Control your ancestors and create an immortal family starting from the Eastern Han Dynasty

Chapter 82 Gu Chen defeated Cao, Liu Bei obtained Jing (asking for monthly ticket)
Hanoi.

Gu Chen upholds the fine tradition of the Gu family and constantly explores Cao's camp before the battle.

Look for flaws in the enemy's deployment.

This is a tradition that has been passed down in the Gu family since Gu Xiao's generation.

But this time is different.

Even when Gu Chen went to investigate personally, he was unable to find any flaws in Cao's camp.

Cao Cao was different from all the opponents Gu had encountered before.

This is a hero who is truly qualified to rule the world!

Cao Cao was indeed very concerned about this battle.

For him, if he wins this battle, it will undoubtedly be the same as Emperor Guangwu rebuilding the Han Dynasty.

As long as Gu Chen can be eliminated.

Who among the remaining princes in the world can stop him?

He did not underestimate Gu Chen at all and tried his best to do everything to perfection.

Gu Chen was testing him.

Wasn't he testing Gu Chen?
The two sides launched continuous probing around Hanoi and Yingchuan.

Scouting and small-scale clashes continued.

No one wanted to advance into Nanyang easily, so as not to expose a flaw and give the enemy an opportunity to take advantage.

It is under this situation.

The two sides were strangely stuck in a stalemate.

But it is completely different from the confrontation between Gu and Cao. The current battle in Jingzhou is indeed very fierce.

Liu Bei's current strength is indeed much stronger than in the original history.

Although Sun Ce has led his army to attack, he is still unable to completely stop Liu Bei's army.

Compared to Liu Bei's battle-hardened army.

The soldiers of Jingzhou were indeed far inferior.

No matter how brave Sun Ce and his soldiers were, they could not completely make up for the gap.

The key is--

How could the brave generals under Liu Bei's command be weaker than Sun Ce?

After only a brief stalemate, the entire battlefield in Jingzhou underwent earth-shaking changes.

March, the sixth year of Jian'an;
——Liu Bei followed Zhuge Liang’s advice.

Taking advantage of Sun Ce's bellicosity and desire to avenge his father, he pretended to be defeated repeatedly and gave up the city.

Lure Sun Ce into deep into Nanyang.

Finally, Sun Ce was defeated in Wan County, completely reversing the situation.

After contacting Gu Chen and confirming that Gu Chen was able to resist Cao Cao's entry into Nanyang.

He then began his conquest of Jingzhou again.

April;

Liu Bei personally led a large army to Nanjun, where he fought continuously with the Jiangdong army led by Sun Ce and the Jingzhou army led by Cai Mao.

At the same time, he also adopted Zhuge Liang's strategy.

He kept sending people to contact the powerful people in Jingzhou, as well as those in Jiangdong who were dissatisfied with Sun Ce.

Liu Bei's reputation for benevolence came in handy at this time.

Sun Ce had only conquered the entire Jiangdong for a few years. How could he have completely stabilized his foundation?

Zhuge Liang wanted to take advantage of this opportunity.

As long as there is chaos in Jiangdong, Sun Ce will have to retreat to Jiangdong.

By then, the strength on the Jingzhou battlefield will quickly become unbalanced. As long as Jingzhou is stable, it will be enough to stabilize the entire situation.

This is a pure conspiracy.

But what Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang had never expected was that Sun Ce's younger brother Sun Quan actually stood up at this time.

Although he is young, he has already shown his extraordinary qualities.

In Jiangdong, he followed Zhou Yu's advice and mobilized troops to resolve several rebellions, completely stabilizing the hearts of the people in Jiangdong.

This solved Sun Ce’s worries.

Once again, the outcome of this battle was reduced to the battlefield.

June;

Sun Ce and Liu Bei fought in Xiangyang.

As an important city in Jingzhou, neither the Jingzhou nobles nor Sun Ce would allow Liu Bei to capture Xiangyang.

Both sides used their own tactics to attack Xiangyang and its surrounding areas.

Liu Bei first sent Zhang Fei to attack Cai Yang and Zhao Yun to attack Xuancheng, while he personally led the central army.

The intention was to completely encircle the entire Xiangyang with the strength of three parties.

Sun Ce and Cai Mao each sent their generals to fight the enemy.

But Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun also killed the generals and captured the city, and surrounded Xiangyang with Liu Bei.

——The situation in Jingzhou has changed drastically!
Although Xiangyang City would definitely not be so easy to capture.

However, Zhuge Liang and Xu Shu's strategy from the beginning to the end was not to directly capture Xiangyang.

Instead, we should use this siege strategy.

Continue to influence the hearts of people in Jingzhou.

Morale is something that will always decline gradually over time.

The current situation in Jingzhou is like a wall that may collapse at any time.

As long as you can seize this opportunity.

They will be able to quickly occupy the entire Jingzhou and even use the Jingzhou army for their own purposes!
Word kept spreading.

Cao Cao guessed Zhuge Liang's thoughts at the first moment.

This is completely a conspiracy.

They just want to take advantage of the current chaos and launch an offensive against people's hearts through war.

——As a last resort, Cao Cao had to take action!
Even if he could not directly lead the army to attack Nanyang, he had to send troops to Jingzhou.

Cao Cao had long seen through the character of the aristocratic families.

If the situation continues like this.

If any of the Jingzhou nobles changed their minds at that time, the entire Jingzhou would fall into Liu Bei's hands in an instant.

With Liu Bei's ability, how could he sit back and watch the world's affairs like Liu Biao did in the past?

Both Yangzhou and Henan will be at risk by then.

And Gu Chen can directly threaten the two states of Yan and Ji.

This is his most critical base!
No matter what, he could never allow Liu Bei to occupy Jingzhou.

Facing these two opponents.

Cao Cao could not give them any chance.

At that moment, Cao Cao sent Xiahou Dun to lead 20,000 troops, intending to march to Nanyang through Runan.

But how could Gu Chen give him such an opportunity?

Although it seems that there has been no major battle between the two of them, there has been a lot of secret gaming between the two sides.

Gu Chen had actually made preparations a long time ago.

He has already made up his mind to be invincible, so how could he allow the stalemate to continue just because Cao's army did not reveal any flaws?
Gu Chen had already sent Ma Chao to lead his central army, which was very good at crossing mountains and ridges, to cross the Funiu Mountains and launch a surprise attack on Kunyang.

Even before Xiahou Dun mobilized his troops.

The news of the fall of Kunyang has already spread.

At the same time, Gu Chen also mobilized troops to Yingchuan, intending to take this opportunity to directly tear open Cao Cao's line, centering Kunyang and controlling the entire battlefield within Yingchuan County.

——The situation changed suddenly!
Cao Cao certainly did not expect this.

Although Gu Chen had already planned a surprise attack on Longyou, including having Ma Chao secretly support Bingzhou.

But the current situation is completely different from before!

Cao Cao's control over the entire Yanzhou is beyond imagination.

Who could have thought that Gu Chen would take such a risk?
The sudden decisive battle was completely beyond everyone's expectations.

It was impossible for Cao Cao to allow Kunyang to fall.

Although Kunyang is not an important town in Yingchuan, given the current situation, it is like a thorn that directly penetrates Yingchuan County.

It is very likely to affect the overall situation at a critical moment.

No matter what, Cao Cao must take it back.

As a last resort.

Cao Cao could only send Xiahou Dun to attack Kunyang first, while he personally led the army to fight Gu Chen.

For Cao Cao, as long as he could stop Gu Chen's army.

Then Ma Chao became an isolated soldier.

Even if we can't take his life then, we will be able to repel him.

——The war breaks out instantly!
The intensity of this battle is destined to far exceed that of Jingzhou.

The troops deployed by both sides are completely not on the same level.

Is Gu Chen’s move risky?
Extremely adventurous!

He had to break through Cao Cao's line before Ma Chao was completely defeated, and rely on Kunyang to strengthen the defense line in the entire Yingchuan in order to stabilize the situation.

But where there are dangers, there are also benefits.

As long as this battle is successful, all of Cao Cao's ways of supporting Jingzhou will be completely cut off.

And the entire battlefield can be compressed within Yuzhou.

on the morale of the army;
Even the judgment of the people of the world on this has extremely amazing benefits.

He had already made detailed plans for this.

Cao Cao originally thought that Gu Chen would lead the army to attack directly.

But Gu Chen’s plan was far from simple.

He first left a decoy force inside Songshan, while the main army stayed near Xincheng.

Don’t forget, Cao Cao is suspicious by nature!
Especially when Ma Chao had already launched a surprise attack on Kunyang.

Cao Cao almost immediately concluded that Gu Chen wanted to launch a surprise attack on Yangcheng and then attack Yangyao.

Although Yangcheng is not an important town.

But he would certainly not let Gu Chen succeed continuously.

Immediately, Cao Cao dispatched troops to Yangcheng, and at the same time set up ambushes throughout the entrance of Songshan Valley, hoping to destroy Gu Chen's morale first.

He then sent an envoy to issue a declaration of war.

He invites Gu Chen to a head-on battle and ridicules Gu Chen as a cunning person who only knows how to use cunning tricks.

This was something Cao Cao did deliberately.

After all, he has the advantage in military strength.

If it were someone else, they would probably just agree to this kind of insult.

But Gu Chen is different.

He is a person who, once he has a goal, will use all means to achieve it.

Gu Chen ignored Cao Cao's invitation to fight.

Taking advantage of the fact that Cao Cao was now focused on the secret attack on Songshan, he secretly sent people to cross the Ru River from Ruyang and enter Yingchuan again.

In September of the sixth year of Jian'an.

Cooperate with Ma Chao in Kunyang to capture Fucheng again.

And let the two cities form a pincer attack, and use the terrain of Funiu Mountain to resist Cao's army!
The night is clear and the stars are shining.

Camp.

When Cao Cao learned about this, he was stunned.

The next moment, he roared angrily and slammed the corn in his hand directly onto the table in front of him.

"Gu Ziyan bullied me too much!"

He swore loudly.

He immediately covered his head with his hands, and his whole body trembled violently.

"Lord!"

Seeing this, everyone in the main tent panicked.

They knew about Cao Cao's headache.

Given the current situation, if Cao Cao, the backbone of the army, falls, the impact on the morale of the army will be unimaginable.

"I'm fine."

Cao Cao immediately waved his hands, took a deep breath and forced himself to calm down.

But the veins on his head still showed the pain he was facing at the moment.

"I underestimated Gu Chen."

He spoke slowly, his eyes becoming increasingly fierce.

Now.

With Cao Cao's talent, how could he not see why Gu Chen's series of actions were successful?

Gu Chen is taking advantage of his personality.

Cao Cao has always been the type who "knows his mistakes and corrects them but never admits them". Although he had a terrible headache at this moment, his mind was very clear.

He must not fall!

You can't fall down at this time!

The atmosphere in the entire tent was extremely solemn, and Cao Cao then asked everyone to express their own strategies.

He listened carefully and thought about it himself.

After everyone had finished speaking, he slowly began, "Pass my order. Send troops to immediately cut down the trees within thirty miles of the southern forest of Songshan Mountain."

"Set a large fire to burn the forest. We must not allow Gu Chen to have another opportunity to exploit us."

He was still a little worried.

They were afraid that Gu Chen would strike back and attack Yangcheng again.

By now, he had fully realized Gu Chen's ability to launch a surprise attack. He would rather destroy the advantageous terrain than allow Gu Chen to launch another surprise attack, and use his personality to disperse the entire battlefield.

He then made a more detailed plan.

He sent Cao Chun to attack the grain route in Luoyang.

They also sent people to throw corpses upstream of the Yi River in an attempt to force Gu Chen to withdraw his camp and reverse the entire situation.

He even asked someone to copy Gu Chen's handwriting and send it to Kunyang.

Want to influence Ma Chao's judgment.

In any case, the top priority now is to recapture Kunyang and Fucheng.

His military strength did still hold an advantage.

But judging from the current situation, he has fallen into a disadvantage.

If he could not eliminate the threats from Kunyang and Fucheng, his army would not be able to turn from defense to offense.

If he took the risk to attack Sili.

If anything really happened to Xiahou Dun, even Xuchang would be affected, which Cao Cao would never allow!
Cao Cao is indeed a hero rarely seen in a century.

Although he is suspicious.

But once you make a decision, there will be no more hesitation.

Throwing the body into the river
This method is definitely not weaker than massacring a city.

If a plague really occurred, the casualties would be absolutely unimaginable.

But for Cao Cao, he didn't care.

"I would rather pay the world than let the world betray me."

——This is Cao Cao’s principle.

In order to ensure that everything went well, he even spread the news that his headache had relapsed.

This move is bound to be very risky.

The impact on the morale of the troops when Cao Cao, the commander-in-chief of the three armies, fell ill on the battlefield was absolutely unimaginable.

But where there is loss there is gain.

This move did deceive Gu Chen.

He also did not expect that Cao Cao would fight so desperately.

The sixth year of Jian'an, the end of October.

Cao Chun first cut off Gu Chen's food supply and then burned Gu Chen's granary.

Fortunately, Gu Chen did not store all the food and grass in one place, so it did not cause much impact.

But Cao Cao's strategy of throwing corpses also worked.

A sudden plague swept across Sili.

Fortunately, with the experience left by Gu Xi in the past, Gu Chen immediately isolated the people infected with the epidemic and strictly ordered the people not to draw water from the Yi River.

This alleviated the progress of the plague.

However, he had no choice but to move his camp to Xincheng and re-establish his camp on the mountain road of Songshan.

Fortunately, Gu Chen had already anticipated that Cao Cao would take advantage of Ma Chao's character, and he warned him again to focus on defending the city before Ma Chao mobilized his troops.

This prevented Cao Cao's plan against Kunyang from succeeding.

Of course, Gu Chen would choose to fight back.

Cao Cao's method of burning the forest did indeed impose certain restrictions on Gu Chen.

But are these the only methods he has?

That very month.

Gu Chen announced to the world that he had obtained Liu Xie's blood letter, and ordered Cao Cao to be a traitor to the Han Dynasty.

And offer sacrifice again.

Report to God that Cao Cao threw corpses and caused the plague, and he will definitely be punished by God.

With the intention of causing chaos in all directions.

The sacrifices of the Gu family members have different meanings in the current era.

In fact, if Gu Chen was a little more ruthless.

At this time, throwing corpses into the upper reaches of the Ru River and Ying River to create a large-scale plague would definitely have a fatal impact on Cao Cao.

Even if Cao Cao was able to use Gu Chen's methods to directly control the plague from the beginning.

But under the circumstances of "Gu's Heavenly Punishment".

His control over the four states would definitely be fatally affected.

Not to mention ordinary people, even the nobles would develop rebellious thoughts against Cao Cao.

But the pity is that Gu Chen is still a member of the Gu family after all.

He can be cruel to his enemies, cruel to his enemies,

But in the end he couldn't do anything to the people of the world.

If Gu Chen did this, even if he could one day wipe out the world, the reputation accumulated by the Gu family among the people for generations would completely disappear.

The influence of the Gu family can indeed bring a lot of help to Gu Chen, but it can also bring invisible shackles.

But for Gu Chen, he doesn't need to do that now.

Why create a plague?
In fact, this is a typical "psychological suggestion". When people in the world learn about this, whenever something goes wrong, they will think that it is the so-called "divine punishment".

This is the human heart.

This move had a huge impact on Cao Cao.

Rebellions emerged one after another in various states.

Although the number of rebels was not large, they were extremely fatal to his rule.

All kinds of chaos are destined to accumulate slowly over time.

If this situation continues, it will only get worse.

Cao Cao must resolve this matter.

——As a last resort, Cao Cao could only order the Grand Historian to counterattack through astronomical phenomena in an attempt to stabilize the situation.

But Gu Chen would not give up such an opportunity.

He personally led the army into Yingchuan.

Stabilize the situation?
What he wants is to make Cao Cao's chaos even more chaotic!
The situation in the world is in constant turmoil.

Although compared to the chaos that spread across the nine provinces in the past, the current war is only concentrated in Yingchuan and Jingzhou, but its intensity is actually far greater than before.

It can be said.
Whoever wins this battle will be only one step away from ruling the world.

How could they not try their best?

Jingzhou.

After several months of siege.

——In the second month of the seventh year of Jian’an;

Liu Bei finally officially broke through the city of Xiangyang, beheaded more than ten generals under Cai Mao, and annihilated nearly 10,000 enemies.

Nearly 30,000 people surrendered.

The siege strategy that Zhuge Liang and Xu Shu formulated for Liu Bei finally played a big role at this time.

Cai Mao and Sun Ce had no choice but to retreat to Jiangling.

He wanted to keep Liu Bei in Jingzhou.

March;

Ma Chao once again repelled Xiahou Dun's offensive.

He then took the initiative to pursue and shot an arrow into Xiahou Dun's left eye, defeating Xiahou Dun in Kunyang.

When the news spread, Yingchuan was shocked!
Cao Cao's military morale became increasingly unstable.

Gu Chen seized the opportunity and completely stopped the small-scale clashes with Cao Cao. He defeated Zhang He's army at the Songshan Mountain Road and headed straight for Yangcheng.

The two sides fought a fierce battle in Yangcheng.

This was arguably the most brutal battle between Gu Chen and Cao Cao since the start of the war.

But Yangcheng is not an important town after all.

After nearly half a month of attack, the city was finally captured.

Cao's army suffered more than 10,000 casualties and retreated to Yangyao, an important town in Yingchuan.

The entire Yingchuan defense line was completely torn apart by Gu Chen.

——The situation has changed completely!
At the same time, Liu Bei's offensive in Jingzhou became increasingly fierce.

Something like morale.

They will eventually be broken up.

What is the greatest confidence of the Jingzhou nobles?
Cao Cao!

But now Cao Cao can hardly protect himself.

How could Gu Chen give up the opportunity to spread the news of the Yingchuan War to the world?

This had a huge impact on the entire Jingzhou clan.

Under such circumstances, how could Cai Mao possibly control all the Jingzhou clans?
Many people have already considered surrendering to Liu Bei.

After all, for them, surrendering before the war is over may allow them to preserve their family.

But if we continue to resist like this.

If they really lose at that time, they will have no way to turn things around!
Even Cai Mao himself had this idea.

Sun Ce was extremely angry about this.

He was taking a huge risk by coming to Jingzhou for this battle.

It was impossible for Sun Ce to bring all the elite troops from Jiangdong, after all, he also needed to stabilize Jiangdong.

His greatest support is the nobles of Jingzhou!
But now, the nobles of Jingzhou have actually begun to want to surrender.

How could he not be angry?
Sun Ce wished he could just kill all these people from the aristocratic families.

Fortunately, Zhou Yu rushed over from Jiangdong at this time and stopped Sun Ce, saying that this move would definitely cause greater unrest.

If it were someone else, perhaps they would not be able to persuade Sun Ce.

But Zhou Yu was different after all.

Sun Ce followed Zhou Yu's advice and only told him about Gu Chen's actions in Bingzhou in the past.

As long as he fights against Gu Chen, he will be doomed to fail in saving his family even if he surrenders.

This did play a certain role.

After all, Liu Bei was Gu Chen's ally.

But how can people not have a sense of luck?
For the Jingzhou nobles, this is a matter of life and death for the entire clan. It would be fine if the situation went smoothly or even reached a stalemate.

But how could they possibly give up everything in the current situation?
The current situation in Jingzhou.
Even if Zhou Yu had supernatural powers, it would not be enough to reverse the situation.

He originally wanted to help Sun Ce deploy defenses and also wanted to confront Liu Bei head-on.

But within just a few days, he realized the seriousness of the current situation and quickly went to see Sun Ce.

"My lord, given the current situation, we must immediately abandon Jingzhou and return to Jiangdong."

Zhou Yu's expression was extremely serious.

Hearing this, Sun Ce was stunned, even a little bit hard to believe, and asked in great surprise: "Is Gongjin afraid?"

"Why do you say such things?"

Zhou Yu smiled calmly, shook his head slightly and said, "I'm not afraid."

"But the current situation is no longer enough to defy fate."

In an instant, Sun Ce's expression became serious.

He was obviously still a little unwilling to accept this, staring closely at Zhou Yu and saying in a deep voice: "Gongjin, you should know that there is a paternal grudge between me and that Gu Chen."

"If this continues, when will I be able to avenge my father?"

As he spoke, Sun Ce's eyes were filled with murderous intent.

"Lord!"

Zhou Yu didn't hesitate at all and immediately bowed to Sun Ce: "I understand your heart, my lord, and I will definitely help you get revenge!"

"However, if my lord wishes to seek revenge, then we must retreat to Jiangdong."

"It's hard for the Jingzhou nobles to surrender."

"If this continues, we will definitely be dragged down by them."

"Bang" sound.

Sun Ce slammed the table and said, "I'm going to kill these useless people!"

"No!"

Zhou Yu quickly stopped Sun Ce and said seriously, "My lord, please don't get angry."

"On the contrary, my lord should show his sincerity."

"If we can recruit the troops of these noble families into our own service, it will be the most beneficial thing for the lord!"

Hearing this, Sun Ce suddenly woke up.

He looked at Zhou Yu in front of him seriously, and suddenly a smile appeared on his face. He couldn't help laughing and said, "Gongjin is truly my loyal and brave man!"

Zhou Yu smiled calmly and did not deny what Sun Ce said.
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"In the sixth year of Jian'an, wars broke out frequently in Jingzhou and Yingchuan, and the whole country was in turmoil.

When Liu Bei was besieging Xiangyang urgently, Chen thought that Cao Gong must have ulterior motives, so he secretly sent Ma Chao to secretly cross the Funiu River and attack Kunyang at night to cut off his way to aid Sun.

He placed another suspicious flag on Mount Song, and Cao Gong indeed suspected that there were ambushes nearby, so he hesitated and dared not advance, and thus lost Fucheng.

After Kunyang was secured, although Xiahou Dun led his brave soldiers to attack the pass, he was unable to capture it after ten months.

In the tenth month of winter, Cao's army cut off Chen's food supply at Yique and threw rotting corpses into the Yi River in an attempt to spread plague.

Chen followed the method of his grandfather Gu Xi in treating the plague, and the epidemic was eliminated within ten days.

He then offered sacrifices to heaven and earth, announcing the Cao family's actions against heaven, and many people followed his lead.

In the second month of the seventh year, Xuande captured Xiangyang and beheaded 9,000 people. Cai Mao and Sun Ce led the remaining troops to escape to Jiangling.

On the first day of March, Ma Chao drew his bow and shot Dun in the eye. Cao's army was terrified and fled, and countless people were captured.

At that time, Chen attacked Zhang He separately at a narrow road in Songshan, defeated his elite troops, and took advantage of the victory to capture Yangcheng.

The whole world was shaken, and signs of the Han Dynasty's revival gradually emerged."

——"Records of Heroes in the Late Han Dynasty, Gu Chen"

(End of this chapter)