Chapter Twenty-Three: Siege Wei and Rescue Zhao

Just after Gao Ye's preparations were completed, Yu Ban finally hurried to Xuchang, because Gao Ye's men and horses were all gathered here at this time. Gao Ye, the www.biquge.info of the pen "Fun" Pavilion, immediately let Yu Ban be the vanguard and went straight to the county, preparing to intercept Yuan Shu who was killing Yanzhou in Liang State. Although when Gao Ye told Liu Ye, he said that Yuan Shu was worthless, but when he was really going to fight, Gao Ye had to pay attention to his 100,000 army. After all, strategically you can despise the enemy, but tactically, you must pay attention to the enemy.

Gao Ye's side had just set off, and at this time, Yu Xuan, who was stationed in Liyang, had to face the pressure of Cao's soldiers and horses. According to the report from the front, Cao Cao is now stationed in Dunqiu, ready to fight with him. Although there are 10,000 elite Black Mountain under Yu Xuan, in the face of Cao Cao's 20,000 horses, it still seems a little insufficient. Although the capture of Yecheng made Yu Poison's confidence soar, but if he really wanted to fight Cao Cao face-to-face, he still had some drumming in his heart. After all, he himself knew that if the battle of Yecheng hadn't been for someone who had joined forces with the outside, he wouldn't have won so easily. Now the people he sent to contact the Yellow Turban in Yanzhou Tuntian have reported one after another, and no one is willing to cooperate with him to fight Cao Cao, which can't help but make him feel a little depressed.

Seeing the other people in the big tent, when they heard Cao Cao's troops Dunqiu, they showed a panicked look, and they also sighed in their hearts. The shadow of being defeated by Cao Cao in one fell swoop the year before last is still in everyone's hearts until now. It's just that now the Black Mountain Army's military rations are running out, if it weren't for this, Zhang Yan would not have led people to attack Yecheng. It's just that although there is a lot of grain in Yecheng, it is not enough for the millions of people in the Yellow Turbans of Montenegro to eat, so Zhang Yan ordered himself to kill Yanzhou with Bai Huan, Zheng Gu and others. After all, Yanzhou has a lot of grain and grass because of Tuntian, and most of the people in Tuntian are from the old Yellow Turbans, so Zhang Yan should easily get their response and seize enough food.

But Yu Xuan, who really understood the situation, couldn't help but shake his head, this time Zhang Yan really thought wrong, and he didn't know what kind of ecstasy soup Cao Cao poured into them, and they were so loyal to him one by one, not even one who wanted to help him. Thinking of this, I couldn't help but be even more irritable, and seeing that my subordinates were still arguing, I shouted, "Give me peace!" This made the big tent silent.

"Now Cao Cao's troops are coming at us. But this time, we didn't come for him Cao Cao, we wanted grain and grass, not the land of Yanzhou. Now in the area of Dunqiu, there are 20,000 horses of his Cao Cao, so that the defenders in his various places will inevitably be insufficient. What's more, most of the farmland is outside the city, so we only need to bypass Dunqiu and go straight to Dongwuyang. Don't care about his Yanzhou city, just attack the place where he is tuntian and seize the grain and grass. Yu Poison frowned and said his plan. To be honest, Yu Poison is still very proud of his little abacus, after all, what can Cao Cao do even if he is at the peak of his military power? He avoided his army and entered Yanzhou to plunder the land, so what could he Cao Cao do?

When everyone heard this, they all praised Yu Poison's clever plan, after all, everyone was Yu Poison's subordinates, how could they not understand his great and joyful temperament? And in this way, everyone doesn't have to fight Cao Cao, and the looters are all unarmed people, so everyone is naturally high-spirited in such an easy battle.

"Now that Bai Huan and Zhenggu are in Muye, I also heard that the Yufu Luo soldiers of the Southern Xiongnu have entered Neihuang, so Cao Cao's forces are even more contained, as long as we enter Dongwuyang, we can naturally plunder, then Cao Cao will not be able to spare his hands to deal with us at all." Yu Poison said this, and said with a smug smile, "I always say that you have to use your brains to fight, you idiots, do you all want our 10,000 horses to fight Cao Cao's 20,000 troops to the death?" ”

When everyone heard it, the words of compliments were naturally one sentence after another, and those who listened to Yu Poison were also fluttering. Early the next morning, under the leadership of Yu Poison, everyone bypassed Dunqiu and walked straight to Dongwuyang.

At this time, in Cao Jun's big tent, he had already received the news of Yu Poison's departure. When the generals heard that Yu Poison was attacking Dongwuyang, their hearts all rose to their throats. After all, it is also an important area of Tuntian, and almost one-tenth of the yellow turbans grow grain for Cao Cao, and if it is attacked by Yu Poison, I am afraid that it will cause heavy casualties. Xiahoudun, who was anxious, got up directly and asked for an order to return to Dongwuyang.

Cao Cao just smiled, making Xiahou not be impatient. "Yuan Rang doesn't have to worry, Dongwuyang has a son and filial piety, and forgive that Yu Poison can't beat the city."

"But what if Yu Poison attacks Tuntian? There are more than 100,000 Qingzhou yellow turbans outside the city, and if they are in danger of filial piety. Lord, let me hurry back and defeat this gang of black mountain thieves. Xiahou said hurriedly. However, although Xiahoudun was in a hurry, Cao Cao was still at ease. Guo Jia, who was beside Cao Cao, looked even more indifferent, and said: "General Xiahou doesn't need to worry, the lord has a clever plan to break the thief, and I will follow the lord's orders." ”

"Haha, it's still filial piety to me!" Cao Cao laughed and said, "All the tuntian places in Yanzhou have been regularly trained under the suggestion of Feng Xiao, and this matter is in charge of Xi Zhicai, I have been to see it, and it is quite effective." This matter is really thanks to Feng Xiao, if it weren't for Feng Xiao's advice, and I was recommended to a master like Xi Zhicai, now I am afraid that the situation I am waiting for will not be so easy. ”

Guo Jia took a sip of wine, arched his hand at Cao Cao, and said: "Zhicai is talented, and it is really useless to let him be in charge of military training." The lord went back and reused him well. ”

"That's nature! Now that Yu Poison is going to fight Dongwuyang, he will inevitably be blocked by the Qingzhou Yellow Turban, after all, seeing that the grain is about to be harvested, who can agree to others to take advantage of the fire to rob? Therefore, although Yu Poison entered Dongwuyang, it was not to be feared. In Mingxi's "Thirty-six Strategies", there is a plan to encircle Wei and save Zhao, which is named after the allusion that Sun Bin saved Zhao and attacked Wei, and now it is suitable to deal with Yu Poison. Although Yu Poison has a large number of men and horses, but the families of his soldiers and horses are all in the Xishan area of Chaoge, I will wait for the road to attack, then Yu Poison will inevitably come to the rescue because of the panic of the army, and when the time comes, an ambush will be set up along the road, and it can be decided in one fell swoop. Cao Cao stroked his beard and said with a smile.

After listening to Cao Cao's plan, Xiahoudun immediately got up again and arched his hand: "In this case, please let me be the pioneer, and this will take down his poisonous lair for the lord." ”

"Well, Yuan Rang, immediately order all the soldiers and horses, and we will go straight to Chaoge to kill." Cao Cao nodded and said, "The rest of the generals, follow my Chinese army." "Wow!" All the people received the command, and then they dispersed.

The Montenegrin Army, which marched all the way to Dongwuyang, was not as pleasant as expected. Although the farmers who were planting the land saw them at first, they all fled, but just as they ordered their men to start harvesting grain and grass, they saw a wolf smoke rising from the ground. Not only that, but those who had just escaped actually killed them one by one with spears in their hands at this time. If it weren't for the fact that they didn't have armor on them, they would have thought that Cao Ren's soldiers and horses had arrived.

This kind of thing didn't just happen in this one place, and in the next ten days, it was simply difficult for me to move an inch in Dongwuyang. After all, his main target was grain and grass, but no matter where he went, the farmers in the fields all gave him surprise attacks, and even a few times, he was raided by Cao Ren's cavalry. In just ten days, 10,000 horses lost more than 2,000 people. This made Yu Poison very angry.

But what frightened him even more was that the news came from the rear that Cao Cao went straight to attack his lair. You know, these people and horses are all there. Although he is now nominally Zhang Yan's subordinate, he is actually in Zhang Yan's own lineage. At that time, Zhang Jiao died, the Yellow Turban Uprising failed, and he had to occupy Qingyan Mountain in the west of Chaoge and started a business with no capital. Later, the cottage grew stronger and stronger, and Zhang Yan gathered the rest of the Yellow Turban in Hebei, and he took 30,000 horses to take refuge with him.

Now that his cottage has been attacked by Cao Cao, how can he not be anxious. And this news was not concealed at all, but it was known to everyone, the army that had been attacking in Dongwuyang did not go well, and suddenly said that they wanted to go back to save the cottage, and Yu Poison, who had this intention, naturally readily agreed, gathered all the horses, and rushed to Chaoge day and night.

There is a saying in the art of war, "if you fight for profit for 50 miles, you will jump on the general", which refers to the harm of a rapid march to the army. That Yu Poison was only born as a farmer, so how could he know so many reasons for using soldiers. At the beginning, I could think of a strategy to avoid reality and make up for nothing, but it was just the result of a flash of inspiration. When it comes to a real crisis, can we still hope that there will always be a flash of inspiration? And the anxious Yu Poison, and a group of anxious subordinates, where can they still think so much, and going back as soon as possible is the common idea of everyone.

When a group of people arrived in Liyang, they were already tired divisions, and they were frantically rushing every day, squeezing out the physical strength of every soldier. If it weren't for the fact that he was in a hurry to go home, Yu Poison would have been forced to march like this, and there would have been more than one or two deserters. It is precisely because everyone has a family member in Qingyan Mountain that everyone has no complaints and desperately returns to defend with Yu Poison.

Yu Poison's heart was already in chaos when he heard that Cao Cao was attacking Qingyan Mountain. He himself knew very well that there were only 1,000 brothers stationed in the cottage, and the rest were mostly old and weak, women and children. Cao Cao's 20,000-strong army marched in, how could they be opponents? It's just that what he didn't expect was that Cao Cao's intention was not on his Qingyan cottage at all, and Xiahoudun, the vanguard, just made an offensive gesture, and successfully led Yu Poison back to Jizhou from Dongwuyang. It wasn't until he was surrounded by Cao Cao's army near Liyang that Yu Poison realized that he was really finished this time. With these extremely tired people under his command, how could they be the opponents of Cao Cao, who had already been ambushed here?

However, after a round of charge, the soldiers and horses under Yu Poison immediately dispersed, and even Yu Poison died in the hands of Xiahou Yuan. Cao Cao, who was victorious, ordered everyone to gather and surrender their troops, but on the other hand, he set his sights on the south. Yuan Shuqin of Huainan came with an army of 100,000, and I only hope that Mingxi will stop it!