Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 2894 It's a pity, it's just that close

  The siege of Zigui was originally encircled with three ques and one.

   This is the normal configuration for siege warfare.

   Unless it is a life-and-death enemy, or there is some unresolvable hatred between the two sides, generally speaking, they will not intentionally block the city.

  The reason why human history is relatively repetitive is actually similar to the practice of encircling three Queyi.

  Always used to this, or always something is missing.

Human life has a certain time limit, and the time for most ordinary people to learn and grow is also the same, and human nature will not change on a large scale because of this, so the means and methods shown, etc., are actually different from each other in history. The ancients were not much different.

  Wai San Que Yi is also a psychological warfare, in a word, it is better to be alive than dead.

  In history, did the same sentence appear many times, repeated again and again?

  Huang Gai is a veteran general. He chose to besiege three queues and one at first. On the one hand, he used this to influence the fighting spirit of the Sichuan and Shu soldiers in the city.

  But, it’s different now.

  After a few days of stalemate, the situation changed.

  Huang Shan came back in a big defeat with broken hands. Although he is not dead, or he will not die for the time being, it basically means that he has nothing to do with this battle.

   This is equivalent to cutting off his path to promotion.

  Huang Gai was so angry that he had to use his reason to suppress his inner anger, so as not to lose his mind and implicate the three armies.

  Huang Gai needs revenge, revenge for himself, and revenge for his son.

  If revenge is not possible, then this hatred will become a burden on Huang Gai, and even the entire Huang family, and become a **** shame. It is the tradition of the Han people that revenge must be avenged, and it is best to avenge it on the spot to be called a gentleman. Those who take revenge after ten years, especially before it is too late, can only be said to be ambitious poor ghosts, and those so-called 30-year-olds Thirty years in Hedong and Hexi, at most it was the clamor of the incompetent.

  Because thirty years is too long for a Han Chinese. If it is a change of the whole era, the waves of the world, then thirty years is really nothing, it has passed in a blink of an eye, but in the present of the big man, even in later generations, how many thirty years are there in one's life? After waiting for thirty years, the enemy may have died for two generations, so who else would he seek revenge on? Dig out and whip the corpse like Wu Zixu?

  Therefore, "Spring and Autumn" warns future generations to take revenge as soon as possible. People like Wu Zixu are not advisable. No matter how much you flog the corpse, the dead won't feel any pain. Only those who are alive will suffer and be afraid. Qin Shihuang was afraid of big iron vertebrae, Liu Bang was afraid of Hongmen Banquet, and even the prime ministers of later generations were afraid of bulk guns...

When Huang Gai got the news of Huang Bing's defeat and injury, he didn't even think about what it would take ten or thirty years. He immediately ordered that revenge should be avenged now. Uh, no, it changed Wei Sanque According to the layout of Yi, he stepped up his offensive, and even prepared to expand the encirclement area, preparing to surround Zigui City on all sides, so that the blood of Zigui's Sichuan and Shu army would wash away the shame of him and his son.

  Huang Gai can endure grievances, being insulted, being stripped of his clothes and spanking, even he himself thinks these things are nothing, but when he knows that his child is injured, he can hardly suppress the anger in his heart.

  However, when the Jiangdong army rushed towards Zigui in the early morning of this day, the sky was bright, and they found that the north gate of Zigui was concealed...

  Chen Wu, who was immediately in front of the formation, didn't say anything, and didn't wait for Huang Gai's order at all, and launched an attack immediately.

   Sure enough, the city of Zigui was already empty.

   It's not that there are no people at all, but that the Sichuan and Shu soldiers in Zigui have withdrawn, leaving only a small number of Zigui people.

  Zigui city originally had a small population. During the last war, all the tyrants and gentry in Zigui basically ran away. Some fled to Jiangdong, and the other went to Sichuan and Shu, so the remaining people in Zigui City were basically scattered people.

  When Zhuge Liang evacuated, he did not take them with him, nor did he force the people to evacuate...

  This approach is obviously different from when Zhuge Liang was in Jingzhou in history.

In history, when Liu Bei evacuated Jingzhou, he wanted to take away every brick and tile in the city. The so-called "common people follow", just listen to it. If you really think that benevolence can make all the people follow, then your head There must be a pit.

  Liu Bei was poor at that time, so poor that there was a jingle. There is no question about that.

  So when Cao Cao's army was approaching the city, Jiangdong expressed his willingness to fight Cao Cao with Liu Bei just because Liu Bei had a title and a so-called righteousness? Maybe, maybe not. It is more likely that Jiangdong happily accepted the population that Liu Bei migrated from Jingzhou. Even though Cao Cao took a lot back in the battle of Changbanpo, at least some people followed Liu Bei to Jiangdong.

   This may be the reason why Zhuge Liang planned to let Liu Qi go to Jiangxia, and more or less control some of the Jingzhou navy and boats. Only Zhuge Liang, who is very familiar with the situation in Jingzhou and is good at internal affairs, picks up a little bit here and grabs a piece over there, and gives Liu Bei more or less a bit of his family fortune, can Liu Bei have the capital to enter Sichuan.

   But right now, Fei Qian doesn't need Zhuge Liang to be so frugal, so when these Zigui people strongly express that they don't want to leave, Zhuge Liang certainly won't force them.

  These people who are unwilling to leave Zigui have various reasons, just like the demolition of later generations. Maybe others will be moved by the benefits or dangers, but they dismiss them.

  So Zhuge Liang distributed the last things he couldn't take away to these people, and then quietly evacuated Zigui City at night.

  Chen Wu did get the first prize, but he was very upset.

   Can this thing be regarded as the first achievement?

   Whether it can be counted depends on the leadership.

  If the leader says it counts, it doesn't matter if he says it doesn't count.

  After all, the opponents all ran away. If he grabs it head-on, no matter how much the leader mutters in his heart, the whole army has so many eyes watching, and he has to recognize it before he pinches his nose, but now...

"sweet! Ganjiba! 』Chen Wu jumped up and cursed.

   When Chen Wu led people to rush to the warehouse in Zigui, seeing the empty scene where even the copper locks were taken away, he felt a bit of a **** in his heart and didn't know how to spit it out. As we all know, the benefits of being the first to ascend are mainly two aspects, one is fame and the other is profit. After all, after rushing into the city, what is in the opponent's warehouse and what is left, isn't it the general who first occupied the warehouse has the final say?

   "Name" is not guaranteed now, and the scene in front of him is to tell Chen Wu innocently that even "profit" is gone!

It doesn't mean that there is nothing in the warehouse, but apart from a few pieces of broken mats, some rotten bamboo strips, and a few knots of abandoned rope, there is not even a single copper coin, let alone gold. Silver treasures, money, food and utensils.

  『General! I think this thing...is a bit strange..." Chen Wu's confidant said, "Look, general, even the hemp rope has been cut off, leaving such a rotten piece... It's not like a soldier can do it. things...」

  Chen Wu frowned.

  Speaking of it this way, it really doesn't look like it.

  Because this was not done by soldiers at all, but by the people left behind in Zigui City.

  The reason why Zhuge Liang was able to walk quietly was because the people in the city covered them, and the reason why the people in the city were willing to cover them was that Zhuge Liang distributed the remaining supplies to them...

  For the army, what are a few broken iron nails, one or two bundles of hemp rope, or some cloth mats, etc.? Will you take everything with you when you evacuate? It is obviously unrealistic and impossible, but for these Zigui people, a copper coin, an iron nail, and a length of hemp rope can all be useful. So when these people moved things into their homes excitedly, they naturally forgot their fear.

What? Looting? According to Zhuge Liang's temperament, how could there be such an obvious omission?

  Zhuge Liang first arranged soldiers to maintain order, and selected common people as substitute cover, and then asked the common people to form bonds in several neighboring households, and asked the elders to draw lots to determine their order. After agreeing on the number of people and requirements, naturally there was not much movement.

   After all, what is the root cause of looting?

  No punishment for disruptors.

   Give Mr. Yang a face, and let the leader go first. In fact, these two sentences are not "true" in all occasions, just like in all queuing processes, people may not jump in line every time, but as long as people see people who jump in line, they will not be punished. And go, then even if there are some rumors about "the face of foreigners" and "leaders go first" are false, they will eventually become "true".

  The reason is very simple, because "give foreigners face" and "let the leaders go first" are common social phenomena in China, and they still exist after boosting the morale of the nation in later generations, causing the whole society to subtly accept this set of views.

  The airport has "Let the leader fly first", the traffic police has "Remember the leader's license plate", and the company has "Give way for the leader", so whether "Let the leader go first" is true or false, maybe it is not so important anymore. Just like the people in Zigui City now, they believe that the hussars are good people and the Jiangdong Army are bad people. As for whether there are bad people in the Hussar Army and whether there are good people in the Jiangdong Army, I don't make a point of distinguishing them.

  At least in the eyes of the people in Zigui City, Jiangdong Army is a bad guy.

  Chen Wu found out that the things in the granary had been taken away by the people, and he was immediately unhappy, and asked the people to take them out. The people of Zigui were naturally also unhappy, so when facing the swords and guns of Jiangdong soldiers, bloodshed inevitably occurred.

  In Chen Wu's view, these things should belong to his spoils of war, and Chen Wu didn't order these Zigui people to be killed, which is already benevolent and compassionate enough. How could he still take the property in Zigui's warehouse? !

Huang Gai didn't enter the city immediately, because he was burned once last time, so he was more careful this time. He saw Chen Wu enter the city, waited for a while, and heard that Chen Wu's subordinates had started to plunder the remaining people in Zigui city. It was only then that he couldn't help but left the ship and headed for Zigui City. Of course, Huang Gai still hasn't forgotten to let the scorpion patrol upstream to prevent the second burning.

  『Stop! Stop it all! ’ Huang Gai frowned, and ordered his subordinates to stop Chen Wu's subordinates, Lujiang Shangjia from plundering the people of Zigui.

In Huang Gai's view, the things are not really important, the important thing is that he led people to "take down" Zigui City, which is already considered a real feat, so if there are so many things, having them is icing on the cake, and if they are gone, they are not. It's not that there is a lack of charcoal in the snow.

What's more, it seems that the attack on Sichuan and Shu is unlikely to end in a short time, so the Jiangdong Army will still stay in Zigui, and even turn it into an important stronghold, then maintain a certain relationship with the local people, and repair the previous situation. The trauma caused by the war is naturally a necessary matter, so how can we loot it by hand?

  Huang Gai was very annoyed at Chen Wu's "ignorance".

  At the moment of the Jiangdong Army, Huang Gai's official position was higher than that of Chen Wu, so the confusion gradually stopped.

   But this made Chen Wu very angry, he found Huang Gai, and a second quarrel broke out.

  The two people's positions are different, and naturally they draw different conclusions.

   Just when the conflict between the two became more and more intensified, the Jiangdong scouts who were sent to the north of the city to investigate the traces of the withdrawal of the Sichuan and Shu troops came in a hurry and reported that a group of remnants of the Sichuan and Shu troops had been found in the valley to the north...

  Huang Gai frowned slightly. He thought about chasing after him, but the desire to pursue him was not very great. Because as the governor, he only needs to look at the success or failure of the whole army. At present, he has successively attacked and occupied many stronghold cities. In a sense, these are meritorious deeds. Chasing a remaining Sichuan and Sichuan troops is of little significance . The reason why he hesitated a little was because his son was injured and there was still hatred in Huang Gai's heart.

  『A certain order to pursue! "Chen Wu cupped his hands and said, "This city is not allowed, and that is not allowed. Could it be that Governor Huang also forbids someone from chasing and killing Sichuan and Shu thieves?" 』

  Chen Wu needs more meritorious service, and it is a meritorious service that Huang Gai cannot share.

  First comer?

   This thing's first achievement, without a head, is it a feat of fart?

  Therefore, Chen Wu almost did not hesitate to chase and kill those Sichuan and Shu soldiers who, in his opinion, had no time to escape.

   And the sooner the better, if it drags on, who knows where those Sichuan and Shu soldiers will flee to, and whether they can catch up?

   Therefore, Chen Wu looked at Huang Gai hesitantly, and his face became more ferocious.

  Huang Gai sighed, he knew he couldn't stop him, if he did stop him, he might fight on the spot, so he just nodded, "I'll give you a thousand soldiers, send more scouts, be careful in ambush!" 』

  『Thank you, Dudu Huang, for reminding me! 』Chen Wu snorted, then turned around and left.

  Chen Wu claimed to be in charge of Lujiang Shangjia, which is stronger than the general Jiangdong soldiers on land, and now he is chasing and killing the retreating Sichuan and Shu soldiers, why should he be afraid?

Although Huang Gai was a little worried, seeing that the city was safe and sound, he let go of at least 80% or 90% of his worries. The remaining one or two worries were actually about the possible ambush of the Sichuan and Shu army. …

   Huang Gai was not surprised that there were soldiers from Sichuan and Shu in the valley.

  Because this is normal, and I really believe that the Sichuan and Shu troops have withdrawn.

   After all, withdrawing troops and leaving one-handed ambushes is considered basic practice, but it is possible that these remaining Sichuan and Shu troops were accidentally exposed and were discovered by Jiangdong scouts.

  So now that the ambush left by the Sichuan and Shu army has been discovered, it is between two and two times to fight back. In Huang Gai's plan, if Chen Wu wins, then although most of the meritorious service belongs to Chen Wu, Huang Gai also has command credits to share, which is not a loss. On the contrary, if Chen Wu accidentally loses, then Chen Wu Wu also has no right to pick noses and eyes with Huang Gai...

   As for the consequences in case of a real defeat, Huang Gai thinks that the problem should not be serious. Because Huang Gai felt that the Zigui garrison was at the end of its rope, and they used all they could use. If there were some things like gunpowder and gunpowder, Chen Wu had almost led people to dig into the corner of the wall before. Why would the Sichuan and Shu garrison Need not?

  Huang Gai thinks so, and Chen Wu thinks so even more.

  Chen Wu even felt a little resentful, feeling that the defenders in Sichuan and Shu really didn't give face, why couldn't they hold out for two more days?

  He has already dug the tunnel under the city wall!

  With anger, Chen Wu quickly found the traces left by the Sichuan and Shu soldiers, and also saw the cooking smoke floating in the valley.

"grass! 』

   Have you eaten yet?

  Chen Wu's anger rose more and more, and he led the people towards the place where the smoke rose.

  Bypassing the unnamed mountain road and passing through the bushes, it suddenly became clear that there were some tents scattered in the oncoming valley. There were vaguely some figures moving around during the period, perhaps because they all wanted to eat, so when Chen Wu brought someone up to touch it, there was no secret whistle warning!

   This is no wonder, after all, they are all defeated troops, what else can they look like?

  Chen Wu reckoned that these were probably the soldiers who were forced to stay by the generals of Sichuan and Shu, or they were called dead soldiers. Anyway, this kind of thing is not uncommon in Jiangdong. I heard that when Sun Jian fled back then, it was something like that...

  Since this is the case, then you are welcome!

  Chen Wu waved his arm and ordered to attack without saying a word!

   Lujiang Shangjia howled and rushed directly into the valley!

  Those soldiers from Sichuan and Shu who seemed to be waiting to eat late candied meat among the tents ran towards the depths of the valley in a panic, while Chen Wu's Lujiang Shangjia followed behind without even thinking about it!

  However, after bypassing the foot of the mountain, those Sichuan and Shu soldiers who ran in a "panic" suddenly disappeared, as if they had disappeared directly into the forest and bushes...

   Lujiang Shangjia, who was chasing wildly behind, felt that something was wrong at this moment, stopped his steps one after another, and looked around.

  Suddenly, the fear rendered by the flames jumped, and was reflected in the eyes of Chen Wu and other Lujiang top armors!

  From the top of the mountain, more than ten ignited grass **** were thrown down, and they bounced towards Jiangdong soldiers.

  The screams suddenly resounded through the valley.

"fire! Fire! 』

  『Ahhhh…』

   Flames, black smoke, screams, wailing.

  Zhuge Liang stood on the top of the mountain, watching the Jiangdong soldiers under his feet bumping into the fireworks like ants on a hot pot, shook his head, "It's a pity, Huang Gong didn't come, but some small fish and shrimps came..."

  If Huang Gai can be burned to death with one fire, Jiangdong will basically have to retreat. It's a pity that Huang Gai is a veteran general after all, he is experienced and cautious, and it is not so easy to fall.

  Gan Ning was beside him, but he was overjoyed. Although it was not his idea, he lit a fire with a look of pride, "Do it, Jiangdong should retreat now, right?" 』

  Zhuge Liang chuckled, "No, on the contrary..."

"ah? Gan Ning was stunned.

  Zhuge Liang smiled, "If it was Huang Gongfu who was burned, he might have retreated...Unfortunately, now...sometimes in this war, the goal may not be victory..."

"ah? What else do you want if you don't want to win? 』Gan Ning couldn't figure it out at all and scratched his head.

  (end of this chapter)