The Maojin knife from the late Jin Dynasty

Chapter 23 In front of Hyunshi County

"Sima, the people are entrenched at the city gate and want to enter the county?" Wang Rujing said to Liu Tai.

Because the county magistrate left, Wang Rujing was responsible for contacting the local gentry and wealthy families and appeasing the local people.

So Wang Rujing was doing the job of acting as the county magistrate. Of course, the most important thing was that when he was resting, Liu Tai gave Wang Rujing the task of garrisoning the city. If something happened, he could come over and wake him up.

Liu Tai is not afraid that Wang Rujing will betray him, or in other words, if the local aristocratic family represented by Wang Rujing chooses to betray, then he will not be able to defend the county with only 2000 people.

Normally speaking, since ancient times there have been countless battles and banditry, unless the opponent's reputation is incredibly good, most cities will not choose to surrender voluntarily.

"Let the soldiers shoot arrows and drive these people away!" Liu Tai made a decisive decision.

Wang Rujing's heart tightened when he heard Liu Tai's words, and he couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief. At least it was not his own decision.

"I can't even make such a decision. I'm afraid Wang Rujing can't even be a qualified county magistrate!" Chu Hui looked at Wang Rujing's leaving back and sighed, but said, "Why doesn't Sima give this command power to someone?" Woolen cloth!"

Liu Tai glanced at Chu Hui and thought to himself, at least Wang Rujing will not sell me out, but I am very suspicious of your words.

Of course, that’s what I thought, but I said:

"If it only concerns his life, Wang Rujing's medical ethics will definitely open the city gate and let the people in to avoid disaster.

But Xuushi County is his hometown, and at least it's still stable there now.

I wonder if there are any undercover enemy agents after the people come in. What will happen to the chaos caused by these refugees? This is a risk that Wang Rujing does not dare to take. "

Liu Tai directly avoided the topic of Chu Hui.

Liu Tai knew very well that after the Five Husties disrupted China, the Wubao system represented by aristocratic families became a beautiful sight in the defense system of the northern Han people.

The Wubao itself is completely built, but there is still a large part of it. Because the people inside know the basics and can trust each other, and are very cautious about absorbing external forces, this has made the Wubao model spread.

As for those who were not favored by the wealthy families and entered Wubao, they were absorbed by the beggar army and pushed to the front line of the fight against Hu.

Everyone has his own style of leading troops. For Liu Tai, the distinction between his soldiers may be a little worse, but their thoughts and positions are the most important to Liu Tai.

He asked the magistrate of Yunshi County to leave, and then some people who knew that Shangdang had been beaten also took the initiative to follow the magistrate of Yunshi County and ran away.

Liu Tai did not object to this, and even encouraged it.

Just let Wang Rujing come forward on behalf of the Wang family of the Hyun family to appease the local people who are hard to leave their homeland.
This not only completed the unity of will of the entire Xuans County, but also when he asked them to help repair the city defense, the remaining people were very willing and even took the initiative to help.

This is the effect of purification. When the remaining people have no other choice, they will definitely take the initiative to form a group to fight risks.

In fact, unless the opposite side of a county like this is the kind of famous general who can kill people to death, a normal general would definitely have to lose a few of his teeth if he wanted to capture such a city.

Liu Tai understood that he was an outsider after all, and what he said in a short period of time was not enough to gain trust, so only Wang Rujing could gain the trust of the locals.

Besides, the Wang family also had to provide for the short-term food needs of the army, so this generation of county magistrates did not let Wang Rujing do anything.

Because of this, it was impossible for Liu Tai to let these refugees in. The disturbance they caused was a trivial matter. The most important thing was that their coming in caused the will of the city defenders to waver. So what should be done.

Really speaking, Liu Tai can only use Chongdian in troubled times, but instead of letting them come in and cause trouble and then kill them, it would be safer to drive them away from the beginning.

No matter how kind-hearted Wang Rujing is, with both virtue and art, when the whole family is placed on the other end of the scale, it is almost inevitable what kind of decision Wang Rujing should make.

After all, in the final analysis, this is an era when family is more important than country. If it were Chu Hui, he would not come to ask at all, and would just order the soldiers to drive away these people with arrows.

Sure enough, after receiving Liu Tai's order, Wang Rujing finally became more stable and ordered to shoot arrows to drive away the people.

These arrows were really shot at people. Only when someone was actually injured, bled, or felt the pain, would the people surrounding Xuushi County truly know the seriousness of the matter.

Just like many modern problems are related to moral decline, but people always ask for the use of law to solve moral problems. This will naturally cause many social and ethical contradictions. Only when people feel the pain can they understand the consequences of certain things.

In this regard, the West is much more straightforward. They don't have any ethics at all and just go straight to the guy.

Wu Ming, who was in the distance, looked at the young man named Wen Qiao next to him and said with a smile, "The guard general of Xuushi County is very cautious. If you want to send soldiers, you may have to follow the people to get in." It doesn’t work!”

"It's just a try. If you can take advantage of the situation, it will be great!" Wen Qiao said calmly.

Wen Qiao's expression straightened and he said seriously: "Since the general of Huanshi County is cautious, should we withdraw to Shangdang County?"

"This general is cautious, but he should be a novice." Wu Ming looked at the lush forests growing less than ten miles around the county town of Xuans, and said, "Let's give it a try. If the other party just bullies the common people, Then we can seize the entire territory of Shangdang and completely cut off the Xiongnu and Wang Mi. This is a very difficult opportunity!
When Wen Qiao heard Wu Ming's words, he also knew that he could not stop the commander-in-chief. Especially after occupying Shangdang County, Wu Ming's army was replenished with the support of local noble families, which made Wu Ming even more confident.

Wen Qiao was originally just a county magistrate in Lu County, Shangdang County. If Liu Tai chose to go north and penetrate Shangdang County from behind, then Lu County, which was managed by Wen Qiao like an iron wall, would inevitably become a place that Liu Tai had to go through. stumbling block.

No one knows how long this roadblock can hold back, but it will definitely make Liu Kun's troops attacking Shangdang County safe.

Even so, Wen Qiao also took the initiative to offer suggestions to seize Shangdang. Mainly because Wen Qiao had connections with the party's large and small aristocratic families and assisted Wu Ming in occupying Shangdang. Therefore, this time Wu Ming took advantage of the opportunity to attack Huoshi County and brought him with him. Wen Qiao took a look.

At this moment, Wu Ming saw that Xuushi County was vigilant in defense, so he immediately led his cavalry and sprinted away. The entire army stopped about 300 meters in front of Xuushi County, and did not continue to advance because there was resistance from here on. Wu Ming He even suspected that he was trapped in a trap.

Wu Ming spoke with a loud voice that could be heard clearly on the city wall: "County magistrate of the Xu family, now that Wang's army is moving south, if you surrender quickly, you can still keep your glory and wealth. If we wait for the city gate to be breached, we will definitely massacre you." Destroy the whole city of the Hyun clan!"

"He said he wanted to massacre the whole city of the Yun family!" Liu Tai said solemnly to Wang Rujing.

"Jing heard it!" Wang Rujing heard this and said to Liu Tai, "As long as so-and-so is alive, this matter is absolutely impossible!" "..." Liu Tai glanced at Wang Rujing strangely and said, "I mean , You are now going to send someone to inform the people of the Xun family about what he just said, and let them know what will happen if the city is broken!"

"Huh?...Oh!" Wang Rujing nodded decisively after hearing Liu Tai's words and went to carry out Liu Tai's order.

"Sima seems to attach great importance to the people. Could it be that he plans to let the people help defend the city?" Chu Hui looked at Liu Tai and said.

"Since we are defending the city, every bit of strength is precious and the physical strength of the soldiers is the most precious. Therefore, many things that can be done by the soldiers are left to the common people, which will naturally use the physical strength of the soldiers. Save it!”

Liu Tai said calmly. At this point, his eyes fell on Chu Hui and said,
"By the way, go and give him a reply. Just say that you want to fight, not roll around, and don't continue to talk nonsense down there."

"Why me?!" Chu Hui couldn't help but said to Liu Tai after hearing what Liu Tai said.

"I think it would be unreasonable not to let Chu Jijiu do anything to offend the Jin army!" Liu Tai looked at Chu Hui and said.

Chu Hui looked at Liu Tai fiercely, and he could clearly hear the strong distrust in Liu Tai's mouth, as well as the contradiction of wanting to reuse him.

However, Chu Hui didn't say much. Instead, he climbed up the low wall and shouted loudly: "We Liu Sima said, if you like to fight, don't roll, don't just talk nonsense down there!"

Hearing Chu Hui's words, the soldiers on the low wall laughed, and the solemn atmosphere before the battle was swept away.

Looking at the opponent's cavalry at this moment, it seems that there are only one or two thousand people. More is more, but I am really not afraid of the opponent when I wait to defend the city. After all, no matter how powerful your cavalry is, you will only have to climb the city wall if you can!

Wu Ming didn't have any doubts, and immediately turned around and went back. Since he knew that the other party would not surrender, he would just fight honestly once and see how good the other party was. At the same time, he could wait patiently for the enemy behind him. of infantry.

Now Wu Ming is patiently building his own camp and starting to cut down the surrounding wood and make engineering equipment.

Liu Tai watched Wu Ming immediately choose to withdraw his troops and return to the camp, and then began to cut down the surrounding trees. He didn't look anxious at all. He couldn't help but narrowed his eyes slightly. The opponent was attacking steadily and it was difficult to deal with!
At this time, Liu Tai looked at the woods relatively close to Xunshi County and couldn't help but pat his head.

After all, he was from a wild background and had never received any systematic military training. Therefore, within a few days of taking over Xuushi County, Liu Tai began to implement what he understood to be a strong wall and a clearing of the wilderness, driving the local people southward and confiscating the food in the hands of the people.

But Liu Tai ignored the woods around Xuushi County because these woods would provide wood for siege equipment.

"What a big oversight!" Liu Tai watched the other party use the camp's defense to cut wood on the spot. He believed that the other party's engineering weapons would be very easy to build.

Now that the mistake has been made, I can only make up for it as much as possible.

Liu Tai quickly asked someone to knead a six-sided dice out of clay. Then he looked around and his eyes fell on Chu Hui. He threw the dice to Chu Hui and said, "Here you go, dice one!" "

Chu Hui looked at Liu Tai inexplicably, but he didn't refuse. He just threw one down. The font on it was "South!"

"Throw another one away!" Liu Tai said.

Chu Hui didn't hesitate and just lost another one. The font on it was "天"

"Then go out through the south gate during the day!" Liu Tai looked at the dice and made a decisive decision!

"What? What's the south gate?" Chu Hui looked at Liu Tai with a bit of confusion.

Liu Tai explained: "Don't we have four gates? From now on, we will send a troop to harass the other side every day. In order to avoid the other side finding out our entry and exit patterns, we will just use dice to make decisions.

As for the heaven and earth on the other two sides, they represent the time of the attack.

We feel that scheming is too exhausting, so we directly use the probability of dice to replace mental judgment! "

"What kind of yin and yang method of leading troops is this?!" Chu Hui listened to Liu Tai's words and looked at the dice in his hand, feeling confused.

"What's the yin and yang of soldiers? This is probability science!" Liu Tai emphasized, "After all, the opponent has cavalry, so you have to be careful!"

"What if the other party is staring at one place to ambush!" Chu Hui asked Liu Tai.

"They are just harassing, and they will not actually attack the opponent. If the opponent's entire army attacks, that would be just fine, just let the soldiers retreat into the city." Liu Tai said, "If it is dark, I am also curious whether they will Use cavalry to attack forcefully. If it’s daytime, there’s no way we’ll be ambushed!”

Liu Tai was really not afraid that they would make a scene of a cavalry attack in the dark. After all, although he did not cut down the surrounding trees, the horse traps, especially the horse traps that specifically targeted the horses' legs, had caused a lot of digging.

For people, even if they step on a pit like this carefully, they won't break their legs, but the same can't be said for a galloping horse.

Soon, with the dice rolled out of Chu Hui's hand, the harassment of the opponent's camp began. From time to time, he would blow the attack horn to scare Wu Ming's army.

But Liu Tai did not dare to let his army run too far. It was only about 500 meters away from the Hyun family. If there was real danger, he could return to the city immediately.

Of course, the harassment by Liu Tai's army was not certain, at least neither Wu Ming nor Wen Qiao could find any pattern.

In particular, this unit is too close to the Yunshi. If there is any disturbance, it will retreat directly to the Yunshi County.

And Wu Ming also organized it once in the dark night, and the cavalry wanted to follow the trend and rush to Xunshi County.

But the horses that were following the charge didn't know why the entrusted horses stumbled. Instead, they were countercharged by Liu Tai, which damaged a bit of their energy.
After that, both sides will send an army to harass each other to see who is more disgusting!

Fortunately, this mutual disgust did not last long, because in about four days, Wu Ming's subsequent infantry was replenished.

At the same time, the siege equipment he has worked hard to build these days can also be used to vent his grievances!
"Today, our army has captured Xuushi County to regain the entire Shangdang County of Jin Dynasty!" Wu Ming roared loudly.

Liu Tai looked at the army under the city wall and knew clearly that the real test was coming.

(End of this chapter)