Chapter 1585: The Battle of Xuzhou (182)
Of course, if this martial arts list only counts the martial arts of the generals, then who is first and who is second in the ranking of Dian Wei and Zhao Yun, Cao Cao dare not say, first of all, the two have never fought each other, it is difficult to make a judgment, but if the use of soldiers is also included in the ranking of the martial arts list, Zhao Yun is obviously in line with the second position, but Dian Wei is ranked third, it is unfair, at least outside the top ten, or even lower.
Therefore, there will be a lot of controversy in the ranking of the martial arts list, and in Cao Cao's eyes, it is even more nondescript, completely treat it as a joke, if you have to talk about a benefit of the martial arts list, then Cao Cao is more willing to see what young talents emerge in the list, such as Xiliang Ma Chao, Pang De and Huang Zhong who have recently appeared in the martial arts list.
Of course, these people will definitely not be the target of Cao Cao's recruitment, Ma Chao is the son of Ma Teng, Pang De is Ma Teng's general, and Huang Zhong has been recruited by Liu Lan, so he can only find some missing pearls, such as Wenpin, but unfortunately Cheng Yu arrived one step late and has joined Liu Biao, but he is not without gain, that is Li Tong.
This can be said to be the most satisfactory general he has gotten in the past year, Cao Cao not only got Li Tong such a general, but also he came to vote with tens of thousands of private soldiers, Mo said that he has a name and surname in the martial arts list, just these more than 10,000 private soldiers, Cao Cao will never despise him, immediately entrusted with a heavy task, awarded Zhenwei Zhonglang General, stationed in the west of Runan.
After the attack on Wancheng, in the case of Cao Hong's unfavorable battle, Cao Cao led the troops to recruit in person, and Li Tong personally came with his own soldiers overnight to supplement Cao Cao with soldiers to continue the attack, and after that, it was in the case of Li Tong as the vanguard that Zhang Xiu was completely broken.
However, under Wancheng, Cao Cao besieged the city for several months, and was never able to break through Wancheng and take Zhang Xiu, and in such a stalemate, it happened that Yuan Shu was becoming more and more unfavorable in the battle of Jiujiang, so he later retreated and attacked Xuzhou in the form of an alliance with Yuan Shu, while Li Tong continued to be in Runan, to put it bluntly, to help Cao Cao defend Zhang Xiu.
And this Zhang Xiu is not a fuel-efficient lamp, although Wancheng lost, he naturally will not be at peace with Cao Cao after his withdrawal, but it is precisely because of the existence of Li Tong that he can confront Liu Lan in Pei County with peace of mind, otherwise, his rear would have been disrupted a long time ago, and he may not even be able to protect Xu.
If Liu Lan is Cao Cao's henchman, then Zhang Xiu is also not a fuel-efficient lamp, even Cao Hong has suffered so much from him, if he is replaced by someone else, I am afraid that he may not be able to stop him, it can be said that this Li Tong really picked up a treasure, so this is also the only place where Cao Cao has a feeling for Wu Bang.
even kept looking for the names that might appear on it, there was Li Tong's amazing performance, plus the characters recorded above, all the generals with names and surnames in the world, almost all the martial artists that Cao Cao had heard of but had not heard of but others had heard of, all of them were in this martial arts list, although the ranking would make many people very dissatisfied, but the characters that appeared above were undoubtedly among the best martial artists in the world.
All said, Cao Cao has an idea of discovering talents for the martial arts list, although he doesn't know which god compiled the martial arts list, and some people even think it's Liu Lan, but Cao Cao doesn't think so, if it's really Liu Lan, then why does he bother to make the martial arts list public, wouldn't it be more cost-effective to secretly recruit all the talents who have not yet been born above?
So for the matter of Wubang, Cao Cao always felt that he could receive so many generals, and it seemed that he was the first to get the moon near the water, but if you think about it carefully, most of the generals under his account are generals who chased him all the way from Youzhou in the early years to become famous, whether it is Xu Huang or Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, this is all proof.
Therefore, their inclusion on the list is not because of the appearance of the martial arts list, but because of their appearance, the advent of the martial arts list, of course, after this, like Huang Zhong and Zhou Tai, these people were recruited by Liu Lan, it is relatively likely because of the role played by the martial arts list, he knows that Liu Lan has always been promoted with military merits in the army, but there are a few special cases, as if Zhou Tai, Jiang Qin, Xu Sheng and Huang Zhong who he only saw in the martial arts list were directly entrusted with important tasks.
As for whether Liu Lan completely believes in Wubang, or will he conduct an assessment of Li Tong first like him, it is unknown, but he also knows that if Liu Lan is not sure, he will never dare to make such a decision, which will only upset the balance of the troops and make people unconvinced, of course, like Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin, they brought their own private soldiers to vote, and it is actually easy to understand that they are entrusted with important tasks, but Huang Zhong and Xu Sheng in Peixian City do not belong to this category, so Liu Lan should have also assessed them, and is sure that they are competent enough.
Although the martial arts list seems to be written conclusively, but after all, whether it is a false name or real material, only after the assessment can be regarded as knowing in his heart, but even if he knows it, but it seems that he didn't really trust Li Tong at the beginning, if it weren't for his amazing performance in Wancheng, if it wasn't for his own efforts to reject Zhang Xiu, I'm afraid that if Cao Cao didn't go west, it would be difficult to think of Li Tong again.
And Zhao Yun at this moment, never showed up, it gave him a little headache, he was just looking at Pei County Chengchi, vaguely seemed to see the figure of Chen Gong, this is the second time he saw his shadow from a distance, the last time was in the outer city, I have to say that the development of Pei County has been really fast in recent years, the three walls in the city have been expanded twice, even if it is Xu Du, because the Son of Heaven came to become the temporary capital, it has not been able to have this development speed, and it has only been expanded once, And it was under the condition that the previous city wall was demolished and used as a new city wall, otherwise he really didn't have the financial resources to expand it directly.
If Pei County's financial resources were a little worse, I am afraid that he would already be in his hands now, but now with a Pei County, he might have to attack the city three times. If it is said that with trebuchets, the siege will be easy, but he also knows that trebuchets are just a breakthrough, to put it bluntly, he has a great suppression of Pei County in terms of troops, not that trebuchets can make the opponent directly disarm and surrender.
It's like now, he doesn't dare to take Pei County when he gets up, by his side, Zhao Yun's existence makes him jealous, the dragoons are like ghosts, and you never know how they will appear. Even such a serious incident as the attack on grain and grass was only realized because of the spread of the fire, and he saw the grain and grass being destroyed, which made him hate the dragoons, but there was nothing he could do about them.
Originally, under the plot with Guo Jia, the idea of besieging the city to send reinforcements was not favored by him, judging from a series of circumstances, Zhao Yun was not urgent and did not show too obviously that he was here to rescue Pei County, in this case, the plan to besiege Pei County to fight Zhao Yun was not very feasible, and Zhao Yun may not be successful.
And Guo Jia's words are completely correct, Cao Cao wasted two days, how to do it next, let him have a headache, although Guo Jia made it clear that in such a situation, either let go or withdraw the troops, but he really didn't dare to rashly attack Peixian, he really didn't have the confidence to lose his troops now.
If Pei County is defeated, it will be fine, but once Zhao Yun's sneak attack is lost and his troops are lost, with his current family background, he can't afford to toss.
Cao Cao, who was sitting alone in the inner tent, looked at the map of the four states of Pei County, there was no barrier, and this battle would be easy and simple, but such a plain terrain made Liu Lan, who had a cavalry, more advantageous. What if the tiger and leopard riders are transferred now?
This cavalry is Cao Cao's back hand and hole card, but it was discovered by Zhao Yun, so there is no need to continue to stay, and the most important link is that Cao Cao left the biggest back hand in the Battle of Xuzhou, which is still in Fei County, that is, Xiahoudun.
So at the moment of observing the map, he instantly thought of several ideas in his mind, one is to attack Pei County tomorrow, no matter whether he will appear or not, he doesn't need to pay attention to it, and the other is to wait patiently for a few more days, waiting for the arrival of the tiger and leopard cavalry, then there is no need to worry about the dragoon, and he can give Pei County a go.
And the last opportunity, is Xiahou Dun shot, as long as he attacks, it is bound to completely disrupt the current battle of Xuzhou, this move behind the hand, was originally Cao Cao used to compete with Yuan Shao for the weight of Xuzhou, but now it is completely unnecessary, in fact, from the original plan has not been implemented, Xiahou Dan's move has been invalid, so it is better to keep them than to spring out earlier.
"Tell Cao Ren to come to see me." Cao Cao walked out of the inner tent and shouted at Dian Wei outside the tent in the outer tent.
"No." Soon after Dian Wei agreed, Cao Ren came to the tent, paid homage to Cao Cao, helped him up, and took his palm and walked into the inner tent cordially: "Zixiao, if I order you to attack Pei County tomorrow, do you have the confidence to attack the city within one day?" ”
"Don't worry about Cao Gong, if you don't take Pei County, the last general will come to see you!" Cao Ren fell to the ground again, he understood what Cao Cao meant, and he also knew his agreement with Guo Jia, if Zhao Yun did not appear in the three-day period, either Chen or attack the city, but now it has only been two days, it seems that Cao Gong can't wait, but he also knows that only Guo Jia in this world will have such a great impact on Cao Gong, if it is not Guo Jia, I am afraid that Cao Guild will always insist, Zhao Yun does not come, he will not attack Pei County again.
Just as Cao Ren thought in his heart, Cao Cao was suspicious, if it wasn't for Guo Jia to look at the problem calmly and let him always look at the situation clearly, then he might have made past mistakes without knowing it, this kind of thing, when he didn't get Guo Jia earlier, he had already lost a lot.
In fact, Cao Cao was the same after this, such as the Battle of Guandu, but Liu Lan knew, but Cao Cao would never know: "Attacking Pei County, I don't want to see too heavy losses, or if the Pei County defenders resist fiercely, then you have to be extremely careful, Zixiao, then Zhao Yun must be careful." ”
Cao Ren was a little helpless, but there was no way, he promised to let Cao Cao rest assured, but this siege battle, how could it be too easy, it was said that on the battlefield, killing a thousand enemies would lose eight hundred, but in a siege war, it was often to kill a thousand enemies and lose two thousand, so the general generals would rarely take the initiative to attack the city, but would take some means, and if they really encountered a city that had to be beaten, they would let it go.
But he didn't want to lose too much, and he wanted to capture the city, unless the defenders had no intention of defending, otherwise the situation described by Cao Gong would never be possible, but he had no way to change Cao Cao, so he had to try hard, after all, he had the experience of easily taking the outer city, and it was not impossible to take the middle city of Peixian.
And the last opportunity, is Xiahou Dun shot, as long as he attacks, it is bound to completely disrupt the current battle of Xuzhou, this move behind the hand, was originally Cao Cao used to compete with Yuan Shao for the weight of Xuzhou, but now it is completely unnecessary, in fact, from the original plan has not been implemented, Xiahou Dan's move has been invalid, so it is better to keep them than to spring out earlier.
"Tell Cao Ren to come to see me." Cao Cao walked out of the inner tent and shouted at Dian Wei outside the tent in the outer tent.
"No." Soon after Dian Wei agreed, Cao Ren came to the tent, paid homage to Cao Cao, helped him up, and took his palm and walked into the inner tent cordially: "Zixiao, if I order you to attack Pei County tomorrow, do you have the confidence to attack the city within one day?" ”
"Don't worry about Cao Gong, if you don't take Pei County, the last general will come to see you!" Cao Ren fell to the ground again, he understood what Cao Cao meant, and he also knew his agreement with Guo Jia, if Zhao Yun did not appear in the three-day period, either Chen or attack the city, but now it has only been two days, it seems that Cao Gong can't wait, but he also knows that only Guo Jia in this world will have such a great impact on Cao Gong, if it is not Guo Jia, I am afraid that Cao Guild will always insist, Zhao Yun does not come, he will not attack Pei County again.
Just as Cao Ren thought in his heart, Cao Cao was suspicious, if it wasn't for Guo Jia to look at the problem calmly and let him always look at the situation clearly, then he might have made past mistakes without knowing it, this kind of thing, when he didn't get Guo Jia earlier, he had already lost a lot.
In fact, Cao Cao was the same after this, such as the Battle of Guandu, but Liu Lan knew, but Cao Cao would never know: "Attacking Pei County, I don't want to see too heavy losses, or if the Pei County defenders resist fiercely, then you have to be extremely careful, Zixiao, then Zhao Yun must be careful." ”
Cao Ren was a little helpless, but there was no way, he promised to let Cao Cao rest assured, but this siege battle, how could it be too easy, it was said that on the battlefield, killing a thousand enemies would lose eight hundred, but in a siege war, it was often to kill a thousand enemies and lose two thousand, so the general generals would rarely take the initiative to attack the city, but would take some means, and if they really encountered a city that had to be beaten, they would let it go.
But he didn't want to lose too much, and he wanted to capture the city, unless the defenders had no intention of defending, otherwise the situation described by Cao Gong would never be possible, but he had no way to change Cao Cao, so he had to try hard, after all, he had the experience of easily taking the outer city, and it was not impossible to take the middle city of Peixian.