Chapter 912 Zhencheng Rescues the Siege
Late at night, in the Cao army camp outside Zhencheng, Li Dian was sleeping when he was suddenly awakened by the sound of footsteps.
"Well, what happened?"
Li Dian suddenly sat up and heard the stamping sound of the army outside. He couldn't help shouting: "What on earth is going on? Could it be that Yu Jin led his army out of the city to attack our army?"
"No, Lieutenant Li, it's the Prime Minister who's back!" The guard kneeling outside the door reported: " Lieutenant Li, please change your clothes quickly, the Prime Minister wants to summon the Captain."
"Ah? The Prime Minister is back?"
Li Dian was stunned, why did the prime minister come back so soon? I can't care so much anymore, so I quickly change my clothes and get ready to meet the Prime Minister!
Li Dian did not dare to neglect, and hurriedly stood up. After putting on a suit of armor, he immediately strode out.
Less than a hundred steps out, I saw thousands of Cao's troops waiting in the center of the camp. Surrounded by a man in full body armor, with a shadowy horse under his crotch, and a heavenly sword on his waist, stood beside him a black man with a figure like an iron tower. A big man, who is he if he is not Prime Minister Cao?
Li Dian hurriedly jogged a few steps, knelt down on one knee and said, "Li Dian, the last general, came to see the Prime Minister, but I don't know how the prime minister showed up in the last general's camp late at night?"
Cao Cao said to Li Dian in a deep voice: "Mancheng, the plan to attack Hulao Pass failed. Liu Ye is leading the army in pursuit. Our army's plan to attack Yanzhou has been temporarily abandoned. The entire army retreats. Let's break camp now."
"Here, Prime Minister!"
After Li Dian listened to Cao Cao's explanation, he didn't say much, but immediately passed on the orders. Thousands of Cao Cao's troops in the camp immediately got up from their sleep, put on their clothes with sleepy faces, and joined the torrent of tens of thousands of Cao Cao's troops. among.
"The entire army retreats to Taishan County, quickly!"
Tens of thousands of Cao's troops passed by outside Zhen City, and the momentum created was naturally extremely huge. The defenders in the city were suddenly awakened by fright, and rushed to the top of the city with a look of alert on their faces.
Tens of thousands of Cao's troops were seen running outside the city, but they did not attack the city, but headed east.
"Well, why didn't Cao's army attack the city?" Yu Jin looked at the tens of thousands of Cao's troops outside the city, a little confused, and suddenly seemed to understand.
"Reinforcements should have arrived from the direction of Luoyang, and there were a lot of them. Cao Jun did not want to fight with our army, so he fled." Xu Shu said at the side.
"It seems that reinforcements have arrived, but I don't know who is leading them." Yu Jin said with a happy face.
Sure enough, shortly after tens of thousands of Cao's troops fled, thousands of cavalry rushed towards them from the west. Several of them suddenly branched out from the sea of cavalry and rushed towards Zhencheng.
"Where is the guard in the city? Please come out and answer!" Lai Qi reined in the reins, the horse stopped, and then shouted to the top of the city.
Yu Jin poked his head out from the city wall: "It's me, Yu Wenze!"
"It turns out to be General Yu!"
The cavalry shouted loudly: "The general will be arriving soon with his army. General Yu, please go out of the city to greet the general."
"What? The general is leading the troops in person?" Yu Jin couldn't help but trembled when he heard the words, and hurriedly shouted: "The general is here, open the city gate quickly!"
Liu Ye now has a distinguished status and is the leader of the Xiliang army. Countless Xiliang soldiers respect Liu Ye like a god. Naturally, they were greatly surprised when they heard that Liu Ye was coming.
The two city gates soon opened, and Yu Jin and Xu Shu personally led hundreds of soldiers out and stood aside.
Tap tap tap!
To the west, tens of thousands of Xiliang troops were seen rushing towards them with great momentum. The momentum of tens of thousands of troops was like the chariot of the God of Thunder driving across the earth, boundless.
"The general has arrived!"
The cavalrymen who had opened the way had already rushed in front, shouting loudly.
At this time, hundreds of riders came slowly around Liu Ye. Liu Ye was wearing steel armor, holding a spear in his hand, and a sword on his waist. He exuded an aura of calmness and authority.
"The guilty general meets with the general!"
Yu Jin hurriedly took a few steps forward and knelt on the ground.
"I am ashamed, general. I failed to stop Cao Cao. Instead, I was besieged by the enemy in Zhen City. It is really shameful that the general has to personally come to rescue him." Yu Jin said with a blushing face.
His status is unique. He is a Yuanrong veteran who followed Liu Ye when he launched his army. Instead of being able to block Cao's army's offensive, he was trapped in an isolated city. It was really shameful.
"It doesn't matter, victory or defeat is a common thing for military strategists, so don't lose heart, Wen Ze. At that time, Gaozu was also defeated by King Xiang many times, but in the end he relied on Gai Xia to determine the victory. Why care about temporary success or failure?" Liu Ye comforted.
There is no doubt that Yu Jin can definitely be regarded as a general. However, compared with Cao Cao, Yu Jin was inferior in terms of military commanding ability and cunning strategy, so it was reasonable for him to be plotted by Cao Cao.
Yu Jin felt even more ashamed when he heard that Liu Ye did not punish him, but instead comforted him with words.
"If General Meng does not give up, I will lead my army as a vanguard to pursue Cao's thieves!" Yu Jin said loudly.
"Well, in that case, we will allocate five thousand troops and horses to Wenze, plus Wenze's own troops and horses, to serve as the vanguard of our army to pursue Cao Jun!" Liu Ye nodded.
Previously, Yu Jinhui was plotted by Cao Cao because Yu Jin used the power of Yanzhou to counter Cao Cao's entire army, and half of Yanzhou's army had been wiped out by Cao Cao, so he was surrounded. Now with Liu Ye's reinforcements, Yu Jin is no longer afraid.
"Yuan Zhi! Quickly count the troops and horses and pursue Cao's army quickly!" Yu Jin shouted.
"Huh?" Liu Ye couldn't help but his eyes lit up when he heard the word Yuanzhi, and he said to the elegant scribe standing next to Yu Jin: "Is this gentleman Xu Yuanzhi, the concubine of Yingchuan?"
Xu Shu was greatly surprised and said, "I don't think the general would know this mere subordinate?"
"Hahaha, Yuan Zhi is extremely filial to his mother, and he also studied under Mr. Shui Jing. He is an unparalleled genius in the world. How could I not know this?" Liu Ye laughed.
As Liu Bei's first plotter, Xu Shu defeated the menacing Cao Ren and Li Dian for him. He had some strategies, but he was still a little inferior to first-rate advisers such as Zhuge and Sima. Otherwise, he would have been banned this time. He wouldn't be so miserable.
"Come, tell me, my general, to reward Yuan Zhi with three hundred stones of rice and fifty pieces of silk to support his old mother." Liu Ye gave the order.
Xu Shu was shocked and fell to his knees directly: "Thank you so much, General, for the generous reward. I can't thank you enough!"
Speaking of filial sons, in fact, there were many filial sons during the Three Kingdoms period, because the Han Dynasty advertised "ruling the world with filial piety" and promoted filial piety very much.
Among China's famous stories of twenty-four filial piety, two occurred during the Three Kingdoms period. One is "Lying on the Ice Seeking Carp", which tells the story of Wang Xiang, a minister of the Wei State, who took off his clothes and became naked because his mother wanted to eat fish in winter and could not buy it. Lying naked on the ice, he used his body temperature to melt the ice, and a carp jumped out.