Chapter 398; Red Cliff (7)
The people of Xinye were in an uproar, the Cao army surrounded them, and now it was a dilemma, at this moment, many of the people of Xinye City regretted a little, regretting that they had made such an impulsive move, if they did not leave Xinye City, the people still had houses to shelter from the wind and rain, and the walls of Xinye City were gratifying, but looking at the present, there was nothing, and the only troops of the imperial uncle who could be counted on were also too weak under the offensive of the Cao army, how should the road go.
The people are panicked, and Liu Bei is even more panicked, now there are only thousands of Liu Bei's soldiers around him, although there are tens of thousands of people, but on the real battlefield, the role of the people is obviously minimal, if the number of people is more than ten times that of the enemy, the ants bite the elephant to death, and they still have the possibility of a war, but now, the number of Cao soldiers and the people of Xinye City is almost the same, the number is equal, but the combat effectiveness has a gap between heaven and earth.
The only thing that made Liu Bei feel relieved was that although the Cao army surrounded him, he did not attack himself, such as today, the place and the people can be said to be standing on the side of the Cao army, but in the face of such a big advantage, why did the Cao army soldiers not launch a general attack on themselves, Liu Bei frowned and pondered, and soon he understood all kinds of reasons, the reason why the Cao army was surrounded and launched an attack, first, was that the Cao army was running a long distance, and the soldiers were quite tired, and second, it was obvious that it was because of these tens of thousands of people.
Based on Liu Bei's understanding of Du Chen, he concluded that Du Chen would not order the slaughter of the people, which can be seen from the attack of the White Tiger Battalion of the Cao Army, although the offensive of the White Tiger Battalion was sharp, but when they encountered the tide of the people, they would always stop and then retreat backwards.
It can be seen that Du Chen has a benevolent heart that loves the people like a son, so to speak. The tens of thousands of people around him are his own protective talismans, as long as these people are by his side, Cao Jun has no big way to do it, thinking of this, Liu Bei's mood suddenly improved a lot.
Those who achieve great things are not informal, even if it is against morality. But in this situation, if you want to break out of the encirclement of the Cao army, I am afraid that this is the only way to work, with the help of the Cao army's military order not to kill the people, as long as you deal with it carefully, there should not be much of a problem in passing the pass.
But at this time, it is obviously not possible, and now that the encirclement of the Cao army has just been stopped, it is the time when everything is investigated, so it is said. Escaping now is obviously a very unwise choice, Liu Beijun is waiting for an opportunity, waiting for an opportunity to escape.
For two days in a row, the Cao army did not launch an offensive against Liu Bei's army, and the Cao army adopted a policy of Huai Rou, and has been persuading the people of Xinye City to be surrounded, persuading them not to resist, and the Cao army is not aimed at them. Cao Jun's target is Liu Bei, and it is definitely not difficult for them to be the people.
For Cao Jun's moves. Most of the people in Xinye City don't believe it, after all, Liu Bei has been in charge of Xinye for a long time, and for a long time, Liu Bei Ke has been instilling in the people how brutal Cao Jun is, so the people of Xinye City have long regarded Cao Jun as a traitor. How could they easily believe Cao Jun's words.
Moreover, when Liu Bei ruled Xinye, he was quite good to the people of Xinye, and the Xinye region was also thriving under Liu Bei's rule, for Liu Bei. The people of Xinye City already had a sense of belonging, if not, how could the people of Xinye City follow Liu Bei to retreat to Xiangyang.
Now let the people hand over Liu Bei, this is definitely something that the people of Zhien Tubao can't do, you know, Liu Beijun is fighting bloodily to protect the people of Xinye City, and he will definitely not betray Liu Bei, the people are so simple and lovely, they can't see through the essence of things at all.
In the face of Cao Jun's attack, Liu Beijun can be regarded as a bloody battle, once he is defeated by Cao Jun's White Tiger Battalion, Liu Beijun will shrink into the crowd of exiled people, and Cao Jun, who does not dare to attack the people, has become Liu Beijun's excuse, and Liu Beijun's defeat of Cao Jun's interface.
All kinds of actions of the people are under Liu Bei's surveillance, seeing that no one betrays him, Liu Bei's heart is naturally very happy, seeing that his long-term business is obviously not in vain, the people really trust themselves equally, Liu Bei is very emotional, and at the same time, he also has a little guilt in his heart.
How can he use the people, and he is also using the people to save his life, if it were not for the people, I am afraid that he would have been captured by the Cao army's silver armor elite cavalry, and soon after, Liu Bei was also preparing to use the people to help him escape from the encirclement of the Cao army.
Cao Jun camp, when Du Chen heard the news that the people would not betray Cao Jun no matter what, he finally shook his head helplessly, Liu Bei's ability to buy people's hearts is really extraordinary, and he is really not as good as Liu Bei, but he is helpless, Liu Bei's problem finally needs to be solved.
For a Liu Bei, Cao Jun's soldiers have spent a lot of time, whether it is manpower or material resources, Cao Jun has consumed a lot, in this regard, although Cao Cao has a lot of words, but he did not show it, but although it is to show it, but Du Chen is also quite clear, because not only Cao Cao, but even himself is a little annoyed, commanding the army for a long time, Du Chen is the first time to encounter such a dilemma, but in the face of the defenseless people, how do you let Du Chen give orders.
"My lord, sometimes what you do is involuntarily, our army besieged the people of Xinye City for a long time, and in the end only the people were harmed, our army has a sufficient supply of food and grass, but the people of the besieged Xinye City did not, and now the people have not made any extraordinary moves because they still have food in their hands, but if they don't have anything to eat, if they are hungry for a few more days, they will make any moves beyond the imagination of our army." Jia Xu's voice came again, no matter what, he can't continue to do such a thing, for the sake of Lord Taiwei's future, this wicked person can do it himself.
Du Chen frowned slightly, this question was not something he hadn't thought about, but in Du Chen's opinion, this could also become an opportunity, if Cao Jun used food as bait, whether he could impress the people of Xinye City, Du Chen didn't know, but he could try it.
Regarding Du Chen's move, Jia Xu shook his head helplessly again, although he thought that Du Chen was a woman's benevolent move, but Jia Xu couldn't refuse, and saw Jia Xu's expression. Du Chen opened his mouth and said: "It's only three, if this plan doesn't work, then the dust will have no complaints." ”
This answer finally made Jia Xu nod, war is cruel, Liu Bei is a very demagogic person, and the gathering of the people is always indispensable around him. If Lord Taiwei had always been such a woman's kindness, there would be no possibility of defeating Liu Bei.
Du Chen's strategy has finally paid off, for the people of Xinye City, who have been hungry for a long time, food is meaningless is a good bait, and the people can't refuse to accept such a give, because they are already empty, of course, the people of Xinye City who have contacted Cao Jun are still few, and most of the people of Xinye City are waiting. Because they are still grateful and trust to Liu Bei, they will not betray easily.
But as time passed, this trust was finally defeated in the hunger in the belly, and in the face of hunger, the people of Xinye City finally fell to Cao Jun, because of a period of contact, the people of Xinye City suddenly found that Cao Jun was not as cruel and unkind as he remembered.
And this is definitely a big blow to Liu Bei. But Liu Bei also saw hope for survival, and Cao Jun treated the people so kindly. This is exactly the hope of his own survival, disguised as a civilian, and it is possible for him to escape from here surrounded by Cao's army.
Of course, Liu Bei would not be so stupid as to just break through with thousands of soldiers around him, thousands of young and strong people, no matter how you look at it, it is very abnormal. So before breaking through, Liu Bei made sufficient preparations, and by his side, he headed nearly 10,000 people in Xinye City, and this was the cost of his breakthrough.
After all the soldiers have changed into the clothes of the people. Liu Bei began to prepare for a breakthrough, and the day was obviously not a suitable time to break through, so he set the time for the breakthrough to be at night, and the heavens seemed to take care of Liu Bei, just when he was preparing to break through, the sky suddenly fell foggy.
Seeing the foggy weather, Liu Bei showed a slight smile, Liu Bei's side, Guan Yu was obviously quite satisfied, because of his different appearance, Guan Yu's disguise looked very embarrassed, after all, his red-faced Danfeng eyes could easily betray him.
The foggy weather also made Du Chen frown, this kind of weather is obviously the most suitable for breaking through, if he is Liu Bei, he will definitely break through at this time, so tonight is quite dangerous, Du Chen turned his head to look at Jia Xu, and Jia Xu also frowned.
"Pass the order, you must guard against it tonight, don't let Liu Bei slip away." Du Chen commanded in a deep voice, but even after he finished ordering, he was still uneasy, Liu Bei was not a very easy opponent to deal with, so Du Chen had to be cautious about this.
All night, Du Chen didn't feel any sleep, because he knew that Liu Bei would definitely take advantage of this excellent opportunity to break through tonight, and Du Chen had been sitting in the big tent all the time, because he was waiting, waiting for the news of Liu Bei's army raid.
However, the news of Liu Beijun's raid Du Chen did not wait, Du Chen waited for the people of Xinye City to flee, and the people of the surrounded Xinye City were fleeing in all directions, and the soldiers of Cao Jun obviously didn't know how to deal with this situation, so they specially wanted Du Chen to ask.
Hearing this news, Du Chen instantly thought of something, the rout of the people was obviously not intentional, the reason why this happened was that Liu Bei was playing ghosts, why did Liu Bei do this, obviously, he wanted to use the people to get out of the encirclement of the Cao army.
Du Chen can be sure that Liu Bei is definitely hidden among these people, although he knows this result, but Du Chen can't bear the pain of the killer, he would rather kill a thousand by mistake than let go of one, such a cruel thing, Du Chen categorically can't do it.
But Du Chen can't do such a thing, naturally someone will help him do it, Jia Xu thinks so, since Lord Taiwei can't bear the notoriety of slaughtering people, then this notoriety will be borne by himself, since Lord Taiwei calls himself a poisoner, then he should not live up to this title.
Although Jia Xu's reputation is not as good as Du Chen, he can give orders instead of Du Chen, after all, Du Chen trusts Jia Xu very much, and he himself is quite a lazy person, Du Chen only cares about the plan, and as for the issuance of orders, Du Chen pushed it to Jia Xu, so even if Jia Xu pretended to pass down the order through Du Chen's password, no general Cao Jun would doubt the authenticity of this matter, after all, Jia Xu was the one who had the most daily contact with them, and they also knew that Jia Xu was the identity.
With Jia Xu's order, Cao Jun attacked any people who dared to attack Cao Jun's defensive position, Cao Jun's sudden change obviously surprised the people who broke through, through the contact a few days ago, Cao Jun seemed so amiable, but now. Cao Jun seemed to be a different person.
At this moment, the Cao army was sharp, holding the butcher knife like a killing god, looking at the Cao army soldiers who were like killing gods, the people of Xinye City finally felt fear, looking at the corpses one after another, the people of Xinye City were silent for a long time. Obviously, none of them expected such a thing to happen.
Before the raid, the imperial uncle assured the people of Xinye City that Cao Jun would definitely not harm them, and after contact a few days ago, the people of Xinye City found that Cao Jun would indeed not hurt themselves, so they listened to Liu Bei's words and took advantage of the night and thick fog to launch a breakthrough to Cao Jun's position.
The people know there. This is just Liu Bei's strategy, the fog was thick, Liu Bei immediately knew that Cao Jun would definitely step up the defense, so he changed the strategy he had set before, and did not consider the weather before, so Liu Bei let the people take the lead, and he took advantage of the chaos to break through, as today. There is no need for the people to take the lead, and the Cao army is strictly guarded. It will inevitably cause conflict with the people, and if this is the case, the first to break through can preserve strength.
Because even if Cao Jun made a move, he would have to wait for orders from above, and now that the fog was thick, there was no way to discern the direction. Even if Cao Jun sent a scout to give an order, it would take a while, and taking advantage of this opportunity, he would have a great chance of highlighting Cao Jun's heavy encirclement, after all, if Du Chen did not give the order. Who dares to rashly attack the people.
It's not bad at all with what Liu Bei thought, the Cao army did strengthen the defense, but in the face of the people who broke through, most of the Cao army soldiers seemed helpless, because Lord Taiwei had already ordered not to let the Cao army soldiers hurt the people, and now the people attacked the Cao army's defensive position, and the Cao army soldiers could only helplessly drive away.
But no one could have imagined that these people in front of them were secretly killing, just when the people were getting closer and closer to the Cao army's position, this group of people who seemed to be in blue clothes suddenly showed their fangs, and one by one the people drew out their weapons on their waists and rushed towards the Cao army soldiers.
The soldiers of the Cao army obviously did not expect this change, for these people, the soldiers of the Cao army did not have a fortification at all, when the Cao army found out that it was wrong, it was already too late, Liu Beijun was too close, and the soldiers of the Cao army did not have any defense, and the soldiers of Liu Beijun had the belief of death, which made Liu Beijun achieve great results in a short period of time, and in a quarter of an hour, Liu Bei commanded the soldiers of the Bai'er elite soldiers to break through the encirclement of the Cao army.
Breaking out of the encirclement of Cao Jun, Liu Bei finally breathed a sigh of relief, the fog gave Liu Bei the opportunity to raid, and the fog also brought a lot of difficulties to Liu Beijun's escape, the fog was pervasive, and he couldn't tell the direction at all, which made Liu Bei not know where he should evacuate.
However, Liu Bei knows that it is obviously an unwise choice to continue to stay here, and what he needs to do now is to leave here in the shortest possible time, otherwise if Cao Jun discovers the abnormality here, then he will face the encirclement of Cao Jun again, Liu Bei does not want such a thing to happen again, as shown if he is surrounded by Cao Jun again, Liu Bei has no confidence to break through the encirclement here, and whether Cao Jun will show mercy to his subordinates needs to be another matter.
The fog created a very good opportunity for Liu Beijun, even if he was an elite of a hundred battles, it was difficult to discern the direction in the foggy weather, so Liu Beijun fled for a long time, and only then did the Cao Jun scouts notice the abnormality that happened here, and the countless Cao Jun corpses shocked the scouts, and the scouts understood something in an instant.
But even if the scout knew that Liu Beijun had broken through from this, he had no way to notify the other armies, and he arrived here by mistake, this damn ghost weather was really helpless, and now he didn't know where he was, how to find Liu Beijun and run there.
I don't know how long the time has passed, when the sun is rising, the thick fog finally gradually dissipated, without the interference of the dense fog, the soldiers of the Cao army can finally distinguish the southeast and northwest.
Looking at the sun outside the tent, Du Chen yawned, and didn't sleep all night, Du Chen felt very tired, but there was no news of Liu Beijun yet, which made it difficult for Du Chen to fall asleep no matter how sleepy he was, but the fog had cleared, and the news would come soon.
Du Chen thought well, but the news that came made him not feel any sleepiness, Liu Beijun successfully broke through last night, and there was a gap in Cao Jun's encirclement, and Liu Bei went from this to this, and now Liu Beijun has disappeared.
For this result, Du Chen felt angry and also felt deep helplessness, Liu Bei really shouldn't die, no matter how hard Du Chen tried, but Liu Bei's survivability was still tenacious, and the opportunity was lost again and again, Du Chen didn't know when he would be able to achieve his wish.
Now that Liu Beijun has fled, Du Chen decided not to waste his energy for Liu Bei, the main goal of Cao's army is to capture Jingzhou, and killing Liu Bei is just an accessory, completely occupying the land of Jingxiang, Liu Bei has no foundation for rising, and at that time, Liu Bei will not be afraid. (To be continued......)