who never does anything but is no different from that of a bandit, Wu Qiuxing would never make such a mistake. It's just like stealing at first, but then bumped into the mistress. People who like to do nothing will often change from stealing to robbery. Seeing the beauty of the mistress, they will go further and completely degenerate into beastly livestock, and finally kill silence...

   Mistakes have occurred, and we can only try our best to make up for them. If they are allowed to develop indiscriminately under the control of losing their minds, they will often evolve into an unmanageable situation.

  The question is, how to make up for this mistake now?

   It became a difficult problem for a while.

After discussing for a long time, the two came to a relatively unanimous decision. Anyway, they had to insist that Cai Yan and Zheng Xi had selfish interests, and then Cai Yong was so ashamed and angry that he rushed to the sword, gun and arrow, seeking to commit suicide. …

   It doesn't matter whether others believe it or not, the important thing is to believe it yourself.

Although Taoshan was surrounded, under the furious anger of the students in the academy, it is not good to continue to make any big moves, so as not to worsen the situation, we can only let it go for a while, Wu Qiuxing and Zheng Tai also discussed to deal with it coldly for the time being, no way If not, go to school for a few days, and then look for opportunities to divide. After all, not everyone has such backbone...

Anyway, at this stage, it must not be intensified. If the time is prolonged, the impact will gradually decrease. After the enthusiasm of the students in the academy cools down, as long as they can buy some of the students in the academy, then they can stick to their opinions, and then Let's just let it go, anyway, Zhengxi is dead, who can reverse the case for Cai Yong?

After the discussion, Wu Qiuxing and Zheng Tai temporarily focused their attention on Pingyang City. The original plan was to besiege the city, so an extra day or two would have little impact on Wu Qiuxing and Zheng Tai's original plan. .

  Anyway, Taoshan has already been surrounded, and tomorrow he can declare to Pingyang City that he already has the posthumous son of General Zhengxi in his hands. See if the guards in Pingyang City panic now?

Guan Qiuxing's current camp has almost forced Pingyang City to set up camp, and most of the leaders are Yang's infantry in Hongnong territory. A plum blossom-like camp was built.

With a large number of people, there will naturally be a lot of supplies needed and consumed. A large army needs to transfer a large amount of baggage when fighting in the field, not only food and grass, but even pots and kettles. For a camp dominated by pawns, it even needs deer villages for blocking, four-cornered nails for wooden posts, knife carts for plugging doors, iron chains for hooking, and various wooden tools, lighting supplies, etc. Naturally, these things It was those civilian husbands and auxiliary soldiers who fortunately pushed and pulled over by carts.

At first, Guan Qiuxing was a little worried that his scouts would suffer heavy damage and would be harassed by Zhang Lie's two or three hundred cavalry, so he not only sent the only cavalry around to scout, but even sent infantry to guard the camp. They waited to see if they could stop Zhang Lie's cavalry, but unfortunately, there was no sign of Zhang Lie's cavalry for two or three days in a row.

  Zheng Tai is now in charge of the front battalion. Although Wu Qiuxing didn't blame him for Cai Yong's incident, he still breaks into sweat when he thinks about it. However, people cannot be resurrected after death, so Zheng Tai can only gather his energy and manage carefully, in order to obtain some meritorious service in the battle of Pingyang and show his own ability, so as not to be easily caught in the liquidation in the future. Yang Biao and others threw out the pot.

  Tomorrow is the third day of the agreement with Xun Chen in the city, and it is time for the official showdown. Although Pingyang did not send troops these two days, even Taoshan was besieged and did not move, but Zheng Tai knew that Pingyang was also preparing something, but he didn't know it.

Therefore, as the commander of the front battalion, thanks to Zheng Tai, he didn't show off too much on weekdays, and he was kind when he saw the soldiers. Therefore, the soldiers of the front battalion didn't reject him openly or secretly, and they were relatively cooperative. , but even so, the complicated affairs made Zheng Tai, the half bucket of water in the art of war, very tired...

According to the military law of the Great Han, the commander in charge of the battalion needs to patrol the battalion every other hour if he is not in the battle. Of course, sometimes the commander can be lazy, but Zheng Tai is in an extraordinary period, so how dare he give others any excuses? Naturally, he is conscientious and conscientious, but after a whole day like this, he has to work hard and his heart is under pressure. Naturally, he has not got any good rest and is mentally exhausted.

   In the middle of the night, Zheng Tai, who was struggling to get up, went around the camp again, and everything was normal.

Seeing the slight light in the sky, Zheng Tai yawned profusely. After a hard day and having to get up to patrol the camp at night, his legs felt weak, and he wished he could go back to his tent and take a nap for a while. Slow down.

  Damn it, if I knew it was so hard, I shouldn't have followed and went north!

   Originally thinking that Yang Biao's support for the emperor Yu Heluo would definitely be a high position in the future, so he took advantage of the opportunity to accumulate more meritorious deeds, but he did not expect to encounter such a mess!

  If Pingyang is taken and moved to the school, the death of the Cai family will gradually be ignored, which is somewhat better, but it is a hidden danger after all...

  The sky in the distance was gray and began to light up. This time was also the most sleepy time for the soldiers on duty all night. For some reason, Zheng Tai, who had just opened the curtain of the tent, suddenly felt the ground shaking. At first, he felt that he was very tired, so he couldn't stand still. He supported the wooden pillars of the tent and looked down. Under the light, the pebbles and sand under his feet were trembling slightly.

   This is definitely not my illusion!

  Among the faintly discernible sky, groups of cavalry suddenly appeared in the distance within sight. Until this time, the faint sound of horseshoes was heard. Apparently, the cavalry of this large group, all wrapped in cloth on the horseshoes, were silent, and the horses were biting. I don’t know if they calmly waited in the dark for this most exhausting moment, and then when the sky was about to dawn At this time, a sudden attack was launched!

   Not only Zheng Tai's front camp, but also the rest of the camps extending north and south along the river bank, and the soldiers guarding the sentry towers also spotted the sudden appearance of cavalry! These cavalrymen seem to have descended into the world suddenly. The cavalrymen on horseback, holding spears and long knives in their mouths, are rushing towards here like a sea tide!

  No one could see exactly how many cavalrymen had appeared. They could only see that they completely covered the already faintly bright line of the sky into darkness, and they surged layer by layer. As it got closer, the sound of horseshoes finally resounded like muffled thunder, resounding throughout the field, covering the three camps on the left, middle and right of Wuqiu Xing's army!

  Guan Qiuxing's soldiers shouted mournfully: "Enemy attack! Enemy attack!" Immediately after, more mournful shouts echoed together, and the sound of the golden drum on the watchtower tower sounded in panic as a warning.

The soldiers and generals who were resting in the camp were all alarmed, or jumped from the tent, or from the nest, or simply jumped out of the field, looking for weapons, looking for weapons, and looking for armor, looking for armor. , picked up the weapon and rushed forward immediately, while the other auxiliary soldiers and civilian husbands were far behind.

Although Guanqiu Xingzheng Tai had made some preparations before, but with the passage of time and the Taoshan incident, his mind was inevitably distracted. There has been no movement in Pingyang City, so he can't help but get used to it. I thought that tomorrow was the key to start, but I didn't expect that when the morning was approaching, I would encounter a surprise attack from cavalry!

Zheng Tai finally came to his senses at this time, ran out of the tent, and shouted loudly, "Look at the camp! Don't panic! Quickly dispatch troops to watch over the peasants, so that they don't panic! Supervising the battle, where is the supervising team? Pass a certain military order! Those who disturb the morale of the army will be beheaded! Everyone will settle down in their positions, and a certain person will supervise the battle. We have a camp! They cannot break through! As long as we persist for a long time, their spirit will lose! We guard the camp and shoot Shoot them to death too! Inform all teams that the general ordered that anyone who takes a step back will be killed by the whole team!"

  Although the speech was somewhat incoherent, at least Zheng Tai came forward to gather the soldiers, explain matters, and stabilize the soldiers in the front battalion. Following Zheng Tai's messengers, he immediately responded loudly, and then ran to pass the orders, while Zheng Tai, under the protection of the remaining guards, began to display the general's flag, trying to gather more soldiers and horses to meet the sudden cavalry attack !

At this time, Zheng Tai suddenly understood what kind of wishful thinking Pingyang would surrender. As expected, Zhengxi's subordinates are all tough people, and there is no sign of losing their fighting spirit. It's just a trick, so many cavalry soldiers and horses are hidden, just for the assault at this moment!

  But Zheng Tai also firmly believes that he will be able to hold this camp!

Behind Zheng Tai's camp, about 300 steps away, Wu Qiuxing's Chinese army camp is in the middle of the Meihua camp, and the news that the two camps in front and on the left and right were attacked also spread to Wu Qiuxing immediately. camp here.

Tired from running around for the past two days, Wu Qiuxing is not young anymore, and somewhat unable to hold on, he has already fallen asleep in a tent covered with thick felt. As for whether there are still soldiers in the camp with no place to rest, the assistant Whether the soldiers and civilians are still curled up in the nest, Wu Qiuxing doesn't care much, and doesn't care too much.

Anyway, this kind of weather, although it is said that there are some autumn dews gradually, it is not too cold to survive in the wild, not to mention that the construction of defense systems such as camp walls needs to be stepped up in the past two days. What kind of comfortable residences can be built for ordinary soldiers and civilian husbands?

Therefore, it’s all right if there are more than 5,000 main soldiers. Those auxiliary soldiers and civilians do not have to travel less than the main soldiers, but they have to do a lot more work. Ensure that the soldiers are fully rested. On average, each auxiliary soldier only has a maximum of two hours of rest at night, while the civilian husbands have even less, and they are exhausted. Naturally, there are many complaints, and there are not a few who swear behind their backs.

Of course, Guan Qiuxing, who was in the middle of the army and surrounded by layers of personal guards, would not know about the surging trend in the army. Even if he knew, he would probably be too lazy to pay attention to it. , I finally fell asleep at night, but I slept soundly.

   In the midst of a sweet dream, Wu Qiuxing was suddenly awakened by the noise outside the tent, opened his eyes to gather himself, and suddenly an unknown fire rushed up in his heart, very angry. After all, Wu Qiuxing is already an elderly person. It is not easy to fall asleep on weekdays, and it is even more difficult to get a good night's sleep. After finally falling asleep, he was woken up halfway, so he would not be angry!

  The personal soldiers who served personally in the camp saw Wuqiu Xing's ashen complexion, couldn't help but jump in his heart, and immediately roared: "What's the noise?! Startled the general, what should I do?!"

At this time, I heard an earth-shattering shout from the outer tent. It was the military marquis who was on duty in the Chinese army today: "General, general! The Fenshui rear camp suddenly caught fire! A group of cavalry from nowhere is copying our rear. camp!"

  (end of this chapter)