Three Kingdoms.

  Chapter 2099 This is going back and forth through the city gate

  『Report~~~』

   Cao Jun's scouts on the front feet retreated, and the scouts behind them hurried forward again.

  『How many people came out? ’ Xiahou Dun asked with a slap in the face.

   Cao Jun’s scout obviously got stuck for a moment, and then said with some difficulty: "This...General Qi, Fancheng...Fancheng has closed the city gate again..."

"Oh ah? It took Xiahoudun a long time to react, and he widened his eyes, "What? What did you say? Close the city gate again? Didn't come out? 』

  『Yes... General Qi, Fancheng was about to send troops, but for some reason, it closed the city gates again...』 Cao Jun scout said with his head down.

  Xiahou Dun couldn't believe it, and asked again: "Is it true that none of the soldiers left the city?" 』

   Cao Jun scout nodded.

  Xiahou Dun stood still for a while, not even knowing when Cao Jun's scouts would retreat.

  This...returned? What is this?

  Have you seen through your ambush? Or is there something wrong in Fancheng? Could it be that there is internal strife in Fancheng? What is the meaning of such behavior?

   After a while, Sima in the camp came to ask: "General...the soldiers are all in formation, all are ready, this...I don't know the general..."

   "Wait a little longer..." Xiahou Dun waved his hand.

  Junhou nodded, but stepped back without mentioning it.

   Can only wait a little longer.

  Cold weapon wars are not like hot weapons that only need a gun and bullets, and then use the gun to fight at any time. You need to wear armor, eat, prepare secondary weapons, consume equipment, and carry flags to recognize flags, drums and golden gongs, etc. Even the simplest armor, it takes some time to put it on and take it off. You can get ready right away, and you can lie down and rest right away if you want to rest...

   To put it simply, it can be seen as a switching time from combat readiness to rest, not the kind of CD-free skills that can be transformed in an instant.

  Xiahou Dun was not sure what the situation in Fancheng was like, so naturally he would not issue an order to disband immediately. And Xiahoudun always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't remember what went wrong for a while. It's like when I went out, I thought I didn't bring my mobile phone, and then touched the mobile phone, it was still in the bag, but it seemed that I didn't do anything and didn't think about it, and then I closed the door and realized that I didn't have the key.

  Xiahou Dun's speculation really became a reality. About half an hour later, Cao Jun's scouts rushed to report excitedly: "General! The door is open! opened! 』

"how many people! ? ’ Xiahou Dun asked anxiously.

  『Uh...haven’t come out yet...』 Scout Cao lowered his head, 『Small...didn’t see clearly...』

"roll! 』Xiahou Dun felt a throbbing pain in the corner of his head. He always felt that this matter had gradually escaped his control, and he felt a little headache.

  A premonition that he would never go according to his plan tonight jumped into Xiahou Dun's heart involuntarily.

  『Should we attack now? 』

  Xiahou Dun shook his head and said, "Wait a little longer..."

   After a while, Cao Jun's scouts came to report again. Before he could speak, Xiahou Dun asked, "The door is closed again?" 』

  Cao Jun scout nodded, "Exactly..."

  Xiahou Dun waved his hand helplessly.

   Xiahou Dun gritted his teeth, "Zhuzi! How cunning! 』

Xiahoudun's combat goal was to wait for the soldiers in Fancheng to come out, and then fight in the camp while Cao Ren copied from behind. With the attack from both sides and the superiority of troops, he would definitely defeat the Fancheng defenders who attacked at night. Chance drove his rout all the way and then took the opportunity to occupy Fancheng.

Of course, it is also possible that Fancheng did not open the city gates and refused to allow the defeated army to enter the city. That would not be a big problem. After all, after Fancheng lost a considerable part of its troops, it would be easier to attack in the next step. After all, Fancheng suffered from morale and It is expected that the double losses of the pawns will not last long.

  But now the people in Fancheng can't come out after opening and closing the city gate...

   This is a bit embarrassing.

  Is this a strategy for exhausting troops?

  Xia Houdun, with his hands behind his back, gritted his teeth, and turned around in the large tent of the Chinese army.

  Everything is possible, but it is obvious that Fancheng should be prepared, but what if Fancheng is also testing? In case he asked Cao Ren to withdraw his troops and Fancheng sent troops again, wouldn't it be a missed opportunity?

Everyone may not be able to analyze clearly when faced with sunk costs, so Xiahoudun is not sure which kind of situation it is, so he can only wait and see, looking forward to the subsequent changes, and hoping that his plan will continue. There is a slight chance of success.

About half an hour later, the gate of Fancheng opened again, and then a group of people rushed out. Under the expectation of Xiahoudun and others, they only walked around the gate without walking a hundred steps Just turned around and went back...

  After getting the news, Xiahou Dun stood dumbfounded for a while, and finally let out a long sigh. "Come here, send a letter to General Zixiao and return it..."

  Obviously, Fancheng won't engage in night raids anymore. If night raids are needed, who can play like this? Cao Jun’s trousers are all up and down... no, the swords, guns and armor are all ready, and then he waited for nearly two hours in the cold autumn night without doing anything... If we continue to wait, then after dawn, we will stay up all night Where did Cao Jun get the spirit to attack the city? It would be a waste of a day not to siege the city, but to attack the city with force, needless to say, the damage will definitely not be small.

Therefore, Xiahoudun could only let Cao Ren, who was in ambush, withdraw his troops back to the camp, and then send a small number of soldiers to strengthen the surveillance and patrol of Fancheng, and let most of Cao's soldiers disarm, taking advantage of more than an hour before dawn, take a break.

   As a result, something went wrong.

Xiahou Dun is also an elderly person. For future generations, forty years old may still be a "young man". Especially for those involved in politics, forty may have just started. It's not young, especially in the past ten years, almost all of them have been spent in military life, so naturally they are easier to grow old than those pampered and pampered gentry children.

  When you get older, your spirit is not as good as that of a young person. At the same time, your sleep is shallow, and you wake up every now and then. Xiahou Dun was like this, just squinting his eyes when he heard chaotic and noisy sound waves rising suddenly, as if he wanted to drive away all the darkness before dawn.

  Xiahou Dun jumped up suddenly, stretched out his arms to let the guards help him put on his armor, and asked eagerly, "How many people came out this time?" Where did the attack go? 』

  The soldiers of Cao Jun who rushed to report said: "General! It's not Fancheng, it's Nanying! 』

"what? ! 』Xiahou Dun's expression changed, and he didn't even have time to put on the armor completely. While pulling on the belt, he strode out of the Chinese army's tent, and was immediately shocked, his face livid.

In the southern camp on the other side of the Han River, there are not no soldiers in the camp. There are mainly 1,000 Cao soldiers, 2,000 soldiers from Jingzhou, who are responsible for taking care of the luggage and utensils, and about 2,000 civilian men, who are mainly responsible for cutting down trees and making equipment. Then it is sent to the north bank by pontoon and boat.

Originally, the south bank was safe. After all, it was separated from Fancheng by the Han River. But now Cao Jun’s southern camp was ablaze. Under the dazzling flames, there were countless hussars rushing wildly in the supply camp on the south bank. While slashing and killing, he set fire at the same time, which caused a huge sound wave, which was deafening.

  A battle flag flickered in the flames, and a large character "Liao" was faintly visible on it.

  『Liao? Xiahoudun was taken aback for a moment, and then became furious. He immediately boarded the high platform, beat the drums, and prepared to command the generals to cross the pontoon bridge to encircle and suppress.

There are not many ships in Fancheng, and even if there are boats, it is impossible for Hussars to transport them from Chang'an, so even if there are not many people who sneak across the Han River, there may not even be more than a thousand. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers just like this majesticly killed in the southern camp, wreaking havoc, really uncle can bear auntie can't bear it, Xiahou Dun decided that even if the southern camp was destroyed, he would take the opportunity to kill the incoming enemy generals Here, on the one hand, it can relieve future troubles and boost morale; on the other hand, it can also vent a bad breath for Cao Hong!

Under the command of the sound of war drums, the Cao soldiers in Jiangbei immediately moved into action. Cao Zhen received Xiahoudun's order and was about to gather when he suddenly heard another commotion from the north. The battle flag with the word "Xu" was lifted out, and the sound of rolling horseshoes was like thunder in the firelight, and it came straight towards him!

  『Steady! Zidan led the headquarters to break the enemy army in the south camp first! The rest are stationed in the northern camp, and the archers are on the wall to prevent them from attacking the camp! 』Xiahou Dun on the command platform immediately ordered Cao Zhen to continue to reinforce the South Camp, and then turned to look at Cao Ren. Cao Ren cupped his hands, expressing his reassurance to Xiahou Dun, so he got off the high platform and went to command and defend against the Fancheng cavalry attacking from the north.

  Xiahou Dun's tactical arrangement is undoubtedly the most correct.

   It's just that, the correct response may not always have the correct result...

  The general on duty at Hanshui Nanying is He Yan. A guy who focuses more on civil servants, he can't even be called a general, his force value is basically... well, negligible.

He Yan is the grandson of the former great general He Jin, and Cao Cao was more or less under He Jin's tent back then. In a sense, although He Jin has no special achievements to boast about the big man, if He Jin was alive back then However, Dong Zhuo would not have the opportunity to come to Beijing to take power, so when He Yan defected to Cao Cao, Cao Cao also thought of some of the old friendship and arranged an errand for He Yan.

For most of the generals of the Cao family and the Xiahou family, the complicated logistics of the army, the huge accounts that need to be counted and calculated almost every day, is undoubtedly an extremely troublesome thing, so a document must be needed. The officials came here to be responsible for these matters, and He Yan has done a good job in this area, so this time he is also responsible for the logistics statistics coordination of the entire camp.

  He Yan naturally has no problem dealing with logistics documents, but should he deal with Liao Hua...

  At the same time, Liao Hua and others have fewer troops and are easier to extinguish. What if they turn to meet the Fancheng cavalry at this time, what if the Fancheng cavalry fly kites and walk around? Wouldn't both of them be unprofitable?

But just when Cao Zhen was about to take people to the water gate of the Jiangbei camp, and was about to go straight to Liao Hua and others in the southern camp through the pontoon bridge, he suddenly saw pieces of flame rising in the Han River , Then follow the current and hit the pontoon bridge!

"fire! Fire burns on water! Cao Jun's soldiers shouted, pointing to the flames flowing down the river, they seemed a little flustered and frightened, and couldn't understand this strange phenomenon.

  A little closer, Cao Zhen saw that it was not really the fire on the water, but the flames on the raft. Although Fancheng said that there is no way to build many boats immediately, it is not impossible to tie up some rafts to cross the river, or to burn down Cao Jun's pontoon bridge as it is now.

  『It’s just a raft! Never mind those! Cao Zhen shouted, "Cross the river quickly!" cross the river! 』

  Cao Zhen was a little nervous, but also a little excited. There are too many children in the Cao family, some are biological, some are in the clan, some are adopted like Cao Zhen, and if you want to gain a foothold among such a large group of people in the Cao family, you can't do it without two brushes. But if the ability is too strong, it will not work...

   This point, Cao Zhen understood this after Cao Ang's death.

  If Cao Ang is still alive, the heir is sure, no matter how good Cao Zhen is, as long as he shows loyalty to Cao Cao, Cao Ang is safe, but now, although Cao Cao is acting as if he wants to take Cao Pi as his heir, it is not clear. Maybe Cao Cao thinks that not being sure about his heir is also a kind of protection for his own children, but it makes some competitors including Cao Pi start to have special behaviors, so of course Cao Zhen is not willing to go too far at such a special time. He wants to show off his intelligence, and being a reckless military man is obviously more in line with the expectations of the princes and will be more popular.

Although Cao Zhen repeatedly yelled to leave those rafts alone and let the follow-up Cao soldiers find a way to stop them, the instinctive fear of the flames still made Cao Jun's actions slow and deformed when they passed the pontoon bridge, so that when Cao Zhen was waiting When they rushed to the other side and began to gather troops, there were still a large number of Cao soldiers crossing the pontoon bridge timidly...

Although Cao Jun tried his best to block the burning rafts going down the water with bamboo sticks and long guns, some of them hit the wooden frame of the pontoon bridge after all. It crashed into the wood of the wooden frame of the floating bridge, and then quickly ignited the wooden and bamboo structure of the floating bridge!

  『Bastard! Cao Zhen roared, "Don't worry about those people behind! Brothers, follow me! 』

   At this time, Liao Hua had already killed Cao Jun in the southern camp...

  Both Xiahou Dun and He Yan, who was defending in the southern camp, somewhat underestimated Liao Hua's ferocity. Especially He Yan, he originally thought that there were less than a thousand people when Liao Hua rushed out, even if the sneak attack was successful, it would only kill a few people and set two fires, what can be done? What will happen?

As long as he sits firmly in the central army and coordinates the soldiers to fight back, these sneak attackers should flee in a hurry, and even chase them back. But what He Yan didn't expect was that facing the large number of Cao Jun, Liao Hua not only didn't The meaning of running away, on the contrary, was to intensify and rush to the depths of the camp, pointing directly at He Yan!

  He Yan's face turned pale, this young man, why doesn't he talk about martial arts? If you want to burn the luggage, just burn it. You came to me because you wanted to do...what?

  『Protect me! Hurry up and protect me! 』He Yan screamed in a piercing voice, just like the castrated Erha screaming up to the sky.

   Seeing the performance of the chief officer in the camp, Cao Jun was naturally even more flustered. Liao Hua and the others pounced on He Yan, throwing torches indiscriminately, and ignited the surrounding tents and piled up equipment.

  He Yan retreated steadily, until he bumped into Cao Zhen who came to help, and finally stopped, and shouted in shock: "Zi Dan, save me!" save me! 』

"Step aside! 』

  Cao Zhen was too lazy to talk nonsense with He Yan, so he just led the people and jumped up!

  It was only at this moment that Cao Zhen saw Liao Hua's appearance clearly. I only saw Liao Hua wearing a black lacquer armor, and the pocket on the top of his head was also black lacquer. I don't know if it was originally made like this, or it was modified for this raid. He looks in his early teens, with a strong figure, and his eyes exude a cold brilliance under his pocket.

  Cao Zhen breathed out and said, "Is this person Liao Hua Liao Yuanjian?" ! 』

   Didn't Cao Zhen know that Liao Hua was on the opposite side? Although Cao Zhen didn't know Liao Hua's specific appearance, nor did he know how Liao Hua's martial arts were, but he got a lot of news from Xiahou Dun and Cao Ren, which showed that Liao Hua was not a mediocre player, so Cao Zhen used a cunning at the beginning. trick!

Normally, people would answer questions subconsciously when encountering general names, and then their movements would inevitably stagnate for a while, and their breath might be disturbed, so Cao Zhen held a small iron halberd secretly in his hand, waiting for Liao Hua to stop Open your mouth and throw it out!

At this moment, the two sides are facing each other, and the distance between them is no more than 50 paces. If Liao Hua is distracted a little bit, even if Liao Hua's martial arts are superb, such a short distance, and in the dark night, it is expected that he will be extremely difficult to block. !

  If Liao Hua can be killed in one fell swoop, all the problems in Nanying will be solved immediately!

   It's a pity that Liao Hua thought so too. When he saw Cao Zhen yelling in public, he just pointed out!

  The guards following Liao Hua raised their hands and shot!

  Cao Zhen was so frightened that he cried out, turned around quickly, and threw the iron halberd with his backhand!

  Arrows and iron halberds whistled in the wind, crossing each other!

"when! 』

  Liao Hua hit the iron halberd with a single blow. The crossbow on the other side shot a Cao soldier behind Cao Zhen. The two sides couldn't help but glared at each other, then gave a "bah" almost at the same time, and then swung their knives at each other silently!

When children fight, they often see each other waving their arms, like a windmill-like punch, but in fact it is not very effective. When adults fight, they often push each other. Even if they punch each other, most of them are just His skin was blue and his face was swollen, but when martial artists swung swords and guns, they often saw life and death immediately!

  Liao Hua saw Cao Zhen's shoulder move, and the saber in his hand was in the light and shadow of the flames, sweeping from right to left like a curve and straight!

  Cao Zhen's knife came very quickly, and the tip of the knife fell straight to Liao Hua's neck and throat!

  (end of this chapter)