Three Kingdoms.

  Chapter 2296 Uneducated is better cheated

  In the autumn of the fifth year of Taixing, for some reason, Fei Qian and Cao Cao in the north both started fighting against the Hu people. Maybe it was a coincidence, maybe it was planned long ago, but in the autumn of this year, the nomads in the entire northern desert were indeed stirred up, like a bonfire was lit in the dark night, attracting moths to fly into the flames flutter.

  This kind of weather is not good for fighting.

  Although it is said that the rain is not as heavy as before, and the rain has even dispersed in some places, it does not mean that it cannot be hit at all, but we must weigh the gains and losses. On a rainy day, Cao Jun, who has a geographical advantage, will inevitably be exposed to the rain if he attacks. However, in the Han Dynasty, there are no cold medicines, dryers, etc. Even if he wins, it is very likely that a wind and cold will wipe out The generals and soldiers are all taken away...

   Wouldn’t it be nice to let Yu fight Ding Lingren for him and cause trouble for Ding Lingren?

  So Cao Jun in Ji County will basically wait until the rain is over before attacking, which is undoubtedly the best choice.

  Dingling people also know this.

   One side is constantly consuming, and the other side is waiting comfortably. It is not worthwhile to continue to fight under Ji County. The mentality of accepting as soon as it is good once again gained the upper hand, and the whole army retreated north in batches.

   At this moment, Xia Houyuan blocked the way of Ding Lingren and grabbed Juyongguan before Ding Lingren's forward evacuated from Youzhou.

  Xia Houyuan occupied Juyongguan without much effort, because the Dingling people did not expect that there would be Han people coming out of the sidewalk, and then rushed all the way here, so there were not many people deployed in Juyongguan.

Juyongguan has been retired for a long time, coupled with the dispute between Gongsun Zan and Liu Yu, the current Juyongguan is dilapidated, basically there is no ordinary population, but Xiongguan is still Xiongguan, even if it is dilapidated, there is a sense of heroism exist.

  After Xia Houyuan occupied the pass and just set up defenses, Ding Lingren's follow-up troops arrived.

  The rain stopped for a rare moment, as if the dark clouds had cried enough for the first scene, and then they were preparing for the second scene.

  The war drums were thundering, the horns were beeping for a long time, and Dingling people rushed towards the pass.

  The rain has stopped, and the bow and arrow will come in handy.

  Although the humid air will cause the bowstring and arrow feathers to get wet, and the range and power of the arrow will decrease, but it is better than nothing. Xia Houyuan led the cavalry, but it was generally not difficult to dismount temporarily and change his job to become an archer.

  Because of Fei Qian's boosting effect on the armament of the entire Han Dynasty, Cao Cao's requirements for armament are now much higher than in history. Especially in bows and arrows, because the imaginary enemies are all soldiers under Fei Qian's command, and the soldiers under Fei Qian's command have a very distinctive feature, that is, thick skin, er, thick armor, and the armor-piercing ability of bows and arrows has become the first of Cao Jun's standard bows and arrows. The item being promoted.

   There are also various protections, including moisture-proof standards, and everything is on par with hussars.

  Before, I didn’t know what to do, so it’s not shameful not to do it, but if I know what’s better and don’t do it, I’m a fool.

  Xia Houyuan couldn’t have exchanged ordinary arrows just because he said he wanted to deal with Ding Lingren, and then clicked the game mouse to replace one spike arrow with two ordinary arrows...

  So although Xia Houyuan's newly transferred archers can't shoot arrows as frequently as professional archers, like the overwhelming arrow rain, the damage to Dingling is still not small. Spike arrows used to pierce armor have an additional bonus effect on light armor or medium armor units like Ding Ling. Basically, as long as they are shot, they are almost bound to be injured. If they hit the chest and abdomen, it is natural Wailing and waiting to die, if you get hit by hands and feet, if you can move forward, you will struggle to move forward. If you can't move, you will lie down and cry, or you will be dragged behind for treatment, or there will be no one to care, and you will die from bleeding.

  The humidity caused Ding Lingren's bows and arrows to be more affected, and it was difficult for ordinary nomads to pay attention to the maintenance of weapons like professional soldiers. The Dingling people also wanted to fight back with bows and arrows, but they didn't have oiled paper. Even if the bow strings were placed next to their skin and were not damp, the bow body and arrows were also soaked in water, and they were so heavy that they couldn't shoot at all.

  Ding Ling attacked three times, leaving a lot of corpses behind, then retreated, and then gathered in the distance, not daring to go up again.

  Actually, if the Dingling people have a little bit of military mind, or a little bit of unity, not a tribe as a unit, but a whole concept, then the one who is at a disadvantage now should be Xia Houyuan.

Because even Xia Houyuan has some bows and arrows because of his weapon superiority, but he carries a certain number of arrows. If the intensity of the continuous attack is higher, it is easy to drag Xia Houyuan's troops into hand-to-hand combat. This made it impossible for Xia Houyuan's pawns to be adjusted. For Ding Lingren, who had an advantage in numbers, this method of warfare was naturally the optimal solution.

  But it's a pity that Ding Ling's fighters say that they are ten thousand, and more than 80% are still herdsmen.

   Of course, these herdsmen have no problems with their riding skills, and they may even be better than the Huaxia cavalry, but in terms of discipline and training, there is a big gap. Seeing the damage, I retreated subconsciously, and when others saw that some tribes retreated, I also retreated. In the end, you looked at me and I looked at you, thinking about other tribes, Then the result is that everyone didn't go up.

   To put it simply, the Dingling people at this stage are a group of farmers and soldiers riding horses. There are also professional soldiers, not many, most of them are under the command of the commander of Ding Ling, and the general tribe can't afford to support all full-time soldiers before, so naturally there is no training and fighting cooperation.

   You must know that training is actually cultivating physical instincts, otherwise someone will fall down at any time around you, and you will be the next to die...

  Xia Houyuan stood on the city wall and let out a long breath. He now understands what Guo Jia said at that time.

  『Soldiers are good, not many. 』

Although this sentence was not created by Guo Jia, many people still subconsciously choose the route of "many soldiers" to go, thinking that they will switch to the route of "elite soldiers" when they have enough "soldiers", but In fact, most people can't do it at all.

Raising an elite soldier is of course much more expensive than raising an ordinary peasant soldier, and it will be very distressing if it is damaged, but in many cases, the utility of elite soldiers is not just for exchange. For example, at present, if a group like Ding Ling Among the people, there are 100% elite soldiers mixed in, as the commander and commander, then Xia Houyuan's side will inevitably face a **** battle.

Except for a few elites in the Dingling Army, most of the soldiers' weapons and equipment are self-raised. The tribe leaders don't care about it at all, and they are not responsible for changing the equipment for the people in their own tribe. Therefore, the equipment is generally poor, and rusty arrows and blunt spears can be found everywhere. yes. The only chance for ordinary Ding Ling people to improve their own equipment is to grab the good weapons and armor of the Han people for use.

   This point is not limited to the Dingling Army. In fact, this is also the normal state of most nomadic armies in the Han Dynasty and before the Han Dynasty. This situation did not improve until the nomads got a large number of Chinese craftsmen after the Five Husbands of China.

   And now...

As soon as the few lingering people who were stopped met, they felt that it was not worthwhile for their sons to touch them, so they simply stopped and waited for the follow-up tribes to arrive, or to share the damage equally, or to wait for those who fell behind The slaves catch up...

  Anyway, in troubled times, human life is worthless, especially the life of people who are not from the tribe, even more worthless.

  So, wait for slave soldiers?

   Or that Guduhou?

  The Marquis of Gudu is in charge of breaking the queen, but these Dingling people don’t know that Gongsundu, the Marquis of Gudu, is really the "post-broken queen", the "post" of the absolute "post". As an experienced dog licker, Gongsun Du certainly knows where the licking will make people feel the most comfortable, and he also knows where it will make people feel the most painful...

The Ding Ling people had to retreat because of the continuous rainstorm, and foreigners like Gongsun Du, as well as the slave soldiers gathered before, were naturally left behind. It is called a heavy task in a good name, but in fact, it is to block the pursuit. Soldiers, to help most of Ding Ling's tribes escape smoothly.

  Since he was young, Gongsun Du has been good at serving the people above his head, and then turning his things into his own little by little. Although he is old now, his craftsmanship is still there...

  Dingling people were originally a collection of tribes, and the slave army belonging to Dingling people was the slaves of Dingling people.

  Gongsun Du's title of Marquis of the Gudu, in general, is considered to be among the slave army and the Dingling people, so relatively, he has some common language with these slave troops.

  Most of the slave army was formed by the Dingling people who combined some broken tribes when they conquered Mobei. Many of these people had hatred with the Dingling people, but they didn't even know how to hate them.

This kind of people existed among nomadic peoples, and also among farming peoples. They existed in ancient times, and they also existed in later generations. If you think about the situation that one or two invaders can frighten a large number of indigenous people, you can understand the slave soldiers. mental state. Therefore, when Dingling treats these slave soldiers, they basically regard them as tools and consumables, and they don't have any extra armor, equipment and weapons, and many don't even have leather robes on their bodies. Wrap it up, it's a fig leaf.

In the process of making siege equipment for Ding Lingren, Gongsun was also building his own "slave soldiers". With small favors and small favors, he recruited and instigated some slave soldiers who originally belonged to Ding Ling to Gongsun at almost no cost. On the other side, you don't even need any special skills, you just need to arrange slave soldiers who are willing to take refuge in Gongsun to work, and slave soldiers who refuse Gongsun's "good intentions" to fill the moat.

  As for Ding Lingren, few people felt this change. Especially the ordinary Dingling herdsmen, like most Han people, have no knowledge and do not know how to calculate. Sometimes there are ten less slaves out of a hundred, or a hundred slaves are drawn when they are transferred. , but in fact, only ninety-five were drawn, and it was impossible to calculate it...

  No way, in any society, illiteracy will always be the primary target of being deceived.

  So, Gongsun Du slowly pretended to be working, while attaching to Ding Lingren's body like a parasite, sucking blood, replenishing himself, and recovering his strength...

   As for helping Ding Ling to break the queen?

hehe…

  Changping City is in the north of Ji County.

  After the Ding Ling people withdrew their troops, they used the city as a barrier to stop Cao Jun's pursuit, and the "heavy task" of blocking was of course handed over to the bone capital Hou Gongsundu.

  The heavy rain is not as heavy as the previous two days, but it is still intermittent. At night, it was as dark as glue, and the dark clouds obscured the starlight at all.

  In order to confuse the opponent and prevent these slave soldiers from being confused, the Ding Ling people were withdrawn in batches. When Gongsundu confirmed that most of the Ding Ling people had left Changping, and only less than a thousand people were left in the city, responsible for monitoring himself and the slave army, his mind had already started to move.

  In and outside the city, the good places are of course lived by Dingling people, and the slave soldiers can only find a place to hide by themselves. It has been raining for the past few days. It is already a great blessing for these slave soldiers to have a hot meal a day, but there is still a limited amount to grab. If they don’t eat, they can only drink some cold water Even if the lives of these slave soldiers are as cheap as wild dogs, they can't bear it.

  On the Changping City Wall, the Ding Ling people on duty took a nap in a shelter from the wind and rain, let alone other people. In the wilderness, it was even more chilly. I don't know how many innocent souls will be added in these four fields at dawn.

  In a side courtyard in Changping City, Gongsundu lived, and it was not Gongsundu's staff who were in charge of security around the periphery, but Dingling people.

  Everything around is as quiet as if everything is dead.

  In the courtyard, Gongsundu, who was almost under house arrest, did not rest, but squatted in a dark corner like a cunning old fox, quietly waiting for an opportunity...

  In the night, the sound of horseshoes was suddenly heard from a distance.

The Ding Ling soldiers on the city wall of Changping couldn't help being shocked. They leaned on the battlements and looked towards the sound of horseshoes. They only saw a group of cavalry walking through the slanting wind in the darkness, holding their torches high. There were ups and downs in the middle, and it was splashed by sporadic raindrops, as if it was going to go out in the next moment.

  The slave soldiers outside the city were alarmed, and then this group of cavalry passed through the camp of the slave soldiers, causing bursts of exclamation...

  On the city wall of Changping, the small leader Ding Ling on duty was wrapped in a cloak and shouted towards the city: "Where did you come from?" what's going on? 』

  Below Changping City, a depressing and anxious voice came: "Cao Jun! Cao Jun is here! Catch up! 』

  Although he said that he was somewhat prepared in his heart, when he suddenly heard the news, the little boss Ding Ling still jumped suddenly, and then his face changed. Under the light of the fire, the cavalrymen who reported the news from the city could see that the horses were foaming. Not only were their fur soaked, but some of the horses were covered with blood, obviously after some battles...

  These scouts are of course Ding Lingren, and the Cao Jun that these Ding Ling people met is also the real Cao Jun. When Cao Hong discovered that the camps around Ji County looked like empty camps, Cao Hong naturally launched a tentative pursuit and made contact with the dingling scouts who stayed behind.

  For a while, Ding Lingren inevitably panicked.

   Not everyone is a keyboard warrior, thinking that they can face the air with a slap in the face, and from another perspective, all keyboard warriors are basically soft-footed chickens when facing reality.

The current leader Ding Ling, who was left to monitor and guard Gongsundu and the slave soldiers, knew that he had to defend himself. When he didn't hear that Cao Jun was chasing him, he felt that he was fine, no problem, but after getting the conclusive news, he held back his strength. After wandering around for several times, I didn't come up with a really "possible" move.

  It’s like a math problem. Those who have the corresponding knowledge can easily answer it, but those who don’t have this knowledge are like seeing a heavenly book...

In the head of Ding Ling, he didn't have the corresponding defensive knowledge, and he didn't know how to arrange the defense of the city at all. He just followed the order left by Ding Ling and monitored Gongsundu and the slave soldiers. As for other things, He has no concept, let alone any arrangement.

  So, the time that Gongsundu has been waiting for has finally arrived...

Gongsun Du's disguise can be said to be first-class, almost a dog-licking skill that has been practiced all his life, he can lick anyone comfortably, he can obey all the arrangements of Ding Lingren, and he can behave submissively in front of Ding Lingren , can be silent, and then obediently hand over the weapon, stay in the small courtyard without going out, it seems that under the supervision of Dingling people, eat, drink and sleep every day, it seems that there will be no complaints at all, and there will be no complaints. Unusual behavior.

  As the noise in the city outside the city gradually rose, Gongsun Du, who had been dozing off, opened his eyes in the darkness...

  A voice sounded from outside the courtyard: "Guduhou, my lord is here to welcome you!" 』

  Gongsun Du sneered in his heart while letting his hands go down to respond, "My lord, hehe, my lord...do you know what an adult is..."

  Although he said he was contemptuous in his heart, as soon as he turned out of the yard, Gongsun Du turned back into that old man who seemed to be too old to cause any harm.

  『Cao Jun moved quickly! This shows that Cao Jun's attack will come soon...we must immediately prepare for defense...』

Gongsun Du said it categorically and very seriously, but in fact Gongsun Du knew that the road that had been soaked just now would be a big trouble for both people and horses. Cao Jun would catch up, but it was not like he said It was so fast, as if it was about to pounce on the face in the next moment.

  『The manpower outside the city must be organized and fortifications must be arranged...The personnel inside the city must also be mobilized...』

  Gongsun Du gestured, and then talked to Boss Ding Ling one by one, just like a loyal housekeeper, arranging various matters for the master.

  『This matter is very important...』

  『That matter is also urgent...』

  『There must be someone here...』

  『There must be some people over there to watch...』

  Unknowingly, the small number of Ding Ling people in Changping City were divided into small groups, and the reasons were all very legitimate. Could it be said that Ding Ling people were not needed to supervise the work of slave soldiers? Could it be said that there is no need for a small number of people to be responsible for the security of the area?

  Following the instructions one by one, these small men were scattered, while the Gongsun soldiers gradually gathered together, regained their weapons, and stood on the city wall one after another...

   That's right, will the Ding Ling people defend the city? Will the slave soldiers know how to use the equipment used to defend the city? The Dingling people who didn't understand these methods were led by Gongsundu in a daze, and gradually lost their strategic points, and also lost their original control over the scene. , it seems that something is wrong...

  『What the hell... Guduhou! ’The leader of Ding Ling stretched out his hand and shouted, ‘Guduhou! Gudu Hou where are you going? 』

Gongsundu pretended not to hear, and after getting into his guard array, he slowly turned around, while signaling his subordinates to double-team the dozen or so people who only existed on the top of the city gate, while sneering , "Hehe, idiot... do it! 』

  (end of this chapter)