Chapter 19 Cao's army ran out of food
It was very unexpected and sudden, after sending Tao Qian away, like catching ducks on the shelves, everything such as etiquette was simple, Zhang Min held the Xuzhou Thorn History Seal in his hand, sat in the lobby, and all the officials in Tancheng stepped forward in turn to salute, and he became the new Thorn Shi of Xuzhou, and he didn't even need the consent of the Han Emperor. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
"Report! Cao Jun went and returned, and is camping outside the city! "When it was about to get dark, everyone who should have seen it had seen it, Zhang Minzheng breathed a sigh of relief, and a city gate captain flew in.
"Got it." Zhang Min touched his forehead, "Yuanlong, Zizhong, let's go to the city wall together." ”
When Tao Qian left, there were 6,000 Danyang soldiers who were willing to follow him back to his hometown, and Zhang Min did not stop them, so they escorted Tao Qian back to his hometown.
"How many people are available in the city right now?" Zhang Min looked at Cao Bao.
"Stab back history!" Cao Bao was obviously very unaccustomed, hesitated for a moment, and bowed down, "Tancheng originally had 30,000 soldiers defending the city, and in the past two days, in order to resist the attack of the Cao army, nearly half of the casualties have been lost, counting the Danyang soldiers who remained, there are less than 20,000 soldiers who can fight." ”
Cao Bao took him out of the city and was ambushed by Cao Cao, and the 10,000 soldiers and horses that had been lost were directly wiped out, and Zhang Min frowned secretly.
"From now on, I will personally be in charge of all the armies in Tancheng, General Cao is frightened today, go home and rest first!"
Cao Bao was shocked, this is about to seize power! He looked at Chen Deng and Mi Zhu next to him, both old men in Xuzhou, they needed to form an alliance in this kind of matter, and they couldn't let the new assassin directly knock everyone down. But he was disappointed, Chen Deng and Mi Zhu both pretended not to see it, and neither of them opened their mouths to excuse him.
Looking at the Danyang soldiers who were waiting around him, Cao Bao lowered his head and hurried away.
"Chen Yi!" Zhang Min shouted, but no one responded for a long time, as soon as he looked behind him, with a wry smile, Cao Cheng and Chen Yi both followed Tao Qian back to Danyang, but now is the time to employ people, who can be used to take on the big responsibility?
"Zizhong, I heard that your second brother Mi Zifang has little force, let him come and follow me!" Zhang Min was helpless, and there was a feeling that there was no general Liao in Shu as a pioneer.
"The younger brother is on the city wall, and the general will see him when he goes." Mi Zhu saw that Zhang Min intended to reuse his younger brother, and his face was overjoyed.
"You go and arrange it again, so that all the soldiers defending the city tonight have a bowl of meat to eat." As Zhang Min walked towards the city wall, he ordered, "Yuanlong, to pacify the people and the affairs of Tancheng for the time being, you have full authority to act as your agent; Zizhong, you are responsible for the logistics of money and food, and you must ensure that the soldiers on the front line have no worries about food and clothing! ”
"I'll understand!"
Zhang Min walked to the city wall, Mi Fang was leading people to guard there, and when he saw Zhang Min coming, he hurriedly saluted.
"Have you counted, how many soldiers and horses does the Cao army outside the city have?" Zhang Min looked over, and Cao Jun didn't seem to have decreased.
"Back to the general, there are still about 40,000 Cao's army!"
And 40,000 more! Tancheng counted less than 20,000 Danyang soldiers, Zhang Min looked at the city wall next to each other, compared with Pengcheng, Tancheng's defense looked a little cold, and the bows and crossbow weapons defending the city were completely destroyed.
"Zifang, you take 5,000 people to go down and rest first, come over to defend the city later, Cao Cao is treacherous, and it is possible to sneak attack at night."
"The last general commands!" Mi Fang left a little awkwardly, and it seemed that she was not very used to the change of identity.
Zhang Min took the remaining 3,000 Danyang soldiers back and forth on the city wall, so that all the soldiers defending the city knew him, the new Xuzhou assassin, General Anbei.
"General, the meals are ready, are you going back to the Taishou Mansion for dinner?"
"No, just eat with everyone on the city wall." Zhang Min found a line and lined up directly at the back.
"General, you!" The soldiers in front of them were taken aback when they saw Zhang Min lined up behind them, and hurriedly turned around. …,
"Everyone line up, leave me alone, I'm naturally standing last when I'm late." Zhang Min smiled, "I heard that there is meat to eat tonight, I have been a soldier for ten years, and I don't eat meat much, come and try it, don't you want to drive me out?" ”
"Haha!" The crowd was amused by his words and laughed alongside.
Mi Zhu stood on the side, seeing that Zhang Min quickly mingled with the soldiers, the corners of his eyes narrowed slightly, and he didn't know what he was thinking.
It was getting late, Zhang Min did not go back to the Shifu, let people set up a tent in the city wall, and took three thousand Danyang soldiers to live on the spot, Cao Cao was outside the city, and he did not personally guard the city wall, and his heart was not steady.
In the middle of the night, Zhang Min was just asleep in a daze, when he suddenly heard a cry and hurriedly got up. Standing on a high place, the city gate was opened, and Cao Jun was pouring in, and he pulled a panicked soldier who was fleeing into the city. "What's going on, why did the city gate open?"
"Lord Assassin Shi, General Cao opened the city gate and let Cao Jun in!"
"What!" Zhang Min was trembling, it was Cao Bao, this guy dared to let Cao Cao in!
"Danyang soldiers, all of them!" Zhang Min turned around and shouted, "Set up the formation, press it up, and block Cao Jun out of the city!" ”
The three thousand Danyang soldiers quickly lined up neatly and pressed towards the city gate.
"Kill! Kill! Kill! "Three thousand people roared together, and it looked especially majestic in the chaotic night.
At the gate of the city, the defenders who were originally panicked, heard the familiar shouting and killing, and knew that Lord Assassin Shi was coming, they all settled down, and everyone gathered around the Danyang soldiers and went to kill the Cao army.
"Cao Cao, you've been tricked!" Zhang Min raised his voice and shouted, "General Cao has already confessed to me, and you will be allowed to go and not return tonight!" ”
Outside the city gate, Cao Cao, who heard the call, was stunned for a moment, a little surprised, and saw the sound of killing at the city gate, which was plausible, and he was calculated by Zhang Min twice in a row, and he had palpitations.
"Kill!" There was another shouting of killing, and at this moment, Mi Fang, who was resting in the city with 5,000 soldiers and horses, rushed over.
"Retreat, all retreat!" Cao Cao took the lead in running back, afraid that he would be copied again.
"Poor Kou Mo chase, close the city gate!" Zhang Min was overjoyed when he saw Cao Jun retreating, and hurriedly led people to rush up to control the city gate.
When the city gate settled down, Zhang Min had a dark face and was about to find someone to settle the account, "Where is Cao Bao?" Bring him to me! ”
"General, Cao Bao has followed Cao Jun out of the city!"
Zhang Min was stunned for a moment, and then smiled.
"Why is Thorn Shi laughing?" Chen Deng also rushed over at this time, and when he saw Cao Jun retreating, he breathed a sigh of relief, and he didn't understand why he was so happy to let Cao Bao run away.
"Tomorrow, we'll be able to see his head!" Zhang Min replied, "Zifang, take someone and go to surround the Cao family, no one is allowed to let go, figure out the situation, and then deal with it!" ”
Outside the city, Cao's army retreated to the camp intermittently.
"Cao Bao, you two-faced traitor! And the face is coming! Cao Cao was furious, "Come on, drag him out for me and cut him down!" The head is sent to Tancheng, and let Zhang Thief see what happens to me Cao! ”
"Cao Gong, the last general will be wronged!" Cao Bao shouted loudly, but before his words fell, he had already been cut off by Dian Wei.
He was indeed very wronged, Huan who chased Cao Cao last night, was ambushed by Cao Hong on the side of the road, and before he could react, Cao Cao, who was fleeing in front, killed him again, and under the attack from both sides, 10,000 horses and horses died and fled, and even he didn't run away, and was caught by Cao Hong. was ready to die, but Cao Cao was willing to spare his life, promising that as long as he opened the city gate at night, he would be in charge of Xuzhou in the future.
Cao Baoxu agreed with the snake and got out and returned to Tancheng. Immediately afterwards, Tao Qian abdicated, let Zhang Min take over as a lieutenant, and then was stripped of military power, and finally chose to open the city gate in anger and let Cao Cao enter the city. …,
"Lord, it's not easy to do, the grain and grass are running out, Zhang Min took the Danyang soldiers into Tancheng again, it is impossible to capture it, since Zhang Min has come to Tancheng, we will turn back and join General Yuan Rang and attack Pengcheng!" Guo Jia paced in the camp, "I just don't know what the situation is with General Yuanrang?" Why did Zhang Min come over so easily! ”
"Wait a few more days, send someone to Pengcheng to find out the news, if there is a change, I'm afraid we won't be able to go back!" Cao Cao was not very optimistic, Zhang Min came over with 10,000 Danyang soldiers, but Xiahoudun of Pengcheng had no news at all, and it was very likely that he would be defeated and retreat elsewhere.
For three consecutive days, Cao's army did not attack the city.
Zhang Min held on to the city wall, "Yuanlong, what do you say Cao Cao is doing?" Fight and don't fight, retreat and don't retreat! ”
"Lord, in my opinion, Cao Cao's grain and grass are about to run out, and he can't advance or retreat!" Chen Deng touched his mustache, somewhat with the demeanor of a pig brother, "Wait for two more days for them to run out of food and grass, we will take the initiative to attack, and we will definitely win a big victory!" ”
Since Cao Cao sent someone to throw Cao Bao's head into Tancheng the day before yesterday, Chen Deng began to sincerely obey Zhang Min, and changed his name to the lord, Zhang Min did not mean to refuse, for him the lord, the assassin history, the Taishou and other titles seem to make no difference.
"Nothing to eat?" Zhang Min touched his forehead, always feeling a little uneasy, what would he do if Cao Cao didn't eat?
"Dried meat!" Zhang Min suddenly remembered these two words, and he was terrified.
"Lord, what kind of preserved meat?" Chen Deng saw that Zhang Min's color was wrong, so he asked.
"Made of human flesh!" Zhang Min patted the city wall, "Have you ever heard of human meat buns?" ”
"What does the lord mean, Cao Jun?" Chen Deng was taken aback, and the latter words were not spoken.
"Have the people outside the city been evacuated?"
"Cao Jun came too fast, and he didn't come yet!"
Zhang Min circled on the city wall, Cao Cao is a wolf, if he is very hungry, he can do anything, the entire Eastern Han Dynasty to the end of the Three Kingdoms, and only he does not take human life seriously, slaughtering the people, killing and descending soldiers, and using human flesh to make dried meat as military food, every time Zhang Min sees this, he is a little uncomfortable, but this person has no literary talent and martial arts are second to none, the best and the worst are born in one, but they are natural.
"I said, lord, what are you thinking with a crying face?" Mi Zhu ran over from afar.
"Zizhong, do you dare to go to Cao Ying!"
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