Cao Cao's figure was already secure on it, and the big flag was floating high.
Bao Zhong turned around and said, "For the Han Dynasty! For the Prime Minister! Fight to the death!"
『Oh oh oh oh oh…』
The soldiers of Cao's army rushed forward again.
Beside Bao Zhong, his child who was a little stubborn also wanted to follow Bao Zhong, but was forced back by Bao Zhong with a stern look. In the end, he could only stand in the formation, a little embarrassed and confused, and then raised his arms and shouted, "For the great man! For the prime minister! Fight to the death!"
The silly child is shouting sincerely, and the veins are exposed.
But the old guard of Bao, who was beside him, just glanced at him coldly, then turned his head, and there was a bit of care for mental retardation in his eyes.
As an old man in Bao's family, the old guard of Bao's family knows more or less. It is better than the stupid child who thought that as long as he dances his sword and gun, he can sweep everything and beat the enemy.
Of course, Bao Zhong's stupid child is not really an idiot, he has a short head, but he doesn't understand the world's ways, he thinks that this world is either a good person or a bad person, and he thinks that everything is simple, either fighting or killing...
Bao Zhong's guard looked at Bao Zhong who was leading the troops in front with a little worried. He was told by Bao Zhong to watch the silly child, or rather, it was simple, like a white cloth.
But white cloth is the most dirt-resistant, and it will turn yellow, spotted, or 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 north. He originally thought he was an infantryman and his marching speed must be slower than that of the cavalry, so he specially accelerated it a little. However, he did not expect that after he arrived in Anyi, the cavalry had not arrived yet.
Strictly speaking, it was not completely out of place. He knew that the vanguard of the cavalry and the small cavalry troops had spied and peeped here dozens of miles away, but he didn't know when the vanguard's large troops would come.
But it's almost there.
It's almost done!
Cao Hong tried to catch these sporadic cavalry scouts and cavalry squads several times, but the effect was not good. On the one hand, these cavalry scouts were very alert, and on the other hand, these guys did not go deep into the surrounding area of Anyi, so the traps arranged in many cases could not be triggered at all.
"Lord, what are these cavalry... doing?" Cao Hong saw that there were no outsiders around him, so he asked in a low voice, "You can't find Wen Lie's movements?"
Cao Cao nodded, "It's hard to say."
The battlefield is one-way transparent, and sometimes even one-way transparency cannot be achieved. In a chaos, the information that can be obtained is one-sided and fragmented. If you want to use these scales and claws to piece together the entire dragon, it will greatly test the ability of the commander in the battlefield.
"The cavalry... will come!" Cao Cao squinted his eyes and said in a deep voice, with a strong confidence in his voice, "And it's not far away!"
Cao Hong was shocked and quickly looked north.
I saw nothing.
"In the past two days, I remembered General Huo's piano song..." Cao Cao said slowly.
Cao Cao sighed slightly and stroked his beard, "After the four barbarians protect, the summer is prosperous, the country is peaceful, and the joy is endless. Carry the swords and swords, the bows and arrows are hidden. The unicorn comes to us, and the phoenix is flying. We protect the sky, and we will never have boundaries. We have been close to each other for a hundred years, and we will be extended... Zi Lian, what do you think of this piano song?"
"This..." Cao Hong was stunned for a moment.
Some people say that the song of General Huo was written by Huo Qubing, and some people say that it was written by others in the name of Huo Qubing, but does it contain the meaning? It is indeed written by Huo Qubing, which is another general of the cavalry in the Han Dynasty...
"After the four barbarians protect, who is the one who "protects"?" Cao Cao stroked his beard, "Why do he need to "protect"?"
The four barbarians protected each other, Huo Qubing and the Han army, and the one considered harmful was the Huns at that time. For Hexi and the Western Regions, the Han policy was that as long as the Han did not become enemies with the Han, the Han would not attack. As a result, Hexi thought that the Han was easy to bully...
Later, Hexi was surrendered, and the subordinates of the two kings of Hexi eventually became vassal states of the Han Dynasty. This word "Guardian" means that it is clearly on the side of the Han Dynasty, and regardless of its ethnicity, it is protected by the Han army.
This word "Guard" also emphasizes the role of military force of the Han Dynasty. All peace and security in the song are based on the strong foreign force. The Han army controlled the vassal areas that originally belonged to the Huns, restored peace and made peace in these areas, and allowed the Han Dynasty to live and work in peace and peace in peace.
Cao Cao did not wait for Cao Hong to respond and said straight down: "And the words "hide" in this song are even more exquisite... The four barbarians are not one... The hidden swords are hidden in it, haha, wonderful, wonderful!"
Cao Hong was confused and didn't know why.
However, Cao Cao's good mood to enjoy the piano song did not last long.
A soldier from the stage came up with a sealed fire lacquer and handed it to Cao Cao.
Cao Cao checked the hot paint and opened it. His face suddenly became smelly, as if he had been stuffed with Oli in a ball, which became a little twisted and ferocious, and his body couldn't help but shake it twice.
Cao Hong was shocked and hurriedly stepped forward to support him, "Lord!"
Cao Cao grabbed Cao Hong's arm, tried very hard, and then took a few deep breaths before he could recover. Then he looked around and said, "You retreat first."
The guards on the side stepped down from the platform first.
On the high platform, only Cao Cao and Cao Hong were left.
"I thought..." Cao Cao was breathing a long time, and the wrinkles on his face seemed to have suddenly increased a little, and his forehead seemed to have been cut a few times, and even his back was a little hunched. He held Cao Hong's arm, like he was holding a floating board when he was drowning, "Zi Lian... You said that going to Guanzhong and fighting with the cavalry was really just for us, for the Xiahou family of Cao? Isn't there anything for this Han world and for the Shandong gentry? But they... alas...
Cao Hong did not answer the conversation.
Cao Cao knew a little about the people of Shandong. He knew they were so bad, but he didn't expect them to be so bad! Cao Cao had already adjusted the lower limit for these people very low, but these guys were still constantly breaking through the lower limit.
『Emergency report from 800 miles of Jizhou.』 Cao Cao took a breath and seemed to calm down, still in his appearance of calmness and unstoppable and unstoppable contempt.『Under the command of the cavalry, Wei Yan and Wei Wenchang attacked Yecheng in surprise.』
"Ao Ao?!" Now it's Cao Hong's turn to be untenable, "What?"
Cao Cao nodded slightly.
"This, this...this cavalry, where did this come out?" The sweat on Cao Hong's forehead suddenly came down.
『It had been... but was suppressed by Jizhou and did not report it...』 Cao Cao slowly put the 800-mile emergency report into his sleeve, obviously he was not going to give Cao Hong a closer look, 『It is said that it was a small group of people coming out of Taihang Mountains...』
"Small group of people?" Cao Hong didn't know what to say for a moment.
Can a small group of people attack Yecheng by surprise?
This obviously contains many unspeakable things. Even if you think about it this way, Cao Hong felt a little chilled.
"Then... Is the young master safe?" Cao Hong asked cautiously.
"Hmph." Cao Cao sneered from his nostrils, "That rebellious son, after this, it would be better to die!"
Cao Hong quickly smiled and said, "Lord, don't do this. It's a blessing for the young master to have nothing to do, and I'm very lucky..."
Cao Cao seemed to know that he had a little silence, so he let go of Cao Hong's arm and patted his shoulder, "No, you are the greatest luck with Zi Lian..."
"The lord is too good."
Cao Hong did not dare to continue asking, because he saw that although Cao Cao had recovered from his calm appearance on the surface, he could feel that Cao Cao had already suffered an extremely big blow. And standing next to Cao Cao, although it was summer now, I don’t know why Cao Hong could feel that Cao Cao seemed to emit some cold aura.
After a while, Cao Hong said: "Lord, then now in Anyi..."
Cao Cao narrowed his eyes and was silent for a little, "If the cavalry still didn't come, and he took the poultry in his arms to reward the soldiers."
Cao Hong immediately understood, nodded and left.
Cao Cao watched Cao Hong get off the platform, then looked up at the north side, with his hands behind his back, speechless for a long time.
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...
Cao Cao and Cao Pi are father-son relationships.
Cao Zhen, who died in Hedong, was also a father-son relationship with Cao Hong.
Bao Zhong and his son, who were attacking Anyi, were fighting against each other among the troops under the city, and Pei, who were guarding the city in Anyi.
Among the soldiers defending at the city of Anyi, there are also fathers and children.
He was an ordinary civilian in Anyi, and he didn't even have a serious name. Everyone just knew that his name was Dacheng because his father was Laocheng, and he had a child, so he was naturally Xiaocheng.
So Dacheng is both a father and a child.
It doesn't matter whether it is Cheng, Cheng, or other syllable characters, because no matter whether it is Dacheng, Laocheng, or other people in Anyi, they don't know how to write.
Originally, Dacheng was just the people of Anyi, so he shouldn't have come to defend the city, but the Pei clan shouted in the city, "Everyone has the responsibility to resist Cao in Anyi!"
At first, Dacheng didn't understand what "everyone has a responsibility", but the Pei clan members explained that once Cao's army entered the city, they would inevitably burn, kill, plunder and do everything evil. Then the city would become like hell, and all the young and old would die! For everyone's lives, should everyone resist Cao's army?
That said, it seems to make some sense.
Then the Pei clan members said again, saying that if Anyi is saved and Cao's army is resisting, they will receive rewards in the future. Even if the Pei clan cannot afford it, the cavalry will also give them money!
Later, Dacheng inexplicably took a spear and went to the city wall to defend.
For his father and for his children.
Although he still didn't understand some things, he didn't have the chance to keep thinking.
The brutal fight made him have to struggle and struggle to survive, so he naturally had no time to think about whether the logical relationship was right or the truth, or the simplest question...
Why does the tax calculation he has to pay every year, from his father to him, and then to his children?
Is it a protection fee, a residence fee, or a royalty to use the name of a great man?
From a historical perspective, taxation is one of the important means to maintain the operation of the state machine and the ruling order. The two important pillars of the establishment and maintenance of rule of ancient dynasties were finance and military. Taxation was the main source of finance for ancient feudal countries and an important means to manage the economy.
From this perspective, the taxes paid by the ancient people could be regarded as a kind of "protection fee". That is, by paying taxes, in exchange for relative security guarantees and order maintenance provided by the state, which is to some extent similar to public safety services in modern society.
That's fine, but he lives in Anyi and does not enjoy any security. If Cao's army comes, those who do not pay taxes die first, and those who pay taxes die later, then they die later, that's a security guarantee. But now he has to pay taxes, but now he has to die first...
So is it the land use fee?
But who belongs to the land?
If the land belongs to the Han Dynasty, then there is nothing wrong with paying residence fees to the Han Dynasty to obtain the right to live, but the one who came to attack Anyi was holding the Han Dynasty's flag, saying that it was Cao's army, who represented the Emperor of Han!
What is the reason for paying taxes, not being protected, and being killed?
Dacheng is absolutely unthinkable.
Fortunately, he didn't have to think too much.
When the pain on the body reaches a certain level, it will gradually become numb.
When he finally fell down, he had not died immediately.
It just felt the chill coming on his body, causing his limbs to be hard and woody, and then the world turned backwards...
In Dacheng's vision, the sky collapsed.
He was dragged with his feet and slid across the city wall.
The semi-coagulated blood acted as a lubricant, making it not too difficult for him to be dragged by someone.
His arms were raised, crossing the stone floor of the city wall, carrying blood, just like the last word he wrote for himself at the time of his death...
A crooked word "man".
But he was eventually thrown off the city wall like a dead livestock.
At the moment when Dacheng finally fell, his eyes were empty.
He couldn't understand even though he died, what was going on in this world...
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...
『Fight! Fight!"
Pei Ji held up a sword with a gap, shouting with all hissings.
He always thought that siege and defend the city was not the same thing. He consciously had been in Anyi for so many days, and had really done it with his sword and gun. He had seen a big scene. As a result, he realized that Cao's army had never used all his strength. When Cao Cao really arrived near Anyi and Cao's army was really fighting hard, Pei Ji felt that overwhelming feeling of suffocation.
Organized and unorganized are the difference between heaven and earth.
Before, Cao Hong wanted to fight Anyi, but he actually wanted to get a few shots with no dates. The key was to lead the cavalry and then trap the cavalry little by little between the camps, with the idea of retreating at any time. However, with the change of the battle situation, especially the destruction of the camps at the bottom of the slope, Cao Cao and Cao's army had to be forced to adjust the entire combat strategy.
Anyi changed from the original temptation to the real fight.
Now, just as Cao Cao said, he needed to kill some livestock in captivity to reward the soldiers.
The soldiers guarding the city shot arrows at Cao's army, but the Cao army under the city immediately returned.
And there are more arrows than the city guarding...
The key is that the soldiers guarding the city are now seriously injured and have to gather a group of civilians from the city to fill it. Although they say that it is to protect Anyi and everyone, Pei Ji knew in his heart that what is more important is to maintain the status of Pei!
The ladder was set up, followed by a flying quilt.
The soldiers of Cao's army climbed up bravely and frantically along the ladder, pulling ropes.
The guardian of the city threw the rolling stones down the ladder.
The Cao army soldiers who were hit were like pieces of meat on barbecue skewers, and were beaten up by juice...
When arrows covered the city walls, the defenders in Anyi almost didn't dare to look up. The more the defenders fought, the more timid they were, the more casualties the Cao army was, the more crazy they were. Resisting a group of Cao troops, the next group of Cao troops rushed up. In the face of the war machine that Cao's army was fully engaged, Pei Ji originally thought that his excellent defensive ability was having loopholes everywhere.
With the city walls as the boundary, in this huge conflict and killing, blood and chaos, Cao's army once climbed to the top of Anyi City. Although he was then beaten back by Pei Ji and others, it was like a cut hole, and the damage caused could not be recovered immediately.
All the gentleness and demeanor of the past have turned into madness at this moment.
Cao's army once again rushed to the top of the city.
Pei Ji once again took the people up to block the gap.
The battle is getting more and more intense and cruel.
The soldiers on both sides held swords and guns, and the shields collided with each other, making a crisp metallic impact. The swords and guns brought bloody light, and the shields competed with each other. The soldiers on both sides were trying hard to resist the opponent's attack, and were also trying to find flaws and give the opponent a fatal blow. Their faces were ferocious and grinned, as if they wanted to swallow the opponent.
However, the Anyi defenders, which had not received sufficient supplements and repairs, gradually decreased their physical strength and endurance. Cao's army 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 almost desperate, some new forces appeared from the corridor of the Anyi city wall, joined the battlefield, and regained the nearly collapsed balance.
『Sir Father!』
Only then did Pei Ji realize that it was Pei Mao who brought this group of people to support him.
"My father, your illness has not recovered yet, how can you be born here..."
During the brief break of defeating Cao's army, Pei Ji hurried to see Pei Mao, quite worried.
Pei Mao has been sick for a while, and no matter from that perspective, it is not a good place to recuperate from the city wall.
"Haha," Pei Mao was wearing old armor that was a little old, and his white hair floated out under his neck. "Don't think that he is old, he can still kill the enemy!"
Pei Mao waved the sword in his hand, and his aura was a little imposing, but he quickly became breathless and glared at Pei Ji, "Why don't you hurry up and adjust the defense! Cao's army will be coming soon!"
"Yes, but you, Dad..." Pei Ji was still worried.
『Go quickly!』 Pei Mao pushed Pei Ji, 『I can't die yet! I'm so desperate!』
He said that, but whether it was Pei Mao or Pei Ji, he knew in his heart that if the reinforcements of the Cavalry could not come, they would die here sooner or later, no matter how tough they said, it would be useless.
Moreover, after fighting in this situation, even if you surrender to Cao Cao, you may not have any good ending...
Cavalry, Cavalry!
Pei Mao stared at his somewhat turbid eyes and looked forward to it.
When will the reinforcements of these cavalrymen arrive?!