Chapter 390: Turning Point (4)
At this time, Bailiyan (Wei Xian) stood on the wall of the West Gate, looking at the rebels who were besieging the city, and the rebel generals were also outside the range of the bow and crossbow, looking at the banner hanging on the West Gate, and a big "Wei" character was hung on the city. Seeing this, the rebel general Guan Du immediately felt a chill, and a bad feeling swam in his heart:
"General Huang Pu, the sharp-eyed and murderous man on the head of the city should be Wei Xian."
"Do you recognize Wei Xian, or do I recognize him, what if it's Wei Xian's trick?"
"But the banner planted in the city can't be wrong, I think it's better to be careful, the scout sent to Xia Qu still hasn't replied, I'm worried that Xia Qu may have been taken by Wei Xian."
"There are more than 8,000 defenders in Xiaqu, if Wei Xian stays in Tiancheng, who is going to take Xiaqu." Huang Pu asked.
"This ......"
Guan Du was speechless, but his intuition never missed, and Xianjun must have taken Xia Qu first against common sense. But he couldn't figure out how it was possible for the Xian army to capture Xia Qu, which was more than 8,000 people, with fewer men and horses.
Just as the two of them were watching, they saw a crack in the west gate of Tim City, and a man rode out on horseback and quickly approached the rebels.
"On the orders of my general, I have come to fight against your army."
The comer's voice fell, and he threw a crossbow arrow in his hand, then turned around and quickly broke away and returned to the west gate. The crossbow arrow was tied to a note, stuck straight on the ground, and the rebel soldier picked it up and handed it to Huang Pu. At a glance at the opening of the note, Huang Pu laughed:
"Wei Xian'er, you dare to speak out!"
Guan Du's face immediately became weird, and he rode a horse to take a closer look, and saw that the note said that the two armies each sent a hundred people to fight, and the first battle was decided and the loser surrendered, or got out.
"General Huang Pu, I'm afraid there is fraud in it."
"Hmph, it's just that the Huangkou concubine is rampant, let's fence it up before me."
"Then this note ......"
"No matter what he does, with his thousands of men and horses, it is difficult to attack it."
Guan Du means that he will first trick Baili Yan out of the city to try the depth, if he really loses, who will really admit this account. But now Huang Pu directly refused, and he always felt that something was wrong.
Sure enough, at this time, the west gate opened again, and more than 40 people came out one after another, using donkeys to drive eight flatbed carts, and each cart was pulling more than 10 people horizontally and vertically, piling up layer after layer. The cart pulled to a stop about 100 steps outside the west gate, and then began to unload people from the flatbed taxi.
The people who were unloaded were all straining without exception, and they were all the leaders who took the lead in tossing the most fiercely last night and were identified today. One hundred and thirty or fifty people lined up and got out of the carriage and placed them in front of the two armies. Moreover, the horsemen who drive the car and the wrestlers who carry people are all covered with white scarves on their faces, giving people the feeling that they are afraid that they will die if they are infected.
At this time, the two generals Huang Pu and Guan Du wondered what kind of trouble the Xianjun was making this upside down.
When the Xianjun army moved all the people out of the carriage, more than 40 people threw down the donkey cart and ran back like ghosts, the speed was jaw-dropping, like a gust of autumn wind, and in the blink of an eye, they had already run back to the west gate.
Guan Du looked at Huang Pu and saw him at a loss:
"General Huang Pu, do you want people to come forward and check?"
"The Xianjun's move is abnormal, wait for the time being."
In about two quarters of an hour, the Black Turban Army had completed the encirclement of Tiancheng, and at the same time, the 1350 men in front of the formation struggled and rolled on the ground in pain, and the situation became more and more bizarre.
After a long time, the Xianjun army had a follow-up action, and the rebel general Huang Pu ordered someone to go to investigate the situation, and several rebels came to the front of the battle, and before they got closer, they asked about a bad smell, saying that it was a foul smell, but in fact it was the smell of feces and urine.
When I looked closer, I saw that the face of the 135 people lying on the ground was blue and languishing, and they were rolling in pain, and some of them were foaming at the mouth and no longer human.
The rebel soldiers only thought that they had a plague, and they were paralyzed and crawled back to the front of the battle:
"Report, report to the general, it's a plague, and all the people brought out by the Xian army are plagues."
"What, plague!"
Huang Pu was taken aback, and Guan Yu hurriedly said:
"General Huang, it can't be malaria miasma!"
At this time, the soldier hurriedly said:
"Like, like malaria miasma!"
"Hugh has to disturb the morale of the army here, and he will not retreat!"
Guan Yu reprimanded, and then urged him to step forward to check the situation himself. What he saw was in line with what the soldiers said, and they were all sickly foaming at the mouth, and their faces were colorless, and from time to time they let out a wail, crying for help. The Black Turban Army came in a hurry, and the wounded camp did not accompany them, and they couldn't figure out what kind of disease was falling in front of them, and seeing the more than 130 people lined up on the ground who were terminally ill and dying not long away, Guan was shocked to see it.
Back in front of the formation, Huang Pu saw that his face was ugly, and hurriedly asked:
"General Guan Du, what's the situation?"
"Most of them are evil diseases and plagues, and eighty percent of them are newly infected diseases, and they were sent out by the Xian army to plague us."
Huang Pu's face sank when he heard the news, and he was furious:
"The Xian army is trying to spread the plague to our army."
"I'm afraid that's the case, I think I should report to the king of heaven as soon as possible, and ask for another order."
"Order all battalions, quickly retreat back three miles to the village, quickly!"
The rebels, who had just established their footing, hurriedly retreated, and the speed was unprecedented, for fear of dying of illness.
At this time, at the head of the West Gate City, Bailiyan laughed:
"It's so frightening, it seems that the rebels won't attack the city for the time being."
At this time, Guan Longxiang said:
"It not only stabilized the thief soldiers, but also delayed the time, making it impossible for them to look forward and backward, and the general's plan is very good."
"Hehe, if there is no design of Prince Anling, where can this plan be successful, it is indispensable to kill and injure some people. By the way, what about Zhao Gongzi? ”
"Brother An Ling Xian has returned to Zhao's house."
"Oh, Wei has something unclear, I don't know if Brother Guan Long can explain his doubts for Ben General."
"General Wei, please speak."
"Wei Mouguan has a lot of talents in your Zhao family, why do you live here instead of serving the king?"
"Alas......" Guan Longxiang sighed: "Since the Gongliang clan started in Zhiguo, the successive Xian kings were very wary of the Zhao family, neither allowed to move the clan, nor allowed to go out. ”
It is difficult for Bai Liyan to understand that familialization is deeply rooted in the taboo of the moment, and that a clan of scholars who have been excluded and suppressed is often not a generation or two generations, but a generation until the demise of the regime or the collapse of the family.
Just like the remnants of the previous dynasty, even if the dynasty has been destroyed for hundreds of years, as long as the current dynasty still exists, the reason why the remnants of the previous dynasty will always be hunted down to the bottom is the same, because the political imprint of the family will always be engraved in the family's inheritance book.
The Gongliang clan is in the country, and the same root as the Zhao family, the Zhao family is not an ordinary man, inherited the aristocratic system, the king of Xian can neither be killed, nor let go, killed, it is equivalent to the Gongliang clan to provoke trouble, let go is to let the tiger return to the mountain, not only will people not thank you, but secretly scold you for being stupid.
If you want to revitalize your family, you can't be a peaceful world in the world, but a chaotic world in which heroes are in chaos.
Bai Liyan couldn't help but think that he was reckless and a hero.
While pondering, Guan Longxiang asked:
"General Wei, I have a matter to ask for advice, I don't know if the general can give advice."
"Mr. Guan Long, but it doesn't hurt to say it."
"Now that Tiancheng and Xiaqu are occupied, the rebels must fight back with all their might, and the general has a plan."
"Since Wei dared to attack the enemy, he expected the enemy to be ahead. The Thunder rebels besieging Dingyang will not return in a big way, and the rebels can only withdraw their troops from the Yongxing River to counterattack Xijun. With Brother Guan Long's intelligence, he must not ask more questions. ”
"I see, it seems that General Wei is smiling, a little humble opinion, not enough."
"Hehe, Brother Guan Long wants to be a master, why bother to bind himself in front of others. Let's just say that Wei should also be referred to in detail. ”
"Then it will be ugly. The day before yesterday, I had a saying with Brother An Ling that the thieves were less likely to attack from Beihai County, and the Yongxing River thieves would inevitably retreat. If they don't retreat, the thieves of Beihai County will retreat. If the thieves of Beihai County retreat, they will face three problems, one of which is to cut off how to retreat from the Hecheng bandits and Pucheng, whether to retreat from the army and retreat, or to retreat from the dense forest trail by the same route.
The second is the Jin army, even though the Jin army will not fight a decisive battle with the rebels, but it is not difficult for more than 200,000 people to fight a small ambush and get back many previous defeats. Third, Dingyang is far away, and the rebel army of more than 200,000 troops is on the road, and it is difficult to reach it in less than ten days and half a month.
Compared with the Yongxing River bandits, it was extremely easy to retreat from the Xian army across the river, and it was only seven or eight days away from Weijin. However, after the Yongxing River bandits retreated, the situation was still unfavorable to the Xian army, and the Beihai County bandits did not retreat, and the general's trip was in vain.
At the same time, it is also necessary to face the heavy encirclement of the rebels who retreated from the Yongxing River, so if you want to solve this dilemma, after thinking about it, the only way to divide the troops of the Yongxing River Xian Army is to go north, but the rebels must expect that the Xian Army will have this move, I don't know how the general will break this dead end? ”
"The hero sees the same thing, since Brother Guan Long said this, he should already know the crux of this solution."
"In this way, the Xian army on the east bank of the Yongxing River really went north to attack the thieves?"
"Exactly, otherwise what's the point of being here in the future?"
"The general is, he wants to take what he wants to return......"
"Yes, but no. As far as the rebels are concerned, if there are only a few thousand Xian troops in Xijun, even if they lose three cities, they are not afraid, but Xijun can't help but save them, because the people of Xijun are here, and the longer our army occupies it, the more people it gains. Therefore, the rebels are not afraid of the thousands of men and horses of our army, but the millions of manpower in the western county.
Therefore, the rebels must come to the rescue, if not, after a month or two, there will be at least 350,000 old and weak miscellaneous soldiers or tens of thousands of people in Xijun, and then the grain road behind the rebels will be greatly threatened, and Xianxi County will not be protected.
However, the rebels also know that after our army attacked and captured the three cities of Xijun in a short period of time, the situation in Beihai County is still unsolvable, but if the troops are withdrawn from the west bank of the Yongxing River, the Xian army on the east bank will inevitably divide their troops to rush north to help, and the situation in Beihai County can turn from dangerous to safe.
Therefore, the rebels categorically will not let the Xian army on the east bank of the Yongxing River go north smoothly, so there must be a trick, and it must be that when our Yongxing River army is ready to divide its troops to the north, the rebels suddenly return to the river, give a head start, and then retreat west again to aid Xijun. The Xian army suffered a sudden and heavy defeat, and it was difficult to make up its mind to raise troops to the north. ”