Chapter 48: The Battle for Unification (6)
More than 200 luxurious carriages, full of pots and pans, wine and meat ingredients, birdcage toilets, gambling equipment and card tables, etc., etc., seeing this familiar picture, in Dong Chong's eyes, it was like a world away, remembering the days when he and Dong Erjun spent all day eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling, and unconsciously, Dong Chong, who was specially dressed in filial piety, had burst into tears, and cried loudly on the horse several times, regretting his undefeated soldiers who had repeatedly performed miraculous feats.
"Second master, don't be sad." Dong Chongcong next to him persuaded him: "Go to the Yellow River crossing immediately, and you will be able to meet General Ai's brother and General Ma's cousin, the spirits of the two generals Ai Ma in the sky, knowing that you care about their brothers so much, you will also be dumbfounded." You cried your body, General Aima's undead spirit was sad, and you didn't have the energy to accompany the new General Ai Ma to have fun. β
"Well, I don't cry." Dong Chong replied like a woman, wiping away a handful of tears, Dong Chong slapped his war horse violently, and galloped towards the Yellow River, wanting to see his deceased friend's brother earlier. In order to escape for his life on the battlefield, Dong Chong's war horse has always been one of the best in Dong Zhuo's army, and he left all the servants behind him in the blink of an eye, but fortunately, Dong Zhuo's army has surrounded Cao Cao's army in Dongjun City and White Horse City, Dong Zhuo rode alone, but he didn't have to worry about safety.
It happened that the moonlight was shining that night, and Dong Chong, who was flying under the moon, listened to the wind in his ears, and left the sad past behind for a moment, only wishing to be able to grow wings and immediately fly to his new Dong Erjun. No matter how far the road is, there is a day when it arrives, less than an hour, Dong Chong has already ridden to the Yellow River, and saw many figures and fires on the south bank of the Yellow River from a distance, Dong Chong shouted with joy: "It's coming!" "Flying across the river, Dong Zhuojun's Yongzhou Legion and Jizhou Legion have already set up two strong pontoon bridges on the Yellow River in order to communicate with each other and facilitate passage, so that Dong Chong's Pegasus can easily reach the south bank and run to the upstream figure shaking the embankment.
"Good brother......." Dong Chong's cry of joy was held in his mouth halfway, because Dong Chong had already seen that the people who were active on the south bank of the Yellow River were not Dong Zhuojun soldiers wearing black military uniforms at all, but three or four hundred young and strong people in tattered clothes, who were digging the Yellow River embankment with hoes, shovels and other tools, and the Yellow River embankment as thick as eight zhang had been dug out of a gap of ten zhang wide and five zhang deep.
"Who are you? Get down! When Dong Chongzheng, who was alone, opened his mouth to stammer, more than a dozen young and strong people who were ambushed in the dark had already surrounded him with hoes, shovels and other objects, and one of them seemed to be their leader, and the young man shouted to Dong Chong: "In the middle of the night, what are you doing here in filial piety?" It turned out that Dong Chong, in order to commemorate the old Dong Erjun who sacrificed his life for the country, deliberately wore filial piety clothes to meet the new Dong Erjun, and did not wear Dong Zhuojun's general uniform - it was also Dong Chong's invincible shit luck again.
"These people must be Cao Cao's subordinates, who want to break the Yellow River to flood my eldest brother's troops!" Such a thought flashed in Dong Chong's heart, at this time, the dozen or so Cao Cao soldiers who had withdrawn from Dongjun disguised as ordinary people had already lifted Dong Chong off his horse, and a Cao Cao soldier snatched the sword from Dong Chong's waist, put it on Dong Chong's neck and said to the young man: "Eldest prince, no matter who he is, kill him first, so as not to have any accidents." β
"Brother Meng De, wait for me, I'm here!" At the critical moment, Dong Chong brought his cleverness to the extreme, and immediately cried loudly: "Brother Meng De, brother is here to accompany you." Hearing that Cao Cao's soldiers called the young man the eldest prince, Dong Chong knew the identity of this young man - Cao Cao's eldest son, Cao Ang, the character Zixiu, also knew that Cao Ang's character was humble and generous, and he was extremely filial. At present, the people brought by Dong Chong are still behind, and the new Dong Second Army does not know when it will arrive, so Dong Chong has to pretend to be Cao Cao's old friend to save his life.
"Wait." Cao Ang, who was not deeply involved in the world, was really fooled, and hurriedly stopped the impulse of Cao Cao's soldiers, personally helped Dong Chong up, and asked gently: "Dare to ask this gentleman with a high surname?" Could it be that Mr. Cao Gong, the king of Wei? β
"Xu Yu Xu Ziyuan in Xia Nanyang is an old friend of Brother Meng De." Dong Chong is talking nonsense, pretending to be Cao Cao's old friend Xu You, deceiving Cao Ang's trust, the real Xu You is still in Jizhou prison at the moment, because Dong Chong covets Xu You's family property, and Kang Peng despises Xu You's person, so he has not released Xu You for appointment. Dong Chong cried: "I heard in the Yecheng prison that Dong Zhuo's army was approaching Dongjun, and Brother Meng De had been poisoned by Dong Zhuo, and with the help of Yecheng's old friends, he sacrificed his life to escape from the prison, and hurried overnight, thinking of paying tribute to Brother Meng De in Dongjun. β
"Kill Xu You." Dong Chong cried to death, beating his chest and staggering, just like his wife died, "Brother Meng De has passed away, what is the use of Xu Yu living in the world?" What's the use? Let Xu You go underground to accompany Brother Meng De. β
"Uncle, don't be too sad, my father is still in a stalemate with Dong Zhuo and has not been killed." Deceived by Dong Chong's nonsense, Cao Ang no longer had any doubts, turned over and knelt down and said: "Cao Ang, the eldest son of Cao Gong, King of Wei, has seen Uncle Xu. Cao Ang is filial by nature, and he attaches the most importance to respect and humility etiquette, and he has heard his father say that he is an old friend with Nanyang Xu You, so he was immediately fooled, and his title for Dong Chong was also changed. In fact, you can't blame Cao Ang for being stupid, the main reason is that Dong Chong's luck is too good - who would run around in filial piety clothes in the middle of the night? In addition, Dong Chong has always been hiding at the back when he goes into battle to fight, and Cao Caojun has hardly seen him, so he naturally can't recognize him as Dong Chong, who has a deep hatred with Cao Caojun.
"It turned out to be Zixiuxian's nephew, who has grown so big." Dong Chong pretended to be surprised and happy, pretending to ask Cao Cao about the situation, Cao Ang recounted the situation in Dongjun to Dong Chong, Dong Chong pretended to be suddenly enlightened, patted his chest and rejoiced: "It's good that Meng De is here, it's good that Meng De is fine." β
After Dong Chong's rhetoric, Cao Cao's army had no doubts, and immediately patted off the dirt on his body, tidied up his clothes, and returned Dong Chong's sword to him. Dong Chongjian won the trust of Cao Cao's army, so he pointed to the Cao Cao soldiers who were digging the Yellow River embankment and asked, "Zixiu Xian's nephew, if you don't go to Dongjun to rescue Brother Meng De, what are you doing digging the Yellow River embankment?" β
"My father is weak and powerless, and he can't compete with Dong Zhuo's army." Cao Ang said with a sad expression: "Guo Jiajun's division offered a plan to his father, break the Yellow River to flood Dong Zhuo's army, and relieve the siege of Dongjun. This plan is against the way of heaven, the little nephew Wen can not be safe, the country can not be determined, and he can't kill and retreat the strong enemy for his father, so he asked for his life to decide the Yellow River, and afterwards the little nephew should kill himself to thank the world and apologize for his father. β
"True filial piety." Dong Chong sighed on his lips, and scolded in his heart, "Fuck your mother!" It's easy for you to atone for your father, but what about my eldest brother's army of 200,000? But Dong Chong has nothing to do at the moment, he is now alone, and Cao Ang has more than 400 people under him, and he is powerless to stop Cao Ang's crazy move to break the embankment, the only thing he can count on is that his servants and his new Dong Second Army can arrive in time.
At this time, Cao Cao's army dug more than a zhang deep, and the excavated section of the embankment that was more than ten zhang long was already left with only two zhang thick embankment blocking the surging Yellow River, and Cao Ang was still urging, "Hurry up, hurry up." Dong Chong was in a hurry, took Cao Ang's hand and said, "Virtuous nephew, don't you understand water conservancy?" This kind of decision is not right, even if the Yellow River is opened, it will not drown Dong Zhuo's army, but it will give Dong Zhuo a chance to remedy the rupture and will not work. β
"I would like to ask my uncle to teach me." Cao Ang was really not good at water conservancy and geoengineering, and immediately asked Dong Chong for advice: "How can we break the gap so that we can drown Dong Zhuo's army in one fell swoop?" β
"Stop, stop, pause, that's not right." Dong Chongxian pretended to be an expert to stop Cao Cao's army's river-breaking operation, pulled Cao Ang onto the river embankment, pointed to the surging Yellow River and blew blindly: "Virtuous nephew, please look, the water level here is high on the surface, but the water flow is slow, and the water level is not much different. Dong Zhuoxiong has 200,000 soldiers, and once a flood is discovered, one person can block this place with a dirt bag on his back. β
When he was in Jizhou, because Wei water often flooded, a big task of Dong Zhuojun's Jizhou army was to control the floods, Dong Chong of course kicked this matter to Tian Feng Xinbi and other civil officials to do, but when he pretended to listen to the officials' reports or inspect the governance situation, Dong Chong was very familiar with a lot of water conservancy terms, and now he took it out to bluff Cao Ang, who did not understand water conservancy, but there were some water conservancy experts.
"If it weren't for my uncle's advice, my little nephew would have almost missed a big thing." Cao Ang believed it was true, and hurriedly asked Dong Chong for advice: "Uncle, in your opinion, the little nephew should have any remedies in order to drown Dong Zhuo's army in one fell swoop?" β
"Virtuous nephew, look there." Dong Chong pointed to the river bank a mile downstreamβclose to the pontoon bridge built by Dong Zhuojunβand also close to the way for the new Dong Second Army to go north, Dong Chong smiled: "The water there is violent, the water level difference is high, and the soil is soft, the virtuous nephew only needs to make a five-zhang wide breach there, and the flow of the Yellow River can quickly rush the breach and drown Dong Zhuo's army in an instant." At that time, the virtuous nephew will turn back here and open the riverbank here, under the impact of the water, the riverbank of more than a mile can be broken together, Dong Zhuo said that it was an army of 200,000, that is, an army of millions, and he didn't want to block the breach again! β
"Thank you uncle for your advice, little nephew." Cao Ang bowed deeply to Dong Chong, and hurriedly commanded Cao Cao's soldiers to rush downstream to break the embankment, and suddenly wanted to give up the breakthrough that had almost succeeded. Mr. Xu is very reasonable, the terrain breach there is much more powerful than here, if it is not easy for the enemy to find it during the day, we would have suggested that Childe break there. This suppressed the resentment of Cao Cao's soldiers, and Dong Chong next to him rolled his eyes, and said in his heart that I was talking nonsense about the right place of the battle, and it seems that I really have some talent for conspiracy.
When Cao Cao's army, which was played by Dong Chong, sweated like rain again, although it didn't need to dig so wide, it would take more time to succeed, Dong Chong's heart was put in his stomach, even if it was not clear when the new Dong Second Army would arrive, during this period, the thousands of soldiers brought by Dong Chong himself could also arrive, and by that time, it would not be the same as playing to solve these four or five hundred Cao Cao soldiers.
At this time, Cao Cao's soldiers, who were guarding in the distance, rushed over and reported to Cao Ang: "My lord, I have found an army of more than four thousand in the south, and a large number of carriages, which are rushing towards the pontoon bridge. "Dong Chong is secretly happy, the new Dong Second Army has arrived.
"Cover up the traces quickly, hide it immediately." Cao Ang immediately made a decision, immediately ordered, and pulled Dong Chong to run to the dark place, and then Cao Cao's army quickly covered the excavated earthwork on the breach, fortunately, this time it was not dug deep, and Cao Cao's soldiers quickly covered up the traces of excavation and ran to the dark place where Cao Ang was hidden.
Not long after, Dong Chong saw a team coming from the south, different from the previous old Dong Second Army, the formation of this new Dong Second Army was obviously much more neat, the soldiers were all holding their heads high, and their fighting spirit was high. Originally from the old Dong Second Army to save Dong Zhuojun after the main force of the whole army died, with Kang Peng's big reward and grand memorial, the old Dong Second Army has become the idol in the minds of all the guys, family members and grooms, etc., this new Dong Second Army joined Dong Zhuo's army, the training is very hard and serious, and I don't want to erase the heroic image of the old Dong Second Army, after three years of training, the combat effectiveness of this army has been the same as the main force of Dong Zhuojun.
Seeing that the new Dong Second Army has begun to step on the pontoon bridge, Dong Chong's heart is in a hurry, it seems that Ai Yu and the others have not found the traces of Cao Cao's army digging the river embankment, so naturally they will not search for the enemy everywhere, Dong Chong wants to shout and remind, but he is afraid that the Cao Cao soldiers around him will immediately smash his hoe and shovel into meat sauce, and for a while, even Dong Chong has nothing to do.
"Who are they?" A Cao Cao soldier asked in a low voice, and another Cao Cao soldier, who knew a few words, replied in a low voice: "Look at their banners, it should be the legendary New Dong Second Army, that is, the New Dong Second Army composed of brothers and relatives of the old Dong Second Army who had a deep hatred with our army. β
"They're all heroes." A soldier whispered: "I heard that hundreds of thousands of troops couldn't stop their charge back then, and wherever their banners went, even General Xiahou and General Xu Yang had to escape, and Liu Beijun didn't even dare to touch them." β
Hearing the enemy evaluate his life and death brothers, Dong Chong was both proud and sad, and a little inferior, the tragic battle under the city of Yecheng appeared in front of him again, when his brothers committed suicide on the front line, he hid in the city and watched, and did not dare to go out of the city at all......
Suddenly, a sentence floated into Dong Chong's ears, "However, their main general Dong Chong is a waste who is greedy for life and afraid of death, cowardly as a mouse, his brother is in front of the charge of forgetting life and death, he hides in the city and doesn't even dare to let out a fart, fortunately we didn't follow such a turtle pus." β
"Lao Tzu is not a pustule!" With a thunderous roar, Dong Chong jumped on the war horse beside him at the fastest speed in his life, slapped the horse's buttocks, and roared and rushed towards the new Dong Second Army, "Brothers, there are enemies here!" β
Suddenly, Cao Cao's army was startled at first, and then they were furious, and they threw hoes and shovels and other things to Dong Chong, Dong Chong's head and body suffered a lot one after another, and he was immediately smashed to the point of blood, and the war horse under the crotch was also hit a few times, the war horse was in pain, and the speed was faster, and after knocking down the two intercepted Cao Cao soldiers, he immediately rushed out of the Cao Cao army crowd.
"Enemy attack!" The second army of the new Dong finally discovered the existence of this Cao Cao army, Ai Yu gave an order, more than 4,000 new Dong second army quickly formed dozens of combat squads, outflanked this side in a fan shape, and Dong Chong, who was rushing to the front, bumped into a team of new Dong Second Army head-on, and before Dong Chong could shout, the soldiers of the new Dong Second Army had already pulled up the tripstring, Dong Chong was not in a hurry and fell to the ground, and several soldiers of the new Dong Second Army had already tied him up strongly.
"Wrong! Wrong! I'm your commander Second Master Dong, and the enemy is over there! Dong Chong's shouting and struggling annoyed the soldiers of the New Dong Second Army who tied him up, and Dong Chong screamed bitterly with his fists and feet, and those soldiers of the New Dong Second Army also scolded while beating, "The thief-eyed dog thief dares to pretend to be Dong Erye and look for death!" "Second Master Dong has a dignified appearance, will he grow into what you look like?" "Ouch! I'm really Dong Er'......, oops! "Kill him, let this dog thief dare to pretend to be Dong Erye!"
When Dong Chong was beaten by his own brothers here, the new Dong Second Army had already fought with Cao Cao's army, and the power of hard training was evident at this moment, two short knife men and a pikeman's combat team advanced and retreated in an orderly manner, attacking and defending the sky seamlessly, killing these Cao Cao army corpses without suitable weapons were all over the field, holding their heads and running around, but the new Dong Second Army had already surrounded Cao Cao's army from the side in accordance with the guidance of the tactical canon, and in a short time, more than 400 Cao Cao's troops were captured or killed, and only a few people had to escape. Including Cao Cao's eldest son, Cao Ang, was captured alive by the soldiers of the Second Army of Xindong. Cao Cao's only chance to turn defeat into victory was finally stifled by Dong Chong and the new Dong Second Army.
On the other side, Dong Erye, who was captured as an enemy, still claimed to be Dong Chong, the commander of Dong Zhuo's Jizhou Army, but he really didn't have any military temperament when he was wearing filial piety, and the soldiers and generals of the new Dong Second Army had never seen him, so he naturally didn't believe it, but Ai Jin's second brother Ai Yu was more cautious, and asked Dong Chongdao: "You claim to be Dong Erye, the chief general of our old Dong Second Army, then let me ask you, what big things did you do when you were usually with Lao Dong Second Army?" How? β
"When your brother and brother Ma were with me." Dong Chong replied honestly: "First captured 800 Jinfan thieves alive, then broke the Xiongnu and Karasuma in Bingzhou, and later annihilated 3,000 tigers and leopards, skillfully beheaded Yuan Shao's general Wen Chou, and scared away Cao Cao's 40,000 troops with an empty city plan in Yecheng, and finally ....... β
Before Dong Chong finished speaking, everyone in the New Dong Second Army had already greeted him with their fists and feet, and the soldiers of the New Dong Second Army scolded while beating, "Nonsense!" Dong Erye and the old Dong Erjun were clearly captured alive 8,000 Jinfan thieves, annihilated 50,000 tigers and leopards, and used the empty city plan to scare away Cao Cao's million-strong army, these things that passers-by know, you dare to talk nonsense! β
"An army of millions? Cao Cao's Qingzhou doesn't have a million people, right? Dong Chong hurriedly distinguished, but the new Dong Erjun was even more angry and hit harder, Dong Chong hurriedly shouted again: "Don't fight, what I said is true, Brother Ai and Brother Ma often drink flower wine together, prostitute together, gamble together, abduct and sell human ......, ouch!" Yes! Spare your life! β
"Kill him! Dare to smear the hero Lao Dong's Second Army, who doesn't know that they obey the law and discipline, they are not good women, their military orders are like mountains, and they are a model for soldiers in the world......"
Afterwards, the first thing Dong Erye did when he returned to Chang'an City was to arrest and beat up those people in Dong Zhuojun's Foreign Propaganda Department.