Chapter 1994 Zhang He transported food, Oolong incident
The junction of Youzhou.
Zhang He didn''t expect that one day he would become a grain transport officer again.
It was a few days ago that we managed to get together a batch of food and grass, and then we needed to transfer it to Yuyang. Zhang Yun escorted the food transport team to Yi Jing who left two days ago, and it is estimated that they will arrive in Yuyang in two or three days.
Before leaving Yijing, Zhang He went to the castle tower in the inner city where Gongsun Zan set himself on fire, and sat among the broken eaves and walls, silent for a long time. Back then when he heard about Gongsun Zan''s self-immolation, Zhang Xi still remembered that he was very excited and drank several cups in a row, but now...
Zhang He couldn''t tell what kind of mood he was in right now. It was very complicated, and various emotions were intertwined with each other, which made Zhang Yun feel a little uncomfortable between his chest and abdomen.
Bai Ma Yi Cong, General Gongsun.
When Gongsun Zan ran across Youzhou, did you ever think that one day he would be alone and helpless on the castle tower, and then either shouted or wailed, and set himself on fire? Why did he choose to use fire? Is it because he doesn''t want his remnant body to be insulted by the enemy again? After all, in the desert, there are not a few people who use the skulls of enemies to make wine bowls and drowning utensils. Or maybe he felt that he should be like a raging fire, blazing in life and blazing in death?
have no idea.
Maybe one day, when I go down to the Underworld and meet Gongsun Zan, I can ask clearly.
Following Zhang He were nearly five hundred cavalrymen.
The horses of these cavalry were partly squeezed out by Cao Cao in Jizhou with great difficulty, and the other part were raised by the remnants of Tadun. After all, war horses are not something that can be planted in the land this year and will grow out next year. Even if there are some horses, it is useless to know how to raise them. Now under the rule of Cao Cao, there are many people who can feed horses, but few people who can raise horses .
Yuan Shao didn''t know how to raise them before, so most of his cavalry and horses were originally traded with Hu people, but now, after those Hu people died, they are basically willing to talk to Cao Cao. The reason, of course, is very simple. Cao Cao lost credibility in the matter of taton.
Zhang He even felt that if Cao Cao didn’t need a horse breeder, and those clansmen who were in a hurry couldn’t find any chance to resist for a while, the two sides would definitely... Hehe, if there is a slight change, I am afraid that something else will happen!
All of this made Zhang He somewhat...
disappointment.
Even more disappointed than back then.
It’s like it was originally a P8, and I was going to switch to a T9 or something, but it turned out to be a fake T9, which is T3x3. After a series of calculations, it is 9…
Zhang He turned his head and looked at the cavalrymen following the grain carts, their faces were tense and expressionless. It''s true that I am a cavalry general, but are there any private soldiers with only 500 cavalry generals under him? Even a riding captain from other people can''t say that he can''t be better than himself, right?
And this time, after arriving in Yuyang, he will become Cao Chun''s deputy.
Will Cao Chun be stronger than himself?
Yes, because Cao Chun has a good surname, his father is Cao Chi, Cao Ren''s father, Cao Cao''s son-in-law.
A good father wins but there are countless in the world.
Zhang He looked at the sky above his head, not sure if he was looking at the weather or something in the sky, anyway, after a while, Zhang He gave the order to set up camp at a mountain depression in front of him.
Soldiers and civilian husbands got busy.
Zhang He got off his horse, went up to the hill beside the col, stood on the top of the hill, and looked around.
The four fields are quiet.
But for some reason, Zhang Yun felt a little uneasy.
Although it is spring, the days should be getting longer, but it is still getting dark quickly. Not long after Zhang Yun ordered to camp, the sky gradually became dark, and then everything around gradually blurred, and finally merged into gray and black.
Zhang He went down the mountain, but saw three or four guards sitting on the bonfire next to his tent, roasting a soil badger.
『Where did it come from? 』Zhang He raised his chin.
The guard who was sprinkling salt on the badger squinted at another older guard.
『Qian is honest! Say, where did it come from? Zhang He asked following his gaze. Although Zhang He didn''t have any private soldiers, there were more than a dozen or twenty guards. These people also followed Zhang He through life and death, so they were naturally closer and more casual than ordinary soldiers.
Qian Laoshi laughed a few times, and then said: "I went to explore the road this morning, and I happened to meet... Afraid that the general would say that we didn''t pay attention to the investigation, we stuffed it in the haystack first..."
Soil badgers usually hibernate when the weather is cold, but now they finally survived until the beginning of spring, when the weather warmed up and came out of their caves, they were bumped into by Qian Laoshi and others...
『Cut half and send it over there. ’ Zhang He said.
『General, that’s all…』Qian Laoshi froze for a moment, then said subconsciously. The soil badger is not a big animal in the first place, and it has just survived the winter, and the fat is gone. How much meat can it have?
『If you tell you to cut it, cut it off, so much nonsense! 』Zhang Daozi, who was the leader of the guard, stood up, pulled out the knife stuck in his boot and threw it over.
Qian Laoshi grabbed the dagger, nodded his head and muttered vaguely, but no one could clearly understand what he was saying.
Cut the soil badger in half, it will be roasted faster, and it will be almost cooked in a short time.
Zhang He didn''t take the soil badger off the wooden branch to bite, but just cut a piece with a knife, put it in his mouth to chew, and suddenly a strong fishy smell overflowed.
Soil badgers don''t taste very good. In fact, most wild animals, if no artificial flavors are added, most of them will not taste very good when cooked and grilled directly. After all, artificially raised pigs, cattle and sheep have been selected and bred for special consumption, and many animals in nature have some countermeasures in order to defend against natural enemies. …
After eating another piece, Zhang He gave the knife to the guards around him, signaling that he had used it and would not eat it.
The flames of the bonfire rose, the wood crackled and burned, and then a fragment of sparks seemed to burst out, and jumped onto Qian Laoshi who was drying his shirt in front of the bonfire, making him jump up in fright, shaking his coat with a little distress …
Zhang He leaned on the saddle, took a hard-faced biscuit from the dry food bag on the saddle, broke a piece into his mouth, and was chewing when he suddenly stopped and stood up abruptly.
Zhang He stood up suddenly, which immediately aroused the vigilance of the guards around him who were eating and drinking. The guards immediately stopped their original movements, and looked around into the surrounding night with their swords on their hands.
『General...what''s wrong? ’ Qian asked honestly.
Zhang He looked around intently.
There was nothing unusual about the dozen or so fires built by the food delivery queue. Soldiers and civilians were sitting by the campfire, either warming up, eating and drinking, or talking in low voices. It was also quiet, and there were no abnormal signals or alarms...
The dark night sky is like an upside-down iron pot pressing down on the earth, and the meadows and mountains in the distance have only a dark outline. Dots of stars dotted the sky, flickering brightly and flickering with cold light. The cool wind whistling at night passed over the tip of the grass, causing the sparks on the bonfires to drift eastward and scatter a few...
Everything seems normal.
Zhang He waved his hand, sat down again, and continued to eat pancakes.
The head of the guard approached Zhang He, his eyes were still cruising around vigilantly, "The general just now...but what did you see?" 』
Zhang He chewed the pancakes, his well-defined face was changing from cloudy to sunny in the flickering firelight, his eyes were deep, "I didn''t see anything... I just felt like someone was watching... You can send more sentries later, be careful at night... 』
What Zhang Xi didn''t know was that on a rock in the distance, two people with grass on their heads and some bushes and leaves on their bodies carefully shrank behind the rock, looked at each other, and tiptoed. left...
Zhang He and others, who were loose on the outside and tight on the inside, were on guard all night, but nothing happened. Until the morning of the second day, everything was normal. This made Zhang He a little confused, wondering if he was too sensitive, maybe It''s just some animal at night, smelling the smell of grilling and cooking.
But on the evening of the second day, when it was only one day away from Yuyang, an accident finally happened...
The guard sentinel issued a warning: "General! Firelights have been spotted to the north! 』
Firelight? !
Everyone was shocked!
Looking to the north, it seems that in the dark curtain of the sky, this piece of light that is not much bigger than half the nail of the little finger is wrapped, and it is flickering, flickering, flickering and indecipherable, just like someone is holding a fire. , and then send a certain signal...
『Come here...』Just as Zhang He said two words, the fire in this place in the distance disappeared, as if it had never appeared before.
『Qian is honest! Take two brothers over to have a look! Zhang He ordered, "The rest of you, go uphill immediately, and everyone is on alert!" The vehicles form an formation, and defend according to the formation! Don''t take off your armor, don''t move rashly! Offenders will be punished by military law! 』
At this time, it was also the time when Zhang Yun and others were preparing to rest and eat the next day. The bonfire had just been lit in the temporary camp, and there was smoke everywhere, rising indistinctly around the large meadow, gradually drifting with the wind. Shen.
Six floor stoves were set up on the open space in the middle, and a large iron pot was set up to cook soup. White steam swirls in the iron pot, water splashes and boils, brown dried vegetables and green wild vegetables are mixed in a pot, and soldiers and civilians are lined up to receive soup, vegetables and dry food. For this news, most of the miners looked at others in a daze.
The veterans who passed by the battlefield jumped up in shock in an instant, threw their bowls and grabbed the knives and guns on the side.
The place Zhang He chose to camp was naturally not too bad, and the food transportation queue suddenly became panicked, and they gave up the preparations at the sheltered place in the mountain pass. Formed into a simple fortification...
The soldiers were better, but the civilians were extremely flustered. Even if someone gave orders, from time to time, some people would even walk and run with the same hands and feet, and then either knocked down others with their heads, or hit them with their heads. Grain truck.
Zhang He frowned.
If there were only cavalry, Zhang He could fight or leave, but now with the addition of these grain carts...
However, this is often the case in the world. What you are most worried about is what will happen most.
The soldiers sent out to check the situation seemed to have encountered an ambush and fought in the dark sky. Qian Laoshi fled back with two arrows on his body, and only had time to say the words "he is from Xianbei" before he fell into a coma , bad luck and bad luck.
『Xianbei people? ! 』
How could there be Xianbei people here?
Before Zhang Yun was sad for Qian Honest, and before he could figure it out, the Xianbei people in the distance seemed to know that they had been discovered, and suddenly they exploded like a bug nest covering a rotten plank. For a moment, I don''t know how many light spots rose in the distance, and then rushed towards Zhang Yun!
『It''s Xian...Xianbei people! The Xianbei people are coming! 』
As the sentinels screamed and warned, the sound of horseshoes came louder and louder, gradually dense and compact, outflanking the left army from all directions, it seemed that these raiding cavalry had already been in all directions A big net has been laid, and now it is about to engulf Zhang He and others!
The soldiers and militiamen who were forming the formation were all stunned by this sudden scene. They opened their mouths wide open and looked at the situation in front of them dumbfounded. They heard the sound of horseshoes rolling like thunder. Seeing that, the peasants behind the grain truck formation had long been stupefied by the formation. After a brief moment of distraction, there was a loud noise, and there was chaos. Some ran up, while others wanted to run down. Some people stared wide-eyed and muttered to themselves, some looked flustered and at a loss, some held their heads and pouted their buttocks trying to find a place to hide, and quite a few people just collapsed on the ground with trembling faces.
『Calm down! Zhang He shouted loudly, "Before the battle, you will be in chaos, and you will flee in fear of the enemy, and you will behead them all!" 』
This is really not a joke. Following Zhang Xi’s order, some militiamen who were crawling and running around were hacked and killed on the spot. After the smell of blood spread, these militiamen got better and stopped screaming...
『No more than a thousand riders! ”Although it was dusk and the night was approaching, Zhang Yun still judged the approximate number of cavalry on the other side, “All soldiers! We will defend according to the formation, and when the enemy is weak, it will be an opportunity to defeat the enemy! There will be a reward at that time! If there is chaos, there is no doubt that you will die! Come on, beat the drums! Ready to fight! 』
The sound of the rumbling war drum sounded, although it was only a small drum accompanying the army, not a big Chinese drum with a height of one man in the serious army, but as the drums rippling, the order of the non-commissioned officers at the grassroots level was one by one. One by one, the pawns repeated one by one, and the formation gradually stabilized, not as flustered as before.
『Thinking about the usual training movements! 』
『Don’t panic! Grab your weapon! Who the **** lost it, I asked him to wash the fragrance of night for a year! 』
『It’s all there! The ears are all pricked up, and they all listen to orders! 』
Among the sound of the war drum, the shouts of the messy low-level non-commissioned officers were mixed in, like the accompaniment of the nodes in the drum sound, which made the war drum no longer monotonous, but gained popularity. The sound of this drum was once accompanied by Emperor Huangdi and Yan Emperor''s defeat of one tribe after another in the Central Plains, and accompanied by the sound of the flag of the Han Dynasty on the grassland. It seems that as long as one hears this drum sound, some genes in the hearts of Chinese people will vibrate together. And then wake up.
Zhang He took some cavalry and stood on the top of the hill.
The hillside is not a purely small soil slope. Although it is not very large, it is connected to another gully, and after the roughly half-moon-shaped uphill **** is an irregular soil plateau. Defensive warfare does not mean that one can only be beaten passively. When necessary, Zhang He would lead these cavalry down the hillside!
It’s just that it’s thunderous to rush out, but do you want to come back...
Therefore, there is only one chance to determine the outcome, either to defeat the opponent, or to break through.
The Ding Lingtou who charged was also a little troubled. He has been strangling some Han army scouts near Yuyang recently. The people of the Dingling tribe, who have been short of supplies for many years, were very excited. After tasting the sweetness, they couldn''t stop, and the scope of the search gradually expanded. As a result, when they were tracking a Han Chinese scout, they ran into Zhang Yun...
Before, most of the Han soldiers lost their things and ran away as soon as they met. Why didn’t they run away this time?
Just as Zhang Yun couldn''t tell the difference between Ding Lingren and Xianbei people under the dark sky, Ding Lingtou couldn''t tell the difference between Cao Cao''s soldiers and Fei Qian''s soldiers.
Youzhou is actually very chaotic at the moment. Although there are some exchanges and communications between all parties, it is not like a game. It is lagging and closed. Even if the bald heads of later generations insist on peace talks, their subordinates are fighting. Ever since, the Ding Ling tribe thought that they would encounter a soft persimmon like before, but in the end they pinched Zhang He, a hard rock.
The Ding Ling tribe attacked the car formation three times overnight, but they did not achieve much results, and some troops were damaged. As a result, time gradually passed, and at dawn, Ding Lingtou saw that he could not win, and finally had to retreat disconcertedly .
Of course, the losses on Zhang He’s side were not small. Most of the food and grass were burned, and nearly one-third of the soldiers were damaged. Yang, and then under the support of Cao Chun, he led the remnant soldiers into Yuyang.
Originally, the Xianbei people were active in the northern part of Youzhou, and Cao Chun acquiesced. After all, Cao Chun wanted the Xianbei people and Fei Qian''s subordinates to fight first, so as to consume some hussars and horses, but now, as the party being attacked, Cao Chun was naturally furious, and sent someone to question Xianbei King Budugen, but Of course, Bu Dugen said that there was no such thing, that he didn''t know at all, that he didn''t know at all, and he turned around and scolded the Ding Ling tribe and fined Ding Ling''s hundreds of war horses to settle the matter.
Ding Lingtou was submissive on the surface, but he turned his face and scolded Bu Dugen for not taking responsibility. He said everything well before, but he didn''t care about anything if something went wrong.
In the end, Cao Chun and Budugen both negotiated, taking the hundred miles north of Yuyang as the line, Cao Jun would not go north, and Xianbei people would not go south.
(end of this chapter)