Above the pure water in the small village, the continuous boats and rafts are like clouds, and there is no limit at a glance. If you look down from a high altitude, countless small boats and rafts are like huge swarms of bees, slowly hovering around their enemies, and will launch wave after wave of offensives at any time.
In front of the fleet, there was a house mostly soaked in the water. It was probably the manor of a powerful Jingxiang manor. Zhu Ling and a few soldiers and civil servants stood on the roof, looking at the war in the small village.
"A moment." Zhu Ling said in a deep voice.
A entourage beside him asked, "A moment the general said, is it time for our army to win the battle?"
Zhu Ling nodded and shook his head again: "I mean, the enemy has persisted for a moment."
"What does the general mean?"
"There are at most four hundred people guarding this small village, and they have not seen any strong bows and crossbows. Their village is also very damaged and has no choice but to rely on. In this case, they faced the strong attack of more than five times the elite soldiers on our side for a full moment. I looked carefully and found that they were completely unshakable from beginning to end, nor surrendered."
He looked at his subordinates and continued: "Following the sex and flag, these people are indeed the elite of the Jiaozhou Army, and they should be He Song's subordinates. This guy went north fifty miles away from Xinye, which shows that the Jiaozhou Army's forces were completely dispersed. The King of Wei really did not make any mistakes in this regard."
Several civil servants hurriedly said, "The King of Wei really thinks of the enemy as good as a god!"
Zhu Ling nodded slightly and ignored the verbal tricks of the literati. These words were naturally to be said, and if they didn't say them, they would seem to be not loyal to the King of Wei. However, it was enough for the subordinate civil servants to say them. Zhu Ling himself was not interested in joining in the fun at this time.
In the eyes of veteran generals like him, it would be a bit ridiculous to put the word "Empression as a god" on the King of Wei. The King of Wei always marched and fought in this life, and he often made a frivolous move and defeated himself. This was the case in Yanzhou and Chibi back then.
This time in the Jingxiang war, he used his tens of thousands of troops as bait, hoping to attract the enemy to the ground and use water instead of soldiers.
The water really came, but the Jiaozhou army seemed to have expected it and walked faster than a rabbit. The flood poured down, and even a flagpole of the enemy was flooded, but it swallowed up thousands of soldiers of the Cao army alive, making them all become ghosts of tragic death floating in the water.
When the flood came, Zhu Lingzheng led more than a thousand subordinates to station in Qingyang, north of Xinye County.
He remembered the scene of the military and civilians running wildly; he remembered the panic shouts and irritable scolding of hundreds of thousands of people, and the panic crying intertwined into a thick net, covering his head, almost suffocating.
He remembered that when the flood poured in from the north gate, countless people rushed from all directions in the streets of Qingyang City, pushing each other, trying to escape to the south gate. The crowds were stacked in layers and piled up on the narrow streets in the south of the city.
He remembered that the black water surged from the north, and the crowded crowds were swirling like dead leaves thrown into the torrent, rolling and swallowing to the bottom of the water; he remembered that the broken trees wrapped by the water flow rushed around like wild beasts.
A confidant Zhu Ling's confidant was squeezed and hit by the logs washed by the water while escaping. The huge pressure instantly caused his abdomen to burst, and all his internal organs were sprayed out under the water. A piece of his intestine was rolled on another tree trunk, so it was dragged longer and longer, and finally it broke suddenly.
This was just the result of the surging water. Zhu Ling was lucky and escaped and joined his subordinates to the north. But for several days, he remembered the dead in Qingyang City, and the smell of decay and blood that rostled in the flood.
When the water reaches the downstream and merges with the water and turbulent water, the water will only become more surging. When we meet with Han Mian, the water will increase by more than ten times?
What would happen to the soldiers in such an environment? What would happen if they were killed and injured and tragic? Zhu Ling could not imagine it.
Zhu Ling was born as a village tycoon, and most of his subordinates were soldiers, so he always loved soldiers among the generals of the Cao army. After being re-activated two years ago, he worked hard to win people's hearts and hang out with the soldiers. Over time, he inevitably developed some true feelings.
Previously, the soldiers of our side fought fiercely with the Jingzhou Army and the Jiaozhou Army. No matter how heavy the casualties were, they were all for the duty of the warriors. But what was this flood?
So many soldiers were sacrificed for the great cause of Cao Gong, but did they not deserve a little mercy?
Those are tens of thousands of soldiers! Even if there are more soldiers in Jingxiang, they are still subordinates of the King of Wei, not enemies!
Not to mention, it also includes many generals and officers, and even Zhu Ling's friend, the right general Zhang He, who was missing for a while!
Such a huge loss would immediately collapse if any army was replaced. At that time, Duke Benchu ​​was defeated in Guandu, claiming to have lost 80,000 troops. In fact, the real soldiers would never be killed or injured.
After the flood, the Cao army soldiers in Xinye, Nanyang and other places were all in a state of dismay and their morale was low for a while. Ordinary soldiers thought it was a natural disaster, but a senior general like Zhu Ling had his own connections, so what could he hide from him?
Zhu Ling didn't know that after he arrived in Nanyang, he soon knew. It turned out that this flood was the killing move that Cao Gong had planned for a long time. Cao Gong gave more than once to show off his own army, claiming that he had used his army as bait and would definitely use the water to destroy Guan Yu, and Lei Yuan's troops came.
When he said this, wasn't he even a little ashamed? He didn't have any soft-heartedness?
absurd.
In the past two or three days, this news has been widely circulated among our soldiers. Many grassroots soldiers have begun to have resentment and doubts about Cao Gong. There are also many civil servants who cannot bear the suffering of corvee labor, and at this time they are taking advantage of the issue.
Zhu Ling heard that the prefect of Nanyang Dongliguen had suppressed several mutinies in the past few days. His subordinate Hou Yin led his troops to kill people, and his killing was weak.
Zhu Ling felt that Mr. Cao was probably really old. He felt that his limit was not far away, so he acted without any scruples and showed his nature to the fullest. However, can such a method really rely on to pacify the world?
Maybe it's really possible, who knows?
Zhu Ling knew that her family was not very accurate in her viewing, so she should not think too much.
Zhu Ling remembered that when he defected to Cao Gong, in order to show sincerity, he said: "There are many people in Lingguan, but there is no such person as Cao Gong. This is the true wise master."
As a result, Cao Gong massacred hundreds of thousands of people in Xuzhou again, and the Si River did not waste it, and the world was in an uproar. Cao Gong thought Zhu Ling was deliberately ridiculed, so he didn't like him no matter how he looked at him. Finally, he found an excuse and deprived Zhu Ling of his military power.
Now that Cao Gong's old behavior has become more and more aggressive, he has taken his own soldiers as bait to die... Zhu Ling didn't want to talk nonsense at all.
After all, he is just a warrior. The lord's command is the direction of Zhu Ling's fighting. Since Cao Gong didn't mind the loss, why should he mind? Since Cao Gong was full of his heart and wanted to fight with all his strength and achieve his achievements in one battle, Zhu Ling would try with all his strength.
Cao Gong put Zhu Ling in this position because he hoped that he would play the role of a former general. Then Zhu Ling would fight in a silence, not saying it or thinking about it.
After several civil officials praised him, Zhu Ling said, "I heard that He Song, who followed the Lei clan in Lujiang, has a very profound experience. He was leaned by Lei Yuan as his right-hand man and always became a vanguard in the battle. His troops and horses were also the elite of the Jiaozhou Army. He had previously captured the county and killed our generals Jiao Chu and Guo Zu. Such a person, the Jiaozhou Army would probably not allow his troops to be besieged and annihilated by us. So..."
Zhu Ling thought for a moment: "The main force of Cao Gong is still two days away from us, so we will leave one day for He Song. If all the troops of the Jiaozhou Army come to help at this time tomorrow, we will just wait for the effort to annihilate it."
"What if the Jiaozhou army does not come to rescue?"
Chapter completed!