"My subordinates believe that General Huang's words are pertinent. The Lord can attract the attention of Ma Chao and Cao Cao head-on. On the other hand, he can send a partial army to sneak across Mengjin and harass the Xiliang soldiers behind them. In this case, the Xiliang soldiers will
You can't look at each other from beginning to end of the meeting, and to a certain extent, it can affect the decision-making of Ma Teng and his son," Xun You said.
"Well, this is exactly what I want. But, who should I send?" Gao Fei muttered and asked softly when he was choosing the leader of the partial army.
"Four of the five tiger generals in my lord's account have arrived, and Wen Chou has not arrived yet. But compared with these five people, I think Xu Huang is more qualified to do this." Xun You said.
"Xu Huang?" Gao Fei asked suspiciously.
"My lord, Xu Huang is both loyal and brave, and he is also quite strategic. In recent years, the Wei troops stationed along the Yellow River to prevent the Dongjun have done real things. Moreover, Xu Huang is from Hedong, and he is very familiar with the topography of the Sili area.
It is much clearer. With him as the chief general, his subordinates think he is more qualified than anyone else."
"Well, then according to the opinion of the military advisor, Xu Huang will be the commander of the partial army. In addition, Zhou Cang, Liao Hua, Wang Wenjun, and Gao Lin will be his deputy generals, and a strong force of 3,000 people will go to Mengjin Ferry." Gao Fei said.
After the words fell, Xun You went to carry out the order. Taking Gao Fei's order, he went to Xu Huang and selected 3,000 elite infantry to be delivered to Xu Huang.
For two days in a row, the Yan army remained stationary. Since they had lost the opportunity to cross the river, they had to attack later. Otherwise, it would be really bad if Cao Xiu attacked him halfway when crossing the river.
Two days later, the Yan army's teams transporting grain and grass arrived one after another. Wen Chou, Zhang Liao, Zhang He, Pang De and others also arrived at the bank of the Yellow River with 50,000 cavalry. The Yan army's strength increased to 100,000.
After the army arrived, Gao Fei held a grand party. Almost all the important counselors and generals in the Yan army were present. Except for a few people who stayed behind, Gao Fei used all the elites of the Yan country for the first time.
In this operation, the emperor returned to the north in one fell swoop.
On the third day, Xu Huang, Zhou Cang, Liao Hua, Wang Wenjun, and Gao Lin quietly left the army with three thousand soldiers, first rushed to Hanoi, and then crossed the Yellow River from Hebei south.
At the same time, in the dense forest at the Juan County Ferry on the south bank of the Yellow River, Cao Xiu had been here for several days with 500 elite tiger and leopard cavalry disguised as Qin troops. He would come here every day to look at the surface of the Yellow River, but he never
No one was found crossing the river, let alone a small boat. It was difficult to see even a leaf. Apart from the rolling water of the Yellow River, nothing else could be seen.
In the afternoon of that day, Cao Xiu ordered the soldiers to rest in the dense forest as usual. For several days in a row, they did not dare to bury pots to make rice. They only ate the dry food they carried with them, just for fear that someone would find them hiding in the dense forest.
"Lord Captain, what do you think my subordinates have brought back?" A village commander put his hands behind his back and ran to Cao Xiu's side with a joyful expression on his face, and said in a pitter-patter tone.
Cao Xiu was leaning under a big tree, closing his eyes to rest. After hearing this voice, he opened his eyes, glanced at the village chief, and said, "You must be up to no good, what can you bring back?"
"
The commander of the village smiled, took out a hare from behind, swung it in front of Cao Xiu and said: "Master Captain, we have been guarding here for several days, let alone humans, even
Not a single ghost was seen. Besides, the dry food we brought is almost finished. The brothers have no food in their stomachs these days and want to eat meat. So my subordinates made a special trip to bring game to Lord Captain and grill it in a while.
How about eating it?"
Cao Xiu smiled and said, "Okay, can such a hare feed five hundred brothers? I think it's better to roast you and eat it."
The commander of the village was startled, and then said: "Master Captain, we have been guarding for several days, and there is nothing. Moreover, we finally caught game, and the master refused to light a fire. This made the brothers hungry. Besides,
My lord, haven’t you eaten wild game for a long time? Why don’t we make an exception this time and let the brothers have a toothpaste ceremony? I promise that after eating this meal, the fire will be put out immediately.”
Cao Xiu also understood his subordinates. Seeing the commander's repeated requests, he looked around at the brothers around him and saw a desire in their eyes.
"Okay, but it's just this once, it won't happen next time." In the end, Cao Xiu finally compromised, thinking that since he hasn't seen the Yan army for so long, he must have taken another ferry. Moreover, this place is deserted, so even if he makes a fire to cook, he may not be able to do it.
Someone may know.
"Thank you, Captain. I will send roasted hare for you to eat later."
"Well, go ahead."
As soon as the village chief turned around, he immediately raised the hare in his hand high and cheered: "Brothers, the captain has agreed, everyone starts eating game!"
As soon as he finished speaking, hundreds of soldiers stood up in unison, and at the same time threw the various game they had hidden high into the air, and a dazzling array of game was flying in the sky.
After Cao Xiu saw it, he was shocked. He thought that in the past few days, the villages were organized as villages and five villages were divided into different places for garrison and inspection. Except for the brothers in the group he led who had no game, the brothers in the other four villages all had game.
With all kinds of game, some kind of wild boar,
There were all kinds of hares, pheasants and so on. It was only then that he suddenly realized that when he originally asked them to patrol, they all went hunting. No wonder he heard less and less roars from nearby wild beasts in the past few days.
Finished being hunted.
It didn't take long for the soldiers to gather together, bury pots to make rice, gather all the game together, and cook or bake it together.
Not long after, curls of smoke rose from the dense forest and floated high into the sky.
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"Your Majesty, a scout just came to report that a small group of suspicious troops were found along the Yellow River in the county boundary. They are all disguised as our soldiers, but they don't know what they are doing there or who they are." Chen Qun hurried away.
After entering the hall and seeing Ma Chao, he immediately reported to Ma Chao.
"Who dares to do this?" Ma Chao said angrily.
"The scouts gathered all the information they had gathered in the surrounding areas. They found that the Yan army had assembled 100,000 troops and was standing still on the north bank of the Yellow River, with no intention of crossing the river. Cao Cao, with an army of 50,000, had already entered Guandu and stationed troops in Zhangjiacun, east of Guandu. Liu Bei
, Liu Zhang, Sun Jian and others showed no movement, so my subordinates speculated that the troops should be Cao Cao's subordinates." Chen Qun said.
"In your opinion, what does Cao Cao mean?" Ma Chao asked.
"I don't know. But maybe I didn't want the Yan army to cross the river, so I did this."
"Huh? Didn't Gao Fei and Cao Cao sign an alliance? Why did Cao Cao do this?"
"Your Majesty, it seems so on the surface. In fact, the Yan State and the Wei State are at war with each other secretly. The Yan State is amazingly powerful and dominates Hebei. The King of Yan is even more ambitious. If he wants to conquer the Central Plains, Cao Cao will be his biggest obstacle.
On the contrary, Cao Cao was also a tyrant, and he must have been thinking about how to annex Hebei all the time, and the conflict between the two people arose from this."
"In this case, let's not worry about it for now. As long as Cao Cao doesn't mess with me, we can use the conflict between the Yan army and the Wei army to instigate. By the way, Zhang Xiu, has the army led by Qian Hu entered Guandu?
"
"The forward 20,000 cavalry have all arrived at the designated location, which is thirty miles away from Cao Cao's camp. They are just waiting for the arrival of the army of the king and the king of Liang. However, your king, if you let Cao Cao do whatever he wants, wouldn't you be indulging him? My subordinates think that
, it is better to send a partial army to deal with that small force. Anyway, they are pretending to be our troops. Even if a war starts, we can use the excuse of annihilating the rebels to let Cao Cao taste the suffering of our army first.
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"Okay. However, my father is rushing here now. Wang Yun and Yang Biao are both in Hulao Pass. I must not leave this place. Do you think who should be the leader to do this?"
"Wang Shuang, the captain of Xuanyi under the king's command, can take on this responsibility." Chen Qun said.
"Wang Shuang? Is that the boy who openly contradicted me?"
"That's him. This man is brave enough to be invincible. Your Majesty doesn't have many good generals. You can't kill one of them just because of a momentary conflict. I would like to ask your Majesty to release Wang Shuang, so that he can serve the King."
Ma Chao became angry when he thought of Wang Shuang. He remembered that Wang Shuang was drunk and openly contradicted him two days ago, and his teeth itched with hatred. However, Chen Qun's words were not unreasonable. There were very few good generals in his army.
Wang Shuang's martial arts was outstanding. After thinking about it carefully, he nodded and said, "Okay, let him go. You go and give the order to release him from prison."
"promise!"
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"General, look, there is smoke over there!" On a hilltop, a heavily armed Qin soldier said excitedly, pointing to the smoke curling up in the dense forest in the distance.
The leader of the group rode his horse and walked two steps up the slope. Looking up, he saw that the surrounding fields were extremely quiet. Except for the smoke coming from the dense forest in the distance, there was no other movement. After reading this, the corners of his mouth raised.
He smiled slightly and said slowly: "It's really hard to find anywhere, and it took no effort to get here. I spent half a day and still couldn't find them. What a coincidence this time."
The man on the horse was nine feet long, with a sinewy face and a burly build. He held a large sword weighing 68 kilograms in his hand. Riding on his crotch was a Qianli Zhengwan horse, with a horse tied to its neck.
Zhang Liangshi's iron bow, with three meteor hammers hidden in his waist, turned his face and faced
The five hundred cavalry behind them roared: "Brothers, this is Wang Shuang's first expedition. You are all my subordinates. If I have made meritorious service, you will be promoted accordingly. Let's go and kill those who pretend to be me."
Those who serve in the army will definitely be richly rewarded by the king."
"promise!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Wang Shuang waved his sword forward, and the five hundred cavalry behind him galloped forward with him, rushing down the hillside, following the winding path towards the dense forest ahead.