Chapter 256: Counting is Counting

At night, quietly, a team of men and horses outside the Han army camp was quietly approaching. As the vanguard of tonight's night attack on the Han camp, Jiao Touch was anxiously waiting for the appearance of the attack code at this time.

Gao Ran successfully infiltrated the Han camp by deception, but it was not until last night that Gao Lan's cronies Gao Ran quietly returned from the Han camp and told Tian Feng that everything was ready, just wait for Yuan Jun to kill inside and outside. Tian Feng was overjoyed when he heard this, and ordered Gundam to go back to the Han camp to restore his life, and then found Jiao Touch.

Jiao Touch is also the old man next to Yuan Xi, before Yuan Xi has made a career, Jiao Touch and Zhang Nan are known as the two generals around Yuan Xi, and later Yuan Xi successfully ascended to the position, and Jiao Touch has also risen, although it is not as reused as Zhang Jaw and Gao Lan, but Yuan Xi's trust in him is increasing day by day.

This time, Yuan Xi returned to Yecheng to deal with Zhu Ling, and the affairs of the army were entrusted to Tian Feng, and Jiao Touch was also left by Yuan Xi to assist Tian Feng. At first glance, when he heard that Tian Feng ordered him to attack the Han camp at night, Jiao Jian thought that Tian Feng wanted to borrow a knife to kill people. It wasn't until Tian Feng explained to him that Gao Ran was just defrauding and defrauding to do internal response, that Jiao Fu's heart was a little calmer.

Regarding Tian Feng's fraudulent plan, Jiao Touch did not have much hope. Compared with Tian Feng, who is bent on fighting the court to the end, Jiao Touch is more pragmatic. The Han army is strong, and the confrontation in the past few days has made Jiao Touch recognize this reality. It's not just Jiao Touch who has this idea, there are many people in Yuan Jun who are also thinking about their own future.

However, it is difficult to disobey the order, no matter what Jiao Touch's plan is, Tian Feng has now given the order, and Jiao Touch can only carry it out, otherwise he will have no future. If you don't obey the order, you will be decided!

Sneak to the east of the Han army camp with people, according to Tian Feng, that is where Gao Lan's 3,000 people camped, just wait for the fire there, Jiao Touch can take the team of people around him to rush into the Han camp, and create chaos with Gao Lan's men and horses, and then have their own follow-up people and horses to kill one after another.

In night battles, there is a habit of raising fire. It's right to think about it, in the dark night, if you don't light a fire, the devil knows when to attack. It is not that modern means of communication are well developed and can keep in touch at any time.

In Jiao Touch's anxious waiting, the camp east of the Han army camp finally burst into flames, and the noise of people could be faintly heard.

Before the words fell, Jiao Touch had already rushed to the place where the fire started, and the generals were all brave enough to take the lead, how dare they fall behind, and they all opened their legs and pounced.

Moths have the habit of fighting fires, and modern people know that moths have bad eyes and habitually fly to places where there is light, but the ancients did not know about this, and moths fighting fires in their eyes is a heroic and fearless performance. Jiao Touch led his men like moths to the fire and went straight to the Han camp.

The walkway should look at the road, and if you don't look at it, you will fall. There's nothing wrong with that! Jiao Touchguang patronized the horse and ran to a bright place, but he didn't expect that there would be a trap in front of him. In order to meet Gao Ran as soon as possible, he desperately beat the horse and galloped, but even if he found that something was wrong and wanted to stop, it was too late, and even the people and horses fell into a big pit about five meters deep and two meters wide, and what was even more terrifying was that the people who rushed over with Jiao Touch also fell into the pit.

I can't stop it! Jiao Touch and the people who ran with him disappeared in front of everyone in the blink of an eye, and when the people behind noticed that something was wrong and stopped, the people who didn't know the details behind also followed, squeezing the people who were standing in front of them into the pit.

Falling from a height of four or five meters is equivalent to jumping from the second floor, unless you fall headfirst, otherwise you can't kill a person, plus there is a war horse under Jiao Touch's buttocks, and Jiao Touch who fell into the pit did not suffer any injuries, but then the person who continued to fall from above made Jiao Touch unlucky.

"It's over!" Jiao was unable to move, and his heart couldn't help despairing. At the moment, the people in the pit are next to each other, and they can't move if they want to, and the shouts of the Han army have also come over, which means that there is no need to expect the people above to have the opportunity to rescue those who fell into the pit.

Jiao Yan felt very depressed, and he became a prisoner without even seeing the enemy's face, which hurt his self-esteem. But no one in the Han army sympathized with Jiao Touch, let alone anyone who understood Jiao Touch's depression. When the day dawned, Jiao Touch, who had been trapped in the pit all night, was pulled out of the pit by the Han army.

"Look at your dress, you're not an ordinary soldier, but you have a name?" Liu Xie looked at Jiao Touch, who was pulled up from the pit, and asked.

"Sin will be scorched, come to the Holy One." Jiao Touch still has a little eyesight, and when he heard this, he hurriedly bowed to Liu Xie and saluted. It was impossible to hold your fists, and when you came up, you were tied with ropes.

"Oh, it turned out to be General Jiao Touch. General Jiao Yan didn't stay in the camp of the Yuan army, so he came here in the middle of the night to be a guest, so what's the matter? Liu Xie asked with a smile. At this time, Liu Xie was in a good mood, Gao Ran was honest for a few days after entering the Han camp, and Liu Xie, who saw through Gao Lan's deception, did not expect Gao Lan to wake up, he ordered someone to secretly monitor the people around Gao Lan, until yesterday, Gao Ran's side of Gao Lan stole out of the Han camp in the middle of the night. You don't have to guess to guess that this Gundam must have been ordered by Gao Ran to contact Yuan Jun.

Finally waited for Gao Ran to prepare for action, and Liu Xie immediately began the preparations he had already made. During the day, Gao Ran will not be activated, but Liu Xie can be activated. A bowl of spiced wine was put down by Gao Ran, and when Gao Ran woke up, the three thousand men and horses he had brought were also settled by the seasoned lunch.

Gao Lan, who was woken up by cold water, kept silent, and Liu Xie didn't expect to get any useful value from Gao Lankou. After ordering Gao Ran to be separated from his men, Liu Xie began to prepare for the uninvited guests at night. The big pit that Jiao Touch fell into was dug by Liu Xie's people working overtime before dark, as for luring Jiao Touch to be fooled by raising fire, night attack, either igniting a fire or beating gongs and drums, it is not realistic to rely on people to roar.

Liu Xie is now in the mood to talk to Jiao Touch, not because he smashed Gao Lan's conspiracy, but because he beat rabbits with grass, and this time he can solve the main force of Yuan's army.

There is no such thing in this world as only allowing you to sneak up on me and not for me to sneak up on you. Tian Feng and Gao Ran wanted to attack the Han camp at night, and General Liu Xie planned to send Zhang Yan and Guan Ping to patronize the Yuan army when the Yuan army came to attack him at night, and there was no problem.

The difference is that Liu Xie's side is prepared, while Tian Feng's side is negligent in taking precautions. Tian Feng thought he had a plan, in order to defeat the Han army in one fell swoop, he could be said to have put in a lot of strength, which also led to the emptiness of the Yuan army's camp, and when Zhang Yan led the Han army to kill, Tian Feng was dumbfounded.

"Holy Lord, General Zhang Yan is back." Just when Liu Xie and Jiao Touch were talking, Lu Sheng ran over with an excited face.

Liu Xie was overjoyed when he heard this, for last night's night attack, Liu Xie felt that he was nine out of ten, and Zhang Yan returned to the camp at this time, and he must have returned victorious.

"Zizhong has worked hard, what is the result?" Liu Xie grabbed him and asked Zhang Yandao, who came forward to salute. Zhang Yan has no words, but has a nickname called Feiyan, but after returning to the imperial court, Liu Xie gave the word Zizhong. Ordinary people's words are given by the elderly, but Liu Xiegui is the Son of Heaven, and Zhang Yan is also happy to accept the word Zizhong.

"Returning to the Holy Lord, a great victory. The garrison of the Yuan army camp is empty, the last general and Guan Tanzhi respectively from the east and west sides into the Yuan army camp, the last general beheaded Wang Zhao, Guan Tanzhi beheaded Peng An, and captured countless baggage, the only pity is that Tian Feng was protected by Zhang Nanbao and fled in chaos, Guan Tanzhi has led people to chase, and I don't know if he can catch it, the last general is worried about letting the saint Shanghou for a long time, so he returned to the army first to report the good news. ”

"Who is in charge of the Yuan army camp at this time?"

"Rest assured, with Zang Ba and Xiahou Lan here, those Yuan army captives don't dare to make a mistake."

"Good, good, well done. The order was given that the army would pull out the camp, and I would go to the camp of the Yuan army to eat. Liu Xie happily commanded.

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A merry heart makes a cheerful countenance! Using the Yuan army to come to the night attack and backhand broke the camp of the Yuan army, this was a great joy for the Han army to boost morale. Of course, there are also unhappy ones, Gao Ran and Jiao Touch, who are not very happy with the captives. But at this time, no one experienced their depressed mood.

As Liu Xie came to the camp of the Yuan army, looking at the familiar place full of Han soldiers, Gao Lan and Jiao felt complicated. Jiao touched better, he did not participate in the fraudulent surrender, but was ordered to attack the Han army camp at night. Unexpectedly, the Han army made a move to make a move to see through Gao Lan's fraudulent surrender in advance, and the plan was calculated to end the camp of the Yuan army.

Harming others will not end up harming oneself, which is what Gao Ran said. Liu Xie inspected the camp of the Yuan army, and encouraged the soldiers who had made meritorious contributions in this battle, so that he had time to meet Gao Ran and Jiao Touch.

Gao Lan and Jiao Touch, they are among the best generals in the Yuan army, but if they are placed in the star-studded Han army, they will soon be compared. Gao Ran, even Zhang Yan is not as good. Although Zhang Yan's martial arts are slightly inferior to Gao Lan, Zhang Yan's mind can definitely throw off Gao Lan, so Liu Xie is not too eager to surrender to Gao Lan and Jiao Touch. I am fortunate to have it, and I have lost my life, which is Liu Xie's attitude towards Gao Ran and Jiao Touch at this time.

"There is no need to say much about the saints, the winner is the king, and the loser is the loser. Gao Ran has the trust of the lord, and only wants to die quickly. Without waiting for Liu Xie to speak, Gao Ran had already spoken first.

Liu Xie looked Gao Lan up and down when he heard this, and said sarcastically: "Gao Lan, are you thinking too highly of yourself?" When did I say I was going to recruit you? Once you are a defeated general, you have no literary talent, and your martial arts are not outstanding, where do you have the confidence to think that I will surrender you? ”

"......" Gao Ran's eyes widened when he heard this, and he didn't know how to respond for a while. And Jiao Touch, who was on the side, was beating the drum in his heart after hearing what Liu Xie said, since Liu Xie was not even interested in Gao Lan, wouldn't he be even less hopeless than Gao Lan. Gao Ran is not afraid of death, but the problem is that he doesn't want to die.

"Since you don't want to surrender, then stay in prison honestly. Wait until I recover Hebei, and then let you go free and be a peaceful people. As for you......

"Anxiety is willing to surrender." Jiao touched the words and immediately replied.

"Will you surrender? Not...... If you want to come down, then I ask you, "What are your strengths?" I don't have idlers here. Liu Xie looked at Jiao Touch and asked.

"Uh...... Jiao Touch was originally Yuan Xi's confidant and knew many secrets unknown to outsiders. For example, the wealth accumulated by the Yuan family for several generations ......"

"Scorch! You want to betray the Lord! Gao Ran on the side couldn't listen anymore, and jumped up from the ground and crashed into Jiao Touch. It's just that before he touched the scorched touch, he was kicked to the ground by Cao Zhang, and then a guard rushed up and pressed it to the ground, unable to move.

Liu Xie was very interested in the Yuan family's small treasury, and ignored Gao Ran, who was staring at Jiao Touch, and asked Jiao Touch: "Do you know where the Yuan family hid the money?" ”

"Yes, some of them were ordered by the last general to escort them."

"That is, more than one place."

"Uh...... Yes. Jiao was stunned for a moment, and then admitted with a somewhat helpless expression.

"Huh...... Wenhe, please take General Jiao down to have a good chat and tell him about the rules of my Han army. Seeing this, Liu Xie suddenly felt murderous in his heart, but he remained silent and instructed Jia Xu with a smile. Judging from Fang Cai's helpless expression, it is very likely that this guy has the idea of concealing the location of one or several Yuan family vaults.

Seeing that Jiao Touch was invited out of the camp by Jia Xu, Gao Ran was anxious and angry, but at this time he was a first-order prisoner, even if he wanted to take action, he didn't have that opportunity, and there was no other way than to be angry.

"Don't be angry, he won't live long." Seeing this, Liu Xie said to Gao Lan.

“…… It seems that the saint is quite slippery about unloading the mill and killing the donkey. Gao Ran ridiculed Liu Xiedao when he heard this.

"I can't talk about unloading the mill and killing the donkey, but I hate being deceived, like that Jiao Touch, and like you. Don't make it look like you've been abandoned by someone from the beginning to the end, you have a bad heart and come to cheat, and you deserve to be deceived. ”

Gao Ran is stupid, he can't say Liu Xie, and what Liu Xie said is also true, whoever asked you to deceive Gao Ran, if you want to deceive people, you must have the consciousness of being deceived. When the deception is successful, he is elated, and he scolds the deceived person for being a stupid and stupid person, and cries and wipes tears when he does not succeed in deception, as if the whole world owes him. Why do all the good things in this world depend on you?

asked Gao Ran to be taken down and strictly guarded, and Liu Xie casually picked up the captured Yuan Jun's heavy account book. Before, he just looked at the mountains of baggage in Yuan Jun's camp, but when he saw Yuan Jun's account book, Liu Xie had only one idea, this time he was really rich.

Yuan Xi monopolized Hebei, and Hebei has rarely fought since the settlement of Youzhou Gongsun Du, and after these years of accumulation, he has really accumulated a fortune. Although Liu Xie's area is larger than that of Hebei, the foreign wars over the years have almost never stopped, and even if there is no war, the money required to build the place is astronomical, so Liu Xie's life is a bit tight compared to Yuan Xi.

This time, a large amount of Yuan Jun's baggage was captured, and Liu Xie was the happiest. To say that the imperial court had some worries about the lack of money and food before, but now there is no need to worry, with this capture, it is enough to support the Han army to recover the entire territory of Hebei and even have some surplus.

Today's big men are not afraid of war, excellent generals, elite soldiers, and big men are not afraid of any opponent on the battlefield. But people are iron, rice is steel, if there is not enough grain and grass as a backing, the Han army will not dare to launch a large-scale foreign war. Previously, the imperial court used the grain and grass reserves accumulated in the past few years to supply the war on the grassland, and the war to recover Hebei was not put on the agenda for the time being, that is to say, the purpose of Liu Xie's dispatch of troops this time was only to block the Yuan army, and it would be silenced until the end of the war on the grassland.

But now the situation is different, with Yuan Jun's baggage, the two battles of solving the grassland and recovering Hebei can be carried out at the same time, so why wouldn't Liu Xie do it? As for Sun Quan in Jiangdong and Liu Bei in Jingnan, Liu Xie was not worried, even if they reacted at this time and really helped Yuan Xi in Hebei, it was too late. With Sima Yi, Zhao Yun, Lu Xun, Zhang Ren, Gan Ning, Tai Shici and others present, Liu Xie did not believe that Sun Quan and Liu Bei could threaten the stability of the Central Plains or Bashu like divine help.

If God doesn't take it, he will be blamed. Now that the time to recover Hebei has appeared, why should Liu Xie hold back. First, a letter was sent to Qingzhou, where Sun Ce and Zhou Yu were just a small fight before, and now they can finally make some big moves, since they are determined to recover Hebei, of course, they are trying their best, and let the combination of Sun Ce and Zhou Yu not use it, wouldn't it be a tyrannical thing.

Liu Xie was writing hard in the camp tent, writing letters to Sun Ce and Zhou Yu, but saw Jia Xu walking in with a solemn expression. At first, Liu Xiezheng was immersed in joy and didn't notice that Jia Xu's expression was wrong, but after a while, he reacted, and couldn't help but ask Jia Xu: "Wenhe, is something wrong?" Could it be that Jiao Touch who refuses to be honest? ”

"Holy Lord, Jiao Touch is not difficult to deal with, but there is one thing that is difficult to deal with."

"What?"

"According to Jiao Touch's confession, Yuan Xi's return to Yecheng at this time was not only to deal with Zhu Ling's personal vendetta, but also to have a more important matter, that is, he wanted to persuade the Karasuma people to lead his troops south to help him."

"Badden? Is that the Karasuma King who hugged the thigh of the Yuan family? ”

"It's this person, Jiao Touch, who now has more than 100,000 people under his command, and can mobilize most of the Karasuma people to be my enemy. If Yuan Xi really succeeds in inviting Badun, I am afraid it will also be a variable for our army to recover Hebei. ”

"Tsk~ It's really unsatisfactory." Liu Xie said with a tooth flower.

"Holy Lord, what are you just writing?" Jia Xu asked.

"Hey~ Isn't this the seizure of a large amount of grain and grass, I plan to use these to recover Hebei in one fell swoop, and I am writing to Sun Ce and Zhou Yu to ask them to cooperate with my army." Liu Xie explained when he heard this.

"Sun Ce, Zhou Yu ......" Jia Xu was thoughtful when he heard this, Liu Xie didn't bother when he saw this, just looked at Jia Xu quietly, and after a long time, Jia Xu smiled and said to Liu Xie: "Saint, if you want to solve the problem, Sun Ce and Zhou Yu are indispensable." ”

"Oh? Will the plan be settled? Liu Xie asked cooperatively.

"It's not a new idea, it's just an old one."