Riding and cutting the imperial pirates of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 424 The Dust Settles
For Wang Zheng, the loss of nearly a thousand cavalry is acceptable, but the death of Wu Fang and dozens of third-tier soldiers is really unbearable.

Especially Wu Fang.

He was also from Zhao County, and he was a middle-level leader during Zhang Rao's Qingzhou Yellow Turban Uprising. In addition, he was in his prime, so he was originally one of the talents he planned to focus on training. Wang Zhengben planned to harvest enough in the Beihai War After the experience, Wu Fang was also among the second batch of fourth-tier soldiers promoted
It can be said that since Gao Xiong's death, there has been another major loss in his direct line.

This made Wang Zheng's face extremely gloomy at this time, and he remained silent for a while.

He didn't speak, and the others didn't dare to speak out. In the silence where the needles could be heard, the atmosphere began to change, and an invisible pressure gradually enveloped Gao Lan and the rest of the guards. , even more anxious, and cold sweat began to break out on his forehead.

Until the back of Yijia was completely drenched with sweat, Gao Lan couldn't bear this feeling of suffocation anymore, and directly bowed his head to the ground, saying: "The defeat in this battle is the crime of the last general. chastisement."

Gao Lan knew in his heart that someone must be responsible for the defeat in this battle. Strictly speaking, this battle is naturally because Yan Ran has the greatest responsibility for attacking rashly. Even if Wuyang's Cao Jun came to help, the victory or defeat of the two sides was only five or five.

It's just that the other party is still seriously injured and unconscious, and he is Wang Zheng's direct descendant. Gao Lan knew the difference between surrendered general and direct descendant when he was under Yuan Shao's command. After thinking about it until now, he still feels that taking the initiative to plead guilty is the only way.

After getting along during this period of time, he felt that Wang Zheng was not an unreasonable person. Even if his family suffered a little bit of grievance this time, he might be able to get a little affection in exchange for this transaction.

It's just that Wang Zheng's reaction was beyond his surprise.

Staring at Gao Lan for a while, Wang Zheng shook his head: "Yi Yuan doesn't need to take responsibility."

Hearing this, Gao Lan was taken aback. Could it be that Wang Zheng still blamed Yan Ran in this situation.

"From the very beginning of this battle, it was because I miscalculated the strength of Cao's army, otherwise how could we have suffered such a defeat?" But Wang Zheng continued: "It's just that Yan Ran didn't attack rashly, as soon as Wuyang's reinforcements arrive, you will be defeated In the Cao camp, you will also face the danger of being attacked from front and back, and it is more dangerous than good."

In fact, after learning the whole story of the battle from Gao Lan, Wang Zheng began to blame himself. How could he make the mistake of underestimating the enemy?

What's more, when the enemy is Cao Cao?
Especially since his family is still a traverser from later generations, he clearly knows what kind of height Cao Cao will reach in the future, which further highlights that his mistakes this time are too low-level.

You must know that the Heavenly Army has entered Yuzhou for many days, and Xiahou Dun's ability is limited. Cao Cao in Xudu must have made arrangements after getting the news, and made deployments against them.

Li Dian and the more than [-] Cao Jun are a strong proof!

What about the defenders of Wuyang?
So from Wang Zheng's point of view, even if Yan Ran didn't rashly pursue Li Dian, the situation ahead might not be optimistic.

The long-awaited failure made Wang Zheng rarely lose his composure, but he also began to fall into self-blame, and then self-blame led to introspection, and self-reflection led to awakening.

Thinking back to the beginning of the incident, how many times he was vigilant against the arrogance in the army due to the long victory, and how long has passed?
Unexpectedly, now he, the commander-in-chief of the three armies, also began to feel complacent.
It is a good thing that Wang Zheng loses the respect he once had for those famous historical figures after repeated successes, but if he defeats Yuan Tan and Liu Bei, who is still underdeveloped, it is a big mistake to think that the heroes of the world are nothing more than this !
"This..." Wang Zheng's words made Gao Lan a little stunned. He didn't know how to answer the words. , Shouting in the mouth: "Zhou Mu, I and my subordinates are deeply ashamed of this big defeat!"

"At the end of the day, please ask for your order, that is, to conquer Wuyang again as a pioneer. If you don't dedicate this city to the state shepherd, I will be the only dead ear!"

"Get up."

Hearing this, Wang Zheng stepped forward to help Gao Lan up with his own hands, patted him on the arm twice, and then said seriously: "If you talk about the defeat in this battle, you are not the only one who is unhappy. Why not?"

"It's just that the sages have said that if the king does not mobilize his teachers because of anger, he will not fight because of anger."

Speaking of this, seeing that Gao Lan's eyes were still red and he was waiting to call for a fight, Wang Zheng suddenly took off the Chengsheng Wanli Fujian from his waist, looked around at the generals, raised his sword eyebrows, and shouted in a deep voice: "It's not too late for a gentleman to take revenge!"

"Pass down my general's order. From now on, the generals of the three armies, no matter who they are, are not allowed to wear swords. This battle is not only the shame of Gao Lan, but also the shame of this general, the shame of Xuzhou!"

"I hope all the generals will remember deeply, and be brave after knowing the shame. If you don't kill the enemy generals Li Dian and Xia Houdun, who are ashamed with blood, you will suffer a lot and never have the day to match your sword!"

As soon as this remark came out, all the generals fell to the ground and promised: "If you don't avenge this revenge, you will suffer a lot, and you will never be able to match your sword!"

After blaming himself, Wang Zheng also understood that one mistake should not be repeated, and immediately gathered all the generals inside and outside the city, held a military meeting, summed up the gains and losses of this battle, and learned three lessons.

First, obviously because of the war in Beihai, the troops sent to Yuzhou this time are not enough, but Wang Zheng still has to divide his troops to let Gao Lan go to take Wuyang. He defeated Cao Cao both times, but he had already forgotten that Cao Cao was actually the same as Xuzhou today, because of the dilemma of fighting on two fronts at the same time.

Second, not paying enough attention to intelligence.Although the reality of the enemy has been ascertained, the terrain around the enemy camp has not been understood in detail.If Gao Lan and Yan Ran had known in advance that there was a swamp beside Cao Jun's camp, they would not have been fooled.

Thirdly, once the war in Beihai is over, Xuzhou's next foreign war will be nothing more than Cao Cao in the north, Yuan Shao in the west, or even Yuan Shao in the east, and all three of them are far stronger than Kong Ronghe. Liu Bei, actions like running thousands of miles to attack a lone army in depth must be carefully considered in the future.Never take chances.

Soon after, because Gao Lan was also injured in this battle, Wang Zheng personally led his army northward to take down Ningping, the last city in the original plan. However, since Xiahou Dun not far away was not solved, the plan to build another new city was naturally put on hold for the time being. , but arranged for some soldiers to be stationed in the other two cities, forming a situation of mutual horns.

During this period of time, the Yuzhou Yellow Turban finally arranged for someone to take over with Wang Zheng. At the same time, as a local snake, there was first-hand news from Yingchuan.

According to reliable information, in the battle of Wuyang, although Li Dian's troops of Cao army were only killed in battle at the time, more than a thousand were killed, but most of the wounded after that either died of serious injuries or lost their combat effectiveness in a short period of time.

Of course, this is because Gao Lan and Yan Ran wantonly set fires in the raid on Cao Ying.Burns are no different than others, especially in spring and summer, they are very easy to fester and die, especially for large-scale burns, in ancient China, even if they were treated in time, there was a great possibility of death.

Obviously, as a small border town, Wuyang doesn't have many wound medicines or even doctors.

Although Wang Zheng and Tianjun hadn't experienced defeat for a long time, Cao Jun's victory was also an absolute tragic victory. After this battle, both sides agreed to re-evaluate each other's strength. Not long ago, he specially sent envoys to ask the other party to stick to the main position. In this way, even though the flames of hatred were rising due to the pain of losing his son, after careful consideration, Xiahou Dun finally temporarily gave up his plan to attack Runan.

So Yuzhou temporarily fell into a state of confrontation between the four camps.

At the same time, a letter came, saying that Yuan Shu's envoy had arrived in Guangling and would come to Xiapi in the near future, and he sent a letter ahead of time, hoping to meet Wang Zheng in person to discuss an important matter.

Wang Zheng naturally knew what the other party was talking about, and he really needed to go back to deal with it himself, so he prepared to return to Xiapi first, and ordered Gao Lan and Yan Ran to stay in the three cities. If the reinforcements cannot comply with the rules, they can directly abandon the city and return to Xuzhou.

Before leaving, Wang Zheng specially invited Gao Lan, and the two had a long talk, nothing more than repeatedly explaining the truth of "everyone loses their land, and everyone's land remains", fearing that Gao Lan would be eager to fight because of the hatred in his heart.

After these warm words, unconsciously, Gao Lanli took another big step towards returning to his heart.

When Wang Zheng returned to Xiapi, the war on the Beihai side also ended at the same time.

Although it has not yet been completely settled, the gentry in Beihai have given up hope for Cao Cao and the emperor in Xudu. What's more, even though they are still hostile to the king, the main force of the officers and soldiers in Beihai and Donglai have all surrendered. An organized army.

Having lost the basis for an organized and large-scale resistance, the general trend is that it is only a matter of time before they take control of the entire territory of the two counties.

Before the envoy from Yangzhou arrived, Wang Zheng first set the tone on Beihai.

Pingshou was formally established as the Fifth Army Wing, which was stationed by General Jin Jin.

Politically, the Yan family and the Wang family were asked to arrange some of their children to serve as officials in the past, because Langya is the county closest to Beihai, and the gentry in the two places are mostly connected. Gentlemen.

In terms of culture, arrange for Mi's business firm to cooperate with Tianji Camp to build momentum in the two counties as soon as possible and win people's hearts.

Economically, at present, it is also trying to lighten the tax and tax as much as possible, and set up villages in various places to reclaim wasteland.Emphasis on trade and vigorously develop grassroots people's livelihood construction.With the development of the situation, and slightly modified the original policy of hiding wealth from the people, it was changed to rest and recuperation, on the basis of ensuring the survival of the people and seeing hope, the intensity of wealth accumulation was appropriately increased.

At the same time, considering the possible war in Yangzhou in the future, the establishment of the navy is also accelerating.

The shipyard in Haizhou has been established, and all the craftsmen who are familiar with shipbuilding in Xuzhou have gathered here, and they are rushing to work day and night to manufacture medium-sized and above-sized buildings and warships. Come down for modification.

At the same time, the surrendered army and some pirates in the North Sea were reorganized, and some of the sky army who were familiar with water were transferred to the navy army. Three parts were temporarily set up, and the drills continued.

Of course, because of this reason, almost all the middle and high-level officials are foreigners. This situation is only temporary, and the middle-level generals will gradually eliminate the soldiers and pirates from Beihai step by step.

In Wang Zheng's mind, regardless of land or water, as long as it is an army under his command, the authority can only be in the hands of him and those he can completely trust.

So from the very beginning, neither Guan Cheng nor Chen Jiao would be the leader of the navy in Wang Zheng's mind.

And as the Xuzhou army stationed in Beihai embarked on the return journey in large numbers, the opening day of the Xiapi Military Academy, and even the middle and senior military academies in Kaiyang and Pengcheng will be in the not-too-distant future.

The construction of various hardware and software, looking at the present, Xuzhou is already very successful at the level of strategic layout, fully realizing the ambition of Wang Zheng when he was in Linzi.

Next, he planned to send troops to build the defense system of the three cities of Ningping after the army took a short rest. line of defense.

This will not only greatly reduce the potential threat of Cao Cao in the west, once a large city is erected between Chen Guo and Runan, and then a heavy army is garrisoned, it will be tantamount to choking the throat of the Yanzhou army's road to the south, making it impossible for the opponent to move as quickly as they wish. Occupying Yuzhou, then Wang Zheng has enough experience to cope with the changes in the situation in Yangzhou.

After all the work is done, time flies, and it has entered May of the first year of Jian'an. The weather is getting hotter and the rainstorm is more frequent, and the eyes are full of luxuriant leaves.
It's summer solstice.

On a sunny day, Wang Zheng personally led the civil and military officials to the city gate, because he had received the report from the sentries in front last night, and the messenger from Yangzhou was less than a hundred miles away from Xiapi. can be reached.

The messenger represents Yuan Shu himself. He is the most powerful Marquis in the world today, and after all, the two parties are still in an alliance. In addition, the battle in Xuzhou that day was the greatest benefit for Wang Zheng, so naturally there is no apology. If you get a cheap price and act like a good boy, you are ready to give it enough for your face.

The midday sun was a bit sweltering and hot, and everyone behind them complained secretly, but seeing Wang Zheng standing in front of him, no one dared to complain, even Wu Sheng was no exception, but when he wiped his sweat, he secretly felt happy. Greeted all eight generations of the ancestor of the Yangzhou messenger.

Not long after, dust piled up on the horizon in the distance, Wang Zhengxun looked at the prestige, and with extraordinary eyesight, he immediately identified a group of people galloping towards them, about several hundred or so.

It's finally here.
When he saw the person in charge, Wang Zheng couldn't help smiling. It turned out that the messenger this time was actually an old acquaintance Li Ren.

It was just that Wang Zheng was stunned when he saw that besides the accompanying cavalry, there was a carriage behind Li Ren.

　I have something to do at work today. I didn’t get home until after 9 o’clock. I just rushed out. The time of posting is too late. I’m sorry.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)