Reborn in the late Northern Wei Dynasty

Chapter 169

Don't look at Gao Cheng who often looks like a wronged little daughter-in-law in front of Gao Huan, but in front of outsiders, he looks quite different.

Under one person, above ten thousand people, that is how he is described.

At this time, Gao Cheng's frowned and cold words fell into Dou Tai's eyes, which really made him uneasy.

This sentence is too serious, he, Dou Tai, is a loyal minister who is ready to go through fire and water for generations of the Gao family, so how could he put Xiao Gao Wang in danger.

"Tai is not very alarmed by the general's words. If there is any offense, I ask the general to forgive me."

Gao Cheng didn't really think that Dou Tai wanted to kill him, after all, he was his own uncle, so his position was very stable.

He was just annoyed by Dou Tai's constant urging in his ear.

Gao Cheng said a few words of comfort before explaining to Dou Tai:

"Yu Wentai saw through my plot to set up an ambush in Hengnong, so he planned to use the plan. If our army moves, the Western army will surely retreat and lead me to chase. I am afraid that he has already laid an ambush and waited for me to step into the trap."

Dou Tai still didn't understand why Gao Cheng concluded that Yu Wentai set up an ambush, he wondered:
"How did the general know that Yu Wentai had ambushes?"

"Yu Wentai ventured out of customs, it must be caused by lack of food and anxiety."

Gao Cheng pointed to the Western Wei army outside Hengnong City and continued to explain:

"But look at the soldiers of the Western Army. They took a lot of leisure time while marching, and they were calm and unhurried when they were preparing for battle outside the city. This slow-moving appearance looks like someone who is in a hurry to attack the city to get food?"

In history, Yuwentai's eagerness to attack Hengnong in the rain was too stark, which made Gao Cheng lose his guess.

Attacking the city in the rain is definitely as complicated as it sounds. Before the Battle of Hanling, Hu Sichun occupied Beizhong City to rebel, blocking Erzhu Dulu's return to Luoyang.

Thanks to Erzhu Dulu's undercover performance on the battlefield of Hanling, the Henan Army under his command, except for a few rebel generals, has a fairly well-organized army, and Erzhu Tianguang has not led the Guanzhong army to help out.

But it was precisely because of the light rain that the soldiers had the ability to draw their bows. The small armies of Luoyang and Guanzhong attacked the upper city and collapsed on the way to continue their westward retreat. Erzhu Dulu and Erzhu Tianguang were also easily defeated by Husi Chun captured.

In particular, it is forced to slow down, and many things will happen without taking the rain to attack the city. Apart from its own difficulty, it has nothing to do with the level of ancient medical treatment:
Prevent soldiers from being infected with wind and cold in a small area.

Wind-cold was a disease that had to be treated casually in ancient times.

From Gao Cheng's point of view, after all, his acting skills are still a bit worse.

It's the high-season style, but the group of bait.

If we really care about life and death and bravely attack the city, we will be fooled if we say that we are Dingaocheng.

But the problem is that the purpose of that group of people is to lure Gao Cheng to chase me and lead me into an ambush circle.

If he really desperately attacked the city, he would be swallowed by Gao Cheng in Hengnong City.

When Gao Cheng attacked Tongguan, it was only an abnormal siege. In the face of Gao Ji's attack, he could only abandon all the siege troops, and let us be eaten away by the infantry ambushed in Tongguan.

Gao Jishi dared to create a slow attack scene to deceive Gao Cheng. After all, even I knew that when I went out to look for food in another time and space, I was too slow to attack weakly.

Hou Qing was also vague about the contrast between Gao Jishi's two raids on Hengnong, and at the same time he was slow to avenge his humiliation at Hengnong. Then he slowly challenged Gao Cheng when he saw Hou Qinghong's banner arrive at Hengnong City.

At this time, after listening to Gao Cheng explaining my doubts to me, I finally found out the doubts.

As Gao Cheng said, the pawns of the Western Wei Dynasty were moving too fast, and we were briskly preparing for the siege, feeling a sense of urgency.

Without that preoccupation, looking at the Western Wei Dynasty who only sent a large number of troops to attack the city tentatively, Gao Cheng and Gao Cheng had no doubts.

In the final analysis, there is still a huge disparity in the family backgrounds of the two parties, and they happily give away their heads for several successive waves.

Gao Jishi dared to put those [-] pawns to death, betting that Gao Cheng would continue to pursue them.

Although those infantry were used as bait, they were already ready to flee.

Without that kind of preparation, the siege also seemed perfunctory.

Low Cheng suddenly sneered and said:
"That man Gao Jishi is so arrogant, he has to use the cavalry as bait and send some pawns to dangle behind your eyes."

Although attacking the city with infantry is indeed the right way, it is upright and upright, but it is not meant to be ridiculed.

Gao Aocao beside him suddenly interjected:
"Little general, since Gao Jishi has set the bait for you, how about if you only take one bite, it's just biting the hook?"

Gao Cheng glanced sideways when he heard the words:

What a big boy, he actually has the idea of ​​whoring Gao Ji for nothing.

Gao Cheng was also unmoved.

However, Gao Cheng pondered.

I do know how many people Gao Jishi brought out.

In addition, we must also guard against another possibility: Gao Jishi let the 1 people hold my army in the city, and the rest of the troops pressed down to encircle and wipe out Gaocheng.

That was also how I intimidated Gao Jishi in the Battle of Tongguan.

This time Gao Jishi was frightened by Gao Cheng, but that time, Gao Jishi dared to act rashly.

Thinking of this, Di Cheng was secretly annoyed, why Gao Ji Shi could be a little stupid and learn from Di Huan.

Gao Huan is a stupid person, but Dongxi Wei Xiaozhan is as if he has been in the halo of Jiangzhi, and his tricks are repeated.

With a long sigh, Di Cheng told Gao Cheng and Hou Qinghong about his doubts.

The two also gave up their plan to continue persuading Gao Cheng to swallow the bait.

That time, if you bring Di Aocao, Duan Shao, Hu Luguang, Yaoxiong, and Murong Shaozong together, Di Cheng would really dare to try to swallow that bait.

After all, there are 2 Gyeonggi soldiers, [-] personal guards, [-] troops under Gaocheng, and [-] defenders from Hengnong, and there is no real number of [-] small troops in total.

But the reality is that the 7000 troops of Dugu Yongye and the [-] defenders of Hengnong are counted as the defenders of the city.

Di Cheng only had Gao Cheng's 4000 cavalry, Gao Aocao's [-] Han troops, and his own [-] Dou Tai Xianbei and [-] personal guards, a total of [-] people.

Hou Jing was ordered to be the main general of the southern front and had not changed defenses with Di Aocao. Di Aocao went to Jingzhou to defend Nanliang, and Hou Jing went to Guangzhou to prepare for the war.

Yaoxiong was able to withdraw from Baigoudui, an important town in Huaibei where he was stationed in Xinde.

As for Hu Luguang, Duan Shao, Murong Shaozong and other ministries, Low Cheng was worried about arousing Gao Jishi's vigilance, so he also did not mobilize.

In my opinion, if Hou Qinghong is planning to delay the attack on Hengnong, the 4000 people who merged with Hou Qing are not enough.

But now the situation has changed slightly, Gao Jishi was fooled, and instead cast 4000 pawns as bait, so the [-] people that Gao Cheng had on hand were enough to see.

Gao Cheng and Gao Aocao were not at all depressed. They were looking forward to Hou Qinghong's coming to Hengnong day and night.

But Gao Cheng laughed:

"General Dou, Commander Gao, today I have seen through Gao Ji's schemes, and I have been in vain. Why should he be discouraged? You need to know that the small army will not be wasted. Now is the most difficult time for Hou Qinghong."

The two of them thought about it, and they were right.

The expedition to the Kanto was in vain, which made Gao Ji Shishi's family worse.

Although the consumption of our Kwantung small army is less than that of the Kansai, the family background is the same after all.

After several years of governance that focused on agriculture, with persuasion in agriculture as the main criterion for evaluating the performance of state and county officials, today's Kanto can be said to be empty.

"Is it possible for you to just watch Gao Ji's play here?"

Hou Qinghong asked suddenly.

Gao Cheng wanted to spend time with Gao Ji in Hengnong City, and the two stared blankly.

But Gao Jishi is also a fool. Seeing that Gao Cheng is taking the bait too late, he will definitely not notice it, and he will attack on the same day.

But Xiao Cheng still wanted to do something.

I selected a warrior from the thousand Doutai Xianbei cavalry, and whispered a few words to me.

The cavalry pawn rode up the mountain as he said, and ran to the infantry phalanx in Hengnong City alone.

After a distance, the horse stopped and shouted in a low voice with a simple horn:

"Little General Wei Gao Cheng silently told Xi Ni Gao Ji Shi:

"'At a time when there is a small drought in Guanzhong, and the people are struggling to survive, the public is thinking about the safety of the people, but he provokes recklessly, what is he thinking!
"'There is enough grain in the Kanto region. If you don't have any compassion, you should turn the switch and ask for surrender. Please use the grain from the Kanto region to relieve the people in Kanxi.

"'However, the public steals a low position, but has different expectations, and for his own selfishness, he puts the life and death of the people at the mercy of the people. People in Guanzhong eat each other, and four out of ten of the dead. The people are innocent. This is the crime of the public.

"'Cheng is young and knows benevolence and righteousness. I will raise the banner of righteousness every day, and enter the customs to punish the people and punish crimes. Don't call it premonition!'"

Gao Cheng used speeches to boost morale from time to time, but many major soldiers never heard the jade sound broadcast, so they had to rely on the guards to pass it on. So I built a simple loudspeaker to solve that problem.

Dou Tai said it in Chinese without Hou Qing's accent, but he thought it was enough, so he repeated it in Xianbei in a low voice according to what Low Cheng meant.

That's why Gao Cheng insisted on picking a Dou Tai cavalry pawn.

As early as when I was in Anmin, Cangzhou, I was not encouraging the Xianbei people to learn Chinese. At the same time, in order to show that my position was biased, I also encouraged the local Han people to learn Xianbei.

Since guarding Henan, the [-] Xianbei soldiers brought by Duan Shao from Jinyang have long been taught to be fluent in Chinese, and Hou Qing Xianbei is no exception.

It’s true that we love Han culture a lot. It’s just that Gao Cheng made a regulation in the Gyeonggi Army. I said that Henan is a place with a strong Han style. The Gyeonggi garrison can speak Chinese. If they learn Chinese, the salary will be reduced from the soldiers. For Li Bing.

It's about military pay, so who can bear it.

Yu Jin listened to the unfamiliar Dou Tai accent in the army, and his breath slowly deteriorated. He wanted to draw his bow and shoot, but this knight controlled his distance very well.

Discussions in the army have faintly disappeared, after all, we have not witnessed the tragic situation in Guanzhong.

Even Gao Cheng thought that verbal attacks would be so effective.

Yu Jin dared to make a decision, and immediately sent someone to report to Gao Jishi who was lying in ambush nearby.

Knowing Gao Jishi's words, all the generals under Gao Jishi's command were furious and called for a fight one after another.

That is also a posture that must be lost, otherwise the lord will be humiliated, but you will watch the show with your hands down, and you will have to wear big shoes if you touch a big belly.

But what Gao Jishi secretly hated was the humiliation of Gao Cheng, and it was because Gao Cheng hid his whereabouts again and told himself blatantly that I was in Hengnong, obviously seeing through my plan to use tricks.

With the possibility of ambushing Gaocheng, with Gaocheng ready to support at any time, is it necessary for Hengnong to attack?

Once the army enters, what will the world say?
"Hou Qinghong labored on an expedition, and Gao Zihui attacked the enemy with a word"?
It's nothing more than personal humiliation, if Gao Cheng's provocative words are passed back to Kansai by the soldiers, what kind of turmoil will it cause.

Gao Jishi knows the exact location of Dicheng, but I still look to the east:

It's reasonable for He Bahun to be such a vicious person, to renege on the alliance as if he was playing, but he can still give birth to such a son.

　It’s only over 3100 words, which is a bit shorter than the expected 4000 words, but I’m still quite satisfied with the talk.

　　Today's update is in the evening, see you in the evening.

　　Thanks to the book friend old Duncan for the reward.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)