The Most Romantic of the Three Kingdoms

In the Spring and Autumn Period, Dingtao County belonged to the land of Cao State, because this place is adjacent to Huai and Si in the south, Xiangxiang and Wei in the north, Dangji and Yanzhidao, and controls the suburbs of Bian and Song Dynasty. Thinking that pottery is in the world, the princes are connected in all directions, and the goods are traded, and it is the pottery, named Tao Zhugong.

Gao Su and Feng Gong led their troops to the east of Dingtao County.

Looking at the top of the city, in the bright sunlight, you can see that there are garrison guards on the four sides of the city walls. The banners of Liu Fu and Pan Zhang are erected in the west and south of the city respectively. The west of the city is where the main force of Cao's army is located, and the south of the city is where the main force of Miao's army is. To the north of Dingtao County is Jishui, where Cao Cao and Zhang Miao did not arrange a large number of troops and horses, and there were not many troops of the two armies in the east of the city.

When Gao Su and Feng Gong led their troops to arrive, Cao Jun and Miao troops had just left their camp and were preparing to attack the city.

Hearing the sound of drums in the west and south of the city, Gao Su left Feng Gong's two troops to line up on the spot and prepare for battle. At the junction in the west, carefully observe the situation of Cao's army in the south of the city.

I saw that Cao's army's camp was located about seven or eight miles west of the city, but it was not far from the city. The camp was very large, and the camp was very strict. Formation formed two miles before the camp. There are many flags and flags, and the momentum is not small.

Gao Su watched from a distance for a while, led his personal soldiers, and turned back the same way. Then, he galloped to the communication between the east and south of the county to see the situation of Zhang Miao's troops. Zhang Miao's main camp is about seven or eight miles away from the city, and the situation is similar to that of Cao's camp. At this moment, the soldiers in the camp are also being led by military officers and generals. Places arrayed in three miles.

Gao Su watched for a long time, and had a clear view of the situation of Cao's army and Miao's army. Then, because it attracted the attention of Miao's army, hundreds of Miao's troops approached him, so he stopped looking at it. Turn back to the east of the city.

Feng Gong had already arranged the formation of the soldiers for the battle. Seeing Gao Su returning, he greeted him and asked, "How is the enemy's situation?"

Gao Su curled his lips and said, "Cao's army still looks like it, the formation is neat, and there is no shortage of armor and ordnance, but the Miao army is almost meaningless. Very good, there are very few people in armor."

Yanzhou is a county with a large population. Dong County and Chenliu County have a large population and many people. Soldiers are easy to call. Whether it is to reward money for recruitment, or to capture strong men for forced recruitment, they can form a seemingly powerful army. It's not difficult, but the soldiers are summoned, but they don't necessarily have armor and good ordnance for them to use. In particular, Dongjun and Chenliu did not produce iron, because the soldiers of Cao Cao and Zhang Miao were indeed inferior to Xuzhou soldiers in terms of the level of sophistication of weapons.

The soldiers of Cao Cao's army are not bad. Cao Cao has a history of defeating the Heishan army that invaded Dongjun and replacing Liu Dai as the prefect of Yanzhou. The armor of the soldiers, because the equipment of the soldiers is so-so, it can still be seen.

But that Zhang Miao's department is a bit bad. Zhang Miao has a big name, but he is just a slave of the land. Since the world is in chaos, he has served as the prefect of Chenliu for a long time, but he has never left the county boundary. He only knew that he was guarding the household behind closed doors, the county was short of iron, and he could not capture anything from the outside, so his troops were basically dressed in commoner clothes, and they lacked strong crossbows and good bows, sharp spears and sharp blades.

Feng Gong said, "How many soldiers are Cao and Zhang out of the camp?"

Gao Su replied, "Cao's army is about 5,000 people, and Miao's army is about 4,000 people." He said with certainty, "Our army has now reached the east of the city, and I think they will not dare to attack the city today. They are going out of the camp, but if I save it, they should be back in the camp soon."

Feng Gong was noncommittal and asked Gao Su to stay in command of the troops, while he himself went to the west and south of the city to check on the enemy again.

But it is high-quality material.

Speaking of which, Cao Cao and Zhang Miao did not just learn of the arrival of Gao Su and Feng Gong. They had long been wary of Xuzhou reinforcements in the direction of Shanyang County, because they were in the east of Dingtao City, and there had always been a large number of troops. The scouts dispersed; on the other hand, Wan Qian, who was in the prefecture of Changyi, urgently sent someone to deliver a letter to Chen Gong shortly after Gao Su and Feng Gong left Changyi with their troops. Therefore, Gao Su and Feng Gong Cao Cao and Zhang Miao had already received military reports when their troops were still far from the city.

However, the order to form a siege of the city has been issued, and the soldiers of the two armies have already started to leave the camp. In order to avoid causing confusion, it is not good to stop immediately, so they still follow the original arrangement and go outside the camp to form a formation.

But in the end, because of Gao Su and Feng Gong's leadership, today's scheduled attack

The city battle is indeed impossible to fight again.

Therefore, after communicating through messengers, Cao Cao and Zhang Miao, and after the formation of their respective soldiers, they just moved forward for a certain distance down the city, fired catapults and arrows for a while, and made a show of strength. It was to create some pressure on the city to reduce the morale boost of the guards in the city brought by the arrival of reinforcements from Dian Gaosu and Feng Gong. Afterwards, Cao and Zhang's army called Jin to withdraw their troops.

Zhang Miao sent Dong Fang to Cao Cao's camp to discuss countermeasures against Xuzhou reinforcements from Gao Su and Feng Gong.

Dong Fang is Dong Zhao's elder brother.

Dong Zhao was originally under Yuan Shao's tent, Yuan Shao and Zhang Miao were at odds, because Dong Fang was in Zhang Miao's army, Dong Zhao was slandered, causing Yuan Shao's suspicion of him, because not long ago, he had to ask for resignation to leave Jizhou, now from the publicity of Hanoi County.

This is a digression, needless to say.

Dong Fang came to Cao Ying, and Cao Cao warmly welcomed him.

Dong Fang informed Cao Cao of his intention to come, and relayed Zhang Miao's words, saying: "Zhang Fujun sent me to Duke Cao's camp to ask for Duke Cao's opinion. Now that the reinforcements from Xuzhou have arrived, what should I do with the allied forces? It is still as planned. If you plan to attack the city in a big way, do you want to destroy the reinforcements from Xuzhou first, and then attack Dingtao?”

Cao Cao said: "The reinforcements from Xuzhou are now in the east of the city, forming a horn with the city. If I attack the city, the reinforcements from Xuzhou will definitely attack my flank. If the reinforcements are not eliminated, Ding Tao will be difficult to attack, so I should destroy them first. , and then attack Dingtao."

Dong Fang looked worried and said, "Although this Xuzhou reinforcement force is only about 3,000 people, but the armor and equipment are bright on the sun, it is obviously a good soldier, and it may not be easy to fight. If our coalition forces attack this support force. At the time, the guards in the city took advantage of the gap and attacked me, but what should I do?... This is another worry for Zhang Fujun."

Cao Cao laughed and said, "Why are you so worried! Look at the generals and flags that the reinforcements from Xuzhou fought here. The leaders are Gao Su and Feng Gong. Gao and Feng, I know them well. Zhen Zhi's trust, Gao Su is also small and brave, Feng Gong has a wit, and the two of them are soldiers of Yingchuan, who have been fighting for a long time from Zhen, and they are indeed good at fighting, but Meng Zhuo does not need to worry about this."

Dong interviewed: "Dare to ask Duke Cao, why?"

Cao Cao Nianxu said with a smile: "I have my own plan, but I can annihilate it in one battle!"

Dong Fang said, "Oh? Duke Cao actually has a good strategy? What strategy is it, can you tell me? So that I can report to Zhang Fujun."

Cao Cao sold something, but he refused to say anything, he just said: "Wait two days, Meng Zhuo will know!"

Dong Fang saw that he refused to speak, so he didn't ask any more questions and left.

Cao Cao stopped him and motioned to accompany Cao Ang, who was in the tent, to go out.

Not long after, Cao Ang came back, carrying a deer leg.

Cao Cao handed the deer leg to Dong Fang and said, "This is what my subordinates gave to me yesterday. I haven't seen Meng Zhuo and Gongtai for a long time. Fortunately, my two armies joined forces outside Dingtao City in the sun. , I met with them and talked about my life happily. I was very happy, but Meng Chaubei came to be safe. I saw that the face of Gongtai was thin, and it really lost a lot of weight. After I got this deer leg, I was reluctant to eat it. , I thought about giving it to the public platform to nourish and nourish with him. Just when you are here, help me bring it to him and Meng Zhuo. "

Dong Fang thought to himself: "Chen Gongtai has criticized Duke Cao a lot since he arrived in Chenliu, but he doesn't care about Duke Cao's diligence. Not only does he not blame him for switching to Zhang Fujun, but he even got a deer's leg, and he still thinks about him! Really benevolent and righteous." Respectfully complied, caught the deer's leg, and resigned.

When Dong Fang left, Cao Cao summoned Cheng Li, Man Chong and others to see him and said, "The reinforcements from Xuzhou have arrived, and our plan can be implemented!"

Cheng Li and Man Chong agreed to the promise and implemented it.

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For two days, Cao Cao did not send troops to attack the city.

Zhang Miao worried that a large number of reinforcements from Changyi would arrive at any time, and successively sent Dong Fang and others to Cao's camp to ask Cao Cao's intentions.

Cao Cao was calm, and only told Zhang Miao not to worry.

But he said that today, in Gao Su and Feng Gong's camp, scouts came to report, and a troop of soldiers and horses came from the north, holding a banner of righteousness, claiming to be a part of Li Jin of the Cheng clan, saying that they heard that Dingtao was surrounded and came specially. aided.

Gao Su and Feng Gong helped Liu Fu exterminate the thieves who had been in Onozawa. Brothers Li Cao and Li Jin also participated in the battle at that time. They were old acquaintances. Gao Su was quite happy when he heard Li Jin's lead party coming, but Feng Gong was not suspicious.

Feng Gong said: "Li Jin's brother Li Cao was executed by Liu Fujun for secretly communicating with bandits.

, It is said that Liu Fujun and Li Jin have a revenge for killing his brother, so how could Li Jin come to help Liu Fujun? Zixiu, is there any fraud in this? "

Gao Su smiled and said, "Hugou, this is what you don't know!"

Feng Gong asked in surprise, "What do I not know?"

Gao Su analyzed Li Jin's state of mind for him and said, "It is precisely because Li Cao was killed by Liu Fujun that Li Jin felt uneasy and feared that Liu Fujun would trouble him again, so he led the trilogy and came to help. Ding Tao, in order to commit crimes and make meritorious deeds."

Feng Gong thought for a while, and felt that Gao Su's remarks made some sense, but in the end, he was too suspicious, so he reminded Gao Su, saying: "Li Jin may be doing meritorious deeds to commit crimes, but Zixiu, you and I should not be careless. Let his part be in my camp, just ask him to camp elsewhere."

Gao Su smiled and said, "Hugou, you are just too suspicious!"

Feng Gong insisted on his own opinion.

This is a trivial matter, Gao Su did not argue with him, took a magnanimous gesture, nodded, and said, "It's all up to you, it's all up to you!"

Li Jin's family is the great power of the Cheng clan, with thousands of disciples and hundreds of brave disciples. He brought a total of more than 2,000 people to help Dingtao this time. All warriors.

When the soldiers arrived at the east of the city, three or four miles away from Gao Su and Feng Gongying, Li Jin stopped the advance of the trilogy, and brought two servants to the courtyard gate outside Gao Su and Feng Gongying, asking to see Gao Su and Feng Gongying. Feng Gong.

Feng Gong asked, "How many soldiers did he bring?"

The guard of the Yuanmen replied, "There are only two."

If there were too many servants, Feng Gong certainly couldn't let them in, but if it was just two people, it wouldn't matter.

Gao Suling said, "Bring him in!"

It didn't take long for Li Jin and his two men to arrive outside the tent.

Li Jin bowed down to the ground outside the tent and said loudly, "Little man Li Jin, see the high school captain and Feng Xiaowei!"

A voice came from the tent: "Come in."

Li Jin got up and was about to bring the two servants into the account.

The guards at the entrance of the tent blocked Li Jin's way of the pawns. With the spear in hand, he said to Li Jin, "You are the only one called by the captain of the school. The tent is heavy, and the idle people cannot enter without authorization!"

Li Jin instructed the soldier: "Wait outside."

The guard ordered him to take off his sword, and then he was released into the tent.

Li Jin entered the tent, bowed down again, and said: "Li Jin, the villain, recently heard that Cao Cao had captured Lihu, joined forces with Zhang Miao, and attacked Dingtao. At that time, the villain was anxious. Extremely, thinking of coming to help Liu Fujun to defend the city, but the villain is all militiamen, I am afraid that it is not the enemy of Cao Cao and Zhang Miao, even if they come, it will be of no avail. Therefore, it has been delayed until now, and the villain is restless. After hearing that the Colonel Commander led his troops to come to help, he hurriedly summoned all the disciples and disciples to help out!"

Gao Su said in a grand manner: "Very good! I will honor your loyalty to Lord Xun Shi and General Le. The main reinforcements of my Changyi will arrive soon. When the reinforcements arrive, they will defeat Cao Dongjun, Zhang Mengzhuo, and Xun Shi. Jun, General Le will definitely reward you!"

Li Jin said: "The villain is the people under Liu Fujun's rule. When the Fujun is in trouble, the villain rushes to help. This is what the villain should do. How dare you ask for a reward because of this? Although the time of the county is not long, first to destroy the bandits in Dayezawa, then to distribute grain, cattle, farm implements and other items to the rural poor, to respect the old and love the virtuous, it is already very much loved by the people of our county, and the villains come to help. , it's more reasonable!"

Gao Su said, "Get up."

Li Jin got up, but did not sit down, he stood respectfully with his hands down, bent his waist, and said, "The destruction of the thieves in Onozawa in the past is thanks to the presence of Gao Gaowei and Feng Xiaowei who came to Yashi in person, taking the lead, the villain's hometown used to be a common sight in the past. The victims of the thieves have been cleaned up in the countryside today, and the people of the county are praising the merits of the high school captains and Feng Xiaowei! Unable to repay, they put together a gift and asked the villain to give them to the two captains!"

Gao Su was overjoyed when he heard Cheng's county people sing praises to him and Feng Gong, and asked, "What gift?"

Li Jin said: "It's not anything precious, it's my Cheng family's specialty."

Gao Su became more and more happy, and said, "Okay! The courtesy is light. You bring me that gift and show it to me."

Li Jin said, "There are a lot of gifts, which are now in the box outside the tent."

"Bring it in, bring it in."