If Wei Yan had only wanted to live in peace back then, he might still be a small sergeant in Jingxiangnan County now.
There is nothing wrong with being ambitious, or in other words, the fault with ambition is not the ambition itself, but the difference in stance.
The same goes for Le Jin.
If Wei Yan is the person who likes involution the most among the Hussars, then under Cao Cao, Yue Jin is a well-deserved involution maniac.
The place where the pot passes is filled with gunpowder smoke.
On the mountain and below the pass, corpses litter the fields.
The fishy smell can't be suppressed even in the cold winter.
The sound of war drums resounded throughout the world, and the stone bullets and arrows that came back and forth roared and devoured each other's lives.
Huguan is like a stubborn iron nail, firmly nailed on the path of Le Jin's involution, making it impossible for Le Jin to move forward even half a step.
The terrain here is narrow and the troops cannot be deployed.
Le Jin has organized many attacks, and even went into battle himself to charge three or four times. However, except for almost breaking a leg and a few minor bruises and wounds, Le Jin did not
How much progress can be made.
Le Jin also changed the direction of his attack several times, but in the end he still placed his attack point in the middle.
Because the mountain defense lines on both sides are very difficult to attack, the height of the mountain itself is relatively high, and there are no roads or platforms on the mountain for Cao's soldiers to organize their queues halfway, and shield chariots cannot be used. The defenders can also quickly pass through the corridor on the top of the mountain.
Mobilizing troops for regional defense, especially when Cao Jun is climbing the mountain, he will not only be shot by the defenders above, but also shot by the defenders from above the wall. Often, the losses are already high before they climb up.
Almost halfway...
Gunpowder is not as useful as Le Jin originally thought.
The first batch of gunpowder transported was not very effective for unknown reasons, but the second batch of gunpowder was delayed in arriving.
The reason is very simple. The output of gunpowder is not unlimited. Of course, it needs to be supplied to key areas first, and Lejin is not the most important location.
Therefore, Le Jin could only ask the craftsmen to build a catapult as much as possible. However, the damage caused by the simple catapult was extremely limited. Even if it hit the wall, it would only crack.
Huguan...
At least it can't be as fast as a catapult hitting the city in later games.
Although it is said that after the stone hits the soldier, it is still fatal, but if it misses, it is like massaging the loose bones of Huguan. Perhaps continuous knocking at a certain place can expand the cracks somewhere in Huguan.
, and then collapse, but it is undoubtedly a fantasy to have a simple catapult successfully hit the crack area every time.
Cao Jun once again launched a tentative attack.
Yes, tentatively.
Although Le Jin has a strong desire to be involved in involution, not everyone in Cao Jun is Le Jin.
After continuous attacks failed to achieve results, the morale of Cao's army gradually collapsed.
From labor to soldiering, death is fair.
This kind of collapse directly drops the upper limit. No matter how much Le Jin encourages, what promises he makes, and what he says after the city is broken, he can't save much.
Too much is said, too little is put into practice, and gradually no one listens.
Even the most stupid people have feelings and thoughts...
Although patience is the norm, and the soldiers know that they can't change anything, their morale is gradually declining. If he wants them to roar forward, Le Jin can only use the last resort to supervise the team.
In each wave of attacks, those standing at the end of the array were Le Jin's war supervisors. In addition to killing the soldiers who fled the battle, these war supervisors would also patrol with bows and arrows. Each team
The arrows are all light arrows with the cloth tips removed, and the cloth tips are stained with red paint that is difficult to remove. If there is any hesitation, dilly-dallying, or passiveness in the work, these war supervisors will shoot arrows with cloth tips on these people.
, and after the war, these soldiers with many red paint on their bodies will be pushed to the front of the formation and beheaded in public.
To put it simply, the last place is eliminated.
When the civilian laborers were "eliminated" before, Cao's soldiers didn't say a word. Now it's their turn to "eliminate" themselves, and no one will say a word either.
"Whoosh!"
"Bang!"
"Ahh..."
A stone bullet fell from the Huguan city wall, drawing a not too regular curve in the air, and then bounced on the ground, crossing a low trajectory and splashing a large amount of sand and dust.
At the same time, it also brought out a bright red color. People who were seriously injured by stone bullets quickly lost their breath. It is not that these unlucky ghosts are not tenacious, but that they are not tenacious. In the military ranks
Among them, the swords of the most senior corps commanders could not be soaked in the blood of the defenders, but were stained with the blood of their comrades first.
Just like there are certain words that cannot be said, there are also certain calls that are not allowed.
It is obvious that the seriously injured soldiers will not survive. If we don't just give them a good time, is it possible that they will continue to scream and shake the morale of the army?
There is of course no problem with handling it this way.
The people in question are dead.
The rest is of course no problem.
As Cao's soldiers approached, the Huguan defenders began to use crossbow vehicles to carry out long-range strikes. After being hit, each shield vehicle stopped and the line became no longer neat. Amidst the screams, the number of casualties among the laborers increased rapidly.
, the miserable screams continued. There were laborers who suffered from mental breakdown or cried and huddled up, and some screamed and ran away, but they were either killed by the supervising team behind the formation, or were killed by Cao's army in the queue.
Killed by the leader.
The route the shield car passed was covered with corpses.
"Don't look back, keep moving forward!"
The commander of Cao Jun roared.
"Don't back down!"
Cao Jun supervised the troops and roared.
"No retreat!"
Le Jin was also roaring.
Those who were involved had no way out, so Le Jin forced everyone to follow him and not to retreat.
Le Jin realized more and more clearly that he might not be able to capture Hu Pass.
It was as if he knew that he would never be able to raise his rank to the same level as the generals of the Cao clan and the Xiahou clan.
Even at the beginning, Le Jin knew this.
However, that humble hope still supports Le Jin's crazy involution.
This meager hope is like buying a lottery ticket. According to the probability, it is indeed possible, and it seems that people win the lottery every day, but I have never really seen it around me. I have only heard about it. Who said that it is like a ghost winning a prize?
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"Bang!"
There was another loud noise, and a stone bullet roared and smashed a shield cart into pieces. Countless wood chips were mixed among the fragments, flying into the air and falling among the soldiers of Cao's army behind.
As the wooden structure of the shield car shattered, the laborers and soldiers behind the shield car also fell to the ground.
After several laborers were defeated by the shield car, they instinctively turned around and ran away in panic. However, they were directly hacked to death in front of the battle by the soldiers who were supervising the battle at the rear.
The supervising soldiers at the rear saw someone lingering on the ground for a long time after falling down without getting up, so he took a red cloth bow and arrow, put it on the bow, and was about to mark those guys when they suddenly heard a sound of gold.
, he hesitated slightly, then glanced at his teammates around him, and silently put down the bow and arrow without shooting.
"Don't disrupt the queue!"
The soldiers of Cao's army turned and retreated one after another, much faster than when they came, and the formation was barely able to remain neat. A small number of Cao's army's commanders and corps commanders stepped back half sideways, watching over the remaining laborers to prevent them from leaving their shield chariots.
Because of the strong walls of Huguan and the clear wilderness, Cao Jun had to climb two mountains to cut down qualified timber, which was difficult to make and could not be easily discarded.
The laborers and soldiers unleashed their potential for survival, pulling the shield chariot and walking very fast, almost twice as fast as during the attack...
Cao Jun's war-weariness seemed to be no longer concealed at all.
Le Jin looked at it, his face as sinking as water.
Zhao Yan's reinforcements from Hanoi, which should have arrived long ago, have yet to arrive, and there is no news about the Xiahou army that came from Fukouxing to attack Huguan...
Living in the Taihang Mountains, Le Jin, who is a talented person from Huguan, cannot of course carry a small map with him and use radar to show the location of friendly forces. Therefore, he actually considers where the friendly forces are now and whether he is alone every day.
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Death happens every day, and apart from the result of death, when most people die, they don’t know when they will die, in what posture they will die, whether they will be alive whole, or whether their bodies will be in different places.
It may not be a scar as big as a bowl, but it is just a helpless self-comfort despite knowing that death is coming.
If given a choice, who would like such a big scar?
The soldiers of Cao's army privately discussed that if they were shot and died by arrows, that would be the best luck. At least they would still be whole, and they wouldn't have to bother others to count where their bodies were. After all, they would have to count the bodies of others themselves.
Sometimes, I don’t care too much whether this head and that arm are the same...
Faced with such a gradually declining morale, Le Jin could not stop the offensive on the one hand, because he knew that once the momentum of the offensive really stopped, the energy and spirit of the entire army would decline faster, and on the other hand, he could not stop the attack.
It's so powerful, otherwise if you really become a lone army, you still need some manpower to escape or break out of the encirclement.
Of course, in this case, labor is not an asset that must be preserved.
Anyway, these labors will only be a waste of food, so it is better to use them to waste the arrows and stone bullets of the Huguan defenders.
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Xu County.
In Chongde Hall.
The sounds that came and went seemed to fill Chongde Hall with overflowing enthusiasm and joy.
"Your Majesty, the battle is becoming more and more intense now. The Prime Minister has led 300,000 troops to Tongguan. There are another 100,000 troops in Taiyuan, Shangdang. There are also 100,000 troops in Youbei. In addition, there are no less than 30 troops in Jingzhou and Badong.
Ten thousand people, the time for a great victory over the thieves is approaching..."
"We have been besieging Huguan for ten months. Arrows and stones are raining like rain. Le Wenqian is full of fighting spirit and is not afraid of powerful enemies. He has killed and wounded thousands of thieves! Huguan is about to be conquered!"
"Xiahou Miaocai led his army to defeat Gaoping. The rebel army was frightened by the news. Wherever the king's troops went, they all poured out pots of slurry to welcome them!"
"Cao Zi from Youbei and the murderers from Bianhu, thousands of thieves, captured three thousand war horses and shocked the desert. The Hu people Suli Mohu and others were all frightened and surrendered to the Han Dynasty. They did not dare to disobey the power of heaven!"
"However, the army has been victorious one after another, and the daily losses are also heavy. Ren Zhonglang please ask for five thousand additional soldiers, one hundred trebuchets, and ballistas, as well as soldiers' pay, grain, gunpowder, and some iron materials. I also ask for two levies of labor service."
Thousands of people, used for transportation..."
In the Chongde Hall, Liu Xie was listening to the reports of his ministers, his expression neither sad nor happy.
Since the time of the Ten Constant Attendants, the eunuchs have been in such a state of decline that they no longer even have names.
However, the emperor lived deep in the palace, what he saw was only within the high walls, and what he heard was only the words of a few people. The eunuchs were the emperor's tentacles, ears and eyes innately, and the weak eunuch power after the Shichangshi was undoubtedly equivalent to the power of the emperor.
Emperor Liu Xie's ability to control the government and the opposition is declining, even to zero.
After Cao Cao attacked Guanzhong, good news came like snowflakes.
True and false, false and true.
A Huangmen eunuch said very excitedly: "Your Majesty, if the Prime Minister captures Guanzhong, the hearts of our people will be greatly boosted. By then the world will be unified, and China's revival is expected!"
All the eunuchs also said in unison: "Congratulations, Your Majesty! ZTE is in sight!"
Liu Xie laughed twice, but there didn't seem to be much joy in the laughter, it was more like he was coping with the situation.
However, Liu Xie quickly noticed this problem and covered it up by saying: "I...I don't want to see such a loss of life...the people are suffering..."
All the eunuchs looked at each other and quickly fell to the ground: "Your Majesty is so kind! The people will definitely shed tears of gratitude!"
Can the eunuchs represent the people, let alone the matter of tears? As long as the people don't personally say that they are crying in pain, they can regard them as tears of happiness.
Do people have a channel to speak out?
Then it must be happy.
"What's the strength of the troops in Guanzhong?" Liu Xie looked around and asked, "I heard that the cavalry in Guanzhong were marching in Mobei, driving away Xianbei, it was like flipping my hands... If the hussars turn around, the prime minister may be... I wonder if the prime minister has any way to deal with it?
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"This..." All the eunuchs suddenly looked at each other.
Shouldn't we ask Cao Cao this question?
Why are you asking about us?
However, there were also a few eunuchs who seemed to understand what the emperor meant, and they bowed their heads deeply...
The emperor's question is not that the Prime Minister has any way to deal with it, but that he wants to listen the other way around. He is asking that there is any way to deal with the Prime Minister!
None of the eunuchs answered. After Liu Xie waited for a moment, he waved his hand and said, "It's okay. Just step aside!"
"Slave, please retire..."
The eunuchs stuck their butts out and slowly retreated.
Chongde Hall became cold and quiet again, as if the hustle and bustle just now was like a dream.
Liu Xie now understood that the emperor without military power was just a decoration.
The soldiers and horses in Guanzhong began with Feiqian.
So the soldiers in Shandong were naturally built after Cao Cao.
Compared to Guanzhong, which is relatively far away, Liu Xie is relatively familiar with the military situation under Cao Cao in Shandong...
During Dong Zhuo's rebellion, Cao Cao "scattered his family wealth and united with righteous soldiers" and organized a private tribe of three to five thousand people to participate in the war against Dong Zhuo.
This was the beginning of Cao's army's centralized military power system.
After Dong Zhuo was killed, Cao Cao licked Yuan Shao and served as the shepherd of Yanzhou. After receiving angel investment from a group of big bosses, in order to expand his power, he tried his best to recruit powerful local landlords and armed forces. Other members of the Cao family, the Xiahou family, and Le Jin
Li Dian, Ren Jun and others all either defected to Cao Cao or led their troops to join him around this time, becoming Cao Cao's trusted troops and the backbone of the Wei army in the future.
Soon, Cao Cao discovered that he could not go beyond these local powerful forces to command his armed forces. On the surface, these local powerful troops were Cao Cao's troops, but in fact they only obeyed the command of their leaders. As for Cao Cao's
Order...?
So Cao Cao was unwilling to be ignored, so he targeted, perhaps colluding with Bao Xin, to establish the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Group in Jibei at that time. Cao Cao finally captured this army, "more than 300,000 surrendered soldiers, both men and women
With a population of more than a million, the elite were recruited and named Qingzhou Army, which became the most important cornerstone of the Wei Army's infantry.
And Bao Xin, who was originally the most qualified to share the benefits of this cornerstone, died in battle at the right time!
Cao Cao cried bitterly...
Cao Cao's cavalry originally came from the Hu people. Historically, after Cao Cao conquered the Wuhuan people, he moved more than ten thousand Wuwan people to China, and the commander followed his marquis Yu to fight with the people and conquer them. This is how the three
"Jun Wu Wan is the famous cavalry in the world". Cao Cao, with Qingzhou soldiers and Wuhuan cavalry, suppressed the powerful powerful men in Jizhou to the point where they had to hold back their farts until they even let out a fart.
Historically, Cao Cao, who had powerful infantry and cavalry, set his sights on Jingzhou's navy. After Cao Cao took Jingzhou, the three armies were truly combined to dominate the world. In theory, it can be said that infantry must have infantry, and cavalry must have cavalry.
If you want a navy, you must have a navy! As a result, Lao Cao's classmate was in trouble. He hadn't even defeated Jiangdong yet. He was muttering about Zhou Gong, Zhou Yunfa, and so on. Everyone knew that Cao A concealed his intentions. So Lao Cao encountered an unprecedented situation.
The defeat was so severe that I returned to the front to challenge Dong almost overnight...
Nowadays, Cao Cao's evolutionary process has been interrupted and suppressed by Fei Qian. He has not evolved into the ultimate body, and can only be regarded as a semi-complete body. Historically, Cao Cao was said to be one million during the Battle of Chibi, which is naturally an exaggeration.
According to the words, at that time, Cao Cao's army probably had about 200,000 land and water cavalry, plus the garrison troops stationed in various places in the Central Plains, the total force was about 300,000. This was the peak of Cao Cao's strength in history. But now Cao Cao is standing tall.
There are only 200,000 troops, but because the territory has been reduced, the number of troops distributed in various places is not as large as in history, so the number that can be used to attack Feiqian is probably more than 100,000 troops.
After calculating Cao Cao's military strength, we can naturally understand where Cao Cao's confidence comes from, and why the wealthy nobles in Yuzhou and Jizhou, as well as the emperor Liu Xie, supported Cao Cao to fight Feiqian while on the other hand
Thinking about something to do...
For example, Zhong Yao proposed a strategy to avoid death.
But even if the theory of avoiding death is successful, it can only be self-protection, and it is the self-protection of local powerful people.
It is not the emperor’s self-preservation.
Zhong Yao was just using this method. On the one hand, he connected with more powerful people who were worried about being liquidated and forced Cao Cao to compromise and no longer wave his sword to kill people. On the other hand, he also used this method to allow Cao Cao to obtain the expenditures of powerful people and move around.
Produce more labor and food to support the continuation of the war.
This is a very successful strategy, full of compromise.
It was a mutual compromise between local powerful people, and it had no special benefits for the emperor Liu Xie.
Liu Xie understood this and smelled it, and now the news of the frontline victory came like snowflakes, which made him worried. What if Cao Jun really won a big victory and really conquered Guanzhong and defeated it?
If Fei Qian is killed, Fei Qian may not be the only one who is unlucky...
So, shouldn’t it be time to secretly tug on the heels of an old comrade?
