Three Kingdoms

At dawn, Cao Jun had already pushed the siege equipment he had built quickly to the front of the formation, and then followed the Danshui official road to attack Wuguan Pass.

The old generals of the Han Dynasty in the early years have all withered away, and among the new generation, no one is a natural general, and no one was already experienced and self-taught at home before the chaos of the Three Kingdoms.

Cao Ren is naturally like this.

When he was young, he only liked bow and horse, and there was no old man on the bridge throwing shoes at him, so all his military experience was accumulated bit by bit in actual combat.

Therefore, when attacking the Wuguan Pass, Cao Ren's attitude was somewhat ambiguous.

Normally speaking, it is not a smart choice to forcefully attack the pass. After all, the defenders occupy the advantageous location and are blocked in the mountain road. What follows is a rigorous siege battle. Either the opponent will be killed or oneself will be exhausted. There is no There are too many aspects of combat skills, and it can even be said that they have little to do with the general's personal command ability, but are more important to other factors, such as the terrain of both sides, the number of troops, grain and grass reserves, weather changes and countless other factors .

These miscellaneous factors may even affect the entire battle situation more than Cao Ren's personal ability...

Cao Ren will defend the city, and of course he will also attack the city.

If Cao Ren is given sufficient troops, capturing Wuguan is only a matter of time.

But the problem is time.

If the time drags on for too long, then attacking Wuguan will be meaningless.

Cao Ren sent Niu Jin to go around, outflank and sneak into the mountains. This was undoubtedly a dangerous strategy, but the purpose was to reduce the excessive time spent on Wuguan.

Otherwise, even if Cao Ren captured Wuguan here, but Cao Cao defeated Tongguan, what would be the point of his success? Or maybe he delayed it too long, reinforcements from Guanzhong arrived, and then continued to attack Shang County, Shangluo, Aoguan, Lantian, etc. Even if he was covered in iron, how many nails could he drive out?

Therefore, even though he knew that this strategy was risky, Cao Ren had to try it.

The point is time.

"Whoosh!" 』

"Bang!" 』

A stone bullet hit the queue of civilians who were pushing siege equipment on the mountain road, crushing the unlucky guy like a puddle of meat, like a meatball that fell to the ground and was stepped on hard. Feet, bright red flesh and blood splattered...

"Ah ah ah ah ah……"

The civilian husband was panicked.

The civilian husband next to the unlucky man had his face sprayed with blood and flesh, and he covered the flesh and screamed loudly.

The soldiers of Cao's army who were supervising the battle in the rear formation shot an arrow, killing the civilian husband who was screaming in despair on the spot.

"No yelling, no procrastination! keep going! 』

Cao Jun's team gradually calmed down and continued.

In fact, everyone knows that there is a threat of death when setting foot on this mountain road, so they are mentally prepared, but after all, the person who died before was too tragic...

But as time went by, I slowly became numb.

The number of stone bombs coming from above Wuguan, especially from the catapult positions on the flanks of Wuguan Peak, continued to increase. Both the soldiers and civilians of Cao's army were almost trampling on blood and sawdust as they moved forward.

Stone bullets fell one after another.

Of course, the accuracy of most of the catapults was not very good. Some even went over the heads of the queue and fell high into the mountains; others hit the stone wall with a bang, and then the gravel fell like hail.

But the number of dead people and broken equipment gradually increased.

The number of casualties is constantly increasing.

Cao Ren's face was still as calm as water.

"General, it's such a loss to fight like this..." Cao Zhen sighed.

"if not? "Cao Ren said in a calm tone, "The defenders occupy a favorable location and have set up stone cannons. Is it possible that the defenders can not use them? When our army's stone cannons are set up, we will also hit them. 』

Cao Zhen was stunned for a moment.

Cao Ren didn't mention the casualties at all. It seemed that those who died now were not human lives, but just the average number on the books.

What Shandong likes most is the average. No matter what is done in the court, they like vague summaries. They never clearly express what kind of average the average is. For example, although the number of casualties is high, the entire army is average. , isn’t it just a fraction?

But who could have known that the vast majority of those who died were from the lowest level in Jingxiang?

If those at the bottom of the hierarchy were taken out and counted separately, the data would be astonishing...

It's just an average, and everyone doesn't care.

"This is a fool's errand, there is no trick..." Cao Ren looked at Wuguan in the distance, "We can only see if Lieutenant Niu can create a gap... Someone is here!" Send the order and attack the city with all your strength! Those who are timid and retreat will be killed! 』

"The general has an order!" Attack the city with all your strength and kill those who retreat! ! 』

"Kill..."

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Cao Jun held his position under the Wuguan Pass despite the stone bullets, and then began to counterattack on the Wuguan Pass.

"boom! ! 』

A stone bullet hit the battlements of Wuguan, sending rubble and broken bricks flying everywhere.

Cao Jun also set up a catapult, and under the cover of the earth slope of the mountain road, attacked the Wuguan city wall from behind the earth slope. Anyway, the city wall is so big, just a general direction and location is enough, and the accuracy seems to be better than the catapult in Wuguan...

On the top of the city, Liao Hua shouted, "Fire the arrow!" 』

Arrows roared down like rain.

Then Cao Jun's archers counterattacked quickly.

It's just that the mountain road before Wuguan is only a little wide. Although it can be used for carriages and horses, it is still too awkward and narrow to spread out the array. Cao Jun's archers can't spread out a huge array, so they can only move here sporadically. They counterattacked one by one, so the arrows that hit the pass were actually not very many.

Stones, arrows, flesh and blood, sawdust.

Liao Hua scanned the battlefield and calmly deployed his soldiers.

He did not send all the defenders to the city wall at once, but carefully used the resources at hand.

Like Cao Ren, Liao Hua was not born into a family of military generals. All his military experience came from the martial arts hall. He was naturally a little nervous in his heart, but he was more excited. It's not because he is bloodthirsty, but because he feels that after studying Di Bao in the martial arts hall for so many years, he now has an excellent place to practice.

The Battle of Jingzhou was just a small test before, but now it is a big event!

Observe the enemy's movements, guess the enemy general's intentions, and then target them, either to defend, to counterattack, or to avoid...

And at the same time, you need to pay attention to the situation of your own soldiers and generals, whether it is deployment, encouragement, or strict orders. All of these are not stated in detail in the Jiangwutangdi newspaper. The specific regulations can only be based on the knowledge you have learned. Flexible use.

Compared to Cao Ren, Liao Hua is naturally a beginner, but Liao Hua has been studying for many years, and now is the time to apply what he has learned. He was like a tiger with newly minted claws, eager to taste the flesh and blood.

Up and down Wuguan, murderous intent permeated the air.

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In Shang County.

News of the fierce battle in Wuguan also reached Shang County, and people's hearts suddenly became a little unstable.

So, in the dark night of Shang County, there is a murderous chicken hidden...

Many times, people are in a state of disorder, just like monkeys. If you want to make the monkeys obedient, there are two ways. One is to shoot the culprit, and the other is to kill the chicken to scare the monkeys. Although some people use both methods, most of the time, people like to use the second method, which is to kill the chicken to scare the monkey.

Why does the monkey make a mistake and kill the chicken?

It's like the big man obviously has so many corrupt officials, but he catches a little guy and kills him...

From the cost-benefit perspective of economics, the benefits of the "monkey" being disobedient are far higher than the benefits of being obedient. If you want to change the behavior pattern of the "monkey", you need to pay a very high cost.

Relatively speaking, "chickens" are generally considered to be in the middle and lower class, and they are not difficult to kill. Therefore, there are often situations where you can't catch the monkey, but you catch a chicken to kill.

So the question is, if you kill the chicken, will the monkey really be afraid?

Did the chicken that was killed really make a mistake and deserve to be killed, or was it just killed for the sake of killing?

If you watch a monkey kill a chicken, then who can guarantee that the monkey will not learn to behave but learn to kill the chicken?

Jiang Gan originally wanted to kill the chicken.

He felt that the chicken was the chief executive of Shang County.

But Jiang Gan never expected that he would turn into a chicken.

Jiang Gan lowered his head and looked at the arrow on his chest. The gurgling blood dyed his clothes red. Under the light of the lights, it was not bright red, but appeared black. The expression on his face was a little dazed and confused. , as if he was thinking about why he ended up like this, or wondering why the blood he shed looked black?

Before the conflict broke out, everything seemed normal and peaceful.

The smell of blood didn't travel that far.

The screams were also isolated from Shang County by the mountains and roads.

Jiang Gan's men also infiltrated into the people stranded in Shang County and began to instigate...

Everything seemed to be going smoothly and according to plan.

but……

When did the change begin?

Jiang Gan suddenly understood something, but it was already too late.

Yes, changes may have started to occur from the time when the people were incited.

It’s different, it’s different!

Jiang Gan looked at the peasants standing in the distance, and suddenly felt that he was the chicken that was killed...

He figured it out.

Wrong, wrong...

Although the people in Guanzhong are the same as those in Shandong, they are equally reluctant to give up trivial interests, and they will be confused by all kinds of rhetoric, dominated by aroused emotions, and scream and fight together, but Jiang Gan and others forgot One thing that is different from the people of Shandong is...

Guanzhong has done more, better, and more detailed propaganda of the law than Shandong.

What is the law in the eyes of people in Shandong?

It is the Spring and Autumn period that breaks the prison.

For the people of Shandong, the law is strict, unknowable, and people can make mistakes for no apparent reason, and the law does not punish everyone...

When there are many people who commit crimes, what Shandong officials want to do is to settle the matter as soon as possible, and then deal with it later and chop off the heads of those chickens. However, most people will benefit from the process of committing crimes, that is, not abiding by the rules and laws. , so for the people of Shandong, as long as someone takes the lead, they dare to go!

In the view of Shandong people, even if something happens, the ones who take the lead will be the ones who die anyway. So as long as they don’t stand out and are targeted, the advantage is that they will actually fall into their own hands, and the government will only look for those who take the lead. Beheading a chicken has nothing to do with them.

And the key is that Shandong's laws are really unclear.

For example, in Shandong, a drunken official rode his horse and damaged the belongings of ordinary people. Whose fault was it? The verdict was that the people were at fault.

Putting aside the facts, who dared to block the way of officials without first predicting possible dangerous situations?

Another example is that a tenant farmer quits the lease and no longer wants to work. Not only will he not get the reward for so many years of hard work, but he will also have to compensate the landlord a sum of money. The reason is that the landlord cannot find a tenant farmer to take over at the moment and loses money...

There are many such cases, so in Shandong, the land of the Han Dynasty, the law is not to maintain the lowest social norms and order, but to wipe the butts of officials and the landlord class. This has led to the people in Shandong's lack of understanding of the law. His extreme disdain would make him restless if there was just the slightest spark.

This was the case with the rice emperors of later generations. Everyone knows that the laws of the United States are used to protect the interests of the bourgeoisie. People without money cannot talk about legal justice. Even if an individual case is occasionally decided, the capitalists can drag the other party to bankruptcy and use various methods to Off-board moves make the opponent miserable.

Therefore, in the Han Dynasty's land of Shandong, inciting the people was a very simple matter.

Just take the lead...

So both Jiang Qian and Dongligun think so.

But what they didn't expect was that the strategy that had been tried and tested in Shandong failed in Shang County.

Jiang Qian and Dongli Gun thought that the civilian husbands who had been injured due to mutual disputes must be resentful, so they only needed to instigate them a little, then induce them to benefit, and then take the lead in twos and threes, raising their arms and shouting, it was enough to start a commotion. What they didn't expect was that although the people in Guanzhong were just staring at the three melons and two dates in front of them, they showed little interest in responding to the so-called "unfair", "unfreedom", etc., and some even turned their heads. So I went to report to the official secretly.

Because in Guanzhong, although the law is also biased towards officials, that is, the ruling class, the problem is that the in-depth inspections in Guanzhong have made the law more widely spread and clearer, that is, it is more clear than in Shandong. The land became so strong that everything went awry right here...

Over the years, Jiang Gan has inspired countless Shandong people and appreciated the confused and ignorant expressions of countless Shandong people. He even had a feeling that he could decide life or death with one word. He had never failed in Shandong.

Even the people of the Xun clan in Yingchuan were defeated by his lips and tongue.

But he didn't expect that here in Shang County, his unstoppable words would fall flat in front of the people who seemed so dull and ignorant to him.

So, Huang Wu got the news, and when he came to "attend the banquet", he brought soldiers to inspect...

Jiang Gan also wanted to use his own words, but unexpectedly...

Jiang Qian opened his mouth, "Why...why...ho..."

He really didn't expect that the head of Shang County didn't even say a few words, but just ordered to shoot him with arrows.

Isn't he a celebrity?

Shouldn't it have the effect of avoiding death?

no……

Jiang Gan fell down.

The whole place suddenly fell silent, and those Dongli Gun and others who had been making noise now stood in shock and at a loss.

Like a group of petrified monkeys.

Huang Wu shouted: "You will be captured as soon as possible!" Treason is a serious crime, but anyone who resists will be killed without mercy! 』

Who the hell can have a "cordial" conversation with a traitor in public?

Even if you say one more word, do you still need your head?

When determining guilt in Guanzhong's new laws, one of the most important items is "clear evidence" and no longer uses "unfounded" evidence. In other words, as long as Jiang Qian did not commit any real rebellion, he would not shoot him directly no matter how much suspicion there was. But as it was now, it was clear that he would still try to resist. …

Maybe Jiang Gan just wanted to talk and didn't want to resist, but could Huang Wu risk himself?

Dongligun took a step forward and lay down to look at Jiang Gan. He saw that Jiang Gan had lost his life, only one of his eyes was still staring, full of confusion and unwillingness...

"ah……"

Faced with Huang Wu's shouting, Dongli Gun was still hesitating, but felt a chill on his back!

Dongli Gun couldn't help but screamed, and turned around to look, only to see his men staring at him ferociously. He immediately jumped away and fell to his knees with a thud, "Everyone was deceived by the thieves!" It’s all him...ah..."

Isn’t it all about getting a few bucks? Who cares about perseverance? Didn't you see that even Jiang Gan was killed? If he had moved slower, wouldn't he be the one who died?

No matter who it was, they would naturally not be able to endure such a betrayal. Dongligun endured the huge pain, gritted his teeth and rushed forward, rolling into a ball with the man.

"Kill those who resist!" Huang Wu commanded, "Those who surrender abandon their weapons and kneel down!" 』

After Dongligun and the person who rebelled first were killed together, the situation was quickly brought under control.

Huang Wu exhaled a long breath, and then felt that his hands and feet were cold, and there was cold sweat on his back.

"Lang Jun," the confidant beside Huang Wu whispered, "Jiang Gan and Jiang Ziyi were a famous scholar. Lang Jun killed him directly... What if Jiang Ziyi came to surrender?" 』

Huang Wu wiped the cold sweat on his head with his sleeve, "These days, people's brains are all in the shape of a dog. Who cares about celebrities... In normal times, how much money can this title of celebrity be worth... I want to do it well." As a celebrity, you should be peaceful and separate at this time... The world is really in chaos. A celebrity is worse than a dog... Let's just send a message to General Huang, saying that the chaos in the city has been resolved..."