Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 329 Cao Qin ([-])

Summer of the fourth year of Chuping

Pizhou
"Long live! Long live! Long live!"

Tens of thousands of people shouted long live to a middle-aged man on the stage.

This man was called Que Xuan, the leader of a local peasant uprising army, who captured Xiapi country and had [-] soldiers in his hands.

After conquering the Xiapi state government, he couldn't help proclaiming himself emperor, the country name was "Xu", and he called himself the emperor of Daxu!

(In fact, Yuan Shu was not the first to proclaim himself emperor, and even some people proclaimed himself emperor as early as several decades ago during the period of Emperor Shun of the Han Dynasty, such as Zhang He, the leader of the uprising army, and the black emperor Baidi during the period of Emperor Shun of the Han Dynasty .)
Faced with someone proclaiming himself emperor in his nominally ruled area, Xuzhou Mu Taoqian, who is "loyal to the emperor and patriotic", immediately... forms an alliance with the opponent.

The warlord Tao Qian obviously didn't take the Han court seriously. He was the first to express his approval of Que Xuan's "Emperor Xu", and formed an alliance with Que Xuan to attack Cao Cao's Yanzhou area together with Que Xuan.

After capturing several county towns, Lao Yinbi Tao Qian immediately killed the donkey, took advantage of Que Xuan's exhausted attack after finishing the attack, and wiped out his allies.

The dignified Emperor Xu, the country was ruined and his family was destroyed within three months of becoming emperor.

Use other people's soldiers to attack the city for yourself, Tao Qian's classic white wolf.

(Later generations accuse Yuan Shao of not welcoming the emperor from the perspective of hindsight, but if you don’t stand on the perspective of future generations, but only from the perspective of the time, you will find that there is really no need to welcome the emperor, such as Tao Qian who does not pay attention to the court There are many warlords here, and you welcome an emperor, besides adding trouble to yourself, it seems that no one can give orders.)
(It is because Cao Cao defeated the surrounding princes, so the emperor in his hand has authority, and because the emperor in his hand has authority, he can use the emperor to command the princes)
(Otherwise, the Son of Heaven can only simply add fame.)
(Cao Cao coerced the emperor to order the world. Perhaps it can also be said that the emperor coerced Cao Cao to order the world. Without Cao Cao subduing other princes, who would really care about the emperor's order?)

However, how can Cao Cao be a kind person? Since he failed to challenge Dong, his dream of the big man conquering the west has been shattered. Before, he might still want to save the big man, but now he only wants to work hard for his own cause of hegemony .

You aristocratic families seek personal gain every day, but let us people of relatively low birth be loyal to the emperor and patriotism.

Those of you who are rich are not willing to help the world, but ask us poor people not to be alone!
piss off!
Under the torture of the gentry, Dong Zhuo turned black and became a strengthened version of Liang Ji, killing every day.

Now that Cao Cao has also begun to blacken, he has to do whatever he can.

It is this cruel world that created people like Dong Zhuo and Cao Cao.

In Xuchang City, Cao Cao is resettling the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army.

The total number of these Yellow Turban Army is as many as 100 million. It sounds scary, but they are all a group of mobs. In fact, [-] armored cavalry can kill them and make them cry.

This is because the Wang family has transported more than [-] people from Qingzhou to Gancane Island (Taiwan Island) to open up wasteland over the years, otherwise the number of Yellow Turbans would have to increase.

Among the Million Yellow Turban Army, there are 30 young and middle-aged men, 30 women, 20 old people and 20 children.

Calculated according to the ratio of ten to one, as long as these Yellow Turbans can be digested, Cao Cao can train 30 militiamen from the [-] Yellow Turbans, and then select [-] regular soldiers from the [-] militiamen. Three hundred elites were selected from the army.

However, it is worth noting that the million Yellow Turbans formed an alliance with Cao Cao, not surrendered.

If Cao Cao couldn't support them, they would dare to rebel immediately and support themselves by burning, killing and looting in Yanzhou.

Either you, Cao Cao, will rob others to feed us, or we will rob you, Cao Cao, to feed us, anyway we must be fed.

Although these years of war have vacated a lot of land, it can be allocated to the Yellow Turban Army for farming.

But it takes time to grow food. It doesn't mean that people can get food by waving a hoe in the past.

What did these people eat before food grew?This is a problem that must be solved!

"Old thief Tao Qian dares to capture my city, I, Cao Cao, will never give up." There is no doubt that Tao Qian's Xuzhou is the most suitable for being robbed.

First, although Xuzhou was also destroyed by the Yellow Turban Army, the degree of damage was far less than that of Yanzhou. Compared with Yanzhou, there was still more food;

So after a month of preparation, Cao Cao finally acted.

"Cao Ren obeys orders!"

"The end is here!"

"Order you to lead a thousand cavalry to plunder the townships of Xuzhou and seize food and supplies for our army! Anyone who dares to stop us from looting will be killed without mercy!"

"The last general takes orders!"

"The rest, follow me to attack the city and break the county!"

"promise!"

This time when he went to Xuzhou, Cao Cao's forces commanded a total of [-] troops, which must be said to be powerful.

Among the [-] troops, there were [-] infantry and [-] cavalry. Among them, Cao Ren alone commanded [-] cavalry to plunder the rural areas without city walls.

These three thousand cavalry are all unarmored cavalry, and they are all prairie pony.

This kind of prairie pony has been accumulated by the Wang family for hundreds of years, and there are also 30 horses.

However, the Wang family pursued the strategy of elite soldiers and were unwilling to use prairie pony horses as war horses. Most of the 30 prairie horses were used to pull various equipment, some were used as means of transportation, and very few were used to plow the fields.

Every cavalry member of the Wang family must be equipped with sweat horses, and unfit cavalry is not cavalry.

Although Cao Cao did not have the financial resources to equip ordinary cavalry with sweat-blooded horses, generals such as Cao Ren were still able to each have a sweat-blooded horse.

Although there are [-] troops, it is not easy, because Xuzhou Mu Taoqian has a total of [-] troops!

Among them, there are [-] Danyang soldiers who are brave and good at fighting, and there are [-] ordinary county soldiers.

Danyang soldiers are actually one of many mercenaries. They live in Danyang County, Yangzhou all the year round. There are hills and forests everywhere. They are very good at fighting in mountains.

Therefore, from the point of view of arms, these Danyang soldiers belong to [Mountain Light Infantry], which is very strong in mountain warfare, but it is not very good if it is on a flat plain, and it is easy to be trampled by the cavalry of the king of war on the plain.

"The purpose of our attack on Xuzhou this time is to rob food, grass and supplies, not to conquer the city, so don't be obsessed with fighting, and withdraw as soon as you grab something, so as not to be ambushed in depth."

Before the army set off, the coach Cao Cao did not forget to remind all the confidants and generals, lest they rush too far, and then be killed by Tao Qian.

This time to attack Xuzhou, Cao Cao also arranged a leading party in advance.

Tao Qian was born as a military general from a poor family. He belonged to the same class as Sun Jian, and his background was humble, so he was looked down upon by the local gentry.

My Chen family does not directly oppose you, but I will not strongly support you either. Our Chen family will try our best to fulfill the tasks you entrusted to us, but the premise is that the interests of our Chen family will not be damaged.

In order to quickly obtain military rations and supplies, Tao Qian cleverly established a name in Xuzhou, and tried every means to extract surplus food from the people.

Therefore, many people in Xuzhou are willing to be Cao Cao's leading party, and take Cao Cao, a hungry tiger, to attack Tao Qian, a hungry wolf.

In this world, Tao Qian, who rules you, is cutting off your leeks in a clever way, and Cao Cao, who has not yet ruled you, is about to come and rob you. It is really difficult.

(End of this chapter)