Han Xiang

Chapter 439 Lu Suyang plots to trip Zhang Liao

Chen Lan has experience in destroying fields and is familiar with the road.

At the same time, Long Xiang sent Lei Xu and his companions as companions, and the two former Yuan Shu's ministries will cooperate again.

In late May, Chen Lan led more than [-] soldiers, under the advantage of the telescope's vision, bypassing Cao Jun's eyeliner and approaching Shaopi.

Chen Lan and Lei Xu were very lucky, and there were almost no guards in Shaopi's Tuntian area.

After a simple battle, Chen Lan took control of Tuntian District.

Zhang Liao has been in Shouchun for nearly a year, and he has been living in harmony with Long Xiang and Tai Shici, so he has gradually changed from the initial military confrontation to a confrontation with two hands.

Cao Cao promised Zhang Liao the right to recruit soldiers, but Xu couldn't provide a steady stream of food and grass, and the recruited soldiers did not have the corresponding military food supply.

Under the suggestion of Liu Fu, the governor of Yangzhou, Zhang Liao, while recuperating with the people in the fields around Shouchun, sent people to the upper reaches of the Huai River to check the population, and brought the refugees who had fled to the mountains back down the mountain.

The upper reaches of the Huai River, that is, the counties in the north of the Lujiang River.

It was originally controlled by Chen Lan, Lei Xu and others, and the two brought the trilogy to Hefei one after another. There are very few people left in that area.

As the saying goes, ants are also meat, so Zhang Liao and Liu Fu can't be picky at this time.

A few households or more than a dozen households can slowly gather together. When more than fifty households migrate, Zhang Liao will ask Li Dian's trilogy to help them move.

In the summer and autumn of last year, there was a lot of rain in Huainan, and there were many flash floods in the western mountainous areas.

Natural disasters are raging, and the refugees who live in seclusion on the mountain want to go down the mountain. Zhang Liao and Liu Fu have the willingness to relocate, so the two hit it off.

Liu Fu not only divided the fields and land for the relocated people, but also sent people to build water conservancy and irrigation facilities in the Tuntian area. He knew that droughts and floods complement each other. irrigation.

Chen Lan and Lei Xu raided Tuntian District unexpectedly, and the seedlings in the field were creakingly burned by the fire.

Those rice crops were almost ripe, and ordinary destruction methods would take too much time. Chen Lan and Lei Xu finally burned them with fire, and it was estimated that the rice fields would be destroyed in a few hours.

At first, the fire in the paddy field was insignificant, but after an hour of burning, the entire farmland was blazing.

Fire fields and fire fields contiguously form walls of fire and volcanoes, accompanied by a large amount of thick smoke rising into the sky.

The commotion became louder and louder, and the sentinels far away on Shouchun City could see the fire in the direction of Shaopi.

Hearing the news, Zhang Liao rushed to the city to watch, but because he was too far away to know the size of the fire, he didn't expect the enemy to invade at first, and mistakenly thought that the summer was dry and the things were dry, and the fire might be caused by the spontaneous combustion of weeds.

The reason why he didn't think about the worst was because Zhang Liao had deployed observation posts and troops on Jiangjunling. The troops from Hefei or Liyang couldn't bypass the surveillance of the Jiangjunling sentry.

Although Zhang Liao comforted his officials, he was still worried that the wildfire would hurt the Tuntian area, so he sent his own guards to investigate and ordered the Tuntian farmers to help put out the wildfire.

When the pro-guards arrived in Tuntian District, one-third of the rice fields had been burned.

Chen Lan's well-organized army was formidable, and the farmers next to the village fled north one after another, and the guards could only swallow their saliva and rush back to Shouchun.

Seeing the disparity in military strength, they were unwilling to die.

Zhang Liao was stunned after hearing the situation. He was surprised where the army came from, and secondly surprised that the army had 3000 people. It was obviously a premeditated plan to destroy the fields, and there were only [-] Cao troops left in the city.

Even though Cao Jun has the advantage in combat power, he may not be able to win a complete victory against the enemy if he is prepared. That would not save much food, and he will take all three thousand defenders out. Zhang Liao is afraid that the enemy will move the tiger away from the mountain to steal Shouchun. .

Zhang Liao has been in the army for so many years, and he has seen too many tricks to divert the tiger away from the mountain. Thinking of the secret appearance of this army, he had to be careful.

After a battle between heaven and man, Zhang Liao left a thousand men to defend Shouchun, and he himself led two thousand cavalry to Shaopi, and at the same time sent people to the west to inform Liu Fu and Li Dian.

Zhang Liao didn't want to be burned all the food he planted so hard, and wondered how much he could save.

When Zhang Liao rushed to Shaopi with anxiety, Chen Lan's men and Cao Jun seemed to be separated by a sea of ​​fire.

Chen Lan led his troops to stop and watch, not flustered by the arrival of reinforcements.

If Zhang Liao went directly to fetch water and put out the fire, Chen Lan and Lei Xu would attack and harass.

Zhang Liao saw through Chen Lan's plot, and instead of putting out the fire, he divided the 2000 men he had brought into two, and attacked Chen Lan's army from the left and right wings.

If you don't defeat or drive away the enemy, you will fall into the trap if you fight the fire directly.

When he saw Cao Jun's surprise attack from left and right, Chen Lan immediately commanded the trilogy to retreat. His men rested for a long time to rest and wait for work, and Zhang Liao's trilogy could not catch up at all.

Chen Lan strictly restrained his movements, kept a distance of one mile from Cao Jun at all times, and tried not to fight Zhang Liao as much as possible.

Before leaving, Lu Su had taught the second general the opportunity, and he also expected the situation at this time.

Lu Su gave a countermeasure, that is, Cao Jun retreated directly if there were too many soldiers, and burned as many rice fields as he could;

If only a small number of Cao's troops came to aid, the strategy of "the enemy advances and we retreat, the enemy stops and we stop, and the enemy retreats and advances" puts the reinforcements in a dilemma between firefighting and attacking, and the rice fields continue to burn through time-consuming.

Faced with Lu Su's machinations, Zhang Liao had no choice but to watch the rice fields turn into ashes.

In the face of the enemy, it is impossible to save the fire.

But no matter whether Zhang Liao advanced or retreated, Chen Lan couldn't get rid of it like a dog's skin plaster.

In the end, the flames in the rice fields became smaller, and the flames burned Shouchun's rations for several months.

Chen Lan and Lei Xu retreated calmly, but Zhang Liao didn't dare to pursue him. He didn't know who his opponent was until the end.

While Zhang Liao sent out scouts to follow up, he asked people to ask the farmers in the village for questioning, inquiring about news by means of curves to save the country.

Half a day later, Li Dian and Liu Fu led their troops to aid Shaopi.

Seeing the piles of ashes and Zhang Liao's trilogy showing no traces of battle, Li Dian began to tease Liu Fu in front of him.

"People say that General Zhang is brave and good at fighting, but why did he make such a situation today? The soldiers watched the rice fields burn? Was it to exercise their will?"

"Mancheng, don't say a few words."

Seeing that Zhang Liao's face was livid, Liu Fu quickly acted as a peacemaker. He looked at Zhang Liao and comforted him in a low voice: "When the rice field is burned, it will be burned. As long as there are people around, we can continue to grow grain. This time, Mancheng and I moved here for 8000 yuan. People, wait until autumn when we plant millet in the fields, and the burned seedlings can be used as fertilizer, and there will be a bumper harvest in winter."

"Well, that's the way to go." Zhang Liao nodded slightly: "But today's army is weird."

Liu Fu was taken aback: "How to say?"

"They don't know their names, and they don't raise their banners. I just asked a lot of farmers in the farmland, and they all said that the clothing characteristics of this group of people are very similar to the active Huainan Mei Chengdan."

"Mei Cheng? What a joke, why didn't you mention Chen Lan?"

Zhang Liao ignored Li Dian's teasing in the middle, and continued: "To be able to completely avoid the eyeliner of our army and appear quietly in Shaobei, it should be Mei Cheng from the geographical point of view, but this team is strictly prohibited, and the general is also very good at using troops. , It’s not like something a mere bandit can make.”

After hearing this, Li Dian snorted coldly: "Mei Cheng is just a bandit hiding in the mountains. What motive does he have to destroy the land? He also said that he is very good at using troops. Why don't you praise him for the rebirth of Lu Bu? General Zhang can't fight the fire by himself, so don't use it." Give gold to the enemy."

"Li Mancheng." Zhang Liao yelled angrily, "I have endured so much, but you still keep mocking me? Do you really think I, Zhang Liao, have no temper?"

(End of this chapter)