Warrior in Turbulent Han Dynasty

When Guo Shao woke up, there was a loud noise in his ears, and with a "wow", the curtain hanging at the door was suddenly lifted, and his eyes were dazzled by the bright light. Luo Mengzi's voice said: "Brother, the sun is shining!"

It took Guo Shao a while to react, and hurriedly put on his clothes and got up. When he walked out of the tent, he saw a crowd of people and horses moving around, and a sun in the east was hanging in the sky. Not only that, but the sky was azure blue, the space between heaven and earth was clear and clean, and the low and depressing gray clouds of yesterday had long since disappeared. There is a rainbow arc hanging on the blue sky, and the orange streamer is very beautiful in the sky.

"It's so beautiful!" A smile appeared on Guo Shao's face.

Jing Niang came over and said with joy, "I'm not wrong, the weather will be sunny later."

"How do you say that word, thank the Queen Mother, thank God..." Guo Shao laughed. Jing Niang was speechless, her eyes rolled up and she rolled her eyes.

Seeing Guo Shao standing at the door, all the generals gathered here one after another.

At this moment, a voice outside the Xingyuan fence shouted: "Report! Good news!" A messenger hurried over through the wet mud, handed over a report, and shouted: "Dong Qianfeng reported that the navy broke through Qumen and defeated the Shu army blocking the river. Dozens of warships from our department have entered the open water."

"Haha..." Guo Shao raised his head and laughed loudly. He looked back and saw that all the generals were emotional. He said, "The whole game of chess is alive. Don't talk nonsense, order the whole army, and the army will set off immediately, heading straight for the city of Kuizhou!"

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The Kuizhou Central Army marched, and dozens of civil and military personnel gathered in the lobby. Above, Wang Zhaoyuan was walking back and forth quickly, and his movements made everyone feel nervous.

"Trash! Trash..." Wang Zhaoyuan was so angry that he pointed at everyone and yelled, "How could Zhou Jun's navy break through Qumen? Where is the navy general? Did he come here after being persuaded to surrender?"

A military commander said with grief and indignation: "Wang Jianjun, my navy general commanded the above 22 people, and 18 people died in the battle, because everyone knows that Qumen is related to the safety of Shu, and they all fight to the death! With such casualties, even if you lose the battle, you can't slander them like this!"

"Do you still know that Qumen is related to the safety of the Great Shu?" Wang Zhaoyuan's face turned blue and white, "Qumen is easy to defend and difficult to attack. There are warships stationed on both sides of the river day and night. How can you let the Zhou army's warships come? What ships can pass through the rapids?"

The general said: "The dead soldiers of the Zhou army did not care about their lives. They walked the towpath barefoot in the rain in the middle of the night before last night... The towpaths that the trackers made on the stone wall sneaked into our water village and were annihilated by our navy's siege. In the early morning, another group came up and burned my water village. As a result, a large number of warships were washed downstream by the river. Only a few ships of the Zhou army's navy were dragged upstream.

At this moment, Gao Yanchou persuaded: "This is the end of the matter, it's too late to regret... Besides, the sky is clear, even if the water is not breached, the Zhou army will come to the city. Wang Jianjun, ordered all troops to shrink the city, and it's time to defend the city."

"If all the waterways and land routes of the Yangtze River fall into the hands of the Zhou army, what's the use of our army defending the isolated city?" Wang Zhaoyuan kept walking back and forth, his face was pale, how could he still have the demeanor of commanding?

Gao Yanchou said: "Now gather troops, Kuizhou's army strength is not less than 20,000, it is still very useful to put it in this critical place. Kuizhou is an important town on the east road of Dashu, and the hoard of grain and grass is no less than 300,000 dendrobium. We can eat for two years. There are city fortresses and sufficient grain, and we can't win in field battles. Why don't we defend the city?"

Wang Zhaoyuan said: "If the fortifications can be defended, the Zhou army should be blocked in Wu Gorge now! How did the Wuxia Fort be breached? The Zhou army has explosives..."

After listening to this, everyone talked a lot, and suddenly panicked. Everyone asked about the power and usage of the explosive, but no one could explain in detail. According to the records in ancient books, it is recorded that alchemy blows up and burns the roof. It is probably that thing... But the battle of Huainan and Shouzhou, the high-level officials of the Shu Kingdom have heard of it, and know that the thing can blow down the city wall.

What's more, I also tasted it once in the Wuxia Shu Army not long ago, and now I have no doubts about the existence of this thing in the world that can break through fortifications.

Seeing the reaction of the crowd, Wang Zhaoyuan asked Gao Yanchou coldly: "Marshal Gao Jie still wants to defend the city?"

Gao Yanchou said: "Every thing in this world will fall into another thing, as long as we take precautions early... Besides, there is no other way but to defend the city."

Wang Zhaoyuan said disapprovingly: "The Zhou army has come from a long way. It has been trekking on the Shu Road for nearly a month, and it has come from the mountain road. The soldiers and horses must be exhausted; and the Shu army is waiting for work in Kuizhou City. It is impossible to know the victory or defeat of the Zhou army. It is impossible to know the victory or defeat if the Zhou army is not stable and the soldiers and horses are struggling."

"Wang Jianjun still wants to attack the Zhou army, is there a chance of winning?" Gao Yanchou was shocked and hurriedly dissuaded him.

Wang Zhaoyuan said coldly: "If we follow Gao Jieshuai's wishes, we will be trapped in the isolated city, and we will lose! Now we seize the opportunity to compete, and there is still a chance. Everyone, the art of war says that you die and live, do you sit and wait for death, or fight?"

At first Gao Yanchou tried to persuade Wang Zhaoyuan, but seeing his determination, Gao Yanchou was also annoyed: "Wang Jianjun is going, you go, I can't afford to lose that man."

"That Gaojie is handsome guarding the city, and he is a turtle in the city, watching how I, Wolong, fight!" Wang Zhaoyuan said.

... Both sides have sent out a large number of scouts, and the Zhou army is approaching, so the movements of each other are clear at a glance.

"Wang Zhaoyuan is leaving the city for a decisive battle?" Guo Shao was very surprised to hear the news, and asked the scouts who had seen it in front of him in detail to ask about the movement of the Shu army. At this time Li Gu also arrived at the army, and said: "The Shu army may think that our army has an opportunity to attack far away."

At this time, the Zhou army had already marched southwest along the Yangtze River to Kuizhou. Some generals suggested that they should stay there for two or three days before a decisive battle.

Guo Shao said: "Everyone knows that there is an advantage in waiting for work with ease, but if you follow the rules rigidly, you may miss the opportunity. If Wang Zhaoyuan figured it out, you have to defend the city... It is more difficult to attack the city. At least it will take more time and kill more people."

In order not to affect the confidence of the soldiers, he did not mention the disadvantages of bombing the city with gunpowder... It is better for the morale of the soldiers to keep the soldiers confident. However, blowing up the city is actually not that easy. First of all, it depends on the soil quality and groundwater conditions underground in Kuizhou. Not all places can successfully bury the gunpowder under the city wall; As long as the defenders are well-prepared, they may not be able to take the city by blowing up the gap...Even in the era of artillery, it is not easy to siege the city.

"Tomorrow morning without stopping, advance to Wang Zhaoyuan's troops, and we will have a decisive battle!" Guo Shao said immediately.

All the generals clasped their fists and responded, "Here."

"After an hour, call the commanders and generals to the central army's tent overnight to discuss matters and arrange military affairs for tomorrow." Guo Shao said again, waving his hand and said, "It's over, everyone, let's have dinner first."

Guo Shao didn't spend any time eating. He took two pieces of wheat cake and asked someone to serve a bowl of soup while reviewing the terrain around Kuizhou. He also ordered that all the scouts who had returned today be called to the main tent of the Chinese army to speak... He ordered to discuss the matter after an hour, because he wanted to prepare his own strategy first.

It was really not expected that Wang Zhaoyuan would rush out to fight in the field, and because he had just arrived near Kuizhou, he was indeed a little unprepared. Fortunately, Kuizhou is an important place. When the army was still in Jingzhou, spies came here to inquire about information, so several maps were drawn to prepare for the general situation.

The route for Zhou Jun's main force to go to Kuizhou is a bit detoured, but it is flatter and more spacious. They came from the mountain road, crossed the Dangxi (Meixi River), went south along the beach of Dangxi, and joined the Yangtze River; then turned, along the north bank of the Yangtze River, and continued to attack Kuizhou southwest. The terrain along the river is slightly flat and open; the place farther north away from the Yangtze River is full of rocks. Although the mountains in this area are not too high, they cannot be supported by mountains, only trails.

Guo Shao probably understood the terrain by reading old newspapers, but now he wants to know more detailed conditions on the battlefield. Only through the dictation of the scouts, there is no time to observe in person in advance.

"Is there a village there?" Guo Shao took a sip of the soup, put down the wheat cake, and asked the scout, "How many houses and how many people are there?"

The scout frowned and recalled: "Ten buildings... or only six or seven buildings. There are tile houses and thatched houses. There are not many people. There is a spacious dirt road in the south."

Guo Shao picked up the pen and asked while writing and drawing, "This village goes west, who has been there?"

Another person stepped forward and clasped his fists and said, "There is a low mountain over there, stretching to the north, high in the north and low in the south. The slope on the south is relatively gentle. Except for a few wheat fields on the slope, there are shrubs and weeds, relatively barren sandy land, and there are some single-family houses at the bottom of the mountain. You can see the Kuizhou city tower when you climb to the ridge... By the way, I also met a farmer.

Guo Shao was very interested in this Sanma Mountain. He asked the other two people, and immediately muttered: "If I were Wang Zhaoyuan, I would choose the battlefield on this hillside. It is spacious and open, and I will occupy a high place and favorable terrain in advance."

The terrain along the river to the east of Kuizhou is only a few miles wide and ten miles long, but Guo Shao drew several pictures and recorded a lot of news he heard in his own pamphlet. It is impossible for scouts and soldiers to write articles about what they have seen and heard, but it is still clear for them to tell them what they have seen and heard.

The bonfires were gradually lit in the barracks, night fell, and the sky was full of stars. But the day was not over yet, the drums of the Chinese Army's Xingyuan beat, and many generals came one after another. Everyone untied their sabers one after another and put them on the wooden frame at the door of the tent, and entered back and forth.

The tent was not spacious, and dozens of people were crowded at once, and it gradually became crowded.

Many lights were hung on both sides, and a picture was hung in front. Guo Shao walked into the big tent quickly, and Shi Yanchao said impatiently: "Guo Du will be inspected, and it's finally time for a quick kill. Let me play the striker!"

Guo Shao said directly: "I have more important credit for you, the striker let Yang Biao go."

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(For that 1 yuan green apple, the number of explosive monthly tickets is limited every day, and it is updated at 0:00 in the morning; the number of monthly tickets has reached the upper limit, and it will no longer be issued. So when I tried it during the day, I found that there was no monthly ticket, because it was sold out.)

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