Chapter Twenty-Four: The Raiders of the Counties
"Damn, what's that?" Under Chen Jun City, Zhao Feng looked at the civil official who was kneeling under Chen Jun City with the seal in his hand and asked to surrender, and there was a group of people kneeling behind him, and he couldn't help but be a little speechless for a while.
After two days of rest, yesterday Guan Yu and Zhao Feng officially led an army of 50,000 to sweep Yuzhou. Originally, Guan Yu was going to smash the hard bone of Qian County first, but Li Yan, who went out with the army, suggested: "Chen County only needs thousands of county soldiers, why don't the general send a group of elite soldiers to move forward, or can he go down with a drum?" ”
Guan Yu thought about it, so he sent Zhao Feng to lead 10,000 horses, together with Yin Li, to divide the troops to take Chen County. I don't want to just arrive in a place dozens of miles away from Chen County, and there are already two civil officials waiting there for a long time. stepped forward to ask, but it was Chen Jiao who learned that the army was coming, and knew that he was not an opponent, so the surname Suo surrendered.
When Zhao Feng led the army to the city of Chen County, he saw a civil official holding a seal there to ask for surrender, it should be that Chen Jun was too protective of Chen Jiao. "Mrs. Chen abandons the dark and turns to the light, congratulations, please get up quickly." Zhao Feng hurriedly dismounted and helped Chen Jiao up, although he was quite unimpressed with Chen Jiao's greed for life and fear of death, but this superficial article that bought people's hearts still had to be done.
"General Xie!" Chen Jiao may have been kneeling for a long time, but he trembled and barely stood up, but he still held the seal in his hand and presented it to Zhao Feng and said: "This is the seal of Chen County, please accept it by the general." Then he took two thick account books from the hands of a person behind him and said, "This is the population of Chen County, the acres of land and the taxes. Chen County has 50,000 households and a population of 190,000. ”
"Chen is too conservative, this is not the place to speak, let's go into the city and talk about it." Zhao Feng saw that he was endless, so he hurriedly stopped. Chen Jiao was also interested, so he didn't say anything, and hurriedly beckoned Zhao Feng and others into the city. At this time, Zhao Feng remembered what kind of person this Chen Jiao was, in history, he and Cao Ren guarded Nanjun together, and later Nanjun was designed by Zhuge Liang to sneak attack, Chen Jiao was captured alive in order to survive, so that Zhuge Liang easily attacked Xiangyang and Jingzhou.
"It turned out to be him, no wonder he was greedy for life and afraid of death." Zhao Feng thought of the details of this guy, and he was not too relieved of him. This guy seems to be able to handle government affairs, but it is unlikely that he will be loyal. After this period of time, it is best to suggest that Liu Bei not let him guard the marginal jurisdiction of Chen County, and transfer it to the interior to rest assured.
Without further ado, after taking over Chen County, Zhao Feng left 6,000 elite soldiers and Captain Yin Li to garrison Chen County, and then led the remaining 4,000 men and horses to meet Guan Yu. As for how to reorganize and surrender the army, the Xuzhou army is already familiar with this, and Zhao Feng can handle it without Yin Li.
Rushing all the way, Zhao Feng had already led the army to fight Guan Yu in Qian County that night. "Second General, what is the situation today?" After Zhao Feng and Guan Yu greeted each other, they asked directly. In fact, he also saw that there were also dead bodies under the city of Qianjun, and it was obvious that there had been a fierce siege battle today.
"Alas, Du Yuan's guy refused to surrender, and he didn't dare to fight, he actually wanted to be a turtle with a shrunken head. During the day, the army attacked several times, suffering more than 2,000 casualties, but failed to capture it. Guan Yu was also a little helpless. Zhao Feng could completely understand Guan Yu's mood, what he was most afraid of in siege warfare was that the opponent would defend the city. Now Du Yuan is determined to come out, so he can only slowly smash his shell. But this style of play is not only expensive, but even if you can capture the city, you can often only get a ruin, and you don't want to think about it for two or three years.
Yuan Jian went to persuade him to surrender, but Du Yuan took the opportunity to shoot an arrow. If you hadn't hid quickly, I'm afraid you would have died. Guan Yu pointed to Liao Huadao, whose arm was bandaged on the side, and the latter also looked helpless.
"Yuan Jian, what is Du Yuan's surname?" Zhao Feng couldn't figure it out after thinking about it, so he should ask Liao Hua, who was most familiar with him, to see if he could find any flaws in his surname.
"Back to General Zhao, Du Yuan is greedy for money and lustful, but he is greedy for life and afraid of death. Now that General Guan is here, he will never dare to go out of the city to meet the enemy. Liao Hua thought for a while.
"That's it!" Zhao Feng also muttered in his heart. After Chen Jiao surrendered in the morning, Zhao Feng thought of asking Chen Jiao to write a fake letter to deceive Du Yuan out of the city. Unexpectedly, Chen Jiao told Zhao Feng that Cao Ying gave Du Yuan a death order, and he was only allowed to stick to it and was not allowed to fight, and the rest of the counties could not go to the rescue if they asked for help. Now it is obvious that Cao Ying would rather lose the rest of Yuzhou, but Qian County must hold it, so that even if Guan Yu takes Yuzhou, he will have a nail stuck in his throat.
"Greedy for money and lustful, we have no money here, and we have no beauty, how can we lure this person into being fooled?" Zhao Feng was also okay for a while. "How is the defense of the city?" Zhao Feng thought about it and asked, if it really doesn't work, then there is only a strong attack.
"Qian County is where the Cao Ying clan is located, the city is high and dangerous, and the grain and grass are sufficient. In addition to Du Yuan, there are more than 10,000 elite soldiers in the city, and the hearts of the people are united, so they are afraid that it will be difficult to capture in a hurry. "Guan Yu is also not very optimistic about the strong attack.
"Hey, where's Mr. Kenhe?" Zhao Feng turned around and felt that there was no one missing, and after carefully counting it, he found that Jian Yong was not there, even Guan Ping and Hou Cheng were not there.
"Oh, Xianhe went to Runan to contact Liu Bi and Gong Du, the two leaders, and General Hou Cheng also led people to occupy Xiangcheng, and Ping'er went with him." Guan Yu replied. "Gong Du Liu Bi?" Zhao Feng had a flash of inspiration in his mind, and he suddenly had some ideas.
"General Zhao, what is his plan?" Li Yan saw Zhao Feng's expression change, and immediately knew what he had thought. "I can't talk about a clever plan, it depends on whether Gong Du and Liu Bi can get through the trick." Zhao Feng thought for a while.
"What does General Zhao mean by letting Liu Bi and Gong both blend into the county?" Li Yan listened to Zhao Feng's words and immediately understood. "Yes, I just don't know if they were familiar with Du Yuan before. If they are not familiar, Du Yuan will naturally not take them in; It's not okay if they are too familiar, if Du Yuan knew that they had always been in contact with our Xuzhou, he would not take them in. Zhao Feng continued.
"I know that in the past, they had some dealings with us in Woniu Mountain. As for whether Du Yuan knew that Liu Pi and they surrendered to the lord, then I don't know very well. Liao Hua on the side said.
"Well, it is estimated that Liu Bi and Gong Du will arrive tomorrow, so let's see the situation then!" Guan Yu ran into Du Yuan, a person who was afraid of death, and now he could only take one step at a time, and if he couldn't do it, he could only fight hard. After everyone discussed, they decided to wait until Liu Bi and Gong arrived tomorrow.
Not to mention that everyone in Guan Yu's army worked together at this time, in the city of Qian County, Du Yuan, who had just taken office not long ago, was also very unhappy. "Give me a tap!" Du Yuan angrily reprimanded Lang Zhong who bandaged his wounds, although he attacked Liao Hua during the day, he was also shot through his left arm by Guan Yu with an arrow, which was really retribution.
"General Wenlie has arrived!" With the voice of the doorman, a teenager came in proudly. "Du Taishou, why do you refuse to leave the station today?" The person who came was quite inquisitive. However, Du Yuan didn't dare to reprimand him like a taishou, because he was Cao Xiu, Cao Ying's nephew. "Young General, Guan Yu has the courage of ten thousand people, which cannot be matched by us. The only way to do this is to stick to the city and wait for the prime minister's reinforcements. Du Yuan sighed. After becoming the Taishou of this county, Du Yuan found that this position was far from being as beautiful as he imagined. Not because of anything else, just because there are many children of Cao Ying's clan in the city of Qiaojun, Du Yuan does not dare to offend anyone, and he can't afford to offend, this Taishou is really a little aggrieved.
"But if you keep holding on, the morale of the soldiers will be damaged. And Guan Yu will also go to capture Ruyin, Runan and Xiangcheng and other places, and then Qiaojun will be a lonely city. Cao Xiu continued, he is also familiar with military books since childhood, seven years ago, when he was more than ten years old, he had traveled thousands of miles from Jiangdong to Qiaojun alone to join Cao Ying. If it weren't for some physical problems recently, Cao Ying wouldn't have let him go back to Qian County to recuperate, not wanting this recuperation to coincide with Guan Yu's siege.
"The matter has come to this point, and there is only one way to hold on. Anyway, there is plenty of food in the city, and it won't be a problem for me to wait for a year or two, and the prime minister won't be unable to send rescue troops for a year or two. Du Yuan also patiently persuaded him.
"That's it, Guan Yu is certainly an enemy of 10,000 people, but if it weren't for Guan Yu calling for a battle, let me go out and kill one or two of his generals, so as to boost morale." Cao Xiu said suddenly.
"How does this work? General Wenlie, you have just recovered from a serious illness, how can you fight with people? In case the young general is a little injured, Du can't afford to bear it! Du Yuan was shocked when he heard this, joking that if Cao Xiu made a mistake, Cao Ying would not peel his skin.
"It's okay, I'm already healed. This time, except for Guan Yu, the rest of the people are either the generals of the former Lu Bu department, or the old Yellow Turban department, I believe I can handle it. Cao Xiu groaned. Cao Xiu didn't know that Zhao Feng was now also under the city of Qiaojun. Of course, he can't be blamed for this, after all, Zhao Feng only arrived at night, and his banner was not played during the day.
"Let's see tomorrow!" Du Yuan faced Cao Xiu, who was full of fighting spirit, and could only try to appease him for a while, but the trace of worry in his heart lingered.
In Guan Yu's military tent outside the city, "The criminal Liu Pi (Gong Du) visited General Guan!" Two big men in yellow bowed. Two leaders, please get up! This time, the two of them abandoned the darkness and turned to the light, which is really gratifying! Guan Yu is not very good at saying kind words, but he still has to explain the scene. Then Jian Yong, who can speak well, introduced the people in the tent to Liu Bi and Gong Du.
At this time, Li Yan also entered the door and said: "Second general, General Hou Cheng sent someone to send a letter to inform him that Xiangcheng has also been completely taken." However, he only had 5,000 men and horses, and he couldn't attack Anfeng and Yiyang again, so fortunately, Yuan Shujun there didn't use it to provoke him. ”
"Good!" Guan Yu also slapped the table when he heard this: "Now there is only the hard bone of Qian Jun left." It is precisely for this reason that the two leaders were invited. ”
Liu Pi and Gong both glanced at each other, and then said to the person with a fist: "Let General Guan send it." ”
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