Chapter 272: Temptation 2/3
Chen Cheng said "tsk" to Liu Qian, then turned his head and said to Zhang Jie: "You go back and tell Duan Xuan, if he surrenders now, I can spare him from dying." β
Zhang Jie argued with reason, and said: "My lord still has 60,000 troops in his hands, and he doesn't want any other rewards, just asking for a county to be guarded, doesn't Chen Yuanjun agree with this?" β
In fact, Duan Xuan did not have 60,000 soldiers and horses in his hands, even if he added the withdrawal from the east, it was only 50,000.
Chen Cheng said: "I gave him a chance, if you surrendered to me three days ago, our army would not have to spend so much effort to build a camp." Now that the preparations for the siege have been half done, the conditions will naturally not be the same as before. β
"Chen Yuanjun," Zhang Jie pleaded, "It's just a day away, why be so aggressive?" β
"Am I being aggressive?" Chen Cheng laughed and said, "Okay, even if I'm aggressive." Your head of the family, Duan Xuan, is just relying on Lu Bu's 100,000 soldiers and horses behind him, but Lu Bu wants to divide his troops to resist Dong Zhuo, he wants to leave troops to guard all parts of Guanzhong, and he wants to divide his troops to defend Chang'an, how many people can he bring to Fufeng County? Even if Lu Bu came, would Duan Xuan dare to let Lu Bu enter the city? β
In the previous battle to pacify Guanzhong, Lu Bu killed a large number of powerful people in Guanzhong, and did not do anything less than slaughtering the generals who surrendered. If Duan Xuan really dared to surrender to Lu Bu, the more soldiers and horses in his hands, the greater the possibility of death. This kind of reasoning, Lu Bu and Duan Xuan should both understand.
Zhang Jie begged in every possible way, but Chen Cheng was unmoved, and ordered the guards to fork him out.
When there was no one else in the big tent, Liu Qian asked, "Master, aren't you pushing Duan Xuan to Lu Bu's side?" β
"Well, you guessed it right, I was just pushing Duan Xuan to Lu Bu's side."
"But why is that?" Liu Qian said puzzledly: "Duan Xuan has tens of thousands of people in his hands, and he has a strong city like Chen Cang, if he has Lu Bu as his help, it will be even more difficult to deal with." Master, you have always cherished the soldiers and the people, is there any other deep meaning in doing this? β
"When I discussed tactics with Zhao Yun and them before, weren't you on the side? Didn't you guess what I was trying to do? β
"This ........"
Fighting a war is a matter of talent and experience, and if you want to become a famous general, you must either have amazing talent and almost beast-like battlefield instincts, and be able to skip all intermediate processes, directly grasp the enemy's weak link, and then launch a fatal blow.
Or, just keep accumulating experience, and wait until one day, suddenly you can understand it and be able to handle all situations. But no matter what kind of famous general he is, he also has his limits, and he doesn't dare to say that he can win all battles.
Liu Qian's martial arts and knowledge are unparalleled among her peers, but after all, she is still young, and those in the army's primary and secondary schools are martial arts and small-scale battlefield commands, and she is not that kind of genius general, so she can't see the significance of their previous arrangements.
Chen Cheng said leisurely: "Thinking is also an important step in learning, you use your own eyes to observe more, use your ears to listen more, and then compare with the facts to come up with your own answers." β
"So troublesome?" Liu Qian pursed her lips and said, "Call me to say, it's better to send troops to attack Chen Cang before Lu Bu arrives, and defeat Duan Xuan first!" β
Chen Cheng said hesitantly: "How can fighting a war be as simple and easy as you say? If we're not careful, maybe our heads will all be hung on the city wall! β
Liu Qian pressed the horizontal knife on her waist and said proudly: "Hmph, if you want my head, ask the steel knife in my hand first!" β
Duan Xuan waited for a result that he never wanted, but he didn't even have the strength to be angry. He maintained his apparent composure and asked, "Chen Envoy Jun said that he wants us to surrender unconditionally?" β
Zhang Jie hung his head and said dejectedly: "Yes." β
"They're still preparing for a siege?"
"Yes."
Duan Xuan asked Zhang Jie to go down to rest first, and then sat alone in the room and thought about it. What does Chen Yuanjun mean by this? Do you really not want to close the gap?
He really wanted to simply let Lu Bu come over, and then the two sides joined forces and fought with Chen Cheng. If it was Huangfu Song who led the troops, Duan Xuan would definitely do so. Unfortunately, it doesn't always work out that way. He took advantage of the chaos in Guanzhong and became a prince with tens of thousands of troops, and he had to deal with the troubles that followed.
Just when he was distraught, the spies came with news from the east.
"Report! Lu Bu has already led his troops to Fufeng and captured two cities! β
"What?" Duan Xuan couldn't maintain the composure on his face anymore, jumped up, and said angrily: "Now that the enemy is still attacking us, is he crazy?" β
Although he asked this question, he was lamenting in his heart: Who is not crazy these days?
The soldier knelt on the ground, staring at Duan Xuan dumbfounded, not knowing how to answer. Seeing this, Duan Xuan remembered the teachings of his dead brother Dun Dun, put away his anger, waved his hand to the soldier, and said, "You go down first." β
"No."
Lu Bu's actions completely broke Duan Xuan's mind of waiting for the price to sell. It's impossible to keep riding the wall, even though it wasn't possible before. So, is it to Chen Cheng or to Lu Bu?
After a painful struggle, Duan Xuan finally made a difficult decision. He ordered his soldiers to open the west gate, and then led the civil and military officials in the city out of the city to surrender.
"Oh, Duan Xuan actually surrendered?" Chen Cheng was a little surprised by this, but it was not unacceptable, anyway, he was ready for both....... Well, it's a lot of hands. In order to deal with the strong army under the command of Huangfu Song, those people in the staff department formulated more than a dozen sets of plans, although most of them are not needed now, but they also dealt with various situations.
No matter what happens, as long as it's not a meteorite from the sky, they can find a plan to deal with it. Now that Duan Xuan has surrendered to Kaicheng, there is also a plan for dealing with it that has been prepared a long time ago.
The cavalry quickly controlled the west city gate, and then the cavalry drove into the city in turn, taking over the city walls, barracks, warehouses, yamen and other places. At this time, Chen Cheng stepped forward, came to Chen Cang City, and said to the defenders who knelt on both sides of the road: "Where is General Duan Xuan?" β
Duan Xuan walked forward on his knees, bowed to the ground, and said, "Sinner Duan Xuan, meet Chen Yuanjun." β
His tone was full of gloom, just a few hours, as if he had aged several years. Chen Cheng dismounted and helped him up, and said: "The general abandoned the darkness and turned to the light, avoiding the fearless casualties of the soldiers, but he came a little late, where is the crime?" β
Hearing Chen Cheng say this, Duan Xuan's heart was a little relieved. Chen Cheng said again: "I heard that Lu Bu has entered Fufeng County, and General Duan is now temporarily leading Fufeng Taishou and has the responsibility of guarding the land and the people, so I will lead the troops to the east to conquer the traitor Lu Bu!" β
Duan Xuan was stunned, raised his head, and saw Chen Cheng looking at him with a smile. He figured it out in an instant, Chen Cheng wanted him to fight to the death with Lu Bu first! Although he had already thought that there would be such a result in advance, when it came to the end, Duan Xuan was still very uncomfortable.
From the Taishou of a county with heavy troops, to the current situation of relying on people's snorts, it is less than half a day. Things are changing so fast that people almost can't turn around. Duan Xuan bowed to the ground and said bitterly: "No! β
After the Xiliang army entered the city, all the original defenders were driven out of the east gate. Chen Cheng didn't even give them a chance to camp outside the city, and directly ordered Duan Xuan to lead his troops eastward. After removing the old and weak, the 40,000-strong army dragged towards the east, and the wolf-like Xiliang army followed closely behind them.
Duan Xuan gathered some soldiers and horses in Fufeng County along the way, and the strength reached about 50,000 troops. Then, they ran into Lu Bujun, who was killing violently. Both sides marched along Weishui, and some brief but heavy fighting broke out after the encounter.
The scouts of the LΓΌ Bu army were more elite, but the scouts of the Duan Xuan army were more numerous. Both sides fought for a while, each suffering some casualties, and then retreated to each other, bringing back the news of the encounter with the enemy. When Duan Xuan was still procrastinating, Lu Bu had already rushed over with the elite cavalry under his command after getting the news.
In Xiliang, in Bingzhou, after fighting in Guanzhong for so long, Lu Bu's level of military use has also improved a lot. The greatest advantage of cavalry is not shock, but mobility. When Lu Bu appeared in front of him with his cavalry, Duan Xuanjun was not prepared at all.
More than 10,000 Fufeng troops marched along the Weishui, with 5,000 on each side of the river. Lu Bu concentrated his superior cavalry and attacked Duan Xuan's army on the north bank with all his might, and it took less than an hour to completely defeat the 5,000 men. Duan Xuan's army on the south bank was desperate to cross the river, and could only watch as friendly troops were slaughtered by Lu Bu's army.
In fact, even if they were able to cross the river and see the brave cavalry of Lu Bu's army, Duan Xuan's army on the south bank would not dare to go over. When the friendly forces were defeated, the only thing they could do was to quickly retreat.
"Mixed ...... Bastard! Duan Xuan kicked over the general who was kneeling on the ground, and scolded: "The soldiers and horses on the north bank have been attacked, what are you doing withdrawing?" Not to mention that if you encounter an enemy on the south bank, even if you do, won't you organize a defense on the spot? β
The general got up and said unconvinced: "Who said we didn't run into the enemy?" The spies have already seen the enemy's cavalry! β
Duan Xuan said angrily: "Shut up, Chen Yuanjun has already ordered, only forward, not backward!" If you withdraw like this, aren't you afraid of military law? β
The general said in a low voice: "That's the military law of the Xiliang people, and it's not ours!" β
Although Duan Xuan unified the soldiers and horses of Fufeng County, he was actually just a group of powerful and warlord alliance leaders, because the time he held power was still short, and he couldn't command these people too much, so the generals were not very afraid of him.
"Big deal, I'm going to ask Chen Yuanjun for guilt! I don't believe it, he still dares to kill me! β
The muscles on Duan Xuan's face twitched, but he also felt that this was an opportunity to test Chen Cheng, now that Lu Bujun had killed, it was not that we didn't resist, but we just couldn't beat it. Since we can't beat it, why don't we go up to the masters of the Xiliang Army?
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