Chapter 054: The Righteous Shall Not Be Dishonored
Qin turned and Cao Cao, Huangfu Li led the troops to the northwest of Guangzong, and sure enough, he saw that the terrain here was precipitous, not under Xiongguan, the mountain on the left, the city wall on the right, the middle path could only allow one person to pass, and the mountains were bare, there were no trees to hide, the Yellow Turban Army went through the previous battle of Huangfu Li, and simply used some wooden rolling stones to completely block it, and simply built some watchtowers, connecting the mountains with the city, not to mention the people and horses, even the birds could not pass.
Huangfu Li listened to the return of the horse, and said to Cao Cao with a wry smile: "The thieves have already taken precautions, we might as well bypass the east of the city, although it will take some time, but if we can step up the march, we should be able to rescue Jianshou's men and horses!"
Cao Cao shook his head: "Since you are here, where is the reason to turn back? The military situation is urgent, and there is no room for delay, and if the terrain in the northeast of the city is the same, isn't it wasted effort?"
Qin Pan nodded in agreement: "What General Cao said is extremely true, we originally planned to rely on surprise soldiers to win, if we make a detour to the east of the city, the thieves have already taken precautions, and we will lose the meaning of surprise soldiers!"
Huangfu Li suddenly brightened: "The words of the two, the golden and jade words, the key now is to find a way to break the enemy!"
"It's difficult!" Cao Cao looked around at the surrounding situation, and finally locked his eyes on the mountain on the left, and muttered, "I wonder if there is a nearby mountain road to go up to?"
Hearing this, Qin Fu volunteered: "The thousands of people under my command are all good at climbing mountains and overcoming dangers, even if there is no way, they can open a road, but they are easy to be discovered by the thieves in the city, I am afraid that it will be in vain, what good way has General Cao thought of?"
Cao Cao clapped his hands and said: "It's not a good way, it just so happens that my men and horses are also good at climbing the city wall, it's better to do this, let's do three ways, after dark, General Huangfu Li led the troops to call the battle, to attract the attention of the other party, at the same time, General Qin and I led the people and horses all the way to the mountain, all the way to the city, the thief army saw General Huangfu Li go and returned, must relax their guard, I and General Qin will attack left and right, and annihilate this force of people and horses in one fell swoop!"
In the night, the stars were dim, and the Yellow Turban soldiers on the watchtower suddenly saw a group of men and horses with torches and crumbling, in the firelight, they recognized that it was the Huangfu Li people who were defeated during the day, and at this moment they showed off their might and came to call the battle: "Listen to the thieves inside! Acquaintances quickly make way for the master, if the master is in a good mood, let you go, otherwise when my army takes here, there will be no spare!"
The Yellow Turban sentries laughed one by one: "The general of the defeated army dares to humiliate himself!" Despite this, they still sent someone to inform the general in charge of the guard.
After a while, thousands of Yellow Turban soldiers poured into the head of the city of Wengcheng, lit torches and laughed at the emperor's people under the city: "Boy, you dare to come to die!"
Huangfu Li laughed under the city: "I don't know who the dead are, a group of shrinking turtles, they will only hide inside and release dark arrows, dare to come out and fight with your master?"
The Yellow Turban Guard was unmoved: "Do you want to use the method of agitation? You are still a little tender, brothers, give me arrows!"
As soon as the words fell, in the urn city, countless random arrows were released in an instant, and Huangfu Li's men and horses were caught off guard, and they were immediately shot in a large area, and even Huangfu Li himself was hit by an arrow, turned over and fell off the horse.
"General!" Huang Fu Li's personal soldiers sacrificed their lives to move forward and carried their main general back, but Huang Fu Li's mount was not so lucky, Huang Fu Li's personal soldiers carried Huang Fu Li just retreated, and a rain of arrows suddenly shot out in the urn city, Huang Fu Li's war horse neighed in pain, and dozens of arrows fell in a pool of blood.
"Oh no, the general was killed by an arrow, let's retreat quickly!"
Huangfu Li's men and horses were in a panic, and they ran away without a trace, leaving a large number of weapons and armor on the ground.
"God help me, we have been in this urn city for many days, we are about to give birth to maggots, the enemy is about to die, our brothers go out to kill, and it is better to have a bird's breath for days!"
A Yellow Turban adjutant roared happily, raised his weapon and beckoned his subordinates to go out of the city to pursue Huangfu Li's rebellious army, but was stopped by another Yellow Turban general: "Slow, what if this is the enemy's strategy? Have you forgotten how General Rengong explained to us?"
"I'm afraid that he is a bird, the general of Rengong is telling us that we can only ambush and not pursue, but the problem is that he has not given us any food and grass, how can the brothers persist after being hungry for so many days?
After speaking, he no longer argued, ordered the gate of the urn city to be opened, took half of the men and horses out of the city, and turned around and laughed at the general who stopped him: "When I come back after robbing the grain and grass, I won't give you a single share!"
However, no one noticed that when the city gate was closed, several figures suddenly flashed from behind the city wall, drew their daggers and wiped them on the necks of the soldiers guarding the gates, and with a clean and neat movement, they changed into the other party's clothes and pushed the corpse into the moat.
These people are Cao Cao's soldiers, after they did all this, it is estimated that the Yellow Turban Army out of the city has gone far, only to make a few bird calls, countless figures in the night from the moat appeared, from the urn city gate quietly in, the first person is Cao Cao, he pulled out the sword on his waist, and shouted softly: "Close the city gate, prepare to fight, don't go alone!"
"Whoa!"
"What person?" A few patrolling Yellow Turban soldiers happened to pass by, and when they heard Cao Cao's voice, they immediately shouted and came to check, but they didn't take a few steps before they were already cut down by the figure that appeared behind them.
"Kill!" Looking at the Yellow Turban soldiers who rushed towards him when he heard the movement, Cao Cao ordered in a deep voice.
In the small urn city, a unilateral massacre without suspense began in an instant, but in half an hour, the city was already full of corpses.
Cao Cao, whose face was covered with the blood of the enemy, rose to the occasion, and because of the order to kill, his men and horses also lost a lot, but fortunately, there was no leakage.
"General, I found that the general of the thief army is leading people to escape from the north gate!"
Cao Cao let out a sigh of relief, laughed and said, "I can't run, it is estimated that General Qin Fu has been waiting for a long time, so we have to leave some credit for the people of the high school captain!"
Sure enough, Qin Tuo led people to open the way over the mountains at night, and almost at the same time as Cao Cao infiltrated the urn city, and after blocking all the retreats, he guarded the exit of the north gate, watching a group of yellow turban soldiers flee in embarrassment around a general, so he teased for a long time: "I can't imagine it, our people still have this ability to go through the sky!"
"Hulala" Seeing that Qin Tuo and his people blocked the only exit, the general raised his weapon and pointed at Qin Tuo and scolded: "If it weren't for my lieutenant who took most of the men and horses out of the city to pursue the enemy, we would have fallen for your tricks?"
Qin Fu sneered: "You are still stubborn when you die, do you think your deputy general has gone out of the city to pursue General Huangfu Li's men? Whether he can come back alive is still unknown! You are still worried about your own safety!"
After saying that, Qin shouted vigorously: "If you want to live, put down the weapon in your hand, otherwise you will be killed!"
To Qin Tuo's surprise, he shouted three times in a row, but no one surrendered, although those yellow turban soldiers had fear in their eyes, and even the hands holding weapons were trembling, but until Qin Tuo's voice fell, no one threw down their weapons and stood up.
"It's all good!" The Yellow Turban guard looked at his soldiers left and right, and said with a little choked up, and then turned his gaze to Qin Fu resolutely, and shouted, "Come on, fight to the death!"
"Sure enough, it's all good!" Qin Fu admired this kind of virtuous person in his life, but he didn't expect that there were such figures in the Yellow Turban Party, and he couldn't help but feel pity in his heart, he couldn't help but feel pity, and he couldn't bear to say, "A good boy should be a useful master, and build a useful merit with a useful body, Fengyi Captain Gao Yi is a rare and decisive talent in the world, he can be a virtuous corporal, and he has the power to kill people, and if you are willing to vote, it is better than dying here silently!"
"Hmph, do you think I'm going to believe your nonsense? How many of our brothers just believed your words and surrendered and were killed alive?" The yellow turban general's face was angry, and no matter what Qin Tuo said, he was unmoved.
Qin Chuan knew that there would be no result in arguing, but he was not a ruthless person in the end, so after thinking for a while, he resolutely shouted to his subordinates: "Open the city gate and let them go!"
Qin Fan's subordinates were in an uproar: "Brother Qin, you can't let them go, if someone knows about it, they will say that we have fornicated with the Yellow Turban thief!"
Qin Pan shook his head: "The lord said that those who do not surrender to death, although they are pedantic, are also righteous people, and if they kill righteous people, they will be laughed at by the people of the world!
In a sigh, the north gate of the urn city was slowly opened, and Qin Fan's men and horses also gave way to these besieged yellow turban soldiers.
"You don't have to be a good person here, I'd rather die than be a deserter!" The yellow turban general didn't accept Qin Fu's favor, he raised his sword and wiped it on his neck, ending his life in the most heroic way.
"I'd rather die than be a deserter!" hundreds of Yellow Turban soldiers shouted, and they also drew their swords to kill themselves, and the scene was extremely spectacular and tragic.
"What a strong man!" Cao Cao came with people and horses at this time, and he also saw this tragic scene, and couldn't help but feel emotional, he ordered to his own people, "The rarest person, the loyal and righteous people, General Qin, it is better to restrain these people, and it is better to bury them thickly!"
Qin Fu smiled bitterly, and his heart was very uncomfortable: "Everything depends on General Cao!"
At this time, five miles south of the city of Wengcheng, the Yellow Turban Army, which had planned to pursue Huangfu Li's men and horses, saw a group of people waiting for them after turning a mountain pass, and the leader was actually Huangfu Li himself!
"How is it possible, aren't you dead?" the Yellow Turbans couldn't believe the facts in front of them.
Huangfu Li smiled leisurely: "Just with your rough arrows, you also want to take my Huangfu Li's life? To deal with you yellow turban thieves, you only need to use a little carving insect skills!"
At the same time, the shouting and killing in the urn city also came, and the Yellow Turban people knew that they had been tricked to divert the tiger from the mountain, and wanted to go back to the rescue, but the back road had already been sealed by Huangfu Li, so they had to fight to the death, and the result was, of course, all the well-equipped Huangfu Li's men and horses were wiped out.
However, at this time, the horses from the south of the city brought surprising news to Huangfu Li: 50,000 Yellow Turban elites in the city planned to break through from the south gate, and the official army only had 1,000 men and horses from Gao Yi at the south gate!