Since I arrived at the front line, I was still a little dazed.
He didn't expect that even if he deliberately hid his identity, he would be recognized by General Fei Qian of the Cavalry so quickly!
Even if I have always been prepared to eventually be exposed, it is indeed too fast.
Is it because there are people around the cavalry who know him?
Or because...
I couldn't help but sigh.
He abandoned his original surname just because his original surname has fallen into silence. Even if he takes his original surname, it may not be beneficial. Instead, it will add many disadvantages. It is better to hide his name incognito.
This kind of behavior is very common and common in the great man. Therefore, "not changing his name or changing his surname" and so on are all promoted in high-profile "heroes" and "raceful men" after the household registration is strengthened. As for why he said this at that time, most people dare not ask, and even if they think of it, they dare not say it.
After arriving at the front line, he was very helpful to Xu Chu and others. After all, Xu Chu and others were not familiar with the terrain here, and were also unfamiliar with Heluo. He has always been from Heluo to Hedong, not only stayed in the Anyi camp, but also stayed in the Zhongtiaoshan camp for a while. So after he arrived at the scene, he proposed a new plan.
When Qin Shihuang built a road to connect the north, which is the main channel for Zhongtiao Mountain today. This road is very wide, strong, and easier to walk. It can be used in parallel and carriages and carriages. It is the main road connecting Heluo and Hedong. Therefore, the main defense system of the Cao army is based on this channel, with heavy troops garrisoning and various types of equipment and traps. It is difficult to succeed in forcibly attacking this road. Once the soldiers of the cavalry consume too much power in the strong attack on the Zhongtiao Mountain camp, they will inevitably lose the follow-up to continue to march to Shandong.
Moreover, the land of Sour Jujube was eaten by the coalition forces last time. If the Cavalry Army wanted to cross Heluo and enter Shandong, the supply line was the next serious issue that had to be considered. Once the supply line was destroyed, even if the Cavalry fought to Shandong, they would inevitably face failure.
I have always proposed a plan that neither Xu Chu nor Sima Yi had expected.
Yusakadao!
Perhaps this road is not as famous as the Eight Passes of Taihang, but it was a very important road in the Spring and Autumn Period and earlier ancient times.
Because there are salt ponds formed by ancient geological movements here in Yuncheng, the primitive natural formation and convenient collective harvesting model were in line with the low productivity at that time. Although salt is important, it cannot be eaten as a meal, so people here began to form trade and trade exchanges and began to walk out of the mountains.
It is said that the root cause of the conflict between Yanhuang and Chiyou is because of salt.
Chiyou occupied the salt pond, and then increased the price without adding more, which gradually aroused resentment from the surrounding tribes. The Huangdi tribe, which came from the Weihe Plain, expanded eastward along the Yellow River and occupied the Luohe Plain. After the establishment of Xinzheng, he joined forces with the Yandi tribe to cross the Yellow River, cross the ancient road, and carried out the first recorded battle in Chinese history, the "Battle of Zhuolu", defeated the Chiyou tribe and occupied the Salt Pond in Hedong.
From this perspective, Yan Huang is the "invader" or the "rebel"?
Later, there were some myths and legends, saying that Yan Huang killed Chiyou, and then Chiyou's blood flowed into the salt pond, "The blood enters the pond and turns into a halogen."
So the braised material should actually be called "Chyou Blood Material"?
In Zhongtiao Mountain in the southeast of Yuncheng Basin, there is a low point, and the mountain is also thin, called "Boushan". The height difference between the pass and the top of the mountain is also relatively low. Since ancient times, a natural path from the Yanchi to the Dahe Ferry and then leading to the Luohe Plain. After continuous excavation and construction during the Tang Yao period, it finally became a major business road, and Anyi also became the imperial capital of Yao, Shun and Yu.
It is the birthplace of Xia and Shang dynasties.
During the reign of Wuding, Fu said that when he was invented the art of building the ancient Yuban Road in Yuyan, he was valued by the Shang king, which led to the historical "Wuding Zhongxing". Later, due to the large amount of salt in Hedong transported southward and passed through the "Yu Kingdom", the ancients called the section of the north entrance of Zhongtiao Mountain to the Yellow River Ferry Crossing the Yuban Salt Road.
And in Yusaka Road, the most important thing is Suoyang Pass!
Suoyang Pass is the narrowest part of the ancient salt road of Yuban Road, and is an important military gate built on cliffs and deep trenches.
During the Spring and Autumn Period, Suoyang Pass was the dividing line between the State of Yu and Jin. Later, Duke Xian of Jin used Yuban to attack Guo and destroyed Yuban, leaving behind idioms such as "fake Yu and attack Guo". What he always suggested today was to raid Suoyang Pass and march into Yuban Road!
If this strategy is successful, once you break through Suoyang Pass, you can turn to Heluo, and even have the chance to block Cao Cao directly on Zhongtiao Mountain!
Even if this strategy fails, it can still be pulled up by force the Cao army, forcing the Cao army to divide its troops to garrison Suoyang Pass, thereby weakening the power of the Cao army camp in Zhongtiaoshan, laying a foundation for Fei Qian's frontal attack on the Zhongtiaoshan camp in the next stage!
This strategy has always been to take risks and take odd steps.
This may have always been a bit of a different trend before.
It is obvious that the key to this strategy is to occupy the Suoyang Pass.
After occupying Suoyang Pass of Yusakadao, even if Heluo is not conquered, he can still retreat to Hedong to continue fighting with Cao's army. In this way, the danger is not very great and will not cause too much damage. What is more important is that Cao's army can be mobilized!
Even if you do not do anything after you have captured Suoyang Pass, the Cao army must be led by the nose. Not only will there be an additional window to attack Cao army, but there is even a possibility of directly threatening Cao army's chrysanthemums.
Xu Chu said directly that this plan is good, but the risk is too high.
But there have always been reasons.
He always said that the General of the Cavalry attacked Cao Cao for the purpose of Cao Cao? After defeating Cao Cao, what?
That simple question made Xu Chu and Sima Yi ponder.
Cao Cao is not the end, and the world may be considered a temporary end. If the cavalry finally wants to obtain the world, isn’t Heluo located in the world important? Occupying the land of Heluo can be considered as obtaining Heluo? So, will the Cao army easily give up the land of Heluo?
In fact, it is firmly determined, "Cao thieves must be migrating the people of Heluo at the moment!"
It was a matter of time before Cao's army was defeated, but the consequences between time were that the people of Heluo were bearing the consequences...
Before Dong Zhuo, Heluo was the place of Kyoto in the world and the most prosperous area of the Han Dynasty. Now, after several catastrophes, he has become a street-based guy, and anyone can come.
The troops leaving the Suoyang Pass on Yusaka Road can at least give the Heluo people some hope. If the cavalry takes over Heluo in the future, the Heluo people will also have this friendship.
Moreover, although Yu Sakadao is a deviant sword, it is also very powerful. If Yu Sakadao really gets it, even if he doesn’t siege Cao Cao, he can quickly throw the cavalry into the Heluo battlefield through Yu Sakadao, and he can also fight all the way to Yuzhou, Yanzhou, and ask if people in Shandong are afraid?!
At that time, even if Cao Cao was in Zhongtiao Mountain or retreated to the Tongguan camp, he would be like losing the root of duckweed. Even if there were many soldiers, how could he defend it?
Sima Yi kept listening and expressed his opinions before he could finish his speech. When Xu Chu was even moved, he slowly said: "Chen's Captain... It turns out that he is not a surname? Heluo people?"
I was stunned forever, and then nodded and said, "I'm not hiding it from three of you. I'm from Heluo. Is my original surname... I won't mention it."
Sima Yi nodded, "Since that's the case, you might as well work together in three directions."
"Three ways?" Xu Chu asked, "Why do we have so many people?"
Sima Yi smiled, "I will return to Puban immediately and lead the original troops and horses with Hao Bodao as the east road. General Xu and Li Jiawei will remain unchanged. They only need to divide some troops and horses to lead the side troops from the lieutenant to enter Yujian Road as the west road. The troops are not in the number of troops, but in the real and virtual. If the void can be broken, it will turn the void into real! Three days later, the beacon fire will be used as a tick and attack together!"
Xu Chu frowned and thought for a while, nodded and said, "That's it!"
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Youzhou.
Yanshan battlefield.
Because Huang Si's escape on the spot caused the originally preset second defense line to collapse. Zhang He quickly occupied Qixi with his men and calmed down the two counties, and stayed for some adjustments to contact Zhao Yun's headquarters.
Of course, if Zhang He rushed to chase after him desperately at this time, he would have been able to catch up with the escaped Cao Chun and kill him or capture him before entering Yuyang City, which would greatly speed up the process of the battle in Youzhou.
Unfortunately, Zhang He did not have a pair of eyes of God, nor did he have the keyboard and claws of a keyboard man, so he chose a safer way to consolidate his route and wait for subsequent follow-up.
Zhao Yun led most of the central army through the Gubeikou Mountain Road in Yanshan, gathered with Zhang He's troops, advanced to the city of Yuyang, and launched an attack on Yuyang.
In the entire Youzhou, there are only three key points for Cao's army to garrison, Yuyang, Jixian and Yijing.
Although Gongsun was destroyed in the Liaodong area, the Cao army only sent a little force to garrison sovereignty, and there were not many people.
Yuyang and Jixian can be regarded as the focus of the entire Youzhou, while Yijing is relatively remote. As a support and reserve force, it also shoulders the responsibility of transporting grain and supplies from Jizhou to Youzhou and transferring supplies.
After Cao Chun failed to enter the desert last year, he used the whole winter to strengthen his defense in Youzhou. Especially in Yuyang, he deployed a lot of heavy city guarding equipment and stocked up a large amount of food, grass and supplies. This also created certain favorable conditions for Cao Chun to stick to Yuyang City.
Zhao Yun launched several attacks tentatively, but because Yuyang's defense was well prepared and a large number of heavy equipment, some troops were lost, so he could only stop the attack for the time being and wait for a turnaround.
Zhao Yun himself led an army of 10,000 to block outside Yuyang and sent Zhang He to take five thousand iron cavalry to move outside Yuyang City.
In this way, Zhao Yun divided the troops into two parts. One part passed through Yuyang and went to the Gubeikou area to operate to ensure the safety of the army's food route and retreat; the other part was led by Zhang He, and it was broken into pieces, with hundreds of cavalry as a team, and it appeared day and night on the hills and fields between Yuyang and Jixian. It frequently attacked the Cao army's grain transport team and the camps arranged by the Cao army, which made the Cao army soldiers worried, exhausted and their morale increasingly depressed.
At the same time, the troops near Yuyang were not idle, and were catching up on the tail of autumn, cutting down trees, creating siege equipment, knocking on rocks, and making stone bullets.
Cao Chun in Yuyang City also saw Zhao Yun's move to create a catapult.
Someone suggested that the army be sent to destroy the place where Zhao Yun made a catapult to delay Zhao Yun's siege equipment. Cao Chun was also a little moved at first, but seeing that Zhao Yun's cavalry were always on the battlefield, he finally gave up this idea.
Organizing suicide squads can be done, but it is impossible to repeat it again and again.
An army without faith cannot even organize a suicide squad, so it can only fantasize about it in movies and TV.
Although Cao Chun could organize a suicide squad charge and carry tincture oil to make a suicide attack, he could rewrite the entire process of the battle if he destroyed Zhao Yun's construction site where he made siege equipment?
Obviously impossible.
In amid hesitation and confusion, Cao Jun watched helplessly as Zhao Yun set up a catapult position under Yuyang City...
When Zhao Yun's catapults stood up under Yuyang City, Cao Chun suddenly discovered that these catapults seemed to be the largest?!
There are not many catapults under the city, but they are arranged neatly. Especially compared with the catapults on the top of Yuyang City, it seems to be more "stronger" in physique...
Sorry, Cao Chun doesn’t know what diameter is, nor does he know what sling is, let alone what lever principle is, but it depends on this...
Cao Chun looked at the city, then turned around and looked at the city, feeling like his own little witch saw the big witch!
In the distance below the city, in addition to some slow horses, some cavalry can also be seen temporarily forming several war horses into carriages, driving them and dragging the baggage truck to transport stone bullets.
The war horses have a bad temper and don’t like to do such heavy labor, so they have to coax the cavalry owners on the side and give some sweet mouths from time to time. Even so, it is temporary. The main transportation force is the main force of transportation, some long-haired horses brought by Zhao Yun from the northern border, working diligently, and not to be sweet mouths and dragging them to death.
However, these slow horses are also responsible for transporting materials from outside Gubeikou. The transportation capacity is insufficient now, so Zhao Yun has drawn some war horses to speed up the replenishment of transportation capacity to ensure the transportation of stone bombs.
"Where are our stone cannons?" Cao Chun shouted, "Smash them for me!"
The leader in charge of the catapult on the side lowered his head, "General, this... this is too far away, you can't smash it..."
『It can't be smashed?" Cao Chun was a little stunned and even gestured, "What does it mean? We are on the city, and we are down... we can't be smashed yet?"
The leader looked sad and pointed at some stone bullets under the city, "General, you see, those are the stone bullets we smashed out two days ago... The farthest one is there... and they are there...
『What?』 Cao Chun stared at him, 『Why? Could it be that Zhao Zilong attacked just to know our range? No, no! Since we can't smash these stone cannons, then these stone cannons can't smash us! Right?"
The leader still had a sad face, silent, and did not answer.
In fact, at the beginning, when the leader saw the prototype of Zhao Yun's construction at the first glance, he knew that the situation was not good. He suggested to Cao Chun to raid Zhao Yun's construction workshop, but unfortunately Cao Chun felt it was unnecessary. But he could not say that the stone cannons and stone casters of Cao's army were all inferior goods...
After all, the process of standardization of Cao's army cannot be achieved in one day, so in the process of manufacturing the catapult car, the parts here are a little worse and that part is a little worse. In the end, the assembly will naturally be a lot different.
Cao Chun wanted to say something, but suddenly heard the horns outside the city ringing together, and the golden drums were made, like a violent hurricane passing by Yuyang City, shaking the earth.
"They are going to throw a stone!"
『Do not to escape!』
The sound of the warning gong seemed to be trembling.
The sound of war drums and horns outside the city became increasingly fierce, as if they were about to directly knock open the Yuyang city gate.
Yuyang City shivered in the torrent and groaned in the impact.
The drums became more and more intense, just like a mountain collapse and a crack in the ground.
With the sound of war drums, stone bullets rose into the air, and the sharp sound of friction between the air sounded like a sarcasm, mocking Yuyang City.
These stone bullets rushed into the sky, and then slowly rose to the highest point under the eyes of everyone, becoming a small black dot, and then fell from the sky like thunder and smashed hard towards Yuyang City!
"boom!"
『Boom! Boom!』
All the meteors fell to Yuyang City.
The walls of Yuyang City trembled and shook at this moment, like a wounded beast, sending out a shrill miserable pill.
The city gate tower on the top of Yuyang City was the first to be hit and suffered a devastating blow.
The stone bombs falling from the sky carried huge kinetic energy and potential energy, easily penetrated the roof of the city gate tower and destroyed the beams and pillars. Soon the city gate tower was flying in the sky with bricks and gravels, creaking and squeaking, and finally collapsed.
In Yuyang City, the temporarily installed horse face is also unable to withstand the attack of stone bullets because of its weak support point and insufficient thickness. As long as it is hit by three or two shots, it will shake and then fall to the city with the next stone bullet.
The utensils and huts piled up on the city wall are all made of wooden structures, and are basically vulnerable. As long as they are hit by stone bullets, they will basically crack and fly, turning into scattered wood.
The only thing that can be persisted in is the city wall of Yuyang.
However, even though Cao Chun has repaired a lot of the exterior wall, its structure is no longer complete. Under the bombardment of stone bombs, many of the blue bricks on the exterior wall collapsed and fell off, revealing the rammed earth layer of the core, like cracked wounds.
As a position to resist the invasion of foreign races in the north since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Yuyang's city wall is almost the pinnacle of this era. The rammed earth is strong and the stones are neat. Even after experiencing wind, frost, rain, snow, and war, the Yuyang city wall still protects all living things in the city wall as much as possible, just like a mother instinctively guarding her children with her arms, no matter whether the children are well-behaved, stupid or smart, even if they are scarred and bloody.
『Counterattack!』 Cao Chun hid under the battlements of the city wall and grabbed the leader of the catapult cart, 『Counterattack! Did you hear it?! Counterattack no matter what! Otherwise I will chop your head first!』
The leader was sad, "General! I, I...or if I change to a lighter stone bullet, I might be able to throw it further..."
"Then why don't you go quickly!" Cao Chun yelled.
Taking advantage of the catapult outside the city loading the second round of stone bullets, the leader ran away with his head and rolled and crawled away.
Cao Chun lay beside the battlements, revealing half of his head, looking at the busy cavalry army in the distance outside the city, feeling cold in his heart...