Xiaoguangong

Chapter 135 You Don’t Want Your Son to Starve, Do You

At the beginning of May in the 14th year of Jian'an, Cao Cao received four urgent military reports within five days

These four military newspapers were from Le Jin, Cai Mao, Yun Shan, and Cao Ren who was trapped in Jiangling.

A summary of the military information of these four military newspapers, a very astonishing news was placed on Cao Cao's desk——

Not long ago, Jingzhou Mu Caihao personally led Jiangxia prefect Yunshan and Le Jin's other minister Cao Pi to march to Dangyang together, and defeated Guan Yu on the Han River, breaking Guan Yu's long-term blockade of Han River.After that, Cai Mao left Yunshan to guard the Hanshui waterway to ensure the safety of the rear team. He personally led the army to Dangyang, and soon started a confrontation with the enemy.

During the battle, General Fenwei Manchong underestimated the enemy and rushed forward, but was captured by the enemy general Zhang Fei.

But Cao Pi remained calm in the face of danger, and led a group of soldiers and horses to beat gongs and drums, pretending to be thousands of horses and horses, and defeated Zhang Fei's army, and chased them all the way to a place less than fifty miles away from Jiangling.

Le Jin, Yunshan, Cai Hao, and Cao Pi all said that the time has come for a decisive battle with Jiangdong. They have no shortage of soldiers and horses, but only food and grass. They also ask the prime minister to quickly send food to rescue. The battle of Jingzhou is about to begin, and it is no problem to repel Sun Liu Down!

Before Man Chong was captured, he and Cao Pi jointly signed a military newspaper requesting Cao Cao's rescue. Jiangling's school affairs also sent news, confirming that Cao Pi had indeed rushed to the vicinity of Jiangling, which encouraged Jiangling's enthusiasm for fighting. Cao Pi also looked forward to Cao Cao hastened to send troops to untie the siege of Jiangling, at least to drive the damn Zhou Gongjin down the Yangtze River!
Cao Cao's heart was pounding.

It's not that he doesn't trust Cao Ren and Le Jin, but he still feels a little confused about the current situation.

In terms of tactics, Cai Mao's choice is not only good, but also quite clever.

Le Jin has now opened up the land route south of Xiangyang, and Cai Mao has opened up the Hanshui River. There is finally some echo between Jiangling and Xiangyang.

They stationed troops in Dangyang, so that they could minimize the battle with the Wu army on the river. Zhou Yu disperses a lot of energy to guard the safety of the flanks. There must be insufficient soldiers to attack Jiangling, and the pressure on Cao Ren in Jiangling will be greatly reduced.

But Cai Mao's character is worrying.

He left Yunshan and entered Dangyang himself. On the first day after entering, Man Chong was captured by Zhang Fei.

That is to say, the nail that Cao Jun broke into the forefront has now been completely grasped by Cai Mao, and he even has two sons of Cao Cao in his hands.

These two sons have many shortcomings. If one of Cao Ang and Cao Chong is alive, Cao Cao would never choose one of Cao Pi and Cao Zhi as his successor.

But now it's too late to regenerate a few temporarily.

These two sons already have wings and play a decisive role in the court.

Cao Zhi didn't stop Cao Cao's battle before, but encouraged him a little bit, which caused Cao Pi to try his best to gain military merits. Now it's all right, they are both with Cai Mao.

To put it bluntly, Cai Mao drilled his son for an old classmate, to put it bluntly...

Cao Cao picked up Cai Mao's military newspaper, and the words on it seemed to turn into Cai Mao's ugly face again.

It is almost obvious between the lines that it is necessary to ask for food.

Prime Minister, you don't want your son to starve, do you?
If you don't want your two lovely sons to starve, then send me food and grass!Bring me food!

Cao Cao's fists were creaking and he couldn't stop thinking.

He really wants to say that his son is gone, but it's not that he hasn't died.

But Cao Cao now sadly finds that he can no longer lose something.

The defeat of Chibi made people in the world discover that Cao Jun was not invincible.

The killing of Kong Rong and the disappearance of Chen Qun and Xunyou also made the relationship between the veterans of the Han Dynasty and Cao Cao even more irreconcilable. Cao Cao tried his best to barely stabilize the situation in the Central Plains.Before Sun Quan fought around Hefei for several months, Cao Jun's reinforcements could not even be gathered, which shows how weak they are now.

Confidence is more important than gold.

Le Jin Yunshan and the others finally opened up the situation in Jingzhou - at least that's how it looks to laymen.

If Cao Cao can't take the opportunity to expand the situation, his weakness will definitely be fully displayed in front of everyone. I'm afraid that many people will start to wait for Sun Liu.

So, fight?
What to beat?

Cao Cao was able to defeat Cao Cao in Guandu, and Xun Yu's strong support played a huge role. With Xun Yu's strong support, he was able to hold a stalemate with Yuan Shao. Afterwards, he won by relying on his own good luck.

However, because of the disappearance of Chen Qun and Xun You, two famous Yingchuan scholars, Xun Yu was on the verge of going berserk. The friction between him and Cao Cao had become more and more serious recently, and Cao Cao was no longer worried about letting him guard the rear for him.

Without this scribe who has been supporting him for many years, Cao Cao did not feel at ease to go on an expedition himself.

In addition to Xun Yu's problem, there is another more realistic problem before Cao Cao.

It is not yet summer, and the crops in the Central Plains are still in the vigorous growth stage.

Mobilizing the army in this season and raising military rations everywhere is a very high-level thing, and mobilizing a large number of soldiers at one time will definitely cause a lot of farmland to lose labor, forming a vicious circle.

Cao Cao thought over and over again, and was quite at a loss for a while.

For a long time, as long as Cao Jun fought a big battle, Cao Cao would definitely lead his army to go out. This has become a practice. Now he can mobilize very few trustworthy generals, and one of them...

To be honest, Cao Cao really didn't want him to go through this muddy water unless it was absolutely necessary.

"Call, Yuan Rang!"

Xiahou Dun's character, Yuan Rang, is Cao Cao's most trusted person, not one of them.

He can come and go to Cao Cao's bedroom freely, and he doesn't need to communicate in advance. He can provide Cao Cao with any advice, without studying wording, and without considering etiquette. Even Cao Cao doesn't want Xiahou Dun to be his subordinate in the name festival.

This hero of Cao Jun has been serving as Yin of Henan since many years ago. He built the dilapidated Luoyang little by little, and personally led the soldiers to build water conservancy and open up wasteland, allowing the grain-producing areas of the Central Plains under Cao Cao to successfully survive many years. The drought and locust plagues provided Cao Cao with continuous strength in his battles.

Although his military ability is average, he is good at dealing with the relationship with the local people like Wei Jiang back then. If he is placed in Jingzhou, he can calm down the barbarians early and ease the relationship between the North and the South. Anyway, the war is going well. It makes sense.

But Xiahou Dun has a flaw that is more fatal than his military inadequacy——

This person has a resolute personality but is extremely clean and simple. He doesn't manage the property. He distributes all the finances he gets and other limelight to his subordinates.

Cao Cao fell ill and suffered a lot when he was a captain in the north of Luoyang. Afterwards, he changed his past and started from Dunqiu Ling. He no longer lived on the blood and ambition of his youth. But the combat effectiveness is indeed an extremely powerful army.

He had hinted many times before that Xiahoudun must change his own faults, never do his own way, and must understand the truth that no one can be fooled if he observes it, but it is difficult to change the nature of the country, and Xiahoudun still insists on his own opinion.Cao Cao also didn't understand why he would empathize with a group of ants-like farm soldiers after such a famous family, but now, Cao Ren is trapped in Jiangling, and his two sons are taking the risk of going south. The war in Jingzhou is extremely tense, and Xiahou Dun is more needed The characters sit in town, I hope everything goes very smoothly.

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Guan Ping knew that the battle was close to success when he received the news from Cai Mao.

Without hesitation, he immediately notified Sima Fu who was stationed in Shiyang, saying that there was going to be a big battle.

But there is a condition, you must ensure that your sergeants have enough food and drink.

Sima Fu knows the elegant meaning after hearing the strings.

Although he was not Guan Ping's confidant, he already had considerable insight into all kinds of dirty things in the army.

He also did not shy away from directly asking Guan Ping a question:
"How much do we keep?"

"Thirty percent!"

"This, I'm afraid it's not right." Sima Fu frowned.

Thirty percent is just Guan Ping casually saying, he doesn't know exactly how many percent should be reserved for this kind of thing, so he can only ask modestly:
"I also think it's too much, what does Shu Da think?"

Sima Fu is an honest and responsible person. Seeing that Guan Ping is so smart, he simply told Guan Ping the way:
"According to the usual practice, it is enough to keep [-]% of the ordnance, and we have to keep [-]% of the rations."

"Sixty percent!?" Guan Ping was stunned, "So much?"

Isn't this a joke?
Sima Fu thought that Guan Ping had never seen the world before, so he clapped his fingers and explained to Guan Ping:
"General, please see that the imperial court transports food according to the supply of tens of thousands of people. However, under the general's command, there are always some brave and good fighters like Zhong Miao. If they also eat brown rice and drink cold water like other soldiers, I'm afraid they won't Willing to fight to the death for the general.

If those soldiers are all full, they must have nothing to do, and they don’t want to fight to the death. The general might as well keep them quite sleepy, let them plunder as rewards if they win, and use the rice rations withheld to stabilize the army’s morale if they are defeated. Big win.

Ah, of course, the weapons should be kept down a little less, otherwise we will lose the battle without weapons. "

He was afraid that Guan Ping would not believe him, so he hurriedly said:
"The battles have been fought like this for so many years, if the general doesn't believe it, you can ask General Le.

This is a routine, if the general refuses, he is afraid that he will be hated like Xiahou Yuanrang. "

Guan Ping silently nodded, expressing his belief.

But he still has a question:
"Isn't this going to be discovered?"

Sima Fu immediately smiled:

"Of course there are several ways to do this. I will tell the general now, and the general can figure it out by himself."

The scribe pointed triumphantly at the soldiers who were busy farming in the distance and said:

"The general's soldiers might as well replace some. They like farming so much, so they simply concealed their military status, saying that they died in battle or died of illness in the army.

This is a common practice in the military. If someone came to investigate and the general sent some money, he would lightly expose it, and it was not a big problem.

When the general wins, I will go to Shushu to impeach the general for corruption, and the matter will naturally be left alone. "

Guan Ping: ...

There is such a doorway?
If it weren't for Sima Fu's family working for Cao Cao, Guan Ping would almost think that he was a pure minister of the great man, and his heart was on his side.

He had long thought of transferring a large number of Cao soldiers into the mountains, and by the way, transferring food as much as possible, so as to greatly expand the combat potential of the base area, but he was too thin-skinned, and he had never thought of how to operate it before.

Unexpectedly, Sima Fu offered advice to himself.

His heart was pounding, and he whispered:
"A certain person near Xiangyang still lacks a lot of husbands and money, so I will leave this matter to Shu Da.

This money and grain Shuda can be used at his own discretion, if he needs to be escorted and dispatched, just let him know.

I also have old friends in Xiakou, who can guarantee smooth travel. "

Sima Fu's eyes lit up, and his heart was even more joyful:

"Don't worry, general, allegiance to the big man must first be allegiance to the chief.

In the future, if someone follows the general to make a fortune, he has to ask the general to take care of him. "

(End of this chapter)