Chapter 909: Bury half of your face and apply honey
After explaining the task to Lu Bu and Zhang Liao, Jia Xu turned his head to look at Tai Shici on the side and said: "The responsibility of breaking through Shouchun will be assumed by General Ziyi!" ”
Among Lu Bu and others, only Tai Shici is relatively good at attacking cities, and Jia Xu gave him the task of attacking Shouchun, and he is also a good person and a good place, and he reasonably resettles several generals.
After Jia Xu assigned the task, Lu Bu and the others, who were eager to avenge Shouchun's revenge, left the barracks without delaying for a moment.
Standing in the barracks, Jia Xu looked at the back of the servants leaving, but the expression on his face was solemn.
In Xia Cai City, the Qin army totaled more than 50,000 people, divided into three routes, each road was less than 20,000 people, and the plan to attack Shouchun as long as there was a half-point difference, it might be wasted.
While Jia Xu was discussing with Lu Bu and others how to break through Shouchun, Cao Ren led tens of thousands of Cao troops and was slowly marching along the area of Xiangling to Xia Cai.
The speed of the march of Cao Ren's army, no matter what era, can be called a broken record for the slowest march.
Marching at a rate of five miles a day, the soldiers of Cao's army pulled out the camp almost in the morning, and when the sun was up, they would stop not far from the camp they had set up camp on the previous day.
Another order was given to set up camp for the army, and as soon as Cao Ren turned over and jumped off his horse, a soldier ran behind him.
"General Qiyu, the military advisor ordered someone to send a letter!" Running behind Cao Ren, the soldier held a letter in both hands and handed it to Cao Ren.
Turning around and taking the letter from the soldier's hand, Cao Ren unfolded the letter and skimmed through it briefly.
After reading the letter, Cao Ren's brows furrowed tightly, and he said to the soldiers who reported the news: "You immediately return to Shouchun and inform the defenders in the city that our army is not short of food, and ask them not to give food to the army no matter what, let alone open the city gate lightly!" ”
If Jia Xu heard what Cao Ren said, he would definitely re-evaluate Guo Jia.
Before he made the decision to break Shouchun, Guo Jia had already thought of this layer, and also asked people to bring a letter to Cao Ren, and specially arranged to keep Shouchun.
The soldiers who had received Cao Ren's order answered, turned around and ran towards the periphery of the barracks.
Out of the barracks, the soldier turned over on the horse's back, gently clamped his feet towards the horse's belly, and rode his horse in the direction of Shouchun.
In Xia Cai City, Lu Bu and the others were mobilizing a large army, preparing to meet Cao Ren and defeat Shouchun, they didn't expect that Cao Ren would make preparations for Shouchun to take precautions at the same time as they moved.
Riding war horses, the soldiers who had been ordered by Cao Ren rushed to Shouchun City quickly.
After three days of marching, Cao Ren's army was only less than twenty miles away from Shouchun, and according to the speed of the herald soldiers, it only took less than half an hour for him to reach the city of Shouchun.
Riding horses and galloping, the soldiers soon jumped out for more than ten miles.
The horses' hooves stepped on the ground, splashing small clouds of smoke and dust, and to the right of the soldiers, there was a continuous mountain range.
When the war horse galloped past the foot of the mountain, at the edge of the verdant mountain forest, a group of birds were startled by the sound of horses' hooves, flapped their wings, and jumped into the blue sky.
In the blue sky, there are white clouds, like cotton wool-like clouds, which decorate the sky like a silk silk.
The birds that leapt into the sky and squeak add a bit of noise to the quiet mountain forest.
Riding a war horse, the soldiers of Cao Jun lay down on the horse's back, so as to reduce the resistance of the wind and make the war horse gallop faster.
The galloping horse spread its hooves, and as it rushed forward, it suddenly let out a frightened neigh, and then its two front legs tripped over something, and tumbled forward.
The war horse suddenly lost its front hooves, and the soldiers of the Cao army on horseback didn't have time to react at all, and were overturned by the abandoned war horse.
Tumbling in mid-air, the Cao soldiers had no ability to adjust the angle of landing, so they had to let gravity and the impact force exerted on him when the war horse turned up to throw him to the ground not far away.
"Peng!" First, there was a dull sound, and the war horse fell heavily to the ground, kicked its hooves a few times, and spewed white air in its mouth to struggle to stand up, but in the end, because it fell too hard, he could only lie on the ground, panting with a bulging belly.
The soldier of Cao Jun on horseback was more fortunate than the war horse, and when he fell to the ground, he happened to hit the ground on his buttocks, so he did not hurt the vital point.
However, due to the impact of the fall, his pelvis was broken alive and fell to the ground, wailing and screaming.
Cao Jun, who was wailing and screaming, didn't notice that when he fell to the ground, more than a dozen soldiers wearing red armor and bright red feathers on their helmets were quickly approaching him.
Concerned about the pain, the soldiers of the Cao Army didn't notice that the few Yulin guards who rushed out of the woods were approaching him.
While he was still wailing, a long sword rested on his neck.
The neck was pressed against the cold long sword, and fine beads of sweat oozed from the forehead of the Cao soldier, and the wailing stopped abruptly, and he looked at Yu Linwei who held him hostage with the sword with a frightened expression.
One of the Yulin guards put his sword on the neck of the Cao soldier, and the other Yulin Wei quickly stepped forward and unloaded his weapon from the waist of the Cao soldier.
As soon as the weapons of the Cao army soldiers were unloaded, two other Yulin guards stepped forward, set him up, and ran quickly towards the depths of the mountain forest.
Yu Linwei did not leave the fallen war horse on the road, and after the soldiers of the Cao army were dragged away, several Yu Linwei ran to the fallen war horse and dragged the war horse into the mountain forest.
A war horse, enough to have hundreds of catties, Yu Linwei is dormant in the mountains, although there is a lot of food, but it is impossible to bring more meat, this war horse can give the soldiers a tooth sacrifice.
The soldiers of the Cao Army, who were dragged by the two Yu Lin Guards and didn't expect to be intercepted by the Qin army halfway, were already pale with shock, and he didn't even react to shout loudly, he was already dragged into the depths of the jungle.
The slopes of the hill are full of oak and neem trees.
Compared with the trees in the Qinling Mountains, these two trees are much shorter, but the canopy is very large, and the mountain forest is densely shaded.
Brown acorns hung on the oak trees, and from time to time a few little squirrels that had just picked acorns would jump over the branches, staring at the group of people passing under the trees with mung bean-like eyes.
Compared to the oak tree, which is squirming, the neem tree, with its tender yellow neem fruit, is much quieter.
In the canopy, only occasionally a few sparrows crouch, and when someone passes under the tree, the sparrow flutters its wings and leaps into the blue sky.
The two Yu Lin Guards who dragged the soldiers of the Cao Army walked quickly in front of everyone, and the few Yu Lin Guards who were dragging the dying war horses were much slower because the war horses were too heavy.
Everyone got into the forest and walked around for a long time before they saw a patch of red in front of them.
The red patch is not the gorgeous mountain flowers blooming in the forest, but the feather forest guards lurking in this forest.
Leaving Luoyang, Yu Linwei traveled to Xiaosu at night, avoiding Cao Jun's eyes and ears all the way, and after entering the Xiangling, they chose a hillside that was very close to Shouchun City to hibernate.
chose to hibernate here, Gao Shun also had his considerations.
Once Cao's army withdrew from Xia Cai and intercepted them outside Shouchun City, the psychological pressure on them would be even more powerful than intercepting them near Xia Cai.
Dragging the captured Cao Jun, the two Yulinwei quickly ran into the Yulinwei military camp stationed in the forest, and ran straight towards the place where Gao Shun was.
Before these Yu Linwei returned, there were already soldiers who reported their return to Gao Shunyu.
Sitting on a big rock, Gao Shun was already waiting for the two Yulin guards to drag the soldiers of the Cao army.
was carried in front of Gao Shun by two Yu Lin Guards, and before Cao Jun could react to who was in front of him, he was grabbed by the two Yu Lin Guards on the ground.
When he fell off the horse, the sitting bones of the Cao soldiers had been broken, and they were pushed to the ground by the two Yulin guards, and the Cao soldiers were covered with cold sweat in pain, but they didn't dare to shout out loudly.
On the bluestone in front of him, there was a general of the Qin army wearing familiar bronze armor, just from the Yulin guard armor that held him hostage, the soldiers of the Cao army could see that this was an army different from the ordinary Qin army.
The three guards of the Qin army have long been famous in the Central Plains.
The soldiers of the Cao army who fell in front of Gao Shun, although they had never seen Yu Linwei, could also see that the general in front of him must be one of the generals of the three guards.
Sitting on the bluestone, Gao Shun stepped on the ground with one foot and the edge of the bluestone with the other, holding his chin in his hand, staring at Cao Jun in front of him without blinking.
He didn't speak, but the soldiers of Cao Jun were stared at by his eyes, but they were uncomfortable, as if they were not staring at him, but a poisonous snake.
There was a sharp pain in his hips, cold sweat dripping down his forehead, lying in front of Gao Shun, Cao Jun's soldiers were trembling slightly, and he didn't know whether he was trembling with pain or trembling with fear.
"Who are you, and why are you going to Shouchun?" Gao Shun didn't speak, but a Yulin Wei officer standing beside him asked Cao Jun in a cold voice.
Lying on the ground, the soldiers of the Cao army were speechless.
Cao Ren asked him to go to Shouchun to report the news, but before he arrived in Shouchun, he was intercepted by the Qin army, and the soldiers of the Cao army were ready to fight to the death.
After staring at the Cao soldier for a while, and seeing that he had no words, Gao Shun finally said to the officer on the side in a very light tone: "Dig a pit and bury him until only his head is exposed." There are a lot of ants in this tomb, and those little creatures are quite happy to think of his meat! ”
"No!" Gao Shun gave an order, and the officer of Yulinwei no longer pressed the soldiers of Cao Jun, but clenched his fists and said: "A soldier found a nest of bees in the forest and collected some honey......
The officer didn't finish his words, but Gao Shun turned his head to look at him, and nodded with a smile on his face.
When Gao Shun and the officer were talking, his expression was very indifferent, but the captured Cao Jun's face was already pale with fright.