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Chapter 460 The style of that arrow (end of this volume)

The official road between Ye County and Zheshi City is the main road from Nanyang to Nanyingchuan County, and it is also the most flat and easy main road from Nanyang to the outside world.

The history of this official road is even longer than that of many cities in Nanyang. Before Liu Xiu, Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty became emperor, Wang Mang's new army attempted to invade Nanyang from this road.

It must cost more to transport grain by this road than by water, but not much more.

First, animal husbandry is well developed in the north, and there are many folk donkeys, which are easy to recruit.Donkeys have good obedience, are easy to feed, and carry a high load.It is just right for transporting food.

The second is that the road is smooth and easy to pass.Grain and grass can be transported to the end of Nanyingchuan County by water.From there, the grain transport convoy composed of donkeys was used to hoard the grain and grass in Ocher City.

Dou Tai took Gao Cheng with him, and now guarding Ocher City, he no longer dared to act rashly.

Generally speaking, although the efficiency of this backup supply route is slightly lower, it can be regarded as tolerable, all for the sake of winning the war.

On this day, a grain transportation team composed of hundreds of soldiers and auxiliary soldiers drove donkeys and dragged grain transportation vehicles on the official road.Suddenly, a cavalry team rushed out from the hill on the side of the road, and with two or three strikes, they eliminated the Gao Yue soldiers who were in charge of the escort.

The rest of the temporarily recruited auxiliary soldiers were driven away by these cavalry at will!After finishing off the food delivery team, Yang Zhong, the leader of the team, ordered Hu Luxian to take away part of the food and grass.

Then Yang Zhong blew his whistle, and many ragged villagers ran out from the dense forest on the other side. These people pushed away all the remaining donkeys, grain, grass, etc., even the flatbed cart. None left.

After finishing the work, hundreds of cavalry who robbed food left from the official road to the north, and soon disappeared without a trace.

This is already the third "grain robbery" in the recent period.

Dou Taijiu of Zheshi City waited for the food and grass to arrive, and sent someone to check on the official road, so he saw a scene that made him dumbfounded.Where the grain transport convoy crashed, there were only corpses all over the floor.Even the clothes he was wearing were stripped off.

……

"The way of robbing food is nothing more than that, but even the clothes of the dead are taken off, it's too deceiving! A scholar can be killed but not humiliated!"

In the government office's study room, Dou Tai slammed the table and was so frightened that he was doing nothing, Gao Cheng, who was pretending to read a book, trembled.

Now Gao Cheng has lost all hope, he only hopes that the war will end soon, so that he can return to Yecheng sooner.

Why not return early?
In fact, Gao Cheng also wanted to go back early, but if he really went back early, wouldn't it give people the feeling that he was "running away"?

After spending so much hard work and breaking his son Zu Ting, he really couldn't hold his head up when he returned in such a disheveled state.

And if you stay in Ocher City, you can still be regarded as "out on the expedition".As long as the war is over, follow Gao Yue and return to the dynasty.Gao Cheng's little calculation is still very precise.

"Uncle, is there a cavalry team looting our grain road?"

Gao Cheng asked cautiously, during this period of time, he has made some progress, and this experience is indeed not for nothing.

Dou Tai glanced at Gao Cheng, felt a little relieved, finally nodded helplessly and said: "This team is not easy to deal with, there are not many people, but it is very capable. The generals in command are very knowledgeable, and they hit our weak spot, alas! "

All the fine cavalry under his command were lost in the last attack on Nanxiang. Now there are still some infantry under his command, but there are really not many fine cavalry.Faced with this kind of full cavalry team that comes and goes like the wind, if you don't have cavalry, it's almost like waiting for a rabbit.

Only those who are thieves for a thousand days have never heard of the principle of preventing thieves for a thousand days.

Back then Yang Zhong had more than [-] cavalry in his hands, but he wanted to use [-] fine cavalry with one man and two horses. here.

This supply line only relies on the official road, and although this official road is flat, the distance is not short, and there are loopholes everywhere.

"As things stand now, we can only organize the remaining fine cavalry into an army alone, as support, and are responsible for entangling the opponent. Then the infantry quickly dispatched to surround and kill them."

Dou Tai sighed, he didn't want to ask Gao Yue for help, of course, Gao Yue took the initiative to help after learning about the situation, that was another matter.

Gao Yue, who is currently in Dengzhou, is still heaving a sigh of relief. If he finds out that there is a major problem with the food and grass, I am afraid that the army will really withdraw from Nanyang, and the success will fall short.Dou Tai didn't dare to tell Gao Yue about it easily.

"Uncle, what do you think is better?"

Gao Cheng asked suspiciously.

Dou Tai lowered his head and remained silent. He was a little embarrassed as to how to arrange Gao Cheng.

If he led a large army to attack and left Gao Cheng to guard Zheyang City, what if the enemy attacked the city?If there are few defenders in the city, it will be easily captured.

What if Gao Cheng was intercepted and killed on the way back to Nanyingchuan County?
But to attack with Gao Cheng, the battlefield is changing rapidly, can it really guarantee that Gao Cheng is safe?

Even if Gao Cheng is safe in Ocher City, once Dou Tai loses on the battlefield and dies, the enemy will definitely take advantage of the opportunity to capture Ocher City, and Gao Cheng will die as well.

The main reason is that the cavalry on the robbery road are very elite, and this official road is no longer safe.

"So, you can go out with me."

Dou Tai said with a sigh.

It is the safest thing for Gao Cheng to move around under his nose.The last time he raided Nanxiang so far and so dangerously, didn't Gao Cheng get hurt even a single hair?

What Dou Tai thought was that if he won this battle, he would definitely be able to protect Gao Cheng. If he lost this battle, he would probably die on the battlefield, and it didn't matter whether Gao Cheng was dead or alive.

Dou Tai is proficient in bow and horse, and is still very confident in his martial arts.He was sure that as long as he was still alive, there would be no problem in escorting Gao Cheng back to Yecheng safely.

"Uncle, why don't you lead the cavalry, and I'll lead the infantry. I'll lead the soldiers to patrol the official road and go with the food convoy. If you are attacked, you should stand by and wait for reinforcements. Uncle will bring troops to help immediately." .”

Gao Cheng suggested that it sounded more reliable than Dou Tai's.Because the speed of infantry support must be very slow.Dou Tai was only considering security before, and most likely he still couldn't keep the enemy.

"Impossible, how about this, let's set up an ambush on the official road first, if it really doesn't work, then find a way."

Dou Tai is unreliable when he hears it, Gao Cheng has no experience in grassroots commanding, he just wants to improve his qualifications!

"That's fine." Gao Cheng said regretfully.

……

In the next few days, Dou Tai informed the grain transport convoy in Nanyingchuan County to deliberately slow down and load sand into the grain transport truck, and then they ambushed in the dense forest next to the official road.

However, I don't know where the flaws were exposed. After several times of fake food deliveries, the enemy army did not appear at all, and there was no trace at all.

Dou Tai felt relieved, Gao Yue was urging for food and grass again, so he quickly dispatched a convoy to transport the food and grass to the ferry on the bank of the Baihe River, but at the ferry, he was attacked by the cavalry team that came and went like the wind, and a large amount of food and grass were burned !
In the second round of Huliangdao against Jieliangdao, Dou Tai lost again.

This time he finally confirmed that Gao Cheng's suggestion was not without merit.

The route for transporting food is too long, and it is impossible to guarantee defense everywhere, and you will always expose flaws to the enemy.The cost of defense is much higher than the cost of offense.

In this case, a better way is to mobilize the masses in the Nanyang area, let those mountain people and villagers become their own eyes, and then if there is any trouble, someone will immediately report the news.

However, Gao Yue had plundered wantonly in Deng County and other places before, ruining his own reputation.So much so that all the villagers around Ocher City have fled and disappeared.Nanyang missed the spring plowing season this year, and the villagers who couldn't survive have turned into natural bandits.

These people may have informed the enemy army that attacked the grain road, but how could they be expected to report to their side?
"How about this, I will lead the infantry, and you will lead the cavalry, so the risk is less."

In fact, Dou Tai felt that it would be fine for his eldest son to lead the cavalry, and even if it was not good enough, he would have a lieutenant general, so it would be no problem to lead the army.But he also understood that the battle in Nanyang was not going well this time, and there was nothing remarkable about it. Gao Cheng also urgently needed to show his "talent".

The last time he raided Nanxiang, Gao Cheng clearly felt that the generals in the army respected him a lot, and he would no longer treat him as a child who didn't understand anything.Now that Gao Cheng has tasted the sweetness, he naturally cannot tolerate Dou Tai's rejection.

"Uncle, isn't this too much of a stretch? I wonder if I have little talent and learning, and I'm afraid I'm not capable enough to command cavalry troops."

Gao Cheng asked with some embarrassment.

Gao Cheng actually didn't want to lead the cavalry, because he thought it would be more dangerous to lead the cavalry into battle.There are a large number of infantry, and there are grain trucks that can be used as cover to support Dou Tai to help, there is no problem at all.

"That's fine, I'll let Dou Xiaojing accompany you." Dou Tai nodded, Gao Cheng just wanted to show off, it's really normal to make such a choice.

After all, Dou Tai himself was once young, and a newborn calf is not afraid of tigers.

When he was in Tongwan Town, Dou Tai, who was in his teens, was already able to lead cavalry into the enemy's line, unstoppable.There is nothing surprising about Gao Cheng's impulsiveness now.

……

To the north of Zheshi City, in the depths of the forest near a small river, a cavalry team led by Yang Zhong and Hu Luxian was camping by the river.

Yang Zhong followed Liu Yishou's advice and cooperated with the local villagers who had fled to the mountains and forests, and the job of looting grain roads went smoothly.

They are responsible for destroying the trilogy under Dou Tai's command in the escort team, and the villagers who cooperate with them are responsible for dragging away the remaining grain and grass. Everyone knows that Nanyang will have no crops this year, and the grain will be stored in advance to survive. qualifications.

At the beginning, Yang Zhong sent people to contact those people, and reached a friendly cooperation with them with almost no effort.

The auxiliary soldiers in the food transportation team were all recruited locally before, and many of them were family members of these villagers, so there were too many to count.

Every time Dou Tai wants to do something, Yang Zhong can know it in advance, and make arrangements in advance, and the battlefield is one-way transparent.

"My lord is really a god-man."

Yang Zhong couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

At night, everyone gathers around the fire to warm up, and they are not afraid that Dou Tai's people will find them.

Because those people have become deaf and blind locally.Not only did the local villagers not provide information, but they tried every means to trap the scouts released by Dou Tai.As time passed, Dou Tai didn't bother to send people to investigate everywhere. Every time he took action, there were at least ten people in a team.

The villagers here are not stupid, they know how to choose.Nobody can live with a famine, and that touches people more than any nice words.

Now Yang Zhong understands what Liu Yishou often said, "Water can carry a boat and also capsize it".

"General Yang, the insiders of Zheshi City informed us that tomorrow Dou Tai will personally lead the cavalry and set up an ambush ten miles north of Zheshi City, and there will be infantry accompanying the grain convoy. Today their horses have been fed enough fodder. Someone said it was a leak."

Hu Luxian whispered.

"Let them go. We'll do it two miles outside Ocher City. Those villagers have already got a lot of weapons. Let them come out to block the way this time. We are responsible for ambushing Dou Tai's reinforcements."

After dawn, on the official road from Ye County to Zheshi City, a large infantry army appeared, escorting the grain transport convoy towards Zheshi City.After traveling ten miles away from Zheshi City, Gao Cheng ordered the convoy to stop and wait for the attackers to come.

However, after waiting for an hour, nothing happened.In desperation, Gao Cheng had no choice but to send someone to the ambush location to ask Dou Tai what to do next.

Dou Tai also felt very strange, but didn't think much about it.He sent someone to inform Gao Cheng to continue escorting the grain and grass, only assuming that the fishing operation had failed.

The fisherman didn't catch any fish, that's the usual thing, there's nothing to say.

Who knew that when the convoy was about two miles away from Ocher City and could almost see the city gate in the distance, an infantry army wearing Wei Army uniforms rushed towards them!

What's even more frightening is that the auxiliary soldiers composed of locals were originally responsible for driving cars and doing chores along the way.These people actually joined the ranks of robbery, and the grain transport convoy was in chaos for a while!

Gao Cheng had never seen such a formation before, so he hurriedly ordered Dou Tai's soldiers to protect him, relying on a few flatbed trucks for transporting food, and the sword and shield soldiers stood by for defense.

The other soldiers and horses fought on their own, wrestling with the villagers who were dying to grab food.

Gao Cheng asked Dou Tai's lieutenant to report to Dou Tai, asking him to quickly lead troops to support.After Dou Tai learned that the situation was critical, he hurriedly brought hundreds of elite horsemen along the official road to rescue Gao Cheng.

Unexpectedly, on the way Gao Cheng's team had already passed, dozens of tripping ropes suddenly appeared, causing Dou Taijun's cavalry vanguard to fall off the horse.The speed of the entire team slowed down instantly.

Before Dou Tai could react, Yang Zhong, who had been waiting for a long time on the hillsides on both sides, rushed forward with the cavalry, and immediately recognized Dou Tai who was shouting to organize the army.

Yang Zhong's spear shot like a dragon, and a long lance pierced Dou Tai's chest with lightning speed, and the brute force was transmitted to the flexible lance trunk, directly picking Dou Tai off the horse, and his life and death were unknown!

Seeing that the main general was dead, the cavalry team was in chaos!In a panic, he galloped in the direction of Ocher City.

Yang Zhong and Hu Luxian led a team of hundreds of cavalry, chasing after them.

The two sides chased each other all the way to the position where the grain transport convoy was staying. Those people blocking the way were no match for Dou Tai's infantry at all. Even if there were auxiliary soldiers secretly helping them, they still stabilized their position.

At this moment, those villagers have already fled, and Dou Xiaojing just wanted to regroup the army, but he didn't expect that the fleeing cavalry under Dou Tai's command had already arrived, and directly dispersed the infantry on his side!

The situation that had just been stabilized suddenly became chaotic!
"My son! Come back to the city with me! Come back to the city!"

Dou Xiaojing yelled at Gao Cheng, and he quickly ran towards Gao Cheng, trying to drag him along.

The eldest son of Gao Huan's first line, at this moment, was already frightened.There were corpses everywhere around the grain truck, and there were people turning their backs on their backs and the roar of war horses everywhere.The military system is gone, and everyone is fighting on their own.

As if attracted by Dou Xiaojing's voice, a ferocious arrow flew from the dark, Gao Cheng just turned his head to look at Dou Xiaojing, in a flash, the arrow shot into his right eye socket, blood flowed like a gush .

"Sir!"

Dou Xiaojing's eyes split open, he knelt down on the ground in fright, watching Gao Cheng fall on his back with a bewildered expression. (end of this volume)
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