Chapter 241: The Battle of Runan [Finale]
There is always a certainty and a change in everything.
Gao Shun led Zhang Liao's Daxu to attack Chengfu and contain almost half of Cao's troops, and this matter was not easy for anyone, especially Cao Cao. For more than ten years, the Yan clan has defeated one powerful prince after another, and has moved forward step by step towards the feat of pacifying the world. The Cao clan is only one of these princes, and as the Yan clan's offensive becomes stronger and stronger, it is the Yan clan's momentum that rises.
Crisscrossing the northern states and the land in the middle of the military alliance, holding the most dangerous and richest areas in the world, there is a great tendency to calm the world and give up who I am. And the name that Yanbei gave to his son also made the princes of all walks of life tremble...... Huan, Huan dial, called the great governance.
People thought that Yanbei would give the descendants the name of Feng, the name of Zen or the dangerous places such as Jin and Guan, so as to dominate the ambition. But people didn't expect that Yan Bei was much more confident than they imagined, he had no intention of dragging this war in the name of pacifying the world to his children and grandchildren, and he gave birth to a son to govern the world.
Things like secession, quelling chaos, hegemony, and being the emperor, Yanbei never considered leaving it to the child.
One man will beat the princes of the world all over the ground to find teeth.
Cao Cao panicked, he was always panicked, and when he heard that Yuan Shao died in Xuzhou, he was even more panicked. But he can't help it, surrender? It seems that the mountains and rivers are not exhausted, so it is all dependent on death.
There was a war in Xiangxian County, and the corpses floated down the Yingshui, although there didn't seem to be many dead, but it made people feel the suffocation and oppression of Yanbei step by step. Cao Cao even thought of personally leading his troops to Cheng's father to fight Zhang Liao to the death.
won the situation and recaptured Yuzhou, and in the coming year, he could fight to the death with the Yan family in Yanzhou; If you lose, you will be reduced to a prisoner or die on the battlefield, and your life will be more or less in vain.
At this time, there was a group of water bandits in the south who broke through the Cao clan's originally scarce naval blockade and landed on the south side of Ruyin, and a few thousand people killed and plundered in Ruyin for a while, destroying the countryside in a few days, causing the people to be uneasy, and finally burned Cao's two granaries outside Ruyin City.
How hateful?
The heavy rain outside soaked the houses where the grain and grass were stored, and the fire inside was smoldering, but the water bandits were very sophisticated, and killed not one of the hundreds of people stationed in the granary. When a team of Cao Jun patrol sergeants found a lifeless granary in, they saw that there were corpses of people and horses everywhere, soaked in the rain and rotten, and when they touched it, they exploded into a mess of meat, and injured several people as a result.
As for the grain in the warehouse...... It's all burned to charcoals!
The muddy road from the granary to the shore for hundreds of miles is full of ruts, and the missing grain particles can be turned out in the soil, and the shore can be seen everywhere with piles of abandoned two-wheeled carts, all destroyed by knives and axes.
"It's just the Yan clan's southern attack, do the water bandits dare to bully my Cao clan!"
Cao Cao didn't know that this was not an ordinary group of water bandits, ordinary water thieves on the river could have a scale of nearly 1,000 people like Gan Ning, they were already big water thieves, and where could they gather thousands of people and horses, to carry them, they needed several fighting ships, dozens of ships and nearly 100 walks, where are the water bandits on the river, and they are clearly the water army!
The leader of these people is Xue Zhou, Xu Huang ordered him to lead his troops west to support the Jingzhou battlefield, to the south of the river, because the ship was destroyed by the wind, Xue Zhou patted his head and thought: We are now the Yan Clan's naval army, this Cao clan in Runan is also considered an enemy army, just in autumn, Runan must have grain!
Although the ship was destroyed, the thieves who begged for a living at sea were all proficient in water, and they did not get any loss in the soldiers, but they just wanted to get some more color from elsewhere, and immediately drove the boat north to Yingshui, and in one fell swoop defeated several fighting ships that the Cao clan used to prevent the Sun clan's warship from acting as a scout in the water, and sailed straight into Ruyin, which led to the Cao clan's granary bloody case.
Cao's stove fire was not prosperous, not to mention the soldiers, even Cao Cao, the commander, thought about whether to surrender to the Yan clan in the dead of night, but in a blink of an eye, he was drawn by a group of water thieves and robbed Ruyin's new grain hoarding this year!
Xue Zhou patted his ass and sailed west, anyway, the Cao family, who lacked a naval army, couldn't catch them. But his casual behavior brought Cao Cao a lot of trouble - Ruyin ran out of food.
It's just autumn, and it's still a few months before the spring of next year, but the small half of the grain and grass in Runan have been burned, how can this battle be fought?
There is a war in the east, but the granary of Ruyin has been burned, and the remaining grain and grass in the eastern part of the entire southern part of the country can support 20,000 soldiers and horses to eat for thirty years, and the nearest granary is Dingying and Pingyu in the west of Ruyin.
The situation seemed to be pressing towards Cao Cao more and more urgently, and he did not dare to stop for almost a moment, so Tanma hurriedly rushed westward, and issued an order to the second county to leave all the grain and grass used for wintering to Ruyin.
Then, Ruyin entered the moment of arming the army, and Cao Cao wanted to lead the army to personally go east to supervise the battle against Zhang Liao, and fight to the death!
In three days, Cao Cao personally sent 8,000 troops to escort the ordnance from Ruyin to the east, and gathered as many as 20,000 troops from the eastern counties of Runan with the intention of repelling the 'Zhang Liao' who attacked Cheng's father, and even took advantage of the geographical advantage to capture the Pei State in the east and the Liang State in the north, and regain the land that belonged to him...... Of course, the most important thing is to eat the enemy.
The army marched for only one day, and there were scouts from the front army to report that Sishan guarded Xiahoudun and Yan's army to besiege Sishan fought in the northern mountains of Sishan, and there were casualties among each other, Xiahoudun sent a message to Cao Cao's north that the enemy was only attacking, and only one of the soldiers and horses of the captain's department were defeated by him, and at most five days they could break through its siege and try to attack the rear of the 'Zhang Liao' army in the north, blocking it in the valley.
This news was great news for Cao Cao, who immediately sent a message to reward Xiahoudun, and then marched eastward. Half a day later, at night, the rider who had sent a message to Ruyin also came, but the news was not good news.
Han Hao, a subordinate general of Xiahoudun, led 4,000 troops to help Chengfu for one day, and that night led a thousand troops to attack at night to destroy the enemy's stone artillery, but fell into the siege and died in the chaos, and the thousands of troops were wiped out. The next day, the enemy army broke through the city in a big way, Li Dian was defeated, and the combined army of 4,000 all withdrew from the city, leaving two bends to block the enemy's break, leading more than 2,000 soldiers to avoid Chengfu, just when Cao Ang led the army to arrive, the enemy's offensive was slightly slow, otherwise Chengfu was in danger of falling.
Hearing this, Cao Cao became even more anxious, and immediately ordered more than 10,000 soldiers led by the institute to march quickly...... At the time of the expedition, the budget subordinates could reach 26,000 people, but in the blink of an eye, there were only 18,000 subordinates left. Zhang Liao's offensive in Chengfu is like fire, if he loses the last 5,000 defenders of Chengfu, I am afraid that this battle will not be fought.
Defeat twice as many enemies led by Zhang Liao in a field battle?
Don't talk about Cao Cao, since the battle of Yancao for Yanzhou, I'm afraid no one in the world dares to say that it is better than such a war!
Just when Cao Cao led his army to the north of the avenue and was only 270 miles away from Chengfu, the rear probe horse galloped in, and the situation in the battle report made Cao Cao immediately faint and fall off the horse, and his head wind was offended.
On the letter, Cao Hong, the defender of Ruyang City, said clearly that Zhang Liao sent 40,000 troops to besiege Ruyang, leaving more than 10,000 soldiers and horses to besiege the city, and personally led the army straight to Ruyin, so that Cao Cao could deal with it carefully and defend it according to Yingshui!