Follow General Cao to mix the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 127

The big river approaching winter is extraordinarily calm and serene. The mirror-like river flows quietly in the river, and even few waves can be seen. I can't see the fury of this not-so-kind mother when she flooded. The brutal and irresistible momentum came.

In the dense river mist, a dark shadow sounded with some crisp sounds. The white mist was cut by the fiery breath, and a cavalryman with a horse appeared there, stepped carefully to the river, and looked around. , raised a strange little tube from his neck and looked back and forth, then took out a small bamboo whistle from his pocket with all the tools, and blew three times sharply.

One minute later, more crisp sounds of horseshoes sounded, and a large group of cavalry dragged their horses and appeared on this foggy riverside. The horses couldn't wait to walk into the river, lowering their bright heads and grunting to their stomachs. The river is filled with river water. Here, people and animals are surprisingly equal. Just next to their horses, those soldiers of the Cao army also held the cool water of the Yellow River to their mouths and drank it to quench their thirst.

"Won't your envoy come?"

Not only did he drink, but he also washed his face vigorously, and poked out his head full of water droplets from the water. Like a wolf dog, the general with a Western Qiang style on his head and a thick beard on his face looked simple and honest. Greeted back.

It is said that a wife follows her husband's glory. This time Cao Hongjie did not come, but Wang Hou inherited her title. The prefect of Dongjun and the transit envoy of Yanzhou, Wang Hou is also the envoy of Wang now.

Hearing Zhang Liao's warm greeting there, Wang Hou shook his head respectfully and indifferently, and at the same time patted the small silver water bottle wrapped in leather that he hung on the saddlebag.

"General Zhang invites himself, Wang is ready!"

"My lord, you are too hypocritical! When a man walks in the fields, he must drink water everywhere! If you are as hypocritical as you, and the water has to be boiled and put in a silver kettle, I, Zhang Wenyuan, would have died a long time ago!"

Speaking of this, Zhang Liao was still very proud, but Wang Hou shook his head greatly when he heard it.

"Wang admires General Zhang's hard work and perseverance, but believe it or not, the general, if the same goes to Mobei or Jiangnan, Wang will drink boiled water, and the general will drink raw water. When the general suffers from dysentery, Wang will not suffer from dysentery!"

If he was an arrogant martial artist, he would have laughed off Wang Hou's self-praise, and even sneered a few words, but Zhang Liao was able to rise from the first rank to become the head of the five good generals, the great general of Wei Guo, he was a caring person, and Wang Hou changed from Yexiangcang Cao to Bashi Prefect. His reputation for erudition and knowledge had risen to fame in Xudu.

"Oh? What do you mean by your words?"

"When Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty attacked Hu, the Huns threw a large number of dead cattle and sheep into the river during the Battle of Mobei. As a result, it caused an epidemic in our Han army, killing hundreds of thousands. The general thought, what caused the epidemic?"

"miasma!"

Zhang Liao's answer is the standard answer of this era, miasma is really a magical thing!It is the one that causes the plague, it is the one that causes the dysentery!It's the one that causes the wind chill!But just after Zhang Liao finished his answer, Wang Hou pressed the question again hastily.

"What the hell is that miasma!"

"This……"

This sentence made Zhang Liao dumbfounded. If he knew what it was, why would the ancients compare it with miasma? Fortunately, the army had limited time to rest and drink water.

"Miasma is insects! Living insects are so small that they are invisible to the naked eye, but they are extremely large in number! In the Battle of Mobei, the dead cows and sheep thrown into the river by the Huns to rot provided a source of food for the pests in the river. In the hotbed of development, the water quality has deteriorated, exceeding the content of insects in the ordinary raw water that soldiers drink, so soldiers who go to Mobei will suffer from epidemic diseases, and northerners who go to the south, or southerners to the north, are also affected by the insects contained in the local water. The ingredients are not suitable, so there will be dysentery that is not acclimatized to the water and soil!"

"Actually, by drinking only boiled water, Wang can be regarded as weakening himself, because most of the living insects in the water will be killed by boiling water, so it is impossible to talk about adapting the body to these insects. If things go on like this, Wang will be even less able to adapt to the local environment." Raw water! But every time you insist on drinking boiled water, at least you can minimize the chance of Wang being infected by water diseases!"

Microbiology did not appear until the microscope was introduced in the [-]th century. Zhang Liao couldn't understand directly explaining bacteria or viruses, so Wang Hou summed it up as a simple bug. But even so, Zhang Liao's face turned pale. , looking at the Yellow River water under his feet, as if he saw countless little bugs twisting and twisting, he asked a little stuttering.

"My lord, how do you know?"

"Because I've seen it!"

Wang Hou is really not bragging. Even if he is a liberal arts student, he did microscope experiments in junior high school and high school. He saw chlorophyll, and when he went to the hospital for a urine test, he saw the doctor’s screen. There are some disgusting medical advertisements in later generations. Looking at Wang Hou's swearing appearance, and looking at the Yellow River water under his feet, Zhang Liao is even more afraid.

Fortunately, something soon distracted him, and suddenly there were scout cavalrymen galloping back from the shore with their horses crazily, shouting loudly.

"Where is the general? Where is the general? There are enemies in the east! There are enemies in the east!"

Hearing this, Zhang Liao couldn't care less about bugs, he shouted in panic, "Get on the horse! Get on the horse!"

Roaring doesn’t really work here. There are more than 5000 Cao cavalry on the shore, including the Bingzhou cavalry and Xiliang cavalry under Lu Bu’s command in Xuzhou, and there are horses gulping water everywhere, and Zhang Liao’s military order cannot be transmitted at all. No matter how far you go, fortunately, in order to deal with large-scale wars, the Chinese have already had a way to deal with it. His roar directly ordered the three generals of the Chinese army to use the big flags, and the big flags waved and passed the order to the nearby Qu Banner flags, while the flags were swaying, the cavalry, regardless of whether they were full of water or not, mounted their horses one after another. Amid the sound of crackling horseshoes, five thousand cavalry also re-formed their formation, followed Zhang Liao's banner, and sneaked in again. In the thick fog.

Following closely behind Zhang Liao's horse, Wang Hou's heart was pounding.

He participated in the battle of Xiapi completely as a quartermaster. Although the fight was lively, he did not actually participate in the battle. With Zhang Liao in the army, Wang Hou actually had an unnamed real power position.

military adviser!

This meant that he, too, had to go to war himself.

There is no way, the plan can’t keep up with the rapid changes. Originally, he was in Guandu Houying, gathering grain and grass from all over Yanzhou, and planning to store grain, preparing to build a supply station, in case of Yuan Shaojun’s possible looting of grain and supporting the long war However, just as Wang Hou was in a hurry, there was a new military situation on the front line. After Chun Yuqiong made an emergency landing in Wang Hou's Puyang, General Wen Chou of Yuan Shao's army was the overseer of another 700 troops and forcibly crossed the Yellow River to encircle them. Yuban has [-] people guarding Baima City.

In addition, Yuan Shao's main corps, whose number is unknown but extremely large, appeared in Tangque in the north.

Before the afternoon of the war, Yuan Shao had already completed the mobilization of the four northern states, and the Hebei army had already entered the battlefield first and launched an attack!

At this time, Cao Cao's main force went straight to the Yanjin Ferry in the west, because compared with the Baima Ferry, the water in Yanjin was more gentle, and it was more suitable for a large army to cross the river. Cao Cao and Guo Jia, Xun You, and Cheng Yu , Liu Hua and others were more inclined that Yuan Shao would cross the Yellow River again, but they did not expect to be shown off by Yuan Shao.

At this time, [-] Zhang Liao's troops stationed near Mixian County and Lu Bu's old troops who surrendered from Xuzhou just arrived on the battlefield. After mixing with the rear team of [-] cavalry, they were directly formed into a new attack group and sent to the battlefield. At this time, Guo Jiacai He had just left Guandu for Yanjin for a day, so Wang Hou was arrested again and served as a military adviser to Zhang Liao's army.

Cao Cao didn't expect Wang Hou to come up with many ideas. His most important task was to watch over Zhang Liao, a surrendered general, and prevent him from betraying him!

With a pot of arrows on their backs, fifteen dry steamed buns and some fermented soybeans in salt sauce, five thousand cavalry set off.

Today is the third day of marching into Baima!
It is said that the emergence of cannons has changed the pattern of war!However, Wang Hou believes that the appearance of the telescope also changed the pattern of war, at least here.

Three miles away, the battlefield in Baima City was full of hustle and bustle, and the shouts were above the din, and three miles away, on the great plain south of Baima City, dozens of shields were put together in a herringbone shape with calipers, like Zhang Liao and Wang Hou climbing a ladder together. They climbed up, and together they picked up the crystal-polished binoculars and watched the White Horse City in the northeast direction.

This is the first time to use it, even Zhang Liao couldn't help gasping in surprise like a country bumpkin, after a while, he turned his head and sighed to Wang Hou in shock.

"Shijun, this is really a magic weapon! The whole battlefield is in my eyes!"

What kind of artifact is this!Not to mention the atomic bomb, if I give you a machine gun, you won’t be able to sleep with your arms around it!Ignoring Zhang Liao's compliment, Wang Hou focused all his attention on the battlefield in front of him. The situation on the battlefield is really bad at this moment!

No wonder it is said that the Battle of Guandu was one of the three major battles that changed the situation at the end of the Han Dynasty. The difference in strength between the two sides is really huge!Only Wen Chou, a side division under Baima City, is already about the same size as the main force of the Cao army that Wang Hou saw in Guandu, and Yuan Shao was born in the fourth generation and third prince, and his family was a general and a prime minister. Yes, it can be seen from the technology configuration.

The circumference is only 600 meters, and it is close to the small white horse ferry post city of 20 by [-]. Near the city wall of more than three meters and less than four meters, there are more than [-] towering and huge scull carts densely surrounded. It is the prototype of Yuan Jun's suppression of Cao Jun's earth mountain in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. It is a kind of building car close to five or six meters high. The shield is wrapped in raw cowhide in front of the car. There are dozens of archers densely arrayed on the wooden fence of meters, which is actually a head higher than the city wall, condescending, and constantly shooting Cao Jun under Yu Jin's command on the top of the city.

Under the city wall, there was also Yuan Jun pushing a ladder, approaching the city wall in a hurry. In the past, Wang Hou thought that a long wooden ladder was a ladder, but it was not at all. The ladder was created by Lu Ban, and it was also a kind of ancient heavy war The car, shaped a bit like a plesiosaur, has eight wheels and is more than ten meters long. There is a small stair platform three meters in the middle, and a sloping suspension bridge four or five meters long in front. There is a sharp hook sickle on the suspension bridge. Looking at Wang Hou, one can already imagine that once this thing hooks the battlements, Cao Jun will not be able to destroy them for a short while, and along the sloping stairs, Yuan Jun can rush up the city wall like running water pouring down.

Regardless of the number of people or the equipment, Yuan Shaojun has the upper hand. Yu Jinjun, who has stood firm for three days, has been beaten with bruises and swollen faces under such a powerful offensive. The shouts of killing on the city wall above the ladder were loud, and Yuan Jun in yellow armor and Cao Jun in black armor fought in a group within a few square meters.

"General Zhang, the White Horse City is about to lose its hold! We should march quickly to support General Yu!"

After all, Yu Jin had also supported Wang Hou outside Puyang City. Seeing it, he was anxious and put down the binoculars. Wang Hou turned his head hastily. Who knows, Zhang Liao, who has been obedient and cooperative to him all the way, is here. But suddenly shook his head heavily.

"My lord, Zhang believes that this is not a good time to support Baima City!"

"Why?"

Facing the blurred battlefield in front of him, Zhang Liao put the binoculars in front of his eyes again, and stretched out his hand to point to the distance.

"Look, my lord! It is said that Wen Chou's army has [-] to [-] troops, and there are many siege equipment, but for a small Baima City, he did not attack from all sides, but only concentrated his forces to attack the North City, and he did not need [-] infantry to attack the city. !"

"Wen Chou's right wing, with piles of yellow clouds and dense crowds, he expected that if the prime minister supported Baima City, he would come from two directions from the southwest, so the main soldiers were deployed here to resist the impact, and then looking northeast, one could vaguely see cavalrymen. The formation is hazy, and it was Wen Chou who hid the cavalry behind his back and attacked from the rear!"

As expected of a veteran on the battlefield, Zhang Liao understood the situation after a short look around. Putting down the binoculars, he pushed forward with a very vivid arm.

"My lord, if our army attacks at this time and entangles with Wen Chou's right-wing heavy soldiers, and Wen Chou leads cavalry to attack from the flank, it will easily defeat our army. Once we send troops, we will lose this battle!"

This is really the reason!Hearing Zhang Liao's description, Wang Hou put down the binoculars depressedly, but even though his face was full of helplessness, Zhang Liao still supported the shield and climbed down the ladder slowly, while saying helplessly.

"It's pointless to attack rashly. General Yu Jin is the prime minister's favorite general. I believe he can stand up to it. Besides, the prime minister can't just send our troops to support. In my opinion, you should lead the army back, not To startle the snake, wait for the prime minister to lead the army to arrive, and make a decision!"

"and many more!"

Wang Hou's sudden solemn words almost made Zhang Liao fall off the shield pile, full of astonishment, he simply jumped down with a thud, and walked around to Wang Hou's side again, clasped his fists in astonishment and asked.

"My lord, is Wen Yuan wrong?"

"You mean, the prime minister will definitely not be able to send our troops to support directly, and the supporting army must still be on the way!"

"Baima and Yanjin are two of the best ferries within a few hundred miles. If you want to guard the natural danger of the Yellow River, you must guard these two places! Zhang believes that the prime minister is going to march here!"

Wang Hou can't remember exactly how he won the Guandu War. He only remembers that when Xu You, a young boy, came over and reported to Yuan Shao's grain storage place, Wuchao, Cao Cao led the army to make a surprise attack, and there was a clatter. Son wins!So at this moment, he was trembling with nervousness as if wobbling, and after a while, he asked Zhang Liao another question that stunned him.

"Army has five forms, one of which is to be defeated and not to disperse! Can General Zhang's Bingzhou cavalry do it?"

(End of this chapter)