Chapter 54

Du Hui, who had not slept for a few days, had a dream in which he saw dark clouds rolling in the sky, lightning flashing, and huge thunder rolling overhead, frightening him with nowhere to stand. But in the dream, he seemed to know that it was just a dream, and the thunder was the drum that the Wei army used to disturb the enemy.

However, Du Hui, who was sleeping, suddenly felt a chill all over his body, and a huge crisis came to his heart, he sat up and shouted, "Someone! ”

Then he froze, and he saw the sky outside the tent turn red and flickering with fire. His first thought was that the Han army was coming, and he didn't even have clothes on, so he rushed to the tent. The soldiers helped him get dressed, and he looked blankly at the fires in the distance, and asked, "What is the place where the fire is?" ”

All the sergeants shook their heads: "I don't know! ”

"What time is it?"

"It's just three o'clock in the ugly hour."

"Oh, help me put it on, I'm going to take over from Jia Houye. Go and find out what the fire is. ”

After a while, Tan Malay reported: "My lord, Jia Hou Ye doesn't know where to go?" Near the place where the fire was fired, the whereabouts of the Han army were discovered. ”

"What?" Du Hui almost sat on the ground, why did he only sleep in the middle of the night, and he actually lost a marquis? And the strange actions of the Han army are even more unpredictable.

The more Du Hui thought about it, the more he realized that the situation was not good. Not daring to wait for dawn, he fled overnight.

Few people know that at this time, the great general Cao Zhen and Cao Zidan were already seriously ill.

The news of Wei Qi's betrayal gave him a heavy blow, and just before this news was confirmed, he also swore that Wei Qizhi was as loyal as he was, and the person who dared to spread such rumors must be Ji Han's meticulous work. wants to make the Great Wei generals discordant, so as to fall into the trap of failure. But in the blink of an eye, the truth of the facts gave him a heavy slap in the face, knocked down his wisdom and wisdom, knocked down his wisdom and martial arts, knocked down the aura of countless victories on his head, and knocked down the pride of his life. In addition to facing Zhuge Liang on the battlefield, Cao Zhen and Cao Zidan, the generals of the Great Wei State, who have almost never failed. will be on a desperate road because of this shameful betrayal, and at the same time, there will be 200,000 soldiers and Emperor Wu Wen's decades of hard work, and the generals of the Great Wei State built with the bones of countless soldiers.

Cao Zhen understands that after this defeat, the Great Wei State will never turn over!

Cao Zhenqi's eyes were red, Cao Zhenqi's chest was broken, and Cao Zhenqi's hair was smoking, and his nose was spewing fire. He overturned the handsome case, smashed the inkstone, and used his sword to cut down a coral tree that Wei Qi had given him in front of him into hundreds of pieces, and then fell to the ground with a heel fight. The mouth spurts blood, and the breath is dark.

No one can withstand such a blow, and Zhou Gongjin, who is known as a great person, vomited blood only a few times because of a county; Guan Yunchang, the hero of the first place in China, chose to commit suicide after leading the whole army out of the encirclement because he lost Jingzhou and had no face to see his old man; This kind of huge blow from the world to the underground, even Cao Cao couldn't afford it, so he had three laughs and one cry on the way to escape after Chibi; And Cao Zhen. He faced a fiasco that he could not bear, a fiasco that could destroy his country. How can General Cao, who is already old and no longer strong, bear it? (Historically, Cao Zhen died the following year.) ）

The pro-soldier guards rushed in to rescue them, and the military doctors urgently treated them. It took more than three hours for Cao Zhen to wake up, but his mouth and eyes were crooked, and he was struggling to speak. The first thing he said when he summoned his son Cao Shuang and the think tank Heng Fan was: "Kill back to Yecheng and kill Wei Qi!" I'm going to kill him! Then he fainted again.

Cao Shuang's skills are far inferior to his father's, although Cao Zidan is far from the top few under the sky of the Three Kingdoms, but he is a general who commands thousands of armies after all, and has the courage to shoot tigers and break the formation, while Cao Shuang is compared. can only be regarded as a child of the anointed beam. At this time, Cao Shuang had already panicked, I didn't know what to do, at this time, Heng Fan was a little calmer, he said that if he retreated at this time, he would definitely be attacked by Ji Han, he came up with an idea, the current shortage of military food was because the hateful Wei Qian had ulterior motives to get a large number of Tuntian soldiers with no combat effectiveness to the front line. It is caused by the consumption of a large amount of grain and grass. At present, these Tuntian soldiers still have to take care of one meal a day, if they want to take their soldiers back to Yecheng. I'm afraid that I will have to cause a mutiny halfway, not to mention Ji Han's pursuit. He planned to create false news that Cao Wei was about to win, and asked to organize Tuntian soldiers to charge Ji Han to attract Ji Han's attention, and then the Chinese army hypothetically attacked the enemy in a roundabout way, but in fact retreated to attack Yecheng.

Only by doing so can we keep Cao Wei's central army to the greatest extent, can we hold off Ji Han's pursuers, and can we capture Yecheng and turn the tide of the war. But in order to do so, it is necessary to have the courage and determination of a venomous snake to devour its mouth and a strong man to relieve his wrist. In other words, the remaining Tuntian soldiers either died in battle or starved to death, and there was no other way.

Cao Shuang took these 100,000 Tuntian soldiers to heart at this time, and nodded vigorously: "I have the courage and determination, what do you say." ”

At that moment, the two discussed, summoned He Yan, Deng Yang, Li Sheng, Ding Mi, Dai Ling, Dian Man, Chen Ben, Sun Li and other generals, quickly raised troops and returned, and falsely passed on Cao Zhen's order, ordering Wang Su, Zhang Xiong, Li Zhen and others who were currently in charge of the Tuntian army to attack immediately, and there must be no mistake.

Leaving behind the big burden of the Tuntian soldiers, the Chinese army immediately set off and rushed back overnight. Although the Chinese army's meals have always been maintained at two meals a day, not as reduced to one meal a day as the Tuntian soldiers, the uneasy mood has long spread in the army. The unusual behavior made the generals faintly aware of it, especially when there were several fires in the direction of Yecheng, the news could not be covered at once, and the morale of the army was scattered all of a sudden, and in the process of returning to the army, there were deserters every day, and even on the first night, there were actually three whole soldiers who fled.

Cao Shuang was furious and demanded that they all be caught and cooked to make military rations.

This sentence made Heng Fan have no heart to eat for a long time. In fact, in the Great War of the Central Plains a few decades ago, it was simply commonplace for people to eat people, and it was not uncommon for any unit. But for the current Wei army's Chinese army, the cannibalistic generation has long been in the ground, and now these people, from generals to soldiers. Don't talk about cannibalism, even if you hear these two words, it's enough for them to frown.

Of course, Cao Shuang's words are just angry words, don't say that they can't be caught, even if they can be caught, they don't have time to waste their strength on them, and it is true to take Yecheng a day earlier, and the food there in Yecheng is real. Even if these 100,000 people eat for ten or eight years, it will not be a problem.

Cao Zhen's situation is naturally unable to take charge of the army before it improves, Cao Shuangchu was in power, but he has no experience, and he listens to Hengfan in everything, but it's okay, he didn't make any big mistakes. However, bad news came one after another. In the space of two days. Cao Wei went to Yecheng twice in a row, and the troops were defeated. Xun Ji died in battle, Xu Yi died in battle, Jia Mu surrendered, and Du Hui fled. And Ji Han stabilized the situation in Yecheng and strengthened the city defenses. Although Li Sheng and Guan Suo were injured, the combat effectiveness of the army was not greatly reduced.

When Cao Shuang angrily led the army to Yecheng, he almost vomited blood. The walls were as tall as a mountain and filled with the siege weapons he needed. What a giant crossbow, what a giant trebuchet, but he didn't even have one on hand.

Do you use people to put them on the top?

Cao Shuang asked Hengfan what to do, and Hengfan also made a difficulty. If it is Cao Zhen, there is no second word, even if he uses the bones of 20,000 horses to pave the road, he must find a way to take down a city gate. But the difference between a literati and a military general is here. Most literati will never be able to face infinite blood, and Heng Fan is just one of them.

He then adopted a more secure method: "Besiege the city on all sides, and order Wei Qi to open the city and surrender, otherwise the army will attack the city and the jade will be burned!" ”

He made a fatal mistake, he didn't figure out who he was targeting, and he thought that Wei Qi had just reversed the Wei defenders in Yecheng. He wanted to use great pressure to cause civil strife in Yecheng. So as to get a chance to break the city.

Therefore, all that was in response to him was the crossbow arrows that came from the sky and the laughter and curses of the city guards.

Huge drums beat at the city gates. Drowning out the shouts of the sergeants outside the city, the heart-attacking tactics did not play any role, and only wasted the time of the Wei army in vain.

Heng Fan finally made up his mind: "The whole army will attack the city!" ”

But at this time, even if Cao Wei killed the horse to get food, and only ate one meal a day, there would only be three days' food left.

Luoyang City, Prime Minister's Mansion. In this Jihan No. 1 command center, the strategists of various departments are flowing endlessly, and information from all over the country is constantly converging and sending out from here.

"Prime Minister, the battle of Yecheng has entered the third day, Xun Ji and Xu Yi died in battle, Jia Mu surrendered, Cao Zhen's army besieged Yecheng, persuaded to surrender for half a day after the siege, and the two sides are currently fighting fiercely."

"From today onwards, the Jizhou Military Newspaper will be submitted at least three times a day. In addition, Zhao Yun, the general of Jianwei, ordered He Jiuqu's troops to gather men and horses, and if the Wei army crossed the river and let go of the front army, it could not be stopped. ”

"Prime Minister, the general of the chariot cavalry passed the book, at present, Pang De, Kou Feng, Guan Ping three generals led all the cavalry, broke through the Tuntian battalion, attacked the city of Yecheng Wei army from the flank, and is currently fighting with Cao Wei's backbone battalion in the west of Yecheng in the Tushan area. The general personally led the army to break through the main camp of the Tuntian soldiers and attack to the east. ”

"Well, the three generals did a good job. However, those Tuntian soldiers don't have to care, as long as he forces the Wei army to leave Jizhou, it will be his great achievement. ”

"Prime Minister, the general of Zhengbei and the annexation of the state assassin Shi Wei Yan (promoted because of the annexation of the state, the original Liao general was succeeded by Tian Yu) passed the book, now Cao Wei Tuntian soldiers are scattered because of lack of food, the rout army invades Zhao and Wei County, loot the people, General Wei tried to lure with grain and grass, Tuntian soldiers came to surrender day and night, and the number of people has reached more than 30,000. General Wei was short of grain and grass, so he asked the prime minister to agree to call in the army. ”

Kong Ming frowned when he heard this, and then nodded: "This Wei Yan, his prisoners of war are several times more than his men, and he is not afraid of being difficult to digest - however, this is a solution." Tell Wei Yan that I agree to his transfer. However, from today onwards, the number of surrenders and the allocation of grain and grass by Cao Wei's Tuntian soldiers will be reported to me every day. In addition, all the tuntian soldiers must be disarmed, and management must be strengthened to prevent fraud among them. ”

"Prime Minister, General Jiang Wei reported urgently, Sima Yi sent troops to attack Luyang, the army was strong, although General Jiang tried his best to resist the enemy, but even suffered defeats, and now he is holding the city tightly, refusing to fight. General Jiang asked if he could retreat to Yique Pass. ”

The feather fan in Kong Ming's hand suddenly stopped, and he said to himself, "Sima Yi really can't stay. He saw that there were few soldiers in Luoyang, and he planned to find a small bargain. Beryo's cautious use of troops won my heart, and even if he proposed to withdraw his troops, then let it be withdrawn. However, Sima Yi was suspicious by nature, so that he threw more ordnance and materials along the way, so that Sima only suspected that it was a plan, and did not dare to chase fiercely, if he felt that taking a Luyang was enough to show his might, he would return to the army, if he still wanted to capture Luoyang, use this trick to slow down his pace, and when Sima Yi arrived at Yique Pass, my military horses were almost ready. He paused and asked, "Has the situation of Soochow ever been reported?" ”

"Back to Prime Minister, Soochow has been acting strangely recently, and there may be a big move in the near future."