Chapter 366: Why is Guan so afraid
The night breeze ran across the eaves with a sob, squeezed into the window gap, and the candlelight standing on the desk swayed gently.
"Father, General Xiahou and the others have been unable to conquer Gudang Mountain for a long time. The distance between them and us is too long, and the child feels a little weird."
It's already time to return to the Yamen of Jimai City from the military camp. At night, the lights in the backyard study were dim, reflecting the figures of Guan Yu and Guan Ping, father and son, sitting in front of the desk. Guan Ping thought about his worries during the day and couldn't help but remind his father.
"My father understands what you want to say."
Guan Yu closed the "Chun Qiu Zuo Zhuan" in his hand, raised his eyes from the book, looked at Guan Ping, nodded slightly and stroked his beard: "The barbarians of Liang country are not even five points of the Qiang people of Xiliang. In the eyes of my father, They are just a group of savages wearing animal skins, and they dare to pretend to be soldiers."
"The boy is just worried that Liang Guo has been defeated again and again on the front line, and there are people who deliberately lead our front army to distance themselves from the rear. Premeditated."
"Haha, if this is true, then the Emperor of Liang is just an axe."
Guan Yu laughed and said something casually to calm Guan Ping's uneasiness. Seeing his father say this, he stopped talking. He talked some more with his father and helped the other person to sleep before leaving.
Walking under the eaves of the corridor, Guan Ping raised his head and looked at the night sky, feeling slightly uneasy. After all, there were only 10,000 Yizhou soldiers in the rear, and there were 3,000 of them recuperating from illness.
As for the other 10,000 people, they were allocated to the third uncle to follow the Qingzhou Military Region to the front line.
He returned to the front hall and immediately summoned his soldiers, asking them to leave the city immediately to the military camp, find Zhou Cang, and search for the sent scouts.
At this time, under the dense stars and moon, within a radius of about twenty miles with Jimai City as the center, several figures were shuttled through the low forests, the branches were rustling, and arrows were flying across the dark The wind breaks loudly.
The figure running in front turned in time to avoid the attack. The arrow hit the tree on his side with a bang, and the entire arrow did not enter the tree.
The two chasing figures were shouting from behind using the language of Liang Guofang's tribe.
"...That Xia Kingdom scout is very good at hiding."
"Let's shoot arrows to seal him off!"
The grass is low in the field beside the bushes, and the particles of soil suddenly fall on people's faces. The footsteps came down, and the shock flew away. The Xia Kingdom scout rushed out, gritted his teeth, pulled out an arrow from his shoulder and threw it to the ground. Hearing the rapid footsteps behind him, the moment he approached him, the Xia Kingdom scout suddenly stopped and turned around. , holding a repeating crossbow in both hands.
The next moment, two Fangdang tribe hunters rushed out of the darkness in the forest!
Swish, swish, swish...
A dozen or so arrows flew out in a few breaths, and they rushed out of the two houses in the forest to serve as hunters. They wore fur jackets made of animal skins all year round. As soon as they came out and charged at the person in front, they were hit directly. The arrow fell to the ground.
The other man swooped out from the side door, rolled quickly on the ground, rolled several times, and skillfully drew his bow and nocked an arrow.
However, the Xia scout in front had already ran away two or three feet away. Under the night, his vision was not good, so he shot an arrow casually and followed closely behind with a hunting bow.
After chasing for half a mile, he was convinced that he had lost the man, so he had to put away his bow and arrow, turn around and take his companion's body back to the tribe.
Just after Fangdang Hunter left, among the bushes two feet away from where the hunter had stood, the scout slowly stood up, clutching his injured shoulder and walking along the ground towards Jimai City ahead.
He came out with another comrade and hid in the forest as a secret sentinel to observe whether there were Liang soldiers passing by. However, the other party's hunter, who was also experienced, got behind them and carried out a sneak attack. After a fight, He was the only one left to escape.
“We have to go back quickly...”
“We must bring the news back!”
His wounds continued to ooze blood. The two hunters were fighting, and their physical strength had reached its limit. Now they were running fast, their bodies swaying.
At this moment, a cavalry of ten people rushed over and seemed to see the scout. The latter also saw the figure on horseback and subconsciously raised the crossbow.
When the other party came running closer and saw clearly through the moonlight that it was his family's armor, he breathed a sigh of relief and lowered the repeating crossbow in his hand. The suppressed fatigue finally hit his body with relief. Before he fell to the ground, He said to the opposite side: "Tell the prince quickly, the army of Liang State is approaching this way!"
The knight who came over turned over and dismounted, helped the scout who fell to the ground and put him on his horse. The cavalryman got on his horse, Carrying the found scout, he and the subordinates he brought with him turned their horses' heads on the field, turned an arc and swept forward.
Another half an hour passed, and the returning cavalry rushed into the camp gate. The knight came to the center of the army, handed the injured and unconscious scout to others to take him to heal and rest, and then went to the big tent by himself. "General Zhou!"
He came straight to the side of the dark-faced and burly general, and whispered in his ear: "There are troops from the Liang Kingdom heading toward Jimai City. Come here!”
"I'm going to see the prince!"
Zhou Cang's face darkened, and without saying much, he explained what happened in the camp. Then he strode out of the big tent, took a few personal guards and went straight to the city.
After the general on the city tower checked the token, he immediately asked someone to open the city gate a crack and let Zhou Cang and others in. From the sight of the general guarding the city tower, he watched Zhou Cang and others run through the cold street.
Not long after, the news came to the government office. Guan Yu, who had already gone to bed, heard Guan Ping calling him outside the door. He got out of bed and opened the door wearing obscene clothes and pants.
"Father, it is exactly what the child thought!"
Outside the door, Guan Ping raised his hands and said this, and then told Guan Yu in front of him the news brought back by the scouts.
Guan Yu closed his eyes slightly, but he was not panic at all, and turned back to In the room, Guan Ping was asked to help put on the Mingguang armor made in the Tang Dynasty, a green robe, and the Qinglong Yanyue Sword before he came to the court.
At this time, the sky was getting slightly brighter. In the court, only Zhou Cang was waiting anxiously. When he saw Guan Yu bringing Guan Ping over, he stood up from his chair and held his hands in his hands: "Greetings to the lord."
< br>"Zhou Cang, please quickly send people to explore all parts of Jimai City again, and be sure to find out how many soldiers and horses from the Liang Kingdom are outflanking them."
Guan Yu sat on the big chair at the head of the court, calmly In those years when he issued orders and led Jingzhou alone, he was no longer the Guan Yunchang who followed his brother around and wandered around.
Even in order to cut off Cao Ren's reinforcements, he led more than 2,000 troops to fight against the reinforcements from Cao Wei alone.
Zhou Cang took the commander's order and left. He had breakfast in the court hall, looking at the map and waiting for news. Two hours later, Zhou Cang came back from outside the city and also brought some spies. information.
The remaining Fangdang tribe, Feiting and Pochao, a total of three tribes bypassed Gudang Mountain from the left and right and surrounded Jimai City. As for the number of soldiers, the scouts were afraid of alerting the enemy, so they only took a rough look from a distance. One glance.
The three tribes combined have at least 50,000 people.
"Jimai City only has 7,000 available troops. Lord, we can only stay here and wait for the rescue of Xia Houyuan or the three generals!"
Since the defeat of Maicheng, Zhou Cang heard that Guan Yu was captured and died, so he jumped into the city and committed suicide. Now looking back and encountering the same thing, he does not want Guan Yu to break out of the encirclement no matter what.
"Haha!"
After hearing the numbers of the three tribes in Liang Kingdom, Guan Yu was not as worried as Zhou Cang. He closed his eyes for a long time, thinking of the faces of the people in Wu Kingdom, and suddenly touched his face. The bearded man chuckled.
"In those days, whether you walked or defended Maicheng, you could not escape the situation of death in battle. Now, Guan has to choose the third way."
"The third way?" Guan Ping looked at his father in confusion, and then was a little surprised: "Father, you want to go out of the city to fight with the other party?"
"Haha!"
Majestic laughter suddenly filled the courtroom. Guan Yu opened his eyes and his voice was like a bell: "Back then, my father was old and Red Rabbit was old, but now look, my father is so brave. "The red rabbit is also strong."
He grabbed the Green Dragon Sword, stood up and walked out of the desk with his head held high, "Back then, my father only had 2,000 soldiers and he dared to trap Cao Ren, but now there are 2,000 elite tiger cavalry battalions in the North Road." It’s available, don’t be afraid!”
At this point, Guan Yu turned and tilted his head, “Zhou Cang!”
“Zhou Cang is here!”
The dark man raised his hands heavily: "Your Majesty, please give me your orders!"
"You lead five thousand soldiers to guard this city!"
Guan Yu held down his raised hands and spoke. He said decisively: "Wait until Guan comes back!"
(End of this chapter)