In late July, the weather gradually cooled, and there were still two main battlefields on the land of Hebei, one under the city of Guangzong in the south, and the other under the city of Quyang in the north.

However, the situation between the two places, which had been at odds for months, is now very different.

In Xiaquyang, through the battle of the Transition River, from the center to the locality, from the army to the people who transported grain, almost everyone knew that only after the siege was completed, the city would be able to go down in a battle. And Guangzong, for the officials and soldiers who went and returned, it was undoubtedly a little frustrating.

"Mengde!"

In the evening, seeing Cao Cao, the commander of the cavalry, riding back from the Chinese army's tent, Xiahoudun, who was waiting at the gate of the camp, couldn't bear it anymore, and just greeted the other party and asked in the middle of the road. "I have re-established the fence and set up camp according to your instructions, and some yellow turban thieves in the middle have been driven away...... What does the military council say? ”

"What can you say?" Cao Cao got off the horse, turned his neck, and then laughed for a moment and led the horse into the camp. "Now that the camp has stabilized, it is natural to rearrange the siege! The equipment destroyed by the Yellow Turban thieves needs to be rebuilt, the bulldozed fences must be rebuilt, and the surrounding strongholds, dirt hills, and trenches that have been taken away must be recaptured......"

"Isn't that a waste of all your work?" Xiahoudun, who kept up, was a little embarrassed for a while. "How can you still laugh?"

"In this situation, as a 2,000 stone in the army, if I don't laugh, will I still cry?" Cao Cao said disapprehantly. "It's Dong Gong, he was also smiling in the account just now, and he never lost half of his ambition."

Xiahoudun sighed: "I know that you have to take into account the morale of the army and not lose your dignity, but our battalion is full of veterans who have fought in many places, do you really think you can hide it from them?" ”

"It's not to hide it from them, but to boost morale from the generals themselves." Cao Mengde glanced at the soldiers in his battalion, but he still didn't think so. "Our army is in such a situation, although the offensive has been frustrated for a while, but it is only a frustration in the offensive. In terms of the overall situation, the situation of the Yellow Turban Thieves becoming less and less supportive, will it change because of this return? Let's still have the upper hand. ”

"Who doesn't know this?" Xiahoudun became more and more anxious. "It's all about progress! On that day, he followed the five senses Zhonglang to fight in several places, and the meritorious service of the thief was as casual as drinking water and eating, why did he work so hard in Guangzong? ”

"In my opinion, Dong Gong and Lu Gong are not incompetent." Cao Cao came to the tent in his camp, threw the horse rope in his hand to a personal guard, and went directly into the tent. "It's just that there are a large number of thieves here in Guangzong, but they are generally good at fighting, and they believe in the Taiping Dao, so Zhang Liang, who led the troops, is also a steady ...... That's where it goes. ”

"Didn't Xia Quyang also say that the soldiers would be wide, and the city would be high and the river would be wide?" This time it was Xiahoudun's turn to disagree, he chased into the account, avoided the people around him, and took the opportunity to speak more directly. "How will Zhonglang with five senses kill Zhang Bao in a battle, there are only 20,000 soldiers left? If you want me to say, whether it was Lu Gong before or Dong Gong now, not to mention that they are incompetent, they are all a bit wasted. ”

Unexpectedly, this time Cao Cao did not directly deny it, he stopped in the tent, and sighed for a while: "Isn't there only one person in the world who uses soldiers like a god like Wen Qi?" You can't generalize about everything. If you really want to compare, you and I are also older than him, and this situation is not as good as Lu Gong and Dong Gong! ”

This time, it was Xiahoudun's turn to laugh: "I won't say it, Meng De has not studied military affairs before, so he is naturally inferior to the generals with five facial features, but now that you have only been in the army for half a year, you are already skilled in the general affairs of the army, and you will be able to become a famous general of the country in the future, and live up to your life ambitions and the trust of your elders." ”

Cao Cao changed color abruptly.

Xiahoudun knew that he was speechless, and he quickly changed his words and asked: "July 15 is the time of Meng Qiu's sacrifice, and he happened to move the camp at that time, and he missed the opportunity, do you want Meng De to find incense and candles to worship Qiaogong at this time?" ”

That's right, Hashigen is dead.

died in May, but it was a mess at that time, and the road from Luoyang to Qiao Xuan's hometown Liang Guo was not very safe, so it was not buried in time, and it was not until Huangfu Song led troops to Runan to win consecutive battles and stabilize the surrounding situation, and Qiao Xuan's family returned home...... Of course, at this time, whether it was the imperial court or the protégés of the Qiao clan in the world, they all had the heart to mourn, that is, Cai Yong specially set off to Liang Guo to help write the monument and erect a biography, and Cao Cao only then learned about the death of the other party in Guangzong.

"No need." After thinking for a moment, Cao Cao slowly shook his head. "If the deed is not accomplished, what face will be used to sacrifice the deceased? And let the commander of the army and above come to the tent to discuss the siege and the battle. "At this point, Cao Mengde added a little bit of information." I think Dong Gong's meaning is that he wants Ming Heaven and the emperor to fight with the thieves for a while, so as to restore morale, and then go to re-siege the city...... When you call people, tell these things to Le Wenqian and Li Huizhi, and let them each get ready, maybe it is a place to show your face. ”

Xiahoudun, who knew that he had aroused the other party's heart, didn't dare to say more, so he hurriedly retreated, but went to organize a small range of military discussions in the camp.

There was no word all night.

Early in the morning of the second day, sure enough, the commander of the Han army, Dongzhonglang sent Dong Zhuo up and dispatched almost all the senior officers, and concentrated the elites of each department to go out of the camp together.

This earthen mountain is located outside the west gate of Guangzong City, and there is also a temporary camp on it, which was built by Lu Zhi before to monitor the thieves of the West Gate...... Strategically, there is something to be said.

However, this mountain is not too high to form an absolute suppression of the city gate tower in front of it, and the area is not too large, so it cannot be called a decisive thing. Therefore, this time, Dong Zhuo led the crowd to raise the flag and came slowly...... The challenge is clearly more important than the capture.

Zhang Jiao in the opposite city and Zhang Liang who was camping outside the city also immediately understood what the other party meant, plus they also needed to boost their morale, so soon, the two armies tacitly confronted each other in the open space outside the west gate of Guangzong City.

Among them, Zhang Jiao personally came to the gatehouse on the west side of Guangzong City to watch the battle, while Zhang Liang personally led the troops to this dirt mountain, and Dong Zhuo personally drove the troops to the front of the battle to watch from afar.

In other words, compared with previous years, Dong Zhongying at this time is actually plumper and a little older...... There is a reason for this, for example, after the official career came to Hedong Taishou, for a child of a poor family in a border county, it inevitably came to an end, and people could not see the future of the future; For example, his eldest son died suddenly of illness last year, leaving only a granddaughter of his relatives, although he still has nephews, sons-in-law, and even concubines can continue to give him children, but this blow is undoubted.

Of course, having said that, Xiliang Dong Zhuo is Xiliang Dong Zhuo in the end, and he has his own bit of arrogance. Although the blow of his son's death made him decadent for a while, so that his figure was a little out of shape, he soon adjusted himself and tried to put all his mind on his personal achievements.

This time, he actually heard some rumors, and then took the initiative to ask for battle...... And finally got his wish, holding the festival for the East Zhong Lang General.

However, the first military action after the festival plunged himself into a deep pit, and that was another matter.

"Go and ask them, do you know about Zhang Bao's fiasco in Xiaquyang?" Dong Zhuo did not ride a horse, but stood in a tall chariot that was easy to command, and when the two sides finished arranging, he saw him sneer, and waved his hand to summon a personal guard, and his face did not show any sense of loss, as if it was not him Dong Zhongying whose future was uncertain. "If they know, ask them what they think, and if they don't, tell them again!"

In fact, not to mention the Xiliang soldiers and Hedong soldiers brought by Dong Zhuo this time, Cao Cao and the original Lu Zhi's troops also greatly admired this person's posture and bearing at this time.

When the guard from Xiliang heard this, he immediately received the order, and then galloped forward, but as expected, he had just reached the bottom of the earth mountain, and before he could speak, he was confronted with a rain of arrows, and immediately died under the indiscriminate arrows.

At this moment, the whole Han army was angry.

Dong Zhuo was even more furious: "Jumping beam clown, kill my favorite general, it is necessary for him to divide the body of five horses...... Who's going to take this mountain for me?! ”

Although it is also to capture Tushan, it is different from crossing the river and attacking in Xiaquyang, the strength of the Han army here is not weak, and the combat strength of the Han army is several points stronger on the opposite side, so it is just a simple attack.

So, as Dong Zhongying shouted, the whole army was gearing up for a while, and they actually asked for battle.

"Rong is willing to kill thieves for the country!" In the midst of the call for battle, Xu Rong, who was the captain of the two thousand stones, actually took the initiative to ask for help.

"I already knew Captain Xu's ability." Seeing this, Dong Zhuo hurriedly turned around in the car to appease. "But it's just a dirt mountain, and there are hundreds of soldiers at most, so why do you need two thousand stones to go into battle in person?"

As soon as Xu Rong was about to say more, Dong Zhuo had already taken advantage of the situation to point to a person beside him: "Fan Chou, it was your villager who just died, can you fight?" ”

The Xiliang warrior called Fan Chou immediately turned over and dismounted: "Please send the general to send crossbowmen to help me, and send another one to support me, and I will go to avenge the villagers!" ”

Dong Zhuo nodded with satisfaction for a while, and then encouraged him repeatedly, and at the same time ordered the army generals to concentrate the armor on Fan Chou's department, and the people around him naturally had nothing to say.

The drums rumbled, and Fan Chou led two or three hundred Xiliang warriors, each with armor and shields, swords and horizontal spears, and went straight to the earth mountain, as if it was quite imposing.

However, Cao Mengde can be regarded as having seen a lot of knowledge in such a brave battle, but he doesn't care about it.

In fact, like many people, his eyes were involuntarily attracted by another group of people on the battlefield early on...... It was a cavalry unit of more than 1,000 people that came out of the Chinese army behind him, led by a military Sima named Li Yu, who came out this time to suppress and support Fan Chou's crossbow and crossbow.

As for the reason why this thousand-strong army attracts people's attention, it is because half of them are Qiang...... The cloak is scattered, the left eyelids are scattered, and the strange sound is constant when riding out of battle...... Although Cao Cao and the others had long known that there were many Qiang people among the Xiliang soldiers brought by Dong Zhuo this time, and they had also seen them once or twice in the Chinese army, they were inevitably curious when they saw them gather for the first time to officially fight.

After all, before the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the Qiang Rebellion was the most conventional war of the Han Dynasty, and for these people, they had long admired the Daimyo.

"Hebei is empty, will it be inappropriate to let these Qiang people come to the mainland?" Xiahoudun immediately frowned and whispered. "If you look at them, you will know that they have no military discipline."

"Who's to say it isn't?" Cao Cao saw those Qiang cavalry shouting and screaming, galloping left and right, firing their bows continuously, and they were also frowning. "However, military discipline is a trivial matter, I am afraid that some of these Qiang people are ambitious, this time I learned that the heart of the Han Dynasty was in such a big mess, and I returned to Xiliang and had a different heart."

Xiahoudun was slightly stunned, but became more and more serious.

And at this moment, that Fan Chou really deserved to be Dong Zhuo's confidant, he was quite brave, and with the support of the Qiang soldiers behind him, he rushed directly to the halfway point of the mountain, and it was unstoppable. At the same time, Zhang Liang himself actually retreated directly from the side of the mountain under the escort of the left and right.

The battle went so smoothly that Cao Cao almost instinctively sensed a hint of danger in the cheers on his side. And Dong Zhuo, who fought with Guangzong's yellow scarf for the first time, was also hesitant for a while...... Is the Yellow Turban Thief so unbearable? This is under the supervision of Zhang Jiao!

Sure enough, at this moment, there was a sudden change on the battlefield - when Fan Chou climbed to the top of the mountain, suddenly, a particularly majestic soldier and horse wrapped in yellow turbans poured out from behind the Tushan, actually forcing Li Yu to retreat and trapping Fan Chou on the Tushan.

At the same time, the west gate of Guangzong City was opened, and the two well-equipped cavalry also took advantage of the situation! The first two, one with a stout body and a thick beard, the other with a tall figure and a spear in his hand were incredibly long.

"It's the two thieves of Zuo Mustache and Zhangba!" Seeing this person, not far away, Gongsun Zhan, who was on Xu Rong's side, couldn't help but jump his eyelids, and his handsome face instantly distorted. "And the Yellow Turban Lux who was hidden behind the mountain before...... How dare thieves deceive?! ”

Without waiting for someone to explain to Dong Zhuo the origin of these two elite troops of the Yellow Turban Army, Zuo Ji and Zhang Ba actually led the cavalry troops of the Yellow Turban Army to ignore it and come directly to the Han army's large array.

Fan Chou on the mountain and the generals in front of the Han army were immediately shocked, and the situation was reversed in an instant.

————I am the dividing line of the instantaneous reversal————

"Pure both crossed the Hutuo River in filial piety, deserved it for the left, Julu Taishou Guo pawned the right, and all relatives risked bows and arrows, fought bravely, and even captured the camp. The thief moved slightly, and Taizu saw the opportunity, so he sent thousands of soldiers between the rivers to ascend first, and returned to the relatives and introduced righteousness from crossing the river from the festival to the thief. The Chinese army was in chaos, and the thieves on the left and right were afraid, and they retreated, wanting to join the Chinese army. Seeing it purely, he led the young soldiers to cut off the thief and return home. Left and right persuasion, pure is said: 'There are many people in the camp, all of whom are not appointed, but the five senses Zhonglang will regard me as a national soldier and Xu as a guard, although I am rough, I also know that I should repay it with my body, and I have no regrets about dying. 'Then he fought, clothed in seven wounds, and died in battle. Taizu Sheng, heard the sigh, then with pure power to push it first, and carved a tablet to inscribe. —"Shilin Miscellaneous". Yan Anonymous

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