Before it was dark, the soldiers who had gone to reconnoiter at the Yellow Gate Pavilion returned.

Shen Chen had celebrated his eleventh birthday a few days ago, and although his face still looked quite immature, his figure was getting taller and taller, and his physique was quite strong.

He has been practicing archery lately.

Traveling back to the war years, it is definitely not possible to just read books without practicing martial arts. Including those so-called scholars, in fact, one is more virtuous than the other.

Needless to say, Wang Lang and Xu Shu picked up knives and cut people like this, and even Zhuge Liang and Wang Cang also wore swords around their waists and practiced often.

In fact, the Xianshan Academy also teaches fencing, and it is the senior brother Pan Jun who personally teaches the younger brothers to practice swordsmanship.

As a later senior general of Eastern Wu, Pan Jun's strength is still good, he is also full of martial virtue, and he once wanted to slash Sun Quan's favorite minister Lu Yi, but Lu Yi was protected by Sun Quan so he did not hack him to death.

Therefore, under his careful teaching, the group of scholars in Da Xian Academy are also very powerful. Although it is not as good as those generals who fight on the battlefield, it is impossible to wait for three or five people to get close.

It's just that Shen Chen is relatively young, and his strength has not yet grown, so no one trains with him on weekdays, so he can only cut with the wooden man according to the swordsmanship taught by Pan Jun.

So far, I have been practicing for more than a year, and I have a little martial arts, and my arms are a lot thicker, and in a few years, I should be able to use a little force.

However, sword practice can only be said to be a bit of self-preservation in close combat, and the real technical skill has to be archery.

After all, this is the only thing that can kill enemies from a distance, and it is much safer than hand-to-hand combat.

Gan Ning became Shen Chen's archery teacher and often took him to hunt in the mountains.

Since becoming the defender of Huyang, Gan Ning has come to Huangmen Pavilion to eat and drink, where the economy and handicraft industry are very developed, and it has become the most luxuriant market in several surrounding cities.

On this day, Shen Chen was practicing archery again, and there was a huge school field outside the manor, which was a shooting range inside, which was the place where Deng Zhao, Shen Zhen and others practiced on weekdays.

Now the guards of the Huangmen Pavilion have grown to 1,200 people, and they are currently stationed near the school grounds.

At this moment, Gan Ning was urging Shen Chen to practice archery, and in addition to the two of them, there were also a large number of soldiers in the entire school field, but not practicing archery, but fighting with knives.

Wooden swords and shields are used to catch and kill, in addition to practicing singles, there are also small-scale melees, except that there are no real knives and real guns, try to simulate the real battlefield.

Shen Chen's bow and arrow is a small bow for children, not as good as those two-stone strong bows, even if they are full, they can only shoot thirty or forty meters, and he is currently practicing more posture.

Archery posture is very important, so since he got up in the morning to practice, he has not shot an arrow, but he has been standing for an hour.

When he was suffering from back pain and gritted his teeth, he suddenly galloped at the gate of the school camp in the distance, stopped after arriving at the camp gate, and hurriedly ran to Deng Zhao, who was training soldiers.

Deng Zhao listened to the report, nodded, and then walked in the direction of Shen Chen. The corner of Shen Chen's eyes also caught a glimpse of this scene, and he was about to put down his bow and arrow when he heard a "snap".

The right arm was slapped hard by Gan Ning with a wooden plank, and the severe pain suddenly surged, making him grin and say to Gan Ning: "Uncle Xingba, what are you doing beating me?" ”

Gan Ning snorted coldly: "You should fight, you should be calm and composed, how can you be distracted by other things when you are concentrating on studying?" ”

Shen Chen had no choice but to continue to maintain an archery posture.

It wasn't until Deng Zhao came over and said to him: "Ah Chen, the scouts have returned, and Cao Cao's army has indeed appeared in the area of Huashui, and is now stationed in Bowang County. ”

"Forehead ......"

Shen Chen glanced at Gan Ning, Gan Ning threw away the wooden board in his hand, signaling that he could rest, then put down his bow and arrow, sat on the ground and rubbed his arms and said, "It seems that the war is going to start again, but our chance for revenge has come." ”

Deng Zhao wondered: "Ah Chen, you don't want to go to war with Cao Jun, do you?" I heard that Cao Cao brought tens of thousands of tigers and wolves this time, and our Huangmen Pavilion is only more than a thousand people, how can he be his opponent? ”

Shen Chen stood up and said, "Uncle, you call my father, and the sixth grandfather to come over." Uncle Xingba, come over too, we're going to get ready for war. ”

"You're really ready to fight."

Gan Ning followed Shen Chen's side and said, "Shouldn't this matter be handed over to Liu Yuanjun to decide?" ”

Shen Chen sneered and said: "What can Liu Yuanjun decide, if my expectations are not bad, Zhang Xiu must have planned to surrender, and by the time Liu Yuanjun decides, it is estimated that Cao Cao has already received most of Nanyang." ”

"Zhang Xiu surrendered?"

Gan Ning's eyes widened, and he spat on the ground and said, "Sigh, Xiliang people are really capricious and unreliable." ”

Don't look at him first Liu Zhang, then Liu Biao, and finally followed Sun Quan.

But Gan Ning is actually the kind of person who will serve him if he is reused. Liu Zhang and Liu Biao don't reuse him, Sun Quan reuses him, and he will naturally follow the people who reuse him.

Before Zhang Xiu came to Nanyang, he couldn't say that he was a strong soldier, at least he was also a lost dog.

After arriving in Nanyang, Liu Biao not only did not annihilate him, but gave him grain, grass and land, and also gave him most of Nanyang to rule, which was undoubtedly a very big gift.

If Gan Ning was replaced, he would have been dead set on Liu Biao a long time ago.

As a result, Shen Chen said in a blink of an eye that Zhang Xiu would surrender, although he didn't know whether it was true or not, but Shen Chen's inferences were correct several times, which made Gan Ning very ashamed of Zhang Xiu's character.

Shen Chen said: "The world is like grass on the wall swaying in the wind, it is normal for whoever is strong to cling to whomever is strong. Now in the Kanto region, only Yuan Shao and Cao Cao are the strongest, and it is not strange to be attached to them. ”

"Then at this time, we should report to Liu Yuanjun and immediately send troops to exterminate Zhang Xiu and Cao Cao."

Gan Ning said.

Shen Chen said with a smile: "Liu Yuanjun will not send troops, he beat Zhang Xiu and lost his troops a few times ago, and now with Cao Cao, he will only stick to Xiangyang, but I expect that things may be variable, let's wait and see." ”

Saying that, the two of them had already arrived in the inner hall of the school field, and after sitting in it for a while, Shen Chen's father Shen Zhen, Deng Zhao and Deng Hong came over.

Now the military chiefs of Huangmen Pavilion are Deng Zhao and Shen Zhen, and Deng Hong is the principal, originally Deng Mao, but Deng Mao went to Xinye as a county commander, so the current clan affairs are handled by a few of them.

Everyone came in and sat down, Deng Hong's face turned slightly pale and said, "Ah Chen, Cao Cao called?" ”

"Well, yes, I'm afraid our Huangmen Pavilion will have to experience another change in Xuzhou."

Shen Chen laughed at himself and said, "This Cao Cao is really everywhere. ”

Deng Hong was frightened: "Let's move to Xiangyang." ”

"Moving to Xiangyang?"

Shen Chen shook his head and said, "It's impossible to run away just thinking about running, when I built the Yellow Gate Pavilion, it was for today." ”

"But now that there are only a thousand soldiers in the Huangmen Pavilion, how can they fight with Cao Cao's tens of thousands of tigers and wolves?"

Deng Hong remembered the tragic situation he saw in Xuzhou and was very afraid of Cao Cao.

Shen Chen said coldly: "If Cao Cao gains power, even if he escapes overseas, he may not be safe. So for the sake of today's plan, I can only fight against it, not to mention that things have not reached such a bad point, you just listen to my arrangement. ”

Deng Hong, Deng Zhao, and Shen Zhen glanced at each other, and Shen Zhen hesitated: "Is there any good way for my son?" ”

Shen Chen said: "Father, don't panic, if my expectations are correct, Cao Cao will inevitably send people to attack the barrier around Xinye, Huyang is also the direction of attack, then we can retreat into the back mountain, deal with the enemy, and when their attack is weak, Uncle Xingba will attack and annihilate them in one fell swoop." ”

"How are you going to arrange it?"

Gan Ning asked.

Shen Chen said his thoughts again.

Nowadays, Huangmen Pavilion is quite prosperous, but the people who live outside the village are all tuntian households and farmers who are attached to them, and the real core is still the original people of Huangmen Pavilion.

Therefore, Shen Chen planned to move most of the people of the current Huangmen Pavilion to Huyang County first, leaving the fields alone, and they led the original more than 1,000 villagers of Huangmen Pavilion to move to the back mountain, and then arranged for soldiers to settle in the Qiong cage and watchtower in the back mountain, and used the terrain to hold on.

Although Deng Hong and the others still felt that they might not be able to hold on to this, Shen Chen tried his best to disagree and arranged the matter. In the end, they had to follow Shen Chen's method, and while sending people to evacuate the masses, they began to carry grain and grass materials to the back mountain.

The back mountain is actually not high, the height is only about 100 meters, and the low hills are only twenty or thirty meters high. There used to be a lot of trees on it, but now they have been cut down almost completely, and a military camp on a hillside has been built, enclosed by a fence and a fence.

Behind the mountain, there are not only caves and blast furnaces, but also a large number of buildings and underground passages. At the same time, a large number of underground caves and underground palaces were dug and built, and a lot of materials were stored for fighting the enemy.

However, it is said to be a strong fortress, but in fact the terrain and area are not large. Later, there was a famous battle in World War II called the Battle of Iwo Jima, which was really powerful, more than 20,000 Japanese troops hid in the tunnels and caused huge casualties to the American army, and the entire mountain was hollowed out.

Of course, Shen Chen didn't have that much ability to create that level of tunnel, so the area dug out of the entire back mountain was less than one square kilometer. About a dozen cages were built on the heights, each of which could accommodate fifty soldiers.

There is an arrow mouth above the cage and a hole for poking the spear at the bottom. From the outside, there is no entrance at all, and you can only enter through an underground passage. The underground passages are controlled by the mechanism, making it almost impossible to enter from the outside.

Therefore, as long as there is enough food, it is completely impossible for a camp like this to reach the full level of defense to be attacked by the outside. Irrigation is not possible, there are drainage facilities underground, as well as vents and safety exits.

Therefore, if it is really defended, the defensive power of this fortress built by Shen Chen is still very considerable.

Soon, a few days later, most of the people of Huangmen Pavilion began to move to the Huyang area for a short time, and the entire Huangmen Pavilion began to make pre-war preparations, and every household hid in the caves in the back mountains, and the army was also stationed in it.

At the same time, from the direction of Wancheng, an army of about 5,000 people came in the direction of Xinye, mighty, like a torrent, to crush Huangmen Pavilion into powder.

It was Cao Ren who led the team in this operation.

In history, Cao Cao did not actually send Cao Ren to attack Huyang, Xinye and other places, but sent Cao Hong.

At that time, Cao Hong was the vanguard, breaking Wuyang, Bowang, Duyang, Biyang, Pingshi and other counties, and then Zhang Xiu surrendered, rebelled against Cao Cao because of Mrs. Zou's affairs, and took Cao ** away.

In the second half of the second year of Jian'an, in November, Cao Cao ordered Cao Hong to attack Nanyang again.

However, Cao Hong was defeated by the combined forces of Zhang Xiu and Liu Biao, and retreated to Yexian.

So Cao Cao personally conquered Zhang Xiu for the second time, attacked Huyang, and captured Deng Ji, the general of Liu Biao.

So in fact, it should not be Cao Ren who came this time, but Cao Hong.

It's just that Cao Ren and Shen Chen have a personal vendetta, so they grabbed this task from Cao Cao, sent troops to Xinye, and came to Huangmen Pavilion.