Cao Cao crosses Wu Dalang

Chapter 687

Where Yingtianfu is located in Nanjing, the surrounding fields are vast and flat.

The Bian River flows from Kaifeng Mansion to this point, and becomes the largest lake, and then flows down to connect with the Huaihe River.

The lake is in the shape of a circle, with a high ground protruding from the middle, which looks like the back of a turtle, high in the middle and low around, and high walls are built along the lake on all sides to form a square city.

There are 93 streets in the city, horizontal and vertical, shaped like a chessboard, and there are four gates, which are:
Binyang Gate in the east, Jize Gate in the west, Gongyang Gate in the south, and Gongchen Gate in the north.

In addition to the four gates, there are four urn cities, all of which are twisted gates: the north gate opens to the west, the east and west gates open to the south, and the south gate opens to the east, which is the so-called "four gates and eight gates".

If it is an ordinary city, the moat water system is nothing more than deep ditches and large canals, so suspension bridges are often used to pass through.

However, the "moat" of Yingtianfu is a large lake, which is extremely wide, so there is no need for a suspension bridge, and the lake is filled to build roads, forming four long streets in the south, east, west, and north.

If the enemy army comes to attack, the four streets are narrow, and the army will inevitably gather. If you look at the city wall and shoot at them, how can you advance lightly?Therefore, it is easy to defend but difficult to attack, which is the barrier of Jianghuai.

Speaking of this city, its origin is also extraordinary. It was the place where Zhuanxu, the ancient emperor, established his capital. , and Suiyang County was set up, Songzhou was restored in Song Dynasty, and it was promoted to Yingtian Mansion.

When Cao Cao came here, he heard that Fan Rui was going to fight against the Liao people. He stationed his troops more than ten li away. In the northwest is a five or six zhang high earth mound called Longxiu Mountain. With the help of trees to cover his body, he watched the situation of his city for a while, nodded and sighed.

Li Kui quickly asked: "Brother, why are you sighing? Are you worried that Fan Rui and his gang will not be able to take down this city? If so, there is no need to worry. Tieniu smashed the gate of the city and entered with this pair of big axes. Let's see how he can beat me." what."

Lao Cao pointed his fingers at the city wall, and sighed: "Wu Yanguang is poor and weak, what's the point? It's just that this city is where Zhang Xun was loyal. I was studying at home, and I cried several times after watching the history of the Tang Dynasty. Now I am personally on the scene, and I admire the demeanor of the former sages, so I feel deeply."

Fang Baihua glanced to the north of the city. The Liangshan army was still in formation. Knowing that they couldn't fight for a while, they couldn't hold back their curiosity, so they asked Lu Junyi in a low voice, "Who is Zhang Xun?"

Lu Junyi was surprised and said, "You don't even know about Zhang Xun?"

Fang Baihua's face turned red, and she turned to look at Li Kui and Niu Gao: "Do you all know Zhang Xun?"

Li Kui shook his head, Niu Gao covered his mouth, shook his head and said with a smile: "We are poets, why don't we know Zhang and Zhang Xun? It's just that we don't want to tell you now, otherwise your husband won't be here." Wouldn't it annoy us to show off in front of the mother-in-law?"

Fang Baihua stared at him suspiciously, then looked at her husband: "Then let you show off for a while, and tell me how amazing this Zhang Xun is, that even a hero like Brother Wu would cry for him ?”

Lu Junyi was rich in five generations, and his vision is naturally extraordinary. Although he has never read any serious history of Tang Dynasty, he spent half his life in a prosperous place like the Daming Mansion, and he heard a lot of stories. He is naturally more knowledgeable than Fang Baihua.

Immediately he said: "It was the Anshi Rebellion at that time. There were two birdmen, An Lushan and Shi Siming, who wanted to take away Yang Guifei, the beloved concubine of Tang Minghuang, so they rebelled and killed Luoyang and Chang'an all the time. Take down all of them, and the land of the Tang Dynasty is crumbling."

Cao Cao saw that his demeanor was quite right, but after hearing a few words, he couldn't help laughing. What he wanted to seize Concubine Yang was obviously a storyteller who went through the rivers and lakes to attract people in the market.

Fang Baihua's aesthetic level happened to belong to the category of ordinary people, and she immediately entered the play, clenched her fists and exclaimed: "Ah, these two people are good or bad, and someone else has a husband, and he has no shame to make a decision—did he ever succeed?" ?”

Cao Cao frowned, looked at the aunt, and saw that she had a concerned expression on her face, and he didn't think he was mocking him.

Lu Junyi said triumphantly: "Tang Xuanzong is not easy to get along with, you want my woman? I just don't want to be with you! The first thing he did when he escaped from Chang'an was to strangle Concubine Yang Gui to death first, so that he could let him go. Those two rebels stopped thinking."

Fang Baihua was furious when he heard this: "This trash! You can't keep your own woman, so what kind of emperor is he? He doesn't have the ability to suppress rebellion, but he takes his anger out on women?"

Li Kui also shook his head and said: "Oh, this Concubine Yang followed him in vain, if I am my brother, it would be no good? Who dares to move the slightest bit of dog's heart, and Boss Tie Niu chopped him alive with an axe."

The more Fang Baihua thought about it, the more angry he became: "But don't talk about the bird emperor, just talk about Zhang Xun."

Lu Junyi thought for a while, and suddenly annoyed: "You interrupted me, but I forgot!"

Fang Baihua immediately looked at Cao Cao: "Good nephew, it's up to you."

Cao Cao stroked his beard and answered helplessly: "The two birds named An and Shi didn't get Concubine Yang, so they decided to overthrow the foundation of the Tang Dynasty. The useless emperor fled into Sichuan in fright. But he fled to Lingzhou, respected his old man as the Supreme Emperor, ascended the throne and became the new emperor himself, and used generals Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi to attack the two birds of Anshi..."

"Oh!" Fang Baihua clapped his hands, his face full of surprise: "Seven Buddha's halberd technique is the Qinglong Knife Thirteen Halberds handed down by Guo Ziyi. It's very good. I see those two birds who want to steal their wives People must not be opponents!"

Cao Cao laughed, nodded and said, "Aunt Baihua has good eyesight! As soon as these two generals came out, they defeated the rebel army steadily and regained the two capitals and Hebei. But the reason why they were able to fight so well, except for Guo and Li Zhang Xun's credit is also due to his own ability! It is this person who guarded Suiyang, shielded half of the Jianghuai River, preserved the wealth in the southeast, and even involved hundreds of thousands of rebels before and after. Generals Guo and Li were able to calm down Set up and win in the end."

Speaking of this, Lao Cao looked at Yingtian Mansion and sighed: "At that time, this city was called Suiyang, and it was a battleground for the rebels. The prefect Xu Yuan was in a hurry, and Zhang Xun led the army to help. The combined army of the two families was more than . People, against more than rebels, during this period Zhang Xun's ingenious plans repeatedly defeated the enemy's front, and he did not waver for several months. Alas, I only hate the Tang army in Linhuai, Pengcheng and other places. They asked for help several times, but they refused to support them. Brigade, be the enemy alone."

He narrowed his eyes slightly and counted with his fingers: "Zhang Xun entered Suiyang in January and killed tens of thousands of enemy troops. In July, when the city ran out of food, Zhang Xun killed concubines and Xu Yuan killed slave boys to feed the hungry army. , the army weeps, and is willing to fight to the death."

Niu Gao exclaimed: "This guy is also cruel."

Cao Cao continued: "For another ten days, the vulpines, birds, corpses, leather armor, and bow strings in the city were all starved, and the generals in the city were as thin as ghosts."

Speaking of this, Lao Cao's eyes were already filled with tears: "On the ninth day of October, the rebels attacked again, and the only remaining defenders were unable to stand. Zhang Xun struggled to get up, bowed westward to the Tang Emperor, and cried: "The isolated city is poor. , Exhausted of strength and wisdom, it is difficult to save, the minister cannot repay His Majesty alive, and after death, he will turn into a ghost and eat a thief.'”

When Li Kui, Yuan Lang, Shi Wengong, Lu Junyi and others heard this, their hairs stood on end, and they shouted in unison: "You are really a hero!"

Cao Cao sighed: "When he was captured, the enemy general was furious, opened his mouth with a knife, and saw that there were only two or three broken teeth in his mouth. The rest were all in normal battles, scolding the bandits and biting them in anger—— Heh, this man's bloodliness can be seen."

Liu Yanqing sighed, and said: "Three days after Zhang Suiyang's death, the reinforcements arrived, and Suiyang was recaptured. Up to now, on the lake island in the south of the city, there are still cigarettes from Zhang Xunci Temple."

Fang Baihua's eyes turned red when he heard it, wiped away his tears, and said in a trembling voice: "Sure enough, he is a good man! When I take down this city, I should go to worship and see what I want."

Niu Gao was even more inspired by poetry, and excitedly chanted: "Hey! Looking at the blue waves of the city and lake in the distance, I still sing the hero's song! The young heroes come to pay their respects, and the poets recite the poems and immortals."

After singing, he was ecstatic, and looked at Li Kui with two nostrils.

Li Kui Shisi thought about the future for a while, but he was not far behind. He gritted his teeth, stared straight at his eyes, the veins on his forehead popped up, he channeled the energy in his dantian, and let out three big farts in a row. A poem came out: "I will follow Brother Wu and come to find the Liao dog to fight... Well, that, this, ah! Senior Zhang Xun sits in the clouds and watches me rebuild the Han mountains and rivers."

After reciting a poem, I stomped my feet and sweated profusely.

Lao Cao applauded and laughed: "It's good to see that I have reorganized the Han mountains and rivers-although the sentence is useless, the meaning is magnificent. Zhang Gong has a spirit in the sky. Hearing this poem, he should understand it."

Yuan Lang shouted: "I'll accompany you for a drink."

Li Kui smirked, looked at Niu Gao, and nodded to each other, really sympathetic to each other, Fang Baihua covered his mouth and smiled and said: "It's a pity that the sister of the Li family will go home first, otherwise it would be better to sing peace with you, but we don't have the ability to do so."

Niu Gao nodded again and again, with regret on his face: "We wait for the three great poets of Qingzhou, and I don't know when we will be able to compete in the same day."

Shi Wengong suddenly said: "Since this city is the place where our heroes of the Han family shed their blood and defended it with their lives, how can he let his Liao dog run wild? After all, he broke the city, took the head of a dog of a different race, and sacrificed it to our martyrs of the Han family!"

Everyone nodded after hearing this, but they heard a horn blowing from the bottom of the mountain, and it was Zhu Wu's moment, which had already been set up.

Immediately, he galloped, from the long street in the lake in the north of the city, straight to the bottom of the city, and shouted: "Will you know the position of our military division today?"

Then I saw a group of Liao generals in the city vying to poke their heads. After a long while, a general in the middle stood up and smiled: "Hehehehahahaha, what your guy is doing is just a circular gossip formation, which is nothing special. How about it?" Show off too? And stand firmly, wait for me to dispatch troops and generals to break your formation!"

While speaking, he turned and went down to the city. Not long after, the city gate opened, and a thousand cavalry rushed out quickly, crossed the long bridge on the lake, and rushed straight to the front of the formation. Wearing a purple gold crown with seven treasures, wearing a golden tortoise shell, holding a vermilion pole to draw a halberd, and stepping down from an iron-backed silver-maned beast, it is Liao general Wu Yanguang!

The four generals behind them, ranked according to the four-day star kings, are "Fang Ri Rabbit" Xie Wu, "Xu Ri Rat" Xu Wei, "Pleiades Sun Chicken" Shun Shougao, and "Xing Ri Horse" Bian Junbao. Hold a weapon and show off your might.

I saw the formation of Liangshan, and when the flag gate opened, two horses came out, the one on the left, nine feet tall, carrying a mountain axe, wearing a gold-plated horn helmet, and wearing fish-scale bright silver armor. The tanned Lu Junyi is ordinary, it is Liangshan general, "Bull Demon King" Bian Xiang.

The general next to him, with a thin beard and white face, handsome eyes and Taoist uniform, with two knives on his waist, is Zhu Wu, the "Master of the Divine Machine".

Liang Shanjun has been entangled here for many days, and it is obvious that this is not the first time the two sides have dealt with each other, so Wu Yanguang laughed and said: "Zhu Wu, you are afraid that you will be exhausted, and you are only going to show off if you repeat the gossip array. After breaking yours, do you still have the ability to press the bottom of the box?"

Zhu Wu smiled, and said neither humble nor overbearing: "General Wuyan, why bother to say such big words? I came to Liangshan with soldiers and horses, and I agreed to fight every three days, and the winner would get the city of Yingtianfu. Now you have broken me for ten days. It also broke ten of your formations, although you have a strategic strategy, could it be that Zhu lost to you?"

Wu Yanguang said angrily: "Hmph, if our army hadn't suffered too many casualties before, a certain family's 28th generals and th generals were all there, as long as you put out the Taiyi mixed sky formation, you would have been defeated already, how dare you stand in front of me?" presumptuous."

Zhu Wu laughed loudly after hearing this: "It's useless to talk too much, it's just to break the formation!"

There are points to teach:
Admiral Wu Yan ruled the roost in vain, and Zhu Wu's magic is more transparent.He claims to inherit the magic of the formation, but he doesn't know that he is already in the game.

(End of this chapter)