Chapter 568: The Butterfly Effect

It is said that after Zhao Yun broke Hefei City, he unexpectedly gained two important hostages, one of which was Xiahou Ba, the second son of Xiahou Yuan, and the other turned out to be Cao Ang, the eldest son of Great Wei.

Although Cao Cao used his soldiers like a god, he also liked to take risks, delved into his past combat examples, won battles beautifully, and lost battles, obviously longer than tactics and shorter than strategy. Now he left his favorite son Cao Ang in the rear of Hefei City, which he thought was the safest, but was finally captured by Zhao Yun, the tiger of the world.

The Qinglong army occupies this city, like blocking the living eye of the Cao army, and the more Cao army is blocked between Hefei and Lujiang, the faster the grain and grass will be consumed. I'm afraid that in just two days, the Cao army, which escaped by luck on the periphery, will spread the news of the loss of Hefei to the five-way Cao army around the Lujiang River, and as for when it will reach the ears of Cao Cao in Jiangxia, in that era of news blockage, it will take at least five to ten days.

The butterfly in front of him flapped its wings, but it would set off a storm on the other side of the world, once the news of the loss of Heqi City spread, the morale blow to Cao Jun was definitely super huge, and the trapped beasts were still fighting, so many Cao Jun had to fill their stomachs, and they would desperately break through to both ends.

The time to take Heqi City is in Zhuge Liang's budget, and Zhao Yun also released the flying pigeon as soon as possible, and the Jiangdong Army of Lujiang and the Qinglong Army of Jiangxia will inevitably learn the news soon. Once Cao's army makes a move, a pursuit battle will quickly unfold.

Zhao Yun's task was to stick to Heqi as much as possible and completely cut off the grain and grass passage of the Cao army. As soon as the grain and grass are cut off, the five-way Cao army surrounding the Lujiang River must be panicked, the front is the Yangtze River and the Lujiang Zhou Yu heavy army, to the east is the Dabie Mountain where thousands of mountains and birds fly away, and to the west is the muddy and difficult Chaohu swamp wetland, they only have two options to quickly take Lujiang City and turn around to break through Heqi City, otherwise once the grain and grass are consumed, there will only be people who eat people.

To the north of Heqi City, the nearest military towns of the Cao army are Xiapi City and Xuzhou City. Both cities had just been captured by Cao Cao when he went south, and the people's hearts were already unstable, and the old forces were still ready to move, and more grain and grass were raised from the rear of Qingyanzhou. Once the large army is in a stalemate, the only way to withdraw is to retreat as soon as possible.

Strategically, the moment Zhao Yun took Heqi City, he was already doomed to the failure of Cao Cao's southward use of troops this time. Zhao Yun ordered Cao Ang and Xiahou Ba to be placed under house arrest in a small courtyard on the side of the City Lord's Mansion, where they were strictly guarded but treated well. The rest of the men and horses completely suppressed the remaining resistance in Heqi City, posted a notice to calm the people, and the people knew that it was the Qinglong Army that entered the city.

Chen Long's benevolence in the Lingling area had long been famous all over the world, and the people immediately spontaneously organized to welcome the Qinglong Army, and Zhao Yun took the opportunity to mobilize the masses, organized reserve militias, issued bows and arrows, and immediately arranged the defense of the city. The most dangerous city gate was the east gate near the source of the general's leading water, where Zhao Yun had placed heavy troops.

The day's fierce fighting finally ended, calm was restored in the city, Gao Shun and Gao Ran had already reported, and the Cao soldiers in the eastern camp had been completely annihilated, and nearly 1,000 Cao troops were captured. Zhao Yun had a headache in the face of so many surrendered troops, and wanted to say that those who surrendered would not die, and those who did not surrender would be beheaded immediately, but remembered that the lord Chen Long never killed prisoners, and he would let go of the passage if he did not surrender.

Gao Shun was responsible for defending the north city gate, and still set up observation posts in the east and west camps to prevent Cao troops from the north from raiding the city gate. Zhao Yun kept inspecting the defense of the city, and his heart was infinitely missing the military advisor who stayed in Wancheng. Fu Zhu is excellent in resourcefulness, but he is not good at long-distance horseback riding, and this time he did not follow Zhao Yun to come, Zhao Yun can only rely on his own wisdom to do his best to protect Heqi City.

After three consecutive days of sleeplessness, even Zhao Yun felt a trace of fatigue, and ordered someone to issue a rest order, and all the soldiers and civilians formed a defensive three-shift. Among the generals of the Cao army, there was an official named Su Lin who supervised the grain depot, who was responsible for receiving the grain and grass transported throughout the whole process and reasonably allocating it to the Cao army of the Fifth Route who surrounded Lujiang. Su Lin was erudite and well-read, he was originally a civil official under Cao Cao, and his rank was very high, so he was able to gain Cao Cao's trust to play such an important role, but unfortunately between life and death, he still chose to surrender.

The most important thing in Heqi City is the grain depot, Zhao Yun took a hundred guards and ordered Su Lin to lead and go straight to the grain depot in the north of the city. Su Lin took out a large string of keys beside him and opened several large grain depots, and sure enough, the military rations were piled up, all of them were military rations transferred from Xiapi, and the latest batch had not yet been sent. Zhao Yun's inspection has been completed, and Su Lin is still responsible for guarding the granary, Su Lin saw that Zhao Yun was not suspicious of employing people, he could be said to be grateful, and said to Zhao Yun with tears: "General Zilong, although he has descended, his family and a pair of children are still in Xuzhou, if he is unfortunately slaughtered by Cao Cao, it hurts to think about it." ”

Zhao Yun's heart moved, remembering that the lord was benevolent and intended to be in the hearts of the people, and when he saw that there was no one around, he immediately said: "Master Su, not many people know about your surrender, and they are all my henchmen. ”

"I want to find out the news from the north now, and no one can do it for me, but you are the best candidate."

Su Lin's eyes widened, as if he had predicted Zhao Yun's intentions, and sure enough, Zhao Yun said: "You can choose to go back to Xuzhou to secretly pick up your family, and only say that you escaped from Hefei." After settling the affairs of your family, I want you to go north again to find any of the troops of Guan Yu, Tai Shici, Yan Liang, Zhou Budo, and Guo Jia who crossed the Yellow River to harass Cao Cao's rear, and lead them south to harass Xuzhou, and even rush to the aid of Hefei. You are familiar with the road, and when you see Zhou Budo or one of Guo Jiajun's divisions, they will make their own plans. ”

As he spoke, Zhao Yun took out a small jade plaque from his waist, stuffed it into Su Lin's hand and said, "This is my personal token, and the two military advisors naturally know each other." Su Lin turned out to be a jade medal, and received the Qinglong Army's release order, and went to arrange for the north not to mention it.

Outside the city, the Qinglong Army scouts have been released on all sides, and dark posts have been set up on the main roads, and everything has finally been arranged, and it is already dark in Heqi City, and the lights are on. There were still a lot of people gathered in the city lord's mansion, cheering and celebrating in the hall, and as soon as Zhao Yungang stepped into the city lord's mansion, many people immediately came over to toast.

Zhao Yun took a glass of water and drank it all, sat in the main seat in the lobby, and the fatigue instantly surged up like a tide, remembering that the Qinglong Army's virtue and political reputation spread all over the world, and the people were yearning for happiness, so that the people sang and danced here, and spontaneously gave themselves this glass of wine, and couldn't help but smile on their faces, for the benefit of the people was so happy in their hearts, so they sat in the Taishi chair and fell asleep.

Find out what happens next, and listen to the next breakdown.