Follow General Cao to mix the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 144 Military Commission Investigation and Statistics Bureau
There is nothing more hypocritical than the imperial court!
In Zhongmu County, a prisoner-of-war camp, a wooden frame in the shape of a 冂 was erected there, and more than 100 people were hung on it like salted fish. In the era of cold weapons, archery and knives alone may not kill a person at once. However, these Hebei Army prisoners of war who survived Zhao Yun’s pursuit might as well die directly on the battlefield. Don’t think that hanging is so kind. They are hung with a rope around their necks and hung on a wooden frame to slowly hang to death. People have to endure suffocation The pain lasted for several minutes before fainting and being hanged under the lack of oxygen to the brain.

But it was clearly Wang Hou who was behind the scenes and secretly planned the prisoner riots. Looking back, he blamed these hapless prisoners of war. Driven by Cao Jun to the small square in the county town, pointing at them and turning his back to the angry Cao Jun, Zang Hong roared with righteous indignation.

"See, this is what happens to all those who dare to conspire to rebel! Hang on the gallows! Don't even think about having a whole body! I've been rotting here for the general, and I can't collect the body!"

"The imperial court thinks that you are not the main criminals, and you were coerced by the Yuan thief in Hebei! That's why they didn't kill you all, pay attention to your life and labor reform! But you wolf-hearted people have evil intentions! How dare you plot evil and assassinate imperial officers and soldiers! You are punished! Everyone will be hungry for a day!"

"It's gone! It's gone!"

More than 70 people died. This punishment made Cao Junhou, who was guarding Zhongmu, a little satisfied. But for the prisoners in custody, they must be more cruel. Looking at the twisted robes on the gallows, These prisoners sighed and returned to the prisoner-of-war camp where they were held.

On the other side, hundreds of lives were handed over, and the intelligence network that Wang Hou had worked on for several months began to operate normally.

Regardless of the fact that the main battlefield of the two major military groups in the Central Plains of Hebei is in Guandu, the scout battalions of the two armies have thousands of cavalry scattered across hundreds of square kilometers in the entire Eastern County. Went to Yuan Shao's lair in Hebei, these days there were no planes, no satellites, and the scouts relied on the eyes and ears of these scout cavalry to inquire about news.

The eastern end of Daying, Hebei, He County, Jiang Village.

The village has long since been deserted, and it is better to be a dog of peace than to be a man in troubled times!This era is the end of the world when you want to hide in a corner and farm with peace of mind. The first batch of soldiers and civilians were swept away to Yanzhou by the retreating Cao Cao, and the villagers who fled to the wilderness and returned were dragged away by Yuan Shao. Over and over, they were forced to enter the army camp and acted as civilians who did not have enough to eat or wear. I don’t know if they starved to death and turned into a pile of bones. residence.

With a click, the already cracked jar was finally shattered by the cold wind. Dozens of grains of sorghum that had been grooved were exposed at the bottom of the jar. Squeaking around, two mice even bared their teeth and beat each other for a few grains of sorghum. The group of gluttonous mice didn't even notice a big tail that had stood up behind their buttocks. up.

But the same hungry weasel didn't make a move after all, because amidst the heavy footsteps, some more ferocious predators appeared!

The leather military boots creaked and creaked as they stepped on the snow. Seeing a few black shadows break into the barren yard, the hungry and crazy mice did not escape. Instead, they raised their heads and showed sharp teeth. He shouted fiercely, but, after all, people are people, especially the scout cavalry among the cavalry of the Central Plains. Annoyed, they twirled three arrows and pulled the bowstring violently. In the sound of puffing, two mice fell down in response. Black and red blood was splashed hot on the snow, and the remaining mice finally fled in fright.

Those who can become scout cavalry must at least be of the small landlord class, because soldiers in this era need to be responsible for raising horses themselves, and they can afford a war horse, but they need quite a lot of resources, and they are full of disgust. The rat corpse pulled out the arrow and threw it back into the quiver without wiping off the blood. Immediately afterwards, he also groped in the broken jar. After a while, a small wax-sealed small He touched the bamboo tube out, and the cavalryman's face was overjoyed.

A few seconds later, facing the rushing snowstorm, he was as vigilant as a weasel, and quickly rode his horse and disappeared into the vast plain, leaving only two mice that had begun to freeze, attracting new hungry ones. Here comes the weasel.

This is Wang Hou's intelligence system. Xia Houshang assigned twenty tiger and leopard scout cavalry to him. According to the agreement with He Bin, he crossed Jishui once in three days, and it was near Yuan Shaojun's camp. Search the village or Tucheng, and look for Yuan Jun's information in the yard with the big locust tree.

This is the first piece of information that He Bin "defected" back to the Hebei camp, so Wang Hou's intelligence bureau paid special attention to it. As soon as this end got the information, the other end had already been sent directly to Guandu Houying. office.

Now Wang Hou is also awesome. He has a special intelligence organization in his hands. In order to show his different status as a "secret chief", among a bunch of permanent military camps under construction, Wang Hou ordered the construction of a building of [-] buildings for himself alone. In a small two-story building of about square meters, a large black signboard of the Bureau of Investigation and Statistics of the Military Commission was hung on it with great momentum.

It’s just that the Bureau of Investigation and Statistics of the Military Commission is too shabby now. The small building on the second floor is still a rough house with exposed concrete surfaces. A large file room in the office is also empty. In the office, there are only a table and a few chairs, and the only subordinate employee is Lu Ji.

There is no way, there are too few literati under him, and most of them are still left in Puyang by him, continuing his policy to maintain the operation of Puyang's big market. Time to make it big!It's better to keep it confidential, it's really not impossible to recruit people!

The first time the information was opened, Wang Hou made it quite ritualistic. He unscrewed the bamboo tube by himself, revealing a lot of random numbers written on a white cloth, all of which were Arabic numerals. On the other end, Lu Ji was very excited. I got the password book of confidential documents, which is actually "Thousand Characters", and matched them page by page according to the numbers.

The orderly lines of text suddenly appeared.

Deng Hui really had a talent for being a spy, and the long passage allowed him to express it in extremely concise words.

It's just that he just returned to Yuanying to settle down. For the first time, the information sent back was extremely limited. It was just a report of his safety and the situation.

As planned, the most courageous Fang Yue came back with his head and got the biggest promotion. He was promoted from the original head of the village to Qu Sima, and he, Deng He, was promoted from a mere soldier to the captain of the Hundred Squadron. Yuan Shaocai had just suffered a defeat, and he made a lot of publicity about these "miraculous" warriors who came back from Cao Ying to boost the morale of Hebei.

It was also in accordance with the planned scene, both Fang Yue and Deng He spoke in unison, saying that Cao Jun's rear battalion was too hungry to eat and was facing a crisis of food shortage, and conveyed the first false news to Yuan Shao.

However, there is nothing to believe, and Deng He still cautiously pointed out that he and Fang Yuecai took office as new officials. There are many Hebei military officers from aristocratic families who are hostile to them and look down on them. In order to inquire about information, they must ease their relationship. The best palliative is Brother Kong Fang!Ask Wang Hou for the first aid.

He also planted a nail in Yuan Jun, and Wang Hou nodded his head out of Le Diandian.

"Secretary Lu, I will transfer one hundred copper coins, five jars of wine, and one jar of dried meat in the back camp. Alas, it would be great if there is tobacco at this time. This thing is definitely a refreshing medicine for socializing!"

"Understood, sir!"

"Answer, honor! Director!"

She raised her beautiful black eyebrows in astonishment, but now that she fully wanted to be the role of Mrs. Wang, Lu Ji immediately lifted her skirt lightly.

"Obey! My concubine, Master Ju!"

"Go!"

Although this title is still a bit unreasonable, it at least satisfied Wang Hou's fantasies about the spy chief and chief director in spy movies, and he nodded happily again.

After sending Lu Ji away, Wang Hou stuffed the first secret document into a thick paper file bag, and stuffed it into his file room with his own hands. Immediately, with his hands behind his back, he walked deeply to the window without any glass window forward.

Looking down at the young men from Yanzhou who were still busy carrying cement and reinforced bricks, the excitement in his pupils could not be concealed no matter what.

There is no way not to be excited!A while ago, Xia Houshang said that Yuan Jun was storing food in Wuchao, and it was a stick that shattered his confident plan to destroy Yuan Shao!But now through Deng Hui, he has successfully planted a nail under Yuan Shao's hands, as the Western proverb says, if a horseshoe is broken, an empire will perish!So don't underestimate Deng and Fang Yue's two little junior officers, given time, they will eventually grow into Yuan Shao's confidantes!

Through his own efforts, Wang Hou has a little bit of capital to change history!

As Wang Hou looked out the window with excited and dazed eyes, time began to pass by little by little.

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The life of later generations is that the company reaches home at three points and one line. Then in the late Han era, farming and war occupied the main theme of life, and even combat became an indispensable part of the life of men in the Han Dynasty. Fighting the Huns in peacetime, Infighting when the regime is fragmented, anyway, when you go to the battlefield, it is said that the old men of later generations are the fighting nation. In real terms, we are the fighting nation in East Asia!

And this Guandu battle reached its peak in the fighting life of the Han Dynasty. Since the war started in November last year, until now, half a year has passed in a blink of an eye.

But the battle situation is still deadlocked there.

At this time, the bloody and majestic snow mountains in front of Yuan Shaojun have been replaced by real earth mountains. After all, there are more than 20 civilians under his command. Tulai was replaced by the snow mountain later, and after the snow mountain of Yuan Jun in Hebei completely melted, the Tu mountain pressed down to a distance of 50 meters from Guandu Camp within a few days.

It's just that these huge siege fortifications played a very limited role, because after realizing the importance of return artillery, Cao Cao ordered to step up production. Now Cao Jun's return artillery on the front line of Guandu has increased to as many as [-].

The Yuan Jun climbed the earth hill a little and shot downwards, and the returning cannon just smashed over with ping-pong-pong-pong. The large pebbles in the Jishui River, and the coal that was not so scarce for the time being, kept Yuan Jun in disgrace.

And at this time, the front of the Guandu camp is no longer as simple as a simple three-row parapet!

Thanks man's best friend dog!On the contrary, the heavy snow and freezing in winter has become Wang Hou's transportation convenience. Relying on the highway with dog-drawn sledges, he can't count how many materials he transported from Xudu in one winter, lime coal smelting slag, these things built a Cao Jun's cement barracks.

There are a total of [-] barracks in the shape of a word, with four officers’ dormitories to replace the previous simple sheds. At the end of the cold winter and one month after spring returned to the earth, Wang Hou finally let the officers and soldiers of the Cao army on the front line live on the kang!In the end, Cao Jun, who was grateful for the whole winter before moving into the new dormitory, thanked his eight generations of ancestors.

Regardless of whether it was warm or not, the solid two-story concrete building directly formed rows of solid fortifications.

Moreover, behind the fan-shaped low walls of the Guandu Daying defensive circle, Wang Hou also began to build watchtowers. Behind each circle of low walls was a three-story semi-enclosed beacon tower, with thick cement bricks reaching half a height. About one meter away, there are shooting holes on the second floor, and the third floor is the watchtower. The soldiers stationed at the front line usually hide in the enemy building and play cards. It is difficult for Yuan Jun to shoot arrows on the earth hill to kill Cao Jun who is hiding. Yuan Shao ordered the infantry When attacking, you can quickly get out of the enemy building and kill the enemy.

Here I also have to blow the cement to change the war. Originally, Cao Jun’s ice castle gradually melted with the warmer weather. Yuan Shao also planned to launch a new spring offensive, but on the third day before the attack, Cao Jun was in the ice castle. Suddenly a large pit was dug in front of the foundation. On the first night, a layer of thick cement was simply pasted on the outside, and the first layer of enemy building was built with bricks and steel bars inside. The second night, taking advantage of the darkness, Xiao Er The layers were also built, and on the third day, the three-story watchtower was completely built!

Looking at the densely packed fifty-odd towering and ugly enemy towers, as well as the return artillery that had been moved to the reinforced concrete barracks behind, Yuan Shao simply canceled the attack plan.

However, the war has indeed caused great damage to social productivity. 30 strong men invaded Dongjun and hoarded them in Guandu. About five floors have been cultivated, while Yanzhou on Cao Cao's side is even worse. The population was already withered due to the Lu Bu Rebellion, and more than [-] strong men were also gathered in Guandu Daying. This year, even Xuchang's production has been reduced by about half. Many prefectures and counties only cultivated less than [-]% of the land, and Cheng Yu, who was staying in Xuchang, even sent someone to write to Wang Hou, grinning his teeth and asking him to spit out tens of thousands of strong men to go back to spring plowing, which shows the critical situation!
In the dog days of June, both Yuan Jun in Hebei and Cao Jun in Central Plains began to get more and more anxious!
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