Volume 5 The General Trend of the World Chapter 76 The Battle for Xingyang
"Wang Ping, did Wei Yan tell me this?" Adou asked. []
"Hey, hey. Your Majesty, it was General Wei Yan who said. Wang Ping replied honestly.
"Hmph, this Wei Yan, let him stay honestly in Luoyang, and he is still restless!" Adou sighed lightly.
"Your Majesty, General Wei Yan is also loyal to the country, and if General Wei Yan's plan can be successful, Cao Zhen will indeed retreat without a fight."
"Wei Yan, this guy, sometimes he just gambles too much on his luck. Chen Liunai is a big city, and Cao Zhen's army is always absent, and there will be heavy guards, so how can he easily sneak attack? Besides, retreating without a fight is not what I want. If Cao Zhen came and hundreds of thousands of troops were all buried here, you say, can we directly take Yecheng in Jizhou and capture Cao Rong? Adou said with a smile.
"What?" Wang Ping's eyes widened, obviously frightened by Adou's crazy-sounding idea.
"Your Majesty, here, there are hundreds of thousands of Cao Jun here!" Wang Ping tried to calm down, and then said: "Your Majesty, even if you can kill all these hundreds of thousands of Cao troops. Then we will also pay a lot of losses, in this case, we will be taken advantage of by Jiangdong. ”
This time it was Adou's turn to look at Wang Ping with admiration, all along, Adou only felt that Wang Ping was a military general with a more stable style, but he didn't expect that this Wang Ping's vision was quite far-reaching, and it seemed that this Wang Ping was a manufacturable material.
In the previous Three Kingdoms, Wei was powerful, and even if it was an alliance between Wu and Shu, it was necessary to rely on the terrain to stop Wei. Today's form is different from history, Shu Han won the two states of Yongliang, and Eastern Wu got the entire Jingzhou and Huainan, and the national strength of these two sides has risen sharply, which also forms a delicate balance.
In such a balanced situation, if either two sides fight and lose a lot of national strength, the remaining side that does not participate in the war will become the fisherman of the profit because it has preserved its strength. Therefore, if Adou forcibly defeated Wei down, Shu Han's national strength would also be consumed a lot, and Dongwu, who had not lost at all, would take advantage of the situation, and in the end, it would be Dongwu who would benefit the most.
"I'm not a cruel and murderous person, the so-called heaven has the virtue of a good life, if I can kill less, I naturally won't prescribe a killing precept in vain......"
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"Kill......"
"Rush ......"
"Ding, Ding, Qiang......"
The sound of shouts, the clashing of weapons. The sound of sharp blades piercing into the body, as well as screams, were intertwined and continuous.
"Resist, hold on!" In Aocang, a Han army general kept shouting and directing his men to resist, but Cao's army still rushed over like a tide, endlessly.
"General, I can't hold it!"
"Why haven't there been reinforcements yet?"
"General, the brothers really can't hold on?"
"Reinforcements, what about reinforcements?" At this time, seeing the surrounding Han army retreating one after another, the general was very anxious.
"General, maybe the reinforcements have encountered some accidents, I'm afraid they won't come! General, let's retreat first! ”
"Yes, general, stay in Qingshan without worrying about running out of firewood, Cao's army is strong, we can't stop it."
The general gritted his teeth fiercely. Then he spoke: "Order, retreat!" ”
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At the same time, a few miles away, a group of Han troops was rushing in this direction.
"Hurry up, everyone, it's coming soon."
At this moment, the shouting of killing suddenly sounded, and then a group of fierce and vicious Cao Jun appeared in front.
"Not good, there is an ambush!"
"How could this be, how did Cao Jun know that we would take this path?"
"I can't do that much, brothers, come on!"
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Cao Zhen looked at Ao Cang in front of him coldly, the injuries of the Wei army were carried down from time to time, but Cao Zhen didn't seem to see it, and there was no expression on his face.
Finally, on Aocang, the banner of the Han army fell, while the banner of the Cao army was erected.
Cao Zhen breathed a sigh of relief and took another Ao Cang.
"General, the last general is fortunate not to be dishonored!" Le Qi ran over with an excited face.
At this time, the armor on Le Qi's body was splashed with blood, and his face was also covered with dust, and he knew at a glance that he had just experienced a big battle.
"Okay, Leqi, I've worked hard for you, go down and rest!" Cao Zhen said.
A moment later, Zhang Hu rushed over again.
"General, the three enemy forces that came to help have all been repelled by us."
"Good! Well done, you can rest first! ”
Chen Tai glanced at Cao Zhen in some surprise, and a hint of admiration appeared on his face. At this time, Chen Tai deeply felt that Cao was really powerful, just like an unpredictable prophet, knowing that this Ao Cang was very weak, and also knowing that the Han army would send three people to help.
However, at this time, Cao Zhen did not notice Chen Tai's expression of admiration, this entire Xingyang area, like this kind of Aocang, is everywhere, and what he has captured now is just one of them.
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In the next few days, Cao Zhen relied on the drawings provided by Xu Shu to break through more than a dozen Han army Ao Cang, and most of the strongholds on the periphery of the main city of Xingyang had been pulled out by Cao Zhen.
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In the vast wilderness, Chen Tai sat on his horse, looking around from time to time.
Suddenly, Chen Taixian, a green smoke rose in the distance, and it was obvious that someone was making a fire.
"Hey, who? Is it the enemy? Chen Tai slapped his horse and ran towards the place where the smoke was from.
As the distance got closer, Chen Tai still didn't see anyone. A burst of meaty aroma wafted into Chen Tai's nose.
"It's so fragrant, someone is grilling meat." Chen Tai slowed down slightly, and then saw a big man appear in front of Chen Tai.
"Oh, isn't that Zhang Hu?" Chen Tai breathed a sigh of relief and greeted him.
"Brother Zhang Hu!" From afar, Chen Tai began to greet him.
"It turned out to be Uncle Xuan, come here, I just shot a wild boar, this is almost ripe, let's taste it together." The things in the army are so eaten that I almost fade out of my mouth. ”
Chen Tai smiled slightly. You are not polite, dismounted and came to Zhang Hu's side, and did it.
Zhang Hu cut off a front leg with a knife, handed it to Chen Tai, and said, "Uncle Xuan, this pig's front leg is for you." After the pig before the sheep, although the front leg meat of the pig is not as much as the hind leg meat, it is better than the delicate meat. ”
"Thank you, Brother Zhang!" Chen Tai took it and bit it slightly, this roast is just to find the benefits.
And Zhang Hu took a big bite of pork with skin under a blade, and then said: "This time I really served the general, so many Ao Cang, none of them can last for half a day, and the Han army that came to help was also blocked in the middle of the road." The Great General and how powerful it is! ”
"Yes, I also feel it, the general seems to be able to predict the prophet, and he can always find the weakest point of the Han army, I thought it would take more than a month to break through to the main city of Xingyang, but I didn't expect it, it took less than ten days to kill the city of Xingyang!" Chen Taiying said.
"You're right, when Chu and Han competed, they faced each other in Xingyang, but Xiang Yu had no way to take Liu Bang, and Liu Bang didn't dare to fight with Xiang Yu, and finally forced Xiang Yu to draw a Chu River Han realm. I thought this Xingyang would be very difficult to capture, but I didn't expect it to go so smoothly. Zhang Hu said this, and asked tentatively: "By the way, Uncle Xuan, you have been with the general longer than me, and the general used to be like a god?" ”
Chen Tai shook his head: "Not before." I think it's weird too! ”
"Yes, if you keep doing things like this, Yongzhou will not be captured by the Han army." Zhang Hu said, regretting: "I always thought that the general was inferior to my father, but now it seems. And so much more! ”
Zhang Hu's father was Zhang Liao, who sat in Shouchun and resisted Sun Quan several times, and he was also regarded as the governor of one party, and this governor was not a relative of the Cao family, which was in Cao Ying at that time, only Zhang Liao could be so trusted.
Zhang Hu was born in a family of generals, and was taught by Zhang Liao since he was a child, while Chen Tai is different, Chen Tai's father Chen Qun is a civil servant, compared to Zhang Hu, Chen Tai has been full of poetry and books since he was a child, and his experience in leading troops to fight is not as good as Zhang Hu.
"If it can continue like this, it would be great, it won't be long before we can take Luoyang." Chen Tai sighed.
"Hehehe, Uncle Xuan, you didn't grow up in the army since you were a child, and you may not be familiar with it. Now that we have reached the city of Xingyang, this war has just begun. Didn't Taizu lose in the hands of Xu Rong in this Xingyang in the past? This Xingyang is not so easy to take. Zhang Hu said with a smile.
"I'm just talking, but according to this level of advancement, maybe within this month, I can take Xingyang City."
"Uncle Xuan, don't underestimate that Xingyang guard Wang Ping. I heard that this Wang Ping is also battle-hardened, experienced, and quite calm, when attacking the city, what he is most afraid of is that he encounters the generals who defend the city and is calm, and everything is unmoved. ”
Back then, Zhang Liao was able to repel Sun Quan's attacks several times, relying on the word "stability", you attack yours and I defend mine, when defending the city, if you can't hold your breath, you can be regarded as having a disadvantage. Zhang Liao, who is deep in Zhang Hu, naturally knows this truth.
"Wang Ping? That Ba barbarian? Hehehe, I heard that this man has some force, so I will go and compete with him when the time comes. Chen Tai smiled with a slight contempt.
Wang Ping was born in Shudiba, in the eyes of Chen Tai, who grew up in the Central Plains and was born in a family, this Ba man is just a barbarian, and Chen Tai still looks down on Wang Ping from the bottom of his heart.
Since the defeat of the Xiongnu, the Han Dynasty has always regarded itself as the superior kingdom of the Celestial Empire, and the children of those wealthy families look down on the poor people of the Han nationality, let alone ethnic minorities.
Yuan Shao's background as "the fourth world and the third duke" is not eye-catching at all for a commoner-born child like Guo Jia, so Guo Jia has been mixed under Yuan Shao for a year and has achieved nothing. For example, Dong Zhuo is not a family, but just a strong place, and after hearing that Liu Guanzhang and the others are just white dings, they are too lazy to take care of it. There are very few people who can be born into a family like Cao Cao and are virtuous corporals. This wealthy family is still like this for the ordinary people of the Han nationality, how can a general of an ethnic minority be taken seriously.