"This is impossible! Impossible!" Xia Houyuan said angrily, grabbing the person who came to inform him and spitting, "Absolutely impossible!"
The messenger caught by Xia Houyuan was so strangled that he rolled his eyes, but he could not break free.
Xia Houyuan calmed down a little and threw the messenger to the ground.
It was Sima Yi who killed Cao Zhen, not the messenger from Hedong.
"Damn..." Xia Houyuan gritted his teeth, "Sima... traitor, traitor!"
The impossible has already happened, and no matter how much Xia Houyuan denies it, it cannot change it.
Although some details of the Beiqu incident did not reach Cao Cao's camp on the other side of the river, it was not a secret issue for many wealthy noble families in the Hedong region.
When Xia Houyuan left Wangwu Mountain and sent personnel to contact Hedong, he received such news that he found difficult to accept...
Cao Zhen's army was destroyed in Beiqu.
Although life and death are determined on the battlefield, most of the time, soldiers still die more often than generals. This is true even in the wars of hot weapons in later generations. If a general dies, it is simply a disaster.
Generally big things.
Although Cao Zhen was not a general, he was still an important figure among the second generation of the Cao family. How could Xia Houyuan accept it when his entire army was wiped out in Beiqu?
"General..." Xia Houyuan's confidant advised him, "It... looks like Hedong has been prepared for a long time... the situation is not good, why not..."
"Why not?" Xia Houyuan glared at him sideways, "Are you scared?!"
The confidant shook his head, "General, I'm worried about the general..."
The armor on Xia Houyuan's body rattled, "What are you worried about?"
"General... there is no response from within or reinforcements to the east of the river..." a confidant whispered, "and we don't have many people... If there is an emergency..."
The traitor in Hedong sent someone to send a message, which also meant the same thing. They were afraid...
Xia Houyuan fell silent.
It’s not that he doesn’t understand the truth, but that he also has his own considerations.
Classmate Lao Cao was under great pressure.
This point goes without saying much.
Similarly, Cao Zhen was defeated in Beiqu, and then Xia Houyuan left without fighting. Although he could save himself, what would others think of him when he returned?
Sons and nephews died on the battlefield, and then Xia Houyuan, an uncle, lived quietly?
Is this easy to say or not?
The third point is that in Xia Houyuan's heart, he really wanted to show off his abilities, attack Pingyang, and then create a record that could rival or even surpass Tai Shici's performance...
So Xia Houyuan was not willing to retreat now.
Xia Houyuan turned around and looked at his troops.
These Cao troops were very well equipped.
In order to be able to compete with the elite cavalry under the hussars, Xia Houyuan put a lot of effort into selecting his soldiers. Although the northern area of Xiliang is a good place to produce cavalry, the Youzhou area in northern Jizhou also has many
The younger Liangjiazi are good at riding and are good candidates for cavalry. These Liangjiazi from Jizhou Youzhou were originally under Yuan Shao, but now they have been replaced by Cao Cao. It is inevitable that some of them will want to gain merit and wealth from the new master.
Not everyone has the perspective of God 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 the people in Jizhou and Youzhou, since Cao Cao has gained a dominant position and has provided them with a step forward, if they put in some effort early, it is impossible to say that their status will be improved earlier in the future.
When they were in Wangwu Mountain, they went through the mountain god sacrifice again, which eliminated the "curse" and added the "blessing", which made these noble family members in Jiyou even more excited and full of energy. They felt that they were doing the right thing by following Xia Houyuan. If this
If we continue to fight in Hedong for a while, won't we be able to achieve great success just around the corner?
You have equipment, skills, and morale, and then just retreat?
Then when I want to fight again in the future...
Xia Houyuan shook his head invisibly, this could not be justified in any case.
"If you want fame and wealth, you have to show your true skills!" Xia Houyuan whispered to his confidants, "The hussars and horses are also humans. If they are cut, they will be injured, and if they are killed, they will die! If we just retreat like this, we will lose our energy."
God, will we continue to retreat when we encounter hussars again in the future? When will we be able to retreat and be considered the leader? What do others think of us? Will we be able to hold our heads up by then? Not to mention being rich in the future, we just have an ordinary diet.
I’m afraid the food will be ridiculed and embarrassed!』
When the confidants and others heard this, they also fell silent in unison.
Xia Houyuan put it bluntly, and this is indeed the truth.
Xia Houyuan raised his hand and pointed in the direction of Pingyang, east of the river, "This is the core area of the Hussars. Pingyang City is hoarded with supplies. Even the surrounding counties are extremely wealthy, with inexhaustible supplies of money, food, cloth, soldiers, armor and equipment!"
If we don’t take these things or destroy them, they will be used by the Hussars on our own brothers in the future! At that time, others will ask us what we are doing in Hedong? Can we just tell them that we are just here?
See? It’s a joke!』
The confidant took a breath, "What the Lord said is true... I just thought wrong..."
"Since we have been entrusted by our lord, we should devote all our efforts to the overall situation," Xia Houyuan said in a deep voice, "A true man, you are wrapped in horse leather on the battlefield, and if you die, you will die. How can you live in disgrace?"
The confidant guards and others responded in unison.
"But..." Xia Houyuan's eyes moved slightly, "There must be heavy troops near Pingyang... If we lead the army to attack directly, it will be difficult to resist... Send my general order, pack up, prepare the whole army... 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 is in disrepair for a long time, and many people have thrown countless household garbage and other waste into the moat for convenience. As a result,
As a result, the originally narrow moat turned into something like a stagnant ditch.
It cannot be completely denied that it has a defensive effect, but it is impossible to say how effective it really is.
When Xia Houyuan appeared in the sight of the Dongyuan defenders with more than 20 people, the Dongyuan defenders were not very alert. In the northeast of Hebei, more than 20 riders were not a large number, and many large families were traveling
There were more than ten vehicles and hundreds of people accompanying them. So at the beginning, the Dongyuan defenders didn't pay much attention.
Xia Houyuan and others used their cloaks to cover their armor and weapons, and slowly moved forward along the road.
There is a certain bonus for breaking the invisible blow.
Xia Houyuan is ready to personally serve as the sharp knife to break the concealment!
His face was like a piece of ice, and he stared expressionlessly at the Dongyuan City in front of him. He took note of the movements of the defenders above and below the city, and the behavior of pedestrians on the official road.
He suppressed the urge to gallop on his horse and walked forward unhurriedly, like a cheetah approaching its prey under the cover of grass.
He doesn't want to die of old age and unknown, he would rather die in the most glorious moment!
Men, it doesn’t matter if you fail once, or even several times, as long as you still have breath in your chest, get up, covered in mud and blood, and rush forward!
Fight with God again!
If you lose, you will lose your life; if you win, you will stand up!
Looking at Dongyuan County, which was getting closer and closer, Xia Houyuan fiercely pulled off his cloak, revealing the strong armor on his body, roared, and rode forward!
Cao Jun's cavalry behind Xia Houyuan also followed Xia Houyuan's movements and roared forward together. Suddenly a cloud of yellow dust rose up all over the sky, like a giant python clinging to the ground, rushing towards the city gate!
One side is calculated and the other side is totally unprepared.
The local officials in Dongyuan were busy and had no time to distract him.
It's like if later generations heard that inspections by superiors were about to begin, then the local government would first conduct a round of spiritual understanding, then a round of self-examination and self-correction, and then carry out general cleaning and put up word billboards to show the spiritual outlook...
For bureaucrats, of course the official hat is the main thing. What else is more important than the hat on the head?
Now I heard that Sima Yi, the minister of Dali Temple, is looking for trouble everywhere in Hedong. Why don't you quickly hide your exposed tail and ears?
Moreover, they have to greet each other, speak in unison, and prepare their confessions in advance, otherwise why would they be called officials?
Which of these items does not require a lot of time?
Where is the air traffic control and city defense?
The subordinate officials had heard the news that there was a thief, but the officials above asked for this, covered up that, recruited this, dealt with that, and the memory of the so-called thief had long been forgotten.
As for the dispute between the Cao family and the Fei family, Dongyuan and others are not unclear about it, but these people think that it is just a change of boss and has nothing to do with them. They are all Han people.
The Han Dynasty has been in power for three or four hundred years. Who has been in power but not like this?
They are all the same court and ruling system. There is no difference. At most, it is just some personal preferences or a gust of policies. The Han Dynasty is still the same, and the emperor is still the same for generations.
Anyway, whoever has the upper hand will kneel under whose skirt they are. They are all skirts anyway, so there is not much difference.
The incident in Beiqu also spread to Dongyuan, and some details became clearer. Cao's soldiers sneaked in to cause trouble, but they were blocked and eliminated.
So the officials in Dongyuan were scolding Cao Jun for being ignorant and making trouble, and at the same time they were trying their best to distance themselves from the relationship. However, not many people felt that they would be attacked by Cao Jun, because in their hearts, they felt that there was only Pingyang and Beiqu.
Ah, Anyi and other important places will have Cao Jun go there. Places like Dongyuan, where birds don't poop even when they come, can still have Cao Jun?
So, when Xia Houyuan led his men and horses to fight in front of them, Dongyuan was still in a dream, confused and helpless.
"Grab the city gate!"
Xia Houyuan shouted, and it seemed that he was also shouting out a third of his anger, a third of his unwillingness, a third of that, and a third of that...
For Xia Houyuan, this is indeed the case.
He looked at the Dongyuan defenders, who were getting closer and closer, but were moving slowly and at a loss, and suddenly felt a surge of pride in his heart. Hussars and Taishi Ci were nothing, they could only be broken with some gunpowder.
City? Today, I, Xia Houyuan, will let you see what the real Han cavalry is!
In history, during the Three Kingdoms period, when cavalry attacked a city, or stole it, or robbed it, most of them did what Xia Houyuan did now. A small force seized the suspension bridge and city gate, and then waited for a while until the subsequent troops arrived.
.It’s just that the success rate is not high, and because cavalry armor developed slowly in history and covered a small area, the cavalry did not dare to attack hard against the threat of archers, so many times they reached the city walls. The results showed
When you arrive at the city, you are prepared, but you retreat in frustration. You even suspect that the opponent is prepared, so you don't dare to attack...
Yes, maybe this is the origin of the empty city plan.
However, the current Xiahou Yuan and other Cao cavalry were on par with the Hussars in terms of equipment, so the equipment from head to toe was not bad. In addition, the Dongyuan defenders were slack and slow to react. When Xia Houyuan had already rushed in front of them, they
Some people shouted and shouted to close the city gate and pull up the drawbridge, but it was already too late.
"Crazy! These people are crazy!"
The captain of the Dongyuan garrison only had this thought in his mind, and could not remember the rest.
Xia Houyuan's first batch of cavalry troops was not large in number, only about twenty cavalry. Normally, as long as they were slightly blocked and entangled for a while, the Dongyuan city gate was closed and the suspension bridge was pulled, Xia Houyuan and others could only watch.
Men Xing sighed, but he didn't expect Cao Jun to appear here at all on this weekday, and there was no news of Cao Jun's attack from the surrounding area, so he was not prepared in his heart. He was shocked by the momentum of Xia Houyuan and others. The soldiers and people
They were huddled together on the suspension bridge, and the bridge was pressed so heavily that they couldn't even turn the winch!
In the chaos, Xia Houyuan was already flying towards him, without stopping, he crashed into the chaotic soldiers and civilians on the suspension bridge!
The sound of shouting and killing suddenly erupted!
At the Dongyuan City Gate, the defenders who came were also knocked back by the fleeing people. Some people accidentally bumped into the defenders and could not get up for a while.
The suspension bridge rumbled under the trampling of horse hooves.
Only then did the garrison captain roar, wanting to pull up the drawbridge, closing the city gate, blocking Cao's army, reporting for reinforcements...
These instructions are correct.
But the problem is that in the rush, with so many orders suddenly coming out, no one knows who is going to do what.
Some people wanted to help pull the winch, some ran down the corridor to stop Cao Jun, and others rushed up to get bows and arrows. They were all yelling at each other, but no one knew what the other was shouting.
In a panic, Xia Houyuan had already taken the lead, rushed across the suspension bridge, and rushed directly towards the city gate. The long horse's shaft was like a giant python, and it crashed into the body of a Dongyuan garrison soldier in front of him, and then with a fierce swing,
He just carried the body of the poor defender aside.
The blood was like splashed paint, dyeing the city gate red.
Xia Houyuan's eyes seemed to be instantly dyed with blood, and he shouted sternly and charged brazenly!
People yelled and horses neighed, and the sound of clashing weapons roared and echoed at the city gate!
The speed of Xiahou Yuan's cavalry itself was not slowed down much, and the defenders failed to place obstacles such as horses at the city gate to delay Cao's cavalry for various reasons. Therefore, when Cao's cavalry crashed into the city gate, the defenders either
He would be slashed and stabbed to death on the spot, or he would be knocked back and thrown backwards, with broken bones and tendons!
If the defenders could be more resolute and risk their lives to block Xia Houyuan from outside the city gate, or block it in the city gate opening, then even if Xia Houyuan's subsequent troops follow up, they may not be able to take Dongyuan City.
Although Xia Houyuan was personally brave, in order not to alert Dongyuan City, he did not bring many people with him in the first wave. Therefore, apart from the initial shock and panic, the lethality was not really that strong. As long as there were people
You can risk it.
But here’s the problem.
Everyone hopes that others will risk their lives, and then they can enjoy the fruits of others' risking their lives.
Although the Hedong garrison can be regarded as under the command of the Hussars, it is not consistent with the system of the Hussars. There are patrols in Hedong counties such as Anyi and Pi County, and there are also regular soldiers who fall into the Hussars series.
If you die, there will be pensions and family arrangements, but in remote counties like Dongyuan near Wangwu Mountain, there are not even full-time inspections, but there are inspections here for a few months a year. By the way,
Do some basic training for the defenders. So the defenders here in Dongyuan are actually more like yamen and policemen, but the big men are now called archers, horse archers, etc...
This is also the tradition of the Han Dynasty. A country that has been around for three to four hundred years has become terminally ill and it is not easy to change.
The battle broke out in a very short time and ended in a very short time.
After Xia Houyuan seized the city gate, the defenders in Dongyuan did not have enough courage to organize a counterattack, but ran away amidst panicked shouts...
Most of the Dongyuan garrison soldiers who escaped may be thinking in their hearts, how can they risk their lives just to get that money in a month?
As this sentence becomes more and more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, naturally fewer and fewer people will stand up in times of crisis.
So is it true that if we give more money, someone will come forward?
Absolutely impossible, because compared with the real crisis, any amount of money is insufficient...
If money really determines victory or defeat, shouldn't we just stop taking action and just use money to make gestures when there's a real war?
Although the current defenders of Dongyuan knew that their duty was to protect the place and defend against foreign enemies, when danger came, they naturally used such words to make themselves a psychological exemption and fled for their lives with peace of mind.
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Once the defenders fled, the officials became even more unreliable. In order to escape faster, these officials even strictly prohibited the people from leaving the market to prevent the people from blocking their escape route.
Dongyuan changed color instantly.
Xia Houyuan kicked open the gate of the county government office and stood in the courtyard, looking up to the sky and laughing, feeling very happy.
"General, there are many people who have escaped. Do you want to hunt them down and round them up?" Military Colonel Cao stepped forward and asked.
Xia Houyuan pondered for a moment and shook his head, "There is no need to chase him, just let him go!"
The military academy said: "General, from now on, our whereabouts will no longer be concealed..."
Xia Houyuan laughed and said, "If you can't cover it up, there's no need to cover it up! The rats from the east of the river are nothing more than chickens and dogs, so why be afraid of them!"
"Send the order! Collect supplies as soon as possible!" Xia Houyuan squinted his eyes, with a bit of arrogance on his face, "Let's see how we can turn him upside down!"
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