Two thousand Longshan troops faced 70,000 infantry. It seemed to be a one-sided battle, after all, the difference in numbers was huge.
But don't forget that the Longshan Army has the invulnerable Longshan Armor, and it is still fighting in the base camp. Lei Zhenzi throws it away like it's free.
It is no exaggeration to say that in less than two hours, the 2,000 Longshan troops had already killed 70,000 coalition troops and laid off their armor.
The ghost soldiers with five buckets of rice are actually just ordinary people who have been brainwashed. They wear the simplest rattan armor. They can't even resist the flying rocks set off by Lei Zhenzi. When they see the "Sky Thunder" falling from the sky, they all kneel down and shout "Heavenly Thunder".
The teacher came down to earth, but he couldn't even pull him.
The 20,000 border troops brought by Wang Gai were actually the weakest army of the Han Dynasty. There were countless old, weak, sick and disabled soldiers among them. The so-called border troops were no different from ordinary farmers. Their main duty was to open up wasteland and cultivate land for self-sufficiency.
Although Wang Gai also had nearly 5,000 cavalry, they encountered the abnormal defense of Longshanjia. Let alone the ordinary cavalry, even Hua Cun made everyone stand where they were and allowed them to fire 70,000 arrows at once.
Ways to break defenses.
First, Lei Zhenzi shocked the arrogance of the Five Dou Rice Ghost Soldiers, and then the Longshan Army rushed into the enemy's formation, hacking and killing as if they were in an uninhabited land. The so-called 70,000 coalition troops fled to death, and in the end they were frightened to the point of peeing.
Become a prisoner.
Wang Gai was not stupid. Seeing the army discarding their armor, he led his men to flee south without hesitation and rushed to the ferry without stopping.
But what he didn't expect was that people from the Wei family had been waiting at the ferry for a long time. To be precise, they were people from the Wei Palace.
There was no hope of leading the men to attack the ferry, and Wang Gai was eventually captured.
After receiving the news, Wei Cheng was too lazy to deal with him and handed him over to his fifth uncle Wei Zhao. After all, Wang Gai still had the identity of a foreign relative of the Wei family. Even if he died, the elders of the clan elders would have to make a joint decision.
Just fine.
the next day.
The four city gates of Anyi County were opened on time. The people seemed not to know what happened last night and went into the city to set up stalls and shop as usual.
The satellite cities that were slightly affected have also been well relieved, and some minor losses can be ignored.
The most important thing is that there were no casualties, all thanks to the nearly 10,000 square meters of underground defenses under the satellite city.
City North Guards Station.
When Wei Cheng walked into the main hall, he happened to see two scribes running out in a hurry.
Seeing Wei Cheng, the two of them bowed at the same time.
"Why are you so alarmed?" Wei Cheng asked with a frown.
The first scribe, who was Tian Feng's deputy, hurriedly responded with his hands raised: "The latest news is that a large number of troops were stationed in Xingyang yesterday to point the sword at Hulao Pass."
"oh?"
Wei Qing nodded in surprise and said to himself: "It's pretty fast."
Entering the main hall, I saw Tian Feng and others pointing at the sand table.
When Wei Cheng came in, several people were noisy and red-faced. Tian Feng sat aside and drank tea calmly.
These noisy people are all so-called talented people from aristocratic families, including people from the Wei family, Cai family, and Xie family, all of whom came to practice with Tian Feng.
Seeing Wei Cheng, two of them hurriedly bowed and said, "I've met my second brother, and I want to say hello to him."
"...I have met Mr. Wei." Several other members of the aristocratic family also bowed and saluted.
Wei Cheng waved to them nonchalantly, motioning for them to go out first.
After everyone left, Wei Cheng looked at Tian Feng.
Tian Feng smiled bitterly and said: "There is no way, I can't control them."
Although Tian Feng was also from an aristocratic family, he was from a small aristocratic family after all. Facing these pampered young masters, he really couldn't control them, and Wei Cheng had to come to help.
Wei Cheng had no choice, her family kept crowding in on him, and even Cai Yan wanted her two younger brothers to come to the Wei Institute to study.
It's just hard for Tian Feng and Xun He, they each have a few people with them. Xun He is not bad, after all, he is from a wealthy family, but Tian Feng is hard. He usually speaks more straightforwardly and often offends people with his words.
I can't control the newcomers at all.
"Okay, let's deal with it casually. Really talented people are not like them. Look at Xun Wenruo. That is the attitude that talented people should have. Otherwise, if you have no talent, it is just arrogance based on your talent." Wei
Ting said disdainfully.
Tian Feng raised his hands in agreement, then looked at the messy sand table made by those people, frowned and said: "The latest intelligence shows that Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu, Bao Xin... and others led an army of 200,000 to attack Hulao Pass."
Tian Feng removed several flags near Hulao Pass, and then planted the flags of Yuan, Bao, Liu, Kong, Han... and other princes.
In the first month of the first year of Chuping (190), heroes from all over the country raised troops to challenge Dong, including: Yuan Shao, the governor of Bohai, Yuan Shu, the general of the rear, Han Fu, the pastor of Jizhou, Kong Min, the governor of Yuzhou, Liu Dai, the governor of Yanzhou, and Wang Kuang, the governor of Hanoi.
, Zhang Miao, the governor of Chenliu, Zhang Chao, the governor of Guangling, Qiao Mao, the governor of Dongjun, Yuan Yi, the governor of Shanyang, and Bao Xin, the prime minister of Jibei.
It is now November 17, the sixth year of Zhongping (189). The establishment of the Alliance to Defeat Dong is half a month ahead of schedule. The most important reason is that the appearance of Wei Cheng disrupted the timeline and allowed Dong Zhuo to ascend to power earlier.
, making the progress more than half a month ahead of schedule.
"Strange, I didn't see Cao Cao?" Wei Cheng asked curiously.
When Tian Feng heard this, his face darkened, he patted his hands a few times, and a man wearing a bamboo hat walked in at the door.
"This is the information obtained by the secret guards after interrogating Chen Wenshan and Wang Gai overnight." The man in the hat handed a scroll to Wei Cheng.
Wei Cheng took it, curiously looked at his attire, and said with a smile: "Go back and tell your third brother, don't try to hide yourself. The weirder you dress, the faster you will die. Secret guards need to blend in with ordinary people to collect intelligence. It's not intentional.
Wearing a bamboo hat attracts attention."
The man in the bamboo hat was startled when he heard this. He silently took off the bamboo hat, revealing a handsome young face. He smiled and clasped his fists at Wei Cheng and said, "What the second brother taught me is that I will talk to the third brother about dressing up later, hehe."
Wei Cheng looked at this younger brother who had no idea who his father's concubine was, and joked: "Do you know how I recognized you?"
Wei Cheng rubbed his nose, frowned and said: "The clothes you are wearing... the washing powder you used was developed by me. The only washing powder with this fragrance in our house in the whole country. If you don't want to die in confusion, I suggest
It’s better to use ordinary soap locust in the future.”
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "Ah?" The young man shivered in fright. He lowered his head and smelled the clothes on his body. There was indeed a sweet fragrance.
"Okay, go back and change your clothes. Next time you make such a stupid mistake, I will ask your third brother to kill you. A secret guard is not suitable for you. It is not bad to just go home and be a young man waiting to die.
.”
The young man didn't think Wei Cheng was trying to scare him, so he hurriedly bowed and said, "Second brother, I don't dare anymore. I'll go back and change my clothes right now."
Wei Cheng waved his hand carelessly.
After the young man left, he opened the scroll and couldn't help but wrinkled when he saw the contents inside.
"Okay, so it seems that I wrongly blamed Dong Zhuo and Wang Yun. Then Hua Xiong is not guilty. He didn't let the Qiang people in?"
Wei Cheng did not expect that he would be plotted by Boss Cao, and he was actually a plotter. First, he asked people to pretend to be Qiang people, entered Bingzhou from the north of Xiliang, and framed Hua Xiong; then he informed Wang Gai that the defense in Hedong was empty.
, allowing him to take advantage of the situation.
If it were someone else, without Long Shanjun and Lei Zhenzi, he might have succeeded. He is truly worthy of being Boss Cao!
Wei Cheng really couldn’t help but praise Lao Cao!
"Is the information true?" Wei Cheng was still a little unbelievable.
Tian Feng said: "In order to save Wang Gai's life, Chen Wenshan told almost everything. He was Wang Yun's disciple and was loyal to the Wang family. There should be no possibility of lying. Otherwise, Wang Gai would definitely die. He couldn't afford to gamble.
.”
Tian Feng walked to the low table on one side, bent down and picked up a piece of tissue paper, handed it to Wei Cheng, and said: "According to his description, when we met in Taiyuan that day, in addition to Xia Hou Shuangjie, there was another person beside Cao Mengde.
A scholar with weak writing skills."
"This is a portrait that I roughly drew based on his description. It has been sent to Heluo College. I believe there will be news soon. The teachers in the college are all famous people, so they will definitely recognize this person.
"
Wei Cheng looked at the person in the portrait curiously. He was wearing a simple scholar's uniform and a mustache. Why did he look so familiar?
At this moment, a young man from the yard ran in anxiously.
"Sir, sir, someone recognized him." When the boy ran in, he almost hit the threshold and fell.
Wei Cheng, with quick eyes and quick hands, held him up. His eyes couldn't help but fall on the rice paper in the young man's hand, and he could only see five words on it.
——Yingchuan Opera Zhicai
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Within Yuzhou.
Because there had just been a heavy snowfall, the mountains and forests on both sides of the official road were covered with snow.
A few bold spotted deer stood outside the woods, looking curiously at the army marching on the official road, with innocent curiosity in their smart eyes.
Little did they know, someone in the army had already bent their bows and set up arrows. With a "Hugh" sound, the deer were frightened and flew away, leaving only one poor stag, which was nailed to a dead tree by sharp arrows.
.
"Yuan Rang (characterized by Xiahou Dun) is indeed very strong!" Cao Cao clapped his hands and praised.
Several soldiers nearby hurriedly ran forward and untied the stag, whose chest and abdomen were rising and falling rapidly, from the tree. One man held a pottery bowl and received a bowl of hot heart blood.
Cao Cao even jumped out of the carriage himself, took the deer's blood, and carefully picked out the down and other things inside with branches.
"Come, Zhicai, drink this bowl of deer blood to warm yourself up." Cao Cao said to the people in the carriage.
The car curtain opened, and a pale face with a hint of cyan poked out. It seemed that he couldn't stand the biting cold wind. He quickly retracted back into the car, coughed a few times, and said weakly: "My lord,
I accept it, but my lord should drink the deer blood."
Cao Cao looked at the Xiahou brothers on the side, sighed quietly, stuffed the deer blood under the door curtain, and said kindly: "Zhicai, don't worry, when Luoyang is captured, I will let the miracle doctor Hua Tuo do it.
You treat me."
"Ahem...thank you, lord."
When the army marched until nightfall, Cao Cao ordered Xiahou Dun to inform the entire army and set up camp where they were.
A bonfire was lit in the big tent, and it was warm. Cao Cao personally supported Xi Zhicai and sat on a bear skin.
The two talked about the past and present in front of the fire. Xi Zhicai's remarks always gave Cao Cao a lot of insights and deep thoughts.
Naturally, the two of them talked about the Wei family in Hedong.
Xi Zhicai frowned and said: "My lord, please don't be careless about the Hedong matter. The Wei family is not as simple as it seems. All our previous arrangements were made based on the information we currently have. It cannot be ruled out that the Wei family is no longer what it used to be."
...Ahem..."
When Cao Cao heard this, his expression changed slightly. He also felt that everything was going too smoothly. Could it be that the Wei family had really been captured by Wang Gai's son? Otherwise, why was there no news at all?
"Zhicai, in your opinion, if the Wei clan is destroyed, can we go directly north and occupy the Wei clan's land?" Cao Cao asked tentatively.
Xi Zhicai was stunned, raised his eyes to look at Cao Cao, frowned tightly, and said coldly: "My Lord, you still want to capture the Wei family?"
"Uh, can't you?" Cao Cao looked at him awkwardly.
Xi Zhicai shook his head as a matter of course and said: "It's simply impossible. Not to mention the Dragon Mountain Armor, even with a divine weapon like Lei Zhenzi, the Wei family is already invincible. All our deployments are, at most,
It’s just to contain others.”
Cao Cao's face fell instantly.
Xi Zhicai tightened the fur around his body and tried to persuade him: "My lord's plan is not in the east of the river, but in Beijing."
When Xi Zhicai said this, he couldn't help but feel helpless. Logically speaking, it should be easier to capture Hedong than Luoyang. However, with Wei Zhongdao in Hedong, Dong Zhuo was better.
With each other.
"Oh, Zhicai, teach me quickly!" Cao Cao looked eager.
Xi Zhicai took a Kan map from the low table nearby, then slowly unfolded it and explained it to Cao Cao.
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November 18th.
Today happens to be the day when the latest issue of "The Great Han Dragon and Tiger List" is released.
As the intelligence post that attracts the most attention from the outside world, regardless of its purpose, the "Dragon and Tiger List of the Great Han Dynasty" published by the Wei family is a must-read for aristocratic families and forces from all walks of life.
However, in this latest issue of the "Big Han Dragon and Tiger List", a person with a low martial arts value was actually promoted to the top.
"The world is about to be in chaos, and it can't be saved except by the talents of the world. Who can bring peace to the world belongs to you?" - Liang Guoqiao Xuan
"The Han Dynasty is about to perish and the one who can bring peace to the world must be this person!" - Nanyang He Yong
"You are a traitor in peace and a hero in troubled times." - Xu Shao of Nanyang
"The capable ministers who rule the world are the traitors in troubled times." - Hedong Weicheng
The entire "Dragon and Tiger List of the Great Han Dynasty" has more than 30 pages, and nearly 30% of it is dedicated to promoting a man named [Cao Cao].
Regardless of whether you know Cao Cao or not, after today, the entire Han Dynasty basically knows him.
The most talked-about thing is Wei Cheng's evaluation of Cao Cao, which is almost opposite to that of Nanyang Xu Shao. Who is Xu Shao?
People who eat less melons also started talking about it.
Especially Xingyang, which is not far from Hedong.
Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu are both loyal readers of the "Dragon and Tiger List of the Great Han Dynasty", and they are also one of Cao Cao's allies. Regarding Cao Cao's understanding, they say they are second, not first, right?
But after seeing Wei Cheng's evaluation of Cao Cao, the two of them couldn't help but feel jealous.
It’s not that Wei Cheng is slandering Cao Cao, but that Wei Cheng describes Cao Cao in such a large space. Isn’t this a disguised way of making Cao Mengde famous?
"What's going on with Wei Zhongdao?" Yuan Shu was very dissatisfied.
Yuan Shao also had a look of envy and hatred on his face. Why was his fame as the alliance leader not as good as that of a eunuch?