Chapter 69: Domineering vs. Benevolent
Fortunately, Xun Yu reacted in time, Cao Cao made a quick decision, and Cao's army quickly broke away from the edge of the battlefield.
Fortunately, the main force of the Cao army retreated, so that Zhang Xiu's heart finally relaxed.
Zhang Xiu's thousands of cavalry did not join the battlefield, but bypassed here under Zhang Liao's command to pursue Cao's army.
In fact, Zhang Xiu's ambush had 30,000 men and horses, and he had an overwhelming advantage against the thousands of Cao troops who stayed behind the palace to send them to death. What's more, Cao Jun has not had a good rest for three days and three nights, and his physical strength and energy are greatly inferior.
The two generals who commanded the 30,000 horses walked towards Zhang Xiu, one of them was Liao Hua, the captain of the Diannong School who was entrusted by Zhang Xiu, and the other was a rough face, which had never appeared among the high-level generals of Zhang Xiu's army.
Walking all the way to Zhang Xiu's horse, Liao Hua took a step and half to bow in front of Zhang Xiu, hugged his fists and said: "My lord, the five thousand elites of the Tuntian Army are already fighting!" ”
The rugged general learned from Liao Hua's appearance, and he also bowed down halfway, and said with his fists clenched: "My lord, the soldiers of Chen Ce's headquarters under the command of Lu Mian, the commander of Lujiang Town, have surrounded Cao Jun. ”
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Half a month ago, the people of Lujiang changed. Chen Cexiao, a native of Lujiang, gathered tens of thousands of hungry people and occupied the mountainous area in the north of Lujiang, and Lu Mian was only 30,000 soldiers in Lujiang Town, most of whom were used to guard against Sun Ce in Jiangdong, and he was powerless to suppress thieves. Cao Cao, who had an army of 150,000 troops stationed in Jiujiang County, was afraid that after sending his own army, Cao's army stationed in Jiujiang would not be enough to defend Shouchun. Second, after sending Zhang Xiu, Zhang Xiu took the opportunity to enter the sea and fled to Lujiang County to continue to resist Cao. Third, he also thought that although Chen Ce had tens of thousands of people, his actual combat power was not at the level of bandits, so he was not worried. So in the end, Chen Ce's existence was acquiesced.
A week ago, Chen Ce had wandered into Jiujiang County on the pretext of going to Jiujiang to plunder grain, but only hundreds of people were sent one by one. Three days before the mutiny, there was news that Chen Ce personally came to take advantage of the fire and loot because of the chaos in Jiujiang County. These Cao Cao all received the news, but he never thought that Chen Ce would be a chess piece buried by Zhang Xiu.
Historically, Chen Ce did gather one side and had tens of thousands of people. Even when Cao Cao had completely eliminated Yuan Shu, he still insisted on fighting against Cao's army. Even just relying on the mountain bandits who were tormented by famine and whose combat effectiveness was only stronger than that of the peasants, he defeated a partial general sent by Cao Cao to encircle and suppress.
In the end, Cao Cao still relied on Lujiang Liu Pi's plan to use both soft and hard treatment for Chen Ce. On the one hand, he first sent people to appease Chen Ce's troops, and on the other hand, he sent a powerful general to lead the army to suppress it. As a result, the hearts of the troops of Chen Ce's army were unstable, and they collapsed in battle under the disunity of people's hearts, and Chen Ce was killed in a battle to the death.
In general, although in history there is only one bandit, or the leader of the big bandits. But Zhang Xiu believes that this person's ability is still not inferior to Zhou Cang Liaohua, who was also born recklessly, for example, in terms of the number of thieves under his command, Zhou Cang Liaohua, who has only led 1,800 mountain thieves, is not as good as Chen Ce.
Recruiting a thief is not a dishonorable thing. The interpretation of the united front of our party in the special period is very good, as long as there is a team that is interested in fighting the Japanese emperor, it is a friendly army of our party!
At this point, it can only be said that Chen Ce was a little unlucky, he was not able to bump into Liu Bei like Zhou Cang Liaohua, so he could only hurriedly row through the long river of history.
But in this life, Chen Ce ran into Zhang Xiu.
The work of persuading Chen Ce to surrender was done by Zhang Xiu himself, and the lobbyist was named Jiang Gan, and his accompanying escort Zhang Xiu only sent one person.
As a famous scholar in Huainan, Jiang Gan was known for his eloquence, which Cao Cao had heard for a long time. The reason why Jiang Gan was able to go to Lujiang was precisely because of Cao Cao's assignment and was ordered to contact Sun Ce in Jiangdong.
Jiang Gan persuaded Chen Ce to surrender with only one sentence. The person used was the guard sent to him by Zhang Xiu - Pei Yuanshao. The words are also very simple: "Do you know Runan Pei Yuanshao? ”
Half a year ago, if someone asked who Pei Yuanshao was, no matter where he went, he definitely didn't know. But half a year later, Pei Yuanshao's name was well-known in the Central Plains and popular all over the country.
Not only in the world of bandits and generals, Pei Yuanshao has become the first model of dick silk counterattack since the troubled times of the Three Kingdoms! When he was a bandit, the number of bandits under his command never exceeded a hundred. It is not very famous in a small county in Runan County. But helplessly, Zhang Xiuhui knew talents, or directly said that Pei Yuanshao had shit luck, and he was actually Zhang Xiu's first general to open the door of the Chinese military camp!
At that time, Zhang Xiubing was less than 100,000, and he would not be more than Hu Che'er, but Jia Xu would not be able to write anything, and his territory would not even exist, and his power would be very bleak. But he couldn't stand Zhang Xiu's rise too fast, and he couldn't help but completely replace Yuan Shu, and even his power group was more Wenchang and Wusheng. There are dozens of famous generals, and the famous ministers and strategists are full of accounts. Pei Yuanshao, who has no credit all the way but has worked hard and has never made mistakes, has also risen all the way, starting from a junior officer at the most basic level, starting from a junior officer Tun General, all the way to Qu Chang, a tooth general, and a school inspector, serving as the scout commander of the 300,000 Zhang Xiujun!
From an unknown small bandit leader, Pei Yuanshao became a middle and senior general of Zhang Xiujun and Zhang Xiu's cronies in less than half a year. It gorgeously completed the transformation of a low-level reckless school to a regular high-level general.
You must know that being able to change your reckless identity and become a serious military general accepted by the world is the dream of today's troubled mountain thieves. Because most of them were not extremely vicious bandits, but in troubled times, they couldn't survive stealing, so they raised their weapons and went into the mountains to be criminals, and in essence, their nature was not bad.
In fact, in many areas, bandits are even synonymous with justice and hope. The decaying Han Dynasty has long since burned its life, leaving only bottomless darkness. Since ancient times, there have been harsh governments that are fiercer than tigers, but today's harsh governments are fiercer than cowards.
Compared with the corrupt, extravagant and tyrannical bureaucrats who have long disregarded the life and death of Li Min, the bandits and gangsters of this era attach great importance to the way of loyalty and righteousness. Closer to the Yangtze River, there is Zhou Tai, Jiang Qin, Jinfan thief Gan Ning, who robbed the rich and helped the poor, and far away, there is Zhang Yan, a Montenegrin thief who has not committed any crime against the people.
Of course, a year ago, Jiang Qin and Zhou Tai were the first and second people to be whitewashed in the water industry, and they were admired by all their colleagues in the water industry. even caused the first water in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, Kou Ganning, to give up hijacking ships to make a living, and find another job in Jingzhou and Xishu.
Now, Pei Yuanshao has taken the lead in filling the gap in the counterattack of the bandit world, making no one in the entire Central Plains want to join the army seriously and be a new person.
Even in troubled times, thieves and officials and soldiers have been reversed in many ways. However, every bandit leader still dreams of being a general in his heart!
Chen Ce is undoubtedly a complete bandit. But he was able to command tens of thousands of horses, which made him different from other bandits. Zhang Xiu even thought carefully about why Chen Ce still held on to the mountainous areas and resisted stubbornly despite the fact that Cao Cao had roughly unified the Central Plains? Why did he do such a self-defeating thing?
There are only two answers that can explain Chen Ce. First, Chen Ce is a person who is beyond his own strength, trying in vain to occupy the mountain and establish himself as the king! Second, it is like Liu Pi's analysis of Chen Ce in history: the reason why Chen Ce resisted was because he saw the general trend of the world clearly, and believed that the world could not be unified for a long time, and all localities would be in a state of separation for a long time. So he didn't want to put Lujiang County and his tens of thousands of horses and deaths on Cao Cao.
If the latter is the case, then there is no doubt that Chen Ce has great responsibility and courage. Cao Cao's policy of dealing with new conquered lands tended to be one of first and then again. That is, when the battle is carried out, it is not taken care of, and after the battle, the wealth is plundered first, and finally the territory is weakened to the extent that it cannot rebel and cannot set off the wind and waves, or there is no value for the enemy to recapture, and then slowly develop.
In fact, this process is used by every prince of the time. The newly conquered lands are naturally located on the edge of the sphere of influence, and are naturally difficult to guard. First, for fear that the enemy will take it back, and second, for fear that the locals will cause chaos, it is better to directly move the local residents inward and collect money and grain, so that even if the territory is taken back, they will have a harvest.
There are two people who have done this business the craziest in the history of the Three Kingdoms. One is Cao Cao's boss, the decisive Cao Jun is good at simplifying the heavy relocation figures, and sometimes Cao Jun often slaughters residents on the spot for the problem of whether there is enough food to eat. The first large-scale attack on Xuzhou, Cao Cao became famous in the princes' realm for slaughtering half of Xuzhou, resulting in Cao Cao's army not having a response from the bottom of the people no matter where he conquered.
Fortunately, Boss Cao broke the jar and broke it, and if the food was not enough, he had to be killed, including his own grain and grass officials, killing and killing, directly ignoring public opinion.
Of course, if it weren't for the weight of the family that could already influence public opinion, Cao Cao still needed to consider the ancient adage of "the benevolent win the world".
and Cao Cao's direct and simply distinct are Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang's two partners. Liu Bei won't say it, in Jingzhou in history, this cargo fled with countless civilians, and even staged popular bridges such as Changbanpo and Zhang Fei's broken bridge.
Deeply influenced by the lord Liu Bei, Zhuge Liang, who also persuaded Liu Bei to give up the people and lead the army to flee in Jingzhou, finally became a loyal believer in "those who win the hearts of the people win the world". He also likes to relocate his new cities and counties, and Zhuge Liang has made six northern expeditions in history, and basically the content of each relocation accounts for half of the military affairs.
Even he himself almost died trying to relocate. Fortunately, Sima Yi's stupidity fell into the empty city plan, so that Zhuge Kongming, who was not in danger in his life, left a wonderful chapter in the history books.
Liu Bei's tradition of loving the people like children has brought itself an important factor in the competition for the world - the hearts of the people. However, compared with the rough and simple tradition of the Cao Cao Group, the style of not abandoning and not giving up every civilian often drags Liu Bei's group back.
Compared with the rapid development and growth of Cao's Group with "domineering", Liu's Group is slow to enter. Liu Bei sat in Jingzhou, and the reason for the failure of Zhuge Northern Expedition was that "benevolence" accounted for a large component.
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According to the strategic location of Lujiang, there is no doubt that the above process will be implemented more harshly. Because of the location of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, controlling the river surface of the Lujiang River section can cross the water surface of Jiangdong and Jingzhou, which is an excellent location. This position is an indispensable springboard for Cao Cao's attack on Jiangnan and Jiangdong's return to the Central Plains after Sun's death.
Then, Lujiang, which is destined to become the middle zone between the Central Plains forces and the Jiangdong forces, will definitely be a no-man's land in the future, which may be what Chen Ce, a Lujiang person, does not want to see.
Therefore, he did not want Cao Cao, who had not yet conquered Hebei, to control the Lujiang River, because before the unification of the entire north, the northern forces would never set foot in the quagmire of the south with a natural moat.
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Of course, the above content is purely Zhang Xiu's personal speculation. Whether Chen Ce is an arrogant and arrogant person, or a wall-riding faction who sits on the mountain and watches the tiger fight, or a tough guy who is very responsible, needs to be slowly observed and tested by Zhang Xiu.
This time he came to Jiujiang to ambush, and Chen Ce dispatched more than 20,000 bandits. Fortunately, because of Zhang Xiu's mutiny, Cao Cao didn't care about the bandits flying in Jiujiang County. As a result, Chen Ce gathered a large number of people through two small infiltrations and large flows. After eating a full meal provided by Zhang Xiu, this group of scrawny bandits who were skinny because of Yuan Shu's tyranny and famine had the strength to fight against Cao's army who had not rested for three days and three nights.
Liaohua's 5,000 Tuntian Army was directly selected and brought from the Tuntian land of Jiujiang County and Pei County in Huaibei. Some of them were once Lu Bu's subordinates. It was the remnants of the defeated army of Lu Bu and Xuzhou all the way.
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