Chapter 17: The Return of Chencang
The next day, just after dawn, Cao Ren and Lu Rui marched towards Chen Cang with a large army. After seven days of rapid marching, Cao Ren and Lu Rui finally saw the rear camp of Cao Jun.
"Fan, what's going on? Why is there no one stationed here? "Cao Ren and Lu Rui had just arrived at Cao Jun's rear camp and found that there was no one stationed in the barracks!
"This?" Lu Rui was stunned for a moment, Cao Jun was strictly disciplined, how could he not even arrange guards?
"Uncle, there may be fraud, be careful!" Lu Rui pulled out the sword on his body, why does this Cao Jun military camp look a little weird?
"Well, Zidan, you take someone to take a look, be careful!" Cao Ren also noticed the strangeness and asked Cao Zhen to take someone to check it.
"No!" Cao Zhen walked into the barracks with a hundred elite sword and axe men.
"See Uncle!" Soon, Cao Zhen walked out of the barracks.
"Zidan, what did you find in the barracks?"
"Back to my uncle, the barracks are in a mess, there are corpses on the ground, judging from the traces left, it should be that there was a fierce battle last night, and the rear camp of our army may have moved and is no longer here."
"Well, what do you think?" When Cao Ren first arrived in Chencang, he was not familiar with the situation, so he had to ask Lu Rui.
"Uncle, if our army was raided last night, and we want to choose another place as the rear camp, then we must choose a dangerous place, my nephew remembers that there is a high ground in the southeast, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and our army's rear camp is moving, it must be there!"
"Okay, Zidan, you lead a hundred cavalry to investigate, if the rear camp of our army is really in the southeast, immediately send someone back to report!"
"No!"
An hour passed. Cao Zhen finally sent someone back to report it. Cao's rear camp really moved to the highlands to the southeast. That highland is Gojogahara!
"Where is the lord now?" Cao Ren asked the kneeling spy.
"General Hui, the lord is now in the front camp, and the rear camp is garrisoned by General Xu Huang, and the lord asked us to hand over half of the grain, grass and baggage to General Xu Huang in the rear camp, and half to the army in the front camp."
"yes, I see!" Cao Ren nodded.
"Extraordinary, let's go to Wuzhangyuan first, and then go to Chencang. Convergence Lord! ”
"Yes, uncle!"
"The last general has seen General Cao, Master Hou!"
"Gongming doesn't need to be polite, there are no outsiders here, we can call the table word!" Cao Ren helped Xu Huang up and sat him down.
"Zixiao, extraordinary, has it been smooth all the way?" As soon as the three of them sat down, Xu Huang asked the two with concern.
"Why does Komeito have this question?" Cao Ren was stunned for a moment, why did Xu Huang ask this question as soon as they met. Is there something hidden in it?
"Zixiao doesn't know that the Xiliang Army is now sneaking up on our army's grain transportation team from time to time. Thirty percent of the grain and grass transported from Chang'an were destroyed by the Xiliang army, if it weren't for this, the lord would not have made a plan to capture it, and Zihe would not have died. When Xu Huang said this, he swallowed, suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly looked up at Cao Ren.
"Zihe?"
"Gongming, how did Zihe die? And why hasn't Zihe's body been transported back to Xudu? As soon as Cao Ren heard the word Zihe, the corners of his eyes moved slightly, but he still suppressed the resentment in his heart.
"Zixiao, this matter is a long story." Then Xu Huang told Cao Ren and Lu Rui about Cao Chun.
Chencang is the only passage connecting Yongzhou, Liangzhou and Hanzhong, and is known as the first city in Guanzhong. The danger of Chen Cang lies in the fact that it has three defense points, namely a city, a pass, and a mountain!
One city is Chencang City, which is built on the north side of the Weishui tributary and relies on the Weishui. The first pass, which is only separated by a river from Chencang, belongs to the satellite city of Chencang, guarding the only official road leading to Xiliang. Not far from Sanguan is Chencang Mountain, which is also the location of the old city of Chencang, Chencang Mountain connects the hills of Hanzhong, easy to defend and difficult to attack, it is precisely because of this unique topography that Chencang has become the most difficult Xiongguan to conquer.
Because of the special geographical environment of Chencang, Cao Cao's front camp, the Chinese army, and the rear camp were separated, the rear camp was in Wuzhangyuan near Chencang Mountain, and the Chinese army controlled the river of Weishui, and the front camp was near Chencang City.
Due to the distance, the grain and grass of the three battalions were transported separately, so that the Xiliang army seized the opportunity, Zhang Baiqi let the Xiliang elite raid the Cao army's grain transportation team from time to time, and the grain and grass were directly destroyed, which made the Cao army very headache.
Cao Cao designed to capture Zhang Baiqi, but unfortunately fell into Zhang Baiqi's trick, Cao Cao was trapped, Cao Chun desperately protected Cao Cao's retreat, and died at the hands of the Xiliang army. Even the corpse was taken away by the Xiliang army.
"Gongming, do you mean that Zihe's body is still in the hands of the Xiliang Army?"
"Yes, moreover, the corpse of the child"
"What happened to Zihe's body?" Seeing that Xu Huang wanted to speak and stopped, Cao Ren accentuated his tone, Cao Chun is dead, and he can't be buried in the ground, and the wise general Cao Ren is not calm.
"Zixiao, I said it, don't get excited, Zihe's body was hung on top of Sanguan by the Xiliang army, and was allowed to be eaten by the beasts, it is said that this is a kind of evil art in Xiliang that makes the dead unpeaceful in the future." Xu Huang said in the end, his tone gradually became smaller, and he glanced at Cao Ren a few times from time to time.
"Bastard! Xiliangjun is so shameless that he actually used Zihe's corpse to make a fuss! Cao Ren drew his saber and split the desk in front of him in half.
"Zixiao?" Xu Huang hurriedly held down Cao Ren.
"Using Cao Chun's corpse?" After hearing this, Lu Rui was stunned for a moment, the Xiliang Army was too shameless, the Han Dynasty was an era of heavy burials, and the nobles all advocated wrapping themselves in precious jade, hoping to get eternal life.
The only requirement for jade burial is that the body is intact, which means that the soul of the person is immortal, without mutilation, and the precious jade can protect the soul and grace the descendants. Destroying corpses is even more serious than killing his father in Dahan, Zhang Baiqi actually used this trick, and he really didn't care about anything.
"General Xu, the son and uncle lead the tiger and leopard cavalry, they are the elite of the world, and Zhang Baiqi sent people to raid the grain transportation team, otherwise there are not many troops, with the martial courage of the tiger and leopard cavalry, he actually covers the retreat of the lord? General Cao Chun still died on the battlefield? ”
After listening to Xu Huang's description, Lu Rui found that something was wrong, the tiger and leopard rider was the elite of the world, and he fought against Lu Bu and rescued Cao Cao from the siege of the wolf rider in Bingzhou many times. Historically, Cao Cao also relied on the raid of the tiger and leopard cavalry to defeat the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, and now it is only the raid of Zhang Baiqi, Cao Chun was killed, which is too unreasonable.
"Master Hou, if you had seen Zhang Bai's elite ghost soldiers, you wouldn't have said that."
"Elite ghost soldiers?"
"Yes, extraordinary, I don't know how Zhang Baiqi trained, trained an army that is not afraid of death, all of them regard death as home, and their arm strength is amazing, comparable to our army's tiger and leopard cavalry, and more importantly, this army seems to have endless physical strength, which can continue to fight against our army."
"Running out of stamina?"
"Yes, extraordinary, last night's rear camp was also attacked by a ghost soldier, I besieged it with my own soldiers for an hour, but in the end they broke through, they were like having inexhaustible physical strength, trapped by our army for an hour, and they can still maintain their courage and stand out from the encirclement of our army."
"That's why the sergeants of our army call them ghost soldiers."
"Ghost soldiers?" It seems that Cao Jun is quite jealous of Zhang Baiqi's strange army, and he actually called it a ghost soldier.
Running out of stamina? It seems to be the legendary Yellow Turban Lux, what the hell did Zhang Baiqi do? There is such an army? The inexhaustible physical strength must have a mystery, and you must figure it out, otherwise Cao Jun will be in trouble! Lu Rui touched his chin and pondered. (To be continued......)
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