Is Cui Jun stupid?

It would be stupid to compare with God.

What if it is a horizontal review?

It depends on the evaluation criteria of the Han people for officials...

For the Han people, what officials can get good reviews?

If you do not impose excessive taxes, harm innocent people, and disrupt people's livelihood, you will be a good official.

But just this is not possible for a large number of officials to do it.

So is Cui Jun good or bad, smart or stupid?

Just like Xiahou Dun's strategy, is it smart or stupid?

But what is certain is that the strategy adopted by Xiahou Dun is undoubtedly very risky.

It’s just that war itself is taking risks. Even if the plan is almost done, it often leads to a complete collapse due to one or two minor accidents or minor negligence.

Cao Cao's Red Cliff, Liu Bei's Yiling, Sun Quan's Hefei, Zhuge's Jieting.

All of them are like this.

In winter, it is best to drive to Jinyang. The strong force is of course the best, but as the number of soldiers is larger, the more things you need, and the more you go to the mountains, the longer the route for transportation and supply. Even if you "attack the thieves" in the mountains, it will not make up for the losses you need.

But if Xiahou Dun was asked to give up, do nothing, and wait idly until spring is warm and flowers bloom...

Although this is indeed more stable, it is definitely slower.

The longer the war drags on, the worse the impact on Guanzhong and other places will naturally be.

Needless to say, Xiahou Dun knew this very well. He might even fight twice more, and even the shock was gone. All that was left was habit. Just like when Qin was besieged by the six countries for the first time, he was afraid, but when he found that the siege of the six countries was just like that, it increased the morale of Guanzhong and more contempt for Shandong.

Therefore, Xiahou Dun can only do his best and make the most efforts for the overall situation. As for personal safety, it is not the first issue that Xiahou Dun considers. Fortunately, when Xiahou Dun first entered Taihang Mountain, he gathered a lot of smuggling merchants. These people are more familiar with Taihang Mountains and will not let Cao's army find its way.

The guide took Xiahou Dun's troops to Jinyang, Taiyuan, and the snow on the mountain along the way gave Xiahou Dun and others additional water sources. The team marched rapidly, resting for only three hours a day, and the rest of the time was marching, or preparing to protect the cold in the wild.

After a few days of rapid journey, Xiahou Dun finally arrived in a valley fifty miles away from Jinyang. When Xiahou Dun issued the order to rest, almost all the soldiers were exhausted...

The chief general Xiahou Dun had no time to rest, although he was also exhausted.

He had to find out Jinyang's weaknesses in a short period of time and launch an attack on Jinyang. He now knew nothing about Jinyang's defense and had no clue.

Xiahou Dun summoned Deputy General Xiahou Jung, a nephew of his own, and asked him to take Junhou Gaoqian to be responsible for resettlement and repairing soldiers and laying out defense systems. Then he said: "Snap time to let the children rest. I will go to Jinyang for a personal investigation."

Xiahou Jun said: "Why should the general take action personally? Just let the scout go and investigate."

Xiahou Dun waved his hand and said, "The scout doesn't know what information I need, so there will inevitably be omissions. I will go check it myself and can make a quick judgment. You are here to wait for the battle at any time."

Xiahou Dun had decided to do so, and everyone stopped persuading him. Xiahou Dun gave a few more instructions, and then he rushed to Jinyang with more than ten personal guards, plus more than twenty scouts.

The Jinyang area is basically in a state of martial law, but after all, the city still needs to supplement some daily consumption materials, so the city gate will be opened once every three days to allow ordinary people in the city to go out to pick woodcuts. When Xiahou Dun came, he happened to meet the people who went out to pick woodcuts, so he quickly grabbed several tongues and asked the scouts to interrogate and interrogate.

Xiahou Dun looked at Jinyang City in the distance, frowned.

Xiahou Dun took a look at it and felt a little scheming in his heart.

There is a black trunk on the left and the white tiger on the right and the black trunk on the north...

Feng Shui terms seem mysterious. In fact, simply put it simply, it means that it is to carry a river along the mountain. If there is a mountain in the north blocking the cold current going south, it will be relatively warmer than the north of the mountain. With mountains as a support and water as the source, it is naturally a good place for Feng Shui.

Of course, the mountains around Jinyang are not very high, but they also hinder the development of the troops, making it not many angles to attack Jinyang.

Moreover, as the capital of Taiyuan County, Jinyang is full of moats, moats, moats, suspension bridges, corner buildings, etc.

Xiahou Dun also saw the crossbows and catapults standing on the city walls, and couldn't help but take a breath and ponder.

Above the city walls, flags were flying, and there seemed to be figures patrolling back and forth.

I don’t know how many people there are in the city for the time being, but outside the city wall, along the Fen River, there is a huge camp with at least five or six hundred tents. If it is calculated that a person lives in a tent, then at least there are five or six thousand people in the camp outside the city!

How can I fight this?

It has terrain advantages, city walls rely on, sufficient weapons, and abundant staff...

Xiahou Dun frowned.

"Come on." Xiahou Dun waved to the side and called a personal guard, "You know more about this stone-catted crossbow cart. Look at the arrangement of the equipment in this city, what are the weaknesses..."

Normally, if you lead troops to attack, you will definitely not be able to avoid these crossbows and catapults.

Cao's army also had these crossbows and catapults. They were simply unstoppable in two or three hundred steps.

The guard stared at the catapults and crossbows, thought for a moment, shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Master, these crossbows are thrown into stones, where they are distributed. If they attack, they must be...unless they dig holes and enter..."

The personal guard said halfway, but he didn't say it anymore. After all, even he himself thought this matter was unreliable.

"Digging a hole? How much manpower does it take?" Xiahou Dun frowned.

The guard was stunned. He said casually, "I won't take it seriously?" In this weather, the soil layer was frozen. Even if it was really dug, how long would it take to dig?

Fortunately, Xiahou Dun seemed to be surprised when he saw the guard, and said, "I thought of another thing... Generally speaking, how many people do I need to control this stone-catted crossbow cart?"

The personal guard pondered for a moment and said, "Generally speaking, there are fifteen to twenty people on the crossbow. When the stone casting cart looks at the distance of the stone bullet, it takes at least twenty or thirty people to move, and at most forty or fifty people..."

Xiahou Dun nodded, then glanced over the city wall of Jinyang. The crossbow chariots and stone casters were large and small. "If this cavalry is good at making weapons, it can save manpower... According to the average, the number of stone casters is nearly 100, and the number of people who control it will be more than 2,000... And how many soldiers and armored soldiers are there in Jinyang?"

"This... the Lord means... this city... no, most of the camps are civil servants?" The guards also reacted quickly.

At this moment, the scouts also came to repay, and the result of torture was similar to what Xiahou Dun guessed. There were not many soldiers in Jinyang City, and the camp outside the city looked very majestic, but in fact they were refugees who gathered together during this period.

However, the arrested tongue still cannot explain the specific number of soldiers in the city.

Xiahou Dun nodded, then turned his head and stared at the camp outside the city in the distance.

The west of the camp is adjacent to the Jinyang city wall, and the east is the Fen River. The camp covers a river bank about two or three miles long. In order to facilitate water withdrawal, it is not far from the Fen River. There are also fences and sentry towers of the camp in the camp, which look decent at first sight.

Xiahou Dun looked carefully again and found that the distance between the camp and Jinyang was about two miles, but some places were not sure why, and they were very close to the city. In addition, there were some sheds near the city wall, which seemed to store warehouses for daily utensils and warehouses for camps outside the city.

Xiahou Dun quickly outlined a plan in his mind.

At this time, a soldier pointed at the city gate and whispered: "Master, the enemy patrol!"

At the gate of Jinyang City, a small team of cavalry appeared. The number was small, only seven or eight cavalry. Judging from their actions, it was not because of the discovery of Xiahou Dun and others, but because of daily patrols, and slowly moving forward along the road trampled out by horses.

Xiahou Dun stared at the patrol sentry, thought about something, then waved his hand and retreated silently with the people.

Although the plan formulated by Xiahou Dun was still simple and incomplete, Xiahou Dun and others rushed to Jinyang, and Xiahou Dun and others were exhausted and could no longer afford to delay.

As dusk approached, Xiahou Dun, with his men, lying ambushed under the loess gullies.

The sparse weeds cannot completely obscur the figures of Xiahou Dun and others, but the dusk sunlight just shines on the faces of these patrol sentries, making them unable to see everything around them very clearly.

In the distant woods, more than a thousand Cao's soldiers were ready.

The Jinyang sentries did not notice anything unusual, and they were still trampling on the original patrol route. Because they had been following a route for a long time, obvious marks appeared on the hillside. Just as these sentries passed by the ambush, Xiahou Dun shouted in a low voice, and Cao's soldiers launched an attack almost at the same time.

Arrows roared out.

The tripping horse rope was pulled straight.

The Jinyang patrol sentry was caught off guard and was shot or tripped immediately, and screams rang out on the trail.

Before these Jinyang sentries could send out any warning signals, the Cao army, who was lying on the ambush, had already rushed out, surrounded five or six Jinyang sentries who had not been shot, killed them by knife, then packed up the bodies and stripped off their clothes.

In most battles, time is the key to determining the outcome.

Here, Xiahou Dun and his men packed up the sentry, and soon a team of "resurrected from the dead" sentry was stained with blood and dust, and returned the same way. On the other side, Cao's army in the woods in the distance also began to move towards the camp in Jinyang after getting the signal.

Maybe I think that there is a sentry, or maybe it is because most people are busy preparing to eat late rice at this time. When Cao's army rushed to the camp outside the city and even saw the villagers gathered in a place to line up for dinner, someone pointed at the Cao's soldiers who rushed out and made a noise...

Cao's army is here.

Cao Jun is really here.

Cao's army must be coming.

Cao Jun...

Repeated publicity and reminders again and again did not make these Jinyang defenders look so vigilant. Instead, there was a wolf coming. Everyone seemed to know that Cao's army would come, but no one felt that they would not come now.

It’s cold and cold, who would come to Jinyang at this time?

Didn’t I hear the Lord Cui say that I should hurry up and repair the city defense fortifications now, which shows that Cao’s army is still a distance and has not appeared in front of me so quickly...

Therefore, when Cao's army really appeared, many people didn't believe it.

The camp outside the city had no ability to resist at all. The people running in panic destroyed all order and wasted all the defense facilities built. The scattered archers on the mail tower ran and jumped away in a hurry when they saw that the situation was not good.

The smoke was rolling, and I don’t know how many tents were lit.

The bowls for eating, the hoes for labor, and the ragged clothes were discarded everywhere.

The spear and sword distributed to Ding Yong in the camp were also thrown to the ground, just like Ding Yong had never received patrol training before, not only people, but also chickens and ducks.

Kindness is worthless when swords and guns are coming, and giving up resistance cannot exchange for the slightest mercy.

The camp was suddenly filled with blood and corpses were everywhere. The camp was extremely frightened and shouted and fled in all directions. I don’t know how many of the camps were killed, burned, and trampled to death. The entire camp was suddenly covered by fear.

As the chaos in the civil servant camp spread, Jinyang City was also preparing to close the city gate urgently, but Cao's army disguised as Jinyang sentry killed the soldiers who came to close the city gate. Later, those civil servants who instinctively tried to escape to a safe place took over the offensive of Cao's army, blocked the city gate tightly, and pushed the Jinyang soldiers who were trying to come to fill the seat to the ground, drowned in the surging crowd.

The Jinyang defenders above the city wall were stunned by the chaotic scene in front of them and the flames soaring into the sky. They stood on the city wall, staring at the sea of ​​fire that had spread for several miles in fear. They were at a loss.
To be continued...