[Three Kingdoms] Burning incense and sacrificial wine

Yan Shi didn't know how to answer the words for a while.

Facing Mrs. Mi's transparent eyes, like glazed glass, Yan Shi quickly averted her eyes as if she had been scalded.Thinking of Mrs. Mi's intentional words several times, she felt ashamed and said:

"The concubine is being rude."

Madam Mi sighed: "Madam is serious. I am a captive. Madam has treated her with the utmost benevolence. Why is she being rude?"

When Yan thought of being trapped in Chang'an... day and night, she was frightened and unable to sleep, and thinking about Mrs. Mi's words, she felt uncomfortable.

"Hi, rest in peace, I will visit you tomorrow."

Yan Shi left in a hurry, walking so fast on the road that she almost slipped her foot.

Every expression and every word of Mrs. Mi was replaying in her mind, entangled repeatedly with Qiao Ji's words of persuasion, filling her mind.

"In the past, Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu, in order to seek hegemony, abandoned his wife, Yin, and married King Zhending's niece, Guo, who was a famous and noble daughter; In the name of Lu Huozhifeng', the Guo family was abandoned and the Yin family was replaced as the queen. This is the fault of a man chasing power and being ungrateful, why should all the crimes be pinned on the poor woman who fell out of favor in the end?"

Yan Shi seemed to be in a nightmare, murmuring repeatedly,

"It's still like this for a rich and noble daughter. If Enlang intends to marry someone else in order to seek a great career, what should I do with my concubine?"

"If Enlang is greedy for meritorious deeds and loses his wife and children like Liu Bei, what should I do as a concubine?"

Not everyone will treat prisoners of war preferentially. When Yan was in Chang'an, he had witnessed those rude soldiers wantonly abuse the captured female relatives.If it wasn't for Pang Shu's righteous rescue at that time, she would have ended up in the same fate as those women.

After talking with Mrs. Mi, the fear that Yan Shi had tried so hard to hide deep in her heart and tried to forget was awakened again.

She was disturbed, but there was no one to talk to.It wasn't until Qiao Ji appeared with a medicine cup that she poured out all her worries as if she had found a life-saving herb.

After listening carefully to Yan's worries, Qiao Ji suggested, "Unreasonable suspicion is the most taboo between husband and wife. Why don't Madam ask the general what happened?"

"If Enlang has a different intention, how can he tell you!"

Seeing that Yan's proposal was rejected without hesitation, Qiao Ji pondered for a long time before hesitatingly said: "Why don't Madam make indirect remarks? I heard that Commander Gao is the closest to the general. He should know something about the general's mind."

Yan Shi recruited Gao Shun to inquire about Mrs. Mi's affairs as an excuse.

As soon as Chen Gong heard that Gao Shun came back, he was summoned by Mrs. Yan. He slapped his thigh and said angrily:

"I don't have any grudges or grudges. How could Mrs. Yan frame me suddenly. It turned out that Gao Shun was playing tricks, trying to drive a wedge between me and the lord."

His wife wondered, "How do you say that?"

Chen Gong said angrily: "I have never offended the Yan family. Why did the Yan family target me? Gao Shun—Gao Shun and I have always been at odds. A few days ago, we had a disagreement over the matter of winning over Zang Ba. He has a grudge against me. Just imagine, Yan Shi is a housewife, why did she summon Gao Shun? Gao Shun must have bribed Yan Shi, and wanted to use Yan Shi's hand to make me suffer, but Yan Shi beat me yesterday, and today I am Ask Gao Shun for a reward for this matter."

Chen Gong's wife was stunned: "This... madam is the general's wife, she has a high status, if she wants something, would she consider it a bribe from Commander Gao?"

"That's not necessarily the case." Chen Gong looked out the window with his hands behind his back, wondering what he was thinking.

Gao Shun, who didn't know that there was an extra pot on his head, was also very miserable at the moment.

It's not a good thing to be summoned by the mistress bypassing the lord. He responded with anxiety, and after getting to the point...he had no idea why Mrs. Yan came to him.

Madam Yan's questions were all about trivial matters.

Gao Shun had no choice but to answer what he knew.But his behavior is equivalent to perfunctory in Yan Shi's view, which makes Yan Shi very dissatisfied.

Half a quarter of an hour later, Gao Shun, who came in a daze, left in a daze along the same path, leaving Yan alone with a gloomy face and gloomy mood.

Not long after, Lu Bu came back.Looking at his face and demeanor, he was exactly the same as Yan's, so heavy that he could wring out ink.

As soon as the two met each other, Lu Bu first asked, "What's upsetting Madam?"

Yan opened her mouth, but didn't say anything, but declined, "Husband, let me tell you first. I was fine when I went out this morning, why did you come back so angry?"

Lu Bu put the armor on the table heavily: "I just rewarded Gao Shun a lot yesterday. I think he has done a great job in begging for money, and he gave him a lot of money. What's wrong with you when you go out today? It turns out that the man who slandered me and insulted his subordinates The rumors about my wife first came from Gaoshun Mansion!"

Yan Shi was extremely surprised, and she opened her mouth slightly: "Husband, are you sure?"

Lu Bu was embarrassed for a moment, and rubbed the heels of his toes restlessly against the mat: "Ma'am, don't be angry... I went to Gaoshun's mansion to drink a few cups a month ago, and I drank too much, and my head was so drunk. Bai... joked a few words with the maid in Gaoshun's mansion..."

Yan's face was expressionless.

Lu Bu held Yan Shi's hand: "But that's just drunken nonsense! Bu has never done anything wrong. What's more, even if Bu is really...that is Gao Shun's maid, why do you say 'disgrace the wives and concubines' of his subordinates?" Gao Shun, loyal on the surface, never thought he was a traitor in secret, because he hated me for molesting his maidservant, he arranged right and wrong to ruin my wisdom."

Yan Shi wanted to speak sarcasm, but thought of Mrs. Mi in the wing room, she endured again and again, but finally did not speak.

Lu Bu asked again: "I heard that you called Gao Shun today, why?"

It was hard for Yan to say that he was spying on Lu Bu's whereabouts, so he prevaricated: "I also heard a little about Gao Shun spreading rumors, so I asked him to test it out. Unfortunately, he didn't answer the question, and my concubine couldn't get anything out of it."

After listening to Yan's words, Lu Bu had a deeper opinion of Gao Shun.

At this moment, an urgent report came from the guard outside the door.

"Report! Peicheng... Peicheng has fallen and has been occupied by Cao Jun!"

"what!?"

Lu Bu jumped up, his voice was like thunder, "Yesterday Gao Shun reported to me that 'Peicheng has been captured', but today you are telling me that 'Peicheng has fallen'?"

The guard fell to the ground, and the two sides fought: "When I was transporting grain carts to Peicheng this morning, the city gate collapsed for unknown reasons. According to the soldiers who escaped, there was thunder and fairy mist... "

Hearing this mysterious and mysterious description, Lu Bu's eyebrows jumped.

After the guard reported, he added in a daze, "This matter is too weird, the soldiers have no intention of fighting, and some people say...say..."

"What did you say!"

"It is said that... Cao Cao is a teacher of justice when he welcomes the emperor. The strange event at the city gate is that the Eastern Emperor Taiyi sent heavenly soldiers and generals to help Cao Cao crusade against the general..."

"It's nonsense!" Lu Bu lifted the table and said, "How many years have been in chaos in this world, which god have you seen come down to the world to help the country and save the people? The story of the gods is a fool's fiction. Even if there are, it is absolutely impossible Help him Cao Cao! You are incompetent in defending the city, and dare to blame the ghosts and gods? If I were you, I might as well kill myself as soon as possible, and it would be better than being ridiculed by Cao Jun and laughing their big teeth off!"

The guard who reported the letter retreated tremblingly, Lu Bu kicked the overturned table again, and called the attendant: "Go, call Gao Shun over here."

Peicheng, located in the west of Xuzhou, has just experienced a brief battle, and the soldiers of the winning side are repairing the city gate.

"Cui Bucheng's methods are really powerful. Not to mention the enemy, even our own people have been shocked."

"Such a fairy trick is unheard of, let alone seen with my own eyes."

"I heard it's called 'Flour Explosion' and 'Puppy Effect'? It's really strange."

"It's 'dust explosion' and 'narrow tube effect', what kind of flour, shit, it just lost its style... Although I don't know what that means, it's just very powerful."

……

Cui Song sat in the city lord's mansion, and just drew a "city gate reinforcement structure diagram" with white silk.

Xiahou Dun lifted the curtain and entered: "The city is stable, and some food has been distributed to each household according to the order of the minister. Now the people in the city have no obvious resistance to us."

Cui Song handed the white silk to Xiahou Dun:

"Have someone reinforce the city gate according to this composition."

Xiahoudun took the white silk and looked at it, but couldn't see it for a long time: "...the army called a scholar who is good at mechanics some time ago, and I will show him."

Cui Song sent Xiahou Dun away, put down the brush, and used a cocktail to paint on the wooden board instead.

If someone from later generations is behind him, it can be seen at a glance that Cui Song is performing force analysis and formula calculation of a certain activity.

Half a month ago, he asked Xiahou Dun to pretend to be defeated, but actually camped by the Sui River to rest and wait for food and grass, so that he could relax and wait for work.

Later, when Gao Shun returned to Xuzhou, Cui Song calculated the approximate time based on the distance between the two places and Gao Shun's horse speed. After Gao Shun returned to the city to report the "good news", he immediately mobilized and captured the city in one fell swoop.In this way, not only will the morale of Lu Jun be shaken, but also Lu Bu will be furious, and he will be at odds with Gao Shun and other generals.

As for how to quickly capture Peicheng, Lu Jun was so shocked that he didn't want to fight, it depends on the estimation of people's hearts and precise chemical and physical calculations.

Cui Song first dispatched a small team, disguised as a wealthy businessman, to deliver wheat flour to Yuan Shu's territory, planning to lure Lu Jun to snatch it.

Then, at a certain moment when Lu Jun opened the heavy city gate and transported a large amount of wheat flour into the city, he shot through the carts of wheat flour bags behind with a rain of arrows.

The "narrow tube effect" produced when the city gate is opened will instantly bring the exposed wheat flour into the air, and quickly cover the inner and outer city gates.When the wheat flour at the gate of the city reached a certain concentration, Cao Jun soaked the Gebu in lamp oil, wrapped it around the arrow branches, and lit it.The fire arrow that came later quickly ignited the dust cloud, and the temperature and pressure increased sharply, triggering an explosion.

Its power was so strong that it directly blew a hole in the city gate.

Lv Bu's army had never seen such a weird and frightening thing. At the time when the six gods were bewildered and panicked, Xiahou Dun's soldiers and horses had approached the city and surrounded them.Before Lu Jun could meet the enemy, Peicheng had already fallen.

At this point in the battle, not to mention how frightened the surrounding forces were, when the news of the victory reached Xudu, all the officials were shocked, and only Cao Cao laughed.

"Zicong is both civil and military, and has extensive knowledge. It is really a great fortune for me to have such a genius."

Emperor Liu Xie agreed with this statement, wrote a letter, praised Cao Cao, and sent it to the front line.

On Lu Bu's side, Gao Shun was dispatched again to recover the lost ground in Peicheng.

On the fifth day after Gao Shun left Xuzhou, a mouse ran into Cui Song's temporary residence.

The soldiers accompanying the army were about to kill the daring mouse, but they were easily stopped by Cui Song.

Then, the soldier saw Cui Song tore off a piece of fake skin from the mouse's back...

The author has something to say: Soldier: Please consider the psychological endurance of the soldiers left behind, thank you.