Chapter 60: Premeditated

Although the Qingzhou soldiers are good at fighting, they still reveal their true nature under the sudden mutiny and the "defection" of their own people: they are as panicked as ordinary civilians who suddenly encounter natural and man-made disasters, running and shouting, and fighting separately.

The Qingzhou soldiers were originally from the Yellow Turban Army, but the Yellow Turban Army was composed of poor people, and what they were best at was crowd tactics. Even though Cao Cao streamlined his troops and carried out training, he still retained a banditry.

Qingzhou soldiers can fight, sometimes dare to fight the battlefield, and the most important thing is that Qingzhou soldiers are highly loyal to Cao Cao, which is the reason why Cao Cao retains Qingzhou soldiers. However, the Qingzhou soldiers rarely had outstanding achievements, to a large extent, because they had a low degree of organization, and they always cared about picking up booty, grabbing horses and grain, and they were arrogant and small-scale peasants had a strong mentality. I don't understand what it means to "kill and injure the enemy's living forces and expand the results of the battle in one go."

Cao Cao naturally knew the shortcomings of the Qingzhou soldiers, but he couldn't improve it. If this group of Qingzhou soldiers is allowed to undergo strict formal training and learn how to change the arrangement of battle formations, their combat effectiveness will be greatly reduced. It's like turning what was originally a loose but ferocious pack of jackals into an obedient but cowering group of sheep.

Fang has already said that the Qingzhou soldiers sometimes work the battlefield. See clearly, it's "sometimes". In the case of an organized leader, the Qingzhou soldiers dared to give full play to the tactics of crowds. For example, during the Battle of Qiyang, Xiahou took the lead, and the Qingzhou soldiers under his command dared to launch a death charge against the Xiliang Iron Cavalry.

Although it is useless, this can show the fighting spirit of the Qingzhou soldiers under special circumstances.

However, in another situation, the performance of the Qingzhou soldiers was a big surprise. For example, tonight, under the condition of smearing with two eyes, I don't know how the other party suddenly killed, and I heard that my own army has defected, and I can't find my own generals and captains, and I don't know who the target is, and the Qingzhou soldiers who haven't been ordered don't know what they should do.

First, they shouted in the streets and alleys to announce the news of the attack and the ban on defection, and when dozens of people gathered, this group of Qingzhou soldiers who were not subordinate to each other decisively gave up the idea of looking for their own leader, and did not go to find their own commander Xiahou Xuan, but moved directly to Shouchun Palace and went directly to Boss Cao.

Some Qingzhou soldiers are not familiar with the lanes of Beicheng, and they have not found a way out when they are dizzy, so they simply directly burn and loot houses to create chaos, and subconsciously, the Qingzhou soldiers of this group of bandit minds still think that the more chaotic the situation, the safer they are!

Of course, why not take some money along the way?

As a result, Yu Ban, who retreated to the arsenal, had to gather his troops and strictly defend the important places everywhere; On the one hand, it is necessary to maintain order and prevent the situation from deteriorating. However, the action to dissuade the Qingzhou soldiers was ineffective at all, and the Qingzhou soldiers, who had always been over-eyed, did not bird the ban on this foreign surname general in the chaotic situation, and Yu Ban had to take iron-blooded measures to directly execute these arrogant Qingzhou soldiers in order to prevent the residents of Shouchun from joining the mutiny.

However, some things can't be stopped at first. Most of the people living in Beicheng are some big families, and the lowest are also wealthy businessmen and small scholars, all of whom are a bit of a gateway. First, one or two Qingzhou soldiers moved the evil idea of taking advantage of the fire to rob, and then more and more Qingzhou soldiers followed suit, not robbing for nothing, no one cared anyway.

Looted and burned to death for no apparent reason, these residents of Beicheng hurriedly abandoned their homes and fled, and no one was guilty of losing their lives for some family wealth. In this way, the originally smooth alleyway instantly had countless family members, domestic servants, maids, doormen, etc., mixed with chaotic soldiers, and the orderly Beicheng in the past was chaotic in an instant.

Xiahoudun, the commander of the Qingzhou soldiers who were alarmed, only had more than 100 Qingzhou soldiers around him, and when he went out, he saw that there were Shouchun people fleeing for their lives everywhere, and he gathered his troops for half a day, and he barely managed to get together a thousand Qingzhou soldiers. When he arrived at the important place of the arsenal, although he had already contacted thousands of soldiers, he happened to see the scene of Yu Ban executing his own soldiers.

Listening to his subordinates tearfully telling about their bloody battle with Zhang Xiujun, but they were stabbed in the back by Yu Ban, Xiahou Duan almost waved his army to capture the important place in the arsenal where Yu Ban was located, but fortunately, he had already suffered a loss from Zhang Xiu because of Qiyang, and he had grown wise. Knowing that he will definitely not be able to take the arsenal in a short time, it is useless to take it. Maybe Zhang Xiujun has already detoured back from the east to attack Shouchun Palace.

So Xiahoudun waved his pen and retreated to Shouchun Palace, contacting and collecting the Qingzhou soldiers along the way.

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The news of Yu Ban's renegade was spread by Gao Shun in accordance with Jia Xu's instructions and relying on his meticulous work in the city. The purpose is just to cause chaos in Beicheng, so that Gao Shun can drag the Cao army in Beicheng. After all, there are no less than 30,000 soldiers in Beicheng Guangqingzhou, and there are only 20,000 horses when they are full.

Of course, no matter who Cao Jun is on duty tonight, the news of the defection of the general on duty will also be sent. It's just that the credibility is definitely not as high as the forbidden. After all, Yu Ban was captured by Zhang Xiu and finally released unconditionally. It seems normal, but it seems abnormal.

What Gao Shun didn't know was that Zhang Xiu only came once in the days when Yu Ban was captured, but Jia Xu seemed to like this Cao Jun general very much, and brought wine and food every day. After Zhang Xiu expressed his willingness to surrender to Cao Cao, Jia Xu drank with Yu Ban for the last time, and finally said to Ban: "If you can't do it, you will be guilty." ”

Yu Ban, who knew in his heart that Jia Xu was a great wise man, had been pondering and practicing this sentence these days, and after returning to Cao Cao's account, what tired and hard work had to live in the forbidden stool to recommend himself, and the whole night duty on Chinese New Year's Eve was also actively applied to Cao Cao.

Gao Shun never expected that relying on the news spread by the fine work would create an unexpected effect for him, and he had already led the main force to bypass the arsenal and take a long way to outflank the Shouchun Palace from the east side. Only a small number of soldiers were left on the west side, and it was just a feint to attract attention.

Song Xian, who was in charge of the feint attack, commanded 6,000 troops, and pressed 4,000 men and horses in the first wave, creating momentum, attracting the attention of Yu Ban and Qingzhou soldiers, and creating opportunities for Gao Shun. But what he didn't expect was that the captain at the front sent back a message, saying that as long as he increased his troops by 1,000, he could take the arsenal.

The curious Song Xian looked at the arsenal, but found that there were only two or three thousand ordinary Cao soldiers who resisted, although there were also many Qingzhou soldiers near the arsenal. But I don't know why these Qingzhou soldiers turned a deaf ear to the resistance of the soldiers under their command, and only retreated to the back.

Seeing that the arsenal defense line seemed to be indeed crumbling, Song Xian gritted his teeth and sent another thousand fresh troops.

Yu Ban finally couldn't resist anymore, gave up the resistance on the periphery, and while shrinking his forces and withdrawing into the arsenal with stone fortifications, he sent a third group of personal soldiers to Xiahoudun for help.

The first two groups of people were sent out and disappeared, perhaps because Zhang Xiu's army had infiltrated Beicheng, and because of the armed resistance of some big families, they were intercepted and killed halfway. For this group of people who sent a letter asking for help, Yu Ban selected four of the most capable personal soldiers, two people in a team, one in front of the other, and coordinated each other's advance.

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Seeing that Yu Ban had withdrawn into the arsenal, and seeing the nearby Qingzhou soldiers quickly fleeing as if they couldn't avoid it, Song Xian finally relented, summoned the generals around him, spread out a sheepskin map and said: "This is the construction map of the Shouchun arsenal, there is a tunnel hidden here, which leads directly to the inside of the arsenal, who dares to lead the elite people to break into it, and the inside and outside should take the arsenal?" Afterwards, I will ask the great commander for his credit!" ”

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Garrisoned on the periphery of Shouchun Palace are three hundred tiger guards Tiger Ben, as the most elite infantry force under Cao Cao's command, this group of tiger and wolf soldiers are guarding Cao Cao's side day and night. It is strictly forbidden to drink alcohol in the camp for 365 days a year, so these 300 people were on alert when the movement started, and by the time Zhang Xiu trampled the ten night patrol Cao soldiers into pulp, the whole battalion of the Tiger Guard Battalion had entered the Shouchun Palace to guard everywhere.

Dian Wei and Xu Chu, who were a little drunk, personally led the tiger warriors to guard the palace gate, laughing wildly and pointing at Zhang Xiu, who came on horseback: "Zhang Xiu'er, you will bring these dozens of lightly armored people to rebel?" ”

Zhang Xiu was silent, and neither were the dozens of Wuwei Battalion soldiers who looked at each other angrily behind him.

There was a heavy sound of stomping on the ground in the dark streets, and a scout-born tiger guard was busy lying on the ground and listening, and half-sounded and wondered: "What sound, heavier than the sound of a war horse stepping on the ground?" ”

At the corner, a strange soldier with a uniform step finally turned. It is the Flying Bear Army with a full set of fine armor all over the body! Zhang Xiu listened to the sound of the flying bear army stepping on the ground neatly, raised his hand and slowly pulled down the mask of the metal helmet, under the wolf-shaped metal mask, only Zhang Xiu's dark and dull eyes could be seen.

The Flying Bears were wearing bear-shaped iron masks, and there was no part of their bodies that was not covered by armor made of fine iron, except for their eyes and hands.

The shiny fine armor in the cold night made the strong tiger guard camp tremble in his heart, even if his neck and legs were protected by chain armor, and even his feet were wearing metal boots.

I don't know who gave the order, but the dozens of crossbowmen of the Tiger Guard Battalion hidden in the hidden place of the Shouchun Palace Wall all appeared together and shot crossbow arrows at the Flying Bear Army, which was walking with firm steps.

The Flying Bears still had small iron shields on their backs, but none of the Flying Bears took the shields to block, or they didn't have time to do so.

Dingdong~

The sound of metal clashing was heard, and crossbow arrows fell in front of the Flying Bear Army.

If you are close, you will find that the Flying Bear Army does not blink when the crossbow arrows fly. Because there's really no need. The essence armor of this whole body, even a strong bow, can't shoot through, and you're still afraid of your little crossbow arrows?

The neat pace was not disturbed in the slightest, and the Flying Bear Army moved forward firmly.

Dian Wei, who finally got serious, pushed Xu Chu away: "Tiger idiot, you go to protect the lord, and the palace gate will be handed over to me!" ”

"Here, get my halberd!" Dian Wei shouted!

At the same time, Zhang Xiu behind the wolf-shaped mask also shouted: "Flying Bear Army! Wuwei Battalion! ”

To the surprise of the Tiger Guard Battalion, the Flying Bear Army, who had a load of at least 100 catties on their bodies, acted as if they were wearing nothing, ignoring the dozens of Tiger Guard Battalion crossbowmen holding bows and crossbows on the palace wall, and rushed towards the palace gate with flying steps!

At the same time, the people of the Wuwei Battalion, who were skilled in horse archery, took out their light bows and pointed arrows at the crossbowmen of the Tiger Guard Battalion who were rising to their heads.

The ultimate showdown is about to begin!

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