Chapter 21: Messing Up the Army's Hearts [Seeking to Follow]
As soon as the words fell, Guan Ping's eyebrows quickly furrowed, and his face became more and more solemn and difficult to look at.
He looked sideways at the messenger on the side, and felt the seriousness of the matter more and more, and muttered secretly: "This time, even the Cao family knows about Jiangdong's plan to attack Jingzhou, so it must be that the Cao and Sun families have reached a consensus and secretly established an alliance. ”
"Jingzhou's situation is not optimistic!"
After thinking about it, he glanced at the chaos in the camp and suddenly realized something, felt a sense of urgency, and quickly ordered:
"Command the generals of all ministries to quickly assemble in the big tent, and there will be important matters to discuss."
"喏~"
The herald listened and quickly surrendered his promise.
When it retreated, Guan Ping, who originally wanted to go to the main camp, quickly turned around and returned to prepare for the promotion of the account.
Seeing this, the black-clothed messenger on the side asked with a suspicious face: "Major General, aren't you going to the main camp to meet General Guan and explain the reason?" ”
"It is imperative to return reinforcements, but compared to returning to the army, the current generals still need to stabilize the morale of the army."
Guan Pingtou didn't reply directly, but just replied in a high voice.
After the generals and colonels under his command gathered together, the messenger paid attention to the side and understood why the major general Guan Ping wanted to return to the camp and convene the generals to discuss.
"Ladies and gentlemen, just now Cao Jun shot arrows into our camp and said that Jiangdong has attacked the rear of our Jingzhou, and this is Xu Huang's attempt to disturb the morale of our soldiers and soldiers."
"Next, you must restrain your subordinates to explain the reason, and encourage people, and don't let the camps cause chaos."
"Otherwise, as soon as our morale is discharged, it will be when Xu Huang and his troops come to attack in a big way, and this matter must not be taken lightly."
When the words fell, the generals and colonels looked at the first room in full armor, and the face of the high-spirited Guan Ping was tense, and his tone was very sharp and commanding.
Everyone was stunned for a while, and only then did they realize that this was a trick by Cao Jun to spread rumors and disturb the hearts of his own army.
After saying that, Guan Ping paused, then looked sideways at the black-clothed messenger on the side, his face was quite solemn, and he pointed to the point:
"He just came from Jiangling to report the military situation to General Guan, and he couldn't be clearer about the situation in the rear."
"If you think you are going to be deceived, ask him."
When the words fell, the messenger was quite stunned, and when he didn't know what this meant, he raised his head and noticed that Guan Ping seemed to have a faint look in his eyes, and he suddenly comprehended it and said to the generals:
"What the young general said is good, it is the subordinate of General Zhijiang Huo, because the general wants to be ordered by the king to bring his troops to assist General Guan, so he deliberately let the villain run first to pass General Guan."
"Before leaving, I hadn't heard anything about Jiangdong's sneak attack on Jingzhou."
"This must be as the young general said, it is Cao Jun's desire to disturb the heart of our army."
As soon as the words fell, Guan Ping nodded approvingly, thinking that this person's eyesight was still quite good, and he cooperated with his rumor refutation plan in a short time.
He didn't dare to despise Cao's wanton shooting letters in the camp.
According to military reports in recent days, Xu Huang was first stationed in Wancheng to drill the new army of the headquarters, and then ordered to go south to reinforce the besieged Cao Ren.
However, after marching to Yanglingpo, Xu Huang seemed to avoid avoiding its edge and did not move, and successively joined the Zhao Yan troops who came to help, and then Cao Cao successively sent Xu Shang and Lu Jian's soldiers and horses to help.
Guan Ping knows very well that there are no less than 20,000 people in Xu Huang's army now.
If he didn't pay attention to this matter this time, the soldiers in the camp would be affected by the attack in the rear, and I was afraid that the army would not have time to retreat, so Xu Huang would lead the crowd to raid over.
"Do you ever know what happened?"
Seeing that the messenger told the details "truthfully" one by one, Guan Fang asked in a deep voice with a serious look on his face.
"Young General, we already know, so let's go back and appease the morale of the troops under our command."
"Yes~ Please rest assured that the young general will not let Cao Jun take advantage of the situation."
The generals listened and gave up their promises.
Seeing that the goal had been achieved, Guan Ping retired from the generals.
However, he was worried that Cao's army was now ready to attack the camp at any time, and he did not go to the main camp at night, but chose to sit in the camp himself and supervise the soldiers and horses.
As Guan Ping expected, in the Cao camp of Yangling Po tonight, the lights were dense in the dark night, and the Cao soldiers of each department wearing armor and holding sharp blades were quietly hidden in the camp in a neat military formation.
The first one was stationed on a horse, eight feet long, quite burly and majestic, holding a large axe in the battle array, and he could almost feel his infinite strength.
"General Xu~"
As the scouts who went deep into the front to spy on the military intelligence returned, they returned one after another.
The fifty-year-old leader hurriedly moved, "What's the situation?" Can the Jingzhou military camp stationed in Yancheng be in chaos? ”
This person is naturally Xu Huang, the chief general of the current governor's reinforcements.
"Newspaper~"
"General Qiqi Xu, according to the investigation of the villains, after the officers and soldiers of our army sneaked into the periphery and shot a letter of a sneak attack in Jiangdong, there was indeed a brief chaos in the enemy camp."
"But after a very short period of effort, the enemy in the battalion seems to have stabilized their morale, and there is no tendency to be expanded......"
As the scouts reported the latest military information one after another, Xu Huang's expression couldn't help but become heavy, "How come?" Guan Yunchang's son is so talented that he can prevent the soldiers under his command from receiving the news that the rear is in danger and still suppress the morale of the army? ”
When the words fell, he thought for a moment, obviously a little incredulous, "No~ I will have to personally mention the people to sneak into the periphery of Yancheng to investigate, and if there is a good opportunity, take the city directly." ”
The words fell, and Zhao Yan, a middle-aged man in his forties dressed in a thick Confucian robe on one side, had a blue face, and said in a deep voice: "Gongming, that Guan Ping can quickly stabilize the morale of the army and break the strategy of disrupting the morale of our army. ”
"This time the troops are going, I'm afraid it will be difficult to gain something~"
"What Mr. said is extremely true, but this is a good opportunity for our troops to wait for a long time in Yanglingpo, if we don't seize it, I'm afraid it will be more difficult to break through the front of the Jingzhou Army and relieve the siege of General Cao."
Xu Huang's face was indifferent, and he responded with his head sideways.
Zhao Yan listened, thought about it carefully, and felt that this statement was reasonable, so he echoed it.
Seeing this, Xu Huang also responded, "For the sake of insurance, Mr. will lead a cantonment in Yanglingpo to observe the current situation, and if Huang is going well, Mr. will lead his troops to help." ”
"If the attack doesn't go well, Mr. will stick to the camp~"
As soon as these words fell, Zhao Yan happily agreed, "Gongming is thoughtful, so let's act accordingly~"
As the two quickly reached a consensus.
Xu Huang next led the soldiers and horses that had already been prepared, and the generals Xu Shang, Lu Jian and others would take advantage of the night to rush to Yancheng.
Zhao Yan left a small number of troops stationed in Yanglingpo to defend the camp.
It's just that Xu Huang's movements didn't have much impact on Yancheng, just because Guan Ping personally sat in the camp and had already deployed the defense lines very carefully without the slightest flaw.