"Zhuge Liang knows the term gunpowder? Do you also know that gunpowder is the recipe of one nitrate, two sulfur and three charcoal? This ......, how is this possible? ”

After listening to Xun Chen's report, he was stunned and screamed, Deputy Director Tao almost thought that Zhuge Liang was the same as himself, a traverser from the future, but after careful calculation, Deputy Director Tao beat his chest again, and screamed in annoyance: "Lustful retribution!" There must be something wrong with Huang Shuo's little girl! When the little girl was in Xuzhou, she had to learn how to fly muskets, and I seemed to have inadvertently said that I had slipped through my mouth and said the formula of gunpowder in front of her! ”

"Lord, apart from gunpowder, did you tell Miss Huang Shuo the complete recipe for the flying musket?" Liu Ye, who is good at weapon manufacturing, jumped up and said nervously: "If so, then we can prevent the enemy from suddenly using a flying musket on the battlefield!" ”

Deputy Director Tao carefully recalled the past, remembering that when Huang Shuo begged him to learn the flying musket, he refused to agree on the excuse that it was related to military secrets, and as a result, the little girl seized the weakness of her surname, and she was coquettish and kissed and took the initiative to dedicate herself, and she was entangled so much that she had no choice, so she casually said I can only tell you that the flying musket is made of gunpowder, and you can't say a word else. Then the good thing about himself and Huang Shuo was interrupted by the guards who performed the matter, and he couldn't continue a step.

Thinking of this, Deputy Director Tao nodded and said: "No, absolutely not, I just casually said that gunpowder is one nitrate, two sulfur and three charcoal, and I didn't say much about the others, it is estimated that Huang Shuo's little girl is addicted to technology, and she made gunpowder with this sentence, and it turned out to be a problem." ”

"It's a good thing, it's a good thing that the full recipe for the Musket didn't leak out, otherwise it would have been a big problem." Liu Ye breathed a sigh of relief - don't look at the flying musket is actually a large hand-held firework, in addition to arson and interference with the enemy, the power is actually pitiful, but the enemy suddenly used it on the battlefield, which still has a great impact on the morale of the Xuzhou army.

"It doesn't have to be Miss Huang Shuo." Jia Lao Poison covered up the lascivious Deputy Director Tao and said: "Don't forget, my lord, our army once assisted Cao Mengde with the formula of the flying musket, maybe Cao Jun has a problem. ”

"Definitely that girl." Deputy Director Tao gritted his teeth and said: "I told Cao Thief the formula of gunpowder, but I didn't tell Cao Thief the term gunpowder, Zhuge Liang knows both the term gunpowder and the formula, so there must be something wrong with Huang Shuo's girl." Stinky girl, dare to spoil me, wait for the next meeting, see how I clean you up! ”

No matter how much you regret and grit your teeth, it is useless, because of Deputy Director Tao's lust and leaky mouth, Jia Lao's carefully arranged bluff plan ended in disappearance, not only did not deceive Yuan Tanjun out of the turtle shell, but also got into part of the military plane of the Xuzhou army. Ashamed and disappointed, Deputy Director Tao had no choice but to make another decision and asked Liu Ye: "Mr. Ziyang, the scouts sent by our army to Xuchang to investigate the enemy's situation are detailed, do you have any news to report?" ”

"There it is." Liu Ye replied: "Our army made a detailed report, after Yuan Tan led the army to the north on July 12, Xuchang immediately imposed martial law in the whole city, and the city gate was only open for two hours a day, and the soldiers and civilians who entered the city had to carefully inquire about their identities, and they were refused to enter the city if they had the slightest suspicion, so our army has not even been able to mix in Xuchang City until now. Fortunately, our army had arranged some fine works in the ranks of Yuan Tan's army before, and one of them took advantage of the opportunity to go out of the city to patrol the outpost and reported to our army the situation of the defenders in the city, and there were about 16,000 defenders in Xuchang City, and the guards were mainly Xin Ping and Cen Bi. ”

Deputy Director Tao frowned, because Deputy Director Tao is very clear about the city defense situation in Xuchang, although the scale of the city is not large, and more than 30,000 troops can be stationed, but the city is extremely difficult to capture, even if the Xuzhou army divides its troops to take Xuchang, it is difficult to quickly break through the city from the front. Thinking about this, Deputy Director Tao inevitably regretted his previous poor consideration - how good would it be if he had used the opportunity to settle in Xuchang to dig a few tunnels leading directly to the outside of the city?

There was no way to fight Xuchang's idea, and Deputy Director Tao, who had always been attentive, had no choice but to turn his eyes to the north to fight Gao Gan and Jiang Yiqu's idea, but what made Deputy Director Tao depressed was that after Gao Gan and Jiang Yiqu withdrew their troops from Yecheng, they just stopped by withdrawing Liyang and Puyang, and no longer went south to join the Guandu battlefield, and also restrained the counterattack team of Chen Zhibiao Division and Yuan Shangjun of the Xuzhou Army, and also blocked the road of Xuzhou generals Hou Cheng and Sun Guan to reinforce Guandu. At the same time, because Yuan Shanggongzi was still stingy and only sent 20,000 troops to chase Dangyin, at present, Chen Zhi's partial division does not have any advantage on the flank battlefield, and can only be stationed in Lihu to monitor Gao Gan and Jiang Yiqu, and the possibility of breaking the enemy's main force on the northern front with a partial division is very small.

There was really no way, although there was not much certainty, after some careful and careful preparations, Deputy Director Tao still organized a tentative attack, relying on the advantage of more soldiers and generals, and dispatched more than 50,000 troops to attack Yuan Tanjun's Guandu camp in one go, trying to destroy the peripheral offensive of Yuan Tanjun's camp, opening an offensive gap in the south of Yuan Tanjun's camp with relatively open terrain, and then completely destroying Yuan Tanjun's turtle shell.

The war drums sounded, the Xuzhou army in array sent wave after wave of attacking infantry, like a flood of river tides, surging towards the camp of Yuan Tan's army one after another, the war drums were earth-shattering, shouting and killing one after another, the momentum was very amazing, the heads on the ground were like ants, the arrows in the sky were like locusts, and the huge stone bullets were whistling to and fro, smashing into the enemy group with a thousand momentum, the scene was spectacular - but, it was useless.

It's really useless, there are two monsters Zhuge Liang and Hao Zhao sitting in the Yuan Tan officer to cross the camp, in terms of defense is definitely the top at that time, Xuzhou soldiers rushed to the Yuan army camp in front of the first had to face the threat of the Yuan army's trebuchet, followed by a strong crossbow, a strong bow and a three-dimensional blow of the crossbow, a strong bow and a crossbow, and you have to be careful of the wide and deep trench under your feet, as well as the cold arrows that suddenly shot from behind the opposite sheep and horse wall, barely cross the trench, and you have to first destroy the dense antlers to resist the horse before you can get close to the sheep and horse wall - basically when a soldier can touch the sheep and horse wall, the body has been shot like a hedgehog, let alone hit the strong fence guarded by the knife and gunner behind the sheep and horse wall. Therefore, although the offensive of the Xuzhou army was fierce, in fact it was basically ineffective, and it was a waste of strength.

There is also the Xuzhou army once rampant heavy trebuchet Xiangyang cannon, but also Yuan Tanjun imitation of the Xiangyang cannon completely suppressed, Hao Zhao built the Xiangyang artillery battery, so that Yuan Tanjun's Xiangyang cannon can condescendingly hit the stone bullet farther, the range of the Xuzhou army Xiangyang cannon fired from the ground, the ingenuity of the first to build the camp artillery is flat and hard, can greatly speed up the movement of the heavy Xiangyang artillery, the formation of a local advantage to fight more and less, more effective bombardment of the Xuzhou army Xiangyang artillery position, Therefore, although the Xuzhou Army was the initiator of the Xiangyang cannon, it turned out to be inferior in the stone throwing battle.

Seeing such a situation in the high place of Tushan, Deputy Director Tao also died and used the primitive pine cannon to scare the enemy, and began to scold his old lover Huang Shuo, who had a few nights of love, for harming people, leaking the most critical secrets, and destroying the best chance for the self-army to lure the enemy out of the camp for a decisive battle. Jia Lao Poison, Liu Ye, Shi Yi and others next to him were also helpless, and they couldn't think of any good way to quickly smash Yuan Tanjun's turtle shell.

After losing about seven or eight hundred troops and losing ** Xiangyang cannons, seeing that there was no hope of breaking through the enemy camp, Deputy Director Tao, who never liked to suffer losses, decisively ordered Ming Jin to let the soldiers withdraw from the battlefield. After the gong sounded, the Xuzhou soldiers who were pressed by the rain of arrows of Yuan Tanjun couldn't even lift their heads, as if they were amnesty, hurriedly supported or carried their injured companions back and retreated, many Xuzhou soldiers who were within the range of Yuan Tanjun's bow and crossbow simply crawled out of range before they dared to get up, and the embarrassed appearance made Yuan Tanjun laugh up and down, and also attracted more bows and crossbows to chase and kill, and Zhang Fei, who shot a crawling Xuzhou soldier to the ground with a strong bow, also laughed the loudest, and kept shouting to provoke the Xuzhou army, asking the Xuzhou army to attack the camp again.

Of course, Deputy Director Tao didn't pay attention to Zhang Sanye's provocation, first, it was too far away to be heard, and secondly, after the attacking team retreated, Yin Li, the general in charge of the command, immediately hurried to Deputy Director Tao, and had no time to wipe off the dust and stains on his face, so he presented a bloody featherless arrow to Deputy Director Tao with both hands, and said, "My lord, please look, the enemy also has our wind feather arrow." ”

Deputy Director Tao's face was gloomy, and he took the featherless arrow, and found that the shaft of the arrow was thick and short, obviously issued by a hand crossbow, and the tail of the arrow had no feathers, and only two deep grooves were opened, which were obviously made by the Wind Feather Army that imitated the army. Liu Ye next to him was a little surprised, and said, "How come Yuan Tan also has wind feather arrows over there?" I remember that our army has not reported this? ”

"It must be a good thing done by the big-eared thief or Zhuge Liang." Deputy Director Tao Yin Yin said: "It seems that the big-eared thief and Zhuge Liang have studied our army really carefully. ”

"My lord, it's not just that." Yin Li hurriedly said: "The brothers who were hit by this arrow, and many brothers who were hit by the arrow, are now twitching their limbs, their tongues are crooked, and they can't even speak, and the wounds of the arrows are also a little discolored, and there seem to be strange things on the arrows. ”

"What?!"

Deputy Director Tao was shocked, and when he hurriedly looked at the arrow again, he found that there was a blood-soaked twine on the three-edged arrow without feathers! Seeing this twine, Deputy Director Tao was also immediately furious, and roared: "Poison arrow!" Soak the twine in the poison juice, then take it out to dry, and then tie it to the arrowhead, and you can poison the person who shoots it! This is the most raw material saving and the most effective way to make poison arrows! Zhuge Villager! It's you again! It's definitely you again! ”

Jia Lao Poison and Liu Ye and others were secretly frightened, only then did they know that Deputy Director Tao had repeatedly beware of Zhuge Liang before! Deputy Director Tao yelled again: "The limbs are twitching, the tongue is crooked and can't speak, ninety percent of it is the poison of aconitum head!" Quick, immediately arrange for someone to go back to the camp and boil more mung bean soup to prepare! General Yin Li, you immediately go and organize people to rescue the wounded soldiers who have been hit by poisoned arrows, give them more water to drink, carefully clean their wounds with water, drink mung bean soup immediately after sending them back to the camp, and then ask Lang Chinese medicine to treat them! ”

Yin Li took the order and hurried away, and a guard also flew back to the camp to give the order, and it was also at this time that Jia Lao Poison bowed his hand to Deputy Director Tao and said: "Lord, this should be the enemy's plan to attack the heart, and the first battle will shoot our army with poisoned arrows, the purpose is to intimidate our soldiers and soldiers, scatter our army's heart, and make our soldiers afraid of poisoning, and dare not fight forward in the next battle." ”

"Zhuge Villager's old methods, I can't imagine that they were first used on our army." Deputy Director Tao said something absolutely contradictory, which made Jia Lao Poison and others wonder if Deputy Director Tao's enlightenment died too early.

At this time, the Xuzhou soldiers who attacked the enemy camp had all withdrawn to their own positions, in order to gain rescue time, Deputy Director Tao did not immediately order the collection of troops, but only arranged manpower to assist Yin Li's team to rescue their own wounded soldiers who were hit by poisoned arrows, and led the army to continue to wait for Yuan Tanjun to take advantage of the victory to pursue the camp, but Yuan Tanjun was determined to hold on, even if he repelled the attack of the Xuzhou army, he refused to go out of the camp to expand the results, and the two armies were separated by less than two miles, and they were safe and sound.

Seeing that Yuan Tanjun refused to leave the camp, Deputy Director Tao was about to go down to inquire about the poisoned and wounded soldiers, but Yuan Tangongzi's handsome banner appeared next to the fence of Yuan's camp. Can you tell what he looks like in the crowd? ”

When the guards looked at each other, Li Lang, the captain of the personal soldiers behind Yang Changshi, who was yawning, jumped out and said with a smile: "The villain has seen it, the villain has not only seen Guo Tu, but also tied Guo Tu's old puppet for Lord Yang and kicked him a few times. ”

"Good!" Xun Chen was overjoyed, hurriedly dismounted and handed his telescope to Li Lang, and ordered: "You ride my horse to a nearby place to see if there is such a person under Yuan Tan's handsome banner!" Seeing clearly, I will ask the lord for a reward on your behalf. ”

The veteran oil son Li Lang happily agreed, and hurriedly got on the horse to investigate the situation, and it was at this time that Deputy Director Tao asked Xun Chen what this move meant? Xun Chen replied in a deep voice: "Don't blame the lord, Chen should have reported this matter to you a long time ago, but the matter was too abrupt, and Chen didn't dare to determine whether his suspicions were true, so he didn't report it to the lord." ”

Saying that, Xun Chen carefully introduced the abnormal situation about Guo Tu that he found when he entered the camp of Yuan Tan's army, and then said: "The lord must have heard that Guo Tu has always been Yuan Tan's number one confidant, and in front of Yuan Tan, even Xin Ping's position is not as good as Guo Tu, but when Chen reunited with Yuan Tan after a long absence, he saw Yuan Tan scolding Guo Tu at every turn, and his attitude was very rude, and Chen was suspicious in his heart, so he arranged for people to observe the movement. ”

Deputy Director Tao and Jia Lao Poison and the others glanced at each other, and they also felt that this matter was a little strange, and then Deputy Director Tao asked Xun Chen: "Mr. Youruo, don't you suspect that Guo Tu has fallen out of favor in front of Yuan Tan?" ”

"If Yuan Tan's scolding of Guo Tu is not acting, there is only this explanation." Xun Chen shrugged his shoulders and replied as Deputy Director Tao learned, and then rarely showed some smirks that were extremely similar to Deputy Director Tao, and said: "Guo Tu has always been Yuan Tan's number one henchman, even if he falls out of favor, there are many henchmen in Yuan Tan's team, and the influence is huge, if our army can pull him over, ......." ”

"Pull Guo Tu over?" Deputy Director Tao didn't laugh, just thinking about recruiting Guo Tu's possible surname, originally judging from the past friendship, Deputy Director Tao wanted to recruit Guo Tu, and even develop Guo Tu into an insider, it was simply a fool's dream - because Mr. Guo Tu's holiday with the Xuzhou army was too deep.

However, it is not impossible, because Mr. Guo Tu and the Xuzhou army once had a little-known cooperation, after the end of the first Guandu War, Mr. Guo Tu, who was sent to Xuzhou by Yuan Shanggongzi and the trial match, was sent to Xuzhou to die, in order to survive, he had secretly helped the Xuzhou army to win eighty percent of the Qingzhou land through negotiations! That is to say, as long as the fundamental interests of Mr. Guo Tu are at stake, the Xuzhou army is not completely out of the possibility of cooperating with Guo Tu again! Thinking about this, although he didn't have many expectations, and he knew that he was a little different from Boss Cao in terms of luck, Deputy Director Tao still kindled a glimmer of hope and began to look forward to the reconnaissance news of the veteran Youzi Li Lang.

Rode to the periphery of Yuan Tanjun's camp and dismounted, then walked and crawled to a close place, first covered his vital point with his corpse, and then used the primitive telescope to reconnoiter for nearly a quarter of an hour, before Li Lang climbed on his horse and came back to reconnoiter the results to Xun Chen and Deputy Director Tao, "Lord Yu, Lord Xun, the villain has seen Guo Tu and has been following behind Yuan Tan Pifu." That's right, when the villain went to Jizhou with Shuhou, he also saw Yuan Tan, and he would never admit his mistake. ”

Xun Chen was disappointed, and Deputy Director Tao was also completely disappointed, and said with a wry smile: "It seems that compared to Cao Thief, the biggest disadvantage is that it is not as good as his luck." ”

Jia Lao Poison smiled bitterly with Liu Ye and the others, and they were all extremely envious of Boss Cao's good luck in the battle of Guandu. But the veteran Youzi Li Lang added another sentence and said: "Lord, but there is one thing that is very strange, it is different from the usual villains when they see Yuan Tan and Guo Tu. ”

"What's the difference?" Deputy Director Tao asked casually.

"When the villain saw Yuan Tan and Guo Tu before, Guo Tu usually stood on the right side of Yuan Tan's puppeteer, just like when Lord Yang took the villain and Wang Wu out, the villain followed him." Li Lang, who has a good memory, first compared the position - similar to the position where Jia Lao Poison stood when Deputy Director Tao and Jia Lao Poison were together. Then Li Lang said again: "But when the villain saw Yuan Tan today, he found that he was followed by a middle-aged literati he didn't know on his right, and Liu Bei was a big-eared thief and a lame ...... on his left. ”

"You've even seen a big-eared thief?" Deputy Director Tao hurriedly interrupted and asked.

"The lord forgot? When the villain went south with Lord Yang, General Gongming and military advisors, he saw a big-eared thief in Runan. Li Lang replied with a smile.

"Yes, in terms of knowing people, I'm afraid even I am inferior to you." Deputy Director Tao praised it, and when Li Lang hurriedly became modest, Deputy Director Tao hurriedly asked, "Then when you saw Guo Tu, where did he stand in Yuan Tan?" ”

"Behind the buttocks, there are a few generals in between." Li Lang replied: "By the way, the villain watched there for a long time, but he didn't see Yuan Tan turn around and say a word to Guo Tu, only saw Yuan Tan keep talking to the big-eared thief, the dead lame, and the middle-aged literati he didn't know. ”

"The dead cripple must be Zhuge Liang, and the middle-aged literati should be Cui Yan and Cui Jiqi." Liu Ye, who was in charge of intelligence, said in a deep voice: "Cui Yan is a famous scholar in Jizhou, and he is also a strategist recruited by Yuan Shaocai after the last Guandu War. ”

"I remember." Xun Chen exclaimed: "When I entered Yuan Tan's big tent a few days ago, Yuan Tan's attitude towards Cui Yan was obviously much better, and when I almost succeeded, Yuan Tan also asked Cui Yan's opinion first, and then decided to persuade me to surrender. At that time, Guo Tu also persuaded Yuan Tan to accept my surrender, but Yuan Tan didn't listen at all. ”

"Is it really a chance?" Deputy Director Tao began to be tempted again, and after a little calculation, Deputy Director Tao ordered: "Collect the troops and return to the camp, and then send an order to the whole army, when you go out of the camp to patrol the outpost, try to catch a few enemy scouts as much as possible, and whoever catches the live mouth will be rewarded." By the way, give our model veteran Li Lang in Xuzhou a meritorious service, and reward him according to the rules. ”

When Deputy Director Tao was thinking about Mr. Guo Tu in his heart, there were also people thinking about Deputy Director Tao, at least after accompanying Yuan Tan and Uncle Liu Huang and others to comfort the soldiers who were injured in the battle, Zhuge Liang did not immediately follow Yuan Tan and Uncle Liu Huang and others back to the big tent to drink and celebrate, found an excuse to stay where he was, and limped to the fence, looking at the slowly retreating Xuzhou army, thoughtful.

"The Xuzhou thief just now, ran and crawled closer, peeping into the situation in my military camp, what are you going to do? Doesn't it seem like an ordinary scout? And his armor is shiny, and he doesn't look like an ordinary scout soldier, what is he going to do? I remember that my father-in-law said that there is something called a clairvoyant mirror in the Xuzhou thief army, which can make people see far away, if the well-dressed Xuzhou thief army also has a clairvoyant mirror in his hand, he can see me and the lord and the marquis of Ji inspecting the position, what is he probing? ”

(To be continued)