Chapter 0682: Cao Cao and Liu Bei's Thoughts
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Wang Lang scolded Cao Cao and Liu Bei in his heart. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 Although he didn't have a good impression of Sun Ce, but entrusted by Zhang Zhaozhi, he couldn't help but complete the task of this trip, otherwise with his personality, he would have left long ago.
"It turned out to be Sun Jian's son, no wonder he was a rebel." Cao Cao sneered, "Sun Jian himself is a rebellious and unruly rebel. When he went north from Changsha to seek Dong, he actually killed Wang Rui, the assassin of Jingzhou, and Zhang Shi, the Taishou of Nanyang, in one go, setting a precedent for killing a member of the imperial court. Although he later had the credit of defeating Dong Zhuo and entering Luoyang, compared to what he did later, what was this credit? ”
"People gather by like, and things are divided by groups." Liu Bei joked, "With a person like Yuan Shu, what good goods can you have?" It's just a pack of mad dogs. For the sake of a bone, anything can be done. ”
Wang Lang smiled angrily: "Yuan Shu is indeed a mad dog, but compared to the two of them, Sun Ce is at most just a wild dog who forgets his righteousness and is shameless. ”
Cao Cao was furious. The corners of Liu Bei's mouth lifted a sneer, and the murderous aura in his eyes suddenly appeared.
Cheng Yu saw that things were not good, and hurriedly got up to dissuade him. Mao Jue and Man Chong took the opportunity to pull Wang Lang out of the big tent.
Although the sudden break between Sun Ce and Yuan Shu is hard to believe, it is indeed possible to think of Yuan Shu taking the initiative to negotiate peace.
After Sun Jian's defeat in Guangling, his fate had become very gloomy with the failure of Yuan Shu's plan to seize the Central Plains, and even if Yuan Shu did not kill him, his fate would be tragic.
Sun Ce, as Sun Jian's eldest son, the father and son share weal and woe, especially now that Sun Jian has handed over everything to Sun Ce, then all these consequences will naturally be borne by Sun Ce.
If Sun Ce wants to completely reverse the situation and control his own destiny, there is only one way, that is, to break with Yuan Shu, and take advantage of Yuan Shu's trap on the battlefield in the Central Plains to join forces with Cao Cao and Liu Bei to kill Yuan Shu.
"This kid is good, three points more ruthless than his father Sun Jian. However, Sun Jian, this kid is not good at stubble, I think he deliberately left the army, causing the current situation. Cao Cao smiled, "Yuan Shuzhi is very talented, he thinks he is very great, he always calculates others, but this time he was calculated by others, haha......"
"Yuan Shu is a gambler, gamblers are ruthless people, I don't know why Yuan Shu was so emotional this time and made such a fatal mistake." Cheng Yu was puzzled.
"People make mistakes, and Yuan Shu is no exception." Liu Bei said with a little schadenfreude, "Back then, Sun Jian was seriously injured under Xiangyang City and almost died, all for Yuan Shu. Today, Yuan Shu was defeated at the hands of Sun Jian, which can be regarded as returning Sun Jian's favor, and he can't complain about Sun Jian and Sun Ce. ”
Several people sighed, and then discussed the way to attack.
Cao Cao advocated throwing Yuan Shao aside, leaving him alone, raising a large army, attacking Yuan Shu with all his might, until he was beaten to the ground, and finally, he said viciously: "If he establishes the emperor again, we will even cut down that bullshit emperor." ”
Liu Bei disagreed. He said: "Although Yuan Shao was pinned down by the Hanoi battlefield, Yuzhou still has the armies of Yuan Wei, Gao Gan, Xu Xuan and others, as well as the grain of Yingchuan, Runan, Chen and other counties, as long as Yuan Shao gives an order, as long as Yuan Shu bows to Yuan Shao, and the brothers join forces to fight back, we will definitely gain nothing." On the contrary, Sun Ce can take this opportunity to easily sit in the two counties of Jiujiang and Lujiang. Yuan Shu's threat has been removed, but Sun Ce's threat has come again, and our rear is still unstable. ”
"In the battle of Jizhou, our losses are too great, and at this moment, it is better to take back Yanzhou and Xuzhou and restore our strength. In addition, Zang Ba in Qingzhou has always been a heart disease, and if Hebei takes the opportunity to control Zang Ba, we will become very passive. We have Yuan Shu in front of us, and Zang Ba in the back, and the two of them have attacked one after the other, and we have not wanted to have a peaceful life in the past two years. ”
"After Yuan Shu withdrew from Yanzhou and Xuzhou, there was no place to stay, so he could only fight Sun Ce. Although Sun Ce's strength is not enough, it is not a matter of a day or two for Yuan Shu to defeat him. We will use a part of our men to help Sun Ce fight against Yuan Shu and let them fight until next spring. We ourselves used this time to settle the affairs of Qingzhou, and then we joined forces to attack Yuanshu, and then the two counties of Yangzhou and Jiangbei should be able to fall in one fell swoop. ”
Cao Cao insisted on taking advantage of the victory to attack. For Cao Cao, the Central Plains was dilapidated and plagued, and he urgently needed a place to provide him with money, food, and wealth to dominate the Central Plains. As long as Yuan Shu is defeated, and then Sun Ce is attacked, and the two counties of Jiujiang and Lujiang are occupied, and even Jiangdong is defeated, the rear of the Central Plains will be completely stabilized, and the food will be guaranteed, of course he does not want to lose this opportunity. You must know that today's four counties in Jiangdong are not the wild places of the past. After more than 10 years of war, a large number of people fled south of the Yangtze River, which had already become a ruin in the Central Plains, but it had achieved prosperity in the Jiangdong region.
Liu Bei thought about it for a long time and didn't insist anymore. Anyway, almost all of the main forces attacking Yuan Shu now are from Cao Cao's army, and he is happy to sit back and enjoy it. If Cao Cao and Yuan Shu lose both, he may be able to take the opportunity to take back the three counties of Xuzhou, Pengcheng, Xiapi and Guangling, which were occupied by Cao Cao and Yuan Shu.
Of course, if Cao Cao and Yuan Shu were traumatized enough, it was not impossible for them to take the opportunity to seize more territory. After all, Lujiang County and Jiujiang County are both rich places with large populations, and they are many times stronger than Xuzhou, which was slaughtered by Cao Cao a few years ago. Not to mention anything else, the population of Jiujiang County alone is now more than the five counties of Xuzhou.
After Cao Cao's massacre at the beginning and the Yellow Turban Rebellion in the previous years, the population of the entire five counties of Xuzhou is now only more than 800,000. But Jiujiang County, a county, has a population of one million. Lujiang County is not far behind, with a population of more than 600,000.
Such a populous and wealthy place is simply the biggest waste in the hands of Yuan Shu's wreck. If he can take these two counties, then he will really rise.
Cao Cao issued an order in the name of the Son of Heaven to worship Sun Ce as the general to capture and lead the Yangzhou Assassin History, and urged him to take the entire territory of Jiujiang County as soon as possible, and then attack Yuan Shu from the direction of Jiujiang County to the north, so as to kill the rebels as soon as possible and stabilize Sheji.
Wang Lang wanted to leave but didn't leave. What Cao Cao lacks now is people, especially a prestigious and prestigious person like Wang Lang. In the name of the Son of Heaven, he worshiped Wang Lang as the Guanglu doctor, and rebuilt the court with Cheng Yu, Mao Jue, Man Chong and others.
In late October, Cao Cao suddenly led an army to attack the city of Changyi.
Yuan Shu knew that the news of Sun Ce's betrayal had leaked, and immediately retreated to Peiguo with the thousands of men and horses who stayed in Changyi. Cao Cao led his army in pursuit, day and night. Yuan Shu was very embarrassed and fled three hundred miles in one go. Cao Cao's front army, under the leadership of Xiahou Yuan and Cao Chun, pursued closely.
When they arrived near Dangshan, Ji Ling's army finally appeared. He commanded a large army to ambush Xiahou Yuan. Xiahou Yuan suffered a heavy blow and lost more than 3,000 people in one battle. Cao Chun commanded 3,000 tigers and leopards to ride to the rescue and finally rescued Xiahou Yuan.
After Cao Cao, who was then pursuing, received the news, he had no choice but to stop and join Liu Bei in the Xiao County of Peiguo and Pengcheng of Pengcheng in Pengcheng.
Qiao Rui and Zhang Xun joined forces and captured Xiapi City, occupying most of the counties of Xiapi County.
At the end of October, Yuan Shu's army was stationed on the front line of Xiangcheng in Peiguo and Xiapi County, facing Cao Cao and Liu Bei's army.
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At the same time as the tide of the war in the Central Plains was reversed, the battlefield in Hanoi also underwent unexpected changes.
After Tai Shici led the army to Huaicheng, he checked the terrain everywhere, and then ordered the army to feint to attack the city, and at the same time organized 100,000 people to weave straw bags and fill the soil day and night, and fill the river with straw bags filled with soil in the upper reaches of the Qinshui River to cut off the water flow.
The elite of the 2,000 Fourth Army Corps, under the command of Tai Shici, crossed the Qinshui River, haunted everywhere, and drove all the people within 50 miles of Huaicheng to the area of Pinggao City near Jishui.
In early November, in the middle of a dark night, Tai Shici ordered the embankment to be broken and flooded.
Due to the abundant rain in the Central Plains in the recent period, the river water has swelled, and the rushing water is surging, and it has been drained down with the momentum of destruction and decay. Within 50 miles from the Qinshui River to the Yellow River, it all turned into an ocean overnight.
Tai Shi Ci's plan was very vicious, this big flood, not only flooded Huaicheng, washed away the Chidao and houses, but also flooded the north bank of the Yellow River from the nearest several ferries to Huaicheng, including Pinggaojin, Guangwujin, and Aocangjin.
At this time, Yuan Zhong and Xia Zhao, who led the reinforcements to Aocang, looked at the water on the other side, helpless, and there was no way.
Guo Tu, Han Hao, Han Qiong, and Tao Sheng in Huaicheng led an army of 10,000 and refused to surrender.
The unwillingness of officials to surrender does not mean that their subordinates are also unwilling to surrender. Five days later, when rescue was hopeless, a military commander who was the leader of the Yellow Turban Army in Montenegro ordered the city gate to be opened and the Northern Xinjiang Army into the city.
Tao Sheng led the army to fight to the death and was hacked to death with a knife. Han Hao was captured with all his might. Han Qiong, Guo Tu and others fought their way out of the encirclement and fled into the muddy wilderness while taking advantage of the chaos. Zhang Nan, who was stationed in Pinggao City, had been sending people to search in the flood area recently, and after the scouts found Guo Tu and the others, they hurriedly protected them and fled to Pinggao City.
If Huaicheng is lost, Hanoi will be lost.
However, even worse news followed.
Sima Yi led the elite of the 500 Northern Xinjiang Army to haunt the mountains and mountains, and on this day, he took advantage of the dark night to run a hundred miles to kill near Heyang City, and burned all the grain and grass accumulated near Heyang City. Sima Yi was still not satisfied, and took advantage of the chaos to burn hundreds of boats on the Yangjin ferry in Heyangjin.
Guo Tu immediately made a decision and concentrated all his forces in the three cities of Pinggao, Wenxian and Heyang.
These three cities are on the north bank of the Yellow River and are the three necessary routes to Luoyang. As long as these three cities are held, Luoyang has not directly faced the threat of the Northern Frontier Army for the time being. (To be continued.) )