Chapter 53: Something Bad (2)
Xiahou Yuan and Yu Ban ordered to count the losses, and a total of nearly 1,000 soldiers were killed, more than 30 horses, and countless wounded. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
"Zhuge Liang deserves to be called a village man, and the wild husband and peasant woman can use such a bad trick, and I Cao Chun will definitely break your body into ten thousand pieces." Cao Chun's left eye was hit by dung, and under his wipe, his face was really full of feces and smelly, and he shouted bad luck.
In fact, Cao Chun greatly wronged Brother Zhu, and he didn't want to think that Mr. Wolong was an elegant and elegant person, and it was impossible to use such means to fight.
These bad moves were all figured out by Comrade Liu Chan, who was not comfortable with the conventional cards.
Xiahou Yuan, who was awakened by the thunder and raindrops, stabilized his mind and immediately ordered Zhang Hedian to protect the grain and grass, and Cao Chun and Cao Zhen were responsible for leading the forward, keeping the formation through the canyon quickly, and sending more scouts to investigate the military situation.
The rain in the south is coming, the rain is getting heavier and heavier, and the vast sky is falling rain arrows, shooting at Cao Jun with a head and a head, covering the sky and the sky and the smoke and rain, all of them are drenched into soup chickens, and many people are shivering with cold.
The road ahead also became potholes, more and more muddy, from time to time horses fell, many heavy vehicles stuck in the mud, unable to extricate themselves, had to use people to push the horses. For a while, shouting, swearing, and complaining were everywhere, people screamed and horses neighed and flew together, and the yellow mud was the same color as the black armor, which was not embarrassed.
Xiahou Yuan knew that it must be the Jingzhou army that had done the trick and destroyed the road. There are all kinds of signs that Liu Beifang has been prepared for a long time, and there is no possibility of carrying out a long-distance attack, and an ominous premonition comes to his heart, and he feels that something is wrong.
After many setbacks, the army finally passed through the canyon. After consulting with the generals, Xiahou Yuan set up camp in an open place by the river. There was nothing to say all night, but at the third watch in the morning, a small group of Jingzhou troops set off rockets and burned several tents, a false alarm, all of them were beaten and left, and guerrilla harassment from time to time made Cao Jun so annoyed that he tossed repeatedly until dawn. After setting off from the camp for breakfast in the early morning, many soldiers yawned and cursed the Jingzhou army in their mouths.
Due to the destruction of many sections of the road, the rain caused the ground to be muddy, and the harassment of small units of the Jingzhou Army along the way, Cao's army stopped and stopped, with an average of more than 300 casualties every day, and the original five-day journey took nearly ten days, and the last day arrived at a place close to five kilometers from Dangyang in the afternoon.
Originally planned for 20 days of grain and grass, only more than 10 days left, although along the way sent people to the village to collect grain and grass, but the village and village people went to the empty house, can not find a little grain and grass.
Xiahou Yuan was so angry that he was able to cut stones with a sword to vent his anger, and there was no way to do it. The old man was ashamed and angry, and ordered Cao Jun to burn, kill, and plunder, kill all the old and young women and children who had no time to escape, and burn down the village. All the way was full of fire and smoke.
The scouts in front reported that the Jingzhou army had already set up a continuous camp on the Great Plain north of Dangyang, which happened to choke the throat of the official road of Xiangfan Jingzhou. A rush battle turned into a confrontation battle, which was what Xiahou Yuan and Yu Ban did not want to see. In desperation, they convened the generals for a brief discussion, and decided to set up camp in the north of the Great Plains, four miles away from the Jingzhou military camp.
The 30,000-strong army is divided into five battalions, which are 500 meters apart and distributed in a diamond shape, independent of each other as horns, arrange roads between the battalions, set up obvious signs to indicate the direction, the soldiers of each battalion are not allowed to move around without the permission of the commander-in-chief, and all soldiers who go out must have uniformly issued documents.
Xiahou Yuan and Yu Ban led the Chinese army to garrison the middle camp, and the marshal tent was set up in the middle of the middle camp, and the surrounding camp tents were dotted around, and the guards were in good order.
Cao Chun and Cao Zhen were stationed in the front camp, Zhang He was stationed in the left camp, Le was stationed in the right camp, and Xu Huang was stationed in the back camp.
Antlers were widely distributed around the battalions, sergeant patrols and sentry guards were arranged, and scouts were sent to Dangyang to spy on the military.
After the pause in the arrangement of burying the pot and cooking, it was already the time to turn on the lights at night. Xiahou Yuan's mood was extremely bad, and after a hasty meal, he gathered the generals in the Chinese army commander's tent to hold a military meeting. Xiahou Yuan, Yu Ban, Cao Chun, Cao Zhen, Cao Xiu, Xiahou Shang, Zhang He, Le Jin, Xu Huang, Liu Ye, Xue Yi, Niu Jin, Niu Gai, Xiahou Heng, Xiahou Ba, Xiahou Cheng and other generals and colonels joined the army together, and the seats were full, but their faces were gloomy, and the atmosphere was depressed and weird.
Xiahou Yuan, who was wearing a helmet and armor, sat on a tall tiger skin handsome seat, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, a square face, a tiger body and ape arms, tall and majestic, three long beards, quite a famous general. At this time, he frowned, his face was deep, not angry and arrogant, and the hazy candlelight illuminated his face extremely dark.
Seeing that all the future Qi was in the future, Xiahou Yuan glanced at it sharply, and said coldly: "Yuan Bucai, who was favored by Prime Minister and was able to serve as the governor of this military operation in the south, originally wanted to surprise Lei Xu who attacked Dangyang, and quickly decided to do so." Unexpectedly, the division was unfavorable, Jingzhou had already prepared, and along the official road from Xiangfan to Jingzhou in the north of Dangyang, the walls were cleared, and the road was completely destroyed, and it rained for several days, and it was muddy and difficult to walk, which made the army exhausted, and it took a long time to reach the vicinity of Dangyang. Since I fought with the prime minister, I have never fought such a bad battle, the enemy is in the dark, I am in the light, and before the duel has begun, our army has suffered more than 2,000 casualties. What are your views on the current situation and the future of the war? In order to realize the prime minister's ambition to dominate the world as soon as possible, I invite all the public to know that everything is endless, and we will work together to destroy the Liu thief. ”
It was Cao Chun who took the lead and said loudly: "In my opinion, Zhuge Villager's skills are already exhausted, and he will only throw off the dung to engage in harassment." I was unlucky enough to be hit in the eye by their stinky impartially. The Jingzhou army is just a local chicken and tile dog in my eyes, and tomorrow I and Zidan will lead the tiger and leopard cavalry to rush into the enemy camp, kill them to the point that no chickens and dogs will be left, and the Zhuge villager will be broken into thousands of pieces, so as to eliminate the hatred in my heart. ”
At this moment, Cao Chun still remembered the stinky stuck to his eyes. Cao Chun's words caused the whole hall to laugh, Xiahou Yuan couldn't help laughing, and Zhang He, who was already dissatisfied with Cao Chun, leaned forward and leaned back with laughter, and the depressed atmosphere of the handsome tent finally began to liven.
Seeing what Cao Chun said, Cao Xiu couldn't hold it back, and stood up and said loudly: "Don't worry, in the face of strength, any conspiracy and trickery are vulnerable." Liu Bei's reputation for repeated defeats has been widely spread in the world as early as the battle, and the prime minister of Chibi accidentally fell into Zhou Yu's treacherous scheme, so he had a slight setback. Today, our soldiers are strong and strong, the soldiers are good and the food is sufficient, Liu Beijun is a rabble, and the tiger and leopard ride is just a frontal blow and defeated in one fell swoop, reproducing the glory of the tiger and leopard riding in the past. ”
Cao Xiu's character is Wenlie, and he is Cao Cao's subordinate and Cao Hong's nephew. Cao Xiu's grandfather, Cao Ding, successively served as Hejian Xiang, Wu County Taishou, and Shang Shuling. At that time, the world was in turmoil, and the Cao clan dispersed and left the township. Cao Xiu lost his father when he was more than ten years old, and he carried his father's coffin alone with a guest, and temporarily rented a cemetery to bury his father. Then he carried his mother and crossed the river to take refuge in Wudi, where he was taken in by the Taishou of Wu County. Cao Xiu was in the official residence of the Taishou, and saw the portrait of the former Taishou, that is, his grandfather Cao Ding, hanging on the wall, so he stayed and worshipped on the ground and wept. Cao Cao raised volunteers in Yanzhou to fight against Dong Zhuo, and Cao Xiu changed his name and returned to the Central Plains from Wudi, which was thousands of miles away, through Jingzhou, to see Cao Cao. Cao Cao said to the people around him at that time: "This is my family's thousands of miles away." (The original intention was not to praise, but to jokingly say that Cao Xiu could walk thousands of miles like a foal that could walk thousands of miles) So he let him eat and live with Cao Pi and treat him like a parent. Later, Cao Xiu often followed Cao Cao to go on expeditions, and served as a guard and deputy cavalry governor in the "world's sharp" tiger and leopard cavalry.
Xiahou Yuan was very happy when he heard Cao Xiu's words, yes, in the face of strength, any conspiracy and trickery are vulnerable, although Liu Bei occupies the six counties of Jingzhou, but the land is small and the people are poor, how can he be the opponent of Cao Jun.
Xiahou Yuan looked at Cao Xiu with appreciation, and praised him: "Wen Lie, he is worthy of being the thousand-mile horse of the Prime Minister's family, and it makes sense." ”
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