Cao Cao's figure has settled on it, and the big banner is flying high.
Bao Zhong turned around and said, "For the great man! For the prime minister! Fight to the death!"
"Oooo……"
The soldiers of Cao's army swarmed up again.
Next to Bao Zhong, his less-minded child also wanted to follow Bao Zhong, but Bao Zhong forced him back with a stern look. In the end, he could only stand in the formation, a little embarrassed, angry and confused, and then
He also raised his arms and shouted, "For the big man! For the prime minister! Fight to the death!"
The silly kid was shouting sincerely, and his spit flew everywhere and his veins were exposed.
But the old guard of Bao's family who was beside him just gave him a cold look, and then turned his head away. There was a hint of care for the mentally retarded in his eyes.
As an old man in the Bao family, the old guard of the Bao family knows more or less, and is better than this silly boy Bao Zhong who thinks that as long as he is good at wielding a sword and a gun, he can sweep everything and defeat the enemy.
Of course, Bao Zhong's stupid kid is not really just an idiot. He is missing a piece of his head. He just doesn't understand the ways of the world. He thinks that people in this world are either good or bad. He also thinks that everything is simple. He either beats or kills...
Bao Zhong's guard looked at Bao Zhong who was leading the troops in front with some worry. He was told by Bao Zhong to keep an eye on this silly kid, or rather, as simple as a piece of white cloth.
But white cloth is the least resistant to dirt. It will turn yellow and have spots at any time, or it may be used to wipe something, and then it will be stained with some traces that will never disappear...
On the other side, on the high platform, Cao Cao did not put his mind on Anyi at all.
Cao Cao looked to the north. He originally thought that he was an infantry and his marching speed must be slower than that of the hussars, so he deliberately speeded up. However, he did not expect that when he arrived in Anyi, the hussars had not arrived yet.
Strictly speaking, it didn't mean he didn't arrive at all. He knew that the vanguard of the Hussars and the small cavalry troops were already spying and peeping at this place from dozens of miles away, but he didn't know when the large force of the Hussars would arrive.
But soon.
Soon!
Cao Hong tried to capture these sporadic hussar scouts and cavalry teams several times, but the effect was not good. On the one hand, these hussar scouts were very alert, and on the other hand, these guys did not go deep into the surrounding areas of Anyi, so they often arranged
The trap cannot be triggered at all.
"My lord, what on earth is this hussar doing?" Cao Hong looked around and saw that there were no outsiders, and asked in a low voice, "Have you noticed Wen Lie's movements?"
Cao Cao hummed, "It's hard to say."
The battlefield is one-way transparent, and sometimes even one-way transparency cannot be achieved. In the chaos, the information available is one-sided and fragmented. If you want to piece together the entire dragon with these scales and half claws, you can
It greatly tests the commander's ability on the battlefield.
"The hussars...will definitely come!" Cao Cao narrowed his eyes and said in a deep voice, with a strong confidence in his voice, "and it's not far away!"
Cao Hong was startled and quickly looked north.
I didn't see anything.
"In the past two days, I have thought of General Huo's music..." Cao Cao said slowly.
Cao Cao sighed slightly and stroked his beard, "With the protection of all the barbarians, all Xia is well. The country is peaceful and happy. There are wars, but the bows and arrows are hidden. The unicorns come, and the phoenixes soar. Protect each other with the sky, forever."
Boundless. Kiss for hundreds of years, each extended... Zi Lian, what do you think of this Qin song?"
"This..." Cao Hong was stunned for a moment.
Some people say that this General Huo Qubing's Qin Song was written by Huo Qubing, while others say that it was written by someone else in Huo Qubing's name. But what does it mean? It is indeed written by Huo Qubing, another hussar general of the Han Dynasty...
"Since the four barbarians are protecting, who is this "protecting"?" Cao Cao stroked his beard, "And why should we "protect"?"
With all the barbarians protected, it was Huo Qubing and the Han army who came to protect them, and the party considered harmful was the Xiongnu at that time. As for the Western Regions of Hexi and other places, the Han's policy was that as long as they were not enemies of the Han, the Han would not
Attack, but Hexi thought that the big man was easy to bully...
Later, Hexi was surrendered, and the subordinates of the two kings of Hexi eventually became vassal states of the Han. This word "protect" means that they clearly stand on the side of the Han. Regardless of their nationality, they are protected by the Han army.
This word "protect" also emphasizes the role of the Han military force. All the peace and tranquility in the whole song are based on the tyranny of external force. The Han army controlled the vassal areas that originally belonged to the Xiongnu, restoring peace to these areas.
It also enabled the Han Dynasty to live and work in peace and contentment, with peace and stability.
Cao Cao did not wait for Cao Hong's response, and went straight on: "And in this song, "The bow and arrow are hidden", the word "hidden" in it is even more subtle... The four barbarians are not one... Hidden in it, haha
,Wonderful, wonderful!』
Cao Hong was confused after hearing this and didn't know why.
However, Cao Cao's good mood of appreciating Qinge did not last long.
A soldier in the audience came up with an urgent report of sealed fire paint and handed it to Cao Cao.
Cao Cao checked the paint and then opened it. His face suddenly turned foul, as if someone had stuffed a ball of Ollie into it. He became a little twisted and ferocious, and his body couldn't help but sway a few times.
Cao Hong was shocked and quickly stepped forward to help him, "Lord!"
Cao Cao grabbed Cao Hong's arm very hard, and then took two deep breaths before he finally regained his breath. Then he looked around and said, "You guys, please step back first."
The guards on the side responded and retreated from the high platform first.
On the high platform, only Cao Cao and Cao Hong were left.
"I thought..." Cao Cao took a long breath. The wrinkles on his face seemed to have suddenly increased. His forehead seemed to have been slashed several times, and even his back was a little rickety. He held Cao Hong's arm as if to grab him.
Holding the floating board when he was drowning, "Zilian...you said that marching into Guanzhong and fighting against the hussars was really just for us, for the Cao family and the Xiahou family? Isn't it at all for the Han Dynasty and the Shandong gentry?"
What? But they, they...sigh..."
Cao Hong didn't answer.
Cao Cao had some idea of the people from Shandong. He knew they were bad, but he didn't expect them to be so bad! Cao Cao had already set the lower limit for these people very low, but these guys were still making breakthroughs.
lower limit.
"Urgent news from Jizhou eight hundred miles away." Cao Cao took a breath and seemed to calm down. He still looked calm and unfazed, "Under the command of Qiusi, Wei Yan and Wei Wenchang made a surprise attack on Yecheng."
"Ouch?!" Now it was Cao Hong's turn to be unable to stand, "What?"
Cao Cao nodded slightly.
"This, this, this...where did this hussar army come from?" The sweat on Cao Hong's forehead immediately started to drop.
"It was there before... but was suppressed by Jizhou and did not report it..." Cao Cao slowly put the eight-hundred-mile emergency report into his sleeve, obviously not intending to show it to Cao Hong, "It is said to have come from the Taihang Mountains.
The small force that came out..."
"A small group of people?" Cao Hong didn't know what to say for a moment.
Can a small group of troops attack Yecheng by surprise?
This obviously contains many ulterior things. Even just thinking about it made Cao Hong shudder.
"So... is the young master okay?" Cao Hong asked cautiously.
"Hmph." Cao Cao snorted from his nostrils, "That traitor, after what happened, it would be better to die!"
Cao Hong quickly laughed and said: "My lord, please don't do this. I'm very lucky that the young master is fine. I'm very lucky..."
Cao Cao seemed to know that he had made a mistake, so he let go of Cao Hong's arm and patted his shoulder, "No, having you Zilian is my greatest luck..."
"My lord, I'm very impressed."
Cao Hong did not dare to continue asking, because he saw that although Cao Cao had regained his composure on the surface, he could also feel that Cao Cao had suffered a huge blow. And standing next to Cao Cao, even though it was summer, he didn't know
Why could Cao Hong feel that Cao Cao's body seemed to be exuding some cold aura?
After a while, Cao Hong said: "My lord, now in Anyi..."
Cao Cao squinted his eyes and remained silent for a while, "If the hussars still don't come, I'll take the captive poultry to reward the soldiers."
Cao Hong understood immediately, nodded and left.
Cao Cao watched Cao Hong get off the high platform, then looked up to the north, with his hands behind his back, speechless for a long time.
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Cao Cao and Cao Pi have a father-son relationship.
Cao Zhen, who died in Hedong, also had a father-son relationship with Cao Hong.
They were attacking Anyi. Bao Zhong and his son, who were among the troops under the city, were also fighting each other with the Pei family and his son who were defending the city in Anyi.
Among the soldiers defending the city of Anyi, there were also fathers and children.
He is an ordinary civilian husband in Anyi, and he does not even have a proper name. Everyone only knows his name is Dacheng, because his father is called Lao Cheng, and he also has a child, who is naturally Xiao Cheng.
So Dacheng is both a father and a child.
It doesn't matter whether it is Cheng, Cheng, or any other similar syllable-like character, because neither Dacheng nor Laocheng, nor the other people in Anyi, know the characters nor how to write them.
Originally, Dacheng was just a citizen of Anyi, and he should not have come to defend the city. However, the Pei clan shouted in the city, "Everyone is responsible for resisting Cao in Anyi!"
At first, Dacheng didn't understand what "everyone is responsible" meant, but the Pei clan explained that once Cao's army entered the city, they would burn, kill, loot and commit all kinds of evil. By then, the city would have turned into a hell, and everyone, old and young, would die!
For the sake of everyone’s lives, should we all fight against Cao’s army together?
That said, it seems to make some sense.
Then the Pei clan members said again that if they saved Anyi and resisted Cao's army, they would receive rewards based on merit in the future. Even if the Pei clan couldn't afford it, Hussar would still reward him!
Later, Dacheng inexplicably took a spear and went up to the city wall to defend.
For his father and for his children.
Although there were still some things he had not thought about, there was no chance for him to continue thinking about them.
The brutal fighting forced him to struggle for survival, and he struggled constantly. Naturally, he had no time to think about whether the logical relationship was correct, or what the truth was, or the simplest question...
…
Why does he have to pay taxes year after year, from his father to him and then to his children? What is the tax calculation?
Is it protection fee, residence fee, or some kind of fee for using the name of a big man?
From a historical perspective, taxation is one of the important means to maintain the operation of the state machine and the order of rule. The two important pillars for the establishment and maintenance of rule in ancient dynasties were finance and military. And taxation was the main source of finance for ancient feudal countries.
It is also an important means of managing the economy.
Understood from this perspective, the taxes paid by the ancient people can be regarded as a kind of "protection fee." That is, by paying taxes, they exchange for the relative security and order maintenance provided by the state, which is similar to the public service in modern society to some extent.
Security services.
That's great, but he lives in Anyi and doesn't enjoy much security. If Cao Jun comes, those who haven't paid taxes will die first, and then those who have paid taxes will die later. That would be some kind of security, but now he has
Pay taxes, but you have to die first...
So is it the land use fee?
But whose land is it?
If the land belongs to the Han Dynasty, then there is nothing wrong with paying the residence fee to the Han Dynasty to obtain the right to live there. However, the ones who came to attack Anyi were Cao Jun who held the banner of the Han Dynasty and said they represented the emperor of the Han Dynasty!
What is the point of paying taxes, not getting any protection, and even being killed?
Dacheng absolutely cannot understand it.
Fortunately, he didn't have to think too much.
When the pain in the body reaches a certain level, it will gradually become numb.
When he finally fell, he did not die immediately.
He just felt the chill coming to him, making his limbs stiff and numb, and then the world turned upside down...
In Dacheng's field of vision, the sky fell.
He was dragged by his feet and slid across the city wall.
The semi-coagulated blood acted as lubricant, making it not too difficult for him to be dragged.
His arms were raised upside down, crossing the stone floor of the city wall, with blood, just like the last word he wrote for himself when he was dying...
A crooked character for "人".
But in the end he was thrown off the city wall like a dead animal.
When Dacheng finally fell, his eyes were empty.
Even to his death, he could not understand what was going on in this world...
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"Fight on! Fight on!"
Pei Ji held up a sword that had many gaps and shouted at the top of his lungs.
He always thought that attacking and defending the city was not just that. He had consciously defended Anyi for so many days, and had done it with real swords and guns. He was considered a person who had seen big scenes. Only now did he understand.
In fact, Cao Cao's army never used all its strength. Only when Cao Cao arrived near Anyi and Cao Cao's army was really fighting tooth and nail did Pei Ji feel the overwhelming sense of suffocation.
There is a world of difference between being organized and not being organized.
When Cao Hong attacked Anyi before, he actually wanted to get a few hits with Zao Mo Zao. The key point was to lure the hussars to come, and then trap them bit by bit between the camps, with the idea of retreating at any time.
Yes, but with the changes in the war situation, especially the destruction of the camp at the foot of the slope, Cao Cao and Cao Jun were forced to adjust their entire combat strategy.
Anyi's original temptation turned into a real fight.
Now, as Cao Cao said, it was time to kill some captive animals to reward the soldiers.
The soldiers guarding the city tried their best to shoot arrows at Cao Jun, but Cao Jun below the city immediately fired back.
And there are even more arrows than those guarding the city...
The key is that the soldiers guarding the city have suffered a lot of damage, and they have to call in batches of civilians in the city to make up for it. Although they say it is to protect Anyi and everyone, Pei Ji knows in his heart that the more important thing is
We must keep Pei’s position!
The ladder was set up, followed by flying hooks.
The soldiers of Cao's army climbed up the ladder bravely and crazily by pulling on the rope.
The defenders of the city would throw rolling stones and logs down ladders.
The soldiers of Cao's army who were hit were like pieces of meat on a barbecue skewer, with juices flying everywhere...
When the arrows covered the city wall, the defenders of Anyi hardly dared to raise their heads. The defenders became more and more timid as they fought, but the more casualties and crazier Cao's troops attacked the city. After repelling a group of Cao's troops, another attack was launched.
A group of Cao's troops rushed forward. Facing the fully deployed war machine of Cao's army, Pei Ji's originally thought to be excellent defensive capabilities was showing loopholes everywhere.
With the city wall as the boundary, in the midst of such huge conflicts and killings, blood and chaos, Cao Jun once climbed to the top of Anyi City. Although it was said that Pei Ji and his men later beat him back crazily, it was like being cut off.
The damage caused cannot be recovered immediately.
All the gentleness and grace in the past have now turned into madness at this moment.
Cao Jun once again rushed to the city.
Pei Ji once again led people up to block the gap.
The fighting became increasingly fierce and brutal.
Soldiers from both sides were holding swords and guns, and their shields collided with each other, making a crisp metal collision sound. The swords and guns were bleeding, and the shields competed with each other. Soldiers from both sides were trying hard to resist the other's attack, and they were also trying hard to find loopholes to give the other side a fatal blow.
Their faces were ferocious and their teeth were bared, as if they wanted to devour each other.
However, the defenders of Anyi, who had not been adequately replenished and repaired, eventually lost more physical strength and endurance. Cao Jun gradually gained the upper hand, and the offensive became more and more fierce, while Pei Ji and others gradually fell into a disadvantage.
Just when Pei Ji was about to despair, some more fresh troops emerged from the corridors of the Anyi city wall and joined the battlefield, restoring the balance that was almost on the verge of collapse.
"Father!"
Only then did Pei Ji realize that it was Pei Mao who had brought this group of people up to support him.
"Father, you haven't recovered from your illness yet, why are you here..."
During the short period of defeating Cao's army, Pei Ji hurriedly came to see Pei Mao, feeling quite worried.
Pei Mao has been ill for a while, and from any point of view, the top of the city is not a good place to recuperate.
"Haha," Pei Mao was wearing an old armor with some age, and his white hair was flowing out from under his hood, "Don't worry, even though my father is older, he can still kill the enemy!"
Pei Mao waved the sword in his hand, and his momentum was somewhat impressive, but he soon became out of breath and glared at Pei Ji, "Why don't you hurry up and adjust your defenses! The next wave of Cao's army is coming soon!"
"But, father, you..." Pei Ji was still worried.
"Go quickly!" Pei Mao pushed Pei Ji, "I can't die yet! I'm dying!"
Even though they said this, both Pei Mao and Pei Ji knew clearly in their hearts that if the cavalry reinforcements could not come, they would die here sooner or later. No matter how tough they said, it would be useless.
And in the current situation, even if you surrender to Cao Cao, there may not be a good end...
Hussar, hussar!
Pei Mao stared at his slightly cloudy eyes and looked forward to it.
