Cao Ren led his own soldiers to Xiangwu City and summoned Xu Miao, Cao Ren said to Xu Miao: "Does Xu Jingshan know me?" ”

Xu Miao saluted and said: "General Cao Ren, you are polite!" ”

Cao Ren said loudly: "It's a shame that Xu Jingshan still knows me Cao Ren!" Jingshan, you were selected and appointed by the first king, and when you were the first king, you were appointed as the prime minister's military adviser, and you were a close minister of the first king. I will carry you all the way until you are appointed as the Taishou of Longxi, stationed on one side! It can be seen that I appreciate you very much!

Longyou fell, and failed to get through the support in time, it is reasonable for you to surrender! Now the army has come to regain the old land, and goodbye to the old man has completely changed! You Xu Miao completely ignored the grace of the previous king, and didn't give up the darkness and turned to the light.

Xiahou Miaocai remembered the old love and allowed you to defend the city for three months to repay your kindness to Liu Bei! But what about you, treacherous, fornicating with foreign enemies, pretending to show weakness, when our army unloaded its defense, it sent troops to attack inside and outside, so that Zhao Qu was killed in battle and 3,000 soldiers were annihilated!

What is the difference between this and those shameless and cunning people! Where's your celebrity demeanor! Are you right about the king and the wonderful talent in the beginning? ”

Xu Miao said without hurry: "Why did General Cao say this? How do you know that I have fornicated with a foreign enemy? Since Zhao Qu stationed in the entire Xiangwu City, the four gates have been watched by Cao Bing, and there has never been a single person out of the city in my city in the past month, if you want to come in, you will definitely be discovered by Zhao Qu's soldiers and horses!

The general needs to ask clearly! Since I have never been out of the city, how can I fornicate? If you have never fornicated with each other, how can you be treacherous! ”

Xu Miao saw that Cao Ren's face changed outside the city, and Xu Miao knew that in Cao Ren's opinion, he was justifying again, which was equivalent to saying that Cao Ren thought that he had completely become Liu Bei's loyal minister!

Cao Ren gritted his teeth and said, "Xu Miao, I thought you were ashamed, but now it seems that you have no remorse!" ”

Xu Miao said indifferently: "Cao Ren's general Zhao Yun came from Nan'an, and Zhao Qu was unprepared for a sneak attack and was defeated?" I didn't attack Zhao Qu, so why should I regret it? ”

Cao Ren said angrily: "Xu Miao! Do you think we can be fooled? How dare you defy me! ”

Xu Miao sighed and said, "Since General Cao Ren has decided it, he can't explain anything!" I also said that I never sent troops out of the city to attack Zhao Qu! Everyone in Xiangwu City is a witness! ”

Cao Ren said angrily: "Xu Miao, do you think I don't know?" Zhao Yun attacked Zhao Qu and entered the city to meet you! There is no communication, how can Zhao Yun enter the city to replenish! This is what you call protecting the territory and the people, ignoring the war! ”

Xu Miao couldn't help but sigh: "General Cao Ren! Now I haven't surrendered yet, let alone a separatist force, and Zhao Yun is still a colleague, and Zhao Yun will naturally accept it!

Otherwise, if I don't surrender to the general, and accept Zhao Yun even more, won't I become a local hero! I said that the Cao army has an obvious advantage in three months, and I will naturally surrender! And I will let those who don't want to surrender go! Just like surrendering to your pet at the beginning, if you don't want to surrender, you can leave, and I, Xu Miao, am willing to surrender before I left! ”

Cao Ren held down the hilt of his sword and shouted: "Xu Jingshan, did you abandon the first king and follow Liu Bei!" I now give you the opportunity to surrender without blame, and keep all your official positions! Otherwise! ”

Cao Ren raised the sword horizontally and said: "If you want to meet the sword soldiers, I will not show mercy!" ”

Xu Miao waved his sleeves and said: "General Cao, a month has passed, and if the general's army is still under the city in two months, I will open the city and surrender!" If you want to kill, you have to listen to it! Never break your word! Now, no! ”

Then he pointed to Chang Ge in the hand of the captain of the city gate next to him and said: "The general has a sword, and I also have a dull Ge!" ”

Cao Ren nodded angrily and said, "Okay!" Good! Good! "Circle the horses and go.

Cao Ren returned, Yang Fu caught it, and asked Cao Ren to enter the account. Cao Ren raised his hand angrily and said, "Yishan, let me ask you if you can be sure of taking Longxi County if you attack it!" How many days can you take it? ”

Yang Fu was startled, and immediately understood that Xu Miao refused to surrender, and Cao Ren was annoyed and angry. But there are some things that cannot be left unsaid.

Yang Fu frowned and said, "General! We don't have the troops and the energy! You see Zhao Yun appear in Longxi, which is close to Jincheng in Liangzhou. If we attack the city, we will reduce the defense in other directions!

At present, it is necessary to harvest the wheat fields to consult the army, prevent the soldiers and horses of Liangzhou from reinforcing again, and beware of the erratic Zhao Yun! Xiangwu City is strong, Xu Miao is wise! Siege is the best strategy! Think twice! ”

Cao Ren interrupted irritably: "Okay! Yishan, you just follow the deployment you know best! I'm going back to Tianshui now! ”

Yang Fu hurriedly said: "The general is in such a hurry? ”

Cao Ren fixed his mind and said, "I want to order an attack on Xiangwu and kill Xu Miao now!" Clever tongue, brazen to do what you have done not admitted! Now you can't be rash, it's better to leave quickly!

Be careful! The celebrity Xu Miao you admire is not a trustworthy person, guard against his tricks! Let's go! Cao Ren rode away.

Yang Fu planned the defense, contracted the defense line, surrounded Xiangwu City, selected important places and high places to set up strongholds to monitor, prevent the appearance of Zhao Yun, and harvest wheat fields in batches.

Strengthen the guards of Zhongti City to monitor the direction of Di Dao! In the south, a camp was built on the basis of the original position of Qiangqi, because there was no grassland in the south, Yang Fu concluded that it was unlikely that the Han cavalry would attack from the south, but even so, Yang Fu still did the necessary guards, just in case! The direction of Guangwei County is to send scouts to monitor!

In the direction of Tianshui, Cheng Ji had Jiang Wei's living map, and began to discuss how to effectively defeat Cao's army! Jiang Wei re-chose the Han army camp, so that the camp was conducive to cavalry galloping on all sides, and it was not easy to be sneak attacked!

Jiang Wei arranged all the Cao Jun under his control to provide a basis for the next action.

Tianshui County set up strongholds to monitor more than ten days before the wheat was ripe, and these strongholds were equipped with beacon towers to condescendingly observe the wheat fields and the movements in all directions, making the wheat fields impossible to hide!

Every twenty miles there is a fort garrisoned by soldiers and horses, and the number is not less than 3,000. In addition, there are more than 5,000 armies in Xicheng, Shanggua, Jixian and Xinyang.

The reason why the Han army and the Qiang cavalry succeeded before actually relied on luck! Cheng Ji arrived and immediately launched a surprise attack.

Cao Jun did not find out that the Han army would attack Tianshui, and took care of himself to harvest a large number of grains, and did not harvest wheat fields one by one according to the arrangement, but spread them in all directions. The cavalry of the Han army and the cavalry of the Qiang army attacked directly, and it was too late to warn the stronghold!

Many of the soldiers and horses of the Cao army who harvested the grain were killed before they even had time to take their weapons, and the cavalry came and went quickly! Cao Jun will not suffer a second loss if he has suffered a loss!

Jiang Wei also said how he succeeded in attacking Cao Jun twice! Once, according to the clues provided by the people, they deduced the direction of the Cao army's harvest, and sent them to the Cao army's stronghold at night, pulled out the Cao's stronghold, and then laid an ambush in the wheat field and annihilated five hundred Cao's army!

The second time was to pretend to be a common man and a woodcutter to approach Cao's army, launch an attack, and then retreat! Cao Jun saw that there were few people, so he wanted to make a contribution, and about 200 people chased after him. Jiang Wei was familiar with geography, and hid in the reeds of the river, luring him to annihilate two hundred people.

After that, he didn't find a chance, and the stronghold greatly compressed Jiang Wei's maneuver space, Jiang Wei almost always hid during the day and moved at night!

After Jiang Wei finished the introduction, he said firmly: "If we can't get rid of the strongholds and fortresses, it will be difficult for us to expand the results, and we will also suffer huge losses!" ”

Cheng Ji couldn't help but praise: "Boyo sees things so clearly, it's amazing!" If it weren't for Boyo, we would have lost our soldiers in vain! The crowd agreed! Jiang Wei hurriedly returned the gift!

Cheng Ji then asked, "What are your plans?" As soon as the words fell, Cheng Ji looked around.

Han Jiang knows the depths, and he doesn't dare to speak rashly, he is all thinking! The leader of Qiang Di was clamoring to directly use the number of people to defeat the Cao army! It's been a long time since I made a decision!

Cheng Ji stopped everyone's voices and said to Jiang Wei: "Boyo, you know Tianshui Cao Jun best, first tell me if you have a plan?" ”

Jiang Wei stared at the map and said, "I just don't know if it's feasible!" ”

At the time of the fourth watch, Cheng Qi divided the troops into action, using cavalry mobility to attack. In the direction of Xicheng, Cao general Zhu Guang received the news that the stronghold was attacked, and tens of thousands of soldiers and horses took turns to attack the stronghold of the Cao army, and the Cao army lit a beacon fire to warn.

Zhu Guang sent someone to Ji County to report to Cao Xiu, and led 5,000 soldiers and horses to rush to the beacon fire! With the warning of the beacon fire, Cao's army would not go out to harvest the wheat fields.

The Qiang cavalry had no choice but to attack various strongholds. Cao's army did not sit still, and many strongholds lit beacon fires to warn them, and then hid in wheat fields or woods to evacuate, guarding the fortified fortresses. The Qiang cavalry pulled out five Cao army strongholds and annihilated no more than one hundred and fifty people!

Ten thousand people attacked, and the results achieved were undoubtedly insignificant, and the two of them were unwilling.

The Qiang cavalry then surrounded a fort of nearly 1,000 men. The leaders Oh He and Yao Ge commanded the siege of soldiers and horses, and Cheng Ji instructed the two not to easily attack the strong fortress of the Cao army.

Unlike a stronghold, a fortress has a solid pile of trees, stones, and earth, but it is not large but has high walls.

The two of them relied on how many people they insisted on trying. Commanding the army to shoot arrows together to suppress Cao's army, sending a thousand men to attack. Cao Jun held a shield to intercept the incoming arrows and returned fire with a bow and arrow.

After the cavalry approached, Cao's army hit the sassaga and rolling stones. The Qiang cavalry had no siege weapons, and they didn't have time to take a human ladder.

In a short time, two hundred soldiers were lost and hundreds were wounded. The two suffered a loss, and only then retreated at the suggestion of the Han general Liang Ang.

Oh He and Yao Ge commanded Qiang Di to loot the canes left behind by Cao's army, the sickles used to harvest the wheat fields, etc., except for leaving a thousand people to warn, the rest actually began to harvest the wheat fields.

Qiang Di complained, complaining that he commanded cattle and sheep grazing, shot arrows to kill the enemy, and how to be a farmer! Oh, burn the horse and let everyone shut up, hurry up and get to work! Han handed over Liang Ang and the Han army to Qiang how to harvest the wheat field!

The two leaders of Oh He and Yao Ge didn't complain in their hearts! When Cheng Ji told them, they refused at first.

Cheng Ji gave full play to the advantages of what he could say, and said to the two: "The momentum of our army is like a rainbow and it is like a rainbow to fight into the sky and water, and no one can stop it!" No one notices that we have no back-up food and grass supply, which seems to be unstoppable, but in fact it is full of dangers!

No matter how poor Cao Jun is, he still has the support of the grain road! We don't! Think about it, if the horses are out of fodder, can our soldiers and warriors of your tribe still fight without food?

The wheat harvest took about twenty days. If we can't accumulate a month's worth of food in these twenty days, once we can't defeat Cao's army, we must retreat if we lack food! Cao Jun gained a firm foothold in Tianshui, and the Longshang grassland could not be recovered.

Don't you know yet, the chiefs? The grasslands facing Tao and Taoyang in the west were burned, and the grasslands in the migrated land were used by the Liangzhou Qiang tribe in addition to you, and it didn't last long! After consuming the pasture, the cattle, sheep and horses starved to death, and the tribal family suffered from lack of food! When the time comes, don't talk about the rewards for war achievements, I don't know if I and the leaders will survive!

It's not the same with grain reserves, we continue to fight, and we can't fight with our cavalry Cao Army's foot soldiers! When the time comes, as soon as the Cao army withdraws, the reward will be given, and the new pasture will be all available! Definitely the new pasture is bigger than the original!

Moth Block, Vat Tong don't understand, tell them that they don't understand, the two leaders are brave and wise people, and they will be able to take into account the overall situation and share my worries! Please, two leaders! Life and death depend on the two of you! Cheng Ji thank you! ”

Oh He and Yao Ge were dizzy by Cheng Ji's words, and they also took advantage of the situation to set up a military order to harvest how much wheat!

After Cheng Ji promised a generous reward, the two of them inexplicably followed the Han general Liang Ang to the expedition! And Moth Shasai and Vatong led their troops to the north with Cheng Ji and Jiang Wei to the north and went to Shanggua!