Chapter 071: Breaking Shouchun
Shou Chun, Chu is also the capital of the past. When Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty, the world was divided into thirteen states, and more than ten counties in Jiangdong and two Huai were built in Yangzhou, and Shouchun was governed.
In the thirteenth year of Jian'an (208 AD), Cao Cao waved his army to the south, took Jiangdong, defeated the army of Sun and Liu in Chibi, led the army to return to the north, and left Zhang Liao in Shouchun, in order to control Sun Quan, in the fourteenth year of Jian'an (209 AD), Zhang Liao because of Shouchun adjacent to Huaishui, which was beneficial to the Wu army, was to abandon Shouchun, moved Yangzhou Prefecture to Hefei, and left some soldiers and horses to guard Shouchun as a countermeasure.
Young Master Zhuge was defeated by Cao Zhen, and he was afraid that Cao Zhen would continue to pursue, so he led the remnants of his army to the east along the north bank of Huaishui and marched towards Shouchun, where Cao's army was weakly defended.
The soldiers and horses marched for three days, and the front sentinel came to report, from this place Wang Dong is less than a hundred miles is Shouchun, Shouchun defenders are not much, the city is empty, and the young master Zhuge is overjoyed when he hears it.
It is day and night, the Shu army is divided into three roads, surround Shouchun, Shouchun City faces water on three sides, the city is strong, it is difficult to capture, Zhuge Young Master ordered all departments to ambush outside the city, three watches in the middle of the night, Zhuge Young Master lit a torch outside the city, waved it three times, and the city head immediately lit the torch, and responded to it. The city was carefully made and then opened the city gate, the Shu army waved its army in, the soldiers in the city were invincible, all surrendered, Shouchun county guard and guard general were all killed, Shouchun broke.
In the early morning of the second day, Young Master Zhuge and Zhao Yun, Sun Jiao, and Fu Shiren had breakfast at the head of the city.
Zhao Yun took a bowl of broth from the kettle, took a sip, and said with a smile: "It's so fucking happy, I haven't eaten hot rice for a long time!" "The Shu army went north this time, all the cavalry, the lone army went deep, there was no logistical supply, and it all relied on looting and dry food on its body.
When Young Master Zhuge heard this, he smiled and said: "Shouchun is the place where Cao Jun used to store grain, I just checked the treasury, and there are still hundreds of thousands of stones of grain in stock, but it's a pity that we can't take it away!" ”
When Zhao Yun heard this, he said with a smile: "If you can't take it away, it's better to share it with the people in the city, and you can also leave a good name of benevolence and righteousness for the lord!" ”
When Young Master Zhuge heard this, he smiled and said, "What's the difference between giving them the grain and giving it to Cao Jun?" As soon as we leave, Cao Jun has asked for it from the people, and I bet that they will return it to Cao Jun without leaving a single grain, so that Cao Jun is not cheapened for nothing? ”
When Sun Jiao heard this, he said with a smile: "Siyuan must have a plan in his heart for a long time, just say no!" ”
When Young Master Zhuge heard this, he smiled and said, "Let's each bring ten days of dry food, and the rest will be burned!" ”
"What? All burned? This ......" Zhao Yun was taken aback when he heard this, and his face showed unbearable expression. At the end of the Han Dynasty, there was a shortage of food, and when there was a famine, the people had to eat and eat, and when he heard that Young Master Zhuge was going to burn the grain, Zhao Yun was heartbroken.
Seeing Zhao Yun's embarrassed face, knowing that Zhao Yun was reluctant, he just wanted to open his mouth to persuade him, but Sun Jiao spoke first: "Burn it!" It can't be left to Cao Jun, let them eat enough to fight us! ”
When Zhao Yun heard this, he sighed and said, "It's okay!" But can we take some more? ”
When Young Master Zhuge heard this, he waved his hand and said, "No, bringing too much will increase the burden of the war horse and delay the progress of our march, Cao Jun's tiger and leopard ride the army at great speed, if they catch up, it's not fun!" ”
When Zhao Yun heard this, he sighed and said with a look of regret: "It's a pity that there is so much food!" ”
When Young Master Zhuge heard this, he smiled and said: "If the lord sweeps the four seas and supports the Han family, don't talk about food, Master, you just want a golden mountain, it's not nothing!" ”
When Zhao Yun heard this, he smiled, and his face eased slightly. When Sun Jiao heard this, his brows furrowed unconsciously, and he didn't say anything.
At this time, Xiaobai trotted all the way, saw that all the generals were there, and whispered in the ear of Young Master Zhuge when he heard this, Young Master Zhuge was overjoyed, and said with a smile: "It's all changed?" ”
Xiaobai smiled and nodded, and when Young Master Zhuge saw this, he said with a smile: "Let them come up!" ”
Xiao Bai got up and went when he heard the words, for a long time, he suddenly heard a noise downstairs, and then shouted to kill the sky, Zhao Yun was shocked when he heard the words, jumped up, and wanted to see what was going on, but before he reached the staircase, he saw countless Wei soldiers rushing up the stairs, each holding a long knife, showing a fierce face, everyone was shocked when they saw it, and they didn't react for a long time. At this time, Zhao Yun reacted quickly, pulled out his long sword from his waist and shouted, "All the troops go forward and kill Cao Jun!" As he spoke, he swung his knife and slashed at the Cao Jun at the front.
Cao Jun, the leader, saw Cao Jun swinging a knife and slashing, he was immediately shocked, instinctively closed his eyes, waved his knife to resist, for a long time, but did not hear the sound of metal collision, when he opened his eyes, he saw that Young Master Zhuge grabbed Zhao Yun's hand and stopped Zhao Yun, and Cao Jun, who was the leader, breathed a sigh of relief, sat on the ground, took off his helmet, and said with a depressed face: "Childe, it's not fun at all, almost lost his life!" Everyone looked at it, and it was none other than Xiaobai, who had just gone downstairs.
At this time, Zhao Yun also woke up from his surprise, and then looked at those "Cao Jun", who turned out to be his subordinates, and then he understood, turned around and said unhappily: "Zhan'er, your prank is not fun at all!" ”
When Young Master Zhuge heard this, he smiled and said, "Master thinks I'm playing a prank? ”
When Zhao Yun heard this, he was puzzled: "Isn't it?" ”
Young Master Zhuge shook his head with a smile, and said: "I found a lot of Cao Jun military uniforms in Shouchun's treasury yesterday, there are more than 10,000 sets, we are now deep into the enemy's hinterland, our own military uniforms are too conspicuous, so I want to ......"
"Do you want us to disguise ourselves as Cao Jun and confuse the enemy?" Sun Jiao realized.
Seeing that Sun Jiao understood, Young Master Zhuge nodded with a smile.
Everyone was overjoyed when they heard this, and in this way, marching in the hinterland of Cao's army would indeed reduce a lot of unnecessary trouble.
At this time, a sentry walked upstairs quickly, approached, bowed down and said: "General Qiyu, Cao Jun Zhang Liaobu is less than 100 miles away from Shouchun!" ”
When the people heard this, they were shocked. Young Master Zhuge stood up all of a sudden, and said loudly: "The whole army immediately changed its clothes and assembled, ready to go!" ”
All the generals took orders to go, Xiao Bai was about to go downstairs, but was called back by Young Master Zhuge and ordered him to take people to burn all the treasury of Shouchun grain, Xiao Bai nodded and took the order.
Half an hour later, the raging fire ignited in Shouchun City, and all the Shu troops changed into Cao Jun's uniforms, went out of the north gate, and left.
Two hours later, Cao Jun to Shouchun, saw the fire in the city, Zhang Liao hurriedly ordered the army to put out the fire, but because the fire was too big, until midnight, the fire was extinguished, Shouchun grain was burned out, Zhang Liao was angry, heard that the Shu army went all the way north, and hurriedly took light cavalry to chase the Shu army.
However, after chasing for most of the night, there was no shadow of the Shu army, and the army was sleepy and tired of horses for days, and was afraid of the ambush of the Shu army, so they had to order the army to camp in place and wait for the arrival of the large army behind.
The Shu army just took advantage of this gap and continued to wave its division north, out of Yangzhou, and marched to the hinterland of Xuzhou in the north.