Weird Three Kingdoms

Chapter 3348: Mule and Donkey

Soldiers only eat food and grass, but they cannot directly produce food and grass. As civil servants, they cannot produce food and grass themselves, but they have the right to allocate and transport food and grass.

Or maybe it’s not called a right at all, but a responsibility.

But there are some people who turn this responsibility into their own right.

When a transport team arrives at the transit station, the inventory, loading and unloading, transfer, or distribution all need to be handled by clerks. Registration and allocation must be done, and naturally they all need to be registered and filed and recorded.

And in this process, it will be very interesting to see who comes first and who comes later.

Chai Yu's transport team from Shandong finally arrived in Shan County.

This is the closest transit station to Tongguan.

There are many vehicles and people.

According to regulations, the pipes need to be cleaned of cow and horse manure every day, but now the pipes are full of trampled, dry or wet...

According to regulations, when vehicles and horses arrive, they must be loaded and unloaded immediately and dispatched as soon as possible, but there are already at least three transport teams stuck here...

Regulations are regulations, reality is reality.

Ever since Cao Xiu left Shan County and went to Hedong, monkeys have basically been the only ones who claim to be the king in Shan County.

Is the military situation urgent?

  Is military ration important?

But what does that have to do with the clerks here?

It's not like they are going to the battlefield.

  Originally, Cao Xiu was still here, and there were people watching over him, so he was naturally very diligent and did not dare to slack off. Now that Cao Xiu was gone, there was no one in charge, so if he didn't take the opportunity to do something, he would be wasting his life!

Corruption?

  That doesn't exist at all!

Eating a little, drinking a little, playing a little, and collecting a little, can it be called corruption?

That’s called a balance between work and rest!

As a result, Chai Yu and others were stuck in Shan County, unable to advance or retreat.

If the food and supplies cannot be transported to the Tongguan camp, it cannot be considered that the mission is completed. Without the review and stamp of the Shan County transit camp, even if Chai Yu and others transported the supplies to Tongguan, it would not be in compliance with the procedures. Not only will they lose the credit, but they will also be investigated.

  what?

Is there something wrong with the Shan County transit camp?

What's the problem?

I do not know how?

Won't you report it?

Hit 12...

Uh, write a letter to the Shangshu Tai!

The fat clerk in brocade uniform who was in charge of the transport team was so anxious that bubbles came out of his mouth, but he still had no good solution.

The gift was given, but the other party thought it was too little.

  Normally, if you think it’s too little, don’t accept it!

But the clerk at the transfer camp smiled and said that he was grateful for the fat clerk's subsidy, and if he didn't want to give it, he shouldn't force it...

"Dry! 』

The fat clerk in brocade clothes had lost weight. He wiped his sweat, but he didn't dare to curse loudly. He could only complain secretly in front of Chai Yu, "Follow the procedures again, procedures! If it's really according to the procedures, it's fine. I went to the camp today, guess what? There was a big tent with six tables inside, all for registration... Guess, how many people came to the six tables? "

"How many?" Chai Yu asked directly without guessing.

"One!" The fat clerk raised a finger, "Just one! There are six desks! Only one! And he's late! He was still touching the ink here and the pen there, and he hadn't sat down for a quarter of an hour when he got up to go to the bathroom again! Shit!"

"…" Chai Yu listened and remained silent.

"Hey! Why don't you speak?" the fat clerk asked.

"What?" Chai Yu said, "Isn't this... very normal in Shandong? You persuaded me before..."

"Huh?!" The fat clerk was suddenly stunned, "That's different!"

"What's the difference? The previous incident was about me, and the current incident is about you. Is this the difference?" Chai Yu said slowly.

"Shit! No! Hey! Same! Same, same!" The fat clerk waved his hands and walked around twice, "But we are at war now! War!"

"What's the difference?" Chai Yu snorted, "It's not like they're going to the war. They... won't go to the war... If they really get beaten, they'll just kneel on the ground and that'll be it..."

"…" The fat clerk was stunned for a moment, silent for a while, and angrily spat out one word, "Fuck!"

Then he sat next to Chai Yu and started to daze.

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Zhongtiao Mountain Camp.

Lü Chang opened his red eyes and looked at the urgent document sent from the front line. He couldn't help scratching his head, "Why is the transport team not here? How do I know what's going on?!"

Originally, these things were done by Guo Jia.

But now only Lu Changzai can act as the agent.

You don’t know until you try it. You’ll be surprised when you do it.

This thing is really too complicated!

Now, Anyi Camp has issued another document to urge the transport team, which should have arrived, to arrive, why it has not arrived yet.

  God knows why he didn’t come!

Of course, it was impossible for Lu Chang to reply to Anyi Camp just like that. He could only immediately send someone to forward the letter and send it to Tongguan Camp.

Anyway, it's just a matter of following the process. Since the higher-ups asked me about this, I'll just pass it on...

This is not really Lü Chang shirking responsibility, but Lü Chang is really not good at these things. Just looking at these rows of documents every day makes his head swell three times. If he is asked to go to the battlefield, he will rush forward without saying a word, but it is really painful for him to read the documents for a whole day, which is more tiring than going to the battlefield.

  The key point is that Cao Cao kept the news of Guo Jia's death secret. Lu Chang could understand this. After all, in order to stabilize the morale of the army, many things could not be known to the people below. This was also the normal operation of Shandong. However, in this way, other places did not know that Guo Jia was dead, and all kinds of written information that were originally to be reported or copied to Guo Jia came in like a stream!

Lu Chang had to take the lead!

Otherwise, the whole line will be paralyzed...

To put it simply, Guo Jia originally had a Kirin 9000 with 16G memory, and multi-threaded programs ran quite smoothly. But when it was replaced with Lv Chang, it was probably a Kirin 970 with 4G memory. It was not completely unable to run, but as soon as it started running, it immediately became hot and dropped frames, and the battery capacity dropped drastically...

  (What? Send me money!)

One day, when Lu Chang was struggling in the sea of ​​books and literature, he suddenly heard a soldier report that Dong Zhao had arrived. He was overjoyed, as if he had grabbed a life-saving straw. He ran out of the tent and went straight to the camp gate to meet him.

"Meet the military advisor!"

Lu Chang bowed deeply and looked at Dong Zhao's face, feeling that he was so kind.

I have been looking forward to it for a long time, and finally a multi-core and multi-threaded system has arrived...

"Greetings, General Lu."

Dong Zhao returned the greeting indifferently.

The two men greeted each other and entered the tent.

Dong Zhao saw the pile of documents in the tent at a glance and stopped in his tracks.

"This..." Lu Chang didn't know what to say for a moment, "This...ah ha, this...military advisor...how about, military advisor, take a rest first..."

"..." Dong Zhao was silent, neither saying yes nor no. He walked forward slowly and stood in front of the piled-up manuscript desk for a while, his eyes revealing some difficult-to-distinguish emotions.

"Feng Xiao...was originally sitting here?" Dong Zhao said softly.

"Yes, yes... Military Advisor, how about we ask someone to sort it out?" Lu Chang replied quickly.

Dong Zhao shook his head and sat down on the table beside him. "I'll be fine here... just ask a few clerks to help... General, you can do whatever you want. Oh, by the way, why hasn't the transport team arrived yet?"

"This!" Lu Chang's eyes widened. "I don't know either. I sent someone to Tongguan to urge them..."

"Ordinary soldiers alone will not do," Dong Zhao said, "Send your guards, general, and take your banner!"

Lu Chang was stunned for a moment, then nodded, "I'll follow the military advisor's orders!"

Dong Zhao also nodded, and immediately began to deal with the documents.

Lu Chang was scratching his head. After all, the seat Dong Zhao was sitting in was his...

  But what exactly does this transport team have?

Is it worth urging again and again?

Could it be that the food supply at the front line has become so tight?

But didn’t we just send a team of food and fodder over there a few days ago?

Lu Chang frowned, somewhat confused.

Unable to figure it out, Lu Chang stopped thinking about it. After all, now that he had handed all the documents to Dong Zhao, Lu Chang felt very relaxed. He was ready to take a good rest and stretch his muscles...

"This...ah, military advisor," Lu Chang rubbed his hands, "if you don't have any other instructions..."

"Wait a minute." Dong Zhao didn't even raise his head. "There is one more matter that I need the general to handle."

Is there really something going on? What Lu Chang just said was just a polite remark, but he didn't expect Dong Zhao to really have something going on.

"Military Advisor, please give me your instructions," Lu Chang said, cupping his hands.

"I dare not give orders," Dong Zhao said, "but I saw some people from Hedong staying outside the camp..."

"Oh, those people from Hedong said they want to move to Shandong," Lu Chang nodded and said, "but how can people easily enter and exit this important military camp? They want to let these people from Hedong stay temporarily in the defense area outside the camp until after the war..."

"No need to wait, arrange soldiers to send him away immediately. All people from Hedong need to travel light, and no one can carry more than 20 kilograms of items," Dong Zhao said, "There will be more people from Hedong coming later, and they will all be treated in the same way..."

"Twenty pounds?" Lu Chang was stunned for a moment, "If..."

"If it exceeds the quota, then you can't go." Dong Zhao threw the processed document aside, and then picked up a new volume, "Gather a group, send a group away, if you don't want to go... then you don't have to go."

"Hiss..." Lu Chang took a breath, "The military advisor's intention is..."

"The lord needs loyal people, not those who are greedy for money and stubborn." Dong Zhao wrote on the paper, "Twenty jin. If you want to bring gold and silver jewelry, you can. If you want to bring dry food and water, you can also bring it. Anyway, the limit is twenty jin."

In fact, whether you bring money or dry food, the result is the same.

As the saying goes, what you bring into this world you cannot take out.

For those who are not free and easy, the ruling class will naturally help them to be free.

"Then the mules, donkeys and vehicles of these people in Hedong..." asked Lu Chang.

Dong Zhao nodded, "We can handle it for them despite our difficulties."

Lu Chang responded, "If that's the case... Okay, I understand. I'll take care of it."

Most of those staying outside the camp are ordinary people from Hedong.

Those who have the means will not ride on mule carts or donkey carts...

Just like the experts who formulate rules and regulations will definitely not ride on a donkey.

Let the ruling class, who will never ride a donkey in their life, study and formulate a donkey riding law...

So, selling it is legal, buying it is not illegal, but riding it is illegal.

Experts say that it can be mounted on the wall for display, or provided with the convenience of free recycling.

Anyway, the difficulties faced by the ruling class will never be in ordinary daily life...

Dong Zhao nodded again and said nothing more.

Lu Chang walked out of the big tent.

Although it was sunny outside the big tent and the temperature was not low, for some reason, Lu Chang felt a little cold.

……

……

Lu Chang was not the only one who couldn't figure it out.

Fei Qian also couldn't figure it out.

The latest intelligence was sent to Fei Qian. The craftsmen in the military camp quickly revised a huge sand table based on the original topographic map of Hedong and the military reports continuously sent by Xu Chu, and marked the position of Cao's army on it.

Around the miniature Anyi city, the huge coalition of Cao’s troops turned Anyi City, the seat of Hedong, which was not small at all, into a complete foil.

"Cao's army, have you turned this place into a huge fortification?"

Fei Qian looked at the sand table and frowned.

On the sand table, flags representing Cao's troops appeared, densely scattered across the huge camp. At the camp gates in the four directions of southeast, northwest, and northeast, there were various sentry towers, lookout towers, shooting platforms, and the catapults behind the camp wall that Xu Chu had specially noted before...

It's like a giant hedgehog.

Ever since the march to Linfen, Fei Qian has been wondering why Cao Cao had such confidence and why he still persisted even in the current situation.

At first, Fei Qian thought Cao Cao was "gambling" or wanted to win in a chaotic battle, just like the confrontation between Cao Cao and Yuan Shao, but later Fei Qian denied this idea...

That’s right, Cao Cao’s behavior now looks like that of a “madman”.

But is Cao Cao really a madman?

Obviously not.

Well, since Cao Cao was not a madman, there must be reasons behind his actions.

When Xu Chu and Cao Hong were fighting, this was reflected in the battle report. Now when Fei Qian saw the sand table model of Cao Cao's camp, as it gradually became clearer, the feeling that something was wrong became stronger.

This is a huge camp.

Moreover, the big camp contained small camps, and the outer wall surrounded the inner ditch.

There are visible sentries and fortifications, as well as some secret passages and traps that have not been seen until now.

The situation inside the camp that Bao Zhong's confidant told him was also some of the situation around Bao's location. The layout of other camps, especially the camps of the Central Cao Army's Central Guard Army, was completely confusing. The leader Cao Zhao had been on Gufeng Mountain all the time, so he naturally knew nothing about the situation inside the camp.

Therefore, the only ones who know the situation in Cao Jun’s Zhongyang Camp are the core elites of the Central Commander and Central Guard…

But it is quite difficult to catch these people.

On the one hand, these elite Cao troops would not be dispatched easily. Once dispatched, it would inevitably be a bloody battle, and it would be difficult to capture some alive intentionally. On the other hand, the loyalty of the leaders and guards in the Cao army was stronger than that of Bao Zhong and others, because these people's families were almost closely linked to the Cao and Xiahou families, and it was difficult for them to rebel.

From this perspective, Cao Zhao's reason for surrendering is even less reliable than Xiahou Shang's...

Let’s put these questions aside for now and just look at the Cao army camp in front of us.

It has to be said that this Cao army camp can be regarded as a concentrated display of Shandong’s military strength.

Especially in terms of city defense, well, that's true. Even the city defense of Anyi is nothing compared to Cao's army camp.

Originally, the earthen plateau outside the city had no strategic location to defend, but Cao Cao had completely changed this situation by building gullies between the earthen plateaus, large and small camps, internal and external fortifications and sentry towers, turning the entire camp into a huge military fortress. If Fei Qian wanted to break through a point and then drive Cao's soldiers like sheep like he drove the camp down the slope, and then achieve a comprehensive victory, then he was basically dreaming.

The camp-within-camp model ensures that even if one or two outer camps are destroyed, the inner camps remain intact. Moreover, the suspension bridge on the plateau can be used at any time to quickly transfer troops or cut off Fei Qian's route of advance.

"This is a formation..."

Fei Qian couldn't help but sigh.

Fei Qian had always believed that the so-called Six Ding and Six Jia Formation, the Seven Star Big Dipper Formation, and the Eight Gates Golden Lock Formation were all the fantasies of literati and poets. But now, after seeing the layout of Cao Cao's camp, he found that he might have some misunderstandings about those literati and poets. After all, faced with such a complex military formation, these literati and poets who only had some superficial military knowledge really found it difficult to accurately describe the essence and changes of the entire military formation. They could only use some mysterious and specious nouns to express their emotions and helpless descriptions.

"Cao's army knows we have artillery, so they have to turn when entering and leaving the camp..." Fei Qian pointed to the entrance of the sand table camp, "Look here, there is a dirt plateau, like a protruding horse face on the city wall. If we station a group of archers... within a hundred steps, there is no place to hide."

There is no problem with the current artillery bombarding the wall of the camp, but trying to flatten a plateau...

Then I can only laugh.

Xun Chen stepped forward and pointed at the Cao army camp, which was already showing its ferocious appearance. He said, "There is a trench here. Usually, there are steps inside, so it is unknown what is under the trench... But if it is here..."

Xun Chen pointed in another direction, "This is the upper entrance... If we arrange for soldiers to enter the trench here, we can appear here... Or we can leave the soldiers alone and pour kerosene at the upper entrance, and the kerosene will flow down along the trench and split the troops entering the camp into two..."

It is easy to break down the camp gate, but what about after entering the camp?

Fei Qian nodded slightly.

The danger in Cao’s army camp is definitely not limited to the area at the entrance to the camp.

"Shandong... there are still too many people..."

Fei Qian suddenly said with some emotion.

Xun Chen was silent for a moment, and added, "Perhaps there are also people from Heluo and Hedong..."

Fei Qian nodded.

When it comes to the ability to transform the earth, ordinary Chinese people are undoubtedly among the best.

Obviously, Cao Cao used a large number of civilians to build such a fortress-like military camp, and then sent all of these civilians to die...

  "deliver"?

Fei Qian frowned slightly.