"This is impossible! Impossible!" Xiahou Yuan said angrily, grabbing the person who came to inform the news and spitting, "Absolutely impossible!"
The messenger who was caught by Xiahou Yuan was so shattered that he rolled his eyes, but he couldn't break free.
Xiahou Yuan calmed down a little and threw the messenger to the ground.
It was Sima Yi who killed Cao Zhen, not Hedong's messenger.
『Damn…』 Xiahou Yuan gritted his teeth, 『Sima family...traitor, traitor!"
An impossible thing has happened, and no matter how Xiahou Yuan denies it, it cannot be changed.
Although some details of the Beiqu incident were not transmitted to Cao Cao's camp on the other side of the river, it was not a secret issue for many wealthy gentry families in Hedong.
When Xiahou Yuan left Wangwu Mountain and sent personnel to contact Hedong, he received such unacceptable news...
Cao Zhen and his family were destroyed in Beiqu.
Although life and death are destined to be on the battlefield, most of the time, soldiers still die more and generals die less, even in later wars of Heat. If a general dies, it would be a huge thing.
Although Cao Zhen is not considered a general, he is also an important figure among the second generation of the Cao family. He was wiped out in the northern qualifying land. How could Xiahou Yuan accept it?
"General..." the confidant beside Xiahou Yuan persuaded, "This... it seems that Hedong has been prepared for a long time... the situation is not good, it's better..."
"What's worse?" Xiahou Yuan stared at him, "Are you scared?"
The confidant shook his head, "General, I'm worried about the general..."
The iron armor on Xiahou Yuan's body was clattering, "What are you worried about?"
"General... Now there is no support inside and no reinforcements outside..." The confidant whispered, "And we don't have many people... If there is a possibility...
The traitors from Hedong sent someone to send messages, and this is the same thing, they were scared...
Xiahou Yuan fell silent.
The reason is not that he doesn't understand, but that he also has his own considerations.
Lao Cao was under great pressure.
Needless to say, this point.
Similarly, Cao Zhen was defeated in Beiqu, and then Xiahou Yuan left without fighting. Although he could protect himself, what do others think after he went back?
The sons and nephews died in battle, but then Xiahou Yuan, the uncle-level uncle, survived?
This is so unpleasant!
Third, Xiahou Yuan really wanted to show his abilities in his heart, rush to Pingyang, and then create a record that could rival or even surpass Taishici's back then...
So he was unwilling to let Xiahou Yuan retreat now.
Xiahou Yuan turned around and looked at his own people.
These Cao troops are well-equipped.
In order to compete with the elite cavalry under the cavalry, Xiahou Yuan put in a lot of effort when selecting soldiers. Although the northern part of Xiliang is a good place to produce cavalry, there are also many good families in Youzhou, northern part of Jizhou, who are good at riding skills and are good seedlings of cavalry. These good families in Youzhou, Jizhou, were originally under Yuan Shao, but now after being replaced by Cao Cao, some people inevitably want to gain merit and wealth from the new master.
Not everyone has a God's perspective and can clearly see the situation in the world. Most people can only see everything around them and then think that the surroundings are the entire world.
For people in the Youzhou area of ​​Jizhou, since Cao Cao has gained a dominant position and has provided them with an advancement level, then if you put in some strength earlier, your status in the future will be improved earlier.
When he was at Wangwu Mountain, he was sacrificed by the mountain god, and the "curse" was exempted and the "blessings" were added, which made these good children of Ji You excited and full of energy. He felt that he was following Xiahou Yuan. If he fought in Hedong for a while, wouldn't his merits be just around the corner?
Have equipment, skills, morale, and then retreat like this?
Then when I want to fight in the future...
Xiahou Yuan shook his head invisibly, which was unreasonable no matter what.
"If you want fame and fortune, you have to show your true skills!" Xiahou Yuan whispered to his confidant, "The cavalry and horses are also humans. If you chop them, you will be injured, and if you kill them, you will die! If we retreat like this and lose our energy, will we continue to retreat? When will we retreat be considered as the head? How will others think of us? Can we still raise our heads then? Not to mention wealth and honor in the future, even eating ordinary food, I am afraid that it will be ridiculed and embarrassed!"
When his confidants and others heard this, they also fell silent.
Xiahou Yuan said it bluntly, this is indeed the truth.
Xiahou Yuan raised his hand and pointed to Pingyang, Hedong. "This is the core area of ​​the cavalry. The supplies in Pingyang City are stored in vain. Even the surrounding counties are extremely rich. Money, grain, cloth, weapons, armor and equipment are inseparable! If we do not take them and do not destroy them, we will be used by our cavalry in the future! At that time, others will ask what we are doing in Hedong? Could it be that we will tell them just to see it? A joke!"
My confidant took a breath, "What the Lord said is so...I just thought badly..."
"Since we have inherited the lord's entrustedness, we should work hard to find the overall situation," Xiahou Yuan said in a deep voice, "A real man, if he dies, he will die. How can he live with a face to face?"
The trusted guards and others agreed in unison.
『But...』 Xiahou Yuan's eyes were slightly moved, 『Pingyang was close to him, there must be heavy troops... If the army was led to attack directly, it would be difficult to resist... I was told that I would order him, pack my luggage, and the whole army was ready... to seize Dongyuan first!"
Dongyuan City is not big.
It can even be said to be relatively simple, but there are also basic suspension bridges and city gates. However, the moat has been disrepaired for a long time, and many people have thrown countless domestic waste and other wastes into the moat for convenience, resulting in the originally not-wide moat becoming a stagnant ditch.
It is impossible to completely deny whether it is defensive, but it is impossible to say how effective it is.
When Xiahou Yuan showed up in the sight of the Dongyuan defenders with more than 20 people, the Dongyuan defenders were not alert. In the northeast of the river, more than 20 cavalry were not too large. Many times, there were more than ten vehicles and hundreds of people traveling with large families. So at the beginning, the soldiers of the Dongyuan defenders didn't care much at all.
Xiahou Yuan and others used their cloak to cover the armor and weapons on their bodies, and slowly walked forward along the road.
The breaking attack has a certain bonus.
Xiahou Yuan is preparing to personally serve as the sharp knife for the Breaking Hidden Strike!
His face looked like a piece of ice, and he stared at Dongyuan City in front of him without any expression. He had all the movements of defenders on the city and the movements of pedestrians on the official road.
He suppressed the urge to ride a horse and walked forward slowly, just like a cheetah approaching the prey under the cover of grass.
He didn't want to die silently, he would rather die at the most glorious moment!
It doesn’t matter if a man loses once, or even a few times. As long as he has a breath in his chest, he will get up, carry a mud and blood, and rush forward!
Fight with God again!
Lose to lose, win to turn over!
Looking at the closer and closer Dongyuan County, Xiahou Yuan suddenly pulled off his cloak, revealing the iron armor on his body, and roared and rode his horse forward!
The Cao army cavalry behind Xiahou Yuan also yelled forward with Xiahou Yuan's movements, and suddenly a piece of yellow dust rose up in the sky, like a giant python that hit the ground, rushing straight to the city gate!
One side is determined to calculate, while the other side is completely unprepared.
The local officials in Dongyuan were busy and had no time to distract him from taking care of him.
Just like later generations heard what they said to start the inspection of superiors, then the local area will first understand the spirit, then conduct a round of self-inspection and self-correction, and then carry out a major cleaning, post words and billboards to show off their mental outlook...
Are bureaucrats? Of course, they are mainly official hats. What else is more important than hats on their heads?
Now I heard that Sima Yi, the Minister of Dali Temple, is looking for trouble everywhere in Hedong, so why don’t you hide your tail and ears exposed?
And they also have to greet each other, and make a record of their confessions in advance, otherwise why should they be called a clerk?
Which of these things does not take a lot of time?
Where can I control urban defenses?
The clerk heard about the thief, but the superior officials asked this, to cover up the one, to retrieve this, and to deal with that, and the so-called thief's memory had long been thrown out of the sky.
As for the dispute between Cao and Fei, Dongyuan and others were not unclear. However, these people believed that this was just a replacement for a boss and had no big connection with them. Everyone was a great Han Chinese. After three or four hundred years in the great Han Dynasty, who was in power was not so?
They are all a court and a ruling system. There is no difference. At most, they are just some personal hobbies or policies of a gust of wind. The Han Dynasty is still in its prime and the emperor is still unsuccessful.
Anyway, whoever has the upper hand will kneel under his skirt. Anyway, it is all skirts, so there is not much difference.
The incident of Beiqu also spread to Dongyuan, and some details were clearer. The Cao army soldiers who sneaked in caused trouble, but were blocked and cleared.
So the officials in Dongyuan scolded Cao's army for being ignorant and making trouble, and also distanced themselves from the relationship as much as possible. However, not many people felt that they would be attacked by Cao's army, because in their hearts, they all felt that only important places such as Pingyang, Beiqu, Anyi, etc. would have Cao's army. In places like Dongyuan, birds would not shit when they came, so could there be Cao's army?
So, when Xiahou Yuan led his men and horses to kill him, Dongyuan was still in a dream, confused and helpless.
『Grab the city gate!』
Xiahou Yuan shouted loudly, as if he also shouted out a three-point anger, a three-point unwillingness, a three-pointer, and that...
This is indeed the case for Xiahou Yuan.
He looked at the Dongyuan defender who was getting closer, but he was slow and helpless, and suddenly felt a sense of a sense of pride in his heart. What is the Hussar cavalry, what is Taishi Ci? Isn’t it just relying on some gunpowder to break the city? Today, I, Xiahou Yuan, let you see what is the real Han cavalry!
In history, cavalry attacked cities, or stole cities, or robbed cities, mostly like Xiahou Yuan did now. Small troops snatched the suspension bridge and city gate and dragged it for a while until the subsequent troops arrived. However, the success rate was not high, and because the cavalry armor developed relatively slowly in history and had a small coverage area, the cavalry did not dare to attack with the threat of archers. Therefore, many times they arrived at the city, but when they saw that the city was prepared, they retreated in a bad mood, and even suspected that the other party was prepared, they did not dare to attack...
That's right, maybe it's the origin of the empty city plan.
However, Xiahou Yuan and other Cao's cavalry were following the cavalry in their equipment, so the equipment from head to toe was not bad. In addition, the Dongyuan defenders were lazy and slow to react. When Xiahou Yuan had already rushed in front of him, someone shouted that he wanted to close the city gate and pull the suspension bridge, but it was too late.
"Crazy! These people are crazy!"
The commander of the Dongyuan Guard had only such a thought in his mind, and the rest could not be remembered.
Xiahou Yuan's first cavalry unit was not large, with only about twenty cavalrymen. Normally, as long as he blocked it a little and tangled for a while, when the Dongyuan city gate was closed and the suspension bridge was pulled, Xiahou Yuan and others could only sigh. But they didn't expect that Cao's army would appear here on weekdays, and there was no news of Cao's attack on the surrounding area, so they were not prepared in their hearts. They were shocked by the momentum of Xiahou Yuan and others. The soldiers and the people squeezed into a ball on the suspension bridge, pressing the suspension bridge heavily, and they couldn't even turn the winch!
In the chaos, Xiahou Yuan had already arrived as if he had been killed, without stopping, and then he crashed into the chaotic soldiers and the people on the suspension bridge!
The shouting and slashing sound suddenly burst out!
At the gate of Dongyuan, the soldiers who arrived were also regressed by the fleeing people. Some people accidentally collided with the soldiers and were unable to get up for a long time.
The suspension bridge was rumbling with horses' hooves.
The defending commander yelled at this time, wanting to pull the suspension bridge, close the city gate, block Cao's army, and report to reinforce...
These instructions are correct.
But the problem is that in the face of chaotic times, there are so many commands, no one knows who will do what.
Some people wanted to help pull the winch, some people rushed down the corridor to stop Cao's army, and some people wanted to rush up to get bows and arrows, yelling at each other, but no one knew what the other party was calling.
In a panic, Xiahou Yuan was already ahead, rushed across the suspension bridge, and rushed directly to the city gate. The long horse spear was like a giant python, crashing into the body of a soldier in the first Dongyuan guards. Then he swung his head and picked the body of the poor guards aside.
The blood was like splashing pigment, dyeing the city gate red.
Xiahou Yuan's eyes also seemed to have been dyed instantly by blood, and they shouted loudly and collided violently!
People shouted, horses neighed, and the sound of weapons collided, roaring and sounded at the city gate!
Xiahou Yuan's cavalry speed was not much slower, and the defenders were unable to set up horse-resistance objects at the city gate for various reasons to delay the Cao army's cavalry. Therefore, when the Cao army's cavalry hit the city gate, the defenders' soldiers were either chopped and killed on the spot, or were directly knocked away and retreated, with broken bones and tendons!
If the defenders were more determined and sacrificed their lives to block Xiahou Yuan outside the city gate or in the city gate hole, even if Xiahou Yuan's subsequent troops followed, they might not be able to take Dongyuan City.
Although Xiahou Yuan was brave, in order not to arouse Dongyuan City's alertness, he brought not many people in the first wave, so in fact, in addition to the initial shock and panic, his lethality was not really that strong, as long as someone could give it his best.
But here's the problem.
Everyone wants others to do their best and then enjoy the results obtained by others' life.
Although the Hedong Guards are also under the command of the Cavalry Army, they are not consistent with the system of the Cavalry Army. For example, there are patrols and major Hedong counties such as Anyi and Pi County, and there are also regular soldiers who are included in the Cavalry series. If they die, there will be pensions and family arrangements. In the remote county like Dongyuan, which is close to Wangwu Mountain, there is not even a full-time inspection. However, there will be patrols here for several months in a year, and they will do some basic training for the defenders. Therefore, the defenders here in Dongyuan are actually more like yamen runners, but the Han people are now called archers, horse archers, etc....
This is also the tradition of the Han Dynasty. A country that has been in its 300 to 400 years is already terminally ill, and it is not easy to change.
The battle broke out in a very short time and then ended in a very short time.
After Xiahou Yuan grabbed the city gate, the guards in Dongyuan did not have enough courage to organize a counterattack, but ran away with panic shouts...
Most of the soldiers who fled Dongyuan defenders might be thinking, how can they fight for the money in a month?
When this sentence becomes more and more popular, when facing danger, naturally, less and less people will stand up.
So is it true that someone can stand up if you really give more money?
It is absolutely impossible, because compared to real danger, any amount of money is insufficient...
If you really judge the winner and lose by money, don’t you do anything when you really fight, just use the money to show off?
Although the current defenders of Dongyuan knew that their responsibilities were to protect the local area and defend against foreign enemies, when danger came, they naturally used this sentence to give themselves psychological exemptions and escaped with peace of mind.
As soon as the defenders fled, the officials were even more unreliable. In order to escape faster, these officials even strictly prohibited the people from leaving the market and prevented the people from blocking their way to escape.
Dongyuan changed color instantly.
Xiahou Yuan kicked open the county government gate and stood in the yard and laughed to the sky, feeling very comfortable.
"General, there are many people who escaped. Do you want to chase and kill and round up?" Cao Juncai stepped forward to ask.
Xiahou Yuan pondered for a moment, shook his head, "No need to chase him, let him go!"
The military academy said: "General, in this way, our whereabouts cannot be concealed..."
Xiahou Yuan laughed and said, "If you can't hide it, you don't have to hide it! Hedong rats are just native chickens and dogs, why bother to fear them!"
"Send the order! Collect supplies as soon as possible!" Xiahou Yuan squinted his eyes, and his face showed some arrogance, "Look at how I can stir upside down!"
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Chapter completed!