Chapter 135
The times create heroes, but heroes need an opportunity to make a comeback. Although Deng Qi is not a hero, he is at least a talent. Looking at his refreshed appearance, Wang Hou couldn't help but smile and said.
"It seems that Brother Taiwan is very proud of his charisma now!"
"The master is joking! If it weren't for the food given to him, those robes that looked like wolves and tigers would have torn the villain! After all, the villain was a foreigner who moved, not their natives!"
Speaking of this, Deng Qi couldn't help but sigh. It was not like later generations. People who went out to work everywhere. Locals were very tolerant of foreigners. In this era, the rural concept was particularly strong and extremely xenophobic. People like Deng Qi who moved from other places and had no power, are most likely to be bullied, looted or even killed by locals.
Not to mention the Han Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty was the case. The biggest example was the dispute between local tourists in Guangdong in the middle of the Qing Dynasty. It lasted for 30 years, dispatched millions of people, and the casualties were said to have reached as many as 300,000 to 1 million. In the end, it ended with the complete retreat of the Hakka people. Deng Gang's treatment was better than the Hakka people who were massacred and beaten in the entire village.
However, this kid is worthy of being a big man and has a brain. After sighing, he clasped his fists and asked, "Master, I don't know what else to command the villain next?"
He is indeed a smart person. He leaned forward slightly, and Wang Hou also smiled and nodded with interest.
"Your mission should be alive, and you should try to pay attention to people like you and try to win them over. The more than 3,900 Yuan army captives are just a small world. I want you to sort out a lineage. They are divided into several factions, who is the leader, who is loyal and who is unfaithful! I need to know clearly!"
As he said that Wang Houpo looked like a high-IQ villain in the TV series, and his fist was closed in front of Deng Gang.
"Whatever you want! I will try my best to be satisfied! Can I do it?"
This task is a bit big, and it feels like he will hit the boss as soon as he leaves the novice village! Deng Qing was a little nervous and was stunned for a few seconds before he swallowed heavily and hugged his fists with difficulty.
"Little man..., try to..."
"I am Wang Hou, the prefect of Dongjun, married two daughters of Prime Minister Cao! If you do it, it is not just about saving your life. I can at least win you a commander or chief minister. Even if your Deng family’s land and property in Xinye, I may be able to get it back for you!"
If you want the horse to run, you have to give it to the horse grass! Wang Hou gave it not only grass, it was simply the top horse material made of soybean meal and oats mixed with a mixed lilac. He was already full of hesitation, and Deng Qi was like a heart-strengthening needle. He immediately bowed heavily and answered resolutely.
"The villain must complete the task!"
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Is the war a continuation of politics or a showdown of national strength? It is undoubtedly revealed in this Red Cliff Battle. It will not be able to defeat Cao Cao in a short period of time. Yuan Shao and his Hebei think tank have also begun to change their course!
After all, he holds 300,000 manpower and 2 million stones of military rations! In addition to head-on combat, another terrifying advantage of the Hebei Legion is revealed, that is, construction!
Just like Cao Cao's routine when he attacked Pengcheng Xiapi City, the soldiers in front formed a defensive circle with Wugang chariots and shields to challenge Cao's army. Afterwards, tens of thousands of civilians were driven into the formation, holding hoes and shovels, and while the land in the Central Plains south of the Yellow River had not been completely frozen, they tried their best to dig.
Cao's army can rely on fortifications to defend, while Yuan's army can also rely on fortifications to attack!
Cao Cao was also careless and focused on fighting with the Yuan army in Hebei, which was approaching Guandu Camp 150 meters away. Seven or eight days later, a mountain of earth, which was more than three meters high, hundreds of meters long and ten meters wide, suddenly appeared in his telescope, about three hundred meters away from Cao's camp.
Looking at this thing, Cao Cao's heart suddenly broke out.
Changing from the defensive counterattack in the past, on the ninth day, at Cao Cao's order, Cao Hong, Xu Chu and others led the infantry to pester the Hebei vanguard of the high-ranking officials, Zhang Liao and Xu Huang led the Bingzhou wolf cavalry and took the initiative to attack the Yuan army in the north!
The captured Yuan Shao was still in the well railing. He held the telescope and looked north with his brows frowned. One hundred meters in front of him, tens of thousands of Cao's infantry attacked the entire line. Behind him, three thousand archers were trotting while shooting arrows into the sky. The crackling arrows and meteors landed hard on the head of the Hebei army. Cao Cao's attack time was always unethical! In the afternoon, the Hebei front army was slanting with the sun in the west and could not see clearly. In addition to the limited front row tilting with tower shields to slightly protect themselves, the spearmen and halberd soldiers in the back row were wielding their weapons in panic, and they fell to the ground one by one.
Under the cover of the archers, Cao's infantry rushed to the front of the formation. After all, he annexed Lu Bu, and part of Gao Shun's camp was also absorbed by Cao's army. Xu Chu, the former army, even took the battle personally and gave up the double halberd or spear that he used in the past. This time, Xu Chu changed into a big axe and ran to the front. He slashed the Hebei shield formation, which was still holding a shield to defend against the rain of arrows. He fiercely slashed the axe.
With a click, the strong Baotiao Shield was cut into a big crack by his human figure. The Hebei infantry holding the shield below caught off guard and broke his hands with soft stomping down. He screamed and was pressed under the shield.
He pulled out the large stainless steel axe of Funiu Mountain on his shield. He didn't care about the Yuan army infantry who was still screaming under his feet. Xu Chu took the lead, roaring with a long handle and a double-headed steel axe, and then violently crashed into the panicked Hebei army formation. He slashed in the messy spear and halberds towards him. In the air, the broken spear heads and halberds fell to the ground in a burst of force, and he even pulled the handle of the axe and smashed it into the crowd in a semi-circular shape. With the crackling sound of armor-breaking, four or five Yuan army's breastplate were cut out of the bloody hole, and his mouth was sprayed with blood and fell to the ground in fear.
However, this attack was not different from our enemy. In this radius of Xu Chulun, Cao Hong, who was nervously following behind, also chopped off one another. Fortunately, he reacted quickly. He was cut off his helmet and tassels when he was short. Seeing Xu Chu continue to act like a madman, relying on his long and heavy axe, he slashed back and forth, slashing back and forth in groups of Yuan troops, and shouted in resentment. He also yelled with his long halberd, and thrust at the Hebei infantry on the other side.
The south is short and the north is long. The most common fighting weapon in the north is the long halberd. Following these opened gaps, thousands of Cao troops flocked to open Yuan Shao's defensive formation. Tens of thousands of long halberds were smashed together, and the entire battlefield was like a pot.
After fighting in all directions all year round and being in the four battles, Cao's army's courage and fighting ability are indeed better than the more comfortable Hebei infantry. However, the advantage of the Hebei army is that it has a large number of people!
Seeing that more than 10,000 people from the front army who came to challenge were easily torn apart by Xu Chu and Yu Jin, the three generals of Xu Chu and Yu Jin, and began to disperse. Behind the Yuan army's formation, the fierce sound of war drums shook the sky. In Cao Cao's telescope, more than 20,000 people from the two thick military formations were lined up in neat square formations, and they rushed over like dense tofu blocks. The Yuan army's front army had already tore open. Xu Chu, who was so excited that his eyes were red, surrounded him with more than a dozen heavy shields. Behind the shield, the spears raised high and thrust left and right like he hedgehogs, were suddenly covered. He was panicked with axe and used his hand to hold sharp spearheads, and even several of them pierced a large hole in his breastplate.
Fortunately, the high-level heavy armor defense provided by Wang Hou was amazing. He only suffered a minor injury after a slight puncture. However, Xu Chu was still shocked in this formation and threw the axe into the crowd, ran away.
The Cao army infantry, who had been shouting for advancing, were gradually suppressed by the thick Yuan Shao army formation.
However, Cao Cao did not expect the ten thousand troops to defeat Yuan Shao easily. Seeing the troops line pressing back to Guandu camp little by little, he nodded with satisfaction, and then waved his right hand behind him with a chic wave. Cao Chun, who was in charge of the alert, immediately grabbed the red flag and waved it to the right army.
To the northwest, the earth suddenly trembled rapidly. Taking advantage of the night, more than 3,000 wolf cavalry who sneaked out of the camp and waved the flags along the river. Qing Yishui's light cavalry in leather armor, more than 800 cavalry vanguards were standing upright, while the rear army held high the ring-headed swords and even axes commonly used by the Bingzhou wolf cavalry. The two generals led by Zhang Liao and Xu Huang, one lifted the long swords and the other carried Wang Hou's imitation of the Swedish long halberd in the 15th and 6th century, with the spear head on the top and the Bu character halberd with the axe replaced by the hooked axe. He controlled the reins of the horse and stepped on the stirrups with both feet, and roared towards the Yuan army's rear formation.
The principle of energy conservation is that 20,000 infantry support the front line, so the defensive power that was building the earthen mountain must have become weak. Unpredictable, a Hebei cavalry with more than 3,000 people, led by General Lu Kuang, held a long halberd and a ring-headed sword, and shouted and came over to fight.
The cavalry tactics of the two eras collided here, and the power of the impact of the cavalry was fully exerted. They held stirrups with their feet and held the spear tightly under their armpits. Under the crazy impact of the war horses, the 800 vanguard cavalry did not slow down at all, but just thrust with their spears. In the fierce cavalry collision, blood splashed out like tap water.
Most of the blood belonged to Yuan's army. The impact of the cavalry with stirrups and the saddle of the high bridge was too terrifying. With such a simple shot, it was impossible to guard against it. Amid the screams of fear, Yuan's cavalry, who were pulling the reins of the horse, were stabbed one by one, and then stabbed the war horses. Only a few outlaws fought to the death and pulled down dozens of Cao's cavalry.
Humans are different from animals, and people will be afraid! Faced with this dark spear that is more than three meters tall, they were stabbed before they could even get into battle! Who would be willing to die? Seeing this, the cavalrymen turned their horses and ran away. Even if the troops commander Sima were slashing and scolding, they could not stop the collapse.
On the other side, after all, it was a general. Relying on his heavy armor and strong horses and his superb martial arts, Lu Kuang actually made a bloody path in the bullet-like attack of the cavalry.
However, he was unlucky. As soon as he rushed out of the three rows of goose-shaped formations panting, he immediately encountered Xu Huang, who was in charge of the army behind him.
He shouted, holding up the big iron spear. Lu Kuang was shouting and thrusting his gun straight towards Xu Huang's face. But looking at this scene, Xu Huang was also very happy. Since Zhong Yao recommended him to Cao Cao from Guanzhong, he had not made any contributions to his ability to take action. He dragged the axe back and faced Lu Kuang, he rushed over.
The two horses intersected, and Lu Kuang's big iron spear was stabbed first, but Xu Huang drew it shortly. The next second, he raised his axe, and even the axe didn't even get up. He just held the flat to the height of Lu Kuang's neck. Lu Kuang, who was unable to retract the gun, saw a sharp round-headed axe head head head head towards his head. As the war horses were intersecting, he didn't even have time to scream, and then he heard a crack.
The headless corpse was still riding on a horse with an iron spear, running for a few meters before falling down. The head wearing a beast helmet fell to the ground like a basketball. After jumping a few times, it was picked up by Xu Huang's personal army and threw it back like a basketball.
The axe hung on the horse's trunk, reached out to take Lu Kuang's grinning head, bent down and tied it to his horse's neck, swaying the spoil. He picked up the axe and halberd again, and rushed forward with blood like a demon god coming to the world.
The defeated Yuan army cavalry became the leader. Under Zhang Liao and Xu Huang's pursuit, they rushed into the infantry formation behind them in a panic. Then the dispersed Yuan army infantry formation welcomed the Cao army wolf cavalry again. The Cao army wolf cavalry was so powerful that it was not necessary to chop. As long as you drag the ring-headed knife in your hand, Yuan army, who ran by the war horse in panic, would be hit by the blood splattered, and their heads were cut down by the running horses.
However, fighting with Yuan’s army is not this task. The most important goal is the earth mountain! In a place where Cao Cao’s telescope could not see, Zhang Liao cavalry, who had penetrated two formations of Yuan Shao’s infantry and cavalry, brutally rushed into the Yuan army and civilians who were carrying baskets and hoes, sweating profusely.
The shrill screams and the hideous shouts of killing are noisy!
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When the front line was in full swing, Wang Hou, the "Director of SHIELD" of the Han Dynasty, was quietly meeting with his subordinate Ling Lingqi for the third time in Zhongmu County.
It was still the same corner tower, but this time Deng Qi did not come by himself. He also brought four Yuan Bing prisoners who were also dressed in rags and yellow military uniforms.
With the reward and excitement, this guy obviously took the initiative this time. He excitedly stepped forward and clasped his fists heavily at the belated Yuan Shao.
"master!"
"These three are He Ye, Yuan Su, and Zhang Cheng! Like villains, they are also local landlords who escape from disaster and flee north. This is Zhang Yue, who is the governor of the country, has courage and is very popular in the army. However, because of his poor family, he was suppressed! When they learned that the master had the intention of recruiting, they were willing to serve the master!"
Deng Qing probably would have been able to post this if he had done a micro-business in his later generations! In less than a few days, he pulled out four offline lines for Wang Hou. Seeing the four people bowing down, Wang Hou laughed in great pleasure.
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Chapter completed!