Chapter 3291 Turning around and having a futile turn
Sometimes things are so weird. Hu Zhi really wants to escape, but before he really escaped, the Cao army soldiers in the camp escaped first...
So is this considered Hu Zhi running away, or is it considered that ordinary Cao's soldiers ran away?
But this problem did not seem to be so important after the collapse of the camp at the bottom of the slope.
The army is a war machine, but when every screw on this machine is escaping, no matter how huge the machine is, it will become like scrap iron.
The Cao army soldiers who were running in panic left everything behind.
Flags, armor, baggage, and even the dignity and glory they once had.
They were seeking survival while running away, but pushed themselves and their comrades and compatriots around them into the arms of death.
Cao Bing ran away, as if the sand tower collapsed. Liu Zhu could not stop it, and finally committed suicide in the camp below the slope.
After Liu Zhu committed suicide, only two of the most loyal guards died with Liu Zhu, while the other guards fled without looking back.
Fei Qian stood in front of Liu Zhu's body and sighed slightly, "After a grand funeral."
If it were a few years ago, Fei Qian might have lamented or been sad about Liu Zhu's death, but now Fei Qian feels more indifferent.
As the war develops and deepens, more and more people will die.
When death comes, there will be no deviation just because someone is famous or unknown.
This may be the greatest fairness, but it may also be the greatest injustice.
Hearing Fei Qian's order, Xun Chen bowed and responded, then waved to the side, signaling the soldiers to move Liu Zhu's body away and restrain him.
Several soldiers stepped forward, raised their hands to grab Liu Zhu's legs, and half dragged and half carried away.
When a person is alive, he is alone, and when he dies, he is a pile of bones and flesh.
Fei Qian stepped forward and continued to move forward.
Looking at the arrangements in Cao Jun’s camp, you can understand that Liu Zhu is actually a good general.
The camp is planned in an orderly manner and the fortifications are clearly hierarchical.
If Liu Zhu is given a bigger stage or more support, then Liu Zhu may indeed cause more trouble to Fei Qian.
It's just a pity...
This is the habit of Shandong. Whether you can get a bigger stage and more resources does not depend on your personal abilities, but on whether you are reincarnated or not and whether you have enough connections.
Fei Qian bent down, picked up a flag with the words "Han" written on it, and shook the dust stained on the flag.
The once glorious and gorgeous flag is now in ruins.
Fei was silent for a while, then found a spear for the flag again, tied it to the handle of the spear, and then inserted it into the land in the camp. He looked behind his back for a while, and said, "Cao's army will first treat the wounded soldiers, and then put them back."
Xun Chen nodded and responded.
This is not a particularly strange operation.
The effects of reducing personnel and morale caused by the wounded soldiers have a great impact on either side.
But this "treatment" is a bit ingenious.
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The wind is strong, and the clouds are like galloping horses, and in a blink of an eye it goes from north to south.
On the Gufeng Mountain, Cao Xiu was looking at the distant sky, looking thoughtful.
『Reign of Lord!』
A messenger came and came to the front.
"General Protector, please ask the Lord for a while!"
Suddenly, Cao Xiu was a little surprised when he heard the messenger coming to report this.
He turned around and looked north from a distance. It seemed that at the intersection of heaven and earth, he could see the flag of the cavalry floating faintly. He couldn't help but say: "The war is imminent, what is the Protector General looking for someone?"
"The General of the Protector said there was something important to discuss." The messenger was not sure what Cao Hong was going to do to find Cao Xiu, so he could only answer this way.
Cao Xiu frowned slightly, "I understand."
He didn't know why, but suddenly he had a bad premonition.
Cao Xiu temporarily handed over the command of the soldiers to the deputy general commander, and he himself hurriedly rode his horse to Cao Hong's camp in Anyi with a small number of guards.
This section of the road was not close. In order to form a pincer attack on the Cavalry Army, Cao Hong and Cao Xiu made a certain distance. When Cao Xiu arrived at Cao Hong's camp, the horses were already running and sweating profusely and panting. After Cao Xiu dismounted the horse, he touched the neck of the war horse and looked at the sweat of the war horse. He was a little stunned, but he had no time to think about it, so he immediately entered the tent to pay homage to Cao Hong.
Cao Hong was pondering before the map. When he looked up and saw Cao Xiu coming, he waved his hand calmly and said, "This is here, there is no need to be too polite."
In the Cao Cao family system, although everyone's surname is Cao, it seems that there are only differences between generations, but in fact it is not the case. Although the three brothers of the Cao family are like this, Cao Cao, Ren and Cao Hong are not from the same series.
Cao Cao's father was Cao Song, Cao Song's father was Cao Teng, and then go up. Cao Cao Ren and Cao Hong have a common ancestor, Cao Jie. Cao Ren's eldest father was Cao Bao, and Cao Ren and Cao Chun had a more similar bloodline. Cao Xiu's eldest father was Cao Ding, and Cao Ding and Cao Hong's father were from the same line, so Cao Xiu and Cao Hong's bloodline were similar.
"I've met my uncle." Cao Xiu bowed and said.
『I received the news, and the cavalry rushed to attack the camp at the slope," Cao Hong said in a deep voice, 『Liu Hu was not supported, and the camp at the slope was broken... Liu was killed in battle, Hu was defeated...』
『What?!" Cao Xiu was a little surprised, 『How many days have this been?"
Cao Hong's brows frowned deeply, obviously quite dissatisfied with this matter, and the scars on his face also seemed a little ferocious.
Cao Xiu sat on one side, digesting the news. The more he thought about it, the more he felt a little chill on his back. "How could he be defeated so quickly? Could it be that Liu Hu and the other two were intentionally lazy? The defense was not strong? Or was there a spy hidden in the camp, and the inside and outside were working together?"
Cao Hong shook his head, "It's the cannon..."
『Architecture?!』 Cao Xiu stared at the top, 『Didn't it mean that the number of cavalry cannons is not large, and most of them have been abandoned after repeated use? What's more, the place in Tongguan... Could it be that the cavalry was originally...』
Cao Hong was silent.
Cao Xiu said, and then fell silent after a moment.
Both of them stopped talking.
Because of this matter, it is even more terrifying than the defeat of Liu Zhu and Hu Zhi by the Cavalry.
If there are artillery above Tongguan, Cao and others can understand it. After all, Tongguan is an important pass, and it doesn’t seem strange to place military heavy weapons on it. If Cao and others have any important pass, they would also make such arrangements.
But there were artillery in Pingyang, Linfen, and it was successfully used by the cavalry to capture the camp down the slope. This shows that artillery can not only be placed on the pass as a defensive weapon, but also can be transported and used as a siege weapon!
More importantly, the cavalry hoarded artillery in Pingyang, which shows that Fei Qian had probably planned everything and prepared everything before Cao Cao attacked...
Such an opponent is obviously something that no one wants to encounter.
The two sat for a while, Cao Hong let out a long sigh and stood in front of the map first, "Come on, if the cavalry attacks..."
Cao Xiu also calmed down and walked to the front of the map.
They have the same surname, the same mood, and the same interests. If the gentry and literati in Shandong still have a way to retreat, then Cao Hong, Cao Xiu and others have made progress but not retreat. Before Cao Cao got up, the Cao family was not a strong family in Shandong. It can be seen that the Xu brothers in Yuedanping did not abandon Cao Cao's face.
A family like the Cao family had another word to describe in the Qing Dynasty later generations, "novas".
Suddenly I got a lot of wealth... Well, I'm sure the word that appeared in the Qing Dynasty was not used to refer to Kang Mazi and Qiangoupi?
However, the attitude towards nouveau riche was not much different, whether in the Han Dynasty or the Qing Dynasty.
In Shandong, most of the children of the gentry were somewhat concerned about the high position in the Cao family, including military, finance, personnel, etc., and once the Cao family lost power, the people and things that were suppressed before would rebound...
So neither Cao Hong nor Cao Xiu wanted to see the Cao family fail. Even if they knew this time, it would be difficult.
In addition, Cao Hong and Cao Xiu were more or less conceited, thinking that no matter how dangerous the situation was, they could turn the tide with their own ability.
Looking at the arrow symbol representing the power of the cavalry on the map, Cao Hong couldn't help but whisper, but now the situation is getting worse and worse, and the two of them are inevitably a little discouraged.
"That's his mother!" Cao Hong spat and said irritably, "Now the camp below the slope is destroyed, but it has not weakened the spirit of the cavalry... Now it's up to you and me to support it! It's such a waste of trouble!"
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Cao Hong pressed his hand on the map, "I asked the soldiers to repair fortifications in the past two days and build earthen walls in the camp... But in this way, I lost the ability to counterattack against the outside world..."
Cao Xiu nodded silently.
Given the fact that the camp at the bottom of the slope was quickly conquered by Fei Qian, they had to make urgent arrangements, but it was obvious that the higher the defense pile, the worse the ability to counterattack, which meant that Cao Xiu was forced to bear more burdens.
"Where is there any orders in the lord?" Cao Xiu did not object to Cao Hong's tactical changes, nor was he qualified to object, so he asked Cao Cao if he had any instructions.
"It's too late. I've sent someone to report the message, but are you going to do it when you have to wait for the reply..." Cao Hong shook his head. After a little silence, Cao Hong said, "Now in Shandong, the gentry and gentry are not convinced by us. This battle... must be fought or won."
Cao Xiu nodded.
For this battle, Cao and others had initially expected it, and wanted to take advantage of the gap between Fei Qian's westward advance to at least destroy the economy in Hedong in Guanzhong, plunder resources, rob human craftsmen, and weaken Fei Qian's strength. However, this hope is becoming increasingly slim.
"Don't be discouraged." Cao Hong patted Cao Xiu's shoulder and said, "You and I are both people who are getting stronger and stronger than ever. Let's regroup and fight again."
"Then, will the plan come out?" Cao Xiu asked.
『Besiege Wei to save Zhao!』 Cao Hong spit out these four words, 『We need to change the original plan...』
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Hu Zhi escaped back.
He didn't know how he could escape, nor did he know why the cavalrymen did not chase him.
The cavalrymen clearly had the chance to strangle them cleanly...
Why?
However, this problem soon became his most difficult problem.
When he really escaped back to the camp, he found that escaping his life might not be a good thing.
Cao Hong met him immediately. After sternly inquiring about the situation of the war, he quickly put him under house arrest and placed him in a corner of the camp with the wounded soldiers who were sent back.
Although there was no explicit order to restrict Hu Zhi's freedom, the bad eyes of the soldiers guarding the gate of the wounded camp made Hu Zhi understand that his current situation might not be very good.
When Hu Zhi mentioned Liu Zhu's death, Cao Hong seemed very surprised, but afterwards, Hu Zhi thought about it and felt that Cao Hong's surprise at that time was not really a pity for Liu Zhu's death, but rather that Hu Zhi didn't fight to the death...
"hehe……"
Hu Zhi smiled twice with a little nervousness.
Hu Zhi now lost the majesty of the leader at that time. Not only was his armor crooked, his silk ribbons loose, his face covered in dust and mud, his hair was scattered, and his expression was dull, as if he had been humiliated by more than a dozen men for a day and a night.
『Victory and defeat are common things in military affairs.』
Hu Zhi murmured.
No one was by his side, no one listened to what he said, he seemed to comfort himself.
"We have suffered losses in these battles, but if we do not have the best, we may soon turn defeat into victory..."
"The Cavalry Army is not invincible either..."
"That thunder cannon, but that's it...
『…』
Hu Zhi muttered, and then his face twisted, "Yes, we can win... we can win..."
When he talked to himself, Hu Zhi's tone had almost choked up.
Before the war started, he kept telling Cao's soldiers that it was his turn to say these words to him.
But the effects are the same.
He had told the ordinary Cao army soldiers before that Cao army soldiers did not believe it. Now he told himself that he himself did not believe it either.
His guards were "sent to" to work.
Because Cao Hong was easily broken by Fei Qian, in order to prevent the tragedy from happening again in Anyi, he focused on strengthening his resistance to artillery and prepared to repair the earth. Because digging out civil engineering requires a lot of manpower, even some of the minor wounded soldiers in the injured camp were pulled and sent to work.
Hu Zhi still has the identity of a general, so he didn't go.
He sat alone, not sure how long it took, but finally closed his eyes tiredly and fell asleep in a short while.
In his sleep, he seemed to have returned to his hometown, returned to his home, and sat in a house with solid walls on all sides. He was almost happy to shed tears. He was really fed up with living in a tent, not only leaking air, but also bugs and sand. If there was a little movement, it would be difficult to sleep, and his house was comfortable.
The house made of bricks and stones is solid and warm, and no matter the wind and rain outside, you can feel at ease in the house...
『People!Peopleple!』
Suddenly, a little panic scream broke the surrounding houses. The house he thought was brick and stone was actually made of paper, and it collapsed in a blink of an eye and started burning!
Hu Zhi sat up suddenly.
He found that he was still in this tent with a leaking air. In front of him was a terrified guard with blood on his face and a new wound was added.
"What's wrong?" Hu asked.
This plain tone surprised Hu Zhi's guards, but soon the guards said: "Master, they... they don't treat us as human beings... They came back together... They were killed on the spot... I went up to argue and was beaten like this...
Among the soldiers who fled back were Hu Zhi's troops, and there were people who were familiar with each other.
They were originally the same Cao army soldiers, and they were all comrades-in-arms. After losing, they became the targets of being despised and belittled, and they had to endure oppression...
Hu Zhi seemed to be thinking about how to do it. He rubbed his face with both hands, as if he wanted to rub the fatigue on his face, but in fact there was no effect at all.
"I only now understand why the cavalrymen didn't chase us..."
Hu Zhi said slowly.
"Why?"
The guard asked subconsciously, but after a moment he understood and became silent.
After the two were silent for a long time, Hu Zhi sighed and said, "Is there anything to eat?"
"Lord? You..." The guards became angry, "They even if you... no, I'll go find them..."
"Forget it." Hu Zhi grabbed the guard, then shook his head and smiled, "I heard that the children of Shandong said that Cao was like spring bamboo shoots. I didn't know the meaning at first, but now I finally figured it out..."
The guard asked.
Hu Zhi nodded, "Spring bamboo shoots break through the ground, they grow quickly, and they grow quickly, but... they are hollow...
"Master..." the guard asked in a low voice, "You are...
"Are you going there to get the wood?" Hu Zhi suddenly changed the subject, "The trees around here seem to be a little thinner."
The guard nodded and said, "Yes, there is no decent wood for ten miles around. There is only woodland in the southwest direction... We all went there to log..."
"Okay." Hu Zhi nodded and said, "Tomorrow, I will go logging with you tomorrow."
"Lord?" The guard was stunned for a moment, "Lord, do you mean?"
Hu Zhi signaled.
The guards got closer.
Hu Zhi whispered: "Tomorrow, act according to the opportunity."
The guards widened their eyes.
"You can't see?" Hu Zhi whispered, "They don't feel at ease with us...that we think we have...so we don't give us any food, and we are desperately using it...I think when the Hussars come, we will be the first group... Do you still remember the people of Hedong who were driven away by us at that time? It's our turn now."
"We, we don't..." The guard was about to argue, but Hu Zhi covered his mouth.
Hu Zhi sighed, "Whether there is no, we have the final say."
The guard was silent for a long time, "We, then where can we go to Lord?"
『Haha... no matter there, you can't go... After escaping, escape first," Hu Zhi whispered, 『This troubled time... a person is not as good as a dog... a person is not as good as a dog... a person is not as good as a dog... survival first before talking...
At that time, Hu Zhi and the others didn't listen to what the people in Hedong shouted, so Cao Hong and others wouldn't listen to what they shouted now.
Chapter completed!