Jagged hegemony of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 650 Uncertain Factor Ma Mengqi

"You can kill me with anger, you can kill me with anger!"

After Cao Cao returned to Daying, he gritted his teeth angrily, and kicked away the desk in front of him. He didn't even eat the food brought by the guards, and just sat there sulking.

"My lord, why are you so angry?"

At the same time that Cao Cao kicked over the table, Xi Zhicai just walked in from outside the tent. Seeing Cao Cao's anger, he couldn't help asking.

"Today's battle was due to my improper command!"

After Cao Cao got angry, he blamed himself: "If I let Cao Chun attack Liu An's central army with tiger and leopard cavalry, and let Yuan Rang and Miaocai hold back Yuexi's cavalry, the Hebei army will undoubtedly be defeated!"

"My lord's words are wrong. Yuexi led the elite cavalry of the Hebei army. How could the two generals Xiahou be able to defeat them? If the deployment is according to what the lord said, I am afraid that it is not our army that almost won, but the Hebei army." The cavalry will hit our center!"

After a pause, Xi Zhicai said again: "And don't forget, my lord, the Hebei army has artillery. Our soldiers have mastered the way to deal with the artillery, but they don't have horses. Once the Hebei army fires, the horses will be frightened and the tigers and leopards will be killed." Riding will also suffer heavy losses!"

After Xi Zhi finished speaking, before Cao Cao had time to speak, he heard the guard at the door report: "My lord, my lords are asking to see you!"

Cao Cao signaled Xi Zhicai to sit down first, and after Xi Zhicai sat down, Cao Cao said, "Let them in!"

"Here!"

After a while, Xun Yu, Xun You, and Cheng Yu came to Cao Cao's tent.

"See Your Majesty!"

"Free of charge! Sit down!"

Cao Cao waved his hand, and after several people sat down, Xun Yu took the lead and said, "Master, how do you feel about today's battle?"

"Ok!"

Cao Cao glanced at everyone, and then said: "Today's battle is all due to my improper command, which led to this failure!"

"My lord, this is not what you should be thinking about now!"

After Xun Yu finished speaking, Xun You also said: "My lord, I came here together to tell my lord that although we failed to take down the Hebei Army today, according to what we saw on the battlefield today, the remaining fighters of the Hebei Army have died. Less than eighty thousand!"

"The Hebei army only lost 2 people?"

Cao Cao was astonished.

"It's not 5! It's more than [-]!"

Cheng Yu corrected: "The reason why the Hebei Army still has 3 soldiers to fight is because Lu Fengxian brought another 8 soldiers, plus Liu An's remaining troops, a total of [-] soldiers!"

Cao Cao was silent for a long time, and after a while he opened his mouth and said, "Do you guys know how many soldiers and horses our army lost in the first battle?"

Xun Yu and the others looked at each other, and then said, "Could it be that our army also lost 5 people?"

"Ha ha!"

Cao Cao sneered, and then said: "The number of our army killed is more than 22. Just now Xu Chu went to deal with a group of seriously injured soldiers. Now there are only [-] soldiers left in our army!"

Xun Yu and the others were all silent, because they knew what Cao Cao meant by the treatment, which was murder.

Seeing that everyone was silent, Cao Cao expressed the question in his heart: "I don't understand. I am also a soldier who has been trained for a long time. Why are the soldiers trained by Liu Ziyan so much better than the soldiers trained by me!"

In fact, it's not just Cao Cao who doesn't understand, all the generals in the Cao army don't understand why the Hebei army from the previous Liaozhou army to the current Hebei army is more elite and stronger than them.

But many people present understood why, but they didn't want to say it and dared not say it, because if Cao Cao trained his troops according to the method of reducing the Hebei army, their economy would be dragged down within a few years.

Seeing that everyone was still silent, Cao Cao sighed and said: "It seems that God is really a big man. There was Liu Xiu's Guangwu ZTE before, and now there is Liu Ziyan's ZTE. Liu Ziyan really has divine help!"

At this moment, Cao Cao seems to have aged a lot, and his tone of voice is like that of an old man who is about to die.

Seeing Cao Cao like this, Xi Zhicai couldn't bear it, so he said: "My lord, Liu Wei doesn't have any divine help, it's just that the method of training soldiers is different!"

"How does Liu Ziyan train soldiers?"

"Ugh!"

Xi Zhicai sighed, and then said: "My lord, do you know why the other princes, including us, are all increasing their troops, but Liu Wei is the only one who is reducing them!"

"I don't know!"

Cao Cao shook his head and replied.

"Because he can't afford it, Liu Wei raises soldiers and gives them three meals a day, and often adds meat to them. Soldiers have to run every day. It's good that our soldiers can eat enough. An Gan I want to eat meat!"

"Where did Liu Ziyan get the money to feed the soldiers?"

It’s not like Cao Cao didn’t hear people tell him that the Hebei army often ate meat, but Cao Cao thought it was a rumor, because there are still many people in the world who can’t get enough to eat, and Liu Wei can let his soldiers and horses eat meat. Is it a night story, but if this word comes from Xi Zhicai's mouth, it must be true.

"Liu Ziyan reclaimed the land of Liaozhou thousands of miles north, and enslaved nearly a million foreigners to cultivate the land. Liu Wei collected a lot of taxes from the land every year, and Liu Wei's subordinates Almost gentry and local tyrants have almost no land, and it is all cultivated by the common people. The common people have to pay taxes to cultivate the land. Pig iron was sold back to the north. In the long run, Liu Wei earned a lot of money from it. Even so, his money was not enough to feed all the soldiers and horses according to the current method, so he cut the soldiers and left All the soldiers are elite, the Lord can almost defeat such an army, isn't it enough?"

"Liu Ziyan is indeed an extraordinary talent. If he can't win Hebei this time, then Liu Wei will be able to rule the world in the future!"

After Cao Cao heard Xi Zhi finish speaking, he broke out in a cold sweat from fright, and even the headache that was just about to attack was cured by fright.

"My lord, now is not the time to praise Liu Ziyan, let's think about how to defeat the Hebei army tomorrow! If there is no good strategy, we can only withdraw the army and cross the river back!"

Xun You said.

"Yes, yes, tomorrow, I must defeat Liu An and take Hebei, otherwise I will never set foot in Hebei again in my lifetime!"

Cao Cao nodded hastily, and discussed with everyone how to defeat the enemy.

"My lord, there is one person in the Bingzhou army who came to support this time. Maybe this person is not so loyal to Liu and his son. If we use it, this person may be the key to our march into Hebei!"

Cheng Yu said to Cao Cao sinisterly.

"Oh? Who is Zhong De talking about?"

Cao Cao asked.

"This person is Ma Mengqi from Xiliang!"

(End of this chapter)