Chapter 44: A Cry for Help
This was not a good time, even though the Han Empire created a prosperous era. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 However, due to poor medical conditions, frequent wars, and natural disasters, people do not have enough means to overcome diseases and natural disasters, and in the general environment, careerists have started wars one after another.
How can this be a good time?
But this is one of the most romantic times in human history.
From the princes and nobles, down to the common people, even if they are scoundrels...... People value faith and righteousness over life and death. Say what you say. It is hard to imagine that the Han people, who are accustomed to driving ploughing cattle with hoes and can sing and dance, are so heroic.
As long as you make a promise, you will pay for it with your life...... Western chivalry only exists in travelogue novels, where the nobles are captured and still shout how much ransom they can give.
But in this era, the Han people regard honor as their life!
Are the Han Chinese really good at war?
The Han people are really not good at war, whether it is the Qin Dynasty building the Great Wall or Li Lingsai fighting the Xiongnu, whether it is the method of battle formation or ordnance...... can illustrate the fact that the Han people are not good at fighting.
However, in order to keep the foundation of their ancestors, the Han people are willing to give their lives for the honor and soul that is rooted in their bones, and they go forward one after another.
Accustomed to drinking goat's milk and dancing with bronze knives, the Hu people have defeated the Han people countless times on the battlefield...... When did the beacon fire on the border land go out?
Everyone wins, everyone loses.
The Xiongnu were defeated and divided into two parts, the northern Xiongnu traveled thousands of miles, and the southern Xiongnu naturalized the Han land, and fought for the Han people for generations.
The Qiang people were defeated and naturalized in the Han land, and since then Liangzhou has become a slightly strange place, where the tribes and the townships go hand in hand, although the war has not subsided...... But in this era, there are Han people fighting on the land of Liangzhou all the time.
The Wuhuan people were defeated, and there was one more place in Youzhou called Liaodong Subject Country, which was called Liaodong County by Han'er and Wuhuan Country by foreign peoples.
The Han people were also defeated, and more Han people threw down their hoes and shouldered their knives and guns, and their heads were no longer used to use their teeth, that is, they died...... and death in their own land.
But when have you ever seen Han'er bow his head, when have you seen Han'er accept his fate, and when have you seen Han'er willing to be a slave?
People often say that it is the times that call for heroes to draw their swords and stand up for immortality.
Han'er's heroes are not born, Han'er's heroes have been deeply imprinted into Han'er's soul as early as thousands of years ago when the Yellow River Valley planted that one-third of an acre of land.
Every Han'er has this kind of heroism in his bones, so Han'er doesn't need faith, Han'er carries a hoe and works hard, but he grows one of the best empires in heaven and earth.
It is enough for Han'er, who does not bow his head, to believe in himself.
Yan Bei waited in the tent for Gao Lan's old mother to wake up for a long time, and he felt this heroic temperament immersed in his blood...... It was Gao Ran's vow not to surrender, and it was also the temperament of the gray-haired old lady who almost choked her breath when she guessed her son's surrender.
At this time, if Gao Ran's old lady can't be saved, Yan Bei plans to take a sword to untie the rope for Gao Ran, and wipe his neck in front of him to make amends!
"Brother, I haven't asked you yet...... This little Handan City, why did it take so long? ”
Sun Qing was a little questioning in his words, and a little complacent, in his heart, Yanbei fought that is, who came and who died, and if Handan City could not be defeated, it must be that Yanbei had other reasons to release the water.
He has seen the man with the strongest military ability in his life, that is, Yanbei. Except for Yanbei, the rest were all Yellow Turban generals who were killed by the Han army...... Sun Qing still hasn't understood that in fact, the generals he met before Yanbei have military abilities collectively known as hooligan fights.
When the Yellow Turban Yu Party first defected to the northern part of Yan, more than 700 people couldn't even stand straight in a straight line except for the Sancai Formation, so could it be called a war?
"What could be the reason?" Yan Bei glanced at Sun Qing angrily, "I can't beat the one in the city called Frustration, so it accounts for a lot of people, and I have used all the methods I know...... I can't beat it, what can I do? ”
Sun Qing was stunned, "Even you can't beat you?" ”
Yan Bei took a deep breath and nodded slowly, "You can only start with the morale of the soldiers in the city, but now they have been holding on for more than thirty days, and their morale is still very strong." ”
He was about to die of worry, and as soon as he got Gao Ran's mother from Yecheng, he made the old lady faint with anger; On the other side is this city that said that it could not be defeated, and more than 4,000 soldiers died, and they did not even touch the city gate...... Yanbei's head is big!
At this moment, the soldiers ran into the camp and said to Yanbei: "Captain, the scout army has captured another messenger who is trying to deliver a message from the city!" ”
So saying, the soldier presented a letter.
Yanbei took the letter and looked at it, this is a letter from Wang Fen, the assassin of Jizhou who garrisoned Yecheng, which stated that Yanbei was at this moment in the position of the mountain battalion that was easy to defend and difficult to attack, and also explained that if Wang Fen sent troops to help, he could send troops and horses to enter the city from the east of the city, and the east of the city was the weak link in Yanbei's formation, which could be scattered in one rush.
In short, in Yanbei's opinion, there is one meaning in the frustration credit...... Wang Yuanjun, Yanbei is a local chicken and a dog, he has learned half of the military book and the class is axe, as long as you send reinforcements, we can kill you.
Yan Bei besieged the city with three times as many soldiers and horses outside the city, and in the end he was not regarded as a decent enemy by others...... He couldn't laugh or cry.
Suddenly, he glanced at Sun Qing, saw Sun Qing's eyes suddenly widen, and hurriedly grabbed him and asked, "You said that now, will Wang Fen have run away?" ”
"Maybe, the emperor recruited him into the court, and there was no news of Wang Fen in the next few days."
"Hahaha, God help me, God help me!" Yan Bei looked up to the sky and laughed, and immediately said to the soldiers: "You have meritorious service in reporting the news, find Cao Cao in the army to receive a gold!" Go and bring me the scouts who ran out of Handan City! ”
"Erlang, Erlang, do you have a strategy to break the enemy?"
Yan Bei shook his head with a smile and said, "Where does Yan have any strategies to break the enemy, he just thought of how to disappoint the frustrated county commanders in the strong city...... If it is feasible, it may be able to make them lose the morale of the army, and then Handan City will be self-defeating! ”
After a while, the soldier escorted the beaten scout, who had a blue nose and swollen face, both eyes were not the same size, and there was a large bag on his forehead, which had obviously been thrown from his horse.
"Okay, let go, little brother is to send a letter, don't embarrass others." Yan Bei smiled and walked over to the scout and said, "My name is Yan Bei, you may not know who I am...... Did you see you come out of that city? It's that I have surrounded you for more than 30 days, and you can pretend to be this letter. ”
The scout was puzzled by Yan Bei's gentleness, and looked at Yan Bei in a daze...... This young general, with rhino leather armor and iron armor layered on his body, doesn't look like that kind of traitor!
"Believe me, I just looked at it, and I didn't change anything, so you should send it wherever you want...... But remember, I want to tell Wang Yuanjun that this letter was sent by Yanbei to you. Yan Bei looked at the scout and smiled, seeing that the scout didn't dare to answer, he stuffed the letter into his arms and said: "Wang Zhijun gave a reply, just send it directly to Handan City, but also remember to tell Fu Jun that I have seen his letter to Wang Fen...... Do you understand? ”
Only then did the scout finally react that he was caught by the rebels and was not executed! Immediately nodded one after another and said: "The little one knows, I know, General Xie Yan is not killing!" ”
Watching the scout crawl away, Yan Bei had a smile in his eyes, but he didn't smile.
Although the scout gave him a chance, he was also well informed by a letter from Frustrated...... In terms of talent, he is too far behind.
He camped in the mountains according to the art of war in the military battle, but in the end he was frustrated and said that it was so worthless that it could be broken in a moment.
The so-called military strategy, the impermanence of soldiers, the impermanence of water, how can we rely on the art of war books everywhere? In the end, it is necessary to adapt to the facts and integrate them.
Now he could only hope that the scouts would return to Handan City with the news that Wang Fen had fled, which would greatly demoralize the defenders...... Yan Bei turned his head and shouted to his subordinates: "Find out all the soldiers who can write, and write a letter to so-and-so, eight characters are enough...... Those who descend will not be killed, and Qiu will not commit any crimes! ”
There are tens of thousands of horses in the entire camp in Yanbei, but there are only a few dozen people who can write, and half of them can only write their own names; What's even worse is that there are only a few pens that can be found in the whole army...... For the first time in their lives, the people in the countryside near Handan City saw tall rebel soldiers rushing into their homes, and asked if there was such a magnificent scene as pen and paper without taking money or property!
At night, Gao Lan's old mother woke up on the couch of the military tent, and Yan Bei knelt down on the couch and saw that he hurriedly served warm soup and invited the old lady to drink.
Gao Lan's mother looked at the military tent with somewhat cloudy eyes, and she didn't react to the current situation for a while, and slowly frowned when she saw Yan Bei's face.
"The old lady is angry, the old lady is angry, Gao Ran did not surrender to Yan...... Rest assured, your son will not surrender! Yan Bei understood, this old lady regarded integrity as much more important than life, and if she didn't hurry up to explain it clearly, the old lady would make a big mistake by making her angry life first, and hurriedly said: "Gao Ran is still being locked up in Pingxiang City Prison by Yan, now you can rest assured." ”
Hearing Yan Bei say this, the old lady's expression really softened, and then she changed color and said: "Captain Yan rescued the old man from prison in order to threaten my son?" ”
This old lady, let Yanbei say what?
"No, no, although Yan respects Gao Ran as a hero, he also admires his martial arts...... But Yan was even more impressed by his temperament of preferring to die rather than surrender. Yan Bei arched his hand and said: "Yan and Gao Ge are just small people in this rebellion, in the final analysis, it is nothing more than that when the war came, he was a military commander in Julu, and Yan was a military marquis in Zhongshan Kingdom, and the rebellion was not under the will." Let alone...... Yan ordered his subordinates to pick you up, but he just didn't want to see you because Yan had suffered an injustice. ”
Yan Bei said so, and he thought so too...... This rebellious war was extremely absurd in Yanbei's eyes.
Haoqiang of Yuyang County and Taishou of Zhongshan County, that is the height that ordinary people can't see clearly when they raise their necks, how can people set off a bigger rebellion for their own ambitions at that level?