Chapter 1995 Zhang He transports grain, an oolong incident
The junction of Youzhou.
Zhang He also did not expect that one day he would become a grain transport officer again.
The grain and grass were finally collected in a batch a few days ago, and then they need to be transferred to Yuyang. Zhang He escorted the grain transport team to Yi Jing, which left two days ago, and it is expected to arrive in two or three days.
Yuyang.
Before leaving Yijing, Zhang He went to the castle tower in the inner city where Gongsun Zan set himself on fire. He sat among the broken eaves and broken walls and remained silent for a long time. When he heard that Gongsun Zan had set himself on fire, Zhang He still remembered that he was very excited and drank continuously.
I’ve had several drinks, and now...
Zhang He couldn't explain what kind of mood he was feeling right now. It was very complicated, and multiple emotions were intertwined with each other, making Zhang He feel uncomfortable in his chest and abdomen.
Baima Yicong, General Gongsun.
When Gongsun Zan was traveling across Youzhou, did he ever think that one day he would be alone on the castle tower, shouting or wailing, and then set fire to himself? Why did he choose to use fire? Because
Doesn't he want his broken body to be humiliated by the enemy again? After all, in the desert, there are many people who use the enemy's skulls to make wine bowls and drowning vessels. Or maybe he feels that he should be like a burning fire
Generally speaking, life is raging and death is fierce?
have no idea.
Maybe one day, when I get down from the underworld and see Gongsun Zan, I can ask clearly.
Zhang He was followed by nearly five hundred cavalry.
Some of these cavalry horses were squeezed out by Cao Cao in Jizhou, and the other part were raised by Tadun's remnants. After all, war horses are not something that can be planted in the land this year and grow next year. Even if
There are some horses, and it's useless if you don't know how to raise them. Now under Cao Cao's rule, there are many people who know how to feed horses, but very few people who know how to raise horses.
Yuan Shao didn't know how to raise horses before, so most of his cavalry and horses were originally traded with the barbarians. But now, after Tadun died, those barbarians are basically not willing to talk to Cao Cao.
The reason, of course, is very simple. Cao Cao lost credibility in the matter of Tadun.
Zhang He even felt that if Cao Cao didn't need a horse breeder, and those Tadun tribesmen couldn't find any chance to resist for a while, both sides would definitely... Haha, if there was a slight change, I'm afraid something else would happen!
All this made Zhang He feel a little...
disappointment.
Even more disappointed than before.
It's like it was originally a P8, and I was about to change my job to a T9 or something, but when I looked over, I saw that it was actually a fake T9, a T3x3. After a series of calculations, it turned out to be a 9...
Zhang He turned around and looked at the cavalrymen following the grain carts. Their faces were tense and expressionless. It was true that he was a cavalryman, but did he have private soldiers and was he a cavalryman with only 500 men? Others
None of the cavalry captains can be said to be better than me, right?
And this time, after arriving in Yuyang, he will become Cao Chun's deputy.
Will Cao Chun be stronger than me?
Yes, because Cao Chun has a good surname. His father is Cao Chi, Cao Ren's father and Cao Cao's father-in-law.
A good father has countless victories in the world.
Zhang He looked at the sky above his head. He didn't know whether he was looking at the weather or something in the sky. Anyway, after a while, Zhang He gave the order to set up camp at a mountain col ahead.
The soldiers and civilians were busy.
Zhang He got off his horse and went up to the hill beside the col. He stood on the top of the mountain and looked around.
There was silence all around.
But for some reason, Zhang He felt a little uneasy.
Although it is spring and the days should be getting longer, it is still getting dark very quickly now. Not long after Zhang He ordered the camp to be set up, the sky gradually became dark, and then everything around him gradually became blurred, and finally merged into gray and black.
Zhang He went down the mountain and saw three or four guards sitting on the bonfire next to his tent, roasting a badger.
"Where did it come from?" Zhang He raised his chin.
The guard who was spreading salt grains on the badger looked sideways at the other older guard.
"Honest Qian! Tell me, where did you come from?" Zhang He followed his gaze and asked. Although Zhang He did not have private soldiers, he still had dozens or twenty guards. These people followed Zhang He through life and death, so naturally compared with those ordinary soldiers
Be more intimate and casual.
Qian Laoshi laughed twice, and then said: "I went to explore the road this morning, and I happened to meet him... We were afraid that the general would say that we didn't bother to explore, so we stuffed it in the haystack first..."
The badger usually hibernates when the weather is cold. Now it has finally made it to the beginning of spring. The weather has warmed up and left the cave, but was bumped into by Qian Laoshi and others...
"Cut half of it and send it over there." Zhang He said.
"General, that's all..." Qian Laoshi was stunned for a moment and said subconsciously. The badger was not a large animal to begin with. It had just endured a winter and lost all its fat. How much meat could it still have?
"I'll cut it if I tell you, there's so much nonsense!" Zhang Daozi, who was the leader of the guard, stood up, took out the knife inserted in his boot and threw it away.
Qian Laoshi grabbed the dagger, nodded and muttered something vaguely, but no one could hear clearly what he said.
The half-cut badger will bake faster, and it will be almost cooked in a short time.
Zhang He didn't take off the stick of the badger and bite it. He just cut a strip with a knife and put it in his mouth to chew. Suddenly, a strong fishy smell overflowed.
The taste of badgers is not very good. In fact, most wild animals, if they are cooked directly and barbecued without any artificial flavors, will not taste very good. After all, artificially raised pigs, cattle and sheep have been screened and bred.
It is specially produced for food, and many animals in nature have some countermeasures to defend themselves against natural enemies. Even if they do not have sharp claws and fangs, they may still have a belly full of stinky farts...
After eating another piece, Zhang He gave the knife to the guard beside him, indicating that he had used it and would not eat anymore.
The flames of the bonfire were rising, the wood was burning cracklingly, and then a fragment of sparks seemed to break out and jumped onto Qian Laoshi, who was drying his shirt in front of the bonfire. He was so scared that he jumped up and shook his robe with some distress.
…
Zhang He leaned against the saddle, took a piece of hard dough bread from the ration bag on the saddle, broke it into his mouth, and was chewing it when he suddenly paused and stood up suddenly.
Zhang He suddenly stood up, which immediately alerted the guards who were eating and drinking around him. The guards immediately stopped their original movements, holding their swords and looking around into the night.
"General...what's wrong?" Qian Laoshi asked.
Zhang He looked around intently.
There was nothing unusual about the dozen or so fires set up by the grain transport team. The soldiers, soldiers and civilians were all sitting around the campfire, either warming themselves up, eating or drinking, or chatting in low voices, while the sentry posted on the hill on one side
It was also quiet, and did not send out any abnormal signals or alarms...
The dark night sky pressed down on the earth like an upturned iron pot. There was only a dark outline of the meadows and mountains in the distance. A few stars were dotted on the sky, flickering brightly and dimly with a cool light.
The cool breeze at night whistled past the grass tips, causing the sparks on the bonfires to drift eastward and scatter a few westward...
Everything seems normal.
Zhang He waved his hands, sat down again, and continued to eat the pancakes.
The leader of the guard approached Zhang He, his eyes still roving around vigilantly, "The general just... but what did he see?"
Zhang He was chewing the cake, his chiseled face changing in the flickering firelight, his eyes deep, "I didn't see anything... I just felt like someone was watching... You can post more sentries later, be careful at night."
Some……"
What Zhang He didn't know was that on a rock in the distance, two people with grass tied on their heads and some shrubs and branches on their bodies carefully and slowly shrank behind the rock, looked at each other, and then tiptoed.
left...
Zhang He and others, who were relaxed on the outside and tense on the inside, were on guard all night, but nothing happened. Until the morning of the next day, everything was normal. This made Zhang He a little confused, wondering if he was too sensitive. Maybe
It's just that some animal at night came smelling the smell of barbecue cooking.
But in the evening of the next day, when we were only one day away from Yuyang, the accident finally happened...
The sentry on guard issued a warning: "General! Fire has been spotted from the north!"
Fire?!
Everyone was shocked!
Looking to the north, it seems that in the dim curtain on the horizon, this piece of light, not much larger than half the thumbnail of a little finger, is wrapped in it. It is flickering and disappearing in an incomprehensible way, as if someone is holding a fire.
, and then sends a specific signal...
"Here comes..." As soon as Zhang He said these two words, the fire in the distance disappeared, as if it had never appeared before.
"Honest Qian! Take two brothers over and have a look!" Zhang He ordered, "The rest of the people, go up the slope immediately, everyone is on alert! Form a formation of vehicles and defend according to the formation! Do not remove your armor and do not move rashly! Violators will be subject to military law.
Argument!"
At this time, it was also the time for Zhang He and others to prepare for lunch the next day. A bonfire had just been lit in the temporary camp, and there was smoke everywhere, rising up and filling the vast meadow around the vast meadow, drifting gradually with the wind.
Shen.
Six stoves were set up in the open space in the middle, and a large iron pot was set up to cook soup. In the iron pot, white steam swirled with water, and brown dried vegetables and green wild vegetables were mixed into the pot to cook. Soldiers and civilians were lining up in units of tens.
, received soup, vegetables and dry food, and sat around eating and drinking with clear distinctions at both ends. Suddenly hearing the news, most of the people looked at others with confused faces.
The veterans who passed the battlefield suddenly jumped up in shock, threw away their bowls, and grabbed the swords and guns standing next to them.
The place where Zhang He chose to camp was naturally not too bad. The grain transport queue suddenly became busy and gave up the preparations at the shelter of the mountain col. The soldiers shouted loudly and directed the civilians to link up the grain transport vehicles on the hillside.
Formed into a simple fortification...
The soldiers were doing better, but the civilians were in a panic. Even if someone gave orders, they would still see some people walking and running on the same hand and feet, and then either knocking down others or bumping into them.
Grain truck.
Zhang He frowned.
If there were only cavalry, Zhang He could fight or leave, but now with the addition of these grain carts and civilians...
However, this is often the case in the world. What you worry about most is what will happen most.
The soldiers sent out to check the situation seemed to have encountered an ambush and fought in the dim sky. Qian Laoshi escaped back with two arrows on his body. He only had time to say the words "He is from Xianbei" before he fell unconscious.
, more bad luck than good.
"Xianbei people?!"
Why are there Xianbei people here?
Before Zhang He could feel sad for Qian Laoshi, or before he could figure it out, the Xianbei people in the distance seemed to know that they had been discovered, and they suddenly exploded like a worm's nest covering the rotten wooden boards.
For a moment, countless light spots rose in the distance, and then surged towards Zhang He!
"It's Xian...Xianbei people! Xianbei people are coming!"
As the sentry screamed a warning, the sound of horse hooves became louder and louder. It gradually became denser and more compact, outflanking the left army from all directions. It seemed that these cavalrymen who had suddenly arrived had already been attacking from all directions.
A big net has been laid, and now Zhang He and others are about to be picked up!
The soldiers and civilians who were forming formation were stunned by this sudden scene. They looked at the situation in front of them with their mouths wide open as if they were dumbfounded. They heard the thunderous sound of horse hooves rolling in. The soldiers were somewhat okay and could barely hold on.
At this moment, the people behind the formation of grain trucks were stunned by such a formation. After a brief moment of confusion, they let out a roar and became chaotic. Some ran up, while others wanted to run down.
Some people were muttering to themselves with their eyes wide open, some looked confused and confused, some were holding their heads and sticking their butts out, trying to find a place to hide, and many people were trembling and paralyzed on the ground with expressions like earth.
"Calm down!" Zhang He shouted, "In the face of battle, you will be in chaos. If you are afraid of the enemy and run away, kill them all!"
This is really no joke. As Zhang He's order was issued, some civil servants who were crawling and running were chopped to death on the spot. After the smell of blood spread, these civil servants actually got much better and no longer screamed...
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"No more than a thousand cavalry!" Although it was dusk and night was approaching, Zhang He still judged the approximate number of the opponent's cavalry, "Soldiers! We will wait and defend the formation. When the enemy is weak, we will defeat the enemy."
Opportunity! There will be rewards at that time! If there is chaos in the formation, you will definitely die! Come on, beat the drum! Get ready to fight!"
The rumble of war drums sounded. Although it was just a small drum that accompanied the army, not the big drum of the central army that was as tall as a person in a serious large army, but as the drums rippled, the orders of the grassroots non-commissioned officers came one after another.
Each one came out, the soldiers repeated one after another, and the formation gradually stabilized, not as chaotic as before.
"I'm just thinking about my usual training moves!"
"Don't panic! Hold your weapon! If someone loses it, I will let him wash the night fragrance for a year!"
"We have them all! Their ears are perked up and they are listening to orders!"
The war drums were interspersed with the roars of the low-level sergeants, just like the accompaniment of the drums, which made the war drums no longer monotonous and became popular. This drum sound once accompanied the Yellow Emperor and Yan Emperor to defeat a man in the Central Plains.
Another tribe also played the banner of the Han Dynasty on the grassland. It seemed that as long as they heard the sound of drums, some genes in the hearts of the Chinese people would vibrate together and be awakened.
Zhang He led some cavalrymen and stood at the top of the hillside.
The hillside is not a pure small slope. Although it is not very big, it is connected to other ravines, and after the roughly half-moon-shaped uphill slope is an irregular soil plateau. A defensive battle does not mean that you can only be passively beaten. When there is a
When necessary, Zhang He will lead these cavalry down the hillside!
It's just that rushing out is thunderous, but will you come back...
Therefore, there is only one chance to determine the outcome. Either the opponent is defeated, or he can only break through.
The charging Ding Lingtou is also a little troubled. He has been killing some Han army scouts near Yuyang recently. Sometimes he can succeed, sometimes he can't catch up, but he can get some weapons and armor, but he can't catch them.
The Ding Ling people, who had been short of supplies for many years, were very excited. After tasting the sweetness, they couldn't stop, and the scope of the search gradually expanded. As a result, when they were tracking a Han scout, they bumped into Zhang He...
Most of the Han soldiers in the past would lose their belongings and run away as soon as they met. Why didn't they run away this time?
Just like Zhang He couldn't tell the difference between Ding Ling and Xianbei people under the dark sky, Ding Lingtou couldn't tell the difference between Cao Cao's soldiers and Fei Qian's soldiers.
Youzhou is actually very chaotic at the moment. Although there are some exchanges and communications between all parties, it is not like a game. During diplomacy, the military is completely suspended, and a lot of information in this era has
It is lagging and closed. Even if the bald men of later generations insist on peace talks, their subordinates are fighting. They say they want to fight, but in the end, their subordinates do not agree to peace talks. Therefore, the Ding Ling people thought that they would encounter a soft persimmon like before.
, and ended up pinching Zhang He, a hard rock.
The Ding Ling people attacked the car formation three times in the night, but they did not achieve much results and even lost some troops. As a result, time gradually passed. At dawn, the Ding Ling people saw that they could not win, so they finally had to retreat in dismay.
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Of course, the losses on Zhang He's side were not small. Most of the grain and grass were burned, and nearly one-third of the soldiers were injured. The civilians suffered a lot. After confirming that the Ding Ling tribe and others had retreated, Zhang He contacted the fishermen.
Yang, and then with the help of Cao Chun, he led the remaining soldiers into Yuyang.
Originally, Cao Chun acquiesced to the Xianbei people's activities in the north of Youzhou. After all, Cao Chun wanted to let the Xianbei and Fei Qian's men fight first and consume some hussars and horses. But now as the party being attacked, Cao Chun
Naturally, he was furious and sent someone to question Xianbei King Bu Dugen. But of course Bu Dugen said that this was not the case and that he had no idea about it.
The war horse is in trouble.
Ding Lingtou looked submissive on the surface, but he turned around and scolded Bu Dugen for not taking responsibility. He had said everything well before, but he didn't care if something went wrong.
In the end, Cao Chun and Bu Dugen discussed that using a hundred miles north of Yuyang as the line, Cao Jun would not go north and the Xianbei people would not go south. The two sides must cooperate sincerely and work together to prevent similar incidents from happening again...
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