Chapter 524: Sweeping Yanzhou
Under the city of Jinyang, Cao's army camp.
Xun Yu stood on the tower surrounded by several personal guards. The wild wind blew, and his long sleeves were floating. In his vision, the figures of Cao cào and his group had disappeared. For some reason, Xun Yu always felt a little uneasy about Cao cào's adventure this time. Although they made careful preparations in advance, they sent people to investigate the geographical situation near Xihe. Xiahou Yuan, the first fierce general in the army, guarded Cao cào's safety, and arranged Xiahou Dun as the back team, so that he could rescue at any time.
Xun Yu once advised Cao cào, how could the commander of the army easily take risks? Once there is any mistake, the entire army will be defeated. However, Cao cào is determined to take this risk for the remaining group and to have a stable foothold.
Xun Yu's uneasiness came from a kind of intuition in his heart. Since Cao cào sent troops in Gaodu, he had been pressing on his heart. Now, this feeling has become even stronger. Xun Yu looked up at the sky and suddenly let out a big sigh, feeling his mood relaxed a little. A drop of tiny water drops fell straight on his face. Xun Yu looked at the heavy sky, dark clouds rolling, and a faint white layer of the sky in the distance. It seemed that the rain was falling there.
"The entire army is more vigilant and dispatched twice as many posts to expand the search range of three miles."
"The camp is closed, all the defensive equipment is prepared intact, and the enemy is strictly preventing sneak attacks in the rain."
"Send someone to cover the food, grass and supplies with oil cloth, and it will rain soon."
"Please ask Cao Ren and Yu Jin to discuss matters in our account."
Xun Yu kept giving orders to the personal guards beside him. As Cao cào's most trusted strategist, Xun Yu had a high prestige in the Cao army. The personal guards were calm and quickly got off the lookout tower and turned over to pass on the horse to pass the military order.
At the top of Jinyang City, Gao Gan's eyes were cold, and he could see clearly the movements in Cao's camp. When Cao's banner moved from the central army out of the camp, Gao Gan's heart suddenly felt an uncontrollable movement. Cao thief, you finally fell into my plan. Today, I will teach you how to go but not return.
In the air, dark clouds rolled down, as if they were about to wrap the tall Jinyang City. Suddenly, a strong wind blew up Gao Gan's battle robe straight to level with the ground. Gao Gan narrowed his eyes, turned his head suddenly, and said to the shì guard behind him: "Tell me the order, the three armies gather and prepare to fight."
After the Wei Langsheng took the order and left, a short and strong man wearing a leather hat and a long robe climbed up to the city and bowed to the high-ranking road: "Sir, the army led by my Shanyu is only thirty miles away from Jinyang. Today, the wind is dark and heavy rain is coming, which is not conducive to the crossbow. It is a good opportunity to ride a horse and step on the camp."
The high-ranking cavalry laughed a few times and said loudly: "Wu méng, I'm about to ask you to inform your family Huchuquan Shanyu as planned. However, the attack on the camp will be given to us Bingzhou Army. You Huns cavalry only kill the Cao army that was out of the camp. The wind and rain are strong. It's your proud climate. Remember to bring Cao cào's head to see me five thousand pieces of silk and one million stone of food. It will make all your pack horses breathless. I will never break my promise."
The man named Wu Méng was the trusted guard of the Southern Xiongnu Shanyu Huchuquan. The high-ranking officials' words were filled with heroism. Since Emperor Wu of Han, the Huns have withered and split into two parts of the north and south, the terrifying Hun Iron Cavalry has not appeared in the area outside Hetao for a long time. Today's battle was not only for the rich materials promised by the high-ranking officials, but also for the revitalization of the Hun Iron Cavalry's reputation.
Wuméng gently pinched his mouth with his hands and blew out a few loud whistles. In a moment, a divine black goshawk with its wings from the air and flew onto his shoulders. The high-ranking official took out the letter written in advance from his arms and folded it into a small square shape to Wuméng. Wuméng carefully placed it into a small copper tube tied to the feet of the goshawk, and then took out the sealing mud to block the pipe mouth. Then he patted the goshawk's back intimately. The goshawk roared and then flapped his wings and flew up. Facing the strong wind before the rain, it rushed into the rolling dark clouds obliquely.
At the same time, a muffled thunder exploded in the sky, and the tall Jinyang City seemed to shake twice in this huge sound. The strong wind rolled over like a làngcháo, the military flag at the top of the city was blown straight, the high lord stood in front of the sword with his hands pressed the hilt in the wind, his god was calm, but his heart was filled with the desire for this great victory.
Just when the high-ranking officials defeated Cao cào in the battle and preserved Bingzhou, there was a sharp army in the territory of Dongping, Yanzhou, advancing rapidly on the official road. Looking at the combat effectiveness of an army, it can be seen from whether its marching is strict. At this moment, although the pace of this army is fast, it still maintains a strict formation. The interval between the various units has never changed, and it is maintained at about three meters. The soldiers in the army are all wearing light armor, holding long spears, crossbows, round shields, arrows and other equipment. The magic on each face is telling others that we are sharp.
From time to time, one or two fast horses galloped forward from front to back or from back to back, and they were the guards of the main general. They either passed on the command of the main general or reported the situation of each unit to the main general. At the front of the team, under a tall flag, Zhang Liao was wearing bright silver armor and sat upright on the horse. As the chief general of the army, Zhang Liao should be in charge of the central army and had to protect them all, but Zhang Liao did not like to do this. He liked the feeling of leading by example. In front of Zhang Liao, only a dozen cavalry scouts spread far away, traveling like the wind, reporting back the situation ahead from time to time.
"About ten miles ahead of the general is Wuyan City." A scout came to report to the news.
Zhang Liaozhan looked at it now and found that he could see the outline of a city wall, which was not very tall. Zhang Liao pointed the whip in his hand and said loudly to the left and right: "Not far ahead is the Dongping County Governor Wuyan City General Xu Huang was waiting for us there. Send the order to speed up the pace, stay in Wuyan City tonight."
"Get orders" and "Get orders" two Zhang Liao's personal guards bowed and received the order. They gently lifted the reins of the horse, turned the head of the horse, and headed straight to the rear of the army. As they galloped, they shouted: "The general has orders to speed up the pace."
The walking infantry immediately began to increase their speed. Since following the two commanders of Zhang Liao and Xu Huang, their Bingzhou camp has achieved great results. In the Battle of Chibi, in order to restrain Cao cào's strength in the east, Bingzhou camp and Yuzhou camp went north side by side, attacked the city and seized the villages, and captured more than ten county towns, which shocked the Cao army.
Chapter completed!