Three Kingdoms

In the autumn of the fifth year of Taixing, for some unknown reason, Fei Qian and Cao Cao in the north both started fighting against the Hu people. Maybe it was a coincidence, or maybe it was a plan, but in the autumn of this year, the nomadic peoples in the entire northern desert were really stirred up, just like a bonfire was lit in the dark night, attracting moths to fly into the flames. flutter.

This kind of weather is not good for fighting.

Although the rain is no longer as heavy as before, and the rain has even dispersed in some places, it does not mean that it is completely impossible to fight, but the gains and losses must be weighed. On a rainy day, if Cao Jun, who has a geographical advantage, attacks, he will inevitably be caught in the rain. However, in the Han Dynasty, there were no cold medicines, dryers, etc. Even if he won, it was very likely that a cold wind would The generals and soldiers were all taken away...

Wouldn't it be nice to let Yu attack the Ding Ling people for him and create trouble for the Ding Ling people?

Therefore, Cao's army in Jixian will basically wait until the rain has passed before attacking, which is undoubtedly the best choice.

Ding Ling people also know this.

One side is constantly attrition, and the other side is waiting comfortably. It is not worthwhile to continue fighting under Jixian County. The mentality of giving up when something is good once again gained the upper hand. The Ding Ling people were divided into batches, and the whole army turned around and evacuated north.

At this time, Xia Houyuan blocked the way of the Ding Ling people and captured Juyong Pass before the Ding Ling people's vanguard evacuated from Youzhou.

Xia Houyuan occupied Juyong Pass without much effort, because Ding Ling did not expect that Han people would come out from the side road and rush all the way here, so there were not many people deployed at Juyong Pass.

Juyongguan has been retired for a long time, and the dispute between Gongsun Zan and Liu Yu has led to the current dilapidation of Juyongguan. There is basically no ordinary population anymore, but Xiongguan is still Xiongguan. Even if it is dilapidated, it still has a heroic spirit. exist.

After Xia Houyuan captured the pass and just set up defenses, Ding Ling's follow-up troops arrived.

The rain rarely stopped, just like the dark clouds had cried enough for the first episode and were brewing for the second episode.

The war drums were thundering, the horns were blasting, and the Ding Ling people were charging towards the pass.

Now that the rain has stopped, bows and arrows will come in handy.

Although humid air will cause the bow string and arrow feathers to get damp, and the range and power will be reduced, it is still better than not being able to use it at all. Xia Houyuan led cavalry, but it was generally not difficult to temporarily dismount from the horse and switch to an archer position.

Because of Fei Qian's effect on increasing the armaments of the entire Han Dynasty, Cao Cao's requirements for armaments are now much higher than in history. Especially when it comes to bows and arrows, because the imaginary enemies are all soldiers under Fei Qian's command, and the soldiers under Fei Qian's command have a very distinctive feature, that is, thick skin, uh, thick armor. The armor-piercing ability of bows and arrows became the first choice for Cao's army's standard bows. The item being promoted.

There are also various protections, including moisture-proof standards, and everything is in line with Hussar.

In the past, I didn’t know what to do, so there was no shame in not doing it, but if I knew what was better and didn’t do it, I would be a fool.

It's impossible for Xia Houyuan to go out of his way to replace the ordinary arrows just because he said he was going to deal with the Ding Ling people. Then, with a click of the mouse in the game, one wolf tooth arrow was replaced by two ordinary arrows...

Therefore, although Xia Houyuan's newly transferred archers cannot shoot arrows as frequently as full-time archers, like the overwhelming rain of arrows, the damage to the Ding Ling people is still considerable. Wolf fang arrows used to break armor have an extra bonus effect on light or medium armor units like Ding Ling. Basically, as long as they are shot, they will almost certainly be injured. If they are hit in the chest and abdomen, they will be injured. Wail and wait for death. If someone is hit in the hand or foot, if they can move forward, they will struggle to move forward. Those who cannot move will lie down and cry, or they will be dragged behind for treatment, or no one will care about them at all, and they will bleed out and die.

The humidity caused the bows and arrows of the Dinling people to be even more affected, making it difficult for ordinary nomads to pay as much attention to the maintenance of their weapons as professional soldiers. The Ding Ling people also wanted to fight back with bows and arrows, but they did not have oil paper. Even if the bow string was placed close to the body and not damp, the bow and arrows were soaked in water, and they were too heavy to shoot.

The Ding Ling people attacked three times, leaving corpses all over the ground, then retreated, and then gathered in a distance, not daring to go up again.

In fact, if the Ding Ling people have a little bit of military acumen, or are a little more united, not as a tribe, but as a whole, then the one who is at a disadvantage now should be Xia Houyuan.

Because even though Xia Houyuan had some bows and arrows due to his superior weapons, he still carried a certain number of arrows. If the intensity of the continuous attack was greater, it would be easy to drag Xia Houyuan's troops into hand-to-hand combat, that is, This made it impossible for Xiahou Yuan's soldiers to be repaired. For the Ding Ling people who had the advantage in numbers, this strategy was naturally the best solution.

But it is a pity that more than 80% of the Dingling warriors are still herdsmen.

Of course, there is nothing wrong with these herdsmen's riding skills, and they may even be better than the Chinese cavalry, but in terms of discipline and training, there is a huge gap. When they saw the damage, they subconsciously retreated. When others saw that some tribes were retreating, they themselves also retreated. In the end, when you looked at me and I looked at you, they both thought of other tribes. Then the result was that no one attended.

To put it simply, the Ding Ling people at this stage are just a group of peasant soldiers on horseback. There are also professional soldiers, not many, and most of them are under the command of Commander Ding Ling. However, ordinary tribes could not afford to support full-time soldiers, so naturally there was no training and fighting coordination.

You must know that training is actually to cultivate physical instinct. Otherwise, someone will fall down at any time around you. If you stumble in a little panic, you will be the next to die...

Xia Houyuan stood on the city wall and exhaled a long breath. He now understood what Guo Jia said at that time.

"Soldiers should be fine, not numerous." 』

Although this sentence is not the original creation of Guo Jia, many people still subconsciously choose the route of "many soldiers", thinking that they will wait until they have enough "soldiers" before switching to the "elite soldiers" route, but In fact, most people simply can't do it.

Of course, raising an elite soldier is much more expensive than raising an ordinary peasant soldier. Once it is lost, it will be very distressing. However, in many cases, the utility of elite soldiers is not just for exchange. For example, nowadays, if we say that among a group like Ding Ling Among the people, there are 100% elite soldiers mixed in as the commander-in-chief, then Xia Houyuan's side will inevitably face a bloody battle.

Except for a few elites in Ding Ling's army, most of the soldiers' weapons and equipment are self-financed. The tribal leaders don't care at all, and they are not responsible for replacing the equipment for the people in their own tribe. Therefore, the equipment is generally poor, and rusty arrows and blunt spears abound. yes. The only chance for ordinary Dingling people to improve their own equipment is to steal good weapons and armor from the Han people.

This is not limited to the Ding Ling Army. In fact, this was also the norm for most nomadic armies in the Han Dynasty and before the Han Dynasty. It was not until after the Five Husties that the nomads obtained a large number of Chinese craftsmen that the situation improved.

And now...

When the few Ding Lingtou people who were stopped met, they all felt that it was not worthwhile to attack their sons, so they simply stopped and waited for the subsequent tribes to arrive, either to share the damage equally, or to wait for those who were lagging behind. The slave soldiers caught up...

Anyway, in troubled times, human life is worthless, especially the lives of those who are not from the tribe, which is even more worthless.

So, wait for the slave soldiers?

Or is it that Guduhou?

The Marquis of Gudu is responsible for breaking the queen, but these Ding Ling people don't know that Gongsundu, the Marquis of Gudu, is really the "queer" and the "queer" of the "queer". As an experienced dog licker, Gongsundu certainly knows where licking will make people feel the most comfortable, and where licking will make people feel the most pain...

The Ding Ling people had to retreat due to the continuous heavy rain, and foreigners like Gongsun Du and the slave soldiers gathered before were naturally left behind. They called it an important task, but in fact, they were just to block the pursuers. Soldiers helped most of Ding Ling's tribe escape smoothly.

Since he was young, what Gongsun Du has been best at is serving the person above him, and then turning his things into his own little by little. Although he is old now, his craftsmanship is still there...

The Ding Ling people were originally a collection of tribes, and the slave army belonging to Ding Ling were the slaves of the Ding Ling people.

The title of Gongsundu's Guduhou, as well as his general status, can be regarded as being among the slave army and the Dingling people. Therefore, relatively speaking, he has some common language with these slave armies.

Most of the slave army was formed by the scattered combination of some small tribes when the Ding Ling people conquered Mobei. Many of these people have hatred against the Ding Ling people, but don't even know how to hate them.

Such people exist among nomadic peoples and agricultural peoples. They existed in ancient times and in later generations. If you think about how one or two invaders can scare a large area of ​​indigenous people, you can understand the slave soldiers. mental state. Therefore, when the Ding Ling people treat these slave soldiers, they basically regard them as a tool and a consumable. They don’t have any extra armor, weapons, or weapons. Many of them don’t even have leather robes on them, just a few rags. Wrapping it up can be regarded as a fig leaf.

In the process of building siege equipment for Ding Ling, Gongsun was also building his own "slave soldiers". He used small favors, wooing and instigation. At almost no cost, he attracted some of the slave soldiers who originally belonged to Ding Ling to Gongsun. On the other side, it doesn't even require any special skills. It just needs to arrange the slave soldiers who are willing to surrender to Gongsun to work, and the slave soldiers who refuse Gongsun's "good intentions" to fill the moat.

As for the Ding Ling people, few felt this change. Especially the ordinary Dingling herdsmen, like most Han people, have no knowledge and do not know how to calculate. Sometimes there are ten less slave soldiers among a hundred slave soldiers, or a hundred slave soldiers are required to be drawn during the transfer. , but in fact, only ninety-five were drawn, which cannot be calculated at all...

There is no way, in any society, the illiterate will always be the primary target of being deceived.

As a result, Gongsun Du slowly pretended to work while clinging to Ding Lingren's body like a parasite, sucking blood, replenishing himself, and restoring his strength...

As for helping Ding Ling to break up the queen?

hehe……

Changping City is located in the north of Jixian County.

After the Ding Ling people withdrew, they used the city as a barrier to stop Cao Jun's pursuit. Of course, the "heavy task" of blocking was handed over to the hands of Gongsun Du, Marquis of Gudu.

The heavy rain is no longer as heavy as the previous two days, but it is still intermittent. At night it was as dark as paint, and the dark clouds obscured the starlight at all.

In order to confuse the opponent and prevent these slave soldiers from being confused, the Ding Ling people withdrew in batches. When Gongsun Du confirmed that most of the Ding Ling people had left Changping, and only less than a thousand people were left in the city, responsible for monitoring him and the slave army, his mind had already started to move.

Of course, the good places inside and outside the city are occupied by Dingling people, while the slave soldiers can only find a place to hide by themselves. It has been raining for the past few days. It is a great blessing for these slaves to have a hot meal a day, but they still have to grab it in limited quantities. If they don't get it, they can only drink some cold water. To survive, even if the lives of these slave soldiers are as cheap as wild dogs, they still can't bear it.

On the Changping City Wall, the Ding Ling people on duty found shelter from the wind and rain and dozed off, not to mention others. In the surrounding areas, it was even more chilly. I don’t know how many new innocent souls there will be in these four fields at dawn.

In a side courtyard in Changping City, Gongsun Du lived, and the people responsible for guarding the surrounding areas were not Gongsun Du's men, but Ding Ling.

Everything around him was as quiet as if everything was dead.

In the courtyard, Gongsun Du, who was almost under house arrest, did not rest. Instead, he squatted in a dark corner like a cunning old fox, quietly waiting for an opportunity...

In the darkness, the sound of horse hooves suddenly came from a distance.

The Ding Ling soldiers on the Changping city wall couldn't help but trembled. They leaned on the battlements and looked towards the sound of horseshoes. In the darkness, they saw a group of cavalry holding torches high and walking through the slanting wind. The torches were shining in the night. It was undulating with highs and lows, and was splashed by sporadic raindrops, almost as if it would be extinguished in the next moment.

The slave soldiers outside the city were alarmed, and then this group of cavalry passed through the slave soldiers' camp, stirring up waves of exclamations...

On the Changping city wall, the little leader Ding Ling on duty was wrapped in a cloak and shouted towards the city: "Where did it come from?" what's going on? 』

At the foot of Changping City, a somewhat depressed and anxious voice came: "Cao Jun!" Cao Jun is here! Catching up! 』

Although he was somewhat prepared in his heart, when he suddenly heard the news, the little leader Ding Ling still jumped violently, and then his expression changed. Under the light of the fire, the cavalry reporting the news from the city could see that the horses were running out of foam. Not only were their furs soaked, but some of the horses also had some blood stains on them. It was obvious that they had gone through some battles...

Of course, these sentinels were also Ding Ling people, and the Cao Jun that these Ding Ling people encountered were also real Cao Jun. When Cao Hong discovered that the camps around Jixian looked like empty camps, Cao Hong naturally launched a tentative pursuit and came into contact with the Ding Ling sentries who stayed behind.

For a moment, Ding Ling was inevitably a little panicked.

Not everyone is a keyboard warrior who thinks he can defy the sky and the earth, and from another perspective, all keyboard warriors are basically soft-footed chickens when faced with reality.

The current leader Ding Ling, who was left to monitor and guard Gongsun Du and the slave soldiers, knew that he had to defend. When he didn't hear about Cao Jun's pursuit, he felt that he was doing well and had no problem. However, after getting the conclusive news, he held back his strength. I wandered around for several times, but couldn't come up with a truly "possible" move.

It's like a math problem. If you have the corresponding knowledge, you can easily solve it. But if you don't have this knowledge, it's like seeing a book from heaven...

In the mind of leader Ding Ling, he had no corresponding knowledge of defense and did not understand how to arrange the defense of the city. He just followed the orders left by leader Ding Ling and monitored Gongsun Du and the slave soldiers. As for other things, He had no idea, let alone any arrangements.

Ever since, the opportunity Gongsun Du had been waiting for finally arrived...

Gongsun Du's disguise can be said to be first-rate. He has practiced dog licking skills for almost a lifetime. He can lick anyone comfortably, he can obey all the arrangements of Ding Ling people, and he can behave submissively in front of Ding Ling people. , can be silent, and then obediently hand over the weapon, stay in the small courtyard without leaving the house, and seem to be able to eat, drink, and sleep every day under the supervision of the Ding Ling people, without any complaints at all. Unusual behavior.

As the noise outside the city gradually rose, Gongsun Du, who had been dozing, opened his eyes in the darkness...

A voice sounded outside the courtyard: "Marquis Gudu, my Lord is here to invite you!" 』

While Gongsun Du asked his men to respond, he sneered in his heart, "Sir, hehe, master... do you know what a master is..."

Although he despised him in his heart, as soon as he walked out of the courtyard, Gongsun Du turned back into the old man who seemed to be too old to do any harm.

"Cao Jun moved very quickly!" This shows that Cao Jun’s attack is coming soon... We must prepare for defense immediately..."

Gongsun Du said it categorically and seriously, but in fact Gongsun Du knew that the road that had just been soaked was a big trouble for both men and horses. Cao Jun would catch up, but it was not as he said. It came so fast, as if it was about to pounce on your face the next moment.

"The people outside the city must be organized and fortified...the people inside the city must also be mobilized..."

Gongsun Du gestured, and then talked to leader Ding Ling one by one, like a loyal housekeeper arranging various matters for his master.

"This matter is very important..."

"That matter is also very urgent..."

"There must be someone here..."

"Some people need to watch over there..."

Unknowingly, the few Ding Ling people in Changping City were divided into small groups, and the reasons were very legitimate. Doesn't it mean that there is no need for Ding Ling people to supervise the work of the slave soldiers? Could it be said that there is no need for Ding Ling to be responsible for the security of the area?

Following the instructions one by one, these Ding Ling people were dispersed, while Gongsun soldiers gradually gathered together, regained their weapons, and stood on the city wall one after another...

That's right, will the Ding Ling people defend the city? Will the slave soldiers know how to use the equipment to defend the city? The Ding Ling people who did not understand these methods were led by Gongsun Du at a loss. They gradually lost their strategic points and their original control over the scene. When the sky gradually began to get brighter, the leader Ding Ling who was on the city gate tower looked around. , it seems that something is wrong...

"What is that... Lord Gudu!" Leader Ding Ling stretched out his hand and shouted, "Marquis Gudu!" Where are you going, Lord Gudu? 』

Gongsun Du pretended not to hear, and waited until he got into his own guard array before slowly turning around. He motioned for his men to double-team the dozen or so people who were only on the city gate tower, and sneered. , "Haha, you idiot... do it!" 』