Chapter 166: Earning the City
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Xingrong spent the night in the tower at the east gate of Yecheng for the past few days. It was spring now, and the north was still cold, and the room belonging to him in the castle tower was lit with a huge incense burner, and he sat on the couch to cook wine and drink in the middle of the room, and spent night after night.
The moment his uncle sent someone to kill the Xinbi family, he went to visit Su You, who had been hinting at his surrender to the imperial court, and then Su You took his cronies to Neihuang.... Yesterday, the news of the surrender of Neihuang without a battle reached Yecheng, and the whole city was frightened from Yuan Shang, but Xianrong knew that someone was about to come to the east gate to find him.
Sure enough, the next day, Cao's army had already arrived in the city, and the spies came to report, it was the army of Cao Pi Cao Zihuan, the eldest son of Sikong of the dynasty, and the sergeants up and down Yecheng were no strangers to this name. First, because the ancestors blessed the Central Plains rice, so that the rice output of the entire Central Plains doubled, and now the people south of the river have eaten rice, although the land in the Jizhong Plain is fertile, the wheat is widely distributed in the prefecture and county, and the wheat can be used as pasta, and the taste is more than a little better than the corn of the Central Plains, but it is not as good as fine rice.
Originally, the scholars and generals in the north laughed at Cao Cao for not having enough to eat and having to support a court, but now the times have changed, and the Central Plains is full of rice and grain, and he can already compete with the north. Not to mention that the yield of rice in the Central Plains has far exceeded that of wheat in the North, which means that Yuzhou, Yanzhou, Xuzhou, Sili and other places can feed more people, and over time, the population advantage of the Northland will be gone.
All of this is because Cao Pi built a first agricultural altar in a military camp on the outskirts of Xudu.
Second, it was because their commander Yuan Shang ate a defeat in this Zhijinwu, first put the elite of the army in the first camp, and then the rear army and the baggage were killed again, making the entire Jizhou accompany him Yuan Shang to starve, which is also due to the fact that this soldier is in the city of Zhijinwu.
If the soldiers and civilians of Yecheng were only curious about the luck of his ancestors and farmers, then now they admire his talent for marching and fighting, and no one in the world knows that this Zhijin Wu is only 17 years old this year.
After taking a sip of wine, Xian Rong, who was nearly thirty years old, muttered, "It's good to come!" It's good to come! ”
At this time, the cronies outside the door knocked on the door to report: "Captain, Master Li asks to see you." ”
"Please."
With a "babble", the door opened, and a thin scribe of thirty-seven or eighteen walked in, came straight to sit down opposite Xun Rong, and Shen Rong poured him a wine without saying a word.
The scribe drank all the wine, looked at Xian Rong and sighed, "Brother Xian, your will has been decided?" ”
"Exactly, if you let Hu Lai be judged, the foundation of my trial family in Wei County will be ruined, Yuan Benchu died, and his son is not a weapon, and now Yuan Tan in Qingzhou surrendered to the imperial court to survive, although Yuan Xi of Youzhou and Gaogan of Bingzhou led a state, and there were also sergeants under his command, but there were Xian Yufu, Yan Rou, Zhang Yan and others to contain them, and there was Cao Sikong's army outside, the day of defeat was not far away, and the situation in Jizhou was weak, when it was clearer than me, how many days of food was left? Yuan's and Li's Longmen will be a thing of the past in the Northland! Xianrong looked directly at the scribe and replied slowly. 【】
The scribe sighed again: "When the virtuous brother met with General Su that day, he knew that the virtuous brother intended to do so!" ”
Xian Rong laughed and said: "My brother already knows, now even if my brother goes to inform Yuan Shang, I will not stop it for a while, but the trial family will be destroyed, and I will die and be martyred, but the people of Yecheng who are short of food will have to suffer for a while." ”
The scribe stared blankly at the empty space in front of him, and said softly: "The judge is now the head of the trial family, and the virtuous brother does this, even if he preserves the family, he is not filial piety, and he is ashamed of the ancestral hall." ”
"Juan Rong will abandon the table words today! I don't want to judge the glory of the ancestral hall of the family, and there is no word for glory since then! The self-reliant portal is! ”
The scribe looked at Xian Rong for a long time, and laughed: "I also want to be a person of the tribe today, and I don't want to be a person!" Since then, there has only been Li Fuye! ”
The two laughed, and Shen Rong poured wine and drank with Li Fu.
Li Fu asked while drinking; "Brother Xian, when do you think this Zhijin Wu will enter the city?"
"In another place, I will enter the city today."
"However, the camp of Jinwu is fierce, and it looks like it is strictly guarding and waiting for the rear army."
"Show the enemy suspicious and surprise! This ruling Jin Wu can send a lone army to rush in and copy Yuan Shang's back road, how can he not know this truth, and Su Youfen said clearly, if he didn't enter the city today, then I'm sorry for this person's strange plan to defeat Yuan Shang before. "Cao Pi will be greatly surprised if he is here, this judge is not only ruthless and ruthless in his strategy to dedicate the city, but also has a thorough understanding of Cao Pi's mentality.
Li Fu asked: "The five hundred soldiers of the East Gate are all cronies of the virtuous brother?" ”
Xian Rong shook his head: "There are many people, how can so many people know, there are only fifty cronies, if someone calls the door and has a code, I will send someone to go down to the city with the deputy general to open the door, and as soon as the city gate opens, I ordered my subordinates to behead the deputy general, and then kill the recalcitrant people, and ordered the east gate guards to surrender and welcome the army into the city." ”
Li Fu praised: "The virtuous brother has no last resort. ”
"Let's see if it's the right time to make a move tonight! I've been living in the castle tower for a long time! ”
Li Fu said with a smile: "Brother Fool and Brother Xian live here!" ”
Xian Rong smiled: "Wonderful! ”
The two laughed at each other and continued to drink in the castle building.
That night, Cao Pi's camp from the second watch, there were sergeants out one after another, first Su You took Wang Shuang, Xiahou Ba, Gao Shun, Su Yu and more than 20 other selected soldiers out of the camp wearing tattered clothes, then the horse's hooves wrapped in cloth, the horse's mouth was tied to the tiger and leopard rode away, Qiang Douqu followed, after the tea time, Cao Pi took Niu Jin, Cao Zhen left the camp.
At the second watch, the heavens and the earth were pitch black, except for the bright moon hanging high, the stars were scarce, and by the glimmer, the army touched beyond the east gate.
Looking at Yecheng from Cao Pi's location now, it is just a dark shadow, as for Su You, Cao Xiu's tiger and leopard cavalry, and Qiang Douying, there is no shadow at all.
At the same time, downstairs at the east gate of Yecheng, by the moat, someone was pulling the mulberry and shouting: "Open the city gate quickly!" We are Neihuang sergeants, and we are unwilling to surrender to Cao Thief with Su You, and we are specially returned to General Yuan of Yecheng!! ”
The defenders of the city tower immediately raised their torches and shone down, and saw dozens of unclothed men, dusty, shivering under the city wall, and four people had fallen to the ground, not knowing whether they were alive or dead.
"Are you waiting for the Inner Huang Defenders, or are you under the command of Su You?"
"It's Su You's command, let's beg my brother to open the door quickly! We fled in a hurry, we didn't get dressed, we were cold and freezing along the way, and many of our brothers died! The man in the city shouted again.
"Thou shalt wait, I will report to the captain of the East Gate.........." said the sergeant of the city. (To be continued.) Mobile phone users, please browse and read, a better reading experience.