Chapter 278: Give Cao Cao some ruthlessness from behind

Dian Weixi said: "Lord, you are fine."

Ma Yue smiled and pulled down the seven or eight wolf-toothed arrows on his back, sighing: "Thanks to the soft golden silk armor woven by Yu Niang, otherwise this time the general would be in trouble even if he didn't die."

At this time, Ma Zheng beside him suddenly started to cry.

Hearing Ma Zheng's crying, Ma Yue's heart became angry, and he slapped Ma Zheng in the face again, cursing: "Why are you crying? How big is it? You will cry like a girl!"

Ma Zheng stopped crying and said to Ma Yue: "Father, it's all for the child to be useless."

Ma Yue's heart softened, his tone turned soft, and he touched Ma Zheng's little head and said, "Son, do you understand why your father wants to kill people now? These Xianbei people have a mortal grudge against us Han people. If you don't kill them, they will kill you in turn! Today, you are the most fateful, because you are the son of General Pingxi. But after many Han children were snatched away by Xianbei people, it is impossible for so many troops to chase and rescue them. What should they do?"

Ma Zheng remained silent, but a hint of hatred appeared in his black-eyed eyes.

Ma Yue's eyes turned cold and said in a deep voice: "They can only be cruelly killed by the Xianbei people, and no one can survive!"

"I understand, father!" Ma Zheng nodded, clenched his fists and said hatefully, "Father, from today on, the child must be familiar with military books and practice martial arts diligently. When he grows up, he will become a general who leads the war like his father, and kill all the despicable and shameless Xianbei people."

"Um."

Ma Yue nodded expressionlessly.

In fact, Ma Yue really wanted to tell Ma Zheng that you should be not only a general who leads the army and fights, but also a commander of the general and the emperor who ruled the world. Unfortunately, Ma Yue is now just a general who Pingxi. He is only in the exploratory stage of his ability to control his subordinates, and there is nothing to teach Ma Zheng at all.

Fortunately, Ma Zheng is only nine years old, and Ma Yue has time to teach this eldest son slowly.

At this moment, Jia Xu, Guan Ning and Ju Su also rode a fast horse and chased after him panting. After all, these three were Ma Zheng's teachers. It was no trivial to be captured. When they saw Ma Yue, Ma Zheng and his son were safe and sound, Jia Xu and the other two breathed a sigh of relief, and a huge rock in their hearts finally fell to the ground.

During this period, the horse butcher was destined to be silent.

Ma Zheng was just robbed back, and Jia Xu brought another annoying news.

Jia Xu secretly pulled Ma Yue aside and said in a low voice: "Lord, Gongzi Zhan injured Gongzi Shuang (Wang Shuang, Wang Yuan's son, because Wang Yuan died in battle, Ma Yue adopted Wang Shuang and gave him the surname Ma). He heard from the eldest lady that he was still injured, and his ribs were kicked and broken, and his internal organs were also injured, and he vomited blood."

"Nonsense." Ma Yue's face changed, and he looked back and lowered his voice, "Shuang'er is already twelve years old, but Zhan'er is only six years old. Can a six-year-old baby beat a half-sized child who is twelve years old?"

"Lord, you don't know." Jia Xu whispered, "Young Master, you are born with divine power. You can lift a hundred pounds at a young age."

"This little wolf cub!" Ma Yue held his forehead with his hand and said to Jia Xu, "Look back and see Shuang'er's injuries before talking about it."

"Master."

Jia Xu suddenly called out in a low voice.

Ma Yue turned around and said, "What do you mean by Wenhe?"

Jia Xu stumbled insults twice, shook his head and said, "It's gone, Xu has nothing to say."

Ma Yue's eyes narrowed and he whispered: "Wenhe, you don't even know that Zhan'er is born with divine power and will definitely become a brave and war-friendly general in the future. In this way, Zhan'er's reputation in the army will surpass Zheng'er. With the army's host Zhan'er, he will threaten Zheng'er's status. Is that true?"

Jia Xu bowed and said, "Lord, wisely."

"This is indeed a problem." Ma Yue paced back and forth with his hands behind his back and said sadly, "It seems that this is the only way to make a decision."

Jia Xu said: "What strategy?"

"Zhan'er was born by Nazhen Erdot after all, and he has the blood of the Hu people." Ma Yue sighed and said, "From today on, we will only teach Zhan'er's martial arts, not teach him knowledge, especially not teach him military calligraphy and formations! In this way, even if Zhan'er is brave and good at fighting in the future, he will be just a powerful general who charges and will never become a commander in the army, and will not pose a threat to Zheng'er's status."

Jia Xu heard the loneliness in Ma Yue's words, but he didn't know how to persuade him.

"Ah~~" Ma Yue sighed long and said, "Since ancient times, the ruthless imperial family!"

The horse leap gradually drifted away, and the sun set in the west, pulling the shadow of the horse leap long on the grass. A gust of cold wind blew, and the blood-red cloak behind the horse leap was shaking. The figure looked so lonely. Jia Xu's throat twitched, and he wanted to come forward to comfort him, but he really didn't know how to comfort his lord.

Runan, Soul-Breaking Valley.

Zhang Xun led 10,000 elite troops to crowd in the depression outside the valley. Looking around, the fires were rising into the sky, and the flying smoke and dust covered the sky. The Broken Soul Valley and the surrounding mountains were completely shrouded by the burning fire. In the burning fire, birds and beasts were occasionally startled from the forest. However, they were burned by the flames before they could escape.

Such a fierce fire is enough to melt gold and iron, not to mention humans and animals.

"Hahaha~~" Zhang Xun stood up and smiled at the sky, "Didn't Cao's army pretend to be defeated and lured the enemy to ambush my general's army? They must have never expected that this general would actually use the trick and burn it to ashes with a fire. Hahaha~~ I really want to see what kind of expression Cao Aman should have?"

In a trance, Zhang Xun seemed to see thousands of Cao's soldiers wailing and struggling in the fire, and then disappearing into ashes in the burning fire.

"Boom~~"

Amid the burning sound of the trumpet, Zhang Xun suddenly heard a strange sound, and the ground under his feet suddenly trembled.

"What sound?" Zhang Xun asked in horror, "The ground seems to be shaking too."

"Oh my God, the ground is really moving!" A general of the army responded in horror, "Can it be that the ground is cracked, right?"

"The earth crack?"

Zhang Xun was shocked when he heard this. He was surrounded by fire. Even if he wanted to escape, he had no way to escape. If it was really a crack in the ground, then he and his ten thousand elite soldiers would be buried underground by the collapsed mountains!

"No~~" Suddenly, a soldier screamed shrillly on the north side of his finger, "It's not the crack of the ground, it's water, it's the flood!"

"Yeah, flood?"

Zhang Xun and dozens of military generals turned around suddenly, and saw a huge flood peak rushing from the valley on the north side. The huge waves raised high were mixed with countless broken branches and huge rocks. Where the huge waves passed, the flames were extinguished, the branches were broken, the forest was broken, and the mud and stones collapsed. The momentum was extremely terrifying.

"Not good, there's a flood, run away!"

Zhang Xun shouted, turned around and ran, but after running less than two steps, he could not help but stop his steps. The reason was that except for the direction where the flood was rolling, all other directions were covered by surging torches. If you want to escape the flood, you have to break through the burning fire.

At this moment, Zhang Xun finally realized the pain of having no way to heaven and no way to enter the ground! He could only watch the soldiers under his command fleeing into the fire in panic, and then burned into ashes by the ruthless fire. The rest of those who did not dare to rush into the fire were completely flooded by the surging flood.

Suddenly, a huge wave rushed over, smashing Zhang Xun to the ground.

Ten miles away, on a high mountain.

Cao Cao witnessed the surging floods rushing under his feet and said to Guo Jia: "Alas, once this Yingshui breaks, I don't know how many people will suffer from the disaster again."

Guo Jia advised: "This is also helpless. If Cheng army is allowed to occupy Runan and the brutal Yuan Shu will be in charge of Runan, I am afraid that the situation of the people in Runan will be miserable. It is really said that long pain is worse than short pain. This is the reason why the two parties weigh the lighter. The lord doesn't have to blame himself."

Cao Cao nodded and said with a slight silence: "This battle needs to be ended as soon as possible."

Xun You on the side said, "Don't worry, lord, Zhang Xun's 10,000 elite soldiers are probably already fish and shrimps in the water at this time. The 20,000 troops left in Ruyin camp have no longer had to worry about losing Zhang Xun's command. The six generals, Cao Ren, Cao Hong, Cao Chun, Guan Yu, Zangba, and Yu Jin, have led the army to attack together, and the victory should be expected."

Jiangdong.

After Huang Gai captured Guzhen, he ordered soldiers to leave the city during the day and enter the city at night according to Xu Shu's plan. This was the case for ten consecutive days. The spy from Danyang urgently reported to Wanling (the capital of Danyang County), saying that Sun Jian had assembled at least 50,000 Wu troops in Guzhen City! Danyang Prefect Liu Yao believed it and hurriedly dispatched soldiers from various counties to Wanling to gather. He also ordered the general Taishi Ci to lead three thousand troops across Lengshui to camp in order to resist the Wu army's troops.

Taishi Ci and Danyang Prefect Liu Yao were fellow townsmen. They were kind-hearted since childhood. Half a year ago, Taishi Ci's mother died of illness, and Qingzhou Governor Kong Rong happened to step down and enter the court again. Taishi Ci brought dozens of confidants to Danyang County to join Liu Yao. When Liu Yao saw Taishi Ci, he was overjoyed and immediately regarded him as the commander of Danyang and leaned on him as his left arm and right arm.

However, Liu Yao quickly realized that he had fallen into the trap!

When the Danyang Army focused all its attention on Huang Gai of the Guzhen, Sun Ce, Sun Jing and Pan Zhang took advantage of the situation to attack Jurong, Moling, Shicheng, Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin's Wujun navy also attacked Wuhu Port. When Sun Yao reacted, the northern counties of Danyang County had already fallen into the hands of the Wu army, and the Danyang Navy of Wuhu Port was also destroyed by the Wujun navy. The lower section of the Yangtze River waterway was completely controlled by the Wujun navy.

Liu Yao hurriedly reported the message to Shouchun for 800 miles, and ordered Taishi Ci to lead his troops north to Liyang to think it was a barrier to Wanling.

After the Wu army captured the counties in the northern part of Danyang and Wuhu Port, Sun Jian ordered Sun Jing to guard Shicheng and Pan Zhang to guard Jurong. The two armies were supporting each other to resist the possible counterattack of the Danyang army. They also ordered Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin to lead three thousand naval troops to travel to the Yangtze River and to meet Sun Jing and Pan Zhang at any time.

After arranging the situation, Sun Jian personally led 8,000 elite troops from Wujun to Huainan and deceived Chen Lan by hiding the world. In just half a month, the Wu army won consecutive battles and won ten cities in a row. The troops pointed directly at Hefei, the important city of Huainan. Hefei was the barrier to the south of Shouchun. Once it was lost, Shouchun would be exposed to the Wu army's soldiers!

At this time, Chen Lan thought that Sun Jian's main force was still in Jiangdong, and the only one who moved to Huainan was a small group of Wu army, who were stationing troops in Liyang and raising ships to cross the river to attack Wujun. At this moment, news of Hefei's emergency came. Chen Lan realized that he had fallen into the Wu army's trick and rushed to lead the army back to help Hefei.

Hefei, Zhou Shang’s official residence.

Zhou Shang was originally the prefect of Lujiang, but after Yuan Shu became emperor, Lujiang County was changed to Huainan Yin. Zhou Shang was not qualified to serve as the prefect of Lujiang again, so he was sent by Yuan Shu to Hefei, a military city, to be the prefect.

Partial hall.

Sun Jian clasped his fists and said, "Mr. Zhou."

Zhou Shang replied, "General Sun."

The two looked at each other and smiled, and the host and the host took a seat. Sun Ce and Zhou Yu went up to meet Zhou Shang and Sun Jian with the courtesy of their younger generations. Although Zhou Shang had never met Sun Jian, he had always had a good impression of the Sun family because of Zhou Yu. He was also a close friend of Sun Ce's mother's uncle Wu Jing, so he asked Sun Jian: "I wonder if Mr. Wu Jing is good recently?"

Sun Jian said: "It's great, thank you Lord Zhou for your concern."

Before Sun Jian could speak, Zhou Shang took the initiative to say: "Yuan Shu did a rebellious act and tried to usurp the Han Dynasty and become emperor. It is a very serious crime. The subordinates intend to offer sacrifices to the tent. I wonder what the general wants?"

Sun Jian said: "I really want to ask for it."

"Uncle, General Sun." Zhou Yu, who was on the side, stood up and said loudly, "There is no need to be so anxious about the matter of Xiancheng. Why not wait until Chen Lan's 20,000 troops arrive before making a reason?"

Sun Ce knew Zhou Yu the most and said anxiously: "Did Gong Jin already have a good plan to defeat the enemy?"

Zhou Yu smiled slightly and said something. Sun Jian, Zhou Shang, and Sun Ce immediately applauded.

In April of the seventh year of Jian'an (194), the Jianghuai land had just entered the annual plum rainy season, and bad news came back to Shouchun one after another.

First, Zhang Xun was defeated, and the 30,000 troops were defeated by Cao's army. In the end, only 8,000 remaining soldiers fled back to Shouchun in a panic. Then Chen Lan won Sun Jian in Hefei. Zhou Shang's internal and external solutions, 20,000 troops were blocked by 8,000 elite troops in Wujun and killed and destroyed the entire army.

After Zhang Xun and Chen Lan, Lei Bo also fell into Chen Gong's plan and lost consecutive battles. Dongcheng and Yinling fell one after another. Lei Bo had to lead 10,000 remaining troops back to Shouchun. Yuan Shu was furious and pushed Lei Bo out of the "Muria Gate" to behead him. In this way, in less than three months, the three armies sent by Yuan Shu were defeated on the whole line, with most of the 70,000 elite casualties.

In mid-April, Cao Cao, Sun Jian and Lu Bu three armies advanced to the city of Shouchun at the same time, forming a siege.

However, the three coalition forces of Cao Cao, Sun Jian and Lu Bu were not having a good life. Although Shouchun was surrounded, there were still nearly 50,000 defenders in the city. On the contrary, the three coalition forces of besieged the city had only more than 40,000 troops. Judging from the comparison of troops, the coalition forces did not seem to have the strength to attack.

If you can't attack for a force, you can only be sieged for a long time.

But the problem is that there is plenty of food and grass in Shouchun City, and it is more than half a year to hold on. On the contrary, the three coalition forces, due to the rain and muddy days of days, the supply of military rations began to be tight. Cao's army was large and Yanzhou had a thin foundation. The military rations were the first to be fully handled. Cao Cao had to borrow some military rations from Sun Jian, and Lu Bu also made some moderate efforts. But in this way, the coalition forces could only last for half a month at most.

In other words, if the Shouchun cannot be captured within half a month, the coalition forces will have to choose to retreat.

Chang'an.

As early as the end of March, in order to better grasp the progress of the Yangzhou war, Ma Yue returned to Chang'an in secret.

In the lobby of Ma Yue's official residence, almost all the civil and military confidants under Ma Butcher's command had gathered together. Jia Xu, Ju Su, Fu Xie, Fa Zhen, Li Su and other civil officials and Xu Huang, Fang Yue, Gao Shun, Xu Chu, Ju Tu, Dian Wei, Li Meng, Wang Fang and other military generals were arranged on both sides, and they looked full of talents.
To be continued...