Three Kingdoms

Near Wu County, affected by the unrest in Jingzhou, many people fled here to avoid the military disaster. Then some stopped near Wu County, and some continued to move forward blindly, not knowing where they could go. I don't know where I should go.

Staying alive and finding a place to live is the biggest dream of these refugees.

Outside of Wu County, because the county magistrate and county captain have no intention of rectifying it, everything is basically in a state of disarray now. There were originally three to four hundred people garrisoned in Wu County, but after hearing about the military disaster in Jingzhou, some of them fled. Later, when Jingzhou's military pay could not be paid, some more left, and now there are only less than three hundred people left.

The county magistrate and county lieutenants did not give any orders. They just focused on preventing the refugees from causing chaos and closed the four gates tightly. They did not care about anything else. Therefore, these Wu County defenders were wandering on the city wall like ownerless ghosts. , full of confusion. Near the city gate, there is only a gap that can be passed sideways to provide necessary access. Around this gap, there are also several soldiers like wild ghosts, holding swords and guns, leaning against the door, waiting. Stay up until the next moment.

Wu County is close to a large river, so the water vapor is relatively thick. Especially towards the evening, the pre-cooling surges and gradually becomes gloomy.

"The time has come!" Close the city gate! Closed, closed! ” The leader of the Chengtou team on duty shouted feebly, his voice full of exhaustion, and a sense of relaxation and comfort that it was finally over, as if the smelly mud stained on his body had finally been washed away.

The refugees outside the city gate were a little restless, like worms. Although they were aware of the changes in the environment, their reaction was very slow, and they moved slowly and thoughtlessly. These refugees did not expect to enter the city. They just hoped to get some relief. Even though they knew there was little hope, they subconsciously gathered near the city gate, as if this would prove that they were alone and not homeless. Wild dogs.

However, the refugees were a bit agitated today, and some strange sounds were heard, which caused one of the soldiers who was closing the city gate in the city gate to stretch his neck and tilt his head to peek out from the crack in the door...

"Get off! closed! ” An old soldier slapped the young soldier on the back of the head, almost hitting his head against the city gate.

"Here you go, God slapped me on the head in vain, just look at me..." the young soldier muttered dissatisfied.

"Look at the hammer..." the old pawn muttered, "It's better to have one less than one more... You don't care about Doha's wasted efforts to make a hammer..."

"Don't close the door!" Wait a minute and close the door! 』

While the old soldier was chanting, suddenly there was a shouting sound from the refugees outside the city, and soon more than ten or twenty people stumbled out. The person at the forefront was Wang Sheng, a roe deer dressed in shabby clothes, who was heading towards this place. Everyone shouts this.

The team leader on duty at the city gate stretched his head and looked down. He recognized Wang Sheng and shouted, "You son of a bitch, why are you here?" Where's the checkpoint? 』

Wei Yan was mixed in the queue. Although his clothes were in tatters, he was tall and stooped as much as possible. He was like a hunchbacked old man, huddled behind Wang Sheng. After hearing the question on the top of the city, he stood up Wang Sheng gave a slight nod behind him and said, "I just said that I have important military information to report..."

When Wei Yan approached the checkpoint, Wang Sheng did not resist, and even expressed his willingness to surrender. Therefore, Wei Yan naturally did not take action. Not only that, he also dragged Wang Sheng to the city gate of Wu County...

Anyway, this is not the first time Wei Yan has done this, and he feels quite familiar with it.

Everyone thought that the cavalry general Fei Qian sent troops to Jingzhou in an overt and covert manner. Taishi Ci was the one who was overtly, and Xu Huang was the one who was behind the scenes. But in fact, no one thought that Wei Yan was also involved.

To bleed a prey, in addition to making the wound larger, opening a few more openings is also very effective. Jingzhou has a dense population. If everyone takes a single route, congestion will inevitably occur and it will cause a temporary burden. Now Wei Yan wants to open another channel in the central and southern part of Jingzhou to give way to the people of Jingzhou south of Xiangyang and north of Jiangling. Pass through the Brazilian Badong line and enter Central Sichuan.

Although this route is not as easy to walk as the Wuguan Route, it is not too difficult. Liu Yan entered Sichuan through this route, and Liu Bei also took this route.

Wang Sheng shouted loudly: "You son of a bitch, open the door for me!" I have important military information to report! 』

"You don't want to fool me, is military information important?" ! "The leader of the team at the top of the city shouted, "Who's coming? Are they those stupid people in the east? No, isn't the sentry post in the west, you little turtle? 』

"That turtle grandson said east?" "Wang Sheng's body seemed to be trembling a little, but he still shouted loudly, "Anyway, your turtle grandson doesn't know if I talk too much, I just have to report it myself! 』

The leader of the Chengtou team murmured a few words in a low voice. I don't know what he said or cursed. After a moment, he shouted: "You son of a bitch, come here by yourself. No one else is allowed to come in." , wait outside! 』

Wang Sheng was stunned and immediately shouted: "I have another brother who is injured and wants to go to the city to take a look..."

Shouting words up and down, they were getting closer and closer to the city gate unknowingly.

Originally, the distance was relatively far, and Wei Yan's burly figure was not so conspicuous, but now that he is close, even though Wei Yan tried his best to hunched over his body, it was still difficult to hide it...

"stop! Who are you……"

Wei Yan was in the crowd and pushed Wang Sheng in front of him to the side. He was already slashing forward with his knife, "Follow me!" Grab the city! 』

Wei Yan's attempt to seize the city seemed reckless, but in fact it was not necessarily so.

In this area of ​​Brazil, Jingzhou is basically weak in terms of defensive strength and emphasis. In addition, there has been peace and harmony in these years, and Sichuan and Shu have no intention of sending troops, and there are no generals in Jingzhou. Or they are willing to come to guard this area, so overall this area is almost no different from regional autonomy.

In the county towns in this area, except for some like Wu County that are stuck at key locations and have some garrisoned soldiers, the rest of the county towns have only one or two hundred soldiers in the big ones, and even only a dozen soldiers in the small ones, and these soldiers are still there. Part-time yamen officers, or even yamen officers, basically can only scare bandits and bandits, and their other functions are almost zero, so there is no need to actually send troops to attack. You only need to occupy key nodes and send some people there. It means that now that the ruler has been changed, it basically becomes...

Even in areas like Wu County that were supposed to be tightly guarded, they basically lost their vigilance under the chaos of Jingzhou's rule, as can be seen from the rudimentary and lax checkpoints. Before Wei Yan took action, he had carefully interrogated some situations, such as the current structure of Wu County, the main defense locations, etc. After thinking about it for a moment, Wei Yan felt that there was still an opportunity to take advantage of, so he just said nothing and pretended Wang Sheng came back to capture the city in the name of reporting military intelligence.

After all, if you just face the scattered and slack state in Wu County, as long as you succeed in one attack, naturally no one will resist in the follow-up.

The screams and screams at the city gate were earth-shattering, and the tone of the screams was enough to prove how much psychological damage Wei Yan and others' raid had brought to the Wu County defenders...

Just as Wei Yan expected, the soldiers in Wu County had almost no fighting spirit. When they were attacked, they subconsciously turned around and ran away, without even having time to take the weapons at hand.

The Wu County team leader who was on duty at the top of the city had already weakened his legs. He held on to the battlements for a long time and could not stand up. He just kept saying a few words over and over, "Ge Laozi... turtle grandson...", and he didn't know what he meant. Generation that and that. Some soldiers mustered up the courage to step forward, but Wei Yan just held a sword, which was flying up and down like lightning. Often, Wei Yan would cut him down before the soldiers guarding the city could stab the sword out of their hands. Fall to the ground!

The head of the spear was cut off, and the sword was knocked away!

The chopped-down city defenders either fell to the ground motionless with knives in their chests, abdomen, and necks, or rolled and howled in pain while covering their stumps and broken arms. After Wei Yan beheaded nearly ten of the city defenders one after another, the rest The soldiers who defended the city began to stagger back, then howled and fled...

Wei Yan stopped, shook off the blood on his sword, and laughed loudly: "Young men! Seize the government office for me! From today on, this place is ours! 』

……（｀′）Y……

"The Dangyang River is ahead!" Be careful... Cao Jun's scouts have obviously increased in the past two days... If Cao Jun's scouts are alerted... it will be a dead end..."

Several Jiangdong scouts gathered together to discuss by the Dangyang River.

Zhou Yu and Cheng Pu couldn't believe that Fei Qian and Cao Cao had joined forces, because this meant that Jiangdong would face an extremely terrifying situation, so they had to detect it again to make sure that the source of the information was not the one that the previous scouts were dazzled by... …

These Jiangdong scouts were all specially selected masters who had fought hard on the battlefield, but they were still a little uneasy facing the current task.

Perhaps Cao Jun discovered the last infiltration of Jiangdong scouts, or perhaps Cao Jun wanted to conceal some news. Now there are obviously many more Cao Jun sentries walking up and down the Dangyang River, so if you are not careful, you will definitely be caught. Discovered, and once discovered, whether or not the information Zhou Yu wants is found is secondary. Whether he can come back alive is a big question!

The Jiangdong scouts have already made a detour. If they go around again, it may be too far and they may not be able to find a suitable swimming spot. The other reason is that the supplies they carry with them are limited after all, and it is impossible to extend the outer detection indefinitely. time……

"The water here is shallow, you can pass through here..."

"no! The water here is shallow, we know it, and Cao Jun must also know it! 』

"Then what do you think we should do?" 』

"What I mean is, which side to choose..."

"You're crazy. It's open and spacious. As long as someone is standing on the shore, they will definitely be able to find us!" 』

"But we can also find them..."

"Well? ” Those who objected before stopped talking. This side is not easy to hide because it is empty, and the same is true for that side, so it is fair...

"Right over there!" Ok, deal! 』

A lot of people died near Dangyang Bridge before, and up to now, you can still occasionally see some rotting corpses, such as a few corpses on this section of the river beach. The skin and flesh of these corpses have collapsed, and the chest and abdomen have been broken. I don’t know whether they were eaten by wild animals or other factors. One or two sections of intestines were dragged out. The skin has basically rotted, and the white bones are exposed. The thick water is in the Siltation accumulated in the low-lying areas, and the fishy smell was like flies gathering, buzzing and lingering. Even the Jiangdong scouts, all veterans of battles, could not help but frown.

In the far distance, Cao Jun's torch was swaying, reflecting a small bright spot in the night, flickering in and out.

Starlight swayed on the water, illuminating the figure of the Jiangdong scout swimming slowly.

Basically, Jiangdong soldiers are familiar with water, and the scouts are very good at water. Some of them can even swim in the water. Although the Dangyang River is not a narrow river, for those guys like Jiangdong who are good at water, it is It wasn't too difficult, but in order to prevent Cao Jun from noticing, everyone tightened their nerves as much as possible and lowered the noise they made.

The Jiangdong scout who was the first to go down the river was agile. In the blink of an eye, he was like a fish. Bu disappeared into the shadows, and after more than ten breaths, he appeared again, waving towards him.

The Jiangdong scouts went into the river one after another. In order to reduce their burden, these Jiangdong scouts left their armor on the bank here and swam across with only portable weapons.

Halfway through the crossing, a torch suddenly shook in the distance and there was a sound!

It seems that a group of Cao Jun is patrolling here!

The Jiangdong scouts who had already landed on the shore immediately hid in the shadows, while the Jiangdong people who were still swimming in the river took a long breath and dived into the water. One step later, it was disguised as a corpse, half in the water and half on the shore...

Cao Jun and his entourage wandered over. Several Cao soldiers held torches to shine on both sides of the bank and the water. However, because the light of the torches was close enough, once they were two meters away, the light concentration itself was too poor, so they could not shine. No matter how far it was, he seemed to see nothing while wandering around, and he staggered away after a while.

When Cao Jun completely disappeared into the night, these Jiangdong scouts emerged from the shadows again...

"What a risk, what a risk..."

"Move faster!" 』

"vomit……"

"What are you doing?" 』

"Hoo, ho, it's okay, it's okay..."

………(⊙＿⊙;)………

As dawn approached, everything seemed to be immersed in sleep. In the mist, some twisted figures were revealed. It was these Jiangdong scouts who had crossed the Dangyang River.

According to the last detection information, these Jiangdong scouts silently spread out a skirmish line and cautiously groped forward...

Unknowingly, a vague outline of a camp appeared in the distance, and some faint sounds followed the wind.

Jiangdong's scouts couldn't help but tighten their bodies, lowered their steps, and got closer, and then closer...

The camp occupies a large area and extends in all directions. At first glance, you can tell that it is a typical cavalry camp. On top of the tall sentry tower, there are several figures swaying, and most of the people in the camp are resting.

Jiangdong Scout's eyes moved...

"this! 』

"It's the tricolor flag!" 』

Even though Jiangdong Scout was prepared, he was still stunned for a moment, his mind going blank. The two major forces Cao Cao and Fei Qian have joined forces? Are you going to deal with Jiangdong together?

This was like a bolt from the blue, shaking the hearts of all Jiangdong scouts.

"Click..."

"what sound? ! There's someone there! 』

I don’t know if it was because of a momentary loss of concentration or for some other reason. The Jiangdong scout was discovered. He ignited the arrows on the sentry tower and then shot them high. He did not seek to kill, but just pointed out the direction. The tricolor flag camp. The crowd inside became noisy, the figures swayed, and soon there was the sound of war horses neighing!

"broken! Go separately! Jiangdong scout shouted in a deep voice, "We must report the situation here to the governor!" ” Immediately they split up and ran away.

Not long after, Cao Xiu led his troops to the location indicated by Rocket and issued the order, "Search!" 』

"General!" It looks like they scattered and escaped..."

"Which side has more traces?" ” Cao Xiu asked in a deep voice, his eyes flashing in the firelight.

"there! 』

Cao Xiu turned his horse's head and said, "Follow me!" 』

"General, what else..."

"gone! Cao Xiu roared, "Follow me!" 』

……(*–-)……

Jiangdong Camp.

The Jiangdong scouts, who had lost most of their lives, fled back to the camp and reported everything they saw and heard to Zhou Yu.

"Only the tricolor?" Zhou Yu frowned, "Didn't you see the general's flag?" 』

"It's possible that he deliberately concealed it..." Cheng Pu said slowly.

Zhou Yu nodded slightly.

"Although this matter is strange..." Zhou Yu still frowned, and the frown became deeper and deeper, "Although Fei and Cao occupy the west and east, they are incompatible... But... I heard that both Fei and Cao are disciples of Cai Zhonglang... If... …』

Zhou Yu did not continue.

Cheng Pu's face was also ugly. After all, it was already very difficult to fight against Cao's army, plus Fei Qian's hussars...

Although there are many water networks in the Jiangling area, it is not impossible to use cavalry. If the hussars join the battlefield, some of the original mobility advantages of the Jiangdong soldiers will be gone, and they may even be taken back by the hussars. The risk of food shortages.

Everyone knows that the hussars seem to be special and quite sharp in long-distance attacks.

Zhou Yu was very hesitant. After all, he doesn't know yet whether Cao Cao and Fei Qian are united together. If Cao Cao gives up Jingzhou or part of it to Fei Qian, it is not impossible to find a balance from Jiangdong. There are copper mines in Jiangxia, which is also fertile, and there is also the Lujiang River, or even further. Yangzhou in the east of the Yangtze River has been away from the battlefield for many years, and it is natural to be rich...

Therefore, although the possibility of Fei Cao and Fei Cao joining forces is relatively small, it cannot be said that it is completely impossible.

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there were many people who were brothers today and enemies tomorrow, and there were also many people who were vice versa.

What about benefits? If given enough, Jiangdong can also join forces...

So, should we withdraw our troops?

If you really want to bet until the moment when your trump card is revealed, of course you can see the outcome, but if you really want to risk heavy losses or even annihilation of the entire army, bet that Cao Cao is stealing the chicken...

Zhou Yu was deep in thought, his expression changing...