The beginning of the Three Kingdoms Cheng Yuanzhi

Chapter 28

As soon as the next day dawned, the officers and soldiers called for battle outside the east gate.

Zang (zāng) Min (mín), who was more than fifty years old, was wearing a cloak, holding a three-pointed two-edged knife, and riding a fiery red moon-chasing meteor horse, pacing up and down in front of the formation majestically.

Behind him, the officers and soldiers lined up, ready to fight.

In the front is a row of well-equipped cavalry, about a hundred cavalry, followed by Qing Yishui's infantry, holding wooden shields with mending swords, and the blackness is overwhelming.

This is almost the entire property of Zhongshan Kingdom.

Cheng Yuanzhi was on top of the city tower, leaning out half of his body, and observing the opponent's army with all the leaders of the Black Mountain army.

Zang Min didn't even have the slightest idea of ​​attacking the city.

Firstly, there is no equipment, and secondly, the troops are not dominant. Even in field battles, you can rely on your equipment advantage to charge. If you attack a city, it is no less than seeking your own death.

Therefore, he sent a soldier with an extremely loud voice to greet the eighteenth generation of the ancestors of the Black Mountain Army loudly before the battle, in order to arouse the anger of the leader of the Black Mountain bandits "Zhang Yan", and went out of the city to fight with the army.

After being scolded for a long time, seeing that the commander-in-chief still had no plans to go out to fight, Zhang Yang couldn't help but said: "Commander, they scolded you so badly, please allow me to lead my troops to fight and take down the head of old Zang Min! "

Cheng Yuanzhi shook his head and said loudly: "Don't worry! The general must not raise troops out of anger. We will lie down high on the city and wait for a while to see if he can break the city."

His voice was so loud that not only the Heishan army in the city could hear him, but even the officers and soldiers in the front row under the city could hear him clearly.

The voice of the scolder froze immediately, and he turned around and asked, "Zang Guoxiang, are you still scolding?"

Zang Min waved him away, turned sideways and asked left and right: "Liu Bei, Lieutenant of Anxi County, why is it so late?"

The soldiers thought for a while and said, "Report to the Prime Minister, Liu Bei's subordinates are all infantry. Anxi County is not close to this road, and we should arrive before sunset at the latest."

Zang Min frowned: "Oh? When is the earliest?"

"Before noon today."

Anxi County is located eighty miles northeast of Zhongshan State, and Zhongshan State is a hundred miles east of Changshan County. If you follow a diagonal line, Anxi County is about 140 miles away.

Calculated according to the infantry's daily marching speed of one hundred miles, the fastest can be reached within one day, and the slowest can be reached within two days.

Zang Min sent a fast horse to deliver the message to Liu Bei yesterday. It was almost noon at this time, but Liu Bei was nowhere to be seen.

The subordinate's negligence already made him a little unhappy.

Coupled with the Montenegrin Army's attitude of refusing to fight, Zang Min felt that his anger could not be suppressed.

The soldier sighed, shook his head, and looked towards the tower not far away: "Minister Guo, it's freezing cold, and the thieves are not fighting. Should our army retreat for a while?"

"Retreat? What kind of soldiers are you retreating?" Zang Min rolled his eyes: "Swear at me until the other party comes out."

The soldier's face froze, and he said in his heart that I didn't neglect you, what did you do to me.

He turned around and pursed his lips, motioning for the soldiers with loud voices to continue shouting.

Under the watchful eyes of tens of thousands of people inside and outside the city, the soldiers with loud voices braced themselves and came out to curse:
"The thief Zhang Yan, your ancestor was originally a sinful slave, and he was pardoned by the emperor before he could get rid of his slavery; your father is despicable and lowly, and his virtue is even worse; now you are inheriting the inferiority and shame, gathering people to rebel, disrupting the country and harming the people, and his evil is unprecedented. , its poison is too much to write down, and it will be cast aside and stink forever..."

Cheng Yuanzhi shivered after hearing only half of it.

The words of this loud soldier scolded Zhang Yan and his ancestors over and over again.

This person has great talent, no less than Chen Lin!

The officers and soldiers under the city thought so too, Zang Min even more so.

It stands to reason that Zhang Yan in the city should be furious when he heard this, and immediately sent troops to fight.

But what is strange is that there was no movement on the tower, and the thieves laughed loudly instead.

Even Zhang Yan poked her head out, listened with relish, applauded loudly, and asked the loud soldiers to read it again.

Read it again? ! !
Looking from a distance, Zang Min only saw a black bandit commander covered in a veil, jumping up and down like a clown.

Zang Min was completely lost.

Cheng Yuanzhi has heard a psychological anecdote from later generations: When you insult others with the most vicious words, you have racked your brains and devoted all your energy. Once the words cannot hurt the other party, you will suffer double. backlash.

He stared curiously at the soldier with a loud voice, laughed and said:

"Why don't you read it? Read it again..."

The loud-voiced soldier's face turned red visibly, and his neck suddenly became much thicker, as if there was anger in his belly with nowhere to vent.

puff~
He opened his mouth, spurted blood three feet, and fell down on his back.

Sobbing and kicking his legs, there was no more movement.

Everyone was shocked!

Could it be dead?This question popped up in everyone's mind.

The Montenegrin army on the city wall erupted all of a sudden, raised their weapons high, and shouted loudly, with overwhelming momentum.

"The majestic supernatural power, invincible..."

under the city.

After the personal soldiers approached to check, they reported: "Minister Guo, he is dead..."

Hearing this, the faces of all the officers and soldiers changed slightly, and they were concerned.

A good living person was killed by a sentence from upstairs?

Murder in the air?
"Monster..." Zang Min's expression also changed, and he shouted: "Withdraw the army, withdraw the army!"

hula la~
The officers and soldiers receded like a tide, and soon there was no one outside the city.

Zhang Yang turned his head to the side, looked at Cheng Yuanzhi enthusiastically, and was about to ask, "Marshal, do you want to chase him or not? The opportunity to fight is fleeting."

Cheng Yuanzhi blocked his mouth with practical actions.

"Zhang Yang listened to the order and ordered you to lead [-] cavalry, follow behind, shoot more arrows and less charge, use the strategy of exhausting soldiers, harass the retreat speed of the officers and soldiers, wait for our rear troops to arrive, gather and surround them."

Zhang Yang grinned, clasped his fists excitedly and said, "Follow the order!"

In a hurry, he heard it as gathering and annihilating.

How not to get excited?

.........

Zang Min was very angry, very angry.

The rescue arrived late, the siege failed, and reinforcements from subordinates had not yet arrived. They wanted to withdraw their troops, but as soon as they had withdrawn ten miles, they were chased and shot by hundreds of cavalry.

He stopped the army to fight, and the opponent was two arrows away, and stopped moving forward.

He led the army forward, and the opponent quickly retreated and dispersed.

Are you really bullying me for not having cavalry?

Zang Min became angry, and ordered the whole army to camp and defend, and fought with the opponent.

With enough food and grass in the army, he didn't believe that he couldn't handle the opponent.

……

Cheng Yuanzhi left Yudu to lead thousands of people to guard the city, and personally led more than 8000 troops to this place. He ordered the soldiers to dig ditches and build trenches on the spot, creating terrain obstacles, and completely surrounded the officers and troops. Only a small town in the east was released. mouth.

This is no longer Wei San Que Yi, this is Wei 3.9, leaving a 0.1 exit.

And make a gesture of fighting a protracted war.

When withdrawing from the city of Changshan County, Zang Min originally had [-] soldiers under his command. On the way, he was chased by cavalry and killed [-] people. Now the number is less than [-].

Looking at the dense lineup on the opposite side, you can tell that there are at least 8000 people.

Even over ten thousand!

Although they are invincible, do you want to surround 4000 people with just a few people?

Zang Min doesn't believe it!

He has measured that the combat effectiveness of the infantry on both sides is actually similar, and he even has an advantage in the equipment of his soldiers.

Breakout is no problem at all.

But he didn't want to break through.

Because the opponent has [-] well-equipped cavalry, watching from the sidelines.

The fighting power of these five hundred cavalrymen alone is much stronger than the 4000 men under his command.

That's cavalry. Normally, one cavalry's fighting power is equivalent to ten infantrymen.

If the cavalry exceeds ten thousand, the infantry is invincible. This is the experience passed down from generation to generation.

Now being besieged, Zang Min felt much safer because the cavalry couldn't charge up.

If he breaks out at this time, firstly, he will lose his troops, and secondly, he will have to face cavalry harassment. He is very unwilling to fight such a troublesome battle.

Cheng Yuanzhi was also unwilling to fight.

So after a tentative attack by both sides on the first day, the official army retreated, while the Montenegrin army continued to dig ditches and build trenches.

Soon, a ten-foot-high moat was erected, enclosing the officers and soldiers within a radius of three miles. In front of the moat was a ditch that was one foot deep and one foot wide.

The two sides stalemate.

The sound of cavalry galloping from the outside came into the encirclement, indicating that they were patrolling nearby and were ready to fight at any time.

The next day, neither side went to battle, and the reinforcements Zang Min was waiting for never came, and Liu Bei didn't even see a shadow.

On the third day, everything was calm.

Except for one attack on the first day, the Montenegrin Army never took the initiative to attack again.

However, there is more and more smoke in the periphery when cooking every day, as if reinforcements are constantly coming.

This made Zang Min reluctant to go out to fight. Anyway, this time he came out, he brought a full month of food and grass, and he was not afraid of consumption.

On the fourth day, calm and calm...

Day [-]...

On the tenth day, there was suddenly no movement outside, only the camp set up by the Black Mountain Army was still standing there.

Zang Min finally realized something was wrong.

He is a general of hundreds of battles, with rich experience and top-notch military ability, otherwise he would not have achieved the high position of General of the Huns because of his military exploits.

So he ordered his subordinates to go to test it.

Not long after, his subordinates came back in a panic to report that the Black Mountain bandit had withdrawn at some point.

Even Changshan County, ten miles away, returned to normal without a single thief.

Zang Min completely panicked now, and felt that his old nest was in danger, so he quickly ordered his soldiers to go to Zhongshan to investigate.

Two hours later, the soldiers came back to report that everything in Zhongshan was intact, the city was not broken, but...

Just six days ago, seven or eight thousand Heishan bandits suddenly descended from the sky, surrounded the city, and threatened to attack the city if they did not give food.

The food they asked for was not much, [-] shi.

It looks like they came to rob because of lack of food, not to capture cities and separate places.

The captain guarding the city looked at the densely packed enemy army and had no choice but to discuss with the Patriarch of the Zhen family. Afterwards, the Zhen family came forward and offered [-] shi of grain, and the other party was satisfied with the withdrawal of troops.

In addition, ten days ago, Liu Bei sent people to inform that there was civil unrest in Anxi County, and they had to lead troops to suppress the rebellion, so they could not come to join the army.

Fortunately, Lao Wo breathed a sigh of relief at Zang Min, and immediately became angry.

Well, Liu Bei, you openly disobeyed your orders...

To use such a lame excuse as civil unrest!

If you dare to be the first grader, don't blame the truth for being the fifteenth grader.

With a gloomy face, Zang Min ordered: "Go, order Duyou to rush to Anxi County immediately, and check this Liu Bei carefully!"

The soldiers took orders and left.

Zang Min stood blankly on the trench dug by the Black Mountain Army for a long time, then sighed:

"The sky is flying, there is no trace to be found, it's really a good idea!"

"A hero emerges from the grass..."

"But why doesn't the other party break the city? As long as they have some food, they will leave?"

"Could it be that they have other purposes for this trip? And they have achieved it, so they withdrew their troops and left?"

"It's weird..."

(End of this chapter)