On October 16, the ninth year of the Han Dynasty, Dong Chong skillfully stopped Cao Ang's crazy move to dig the Yellow River embankment in the early morning of the second day, Dong Zhuo's Jingzhou Army vanguard Zhang Xiu's troops came to Runan, and the spearhead was directly aimed at Liu Bei's defense line in Runan, along the way, Zhang Xiu's troops swept through the western part of Yuzhou with the autumn wind sweeping the leaves, and the cities of Xinye, Dengcheng, Anzhong, Nanyang, Anle and Lushan fell in the wind, although Liu Beijun repeatedly spread rumors that Dong Zhuojun ate people and did not spit out bones, and incited people everywhere to resist or flee. Wherever the Xiliang army went, the poor people crowded the mountains and worshiped beside the road, in order to register the ten buckets of life-saving food distributed by Dong Zhuojun to each person, so that they could receive winter grain and seeds and farm tools for spring from Dong Zhuojun in the future.

To capture Runan, the first thing to do is to solve the defenders of the ancient city of Liu Beijun, Zhang Xiujun just set up a large camp on the periphery of the ancient city, and before the camp was settled, Zhang Xiu called his deputy general Hu Che'er, and scolded when he opened his mouth, "Hu Che'er, you idiot, you ate five cows of Lao Tzu along the way, and now it's time to do something, take a thousand soldiers to the ancient city to scold the formation, and you must scold the ancient city guard Pei Yuanshao and beat him to death!" I see....... Fool, don't patronize and eat beef, listen to Lao Tzu! ”

Zhang Xiu's words seemed to be useless to Hu Che'er, Hu Che'er was still holding the beef and munching, so angry that Zhang Xiu grabbed a few inkstones and smashed them on his head, "Lao Tzu spoke to you, didn't you hear?" The palm-sized inkstone was broken in half on Hu Che'er's bald head, Hu Che'er quickly stuffed a piece of beef into his mouth, and said vaguely as he ran out: "General, I know, you ask the cook to cook more beef, and you will be hungry when you come back." ”

At this moment, in the ancient city, the defender Pei Yuanshao, according to the order of Zhuge Xuan, the commander of Liu Bei's Runan Army, captured all the men in the city as an army, gathered more than 12,000 people, plus the original 3,000 defenders, there were already 15,000 troops, trying to resist the attack of Zhang Xiu's troops with crowd tactics. When Zhang Xiu's troops were encamped, Pei Yuanshao wanted to lead his troops out of the city to meet the battle, but before Pei Yuanshao's troops were assembled, a small colonel came to report, "General, the enemy army is scolding under the city." ”

"How many people? Who is leading the team? Pei Yuanshao asked.

"Back to the general, there are only more than 1,000 enemy troops, and the leader is Zhang Xiu's deputy general Hu Che'er." The little school replied.

"Zhang Xiu'er, dare to look down on me so much!" Pei Yuanshao was so angry that he shouted, Zhang Xiu only used a thousand people to attack the city, and only used a deputy to attack the city, Zhang Xiu himself did not show up at all in the camp, and his disdain and contempt for Pei Yuanshao was indeed extreme. Pei Yuanshao roared like thunder: "The whole army is dispatched to chop up all the 1,000 people!" ”

Pei Yuanshao was still behind the rage, and as soon as Pei Yuanshao arrived at the city gate, he heard Zhang Xiu's troops outside the city shouting and scolding him, "Pei Jiayuan (sound: Xuan) Shao, salty and shameful!" Pei Jiayuan Shao, Wang Ba Da Shao! "The upper beam is not correct and the lower beam is crooked, Dong Chong's troops are eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling, and the five drugs are complete, Li Dao Guo Yan's troops are murder, arson, robbery, rape, and all kinds of evil, Zhang Xiu's troops are naturally scolding people, exposing and beating people, and slapping people in the face, a foul language, scolding Pei Yuanshao's ancestors for the eighteenth generation to the blood, greeting all the female relatives of Pei Yuanshao's family, making Pei Yuanshao so angry that he almost vomited blood on the spot.

"Quick! Get out of town, I'm going to cut these bastards with my own hands! Pei Yuanshao, who was trembling all over, urged the soldiers to go out of the city again and again, but Liu Beijun still had to untie the ropes on the strong men who were forcibly pulled, and give these strong men sharpened wooden sticks.

The two armies set up the battlefield outside the city, Dong Zhuojun's side of the army was neat, the clothes and armor were distinct, the war horses were wonderful, the soldiers were full of spirit, and they were already murderous before the battle; Liu Beijun, who was far above Dong Zhuojun in numbers, was just the opposite, needless to say, the men who were forcibly pulled, from the gray-haired twilight old man to the eleven or twelve-year-old boys, all of their clothes were in tatters, and they were completely forced to go to the battlefield by Liu Beijun's supervision team with weapons, and the weapons were almost all sharpened wooden sticks, where can the morale be high? Even Liu Bei's regular army was no better, their armor and weapons were shabby, and they only dared to hide behind the men who were temporarily brought in to show off their might, and almost no one stood in front of the team.

"General, the enemy is pushing the people in front, and he must want to use the people to charge first and consume our combat strength, what should we do?" A tooth general asked Hu Che'er in a low voice. This method is the most headache tactic for Dong Zhuo's generals, if you fight, the people will definitely suffer heavy casualties, even if you win the battle, your reputation is not good, it will arouse the anger of the local people, and it is even more difficult to explain to Kang Peng; But with a little soft-heartedness, these people who were driven here would disrupt or even disperse Dong Zhuojun's lineup, and the enemy would have a chance to take advantage of it.

"It's fine." Hu Che'er chewed a cow tendon and said aggressively: "You guys scold harder, just scold Pei Yuanshao and fight me alone." ”

That Dong Zhuojun is right to think about it, as long as Pei Yuanshao is scolded and Hu Che'er is a monster, then he will have no chance to go back alive, Liu Beijun will have to fight without a fight, and these innocent people in front of the battle can also take advantage of the chaos to escape. The tooth general waved his hand, and a thousand Dong Zhuojun scolded neatly, "Pei Yuanshao, I fuck the grandmother of your ancestor for the eighteenth generation, and if there is a kind, come out and fight alone!" If you don't come out, it's the son of the king eight turtle turtle! "A thousand people scolding an enemy general is rare to see on other battlefields, and only a scolding general like Zhang Xiu will go to study and train.

"Hu Che'er dog thief, I want your life!" Pei Yuanshao was really fooled, forgetting that Zhuge Xuan repeatedly explained that he must use the death order that the people must charge first, slapped the horse and raised the gun, wow wow shouted and rode out of the battle alone, pointing directly at Hu Che'er who was sitting on the ground munching beef, but Hu Che'er seemed to be unconscious, just after gnawing on the hand, he took the beef handed by the soldier and munched it, seeing that Hu Che'er looked down on him to this point, Pei Yuanshao was even more angry at the bullfight, the steel gun in his hand was sweating, and his eyes were almost spitting fire.

When Pei Yuanshao was only more than 100 steps away from Hu Che'er, Hu Che'er suddenly put down the beef in his hand, grabbed a 185-pound iron stick, jumped up from the ground, and rushed straight to Pei Yuanshao at a speed faster than the galloping horse, Pei Yuanshao stared at Hu Che'er's every move, and when the two were about to collide, Pei Yuanshao shouted, and the steel gun in his hand was raised, piercing Hu Che'er's chest, who knew that Hu Che'er suddenly roared, like thunder, he jumped up from the ground to the ground, dodged Pei Yuanshao's steel gun, and the iron rod fell in the air, right above Pei Yuanshao's head, Beat Pei Yuanshao's head into the neck cavity alive!

"The general's divine power is invincible!" In the cheers of Dong Zhuojun's soldiers, Hu Che'er rushed back to the front of the army with lightning speed, sat on the ground and grabbed the beef and munched on it, without even looking at Liu Beijun, who was frightened and silent, until this time, Pei Yuanshao's body staggered and fell off the horse. Taking advantage of the chaos of Liu Beijun's army, Dong Zhuojun's cavalry took the opportunity to charge, and the combat squads passed through the people driven by Liu Beijun, and directly inserted into Liu Beijun's rear team, killing Liu Beijun's regular army to the point of scurrying and easily occupying the ancient city.

Liu Beijun was just defeated, the people of the ancient city who were forcibly captured immediately scattered, each went home and fled, Zhang Xiu sent the troops to pacify the people, out of the list of people, but the ancient city is small, can not live in Zhang Xiu's army of 50,000, Dong Zhuojun only sent a few civil officials into the city to take over political affairs, the army is still stationed outside the city. At the same time, Zhang Xiu, according to the order of Xu Shu, the commander of Dong Zhuojun's Jingzhou Army, wrote down the details of the battle of the ancient city in words, and sent it to Xu Shu quickly.

After the fourth watch of the night, Kuaima sent Zhang Xiu's battle report to Xu Shu, and Xu Shu asked Ma Chao and Ma Liang and others to discuss. Xu Shu analyzed: "Judging from the information provided by General Zhang Xiu, Zhuge Xuan must be the idea of fighting the sea of people, driving the local people as the vanguard to resist the attack of our army, but Pei Yuanshao fell for General Zhang Xiu's radical tactics, and our army can successfully take the ancient city." But Zhuge Xuan is not Pei Yuanshao who is brave and unscrupulous, if our army attacks Runan, Zhuge Xuan will definitely use this trick to deal with our army, it is very difficult for us to do it. ”

"What's so hard about it?" Ma Chao said contemptuously: "It's a big deal to kill the people together, who told them not to flee early?" ”

"It's not that the people won't run, it's that they can't escape." Ma Liang said heavily: "Since our army adopted an economic blockade war against Liu Bei, the people of Yuzhou have often fled, and later Liu Bei came up with a method of joint sitting, ten households for one guarantee, one household fled, and all ten households were killed, so that the people could not supervise each other, so these people could not escape." ”

"In the last years of Emperor Shun of the Han Dynasty, Runan County had a population of 2.1 million." Xu Shu smiled bitterly: "Even if there have been natural disasters and man-made disasters over the years, and many people in Runan have died and fled, and now there are at least 400,000 people in Runan, if Zhuge Xuan drives all these people to resist our army, do we dare to learn from Baiqi?" "Ma Chao stopped talking, with a population of 400,000, hand in hand, he could be lined up from Runan to Xiangyang, and he really wanted to slaughter so many people, even if Kang Peng spared him and didn't die, the sky wouldn't spare him.

"General Zhang Xiu should be ordered to suspend the march and wait for the main force of our army to arrive in Runan, and then see the opportunity to act." Ma Liang suggested: "Let the fine work lurking in Runan City incite the people, and see if we can use this opportunity to encourage the people to revolt, and when our army attacks the city again, it will be much easier." ”

Zhang Xiu's troops, who were like a bamboo all the way, finally stopped marching, not that Dong Zhuojun was afraid of the main force of Liu Beijun's Runan Army, but worried about Liu Beijun's despicable tactics, but Liu Beijun didn't seem to want to let the people go, and sent a large number of troops down to the countryside to arrest the people, wanting to give them more people on their backs, and more shields to resist unification. Or this is the madness of Liu Bei after tearing off the mask of hypocrisy when he was facing destruction, in history, Liu Bei in Jingzhou to resist Cao Cao's attack, the army used human flesh to satisfy hunger......

"Report to the general, Liu Beijun once again swept in the east, north, and south directions of Runan, searching for the people who escaped by luck." On the second day after the march was stopped, Zhang Xiu's other lieutenant general, Zhang Xian, reported to Zhang Xiu on Liu Beijun's movements and said: "From morning to now, Liu Beijun has captured thousands of people and is being escorted to Runan City. ”

Zhang Xiu was silent with a gloomy face, the main force of the Jingzhou army still had two days to reach the ancient city, and in these two days, Liu Beijun didn't know how many people he had to capture into the city, and Dong Zhuojun's siege was bound to be more difficult. But Zhang Xiu couldn't send troops to rescue, Xu Shu had repeatedly told in the order that Zhuge Xuan was cunning and resourceful, and he would definitely expect Dong Zhuojun to send troops to stop him, and if he rashly sent troops, he would definitely fall into Liu Beijun's ambush and frustrate Dong Zhuojun's spirit.

Zhang Xiu was sad here, his favorite deputy Hu Che'er rarely didn't eat beef, but squatted in the corner of the tent to figure out something, Zhang Xiu didn't fight out, and used to kick Hu Che'er's buttocks, kicking Hu Che'er on a big horse, Zhang Xiu scolded: "Idiot, what the hell are you doing again?" ”

Hu Che'er was not angry, rubbed his buttocks and smirked: "General, I'm watching ants move big bugs, there are so many ants." ”

The tent is set up in the wild, there are ants is not surprising, but Zhang Xiu has followed his uncle Zhang Jinan to fight in the north since he was a child, and rarely has the opportunity to contact these children's toys, Zhang Xiu was curious for a while, looked carefully, and saw that there was indeed a big green worm on the ground, and there were already dozens of ants gnawing on the big green worm, although the big green worm was constantly rolling and crawling, but the ants that fell down were reluctantly crawling to the green worm, and more ants were still crawling from outside the tent, and so on, until there were hundreds of times the size of the ants to bite the green worm to death.

"There's a way." Zhang Xiu suddenly slapped his thigh and shouted, which startled Hu Che'er, thinking that Zhang Xiu was going to beat him again, so he quickly flashed to the side, but Zhang Xiu not only did not beat him habitually, but instead shouted outside the tent as he walked, "Gather cavalry, gather 3,000 cavalry for me, and prepare dry food and water." ”

After a while, after the 3,000 well-trained Xiliang Iron Cavalry were assembled, Zhang Xiu kicked Hu Che'er into the team and shouted to the cavalry brigade: "Brothers, now the army of the big-eared thieves is going around Runan to capture the people, and they want to pull those people to give them a shield. I now order that your cavalry be divided into a team of ten horsemen, divided into a hundred teams, and go to the area of Runan to harass the army of big-eared thieves who have captured the people, and create an opportunity for the people to escape."

"Remember, to fight on the move, if you encounter the enemy's small army, you can fight, and when you encounter the enemy's large army, you can run, you have four legs, and the army of the big-eared thief has only two legs, and it will never be able to outrun you, I don't want you to kill as many enemies as you want at once, even if you only kill one enemy in an attack, a hundred teams can kill a hundred enemies." Zhang Xiu shouted: "You are doing this, not only to accumulate yin virtue, but also to make the siege of our army easier, and the reward of the king will be indispensable in the future!" Do you understand? ”

"Understood!" The Xiliang Iron Cavalry roared in unison, in fact, Zhang Xiu also asked in vain, the combat method of long-distance running is exactly what the Xiliang Iron Cavalry is best at, if anyone dares to answer and does not understand, then he will definitely be kicked to the Flying Bear Army as an infantry by the best treated Iron Cavalry in the army.

"Hu Che'er, the only advantage of this idiot is that you can run faster on two legs than four." Zhang Xiu scolded: "This time you will lead the team, you will lead ten cavalry squads to concentrate on action, if the other squads are surrounded, use fireworks to send signals, you will immediately save them for Lao Tzu, and come back Lao Tzu will reward you with beef." ”

"Don't do it!" Hu Che'er jumped three feet high, "The more than 2,600 cows you owed me last time in Poyang Lake have not been cashed yet, and I don't believe in your credit." The Dong Zhuojun cavalry next to him laughed loudly, one of these two went into battle to bargain, and the other did not give the bill, and they were already a pair of living treasures in Dong Zhuo's army.

"It's for cash this time." Zhang Xiu blushed a little, "Every time you rescue a surrounded Xiliang Iron Rider, I will reward you with a pound of beef and cash it on the spot." ”

"Too little." Hu Che'er shook his head and said, "Three catties." ”

Zhang Xiu clenched her fists, looking very distressed, "One and a half pounds." ”

"Two and a half pounds."

Zhang Xiu gritted his teeth, "Two catties, don't pull it down!" ”

Hu Che'er smirked, waved a big iron rod, and shouted: "Let's go and settle accounts with the big-eared thief." "The Xiliang Tie rider next to him has a crooked nose, and after a long time, their lives are worth two catties of beef?

As soon as the three thousand iron horsemen left the camp gate, they scattered, leaving Zhang Xiu in the camp and gritted his teeth and said: "Zhuge Xuan, you want to pull the people as shields, I want to see how you deal with my ant tactics?" ”

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More than half an hour later, a Dong Zhuojun's iron cavalry team encountered a group of Liu Beijun holding the people, this Liu Beijun only had more than 50 people, and was escorting three or four hundred people tied together to the direction of Runan City, most of these people were some women, children and old people, almost no luggage, let alone food, into the food shortage of Runan City, their fate can be imagined, the cry in the team shook the sky, from time to time there are elderly people fall to the ground, can no longer get up.

When those Liu Beijun's soldiers circled around the young women among the people, there was a sudden sound of horses' hooves and shouting on the plain, and before these Liu Beijun could react, ten fierce Xiliang iron horsemen had rushed into their team, wielding knives and slashing Liu Beijun's soldiers, four or five Liu Beijun were dead in the wilderness on the spot, and the other Liu Beijun had just raised their weapons to resist stubbornly, and the ten Xiliang iron horsemen had rushed past them, and by the way, they cut down two enemies, Liu Beijun's soldiers couldn't help but be in chaos, and Xiliang Tieqi took the opportunity to go around in circles and kill back, Chopping and stabbing Liu Beijun's soldiers, and so on a few times, these Liu Beijun couldn't parry it, and fled for their lives. Ten Xiliang iron horsemen quickly cut the ropes on some of the people's bodies, and ordered, "Flee to the ancient city." He swung his knife again to chase and kill those Liu Beijun soldiers who fled for their lives.

In the afternoon of the same day, such a scene can be seen everywhere around Runan, a large number of ten horses as a group of Xiliang iron cavalry swept the mountains and fields of Runan like a whirlwind, when they saw a small group of Liu Beijun, they chased and slashed, and when they saw a large group of Liu Beijun, they took a detour, if Liu Beijun chased after him, because the speed of the team was different, there would be a situation of falling behind, and these Xiliang iron cavalry teams immediately took advantage of the situation to pick up the enemy who fell behind. Before evening, Liu Beijun, who had suffered heavy casualties, did not dare to act alone, and the people of Yuzhou around Runan took the opportunity to flee to the ancient city and escape from the clutches of the devil.

Someone had already reported to Zhuge Xuan in Runan City, but after hearing the tactical use of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry into pieces, the resourceful Zhuge Xuan couldn't help frowning, the speed of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry was too fast, even if there were only ten people in each team, it would be difficult for Liu Beijun, who was dominated by infantry, to encircle and annihilate them even if he had superior forces. However, Liu Beijun's general, Gong Du, patted his chest and shouted: "Military advisor, let me take the cavalry out and destroy a few such squads, so that the Dong thief's people will not dare to be arrogant anymore." "Liu Beijun still has more than 2,000 cavalry in Runan City, although it is not as elite as the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, but in the case of more and less fighting, it will not be vulnerable, Zhuge Xuan has nothing to do, so he has to agree.

In a moment, Gong Du led a thousand cavalry to rush out of Runan City, killing the most rampant area of Xiliang Iron Cavalry activity, I don't know whether it was Gong Du's luck or misfortune, and really let him block a resting Xiliang Iron Cavalry Squad, this Xiliang Iron Cavalry saw that the enemy was overwhelmed, and they were all cavalry, so they did not dare to take risks, and immediately sent out a distress signal, and the beautiful fireworks quickly bloomed in the sky, and a radius of ten miles can be seen clearly.

"The enemy calls for help, kill them all at once." Gong Du rushed ahead first, shouting, "Then meet the enemy's reinforcements." ”

A thousand Liu Beijun cavalry shouted and rushed to this Xiliang Iron Cavalry team, who knew that they had not caught up with the shadow of this Xiliang Iron Cavalry, and more than 100 Xiliang Iron Cavalry had rushed to the side, killing Liu Beijun's cavalry from the side, and the first bald man was only on foot, but rushed to the front of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, shouting while running, "Fooled, fooled, I asked for help once in the afternoon, only twenty catties of beef, what a loss." ”

"Fooled!" Hu Che'er was the first to rush into Liu Beijun's team, wielding an iron stick and beating indiscriminately, the one hundred and eighty-five pounds of big iron rod Liu Beijun was injured when he touched it, and he died next to it, Gong Du turned back to fight with him only as soon as he joined it, and the big knife was smashed away by Hu Che'er's big iron rod, and he fled in embarrassment. The Xiliang Iron Cavalry that rushed from the side slashed the enemy with standard cavalry raid tactics, and did not fight with the enemy, Liu Beijun's cavalry did not have time to turn their horses to meet the enemy, and they were cut down more than 20 horsemen in an instant, and the fallen cavalry tripped over their companions behind, and they were killed in a blink of an eye.

When Liu Beijun's cavalry finally adjusted its formation to meet this Xiliang Iron Cavalry that was killing from the side, this Xiliang Iron Cavalry had already passed through their team and walked away, as for the Xiliang Iron Cavalry team that was almost surrounded at the beginning, it had already fled without a trace. The most annoying thing is that Hu Che'er ran away and turned back to Liu Beijun's cavalry and shouted, "You have to work hard, attack a few more cavalry squads of us, and I can exchange for beef!" ”

From the next day, Liu Beijun no longer dared to go out of the city to kidnap the people, but stayed in the city honestly until the arrival of the main force of Dong Zhuo's Jingzhou army.