Three Kingdoms.

Chapter 3404 The farthest distance

When I arrived at the front line, I was actually still in a daze.

He didn't expect that even if he deliberately concealed his identity, he would be recognized by General Fei Qian so quickly!

Even though I had always been prepared for my identity to be exposed eventually, it was indeed too fast.

Is it because there are people around Qiusi who know him?

Or because...

Never could help but sigh.

He gave up his original surname just because his original surname had fallen into the dust. Even if he kept his original surname, it would not necessarily bring any benefits. On the contrary, it would increase many disadvantages. It would be better to remain anonymous.

This kind of behavior is very common among big men and very common. Therefore, "you can't change your name even if you sit down, you can't change your surname" were all highly publicized among the "heroes" and "rangers" after the household registration was strengthened. As for why they waited until that time to say this, most people don't dare to ask, even if they think of it, they don't dare to say it.

After arriving at the front line, it was of great help to Xu Chu and others. After all, Xu Chu and others were not familiar with the terrain here, and they were also unfamiliar with Heluo, Hedong. However, he went all the way from Heluo to Hedong, not only in the Anyi camp. He had stayed there and also spent some time in the Zhongtiao Mountain Camp, so after he arrived at the scene, he proposed a new plan.

At that time, Qin Shihuang built a Chi Road to connect the Northland, which is the main thoroughfare of Zhongtiao Mountain today. This galloping road is very wide, strong, and easier to walk. It can run horse-drawn carriages in parallel and carry heavy objects. It is the main road connecting Heluo and Hedong. Therefore, Cao Jun's main defense system is based on this channel. There are heavy troops stationed in it, and there are also various equipment and traps. It is difficult to succeed in a forced attack on this channel, and once the hussar soldiers are attacked by force, If too much strength is consumed in the Tiaoshan camp, the follow-up march to Shandong will inevitably be lost.

Moreover, last time the land of jujube was eaten by the coalition forces, not even half of it was left. If the Hussars wanted to cross Heluo and then enter Shandong, the supply line was the next serious issue they had to consider. Once the supply line is destroyed, even if the Hussars attack Shandong, they will inevitably face failure.

He came up with a strategy that neither Xu Chu nor Sima Yi had thought of.

Yu Ban said!

Perhaps this road is not as famous as Taihang Baxing, but it was a very important road in the Spring and Autumn Period, and in earlier ancient times.

Because there are salt ponds formed by ancient geological movements here in Yuncheng, in the early days when Chinese tribes thrived, the primitive natural formation and convenient collective fishing mode were compatible with the low productivity at that time. Although salt is important, it cannot be eaten as food, so people here began to form business contacts and began to go out of the mountains.

It is said that the source of the conflict between Yanhuang and Chiyou was because of salt.

Chi You occupied the salt pond and then increased the price without increasing the quantity, which gradually aroused the resentment of the surrounding tribes. The Huangdi tribe who came from the Weihe Plain expanded eastward along the Yellow River and occupied the Luohe Plain. After establishing their capital in Xinzheng, they united with the Yandi tribe to cross the Yellow River and cross the ancient road, and carried out the first recorded battle in Chinese history, the "Battle of Zhuolu" ”, defeated the Chiyou tribe and occupied the salt pond in the east of the river.

From this perspective, are Yanhuang the "invaders" or the "resisters"?

Later, there were some myths and legends, saying that Yan and Huang killed Chi You, and then Chi You's blood flowed into the salt pond, "the blood entered the pond to become brine."

So the marinade should actually be called "Chiyou blood"?

In the Zhongtiao Mountain in the southeast of the Yuncheng Basin, there is a low place with a thin mountain called "Boshan". The height difference between the mountain pass and the top of the mountain is also relatively low. Since ancient times, a line has been formed from Yanchi to Dahe Ferry, and then to Luohe River. Natural trails in the plains. After continuous excavation and construction during the reign of Emperor Yao of the Tang Dynasty, it eventually became a major commercial road, and Anyi also became the imperial capital of Yao, Shun, and Yu.

It is also the birthplace of Xia and Shang.

During the reign of Wu Ding, Fu Yue, China's first sage, invented the art of block building when he was building the Yuban Ancient Road in Yuyan, and it was reused by the Shang king, which led to the historical "Wu Ding Zhongxing". Later, because a large amount of salt from Hedong was transported southward and passed through the "Yu State", the ancients called the section from the north entrance of Zhongtiao Mountain to the Yellow River ferry the Yuban Salt Road.

Among the Yuban Road, the most important one is Suoyang Pass!

Suoyang Pass is the narrowest point of the ancient salt road of Yuban Road. It is an important military pass built on cliffs and deep ravines.

During the Spring and Autumn Period, Suoyang Pass was the dividing line between the Yu State and the Jin State. Later, Duke Xian of Jin used the Yuban Road to conquer the Guo State and destroyed the Yu State, leaving behind idioms such as "fake Yu to attack Guo". But what he has always suggested today is to raid Suoyang Pass and march to the Yuban Road!

If this strategy is successful, once they break through Suoyang Pass, they can move to Heluo and even have a chance to directly block Cao Cao on Zhongtiao Mountain!

Even if this strategy fails, it can pull back Cao Jun and force Cao Jun to divide his troops to garrison Suoyang Pass, thereby weakening the strength of Cao Jun's camp in Zhongtiao Mountain and laying the foundation for Fei Qian's frontal attack on Zhongtiao Mountain camp in the next stage!

This strategy has always been about taking risks and going off the beaten path.

This may be related to the fact that I have always been wandering.

Obviously, the key to this strategy is to occupy Suoyang Pass.

After occupying Suoyang Pass on Yuban Road, even if Heluo was not conquered, he could still return to the east of Hedong to continue fighting with Cao's army. In this way, the risk will not be very great, nor will it cause too much damage, and more importantly, Cao's army can be mobilized!

Even if they don't take any action after taking the Suoyang Pass, Cao Jun will have to be led by the nose. Not only will there be an extra window to attack Cao Jun, but he may even directly threaten Cao Jun's rear chrysanthemum.

Xu Chu said directly that this strategy was good, but the risk was too high.

But there is always a reason.

He always said that the purpose of attacking Cao Cao was for Cao Cao? After defeating Cao Cao, what next?

Such a simple question made both Xu Chu and Sima Yi think deeply.

Cao Cao is not the end, the world may be regarded as a temporary end. If the Hussars want to conquer the world in the end, isn't Heluo, which is located in the world, not important? Can occupying the land of Heluo be regarded as gaining Heluo? So, will Cao Jun give up the land of Heluo easily?

It has always been said categorically, "The Cao thieves must be relocating the people of Heluo!" 』

The defeat of Cao's army will happen sooner or later, but the people of Heluo are bearing the consequences sooner or later...

Before Dong Zhuo, Heluo was the capital of the world and the most prosperous area in the Han Dynasty. But now, after experiencing several catastrophes, it has been reduced to a street stall, and anyone can take advantage of it.

Sending troops to Suoyang Pass at Yuban Road can at least give the people of Heluo some hope. If the Husband takes over Heluo in the future, the people of Heluo will more or less inherit this friendship.

Moreover, although Yu Bandao is said to be an eccentric swordsman, he is also very powerful. If we really get the Yuban Road, even if we don't besiege Cao Cao, we can quickly send the cavalry through the Yuban Road to the Heluo battlefield, and we can also fight all the way to Yanzhou and Yuzhou. I wonder if the people in Shandong are afraid? !

At that time, even if Cao Cao is in Zhongtiao Mountain or retreats to the Tongguan camp, he will be like duckweed without roots. No matter how many soldiers he has, how can he defend it?

Sima Yi listened all the time and made some comments before he was halfway through. When he finished speaking, Xu Chu even felt a little moved by what he heard, and then he slowly said: "Cong Xiaowei... So your surname is not Cong, right?" Heluo people? 』

Zeng Jing was stunned for a moment, then nodded and said, "To be honest with you three, I am from Heluo." What's your original surname...don't mention it. 』

Sima Yi nodded, "In that case, we might as well attack in three directions." 』

"Three ways?" ” Xu Chu asked, “How did we get so many people?” 』

Sima Yi smiled and said, "I will return to Puban immediately and lead the original troops to the east with Hao Bodao." General Xu and Lieutenant Li will remain in the middle route. They only need to divide some troops and horses, and let the captain lead the partial army into Yuban Road as the west route. The number of soldiers is not a matter of quantity, but of reality. If the emptiness can be broken, it will turn the emptiness into reality! Three days later, beacon fire was used as the signal, and we attacked together! 』

Xu Chu frowned and thought for a moment, then nodded and said, "That's it!" 』

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Youzhou.

Yanshan battlefield.

Because of Huang Si's on-the-spot escape, the originally planned second line of defense collapsed. Zhang He quickly led his troops to occupy the two counties of Qixi and Guangping, and stopped for a while to make some adjustments and contact Zhao Yun's headquarters.

Of course, if Zhang He desperately pursues him at this time, he can catch up with the fleeing Cao Chun and kill or capture him before entering Yuyang City, which will greatly speed up the process of the Youzhou battle.

It's a pity that Zhang He didn't have the eyes of God, nor the keyboard and claws of a keyboard warrior, so he chose a safer way to consolidate the route he had obtained and wait for the follow-up.

Zhao Yun led most of the Chinese army through the Gubeikou Mountain Road of Yanshan Mountain, gathered with Zhang He's troops, advanced to the foot of Yuyang City, and launched an attack on Yuyang.

In the entire Youzhou, there were only three key points where Cao's army was stationed, Yuyang, Jixian, and Yijing.

Although Gongsun had been destroyed in the Liaodong area, Cao Jun only sent a few troops to guard and declare sovereignty, and there were not many men. Yuyang and Jixian can be regarded as the focus of the entire Youzhou, while Yijing is relatively remote. As a support and reserve force, it also shoulders the responsibility of transporting grain and grass from Jizhou to Youzhou and transferring baggage.

After Cao Chun's attempt to march into the desert failed last year, he used the whole winter to strengthen the defenses in Youzhou. Especially in Yuyang, many heavy-duty defense equipment were deployed and a large amount of food, grass and baggage were stored. This also created certain favorable conditions for Cao Chun to stick to Yuyang City.

Zhao Yun launched several tentative attacks, but due to Yuyang's well-prepared defense and a large number of heavy defensive equipment, he lost some men and horses, so he could only temporarily stop the attack and besiege the city to wait for a turn.

Zhao Yun himself led an army of 10,000 to block Yuyang, and sent Zhang He with 5,000 cavalry to operate outside Yuyang City.

In this way, Zhao Yun divided the army into two parts. One part went from Yuyang through Qianxi and Guangping to the Gubeikou area to ensure the safety of the army's food routes and back roads; the other part was led by Zhang He , reduce to Ling, with a team of hundreds of cavalry, appeared day and night in the hills and fields between Yuyang and Jixian. They frequently attacked Cao Jun's grain transport team and the camps set up by Cao Jun. This made Cao Jun's soldiers fearful, exhausted, and their morale became increasingly low.

At the same time, the troops near Yuyang were not idle. They were catching the tail of autumn, cutting down trees, building siege equipment, pounding rocks, and making stone bullets.

Cao Chun in Yuyang City also saw Zhao Yun's move to build a catapult.

Some people suggested sending troops to destroy the place where Zhao Yun made catapults and delay the progress of Zhao Yun's siege equipment. Cao Chun was a little tempted at first, but seeing that Zhao Yun's cavalry was always on standby on the battlefield, he finally gave up the idea. idea.

Organizing a death squad can be done once or twice, but it cannot be done over and over again.

An army without faith cannot even organize a death squad, and can only indulge in **** in movies and TV shows.

Of course Cao Chun could organize a suicide squad charge and carry kerosene for a suicidal attack, but by destroying Zhao Yun's construction site for manufacturing siege equipment, could he change the entire course of the battle?

Obviously impossible.

In the midst of hesitation and hesitation, Cao Jun watched Zhao Yun set up a catapult position under Yuyang City...

When Zhao Yun's catapults were erected at the foot of Yuyang City, Cao Chuncai suddenly discovered that these catapults seemed to be one size larger? !

There are not many catapults under the city, but they are arranged neatly. Especially compared with the catapults on the top of Yuyang City, they seem to be more "robust"...

Sorry, Cao Chun doesn't understand what diameter is, nor what a sling is, let alone understands the principle of leverage, but just look at this...

Cao Chun looked at the bottom of the city, and then turned to look at the top of the city. He felt like his own little witch had met a big witch!

Far below the city, in addition to some horses, you can also see some cavalry who temporarily formed a few war horses into carriages, driving and dragging the baggage carts to transport stone bullets.

War horses have a bad temper and don't like to do such heavy and hard work, so the cavalry master needs to be coaxed and sweetened from time to time. Even so, it is only temporary. The main force of transportation is some long-haired horses brought by Zhao Yun from northern Xinjiang. They are working hard and dragging them hard without being sweet.

However, these horses are also responsible for transporting materials back and forth from outside Gubeikou. The transportation capacity is currently insufficient, so Zhao Yun mobilized some war horses to expedite the transportation capacity and ensure the transportation of stone bullets.

"Where's our stone cannon?" Cao Chun shouted, "Smash them!" 』

The leader in charge of the catapult on the side lowered his head, "General, this... this is too far and cannot be hit..."

"Can't hit it?" ” Cao Chun was a little dazed, and even gestured, “What do you mean? We are on top of the city, but if we go down... we still can’t hit it? 』

The leader looked sad and pointed at the remains of some stone bullets under the city, "General, look, those are the stone bullets we threw out two days ago... The furthest ones are over there... And there they are..."

"What? ” Cao Chun stared wide-eyed, “Why? Could it be that Zhao Zilong attacked just to know our range? ! No, no! Since we can't hit these stone cannons, then these stone cannons can't hit us either! Right? 』

The leader was still crying, silent, and didn't answer.

In fact, at the beginning, when he first saw the prototype of Zhao Yun's construction, he knew that the situation was not good. He suggested to Cao Chun to raid Zhao Yun's construction workshop, but unfortunately Cao Chun felt that it was unnecessary. But he can't say that Cao Jun's stone cannons and catapults are of inferior quality...

After all, Cao Jun's standardization process could not be achieved in one day. Therefore, during the manufacturing process of Cao Jun's catapult, the parts were slightly different here and that part was slightly different. Naturally, the differences were quite a bit different at the end of the assembly.

Cao Chun was still about to say something when he suddenly heard trumpets blasting and golden drums blasting outside the city. It was like a violent hurricane passing through Yuyang City, shaking the earth and the earth.

"They're going to throw stones!" 』

"Get out of the way!" 』

The warning golden gong seemed to tremble.

The sound of war drums and horns outside the city became more and more fierce, as if they were about to burst open the Yuyang City Gate.

Yuyang City shuddered in the torrent of sound and groaned in the impact.

The sound of the drums became more intense, like a mountain falling apart.

With the sound of war drums, stone bullets rose into the air, and the sharp sound of rubbing the air sounded like a mockery of Yuyang City.

These stone bullets rushed into the sky, and then slowly rose to the highest level under the eyes of everyone, becoming a small black dot. Then they fell from the sky like thunder and hit Yuyang hard. city!

"boom! 』

"boom! boom! 』

All the meteors crashed into Yuyang City.

The walls of Yuyang City trembled and shook at this moment, like a wounded beast, letting out a shrill howl.

The gate tower at the top of Yuyang City bore the brunt and suffered a devastating blow.

The stone bullets falling from the sky carried huge kinetic and potential energy, easily penetrated the roof of the city gate tower, and destroyed the beams and columns. Soon the city gate tower was creaking and creaking amid bricks, wood, and gravel flying all over the sky. Screaming, and finally collapsed.

In Yuyang City, the temporarily installed horse face cannot withstand the attack of stone bullets because of its weak supporting points and insufficient thickness. As long as it is hit by three or two rounds, it will shake and then interact with the next stone bullet. The bullets fell together under the city.

The tools, items, and shacks stacked on top of the city were all made of wood, so they were basically vulnerable. As long as they were hit by stone bullets, they would basically break apart, fly around, and turn into scattered wood.

The only thing that can hold on is the city wall of Yuyang.

However, even though Cao Chun repaired many of the war-torn outer walls, the structure is no longer complete. Under the bombardment of stone bullets, large chunks of the blue bricks of many outer walls collapsed and fell off, exposing the The rammed earth layer that cuts through the core is like a gaping wound.

As a position that has been responsible for resisting foreign invasion from the north since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Yuyang's city wall is almost the pinnacle work of this era. The rammed earth is strong and the stones are neat. Even after experiencing wind, frost, rain, snow, and war, this Yuyang's city wall is still the pinnacle of this era. city ​​wall It is still protecting all the creatures within the city walls as much as possible, just like a mother instinctively protecting her child with her arms, no matter whether the child is well-behaved or naughty, stupid or smart, even if it is scarred and dripping with blood.

"Counterattack!" ” Cao Chun hid under the battlements of the city wall and grabbed the leader of the catapult, “We need to fight back! Did you hear that? ! Fight back no matter what! Otherwise I'll chop off your head first! 』

The leader cried sadly, "General!" I, I... maybe I can throw it farther if I change to a lighter stone bullet..."

"Then go quickly!" ” Cao Chun yelled.

While the catapult outside the city was loading the second round of stone bombs, the leader scurried away with his head in his hands.

Cao Chun was lying on the edge of the battlement, half of his head exposed, looking at the busy hussars in the distance outside the city, feeling chills in his heart...