On Yuyang City.
Heavy snow fell and fell on Cao Chun's cloak. After a while, snowflakes were covered with snowflakes on his shoulders. The cold wind blew over his face, and even ice edges began to hang on Cao Chun's beard.
The situation in Youzhou is very strange now.
News of the Hu people's retreat reached Yuyang, but Cao Chun was not happy.
On the one hand, reinforcements from Jizhou, although they came, were as slow as turtles and were attacked by Hu people at any time, and they launched defense on the spot.
On the other hand, the Hu people were retreating greatly, and Zhao Yun's Changshan army never appeared.
In Youzhou, a large number of people and property were robbed by the Hu people and were walking out of Gubeikou. There were also many Youzhou people. Because Jizhou refused to accept these refugees, most of them fled westward along Juyongkou.
There are also a small number of people who go to Liaodong, but when they go to this period of time, they will almost die. The passage in the Shanhaiguan area in the Han Dynasty has not yet been fully formed. If you walk in the mountains, the remaining Yanshan veins are all gullies and it is very difficult to walk. If you walk along the coast, although it is snowing now, it is not impossible to walk. However, in such weather, there are not enough items to keep warm, and it is difficult to find food and avoid the cold wind. That ice and snow road is like a gate of hell.
And now, there are two roads in front of Cao Chun.
It is meaningless to stick to it, because Zhao Yun didn't come at all, so now he either marched into Gubeikou and snatched back the population that was seized by the Hu people, or he went to attack Juyongkou and block the blood loss in Youzhou.
Choose one of two, because no matter in terms of time or strength, Cao Chun is allowed to continue to roam...
what to do?
Fight or not?
Fighting means losing money, but not fighting can retain the army, but in other aspects, it will lose more.
Should I get used to kneeling while kneeling, or should I grit my teeth and keep it straight?
Heavy snow fell.
"Zhao Zilong!" Cao Chun slapped the battlements heavily, raised his head and shouted at the sky, "I swear to kill you!!!"
The snowflakes still floated down slowly, as if mocking Cao Chun's incompetence and fury.
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Suli also thought to himself, and he was preparing to attack Yuyang at night.
Yu Zhuge sent out...
Yu Zhuge felt very honored, as if he had finally found the organization and fell under Suli's feet and patted his chest.
Right and wrong seem to be confused under heavy snow.
The night is filled with darkness.
A Hu soldier touched the city of Yuyang, looked at it with his head and then quickly retreated and reported the information he had seen to Suli and Yu Zhuge.
Mo Huba was not with Su Li, he was north of Yuyang, but he had agreed that as long as he saw the fire in the city, he would attack the city together.
Suli and Yu Zhuge were in the south, trying to attack Yuyang.
Yes, sneak attack.
In such weather, Suli thought his whereabouts would not be discovered, and no one expected that he would come to attack Yuyang, so he was not ready to attack Yuyang, just like a robber with a hammer in his hand. He could make a small hammer and run away if he couldn't hit someone.
"The Han people are not prepared for it..."
『Very good, hurry up, climb up...』
Soon, some Hu soldiers secretly tried to climb up the city walls of Yuyang in the night.
They hit the battlements accurately with a lasso and then began to climb along the ropes.
Yu Zhuge was so excited under the city that he was "Go up one by one, don't rush to do it. Gather first, so as not to be discovered by the Han people!"
Yu Zhuo hated all the Han people. He was greedy and lost most of his reason because of greed.
A moment later, a soldier came back to report: "Sir, the Han people did not find us! Our people are climbing the city..."
"Okay!" Yu Zhuze was overjoyed and began to issue orders. "Surprise the city gate first! After opening the city gate, we rushed in! Tell the Great Shanyu that we succeeded! Attack! I will watch the sunrise on the top of Yuyang City tomorrow!"
The little leader behind Yu Zhuze was also excited, "Haha, the Han people really didn't expect that we would come to Yuyang!"
Yu Zhuge laughed, "We don't have to rush to Gubeikou after the Yuyang is coming down! We can avoid the wind and snow here! Work harder! Kill the whole Han dog!"
"rest assured!"
"The Han people don't have the courage!"
『Victory belongs to us!』
This is a murderous night.
But I don't know who killed who...
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The city gate is ahead, and the open city gate seems to have opened its arms without any warning.
『Kill the dog!』
The Hu people began to scream wildly, holding up the sword and rushing forward, as if they were not affected by the wind and snow at all.
"Kill all the men! Take away the women!"
"Snatch all their things!"
With the mood of deepening the integration of the nation, the Hu people howled excitedly and rushed into the outer gate of Yuyang City.
Everything seemed so smooth, until the Hu people rushed into the city along the outer city gate and arrived in the middle of the urn, an accident happened.
『Ah! Ahhh!』
Suddenly, a Hu man screamed, fell to the ground, and cried in pain.
『There is something on the ground!』
"It's a caltrop!"
Although there was a reminder, it was too late. The Hu people who rushed to the front could no longer stop and stepped on the caltrops, making them cry and howl.
"Why are there such a thing here?!"
In the chaos, someone leaned over to check it out, but saw the ground in front of him covered with caltrops and wooden thorns, and a stinking scent came to his face, which could not be concealed even in the snow. The tips of these thorns were obviously soaked in gold juice. Even if the steppers did not die in the future, their feet would inevitably become rotten and useless.
"The Han dog is ambushed!"
The scene was in chaos, from sneak attack to being ambushed in the blink of an eye.
『Shot arrows! Rocks fall!
Suddenly, there was a loud shout from the gate tower of Wengcheng City, and then the arrows were like locusts, and the rolling stones and wood were thrown down.
The neat footsteps also sounded, and Cao's army came out of the hidden place and began to clear out the Hu people who had climbed the city wall before.
A large shield is like a wall, and a long spear is like a forest.
Yu Zhuo was shocked.
This is the case with a surprise attack.
If you succeed, you can break through the city at a very small price, but once you are caught, the sneak attackers will become meat on the chopping board and be slaughtered, and there is no chance of escape at all.
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"The city is on fire!" Mo Huba's subordinates reported loudly and pointed at him, "Sir! Look! Did our people conquer it?"
"Is it really a fight?" Mo Huba's eyes widened, unable to believe it.
However, after a while, Mo Huba tilted his head and listened, and suddenly smiled, "Did you hear something?"
"What?" Mo Huba's subordinates asked.
『Voice.』 Mo Huba said, 『Voice...this is the key...
"ah?"
Mo Huba waved his hand, "We won't join the party anymore, we are ready to withdraw our troops."
"Why?!"
"Didn't I say it just now? The sound..." Mo Huba said, "If such a big city is really broken, do you think it will be such a small sound now? What I hear now is only the movement in the city gate, other places... Haha... the Han people are indeed prepared..."
"What?!" Among the subordinates, one of them looked back in surprise, "The Han people are prepared?! Then... should we notify the Great Shanyu immediately..."
"How could we need our reminder when the Great Chanyu is so wise and magical? "Mo Huba smiled, "Oh, I didn't expect you to care about the Great Chanyu so much... Did the Great Chanyu give you any benefits?"
"Ah?! No?! I am loyal to you!" My subordinates were scared and sweated in their foreheads, "I am absolutely loyal to you!"
"But why do I feel..." Mo Huba stared at the man and said with a smile, "Why do I think you are more loyal to the Great Chanyu?"
『I...I don't...ahhhh...』
The man was still waiting to be distinguished, but he was bullied by Mo Huba's confidant and stabbed him into the gap in his ribs with a knife, then kicked him down the horse.
Mo Huba still smiled, as if he had seen a good show.
"Where is the Great Chanyu, I will send someone to send a letter... I just say that there was something wrong with Gubeikou... I have to deal with it..." After Mo Huba said that, he took the lead in leaving the north.
Only by being able to control one's own greed can one achieve great things.
This was learned by Mo Huba from the Han people...
Many Hu people thought that Mo Huba just thought the Han people's clothes were gorgeous, so Mo Huba wore Han people's headdresses and hats. But in fact, Mo Huba wanted to use this action to remind themselves that the Han people were smarter than them and had to learn their things to decorate their heads.
The most important thing is that Mo Huba received the news that Jiankun and Rouran had already left early, which made Mo Huba very uneasy.
What's the use of grabbing more?
Only if you can take it back can it be considered to be in your pocket...
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Neither Su Li nor Yu Zhuge thought that they were only a distance from a city, but this distance was like a deep chasm across the mountains.
The battlefield was in chaos.
The Hu people in the urn city died wailingly, and the people who climbed the city wall were squeezed back step by step in the array of large shields and spears.
"Where is the postscript to protect the postscript?"
Suli asked with a frown.
It was originally agreed that the city would start to be in flames, and Mo Huba would attack the north of Yuyang, but until now, there was no movement in the north of Yuyang City.
"The Great Shanyu! Mo Huba said that since they have already been defeated, they will not be able to divide the matter without any efforts... And something happened at Gubeikou, so they will deal with it first!"
"What?!" Suli was furious, but after a moment, he gradually calmed down.
"What should we do, Da Shanyu?"
"Do you want to attack?"
"What kind of attack is now missed!"
"Hasn't you already broken through the city gate?"
"But the inner city is not broken! Our people still can't get in!"
"Don't make noise!" Suli shouted loudly, looked up and observed the situation on the battlefield at an extremely fast speed.
The soldiers of Cao's army were encircling and suppressing the Hu people who climbed the city wall and rushed into the outer gate.
With the array and equipment of Han soldiers, as long as a stable front was formed, the Hu people would be unable to break through for a while. Moreover, Suli and others originally planned to attack sneak attacks, but they did not carry any siege equipment. It would be very troublesome to continue to attack forcibly...
Even if you finally rush into the city, if you lose the opportunity, you will lose it.
Or, it is extremely difficult to succeed from the beginning.
what to do?
Suli was silent. He was very unwilling to accept it, but reason reminded him that they had lost. The best strategy was to withdraw immediately like Mo Huba...
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Cao Chun shouted and fought to the fullest. With a big opening and closing, he seemed to be venting all the aggrievances and angers of this period.
"The Hu people want to run away!" someone shouted.
Cao Chun sneered, "Will it be so easy to leave?"
Generally speaking, if the defenders defeat the sneak attackers, they will mostly clean up the mess. After all, the wind and snow are storms, and their vision is unclear, but Cao's army has been depressed for too long...
The Hu people not only plunder Youzhou, but also wanted to play with this kind of sneak attack method. It was like not only jumping up and slapping Cao Chun in the face, but also squatting on Cao Chun's head and shitting. Uncle can tolerate it, but Cao Chun can't!
『Beat the drum, open the city gate, and encircle and annihilate these thieves!』
In the night, Cao's army roared and surrounded the Hu people.
『Kill!』
The city gate on the other side of Yuyang opened, and Cao's cavalry surged out of the city gate, roaring and cutting into Yu Zhuhu's front slanted.
Yu Zhuge's formation was in chaos, "The Han cavalry is here!"
The scene suddenly collapsed.
Suli in the rear could only order the troops to rush forward and force the Cao cavalry to withdraw.
The Cao army's cavalry found that Suli's army was on display and did not dare to charge without authorization under the night. They just chased Yu Zhuge's butt and bit it a few times before withdrawing the troops and returning to the city.
At that moment, Suli really wanted to attack directly without hesitation, but he didn't know how much preparation Cao's army had made. After hesitating for a moment, the Yuyang city gate was closed again...
Yu Zhuge fell to Sulima, crying.
Suli sighed, dismounted and helped Yu Zhuge up, patted Yu Zhuge's shoulder, "This is just a small setback, and it cannot make the eagle in the desert lose its fighting spirit..."
Yu Zhuge wanted to ask why Suli didn't support him in time, but if Suli really didn't support him, if Suli hadn't suppressed Cao's army just now, Yu Zhuge said he would not lose more, so he could only cry, "Big Shanyu... My sons are all heroes, all warriors..."
"If it wasn't snowing this time, I must have captured this city!" Suli gritted her teeth, as if it was because the weather was not hard, not because he was not capable. "What a pity... Your losses, statistics are based on statistics, I will find a way to replenish you... I have confirmed that what I lost is not worth regretting, but depends on what we can't lose now... Mo Huba said that there was some problem with Gubeikou, so we should leave now, instead of staying here to lament..."
Yu Zhuze hurriedly bowed to the ground, "The wisdom of the Great Shanyu is like the sun and moon in the sky, shining on us..."
Suli nodded, then looked up and looked into the distance.
Even if Cao's army guards Yuyang City, what can we do?
Isn’t this Youzhou still coming and I will leave whenever I want?
Although Su Li was indeed a little angry about Mo Huba's farewell without saying goodbye, if something really happened to Gubeikou, it would be a serious matter and should be dealt with. After all, Gubeikou is related to their retreat, and it is indeed not negligible.
From this perspective, Mo Huba's departure is not a big problem.
Suli looked up at the sky.
The snowflakes flew slowly and fell.
"If it weren't for this weather..." Suli snorted, "I'll spare these Han people a life!"
After doing some psychological construction, Suli suddenly felt a little more relaxed, so she waved her hand and ordered her to leave north.
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Cao Chun was on the city wall, watching the Hu people gradually leave, and his face was gloomy and sunny.
He won.
But he couldn't be happy.
In a sense, his central strategy of blocking all sides is actually really good.
Yuyang is closest to Gubeikou and the largest core point in Youbei.
If you defend Yuyang, you will have the opportunity to close the pocket of Gubeikou at any time. Jizhou and various counties in Youzhou, especially the infantry and friendly troops encircled by Jizhou, will become the solid backing of this big pocket.
As a result, this backing was not solid at all, like a shield made of bamboo strips and then a thick layer of paper was pasted, which looked like one thing, but when it was really used, I found that it was not useful at all.
But this is Cao Chun’s last choice in his helplessness.
Not the best, but the last choice.
Nowadays, Gubeikou is like a big knife cutting flesh, and Juyongkou is like a small tube drawing blood. In terms of the morale of the soldiers, if this war is not won today, Cao's army will be abolished.
The duty of a soldier is to open up the border and protect the family.
Now Cao Chun opened the Xinjiang region to be a joke. If even the protection of the family became empty talk, then what morale and rules the army would talk about?
Even if Zhao Yun doesn't come, Cao Chun will not be able to control these soldiers. He may even fall down when he sees the wind and collapse at the touch of the enemy when he fights next time.
Therefore, Cao Chun had to fight back against the Hu people.
But is it enough to just fight back in Yuyang?
So, maybe you should attack?
Kill and injure those plundered Hu people as much as possible and rob the plundered population, so that they can more or less restore morale and confidence in both the soldiers and the people.
As for Juyongkou...
Cao Chun sighed.
Because Cao Chun's strategy that he could not stick to before and the immobility of Jizhou was as calm as a mountain, the people and soldiers in Youzhou would be more or less disappointed with the Cao regime and the Han court. This disappointment may seem like nothing wrong now, but it does not mean that there will be no problem in the future.
Perhaps the people of Youzhou didn’t have any hope at all, but if one day the people of Youzhou saw what the real hope was...
"Come here! Send orders to pack up dry food and arms, and prepare to pursue the Hu people!"
Cao Chun stood up and ordered.
No matter what angle it is, he can't watch the Hu people leave like this.
He had to do something.
『Where is the people in Jizhou now? Why haven’t the Hu people come up yet?』 Cao Chun frowned, 『Please ask someone to urge him again, just say that the Hu people have retreated in full, and it is the best time to chase him, so you must not miss it!』
Chapter completed!