In the second year of Taiwu, on the second day of the seventh month, the night was unexpectedly cold.

A total of 4,000 soldiers from Zhao Rong and Ding Wu, who left the camp first, carried torches and walked in the northeast direction.

They originally wanted to show their intention to come to the aid so that the commandos in the northeast would know, so they were naturally not afraid of revealing their whereabouts.

The number of torches alone is 4,000, but anyone who is present can see that these former soldiers are holding two torches, in other words, there are actually only 2,000 people rushing to the northeast.

What's going on?

It turned out that when Zhao Rong and Ding Wu were about to leave the camp, they saw Ding Sheng come over in person.

Because of the urgency of time, it was a waste of time to convene a military meeting again, but Ding Sheng was worried that the military report or password would not be clear, so he simply galloped over by himself.

Zhao Rong and Ding Wu glanced at each other, knowing that something must have changed, so they hurriedly greeted Ding Sheng. One of them pulled Ding Sheng's reins, and the other was about to help Ding Sheng dismount.

Dante Sheng waved his hand, dismounted neatly, and then said:

"The plan needs to be changed. The order for the sortie remains the same, but the specific execution needs to be changed. ”

After that, Ding Sheng and Zhao Rong and Ding Wu stated the military strategy he had just thought of.

It turned out that not long after Ding Sheng and Zhao Rong left, Ding Sheng thought about it and still felt that this thing could not be done. He still remembers that when the king gave them military strategy, he always mentioned one sentence repeatedly, that is, the way of using soldiers is to cause people but not people.

Although his previous plan took into account the ambush of the enemy, he adopted the strategy of a two-stage march, but in the end, he still thought within the framework of rescuing the enemy.

But can you think differently now, that is, he doesn't think about the ambushed soldiers at all? Instead, I simply think about what to do in this situation to maximize my own interests.

With such a change of thinking, Ding Sheng found that he didn't need to save it directly. Why?

First of all, he himself was mainly infantry, and the northeast battlefield was mainly cavalry. Even if the enemy ambushes his own cavalry, it is easy to defeat, but it is difficult to annihilate it, because the cavalry can move at high speed.

And it is precisely for this reason that even if Ding Sheng sends reinforcements over, he may not have time to arrive, and the turks will move to other places.

Just because you don't save it directly doesn't mean you can't save it indirectly.

Now Ding Sheng's battlefield intelligence is like this, now the main force of the Cao army is attacking the front of the east slope and the cavalry in the northeast, while the current location of the Han soldiers in Pingyuan County is unknown, and it is very likely that they are waiting to ambush themselves in the middle of the road.

In this way, most of the enemy's forces are deployed on the battlefield, and the battalions in the rear must be empty.

As long as some soldiers are ordered to go directly to the Han army's camp and then set fire to it, it will be possible to achieve the goal of rescue and destroy the Han army's battlefield foothold.

And Ding Sheng was sure that his strategy of attacking the east and west must be beyond the enemy's expectations.

But what Ding Sheng couldn't have known at all was that in the history of the normal timeline, his choice was exactly the same as what Yuan Shao did when he was in Guandu.

At that time, Yuan Shao learned that Wuchao was surrounded, and he also faced the same choice as Ding Sheng.

To save or not to save.

If you go to save it, you may be ambushed by Cao Jun halfway, and even if you don't save it, maybe Chun Yuqiong of Wuchao can still hold the camp gate. But if you don't save it, if the black nest is broken, the army will be in danger.

If you are afraid to think about this eventuality, especially when the consequences of this event are unbearable, almost everyone will choose to save it.

But Yuan Shao is also very shrewd, he expects that the Cao army will ambush him, so he does not directly save the black nest but goes to attack the Cao army's camp, so that he can achieve the goal of encircling Wei and saving Zhao, and can also break the Cao army's camp.

Yuan Shao was at that moment, just like Ding Sheng at this moment.

Two people who have nothing to do with each other inexplicably chose the same choice, but they don't know if the results are different.

So, because of Ding Sheng's temporary change of plans, Zhao Rong and Ding Wu decided to go their separate ways.

Zhao Rong continued to take Ding Wu's banner to the northeast to help, holding high torches to determine the direction for the breakthrough of the assault cavalry.

Then Ding Wu led the two thousand officials and soldiers of the department and went straight to Cao Ying.

In this way, after the two lieutenants left the camp, they divided their troops and carried out the new plan.

……

However, it was said that two hours before the Cao army dispatched, it was located in the camp of the Plains Army in the east direction of Pingyuanjin.

The judge is still sitting in the first seat, and the seat on the side belongs to Gai Tong, which is empty at this time.

Also absent was Liu Hao, who had 5,000 heavy troops, and since he was humiliated by his colleagues in the army, this person had already taken his subordinates to the rear to set up another camp.

And the trial doesn't matter, he has to do it.

There was no light in the tent, but the generals of the whole battalion were all listed. One thing they were doing was to shave the bowl of soaked rice in front of them, and there was nothing else but a little sour plum and pickles on the rice.

For these middle and high-ranking military officials, this meal was a little shabby, but the people present ate their own food with relish.

Because the officers and soldiers of the new army were all selected peasant families, they endured hardships and stood hard work, and their temperament was obedient, and under the grace of these years, the style of hard work and tenacity did not change at all.

From this point, it is better than those friendly troops who are about to drink honey on the battlefield at every turn, and they don't know where to go, so can't they fight without drinking honey?

But don't be too harsh, after all, people are different. One is a farmer with a bitter haha, maybe the latter can eat corn with pickles, and it is already a first-class good thing.

When the new soldiers were shaving rice, the trial was an exception, he ate the last bit of rice in three or five bites, and then wiped his mouth, and put down the dishes and chopsticks with satisfaction.

And as soon as the judges put down the dishes and chopsticks here, the new military officers below also put them down almost at the same time.

The judge smiled, and said to the following love:

"You don't have to be like this, you should eat, I have a small appetite, and a bowl of rice will be satisfied. You can't eat a few more bowls, how to fight a tough battle. ”

But after the trial said this, none of the new soldiers below dared to move, because they knew that their commander was angry.

Sure enough, after the judge finished saying this, the corners of his mouth became cold, and he directly lay on the desk and sneered:

"I said, why you fought so softly in this battle, it turned out that it was because there was not enough rice to eat. Today, I specially called you all here, just to let you all eat enough, no matter how I judge, can this corn be short for you? ”

All the new soldiers bowed their heads in shame.

It is indeed not to blame the judges for mocking themselves so much, they themselves are ashamed. In the past ten days of war, they obviously occupied a large number of troops, but they were tied everywhere, and the whole war fell into passivity.

In fact, what they don't know is that the most shameful thing is their handsomeness, trial.

Earlier, he also laughed at that Ding Sheng for being a talented person who succeeds because of others. Later, he was slapped in the face, first annihilated one of them, and then interspersed behind him, and even contained nearly 20,000 of his troops here with half of his troops.

What kind of battle did this fight, but in the end, he begged Cao Cao to come.

Yes, he did have the intention of voting for Cao Cao. But is it the same thing to vote for a win and to vote for a lost battle?

At the previous military meeting, Cao Cao took his hand and called himself "Han Xin is alive", and his face was panicked at that time.

Who is Han Xin like him, panicking and begging for reinforcements?

Not to mention, the judge himself also dislikes the title of Han Xin, what is the good ending for King Han?

So this evil fire was held back until it was vented by the trial at this moment.

After the words of the trial, the following general couldn't help but clench his fists and replied:

"Dashuai, the brothers have eaten this corn of rice, and they are full, and now how we pat our chests and say anything about the shame before the snow is a little ridiculous, but please believe in us, the shame of the handsome is the shame of us, and we will wash it with the blood of thieves."

The person who said this was Jiao Min, the heavy general of the trial. He was Jiao Touch's younger brother, and during the Battle of Qinghe, his brother Jiao Touch was killed in battle, and then he inherited his brother's battalion head song and continued to be a former military captain.

The death of the brother and the death of the father, the death of the son is the tradition of the new army, and it is also the key to the failure of the Qinghe new army.

Hearing Jiao Min's words, the judge laughed, he pushed the case and scattered the dishes and chopsticks on the ground.

As the trial stood up, Jiao Min, Xianrong, Zhao Rong and other generals also overturned the case and stood up.

The moonlight shone on the open space where the curtain was erected, and the judge matched all the humanity present:

"I may as well make it clear to my brethren that I judge this man who does not believe in the destiny of heaven, but believes in man. If I had believed my life, I would have died in Kyoto. If I believe in my fate, when the Qingzhou Yellow Turban passes Xiajin, I should die with the city. If it works, what do you have to wait for? I will pull you out of the fields and acres, just because you are not obedient to the order, and you are not willing to be the cow and horse. But how do you do it? You have been scared away by the Tarzan army. ”

The faces of the officials present turned red when he said this.

But the judge didn't care at all, he said coldly:

"Is it easy to go from a cow or a horse to a man? Then you have to fight, you have to change your life. It's not enough for you to die, but you have to continue to fight for your nephews. Don't tell me anything about justice, that's how the world is. And I'm the only one who gives you that chance. In my place, if you dare to work hard, you will be able to ascend to the throne, and if you dare to kill, you will be rich. And if you can't do it, I'll go back to farming. Now I'm giving you one last chance. ”

After saying this, all the generals clasped their fists and shouted in unison:

"Please show me."

The first question for the trial is to everyone:

"I'm full of this rice."

"Eat enough."

"Is this strength still there?"

"Enough."

In this way, the judge looked around at the generals and made this sentence:

"Since you have enough to eat and enough strength, then you will go with me to kill tonight. In today's battle, there is death and no life. ”

The audience sang:

"Whoa!"

……

In the night, Ding Wu led the 2,000 men of his headquarters to the east cautiously.

To the southwest and northeast of them, Xuan was boiling and the sky was shining, and the lights and candles set off the sky on both sides, and only the east side of Ding Wu and them was dark.

By the moonlight, Ding Wu and the others held the backs of their predecessors and marched step by step, wrapping their armor and blades in cloth, fearing that the reflection of the blades and iron armor would expose their tracks.

Ding Wu was not as calm and determined as his robes, and from the moment he left the camp, he felt uneasy.

He is not a bad thing, among the Ding clan members who came out of the Spring and Autumn Period with Ding Sheng, only Ding Wu has remained in the army and has also achieved the position of captain, which is also a senior military official in the Taishan Army.

For this alone, this Ding Wu is not an easy person to match.

Ding Wu now regrets that he didn't stick to it, and when Ding Sheng made a change plan, he refuted his clan brother at that time.

Here's what he said to Ding Sheng:

"Marshal, have you ever thought that the Han army camp is not so easy to break when you are doing such a military strategy? Our army and the Han army of the plains have been attacked more than ten times, and we know their fortifications very well. Directly east of us, just outside this narrow river beach, the Plains Army built 12 ramparts, some of which relied on the hillside, some of which lay across the straight road, some of which surrounded our army's ramparts, and some of which protruded as bases. ”

When Ding Wu said at the time, Zhao Rong also added on the side:

"What Captain Ding said is right, and judging from the battle reports sent by Jinquan on the periphery in the past few days, these camps are still being reinforced on the other side, and it is obvious that they are standing on the ground to have a long-term confrontation with our army."

Then Ding Wu continued:

"And these barracks walls are very similar to the layout of our army, and they have support for each other. Even if our army can break through one or two battalions after a night attack, the battalions behind will soon come to support. When the time comes, our army will not have enough troops, and we will still have to retreat. ”

Finally, Zhao Rong muttered:

"That's the truth, after all, no matter how good our army is, it can break two or three, but can it still break its twelve battalions in one go? This is the case, even if your plan is good, I think it will be quite difficult to implement. ”

But who knew that the opinions of Ding Wu and Zhao Rong did not shake Ding Sheng, only to see Ding Sheng laughing:

"It doesn't matter, it is precisely because of this that it is the Cao Jun camp that makes you attack. The Cao army on the opposite side has just arrived today, and now it is coming to launch a night attack, and its camp will inevitably be lax and simple, and when you wait for the troops to arrive, the Cao army will not be able to stop it. And once the Cao army is defeated, even if those plain soldiers have a hard backing, they are just meat on the board. ”

In the end, Ding Sheng persuaded Ding Wu in the end.

In this way, Ding Wu took his subordinates or set off.

It wasn't until in this silent moonlight that a thought suddenly came to Ding Wu's mind:

"What if Cao's camp is also strong?"

But it has come to this, and it is useless to think about it.

The military system of the Taishan Army is like this, before the military order is issued, you can freely express your military strategy, and once the military order has been issued, it is only one obedience.

Even if there is a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood in front of you, you must move forward. This is the military discipline of the Taishan Army.

I don't know how long I walked, until Ding Wu and their eyes suddenly stood in front of a huge camp, and when they saw the "Cao" military flag fluttering by the lights, everyone knew that they had approached Cao's camp.

In the moonlight, Cao Jun's camp was like a giant beast lurking in the night, faintly filling, welcoming Ding Wu and these uninvited guests.

(End of chapter)