Chapter 245: Identifying Identity
With this imperial letter, Xu Bu no longer needed to attack Zhuo County, so that this plan to encircle Wei and save Zhao would be. Instead, he turned the horse's head and hurried to the county seat of Guangning.
During this period, he killed a few lone soldiers at the gate of Daijun and changed into their clothes. Along the way, Su Bu was teaching these soldiers the rules of the Han people, and when they saw the officials, they had to kneel and salute. After arriving at the intersection of Daigun-gun and Uetan-gun, Subu separated from these soldiers in disguise.
Looking at the figures of the soldiers gradually moving away, Subu was very nervous. At the same time, Xu Bu also received a report from the horse exploration arranged by himself in the county seat of Guangning, and the official army battalion had 15,000 cavalry to Zhuo County.
Hearing this news, Xu Bu's face was full of smiles, and when the official army returned in the air, it was very likely that the matter in Guangning County had been resolved by Su Bu.
Now there are only 5,000 mobile cavalry left in Guangning County, if those soldiers can't let Zhao Yi surrender, Xu Bu will lead his troops to attack Guangning County, and break the siege of the official army with the inside and outside of the Qiang Canal in the city.
There were two ways to deal with this matter, and Su Bu had the confidence in his heart, and sent soldiers to pay close attention to the movements of Quang Ninh County, naturally hoping that if the two sides did not use the sword soldiers, there would be casualties if the sword soldiers were moved. Now the Xiongnu tribe, whose strength has been greatly damaged, can not withstand the casualties of the soldiers.
Zhao Yi in the official army camp was discussing with Zhu Jun and others the plan of action to attack Guangning County, how to act so as to reduce the loss of manpower.
"In my opinion, it is better to break through the city gate, divide the cavalry into several squads, and carry out a sweep of the Hun soldiers in the city." Zhao Yi said his suggestion, and there were many houses in the city, which greatly affected the mobility of the cavalry. Moreover, the assembled cavalry was also vulnerable to the attack of the Hun soldiers.
The reason why Qiangqu suffered so many casualties was because the troops gathered in everything when they rushed out of the city gate, and Zhao Yi's round of arrow rain was able to cause Qiangqu to lose thousands of people.
Zhao Yi, who is good at using this way, naturally wants to avoid this matter.
The tools needed for the siege had been prepared three days ago, and Zhao Yi sharpened the striking wood to condense the impact force at one point. Yunti Zhao Yi did not prepare, because Zhao Yi prepared a secret weapon.
is the strategy used to defeat the three brothers of Zhang Jiao last time, calcining the city gate with alcohol, and the only person who can do this in the Three Kingdoms era is probably Zhao Yi.
The siege battle is no better than the battle in the wilderness, even if the strength is as strong as Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, the tiger generals of the world, who fall from the gate of the city three feet high, they will definitely die. It is to kill a thousand enemies and lose eight hundred. If the gates were to be opened, the number of casualties would be minimized.
At this time, the soldiers outside the tent came to report: "Your Excellency, the imperial court herald has an important order to inform your lordship. ”
"Oh?" Zhao Yi just learned from the herald who returned to Youzhou from the imperial court last night that the current situation in the imperial court, He Jin and Zhang Rang were deadlocked, and today there was a will, and it seems that the imperial court has made a decision.
"Please." Zhao Yi waved his hand, and the thoughts in his heart turned rapidly, not knowing which party's suggestion Emperor Han Ling had agreed.
He Jin wanted him to continue to lead the Youzhou soldiers and horses to fight, but Zhang Rang wanted Yang Xiu to lead the Youzhou soldiers and horses instead of him, and asked Emperor Han Ling to transfer Zhao Yi to the capital.
Zhang Rang is the "father" of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, and the brother-in-law is naturally closer to the father than the father.
In any case, Zhao Yi cannot hand over the military power of Youzhou. Giving up the soldiers he trained himself to others, Zhao Yi can't do this, even if he wants to give up the position of Youzhou Mu, Zhao Yi would rather give up the position to Liu Bei, and will never let Yang Xiu, that is irresponsible for the lives of soldiers.
Moreover, the power comes out of the barrel of the gun, and only when he has the army in his own hands can Zhao Yi dare to speak loudly.
Watching the five soldiers enter the barracks with heroic steps, Zhao Yi glanced at these people, glanced at the clothes of these soldiers, fixed his eyes on the cuffs of these soldiers, and rolled his eyes.
When these Hun soldiers in makeup saw Zhao Yi and others in the tent, facing this kind of legendary character for the first time, their nervous hearts beat quickly, and they bowed to Zhao Yi and presented the bamboo tube on their backs with both hands: "This is a letter written by the emperor himself, please read it." ”
Zhao Yi picked up his eyes and looked at the soldier whose arms were trembling slightly, took the bamboo tube, felt out the letter inside, and saw the mark of the jade seal at a glance, Zhao Yi frowned, and looked at the content of the letter again.
Peace talks? Now that the official army is winning, at this time the peace talks are up to them. Zhao Yi put the letter on the table: "Your envoy can rest assured, this official already knows, and will handle this matter immediately according to his will." ”
Zhao Yi's words made these soldiers exhale in their hearts, and said in their hearts that what the general said was really good, Zhao Yi cared about the content of the letter, and ignored himself as a herald soldier at all.
Is Zhao Yi just like that? The young leader also said that Zhao Yi was so powerful.
Since Zhao Yi had agreed to withdraw his troops, there was no need for them to stay here, and they just wanted to bow down and withdraw, but they were stopped by Zhao Yi: "Your envoy, please stay, your envoy has just arrived from the capital, why leave in such a hurry, I am an old acquaintance with your General Qin Chong, how is he in the capital now?" ”
General Qin Chong? It was the first time they had heard of this name, and the soldier knew that Zhao Yi was just asking casually, so he said perfunctorily: "General Qin Chong is now entangled in political affairs, and he wanted to come to send the holy decree in person." ”
"Oh." Hearing this, a smile appeared on the corner of Zhao Yi's mouth, and the soldier thought that he had passed the test, and when he raised his eyes to look at Zhao Yi, he saw Zhao Yi's face full of smiles, and suddenly became cold, and a bad thought suddenly rose in his heart.
Zhao Yi waved his big hand forward: "Take it!" Tai Shici and the others in the tent were all first-class generals, and these Hun soldiers were pressed to the ground before they had time to resist.
"My lord, why are you like this?" The soldier forced himself to defend himself, "I want to report to the court!" ”
Zhao Yi squatted down and stared at the soldier who spoke: "Say, what is your intention in sending a fake letter pretending to be a court herald?" ”
When the soldiers saw that Zhao Yi actually saw their identity, panic flashed in their eyes, and now their lives were at stake, even if they were killed, the soldiers couldn't admit it, otherwise they had only one way to die. "I don't know what your lord is talking about, we are all court heralds, if you don't believe it, you can go to the capital and ask General Qin Chong."
Liu Bei saw the soldier's performance, and pulled Zhao Yi's sleeve: "Bolai must not be reckless, this court herald cannot be killed." The more aggressive the soldiers became, the more certain they were that they were genuine, precisely because they were justified.
"Brother Xuande, these people are not court heralds." Zhao Yi immediately stared at the soldiers and explained, "Tell you the general who commands the soldiers, I Zhao Yi don't know at all." And Qin Chong is my Zhuojun county guard. ”
As soon as Zhao Yi said this, the faces of these soldiers suddenly turned pale, it turned out that Zhao Yi was deceiving himself in all this. I was fooled stupidly.
Zhao Yi did not kill the soldiers, but let the officers and soldiers take several of them down. Glancing at the letter, Zhao Yi threw it into the brazier. Under the scorching charcoal fire, the letter burst into flames and turned to ashes.
Liu Bei asked Zhao Yi very strangely: "Bolai, how did you see through the identities of these soldiers?" ”
Zhao Yi waved his hand very casually: "It's not worth mentioning when you say it, the clothes on the soldiers of the imperial court are different from those of other officers and soldiers, and there is a golden thread dragon pattern on the cuffs, but these soldiers are wearing ordinary official and military clothes, I have doubts in my heart, so I further probe it." Sure enough, these people showed their feet. ”
Although this is something that can be seen on the surface, Liu Bei still admires Zhao Yi and admires Zhao Yi's meticulous observation.
There is one thing that Zhao Yi did not say, because Zhao Yi had just seen that the letter was true, but the herald soldier was fake, and Zhao Yi could use this as an excuse to prevaricate the future court's inquiry, and those few people who pretended to be the herald soldier were the most direct witnesses. This is also the reason why Zhao Yi kept these people's lives.
"These people still have some means, and they can imitate the emperor's handwriting, if we don't see through their identities, we are only afraid that we will be led by the nose by this false will." Zhao Yi sighed, and in a few words, he said that the genuine holy decree was fake.
"What is the content of the letter?" Zhu Jun asked.
"It said that they want us to make peace with the Qiangqu tribe." Zhao Yi said casually.
Zhu Jun smiled when he heard this: "These people can't even forge the holy decree. Bo Lai said the great victory the day before yesterday to the imperial court, and now our department is like a rainbow, and the victory is in hand, at this time we should take advantage of the victory to pursue and expand the results, so that we can negotiate peace with the Qiangqu department. ”
In Zhu Jun's view, when the imperial court learned about the current situation in Guangning County, it should think about how to expand this matter and make it known to everyone, rather than making peace talks.
Zhao Yi's eyes flashed in the direction of Luoyang, now that the government has become the first to govern, even if there are loyal generals like Zhu Jun, Huangfu Song and Lu Zhi, it is difficult to turn the tide.
"Tell your soldiers to step up their training and prepare for the siege." Zhao Yi showed a determined look in his eyes, and he made up his mind to destroy the Qiangqu tribe.
It has been nearly two hours since those soldiers entered the official army camp, and there has been no news yet, which makes Xu Bu very anxious.
After another half an hour, the probe horse, who was probing the movements of the officers and soldiers, came running and reported: "Young leader, the officers and soldiers have not moved. ”
After receiving the order of the imperial court, Zhao Yi should order and prohibit, even if he did not evacuate the army, he should send an envoy to talk to the Hun soldiers in the city, but Zhao Yi did not move, which made Xu Bu feel a little panicked, could it be that Zhao Yi saw through the identities of several people?
Even if I saw through the identities of those people, the letter was real. Thinking of this, Su Bu suddenly understood that the messenger was fake, even if the letter was true, Zhao Yi could also use the topic to question the authenticity of the letter.
"Looks like they've failed." Xu Bu shook his head and sighed, then turned over and got on his horse: "Now that time is pressing, we can't wait any longer. I decided to lead my troops to attack the city of Quang Ninh and plan to break through the siege of the city gate! Now that 15,000 cavalry have left the official and army camp, Xu Bu's confidence in breaking through the official army's defense line has increased a lot.