Chapter 345 Spring Water
The water defense line built by Jushou was vulnerable to a single blow and turned into powder under a single blow from Taishan Army.
The thieves captured Liu Zu and Zhao Du and brought them to Guan Yu's tent.
Liu Zu and Zhao Du, one is white and the other is black, one is tall and the other is short, which contrast each other.
But now they were kneeling in front of Guan Yu, both of them bowed their heads and remained silent.
Guan Yu asked:
"Are you two willing to surrender?"
Gaobai’s Liu Zuzai said:
"I am a clan member of the Han Dynasty, and I deserve to die for my country. What do you mean, please behead my head. Let the world know that I, the Liu family, also have beheaded generals."
And the short and black Zhao Du over there also said heroically:
"Humph, if it weren't for the stinginess of Jushou who only gave me 500 Zhao soldiers, and I am a Yan person, I can't be very in charge, and I would still let you show off your power? I will let you know how powerful I, the Yan people, are."
Guan Yu squinted his eyes and asked again:
"Are you two willing to surrender to me?"
With these words, the air in the tent seemed to freeze.
Liu Zu and Zhao Du said one after another:
"Please die!"
"Wish to surrender!"
Then Guan Yu stopped talking and had Liu Zu dragged off.
After a while, a bloody human head was presented.
Liu Zu, a clan member of the Han Dynasty, died.
Over there, Zhao Du smelled the smell of blood and lowered his head, not daring to look. Guan Yu could only be disappointed.
Guan Yu saw Zhao Du lying down in fear and fear, and asked:
"Would you like to take the surrender troops to capture the Su Ren Pavilion in front?"
How could Zhao Du refuse to agree? He agreed loudly.
Zhao Duren was taken down here. As one of Guan Yu's staff, Xun You couldn't help but said:
"This Zhao Du seems to be rebellious. Guan Shuai should not put too much trust in this person."
This Xun You was one of Zhang Chong's aides to Guan Yu. In addition to him, there were also Shen Shang and Feng Fang.
Xun You was detained by Zhang Chong since he went to Taishan Army as an envoy to the Han army in Henan. His original intention was that even if it wasn't used by him, at least it wouldn't be used by Cao Thief if he kept it around him.
But who knows, or what this person is thinking, he has no idea that he is in Zhangying and his heart is in Han. He decisively agreed to join the Taishan Army.
But how could Zhang Chong trust Xun You easily? This human uncle died in his hands.
Therefore, Zhang Chong assigned Xun You to Guan Yu, not only to perform military duties for him, but also to test Xun You. As for whether you are worried about Xun You running away? Or come up with some plan to overthrow the army?
Zhang Chong had confidence in Guan Yu.
The other two, Shen Shang and Feng Fang, also have something to say.
Shen Shang was a staff member recruited by Zhang Da, who was formerly under the imperial command, after he conquered Xinzheng. He was a careful person and a counselor that Zhang Chong focused on training. He was not only proficient in the art of Shen Han, but also had a sincere heart to love the people, which is very rare. .
Legalists generally regard the people as dry bones on the road to success. How many people love the people?
Therefore, Shen Shang is Zhang Chong's real deputy to Guan Yu.
As for the last person, Feng Fang, after he escaped from Yecheng, he took refuge in Zhang Chong's tent. Xu knows what his role is, and he knows everything about the situation in the North.
Therefore, Zhang Chong allocates Guan Yu this time in order to have someone in the army who is familiar with the situation in the North, so that he can know himself and the enemy.
When Guan Yu heard Xun You say that Zhao Du was rebellious, he thought about it and asked frankly:
"Sir, do you want me to kill this person?"
Xun You was stunned. He didn't expect Guan Yu to ask this directly, so Xun You nodded:
"Zhao Du is originally from Yan, but he is a general in Zhao. He is entrusted by his master, but he cannot be loyal to him. Just now, compared with Liu Zu in the tent, he is even more incomparable. And I Look at this person, he is respectful on the outside but jealous on the inside, he thinks very highly of himself, so I am afraid that he is not an honest person, so it is better to kill him than to cause harm in the future.”
Guan Yu nodded again and asked:
"Mr., because you are thinking about the Han Dynasty, are you unhappy with this kind of traitorous general, and want to use Guan's hand to kill him, so that he will not be used by me?"
Xun You's face turned red. He sighed and let out a breath. Looking at Guan Yu's sincere eyes, he said honestly:
"Indeed, the general clearly saw that I did intend to kill someone with a borrowed knife. But this has nothing to do with my judgment of this person. Once General Guan believes in me, this person is indeed rebellious and not a tame person."
Guan Yu stared at Xun You and said sincerely:
"Mr. Zhongyi is loyal and has longing for the Han Dynasty. Guan understands it naturally. But after spending these days with Mr. Guan, I know that Mr. Guan is a man with great ambitions. Unlike the noble sons Guan has met, Mr. Guan has He is kind-hearted and wise, and he also knows what the problems in the world are. Therefore, Guan knows that Mr. Qu must be of the same mind and can help Qu Shuai change the world, so he believes in Mr. Guan and is willing to continue to believe in him. ”
Xun You suddenly realized that he had never heard these words before. How could he not be shaken when he suddenly heard these words from a warrior.
He recalled something.
That year, there was a great epidemic in Yingchuan, and countless people died.
When this epidemic occurs, it does not matter who is rich or poor, so it is no surprise that dozens of people in the Xun family have also contracted the disease.
One of them is Xun You's father.
Through observations within the clan and those who died in the field, Xun You discovered that the disease could be transmitted from person to person. Although I don’t know the way, it must be like this.
Therefore, Xun You suggested to the clan leader that all members of the clan who were infected with the disease should be placed in one house, and then the children of each family would offer decoctions. At that time, Xun You's old father was also sick, so he also entered the resettlement center.
Before entering, he told the clan leader that he would tell the county governor about this method and asked him to implement it in the entire county. Then Xun You went in to offer decoction to his father.
It's a pity that my father didn't make it through.
Later, when Xun You came out again, he found that the county guard had never used this method to pass through the county, and just pretended that this had never happened.
At that time, Xun You understood that this big man had lost the ability to govern the people.
There are also waterways and ditches in Yingchuan. The county governor's office has not organized manpower to repair them for a long time. Instead, it has been left to various aristocratic families to repair and manage them.
But when these aristocratic families repaired these water conservancy projects, it became a means of self-enrichment for them, blocking the waterways and keeping them exclusively for their own families.
Xun You has seen it all and understands it all, so he knows that there is no public spirit and righteousness in the world, and people's selfish interests are everywhere. You're right to think so. What's wrong with wanting to live a better life?
But if you think so, who would think of those Guizhou heads who are hungry and falling into the ravines? Do they deserve to die? Can't they live a better life? Or can this world only allow a small group of people to live a good life, or even a better life?
Xun You has questions but no answers.
So he has been drifting with the crowd, following his family, following his friends, and following the leader, until he knew that there was such an army. They wanted to allocate land to the poor, they wanted the poor to go to school, and they wanted everyone to live. Gotta be better.
Xun You's mind was moved, so he took the initiative to take the task of going to Chaoge to negotiate with Zhang Chong, just to take a closer look.
But he didn't expect that he would be kept by Zhang Chong, but just in time, he was able to see more things and details about the Taishan Army. It turns out that this soaring general is not a simple blind move, he has a clear understanding of the world. It turns out that this subdivision is not so beautiful, and it is also full of various problems.
It turns out that living well among the poor is really going to conflict with the powerful people represented by Xun You, so Xun You became angry.
He does want the people below him to live a better life, but what if he wants elites like them to give up their current lives and go farming like them?
And why are poor people naturally right? Aren’t their powerful sons human beings? Can't you live?
So Xun You quickly gave up on his previous illusions and wanted to leave the Taishan Army.
But just when he was thinking about how to escape, he suddenly discovered another side of Taishan Army.
A steady stream of iron tools were made into farm tools and delivered to farmers, new farming methods were taught, and water conservancy channels led by the Taishan Army were dredged.
Xun You vaguely had a different view.
It seems that the Taishan Army is not as simple as distributing the things of the rich to the poor. He didn't understand much, but he found that the land that a farmer could cultivate became more and more, and the boundaries of Lishe continued to spread toward the periphery.
Finally, Xun You decided to take another look. He wanted to see what the Taishan Army was doing.
In fact, Xun You did not understand much, but he was keenly aware of the biggest difference between the Taishan Army and the previous rebel armies, which was the development of productivity.
People in this world still do not understand the dialectical relationship between productivity and production relations. But Zhang Chong, who came from a later generation, understood that it was appropriate to break the changes in production relations. But if we want to succeed, we must continue to develop productive forces.
Therefore, after Zhang Chong established a new distribution relationship, he distributed iron farm tools to the Lishes in the Yecheng area and dredged the ditches, which was to expand the entire plate. These two are complementary to each other, but cannot be reversed.
Zhang Chong is like a blueprint planner, building an ideal society in his mind in the Yecheng area. There must be various problems here, but even so, it is beyond the imagination of people like Xun You.
In fact, this is also Zhang Chong's way of building new public opinion.
If he only acts for heaven, he will take away all the wealth, land and population from the rich and distribute it to the poor. Then the poor people are still spinning in a circle like the rich before, so what moral morals does he have?
On the contrary, when Zhang Chong told those powerful people, I am depriving you of your wealth, not because of how you are, but because your existence prevents the whole world from living a good life.
When these people understand that they are exterminating the enemy's country, the invisible pressure and moral guilt will make more and more conscientious and powerful people rise up and join the Taishan Army.
Just like Xun You.
In fact, the world always needs an excuse. If people want to change, they also need that excuse.
……
Guan Yu didn't know Xun You's thoughts, he just said to Xun You seriously:
"Sir, I trust Mr. Guan, but I also hope that Mr. Guan will treat me with sincerity. As you just told me directly, you are nostalgic for the Han Dynasty, and you can't bear that the loyal will die and the disloyal will live. Then Guan will be happier."
Xun You asked equally seriously:
"So, if I just said that, would Guan Shuai kill Zhao Du?"
Guan Yu shook his head:
"Still not."
Xun You hesitated for a moment, then laughed loudly and said to Guan Yu:
"Shuai Guan is a gentleman and treats me with sincerity."
Guan Yu also smiled. He pointed at Zhao Du, who had disappeared, and said to Xun You:
"I need this person to clear the way for our army, so this person is useful. As for Mr. saying that this person is rebellious, haha."
After saying this, Guan Yu touched his long beard and said with a smile:
"Let him try."
……
On February 20th, Guan Yu's army fell into Tantai and Guangnian Erbi.
Afterwards, the army marched straight in, and the powerful people in the northern part of Zhao tried to block the attack along the way. However, the troops were weak and the people were shocked, and they could not stop Guan Yu's army for a moment.
Between the Zhao lands and the vast land between Benshui and Fanshui, there are countless mountain huts and local gatherings. After they heard that the Taishan Army was heading north, they swarmed up and defected to the Taishan Army.
Thousands of people surrendered to the army every day, but Guan Yu did not refuse those who came, and directly recruited Li Ji, Han Hu, Zhang Xu and other Zhao warriors to organize and train camps and follow the army around.
After that, the army continued to move north, defeated the Han garrison at the ferry on the south bank of Fan River, and killed its leader. Afterwards, thousands of troops marched across the river and surrounded Su Renting on the north bank.
At this time, Su Renting's guard was Su You. The two hundred Wuhuan knights who had been relied upon by Ju Shou had long since fled, leaving only the two hundred soldiers of Su Renting.
Su You sent several urgent messages to Jushou in the north, asking for reinforcements, but all he got was a military order:
"No retreat without orders."
Seeing this, Su You yelled at Ju Shou for not caring about the life and death of the friendly troops, and only wanted to use their Zhao people to anoint the Taishan bandit's blade. But even so, Su You still didn't dare to surrender.
Just because the Su family is the biggest tycoon near Su Renting.
In fact, the Su people had already moved to this place as early as the Shang and Zhou dynasties. Over the next thousand years, there were native people and native people.
It can be said that in the hundreds of miles around Su Renting, the Su family has been longer and more authoritative than the Han Dynasty. Now a group of thieves who claim to carve up their land and property are coming to loot their ancestral property. Even without Jushu's assistance, they can only hold on to this place.
Perhaps Jushou understood this and held Su's family in front.
But regardless of conspiracy or conspiracy, for Su You, they can only fight, because behind them is their land and their followers.
They would rather destroy it than leave a tile for the thieves on the other side.
As a result, a cruel offensive and defensive battle that Guan Yu did not expect began just north of the river, under the Su Ren Pavilion.
……
As soon as the Taishan Army set up camp on the north bank of the Waishui River, the spring water was rising. Fortunately, there were locals near Waishui in the army. Under their reminder, Taishan Army moved to the high slope earlier.
However, the flooding of the spring water cut off the food road behind the Taishan Army. A large amount of baggage was forced to dock on the south bank of Waishui River and could only be transported by rafts to the Taishan Army camp on the north bank every day.
The flooding of spring water also caused a second difficulty, that is, the army could not be deployed.
At this time, because the rising water flooded the low-lying land, there was only one road from Daying to Su Ren Pavilion. It was only two or three people wide and was very muddy.
In this way, Guan Yu could only order all his troops to attack in turn.
But at this time, Su Renting was already inspired by Su You and had high morale. Even though his armaments and combat skills were not as good as those of the Taishan Army's Selected Front, he still defeated several of their attacks.
Not only that, the soldiers of the Su clan, led by Su Yu, a younger brother of the Su You clan, crossed the Wankui River in small boats and attacked the Taishan Army's food route from behind.
The supplies at the rear of the Taishan Army were all Guizhou leaders recruited by Zhao. Although their morale was high, they were unable to fight, so they were beaten back twenty miles by the Su clan soldiers.
In this way, in the midst of internal and external difficulties, Guan Yu called his three staff, Xun You, Shen Shang, and Feng Fang, to listen to their opinions.
(End of chapter)