Chapter 23 In front of Hyun's county
"Sima, the people are entrenched at the city gate and want to enter the county seat?" Wang Rujing said to Liu Tai.
Because of the departure of the county order, Wang Rujing was responsible for contacting the local gentry and wealthy families, as well as pacifying the local people.
So Wang Rujing did the work of acting as the county order, of course, the most important thing is that when he was resting, Liu Tai handed over the task of garrisoning the city to Wang Rujing, and if he really encountered something, he could also come over and wake him up.
Liu Tai was not afraid that Wang Rujing would betray, or if the local wealthy family represented by Wang Rujing chose to betray, then he would not be able to defend this county town with 2,000 people.
Normally speaking, because since ancient times, soldiers have been like combs and bandits have been like grates, unless the reputation of the other party is really unbelievably good, otherwise the vast majority of cities will not choose to surrender voluntarily.
"Let the soldiers shoot arrows and drive these people away!" Liu Tai made a decisive decision.
Wang Rujing's heart tightened when he heard Liu Tai's words, and he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief in his heart, at least it wasn't his own decision.
"Such a decision can't be made, Wang Rujing is afraid that he can't even make a qualified county order!" Chu Yi looked at Wang Rujing's departing back and sighed, but said, "Why doesn't Sima give this command to so-and-so!" ”
Liu Tai glanced at Chu Yu, and thought in his heart, Wang Rujing at least won't sell me, but I doubt your words.
Of course, I thought so, but said:
"If it was only his life, then with Wang Rujing's medical virtues, he would definitely open the city gates and let the people come in to take refuge from the disaster.
But this Hyun County is his hometown, at least for now, it is still stable.
After the people came in, there were no enemy undercover agents, I don't know what will happen to the chaos brought by these homeless people, this risk Wang Rujing does not dare to take it. ”
Liu Tai directly avoided Chu Yi's topic.
Liu Tai knew very well that after the Wuhu Rebellion, the Wubao system represented by the wealthy family became a beautiful scenery of the defense system of the Han people in the north.
There is a complete construction of the dock fort itself, but there is still a large part of it, because the people inside know each other and can trust each other, and they are also very cautious about absorbing foreign forces, which makes the dock fort model spread all over the place.
As for those who were not favored by the Hao clan and entered the dock fort, they were absorbed by the beggar army and pushed to the front line of resistance against Hu.
Everyone has the style of each person leading soldiers, for Liu Tai, his own corporals can be worse, but their thoughts and positions are the first priority for Liu Tai.
He asked the county magistrate of Hyun's county to leave, and then some people who knew that Shangdang had been beaten also took the initiative to follow the county magistrate of Hyun's county and ran away.
Liu Tai did not object to this, and even encouraged it.
Just let Wang Rujing come forward on behalf of the Hyun family's royal family to appease the local people who are difficult to leave their homeland.
In this way, not only did he complete the unification of the will of the entire Hyun County, but when he asked them to help repair the city defense, the remaining people were very willing, and even took the initiative to come to help.
This is the role of purification, and the remaining people will definitely take the initiative to fight the risk when they have no other choice.
In fact, in such a county, unless there is the kind of famous general who can kill people and kill people in fear, normal generals, if they want to capture such a city, they will definitely have to break a few of their teeth.
Liu Tai understood that he was an outsider after all, and his words in a short period of time were not enough to win trust, so only Wang Rujing could gain the trust of the locals.
Besides, the Wang family also has to provide the food needs of the army for a short time, so this generation of county orders does not let Wang Rujing do anyone.
Because of this, it is impossible for Liu Tai to let these homeless people in, the riot they caused is a trivial matter, and the most important thing is that their entry has caused the will to defend the city to waver, so what should I do.
Speaking of which, Liu Tai can only use heavy codes in troubled times, but instead of letting them come in and make trouble and then kill them, it is more secure to drive them away from the beginning.
And even if Wang Rujing is kind-hearted and virtuous, when the other end of the balance is placed on the whole family, what kind of choice Wang Rujing should make is almost inevitable.
After all, in the final analysis, this era is an era when the family is more important than the country, and even if it was Chu Yu, he would not have come to ask at all, and directly ordered the soldiers to drive these people away with arrows.
Sure enough, after receiving Liu Tai's order, Wang Rujing's heart was a little more stable, and he ordered to shoot arrows to drive the people away.
These arrows are really shooting towards people, and only when someone is really injured, someone is bleeding, and someone feels the pain, then these people who are surrounding Hyun County will really know the seriousness of the matter.
It is as if many modern problems are moral slippery slopes, but people always demand that the law be used to solve moral problems, which will naturally cause many social and ethical contradictions.
This is much more direct in the West, they don't pay attention to morality at all, and they just go straight to the guys.
Wu Ming, who was in the distance, looked at the young man named Wen Qiao beside him, and said with a smile, "This guard of Hyun County is cautious, if you want to send soldiers, I'm afraid it's not easy to follow the people to get in!" ”
"It's just a try, it's great to be able to take it down!" Wen Qiao said calmly.
Wen Qiao's expression was straight, and he said solemnly: "Since the generals of this Hyun County are cautious, should we withdraw to Shangdang County?" ”
"The general's prudence is prudence, but it should be a raw hand." Wu Ming looked at the lush woods growing less than ten miles around the county seat of the Hyun family, and said, "Let's try, if the other party is just bullying the common people, then we can seize the entire territory of Shangdang, cut off the Xiongnu and Wang Mi, this is a hard opportunity!"
When Wen Qiao heard Wu Ming's words, he also knew that he couldn't stop the commander, especially after occupying Shangdang County, Wu Ming's army was replenished with the support of the local family, which made Wu Ming a little more confident.
And Wen Qiao turned out to be just a county magistrate in Lu County, Shangdang County, if Liu Tai chose to go north and intersperse Shangdang County from behind, then Lu County, which was run by Wen Qiao, would inevitably become an obstacle that Liu Tai had to pass.
No one knows how long this roadblock can be stopped, but it will definitely make Liu Kun's troops who attacked Shangdang County safe.
Even so, Wen Qiao also took the initiative to seize Shangdang, mainly because Wen Qiao had dealings with large and small families of Shangdang and assisted Wu Ming in occupying Shangdang, so this time Wu Ming took advantage of the situation to attack Hyun's County, so he took Wen Qiao to take a look.
At this moment, Wu Ming saw that the defense of Hyun County was vigilant, so he immediately led the cavalry and rushed away, and the whole army stopped about 300 meters in front of Hyun County, and did not continue to advance, because there were horse rejections from here, and Wu Ming suspected that there was a horse pit.
Wu Ming spoke, his voice was loud, but he could hear it clearly on the city wall: "Hyun County Order, now that the king is going south, if you surrender quickly, you can still protect your glory and wealth, if you wait for the city gate to be breached, we will definitely slaughter the Hyun clan's city!" ”
"He said he was going to slaughter the Hyun clan!" Liu Tai said solemnly to Wang Rujing.
"Jing heard!" When Wang Rujing heard this, he said to Liu Tai, "As long as so-and-so lives, this matter is impossible!" ”
"......" Liu Tai glanced at Wang Rujing very strangely, and said, "I mean, you now go and send someone to inform the people of the Hyun clan about what he just said, so that they can know what will happen if the city is broken!" ”
"Huh? …… Oh! Wang Rujing nodded decisively when he heard Liu Tai's words, and went to carry out Liu Tai's order.
"Sima seems to attach great importance to the people, could it be that he intends to let the people help defend the city?" Chu Yu looked at Liu Tai and said.
"Since it is to defend the city, every point of strength is precious, and the physical strength of the soldiers is the most precious, so many things that can be done by the soldiers are handed over to the people to do, and the physical strength of the soldiers can naturally be saved!"
Liu Tai said calmly, and when the words came to this, his eyes fell on Chu Yu's body at this time,
"By the way, you go and talk back to him, just say that you want to fight, don't roll, don't continue to talk nonsense below."
"Why me?!" When Chu Yu heard Liu Tai's words, he couldn't help but say to Liu Tai.
"I think it's unreasonable not to let Chu Saijiu do something to offend the Jin Army!" Liu Tai looked at Chu Yi and said.
Chu Yu looked at Liu Tai fiercely, and he could clearly hear the strong distrust from Liu Tai's mouth, as well as the contradiction of wanting to reuse himself.
However, Chu Yu didn't say much, but went up to the low wall and shouted loudly: "We Liu Sima said, love to fight, don't roll, don't talk nonsense below!" ”
Hearing Chu Yu's words, the soldiers on the low wall laughed, and the solemn atmosphere of the battle was swept away.
At this moment, looking at the other party's cavalry, it looks like it is only one or two thousand people, which is a lot, but you are really not afraid of the other party when you are guarding the city, after all, no matter how powerful your cavalry is, you have the ability to go to the city wall!
Wu Ming didn't have any entanglement, he immediately turned his horse's head and went back, since he knew that the other party would not surrender, then he would fight honestly once to see the other party's quality, and at the same time, he could patiently wait for the party's infantry behind him.
Now Wu Ming patiently went to set up his camp first, and began to cut down the surrounding wood to make engineering equipment.
Liu Tai watched Wu Ming choose to collect his troops and return to the camp for the first time, and then began to cut down the surrounding trees, without any anxious look, he couldn't help but squint his eyes slightly, the other party was steady and steady, it was not easy to deal with!
At this time, Liu Tai looked at the woods that were relatively close to the surroundings of Hyun County, and couldn't help but pat his head.
In the end, he was born in the wilderness and did not receive systematic military study, so a few days after Liu Tai took over Hyun County, he also began to implement the strong wall Qingye that he understood, dispersed the local people to the south, and collected the grain in the hands of the people.
But Liu Tai ignored the woods around Hyun County, as they would provide wood for siege equipment.
"What a big oversight!" Liu Tai watched the other party use the camp defense to harvest wood on the spot, and believed that the opponent's engineering weapons would be very easy to build.
Now that the mistake has been made, you can only make up for it as much as possible.
Liu Tai quickly asked people to pinch out a six-sided dice with mud, then looked around, his eyes still fell on Chu Yu's body, threw the dice to Chu Yu, and said, "Come and come and play one!" ”
Chu Yi looked at Liu Tai a little inexplicably, but he didn't refuse, he just threw one down, and the font on it was "Nan!" ”
"Throw one more!" Liu Tai said.
Chu Yu didn't hesitate, but lost another one, and the font on it was "Tian"
"Then go out of the south gate during the day!" Liu Tai looked at this dice and made a decisive decision!
"What? What is the South Gate out? Chu Yu looked at Liu Tai but was a little confused.
Liu Tai explained: "Don't we have four gates, and we will send a force every day to harass each other, in order to avoid being found by the other party, we can make decisions directly with dice."
As for the other two sides of heaven and earth, they represent the time of the attack.
We feel that the scheming competition is too exhausting, so we directly use the probability of dice to replace the judgment of the mind! ”
"What kind of soldier Yin and Yang method is this?!" Chu Yi listened to Liu Tai's words, looked at the dice in his hand, and couldn't help but be confused.
"What soldier yin and yang? It's probability! Liu Tai emphasized, "After all, the other party has cavalry, so you have to be careful after all!" ”
"What if the other party is staring at one place and ambushing!" Chu Yu said to Liu Tai and asked.
"They are just going to harass, and they will not really attack the other party, if the other party's whole army attacks, then it is just right, let the soldiers retreat back to the city." Liu Taidao, "If it's night, I'm also curious if they will use cavalry to attack, if it's daytime, we can't be ambushed!" ”
Liu Tai was really not afraid that they would make a scene of cavalry attacking in the dark night, after all, although he did not cut down the surrounding trees, he had a lot of traps in the horse pits, especially the horse traps specifically for the horse's legs.
This kind of pit is for a person, even if he steps on it carefully, he will not break his leg, but it is not the same for a galloping horse.
Soon, with the dice shaken out of Chu Yu's hand, the harassment of the opponent's camp began, and from time to time it was to blow the horn of attack to frighten Wu Ming's army.
But Liu Tai didn't dare to let his army run too far, almost about 500 meters away from Hyun's family, and if he really encountered danger, he could return to the city immediately.
Of course, there is no qualitative harassment of Liu Tai's army, at least neither Wu Ming nor Wen Qiao can find a pattern.
In particular, this army is too close to the Hyun clan, and as soon as there is any trouble, it will directly retreat back to Hyun County.
And Wu Ming also organized it once in the night, and the cavalry wanted to rush to Hyun's county with the situation.
But these horses who followed the rush didn't know why the horses lost their front hooves, but they were countercharged by Liu Tai, which lost a bit of sharpness
After that, the two sides each sent an army to harass each other, and it was up to them to see who was more disgusting!
Fortunately, this mutual disgust did not last long, because in about four days, Wu Ming's follow-up infantry was replenished.
At the same time, the siege equipment he has worked hard to build these days can also vent his grievances!
"Today, our army will take Hyun's County to recover the entire county of our Great Jin Shangdang!" Wu Ming roared loudly.
Liu Tai looked at the army under the city wall and clearly knew that the real test was coming.