Riding and cutting the imperial pirates of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 471

Seeing that Wang Xiong's tribe crossed the river smoothly, Wang Zheng faintly heard several people behind him exhale softly, as if they were relieved.

He still had a serious expression on his face, just staring into the distance.

It's just that there is a dense forest by the river, with luxuriant branches and leaves in midsummer, and the night is low, even with Wang Zheng's inhuman physique, as the part moves away, he can't see clearly.

Soon, the troops leaving the city were no longer in sight. Wang Zheng and Zhou Hui said nothing, and the others were still standing on the top of the city watching, and no one proposed to leave.

It seems like a long time has passed, and it seems that only a moment has passed.

Wang Zheng raised his sword eyebrows suddenly, and then walked forward lightly, making a movement of leaning forward.

Just as Zhou Hui and the others were about to inquire, Wei Yan immediately uttered a soft drink: "There is movement, look over there!"

Everyone hurriedly concentrated their eyes, and soon saw the dense forest on the opposite bank in the night, and the east side suddenly appeared fire, and then it was one after another, getting denser and brighter.

It's just that the night was too dark, and there was nothing to be seen through the river and the forest, but everyone could clearly understand that the location, which was not known how far away from Shucheng, had indeed ambushed Sun Cejun's ambushes , although the number of people could not be distinguished, the flames that tore through the night and the faint killing cries all showed that this ambush had discovered the King Xiong's Department and even started fighting with it.

"The enemy army is also ambushing here?"

Tao Ze couldn't help but exclaimed: "Brother Wei, didn't you say that the enemy army would ambush in the valley to the west? But why is it not far from the river?"

Hearing this, except for Wang Zheng, everyone's eyes fell on Wei Yan. Seeing that he didn't say a word, he just opened his mouth slightly and stared unblinkingly at the direction from which the shout came. , They all became uneasy for a while, some raised their toes, and some were so nervous that they were sweating profusely.

In fact, Wei Yan was also very nervous at this time.

General Wang Xiong met the enemy when he crossed the river. This was really beyond his expectation. The first thought that came to his mind was that even if there were a few ambushes, maybe there might not be too many, but his bravery is certainly considered contemporary. First-class, but he is not a hacker like Wang Zheng, after all, his physique is not much different from that of ordinary people. Looking far away, he seems to see something, but in the dark night, he sees nothing.

Could it be that Sun Bofu is so scheming?
On the surface, it is trying to lure the tiger away from the mountain, but in reality it is trying to lure the snake out of the cave?

No, not possible!
Wei Yan subconsciously pulled out the waist knife, and put it back into the sheath casually, feeling at a loss for a moment.

Zhou Hui also thought of this level, his throat kept wriggling, mouthful after mouthful, swallowing hard, and just about to say something, he looked at Wang Zheng in front of him, and stopped again.

All the people who left the city were Lizi's Xuzhou army, he was not in a hurry, why should I be in a hurry?
But Zhou Hui also guessed that Wang Zheng's heart could never be as calm as it appeared on the surface.

But even though he was able to maintain a calm posture on the surface, it really surprised him.

When young people are successful, their hearts are higher than the sky, and it is normal to look at all directions, but when they face adversity, it is difficult to hold their breath. This is the so-called self-cultivation and self-cultivation.

But why is Wang Zheng not like this?
Zhou Hui looked solemnly at the tall, majestic, immobile figure in front of him. With the factor of "concern leads to chaos", Wang Zheng actually acted calmer than him, which really made him feel a little uncomfortable.

Zhou Hui even thought of a sentence inexplicably:

A person with thunder in his chest and a face like a flat lake can be worshiped as a general.

At this moment, there was a dull sound behind him, and then someone cried out in pain.

Zhou Hui turned his head to look, but it was a few civil servants who fell directly to the ground. It was a physical effort to look from a distance with their feet up.They are frail scholars, standing for a long time in the middle of the night, their calves are cramped, and their energy is all far away, so they accidentally fell to the ground.

At this time, Wang Zheng also heard the sound and turned his head to look over. He turned around again without saying anything, but Zhou Hui blushed, feeling that these subordinates had disgraced him in front of outsiders, but at this moment It's not appropriate to have a seizure, but I just watched them get up in a hurry, and then turned my head back.

Everyone stared outside the city for a while, the sound of fighting still did not stop. Seeing that the battle was still going on, Wang Zheng suddenly turned his head and looked at Tao Ze: "Lieutenant Tao, you have been in Shucheng for a long time. How far is the city, can you estimate it?"

Tao Ze squinted his eyes and said for a while, "The dense forest is about ten miles away from the moat. The movement only happened after Captain Wang's troops entered the forest. It is expected that it is only a dozen miles away."

Wang Zheng raised his sword eyebrows when he heard the words, and thought for a moment: "It's more than a dozen miles away, so it shouldn't be out of Sun Ce's camp?"

Before the others could react, Wei Yan suddenly said: "What Zhou Mu means is that what Wang Xiaowei encountered was not necessarily Sun Ce's ambushes, but the patrol team or night sentry he placed?"

Wang Zheng nodded and said: "This general just thought about it carefully, how could the ambush should not be placed so close to the barracks, otherwise a slight mistake would cause a roar in the camp. "

Looking at Wei Yan and Tao Ze again, he asked, "In the past few days, have you ever paid attention to the approximate number of troops in the patrol team arranged by Sun Ce?"

Wei Yan and Tao Ze looked at each other, and then replied: "There are hundreds of people at least, and hundreds of people at most. Logically, it is easy to rush over. Why did Captain Wang take so long?"

In fact, not too long
Wang Zheng, who had been keeping track of the time with his pulse, knew that these people were under tension, so he felt that the time passed extremely slowly. He smiled and said:

"Wang Xiong's appearance is rough, but his heart is meticulous. When he met the enemy at the beginning, he must have been worried that he had broken into an ambush, so he didn't dare to rush in, but he must have seen it at this time."

As if there was a tacit understanding, as soon as Wang Zheng's words fell, there was a sudden shout of killing in the distance, and the fire light became sparse in an instant, less and less, and then disappeared. , until finally inaudible.

The night became quiet again.

This change happened extremely fast, and it took a while to see the flames rekindled, winding like a snake, as if the other camps of the enemy army had only reacted at this time, and sent a large number of troops out of the camp to support, but they hadn't arrived yet. At the place where the battle was fought just now, I probably got news that the Xuzhou cavalry had rushed out and returned the same way.It didn't work at all.

Zhou Hui laughed and said, "Little thief Sun Ce! There must be something wrong. But it's hard for him to play this play as if it's real."

Then he said to Wang Zheng: "Wang Zhoumu, since your department has successfully broken through, let's go back to the city first?"

Wang Zheng said: "The county lord should go to rest first. Since he is in the city, he must patrol the guards. Besides, our army has only broken through the siege for a long time. I don't know if Sun Ce will attack or not. I will watch for a while, just to be safe. "

Hearing this, Zhou Hui didn't refuse any more. He is a scholar after all, and these days when the soldiers came to the city, he was exhausted, burning lights every day, and often sleeping less than an hour a day. Now that he finally sent the army out of the city, he really couldn't hold on, so he didn't refuse any more. , clasped his fists slightly at Wang Zheng, and called Wei Yan and a group of civil servants back to the county.

Wang Zheng watched him walk away, and smiled at Tao Ze and the others: "This time the breakout has been completed, and you all have worked hard all day, so you must be very tired, let's go back to the city."

Everyone retreated as ordered, and in the end only Tao Ze, the highest officer of the garrison, accompanied him to continue to watch the distance and patrol the guards by the way.

Outside the city, Sun Ce's barracks.

In the commander's tent, Sun Ce was reading with a light on, when the curtain was lifted, Huang Gai came in and reported, "As expected by the Major General, there are more than two thousand yellow scarf thieves in the city who want to go to the west ferry tonight and kill them to the north."

Sun Ce put down the slip of paper slowly, but didn't say anything about it, and asked, "There was a killing sound just now, but why?"

"It was the yellow turban bandits who bumped into our battalion guards."

Sun Ce nodded, with an unexpected expression, he just asked calmly and calmly: "As expected, the enemy general is Wang Zheng?"

Huang Gai replied: "The night is dark, the soldiers can't see clearly, only the enemy general seems to be young and quite brave."

Sun Ce said "Oh", and then stopped talking. After waiting for a while, Huang Gai quietly raised his head, and he couldn't help being stunned when he looked up. Sun Ce picked up the slip and read it again at some point.

"Major General?"

After hesitating for a moment, Huang Gai, who was bored in the tent, finally dared to ask: "Since the yellow scarves are going north, our army?"

"Do you still need to ask? Act according to the plan."

Sun Ce waved his hands slightly without raising his head, Huang Gai didn't dare to disturb him again, held his breath, and quietly retreated.

Sun Ce read at night in his tent, and Wang Zheng visited the city.

In the past few days, Zhou Hui didn't sleep much, and he did the same. It's just that he has an excellent physique, but he doesn't feel tired at all, and he is still full of energy. The reason for this is that Tao Ze only regarded it as a strong effort, and couldn't help admiring him secretly. He just thought that Wang Zheng is now in a high position in the state and pastoral, and he still does everything by himself, no matter how big or small.

But he persuaded: "Wang Zhoumu, why don't you go back first, the last general here is enough, even if the sun thief has thousands of troops, after all, they have no wings, they can't cross the moat, and they will never enter our city half a step !” Pointing to the guarding soldiers on the city, he patted his chest and said, “Besides, we Huben soldiers will not just sit back and watch them cross the river.”

Wang Zheng smiled slightly and said, "Lieutenant Tao County, when the general captured Linzi, he realized a truth. Do you know what it is?"

Without waiting for Tao Ze to answer, he said to himself: "The strongest defense line of a city is neither the moat nor the city wall, but the people's hearts. A city with people's hearts and morale not broken is the most difficult pass in the world!"

"It's not that the general is worried about Shucheng's defense, but that the night defense soldiers are more prone to fatigue, slack, and work harder. As the general, we should take a look at this time and show up more, which is also a kind of improvement. Morale."

Tao Ze was thoughtful, and was about to reply, when suddenly there was a loud noise, which came without warning in this quiet summer night, and was extremely abrupt.

After a loud noise, there was another sound, continuous, like a breach in a bank, or like a raging tide hitting the shore, the next moment the whole city was shaken, like a landslide.

All the people in the city looked at each other and turned pale.

The soldiers who had been sitting on the edge of the crenel stood up one after another.Some were leaning on spears, some were pressing against the wall. Under the firelight, thousands of people turned their gazes to the north of the city at the same time. Although the night was dark, they saw huge waves rising and falling one after another.

The wave of water, mixed with the wind and blowing over from a distance, felt like hitting his face. Tao Ze was startled for a moment, and then he couldn't help but said in shock: "No! Sun Ce's army broke the embankment!"

Wang Zheng's mind was shocked, and he immediately raised his sword eyebrows: "The embankment was broken? Is it the big river in the south?"

"No, it must be the Tishui River in the north."

"Why?"

Tao Ze said: "The Yanghe River in the south is closer to our city. If there are any abnormal guards on the city, you can find it, but the Shishui River is farther away. It can still be seen from a distance during the day, but it is difficult to see at night. The army outside the northern city is also invisible. If Sun Ce's army is doing something on this river, we will never know."

"If the general's predictions are correct, the loud noise is determined to be the sound of Sun Ce's army digging the embankment to release water."

Speaking of this, the panic in Tao Ze's words could not be concealed: "Wang Zhoumu, what should we do? Wang Xiaowei and the others."

This breach of the embankment may pose a threat to Shucheng, but it may not be too great. On the contrary, it is more likely to directly destroy Wang Xiong's 2000 troops.

Wang Zheng looked calm.

Speaking of Sun Cejun's possible digging of rivers to irrigate the city, he was prepared for it. After all, summer rains frequently occur and the water level rises. Shucheng is a city surrounded by rivers, so it is natural not to ignore it.

Therefore, as soon as he discovered that Sun Ce's army was approaching Shucheng, he suggested to Zhou Hui to have people dig a lot of water diversion channels in the nearby big rivers.

After informing Tao Ze of this matter, Wang Zheng looked at everyone and said with a smile: "When this general conquered Beihai, his general Huang Zhong conquered Gaomi by means of flooding."

"So Sun Bofu's move is just learning how to walk in Handan, and he is using an axe in class. It is really ridiculous. This move has long been expected by the general. Brother Tao, there is no need to worry. After Wang Xiong crossed the river, the route he took was not near the water, and there would be floods. It's monstrous, and it's just for us to dispel the heat."

Wang Zheng said categorically: "I expect that Sun Bandit's actions are nothing more than a blow to the morale of our army, but the actual effect will not be achieved at all."

"It's useless to think too much, let's wait until tomorrow, send sentry cavalry to the north to investigate, and it will naturally be all clear."

Tao Ze was infected by Wang Zheng's confident attitude. Hearing this, he breathed a sigh of relief, and immediately felt relieved:

"The state shepherd really counts, and the general admires it!"

As for the marching route, it was originally a military secret within the Heavenly Army. As a general of the Shucheng county lieutenant and Zhou Hui, it was normal for him not to know beforehand.

But in fact, did Wang Zheng really tell Wang Xiong in advance, and is he really as confident as he has shown?

Tao Ze didn't know, and no one else knew.

What everyone could see was that he continued to patrol the city without haste, and after nearly an hour, he slowly went down the city and returned to his tent.

It wasn't long after entering the commander's tent, but Wang Zheng immediately went to Zhou Hui's county mansion, and then entered the study together with Zhou and Wei.

Until the dead of night, with the bright moon hanging high, the study room was still brightly lit. When the maid brought the dinner, she happened to see the three of them standing in front of the map together, pointing and analyzing.

At this time, on the street outside the mansion, the drums of the fourth watch just sounded.

(End of this chapter)