Three Kingdoms.

  Chapter 2076 Don't be surprised, it's hard to tell the truth from the fake

In the vicinity of Wu County, due to the impact of the turmoil in Jingzhou, many people who fled to escape the military disaster came here, and then some stayed near Wu County, and some continued to move forward blindly, not knowing where they could go. I don't even know where I should go.

  To live and find a place where they can live is the biggest dream of these refugees.

  Besides Wu County, because the county magistrate and county lieutenant have no intention of rectifying it, they are basically in disarray now. There were originally three or four hundred people stationed in Wu County, but when they heard about the military disaster in Jingzhou, some of them ran away. Later, Jingzhou's military salary could not be paid, so they left some more, and now there are only less than three hundred people left.

The county magistrate and county lieutenant didn't have any orders, just blindly guarded against the refugees, closed the four doors, and didn't care about anything else, so these Wuxian defenders were also wandering on the city wall like a ghost without an owner , full of confusion. Near the city gate, there is only a gap that can be passed sideways to provide the necessary access. Around this gap, there are also a few soldiers like wild ghosts, holding knives and guns, leaning against the gate, waiting. Stay up until the next moment.

  Wu County is close to a big river, so the water vapor is relatively thick, especially when the evening is approaching, the pre-cooling is surging, and it gradually becomes gloomy.

  『The time has come! Close the city gate! Off, off! 』The head team in charge of the guard shouted weakly, the voice was full of exhaustion, and there was a sense of relaxation and comfort that was finally over, as if it was stained with stinky mud and finally washed clean.

  The refugees outside the city gate were a little restless, like worms. Although they were aware of the change in the environment, their movements and reactions were very slow, and they moved slowly and without thinking. These refugees did not expect to be able to enter the city. They just hoped to get some relief. Even though they knew that the hope was slim, they subconsciously gathered near the city gate, as if to prove that they were alone, not wandering. wild dogs.

  However, today’s refugees are a little restless, and there are also some strange voices coming over, which caused one of the soldiers who was closing the city gate in the city gate to stretch his neck, tilt his head and look out from the crack of the door...

"Get off! closed! 』An old soldier slapped the young soldier on the back of the head, almost hitting his head against the city gate.

  『Scratch me, God slapped me on the head so badly, let’s see what happened...』 The young soldier murmured dissatisfied.

  『Look at a hammer...』 The old soldier muttered, 『It’s better to have a little more than a little bit...You can make a hammer if you don’t care about Doha...』

  『Don’t close the door! Close the door slowly! 』

While the old **** was muttering, suddenly there was a shout from among the refugees outside the city, and immediately a dozen or twenty people stumbled out, and the person in the lead was Wang Sheng, who was wearing a dilapidated roe deer, and was walking towards this place. Shout this everywhere.

  The team leader on duty at the city gate stretched his head to look down, recognized Wang Sheng, and shouted: "You son of a bitch, why did you come here?" What about checkpoints? 』

Wei Yan was mixed in the queue, although he was dressed in tatters, but he was big after all, so he had to bend over as much as possible, like a hunchbacked old man, and shrank behind Wang Sheng. Wang Sheng nodded slightly behind him, "Just say that there is an urgent military situation to report..."

  When Wei Yan touched the checkpoint, Wang Sheng did not resist, and even indicated his willingness to surrender, so Wei Yan naturally did not do anything, not only that, but also dragged Wang Sheng to the gate of Wu County...

  Anyway, it's not the first time Wei Yan has done this, and it feels quite familiar.

  Everyone thought that Hussar General Fei Qian sent troops to Jingzhou because he was in the dark and Tai Shici was the bright one, and Xu Huang was the dark one.

   To bleed a prey, in addition to making the wound bigger, opening a few more openings is also very effective. Jingzhou is densely populated. If we take a single route, it will inevitably be congested, and it will cause a temporary burden. Now Wei Yan is going to open another passage in the central and southern part of Jingzhou to make way for the people of Jingzhou in the south of Xiangyang and north of Jiangling. Pass through the line of Padang, Brazil, and enter Sichuan.

  Although this road is not as easy as the Wuguan Line, it is not too difficult. Liu Yan entered Sichuan through this route, and Liu Bei also took this route.

  Wang Sheng shouted loudly: "You grandson, open the door for me!" I have important military information to report! 』

  『Don’t you want Harold to tell you, important military situation? ! ’ The team leader on the top of the wall shouted, ‘Who is coming? Is it those dog days on the east side? No, isn't the checkpoint on the west side, you bitch? 』

  『That turtle grandson said east? ”Wang Sheng’s body seemed to be trembling a little, but he still shouted loudly, “Anyway, you don’t know if you talk too much, so I’ll tell you in person! 』

The leader of the city leader muttered a few words in a low voice, did not know what to say, or cursed a few words, and after a while shouted: "You son of a bitch, come by yourself, no one else can enter." , wait outside! 』

  Wang Sheng was taken aback for a moment, and immediately shouted: "My brother is injured, I want to go to the city to have a look..."

   Shouting words up and down, before he knew it, he was getting closer and closer to the city gate.

   Originally, the distance was relatively far away, and Wei Yan's burly figure was not so conspicuous, but now that he is close, even if Wei Yan tried his best to bend his body, it was still difficult to hide...

  『Stop! You are…"

  Wei Yan was among the crowd, and violently pushed Wang Sheng to the side in front of him, already taking a knife and slashing forward, "Follow me!" Grab the city! 』

   Wei Yan's robbing the city may seem reckless, but it may not be.

Jingzhou is in the area of ​​Brazil, basically, both in terms of defense and importance, it is relatively weak. In addition, these years have been peaceful, and Sichuan and Shu do not appear to be sending troops, and Jingzhou does not have any generals. Or they are willing to come to this area to guard, so overall, this area is almost no different from regional autonomy.

In the counties in this area, apart from some garrisoned soldiers who are stuck in key positions like Wu County, the rest of the counties have only one or two hundred soldiers in the big ones, and even a dozen or so soldiers in the small ones. Part-time yamen servants, even yamen servants, basically can only scare bandits and bandits, and the rest is almost zero, so there is no need to actually send troops to attack, just need to send some people over after occupying the key nodes Indicating that changing the ruler now basically becomes...

   Even areas like Wu County, which should have been tightly guarded, have basically lost their vigilance under the chaotic rule of Jingzhou, as can be seen from the crude and lax checkpoints. Before Wei Yan took action, he had carefully questioned some situations, such as the current organizational system in Wu County, the main defensive locations, etc. Wei Yan thought about it for a while, and felt that there was still an opportunity to take advantage of it, so he just said nothing else. Wang Sheng came back to rob the city in the name of reporting the military situation.

   After all, if you only face the scattered and slack state in Wu County, as long as you succeed in one blow, there will naturally be no one to resist in the follow-up.

  The screams and screams at the city gate were earth-shattering, and the piercing tone of the screams was enough to prove how much psychological damage Wei Yan and others had brought to the defenders of Wu County...

  As Wei Yan expected, the soldiers in Wu County had almost no fighting spirit. When they encountered an attack, they subconsciously turned around and ran away, without even having time to bring the weapons at hand.

The leader of the Wuxian team who was on duty on the top of the wall was already weak in his legs. He was holding on to the battlements for a long time and couldn't stand up. He just kept repeating two sentences, "Ge Laozi... Guisunzi...", I don't know what it refers to. and that. A few soldiers mustered up their courage to step forward, but Wei Yan only held a saber, flying up and down like lightning, often before the soldiers defending the city stabbed out the blades in their hands, Wei Yan chopped them down. On the ground!

  The tip of the long spear was cut off, and the saber was knocked flying!

The defenders who were cut down either fell to the ground motionless with knives in their chests, abdomens, necks and necks, or rolled and howled in pain with their stumped limbs and broken arms. After nearly ten defenders were beheaded by Wei Yan one after another, the rest The defenders began to stagger and retreat one after another, and then ran away howling...

  Wei Yan stopped, shook off the blood on the saber, and laughed loudly: "Boys! Take down the government office for me! From today, this place is ours! 』

  …(｀)Y…

  『Ahead is the Dangyang River! Be careful...there are obviously more scouts in Cao Jun these two days...If you disturb Cao Jun's scouts...it will be a dead end...』

  Several Jiangdong scouts got together and discussed by the Dangyang River.

   Zhou Yu and Cheng Pu couldn’t believe that Fei Qian and Cao Cao joined forces, because it meant that Jiangdong was going to face an extremely dire situation, so they had to detect again to make sure that the source of the news wasn’t just a blind eye of the previous scouts…

  These Jiangdong scouts are all specially selected experts, and they are all trained in the battlefield, but facing the current task, they are still a little uneasy.

Perhaps it was Cao Jun who discovered the infiltration of the Jiangdong scouts last time, or maybe Cao Jun was trying to cover up some news. Now there are obviously a lot more Cao Jun scouts walking up and down the Dangyang River, so if you are not careful, you will definitely be caught. Discovery, and once discovered, whether it can detect the news Zhou Yu wants is secondary, and whether it can come back alive is a big problem!

The Jiangdong scouts have already detoured for a while, and if they go around again, the distance may be too long, and they may not be able to find a suitable swimming point. The other is that the supplies they carry with them are limited after all, and it is impossible to extend the detection without limit time…

  『The water here is shallow, you can pass here...』

"no! The water here is shallow, we know it, and Cao Jun must know it too! 』

  『Then what do you say? 』

  『I mean, which side to choose...』

  『You are crazy, which side is open and spacious, as long as someone stands on the shore, they will definitely find us! 』

  『But we can also find them...』

"Uh? 』The ones who objected before did not speak. This side is not easy to hide because it is empty, and the same is true for the other side, so it is fair...

  『Just over there! Ok, deal! 』

  A lot of people died near Dangyang Bridge before, and up to now, we can still occasionally see some rotten corpses. For example, there are a few corpses on this section of the river beach. The skin and flesh of these corpses have collapsed, and the chest and abdomen have been broken. I don’t know if they were eaten by wild animals or other factors. The low-lying places are silted up, and the stench is like flies gathered, buzzing, buzzing, and entangled. Even Jiangdong's scouts are all veterans who have been in battle, they can't help frowning.

  In the extreme distance, Cao Jun's torches were shaking, reflecting a small bright spot in the night, flickering.

  Starlight swayed on the water, and also illuminated the figure of the Jiangdong scout swimming slowly.

Jiangdong's soldiers basically have water, and the scouts are very good at water. Some people can even dive in the water. Although Dangyang River is not a narrow river, for guys like Jiangdong who are good at water, it is very difficult. It's not too difficult, but in order not to let Cao Jun notice, everyone tensed their nerves as much as possible and lowered their voices.

The Jiangdong scout who went down the river first, was agile, and in a blink of an eye, like a fish, he crossed a large section, and then went to the opposite bank in less than a cup of tea. Step by step disappeared into the shadows, and after a dozen or so breaths, he reappeared and waved towards him.

  Jiangdong soldier scouts touched the river one by one. In order to reduce their burden, these Jiangdong scouts left their armor on the bank here and just swam with portable weapons.

  In the middle of the crossing, suddenly there was a torch shaking in the distance, and there was a sound!

   It seems that there is a group of Cao Jun patrolling here!

The Jiangdong scouts who had landed on the shore immediately hid in the shadows, and the Jiangdong scouts who were still swimming in the river took a long breath and dived into the water, and those who had just touched the shore and had no time to hide were Xin Xin. One sideways, pretending to be a corpse, half in the water and half on the shore...

Cao Jun and his entourage wandered over. Several Cao soldiers held up torches to shine on both banks and the water surface, but because the light of the torches was close, it was okay. Once they were two meters away, the light-gathering ability of the torches was too poor, so they couldn’t shine. No matter how far away, I didn't seem to see anything when I dangled around, and I staggered away after a while.

  After Cao Jun completely disappeared into the night, these Jiangdong scouts in the shadows reappeared...

  『It’s dangerous, it’s dangerous...』

  『Move faster! 』

  『vomit…』

  『What are you doing? 』

  『Hoo, hoo, it’s okay, it’s okay...』

  ... (⊙_⊙;)...

  When dawn was approaching, everything seemed to be immersed in sleep. In the mist, some distorted figures appeared. It was these Jiangdong scouts who had crossed the Dangyang River.

  According to the last detection information, these Jiangdong scouts silently spread out a straggler line, groping forward cautiously...

  Unknowingly, a vague outline of the camp appeared in the distance, and there were some faint and small sounds following the sound of the wind.

  Jiangdong scouts could not help but tense their bodies, lowered their steps, and got closer a little bit, and a little closer...

  The camp occupies a large area and extends in all directions. At a glance, it is a typical cavalry camp. On the high sentry tower, there are several figures shaking, and the camp is basically resting.

  The eyes of the Jiangdong scouts are moving...

"This! 』

  『It's a tricolor flag! 』

  Even though the Jiangdong scout was prepared in his heart, he was still dazed for a moment, his mind blank. Cao Cao and Fei Qian joined forces? Want to deal with Jiangdong together?

   It was like a bolt from the blue, shaking the hearts of all Jiangdong scouts.

  『Crack…』

"what sound? ! There are people! 』

I don't know if it was a moment of inattention, or some other reason, the Jiangdong scout was discovered, and the arrow was lit on the sentry tower, and then shot at this place high, not asking for kills, just pointing out the direction, the tricolor flag camp The voices of the people inside became noisy, and the figures swayed, and immediately there was the neighing of war horses!

"broken! Let's go! The Jiangdong scout shouted in a deep voice, "We must report the situation here to the governor!" ’ Immediately they split up and fled.

   Not long after, Cao Xiu led his troops to the location indicated by the rocket, and issued an order, "Search! 』

  『General! It looks like they scattered and fled...」

  『Which side has more traces? Cao Xiu's eyes flickered in the flames, and he asked in a deep voice.

  『Over there! 』

  Cao Xiu turned his horse's head, "Catch up!" 』

  『General, what else…』

"gone! ’Cao Xiu roared, ‘Everyone follow me! 』

  …(*–-)…

  Jiangdong Daying.

   Most of the Jiangdong scouts who were lost fled back to the camp, and reported to Zhou Yu what they saw and heard.

  『Only the tricolor flag? Zhou Yu frowned, "Didn't you see the flag?" 』

   "It may be intentional concealment..." Cheng Pu said slowly.

   Zhou Yu nodded slightly.

  『Although this matter is strange...』 Zhou Yu still frowned, and the frown deepened.

  Zhou Yu did not continue.

  Cheng Pu's face is also very ugly, after all, it is already very difficult to fight against Cao Jun, plus Fei Qian's hussars...

Although there are many water networks in the Jiangling area, it is not impossible to use cavalry at all. If the hussars join the battlefield, the only mobility advantages that the Jiangdong soldiers had in the past will disappear, and they may even be taken by the hussars. The risk of food shortages.

  Everyone knows that the hussars seem to have something special about long-distance raids, and they are quite sharp.

   Zhou Yu hesitated. After all, he doesn't know whether Cao Cao and Fei Qian are united in one place. If Cao Cao gave up Jingzhou, or part of it to Feiqian, it would not be impossible to find a balance from Jiangdong. Jiangxia has copper mines, which are also fertile. At the same time, there is Lujiang River, or it may be a step further. Jiangdong Yangzhou has been away from the battlefield for many years, so it is not a problem to be rich...

  So although it is less likely that Fei and Cao will join forces, it cannot be said that there is no such thing.

  During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there were not a few people who were brothers today and enemies tomorrow, and there were also many who were vice versa.

   Benefits? If you give enough, Jiangdong can also unite...

  So, do you want to withdraw the troops?

  If you really want to gamble until the moment you reveal your hole cards, you can of course see the outcome, but if you really want to risk a huge loss, or even annihilate the whole army, bet that Cao Cao is stealing chickens...

  Zhou Yu pondered, his expression changed...

  (end of this chapter)