Cai Ji stood on the watchtower with his hands cut behind his back and watched Gongsun Jun on the opposite side practicing martial arts in an orderly manner on the school field, and his eyebrows couldn't help but twist into a ball. Counting from his fingers, Cai Ji has been trapped in the White Wolf River for more than ten days, and in the past ten days, Gongsun Kang has only launched a few tentative attacks in the first three days, and then adopted an attitude of besieging but not attacking the Qi army of the White Wolf River, which has remained to this day. As for Badun, he has not appeared since the first day. Therefore, the pressure on the Qi army in the past few days is not too great. But Cai Ji, as the head coach, didn't dare to slack off for a moment, because she knew that the treacherous and cunning Guo Tu must have other plans

Thinking of Guo Tu, a self-deprecating wry smile appeared on Cai Ji's face. Over the years, with his understanding of historical figures, Cai Ji has passed all the way and laid a huge territory in the late Han Dynasty as a daughter, but over time, he has also formed a mindset that relies on historical knowledge. Just like Guo Tu's evaluation in history, it is vain and flattering. And the appearance of Badun in history is also lackluster. Therefore, when he was invited to the White Wolf Mountain Alliance, Cai Ji did not connect the two of them. However, in retrospect, in fact, there are still traces of the trap set by Guo Tu this time.

Regardless of the suspicious head, Bandun itself has the evaluation of "Elder Bian is more than Madun, relying on its obstruction, daring to suffer death, and being a hero". It can be seen that it is by no means easy to deal with. And Guo Tu's performance this time is enough to be described as amazing, which can be said to have greatly subverted Cai Ji's consistent image of Guo Tu. Therefore, if the night attack on Wancheng made Cai Ji understand that historical events are full of all kinds of unpredictable changes, then this siege of the white wolf made her realize that the same people will have very different expressions under different circumstances.

In fact, Cai Ji was not the only one who got carried away this time, from the destruction of Yuan Shao to the successive victories that had already formed a kind of arrogance that looked down on the heroes. In addition, he had cooperated with Lin Fei and others for more than six years before, and Jinxi and Liaodong vassal states were even more self-explanatory to each other, and they had repeatedly resisted Gongsun Du's father and son going south. In the eyes of most people, the relationship between Bang Dun and Qi Ying is an alliance, and it is a matter of course for Bang Dun to declare himself a minister to Cai Ji, who is pacified and secluded. Therefore, when the envoy of Badun presented Guo Tu's head, everyone did not feel any difference. On the contrary, he was eager to try to get out of the customs and show his strength, annihilating the grandson father and son entrenched in Liaodong in one fell swoop, and adding another territory to his own master. Because of this, when Badun and Gongsun Kang appeared side by side in front of the Qi army, the local generals in Youzhou were far more surprised than Cai Ji.

But it's too late to say anything now. Of course, Badun has explained to the world what it means to be "not of my race, but its heart must be different". But at this time, Guo Tu, who was "vainly drawing snake feet", was leading tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to surround the entire Qi camp. Therefore, Cai Ji's primary consideration now is how to break out of the encirclement in front of him.

Regarding how to break through Cai Ji's staff, there were two plans in total, one was to take advantage of the dark night and high wind to send a team of dead soldiers to pretend to break through, and after attracting the Gongsun army, the main force would escort Cai Ji to break through to the west of Jin. The second is to wait for external reinforcements to come to the rescue, and then they can rush out of the encirclement by joining forces with the outside. After pondering for a while, Cai Ji finally decided to wait a few days. Anyway, the food and grass in the camp are quite abundant, and the morale of the whole army is strong enough. It may be better to make the enemy think that they are waiting for reinforcements, and then break through overnight while they are unprepared.

However, just when Cai Ji lowered his head and counted the details of the breakthrough. A loud trumpet suddenly sounded in the enemy camp on the opposite side. Cai Ji looked up at the sound and saw a group of Wuhuan cavalry crossing the camp of the Gongsun army towards the Qi camp and heading straight for the Qi camp. The Gongsun army along the way stopped what they were doing, and danced at the Wuhuan cavalry, as if they were celebrating something.

"Qi Hou, that's the Qi Army Battle Flag!" The sharp-eyed Cao Pi recognized the banner of the Wuhuan people at a glance. However, looking at the familiar flag, Cai Ji's heart completely fell to the bottom. Because at this time, there is only one possibility for the Qi army battle flag to appear in the Gongsun army camp.

At this moment, he saw the opposite side as the leader, riding a horse and passing through the gate first. With a provocative attitude, he planted the battle flag of the Qi army in his hand on the position of a stone's throw in front of his own formation. The Wuhuan cavalry that followed neatly untied the skin tied to the saddle. In the blink of an eye, bloody human heads rolled out of the heavy skin, and in a short time a hill was piled up under the battle flag. A mound made of human heads.

Seeing this situation, the people who realized it later also realized that most of the battle flags and heads came from the Qi army who rushed to the rescue. Obviously, it was the Bandun Department that defeated or even completely annihilated the Qi reinforcements on the periphery. In this way, the Wuhuan people on the opposite side had the capital to come to the front of the Qi army to build a demonstration in Beijing.

"Qi Hou!" Cao Pi quickly stepped forward to support Cai Ji, who was stumbling and about to fall, but was gently pushed aside by the pale-faced latter.

Cai Ji is not afraid of the sea of corpses and blood, thinking that she also built a Beijing Temple in Qinghe with the head of Wuhuan thieves to retaliate against Lou Ban's looting of Hebei. But Cai Ji never imagined that one day someone would use the heads of her soldiers under her command to build a Jingguan in front of her. At this moment, anger and guilt occupied Cai Ji's heart, and at the same time, she felt for the first time what it was to be trapped and fighting.

There is no doubt that Gongsun Kang and Ban Dun on the opposite side want to use the head of the reinforcements to break the morale of the soldiers of the Qi battalion. Just like Cao Cao in the original history, after the successful raid on Wuchao, he cut off the noses of more than 1,000 captured soldiers and the lips and tongues of all the cattle and horses he had captured to demonstrate to Yuan Shaobu. And Yuan Shaobu's army was also in turmoil because of this, so the army was defeated. If Cai Ji was still confident in the morale of her soldiers before, then at this moment, she has lost the confidence she had at the beginning.

After this scene. Will the soldiers still trust Lonely? How many people are willing to fight alone?

And just when Cai Ji was uncertain, he suddenly heard someone singing in his ear, "How can you say that you have no clothes?" with the Son. Wang Yuxingshi, repair my spear. Enmity with the Son......"

The manly tune made Cai Ji feel unconsciously energetic. So she hurriedly followed the sound and looked back. I saw Youzhou Zhizhong Tian Chou standing on the watchtower on the other side and singing "Qin Feng * No Clothes" loudly. Inspired by the ancient war songs, first the generals and colonels around Cai Ji, then the soldiers guarding the village around him, and even Cao Pi and Sun Quan sang the song "Qin Feng * No Clothes" with Tian Chou. Some of them may have never heard of this ancient poem from the Book of Songs, and some may only remember a few words, but after repeating it several times in a row, the singing of the crowd became more and more neat and louder.

How can you say that you have no clothes? with the Son. Wang Yuxingshi, repair my spear. Enmity with the Son!

How can you say that you have no clothes? With the Son. Wang Yuxingshi. Fix my spear. Work with the son!

How can you say that you have no clothes? with the Son. Wang Yuxingshi, repair my armor soldiers. Walk with the son!

With the majestic battle song, the gate of the camp suddenly opened, and Zhao Yun, who was on a white horse and silver armor, led a biao iron horse to fly out from the door and went straight to Jingguan. The Gongsun army on the opposite side saw that the Qi army sent troops to capture the flag, and also sent a team of soldiers and horses out of the camp to intercept it. In the blink of an eye, two torrents set off a storm of blood and sand in front of the two armies.

There is a way that mourning soldiers will win, and the Wuhuan people's move to build a capital view in front of the battle just now undoubtedly aroused the hatred of the Qi army officers and soldiers. Don't look at the fact that the men and horses of the Qi army are far less than the enemy army, but the morale is unusually high. Especially Zhao Yun, who was the leader, was like a dragon entering the sea to kill, and the blood mist around him was rolling.

And just as Zhao Yun stabbed left and right with a spear in his hand, as if entering a no-man's land, he collided head-on with an enemy general. But seeing that the man was using a sledgehammer, without saying a word, he roared angrily and smashed it towards Zhao Yun's head. Seeing the giant hammer coming at the top, Zhao Yun stared at the tiger and staggered to avoid the fatal blow. The spear in his hand followed the trend and stabbed diagonally, and a shot pierced the throat of the opponent.

Gongsun Jun saw that his general was picked by Zhao Yun in only one round, and then thought of the prestige he left in Heshuo, and one by one he trembled in fright and fled. And the surrounding Qi army became more and more brave under the encouragement of Zhao Yun. In a short time, it rushed to the place where the Gongsun army was a stone's throw in front of the army.

"Shoot the arrows! Shoot your arrows! Gongsun Kang in front of the gate pointed at Zhao Yun, who was getting closer and closer, and roared hysterically. He never thought that the Qi army would dare to go out of the camp to capture the flag after learning that the reinforcements were destroyed, let alone that the elite he was proud of would be so vulnerable in front of Zhao Yun.

On the other hand, Zhao Yun was not afraid of flying arrows in the sky. And he was seen prostrated on his horse. With a move, Haidilao Yue raised the battle flag in one fell swoop, which attracted applause from all over the camp.

Seeing Zhao Yun snatch the battle flag in one fell swoop and return to the camp, he couldn't help but gasp and sighed, "Zhao Zilong is really an enemy of ten thousand people. ”

Gongsun Kang snorted angrily, "Why did the adults make others angry and destroy their own prestige? ”

As soon as he wanted to say something sarcastic, he listened to Guo Tu behind him analyze in a deep voice. "Although Zhao Zilong has the courage to capture the flag, he has no power to break through. There is a way, husband fights, courage also. All at once. Then it declines, and then it is exhausted. The Jinxi reinforcements have been wiped out by Lord Bunton, and Cai Anzhen is just the end of the crossbow. ”

Gongsun Kang listened to what Guo Tu said, and nodded with a slightly pale face. Although it failed to hit the morale of the Qi army today, it finally wiped out the reinforcements from Jinxi. Therefore, in the eyes of Gongsun Kang, Cai Ji and the Qi army under her account seem to be in his Gongsun Kang's pocket. Thinking of this, Gongsun Kang couldn't help but arrogantly say to Qi Ying on the opposite side, "The military advisor is reasonable. I want to see how long Cai Ji's can last! ”

At the same time, Cai Ji had already led a group of civil and military officers to the Yuanmen to greet Zhao Yun and others who had returned triumphantly. It is undeniable that the previous battle was only a small victory, which could neither reverse the current disadvantage of the Qi army, nor allow Cai Ji to escape from the layers of encirclement. But in Cai Ji's eyes, this is a far more precious victory than the battle of Guandu in the past. Because it made Cai Ji realize that the human heart is the cornerstone of overcoming a qiē difficulty. And this qiē is all thanks to Tian Chou's song "No Clothes"

Therefore, as soon as he saw Tian Chou, Cai Ji saluted him and thanked him, "If it weren't for Zitai's help today, I would be alone!" ”

In fact, Cai Ji never thought that Tian Chou would help her at a critical moment. It is important to know that Tian Chou was a famous hermit in the late Han Dynasty in history. At the age of twenty-two, he was appointed as a special envoy by Liu Yu, the assassin of Youzhou, to go to Beijing to meet the Son of Heaven. At that time, the Han Emperor Liu Xie was trapped in the palace, and Chang'an was controlled by Li, Guo and others. Seeing that Tian Chou rushed all the way to Beijing, and entered the seal of Youzhou Mu Liu Yu to support the imperial court, the young son of heaven knew that the people of the world still had the Han family in his heart, and his spirit was immediately lifted, and he immediately sealed Tian Chou as the captain of the cavalry and asked him to stay in the court as an official. But Tian Chou politely declined the canonization of the Son of Heaven on the grounds that "the Son of Heaven is not at peace, and he cannot be favored by Hepei". However, before he could return to Youzhou to recover his life, Liu Yu had died tragically at the hands of Gongsun Zhan. Tian Chou, who learned of Liu Yu's death, not only did not escape, but came to Liu Yu's grave, took out the emperor's decree from the cloth, recited to the tomb, cried loudly after the recitation, and bowed down to the tomb. When Gongsun Zhan learned about it, he was furious and sent someone to arrest Tian Chou and question, "Why did you cry for Liu Yu's tomb instead of sending a seal to me?" Tian Chou replied calmly, "The Han family is declining, and people have different hearts, but Liu Gong is not loyal." As the chapter newspaper said, General Yu is not beautiful, and I am afraid that he is not happy to hear it, so he will not enter. And the military will do big things to do what they want, not only destroy the innocent king, but also abide by the righteous ministers, and do this sincerely, then Yan and Zhao Zhishi will all go to the East China Sea and die, how can they bear to follow the general! Later, Gongsun Chan was dissuaded and released Tian Chou. After Tian Chou was released, he led hundreds of clans and subordinate villagers to move to Xu Wushan and plough for self-support. In the past few years, more than 5,000 families have returned from foreign people, and it has become a world of new immigrants. After that, Gongsun Zan and Yuan Shao successively sent people to invite Tian Chou to go out of the mountain, but he sternly refused one by one. Historically, after helping Cao Cao pacify Wuhuan, Tian Chou also resigned the title given by Cao Cao.

However, in this time and space, due to Cai Ji's active promotion of reclamation in various states under his rule, many policies even affected the remote Xu Wushan. So, in order not to let his hard work go to waste, Tian Chou had to be invited to take up the post of Youzhou Zhizhong. Of course, Cai Ji knew that she was no different from Yuan Shao, Gongsun Zhan, Gongsun Du and others in Tian Chou's eyes, so she never forced this hermit in the late Han Dynasty to give her advice. So much so that when Tian Chou sang "No Clothes", Cai Ji was stunned for a long time and didn't react.

It's just that Cai Ji didn't know that although Tian Chou's temper was stubborn, he was by no means a pedantic person. The reason why he will resign the high-ranking officials promised by the princes again and again is mainly because he is not used to the selfishness of the princes from all walks of life and the people of the world as grass mustard. Although Cai Ji is also a prince, she also has the heart to chase the deer, but she is more concerned about the suffering of the people than other princes. In particular, its recently launched Juntian system made Tian Chou, who has always regarded himself very highly, admire him so much, and at the same time agree with Cai Ji's rule over Youzhou from the bottom of his heart.

Therefore, instead of being proud of his achievements, Tian Chou at this time blamed himself, "I can't do it." This time, he failed to see through Guo Tu's treacherous scheme, which put Qi Hou in danger, how could he accept such a great gift. ”

"Zitai..."

Cai Ji looked at Tian Chou differently, but the latter bowed to her solemnly, "We will swear to help Qi Hou get out of danger, and please make Qi Hou live and work in peace and contentment." ”

In fact, Tian Chou is not the only one who expects Cai Ji to bring a better life to the people. When the triumphant soldiers and horses approached the gate, the surrounding soldiers once again sang the same war song. And looking at the familiar flag fluttering in the wind in Zhao Yun's hands, Cai Ji only felt a heat in his chest, and blurted out an oath, "Lonely will live up to the trust of Qing!" (To be continued......)