Chapter 22 Light Soldiers Take Twin Cities

In the morning, the drizzle was misty, but the sky was not dark, and the Han army was beating drums and climbing the city in the rural city of Weitu.

"Wen Qi, the day before yesterday was pouring rain, and the rain never stopped yesterday and today, and now it is muddy and slippery everywhere, so it may not be appropriate to attack the city at this time, right?" Cao Cao put his hands on the pergola, supported the saddle on the horse, straightened up on the horse and watched the battle situation in front for a while, but he couldn't help but turn around and ask Gongsun Xun, who was sitting under the umbrella behind him, for advice.

"It's hard to say." Gongsun Xun calmed the white horse under his crotch and said disapprerovitically. "But Weixiang is just a dirt city after all, and the thieves are afraid that it will not be comfortable."

"Yes!" Cao Cao was immediately stunned when he heard this. "It was rained heavily before, and the Tucheng city defense carefully managed by the Yellow Turban thieves was afraid that it would be washed away by the rain."

"Not bad." Lou Gui also smiled beside him. "And it's not just the walls of the earthen city, in my opinion, I'm afraid that the few piers that have been temporarily piled up in the city will also be seriously damaged. In addition, defending the city, the first is condescending to fight with bows and arrows, and the bowstrings are damp on rainy days, but they suffer even more! ”

"If Zhao Zibo said so, it would be more advantageous to attack the city on a rainy day?" Cao Cao couldn't help but ask curiously.

"Not really." Gongsun Xun shook his head and said. "In the final analysis, it's just that this earthen city is too short, and it is replaced by a large city with complete defenses, the walls are clean and wide, and the equipment can be well stored. And as far as today is concerned, it can only be said that there is no loss, but the siege is just as hard! ”

Everyone bowed their heads one after another, and looked at the battlefield in front of them again.

It is said that at this moment, under the city of Weixiang, three thousand disciples of the Li clan are waving the banner of the Han army, and the troops are divided into three routes, and the ants are attached to the city from the west, south, and north at the same time. Due to the dampness of the bow and arrow in rainy days, and the visual field was somewhat affected, the warring sides mostly abandoned bows and arrows, and mainly used swords, shields, guns and spears. On the other hand, as Gongsun Xun, Lou Gui and others said, the Tucheng of Weixiang and those hastily built fortifications collapsed a lot in the heavy rain the day before yesterday, but the Han army found a breakthrough when they came up.

Therefore, as soon as the two sides engaged, it was a direct hand-to-hand fight.

However, in the state of rain, mud, and hard hand-to-hand combat, the two sides that seemed to have similar momentum and similar numbers quickly widened the gap.

The Han army is full of Li clan's children, who are clansmen, township parties, and neighbors, helping each other and never abandoning each other.

At the same time, Li Jin, the chief general of the Han army, also performed exceptionally well, and he gathered dozens of strong warriors around him, all of whom were samurai who fought in Onoze, Pushui, and Jishui all the year round, and had extremely rich combat experience. And he himself is quite brave and heroic, and he actually holds a knife in one hand and a shield in the other, and personally attacks and kills in front.

Such a posture is quite like his name, and there is some indomitable momentum.

On the other hand, the Yellow Turban Army is mentally disordered and fights separately.

The attack on a rainy day was unexpected, and after the earthen wall was broken through, it was even more overwhelmed, and no matter how shameful and brave Wang Du, the leader of the Yellow Turban Army in Wei Township, was, he had no combat experience in commanding thousands of people to fight on all fronts on a rainy day...... In fact, under the rain, Wang Du only felt at a loss, and he couldn't figure out what the battle situation was, let alone command calmly?

Therefore, for a while, the Yellow Turban Army was defeated and retreated one after another, and there was a commotion everywhere, and there was actually a posture of being broken down by the Han army in one fell swoop and losing three city walls.

"Wen Qi is really like a god." Cao Cao rode back from the rain and couldn't help but sigh again. "Our army won on three sides soon after the engagement, but the Yellow Turban Army was defeated on three sides. If you hadn't seen it with your own eyes, how could you have imagined that a rainy siege would be so effective? ”

"I also underestimated the wisdom of the prince." Lou Gui also shook his head and sighed again and again when he heard this. "I just think of the city walls, the piers, the arrows, and so on, but I forget that fighting a war is all about people...... Most of the troops sacrificed by the Li clan are clan children, involved with each other, know each other, and have no wavering thoughts in the chaotic battle, while the Yellow Turban thieves are mostly rabble who have only been in the army for two months, and under the chaotic battle, they are too busy to take care of themselves, and they are not willing to help each other at all...... It seems that the prince thought of this from the beginning, because he didn't want to lose the fighter, so that Li retreated and immediately attacked the city when he first arrived! ”

As soon as these words came out, all the officers around them suddenly realized, among them, such as Guan Yu, Liu Bei, Cao Cao, Xiahoudun, Chu Yan, and Zhang Fei were all thoughtful, while those Sima and military marquis from the Luoyang Northern Army were constantly patting horses and praising them repeatedly.

Surrounded by everyone, Gongsun Xun under the umbrella can't help but smile slightly, as if Zhizhu is in his hand...... However, I am afraid that no one around thought that this middle-aged general with facial features never thought that the rainy day chaos could be so effective, or that even if it was a sunny day today, he would still force Li Jin to attack the city quickly.

First, Li Jin led three thousand soldiers to the first time, and was about to use their momentum to fight hard, by the way to see how their combat effectiveness was;

Second, Gongsun Xun is unwilling to waste time and continues to delay under a mere Wei Township, you must know that the Yellow Turban of Dongjun still occupies more than a dozen cities, where can you continue to wander so much?

If it rains, if it is sunny, if it is sunny, even if it rains, it will also be attacked!

As soon as he thought of this, Gongsun Xun suddenly raised his hand to stop everyone's horse-beating, and the area around the umbrella cover was quiet for a while, but the shouting and killing not far away, the sound of the rain, and the drumming behind him were still loud and clear.

"Xuande, Yuan Rang, and Guo and Yang." Gongsun Xun straightened his face and ordered. "Although I didn't punish you for the defeat before, but against such a small city, the defeat is embarrassing after all...... Or the four of you, lead each other to deploy, supervise the battle forward, press in from the front of the west of the city, and set off immediately, be sure to help Li Jin end this battle quickly! ”

Xiahoudun, Liu Bei, and the two Sima immediately received the order, and immediately ignored the injury, reined in the horses and returned to the headquarters, and then ordered the knights of the department to dismount and prepare to push into Weixiang City.

"Zidu (Wei Yue), Yide (Zhang Fei)." After seeing the four of them leave, Gongsun Xun continued. "You two go to the south and north of the city respectively, and don't attack the city...... The main thing is to crush and oppress, be sure to block the way of the Yellow Turban thieves from these two directions, and wait until the thieves are defeated, you will have to follow and pursue. ”

Wei Yue and Zhang Fei, who had just arrived from Yan County for only one day, were naturally smiling.

"Marquis Chu." Gongsun Xunfu shouted to Chu Yan again.

"The last general!" Chu Yan was excited.

"You leave now and go to the east of the city to lay an ambush on the road to Puyang in advance...... When Wang Du leads the defeated soldiers to the other place, you must spare Wang Du and a few defeated soldiers, and then cut off most of the deserters. Gongsun Xun said so, and then looked carefully at the three Qu Junhou who were responsible for chasing down the defeated soldiers, but he couldn't help but ask. You know what I mean? ”

"Understood!" Chu Yan hurriedly surrendered his hand. "Let go of Wang Du and a few defeated soldiers first, and clear the defeated soldiers first! We won't miss anything! ”

"Please rest assured!"

"It won't go wrong." Zhang Fei and Wei Yue also hurriedly gave their hands to answer.

"So let's get ready!" Gongsun Xun bowed slightly, and then stopped speaking.

The army pressed up, trying to end the battle quickly, naturally there is no need to say much, but let Wang Du go, but it made Cao Cao, who was curious about the baby, puzzled again, and as soon as the generals left, he simply asked:

"Wen Qi, look at what you mean, if Wang Du dies in the city, it's fine, if he escapes, do you want to let him go? Why, do you still want to play the role of the defeated soldier and try to cheat the city? ”

"Definitely!" Gongsun Xun shook his head again and again. "Puyang City is too big, and there are too many troops, if you cheat the city, you will be suspicious if there are more people, and it is useless to go if there are fewer people...... After all, they still have to be fished out of the city. This move is just to oppress Bu Ji and the thief army in Puyang City! ”

What everyone understands and what they don't understand is that they either bow their heads again, or praise General Gongsun again.

The tide of the war quickly and decisively changed...... With the sudden pressure of a large force from the west, the Han army almost instantly crushed the opponent's western defense line.

As the entire western city wall was captured by the Han army, the Yellow Turban Army collapsed almost immediately...... Thousands of soldiers, most of them instinctively walked towards the east side of the Han army, and a few who thought they were shrewd tried to break through from the north and south sides, but were strangled by the prepared Han army.

At this time, unlike the officers of the Han Army, who were becoming more and more comfortable under the umbrella, next to a pier in the city, Wang Du, the commander of the Yellow Turban Army, was already in a panic...... This former county magistrate of Dong'e County had just been dragged back from the front line by his cronies and subordinates, not to mention the blood dripping all over his body, the iron armor on his body had already been taken off because of the heavy mud, and the yellow turban on his forehead was dyed into an indescribable color, only the more than 100 henchmen who were barely gathered around him could still show his identity.

After taking a few breaths, Wang Du shook off one of his cronies who was trying to support him, climbed up the slippery pier on his side with a knife, and then stood up and tried to observe the battle. However, as far as the eye could see, I saw that the entire Weixiang village was full of Han troops, and the Yellow Turban Army was completely defeated...... Some people tore off their headscarves in a hurry, some knelt on the ground and asked to surrender, some people gathered crowds to flee, and some people didn't want to be prisoners and simply raised their knives to kill themselves!

In the rain, Wang Du couldn't help but cry when he saw such a tragic scene, and then he was about to pull out his knife and commit suicide, but he was stopped again by several cronies who followed him, and took away the knife, and forcibly dragged him to the east of the city.

However, it was not safe on the way to escape, and after digging out seven or eight miles of land in a panic, the Han army even had an ambush of hundreds of horsemen waiting here for a long time, and immediately killed and cut off the fleeing brigade. Of course, this group of ambush soldiers only cared about blocking the brigade, and Wang Du and his cronies still narrowly escaped after all.

After about five or six miles of escape, seeing that there were no pursuers behind them, everyone barely breathed and sat down on the road to rest.

Among them, Wang Du sat on the mud ground blankly, looked back at the direction of the west where there was still a faint sound of shouting and killing, and was stunned for a long time before he opened his mouth and said sadly: "You have been my cronies for many years, and you should know that I don't believe in the so-called Yellow Sky." On that day, I started an incident in Dong'a City, but I felt that the county commander Wen was an incompetent person, but he relied on his family background and official position to repeatedly bullied and ridicule me, so he tried to take revenge on him by taking advantage of the Yellow Turban's momentum. The result? Cheng Li killed me halfway and drove me out of Dong'a, and I was ashamed and indignant at that time......"

"You don't have to be like this!" Someone next to him heard that something was wrong, so he hurriedly persuaded him. "Even if we were defeated by Cheng Li that day, didn't we also survive it? In my opinion, Puyang Bu Shuai is generous, although he is defeated today, he may not be disposed of by Wang Jun, let's go to Puyang An and talk about the future after he is born? ”

"I'm not worried about my future!" Wang Du held a handful of mud with one hand and said angrily. "I, the king, am also a man who knows how to be faithful! It must be known that after the defeat of Dong'e, I was desperate to go to Puyang, but Bu Shuai was generous and did not care, not only did he not idle me, but he and I had 3,000 soldiers and horses, and let me be stationed in Wei Township...... I secretly swore in my heart that day that I would devote myself to doing things to repay the kindness of Bu Shuai...... But after only a few days, the city and the soldiers and horses were so simply lost? Now how can you have the face to go to Puyang to see Bu Shuai?! ”

When this cronie heard this, he breathed a sigh of relief: "Then dare to ask Wang Jun, can you repay Bu Shuai's kindness when you died in the city just now?" If you sit in the mud and resentful at this time, can you repay Bu Shuai? ”

"So what?" Wang Du couldn't help but cry again.

"The Han army is menacing, and the elite is difficult to match." The man became more and more relaxed. "Bu Shuai will have to face the Han army sooner or later, on this occasion of employing people, Wang Jun, you are no longer incompetent, and you also have the power of a horseman, right? Not to mention that more than 100 of us have been raised by you for many years, and we are all willing to live and die with you, which is finally a force, right? That being the case, why didn't Wang Jun endure these shames and stay this useful body, that is, to be a pawn at the head of Puyang City, to fight for Bu Shuai, but to win but cry in the wilderness and die in the chaos, right? ”

After listening to the persuasion of this cronie, Wang Du didn't say a word, just stood up with tears in his eyes, and hurriedly led the crowd to Puyang in the northeast.

In this way, Wei Xiang went down in one day.

So far, the three cities on the west side of Puyang have been lost, and there is no arch guard, coupled with the panic of the defeated army, the Han army regrouped the white horse, which also provoked Bu to be nervous. On the one hand, he asked Puyang City to defend carefully, but on the other hand, he hurriedly dispatched the troops of Zhucheng on the east side and Zhucheng in Hebei to try to redeploy in response.

However, after gathering troops, after a short rest on the white horse, Gongsun Xun, the commander of the Han army and the general of the five officials, repeated the old tricks, leaving only Yang Kai to lead the local township to defend the white horse, and then the iron cable boat turned into a pontoon bridge, and the whole army crossed the river again and swept away to the cities of Hebei.

The first to bear the brunt is Dunqiu.

And the battle of Donqiu was fought extremely easily...... The Yellow Turban reinforcements who originally gathered here had already been redeployed because of Gongsun Xun's actions in Henan, but Cao Mengde's subordinate Lejin took the opportunity to contact and agitate more people because of the Han army's achievements!

As a result, Li Jin led his troops to climb the city, and before the battle, Le Wenqian had already commanded the people to seize the city gate, and the Han cavalry entered on horseback, and Zhang Feizheng was the head of the local marshal...... The whole battle can be called invincible.

That's not all, since Dunqiu was taken, Gongsun Xun kept going, and according to Cao Cao's strategy, Lejin and his township party disguised themselves as Yellow Turban defeated soldiers, and went all the way to Weiguo County, where the Lejin family was located, that day.

Weiguo is only twenty or thirty miles away from Dunqiu, and the defeated troops are continuous, so in the panic, Le Wenqian naturally took the city gate on the spot again, and the Han cavalry immediately followed broke into the city...... In the evening, the country was also restored.

"Wen Qian is brave and swift in battle, brave and brave, and really has the demeanor of a famous general in ancient times!" Gongsun Xun rushed to Weiguo County that night, but he praised Le Jin, who undoubtedly made the first contribution in the battle that day. "Such a person, why should he be condescended to the county officials?! Why don't you lead the villagers to join the army and sweep the yellow scarves with me, in order to make contributions? ”

Le Jin was short in stature, and he only reached the tip of the other party's nose in front of Gongsun Xun. At this time, although he was moved when he heard such words, he still took the initiative to look at Cao Cao, who was similar to him on the side, and smiled when he saw the latter holding his hand, so he agreed.

Although Gongsun Xun was a little aggrieved when he saw this, he was also helpless...... Whoever let this music come in is Cao Mengde's subordinate? Whether it's in the story of his own wife, or in front of him, it seems to be the kind of absolute team that Cao Apu brought as soon as he appeared.

Thinking about it, Cao Cao came to make the Dunqiu Order not long after he became an adult, and Lejin, a native of Weiguo County who is only so far away from Dunqiu, is so capable, and he is also so short, no wonder Cao Cao discovered him so early.

However, Gongsun Xun asked himself that his team was not bad, and when he saw that the good general in front of him had already made a name, he put out his extra thoughts, and generously took the identity of a general with the other party, and put it back to business.

"Where will our army go?" Le Jin gave himself a big face, and he won two county towns in an uproar, and Cao Cao couldn't help but get carried away, and directly twisted his beard on the head of the city and pretended to use soldiers like a god. "I watched Wenqi let the local handsome cross the river and go to Puyang, and I still want to dispatch Puyang people...... Kedun Hill and Weiguoju are opposite to Puyang across the river, so they shouldn't come here without permission with the risk of being attacked by our army, right? It's better to continue to fight, uproot the cities, isolate Puyang, and force them to go out of the city for a decisive battle! ”

"What Brother Meng De said is very true!" Gongsun Xun stood at the head of the city and stared at the faintly visible embankment of the Yellow River in the south, but he had some doubts. "But if you fight any further, where should you fight? Is it to continue to sweep in Hebei, take Dongwuyang and Fagan Zhucheng in the east, and completely cut off the connection between the Yellow Turban of Dongjun and Zhang Jiao? Or should we cross the river again, penetrate Xiancheng, Zhencheng, and Fanxian, open up Dong'e, connect Qingxu, and completely isolate Puyang? Brother Meng De is known for his high insight, can you teach me? ”

Cao Cao thought for a moment, immediately put down the hand that was learning Lou Gui's whiskers, and stood honestly with his hands tied, without saying more.

However, Cao Mengde was afraid that he didn't expect that Gongsun Xun was half teasing him, but he didn't know how to choose...... In other words, at this time, Gongsun Xun is fully equipped, the morale is sufficient, the military supplies are complete, and the fierce generals and strategists are even more overflowing, so the so-called strong generals, except for a Puyang who can't move, I'm afraid that you can fight wherever you want!

"Speaking of Dongwuyang," just as Gongsun Xun was about to prepare to set a strategy for entering the army at will, the trial who was rare to follow his side suddenly spoke. "I have an old friend there, and I wanted to use his power to emulate today's Le Wenqian's actions, but unfortunately I just asked the locals in the city to know that he is not in the township now, but went to Qingzhou to study long before the chaos......"

Gongsun Xun couldn't help but be curious: "Since he is a friend of Zhengnan, he is also a hero." ”

"Yes, yes." The judge also looked at the Yellow River in the distance, and bowed slightly. "This person's surname is Chen Minggong, the word Gongtai, he has always been generous and fierce, upright, and resourceful!"

Gongsun Xun was stunned, and then couldn't help but say secretly in his heart...... If this is the person, then it's really no wonder that I am an old friend of you!

It's just a pity that this person is not there!

"It's just a pity that this person is not here." Without waiting for Gongsun Xun to speak, the judge took the initiative to shake his head. "Otherwise, Tobuyang will definitely be easy!"

"Since Chen Gongtai is not here, let's go see Cheng Zhongde!" Gongsun Xun smiled dumbly. "Let the recruit stay here to monitor Puyang, and the rest of the army will set off tomorrow, in front of Bu Ji's iron cables, cross the river to the south, and be sure to turn Puyang into a lonely city!"

On the head of the city under the sunset, the embankment of the Yellow River in the distance is reflected, and from Cao Cao down, the generals have surrendered their hands to obey the order.

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"Taizu Vadong County Yellow Turban, the thief Shuai Bu has led troops to Puyang, guarding the river. Taizu saw it and avoided it, counted the Yellow River and did not take it. - "New Yanshu". Volume I. Emperor Taizu Wu Benji

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