Chapter 138: What a joy to be had
"What, Dong Zhuojun is building a dam in front of his station?" Several leaders of the Qiang tribe led troops to call for battle in front of Dong Zhuo's army on this day, but saw Dong Zhuo's men and horses waving shovels digging a deep ditch on the flat ground, but at this time, the weather was freezing cold, and the soil had already frozen to porcelain, so many shovels were broken in a row, but they only dug a few feet deep.
These leaders laughed when they saw it, and the leaders were about to slaughter these shovel soldiers, but they did not prevent Niu Fu from leading a cavalry to insert diagonally, and wherever the spears went, the Qiang soldiers fell one after another, and these Qiang leaders were not prepared to fight Niu Fu, so they immediately ordered the soldiers to retreat, and then only watched from a distance.
"Keep digging, there is no food and grass in the army, and we can only rely on this canal to catch fish and shrimp!" Niu Fu deliberately said loudly, but pretended to reprimand these soldiers.
"Ridiculous, what fish and shrimp can there be at this time of year?" one of the leaders scoffed.
"In my opinion, this Dong Zhuo is completely insane, when people are hungry, they naturally have to think of any way, maybe in a few days, they will dig deep into the soil and catch those hibernating frogs and snakes to eat!"
"Eh, tsk, it's disgusting!" another leader pulled his face, but suddenly laughed evilly, "Hmph, if you want to eat fish and shrimp, I won't even give them this, so I'll let my soldiers go to the river to break the ice and poison them, poison all the fish and shrimp, and let them all starve to death!"
"Haha, that's a vicious idea, but we like it!"
Dong Zhuo stood on the high ground, and naturally saw the situation of those Qiang soldiers riding their horses to break the ice and poison the upstream river, and soon, dead fish and shrimp floated on the entire river, which looked shocking.
Jia Xu followed behind, sighed and said, "Fish and shrimp, these Qiang people are really ruthless!"
"It's a must to be ruthless!" Dong Zhuo said with a sneer, his eyes suddenly froze, "I really want to know, if we besiege these Qiang soldiers today, will Wen He do such a thing?"
Jia Xu's smile froze, and he said leisurely: "In the next strategy, there is never an assumption, only when it actually happens, will it be improvised, even if it is the same situation, it will be completely different because of a small change, if there is no Fan Chou's internal response, Dong Gong will lose at least half of the men and horses if he wants to break out of the encirclement!"
"But Wenhe, you seem to have missed someone!" Dong Zhuo reminded Jia Xu, "If the information is timely, Gao Yi can also be used as a response, why don't you consider him in all your strategies?"
Jia Xu didn't speak, looked up at the sky, and at this moment the sky began to fall with snowflakes again.
"Because Gao Yi is an elusive person, he can choose to help Dong Gong at this time, and then Dong Guild will become the person who has the greatest credit for the thief this time, if he helps the Qiang people at this time, then even if Dong Gong escapes from the encirclement, he will still face the dilemma of having Han Sui in front and Qiang people in the back, if he doesn't help anyone at this time, sit back and watch the situation develop?"
Dong Zhuo's body froze, obviously, this last situation was the last thing he wanted to see.
At this time, Gao Yi had already arrived in Jincheng, but what he didn't expect was that Han Sui had played with everyone, Han Sui didn't return to Jincheng at all, and no one knew where Han Sui was at this time, the only thing Gao Yi knew was that Dong Zhuo was now trapped by tens of thousands of Qiang people hundreds of miles away.
Dong Zhuo was surrounded!
Gao Yi's mood began to get excited again at this moment, after Dong Zhuo was trapped here for many days in history, he used a strategy to hide from the world, and finally took the opportunity to escape, Gao Yi knew that if nothing else, now Dong Zhuo has begun to implement this strategy.
And he Gao Yi is this accident.
Zhao Yun saw Gao Yi's brows furrowed, and couldn't help asking, "Why is my brother worried?"
Gao Yi didn't answer Zhao Yun, but asked Zhao Yun instead: "Brother Yun, I asked you something, you have to answer me truthfully!"
Zhao Yun knew that things must not be simple, so he said: "Zhao Yun must know everything!"
"If you had a chance to kill Dong Zhuo, what would you do?" Gao Yi was actually in a very chaotic mood now, he didn't know how to choose, and now that Zhao Yun was by his side, he could only hope that Zhao Yun would answer for him.
Zhao Yun naturally knew that Dong Zhuo was trapped now, and Zhao Yun had heard of Dong Zhuo's arrogance before, and he hugged his fists and said: "How the elder brother chooses, how the younger brother chooses!"
This answer made Gao Yi speechless, there was no difference between saying it and not saying it, so he asked Zhao Yun again: "Dong Zhuo is surrounded, if I don't save it, it doesn't agree with reason, if I save it, it will be contrary to my feelings, if Dong Zhuo will suffer the people in the future, I will naturally regret saving him today!"
Zhao Yun smiled: "Actually, I don't have a good impression of Dong Zhuo, but things are all relative, since my brother said one thing, why not say the other? If Dong Zhuo will become a hero who benefits the country and the people in the future, will my brother regret not saving him today?"
Gao Yi couldn't help but be stunned, he had really never thought about this question, and he didn't expect Zhao Yun to occasionally come to such a few sharp words.
"I'm really speechless to the two of you, I must save it, and I have to save it non-stop, but you can not do your best, so whether Dong Zhuo can survive or not depends on his own creation!"
After hearing this, Gao Yi's heart suddenly brightened: "What Sister Wen Lu said is not bad, why should I think about so many things in the future? Isn't it okay to do it now? This truth has been told to me by Wang Yue's predecessors at the cost of his life, why do I only realize it now?"
Helan Demon smiled: "So, brother-in-law, if you don't marry me, it's your loss!"
"Ahem!" Zhao Yun coughed when he heard this.
Gao Yi said to Helan Demon: "I have an idea, Sister Wenlu, you and Ma Xiu Ma Tie led 7,000 people under their command, falsely claiming that they were dissatisfied with the exclusion of the official army and left angrily, just to go to the Qiang people who surrounded Dong Zhuo, and try to create chaos, I will take Dong Zhuo's army to escape from the encirclement, and then take advantage of the situation to attack Yuzhong and Jincheng, it is strictly forbidden to leak the news, if Han Sui comes, then several armies will come out, and it should not be difficult to capture Han Sui alive!"
Helan Demon said: "If I guess correctly, my brother-in-law's response will definitely be to wait for Dong Zhuo and the Qiang people to be defeated before sending troops, right?"
Gao Yi smiled but did not speak.
A few days later, Gao Yijun and Ma Jiajun had a firefight, and the result of the fight was that 7,000 people from Ma Jiajun left angrily, but the funny thing is that Ma Jiajun did not defect to another family, but Fan Choujun!
Fan Chou was naturally happy that Ma Teng's children came to help his subordinates, but it was very nerve-wracking for how to settle it, it stands to reason that Han Sui's people killed Ma Teng's wife, and Ma Jiajun should hate Han Sui, but now Fan Chou is still nominally responding to Han Sui, and now Han Sui's enemies have come to take refuge, and Fan Chou can't tell how many mouths he has.
In desperation, Fan Chou could only throw this hot potato out, that is, to send the Ma family army to attack Dong Zhuo.
This is a ridiculous joke!
"Lord, Ma Xiu, the eldest son of Ma Jiajun, Ma Tie, the second son, and Ma Wenlu, the only daughter, came to call for battle, and they have 7,000 cavalry, which is really not prestigious!" The herald hurriedly came to report to Dong Zhuo.
When Dong Zhuo heard this, he was shocked, but his face did not change color: "This Ma Teng is really capricious, didn't Gao Yi already say that he was surrendered? Why did he go back again, it seems that Han Sui doesn't care about his hatred for killing his wife at all!"
Niu Fu said: "Father-in-law, the son-in-law is willing to meet Ma Teng's children!"
Dong Zhuo shook his head: "Why do you need to go out in person, just let those two uneasy guys under your account go?"
Niu Fu understood: "Li Dao, Guo Yan listens to the order!"
"The last general!" Li Dao and Guo Yan didn't expect Dong Zhuo to personally order the two of them as generals, so they had to agree.
"Order the two of you to go and fight against the Ma family's army!" Niu Fu said in a deep voice.
Guo Yan didn't understand a little: "How many people will you bring with you at the end?"
Niu Fu said loudly: "Didn't you understand? It's just the two of you!"
Hearing this, Li Dao and Guo Yan immediately turned terrified and knelt on the ground: "I don't know what mistake I made, I beg the general to point out, I will change it, but the general won't let me wait to die!"
After saying that, Li Dao and Guo Yan crawled in front of Dong Zhuo: "Lord, lord!"
Dong Zhuo kicked them away: "You two are brave and brave, and leading the troops is also an ornament, it is better to go with only two people, so that Ma Jiajun can see the courage of my strong generals under Dong Zhuo!"
Li Dao and Guo Yan's legs were weak, and they were forced by Niu Fu to help them get on their horses in armor.
It was only at this time that Niu Fu said to Dong Zhuo: "Father-in-law, the matter has been done, you can break through the camp!"
Dong Zhuo smiled and nodded: "En, pull out the camp!"
Jia Xu was still a little worried about the lives of Li Dao and Guo Yan: "Then Dong Gong, Li Dao and Guo Yan, the two captains-"
Dong Zhuo said: "Ma Jiajun didn't really take root in Han Sui, so he won't harm Li Dao and Guo Yan's lives!"
At this moment, in front of Dong Zhuo's camp, Helan Demon was checking the canal dug by Dong Zhuo, only to see that the canal was several zhang wide, dozens of zhang long, endless, and the canal was full of water.
"Fufeng Ma Xiu is here, who can be the enemy general!" Seven thousand horse cavalry lined up in formation, Ma Xiu called in front of the battle, Dong Zhuojun no one dared to respond, half a day later, two old soldiers pulled two old horses out of Dong Zhuo's military camp, on horseback, it was Li Dao and Guo Yan, above him the two were tied to the horseback, it looked puzzling.
Ma Xiu and Ma Tie looked at each other suspiciously, and said in astonishment: "What kind of medicine is sold in Dong Zhuo's gourd?"
Helan Demon rode his horse and smiled: "It doesn't matter what kind of medicine he is!
Li Dao and Guo Yan were led to the side of the canal, crying with sad faces, and reluctantly said: "I am the captain Li Dao Guo Yan under the command of Dong Gong, and the enemy general An dares to be presumptuous!"
There is a canal several zhang wide on both sides, only to talk, Ma Tie saw that there was ice on the water surface, so he didn't care, and was about to pass, when he suddenly heard a shout from the rear, it turned out that the Qiang soldiers from all walks of life saw that Ma Jiajun was going to fight with Dong Zhuojun, so they all came to see the excitement, but saw that Dong Zhuojun only sent two people to fight against seven thousand people with two people, which can be called a strange story through the ages.
At this moment, the herald reported: "Oh no, Dong Zhuojun is empty now!"
"What?" Hearing this, all the Qiang soldiers were taken aback, Dong Zhuo had been under his nose, how could it be out of thin air? They didn't believe that this was true, because they saw that the canal was covered with thick ice, and they didn't care, they were about to go over, who knew that the ice had already been sprinkled with salt by Dong Zhuo's army, and it was not good to be overwhelmed, and tens of millions of Qiang soldiers went immediately, and immediately clicked, and countless people and horses fell into the canal.
At this time, the Helan Demon had already sent someone to rescue Li Dao Guo Yan, and Ma Xiu Ma Tie ordered his cavalry to line up in an attack formation, and brazenly launched an attack on the Qiang soldiers who had not been launched!
When Ma Xiu and Ma Tie led the army to go to Fan Chou's camp to fight, they were surprised to find that Dong Zhuojun had joined forces with Fan Chou's army.
"What is this?" Ma Tie was puzzled, and naturally ordered his men to stop attacking.
Dong Zhuo walked out slowly, at this moment he put on his helmet and armor, and he was not so imposing, and greeted the second brother of the Ma family: "General Fan Chou is his own person, and I want to thank a few Qiang soldiers for holding me back!"
Helan Demon also led a group of men and horses to come at this moment, and she was also very surprised to see this scene, but her brain turned quickly, and she immediately ordered the soldiers to send back Li and Guo Yan, who were not possessed at the moment, and said with a smile: "Dong Gong is really well-intentioned, if we guessed one wrong step before, I am afraid that Ma Jiajun and General Fan Chou have already begun to fight!"
As he spoke, those Qiang soldiers understood that they had been tricked, regrouped their men, and thought that Fan Chou was attacking here.
Fan Chou said: "This is not the place to speak, I will wait and avoid!"
So the three people retreated to Yuzhong together, and met Gao Yi and the generals under his command leading two thousand men and horses, Gao Yi had already taken Yuzhong City at this moment, but did not occupy it, because he knew that if Han Sui and the Qiang soldiers surrounded him, he would definitely be trapped in the lonely city again.
Dong Zhuo looked at the high-spirited Gao Yi, and couldn't help but sigh a little: "This is the second time I have been rescued by you, and it is not even a year since the first time!"
Gao Yi also looked at the old-fashioned Dong Zhuo, and said with a smile: "Actually, I had a momentary thought that I wouldn't save Dong Gong!"
"Then why did you make another move in the end?" Dong Zhuo asked with a smile.
Gao Yi said: "Yu Private, I have no personal relationship with Dong Gong, Yu Gong, Dong Gong and I are both one of the six people who were ordered by the imperial court to beg for thieves, but we are all suspicious of each other, and we all want to take credit alone, so we gave the anti-thieves the opportunity to break through, this is the saddest thing, I have been thinking all the way, what big things can be done if I continue like this, and what is the benefit of letting Han Sui sit big?" We always want to avoid chaos in the world, but we don't know that the power itself is one thing and the other is good, and we can decide ourselves, but we can't decide others, right?"
Dong Zhuo listened, fell into deep thought, and muttered: "In this way, if I could have heard it earlier, then Zhou Shen and Bao Hong would not have died because of me, and many of my own subordinates have been buried here, I have decided, if this war can be calmed down, I will not ask for any credit, even if the court has a reward, I will give it all to my subordinates, and the families of those soldiers who died, I will take it out of my own property to compensate!"
Gao Yi was shocked, he didn't expect him to say that he could move Dong Zhuo, and he never expected that he could enter Dong Zhuo's inner world, but now he found that he seemed to see Dong Zhuo's unknown side, although only a little.
This is the Dong Zhuo that Gao Yi wants to know and know.