Chapter 395: Red Cliff (4)
When I first heard this news, the people of Xinye City were somewhat unimaginable, Liu Beijun's withdrawal was tantamount to confirming the news that Cao Jun was preparing for an army attack, and as for the news that Cao Jun wanted to slaughter the city, although Liu Beijun did not say it explicitly, but obviously the people could also know that this news was true.
If this is just a rumor, why does Liu Beijun want the people of Xinye City to retreat to Xiangyang with Liu Bei, for the benevolent Liu Bei, the people of Xinye City are still quite trusting, after all, after Liu Bei came to Xinye City, he really did a lot of good things for the people of Xinye City, and the people are very grateful for this,
But they evacuated Xinye City like this, which made the people of Xinye City somewhat unbearable, you know, Xinye City has everything they have, for the people, they don't have any requirements at all, as long as there is a place to stay, as long as there is food for consumption, it is enough,
Xiangyang is indeed a good place, but also the most desirable place for most people, Jingzhou is far away from the war, especially Xiangyang is the most important city in Jingxiang, if you really get there, you can definitely get a safer guarantee, which is much better than a small city like Xinye,
But Xiangyang is really good, but how can it not have their own home, after all, the family has a house that can shelter themselves from the wind and rain, although simple but comfortable, if you go to Xiangyang, then everything has to start from scratch, this is not what the people of Xinye City want to see,
But even though the people of Xinye City couldn't bear it, but when they thought of the menacing Cao Jun, the people of Xinye City had to flee, after all, compared with the house and the field, life is the most precious thing, whether it is the house or the land. These are all earned by hard work, but if the life is gone, it will never be recovered, so if the two compare with each other, the life is particularly important, so the people of Xinye City can't bear it. But still began to prepare,
Hearing that the people were willing to leave with him, Liu Bei was obviously a lot more relaxed, and soon, Liu Bei ordered Liu Beijun soldiers in Xinye City to assist the people of Xinye City to collect their things and prepare for evacuation, and at the same time, Liu Bei also personally assured the people of Xinye City that the army would buy time for the evacuation of the people.
Although Xinye City is small, there are really a lot of people in the city, especially in the past few years of Liu Bei's governance, the number of people in Xinye City has increased a lot, and so many people have to evacuate Xinye City, which is obviously not something that can be completed in a day and a half, but for this, Liu Bei's heart has long been prepared.
It will be some time before Cao's army is coming, after all, this expedition is coming. Cao Jun used tens of thousands of troops, although the strength of the troops, but this also greatly limited the movement of the Cao army, the movement of tens of thousands of troops, not to mention anything else, but the transfer of grain and grass can not be completed in a short time.
However, Liu Bei obviously didn't expect that Du Chen knew that the movement of tens of thousands of troops could not escape Liu Beijun's scouts, so there was no sign of concealment at all, and the real killer was the White Tiger Battalion of the Golden Viper Army. Therefore, Du Chen was not afraid of Liu Bei escaping.
Cao Jun's tens of thousands of troops are just to cover up the three thousand White Tiger Battalion soldiers, just when the tens of thousands of troops of the Xiahoudun Group began to move, Cao Chun led the White Tiger Battalion has already quietly left the army garrison and went straight to Xinye City, Du Chen's purpose is to hope to entangle Liu Jun with the soldiers of the White Tiger Battalion, of course, if Liu Bei can be annihilated in one fell swoop, then Du Chen will naturally be more anxiously happy,
But this is obviously something that can't happen, Du Chen has already learned from Xu Shu that Liu Bei is very likely to have invited Zhuge Liang out of the mountain, if this is really the case, not to mention the elimination of Liu Beijun's thousands of soldiers, it is Cao Chun's thousands of White Tiger Battalion, all of which may be threatened by Zhuge Liang,
So before the expedition, Du Chen told Cao Chunqian to let the soldiers of the White Tiger Battalion be cautious, the purpose of the White Tiger Battalion was to contain Liu Beijun, and in addition to containing Liu Beijun, Du Chen asked Cao Chun to try to avoid consuming Liu Beijun's soldiers in the head-to-head confrontation with Liu Beijun.
This battle plan gave Cao Chun quite a headache, try to avoid a head-to-head confrontation with Liu Beijun, and try his best to consume Liu Beijun's soldiers, such a combat mission is not suitable for the White Tiger Battalion at all, if it is the Qinglong Battalion, maybe adapt, and the soldiers of the White Tiger Battalion are better at breaking through head-on and defeating the enemy in the front, only in this way will the soldiers of the White Tiger Battalion feel honored, and they are not allowed to fight head-on, which is obviously not in line with the combat mode of the White Tiger Battalion,
However, Du Chen gave an order, even if Cao Chun was very helpless, he must also obey Du Chen's orders and prohibit it, besides, the Golden Viper Force was personally trained by Du Chen, for Du Chen's order, the soldiers of the White Tiger Battalion will naturally obey it, and since Du Chen handed over such a difficult task to the White Tiger Battalion, it proves that Du Chen trusts the White Tiger Battalion a lot, since Lord Taiwei trusts the soldiers of the White Tiger Camp so much, then Cao Chun will naturally not disappoint Lord Taiwei,
The migration of the people in Xinye City is in full swing, and the migration of tens of thousands of people involves too many things, and for the people, it is difficult to choose anything, and in their opinion, if anything is lost, it will form a loss.
But the actions of the people made Liu Bei feel quite a headache, if he continued at this rate, I am afraid that the Cao army will come to the city, and it will still be difficult for the people in Xinye City to leave Xinye City, at this moment, Liu Bei seems to have no idea what he should do.
At this time, Zhuge Liang gave Liu Bei a plan, the reason why the people are like this is because they expected that they were still some distance away from the Cao army, so they swallowed it so slowly, if the people knew that the Cao army who was asking for their lives was about to attack, I am afraid that no one would care about these things anymore.
After listening to Zhuge Liang's opinion, Liu Bei immediately ordered the soldiers in the city to be on standby, and then, a news quickly spread in Xinye City, Cao's army was already very close to Xinye, and now Uncle Liu's troops were ready to attack.
Hearing this news, the people of Xinye City, who were still slowly swallowing, finally knew the preciousness of life, and under the threat of life, the people in Xinye City quickly prepared to evacuate the city and march towards Xiangyang.
But everything has two sides, and the speed at which the people pack up has indeed accelerated, but this has also brought unexpected chaos to the originally peaceful Xinye City, and hundreds of people want to get out of the city as soon as possible. But Shinno Castle is a small city, and the city gate is so big.
The people dragged their families with all the necessities of life, and such a huge flow of people had made the small gate of Xinye City unbearable, so people wanted to squeeze out of the city. And the stampede is naturally inevitable,
Of course, if there is only this one trouble, the most hateful thing is that at this time when everyone is united, someone actually takes advantage of the fire to rob, Liu Bei naturally can't tolerate this, and he usually forgets it. But in the current situation, whoever sees the troublemaker will be severely punished.
Under such strong military pressure from Liu Beijun, the security in Xinye City is obviously much better, and in this regard, the people of Xinye City applaud, Uncle Liu really did not forget the people, and Uncle Huang was really benevolent and fraternal. Under such circumstances, Liu Beijun's soldiers not only did not run by themselves. Instead, they want to stay and delay the attack of Cao's army, in this regard, the people of Xinye City feel very relieved, if Uncle Liu Huang blocks the enemy's pursuit, the people will naturally be able to arrive in Xiangyang safely.
After most of the people in the city of Shinno are evacuated. Zhuge Liang opened his mouth to persuade Liu Bei, and then led the army to evacuate, while he led a thousand soldiers to block the pursuing soldiers, which seemed to have been discussed in advance, so Liu Bei naturally would not have any rebuttal.
With Liu Bei leading most of the soldiers to evacuate Xinye City. The entire Xinye City suddenly became an empty city, standing on the city wall, looking at the depressed city, Zhuge Liang's heart was faintly unbearable, a prosperous city, just like this, became deserted,
Not only deserted, in order to be able to block Cao Jun, Zhuge Liang naturally would not give up doing something in Xinye City, after Xinye City became an empty city, Zhuge Liang ordered Sun Qian to prepare a lot of flammable materials in Xinye City, obviously, Zhuge Liang wanted to use these flammable materials to kill Cao Jun's prestige,
Cao Jun's army is coming, tens of thousands of troops are bound to choose a place to camp, compared to their own camping, the empty city of Xinye City is more tempting for Cao Jun, tents will be more comfortable than houses, all the way to the road, everyone naturally hopes that they live more comfortably,
Zhuge Liang also took advantage of people's hearts, so he decided to set up an ambush in Xinye City to contain Cao Jun, the only thing that led Zhuge Liang to feel helpless was that Liu Beijun's strength was really limited, otherwise, if Cao Jun could be blocked in the city, Zhuge Liang was confident that he could annihilate Cao Jun's tens of thousands of troops in one fell swoop.
Lack of manpower, short time, this is Zhuge Liang must face the hard injury, now Zhuge Liang can only rely on the geographical advantage to block the Cao army, after all, there is a big difference between the strength and the Cao army, and this is not Zhuge Liang can make up for it by virtue of his resourcefulness, Cao Jun's strength is ten times his own, there is no need for any conspiracy and tricks, Cao Jun can be crushed, completely defeated by the army, so even if he sets up a conspiracy, Cao Jun has no possibility of being fooled,
If you are above board, you can defeat Liu Beijun, Cao Jun will naturally not make dangerous moves, as long as the army presses the border, Liu Beijun will not be Cao Jun's opponent at all, Zhuge Liang knows this, then Cao Jun is afraid that it is more clear, so Zhuge Liang does not seem to do any dangerous moves,
Of course, there is a very important point, his opponent this time is Du Chen, the first battle can fight with a world-famous person like Du Chen, Zhuge Liang feels that he is a little enthusiastic, of course, blood is boiling, the opponent is Du Chen, Zhuge Liang can not be cautious,
For leading the troops to fight, although Zhuge Liang is not too worried, but the opponent is Du Chen, Zhuge Liang's heart is still faintly worried, anyway, Du Chen's prestige is far and wide, when leading the troops to fight, it can be said that there is no last resort, when he is not out, for Du Chen's name, Zhuge Liang has been famous for a long time, for Du Chen, Zhuge Liang is admired, and jealous, admiration is because of Du Chen's achievements, of course, jealousy is also because of Du Chen's achievements,
As a strategist, everyone hopes to achieve such an achievement as Du Chen, Cao Cao pursued Dong Zhuo back then, and his soldiers were almost wiped out by Dong Zhuo, but it was because of Du Chen's appearance that Cao Jun won in successive battles, and now, Cao Jun has defeated the powerful Yuan clan and unified Hebei,
In the face of such a powerful opponent, Zhuge Liang didn't know if his strategy would work, but so far, this was the best way he could think of, before dealing with Cao Jun's offensive, Zhuge Liang thought of countless ideas in his mind, and most of them were overthrown by himself,
Now there is only this one left, and Zhuge Liang has to use it. And as long as this matter is done secretly, even if Du Chen has experienced a hundred battles, he may not necessarily find a flaw, looking at the deserted Xinye City, Zhuge Liang secretly thought in his heart that he would face Du Chen in the first battle, and it was under such a huge difference in strength. Retreating is also a helpless move, if conditions permit, Zhuge Liang really wants to fight with Du Chen on the frontal battlefield,
But no, Liu Beijun's strength is far from Cao Jun's opponent, of course, not only Liu Beijun, but throughout the world, there is really no opponent who can be compared with Cao Jun. Cao Jun occupies Hebei, sitting on the most prosperous place in the world, whether it is troops, manpower or strength, there is no prince in the world who can be compared with Cao Jun, of course, there may not have been before, but now he is from Liu Bei, and he is confident to create an unrivaled event.
Zhuge Liang has such ambitions, but what he doesn't know is. The thousands of soldiers of the White Tiger Battalion of the Cao Army have approached Xinye City, and after finding out that Xinye City is now like an empty city, Cao Chun smiled secretly, it seems that this Liu Bei is running very fast, no wonder Lord Taiwei is quietly approaching Xinye, it turns out that Lord Taiwei has expected Liu Bei to run. And what surprised Cao Chun was that the people of Xinye City would actually run with Liu Bei,
This was obviously a bit of a surprise to Cao Chun, who didn't know what kind of charm Liu Bei had, and actually asked the people in the city to give up their homes where they had lived for a long time and flee with Liu Bei. Could it be that he Liu Bei really has such a great charm, and he deserves to be followed by the people like this?
At this moment, Cao Chun's heart obviously had a hint of epiphany, the sudden people obviously disrupted Cao Chun's concept, Liu Bei's army was wrapped in the people, if he really led the army to attack Liu Bei's army, then it would definitely cause a large number of deaths of the people, if this kind of thing really happened, then the battle of Jingzhou would definitely be quite difficult for Cao Jun, after all, once the reputation of slaughtering the people spread, the people of Jingxiang will definitely rise up to resist,
Victory is not the final result of the war, it is indeed important to defeat the enemy army, but the most important thing is to be able to occupy the land of Jingxiang, so that the land of Jingxiang can be used by the Cao army, only in this way, the war is meaningful, if the people of Jingxiang are very resistant to the Cao army, even if the Cao army occupies Jingzhou, it is difficult to make a difference,
You must know that in this chaotic and troubled era, population is a very important resource, if the land of Jingxiang loses its population, even if it is very prosperous, but what is the use, so no matter what, Cao Chun can not make Cao Jun lose the support of the people in front of the people of Jingxiang.
Suddenly, Cao Chun thought of Du Chen's instructions, don't go head-to-head with Liu Beijun, is this what it means, the White Tiger Battalion is a mobile force, and rushing all the way will inevitably cause unnecessary losses, if Liu Beijun is more ruthless and uses the common people as shields, then the matter is likely to be more serious,
This seems very cruel, but Liu Bei can completely blame Cao Jun for all the blame, after all, this is Liu Biao's territory, and Liu Bei's reputation as an imperial uncle is very useful, the people of Jingxiang will definitely believe Liu Bei and not believe in Cao Jun, after all, Cao Jun is the invader, and Liu Beijun is the defender,
In the face of such a result, Cao Chun felt that he had a headache, and it seemed that he could only deal with it carefully, but he could not eliminate Liu Bei's soldiers, but there was obviously no problem in restraining Liu Bei's march, thinking of this, Cao Chun could only shake his head helplessly, and his thoughts were finally defeated first,
Cao Chun ordered the soldiers of the White Tiger Battalion to bypass Xinye City, and now Xinye City has become an empty city, for such an empty city, Cao Chun doesn't want to waste time on this, Liu Bei's mobilized Xinye City has become an empty city, it seems that he has been preparing for a long time, which shows that Liu Bei has been running for a long time,
Even though the soldiers under his command are all cavalry, but in order to hide their whereabouts, the soldiers of the White Tiger Battalion have to be careful, and now that they have arrived in Xinye, then Cao Chun can not expose his whereabouts, and finally came to Xinye City, if his whereabouts are exposed at such a critical moment, then everything in the early stage will be in vain,
If there were only thousands of Cao troops under Liu Bei, Cao Chun might not care about this matter, but he knew that tens of thousands of people were evacuated with Liu Bei, if his whereabouts were exposed at this moment, Liu Bei and his soldiers were likely to hide among tens of thousands of people, and if they wanted to deal with Liu Bei when the time came, the first thing to solve was the tens of thousands of people in front of Liu Bei.
When the soldiers of the White Tiger Battalion finally found the tail of the fleeing army, Cao Chun got what he wanted to see the most, in order to cover the people of Xinye City, Liu Bei's army was really behind the palace, if this was the case, he led the soldiers of the White Tiger Battalion to attack suddenly, and he would definitely be able to catch Liu Beijun off guard.
If you can't take the opportunity to give Liu Beijun a bit, I'm afraid that I won't have such an excellent opportunity in the future, with the three thousand White Tiger Battalion soldiers under my command, although I can't defeat Liu Beijun's thousands of soldiers in one blow, but Cao Chun is sure that he wants Liu Beijun's half life, as for the remaining half life, as long as Liu Beijun is entangled, there will naturally be Cao Jun's army to clean it up, after all, he is only entangled Liu Beijun. (To be continued......)