General Zhendong entered the prefect's mansion and sat in the middle of the lobby without hesitation. Looking at Zhao Kai who was brought in, he asked:
"Have you sent a messenger to Jixian?"
Zhao Kai was stunned. He didn't expect that the first sentence that General Zhendong didn't ask was this.
But when I thought about it, it was reasonable.
So he answered honestly:
"I saw wolf smoke yesterday and sent a quick horse."
General Zhendong thought about the time when the gates were lit, and then asked:
"How far is Yuyang from Jixian?"
"Baili."
I quickly calculated it in my heart, that is to say, if Jixian gets the news, I will send reinforcements immediately and will arrive at noon tomorrow as early as tomorrow.
If you march normally, you can reach it almost at dusk.
Thinking of this, General Zhendong asked again:
"What is the comparison between the Jixian garrison and the Yuyang garrison?"
Of course Zhao Kai wants to say he doesn't know.
Just listening to Guan Yihu, who was sitting on the head, his tone was calm, but he had a momentum that was forced and undeniable.
Now, I can only continue to say honestly:
"The war has been tense in the past few months. Most of the defenders in Yuyang were transferred to the Northwest Pass, so many county soldiers were temporarily recruited."
"Ji County is the prefecture of Youzhou, which may be stronger than Yuyang, but it is limited. After all, in recent years, the Youzhou border has been peaceful and war-free, and its military facilities are a bit relaxed..."
General Zhendong smiled faintly when he heard this.
A little relaxed?
That doesn't look like "some".
But this is no wonder.
The Han Dynasty put too much pressure on the west side, and Sun Wu in the south often made some moves, which forced the pseudo-Wei to put its main force in the west, followed by the southeast.
If you are weak in the northern pass, you can only be comforted.
More importantly, after Ke Bi Neng turned against the pseudo-Wei, he should have continued to cause trouble to the Youzhou border, but unexpectedly, he was deceived by someone from Feng to Jiuyuan, in the name of helping him recuperate.
It has indirectly helped Youzhou maintain the peace of the border.
Of course, Mr. Feng did not cheat Ke Bi Neng, but he really helped Ke Bi Neng recuperate.
But after resting, Mr. Feng came over to get the price he had secretly won the bid.
Now, General Zhendong has come to Youzhou to collect the price he secretly won the bid for Youzhou in his early years.
"From Yuyang to Jixian, can there be a place suitable for setting up ambush?"
Ah, this...
Zhao Kai was silent for a moment, and it could be seen that he was still a little resistant:
"Yes, there is a mountain between Jixian and Yuyang County, called Hunu Mountain. There is a pass on the mountain, and the narrowest part is only six feet away. It is the best place to set up an ambush."
When Zhao Guang heard this, he was immediately overjoyed and looked at General Zhendong.
Unexpectedly, Zhendong's phoenix eyes narrowed slightly and asked:
"Your surname is Zhao? Who is your person?"
The question was a bit abrupt, which made Zhao Kai slightly stunned, and seemed to be unable to react, but he still answered:
"The villain comes from Zhuo County, Hebei."
Although the Zhao family in Hebei is not as famous as the Li family in the Cui family in the Fan family in the Li family, it can be regarded as having a long history, which can be traced back to the royal family of Zhao during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.
Sima Yi took over Hebei. If he wanted to gain a foothold in Hebei as quickly as possible, he had to compromise with the Hebei tribes.
It is natural for the children of Hebei to control the key positions of local counties and counties.
"Zhuo County," General Zhendong's tone became a little serious, and he stood up at the same time, "That is the ancestral home of my Great Han Emperor Zhaolie. I didn't expect you to be a fellow villager with me Great Han Emperor Zhaolie."
"As far as I know, the Zhao family of Zhuo County has always had a tradition of selling horses from outside the Great Wall to the mainland. When Emperor Zhaolie raised his army in the early years, he also funded Emperor Zhaolie and sent a lot of horses."
When Zhao Kai heard this, his face became extremely complicated.
Seeing this, General Zhendong asked meaningfully, "Do you know that I, the Five Tiger General of the Great Han Dynasty?"
"Who doesn't know about Guan, Zhang, Zhao, Ma, Huang?"
General Zhendong pointed at Zhao Guang, "This is Zhao Yiwen, the second son of Old General Zhao."
Zhao Kai turned his head to look at him, but saw that Zhao Guang was also looking at him with strange eyes.
Zhao Kai was shocked:
"Could it be Zhao Sanqian, who led three thousand iron cavalry to break through the 100,000 army?"
Upon hearing this, Zhao Guang couldn't help but straighten his chest.
“That’s right.”
"The honest tiger will be the same."
General Zhendong smiled slightly:
"When General Zhao followed Emperor Zhaolie, he was valued by Emperor Zhaolie and was taken as the main cavalry. Many of his troops came from the Zhao family in Zhuo County."
Zhao Kai reacted faintly, and suddenly felt his heart beating a little, and he couldn't help swallowing.
"Jun Zhao, as you see, are these soldiers under my command considered elite soldiers?"
"It's not an elite soldier, but a tiger or wolf."
"There are seven thousand iron cavalry who followed me into Youzhou this time. As you see, can anyone in Hebei fight me?"
Zhao Kai was silent for a while and replied:
"If the soldiers from Hebei are raised and the Taifu is led by him, how can the general have the power to fight?"
After saying this, Zhao Kai secretly glanced at General Zhendong, but General Zhendong was not angry, and then continued:
"However, now all the elite soldiers in Hebei gather east of Taihang, and it is difficult to travel east. With the ability of the general, they lead the army of tigers and wolves across Youzhou, and there is no one who can stop them."
"That's right." General Zhendong said slowly, "So, Mr. Zhao, can you tell me now, where is the most suitable reinforcements from Jixian County?"
With Han Long, an old Youzhou native, and with Ji Yang and Ji Hui, General Zhendong could not understand Youzhou, at least he had some understanding of the main county towns and the main transportation routes.
The official road between Ji County and Yuyang County, Hunu Mountain Pass is indeed the most suitable place to set up an ambush.
Zhao Kai did not lie before, but it was too late to go to the Hunu Mountain Pass at this time.
Because Yuyang County is about fifty miles away from Hunu Mountain Pass.
In other words, by time, the reinforcements from Ji County had already passed the Hunu Mountain Pass at this time.
Zhao Kai's body trembled, and finally his legs became weak and he crawled down:
"I dare not hide it from the general. After passing Hunu Mountain, if you want to go to Yuyang, you must pass through Gushui (Baihe) and Baoqiu (Chaohe)."
(Note: During the Three Kingdoms period, the Chaobai River had not yet formed a stable convergence. The modern convergence section was formed many times in the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties. The ancient Baoqiu water and Gu water flowed into the sea alone, and were parallel water systems north of today's Tongzhou)
"There are three ferry crossings in these two rivers, namely Baoqiu Ferry, five miles away from Yuyang, Gujin Ferry, seven miles, and Miyun Ferry, twelve miles."
"If you set up an ambush at these three places and hit it halfway through, you will definitely succeed."
"Good!" General Zhendong sat down again with satisfaction and asked, "Where will people from Jixian cross the water according to Zhao Jun's opinion?"
There was one, then two. Zhao Kai smiled bitterly, but finally let go of his last psychological burden and replied:
"Baoqiu Du, five miles south of Yuyang, has the narrowest water surface and a floating bridge is the most convenient."
"Okay!" General Zhendong said with a high-high, "Since that's the case, I will follow what Zhao Jun said and ambush the people from Ji County. I wonder if Zhao Jun is willing to help me?"
Zhao Kai kowtowed:
"General, Kaixuan escaped with his life. If he had the opportunity to abandon the violent and enmity, how dare he not do his best to help the general?"
Zhao Kai is naturally not a fool to be able to sit in the position of prefect.
Hebei is finished.
When Guan Yihu led 7,000 Han cavalry into Youzhou, no matter how slow the person was, he could see that Hebei was settled.
Guan Yihu deliberately mentioned Emperor Zhaolie and Zhao Yun, one of the Five Tiger Generals, and Zhao Kai had already fully understood the meaning.
Since the Han Dynasty is nostalgic and does not fall in love with the Han Dynasty at this time, should we still survive and die with the pseudo-Wei?
When Emperor Zhao of Zhuo County raised his army, he had already proved his loyalty to the Han Dynasty.
And I naturally want to continue to prove my loyalty!
Of course, it would be even better if the Zhao family could be led to glory by the way.
Zhao Kai even took the initiative to take out the pictures from the prefect's mansion and point out the location for General Zhendong.
"Okay, okay!" General Zhendong slapped the table and ordered, "Liu Hun!"
"The last one will be here!"
"I will share your 1,500 men and go to Gujin Ferry (Qianli)."
"Here!"
"The bald hair stands tall."
"The last one will be here!"
"I will share your 1,500 people and go to Miyun Du (twelve miles)."
"Here!"
"When you wait for the two of you to arrive there, you must send scouts as soon as possible, but if you find that the thief army arrives, you will immediately repay it as quickly as possible."
General Zhendong looked at the two and ordered:
"If the bandit army has not arrived, or sees signals or receives military orders, they will immediately cross the water, go around to Baoqiu Cross, and kill the bandit army!"
"Here!"
General Zhendong looked at Zhao Guang and ordered:
"Zhao Guang, you lead two thousand troops to set up an ambush at Baoqiu Ferry in advance. I will lead the remaining troops to serve as the rear army and then set off."
Zhao Guang was excited and quickly stood up to agree.
General Zhendong looked at Zhao Kai:
"Zhao Fujun, before the army sets off, the soldiers need to rest here tonight, and wait until they have enough food and drink to have the strength to kill the thieves. I will have to worry about the food and grass in the army."
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Zhao Kai hurriedly said:
"I dare not, I dare not, general, but please rest assured that in Yuyang City, a batch of food and grass will be transported to Jixian County recently. Now it is most suitable to reward the soldiers."
"That's the best," General Zhendong continued, "and the soldiers and the people in the city also need Zhao Fujun to help appease him."
"Since Emperor Zhaolie's rebellion, he has always treated the people with benevolence and righteousness. Now the Emperor of Han inherited Zhaolie's will and praised the world with benevolence and righteousness. As long as the people do not take the initiative to abide by the thief, they will all be regarded as their people."
"I will not lock down the city today, just to prevent anyone from sending letters to the thieves. Zhao Envoy will appease the people in the city and say that the seal will be lifted in the future so that the people will not need to panic."
When Zhao Kai heard this, he agreed repeatedly, and at the same time he felt relieved:
"Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, will do whatever you want."
As expected, it’s still easy to do things with the big man!
If it really happened to the fake Wei, it would be a massacre of the city.
——
At noon on the second day, the scorching sun was in the sky.
The water of Baoqiu reflects the sunshine, and the shimmering light is shining.
The Ferry River originally had a lookout for the Later Han Dynasty, but the military facilities in Youzhou were loose in recent years and had long been abandoned.
Fortunately, it did not collapse, and after some renovation, it could barely be used.
The watchtower was converted into a fisherman's drying net rack, with firewood piles piled up on it in disguise.
Dozens of crossbow snipers were hiding among the firewood piles, and the crossbow machine looked at the mountain and was close to the positioning line somewhere - this was the best shooting angle calculated by Pei Xiu.
"General, the thief should have arrived? There is no sign yet. Could it be that Zhao Kai was wrong? They didn't cross the water from here?"
At the lookout on the watchtower, Zhao Guang looked at the sky, then looked at the quiet opposite shore, and asked in a while.
General Zhendong put down the Qianli Miles Miles and said calmly: "What's the hurry? Arriving in the afternoon is just our estimate."
"The slower it comes, the more beneficial it will be for us to take Youzhou."
Because when the Yuyang Pass was in a hurry, Jixian reinforcements could not arrive in time. They were not trying to rescue them, but the troops could not arrive.
If the troops cannot arrive, the more the combat power is worrying.
The sun was westward, and the scout rushed back:
"General, the bandit army is less than three miles away from here."
"Okay, send the order to prepare everyone. Also, send a quick horse to inform Liu Hun and Tufa Tianli!"
"Here!"
Half an hour later, the Jixian reinforcements, who were chaotic and extremely thirsty, finally arrived at the edge of the ferry.
When everyone saw the river, they cheered.
When the vanguard light cavalry rushed into the ferry, there were still broken leaves that were marching in the gaps in the armor leaves.
Some soldiers were slumped on the river beach and gasped, while some uncle kicked the soldiers who were robbing water, but they fell into a mud pit.
More than ten war horses squeezed into the pier five feet wide to bite and tap, and one horse was even arched into the rapids. The arrow boxes tied on the horse's back spread out, and two thousand iron arrows floated on the water.
"Put it away, why don't you go and put it away!"
"Full team, whole team!"
The Wei generals riding on the horse held up their whips and whipped them down towards the soldiers.
Seeing Wei Jun in the Qianli Mirror, General Zhendong raised a contemptuous sneer on the corner of his mouth:
"The half-duty order is heard, and the central army will be stopped first."
General Zhendong inserted three whistle arrows into Zhao Guang's arrow bag, "Please look at the watchtower and find the flag of the letter to rush up."
Zhao Guang licked his lips, clasped his fists silently, and then quietly got off the lookout.
"Look at those who ride horses, your target is them."
This is what the crossbow snipers said.
After the Wei generals left no effort to beat him, the Wei army finally had a little formation.
The vanguard of the Wei army began to trek.
The Wei general riding on the horse saw a fisherman closing the net opposite, as if frightened by the arrival of the army, and panickedly wanted to close the net and leave.
Everything is normal.
There are still people fishing here, which means that nothing has happened in Yuyang yet.
Until halfway through the crowd, the East Coast Pier looked like an abandoned lookout that was used by fishermen to dry the nets, and suddenly a flag appeared.
Immediately afterwards, the shrill sound of whistling tore through the sky.
Dozens of crossbows shot out poisonous iron arrows at the same time. Several Wei generals were named directly. They didn't even see the enemy anywhere, and they were killed by arrows.
"kill!"
The horse's hooves were sounding like thunder, and red cavalry suddenly emerged from the reed marsh on both sides.
Zhao Guang took the lead and rushed straight to the Wei army's flag that had just crossed the river.
The Wei general standing under the flag was caught off guard and drew his sword hastily. Before he could draw it halfway, he was already chopped into two pieces by a sabre and a man and a slate.
The iron cavalry followed closely and rushed into the unprepared crowd, selecting the soldiers and generals and slaughtering them.
A soldier was dragged by a war horse for more than ten feet, and his intestines were wrapped around the horse's hooves and pulled out a terrifying path of blood.
A Wei Junshi had just touched the horn, and his throat was penetrated by a wolf-tooth arrow, and the blood foam sprayed out drew a three-foot red rainbow in the air.
The sudden incident caught everyone in the Wei army off guard.
After Zhao Guang broke through the enemy formation, someone shouted in a shrill voice:
"Enemy attack!"
When the frightened mount rolled in the blood wave, the Yuanrong Crossbow's cow tendon string was creaking like an evil ghost.
"Retreat! Retreat!"
The sudden death of the main general, the sudden disappearance of the flag, and the number of generals being killed, made the Wei army that had already passed by could not organize effective resistance.
Whether they want to do so or not, everyone is squeezed backwards.
The cowhide cables on the floating bridge whine before the breaking under heavy pressure. Some generals even pulled their clothes and pulled them over by dozens of hands behind them as soon as they stepped onto the wooden board.
The forehead was protected and rolled down on the river beach, and was stepped into a concave cake in a blink of an eye. The reflection was reflected in the purgatory of the earth - the three thousand defeated soldiers were tearing this life-saving bridge into a Shura field with blood foam flying everywhere.
Five or six soldiers followed the situation and climbed the fallen Jiangxiao as a meat mat. The last scene he saw was that the soldiers who were squeezed down from the bridge grabbed the wooden bamboo strips of the floating bridge, plowed ten blood ditches on the bamboo strips, and fell into the river.
At that time, he was still picking half of the armor leaf tightly.
When the last sound of the cowhide rope broke, the entire floating bridge twisted like a giant python, and more than 300 people were thrown into the air.
Then, like Jiaozi fell into the water, it fell into the water, stirring a bloody vortex in the heart of the river.
The intestines hanging on the broken bridge are rising and falling with the waves.
More than 30 people who escaped by chance did not dare to stop their pace and continued to escape backwards like crazy.
After seeing the tragic scenes on the opposite side, the Wei army, who did not cross the river, turned around and ran away one after another.
But before they could escape far, they met Liu Hun and Tufa Tianli who were surrounded by upstream and downstream.
The Baoqiu Water and Gu Water flowed in parallel, and the land routes that could be taken were cut off by the two.
If the fleeing Wei army wanted to flee back to Jixian, they had to continue forcibly crossing the westward waters.
But there is no sufficient preparation and no suitable ferry. It is no different to climb the sky if you want to cross the water without a hand.
Liu Hun and Tufatian stood in the north and south, like driving the defeated soldiers back and forth, and finally forced them back to the west bank of Baoqiu Cross.
When the sun was about to fall to the top of the mountain, General Zhendong rode his horse across the temporary repaired floating bridge. His iron hooves happened to step on the flag discarded by the defeated soldiers. The word Wei on it was deeply stepped into the mud of the beach.
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PS: In the previous chapter, the Han army ambushed, a book friend pointed out that the two Wei army scouts were unreasonable. Well, this is actually a trap set by the Han army. Taking advantage of the heat and thirsty conditions, it can lure the Wei army to the greatest extent possible.
Stop at that location to drink water.
It can also be seen from the description below that there is a shallow and a valley upstream, which is suitable for ambushing.
I originally wanted to write it out a little more clearly, but the author Jun is too lazy and doesn't want to use his fingers too much. Cough, pay attention next time.
PS: The child started to lose his fever, but the person was tormented all night. The author did not close his eyes for a day and night. It was not until the tiger girl came back the next day that she could get some sleep in the afternoon.
My mother-in-law was hospitalized a few days ago and was just found to have a malignant brain tumor. The tiger girl is in the hospital these two days.
I was originally planning to finish the New Year soon, but I didn’t expect to be critically hit just after the New Year (a bitter smile).