Chapter 3586 Anti-Party Horse Bureau

North of Jizhou, southern Youzhou.

Inside the big tent, Wei Yan was painting on the ground with a small branch.

Yan Rou lifted the curtain of the tent and walked in.

Wei Yan didn't even raise the corner of his eyes, but was still looking at the figures drawn on the ground, asking casually, "Have you eaten? There is the remaining barbecue there."

No matter when, food is the most important thing in China.

Yan Rou was not polite either. She went forward and wiped her hands on the armor on her body. It was just a matter of cleanness. Then she picked up a knife stuck on the meat piece, cut the meat strip and started eating.

The meat was not completely roasted, and it was a little burnt on the outside, but it was still half a day inside. But Yan Rou obviously didn't care at all. She ate more than half of it in a while, and then picked up the water bag and drank it gurglingly.

『Cao army must be more than just the soldiers and horses under the stone city…』 Wei Yan suddenly said, 『I heard that Cao Zihe is the best among the younger generation of the Cao family, so he will definitely not give up and withdraw from Youzhou.』

After saying that, Wei Yan pointed a little bit at the ground with a little emotion, "I originally thought this guy should have rushed out impatiently, but I didn't expect that he was really a little patient..."

Yan Rou was dealing with the remaining half of the meat and muttered, "If he showed up, we will still be waiting here?"

Wei Yan smiled bitterly, "Otherwise, what's going on? I'll borrow some war horses from Zhao Zilong? Even if I borrowed a war horse, you have a cavalry, there's no problem. Most of my subordinates are infantrymen, although they can ride horses, but...

"If Cao's army really comes, they also have cavalry!" Yan Rou asked, "How do you fight?"

Wei Yan smiled and said, "Are you afraid of the Cao army's cavalry?"

Yan Rou grabbed her chin with her oily hands and stuffed the meat scraps stained on her beard into her mouth. "Why are you afraid? But I will agree first that I will take them back to the desert, not to take them to die."

"That's definitely not a death sentence." Wei Yan answered without thinking.

Yan Rou put down the knife in her hand and said seriously: "I'm serious."

Wei Yan was stunned for a moment, "I really went back to the desert?"

Yan Rou nodded.

Wei Yan was a little confused, "No...you...you are...who are going to conquer the Central Plains, you go back..."

Yan Rou let out a sigh, "War, killing... Do you know when I was in war and killing people? I was less than ten years old. At that time, our tribe went to fight another tribe, and I stabbed someone to death... Well, a guy about the same age as me now... I still remember the look of that guy now, it seemed very painful and happy...

Wei Yan wanted to speak but stopped.

『Hahaha,』 Yan Rou suddenly laughed,『No more talk about this... In the desert, it is a blessing to live to my age... Let's talk about the current situation of the war. You want Cao's army to come, but what if they don't come?"

Wei Yan smiled, "They will come! If you don't come, they will not use it in the future!"

Wei Yan pointed to the sketch he drew on the ground, "Look, this city is surrounded by three and one, isn't it clearly a pocket?"

Yan Rou glanced at Wei Yan, "Everyone knows it's a pocket, are you rushing in?"

"How can I get a tiger's son if I don't enter the tiger's den?" Wei Yan smiled, and then his smile gradually showed a bit of cold blood. "And this guy clearly thinks I like adventure... I'm here to design it specifically for me, how can I not come?"

Yan Rou ate the last bite of meat, licked the knife that cut the flesh, and inserted it on the wooden plate, "Tell me, what exactly should I do?"

Wei Yan chuckled, "What I think is actually very simple..."

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"The thief army will definitely come!"

Cao Chun said it very sure.

『According to the scouts, the army in the northern region is still in the northern part of Youzhou, Yuyang Ji County," Cao Chun explained to Sima, a military marquis who found something unusual, 『We are facing a small number of Yi Jing's "bandits"...』

"The cavalry army is not a bandit..." A military marquis muttered in a low voice.

Cao Chun waved his hand and said, "There are also differences between the cavalry army. The Northern Region Army is naturally a first-class army. If we can't win, it's not a big deal. However, these bandits are bandits from Taihang Mountain! Then they are mixed with some traitors in Jizhou. They are mixed with the various army! The simplest and most important point is that they don't have many war horses! And we have it!"

"We are now besieging Fangcheng and taking the next step to attack Yi Jing. These thieves have only two options: one is to help Fangcheng, and the other is to abandon Fangcheng and retract Yi Jing!"

Cao Chun stood up and looked around slowly, "Everyone knows what kind of scene it would be when an attack was encountered during the march! At that time, we use cavalry to make a decision against infantry, but we have no intention, and we have the chance of winning! If we don't even dare to fight this... what's the use of waiting for Cao's salary?!"

"After this battle, we can raise our heads and chests back to Jizhou!" Cao Chun shouted in a deep voice, "If you don't have the courage, you can reach out to touch the egg under your crotch?! If you think you are a waste, then you can do it for you. Cut your egg, it's useless anyway!"

"We are in Youzhou, we are fighting and blocking, but we don't win, and we want to lure the enemy, but we don't. Now, if we even deal with some cavalry and scattered bandits, we are afraid to move forward and dare not advance..." Cao Chun looked at the military academies seriously, "This battle is not only related to the Han Dynasty, but also the only chance for you and me to cleanse the stigma!"

The military academies looked at each other, but they didn't say anything fearful.

Cao Chun looked around and knew that he had to give some temptations under the threat, so he said: "After this battle, all the money and utensils in Fangcheng would not be taken away by you if you don't take any money or anything else!"

『Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh

The military academies suddenly became excited.

Although Fangcheng is small, don’t treat bean bread as dry food!

With the distorted smiles of everyone, Cao Chun suddenly felt as if he had seen the Yellow Turban Thiefs in Chenliu back then.

They are clearly loyal ministers and representatives of the people, but now everything seems to have changed.

It also seems that nothing has changed.

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The night was as bright as ink, and the bonfire of Cao's army camp outside the city swayed.

All simplicity is actually not simple.

Although Cao Chun said in front of Sima and others of the military academy that Wei Yan would definitely come, in fact, he was only 60% to 70% sure in his heart.

This is true for military operations, more than 50% of them are already considered ideal.

Cao Chun’s inference that Wei Yan would definitely come from Wei Yan’s previous battle 'trajectory'...

Although Cao Chun does not understand what big data analysis is, studying Wei Yan's combat habits and fighting methods is indeed the thing that Cao Chun has spent the most time and energy on this period.

Cao Chun discovered that Wei Yan likes to take risks.

If Cao Chun is more than 50% sure of taking risks, then Wei Yan is only about 30% dares to do it!

It’s like climbing over the Taihang Mountains or even hooking up with these gentry in Jizhou. Which one is not a risk?

Logically speaking, even if you successfully cross the Taihang Mountains, you will inevitably lose your troops and be exhausted. You will have to rest for at least one or two, or find a weaker link in Jizhou to attack, but Wei Yan just aimed at Yecheng!

Such a person is not a lunatic, so what?

So if Wei Yan knew that Cao Chun and his men appeared near Fangcheng, he would definitely come!

"Come! Have you arrested all the people from the Zhou clan outside the city?"

Cao Chun lifted the curtain of the tent and asked loudly.

"Report to General, you are arrested!" A military academy responded.

Cao Chun nodded, "Good! Take these people to the city!"

Cao Chun decided to give the people in Fangcheng a little more pressure and then pass this pressure on Wei Yan.

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Outside the south gate of Fangcheng.

On the side of the moat.

Cao Chun stared at the Zhou clan members who were pressed down in the mud, and glanced at the young child. He felt a little reluctant, but he was soon replaced by the anger caused by the discooperation of the Zhou clan in the city and the emptiness of the granaries in the city.

"General's clarification!" The old man Zhou's hair was scattered and shaking in the wind last year. "Since the Yellow Turbans broke out in the Zhongping period, how did Fangcheng's granaries have been filled with 30%? Last year, the big locusts, and the old man even took out the grain stored in the ancestral hall for farmers to replenish the farmland..."

"Hmph." Cao Chun didn't believe it at all. "What a fence! Every year is empty, every year is insufficient! The troublemakers are full of lies, but there is no truth! Whether it is fine! If the door opens and surrenders, even if you still have your lives, if you resist stubbornly, don't blame me for showing mercy!"

The old man Zhou on the top of the city was silent, looking at the bound Zhou clan members under the city.

Most of them are outside the city, compared with the Zhou family who have a poor blood relationship, but one of them is the grandson of the old man Zhou...

But it's not the eldest grandson.

A few days ago, when Cao's army had not arrived, someone in the city had an epidemic. In order to prevent the child from being infected, he sent someone to a village outside the city to avoid the epidemic. He originally thought that there were few people in the village, but he did not expect that the epidemic was avoided, but he could not escape Cao's army...

In the Han Dynasty, and even in other subsequent feudal dynasties, when encountering military disasters or simpler things, homes were confiscated due to certain crimes, people in later generations would inevitably express their feelings, why are they so stupid? Why don’t they run away?

In fact, in most cases, even though they knew they would face family confiscation and family extermination, they still couldn't escape because of China's strict household registration system and the relevant laws that the refugees were automatically convicted.

A refugee is equivalent to a criminal. No matter where he is caught by the government, he is directly sentenced to serve in one-stop service without any negotiation.

Moreover, in ancient times, transportation was inconvenient and the goal of riding a car was large. If you only rely on two legs in the wilderness, regardless of whether you have the ability to survive in the wilderness or not, even if you are not eaten by wild animals, the dry food you carry is limited. If you do not follow the official road, it is extremely difficult to get daily supplies. Once you walk on the official road, you may be arrested.

Those who can escape often require certain cooperation and certain conditions. In ancient times, traveling was not as fast and convenient as it was later generations, not to mention that in later generations, no one could run just by wanting to run.

Therefore, the young grandson of the old man Zhou was arrested...

Open the city gate for the sake of the young grandson?

This is obviously impossible.

Didn’t the Zhou family plan for such a long time just to become a "guardian" in front of the people of Fangcheng, and then form the established facts before the new ruler arrives?

Therefore, Old Mr. Zhou just cried and cried, but did not order the city gate to be opened.
To be continued...