Silver Fox of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 141 Cut Zaoyi, visit Xudu for the second time, Megatron Kanto!
The moment the whistle sounded.

It seemed that the quiet night was suddenly awakened, and whistles kept ringing in the wilderness in an instant.

All the villagers immediately dropped their agricultural tools and ran towards the farms in the city or nearby in a panic, while the Diannong army hurriedly began to assemble.

"what happened?"

In Yingyin City, Zaoyi, the Tuntian school captain appointed by Cao Cao, is collecting some data.

He and Han Hao suggested to Cao Cao to garrison the fields, so Cao Cao appointed Ren Jun as the general of Diannong Zhonglang, and Zaoyi as his deputy, in charge of the entire garrison.

Suddenly Zaozhi heard whistles from inside and outside the city, and before he even had time to put on his armor, he hurried out of the mansion.

Someone came to report: "Report, there are enemies coming from the west!"

"How many people and horses?"

"five hundred."

"Only 500 people?"

Zaozhi immediately asked people to bring the horses, and hurried up the city wall to watch.

I saw that there were indeed only [-] enemy troops outside the city. After driving away the Diannong army in the west of the city at this moment, they began to destroy the farmland.

"hateful!"

Seeing this scene, Zaozhi's eyes turned red.

Mr. Cao is currently in Guandu, and there is a shortage of food in the first place. Now he is counting on the harvest of summer millet in September and transporting it to the front line.Now that the enemy has actually attacked the rear and destroyed their farmland, how can Zaozhi swallow this breath.

"General, beware of fraud."

The left and right persuaded: "What if there is an ambush outside their city?"

ambush?

Zaoyi calmed down instantly, and then said: "We must find out where this enemy comes from."

Someone said: "General, this must be the team from Kunyang that pretended to attack Yangdi."

"Oh?"

Zaozhi asked, "How do you say that?"

The man analyzed: "Think about it, general. The latest news is that Shen Chen of Kunyang sent people north to pretend to attack Yangdi, but in fact the main force went south to Dingying, and together with Liu Bei, he killed the prefect of Runan and defeated the captain of Yang'an. Now they are in Zhaoling. Therefore, they are now fighting General Xiahou in Liqiang, so they must not come to Yingyin, only the feigned attack from Kunyang can come here."

During the recent period, Shen Chen once again made a big move, using partial divisions to attract Xia Houyuan and Li Dian, and then the main force went south to join Liu Bei to kill Man Chong. The news of defeating Li Tong had already spread throughout Xudu.For this reason, Xia Houyuan, Li Dian, Cai Yang and others led the main force to go south to Suiqiang to confront the main force of Liu Bei's army.

Zhaoling is in the south of Xudu, while Yingyin is in the west of Xudu.They only got the news this morning that Liu Bei had arrived at Zhaoling the day before yesterday and was confronting Xiahouyuan and the others, so it was impossible for him to appear here today.

So the man naturally thought that this was the team from Kunyang that pretended to attack Yangdi, taking advantage of the emptiness in the north of Xudu, they detoured from the Yingyang area of ​​Jia County.

This inference is actually very reasonable, after all, it is much farther from Dingying to Yingyin than from Kunyang to Yingyin.One is more than 120 kilometers, and the other is only [-] kilometers.

And the news they got this morning is delayed. They only know that Liu Beijun arrived in Zhaoling the day before yesterday. Normally, it is calculated according to the rest time. No matter what, he should rest for a day or two before setting off. After Ying arrived in Zhaoling, she walked more than 80 kilometers to the outside of Yingyin City in two days.

Therefore, upon hearing the man's well-founded analysis, Zaozhi nodded and said: "You are right, since there are ambushes outside the city, there should not be too many of them. Alright, let's gather people and go out of the city immediately to eliminate this group of enemies."

"only!"

He got orders from left to right, and immediately acted according to Zaozhi's instructions.

Yingyin does have more than 1000 field soldiers, and even a little organization can form a team of tens of thousands of field soldiers. First, there is no weaponry, and second, there is no training. A group of mobs is useless, so Zao only The Tuntian people were not called.

In the afternoon, Gan Ning and his soldiers had already destroyed hundreds of acres of farmland. Calculated based on the yield of about three stones per mu, the loss of grain and grass was more than 1000 stones.

But here, Gan Ning saw that the enemy had really left the city, and immediately let out a roar, causing people to whistle, and the soldiers who were destroying the farmland began to gather at the post road.

"Array!"

Gan Ning was riding on horseback, holding up the sword in his hand.

If you run straight back and head towards the dense forest where Shen Chen's army is ambushing, the enemy will definitely not be fooled, so you have to fight a battle first, pretending to be defeated, so as to lure the enemy to go deep.

Here Zaozhi led the army out of the city. His Diannong army was twice the number of the enemy, so he began to form an array and press forward.

But when they got close, the Gan Ning army immediately ordered to release arrows.

His formation is different from Zaozhi's. Zaoyi is formed by spearmen in front, and his is a sword shieldman, and then the crossbowman hides behind the sword shieldman. When the order to release arrows is given, the sword shieldman squats down , revealing seventy or eighty crossbowmen behind.

"Shhhhhh!"

Dozens of bows and crossbows shot at Zaozhi's frontmost spearmen, causing chaos.

"Ok?"

Seeing this situation, although he wondered why the enemy didn't have swords, shields and crossbows, Gan Ning seized the opportunity and immediately shouted: "Kill!"

"Kill!"

Five hundred soldiers charged forward, the distance between the two sides was only thirty or forty steps, and they were killed in an instant, and they fought together.

Zaozhi desperately ordered the soldiers to stabilize, but the previous rounds of bow and crossbow shooting caused chaos ahead. The soldiers avoided the arrow rain, causing the formation to disperse, and they did not obey the command at all.

Gan Ning's army took advantage of the situation to hide and kill him, while he himself rushed directly to the direction where the enemy's general flag with the word "Zao" was erected. With the help of his personal guards, he made a bloody road and came to Zaozhi. After only a few rounds of fighting, Just cut the jujube under the horse.

The main general was beheaded, and the soldiers in the field suddenly became chaotic, and the entire battlefield showed a one-sided posture.

Soon they won.

In the distance, Shen Chen saw that the two sides had already fought together, and originally planned to ambush Gan Ning when he retreated, but unexpectedly, he seemed to have won the battle, so he quickly sent people to kill him.

Suddenly, the entire battlefield was in chaos. Thousands of people were either killed, fled, or surrendered on their knees.

After about half an hour, the situation has stabilized.

Gan Ning beheaded Zaoyi with a single knife, and was about to break off the flag with the word "Zao" when he turned his head and saw Shen Chen leading the army arriving, so he held the flag and said with a smile: "I didn't expect the Yingyin defenders to be so weak. It was rushed to death in one fell swoop."

Shen Chen looked around and saw the equipment of the Yingyin defenders, and said, "This is because Cao Jun moved almost all of his supplies to Guandu, and the only supplies in the south are also at Xiahouyuan and Li Dian's side, so there is a shortage of bows and arrows." Crossbows and shields. But this is a battle outside the city, and if we attack the city, it will not be so easy for us.”

"That's true."

Gan Ning nodded and said, "Ah Chen, what should we do now?"

Shen Chen looked into the distance, pointed to the Yingyin city and said, "It's not too late, let the soldiers station in Yingyin first, everyone has traveled a long distance and fought another battle, very tired, first rest in the city for half an hour , leave another group of troops behind, and the rest will attack Xudu before sunset."

Gan Ning scratched his head and said, "When you came here before, Ah Chen, you kept saying that soldiers are precious and fast, but why are you outside the city of Xudu? Instead, you should rest first."

Shen Chen smiled bitterly and said: "That can't be helped. We have been walking for two days from the day before yesterday to now, and everyone has not had a good rest. There are more than two hundred people with bare feet. Legs and feet are sore, although Yingyin is only a short distance away from Xudu, people are not made of iron."

This is the truth.

They arrived outside Yingyin City at noon, and after only a short rest for less than half an hour, they immediately attacked the city. It was about two o'clock in the afternoon.

Then I walked another morning today, crossing Yingyang to kill and rushing to Yingyin. Although it was only about [-] kilometers away, it was still a big burden for the soldiers.

The soldiers of Shen Chen's army were still barely able to hold on, but the 2000 members of Gan Ning's army were indeed working very hard. After all, they were not trained, and they were not as busy as Shen Chen's army. Many of them were thin and weak, and they persisted until now. It is already commendable.

At that moment the army entered the city, rested for half an hour, and then chose a song that was difficult to continue, and stayed to garrison Yingyin City. Shen Chen and Gan Ning were about three o'clock in the afternoon. departure.

The distance from Yingyin to Xudu is too short, because Yingyin County in the Han Dynasty is the center of Xuchang City in later generations.Xudu in the Han Dynasty is located more than ten kilometers east of Yingyin, almost in the blink of an eye.

There are densely packed farmhouses everywhere in the open field in the east of the city. At this time, the news of Yingyin has already spread all over the world, and Xu Du got the news immediately.

The mansion of Shang Shuling in the outer city.

At the end of the day, the 37-year-old Xun Yu was wearing a silk robe and knelt at the table to handle official documents.

Recently, he didn't go to work at the Shangshutai in the Chengguang Palace in the inner city, because Cao Cao put Liu Xie under strict supervision, so Xun Yu worked in his mansion every day.

Spices were burning on the tables, filling the room with a fragrant aroma.

Xun Yu liked this fragrance very much. Not only did he use incense when reading official documents, but even his clothes were washed and smoked with spices.

Therefore, the bamboo mats he sat on often leave a scent, and this is where the idiom "Xun Ling Liu Xiang" comes from.

At this time, the incense burner seemed to be burnt out, and the servants at the side quickly poked the remaining ashes in the incense burner with a bamboo stick, a few weak sparks flickered, and then went out.

He turned his gaze to Xun Yu helplessly, Xun Yu watched the summer wind blowing in from the window to dispel the scent, sighed, and waved his palm.

The servant hurriedly fetched a handful of new spices and threw them into the furnace, lit them with charcoal, and lay down on the ground and blew desperately.

There was no incense-making process in the Han Dynasty. According to historical records, the column-shaped incense would not become popular until the Song, Ming and Qing Dynasties.Therefore, before the Tang and Song Dynasties, when people burned incense, they threw the spices directly into the incense burner and burned them, so it was a waste of spices.

Now that the imperial court is in short supply of supplies and spices are also very scarce, Xun Yu has also recently reduced the amount used.

It's just like people in later generations like to light a lonely cigarette when they think about problems. Without the fragrance, it will make it difficult for Xun Yu to concentrate on dealing with the problems he is facing.Once the aroma in the room is insufficient, it is easy to mess up the mind.

So no matter what, you still have to use a little bit.

After a while, after the new spices were burned again, the aroma in the room rose slightly.Xun Yu rubbed his hands, stretched out his hand to fetch another roll of documents, and deftly tore apart the silk rope tied around it.

At this moment, there was a rush of footsteps coming from the corridor outside. The sound came from the front hall, getting closer and closer. The person who came seemed to be running at full speed in the mansion.

This made Xun Yu frowned. He hated others to act in a hurry. Things should not be rushed, and mistakes are easy to make in panic.

Sure enough, because there was a threshold at the entrance of the hall, when the visitor ran to the hall, he stepped on the threshold and fell down. The whole person fell heavily in the hall below Xun Yu, and his clogs flew out.

Xun Yu's complexion is not very good-looking, "The Book of Rites" says: "When a doctor enters and exits the emperor's gate, he does not step on the threshold."

It means that when entering and exiting the gate, one must not step on the threshold.

The servant stumbled on the threshold, which was a very disrespectful behavior, which made the most reasonable Xun Yu feel even more uncomfortable.

However, the person who came didn't seem to care at all, he crawled into the hall and shouted in the hall: "Dalang, it's not good, the messenger came to report that at the beginning of the day, an enemy killed Yingyin Outside the city!"

"what?"

Xun Yu stood up from the table. He originally wanted to scold the servants for disrespecting his past teachings and running around the mansion, but when he heard the urgent situation, he didn't care about anything else, and quickly said, "Let the messenger come in."

"Yes Yes Yes."

The house slave stood up again, scrambling and running away in a hurry without looking for the clogs that flew out.

"How could it be? How could it be?"

Xun Yu walked back and forth anxiously in the room, Yingyin was very close to Xudu, and the enemy came to Yingyin, which made his originally calm Xun Yu a little anxious and wanted to know the situation as soon as possible.

Soon the messenger came in, he was sent by Zaoyi, and Zaoyi only got the news at that time, so he immediately sent someone to Xudu to report.

Therefore, what the messenger knew was that 500 troops suddenly came from outside Yingyin City and were destroying the farmland. Zaoyi was going to lead the army out of the city to fight in order to protect the farmland.

"Yes, Yingyin must have been broken."

Xun Yu's face turned pale when he heard the news that Zaozhi had gone to battle.

The messenger hurriedly said: "General Zao hadn't left the city yet, let alone 1000 men against 500 enemy men."

"Go back to Yingyin first and check the news."

Xun Yu didn't answer the messenger's question, but just asked the messenger to go back to investigate the situation. After thinking about it for a long time, he immediately left the mansion and went to Ren Jun's army outside the city to garrison the fields.

At the same time, after Shen Chen defeated Zaozhi, the army rested for an hour and set off again.

Zaozhi sent a messenger to report to Xudu, and he rode a horse. It was a [-]-kilometer journey, and it would take an hour to arrive on a fast horse. So when Xun Yu got the news, Shen Chen had just set off for a short time.

But although his pawns hadn't set off for long, the scout team had already spread out, galloping around Xudu.

When the scouts in the red Han military uniform appeared near Xudu, just like the scene in early April this year, the most well-informed families got the information one after another, and Shen Chenjun appeared outside Xudu again.

Now Xudu is extremely empty, the defensive force is only Ren Jun's thousands of Diannong troops, some palace guards, and a small number of tribes from aristocratic families.

However, the tribes of aristocratic families often have only a few hundred people. After all, aristocratic families like Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu who can gather tens of thousands of troops are rare. Even the Hongnong Yang family who is as famous as the Yuan family, Yang Biao was tortured like this by Cao Cao. , there is no force to resist, which shows that the private armed forces of the aristocratic family are not too strong.

of course.

That's not to say they're completely powerless.

It's just that they are in Xudu, and the large amount of land, property, talents, and prestige they own are not in Yingchuan.

The big families in Yingchuan, such as the Xun family, the Guo family, and the Chen family all supported Cao Cao.

Other aristocratic families have their fields, property and tribes in other places. Only a few like Han Hao, Ren Jun, Li Dian, and Xu Chu joined Cao Cao's army with hundreds of thousands of clan tribes.

Therefore, the private armed forces of these big clans in Xudu City are actually very small, and the forces that can be organized are also very limited.

Therefore, to a certain extent, the current Xu Capital City is indeed in danger of being destroyed.

For a while, Shen Chen came to Xudu for the second time and shocked the Kanto region!

　I probably made a mistake. At that time, seeing the severe drought in Huainan, Yuan Shu was killed. I thought that Sun Ce should not be able to go north by boat, but it didn’t hurt. Anyway, Sun Ce was dead, so he couldn’t go north.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)