"Why didn't Meng De raise troops to fight Yuan Shu?" Guo Jia is very strange, it stands to reason that the combat strength of Cao Cao's soldiers is not weak, and there are fierce generals like Xiahoudun, Xiahou Yuan and Cao Chun, and Xun You and Cheng Yu as think tanks, so they can fight.

"Fengxiao, that dove tiger is here."

Guo Jia was taken aback, "Dove tiger? Lu Fengxian? ”

Cao Cao nodded.

Lü Bu had previously killed Dong Zhuo under Wang Yun's discordant scheme, but Jia Xu and Li Dao and Guo Xi gathered 100,000 Liangzhou troops to fight to the death, killed Wang Yun, and drove Lü Bu away.

At the beginning, Lu Bu came to vote for Yuan Shao, but Yuan Shao refused, so he took his eight strong generals and three thousand wolves to join Yuan Shu, who was willing to take him in.

Yuan Shu was generous to Lu Bu, and he didn't care about the hostility between the two at the beginning, but because of Lu Bu's history of killing the lord twice, he also took some precautions against Lu Bu, and usually took Ji Ling and five hundred guards with him when he went in and out.

Lu Bu is also an acquaintance, knowing that he finally has a place to stay, so he stays at home with his wife all day long, and does not move around with Yuan Shu's subordinates, and honestly acts as a lonely minister, so that Yuan Shu can rest assured.

When Yuan Shu heard that Guo Jia had defeated the Xuzhou army, he knew that he would face the all-out counterattack of the Cao army next, so he transferred Lu Bu and eight strong generals and three thousand wolf horsemen from Bingzhou.

I have to say that although Lu Bu has a history of killing the lord twice, he has nothing to say.

Lu Bu seems to be just the champion of the three armies in martial arts, but on the battlefield, you can't just see his bravery, you must be careful about his troop deployment, his military skills may not be excellent, but he is born with a keen sense of touch, and he has worked the battlefield for so many years to be able to place his troops where his intuition is most accurate.

Moreover, the three armies of the brave crown are sometimes enough to decide the course of a war.

The soldiers' morale is boosted by the bravery of the commander, and sometimes force is enough to break the tactics' schemes.

So Cao Cao's jealousy of Lu Bu is not wrong at all.

"Feng Xiao can have a strategy?" Cao Cao asked.

Guo Jia shook his head, and he didn't have any good way for a while.

The Bingzhou wolf cavalry under Lu Bu has been on the battlefield for a long time and can escape from the 100,000 Xiliang army, this combat power is not comparable to the white horse Yicong he faced at the beginning. And the focus is on Lu Bu.

Dian Wei can compete with Lu Bu, but he only dragged Lu Bu, and Lu Bu still has eight strong generals under his command, none of which are easy to deal with. Counting the 800 trapping camps, Guo Jia has no way to retreat from the enemy, at least for now, it seems that defending the city is the best way, but food and grass are a problem after all.

After all, Cao Cao was not like Yuan Shu, with the support of the wealthy Huainan and the Yuan family.

This is 10,000 years of facial paralysis, but Xun Yu stood up.

"Qing, there are still a few yellow turbans in various parts of Xu Erzhou who are stubbornly resisting, and Tao Qian's army is too far away from Chenliu County, Yuan Highway will not transport grain for thousands of miles, and Yuan Shu's grain and grass will be transported from Runan.!"

Xun You's words woke everyone up. The people looked at the map in the tent.

Cao Cao drew his sword and pointed at a pass in Runan County.

"There is a pass on the road leading to Nanton in Runan, called Xiaguan, and out of the gorge pass is a plain, where the enemy's grain and grass can be burned, and the enemy army has no food, and it will be destroyed without attacking."

"Good." Guo Jia and Cheng Yu nodded, expressing their affirmation of this strategy.

"Zihe, give you 3,000 cavalry, I'll let Yuan Rang go with you, can you do it!" Cao Cao looked at his brother Cao Chun.

Cao Chun is Cao Ren's own brother, and the brothers lost their father at the age of fourteen, but it was Cao Chun who inherited the family business, not his eldest brother Cao Ren.

When Cao Chun was fourteen years old, he managed hundreds of people in his family, and he managed it in an orderly manner, while his eldest brother Cao Ren was still flying eagles and lackeys at that time.

At the age of eighteen, Cao Chun became a waiter of the Yellow Gate, a close attendant of the emperor, and had a high prestige among scholars, and now he has gathered more than 1,000 soldiers and horses in a few days, and has commanded a thousand troops in the year of the weak crown. Later, he commanded the most elite 6,000 tigers and leopards under Cao Cao.

It's a pity that Cao Chun in history died young, and died of illness at the age of thirty-seven. But his influence is very great, after his death, the tiger and leopard cavalry could not elect a commander for a while, no matter who came, it was difficult to convince the public, and those generals could not be calm at all, even Cao Zhen and Cao Xiu, who had been deputy commanders, could not do it, which shows that Cao Chun has great influence in the tiger and leopard cavalry.

"Slow, Zi and General, Guo has a gadget, maybe he can help Shang Zi and General."

Guo Jia thought of one thing, there were no stirrups in this era, so the cavalry riding skills were very demanding.

Guo Jia ordered people to take some strips of cloth, make stirrups, and then fix them on the horse's back, although the strips of cloth are not firm, but they can be used as stirrups, and soldiers can also use the combat power of stirrups.

Cao Chun didn't see how this little thing could help at first, but when he got on the horse, he noticed that the strips of cloth had helped him.

"This thing can increase the combat power of cavalry by 30%, even those who are not skilled in riding can sit on the horse! The military advisor is really a god and a man! ”

Cao Cao on the side said that it was such an exaggeration, so he flew on his horse and tried it, so that he could ride a few infantrymen.

"Mengde, this thing can be made of leather, but now that there is not so much time, I will replace it with these strips of cloth for the time being. Zihe general, remember, this thing must not be lost, if the enemy discovers the mystery, especially Lu Bu's wolf cavalry, then our army will be in danger. ”

Seeing Guo Jia's serious expression, Cao Chun also thought about it in his heart, it is true, if this thing falls into the hands of the enemy, it will be troublesome.

From the Eastern Han Dynasty to the Three Kingdoms period, there were no stirrups, and only at the end of the Three Kingdoms did there be some unilateral stirrups, which were still used for borrowing power when getting on the horse.

In fact, Guo Jia knows that stirrups will still be discovered sooner or later, but if they can hide it for a while, it will be temporary.

Cao Chun hurriedly asked people to rush to make these "strips of cloth", and then quickly dispatched troops after bringing enough dry food.

Resolute, not arrogant or impetuous, really talented.

Guo Jia looked at Cao Chun's back and faintly had the urge to establish a tiger and leopard ride.

By the way, since you can try to make stirrups, what about that thing? With it, it may not really be a dream to deal with the introductory horse.

It's a pity that Liu Ye is not here, I heard that this kid is learning Mojia knowledge, and he is very expert in these.

Cao Cao then ordered the blacksmiths in the city to be gathered and strictly guarded to make stirrups. If someone leaks half of the stirrup, the guards can cut it first and then play it, and there is no need to show mercy.

Guo Jia, on the other hand, rushed to find the blacksmiths in the city, and stayed in the blacksmith shop for several days, and his order to those blacksmiths was to build a strange weapon regardless of the cost.

Guo Jia could only roughly draw the shape and approximate size of this weapon, and many details had to be explored by the blacksmiths themselves.

They didn't say anything about Guo Jia's whimsy, after all, someone had just invented something like stirrups, and it really worked, who knows if "Master Guo" would invent something novel this time.

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