To the north of Xudu, there are thousands of miles of fertile fields.

Cao Cao dug canals from the water and water to irrigate the land, and based on the Qingzhou Yellow Turban captured that year, he tuntian outside the city of Xudu.

The scale of the tuntian reaches hundreds of thousands of acres, and at a glance, the wilderness is densely packed with farmland, and there are countless manors, dock forts, watchtowers, walls, and beacon towers, and there are countless defense facilities on both sides of the road.

When Shen Chen's army passed by here, he also felt very shocked, and he didn't expect that there was such a perfect military fortress structure in the north of Xudu, and the degree of defense was comparable to the Guandu front.

But it's normal to think about it carefully, because the tuntian fields around Xudu are already Cao Cao's lifeblood, and almost all of them rely on these fields to feed the imperial court and the food and grass of the front-line army.

At that time, places such as Yanzhou, Xuzhou, and Yuzhou were attacked by Yuan Shao, and they could no longer provide taxes for the imperial court, so Cao Cao's grain and grass were very scarce, and he could only rely on the harvest of each tuntian to maintain.

Even so, his grain route has always been threatened by Yuan Shao's cavalry, and it is completely supported by Ren Jun's personal ability, otherwise, after the battle of Guandu starts in September, Cao Cao's May Xinmai grain will run out, and it will be impossible to hold out until the end of the year.

Therefore, such a place in Tuntian must be the top priority, Cao Cao has been operating Xudu for four years, and the city wall of Xudu cannot be built in a short period of time due to the high cost, but these basic military equipment will inevitably be built.

At this moment, in the fields outside the city, it should usually be a busy time for farming, and at a glance at the vast fields, at least tens of thousands of people are busy working in the fields. But now there is not a single figure in the field, and all the people of Tuntian have fled.

The black wolf smoke embers on the beacon tower in the field have not been extinguished, and there are some manors standing on the left and right sides of the official road.

In the Han Dynasty, the manor economy was popular, and the inside of the manor was more like a small city, with fortresses, walls, arrow towers, and wells and grain storage inside, which could be used for foreign warfare.

Obviously, when Shen Chenjun and Yingyin were resting, the herald had already burned wolf smoke and informed all the surrounding tuntian households that the enemy was coming.

Shen Tao had been following Shen Chen's side, and he saw that the team was about to pass by the first manor, which was about twenty or thirty steps away from the road, and the building scale was huge, and even took a clear stream from the ditch to form a canal to protect the village.

"Look, General."

He said, pointing above the walls of the manor.

Shen Chen looked over, and when they were less than a mile away, there were a large number of heads lying on the wall of the manor, one by one sharp spears aimed at the outside of the wall, cautiously looking at Shen Chen's army passing by.

"Don't worry, these are just the people of Tuntian." Shen Chen said this, but he also pressed his hand on the ring knife on his waist and looked at those people vigilantly.

A large manor like this radiates a large population and place, and a manor is like a small town, which can accommodate thousands of people at the same time, with a gatehouse, a corridor, a main house, a wing, a toilet, a warehouse, and even a courtyard and a well, just like a military town.

However, Shen Chen also knew that a town like this was like the manor built by Huangmen Pavilion in Xinye, the walls were not as high as the city, and there were many directions that could be attacked, so it was only suitable for small-scale defensive operations of a few hundred people, and it would inevitably be broken in the event of a large-scale attack.

As a result, estates like this are generally used to defend against bandits, and it is difficult to defend against regular troops. The people of Xu Du would not be stupid enough to put frontal forces in such a manor, so these manors are most likely defended by those tuntian households.

"Shall we attack then?"

Shen Tao asked.

Shen Chen shook his head: "No, I'm afraid that the people of Xudu would like us to waste time here, and the soldiers will attack Xudu directly." ”

"Okay."

Shen Tao nodded and continued to lead the soldiers forward.

Soon the army passed by this blockhouse, and the perimeter of the fortress was surrounded by a wall about two zhang high, and at each end of the four corners there was a corner tower more than three zhang high. There were also people on the towers and watchtowers, but the embarrassment was that they had no bows and arrows in their hands, so they could only use halberds.

When Shen Chen's army approached, there was a commotion inside the wall, and hundreds of heads were watching them with extreme nervousness, and a sense of unease spread around.

Obviously, this army of more than 3,000 people put a lot of pressure on everyone in the manor, and some people were even trembling all over.

As if sensing the nervousness of these people, Shen Chen thought for a moment and said to Shen Tao: "Pass the order, let the soldiers shout slogans together, and tell everyone that we are here to rescue the Son of Heaven and will never rob the people." ”

"Yes."

Shen Tao immediately turned around and shouted: "Welcome to the Son of Heaven, Feng Gongqing." Straight to Xu Du, Kuang Fu Sheji. Resist the thieves and save the people! Freeze to death without demolishing the house, starve to death without plundering! Eight one zw.?? m

"Welcome to the Son of Heaven, Feng Gongqing. Straight to Xu Du, Kuang Fu Sheji. Resist the thieves and save the people! Freeze to death without demolishing the house, starve to death without plundering! ”

Almost at the same time, all the soldiers of the Yellow Gate Pavilion raised their weapons in their hands and raised their heads to the sky and roared loudly.

The soldiers of the Ganning Army were a little puzzled at first, because they had not been trained to shout slogans before, but at this moment, under the orders of officers at all levels, everyone was also shouting together.

"Welcome to the Son of Heaven, Feng Gongqing. Straight to Xu Du, Kuang Fu Sheji. Resist the thieves and save the people! Freeze to death without demolishing the house, starve to death without plundering! ”

This loud voice resounded throughout the sky.

The tuntian households all stared at them blankly, wondering whether they were thinking about whether these people were stupid or wondering what kind of people they were.

But at least they saw the army slowly passing by the manor, as if they didn't see them, and ignored it, and walked straight to the end of the road, the city called Xudu.

There was an old man in the crowd, quietly watching the figures of those people leaving, and in a trance, he suddenly remembered that more than ten years ago, there was an old man with a yellow scarf on his head.

He raised the sword in his hand and shouted to his followers, "The heavens are dead, and the yellow heavens should stand." The year is in Jiazi, and the world is lucky! For the sake of all the people, overthrow this dilapidated Han dynasty! ”

Thinking about it, the old man from the Qingzhou Yellow Turban shed tears.

What hundreds of people care about has never been a dynasty for hegemony. They never care who the emperor is, what they care about is how many acres of land they can have, food to eat when they are hungry, clothes to wear when they are cold, and that's it.

Another man who wants to save the nations?

The old man thought to himself.

I hope you can keep it up.

General Shen!

He looked at the big banner with the word "Shen" and said silently in his heart.

In the wilderness, more than 20 kilometers from Yingyin to Xudu, there are more than 10 large and small manors.

The people of Tuntian all hid in the manor, and their number was very large, amounting to tens of thousands, but except for the old and weak women and children, each manor had a maximum of two or three hundred young and strong people, or even less.

Because the best young and strong were all incorporated into the Qingzhou Army by Cao Cao, and then into the Diannong Army, almost all of those who remained were old and weak.

If Shen Chen was willing, he wouldn't even have to take care of Xu Du, nor would he need to destroy the farmland, and directly attack these manors and kill all the old and weak women and children.

Although it seemed that the manor was easy to defend and difficult to attack, the resistance of only two or three hundred people was not enough to defend against thousands of Shen Chen's troops.

Attacking head-on, Shen Chen was sure to slaughter a manor within an hour.

And the old and weak women and children around Xudu are millions of people.

There are thousands of people in a manor, and only three or four people need to be broken every day, and the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans killed and dispersed amounted to tens of thousands of people.

Now Cao Cao's main elite in Guandu, their families are all in these manors.

Cao Cao's urgently needed grain and grass materials also needed to be cultivated by these people.

As long as Shen Chen kills these people, Cao Cao on the front line will definitely be defeated.

When the news reached Guandu, even without Yuan Shao's attack, the Cao soldiers who were worried about their families would collapse and flee by themselves.

But Shen Chen didn't do that.

Even though the manors were all spear-raised, visibly hostile to his army, he did not choose to order an attack and slaughtered the people.

Because if you do that, what's the difference with Cao Cao?

What is the difference between it and those who slaughtered the people later in history?

Benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and faith are not romanticism, but a spirit of inheritance!

In the 5,000-year-old history of China, there may be countless brutal people, but more people still bury this spiritual power in their hearts and silently pass it on for countless generations.

This is also something that Shen Chen is pursuing now.

His army ran all the way like this, and by the evening, it was less than ten miles away from Xudu.

At the end of the road, there was a ditch, dug from the upper reaches of the water, irrigating the surrounding fields, and although it was not a large river, it was also two feet wide.

The bridge had been destroyed, farmland was on the left and right, and a group of troops had been assembled on the other side of the bank, the number of which was not yet known, only that the banners were waving, the tents were stretching for miles, and a large number of people were digging trenches.

Shen Chen's army was several miles away, and the sound of a high horn immediately sounded on the other side of the ditch, and the camp was about a mile away from the ditch, and soon the dense army had been assembled on the other side of the ditch.

They had only just arrived, and they were already waiting for them. The leader rode on horseback and came out of the crowd, and behind him a large banner was unfurled, on which was written the word "Ren".

"General Ren!"

Xun Yu followed behind Ren Jun and watched from a distance the team that had traveled a long distance and attacked Xu Du by surprise.

He learned the news of the fall of Yingyin in the afternoon, so he immediately left Xudu and came to Ren Jun's camp outside the city, and personally came to the official road with him to build a camp and build fortifications.

Ren Jun's face was extremely grim and he looked at the big banner with the words "Shen" and "Gan" in the distance, and said in a heavy tone: "I'm afraid that the person who came is that Shen Chen." ”

"Hmm."

Xun Yu nodded: "I know his prestige, but I want to see him in person." ”

"That man should be him."

After Ren Jun noticed that the enemy had reached the opposite bank, he immediately began to assemble the military formation, and one person rode on horseback to the top of a small hill and led to command, and the big banner with the word "Shen" followed him like a shadow.

The distance between the two sides is not far away, and it is not close to say. Probably more than 300 meters apart, you can see the outline of the figure clearly, but the specific appearance and height are very vague.

"Welcome to the Son of Heaven, Feng Gongqing. Straight to Xu Du, Kuang Fu Sheji. Resist the thieves and save the people! Freeze to death without demolishing the house, starve to death without plundering! ”

Just as Xun Yu and Ren Jun looked at the gathering of Shen Chenjun's army in the distance, it only took a few minutes for the team to line up in formation, and then shouted slogans while advancing in the direction of the canal.

Although the canal was not wide, the bridge was destroyed, so it was impossible for the two sides to fight head-on, and Shen Chenjun attacked the front with sword and shield hands in front and crossbowmen in the back.

The reason for this is because Shen Chen knew that Xu Du was in short supply of arrows, most of the bows and crossbows and arrows were in Guandu, and a small amount of materials had to be supplied to Xiahou Yuan, Li Dian, and Cai Yang, who were resisting Liu Bei's main force in the south, so that Ren Jun's Diannong army had very few bows and crossbows.

Therefore, if there are a small number of crossbows in Ren Jun's army to shoot from a distance, they can give our crossbowmen a chance to defend and return fire with their backhands.

If Ren Jun doesn't have a crossbow in his army and can't give them a long-range strike, when the sword and shield man crosses the canal, the crossbowman can cover the sword and shield hand in the rear.

Their relationship was like that of the infantry and tanks in the later generations of infantry and tanks, helping and nurturing each other.

Seeing them advancing in such a way, and shouting slogans in their mouths, their morale was shaking the sky, and they couldn't tell that it was an army that had traveled two hundred miles to attack at all, Xun Yu smiled bitterly: "This Shen Chen is indeed not an ordinary person." Back then, what did Gong Cao do in Xuzhou? ”

"It's too late to say anything."

Ren Jun said in a deep voice: "There are few arrows in our army, and we can't compete with him, and after he crosses the canal, we can only retreat into the camp for defense." ”

In fact, the number of Ren Jun's army is more than Shen Chen, in history, Cao Cao got a million Qingzhou Yellow Turbans, and the most elite tens of thousands of them were organized into the Qingzhou Army, and the rest were used to Tuntian, and the number of the Diannong Army was close to 10,000 people, all over the entire Xudu periphery.

Later, Cao Cao was in urgent need of grain and grass in Guandu, and Yuan Shao sent cavalry to plunder its grain road, Ren Jun relied on this army to march at the same time with ten grain teams, and fought hard to retreat Yuan Shao's cavalry, protecting the safety of grain and grass in the rear.

But the fundamental reason why this army was able to complete the task of protecting grain was that Yuan Shao did not have many cavalry, and the "Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms" recorded that Yuan Shao had 10,000 cavalry before he sent his troops, but Wenchou lost most of them in the battle of Yanjin.

Therefore, the number of cavalry in Yuan Shao's troops at that time may only be only three or four thousand, and the cavalry at that time was not as strong as the cavalry in later times.

But Shen Chen's army is a foot soldier, and it has a complete range of troops, and the arrows are quite sufficient, which is enough for him to deal with this battle. On the other hand, Ren Jun himself is in short supply of weapons and equipment, he doesn't even have a sword and shield hand, and he only has a small number of bows and crossbows, which Cao Cao specially left for him to protect food.

Therefore, once a frontal battle starts, although Ren Jun has a numerical advantage, his equipment is not as good as the opponent's, and the quality of the soldiers is far inferior, which will make him very difficult.

The most important thing is that even if the chance of winning is more than seventy percent, Ren Jun is unwilling to fight.

Because behind him is Xu Du.

The seventy percent victory rate seems to be very high, but if it fails, there will be no defensive troops in the rear of Xudu, and at that time, in addition to the palace gate guards used to control Liu Xie, there will only be a small number of private soldiers of the family.

Therefore, Ren Jun would rather just defend than take the initiative to attack, he only needs to be invincible, even if he can't defeat the enemy, he doesn't want to make any mistakes and cause Xu Du to lose.

Xun Yu's eyes looked at the west, he listened to the slogan in Shen Chenjun's ear, raised his head and looked at the sky, and muttered: "Shen Chen is probably also a reasonable person, I see if I can go over and talk to him, if it doesn't delay for a while, the sky will soon darken, and he may withdraw his troops." ”

"Lingjun ......"

Ren Jun persuaded: "Don't risk yourself. ”

"It doesn't matter."

Xun Yu smiled bitterly: "I see that he has been going all the way, shouting slogans, and he has not attacked the manors of those tuntian households, he must also be a good person, I hope he will not shoot me with a bow and arrow." ”

With that, he gently urged the horses and walked forward slowly.

If he could, Xun Yu wouldn't do it, because he was a man who cherished his life.

In the rebellion of Dong Zhuo that year, he immediately chose to flee with his family.

Later, he saw that Yuan Shao was not the master, and immediately returned to Yingchuan south, supported Cao Cao with the strength of his family, and began to do logistics work.

It can be seen from this that he will not personally go to the battlefield as a last resort.

But now it has reached a point where it is extremely dangerous.

The enemy's army is approaching the city, a stone's throw away from Xudu, and the reinforcements are still hundreds of miles away, if you can't delay time, Xudu will inevitably be attacked.

So since Xu Du is behind him, he has no way to retreat.

"Brother Shen!"

"Hmm!"

Shen Changqing walked on the road, and when he met someone he knew well, he would say hello to each other or nod his head.

But it doesn't matter who it is.

There was no superfluous expression on everyone's face, as if they were very indifferent to everything.

on this.

Shen Changqing is used to it.

Because this is the Demon Suppression Division, it is an institution that maintains the stability of Great Qin, and its main responsibility is to kill demons and monsters, and of course there are some other side jobs.

Arguably.

In the Demon Suppression Division, everyone has a lot of blood on their hands.

When a person is accustomed to seeing life and death, then he will become indifferent to many things.

When he first came to this world, Shen Changqing was a little uncomfortable, but over time he got used to it.

The Demon Suppression Division is huge.

The people who can stay in the Demon Suppression Division are all powerful masters, or people who have the potential to become masters.

Shen Changqing belongs to the latter.

Among them, the Demon Suppression Division is divided into two professions, one is the town guard and the other is the demon exterminator.

Anyone who enters the Demon Suppression Division starts with the lowest level of demon slayer.

Then step by step, he is expected to become a town guard.

Shen Changqing's predecessor was a trainee demon slayer in the Demon Suppression Division, and he was also the lowest level of the demon slayer envoys.

Have memories of the predecessor.

He is also very familiar with the environment of the Demon Suppression Division.

It didn't take long for Shen Changqing to stop in front of an attic.

Unlike other places full of slaughter, the attic here seems to stand out from the crowd, and in the bloody Demon Suppression Division, it presents a different tranquility.

At this time, the attic door is open, and there are occasional people entering and exiting.

Shen Changqing only hesitated for a moment, and then stepped in.

Access to the attic.

The environment has changed in vain.

A burst of ink fragrance mixed with the faint smell of blood came to his face, making his brow furrow instinctively, but quickly stretched.

The smell of blood on everyone's body in the Demon Suppression Division is almost impossible to clean.