Chapter 41: Governor of Xiahou
"Report, Zhuge said that there is an urgent military situation, please General Zhang go to discuss quickly. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info" A messenger from the Yamen of General Zuo's Mansion rushed in sweating profusely to report, annoying Zhang Fei, who was teaching martial arts, grabbed the messenger's chest clothes, and shouted: "Don't you see that Lao Tzu is busy? What a noise! ”
Seeing Zhang Fei's angry eyes and murderous face, the messenger turned pale with fright, and knelt down to report: "The general is angry, it is really an urgent military situation, and he has no choice but to collide with the general, please forgive the general." ”
"Third Uncle can't be like this, have you forgotten what you said just now?" Liu Chan hurriedly stopped it, and at the same time hinted with his eyes.
Zhang Fei was stunned and turned around suddenly, immediately picked up the messenger with both hands, and said with a smile: "Brother messenger, please get up, Zhang was anxious just now, don't blame." What's the emergency? ”
Seeing that Zhang Fei became so polite, the messenger was embarrassed, and said anxiously: "According to the report from the messenger in front, Cao Cao sent Xiahou Yuan to supervise Yu Ban, Zhang He, Xu Huang, Le Jin, Li Dian and other generals, with Cao Du's 5,000 tiger and leopard cavalry as the vanguard, from Xuchang to lead an army of 50,000 straight to Jingzhou, and the forward is only five days away from Jiangling. ”
Xiahou Yuan! Cao Chun! Hearing these two names, everyone present had different thoughts, but they all had mixed tastes.
Xiahou Yuan, Xiahou Xuan, Cao Ren, Cao Hong, Cao Zhang, and Cao Yu were the important generals of the six major clans in the early Cao Wei period, and they were the most trusted and relied on by Cao Cao. Among them, Xiahou Yuan was mainly responsible for the northwest, Xiahoudun was in charge of Qingzhou and Xuzhou, Cao Ren was in charge of Jingzhou, Cao Hong was in charge of the capital Xuchang, Cao Zhang was in charge of the northeast, and Cao Yu was in charge of the tiger cavalry and leopard cavalry. This is Cao Cao is afraid of the military power and the implementation of the military supervision system, similar to the literati after the Song Dynasty to lead the army, only the Cao clan relatives, that is, Zhu Xiahou Zhu Cao, and a very small number of generals with foreign surnames, can serve as the commander of the military division, and the five good generals can only be promoted to the deputy commander of the military division. This is the reason why the leaders of Xiahou Cao have the word "superintendent", and the five sons have the word "from".
Xiahou Yuan is a wonderful talent, good at thousands of miles of raids, the official to the general of the west, Feng Bochang Tinghou. Xiahou Yuan was the servant of the Western Han Dynasty, Xiahou Ying, and his wife was Cao Cao's wife. Cao Cao was implicated in a case in his hometown, and Xiahou Yuan took it on his behalf. Later, Cao Cao tried to rescue him, so that he could avoid disaster. Since Cao Cao Chen Liu's army, Xiahou Yuan has followed all the way and made many military exploits. This is an important reason why he won Cao Cao's trust and reuse and became Cao Cao's chief general. With other Sima, the cavalry is from Cao Cao. In the battle of Guandu, Cao Cao served as the captain of the military academy with Xiahou Yuanxing, supervising the transportation of military rations in Yanzhou, Yuzhou, and Xuzhou, so that the army could be revitalized. In September of the sixth year of Jian'an, Yuan Shao sent Liu Bei to attack Runan, Chang Feng rebelled for Liu Bei, Cao Cao sent Yu Ban to attack, not to relent, and then sent Xiahou Yuan and Yu Ban to attack Chang Xuan, and captured more than ten of its strongholds. After Xiahou Yuan returned to the army, he was honored as a military captain. In October of the twelfth year of Jian'an, Jinan, Le'an Yellow Turban Army Xu He, Sima Ju and other troops invaded the city, beheaded officials, such as Jinan Wang Yun and so on that is, he died, Xiahou Yuan led the soldiers of Taishan, Qi and Pingyuan to suppress it, broke it, beheaded Xu He, recovered the counties, and collected its grain to supplement the military rations. Because Xiahou Yuan often surprises the enemy with strange diseases, there is a saying in the army that "Xiahou Yuan, the captain of the military academy, can travel 500 miles in three days and go to thousands of miles in six days".
Cao Chun, Zihe, Cao Ren's brother, Cao Cao's cousin. Lost his father at the age of fourteen, at a young age he was able to run the family with discipline, supervise the royal servants, manage the family business without losing order, very talented, only eighteen years old to enter the imperial court as a Huangmen squire, at the age of twenty to follow Cao Cao to fight. After serving as the governor of the tiger and leopard cavalry, he was good at appeasing the soldiers and won the support of the tiger and leopard cavalry. Cao Cao went north to Wuhuan, and met tens of thousands of elite cavalry of Wuhuan in White Wolf Mountain, Cao Chun led the tiger and leopard cavalry to follow the vanguard Zhang Liao to attack the Wuhuan army array, and the defeat was slashed and killed, and the enemy army was 200,000 people. After this battle, Cao Chun was posthumously recorded before and after, and was named the Marquis of Gaoling Pavilion, with 300 households.
When Liu Chan heard that the enemy was coming, his eyes were extremely red, and he was surprised and happy.
What was surprising was that Cao's army was powerful, and 35,000 troops came at once, of which 5,000 were tigers and leopards who were known as "the world's sharpest", and Cao Cao's first general, Xiahou Yuan, the commander of the tiger and leopard cavalry, Cao Chun, and the "five good generals" came to Yu Ban, Zhang He, Xu Huang, and Le Jin. It can be said that the elite is exhausted, which shows how much Cao Cao attaches importance to this expedition. In Jingzhou, my father brought 30,000 elites into Sichuan, and most of the generals also brought them, and now the remaining troops are only a little more than 30,000. It is also necessary to divide the troops and overstretch the troops at the passes of various cities.
Glad that the big enemy came to the door, and he had the opportunity to clean him up, but he really had nowhere to find the iron shoes, and it took no effort to get it.
"Uncle is here?!" Xia Houjuan exclaimed, and her face was discolored. She lost her parents when she was a child, and when Yan and Henan were in turmoil, her uncle Xiahou Yuan gave up his own young son in order to adopt and support her because of hunger. Xiahou Yuan really has the grace of reinvention for her. After marrying Zhang Fei, she lost contact with the Xiahou family for several years, and she was worried every day, which made her very sad. But now that he has become the family of the enemy of the Xiahou family, and his uncle led a large army to meet his husband's camp, how to deal with it, this is really sad.
As soon as Zhang Fei looked at his wife's face, he knew that he had encountered a problem this time. I accidentally became the son-in-law of the Xiahou family, and Xiahou Yuan was the general of the enemy's army, what should I do? He walked over and hugged Xiahou Juan, his mood was extremely complicated, and comforted: "Madame is worry-free, I will take care of it." ”
After speaking, Zhang Fei turned around and left, and Liu Chan hurriedly followed.
The two of them came to the military division's mansion, and the council hall was already full. Zhuge Liang sat at the top, on the left were Guan Yu, Zhao Yun, Lai Gong, Su Fei, Liu Yong, Wang Lian, Mi Fang, Pan Jun, Shiren, Meng Da, Yang Yi, Zhang Zhu and other generals, on the right were Ma Liang, Yi Yuan, Xiang Lang, Mi Zhu, Jian Yong, Liao Li, Peng Yi, Dong Ju, Dong Yun, Jiang Wan and other strategists, Zhang Fei sat in the vacant position between Guan Yu and Zhao Yun.
Liu Chan entered the lobby, saw that the atmosphere was full of friends, and the atmosphere was serious, so he hurriedly saw everyone, and Zhuge Liang asked him to sit in the chief position on the right.
Zhuge Liang saw that the people had arrived, and said with a loud smile: "There is a detailed report ahead, Xiahou Yuan Governor Yu Ban, Zhang He, Xu Huang, Le Jin, Li Dian and other generals, led an army of 60,000 to attack us, with Cao Yu's 5,000 tigers and leopards as the vanguard, we can approach Jingzhou in five days." Do you have a good way to retreat? After speaking, he fanned the feather fan and glanced at everyone.
Zhuge Liang saw that Zhang Fei was frowning, thoughtful, usually Zhang Fei was the first to speak, but now Zhang Fei had such an expression, after a little thought, he knew what he was doing, and couldn't help nodding slightly.
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