After the three cavalry commanders received the order, Cao Zhang said: "The three of you will stay in place first, Zilong, you take the guards to investigate the situation first." Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Zhao Yun promised: "No! "I entered the county hall with the pro-guard army.

Gongsun continued to ask, "My lord, do you say that there will be ambushes in the county government?" ”

Cao Zhang said: "The county government has no danger to defend, leaving the ambush soldiers inside is just looking for death, I just want you to let the cavalry under your command put the horses in the county government for easy care, and then assist our army to join the street battle and control Puzi as soon as possible." ”

After a while, Zhao Yun walked out with a solemn face, came to Cao Zhang, and saluted: "My lord, there are no living people in the county government, and all the old and weak women and children have been killed in it. ”

When Wei Zhen heard this, he said: "The Lin family is going to defend Puzi to the death, so killing all the old and weak women and children to show their heart to the death is the usual method of the Xianbei people." ”

Gongsun continued: "In this way, it will be difficult to do, even if we win the street battle, it is difficult to guarantee that there are no remnants of the Lin family lurking in the county, they can use poisoning, sneak attacks and other methods to assassinate our soldiers, and even the civilian officials who control the county will become their targets, so the role of taking down Puzi cannot be effectively managed." ”

Of course, Cao Zhang knows this problem, the Lin family has occupied Puzi for so many years, there must be many diehards among the county residents, lurking in the county is not a problem at all, the soldiers who died in Iraq after the United States conquered Iraq are far more than the soldiers who died in Iraq, and now Cao Jun is facing such a situation in Puzi.

Just now there are crossbow machines in the ambush soldiers in the city, so some people in the county will also hide this kind of crossbow machine for the use of lurking people, so that things are very troublesome, after all, a county needs a considerable number of officials to perform their duties in order to effectively manage it, to put it bluntly, in ancient times, the occupation of territory was to pay taxes, and the second was to ask people to supplement the soldiers. If Puzi has such a cancer in it, officials have been assassinated, and the people live in unmanaged counties, how can they live and work in peace and contentment, and there are still such a handful of troublemakers, it is difficult to count on taxes and population.

Thinking of this, Cao Zhang is faced with a problem, now it is nothing more than two choices, one is to slaughter the city, and the other is to spend a lot of troops to search the remnants of the party after capturing Puzi, but at the moment, both of these situations are difficult to achieve.

Cao Zhang's current army plus the people into 100,000 people, if the order is ordered to slaughter the city, then the entire Puzi may not survive a few people, this practice will make the squires of Pingyang County led by the Wei family and the Huo family feel cold, and will make the people centrifuge, if the army representing the imperial court is more animal than the Hu people's approach, how can the people of Pingyang be expected to turn their hearts to the imperial court?

As for spending a lot of troops to search for the remnants of the Lin family after the Puzi was defeated, it is even more a joke, not to mention that there are more than 20,000 households in Puzi County, and it is difficult to search one by one, and as long as the Lin family burns the books and slips that record the household registration before defending the city, Cao Jun will not be able to verify which ones are hidden remnants and which are residents, not to mention that after laying down Puzi, Cao Zhang will send troops to Huxi, and the two counties of Beiqu will force Bian Jing and Li Wenhou to surrender, and there is no time to search at all.

Gongsun Xu, Wei Zhen, Xiahou Nan, and Zhao Yun saw that Cao Zhang's face was uncertain, and they all stood aside without saying a word, they were either for many years, or they were familiar with the history books, and Cao Zhang's current troubles in the way of nature, but they didn't have a better way, so they were all waiting for Cao Zhang's order.

Cao Zhang thought silently, but in his heart he thought of the Guo family and Jia Xu, if they were here, what would they do? In the past, Jia Xu spread rumors, saying that Wang Yun and Lu Bu, who killed Dong Zhuo, wanted to kill all the people of Sanfu and Dong Zhuo's remnants, causing more than 100,000 soldiers and civilians to pour into Chang'an, so that Li Dao and Guo Yan, the two clowns who jumped off the beam, turned defeat into victory, relying on the people's hearts.

At this moment, can he Cao Zhang win people's hearts? Thinking of this, Cao Zhang said: "Bo Kang, Gong Zhen, Zilin, put your handle into the county government, I will divide the troops to guard, let your cavalry join the street battle, and control Puzi as quickly as possible!" ”

Gongsun Xu, Wei Zhen, and Xiahou Nan agreed: "No! Then he led the way

Cao Zhang looked at the bloodied guards behind him, and said to Zhao Yun: "Zilong, assign fifty people to guard the county government for me, and then take the rest of the brothers to look for the scattered guards in the county." ”

Zhao Yun promised: "No! "Now Cao Zhang's pro-guard army has been broken up, the military marquis, the tun chief, and the other Sima have all died, so the command of the sergeant is also incomplete, usually only need to find a captain of fifty people to divide the troops, but now Zhao Yun has to find five chiefs plus two captains to make up the number, after pointing out fifty people and handing them over to Cao Zhang, Zhao Yun took the remaining sergeants to collect the pro-guard army in the county.

After Cao Zhang entered the county government with fifty guards, he said to them: "Copy all the valuable things in the county government for me and put them in the open space in front of the county government." ”

Fifty guards immediately took the order to leave, and after a while, Wei Zhen, Gongsun Xu, and Xiahou Nan came to report to Cao Zhang, telling Cao Zhang that they put their horses in a few courtyards behind the county government, Cao Zhang nodded, and asked them to take people to participate in the street fighting.

Six thousand cavalry joined the street battle, and the advantage of the Cao army was more obvious, but the defenders of the Lin family relied on their familiarity with the terrain and prepared in advance, and they still had a long time around, so the street battle in Puzi County was fought until midnight, and the entire county was full of corpses, including Cao Jun's, the Lin family, and even some people's corpses. There will even be some sergeants who will catch a woman in a private house and take advantage of the fire to rob it, everyone will, and no one can take care of it.

Rather be a peaceful dog than a troubled world, this is the truth, and the people who fight and harm the pond fish often can only consider themselves unlucky.

After the war, the loss of soldiers was counted, and there was no doubt that Cao Zhang's personal guard army suffered the greatest loss, with only 436 people left in the 2,000 siege army under Cao Zhang, and only 264 people left under Chen Zhi's 2,000 people.

Zhang Yan's 50,000 Black Mountain Army lost more than 3,000 soldiers, and the least loss was Wei Zhen's tomb keeper cavalry, one person did not die, only more than 100 people were slightly injured, and Gongsun Xu, Xiahou Nan's Hu cavalry, Yue cavalry two battalions lost more than 100 people, as for Zhao Yun's tun cavalry camp because no one from the Lin family escaped, so no one was damaged.

Cao Zhang was already mentally prepared for the loss of his own guards, but what he didn't expect was that the street battle actually caused Zhang Yan to lose 3,000 people, and the Lin family did not escape alone, and even the members of the Lin family were killed on the spot, and only captured the two local squire leaders who were attached to the Lin family, but Lin Yuan, the head of the Lin family, was nowhere to be seen.

Lin Yuan must still be in Puzi City, he must have received Tuoba Xianbei's death order, so he stayed here, and he must entangle Cao Jun to death, although such entanglement will not play a role under the double blow of Xian Lingqiang and the Southern Xiongnu, and in the end, the power of Pingyang will still be eliminated, but it can make Cao Zhang, who has been playing triumphant songs, feel deflated.

Cao Chang let the three armies rest after the street fighting, and all the affairs were dealt with tomorrow, while he rested in the county government for one night, and the next day began to interrogate the two squires who had been captured alive. (To be continued.) (To be continued.) )