Chapter 3144 When the murderous intention meets the chicken
At dawn, Cao's army had already pushed the siege equipment he had quickly made to the front of the formation, and then followed the Danshui official road to attack Wuguan Pass.
The old Han generals in the early years had withered, and in the new generation, no one was born with talent, nor was anyone who was already experienced and learned without a teacher when they were at home before the chaos in the Three Kingdoms.
This is naturally the case with Cao Ren.
When he was young, he just liked bows and horses, and there was no old man on the bridge throwing his shoes at him, so all his military experience was accumulated bit by bit in actual combat.
Therefore, when attacking Wuguan Pass, Cao Ren's attitude was a bit ambiguous.
Normally, hard-hitting passes is not a clever choice. After all, the defenders have a good territorial position and are blocked in the mountain road. The next step is a siege battle, either killing the opponent or exhausting himself. There are not many combat skills. It can even be said that it has no connection with the general's personal command ability, but other factors are larger, such as the terrain of both sides, the number of troops, the reserves of grain and grass, weather changes, etc.
These mixed factors may even affect the entire battle situation more than Cao Ren’s personal ability...
Cao Ren will defend the city, and of course he will also attack the city.
If Cao Ren is given sufficient troops, it is only a matter of time to capture Wu Pass.
But the problem is time.
If the time goes on too long, then attacking Wu Pass will lose its meaning.
Cao Ren sent Niu Jin to go around, circumnavigate and sneak into the mountains, which was undoubtedly a dangerous move, but the purpose was to reduce the amount of time spent on Wuguan.
Otherwise, even if Cao Ren conquered Wuguan here, but Cao Cao defeated Tongguan, what's the point of his success? Or if he delayed it for too long, the reinforcements from Guanzhong arrived, and then he would continue to attack Shangxian, Shangluo, Zhiguan, Lantian, etc. Even if he was covered in iron, how many nails could he make?
Therefore, even though he knew that this strategy was risky, Cao Ren had to try it.
The point is time.
『Swoosh!』
『Bang!』
A stone bullet hit the ranks of civilians pushing siege equipment in the mountain road, crushing an unlucky guy like a pool of meat paste, like meatballs falling on the ground and then being stomped hard, bright red flesh and blood splattered...
『Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh…』
The civilians panicked.
The man next to the unlucky ghost was splattered with flesh and blood on his face, covering the flesh and blood and screaming.
The Cao army soldiers who were supervising the battle in the back formation shot with an arrow and immediately shot the screaming civilian to death on the spot.
"Don't scream, don't delay! Keep moving forward!"
Cao's army gradually calmed down and continued.
In fact, everyone knows that if you step on this mountain road, you will be threatened with death. You are psychologically prepared, but after all, the man died too tragically before...
But as time goes by, I gradually become numb.
The number of stone bombs hit from above Wuguan, especially the flanks of the stone casting positions on the Wuguan Mountain Peak, has gradually increased. Whether it is Cao's soldiers or civilians, they almost stepped on the plasma and wood chips and pushed forward.
One stone bullet after another fell down.
Of course, most of the accurate heads of the catapults were not very good. Some even crossed the heads of the queue and fell high into the mountains; some hit the stone wall with a loud bang, and then the gravel fell down like hail.
But the number of dead people and broken equipment gradually increased.
The number of casualties is increasing continuously.
Cao Ren's face was still as calm as water.
"General, it's a loss to fight like this..." Cao Zhen sighed.
"What else?" Cao Ren said, his tone calm, "This defender has a good territory and has set up stone cannons again. Could it be that the defender cannons cannons be eliminated? Just wait until our military stone cannons are installed, and they will be smashed."
Cao Zhen was stunned for a moment.
Cao Ren did not mention casualties at all. It seemed that those who died now were not human lives, but just the average value on the books.
What Shandong places like most is the average. No matter what is in the court, I like to give a vague overview and never clearly express what the average is an average method. For example, although there are many casualties and injuries at present, isn’t it a fraction of the entire army?
But who can know that the vast majority of people who died were from the lowest-level Jingxiang?
If the lowest-level folks are drawn out to count separately, the data presented must be very amazing...
But once it's average, it doesn't matter to everyone.
"This is a stupid battle, there is no trick..." Cao Ren looked at Wuguan in the distance, "I can only see if Captain Niu can pull out some gaps... People come! Send orders and attack the city with all their strength! Those who are timid and retreat will be killed!"
"The general has an order! Siege the city with all his strength, and those who retreat will be killed!!"
『Kill…』
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Cao's army stood up under the Wuguan Pass with a stone bullet, and then began to counterattack on the Wuguan Pass.
"boom!!"
A stone bullet hit the battlements of Wuguan, and gravel and broken bricks flew around.
Cao's army also set up a catapult cart, under the cover of the mountain road's earth slope, attacked the Wuguan city wall from behind the earth slope. Anyway, the city wall is so big, just a rough direction and position, and the accurate head seems to be better than the Wuguan city's catapult cart...
On the top of the city, Liao Hua shouted loudly, "Shot the arrow!"
The arrows roared down like rain.
Then the counterattack of Cao's army's archers also quickly shot back.
However, the mountain road before Wu Pass was only a little wide. Although it could pass through cars and horses, it was still too embarrassing and narrow to set up the array. The archers of Cao's army could not set up a huge array, and could only do a sporadic one on one side and one on the other side to counterattack, so there were not many arrows on the pass.
Stones, arrows, flesh and chips.
Liao Hua scanned the battlefield and calmly arranged the soldiers.
Instead of letting all the defenders go up to the city wall in one breath, he carefully used the resources at hand.
Like Cao Ren, Liao Hua was not born in a family of military generals. All his military experience comes from the martial arts lecture hall. He was naturally a little nervous, but more excited. It was not because he was bloodthirsty, but because he felt that he had studied martial arts lecture halls for so many years, and now he had an excellent place to practice.
The battle in Jingzhou before was just a small test, but now it is a big scene!
Observe the enemy's movements, speculate on the intentions of the enemy generals, and then target, defend, counterattack, or avoid...
At the same time, you need to pay attention to the situation of soldiers and soldiers on your side, whether they are allocated, motivated, or strict orders. All of this was not expressed in detail in the report of the martial arts lecture hall. The specific regulations can only be flexibly used based on the knowledge you have learned.
Compared to Cao Ren, Liao Hua is naturally a beginner, but Liao Hua has been learning for many years, and now it is time to put what he has learned into practice. He is like a young tiger with a thorny hair, and he can't wait to taste the flesh and blood.
There are murderous intentions everywhere in Wuguan.
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In Shang County.
News of fierce battles in Wuguan also reached Shang County, and people's hearts became a little volatile for a while.
So, in the dark night in Shangxian County, there is a hidden chicken killing...
In many cases, people are in a disorderly state, just like monkeys. There are two ways to make monkeys obedient. One is to shoot the monkeys out of the head, and the other is to kill the chicken to scare the monkeys. Although both methods are used by people, most of the time, people like to use the second method, that is, kill the chicken to scare the monkeys.
Why did the monkey make a mistake but wanted to kill the chicken?
It's like a big man clearly has so many corrupt officials, but he caught a minion and killed him...
From the perspective of economic costs and benefits, the benefits of "monkey" disobedient are far higher than the benefits of his choice of obedience. If you want to change the behavioral pattern of "monkey" over, it will cost a very high cost.
Relatively speaking, the "chicken" is generally in the middle and lower level and it is not difficult to kill, so it is often the case that the monkey cannot be caught, but a chicken is caught to kill.
So the question is, will monkeys really be afraid if they kill the chicken?
Did the chicken that was killed really make a mistake and should be killed just for the sake of killing?
When the monkey is watching him kill the chicken, who will guarantee that the monkey does not learn his lesson, but learns to kill the chicken?
Jiang Gan originally wanted to kill the chicken.
He thought that the chicken was the head of Shang County.
But Jiang Gan never expected that he himself turned into a chicken.
Jiang Gan lowered his head and looked at the arrows on his chest. The blood flowing in the air dyed his clothes red. Under the lights, it was not bright red, but instead appeared black. The expression on his face was a little confused and confused, as if he was thinking about why he ended up like this, or was wondering why the blood he shed looked black?
Before the conflict broke out, everything seemed normal and calm.
The smell of blood was not passed so far.
The screams were also isolated from Shang County by the mountain roads and mountains.
Jiang Gan's subordinates also penetrated among the civilians stranded in Shang County and began to incite...
Everything seemed to be going well and was going according to the plan.
but……
When did the changes start to occur?
Jiang Gan suddenly understood something, but it was too late.
Yes, from the time when people incited people, changes may have begun to occur.
It's different, it's different!
Jiang Gan looked at the men standing in the distance and suddenly felt that he was the killed chicken...
He figured it out.
Wrong, wrong...
Although the civil servants in Guanzhong, like the civil servants in Shandong, are also reluctant to give up on those trivial interests, and are confused by all kinds of rhetoric, are driven by emotions, and are screaming and making a fuss together, Jiang Gan and others have forgotten something, and what is different from the civil servants in Shandong is...
Guanzhong does more, better and more detailed publicity of the law than in Shandong.
In the eyes of people from Shandong, what is the law?
It is the spring and autumn that the prison was cut off.
The law is strict and unknowable to the people of Shandong, and it makes mistakes inexplicably, and it belongs to the law that does not blame the masses...
When there are too many people who commit crimes, Shandong officials think about quitting the matter quickly and then dealing with them later, cutting off the chicken heads. However, most people will gain benefits in the process of committing crimes, that is, not following the rules and laws. Therefore, for Shandong people, as long as someone takes the lead, they dare to go!
In the concept of Shandong folk, even if something happens, those who die will be the ones who take the lead. So as long as they are not very outstanding and are targeted by others, the advantage is that they are actually put into their own hands. The government will only find those leading chickens to behead their heads, which has nothing to do with them.
And the key is that Shandong's laws are really too unclear.
For example, in Shandong, officials riding their horses drunk and smashing the items of ordinary people. Who is the fault of the judgment? The result of the judgment is that the people are wrong.
Putting aside the facts, who made the people dare to block the officials’ words without predicting the possible dangerous situations first?
For example, if a tenant farmer withdraws his rent and doesn't want to do it anymore, he not only can't get the rewards he has worked hard for so many years, but he also has to compensate the landlord for some money. The reason is that the landlord cannot find the tenant farmer to take over and lose money...
There are many such cases, so in Shandong, the Han Dynasty, the law was not to maintain the lowest social norms and order, but to wipe the officials and the landlord class. This led to the extremely contempt of the people of Shandong for the law. As long as there was a little spark, they would become restless.
This is how the Midi in later generations were. Everyone knows that Midi's laws are used to protect the interests of the bourgeoisie. Those who have no money cannot say that the law is fair. Even if there are occasional judgments in individual cases, capitalists can drag the other party to lose everything and use various external tricks to make the other party feel unhappy.
Therefore, in Shandong, it was very simple to incite the people.
Just bring a head...
So whether it is Jiang Gan or Dong Liguen, they all think so.
But what they didn't expect was that the strategy that was tried and done in Shandong failed in Shang County.
Jiang Gan and Dongligu thought that before, some civilians were injured due to mutual disputes, and they must be resentful, so they only needed to instigate them a little, and then lure them for profit, and then carry their heads in groups of three or three, raising their arms and shouting was enough to set off a wave. As a result, what they did not expect was that although the people of Guanzhong were all just staring at the three melons and two dates in front of them, they lacked interest in responding to the so-called "unfairness", "unfreedom", etc., and some even turned around and secretly went to report to the officials.
Because in Guanzhong, although the law is also partial to officials, that is, the ruling class, the problem is that the inspection in Guanzhong has penetrated into the depths, which makes the law spread more widely and clearer, which is that it is a little stronger than the land of Shandong, which leads to a deviation here...
Over the years, Jiang Gan has inspired countless Shandong people and appreciated the confused and ignorant expressions of countless Shandong people. He even had a feeling that he could tell people's life and death in one sentence. He has never failed in Shandong.
Even the people of the Xun family in Yingchuan were defeated under his lips and tongue.
But he did not expect that in Shangxian, his all-out words failed in front of the people who seemed so dull and ignorant.
So Huang Wu got the news and brought soldiers to inspect when he came to "go to the banquet"...
Jiang Gan also wanted to use his words, but he didn't expect...
Jiang Gan opened his mouth, "Why...who..."
He really didn't expect that the head of Shang County would not even say a few words, but directly ordered arrows to be shot and killed.
Isn't he a famous scholar?
Shouldn't it be effective for death?
no……
Jiang Gan fell down.
The audience suddenly became silent. Dongligu and others who were originally clamoring were standing in shock and at a loss.
It was like a group of monkeys who were frightened.
Huang Wu shouted: "You can surrender quickly! You have a serious crime of treason, but if you resist, you will be killed without any punishment!"
Who can have a "kind" conversation with the perpetrator in public?
Even if you say one more thing, will your own mind still want?
When Guanzhong New Law convicted the guilt, one of the most important things is "provement", and no longer uses "false" evidence. That is to say, as long as Jiang Gan did not make a real rebellion, even if there were many doubts, he would not shoot directly. However, as it is now, he has clearly shown his carriage and horses and wants to resist...
Maybe Jiang Gan just wanted to talk and didn't want to resist, but can Huang Wu take risks with him?
Dongliguen stepped forward and lay down to see Jiang Gan. He saw that Jiang Gan had lost his vitality, but only his eyes were still staring, full of confusion and unwillingness...
"ah……"
Faced with Huang Wu’s shouting, Dongligu was still hesitating, and felt a chill on his back!
Dongligu couldn't help screaming. He turned around and saw his subordinates staring at him with a ferocious look on their faces. He jumped away and knelt down on the ground with a thunderous sound. "The little ones are all blinded by the thieves! They are all him...ah...
Isn’t it all for how much money? Who cares about being tenacious and unyielding? Didn’t you see that even Jiang Gan was killed? If you move slowly, wouldn’t it be yourself who dies?
No matter who it is, he naturally cannot bear it after encountering such betrayal. Dongligu endured the huge pain, gritted his teeth and pounced on it, and rolled into a ball with the man.
"The rebels kill!" Huang Wu commanded, "The surrender abandoned his weapons and knelt on the ground!"
After Dongligu and the man who rebeled first were killed, the situation was quickly controlled.
Huang Wu let out a long breath, and then she felt that her hands and feet were cold and her back was covered with cold sweat.
"Langjun," the confidant beside Huangwu whispered, "This Jiang Gan Jiang Ziyi is a famous scholar, and the Langjun just killed him directly... What if Jiang Ziyi was going to surrender?"
Huang Wu wiped the cold sweat from her head with her sleeve, "Now, people's brains are in the shape of a dog, who will care about the famous scholar... In normal days, how much money can this title be worth... If you want to be a famous scholar, you should make trouble peacefully... It's really a mess in the world. A famous scholar is not as good as a dog... Just like that, send a letter to General Huang, saying that the chaos in the city has been decided...