Silver Fox of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 135 Sun Ce Assassinated, Uncle Emperor Goes South

The sunshine in early April has already taken off the warm veil of spring, revealing its fiery face, spewing out enthusiasm and scorching the earth wantonly.

The war was over when the eastern sky was only pale.

On the land to the east of Ziyun Mountain, within several square kilometers, burned vehicles, broken shields, weapons, banners, and fallen corpses can be seen everywhere.

No one wins this battle, all losers.

Shen Chen lost almost one-third to Huangmenting Jingrui, and almost everyone else was injured, including Shen Chen himself.

Cao Cao lost because he was defeated.

Yes.

He is defeated.

The ambush set up this time was already the limit for Cao Cao. It would be best to eliminate Shen Chen in a short time. Once Shen Chen made it through, he himself would collapse.

So under the charge of Gan Ning's chariot, Cao Cao's infantry basically broke up, and he could only lead the cavalry to flee north.

Many people think that since the enemy is strong and we are weak, why choose to pursue it?
Because chasing when the enemy retreats is the best time to expand the results of the battle. The great man once said, "It is better to chase the poor with the remaining courage, and not to learn from the overlord."

Fu Jian was beaten to the door by Huan Wen. When Huan Wen withdrew his troops, Fu Jian still dared to chase out and defeat the Jin army.

Zhuge Liang came out of Qishan and provoked Sima Yi so much that Sima Yi could not avoid the battle.As a result, when Zhuge Liang retreated, Sima Yi dared to start chasing him. Is he just crazy and mentally retarded?
So the same reason.

Shen Chen studied the feasibility of chasing Cao Cao, and decided to do so because he thought it was possible.

The pursuit serves two strategic purposes.

One is to expand the results of the battle. If Cao Cao's army on the southern front can be disabled, after the battle at Guandu begins, the resistance for him to continue northward to harass Xudu will be reduced.

The second is to stabilize the defense line. Only when Cao Jun's strength weakens, they will have no extra troops to go south to deal with him. Otherwise, if Cao Cao retreats completely, after ten days and a half months, after he has rested, he will come back to attack Kunyang.

And there are five reasons why it can be pursued.

One is that Cao Jun has been fighting day after day and is extremely exhausted, and his morale and morale are not stable.

The second is that Cao Cao's troops are not his main elite. His main force is now in Guandu, and most of his soldiers are recruited by Li Tong in Runan. Their own quality is worrying, and their fighting will should not be too strong.

The third is that even if Cao Cao sets up an ambush, the intensity will never be as violent as the previous few days. On the contrary, it may be because of "one effort, then decline, and three exhaustion", once defeated, it can turn defeat into victory.

Fourth, on the way of marching and retreating, once Cao Jun is attacked, the formation cannot be completely arranged. At that time, they will encounter at most Cao Cao's rear army, and there will be little resistance.

Fifth, and the most important point, Cao Cao was in a hurry to go back and defend Yuzhou to prevent Sun Ce from leading his troops northward.

It is self-evident that Shen Chen's thousands of troops are more threatening than Sun Ce's tens of thousands, so it is very likely that Cao Cao himself does not have much will to fight.

For example, just like Zhang Xiu's pursuit of Cao Cao was defeated, but Cao Cao did not annihilate him, but rushed back to Xudu to defend the north.

Under the threat of a more powerful enemy, the threat level of a weak enemy is not so high. Cao Cao is a very smart person. Naturally, he must first grasp who is the main contradiction and who is the secondary contradiction.

Therefore, Shen Chen believes that now that Cao Cao is unable to determine when Yuan Shao will go south and when Sun Ce will go north, even if the pursuit delays him by one minute, Cao Cao will have to worry for one minute, and the chances of winning are very high.

It's a pity that Cao Cao's military capabilities are indeed strong. Even though the soldiers were exhausted and led by second- and third-line troops, he still made arrangements, inflicting huge casualties on Shen Chen's army.

This point also made Shen Chen clearly realize that Cao Cao is a hero who can achieve great things, and his personal military ability is undoubtedly a very top existence, which should not be underestimated.

In the daytime of the second day, Li Tong, Cao Hong, Xia Houyuan and others gathered up the rout. The original 2 troops only had more than 6000 people, and 4000 people were either killed or missing, and there were a lot of injured people. I went back to Xudu in despair.

Shen Chen and Gan Ning also retreated back to Kunyang. According to post-war statistics, Gan Ning's troops had been 7000 since Duyang sent troops to fight against Cao Hong, but now there are only less than 800, about [-].

The casualty rate of Huangmenting soldiers was even greater, reaching nine out of ten, and the death rate reached one third, leaving only 3000 of the 900 soldiers.

In half a year, they have lost more than 3000 horses.

But the results are also very significant.

In the Battle of Yexian County, they wiped out more than [-] Cao soldiers. In the battle of Kunyang and Wuyang, they killed and captured more than [-] Cao soldiers. General Wang Zhong.

Linying ambushed Xia Houyuan and killed hundreds of people.Another battle against Cao Cao, the siege of the city for several days and the battle of Ziyun Mountain last night, the casualties and disappearances of Cao's army are close to [-].

After Cao Cao went back, all kinds of messy things came up because of the failure of the attack on Kunyang.

And the last time he attacked Shen Chen, Cao Cao thought he was too hasty and didn't solve many problems.

So immediately rest the team and adjust the state of the soldiers.

It's just that although he really wanted to try to attack Shen Chen again after rectifying the troops, but because of Sun Ce's threat, he had to send Li Tong back to Runan to guard against Jiangdong.

At the same time, Xia Houyuan was stationed in Xiangcheng, Cao Hong was stationed in Linying, Man Chong was transferred from Xincai to Dingying, and the southern defense line was restructured.

Now for Cao Cao, it is already a great headwind, internal and external troubles, and enemies on all sides.

Henan itself was the site of the Fourth World War. Nanyang couldn't control the lower body and was not calm. Yuan Shao's army was about to go south, and Jiangdong was in danger of attacking Xudu, which made him very anxious and exhausted.

But it's not all good news.

Zhong Yao from Guanzhong wrote a letter to help him persuade Han Sui and Ma Teng to send their protons to Xudu to surrender to Cao Cao.At the same time, he also sent [-] war horses to help him increase [-] cavalry.

This matter has a certain strategic significance for Cao Cao, that is, at least while worrying about Yuan Shao, Liu Biao and Sun Ce, he doesn't have to worry about the princes in Guanzhong getting involved again.

It's just that the top priority now is to deal with the threats from Yuan Shao and Sun Ce. The temporary stability of Guanzhong can only be regarded as better than nothing, and it is not as important as two thousand war horses.

However, if the fact that Guanzhong is stable and has acquired two thousand war horses can only be regarded as a moderately good news, then the other news is a great joy.

In June, an incident spread to Xudu, which made Cao Cao happy for several days, and his dreams became sweeter.

Sun Ce was assassinated!
At the beginning of last month, as Guo Jia expected, Sun Ce went hunting alone, but was attacked by Xu Gong's retainers. Although he did not die at the time, he died of serious injuries not long after returning.

Everyone in Sun Ce's forces was panicked.

Zhou Yu, Zhang Zhao and others responded immediately, first keeping the funeral secret, and then uniting with the four Jiangdong generals and other generals and counselors loyal to the Sun family, they supported the 19-year-old Sun Quan and succeeded him before Sun Ce's spirit .

It was not until the end of May that the news spread, and the entire Jiangdong was shaken for a while, and Sun Quan, who had just succeeded to the throne, was suddenly in the midst of internal and external troubles and faced huge challenges.

You must know that Sun Ce was able to pacify Jiangdong because he relied on his murderous nature to force countless small princes in Jiangdong to surrender.

But who are you, Sun Quan, who also want us to be obedient?

As a result, there were countless people who disobeyed Sun Quan's orders, those who separated the territory, and those who fled north.

Not only those external forces in several counties in Jiangdong, but also the internal forces of the Sun family.

For example, the clan Sun Fu and Sun Hao, who are Sun Jian's nephews and Sun Quan's cousins, both intend to rebel and seize power.

There is also Li Shu, the prefect of Lujiang appointed by Sun Ce. When Sun Ce was around, he was respectful and respectful. As soon as Sun Ce died, he immediately had the idea of ​​rebellion and separatism, and he almost ignored Sun Quan's orders.

Therefore, Jiangdong now can be said to be in chaos.

After hearing the news, Cao Cao lost his teeth and almost laughed, and immediately transferred Li Tong from Yang'an to Xiping.

In this way, he only needs to guard against Shen Chen and Zhang Xiu in Nanyang, and doesn't need to think about Jiangdong's going north.

I have to say that some people may really be the children of destiny.

Many people say that Liu Xiu's luck is invincible.

But Cao Cao is not bad either.

Occupying Yanzhou, the land of the Four Wars, there are enemies everywhere. Even if you take the emperor to command the princes, they are only slightly stronger.

On the eve of Guandu, his situation was very bad.Yuan Shao in the north and Liu Biao and Sun Ce in the south all wanted to trouble him.

As a result, when he was in a state of desperation, the four counties in Jingnan rebelled, and Liu Biao was forced to go to the south to quell the rebellion.

One of the three enemies was directly lost, and the pressure dropped sharply.

And at the moment when Yuan Shao went south and Sun Ce went north, Sun Ce was assassinated again, which suddenly turned the difficulty of hell into a difficult difficulty.

When it came to Guandu, although the fight was difficult, Xu You sent the information and changed the difficult difficulty into an easy difficulty.

Compared with the unlucky old uncle Liu Huang, Cao Cao's luck can be said to be true, not much worse than Liu Xiu.

It's just that when Cao Cao was happy, the situation in the north also became critical.

Yuan Shao's main force had already arrived in Liyang in April. After Cao Cao killed Yan Liang and Wen Chou and retreated to Guandu, his main force crossed the Yellow River and divided into two groups to launch an offensive.

All the way across the river from Liyang, occupied Baima, Yanxian, and Fengqiu, and stationed troops in Yangwu County to the north of Guandu, only [-] to [-] kilometers away from Guandu.

The other route is to cross the river from Huojia County in Hanoi County, which is later known as Xinxiang City. General Han Meng led the army, and went south to Gushi to Jiluo Mountain to harass Cao Cao's rear.

Jiluo Mountain is located in the north of Mi County, and belongs to the west of Guandu. If you go south and cross Xinzheng, you will arrive at Yingchuan, which almost threatens the safety of Xudu.

Cao Cao heard that Yuan Shao's main force had arrived at Yangwu, so he hurried north back to Guandu to meet the enemy. At the same time, he sent Cao Hong to defeat his crimes, and led some troops to go north to Jiluo Mountain to meet Han Meng who was attacking from his side.

In history, this matter was done by Cao Ren, but now that Cao Ren died, Cao Cao lost his right hand and right arm, so Cao Hong can only make meritorious deeds.

At the same time, Liu Bei followed Yuan Shao across the Yellow River and arrived at the front line of Guandu.

In April, he got Shen Chen's suggestion from the person sent by Shen Chen to resign from Yuan Shao and go south to find Liu Biao to form an alliance.

So in May, Liu Bei officially explained this to Yuan Shao, and in June, he arrived in Runan.

　Thanks to the boss for the reward, now the daily [-]D is the limit, and I will continue to work hard to update it next month.In addition, I feel that I made a mistake. I didn’t write the reason why the protagonist will chase after when the protagonist was thinking. In the end, I didn’t expect that some people still think that the protagonist will chase. It’s unbelievable. I will pay attention next time.

　　
　
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