Invincible from the beginning of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 435
After fighting all night, Zhang Ming and the others withdrew their troops.

The army withdrew.

And Cao Jun counted the losses. This night, they lost thousands of people. '

How many thousands of them can die?

"Starting tonight, unless the enemy rushes to you, defend with your shield and don't fight."

Cao Ren gave the order.

This time Cao Ren took command and led the army.

Cao Cao couldn't come in person. He wanted to sit in Xuchang and plan to move south.

This is a big event, and there are too many things to deal with, so he must guard it personally.

It is helpless to let Cao Ren lead. Cao Ren may not be able to lead Xu Chu and Lv Bu, but the generals surnamed Cao and Xiahou are very convinced by Cao Ren.

Cao Cao can only arrange this way.

Only defend, not attack.

In fact, Lu Bu is very dissatisfied, so why let him come?

Let him set it up.

Most of the generals are really a display.

However, this battle is too important, whether Zhang Ming can be blocked is very crucial.

Therefore, Cao Cao must send out the most elite soldiers and horses.

On the second night, Zhang Ming and the others attacked again.

But playing all night didn't make much progress.

The enemy defended, huddled behind shields, no matter how powerful their crossbowmen were.

If they want to rush forward and fight hand to hand, Zhang Ming and the others will be at a disadvantage. Zhang Ming won't do this kind of thing.

In this way, for three days in a row, Zhang Ming and the others attacked in three nights, killing only a few hundred people.

They were held back, completely unable to advance or retreat.

During the few days when Cao Ren blocked Zhang Ming, Cao Cao had already arranged everything for the family members of some officials at home, and began to move south.

Moving south was a long process, and Cao Cao needed time.

For several days, it was useless except to harass the enemy.

Zhang Ming and the others didn't kill a few enemies and made little progress.

The army is here, and both sides need to bear huge consumption.

Zhang Ming is also under a lot of pressure.

The 20 army attacked and consumed countless food and grass every day.

On the seventh day, there was still no progress.

Zhang He and Xi Zhicai took another route with [-] troops, but they were also intercepted by the enemy.

But there are not many enemies who intercept them, only a mere [-].

In Xuchang, there are a large number of convoys going south every day, and they are going to move south.

Cao Cao first organized important people and their families to move south.

Some aristocratic families can organize their own migration to the south.

These aristocratic families are miserable, many of them escaped all the way from the north.

Without running once, their family property will shrink greatly.

Every time I have to abandon my home, the land I bought, and so on.

No way, Zhang Ming chased him, but there was still nothing.

In fact, if they can give up and return to Zhang Ming, although they will lose so many privileges, they can still retain their wealth.

It's just that you can't own a lot of land, you can't have private soldiers, you can't interfere with the local government, and so on.

What made them intolerable the most was that their children could not directly become officials or intervene in government affairs, which deprived them of most of their privileges.

They rely on these privileges to have such a large family property.

Therefore, they want to follow Cao Cao, not Zhang Ming.

Some people simply fled further, and ran to Jingzhou. It may be very difficult for Zhang Ming to attack Jingzhou.

Therefore, now Jingzhou has gathered a large number of aristocratic families, and they are very rich.

The entire Jingzhou has been stable for many years and is still very rich.

In Yanzhou, a large number of people began to move south, but it was too difficult and they needed a lot of time.

Cao Cao didn't sleep for long every day, and kept running back and forth, which was very hard.

A large number of people moved south, requiring many people to organize.

The whole of Xuchang, Chen Liu, and many other places are in a mess.

Some people took the opportunity to be malicious.

All this needs Cao Cao to deal with.

Still others don't want to leave their homes.

For some wealthy aristocratic families, Cao Cao would personally go to the door to mobilize them to move south.

These people can organize themselves, as long as they are willing to move south, there is no need for Cao Cao to organize another force to help them.

However, there are always many aristocratic families who are unwilling to relocate, and the loss of this relocation is too great.

Cao Cao could only come to the door in person and promise benefits.

However, there are still some aristocratic families who don't buy it.

Cao Cao is in a bad mood every time he comes back, and he can't use force to solve it now.

If force is used, it can be solved, but the whole Yanzhou is in chaos, and Cao Cao dare not be careless at all.

In this way, Cao Cao is very tired every day.

In the south, Cao Ang is very capable and has done a very good job.

Cao Cao has transferred a lot of wealth and moved to the south.

After the official family is organized, Cao Cao will start to organize the people. This requires the cooperation of the army, otherwise there will be no coordination, and there will be big problems.

Cao Cao also used many war horses and changed them into carriages, preparing to pull the people south.

To take the people away, the whole family must be taken away, otherwise there will be big problems.

At that time, they will be dissatisfied with Cao Cao and make trouble, or sneak away, which will make them very difficult to handle.

Therefore, people's homes, no matter they are old or young, must take it with them.

This makes it more difficult, and some old people have no value, so they have to be brought along.

Cao Cao was very difficult.

However, it was not easy for Zhang Ming at this time.

Been playing for a few days with no progress.

Zhang Ming and the enemy have been in a stalemate here for ten days.

"Zilong, go out for a drive with me."

Thinking hard about the strategy, there was no progress, so Zhang Ming took Zhao Yunfei to the sky and went up in a hot air balloon.

There are too many mountains here. Even if Zhang Ming used a hot air balloon to attack from above, he would not be able to kill a few people. This is not a city.

"Brother, the pressure on logistics is almost equal to both of us."

Zhao Yun reminded.

"We delay here, the more time Cao Cao has to transfer the population."

Zhang Ming already knew the news about Cao Cao.

Up above, watching the occasional lights below.

Zhang Ming couldn't help it with the nature, the continuous mountains, so that Zhang Ming had no progress for a few days.

"Brother, why don't you send special forces to sneak attack their food and grass, and infiltrate inside to hunt down their generals."

"Okay, let's treat this as military training. If there are any big gains, that's good too."

"In addition, there must be a team of soldiers and horses going to the rear to sneak attack their food roads, but the enemy escort must be quite a lot."

"We specialize in doing things that other people can't do."

"Send people to investigate for a few days first to determine the situation in the mountains, and then we will find a way."

Swinging around at high altitude, Zhang Ming went back.

After returning, Zhang Ming handed over the matter to Zhao Yun, but he didn't care about it.

Zhang Ming summarized the news from all parties.

The pressure on Cao Cao is indeed huge, 10,000+ soldiers and horses need to eat and drink, and the rear is constantly transporting food and grass.

If Cao Ang hadn't harvested a lot from farming, I'm afraid Cao Cao would have to go around to raise food and grass now.

"Perhaps, it will really take a year and a half."

There is no other way, Zhang Ming can only wait.

Slowly spending time with Cao Cao, he believed that Cao Cao would be overwhelmed by him in the end, but let him take away a large number of people and wealth.

Although it is a pity, it is definitely worthwhile to win Yanzhou.

(End of this chapter)