Cao Cao crosses Wu Dalang

Chapter 277

Going up the Han River for more than a hundred miles, there is a water called the Nanhe River, which turns west and goes deep into the mountains. After more than two hundred miles, it reaches Fangzhou.

Cao Cao assisted Liu Yanqing, and the two led Song troops, and rushed along this way.

In order to be prepared against bandits, Cao Cao commissioned Governor Yanqing to send out sentries. Yanqing selected five hundred light and brave fighters and went straight to fifty miles away. , marched three hundred miles in five days, and arrived at the foot of Fangzhou City. I saw this city, which is really extraordinary!

"Historical Records" describes Fangzhou with the following sentences: "Thousands of miles across, mountains and forests are surrounded by mountains and forests, and its solid high tombs, if there are houses."

The city as a whole is located on an earthen mountain, surrounded by continuous mountains, Wudang Mountain in the north, Shennongjia in the south, the forest is vast, and the sound of tigers roaring and monkeys can be heard endlessly.

According to Cao Cao's original intention, he originally wanted to use a surprise attack strategy, and the cavalry rushed down the city with a drumbeat. Unexpectedly, he was disappointed when he arrived. The state of battle.

Fortunately, the city is not big. Cao Cao was disappointed, so he put on a strong attack with sharp swords and spears, scattered his soldiers and horses, and surrounded them.

Cao Cao looked at the city and sighed that he couldn't rush down, but the city exploded.

Today, Wang Qing had a confidant and found a new beauty to offer him. He was enjoying himself at home when he heard Shi Jun rushing to report, crying and mourning: "Your Majesty is not good. The Song Army's tens of thousands of troops have already approached the city and surrounded the city. It's not leaking."

Wang Qing was so frightened by the voice that he almost shrank, and he couldn't put on his trousers. He put down his robe to cover his hairy legs, and ran out, saying, "The army and horses in front have never been defeated. How can the Song army go deep into this prefecture?"

At this time, the prominent figures in the city, such as Li Zhu, Fan Quan, Fang Han, Qiu Xiang, Shi Jun, as well as Liu Yijing and Shangguanyi who were in charge of commanding the army and horses in the city, had all rushed to Wang Qing's Chu Palace.

Among them, Fang Han is the false privy envoy, Qiu Xiang is the false imperial envoy, and Shi Jun is the false palace commander. These three are all relatives of Duan Sanniang. Shi panicked like ants in a hot pot, pointing at Li Zhu and scolding: "It's all arranged by this guy randomly, and taught to call out all the elite soldiers and generals. Now there are only more than people in the city, and more than enemy troops are besieging the city. Is good?"

Fan Quan, Wang Qing's cousin, was rescued and taken in by Wang Qing when he killed an official and escaped from prison. It was he who bought a lot of money from all over Andao in Jinling in exchange for the golden seal, and bought gold for Wang Qing. Therefore, he was highly respected by Wang Qing, and he was granted the position of Shangshu after he gained power.

Fan Quan and Li Zhu were on good terms. Seeing his friend's face looking ugly, he shouted from his background: "Since we all want to be rich and honored, if we do this deed of piercing the heavens and punishing the nine clans, we will celebrate if we succeed, and die if we fail. Complain indiscriminately, What kind of bird can it help? Besides, how to deal with the Song army's soldiers approaching the city depends on the king and the military adviser's decision. You three rascals are messing around here, and you have pinched my bird's beak, and you are not allowed to fart."

The three people who scolded each other had no momentum, especially when Duan Er and Duan Wu were not around. These three were only Duan Sanniang's cousins. After all, the relationship was not good enough, so they had to swallow their anger and keep their mouths shut.

Wang Qing got Fan Quan's suggestion, suddenly understood, and hurriedly asked Li Zhuo: "The situation is difficult, and we can only see the methods of the national soldiers. Now that the disaster is imminent, the military adviser must have something to teach me."

Li Zhuchang sighed: "Originally, Second Commander Duan relied on the Hanshui River to resist the enemy. When the Fifth Commander Duan made his presence felt in Xijing, the Song Army would naturally have difficulty looking at the front and rear, so they could take advantage of the opportunity. Unexpectedly, the Second Commander Duan was like this... haha , so brave, to give up Jiancheng to fight the enemy in the field, and Duan Wu is so... oh, so steady, although the mountain road is difficult, but it is too slow, so that the whole board is full of ropes."

He said again: "If someone's prediction is correct, Du Po's army went to join forces with Li Huai, so that he gave up the way for nothing. But in this way, with the combined efforts of his two forces, Tong Guan's determination cannot be broken in a hurry. , and had no choice but to defend the isolated city until the news from Commander Duan Wu came, or if his city ran out of food, it would immediately be a dilemma."

Qiu Xiang couldn't help but angrily said: "In this way, you expected that guy Du Po to get out of the way? Then why didn't you take precautions earlier, it would be better if the Nanfeng army and horses were transferred."

Liu Yijing, the general guard of Fangzhou, clapped his hands and said in surprise, "Oh, Mr. Qiu, don't get angry. If you say that, the next day Du Dudu sent troops, the military adviser ordered me to close the four gates of Fangzhou tightly. Half an hour later, the number of soldiers patrolling the city doubled."

Wang Qing was startled and said: "In this way, the military adviser has already predicted the future of the Song army?"

Li Zhu shook his head and said: "It's all about planning ahead. I thought Tong Guan might not have such wisdom and decision-making, but now it seems that this person has been fighting for many years, and he is not an ordinary person. But even so, the people who come here are at most a partial teacher, the main force Still in Xiangyang, the so-called hundreds of thousands of horses is too much nonsense, and according to the officials' estimates, the minimum is , and the maximum is to ."

Wang Qing still didn't believe it, so he ordered Liu Yijing and Shangguanyi to patrol the four cities and count the enemy's tents.

The two came back after a while, and said happily: "The Song army is at most about to . What the military adviser said is indeed true."

Fang Han frowned and shouted: "Even if there are to troops, there are much more troops than my city. Is it still a happy event?"

Li Zhu said indifferently: "The mountain road is difficult to travel, and the Song army has no sailors. How much food and grass can we bring here in a hurry? He originally planned to attack and destroy the city by surprise. Now that I am well prepared, his strategy of surprise attack has already been defeated. The terrain of this city is very good, not to mention there are more than soldiers and horses, even if there are only two or three thousand, how could he be able to move? So just lean on the city and hold on tight, within ten days, the enemy will run out of food and disperse. I personally went out of the city to cover up and kill him, not to let him leave this place, and then picked these tens of thousands of heads and piled them under the city of Xiangyang, the Song army will lose courage, maybe even Tong Guan will surrender."

Wang Qing was overjoyed when he heard this, clapped his hands and said: "I have Mr. to help me, so I can sit back and relax!"

The three of Fang Han looked at each other, and they all laughed together: "The military master has a clever plan, and it really is extraordinary." Fang Han took the opportunity to recommend: "Your Majesty, there are Li Xiong, Bi Xian, Liu Yuan, and Pan Zhong in my Privy Council. Strong generals, they can be reused, just ask them to help General Liu defend the city."

Wang Qing waved his hand impatiently and said: "In that case, four of them will be envoys to the army, and they will all be served by Liu Yijing and Shangguanyi."

He was flustered at first, but now seeing Li Zhu being well prepared, he relieved his worries, he couldn't help but think of the little beauty who had only bought a few times, and immediately dismissed everyone, so he wanted to go back to enjoy it.

Unexpectedly, as soon as she turned around, she saw Duan Sanniang walking out with a bloody short-handled mace with a murderous look on her face, and shouted: "Where are the Song soldiers? My mother will fight them to the death."

Wang Qing panicked, with a bad premonition, and quickly grabbed his wife's buffalo-like arm: "Ah, Sanniang, the military master has made a plan to defend against the enemy, why should you kill the enemy? Where did the blood on this stick come from?" ?”

Duan Sanniang raised her face and said: "When I came out, I met a charming little vixen. I thought she was so pretty. When the Song army invaded the city, wouldn't they want you to be a turtle? So I killed her first with a stick. To keep the face of your group of birds, if you don't say kowtow to thank me, who are you staring at?"

Wang Qing was furious when he heard this, and snatched the treasured sword from Fan Quan's waist: "Ah, it's so easy to find a concubine, and she died tragically in your hands, Duan Sanniang! If I don't share life and death with you today, my surname Then write it upside down!"

Duan Sanniang said angrily: "Come here, come here, if you don't fight today, you will be a dog crawling, I am not a man!"

Not to mention the fact that in the pseudo-king's mansion, the husband and wife were beating each other with knives and sticks, but in the military tent outside the city, Liu Yanqing looked at the towering earth hills and the city with a worried expression on his face, wondering: "Unexpectedly, this city , The terrain is so strange. If it is an attack, it will be difficult to carry the ladder up the earth mountain. If it is to go up the path, it will be a situation where one man guards the gate and ten thousand men cannot open it. Only a team of archers can stop thousands of people. The army is tens of thousands of horses. Our food and grass are limited...General Wu, what good strategy do you have?"

There are different teachings: Mr. Jin Jian's plan is amazing, and Meng De's clever strategy has not lost him.Closing the city does not mean that there will be no food, but digging the soil will surely teach water to move.

(End of this chapter)