The next day, Cao's army launched another attack on Anyang City, but returned in vain, leaving behind only more than 2,000 corpses.

Anyang City stood still.

Yecheng, Tian Yu, and Murong Ping have reorganized and selected soldiers.

In accordance with Bai Xiaowen's requirement of "halving the selection of soldiers", only 60,000 strong soldiers were selected and went to Anyang one after another.

The remaining 60,000 unsuccessful soldiers are not of high quality, but they are more than enough for tuntian farming, and they can also be used as the external fence of Yecheng.

It should be mentioned here that psionic particles also have an impact on the maturity of food crops.

Just like the mutant beasts on the earth, which can reproduce a generation in a few months, the maturity period of grain crops has also been reduced a lot, and it is very little affected by temperature, even in areas north of the Yangtze River, crops do not need to go through the overwintering period and the regreening period.

Taking wheat as an example, the wheat planted in the current month will start heading and filling in one month, and it will mature in a month and a half at most.

Some people may ask, it is so easy to farm, why is there still a shortage of military food in the Three Kingdoms plane?

There are three main reasons for this.

First, the army of the Three Kingdoms of the Spirit Realm has a much larger amount of food than an ordinary army, and one person is worth the amount of food for two or three people before.

Second, the transportation of military rations in the Three Kingdoms plane is difficult, and the consumption on the road is also very large.

The third and most important reason: the proportion of the army in the total population seriously exceeds the cordon!

Taking Yuan Shao as an example, let's first take a look at the total population during the period of separation.

According to the records of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, after Cao Cao seized Jizhou, he checked the household registration, and there were only more than 300,000 people in the system. Even so, Cao Cao said happily to Cui Yan: "(Jizhou) can be described as a big state. ”

Of course, in order to avoid taxes and servitude, there are many people who have private hiding, as well as factors such as the clans of the big families, etc., and the actual population is more than the number of registered population. But no matter how full it is, the total population of Jizhou will be hundreds of thousands.

The area controlled by Yuan Shao is Jizhou, and the other Youzhou, Qingzhou, and Bingzhou are only a corner of the land, and they are deserted and rarely populated. The total population will not exceed one million.

In the romance, it is said that Yuan Shao "has millions of people and hundreds of thousands of armor", and almost one of the three or four civilians was conscripted into the army. Remove the part of women and children, that is, all the young and strong are in the army, and even the old soldiers are not spared.

And what about the Three Kingdoms Plane of the Spirit Realm?

After Bai Xiaowen took control of the four states, he checked the household registration, with a total of 180,000 households and a total population of 970,000, which is basically consistent with the romance and historical data.

It's not difficult to farm, but it's hard because no one farms.

Therefore, it is not surprising that there is a shortage of military rations.

Now Bai Xiaowen ordered the old and weak sergeants to tuntian, which is tantamount to disarmament in disguise, and let 60,000 laborers go back to tuntian to farm. In today's Jizhou, there are large areas of wasteland that can be reclaimed.

In addition, Xun Yu, as a special driver in Jizhou, has the passive skill of 30% growth rate of farmland reclamation, and Ren Jun, as a general of the farmer, also has the skill of accelerating the reclamation of farmland.

According to the characteristics of the food crops in the spiritual realm, you can start to enjoy the fruits of the tuntian in a month and a half. Only with enough food and soldiers can the world be swept away.

However, the top priority is to defeat Cao Cao, and if Cao Cao is not defeated, the first major unification of the main line cannot be completed, let alone the follow-up.

Anyang City added 20,000 elite soldiers, and Dazhai in the west of the city added 30,000 elite soldiers; the last remaining 10,000 elite soldiers had already been taken to Wei County by Tian Yu and Murong Ping to defend them.

On the third day, Cao's army did not attack again, but only sent a fierce general Xu Chu to fight under the city (nuò). Bai Xiaowen closed his door and took the opportunity to repair the arrow battlements of the city wall.

The same is true on the fourth day.

At this time, the fine work sent to the states of Henan finally sent back the first batch of information.

Cao Cao borrowed 300,000 pieces of grain (about 5 million kilograms) from Zhang Lu and pledged the land of Sanfu, including Chang'an.

From the perspective of this transaction alone, it is definitely a big profit for Zhang Lu. The land of Sanfu has always been called "Guanzhong", which is the cornerstone of the Qin Emperor's achievements in the imperial industry, and it is also the first important place to conquer after Gaozu Liu Bang went out of Sichuan, and it is also the ancient capital, which is of great political significance.

However, Zhang Lu still suffered a blood loss and was tricked by Cao Cao.

At the same time, Cao Cao exchanged the land of Sanfu for the grain and horses of Xiliang Ma Teng!

In this way, Cao Cao's military rations were enough to support an army of 200,000 for at least a month, and temporarily alleviated the unstable situation in the west, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

Moreover, Liu Biao of Jingzhou captured Xudu last time, and after returning from failure, he was also attacked by Sun Ce of Jiangdong, and now the nine counties of Jingzhou, half of which belong to the Sun family; fortunately, Liu Bei Group, assisted Liu Biao, and kept Xiangyang, and is currently in conflict with the Sun family, and it is not known how to win or lose.

In this way, Cao Cao did not have to worry about the problems of Jingzhou, Yangzhou, Hanzhong, Xiliang and other places. In addition, the army borrowed military rations and reinvigorated the army, which led to the army attacking Hebei.

Yuan's camp, Anyang senior military council.

Bai Xiaowen shook his head and sighed: "Zhang Lu and Ma Teng are too easy to be deceived, Cao Cao's strategy is not clever, but these two people are blind." ”

Dong Zhao said: "Zhang Lu Shoucheng is the master, Ma Tengxi Qiang savage, and there is no virtuous person under his command to assist. If Cao Cao used this kind of 'two tigers competing for food' strategy, he would naturally bring humiliation upon himself, but it is not surprising that it was used by Ma Teng and Zhang Lu. ”

Tian Feng said: "Cao Cao's army came to Anyang City and only attacked for two days. Yesterday and today, we only sent generals to fight, and did not really attack the city. ”

Before Tian Feng's words fell, a scout came to report that Fanyang City had fallen the day before yesterday, and the 3,000 partial divisions led by Cao Xiong entered Wei County.

Dong Zhao said: "My lord, Cao Xiong is Cao Cao's fourth son. Cao Cao sent him to attack Wei County in a roundabout way, could it be that he had a profound meaning? 3,000 partial divisions were admittedly not to be feared, but if Cao Cao pretended to attack Anyang and secretly transferred elite troops to support Cao Xiong, then Wei County would be in danger. ”

The strategists under his command all felt that Cao Cao's move was suspicious, otherwise why would he suddenly stop fighting Anyang, which had been attacking for two days?

In addition, Cao Xiong is Cao Cao's own son, and he only brought 3,000 soldiers to go deep into the hinterland of Jizhou, which is not normal no matter how you look at it. Cao Cao will inevitably send troops to support his son!

Bai Xiaowen narrowed his eyes and said: "Wei County has three military generals, Tian Yu, Qiao Rui and Murong Ping, who led 10,000 elite soldiers to defend the town, which is enough to protect themselves. As for Cao Cao's sending troops to support, he must not be allowed to believe it, so don't worry about it for the time being. All you need to do is send additional scouts to find out if Cao Cao has any plans to secretly transfer troops. ”

On the fifth day, the additional scouts sent out sent out to report back.

Cao Cao secretly led troops, detoured to Fanyang, and supported Cao Xiong!

After hearing this news, Tian Feng and Dong Zhao were shocked, and strongly persuaded Bai Xiaowen to lead troops to help Wei County. If the soldiers and horses in Anyang City don't understand, they can also send Zhang He or Gao Ran to lead the elite soldiers of Dazhai in the west of the city to save Wei County.