Three Kingdoms

After Zheng Tai surrounded Shoushan Academy and Cai Yong was killed, even Guanqiu Xing felt a little troubled. This was the same as Cao Cao's unwillingness to kill Ni Heng.

Cao Cao could kill Bian Yi, but he was unwilling to kill Ni Heng. Although both men had reputations, in fact the two men were completely different in nature. Bian Rang was the vanguard of the Yanzhou nobles' resistance to Cao Cao at that time, and he was the pathfinder. Cao Cao's killing of Bian Rang had the intention of frightening the Yanzhou nobles, but it had the opposite effect.

But Mi Heng appeared after Cao Cao welcomed Emperor Xian, and officially transformed from a local prince to a powerful official of the Han Dynasty. It was the time when the image was most needed to be maintained, so even though Mi Heng was even worse than Bian Yiang, he scolded Cao Cao. If he scolded his son and made Cao Cao angry, Cao Cao still had to endure it and find a way to get off.

The same is true for Yang Biao.

Yang Biao is now at the critical moment when he wants to establish a positive image of helping the country and attract talents from all over the country to join Heluo under his command. How could he allow such a thing to happen?

Although people do not do it themselves, it is somehow inseparable, and Guanqiu Xing is also extremely distressed.

Of course, swords and guns have no eyesight, and Cai Yong hit it by himself. Normally, such an accident would be Cai Yong's own fault...

If you rush forward even though you know the danger, are you becoming more and more confused as you live?

Normally, Cai Yong should not be in the academy, so how could he appear on the mountain road?

What's wrong with the bow and arrow? Even if it hits an limb, it's fine, but it hits the chest and abdomen?

When Guan Qiuxing heard Zheng Tai's return, he almost couldn't help but want to curse.

But the problem is, even in the later generations where cameras are everywhere, helping an ordinary old man who has fallen will risk losing his family and fortune. What's more, this is in the Han Dynasty, and the person who died was a famous and prestigious literary figure...

The behavior of a reckless man who never stops doing anything is just like a bandit. Guanqiu Xing would never make such a mistake. Just like stealing at first, but then bumping into the mistress, people who like to do it without stopping will often turn from stealing to robbing. When they see the mistress is beautiful, they will further turn into beastly animals and eventually kill people. silence...

When a mistake occurs, you can only try your best to make up for it. If it is allowed to develop uncontrollably without rational control, it will often evolve into an uncontrollable situation.

The question is, how to make up for this mistake now?

It suddenly became a problem.

After the two discussed for a long time, they came to a relatively unanimous decision. No matter what, they must insist that Cai Yan and Zheng Xi had something personal. Then Cai Yong was so ashamed and angry that he rushed towards the swords, guns and arrows, seeking to commit suicide. …

It doesn’t matter whether others believe it or not, what’s important is that you believe it yourself.

Although they surrounded Taoshan, the students in the academy were so angry that they couldn't continue to make any big moves to avoid worsening the situation. They could only let it go first. Guanqiu Xing and Zheng Tai also discussed to deal with it coldly for the time being, but that didn't work. If you want to go to school, you can starve to the palace students for a few days, and then look for opportunities to divide. After all, not everyone is so courageous...

Anyway, this stage must not be intensified. If the time is prolonged, the impact will gradually become smaller. After the enthusiasm of the students of the academy has cooled down, as long as some of the students of the academy can be bribed, they can stick to their own opinions, and then Let's just let it go. Anyway, Zheng Xi is dead. Who can reverse the case for Cai Yong?

After the discussion was decided, Guanqiu Xing and Zheng Tai temporarily focused their attention on Pingyang City. The original plan was to besiege the city, so an extra day or two would not have a big impact on Guanqiu Xing and Zheng Tai's original plan. .

Anyway, haven't we already surrounded Taoshan? Tomorrow we can declare to Pingyang City that we have the posthumous son of General Zhengxi in our hands. Will the guards in Pingyang City panic now?

The current camp in Guanqiu Xing has almost forced Pingyang City to set up camp. Most of them are Yang's infantry in Hongnong. The emphasis is on fighting in formation. After all, the mobility is far behind that of cavalry. A camp like plum blossoms was built.

With a large number of people, a lot of materials are needed and consumed. A large army fighting in the field needs to transport a lot of baggage. Not only food and grass, but also pots and cauldrons and other things need to be prepared one by one, let alone step by step. A camp dominated by soldiers even needs a deer camp to block the entrance, four-corner nails for wooden stakes, knife carts to plug the door, iron chains to connect, as well as various wood tools, lighting supplies, etc. These things are naturally Fortunately, the civilians and auxiliary soldiers pushed and pulled them here one by one.

At first, Guanqiu Xing was worried that his scouts had suffered heavy damage and would be harassed by Zhang Lie's two to three hundred cavalry. Therefore, he not only sent his only cavalry to scout around, but also sent infantry to patrol the camp. They laid an ambush under the river bank on the other side, waiting to see if they could block Zhang Lie's cavalry. Unfortunately, for two or three days in a row, no trace of Zhang Lie's cavalry was seen.

Zheng Tai immediately took over the errands of the front camp. Although Guanqiu Xing did not blame him for Cai Yong's incident, he still broke out in sweats when he thought about it. However, people cannot be resurrected after death, so Zheng Tai can only collect his energy and manage carefully, in order to obtain some meritorious service in the battle of Pingyang and show his abilities, so as not to be easily eliminated during the liquidation in the future. Yang Biao and others took the blame.

Tomorrow is the third day of the agreement with Xun Chen in the city, which is also the time for the official showdown. Although Pingyang did not send troops in the past two days, and even when Taoshan was besieged, there was no action, but Zheng Tai knew that Pingyang was also preparing something, but he didn't know it.

Therefore, as the commander-in-chief of the front camp, Zheng Taiduo was not too showy on weekdays and was quite friendly when meeting the soldiers. Therefore, the soldiers in the front camp did not reject him overtly or covertly, and were relatively cooperative. , but even so, the complicated affairs have made Zheng Tai, a half-bucket of water in the art of war, exhausted...

According to the military rules of the Han Dynasty, the general in charge of the camp should patrol the camp every other hour if he is not out in battle. Of course, sometimes the general can be lazy, but Zheng Tai is in an extraordinary period, so how can he dare to give people any excuses? Naturally, he works hard, but after a whole day like this, he has to work hard and is stressed. Naturally, he doesn't get any good rest and is mentally exhausted.

In the middle of the night, Zheng Tai struggled to get up and walked around the camp again. Everything was normal.

Seeing the faint light on the horizon, Zheng Tai yawned non-stop. After a hard day's work and having to get up to patrol the camp again at night, he felt that his legs were weak and he wanted to go back to his tent and take a nap again. Slow down your spirit.

Damn it, if I had known it was so hard, I shouldn't have followed him to the north!

I originally thought that Yang Biao would support the emperor in Heluo and would be in a high position in the future, so I took advantage of the opportunity to accumulate more merits, but I didn't expect to encounter such a mess!

If Pingyang is taken and moved to the Academy, Cai's death will gradually be ignored. It will be somewhat better, but it is still a hidden danger...

The sky in the distance began to glow gray. At this time, the soldiers who had been on duty all night were most sleepy. For some reason, Zheng Tai, who had just opened the curtain of the tent, suddenly felt some vibrations on the ground. At first, he felt that he was very tired, so he couldn't stand steady. He held on to the wooden pillars of the tent and looked down. Suddenly, he saw something under the light of the torch. Under the light, the pebbles and sand around the soles of his feet were trembling slightly.

This is definitely not my imagination!

In the vaguely discernible sky, the figures of groups of cavalry suddenly appeared in the distance and could not be seen. It was not until this moment that the faint sound of horse hooves was heard. Apparently, this large group of cavalry, all covered with cloth on the horses' hooves, was silent and the horses were holding their titles. I don't know if they were waiting calmly in the dark for this most tiring moment, and then in this day when the sky was about to become clear. On this occasion, a sudden attack was launched!

Not only Zheng Tai's front camp, but also the other camps extending north and south along the river bank, and the soldiers on duty at the sentry tower also discovered the sudden appearance of the cavalry! These cavalrymen seemed to have suddenly descended on the world. The cavalrymen on horseback, holding spears and swords in their mouths, were rushing towards this place like a sea tide!

No one could see how many cavalry appeared. They could only see that they completely covered the faint light in the sky into darkness, and they surged in layer by layer. As they got closer, the sound of horse hooves finally sounded like muffled thunder, resounding throughout the entire wilderness and covering the three camps on the left, middle and right of Guanqiu Xing's army!

The soldiers in Guanqiu Xing shouted shrilly: "Enemy attack! Enemy attack!!" More shrill shouts followed, and the sound of golden drums on the watchtower tower was beating in panic to warn. .

The soldiers and generals who were resting in the camp were all alerted, either from their tents, from their dens, or simply from the fields. Those who were looking for weapons looked for weapons, and those who looked for armor looked for armor. The regular soldiers were more or less used to it. , picked up the weapons and rushed forward immediately, while the other auxiliary soldiers and civilians were much worse off.

Although Guanqiu Xing and Zheng Tai had been prepared before, as time went by and the incident in Taoshan, his attention was inevitably distracted. There had been no movement in Pingyang City, so inertia was unavoidable. He thought that tomorrow would be the critical beginning, but he didn't expect that when morning was approaching, he would be attacked by the cavalry!

Zheng Tai finally came to his senses at this time and ran out of the camp. He pulled his neck and shouted loudly: "Watch the camp! Don't panic! Quickly mobilize people and horses to watch the civilians and prevent them from causing chaos! Supervise the battle, where is the supervisory team? ?! Send a military order! Anyone who disrupts the morale of the army will be beheaded! Everyone is in their respective positions, and someone is in the middle to supervise the battle. We have a camp! They can't break through! As long as they persist for a long time, their vigor will be lost! We guard the camp and shoot Shoot them to death too! Notify each team, I have the general’s order, if anyone takes a step back, the entire team will be killed!”

Although the words were somewhat incoherent, at least Zheng Tai came forward to gather the soldiers, explain the matters, and stabilize the soldiers in the front camp. The messengers following Zheng Tai immediately responded loudly and ran to deliver the order. Zheng Tai, under the protection of the remaining guards, began to display the general's recognition flag in an attempt to gather more soldiers and horses to meet the sudden cavalry attack. !

At this moment, Zheng Taicai suddenly realized how wishful thinking Pingyang would surrender was. Zhengxi's subordinates were really tough people, and there was no sign of losing their fighting spirit. All the previous performances were just the slowness of the army. It's just a ploy, hiding so many cavalry soldiers and horses just for the assault at this moment!

But Zheng Tai also firmly believes that he will be able to defend this camp!

Behind the Zhengtai camp, about 300 steps away, the Chinese army camp in Guanqiu Xing was among the Meihua camp. The news that the two camps in front and on the left and right were attacked also reached Guanqiu Xing immediately. Camp here.

After two days of running around and working hard, Guanqiu Xing was already quite old and somewhat unable to hold on. He had already fallen asleep in a tent covered with thick felt. As for whether there were soldiers in the camp who had no place to rest, Auxiliary Guanqiu Xing didn't care much whether the soldiers and civilians were still huddled in their dens. He didn't care much either.

Anyway, in this kind of weather, although there is gradually some autumn dew, it is not so cold that we can't survive in the wild. What's more, we need to step up the construction of the camp walls and other defense systems in the past two days. Where can we get the excess? What kind of comfortable residences can we build for ordinary soldiers and civilians?

Therefore, the more than 5,000 regular soldiers are nothing more than the auxiliary soldiers and civilians. The journey is no less difficult than that of the regular soldiers, but they have to do much more work. When the regular soldiers go to sleep, not only do they have no place to rest, but they also need to be on duty at night, so To ensure adequate rest for the main soldiers, on average, each auxiliary soldier only had two hours of rest at most at night, while the civilian soldiers had even less. They were terribly overworked, so naturally many complained, and many cursed behind their backs.

Guanqiu Xing, who was in the middle of the army and surrounded by his personal guards, would naturally not know about such a trend surging in the army. Even if he knew about it, he would probably be too lazy to pay attention to it. He had been worrying about the Taoshan incident all day long. , I finally fell asleep at night, and I slept soundly.

In the midst of a sweet dream, Guan Qiu Xing was suddenly awakened by the noise outside the tent. He opened his eyes to calm down, and suddenly there was an unknown fire in his heart, making him very angry. After all, Guanqiu Xing is already an old man. It is not easy to fall asleep on weekdays, and it is even more difficult to get a good night's sleep. After finally falling asleep, he is woken up halfway, and he will not get angry!

The soldiers serving closely in the camp couldn't help but feel their hearts skip a beat when they saw Guanqiu's livid complexion, and immediately roared: "What's the fuss about?! What's the crime for surprising the general?!"

At this time, I heard an earth-shattering shout from the outer tent. It was the military commander who was on duty in the Chinese army today: "General, general! The Fenshui rear camp suddenly caught fire! A group of cavalry from nowhere is copying our rear." camp!"