Chapter 8, the famous horse golden lance
There are many dangers and dangers in life, if you don't take the step, it will be enough, and once you do, it will be difficult to turn back......
This kind of difficulty in turning back is sometimes forced by events, sometimes by circumstances, sometimes by circumstances, sometimes by heart, and sometimes by everything in the world......
It was Xunzhi who entered Shouchun City, and it was probably the same. According to its original intention, it was to send half of the soldiers and horses into the city to rescue Cao Cao, while he commanded the rest of the troops to respond outside the city, but one was careless, and was pushed into the city by the soldiers - it was really "a mistake into a thousand years of hatred, and then look back on a hundred years"......
On the one hand, it was forced by the matter, the fire in front of the city gate was only a very narrow passage opened by the knocking wood, and all the troops were rushing forward, so he had no space to turn his horse's head and flee out of the city. At the same time, it is also forced by the situation, if you always stay outside the city, it will be enough, since you have entered the city, and you want to withdraw in front of everyone, will the army's heart be lost because of this? What should Cao Cao (if he still live) think of himself afterwards? What's the difference between this and an imminent escape?
This is also forced by circumstances. Although Shixun has no ambitions, he has a soft heart, and he never bears to see acquaintances die, in the past, there were Guan Hai's father and daughter, and now there are Cao Cao's father and son, plus Cao Anmin and Dian Wei. If he quits the city at this time, if the four of them make a mistake, how will they face Cao De and Tai Shici in the future?
In the past few years, Shi Xun has been running for Cao Cao, in order to assist Cao Cao to unify the world as soon as possible and end the troubled times. He doesn't have any grand ambitions, if he doesn't know the direction of history, maybe he can be like Chen Deng in Xuzhou, Cai Mao in Jingzhou and others, who can protect one side. Protect your hometown and loved ones. That's all you want. The general trend of the world, where does he dare to interfere? However, in the original history, it was followed by 50 years of disputes, and then after the brief unification of the Western Jin Dynasty, it was followed by the five chaos and the division of the north and the south, and the entire Central Plains was in turmoil for hundreds of years. As a Chinese, since it is possible and indeed to make a certain degree of change in history, how can we bear to let that scene reappear on this timeline?
If Cao Cao dies in Shouchun, what will happen to the world? Who can we hope for reunification? Liu Bei? Sun Ce? Liu Bei was cheated by him. Now that he is in Langxie Half County, he is tantamount to starting from scratch in the midst of the crowd, can he really accomplish this great cause? Sun Ce seized Jiangdong, and in terms of population distribution and production conditions in this era, Jiangdong was by no means a base that could be taken over by the world. The future is unpredictable, and it is as if Xun is blind and deaf, and it is difficult to find the way forward. If that's the case, what's the point of living? Even if you can still eat in fine clothes. How different is it from the time when we were struggling to survive in poverty?
Therefore, if you don't go into the city, you will be fine. Now that he has entered the city, there is no way out, he can only continue to move forward, go to rescue Cao Cao, or bury Cao Cao!
The moment Shixun entered Shouchun City, he turned back on horseback, regardless of whether anyone heard it or not, and issued two orders in a loud voice in a row - "Quickly report Cheng to join the army and Zihe General Zhilu Dao, the city gate has been opened!" "Half of them will follow me to the Savior, and half of them will stay outside the city and continue to clean up the fire!"
Then he turned his head, raised his long knife in his hand, and issued a third order: "Shout at me - Yuan Shu has been captured, please go out of the city to inspect the head!" ”
He did this, firstly, to find Cao Cao - he couldn't just shout "Where is Cao Gong", and then Cao Cao replied "I'm here", and then the Yuan army, who was closer, rushed up first and split Cao Cao's body with a knife - and secondly, to disrupt the military spirit of the Yuan army in the city. Cao Bing under his command listened to the order and roared together, but unfortunately the voice was not neat enough, and it sounded vague, and I really couldn't understand what these guys were calling if they didn't distinguish it carefully. It's Xun's chagrin, if Sun Wen is here, he alone shouts, he can make half of Shouchun City hear clearly!
It's a pity that Sun Wen was still detained in the camp north of the city at this time......
After about a few dozen steps into the city, Shixun was finally able to restrain his mount with all his might, because they broke out of the narrow fire passage and the hole in the city gate and entered an open field. Under normal circumstances, there are large empty spaces near the city gates, and it is not allowed to build houses - of course, illegal buildings cannot be avoided in any era, but in the siege of the city, these buildings will always be cleaned up as soon as possible, one is to avoid the enemy from throwing fire arrows from outside the city, causing a fire in the city, and the other is that the civil engineering materials needed to defend the city wall are also first removed and transported from the nearest place. So after entering the open field, Cao Jun was no longer so crowded, and it was Xun Cai who barely stopped rushing forward.
Although Shixun claimed to know how to fight, in fact, he knew more about military affairs than most of the soldiers of this era who had never been on the battlefield. A military book such as "Sun Wuzi", "Sun Bin", and "Wu Qi" is not a compulsory course for scholars, but Xun has read them all - he even read the later generations of "Li Weigong Asks Right", "Guarding the City", "The New Book of Discipline and Effectiveness", "The Actual Record of Military Training", "On Protracted War", etc., will he tell you? Second, in the previous life, through various literary and artistic works, including novels, films and television, as well as many research papers on war history, Shi Xun also made up a lot of military knowledge. Therefore, although he has zero practical experience, he is by no means short of theoretical knowledge, and even in a sense, he surpasses any famous general of this era - including Cao Cao.
Therefore, after he entered the city, he did not rush directly into it, but first formed a team - if it was so scattered, it would be to send points to the enemy, and it would be of no benefit to the overall situation. But when he glanced over, he found that there were only seven or eight hundred people who followed—the others were still rushing in, but he sent men to stop them, and told them to first organize themselves and then enter the city—led by three Simas. Sima's Unification Department, one of which had about 400 people, but because it was too chaotic when he first entered the city, all three of them were not satisfied. Shi Xun casually ordered a Sima: "Go to the city, seize the city tower, and restrain the follow-up soldiers and horses, leaving two to guard the gate!" Then he ordered the other two Simas: "Follow me to find the lord!" ”
He took three or five hundred people like this, and while rushing into the city, he continued to shout: "Yuan Shu has been captured, please go out of the city to check the head!" "Sure enough, I didn't run a few steps before I ran into the enemy. According to Shi Xun's analysis - of course, it may also be a brain supplement - Cao Cao was ambushed after entering the city, because the back road was cut off, he was forced to continue to charge into the city, trapped beasts and fighting, and caused a lot of damage to the enemy army. The evidence is that the corpses seen along the way, Cao Bing and Yuan Bing were almost half and half, and the Yuan soldiers who met the living Yuan soldiers were all in groups of three or five, not in a queue, just some stragglers.
At that moment, he cut down a few people, and pressed the bottom number of people to inquire about Cao Cao's whereabouts. Most of those pawns were ignorant until they clicked on the fifth, which was a tun chief, and finally found out that Cao Jun broke through to the south after entering the city. Shi Xun estimated: a large camp of Cao's army is in the north, and Yuan's army's defense of the southern city may be slightly lacking; The second is that the assassination of the south gate is the Cao Ying general Xu Huang, in Cao Cao's opinion, it may be more reliable than Li Cheng who secretly attacked the east gate - after all, Li Quan only inherited Li Gan's position and subordinates, and the lack of talent in the generals is not enough to be three percent of his father's, and in fact, Li Gan is less than half of Xu Huang's ability to fight; Three, after all, it is much more convenient to turn from the west gate to the south gate than to cross the entire city to the east gate.
So he shouted and turned south. It was Xun Zhilu who said that he had a small number of troops under his command, and if he ran into the main force of the enemy, it would be a death, so he moved forward very cautiously, and restrained his subordinates and never dispersed. Sure enough, after running through two streets, I encountered more and more enemy troops, and occasionally I was able to collect two or three lone Cao soldiers. Cao Bing pointed out: "Our army has been dispersed, and the lord is ahead!" ”
When Xun heard this, he was surprised and delighted - he was happy that he finally learned Cao Cao's whereabouts, and he was surprised that after such a long time, he didn't know if Cao Cao was still alive. At the moment, he hurriedly urged the war horse under his crotch and led the army to find it, and sure enough, he didn't go far, and he really bumped into Cao Cao unexpectedly!
Cao Cao's appearance is really miserable! Under the crotch is still the famous horse "Absolute Shadow", but the head is no longer a red tasseled gold helmet, and the body is no longer black and red fish scale sleeves, and the red cloak is no longer visible, and it is replaced with an ordinary military waiter's leather armor - probably trying to escape in disguise, but who has ever seen a military candidate ride such a good high-headed horse? And the customary gold-inlaid lance still refuses to let go!
It was Xun Xin who said that in the original history of the "Battle of Puyang", if you wanted to run away in this dress, and Lu Bu didn't see it, then you really had to wonder if the dignified Wenhou was highly myopic and astigmatism......
If Cao Cao abandoned the "Absolute Shadow" and threw away the golden lance, it would make sense - it all relied on his eyes to keep his eyes wide and search for Cao Cao's whereabouts everywhere, and it was all thanks to this eye-catching crotch horse and lance in his palm, Shi Xun recognized his own lord at a glance. But Cao Cao's face was already full of soot at this time, and his beard, which was not thick, was also burned in all directions, and it was estimated that if it was a little more serious, he would be able to cosplay "Lu Peck Jun" Liu Bei.
When Shi Xun led the army to turn an alley, he bumped into Cao Cao head-on, and saw that Cao Cao was chasing a large number of Yuan soldiers behind him, walking and riding, shouting and shouting, and fighting to catch up - if you dress up like a small soldier again, just that Ma Jinqi, who can't chase after him? When Shixun saw it, he immediately ordered his subordinates to stop: "Release the arrows and protect the lord!" Immediately, more than a dozen arrows shot out of the queue - it was Xun's chagrin, why were most of the sword and shield soldiers who came in with him, and there were not many archers!
Fortunately, he also carried a bow and arrow, and immediately abandoned the knife and took the bow and arrow, the bow opened like a half moon, and the arrow walked like a falling star, and with a "whoosh" sound, it hit the chest of a Yuan army chasing Cao Cao - the distance was less than thirty steps, and if it was not missed, Hongfu simply bought a piece of tofu...... I haven't had tofu this year...... I bought a rice ball and hit my head and died.
At this time, Cao Cao also saw Shi Xun, and couldn't help but be full of joy - Shi Xun was waiting outside the city, and he could enter the city, doesn't it mean that the back road is open? ——Then he urged the horse to come straight over. In front of them, the heads of the two horses were about to collide, and suddenly there was a sad hissing of "Jueying" and "sighing", and the hind leg was hit by an arrow, and one stumbled, and he fell to the ground, throwing Cao Cao down and turning it into a rolling gourd. (To be continued......)
PS: Because I'm going to pick up the kids in a while, today's chapter was released in advance. Anyway, it's the end of the month, and there are readers and friends who have monthly passes, can you give two more, please!