Chapter 243: Cao Ren's Layout
The words are divided into two ends. At the same time that Ao Lie and Cao Cao reached an agreement, the men and horses sent by the other princes also embarked on the journey home one after another. On the way back, the judge was extremely depressed. Originally, the crusade against Yuan Shu was the best opportunity for Yuan Shao to show his loyalty to the Han and kill his relatives in righteousness. Not only forced Yuan Shu to kill himself, but also gave Yangzhou to Sun Ce, who was close to Ao Lie. This made the trial return to Yecheng, how to explain it to Yuan Shao?
Troubled by this incident, the judge's mood was extremely irritable, causing him to lose his usual calm and wit, and he was not aware of Cao Cao's preparation to ambush him. The trial didn't notice it, and Yan Liang and Wen Chou, two reckless men who only knew how to dance with knives and guns, didn't notice it.
When the three of them led the army to the junction of Qing and Xu, Cao Ren, the commander of the Chinese army sent by Cao Cao in advance, united with Zang Ba, who was guarding Qingzhou, had already laid a net for this Yuan army, opened his pockets, and waited for the three of them to lead the army to obediently get in.
Although Cao Cao took away a large number of generals before the crusade against Yuan Shu, Cao Cao left Yu Ban, who was good at leading troops, and Cao Hong, who was good at leading troops, and also let Xun You, Cheng Yu, Xi Zhicai and other strategists stay in the Yanzhou base camp. This time, Cao Ren set up an ambush halfway and brought Yu Ban and Cao Hong with him, and among the strategists, Cao Ren only brought Xi Zhicai alone, leaving Xun You and Cheng Yu in the rear. With the addition of the soldiers of Zang Ba's department, Cao Ren was able to arrange calmly, and the deployment of personnel was not overstretched at all. He has been by Cao Cao's side for the longest time, and he knows Cao Cao's thoughts and thoughts, so this layout, Cao Ren's arrangement also fully reflects Cao Cao's thinking, and he is ready to put on a high hat for the trial and others first.
During the march, some of them rode on horses absentmindedly, and turned a deaf ear to the conversations of Yan Liang and Wen Chou beside them. He was thinking. How to gain prestige for Yuan Shao as much as possible in the matter of Yuan Shu becoming emperor. In the end, he felt that in the half of Jizhou and Qingzhou, he used the public opinion of the Shi clan to guide the people of the two states and exaggerated Yuan Shao's role in this crusade against Yuan Shu. It's just that. In that case, Yuan Shao will inevitably come up with enough benefits to those scholars, but they are all huge mosquitoes that suck human blood and eat human flesh, and they will not do anything for Yuan Shao without enough benefits. Thinking of this, the judge sighed secretly again, since two years ago, Ao Lie set fire to the granary in Yecheng. Yuan Shao's hands became nervous, and now if he wants to get those scholars who control public opinion, I am afraid that it will give Yuan Shao a headache for a while.
Just when the trial was thinking about it, a noisy convoy. entered the eyes of the judges and others. This group of men and horses, only about a hundred or so people, drove dozens of carts, each of which was wrapped in a cloth curtain. There was a small flag next to it, with the word "Wantong" written on it, almost every two or three people. It's a big car. Judging from the ruts after the cart passed, the cart must be carrying very heavy supplies.
Yan Liang and Wen Chou are both brave and unscrupulous, and after seeing this team of carriages and horses, their eyes radiated a fine light. After glancing at each other, the two of them rode their horses to the front of the trial at the same time, and said in a low voice: "Join the army, you see that this carriage is the convoy of the Wantong Chamber of Commerce, and the Wantong Chamber of Commerce is Ao Lie's money bag, simply, let's rob him." ”
After hearing the words of Yan Liang and Wen Chou, the trial was frowning and carefully observing the incoming convoy. After a long time, the trial did not find anything abnormal, out of consideration for Yuan Shao to solve problems, the trial gradually strengthened the idea in his heart, and said to Yan Liang and Wen Chou: "Do it, move quickly, be sharp, and don't leave a living mouth." ”
Yan Liangwen Chou got the approval of the trial, and immediately became excited, and the two of them each raised the identical big knife in their hands, greeted behind them, and ran towards the convoy with the sergeant.
Seeing Yan Liang and Wen Chou rushing over with the sergeants of the brigade with murderous spirits, a middle-aged man at the head of the convoy immediately felt that something was wrong, and hurriedly opened his mouth and shouted: "Master Jun, there is a misunderstanding...... Ah......" Before he could finish speaking, Yan Liang had already rushed in front of him and raised his knife to cut his head to the ground.
"Don't ......"
"We are not ......"
"Vantone ......"
"The Chamber of Commerce's People ......"
More than 100 coachmen shouted loudly, trying to say what they wanted to say, but Yan Liang, Wen Chou and their subordinates were too fast, and they hacked all the more than 100 coachmen to the ground in the blink of an eye, so that as soon as they said half of their words, they turned into desperate wails of pain.
Watching the review of the convoy from the sidelines, silently connecting the coachmen's begs for mercy in his heart, he was suddenly shocked in his heart! These people are not from the Wantong Chamber of Commerce! In other words, there is a high probability that this team of wagons is not valuable goods! It's all like a huge trap!
"General Yan and Wen Er, quickly open the carriage and see what it contains!" The judge hurriedly shouted to Yan Liang and Wen Chou. If his guess is correct, it's dangerous!
Yan Liang and Wen Chou carelessly used big knives to pick up the curtain around the carriage, and Wen Chou said with a grin: "Naturally, it is a valuable thing, even if it is not a copper coin, it is also an iron tool, otherwise how could it leave such a deep rut......" Before Wen Chou finished speaking, everyone was stunned. After lifting the curtain, the things on the carriage were exposed to everyone's eyes, and they were not valuable materials at all, but stones! Piles of stones, stacked neatly, piled up on the wagon!
Sure enough, the sense of crisis in the heart of the judge reached the peak that could be reached in an instant. At the junction of Qing and Xu, he has not yet left Cao Cao's territory, if all this is Cao Cao's conspiracy, then he must have prepared a more powerful backhand, in order to eliminate his own group here, and consume part of Yuan Shao's strength in advance!
Just as the trial was about to shout that Yan Liangwen Chou would lead the army to return to the main formation, the sound of horses' hooves like thunder suddenly sounded from all directions, rushing towards the place where the trial was located. Based on the experience of judging and matching, he immediately deduced that there were more than 30,000 war horses on all sides, otherwise it would be impossible to cause such a shock! And, judging by the distribution of the sound of horses' hooves, all the retreats of their own group. It's all been cut off!
Yan Liang and Wen Chou's faces also changed drastically, at this moment, even if they realized it later, they already knew that they had fallen into the calculations of others, and hurriedly ordered the sergeants who followed them to quickly return to their own formation, join the trial, and then reorganize their men and horses, trying to form a formation to meet the enemy. However, Yuan's army numbered more than 40,000 people. How can it be so easy to form a formation of 40,000 people in a hurry?
As soon as Yan Liang and Wen Chou returned to their main formation, the cavalry rushing from all directions had already appeared in their eyes. Directly in front of Yan Liang, a large flag was held high in the middle of a group of cavalry, on which was embroidered with the word "Cao". Under the big flag, Cao Ren was wearing black heavy armor and running at the forefront of the team with a war knife in his hand.
A moment later. Cao Ren led the army to the front of the trial and the others, and shouted loudly: "Bold robbers! It is a heinous crime to dare to openly plunder the convoy of the Wantong Chamber of Commerce and kill more than 100 coachmen! Sons. Kill all the robbers! This is the high hat that Cao Ren prepared for the trial, and put the identity of the robber on the head of the trial.
Hearing Cao Ren's shout, the judge immediately understood. It turned out that Cao Ren bought the coachman. Let them pull stones and pretend to be people from the Vantone Chamber of Commerce, so that they and others mistakenly think that it is the convoy of the Vantone Chamber of Commerce to transport materials, and the Vantone Chamber of Commerce is one of Ao Lie's money bags. And Ao Lie and Yuan Shao have a deep hatred, Cao Ren must have expected that after he and the others saw the convoy of the Wantong Chamber of Commerce, they would rob the goods and kill people, so a praying mantis catching cicada and yellow finch came behind, ambushed around, and waited for himself and others to take the initiative to jump into the pit that Cao Ren dug in advance.
I understand, I understand, but the trial is more and more in crisis. Obviously, Cao Ren was so deliberate, he definitely didn't intend to let himself and the others live. The more than 30,000 cavalry brought by Cao Ren must be the vanguard force, and there will definitely be infantry troops following behind!
There was no time to explain, so the trial directly seized the command, and immediately issued an order: "General Yan, you organize people to fight and create opportunities for General Wen." General Wen, you lead the army to rush to the north, and strive to open a gap for our army in the shortest possible time! ”
Although Yan Liang and Wen Chou are rectums, brave and unscrupulous, they also know that Lu Dao's current situation is critical, and they don't care about blaming the behavior of the judge Yue Yan on behalf of the judge, so they hurriedly followed the order of the judge and acted separately. These two are famous generals in Hebei, and their subordinates are all really kung fu, and their knife skills are quite powerful.
By Cao Ren's side, the young and vigorous Cao Hong saw Yan Liang and Wen Chou brave, and he was angry, and without waiting for Cao Ren's order, he roared, raised his knife and entered the battlefield, and went straight to Yan Liang. After seeing the courage of Yan Liang and Wen Chou, Yu Ban was afraid that Cao Hong would lose his face, and it would be difficult for Cao Cao to explain in face, so he hurriedly picked up a gun and patted the horse and followed behind Cao Hong.
After Cao Hong and Yu Ban fought successively, Cao Ren thought about it for a while, and ordered his own soldiers around him, under the cover of his own cavalry in front, to set up three triphorse ropes at the rear of the team.
On the battlefield, Cao Hong had already killed in front of Yan Liang, raised his knife and slashed at Yan Liang's Heavenly Spirit Gai. Yan Liang roared, raised the big knife in his hand hard, and used a move to raise the fire to block Cao Hong's big knife. After a loud bang, Cao Hong only felt a little numb in his arms, he didn't expect Yan Liang's strength to be surprisingly large, just with a defensive move, he could use the power of the shock to interrupt his move.
After testing that Cao Hong's strength was not as good as his own, a sneer hung on the corner of Yan Liang's mouth, and he shouted coldly: "Death!" The big knife in his hand moved with Yan Liang's voice, and he switched from defense to attack, and slashed down at Cao Hong's shoulder strap with a knife. Cao Hong shook the big knife, immediately poured his arms, and collided with Yan Liang's big knife again, and a burst of sparks, under the mutual chopping of the two big knives, was sputtered out.
Bell - Cao Hong was even a man with a horse, and was slashed back a few steps away by Yan Liang, Yan Liang knocked his legs on the horse's belly, and instigated the war horse to chase after him, intending to kill Cao Hong in one go. Just when Yan Liang raised his knife and slashed at Cao Hong again, Yu Ban arrived. Yu Ban twisted the spear and stabbed Yan Liang's back heart like a poisonous snake, forcing Yan Liang to give up Cao Hong, and instead swing his knife to block the spear that Yu Ban stabbed behind.
Cao Hong took the opportunity to adjust his breath, and after a series of battles, Cao Hong had a rough estimate of Yan Liang's martial arts, knowing that Yu Ban's strength alone was definitely not Yan Liang's opponent, so he hurriedly waved his knife forward, and fought Yan Liang with Yu Ban. Under the joint efforts of the two, they barely blocked Yan Liang's offensive and maintained an undefeated situation.
On the other side, Wen Chou led the army to launch a fierce attack on Cao Ren's array, Wen Chou's martial arts were on par with Yan Liang, and no one among Cao Ren's subordinates could block Wen Chou's impact. Seeing Wen Chou's bravery, Cao Ren simply secretly ordered the troops to let Wen Chou's small group of men and horses go over, and after Wen Chou rushed over, Cao Ren immediately only had his subordinates re-block the road, cutting off the possibility of a surprise attack by the brigade led by the judge. (To be continued......)
PS: PS: This is an update that belongs to today. Before Da Kun took his family to see a doctor, he promised that after he came back, he would break a few more and make up for a few more, and he had been coding words from 2 o'clock in the afternoon to the present, and finally made up the chapters that he owed. Da Kun is still talking about it, sighing a sentence, really tired, after two days of running, Da Kun rested for 2 hours and began to code words, 15,000 words within 8 hours, friends who like this book, please recommend and collect it for Da Kun's hard work.