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Ma Han's original plan was to lead the fleet up the Huai River, to the Wuyuan, to watch the fire from the other side, and to wait for the opportunity to move. But as Cao Jun went south to attack Suiling, the situation changed, and Zhang Min's arrest made Ma Han have one more key person in his hands who can move thousands of pounds. After careful consideration, the decision to reroute to Suiling was finally made.

Suiling also belongs to the same Pi County, from the lower phase of the diversion to the west, from the Huaishui into Suishui, but dozens of miles of waterway, morning and evening can arrive.

Ma Han first sent a small boat to test the depth of the water and whether it was feasible to ship a thousand stones. The news sent back is not bad, the water is very deep, and it is feasible to go on a boat. Fortunately, this is in the land of Jianghuai, with abundant water and not easy to silt, even in the dry season in winter, it does not affect the operation of large and small ships at all. If it is a secluded and merging place, unless it is the main river artery, the general tributaries do not want to take this kind of big ship to the end.

It has been determined that the front is the battlefield, and the fleet has entered the first level of combat readiness. Zhou Cang led four Lou boat soldiers, a guide, and an eagle slave to take an ordinary fishing boat and quietly set off first, heading to Suiling to reconnoiter the situation of Cao Jun, while the fleet slowly followed behind.

At this time, under Suiling City, an army of about 3,000 people and horses was blocking the north and south gates of the small Suiling County. In front of the south gate, there are about 1,000 people riding on foot, a red flag, and a big "history" character on the book; In front of the north gate, a group of people and horses, two thousand horses, the big flag fluttered in the wind, and the huge "Cao" word flew with the flag. It gives people a sense of sharpness with teeth and claws.

Cao Jun's two major generals: Cao Ren and Shi Lian, with the momentum of thunder and bloody slaughter, broke the power of Xuzhou with one blow, and the soldiers were unstoppable under the city.

The small walls of Suiling City are short, the soldiers are small, the county order has fled, and the current supreme commander is only a county commander. There are no more than 500 soldiers in the entire county town, and all the soldiers and the mansions of large families are counted. There are less than 1,000 people. But there were many people, there were more than 5,000 residents in the city, and nearly 10,000 people poured into the city outside the city at once, plus the refugees who fled from Pengcheng, there were even several thousand. In this way, a small middle county squeezed into nearly 20,000 people. Such a large population, in addition to the consumption of warehouses. Spreading negative and negative feelings will cause chaos in public order, and it may even be mixed in with the details, and there is no hope of helping at all.

There is a strong enemy outside. There are hidden dangers, the armament is lax, morale is low, and the city is broken sooner or later.

Cao's army has besieged the city for three days. He did not launch an offensive immediately, and only persuaded him to surrender with arrows every day. For each day of siege, the morale of the city dropped by one point. And despair is a little thicker. From the day after the siege, soldiers and civilians continued to take advantage of the night to jump over the wall and throw themselves at Cao Ying. If it weren't for the Pengcheng bloodbath, Cao Jun's murder of the city was too famous, and I was afraid that the county would have led the people of the city to surrender early. Under the stake of life, even Tao Envoy Jun's insistence on orders is not good.

Under the banner of Cao Zi Lieutenant, Cao Cao's younger brother and confidant Cao Ren is looking at the north gate three miles away, looking calm, he has made up his mind, and he will break this city today. At that time, Cao Ren was only twenty-six years old, with heavy eyebrows, a lion nose and a wide mouth, and a round of tendrils around his cheeks, which looked dignified and heroic. This Li Feng lieutenant is worthy of this name, he is brave in all battles, and he is the first in every battle, and Xiahou Yuan, who was the cavalry captain at the time, is the two fierce generals under Cao Cao who are best at using cavalry to fight.

When Cao Cao failed to assassinate Dong Zhuo, fled from Luojing, and returned to his hometown of Qian County to raise troops against Dong, Cao Ren directly pulled thousands of cavalry with a certain amount of actual combat experience into this brother, and was the first general in Cao's camp to have his own other divisions. This can be seen from his earliest position as "Sima of the Other Division" in Cao Ying.

This attack on Xuzhou was the most glorious stroke of Cao Ren's earlier military career, and he and his cavalry were completely used by Cao Cao as a fist, pointing to where to fight, and where to break. first broke the Xuzhou general Lu You to clear the obstacles for Cao's army to advance eastward; then attack Fei, Hua, Jimo, Kaiyang, and pull out several cities in a row; In the end, when Zang Ba, the defender of Kaiyang, asked Tao Qian for help, the reinforcements sent by Tao Qian were also broken by Cao Ren's fierce cavalry. It can be said that Cao Cao's first attack on Xuzhou was the biggest hero of this younger brother.

Probably because this invincible "fist" was used too well, when Wuyuan and Yancheng could not be surrounded for a long time, Cao Cao swung this iron fist again and smashed it into Xiapi County on the side of the East China Sea. Suiling is only the first stop, after the city is uprooted, there are Xiaqiu, Worry, and even Xiapi County.

Of course, Cao Ren will not live up to his brother's high hopes, he will uproot this city within three days, and not a single soldier will be lost.

"Bring everyone in and do according to the plan." Cao Ren pointed at the whip, and a herald flew away.

Not long after, a group of civilians, about 200 people, appeared from the Cao army camp ten miles away, and more than 100 soldiers supervised by the left and right. This strange team stumbled all the way to the foot of Suiling City, and shouted to the city:

"Fellow villagers, I am Chen Qiu who lives in Zuolu, the day before yesterday, I went out of the city to join Cao Ying, and Captain Cao treated him with a feast, and his sincerity was credible. For the sake of everyone's lives, let's open the city and surrender. ”

"Ah Cheng, is that you? I'm the second uncle! This city can't be defended, don't be stupid, pay for your own life, quickly put down your weapons and surrender. ”

"Fang team rate, brother, I can't stand you, I have fled to Cao Jun's side. You can also see that the Cao army is fierce, we can't beat it, and it's not too late to surrender. If you provoke Captain Cao and repeat the incident of Pengcheng, it will be too late to regret it! ”

These guards and people who escaped from the city a few days ago and threw themselves into Cao Ying's camp became Cao Ren's best weapon to attack his heart, and they disrupted the head of Suiling City at once. And Cao Ren added a fire at this time - he issued an ultimatum to Suiling, and gave another hour to consider, and after Cao Jun had lunch, there was no satisfactory reply, then the Cao soldiers who were full of wine and food were going to kill!

For a while, Suiling fell into a panic.

This scene was all watched by Zhou Cang and other sentinels hiding in the dense grass on the north bank of Suishui. Zhou Cang ordered a pawn to take a boat back to report the news, and the eagle slave, the guide, and the Lou boat soldier stayed behind to continue the reconnaissance, and he only brought a light and agile Lou boat soldier. With the knife on his back, he floated up the water and dived into Cao Ying.

Cao Ren and Shi Jian basically poured out of the nest in order to put pressure on Suiling, and there were not many guards in the camp. Previously, he sent a hundred guards to persuade the people to surrender, but now there are not many left, and because the people are in and out, the order in the camp is more chaotic. And this is the opportunity for Zhou Cang.

When he set out from Liaoxi, Ma Han had not yet decided who he wanted to help. There is only one rough approach to opportunistic action. However, when they set foot on the land of Xuzhou and kept abreast of the new developments in the war, especially after the capture of Zhang Min, Ma Han had already decided to curb Cao Cao's invasion of Xuzhou. This war has no point in fighting now, and it will only kill more people. And in the long run, it is more in the interests of Ma Han to press Cao Cao back to Yanzhou.

The plan has been decided. Cao's army is the enemy's army. Zhou Cang's plan was to infiltrate the enemy camp, reconnoiter the enemy's situation, and if there was an opportunity, set fire to the grain. Forcing Cao Jun to retreat, this is a great achievement!

Don't look at Zhou Cangniu's tall horses, but his skills are very flexible, not under the thin Lou boatman. This kind of stealing camp and sentry is very skillful. easily put down a few guards who obviously had little experience in sentry, and then changed into Cao Jun's uniform with his entourage, taking advantage of the unpreparedness of the guards on the sentry tower. Pry the grille in.

The whole barracks cover an area of four or five miles, and are divided according to the general camp system, and the granaries are mostly located in the middle and rear parts facing south. Zhou Cang and his entourage, one of them probed the front, and the other broke off, and began to move towards the granary area.

Cao Ying's defense is indeed relatively lax, firstly, Cao Ren attacked the city all the way, and the battle was invincible, and the best appearance of the Xuzhou army was just to defend the city, basically there was no power to fight back, and it was inevitable to be arrogant. Second, this small Suiling Tomb was surrounded by a large army, shrinking like a quail, how could it be unimaginable that they dared to send soldiers to attack the camp!

Cao Jun up and down, at this time, just waiting with bated breath for the Suiling City Gate to be opened, the rear military camps were all waiting to be surrendered, and their vigilance was reduced to the minimum. This opportunity happened to be seized by Zhou Cang.

Zhou Cang grabbed another Cao Jun's tongue in the camp, determined the location of the granary, and touched the grain and grass storage area - this is a camp within a camp, surrounded by a wooden fence, and looking through the gap in the fence, you can see a cart of forage covered with tarpaulin. However, this is also the most heavily guarded place in the entire Cao camp, and from time to time you can see patrolling groups of soldiers neatly walking by. In front and behind the gate of the wall, there are two soldiers guarding.

However, it is also difficult to come prepared for the week. He first calculated the route and time of the patrol's patrol, then grabbed the point where the patrol had just left, rushed out from behind the tent like a panther, pounced on the fence, took out a field knife from his backpack, and quickly sawed up the wooden fence with the tooth saw on the back of the knife.

This new type of field knife is a new equipment of the White Wolf Battalion, which was imitated by Ma Han according to the field knife of later generations. The knife is a foot and a half in length, the blade face is broad, there is a blood groove, and the back of the knife is jagged, mainly equipped for scouts. Because the iron quality is good, the style is novel and unique, and it is very practical, so Zhou Cang also has a handful.

Zhou Cang saw a relatively thin wooden stake, but it was also as thick as a fist, and ordinary people had to saw it for a moment even if they had a sharp saw, but Zhou Cang, a strange man, only sawed one off in less than half a moment. Then, at the whistle of the entourage, he quickly ran back to the back of the camp tent and hid, and when the patrol was over, he ran over and continued to saw the next one.

After sawing off the two wooden fences, the gap was enough for one person to drill into, Zhou Cang and his entourage drilled in successively, covered up the sawdust, and then restored the broken wood.

The granary is tight on the outside and loose on the inside, and as long as it can be entered, there are basically no soldiers except for a small number of handymen who chop grass and feed the livestock.

Zhou Cang and his entourage prepared the fire and took advantage of the cover of the horizontal and vertical vehicles, and followed the lì to the location of the granary, a large round warehouse built of rammed earth.

There were two guards in front of the warehouse gate, Zhou Cang and his entourage, one for each person, who was unprepared and easily defeated. But when they kicked the door open and rushed into the warehouse, they were stunned.

If a large granary is empty, with only a few piles of grain bales stacked in the corner, and there are not even 200 stone to be seen—what is this concept? That is, this is not enough for three thousand soldiers to drink thin for two days.

The attendant shouted: "Oh no, we were fooled!" ”

Zhou Cang also came back to his senses, almost laughed out loud, and raised his hand to give the entourage's head: "Last fart!" How old are you, Cao Jun can afford to lure the two of us into the trap with this old nose? Grandma is a bear, and Cao Ren's kid is bluffing. Cao Jun, there is no food! (To be continued......)