Chapter 64: The thief can't change it
"Trouble, trouble! This Guan Yun Chang...... Hey, I've heard that it's quite good to fight, but it's too good at making enemies! How many Ren Taishou and Du Wei turned a blind eye and took a share of the salt lake revenue and stopped it.
This guy wants to lift the table and completely bring the salt lords in the three counties of Xie Liang to justice? As a result, Haoqiang colluded with the white wave thieves, causing us to be surrounded in this Anyi city! I don't know if this city can be defended for a few days, if the city is broken, then Guan Yu must also be punished by the imperial court! β
Hedong Taishou Fan Ling looked at the besieged Bai Bojun under the city, and his heart was already panicked, and he didn't know how many times he had scolded Guan Yu, who was still polite a few days ago.
Troublemakers!
Fan Ling was not afraid of the siege strength of the Bai Bo army, he knew that with the Bai Bo thief force of Yang Feng's department, if he wanted to break through the strong city of the county level, he would definitely have to spend at least five or six days to build heavy siege equipment, and it was impossible to attack quickly.
What Fan Ling is worried about is the internal response - since the white wave thief Han Xian dares to attack Xie Liang, it means that Han Xian has an internal response in Xie Liang.
And the reason why there are people who respond, Fan Ling also figured it out, is the previous bunch of reasons.
In this case, with a political sense of Taishou, Fan Ling can be generalized: Xie Liang's salt lord Haoqiang doesn't want to be a man under the rule of Guan Yu, the captain, so will Anyi's salt lord hope?
As long as Guan Yu lives for one day and puts on this posture of thorough investigation, all the salt lords and heroes in Anyi and Xie Liang counties are all of the same mind, and they will consider the possibility of "I would rather be a thief than destroy Guan Yu, at least the Bai Bo army will not want to share as much as Guan Yu, and the Bai Bo army will not want to completely eliminate the illegal salt".
It is also thanks to Fan Ling's empathy and political acumen that after being besieged in the early morning and staying up until the evening, there was a head of a salt lord near the west gate of Anyi City.
As a result, when the labor army was in trouble, they suddenly attacked and tried to open the city gate to welcome the thieves into the city.
Fortunately, Fan Ling was worried about this situation and personally patrolled the city, so he led his own army to plug the leakage and enforce the law, and killed the salt lord Haoqiang family who tried to be the internal response. Rao is like this, or two officers defending the city were caught off guard and killed by a sneak attack by Haoqiang who tried to sacrifice the city.
If it weren't for Fan Ling's keenness, I'm afraid Anyi City would have fallen.
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Compared with Fan Ling's political acumen, Guan Yu today is still quite naΓ―ve politically.
The experience he had accumulated over the past few years was all to solve military problems, and he rarely considered issues such as court suspicion politically.
Therefore, the rhythm of his return to Anyi was also purely arranged from a military point of view, and the march was very slow.
Before approaching the city of Anyi, he camped thirty miles away from the city and rested for the night, to ensure that the soldiers were energetic and would enter the city after dawn the next day.
The reason why Guan Yu is so serious is also to consider that "those who travel a hundred miles and seek profit can be generals", and he does not want to give the besieging thief army a chance to wait for work. And he was very confident in the solidity of Anyi City, and firmly believed that even if he relied on the one or two thousand local troops that Taishou Fan Ling could dispatch, even if he didn't save it for three or five days, he was not afraid of being attacked.
Because of this, after camping late that night, when he received the report of the scout sent to Anyi City to inquire about the military situation, Guan Yu broke out in a cold sweat.
"What? Yang Feng of the White Wave Army actually organized a siege in the evening and almost took control of the West City Gate? How is this possible, is it that there is an internal response in the city? β
Guan Yu put down "Spring and Autumn", pondered for a while, and consulted with Zhao Yun for a long time before he roughly understood the possibilities.
Thanks to Taishou Fan Ling's keen awareness! It is estimated that an attempt to rebel and sacrifice the door was prevented from within the city, otherwise if Fan Ling was killed by thieves, he, the captain of Hedong, would have done it!
The lieutenant was transferred from the main force of the county army to other counties, which led to the fall of the county and the killing of the Taishou, which was a very serious crime, and the dismissal was not enough, and he might be sentenced to a heavy sentence.
It's really dangerous to be a military general in the imperial court.
After being afraid for a while, Guan Yu did not dare to delay any longer, and ordered that the meal would be made on the fourth watch tomorrow, and after eating, he would rush to the city of Anyi at dawn, and if he encountered the enemy in battle, he would defeat it, and the enemy army would enter the city directly if he did not stop it.
Only by personally mastering the four defenses of Anyi County can Guan Yu feel at ease. In this situation, it is impossible to care about whether it will be wasted to defend the city with cavalry.
At the same time, Guan Yu's heart became more and more hateful to those salt lords and Haoqiang families in the three counties of Salt Lake in Hedong.
Originally, when he was a teenager, he was only bullied by the local salt lord Haoqiang in Xie Liang County, and because the salt lord Haoqiang of Anyi and Yi clan had no intersection with Guan Yu, he didn't think about whether he hated the house and Wu.
This time, he was almost ruined by An Yihao's forcible thief, and Guan Yu pinched his cold sweat while becoming more and more determined to completely liquidate himself before leaving.
These thieves! It just happened that the family wealth they had saved over the years of monopolizing private salt was used for heaven!
In the early morning of the next day, everything went according to the plan, and Guan Yu's thousands of cavalry killed outside the west gate of Anyi City at the end of the fifth watch, when the sky was slightly bright.
Yang Feng's Baibo army surrounded Anyi on all sides, so the strength of each gate ranged from three to five thousand people at most, Guan Yu desperately attacked a little, and the troops on the other three sides were not as good as support, of course, they were easily broken through.
And the reason why Yang Feng didn't defend was that he didn't expect Han Xian to die so soon, so he didn't expect Guan Yu to appear so soon.
Taishou Fan Ling spent the night in the city tower last night, and he didn't dare to sleep, for fear that someone would take advantage of him not to observe the door after he slept.
Hearing Guan Yu's shouts of killing, and seeing Guan Yu break through the enemy siege through the morning light, Fan Ling's heart finally settled, and he hurriedly ordered to open the city gate to take Guan Yu in.
"Thanks to the timely return of the captain, the people of Anyi have been saved, and the old man has not slept all night, so this place will be handed over to the captain."
Fan Ling hurriedly went back to sleep.
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However, Yang Feng, who was outside the city, was broken through a siege by Guan Yu's early morning attack camp, and his mood was also depressed, so he came to inspect with some of his cadres, and also organized a tentative siege of the city, but it turned out that the defensive quality of the defenders was not improved by a star and a half compared with yesterday, and he hurriedly left more than 100 corpses and retreated.
In the afternoon, the bad news came further: several heads were thrown out of the city, and it is said that two more large salt lord households with the white wave thieves were found and beheaded to show the public, which hit the morale of the white wave army outside the city.
I don't know if these salt lords really tried to sacrifice the city or were framed by Guan Yu, anyway, Yang Feng didn't have time to receive any contact from them.
"Guan Yu is a ruthless man! He came back so quickly! He brought thousands of elite soldiers into the city and cleaned the internal response, and I am afraid that this Anyi will not be able to capture it for a while. can only hope to find another ally, or block Guan Yu, divide the troops to plunder the other two counties, and leave. β
In the evening, after returning from the camp, Yang Feng called a few of his henchmen to discuss countermeasures, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion.
Xu Huang, a young general under his account, bowed his hand and persuaded: "Qu Shuai, Guan Yu can come, which means that Han Xian has been defeated." When our army sent troops, it was ready to attack Han Xian left and right, but now it is a lone army, and it is better to retreat early in order to hold on to it. β
Yang Feng waved his hand: "How can the army run empty?" This year, Hedong, Pingyang, and Shangdang are already hungry and withering, and if they get nothing, they are afraid that there will be not enough food to survive the winter when they go back, and they will not be able to beat Anyi, so at least they will grab the Yi clan nearby, and loot the wealth of the powerful salt lords there. β
Xu Huang was shocked when he heard this: "Didn't Han Xian come to expel the imperial court at the invitation of those salt lords and take a percentage of the shares?" Now that Guan Yu has not repelled it, he has looted those salt lords, or has he looted them all...... Will you be laughed at by your fellow citizens? β
Yang Feng: "They are the conditions they negotiated with Han Xian, I didn't agree, I came uninvited, what if I take a sum!" β
Yang Feng made it clear that the thief did not go empty.
Xu Huang shook his head: "Even if you want to plunder, you have to do it as soon as possible." I think that since we don't storm Anyi City, instead of besieging them to death, it is better to only surround one or two sides, so as to concentrate our forces. Otherwise, if our army divides its troops to obtain wealth, it will be attacked by Guan Yu out of the city, and the loss will definitely be not small.
And it is best to withdraw within five or six days, otherwise, the main force of our army will be delayed here for a long time, and it will be bitten by Guan Yu, and I am afraid that Ding Yuan will also be ready to move on the east side of the river behind me.
If Guan Yu finally goes out of Wangwu Mountain along the river, according to Zhouyangyi, and the line of Xuze, the road of our army to Pingyang County will be cut off; And Ding Yuan and Lu Bu entered Changping and Gaodu, and cut off the throat of our party along Qinshui and Danshui, and our army would be besieged in a narrow area surrounded by Wangwu Mountain and Xiangshui, Qinshui, and Danshui. β
The terrain of Shanxi is very fragmented, cut into pieces by Taihang Mountain, Wangwu Mountain, Luliang Mountain, etc., and the northeast of Hedong County has to go to Pingyang County and Shangdang County, and the roads are very limited.
In particular, the road to Shangdang County was the ancient battlefield of the battle of Qin and Zhao Changping during the Warring States Period.
It's just that Lu Bu will have enemy troops in front and behind at that time, so he has to base Qinshui in front and defend Danshui in the back, greet Yang Feng with Qinshui, and reject Hu Cai, Li Le and other Baibo Qu Marshals behind him with Danshui - provided that Hu Cai and Li Le are willing to actively support Yang Feng at that time. In fact, with the White Polish Army acting separately, this is unlikely.
Usually, if Yang Feng is guarded by Ding Yuan and Lu Bu on the Changping Ancient Road to Shangdang County, it is nothing, because he can still choose to retreat to Pingyang, and there is already a spare tire route.
But if at the same time, he was entangled by Guan Yu, and when the time came, the troops would retreat, and Guan Yu would use the cavalry to take the lead in blocking the main road to Pingyang, then Yang Fengke would really be caught in the urn.
Yang Feng heard Xu Huang say so earnestly, but he also knew that this was all true, so he accepted part of it with some reservations:
"We will grab it as soon as possible, no matter whether the Yi clan is easy to break or not, our army will withdraw after five days, and it will not become a lone army behind the enemy."
It is still necessary to rob it, but give Xu Huang a face, and hurry up.
"Alas......" Xu Huang felt his eyelids jump, but he also knew that he was not responsible for being in charge of the house, and he didn't know the degree of lack of money and food, so it was not easy to persuade him.
Yang Feng's army followed the plan, and the next day began to turn to robbery, and also contracted the siege of Anyi, so as not to be broken by Guan Yu by Guan Yu if there were too few troops outside the gate.
Of course, Guan Yu can see these changes clearly at the head of the city, after all, some of the enemy troops outside the city gate have disappeared directly, and this change is still obvious.
"This is a white wave thief who wants the thief not to go empty." Guan Yu sighed teasingly with Zhao Yun.
Zhao Yun touched his beard and said, "How did I remember that the lord asked us to stop Zhang Ju on the bank of the Xuanshui River?" Didn't Zhang Ju also loot Bohai County at the beginning, and obtained hundreds of millions of property, and later Boya designed to use this huge wealth as bait to lure Lu Yi and Pan Feng to help me fight Zhang Ju. β
Guan Yu smiled and nodded: "It's really ...... In this case, Boya can use it, and we can't use it? If Yang Fengzhen dared to rob the Yi clan's salt lord savings, Lao Zilong went to Ding Yuan to deliver a letter, and asked Ding Yuan to close the door and beat the dogs together, blocking Yang Feng's Changping Road to the upper party, and our Hedong Army and Hanoi Army joined forces to destroy the thieves. β
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PS: Let's stop here for the time being...... It still doesn't seem to have bridged the timeline...... Wash your hair, soothe your nerves, and rest.