Chapter 512: Persuasion
"Zhang He withdrew the first camp to both sides of the Yellow River, although he temporarily avoided the edge, but he put himself to death!" Guo Jia looked at the map of Jizhou and spoke.
Zhang He knew that Cao Cao's main force was opening up the official road to Yecheng, and that place must be full of difficulties, so he thought about postponing the detour.
But Zhang He also brought the Xiandeng Camp to another abyss, that is, the current Xiandeng Battalion can be regarded as a lone battle!
If Cao Cao turned the muzzle, then it would be a dead situation for Zhang He.
"Lord, as long as our army sends a group of soldiers and horses to collect all the ships on both sides of the Yellow River, and then the army presses the border, induces high-ranking officials Houlu, Zhang He's first to enter the camp, he will have to surrender if he doesn't surrender!" Guo Jia said to Cao Cao.
"Haha!" Cao Cao laughed: "It's still Feng Xiao, know me!" "Cao Cao values Zhang He even more so to go to the camp first.
The first camp is the trump card of the Hebei army, and now the most elite cavalry in the world is no longer the tiger and leopard cavalry, nor is it Hebei, but Yuan Yao'er in Huainan, because Yuan Yao'er has now gathered several cavalry troops in his hands.
Lu Bu's Bingzhou wolf cavalry, Yuan Shu's Yulinwei left for Yuan Yao'er, and Yuan Yao'er's own cavalry camp, and now I heard that there is also a cavalry called the Xuanjia Army.
Cao Cao already had a sense of crisis, even if he couldn't get the first camp this time, he would have to expand the army of tigers and leopards, and getting the first camp would definitely be a tiger with wings.
With a wave of his hand, Cao Cao immediately asked Li Dian to take the remnants of his defeated army to the Yellow River to collect all the ships on both sides of the river.
On the other hand, Cao Cao asked Xiahou Yuan to take the Divine Expedition to oppress the activity space of the first camp.
"Lord, what if that Zhang He dies by mistake?" Xiahou Chun asked Cao Cao on the side expressionlessly, a killing intent appeared in his eyes from time to time, there was his brother Xiahou Chun among the tigers and leopards before, and now Xiahou Chun's whereabouts have always been unknown, all of this is caused by Zhang He.
"Missed?" Cao Cao was stunned for a moment, and then saw Xiahou Chun's expression, and then knew what the situation was, so he could only smile bitterly in his heart: "If you miss, then bring me the corpse back!" ”
"Yes!" Xiahou Yuan nodded, and immediately led his men and horses to pursue and go to the camp first.
Cao Cao continued to pursue Yuan Shao's large army on the main frontal battlefield, so that he could get more fruits in this battle of Guandu.
However, the Hebei army is too strong, and if the 200,000 army is added to the auxiliary soldiers and horses, it will be almost 500,000.
is just standing there one by one to kill Cao Cao, and it is difficult for him to kill it cleanly.
Therefore, Cao Cao could only give up some auxiliary troops and specifically look for heavily armored and ironclad troops, but in this way, Cao Cao never found the slightest trace of Yuan Shao from the 200,000 army.
It was as if General Yuan had disappeared.
However, Cao Cao's battle of Guandu this time was also very profitable.
Yuan Shao's main army of 200,000 was able to flee back to the hinterland of Jizhou with less than 50,000 people, and the remaining 150,000 either broke and fled, or were absorbed by Cao Cao, and more died on the way to escape.
Cao Cao's 40,000-strong army went out of the official crossing this time, and now the number of troops has increased instead of decreasing, and it has become a full 80,000 people.
At this moment, Lao Cao is really not afraid of Yuan Shao, at least in a short period of time, there is no need to compromise with Yuan Yao'er in Huainan, if it weren't for Lao Cao's unwillingness to fight siege warfare, I'm afraid he would start attacking Jizhou City now.
"Lord, it seems that it is difficult to capture Yuan Shao alive!" Guo Jia said to Cao Cao.
Cao Cao also nodded regretfully, he also thought that after taking Yuan Shao, he would use the name of Yuan Shao, the lord of Hebei, to command the entire Hebei, and now it seems that Yuan Shao doesn't want to catch him.
Now if he is involved with the Hebei army again, waiting for the Hebei army to recover from the rout at the beginning, it will be difficult for him Cao Cao to leave again, after all, he Cao Cao is fighting a tailwind battle, and the Hebei army is not a soft persimmon.
Cao Cao shook his head, but then he became happy, "Waiting for Yuan Shao to return to Yecheng, knowing that Yuan Yao'er occupies his Qingzhou and is about to fight Hebei, what will be his expression?" Haha, haha! Pass my military order and retire! Cao Cao laughed and let his soldiers and horses slowly withdraw from Hebei, and he took Gao Lan's elite south to the Yellow River to prepare for peace with Xiahou Chun.
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Cao Cao's every move in Hebei, although the army was in chaos, but the news from all walks of life was also continuously sent to Yuan Yao's hands, and slowly Yuan Yao also clearly knew the movements of Guandu.
"Yuan Shaojun's fiasco? Cao Cao killed Yuan Tan's messenger! Cao Cao's army took half of Jizhou, and Yuan Shao's life and death are unknown? Cao Cao retreated! These news are more exciting than one another, and the same smile appeared on Yuan Yao's face one after another.
"Lord, this Cao Cao is really fooled!" Sun Gan over there opened his mouth and spoke: "He has killed a lot of Hebei troops along the way!" This Yuan Tan's envoy was also killed by Cao Cao, and the alliance has become a phantom, and Yuan Shao is alive! ”
Yuan Yao's purpose was to keep Yuan Shao alive, or even if Yuan Shao died, he couldn't let Yuan Tan and Cao Cao form an alliance.
"Can't make up your mind so soon!" Yuan Yao is still very cautious, "Cao Cao is scheming, if he and Yuan Tan join forces to act in such a play, it will be a big bad!" Yuan Yao still ordered his subordinates to continue to visit Hebei.
"Report!" Just when Yuan Yao was still thinking about whether Cao Cao's fight with Yuan Tan was true or not, there was a news over there.
"Found traces of the first camp on the other side of the Yellow River in Licheng, Qingzhou?" Yuan Yao was stunned for a moment, and then looked at the map of Qingzhou behind him.
The other side of Licheng is in the north of Hebei, how did this first camp come here?
You must know that the first camp is Yuan Shaojun's trump card, and now it should be to cover Yuan Shao's retreat, how can it appear in such a remote place.
"Report!" Another news came that the generation of the Yellow River and Hebei found another army of soldiers and horses under the banner of Cao Cao's divine march.
Could it be that Yuan Tan really formed an alliance with Cao Cao? This was Yuan Yao's first reaction.
Otherwise, why did the ace of Hebei and the elite in Cao Cao's hands appear together in northern Hebei.
"Camp first?" Tian Feng chewed these two words: "Who is this first camp under the banner of?" Tian Feng asked the person who sent the information.
"It's a letter!"
"Zhang?" Frustrated and surprised, "Zhang He? ”
"Zhang He?" Yuan Yao didn't understand the meaning of the name first, and then suddenly increased the decibels.
"Zhang He, one of the four court pillars in Hebei?" Yuan Yao asked.
Tian Feng nodded, hugged his fists at Yuan Yao on the stage and said, "Lord, everyone else may kill the master, but this Zhang He will not!" "There is another person Tian Feng who didn't say it, and that is Xun Cen.
Zhang He is talented, and he also has a good patience, if it is not until the last moment, it is impossible for him to betray his lord, there is a kind of king who treats me as a countryman, and I am bound to repay him as a countryman.
On the original trajectory, he was also forced by Guo Tu to have no choice but to demote Cao Cao.
There is another point that Tian Feng did not say, that is, Zhang He and Yuan Tan do not deal with each other, whether Zhang He is a neutral faction or a stubborn opposition who does not enter anything from oil and salt sauce.
How can Yuan Tan tolerate Zhang He.
"Not Yuan Tan's people? That's Yuan Shao's person? "Yuan Shao's people and Cao Cao's people are united, this is simply impossible.
If these two people had just finished fighting the fierce Guandu in front of them and joined forces to defeat him Yuan Yao, then he Yuan Yao would not have to fight, he would have been destroyed a long time ago.
"If he is Yuan Shao's person?" Yuan Yao looked at the location of northern Hebei on the map, coupled with Cao Cao's divine march that appeared, and soon a conclusion was drawn by Yuan Yao.
"This Zhang He's first battalion has become a lone army?" Looking at the location of the Shenxing Army and the first camp on the map, it is very obvious, that is, unless the river is crossed, otherwise, all the ways of Zhang He will be blocked by the Shenxing Army, like a turtle in an urn.
Sure enough, there was another news that Cao Cao's other soldiers and horses had been discovered.
"Cao Cao wants to exterminate the Xiandeng camp?" Yuan Yao was surprised, thinking that this Cao Cao wanted to take revenge on Yuan Shaojun for destroying his tiger and leopard ride.
"Extermination?" Xu Shu took a step forward, pointed to the northern generation of Ji and said, "Lord, if it is exterminated, why bother? When the soldiers are united, they can make Zhang He die without a place to live! ”
A place pointed out by Xu Shu is towering, and the spring rain is abundant, if you dig the mountain and gather water here, once you dig the Yellow River, the water will pour down, and then you will already enter the Yellow River to feed Wang Ba when you first go to camp.
"What do you mean?" Yuan Yao guessed a little.
"That's right, this Cao Cao doesn't want to exterminate Zhang He, but wants to subdue Zhang He! He wants to go to camp first! "Cao Cao won't fail to see that place, and he won't know the art of war, which is to destroy the most enemies at the least cost, so why bother?
"No! No way! "Yuan Yao vetoed it directly, he couldn't agree, Lao Cao wanted to go to the camp first and accept it, he Yuan Yao wanted to wrestle with Lao Cao, but it would be annoying, the tiger and leopard rode to the camp first, these two are ace soldiers and horses, once they are in Lao Cao's hands, they are like two sharp swords hanging over Yuan Yao's head.
Especially the first camp, there is one thing that Yuan Yao has also coveted for a long time, that is, the crossbow machine of the first camp, this thing is a nightmare for the heavy armored troops, when Lu Bu was driven out of Hebei because his wolf riders did not dare to fight with the first camp.
"I'm going to camp first!" He Cao Cao wants to go to the camp first, and he Yuan Yao also can't get it, and he can destroy it and can't give it to Lao Cao, so that Lao Cao can live comfortably, and he Yuan Yao himself will be uncomfortable.
"It's better for a white horse to go to the camp first!" A military general standing below Yuan Yao suddenly spoke.
"Zilong?" Yuan Yao was surprised, you must know that Zhao Yun has never liked to talk much, because he is not good at tactics and strategy is a layman at all, so he only listens and watches and does not speak.
But I didn't expect Zhao Yun to speak today.
The reason why Zhao Yun said it was because the first camp was his opponent, the white horse Congyi made the foreign people frightened, and the cavalry that played the banner of the white horse general was defeated in the hands of the first camp, even if the first camp was exterminated together with the halberd, but if you lose, you lose.
"If the lord is relieved, let the old man go to northern Hebei!" Tian Feng said with a fist at Yuan Yao.
"Mr. Tian Feng?"
"Brother Tian, what are you fighting with me? Let me go! Frustration also spoke.
Tian Feng and Fu Zhu are both people who are familiar with Zhang He, and it would be best for the two of them to go, but Yuan Yao is not worried about the safety of these two, if he accidentally falls into a panic and loses either one, it will be bad. But there's no one better suited than the two of them.
When Yuan Yao was hesitating, Xu Shu stood up and clasped his fists at Yuan Yao and said, "Lord, I thought that Tian Feng and the two gentlemen were old, and they couldn't go to chaos!" ”
Yuan Yao nodded, and Xu Shu continued, "Shu recommends one person, and it doesn't have to be worse than the two gentlemen, and it can even be more convincing than the two gentlemen!" ”
"Oh?" Yuan Yao became curious, is there a more suitable person than Tian Feng? "Tell me!"
Xu Shu smiled indifferently: "This person is Huang Yi, General Huang!" ”
Huang Yi, who had been dozing off below, suddenly reacted, "Who, who called me?" ”
"Huang Yi?" The corners of Yuan Yao's mouth twitched: "Yuan Zhi, aren't you joking!" "Such a-stirring stick, it's okay to send out a disgusting person and let him surrender?
Huang Yi also learned about Xu Shu's recommendation of him from the people on the side, and exchanged on the spot, "Don't go, don't go, Xu Yuanzhi, I have no grievances with you in the past, why do you want to hurt me!" ”
Yuan Yao also nodded, if Huang Yi was sent out, he would be slaughtered, either killed by Zhang He or cut down by Lao Cao.
Xu Shu smiled and first looked at Huang Yi and then at Yuan Yao, "Lord, General Huang, this is not a harm to General Huang Yi, there is a reason why General Huang Yi is suitable, his one is resolute and upright, and Tian Feng is frustrated with the two gentlemen are also average, this fortitude must have a loss to the two strong men!" And General Huang Yi is much more sleek! "Two upright people can really quarrel when they meet together, and Tian Feng's eloquence is really inferior to Huang Yi's.
"Second, General Huang Yi is good at careful calculation, tactful, and does not care about gains and losses, and the most important point is that General Huang Yi does not compromise his means to achieve his goals." Xu Shu pointed them out one by one.
"Xu Yuanzhi, are you scolding me, or scolding me, or scolding me!" Huang Yi gritted his teeth and said, is careful and sleek, and doesn't care about the cheekiness? Doesn't it mean that he Huang Yi is thick-skinned, cunning and treacherous? "Don't go, don't go, what if you get cut, don't go!" Huang Yi is not stupid, this trick is not a good thing, didn't you see that Guo Ming? He was just going to make peace and form an alliance, but he was slashed by Lao Cao and hung up on the city gate, and he Huang Yi didn't want to go over and be stabbed.
"General Huang Yi, but please rest assured, I, Xu Shu, guarantee in my name, this General Zhang He will definitely not do anything to General Huang Yi!" Xu Shu said to Huang Yi.
Tian Feng and Fu Zhu also nodded, "The two armies are not killed, Zhang He is an upright person!" ”
"You have a bag, General Huang Yi went to open it, and it will definitely help the general succeed!"
"I won't go if the sky breaks!" Huang Yi said very scoundrelly.
Yuan Yao didn't approve of Huang Yi going at first, but looking at Xu Shu, he would definitely not let go without a target.
"General Huang Yi will work hard!" Yuan Yao said to Huang Yi with a smile, considering that Huang Yi was unwilling, Yuan Yao could only lure him to his advantage, "If this matter is successful, Zhang He will be counted as a thousand gold, and the rest of the people will be counted as one gold, and the rest of the people will be counted as one gold, and the length will be doubled, and the captain will wait for ten gold." ”
At the mention of money, Huang Yi's eyes lit up, but then they dimmed again, this is after success, if it doesn't succeed, it will be gone.
Looking at Huang Yi's appearance, Yuan Yao gritted his teeth, "Even if it doesn't work, I'll give you a thousand gold!" ”
"Is that true?"
"Nine words!"