Silver Fox of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 193 Flooded Cao Camp
In late April of the tenth year of Jian'an, Yuan Shao had already learned that Cao Cao had personally arrived in Henan and defeated Gao Gan and Tao Sheng.

He didn't send anyone to rescue him because it was too late.

Gao Gan and Tao Sheng were bewildered by Yu Jin at the time, and they didn't know that the enemy's chief general was actually Cao Cao. They were defeated head-on, and the army was completely wiped out that day.

Even if Yuan Shao got the news the next day, if he sent troops there, he could only help collect Tao Sheng's body.

So he just sent 5000 people across the river from Yanjin back to defend Dangyin County to prevent Cao Cao from attacking Yecheng on a sudden whim, and he began to launch a full-scale attack on the main force of Cao's army.

In fact Yuan Shao was not worried about the rear.

After three years of recuperation, the total strength of Yuan's army has grown to 12 to [-]. This time, [-] people were brought to the front line, and tens of thousands were left behind in Yecheng. Cao Cao would not attack Yecheng unless he was crazy.

Therefore, he confidently and boldly launched a fierce attack on the Cao army on the front line of Kuangcheng, but Xiahou Dun sat in the Cao camp and stood still, attacking for several days, with little effect.

In Yuan Shao's camp, he summoned several counselors to discuss countermeasures.

"Cao Cao rushed to Henan and defeated Gao Gan and Tao Sheng first. It must be because many soldiers and horses in Guanzhong were approaching, which made him feel the danger, so he went to stop the Guanzhong army first."

Guo Tu talked eloquently: "Ming Gong can take advantage of this opportunity to attack Cao Ying. This is called the fight between the snipe and the clam for the fisherman's benefit."

"Cough cough cough."

Yuan Shao's face was a little pale. He had been ill last winter and barely recovered after resting in the camp for more than a month. Now the root cause of the disease has fallen, coughing from time to time, and hoarsely said: "I don't know, it's just that Cao Ying sticks to it." If you can't get out, you can't get in, and you can do something about it?"

He looked at Jushou.

Ju Shou thought hard, shook his head and said: "Minggong, I can't think of any way."

As a strategic talent, tactics are indeed not his specialty.

Guo Tu suggested: "Duke Ming can send a partial division to help the eldest son defeat Cheng Yu Zangba and others, and then let him attack Chen Liu from Jiyin, then Cao Cao will be defeated."

Yuan Shao glanced at Guo Tu.

What was his idea that he didn't know yet?
It's nothing more than wanting to help Yuan Tan make meritorious deeds. When the time comes, the choice of the son of the world must be Yuan Tan.

It's just that Guo Tu's suggestion is somewhat reasonable. Now Yuan Tan is still entangled with Zang Ba Cheng Yujun in the Shanyang area of ​​Mount Tai, and the two sides are in the stage of fighting.

If you can help Yuan Tan defeat the two of them, then Chen Liudong will be empty, and Yuan Tan can drive straight in.

Just as he was about to respond to Guo Tu's suggestion, Tian Feng said, "You can't do it, Mr. Ming."

"Oh?"

Yuan Shao was puzzled and asked, "Why not?"

"When Cao Cao came to Luoyang in person, the princes in Guanzhong must not last long. I predict that they will be defeated within a month."

Tian Feng said: "Although Zang Ba Cheng Yu's troops are small, they still have more than 1 horses. They have sufficient food and grass, and they may not be able to break through the city for a year. Therefore, we must not divide our troops, and we should attack Cao Ying with all our strength!" "

Guo Tu was dissatisfied and said: "Cao Ying is guarding, and our 1 army is difficult to break through. Can Zang Ba and Cheng Yu's mere [-] people compare with the [-] Cao army here?"

Tian Feng shook his head and said: "The camp is naturally different from the city. At the beginning, Zang Hong had thousands of people and was short of food. He could still survive for more than a year. What's more, Cheng Yu Zangba? If we can't break through them, it will be difficult for us to divide our troops to harass Chen Liu .”

"Ah."

Yuan Shao was reminded by Tian Feng, and suddenly remembered what happened to Zang Hong back then. He personally led tens of thousands of people to surround Dongwuyang. As a result, Zang Hong still defended for more than a year, and the defense of the city was indeed much stronger than that of the camp.

"Then what should we do?"

Guo Tu spread his arms and said, "Could it be that we just watched Cao Cao defeat Guan Zhongjun? Or let's just rescue them."

"What's the purpose of rescuing them? Is it to help Cao Cao solve the emergency in Kuang City?"

Jushou laughed mockingly.

Their current troops have also been deployed. Cao Cao did not mobilize the troops on the front line of Kuangcheng at all, but the troops from Henan Yujin.

However, Gao Gan and Tao Sheng, who were originally watching Yujin, were defeated, so their troops would either be transferred from Yecheng or from the front line.

It is impossible to mobilize troops in Yecheng, and the rear is crucial. Once Cao Cao becomes vicious, he really plans to attack Yecheng by surprise, and the lack of troops in Yecheng makes him succeed. It will be an eternal joke.

It is even more impossible to adjust the frontline. The combat effectiveness of the two sides is already divided into five or five. Well, how can this work?
"It doesn't work, it doesn't work, there must be a charter."

Guo Tu looked at Jushou with dissatisfaction. If he hadn't failed in his proposal and his status had dropped, how could he have endured Jushou's cynicism.

Tian Feng pondered for a moment, then suddenly said: "It's the summer flood in Dahe recently, I think the Pu River seems to have risen quite a bit."

Yuan Shao nodded: "The Dahe is indeed in the summer flood season, it happens every year."

"If we can dig Pushui and Jishui, how about flooding Cao Ying?"

Tian Feng came up with a plan.

The flood seasons of the Yellow River and the Yangtze River are staggered. The Yellow River has a spring and summer flood season every year, with a small flood in spring and a large flood in summer.

This is because the water flow of the Yellow River mainly comes from the melting of snow-capped mountains in the upper reaches. The hotter the weather, the greater the water flow. In the upper reaches of Gansu, Ningxia, Shaanxi and other regions, heavy rains will also increase the water flow.

The flood season of the Yangtze River is in autumn and winter every year, mainly due to the large amount of moisture brought by the southeast coastal monsoon every year, and then in the second half of each year, there is heavy rain in the upper and middle reaches of the Yangtze River. It was caused by heavy rain in the Poyang Lake area of ​​Dongting Lake for several days.

Tian Feng's strategy is to take advantage of the flood season of the Yellow River, dig Pushui and Jishui, and let the flood flood Cao Ying on the south bank of Pushui. Even if it cannot be turned into a flood to wash away Cao Ying, at least Cao Ying must The accumulated water made it impossible for Cao Jun to fight.

Yuan Shao's eyes brightened and he said: "This is a good plan, Yuan Hao, I will ask you to handle this matter."

"only."

Tian Feng's old body stood up and bowed to Yuan Shao.

At present, Tian Feng followed Yuan Shao's order and led a large number of auxiliary soldiers and craftsmen to dig and build ditches in the Pushui and Jishui areas upstream of Kuangcheng.

Even the dams don’t need to be built, because the Pushui and Jishui are both tributaries of the Yellow River. At this time, the water level of the Yellow River has skyrocketed, causing the flow of these two rivers to also skyrocket. If the dams are built to store water, the dams will be submerged in a while, which is meaningless .

After a one-month construction period, the canal was finally built.Numerous criss-cross tunnels were dug outside Cao Ying, and as the dams that blocked the water were opened, the water immediately swarmed and submerged towards Cao Ying.

Dong Zhao, Mao Jie, Guo Jia and others had actually sensed something was wrong and wanted to stop it, but Yuan Shao sent people to Chen Bing outside the camp. Once Cao Jun dared to leave the camp, countless arrows would rain down on his head and face.

Therefore, even Xiahoudun tried to send someone to stop Tian Feng from digging and building the canal several times, but he was beaten back.The people had no choice but to dig and build diversion canals in Cao Ying to prevent water from entering the camp.

But it's a pity that Xiahou Dun and the others still underestimated the flood tide.

The backflow of Pushui and Jishui was far more exaggerated and rapid than they imagined. Although a large number of aqueducts were dug and built in the camp, even the soldiers in the camp seemed to be in a water city. walk around.

But even so, the water continued to soar, and by the end of May, the camp had been covered with a thick layer of stagnant water, and most of the soldiers were soaked in the water, so they had to try their best to hide in the high dirt hills.

For a while, the morale of the entire Cao camp was very poor. If the grain and grass had not been transferred to the highland slope in time, tens of thousands of Cao's troops might have been wiped out just this time.

And when Yuan Shao dug and built the canal and flooded Cao Ying, Cao Cao also officially launched an offensive on the 21st from mid-May to late May.

On that day, he and Ma Teng and others raised fire as a banner, and personally led the troops to launch an offensive against Han Sui's troops stationed on the south bank of the Yellow River.

At night, Han Sui, Hou Xuan, Li Kan, Ma Wan, Cheng Yin and others did not expect Cao's army to attack at this time, and the camp was in chaos for a while.

However, Ma Teng and others took advantage of the situation to fish in troubled waters and cut off the retreat of Han Sui and others.

Han Sui's camp was quickly breached. Cao Cao sent Yu Jin, Han Hao and other generals to pursue him. Under the protection of Xu Chu, he watched from the south of the plateau below the Qinling Mountains.

In the middle of the night, countless torches were shining, and Cao Cao standing on the top of the mountain was watching the entanglement between the torch team of his own army and the torch team of the enemy.

When he saw that after the imperial army raided Han Sui's camp, Ma Teng's army also attacked from the north, he was relieved.

When the fighting lasted until dawn, Han Sui and others were defeated, and the dust had already settled.

"Minggong."

Zhong Yao, Xun You and others followed behind him. Seeing this scene, Zhong Yao said with a smile, "The anti-indirect plan has succeeded."

"Ah."

Cao Cao caressed his beard and smiled: "After this battle, Guanzhong will be peaceful for a short time, so I can concentrate on dealing with Yuan Shao. Yuan Chang, you continue to be the captain of Sili and sit in Chang'an to appease Ma Teng and others. Wait for me to calm down Yuan Shao. , and then completely regain Guanzhong.”

"only."

Zhong Yao cupped his hands and said.

Zhong Yao was also indignant about being driven out of Chang'an by people like Han Suimateng.

Now that I go back again, it can be regarded as a long sigh of relief.

"Yuan Chang, I remember that Guo Yuan, the defender of Dayang County, is your nephew."

Cao Cao looked at Dayang County on the north bank of the Yellow River in the morning light on May 22.

The Guanzhong coalition forces were stationed in the north and south, and Hu Chuquan, Guo Yuan, Hou Xuan, Li Kan and others were stationed on the opposite bank.

The noise here has awakened them a long time ago. The army has been waiting and watching on the other side of the river, but because they don't know what happened on the other side, no one dares to cross the river from Maojin Ferry to rescue them, which fully reflects the fragility of the Guanzhong Allied Forces .

Zhong Yao sighed and said, "I wrote the letter, but Guo Yuan is obsessed with his obsession, and he doesn't want to join Duke Ming."

"Pity."

Cao Cao licked his dry lips. If Guo Yuan joined him, he would be able to wipe out the enemies on the north shore by the way.

While the two were talking, suddenly a messenger galloped up and shouted, "Report!"

"Come in, what's the matter?"

Cao Cao turned his head, and his personal guards stopped the messenger.

The messenger was let in, knelt down on one knee in front of Cao Cao, and said, "Report to Sikong. Yuan Jun dug Pushui and prepared to flood the barracks. The military master sacrificed wine and ordered me to report to Sikong!"

"what?"

Cao Cao was shocked and said, "What's going on now? Did Yuan Rang stop it?"

The messenger replied: "The general led people out of the camp several times to try to stop them, but they were all shot back by Yuan Jun's arrows. The military sacrificial wine can only make everyone dig aqueducts in the camp. I don't know the situation now."

Cao Cao's face darkened, and he looked into the distance. He wanted to completely annihilate Han Sui and others in a single battle, and pacify Guanzhong, so that he would come to recover it a few days ago.

Now it seems that I am afraid it will not work.

He coldly glanced at the collapsed army of Han Sui in the distance, waved his hand, and said indifferently: "Ming Jin, retreat!"

The sound of "Ding Ding Dang Dang" suddenly resounded throughout the world.

Cao Jun began to retreat one after another.

Ma Teng and others followed Cao Jun to attack Han Sui. At this time, Cao Jun retreated and sold him at once.

All of a sudden, the entire Guanzhong army fell apart in an instant, and after returning to Guanzhong, the generals began to fight among themselves again.

(End of this chapter)