The moon and stars are scarce, and the shadows of the trees are swaying.
At the third watch, a drum suddenly sounded, and Wang Wei, the general under Liu Biao, led a group of 7,000 elite soldiers to kill and rushed straight to the Changyuchun camp.
When approaching the fence, there was a sudden sound of bangs, in the trenches, in the grass, and among the woods, there were suddenly ambushes in all directions, and the Han army that had been in ambush for a long time had thunderous bows and crossbows, and ten thousand arrows were fired in a volley, and the formation of Wang Wei's army was in chaos.
"It's not good, the Han army is ready, withdraw quickly" The locals of Jiangxia all know that the dangerous path that Chang Yuchun's people and horses have just crossed is called "Ghost Sorrow Ridge", which means that lonely souls and wild ghosts will be worried if they want to cross this dangerous road, let alone mortals.
Therefore, Liu Biao ordered Wang Wei to lead 7,000 people, leave Jiangxia and come here to set up an ambush, and wait until the dead of night to quietly kill and rob the camp.
It's just that what Wang Wei didn't expect was that Chang Yuchun had already prepared, but he killed his own party by surprise. was shot by the Han army, losing more than 2,000 people, Wang Wei did not dare to fight, turned the horse's head, and led the troops away.
He had just walked three miles, and suddenly an elite force of 5,000 people was killed from behind the hillside, cutting off Wang Weijun's retreat.
"The thief will leave his head" Chang Yuchun immediately crossed the knife, roared loudly, and the sound was like thunder, and Wang Weijun was all afraid.
Wang Wei was angry and anxious, and immediately urged the horse to dance the knife and fight to the death, "Sons, follow me forward and desperately rush to open a bloody road, otherwise there will be interception in front and chasing soldiers in the back, and there will be no doubt that you will die."
Chang Yuchun didn't answer, and rode forward to take Wang Wei directly.
The two horses intersected, and there was no one in the battle, and Chang Yuchun's big knife slashed Wang Wei under the horse with the sound of the wind.
The main general is dead, and the rest of the men and horses have no intention of fighting again after the front and rear interception, and soon the defeat is like a mountain, and the army's heart collapses, and they have disarmed and surrendered, kneeling on the ground and begging for mercy, "I am willing to surrender, we are willing to surrender, and I ask for the grace of not killing" Chang Yuchun immediately slashed his sword and snorted coldly: "This general can't wait for grass mustard, what's the use of surrendering you is just wasting food in vain, all the soldiers listened to the order, and drove me down the cliff so as not to waste bows and arrows."
With Chang Yuchun's order, the troops who had been following him for several years began to fire arrows at the disarmed soldiers, driving more than 4,000 soldiers to the cliff.
If anyone dares not to retreat, he will definitely be shot into a hedgehog by a rain of arrows, but behind him is a cliff of more than ten zhang, and retreating is also a dead end.
"If you have a long surname, you must not die well" "Even if I am a terrible ghost, I will not let you go" Thousands of surrendered soldiers immediately regretted it, they should not have disarmed and surrendered if they knew this, even if they fought to the last person, they could pull a cushion on their backs, it was better than being slaughtered unarmed like this Xu Shu's camp tent was relatively backward, and when he got the news, he immediately brought the guards to check.
Seeing that Chang Yuchun quietly made an ambush and annihilated Wang Wei's 7,000 people, such a military ability is not admirable.
But he did not agree with the practice of killing and surrendering the pawns in the spring, and immediately rode forward and stopped it loudly.
"General Chang, Your Majesty governs the country with benevolence and righteousness, and the Han Dynasty is based on filial piety, since these people have already disarmed and surrendered, why bother to kill innocents indiscriminately, and ask the general to order to stop and spare their lives."
Chang Yuchun looked up to the sky and laughed: "Haha Confucianism can't follow the army after all, Ci is not in charge of the army, righteousness is not in charge of wealth, this sentence is really good, the troubled times must be used to restrict, overkill is inevitable, in case these soldiers surrender first and then rebel, our army will suffer losses, it is better to kill them all, in order to prevent future troubles." ” Xu Shu shook his head and sighed, disagreeing with Chang Yuchun's approach: "Our army has 70,000 people, and these soldiers are only a thousand, even if they surrender first and then rebel, how much of a threat will they fall into the fate of killing and surrendering, and it is not advisable to surrender the destiny of heaven in vain."
But Chang Yuchun has made up his mind, so he doesn't care what others say, brandishing a big knife to command the guards: "All of them will be thrown off the cliff for me, and those who don't jump will be divided into corpses, and no one will be left."
At dawn, the corpses under the cliff of more than ten zhang high are all over the ditch, and the stumps and fragments are everywhere, because the weather is hot, but in the middle of the night, it emits a disgusting bloody stench, which attracts the wild beasts in this mountain to gather frantically at the bottom of the ditch to grab food.
Xu Rong was angry about Chang Yuchun's brutal practices, and the young Zhuge Liang was also worried; But Chang Yuchun, who is the main general, is extremely strong, and he can't listen to different opinions for a long time.
Moreover, he had just won the battle, and in one fell swoop, he completely annihilated Wang Wei's 7,000 men and horses, making his waist stiffer and his speech more straightforward.
"Pass my order, let Yang Yansi and Cheng bite Jin Huo rate the troops through the Ghost Sorrow Ridge, complained about the black lights last night, and now that the sky is bright, there should be no complaints, and it is limited to catch up with the forward troops within two hours, otherwise all half a month's military salary will be deducted" Chang Yuchun ordered the village to move forward and march towards Jiangxia, vowing to compete with Yue Fei.
Although the distance from Wancheng to Xiangyang is close, the city wall of Xiangyang is high and thick, there is the Han River that surrounds the city from the north of the city to the east of the city as a natural danger, and there are strong Fancheng in the west as horns for each other, and Sun Ce's troops are far beyond Liu Biao, and his own command ability is far from being comparable to the generals under Liu Biao.
In addition, Xiangyang is backed by Nanjun, and across the Yangtze River, there are four vast and vast Jingnan counties as strategic depth, so Chang Yuchun does not think that he will lose to Yue Fei, and is bent on gaining the upper hand in this dark battle.
Hearing that if they could not catch up with the forward troops in two hours, they would have to deduct half a month's military salary, and the nearly 50,000 people who were dragging behind suddenly became anxious and quickened their pace.
Although he didn't dare to say anything on his lips, in his heart, he greeted the women of the nine tribes who "often peeled their skins" one by one.
It's just that although I scolded happily in my heart, the road under my feet was really rugged, and if I was not careful, I would step on a loose rock, and I would fall down the hill.
A team of nearly 50,000 people, after crossing this dangerous path, lost more than 100 people again, only letting Cheng bite the gold and shout loudly on the horse: "Chang peeled the skin, Lao Tzu scolded his mother for often peeling the skin, and he had the ability to beat Lao Tzu's military stick."
Cheng Biting Jin scolded all the way, but still couldn't get angry, and instructed his subordinates to prepare pen and ink, and wrote a letter of impeachment to Yue Fei and the Ministry of War respectively, complaining in the letter: "This Chang Pi Qi is so narrow, I will repay it, I don't know how to be sympathetic to the soldiers, how can He De be the chief general of the three armies."
When the news reached Chang Yuchun's ears, he sneered repeatedly: "If you don't let me be the main general, it is difficult to let you, a big old man who makes jokes all day long, be the master of martial arts, I am higher than you; In terms of resourcefulness, I am more than you; In terms of command, I am better than you, I am not the master, who is the master" At the moment, Chang Yuchun ordered the descendants of the headquarters to speed up the pace of marching, which was to make Cheng Yanjin suffer a little, so that the rear army could not catch up with the front army for two hours, and then they could deduct their military salary for half a month in an open manner.
In the middle of June, the sun is like fire, and the red sun is like a furnace overhead.
In order to avoid being deducted from military salaries, the rear army used all their strength to hurry.
Wearing armor and walking with difficulty, the whole army was sweating and soaking through their clothes.
What's more, there were 30 or 50 people who fell to the ground due to heat stroke, and there was no time to rescue the dead.
When Xu Shu heard that this situation had occurred, he came to see Chang Yuchun again, and reprimanded him face to face: "General Chang, you can't act rashly when you command the army to fight, if so, I'm afraid that the army will mutiny, and if someone goes up to impeach the general, I'm afraid that the general will not be able to stay alone." ” Chang Yuchun also felt that things were almost over, and ordered to find shade on the spot and rest for an hour before marching, with a disapproving expression: "Doesn't Xu Yuanzhi hear that the soldiers are so fast that the faster I march, the more I can be caught off guard; On the contrary, Liu Biao will be given enough time to prepare. is also a soldier of the Han family, why is there no heatstroke in my team, and there are many heatstroke strokes in his Cheng Jin's troops, and the three armies are exhausted."
"General Chang is eloquent" Xu Shu's intuitive chest was stuffy, speechless, and left with his sleeves.
Back to the place where the soldiers were, Xu Shu couldn't bear it anymore, took up the pen and repaired two letters, and sent people to Xiangyang and Jinling respectively to report what happened on the road to Yue Fei and the Son of Heaven.
After noon, the scout Pegasus reported: "General Qiyu, our army found out that Liu Biao had purchased a batch of military rations from Jingnan, and ordered the troops to escort Lu Jie.
Because General Han Shizhong blocked the Yangtze River, Lü Jie had no choice but to dock in Jingshan County and transport grain from there to Jiangxia.
Please make a decision quickly."
Chang Yuchun immediately summoned Xu Shu, Yang Yansi, Xu Rong, Cheng Yanjin, and Zhuge Liang to discuss the military, no matter how sharp the contradictions in private were, the procedures on the surface still had to be fulfilled.
"Since Sun Ce attacked Xiangyang and Jiangling, he has become close to Liu Biao, and Liu Biao will actually buy grain from Sun Ce, this news is conclusive" After the generals gathered, Chang Yuchun sat in the middle, with a solemn expression, and asked the scout in a deep voice with an expression like a mountain of military orders.
The scout replied respectfully: "Back to the general's words, the news is true, Lu Jie's ships transporting grain are about seventy, and more than a thousand carriages are loaded after docking, I am afraid that there are about 100,000 stones.
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Escorted by 8,000 men led by Lu Jie" Xu Shu stared at the side and analyzed: "Although Liu Biao and Sun Ce have suspicions, they are now dead, and it is not impossible for the two to abandon their previous suspicions and form an alliance again." ” "If this is the case, it proves that there is not much food in Jiangxia City.
If this batch of grain and grass can be intercepted, Liu Biaojun's morale will inevitably be weakened, and our army's attack on Jiangxia will definitely be able to get twice the result with half the effort" Chang Yuchun stroked his thick and thick beard and made a judgment, "This is God wants us to seek the first credit, and God has given us a good opportunity, so we must take it."
After speaking, Chang Yuchun swept his gaze to Xu Rong: "Xu Rong listens to orders" "The last general" Xu Rong gave up.
Chang Yuchun said loudly: "Ben will allocate 10,000 horses to you, hurry day and night, take a shortcut to ambush Lu Jie on the way to Jingshan County to Jiangxia, seize the grain or burn it in one fell swoop, there must be no mistake" "No" Although Xu Rong and Chang Yuchun had a bad relationship yesterday, they can only focus on the overall situation in the face of the military.
"Slow" Just as Xu Rong was about to turn around, Zhuge Liang, who rarely spoke along the way, stood up, held a feather fan and saluted Chang Yuchun: "General, Liang has a word, I don't know whether to say it or not" t1706231537: