Chapter 298 Avoiding the Battle

Chenliu Yiwu, Dian Wei’s tomb.

The night sky is clear and the stars are shining.

Unfortunately, there was no decent night breeze at night. Even if there was wind, it was a dry and hot wind.

The black bear came to the grave carrying a jar of sweet wine. The grave had a low mound.

I circled the mound twice but didn't find any special signs.

A drop of black magic power appeared in the palm of his hand, and he threw it towards the grave.

A breath later, a card flew into his hand.

He lowered his eyebrows to look, and indeed saw a lot of complex messages, and Black Bear couldn't help but curl up the corners of his mouth.

"Level 1 Taoist soldier, agile, brave, able to strengthen and combine."

After summoning it, he threw two points of black mana at it without even looking at it, and the card changed again: "Level 2 Taoist soldier, agile, brave, good at fighting, can be strengthened, can be combined."

Then another four points of black mana were poured down, and immediately there was a qualitative change: "Level 3 Taoist soldier, agile and swift, strong and good at fighting, proficient in fighting, able to strengthen, and able to combine."

Gritting his teeth, Black Bear took out another eight points of black mana and was promoted again: "Level 4 Taoist Soldier, agile and swift, strong and good at fighting, proficient in fighting and commanding, able to strengthen and combine."

The command talent appeared a little late. Gao Shun and Lu Bu appeared at level 2, while Yuan Shu's command talent appeared at level 3.

Dian Wei, who is at level four, is eight feet two or three inches tall, and his muscles are very full... Although they are full, they are still in a withered and dry state, but the muscle contours are very obvious.

Only when you reach level five, your muscles will gradually swell and your face will become fuller.

When you reach level seven, you are no different from ordinary people.

They can move freely at night, but during the day, if they are exposed to the sun, their skin will be cracked, just like Lu Bu.

Only the face is exposed, and the chapped facial skin can achieve a balance between melting and recovery.

If a large area of ​​skin is exposed and the recovery ability cannot keep up with the speed of melting, even Lu Bu will be dissolved into a card.

After sending away the shirtless Dian Wei, Black Bear drove his horse northward. After walking twenty or thirty steps, he saw a newly built tomb. The mound was even larger than Dian Wei's.

He couldn't help but frown, thought about it, drove his horse closer to observe the tombstone, and saw that it was written "Tomb of Shi Weiming, General of Hanzhong", but there was no information about the person who erected the tombstone.

The black bear couldn't help but squint his eyes and look at Dian Wei's tomb thirty or forty steps away. Is the feng shui here so good?
Black magic power is already precious, but this is the area where Dian Wei's tomb is located, and there is actually another tombstone built here with a larger mound. There is obviously something wrong with this tombstone.

Did Cao Cao do this on purpose for him to see?

After thinking about it, Black Bear pulled the reins and drove his horse north. He wanted to go to the vicinity of Guandu battlefield.

He did not do any excavation, so he naturally did not know that there was an underground tunnel connecting Shi Weiming's tomb and Dian Wei's tomb.

To be precise, they secretly dug a tunnel to take out the bones from Dian Wei's tomb and replaced them; the soil dug out was difficult to deal with, so they covered it with soil nearby and made a fake tomb.

However, Black Bear was out of touch with the news and was not aware that a new tomb of Dian Wei had been built in nearby Xiangyi.

Cenotaphs and memorial tombs are not uncommon. It is not surprising that Dian Wei's tomb was discovered in Xiangyi next door.

As for pulling out a 'real Dian Wei' from Dian Wei's fake grave, this is normal.

If there is a tomb of Xiang Yu nearby, and the people around have believed for generations that Xiang Yu is inside, and the black bear also believes it... then it's possible.

Overnight, Black Bear went to the area between Guandu and Baima and pulled Yan Liang and Wen Chou up.

These two people each have several tombs. Wen Chou was of lower birth, so he only has two tombs, one on the battlefield and one in his hometown.

Yan Liang has several tombs. After his head was sent to Xudu, it was buried nearby, and his friends simply erected a tombstone for him; there is one at the Guandu battlefield and one in his hometown; in the future, when Yan Liang's descendants migrate from Hebei, they will erect a new cenotaph for him.

As for other generals of Yuan’s army, Black Bear was not very interested.

To advance to level seven, one needs to have a reputation for bravery for three lifetimes, and Yan Liang and Wen Chou both meet the requirement.

What puzzled Black Bear was that when Wen Chou was pulled up, he was in a complete form; and then when Yan Liang was pulled up, he was also in a complete form.

It couldn't be that after inspecting the heads in Xudu, they sent someone back?
Perhaps the corpses are scattered all over the place, and if you find a part of them, you can pull out a complete mummy when you summon it for cleansing.

Unfortunately, the black bear went north and south at night, both along Zhang He's camp.

On the east bank of the ditch, Zhang He’s camp.

At about three o'clock in the morning, Zhang He, who had not slept all night, walked out of the dull barracks.

At this time, the sun has not yet risen, and there are bursts of coolness between heaven and earth. However, it is only intermittent coolness, and this coolness only occurs when the wind blows.

As for coolness, don't even think about it.

Zhang He climbed up the watchtower to get some fresh air and saw a huge, long chariot moving slowly towards the north, with lanterns hanging from various places on the chariot.

The chariot actually slid smoothly into the water and drifted in the ditches and canals?

Zhang He rubbed his eyes and finally confirmed that the Da Sima chariot reported by the court was actually a combination of a vehicle and a boat?
In the sewers and canals, Black Bear sent away the dry horses. He stayed at the front of the car, with gauze scarves and mosquito nets hanging on all sides; in the back carriage, the puppet Taoist soldiers sat face to face and back to back.

In order to increase their working power, the puppet Taoist soldiers grabbed the horizontal bar with both hands and pushed and pulled hard to drive the wheels to rotate.

The wheels paddle the water, the hydraulic force pushes back, and the carriage begins to move.

A tail oar was lowered from the rear of the carriage, and four puppet Taoist soldiers rowed the oars together, accelerating and adjusting the direction at the same time.

This is just a means of crossing the river, not a professional vehicle or boat.

So soon the chariot crossed the ditch and reached the west bank.

The soldiers in the carriage dismantled the makeshift equipment and retracted the lowered tail oar into the carriage.

Twelve harnessed horses appeared, the ropes were fastened, and the chariot sped southward.

In the military camp on the east bank, Zhang He raised his hand to rub the mosquitoes on his face to death, looking as if he hadn't noticed anything just now.

He didn't plan to investigate anything in depth, he was lucky enough to be alive.

Zhang Liao ran away, and now Zhang Xiu also wants to run away. Zhang He is under really great pressure.

If I send troops to kill Zhang Xiu now, I will be unlucky if I fail. If I win, Cao Gong's career will collapse in the future, and I will be the one who suffers.

So why work so hard?
Cao Hong, the Protector General of Xu Du, was chopped to death. Is my neck harder than Cao Hong's?

Or is it that his personal soldiers are more professional and more fearless than Cao Hong's?

As a surrendered general and a key figure in the massacre of countless surrendered soldiers in Hebei, Zhang He was under great mental pressure.

Perhaps only after completely defeating the Yuan family and proving that Cao Gong was the right choice, could his mental pressure be accurately released.

But now that the advance into Hebei Province has failed, Zhang He has no fixed channel to vent his mental stress, his spiritual sustenance is shaky, and the pressure he generates is increasing day by day.

Now that he is not crazy, he is already very powerful.

Zhang He just watched quietly as the chariot of the Grand Marshal on the opposite bank headed south. Perhaps this was a warning from the Grand Marshal to him.

Zhang He decided to accept the advice and there was no need to exchange the officers and soldiers in the camp for anything.

Zhang He did not sleep all night. He had only a thousand men and did not have any key influence.

The reason why he was left to guard between Bai Ma and Junyi was purely because Zhang He had no way to retreat in Hebei, and Zhang He could do this job very well and dedicatedly.

The person who really had influence was Han Hao, who was stationed in Junyi, where Cao Cao’s central army camp was located last year.

After years of long-term residence and construction, the military camp area has almost completed the construction of the camp walls. There are no tents in the camp, only rows of earthen houses built with boards.

It is called a large camp, but it is more like a large flat military town.

Han Hao also did not sleep all night. The cost and risk of sleeping tonight were too great.

The heat was unbearable, and if we sent troops to intercept them during the day without wearing armor, it would be impossible to fight.

Under the arrow feathers, all beings are equal!
The same goes for Han Hao. If he wears armor, he will probably get heatstroke and die before he even reaches the combat zone.

At most, they would carry light armor, which they would wear before a battle and use to fight in the front row.

However, Cao's army is still recovering from their injuries and mental trauma.

The Hebei soldiers' desperately close sniping tactics made all Cao's troops feel very uncomfortable.

This tactic was not new. During the Warring States Period, Korea had developed iron smelting technology. One hundred thousand Korean soldiers wore iron armor, used excellent iron swords, and the strongest crossbows among all countries. They were called Jin Han.

In order to equalize the advantage in equipment, when the Qin army attacked the Han army, they rushed forward and fired at close range!
If you want to cure this rogue style of play, the fastest way is to master this tactic!

Unfortunately, the weather became increasingly hot after the withdrawal, and there was no time for training and summary of experience.

Therefore, Cao’s army is not very willing to go out of the city to fight in the field.

No one knows whether the reinforcements from Hebei have arrived in Liyang.

If you leave the camp to rob and kill, you must be mentally prepared to fight in the field with the Hebei soldiers.

The situation now is different from the Guandu period, when there were still many settlements on both sides of the river.

After the Battle of Guandu, only military settlements and beacon towers remained on both sides of the Yellow River.

The population density dropped too drastically, giving the Hebei soldiers an opportunity to launch a surprise attack on the south bank.

So Han Hao had no choice but to watch the other party cross the border and head north.

His reason and experience told him that when sending troops, he would face all kinds of unexpected situations.

He could only defend the city. Zhang Xiu and the Hebei soldiers, who also lacked armor, could do nothing to him.

(End of this chapter)