Chapter 3445: The Arrow of the Bow

Chapter 3444: The Arrow of the Bow

Knives, guns, and sticks.

Blood, fire.

The night seems to cover up everything.

When humans think, God laughs.

Because only God has the overall vision and is always ready to display the full picture on the wall, so when God sees humans thinking, he already has the answer, and then he naturally laughs at humans, "Idiot, you can't even think of this." . 』

The battlefield is like a chessboard, where the pieces are fighting and the players are thinking.

The opponent's next move was a mediocre move that he was tired of dealing with.

What can be exchanged interactively is a tie.

Only if you can think one step ahead can you be said to be a good player.

Only those chess players who can think of thirty or fifty moves ahead every time they move, or even consider the direction of the entire situation from the beginning, can be called national players.

The so-called national players are only a few in a country.

Most people are mediocre or evenly matched.

If you are a good player, it is already very good.

Xun Chen is naturally better than the average player, but he is not yet at the level of a national player.

He can think ahead, but he can't take everything into account.

Another very important reason is that he cannot focus all his energy on planning. He also has to deal with a large number of affairs, coordinate manpower from all aspects, and pay attention to the changes in the status of his soldiers, generals, and various other things. With complicated loading, even a CPU with sixteen threads will freeze for a while.

There are not many like Zhuge after all.

Moreover, Zhuge Liang in history was really burning his life to support him. In the end, the silicone oil came out, causing irreparable structural damage...

When Xun Chen led his people to the warehouse, the flames were already rising.

There are high walls around the warehouse, and under the high walls, at the gate, the fighting is most intense.

The shouts and shouts seemed to be above the flames, being burned and shaking.

The person who was shouting one moment may turn into a silent corpse the next moment.

The guy who wanted to rush up to the wall of the warehouse was stabbed out of the bloody hole in the next moment and fell heavily.

Whether it's a conspiracy or a scheming, whether the battle of wits is upright or weird or ridiculous, at this moment, there is no difference.

Before the chess piece falls, there are still various possibilities, but once it falls, it is just two words.

life and death.

Everything will turn into the most intuitive result.

Xun Chen rushed to the warehouse and attacked both inside and outside.

As a sneak attack party, it naturally has the advantage of being stealthy and taking the lead, but it also brings about the same serious problem, that is, the attacking party cannot have many manpower.

If there are too many, there will naturally be a risk of exposure.

Not being exposed in advance is a skill of these people, but it also brings disadvantages.

As soon as Xun Chen and his men arrived, these sneak attackers were like ice and snow meeting the blazing sun, and they quickly melted under the three-color flag.

Only then did Xun Chen calm down a little, and then more doubts arose.

The smell of blood permeates the air.

The flames burned the flesh, giving off the smell of sulfurized protein.

Xun Chen's eyes slowly swept over the bodies of these attackers.

There are only two ways for a sneak attack: an outsider or an insider.

But no matter which line is taken, it means that many problems are exposed.

There are those from Xun Chen's side, and those from Hedong, as well as from Cao Jun's side...

At this moment, Xun Chen understood why Hussar had said before that he should focus on the "Government of Hedong"!

At that time, Fei Qian said that what Xun Chen said was too "concise." Now Xun Chen finally understood the true meaning of Fei Qian's words. It was not about speaking simply, but thinking simply!

This is true for Hedong, but what about Shandong?

The military academy on duty at Canglin came to see Xun Chen, smelling of blood.

Fortunately, in accordance with the code of conduct, when agitation broke out outside the city, the sentries were strengthened and both light and dark posts were sent out. Otherwise, when the overt whistle was shot, without the warning from the hidden whistle, the situation would have been much worse!

"What's the loss?" ’ Xun Chen asked.

The guard on duty lowered his head and reported, "Only a part of the fodder and debris near the wall were burned by the torches thrown in by the thieves... The food and grass in the warehouse were well protected and there was no loss..."

Xun Chen exhaled and nodded, "Immediately strengthen the guards and block the doorway. If anyone approaches without being ordered, they will be killed without mercy!" All soldiers on duty are allowed in but not allowed out! 』

The military academy on duty should go down.

Before the chaos has completely subsided, anyone who dares to approach rashly will be shot directly without discussion.

Xun Chen waved to the military academy, motioning him to come closer, and then whispered: "After you go back, observe carefully. If anyone inquires about the situation of food and grass, tell them that the food and grass were burned and the losses were heavy...then write down their names." Come……"

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The moonlight was obscured by clouds.

The noise in the camp never stopped.

At Cao Xiu's side, the banner of Cao Jun was played.

The battle flag was flying, but Cao Xiu's heart kept sinking.

The strategy clearly failed.

People could not gather together.

But Cao Xiu didn't give up, he felt there was still a glimmer of hope...

What's more, in fact, in his heart, he was not completely sure of success.

Popularity and people's hearts seem to be illusory and elusive, but they can also be shown in real terms before our eyes.

Anyi City is so big that it is not difficult to gather dozens or hundreds of people to do things, but it is not so easy to expand these dozens or hundreds of people to thousands or tens of thousands of people.

Cao Xiu can't push it now.

Conspiracy and open conspiracy can never determine the outcome of the battle from the beginning, but in the process of implementation, slowly force everyone to make a life-and-death decision.

The reason why conspiracy is conspiracy is that once it is exposed to the sun, it will collapse immediately and no longer be an effective force, while open conspiracy can still be effective in the rotation of night and day.

There is no constant state of soldiers and no constant shape of water, and the way of war is ever-changing.

The so-called military spirit is not so simple and can be manipulated at will...

From ancient times to the present, when a large army fights, what really makes the army collapse is never the specific blow to each soldier. The victory or defeat of a war is not just the fight between the generals and soldiers of both sides on the battlefield, but often involves many other things. Just like the killing of 400,000 Zhao soldiers in the Qin Dynasty, although it completely drained the blood of Zhao State and made Zhao State no longer have the capital to fight against Qin State, but this pit was also the sequelae of the Five Kingdoms' attack on Qi.

After the killing, Zhao State, the roadblock to Qin State's eastward advance, was removed, but it also brought the sequelae of Qin Army's brutality. Even after the unification of Qin State, even if it wanted to change the people's thinking, it couldn't be changed for a while. The killing of 400,000 people was a stain that could not be avoided.

When a person's consciousness is engulfed by the will of millions of people, then what a single person thinks is not the point, but what the majority thinks is the standard for measuring right and wrong.

Although Cao Xiu could not have the knowledge of nine years of basic education like people in later generations, and could extract this theory of the situation, he realized this problem in the process of specific battles.

Therefore, Cao Xiu had to maintain the will to fight against the cavalry. Even if he failed or died, he had to let more people know that Shandong was still fighting and had not surrendered!

Between Guanzhong and Shandong, the real winner is not Cao's army or Fei's army, but the people of the world, who are more numerous than Cao's army and Fei's army!

How the people of the world view the two political groups is the real key to the problem!

Only when the opinions of one person after another are finally accumulated, can it be called the real will of the people!

If the people of the world think that this country and this court are hopeless, then they are really hopeless!

Cao Xiu doesn't want to see that day!

The Cao army once had the belief to save the world and save the country.

However, this belief of the Cao army did not come from "training" or "rules", but was fought in the early battles against the two Yuans!

It was because they defeated the two Yuans, who were considered to be destined by heaven and role models in the world at that time, that the Cao army felt very strong!

It was formed gradually in the repeated snatching and killing, looking at those trembling opponents, and feeling the fear of the other party!

During Dong Zhuo's reign, the Han Dynasty was in chaos. The gentry and nobles in Shandong gathered together and had a "belief" that it was the general trend and destiny!

Unfortunately, this "belief" actually concealed too many hidden dangers.

When this "belief" was broken and shattered here by the cavalry...

Those things that were originally covered up were detonated.

On the battlefield, when you fight to the death, not many people will have the mind to think about right and wrong, they will only subconsciously hope that their side can win, because this represents the possibility of survival.

But when you survive and the war stops temporarily, especially when you really see the situation in the cavalry army and feel the order under the cavalry, those covered things will slowly emerge and then spread.

Facing the tricolor flag, the sense of belonging to "destiny" will begin to shift.

Once it deviates too much, when this trend of thought returns to Shandong and becomes the "belief" of tens of millions of people, even if Cao Cao has the ability to reach the sky, he is powerless.

One drum is full of energy, and then the third drum will cause problems.

As time goes by, the fighting spirit in the hearts of these people gathered by Cao Xiu is constantly decreasing.

The surging crowd went towards Anyi, but was soon pressed back. The broken camps and earth walls around Anyi City are becoming stronger and taller in the eyes of the people, like boulders in the torrent, which cannot be washed away or taken away.

As time goes by, the sound of the noise begins to decrease.

When the initial enthusiasm surges over, what is left is endless emptiness, loneliness and coldness.

People's hearts are in chaos.

Some people still come to Cao Xiu to ask for countermeasures. Cao Xiu can barely encourage a few words, and perhaps suppress these people's impetuous thoughts, but in the chaos, I don't know how many people may have such thoughts in their hearts, but they are unwilling to say them, that is the problem.

But the arrow has been shot, and there is no turning back.

Someone began to shout at Cao Xiu, "Where is the prime minister's army? Where is the court's army? ! ! "

Cao Xiu still said, "On the way! Soon! We hold on, and they will die! ! ! "

The Cao family's battle flag fluttered in the night sky, like a ghost living in the dark, and if the day breaks, it will usher in its demise...

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Behind Cheng Yun, a battle flag was also raised.

The three-color cavalry flag.

The flames flickered around the battle flag.

Outside the flames, some shadows fled in a hurry.

Cheng Yun ignored the shadows fleeing outside the flames, and he stared at Cao Xiu's battle flag.

After being fooled by Cao Xiu at the post station, Cheng Yun was somewhat angry.

He summoned his subordinates and prepared to launch a surprise attack on Cao Xiu's location.

In fact, it was not a "surprise attack" because Cheng Yun did not hide his whereabouts at all.

Cao Xiu actually escaped under his nose, which was really intolerable for his uncle and his aunt!

Cheng Yun decided to rush directly to Cao Xiu's flag and kill Cao Xiu with his own hands!

On the one hand, he could avenge himself for being fooled, and on the other hand, he could make new achievements!

Under Cheng Yun's command, more than a hundred cavalry formed an attacking queue and rushed directly to Cao Xiu's flag.

Everyone wants to be promoted, but to be promoted to a senior officer, under the command of the cavalry, you must have a record of battle that you can show off to convince the public!

Now, the generals under the cavalry, who doesn't have a resounding record of battles and the heads of several bandits?

Cheng Yun felt that this time was his chance!

Just one assault can solve all the problems!

Money moves people's hearts, and greed makes people faint.

At this moment, Cheng Yun forgot Xun Chen's instructions and ignored some dangers.

What are these surrendered rebels?

There are no decent swords and guns, no complete sets of armor, and there can't be many people. They just take advantage of the fact that there are no decent soldiers outside the city and incite those refugees and surrendered soldiers who don't know the truth to make trouble!

As long as Cao Xiu is killed, everything will be fine!

In Cheng Yun's heart, he even doubted Xun Chen's ability. He felt that such a big city of Anyi was made so chaotic by Cao Xiu's hundreds of people. What kind of strategy was this?

Cheng Yun thought that Xun Chen had to save face and did this. It was simply incomprehensible!

What's wrong with it? Just kill him directly!

What about Zheng Bo and Duan Shu? Just cut him with a knife, wouldn't there be so much trouble?

He had to pull some Spring and Autumn allusions, hahaha, maybe it was just to cover up Xun Chen's incompetence!

Don't look at the general's office, isn't it just like this!

If you really want to fight, you still have to look at me, the fighting man on the battlefield!

Cheng Yun thought while riding his horse forward.

Closer, closer!

The figure of Cao Xiu under the battle flag of Cao's army appeared in Cheng Yun's eyes.

Cheng Yun saw some figures around Cao Xiu swaying, as if they were fleeing in fear.

It's too late to run now!

This time, I've got the great achievement!

『Hahaha! Take your life! 』

Cheng Yun shouted, waving his sword.

He didn't notice that in front of Cao Xiu, there seemed to be some strange wooden stakes standing on the ground.

There are many ruins of battles outside Anyi City, and there are also many artifacts left over from before that have not been cleaned up in time, so these seemingly messy wooden stakes appearing here, it seems to make sense?

The key is that Cao Xiu is now in front, Cheng Yun led his troops to chase here, there is no reason to turn back!

Cheng Yun roared and rushed forward.

He had just rushed to Cao Xiu with his men, about 200 steps away, and saw the head of a cavalryman in front of him suddenly fly up!

The headless cavalryman was still running forward, the blood in his chest spurting out colorful black in the darkness and firelight, and then he fell backwards with a bang!

Cheng Yun was shocked!

Before Cheng Yun could react, the heads of several cavalrymen who were rushing in the front were chopped off one after another, as if by an invisible knife!

"There is a trap!"

Cheng Yun shouted, and hurriedly tightened the reins, clamped his legs around the horse's belly, and tried to slow down the warhorse.

The warhorse was in pain, and its front hooves suddenly flew into the air, but it didn't know what it hit in the air, and the warhorse's front hooves were also cut off!

Cheng Yun fell out with his horse, and suddenly remembered what the hell this thing was!

But he was too late to remind the cavalry behind him. The cavalry who couldn't stop their horses were caught one after another, and the cavalry who were not caught hurriedly stopped their horses, and then collided with the cavalry rushing up from behind...

On the battlefield, from ancient times to the present, there is no such thing as a sure win. Whoever is not careful will be unlucky.

This trap was first adopted by the cavalry, and was eventually learned by the Cao army.

When Cao Xiu went to Wenxi, he had been thinking about how to deal with the cavalry of the cavalry, but at that time he was thinking about using baggage carts to build this defense system, which happened to correspond to the ideas of Dong Zhao and others.

Cao Xiu certainly didn't have any baggage carts here, but there were many abandoned wooden stakes in the ruins and wooden pillars used to support the scaffolding of the dugout in the temporary camp.

If Cheng Yun was really careful enough, not to mention that he clearly saw some of the wooden stakes were weird, but when he led his men forward, he also saw Cao Xiu and others moving their positions...

Yes, Cao Xiu didn't know where Cheng Yun and his cavalry would rush out, so when they found that there were cavalry rushing out, they had to hide on the other side of the trap.

Xun Chen expected that since Cao Xiu and others dared to rebel, there must be a trap, so when he asked Cheng Yun to leave the city, he also specifically told Cheng Yun not to rush. No matter how powerful the enemy army was, it was just a flash in the pan. After dawn, everything would be clear.

The night is the best cover for traps and also an amplifier of fear.

In the dark, dozens or hundreds of people can be used as tens of thousands of people.

But after dawn, everything is exposed.

As long as there is no chaos in the city, even if there is a little chaos in the camp outside the city, it can be quickly settled after dawn.

Unfortunately, Cheng Yun listened and didn't care!