Weird Three Kingdoms

Chapter 3323: Cavalry

The news that the vanguard of the Cavalry Army appeared near Lonely Peak Mountain was delivered to Cao Cao by an express horse that could travel 800 miles to a place.

Although Cao Cao and others had anticipated this, they still felt uneasy when they heard the news that the cavalry army was coming in overwhelming force.

Suddenly, whether Anyi gained or lost was not so important.

In Cao Cao's tent, the light from the torches and braziers shone on everyone's face, seeming to add a bit of greasy sheen to everyone. It was unclear whether this greasy sheen was the cold sweat caused by fear or the blood color of excitement.

Cao Cao narrowed his eyes and pondered in silence.

Cao Hong was at the next position and didn't say anything either.

After Cao Hong, the other generals kept chattering in low voices.

"That old man Bao has been fighting for so many days but still hasn't been able to take Anyi! He has also lost a lot of good men in vain. If I were to go, I would definitely be able to take Anyi!"

"You bastard, if you were sure, what would you have done earlier? Why are you saying this now? The defenders in Anyi are fighting desperately, can they really put all their strength into this broken city?"

"We haven't been able to take Anyi yet...will we attack again tomorrow?"

"Fight tomorrow? Who has the heart to fight? Send that old man again..."

"Ahem..."

The military student who was chattering suddenly remembered that Cao Hong seemed to be supervising the battle in the second half of today, so he quickly swallowed the rest of his words.

But no matter what these military academies said, the topic all revolved around Anyi City, as if Anyi City was the top priority they had to face.

As for the Hussars, no one dared to talk about them, no one dared to mention them, and no one dared to pat their chests and stand up, saying that they could lead thousands of troops to take the heads of the Hussars and so on...

It is just like when the later generations’ braided rulers met foreigners, they only dared to yell, demonstrate, and insult their subordinates and people, but they did not dare to mention the foreigners at all.

During the attack and defense of Anyi, Bao Zhong's child was unfortunately injured. Since he is not there to look after the child, this old guy is naturally the best scapegoat.

  As long as you get the job done, why worry that there won’t be any mistakes to be found?

Cao Cao narrowed his eyes and weighed the situation in his mind.

According to today's offensive and defensive situation, it is only a matter of time before Anyi is captured, but Anyi is not the focus of this war right now...

No matter how hard Pei struggled, he had reached the end of his rope.

The only variable is the arrival of the cavalry.

  If they could defeat the Cavalry, Anyi would be like a poultry in a cage. It would just take a little more effort to catch it. But if they lost, the poultry in the cage alone might not be able to compensate for the loss!

What's more, if it really comes to that, there might be some benefits in leaving behind the damaged and casualties in Anyi.

However, Cao Cao naturally could not say this, so when Cao Cao glanced at Dong Zhao, he couldn't help but miss Guo Jia again.

If Fengxiao were here...

Dong Zhao coughed under Cao Cao's eye signal and said slowly: "My Lord, please understand... I have heard that a strong crossbow cannot penetrate Lu silk. Why is that? A strong crossbow is a sharp weapon, with the power to penetrate gold and split stone; while Lu silk is a thin gauze, as light as nothing. However, the power of a strong crossbow cannot penetrate Lu silk. The reason is just like what is happening now."

"The strength of the cavalry is like a powerful crossbow. Although it is powerful, it has no follow-up power, just like floating clouds covering the sun, it will eventually disperse. We only need to hold our ground and resist its sharp edge. When its power is weakened and its strength is exhausted, the day of victory is just around the corner. This is the way to overcome the hard with the soft, which is also important in the art of war..."

As Dong Zhao spoke, Cao Cao nodded slightly on the surface, but in fact, Cao Cao was not satisfied with what Dong Zhao said.

At this point, even if there is no eight wins and eight losses, there must be five generals, four schools, and three Shangyou...

  Ahem, ahem, without these, how can we be inspiring?

But Dong Zhao has always been like this. Flying close to the ground is not his strong point, so Cao Cao just listened to him.

The plan Cao Cao originally made with Guo Jia, Dong Zhao and others was that even if they could not win this time, they would consume most of the strength of the cavalry, and then use the manpower of Shandong to suppress Guanzhong, and finally win the strategic victory.

  Of course, to put it more politely, it is exchanging time for space, and manpower for advantage, but in reality it is filling the hole with human lives until Fei Qian is dragged down!

Naturally, these things will not be said explicitly.

But later, the Treaty of Shanshan Kingdom that Fei Qian sent from the Western Regions was like a blow to this plan.

Fei Qian also did not directly tell Cao Cao that severing contacts and cutting off trade would not make Guanzhong poor. Isn't it true that Shanshan alone could make Guanzhong poor for several years...

Cao Cao then asked Shanshan to send the troops to Shandong. On the one hand, it was meaningless to intercept them. On the other hand, he hoped that the Shandong people would see the difficulty of dealing with Fei Qian and unite more. The result was obvious. When the Shandong people saw the difficulty, they surrendered directly and stood at the spring in a daze.

It’s not that Cao doesn’t want to hold the line, nor that Cao Mengde’s Montesquieu’s Art of War is useless, but that there are too many teammates who hold him back.

This was also a common problem in the middle and late feudal dynasties. As more and more officials in the court were in office but doing nothing, the local gentry who held power took public power as their private property. If they wanted to fight against foreign enemies, it was like wearing shackles and handcuffs, and fighting with rusty weapons that could break at any time.

  The reason why Cao Cao still insisted was not because he hated Fei Qian, nor because of jealousy, or any other negative emotions, but simply because Cao Cao did not believe that Fei Qian's path would work!

The Han Dynasty had been unable to make progress for three or four hundred years, but Fei Qian was able to make progress on this path. And he was able to do it well?

Although the world is vast, there are never many roads that can accommodate it.

Yuan Benchu ​​thought that he was the foundation of the Han Dynasty and that the original intention of the Han Dynasty was with him, but in the end, he lost both the foundation and the original intention. Yuan Gonglu thought that he was the public servant of the Han Dynasty and that he was the only one who could walk the path of the world, but in the end, he was walking a dead end.

  What about the other princes?

Cao Cao's thoughts spread...

Dong Zhuo was not a very talented person.

Tao Qian did not have a good ending because of his humility.

Han Fu, ahaha, his name was Fu but he died in a muddy place.

Sun Ce had no strategy and lost his life, Liu Bei had no preparation and was displaced, Sun Quan had no power and was confined to Jiangdong...

Only this Fei Qian...

Cao Cao's eyes narrowed even more.

really……

  What about yourself?

Fuck!

Cao Cao slammed the table and said in a deep voice: "It's too late to think about it! The whole army should be united and fight the cavalry together! Pass the order to prepare more sand, trees, traps and chevaux de frise to fight the cavalry!"

Everyone responded in unison!

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The Yuncheng Basin was originally a rich place in Hedong and an annex to the Henan Yinheluo area of ​​the Han Dynasty.

This place is actually quite interesting.

Hedong County already existed in the Western Han Dynasty and was directly under the jurisdiction of the Sili Xiaowei Department. In other words, at the beginning of the Han Dynasty, Hedong was closer to Guanzhong, but in the Eastern Han Dynasty, due to its unique geographical location, it became a weathervane for the struggle between Guanzhong and Guandong forces.

In the Western Han Dynasty, Hedong County was sandwiched between Guanzhong and Hebei, and was both a link between the two and a focus of contention during confrontation. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, the capital was set in Luoyang, and the political and economic center moved to the Heluo Plain, which made Hedong County, as a key link on the road from Guanzhong to Heluo, significantly further strengthened its strategic position in imperial politics.

During the Eastern Han Dynasty, Hedong County was often used as a bargaining chip by the emperor to threaten Shandong, but it would be quickly thrown aside after use.

It's a bit like a chamber pot.

After using it so much, Hedong County is of course very restless.

Therefore, it is natural for the gentry and local gentry in the Yuncheng Basin area of ​​Hedong to have their own opinions.

At this time inside the Huoqi camp, the three-color commander's flag representing the Huoqi was flying high. Inside the big tent, Fei Qian, Xun Chen, Xu Chu and others were discussing military affairs.

The main affairs were still headed by Xun Chen and Xu Chu, while the other civil servants and military officers were just there to listen.

The slower you go, the more prepared you will be for action.

Once things are understood, execution will be more orderly.

"According to the scouts, the Pei family in Anyi is still holding out. However, Cao's army is attacking very quickly... Anyi may have suffered heavy losses..." Xun Chen said in a low voice. Fei Qian nodded slightly, looking calm.

He could have sent troops and cavalry to support Anyi at any time, but he was unwilling to do so.

Obviously, Cao Cao had deployed a huge formation near Anyi. Attacking Anyi with cavalry alone without the cover of infantry and artillery was undoubtedly a desperate act.

Cavalry does have an advantage over infantry. In terms of movement speed and transfer range, there is no problem in bullying those with shorter legs. However, Cao's army will not simply compete with the cavalry on the same track...

There is not much significance in just rescuing Anyi.

The right thing to do is for Fei Qian to defeat Cao Cao's main force and achieve a decisive victory.

Xu Chu said, "General Zhang sent someone to deliver a message saying that he had discovered the movement of Cao's army... Could it be that Cao's army is planning to attack our rear and also launch a surprise attack on Linfen to cut off our food supply?"

Fei Qian turned around and asked Xun Chen, "What do you think?"

Xun Chen pondered for a moment, then said decisively: "This is a common tactic used by Cao's army! Cao Mengde likes to cut off other people's food supply... Therefore, Cao's army must have a detachment, either attacking our flanks, or harassing our rear, or even intercepting our food supply and destroying our baggage. But with General Zhang protecting our flanks, there should be no worries."

"Yes." Fei Qian nodded, "Order him to lead the troops to patrol the east side of Emei Mountain to prevent Cao's army from infiltrating and attacking."

Xun Chen responded and wrote down the order.

"The front army has come into contact with Cao's army. When Cao's army saw our troops, they either retreated to their camp or fled far away," Xu Chu asked again, "May I ask if we can divide our forces to attack them?"

Fei Qian thought for a moment, shook his head and said, "This is probably a plan of Cao's army. It is better to cut off one finger than to injure five fingers. Cao's army still relies on Cao Mengde, so we cannot attack indiscriminately. The cavalry's current responsibility is still to protect the two wings of the infantry and advance slowly."

Xu Chu also obeyed the order.

Then some military-related issues were discussed.

Fei Qian also made arrangements one by one.

Fei Qian could certainly guess that Cao Cao liked to cut off the food supply.

The reason why Fei Qian asked Xun Chen was, on the one hand, to test Xun Chen's ideas, and on the other hand, to make Xun Chen better adaptable to this mode of fighting against Shandong.

Everyone has a family of origin, but we cannot talk about it as if it is a sin we are carrying. It seems that by putting all the problems on the family of origin, we can absolve ourselves of our own faults.

Xun Chen was born into a noble family in Yingchuan, and had multiple BUFFs or DEBUFFs on him. If he could not face these problems, he would eventually stop in Hedong and would not be able to move forward.

Fei Qian is going to take a path that has never been taken before and it is hard to say whether there will be anyone who can succeed him. It is not an easy task to reverse the trap of the small peasant economic system in the current Han Dynasty.

After all, there were so many benefits of the small peasant economy in the feudal dynasty.

Even though Fei Qian was not a professional in the economic system, he understood that the reason why the feudal dynasty chose the small peasant economy system as its main structural model was because the small peasant economy was so important and so useful in maintaining the social stability of the feudal dynasty.

That’s right, stability.

What the Chinese feudal dynasties liked most was "stability" and what they feared most was "change".

"Stability" means that the class is stable and everything is fine.

The small peasant economy is based on the family as the production unit and is highly decentralized. This decentralization makes it difficult for farmers to unite, thus reducing the threat to the central government. At the same time, since each household is self-sufficient and consumes the products they produce, this model reduces the demand for market transactions, reduces social instability caused by market economic fluctuations, is not prone to regional looting and shortages, and is relatively simple to manage.

What is interesting is that under the small peasant economy system, the dispersion and independence of various regions require a strong central authority to maintain social order, and the central court needs to grant official titles to local officials to demonstrate their legitimacy. Therefore, it naturally became the only economic system under feudal autocracy.

Stable and solid.

Constraint, bondage.

Farmers were bound to the land, which reduced population mobility and was conducive to social stability. This closedness also made farmers more receptive to the education of feudal ethics and morality. Ideological control was not only reflected in political loyalty, but also penetrated into all aspects of daily life, consolidating the ideological foundation of the feudal dynasty.

By the time of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang even thought that it could be stable from generation to generation...

Obviously, the small peasant economy can have strong stability in maintaining the imperial power or under feudal rule, but its fragility makes it difficult to resist large-scale natural disasters and man-made disasters, and its dispersion also leads to a slow spread of technological innovation. This is why after the establishment of the Chinese feudal dynasty, technology is difficult to grow and the technology tree cannot be climbed. In the later period, under the three redundancies, once encountering a strong enemy, the root of GG is defeated...

If Fei Qian wants to get out of this trap, he must first knock off the shell of the aristocratic family. Xun Chen was born into an aristocratic family, but when he became the manager of the country and the planner of the court, he could no longer be just a son of the aristocratic family. He had to take off his original shell and face new pain in order to grow.

In addition to Xun Chen, there are also new cultivators who have grown up in Shoushan Academy during this period, such as Wang Xiang and Xue Ping who went to Guanzhong some time ago, and Le Xiang and Xu Ying who went south with Fei Qian this time.

These people are adapting and growing.

There are also cavalrymen. In addition to the cavalry commanders such as Zhao Yun, Zhang Liao, and Zhang Xiu, Fei Qian also discovered some guys who may have been unknown before...

Li Li.

A guy from a poor family, he worked his way up through the military ranks and became a military officer in Fei Qian's cavalry camp.

Zhang Jing.

This man was very courageous and a natural warrior. He performed well in the Yinshan Cavalry Training Camp and became a good grassroots cavalry general.

Abalone out.

He was a big, strong man with a strong physique. He was originally a wanderer with nothing at home. Well, after Fei Qian cracked down on the wanderer business, he changed his job and joined the army. After all, the benefits and salary in Fei Qian's army were better than being a wanderer with no food to eat. Now he is a military school under Xu Zhu.

In addition to these Han grassroots military academy non-commissioned officers, there were also Hu people.

For example, Qubei of the Qubei tribe.

To get rid of the inferiority, of course, means to get rid of the inferiority of the Xianbei.

Qubei was a Southern Xiongnu. He was the strongest and bravest in the Qubei tribe, so he inherited the name "Qubei". Of course, now this guy changed his name to Liu Qu. This guy was a natural cavalry general. In addition to his good martial arts, his riding skills were even more superb. He could even sleep on the horse's back while it was running without falling off.

And so on. There were many other officers and military academies who grew up, but this time they stayed where they were and did not follow Fei Qian south.

From Taiyuan, Shangdang, Beidi, Guanzhong...

There are.

These people are talents who have developed and grown under Fei Qian's guidance. They have gradually replaced the power of the original local gentry and built up the middle and low-level structure under Fei Qian, which will also become the foundation for future development.

Today, the word "骠骑" is no longer a simple title, nor does it simply refer to Fei Qian alone.

Getting rid of the original system of the gentry and rebuilding one's own talent pool is undoubtedly a very difficult task, especially when Fei Qian was almost "stubborn" in carrying out literacy in the army and letting soldiers learn to read in military schools, which made many children of the gentry sneer and think that Fei Qian was simply crazy...

But now, Fei Qian has gradually entered the harvest period.

At least Fei Qian proved that knowledge can be transmitted through Confucianism, but it does not necessarily have to be Confucianism.

When Confucius advocated teaching without discrimination, he never thought of letting his disciples monopolize knowledge and become academic tycoons, and then spread their reputation for thousands of years and pass on their messages for hundreds of generations, and then secretly write the word "cannibalism" in black and white on paper.

Therefore, Fei Qian is currently fighting against Cao Cao, and defeating Cao Cao is naturally his primary goal, but in addition to that, it is also about nurturing and training him so that the losses can be reduced and growth can be greater.

This is a changing of the times.

"It is my honor to fight with you in Hedong today, to eliminate evil and restore the glory of the Han Dynasty. In the past, when I implemented the new system and distributed the meritorious fields to the generals, I said..." Fei Qian said slowly, "This is a good time, and this is also a bad time. This is ignorance, and this is wisdom. This can also be bright, and this can also be dark. This may be firm belief, and this may be great confusion. This is a beautiful spring, and there is also a cold winter of despair... Let us encourage each other!"

Xun Chen, Xu Chu and others all stood up, clasped their hands and bowed, "We are willing to follow the lord's footsteps!"