The east of the Yangtze River is filled with wind and clouds, and fireworks spread across the nine provinces. The heroes are fighting and taking the lead in secret.
With the Jiangdong Sun Ce joining Yuan Shu on the Jiangnan Liu Bei, the situation in the world was once again triggered changes.
In order to help Liu Bei, who is also a relative, and to prevent the Sun family from causing great trouble, Liu Biao resolutely raised an army again and crossed the river to attack Sun Ce. However, he was blocked by Huang Gai, who was sent by Zhou Yu in advance. He was temporarily threatened.
To the foundation of Sun Ce.
At this time, Liu Bei could not get the support of Liu Biao for the time being, so he could only arrange for Zhang Ying and Fan Neng to defend Tu Zhong and Taishi Ci to defend Hulin. Liu Bei himself rushed to Jingzhou Academy for help again.
While Sun Ce, Yuan Shu, Liu Biao, and Liu Bei worked hard for their respective futures, Cao Cao and Liu Ming were also in an awkward state at the same time.
Cao Cao was embarrassed that Cao Cao never expected that Liu Ming would have so many troops, which was far beyond his expectations. The actual number of people who came here in the name of wedding reception was actually nominal.
Four times more, a total of two million.
Cao Cao was really afraid that he would be self-defeating this time and would not be able to take it. What if Liu Ming would not go there at all?
Moreover, at this time, Cao Cao also received the report of Yuan Shu's troops set off. This was a great opportunity for Cao Cao to take advantage of Yuan Shu's army to go south to seize Yuzhou and Lianghuai. But now, Cao Cao has not left because of Liu Ming's troops.
Cao Cao didn't dare to move anymore. Cao Cao didn't mention how heartwarming he was.
However, Cao Cao was embarrassed and heartbroken, and Liu Ming couldn't get much better.
Originally, Liu Ming had changed his plan because Cao Cao released his troops and horses, and was preparing to destroy Cao Cao first, then go south to eliminate other princes, and finally, he was destroying Dong Zhuo. But now, Cao Cao's Puyang has a plan to be wiped out.
He didn't care about the Qinglong Camp outside and directly blocked the Puyang city gate. In this way, if he wanted to seize Puyang, there would be no other good strategy except for a strong attack and a tough attack.
If you attack for a strong force, it would be better to attack Guandu than to attack Puyang. At least Jizhou reserves more grain than Qingzhou. Moreover, the road is close and the road is easier to walk. Unlike the ones that go around the foot of Mount Tai, where the road is narrow, the road is narrow
Not to mention, the mountain roads are even more rugged. Large siege equipment is not easy to transport at all.
In addition, the troops that have arrived in Puyang are not right now. In order to quickly attack, Liu Shi's front is full of cavalry, with neither infantry cooperation nor siege equipment support. It would be a bit funny to expect the cavalry to hit the city wall.
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But behind the pioneer troops were a group of untrained Xianbei herdsmen. It would be unrealistic to expect them to cooperate with the pioneer troops to fight. And if we continue to mobilize troops from behind, we will not be able to say the distance will be blocked in the middle.
The 800,000 Xianbei herdsmen also greatly hindered traffic.
Anyway, this is a mess.
However, Liu Ming made a decision. Since it was difficult to fight, he should change it and immediately switch back to his original plan. He could not continue to waste food here and waste time.
Fortunately, Sima Lang's actions were quite fast. After Liu Ming received the battle report from Liu Shi and made a decision, the news that Sima Lang came to pass the imperial edict again was here.
Guo Jia smiled bitterly and said, "Lord, we have lost this time. We have to follow our original plan."
Liu Ming smiled and said, "Is it a loss? What's the loss? Will it take a few more days of food soon? The situation is unfavorable, so change it immediately. This is the best strategy. Moreover, after this time, Cao Cao saw it with his own eyes.
.This should also be better. This is enough, there is no regret."
Immediately, according to the original plan, Liu Ming ordered the 100,000 troops and horses in the rear to quickly change directions and rush to Bingzhou. The Xianbei soldiers in the central part stopped moving for the time being. After waiting for negotiations with Sima Lang, he would return to the grassland along the original route.
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After Sima Lang arrived, Sima Lang read out the imperial edict again.
Liu Ming slapped the table and said, "Sima Lang! You are so brave! How dare you fake the imperial edict? Can you deceive me? I must know that my army of 500,000 has been traveling all the way, traveling through mountains and rivers,
The military soldiers’ food and wages cost countless money. How can they come and leave as soon as they say they come!"
Sima Lang was so scared that he was sweating.
At this time, it is no better than before. Sima Lang has received the exact news from Cao Ren. Liu Ming came with two million troops. Yanzhou may be destroyed at any time. Cao Ren sternly advised Sima Lang that no matter what, it would have to
If Liu Ming goes back, he must not let Liu Ming launch an attack on Yanzhou. Cao Ren explained that if Liu Ming attacks Yanzhou at this time, not only will Cao Cao not be able to go south to expand his power, but he may be unable to recover because of this.
Now that this heavy burden is all weighing on Sima Lang alone, how can Sima Lang not be nervous?
Sima Lang squeezed out his most sincere smile and said, "Master Taiwei, how dare the subordinates pass the imperial edict? Isn't this an accident? Now, a plague broke out in Yanzhou. The emperor asked you to take your soldiers back to Youzhou to recuperate.
It is also the great loving and considerate to you, Lord Taiwei. As for your military rations, of course, you cannot completely bear it. The court will naturally express some expression to these loyal soldiers. What's more, the subordinates are just a divine order.
The little official and the Grand Marshal, don’t be embarrassed by the superiors.”
Liu Ming's anger was just pretending. He was just pretending to avoid Cao Cao's suspicion. Moreover, Liu Ming's original plan was also due to this matter. Liu Ming naturally didn't want to do it a few days later because of this.
I would tease Sima Lang again. If Sima Lang said that he would make some statement, it would be considered an unexpected reward.
So Liu Ming took the donkey and sat down. The tiger face stopped talking.
When Guo Jia saw it, he quickly followed the plan and cooperated with Sima Lang to persuade him. He moved Sima Lang so much that he could not express his words. He felt that the gifts he had not given were for nothing. Guo Jia was indeed not a guy who did not do anything.
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Finally, Sima Lang, on behalf of Cao Cao, promised to allocate one month's military ration to Liu Ming's so-called 500,000 army as compensation for the journey. However, these military rations cannot be given to Liu Ming immediately, but Cao Cao will be given after the autumn harvest.
Only then can you pay to Liu Ming.
When Liu Ming and others saw Sima Lang's almost crying, they knew that Cao Cao could not get any trouble. Liu Ming pretended to agree with reluctantly.
At that moment, Sima Lang happily returned to report his life. However, Liu Ming did not wait for the arrival of the bride on the spot. He just sent an order to Liu Xu to continue to station in Qingzhou and sent someone to send Princess Qinghe and others back to Youzhou.
However, Liu Ming himself took Guo Jia, Dian Wei and others to quickly rush to the Tongguan battlefield.
The flags are waving, and the horns are flying.
At this time, outside Tongguan City, Liu Ming's 300,000 troops densely built up a joint camp of 80 miles. When Liu Ming and others arrived, the Youzhou army had already attacked Tongguan under the command of Guan Yu.
It's been three days.
In the past three days, no matter how Guan Yu sent someone to scold him, the guards of Tongguan ignored him. Even if Guan Yu sent someone to give him a woman's clothes, he didn't care. Instead, he just stopped Guan Yu.
I was so angry that I was a little angry.
As a result, Guan Yu had lost nearly 7,000 soldiers under the strong attack. This was because Guan Yu had a stone chariot on his side to suppress the opponent's archers, and the Youzhou officers and soldiers were well-equipped, otherwise, this loss would have been
It will be huge.
However, Guan Yu was worried about the casualties, but he could not stop. The siege had already begun. If he stopped, it would damage morale too much. The most taboo thing about siege was to do nothing. Guan Yu only
Can continue to attack with a tough head.
When Liu Ming arrived, he felt distressed when he learned about the battle situation. The military strategy said: Siege the city as the best, it was true. In this era of cold weapons, soldiers suffered too much loss in siege.
However, Liu Ming saw Guan Yu's regretful look, and couldn't bear to say anything else. However, Liu Ming was a little surprised that Guan Yu had been in charge of Bingzhou for many years and had been with the guards of Tongguan, he should be an old opponent. Why would he be defeated by him?
Excited?
So, Liu Ming said: "Second brother, soldiers are inseparable from the battlefield. You don't have to blame yourself for this. Instead, you and the guards of Tongguan have been working together for many years, and you should have been very familiar with each other.
Why are you still so impulsive?”
Guan Yu said fiercely: "Brother, you don't know anything. Dong Zhuo's subordinates were originally Qiang people and Huns, and they were mostly brainless. They couldn't stand the provocation of words. Therefore, I sent people to scold them and
He was humiliated by women's clothes. He was expected to be angry and out of the city to fight. Unexpectedly, the guard general didn't know what to do and ignored my plans. He was clearly a timid fool. Moreover,
According to my elder brother, the troops sent to me were all specially trained for siege. Therefore, I was furious and launched an attack on them. Who would have thought that the guard general was as timid as a mouse
, dare not fight, but his ability to defend the city was very high. I threw huge rocks into the soldiers in his city with a stone cart, but he covered the city with hard wood. His archers could still shoot and kill
Our soldiers, and his moat, was also caused by living water, and could not be dug and drained away. The siege troops specially trained by my elder brother are no different from ordinary soldiers. Therefore, this is why there is such a loss. Now I
He could only take turns to attack, drag his army and horses to win."
Liu Ming heard it strangely and quickly said, "It is impossible. The siege unit I trained was specially trained after learning from the experience of attacking Liaodong. It is specially used for siege. How could it be with ordinary soldiers?
Same? Could it be that the siege unit I sent to you has not arrived yet?"
"Siege troops? Brother, you said before that you specially trained a siege troops. You also said that you would send them to me, but this time, aren't the ones who came here only? Are they not trained by Brother?
The siege troops?" Guan Yu was also a little strange.
Guo Jia hurriedly reminded: "Lord, our siege force carries too many things and walks slowly. Although they were originally sent to Bingzhou first to prepare for the battle, our plan in the middle of the journey,
Didn’t that change a little? For our cavalry, the change in the plan is just a delay of one day’s journey, but for the infantry, that’s four days, and for our siege troops, that’s it.
It's been six days. If we abandon the period when they left first, it's probably coming tomorrow."
When Liu Ming understood, he also understood that there was such a bad thing about his relationship. He didn't ask clearly.
Immediately, Liu Ming ordered that the troops who were sieging the city would change to feint attacks, mainly to consume the energy of the Tongguan troops.
Turning around, the siege troops specially trained by Liu Ming came indeed. Liu Ming asked him to rest, recover his strength, and then threw himself into the battle.
This time, Guan Yu was also very eye-opening. This siege force is indeed professional enough. There are many types of equipment used for siege.
Not to mention anything else, just the river-filling cart is refreshing.
In the past, if the siege troops wanted to fill the moat, there was no other way, so they could only take a mat. A soldier carried a bag of sand and soil, ran to the edge of the moat that guarded the city, and threw it down. If you are lucky, you can come back, but you are lucky.
OK, even people were thrown into the river. When Guan Yu sent troops to fill the river, most of them were shot to death by the river.
But now this river-filling car is better. Four people are driving the car in the car, and the car is driven by light steel. However, unlike ordinary cars, this car has a cover.
There is no bottom. The wheels are hidden in the carriage. There are two rows of small looking holes in front.
If it weren't for the carriage covered with cowhide and iron, it would be like an iron cage with two sides missing. Not to mention how strong it was, even if the huge rocks thrown by the stone carriage landed on it, it wouldn't have any deformation. And the carriage covered
After getting iron, cowhide, bows, arrows, rockets, it will not cause any harm to the people in the car.
The most important thing is that there is a flat plate in front of the carriage, and two small wheels are supported by the carriage. It can be used to stack bags of earth and rocks for filling the river. There is a pressure rod connected to the carriage at the back. When you arrive at the river, you can reach the river.
When the four people pressed down, the flat plate would tilt and throw the soil and rocks into the river. The amount of throwing it at one time was much more than the four people running over with sand bags.
After throwing it away, the people in the car could calmly drag the car back and come back. This is definitely a powerful tool for filling the river.
After Guan Yu finished watching it, he was so happy. What's more, in addition to this river-filling cart, there were many strange things that Guan Yu had never seen before. This made Guan Yu even more relieved. Guan Yu looked at the siege with anticipation.