Chapter 648: Driving the People to Attack the City
"No, I have already received a letter from General Yuan, inviting me to go south as an official, I think this is just an opportunity, and I am going to take you to the south to avoid chaos."
"Shall we go?" Zhuge Liang was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect his uncle to make such a decision.
"Well, although Yuan Shu is not talented, he is also a prince, let's take refuge first.
This time I will only take you away, the birth is too young to be bumpy, I will stay in Langya and let the clansmen take care of it.
For example, today's strife, in my opinion, there will be no peace for decades, and our Zhuge family cannot gather in one place, this is too dangerous, you go to the south with me, so that no matter how it changes in the future, it is good to take care of each other with the birth of the child in the north. ”
"Uncle thinks there will be a confrontation between the north and the south in the future?" Zhuge Liang immediately heard the mystery in his words.
Zhuge Xuan nodded, stroked his beard and said, "Whether there will be a confrontation between the north and the south, the key lies in Jingzhou, if the northerners get Jingzhou, then the unification of the world is unstoppable, if the southerners get Jingzhou, then the Yangtze River is reliable, and the Jiangbei will be confronted for decades." ”
"Only a few decades?"
Zhuge Xuan laughed and said, "What is the population of Jiangnan? What is the population of Jiangbei? Unless there is a genius in the sky, such as the one who used to manage Zhong Le Yi, who can fight the world with one place? ”
"Guan Zhong Leyi..."Zhuge Liang slowly read the two names.
He is familiar with history books, and this is the place of old Qi, so he naturally knows who these two people are.
One is to carry out reforms at home and make the country rich and the army strong. Externally respected by the king, the princes of Jiuhe, a Kuang world, assisted the Duke of Qi Huan to become the head of the five hegemons of the Spring and Autumn Period, and one was the peerless commander who was the weak brigade of the Yan State and connected more than 70 cities of the Qi State and almost wiped out the Qi State.
I must become like this in the future. No, to surpass these sages!
Zhuge Liang secretly made up his mind? But at the same time, he was sorrowful.
Does Guan Zhong have Qi Huangong? Le Yi has King Yan Zhao, where is his master?
- Cao Cao's camp
"Whew? Ming Gong? We're back, this Danyang soldier is really not simple? Zhong Kang and I rushed several times, but we still didn't break through Cao Bao's army. "Lejin walked into the big tent? While asking the sergeant to help remove the armor and wipe the sweat? While reporting the war situation to Cao Cao.
Cao Cao snorted, looked at Che Xuan and Xi Zhong and the others on the side, and asked, "Now that my army has been fighting with Lu Zhi for several days, regardless of victory or defeat?" Keep going like this? Morale will be exhausted, and Xuzhou reinforcements will continue to flow, do you have a clever plan to teach me? ”
Xi Zhong's eyes moved, and then he lowered his head again.
"Zhicai, you seem to have something to say? Is there anything between you and me that cannot be said? ”
Xi Zhong sighed? He got up and said, "Before sending out the army, Zhongde taught me? Illustrates the superiority of the public, lies in the bravery? Lu Gongzhi's strength? Is it in the soldiers? Ming Gong attacked Xu, although he could win, but it was difficult to win quickly.
If you want to win quickly... Only by extraordinary means. ”
"What extraordinary means?" Cao Cao asked.
Xi Zhong closed his eyes and did not answer, seemingly extremely hesitant.
"Oh, Zhicai, now that our two armies are fighting, if we can win quickly, I don't know how many lives we can save, why don't you say anything?"
Xi Zhong sighed, he originally wanted to rely on his own strength to win over Lu Zhi, but Lu Zhi was indeed a famous general in the world, and he learned the lessons of the defeat of Mount Tai before, and built and purchased a lot of heavy armor in the past six months, and turned the Danyang soldiers into a heavy armored infantry, so that although the Cao army could win the siege, it was also a small victory.
If it continues to be consumed like this, Xuzhou's money and grain are more than Yanzhou's, and it is really difficult to say who wins and who loses.
"Exorcise the people and attack the city!"
As soon as he said four words, the whole big tent fell silent.
Cao Cao's eyes widened, looking at Xi Zhong, and his breathing became more and more rapid.
Driving people to attack the city is not a new thing, this kind of tactics existed in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, but after the Han Dynasty unified the world, only foreign races such as thieves and Xiongnu would play like this in the Han Dynasty.
Because this method of warfare, although it is indeed very effective, as long as the quality of the commander on the opposite side is a little worse, the city will be lost, but it is also extremely damaging to the people, so Cao Cao, who was born in the official army, could not think of this method at all.
But as long as someone brought it up, Cao Cao couldn't shake these four words in his mind anymore.
Because Cao Cao knew that there was a reason why Cheng Yu came up with this idea, Lu Zhi's generals were not high, and generals like Cao Bao had to be used as the main generals, and at the same time, there were many factions, Xuzhou locals, Zang Ba these Taishan thieves, Cao Bao and these Tao Qian descendants, speaking of which, Lu Zhi did not have a single soldier, and his descendants Liu Bei's three brothers were still in Xiaopei.
After all, Lu Zhi can not care, Cao Bao can not care, Zang Ba can not care, they are all outsiders, what about the other middle and lower-level officers and soldiers who account for the vast majority of the proportion? They're locals! In the face of local relatives and friends, how many can swing the sword?
But.. In this way, it also means that his reputation all his time will be ruined.
Up to now, Cao Cao still has a positive image in the eyes of the world, after all, he was the first to lead troops and Dong Zhuo to do it when he was against Dong.
It seems like a long time, and it seems like it's only a moment.
"Zilian, Zihe, you two will handle this matter."
"Ming Gong, this... Or I'll go too. Le Jin arched his hand and said, but Yu Ban on the side closed his eyes and said nothing.
Cao Cao glanced at it, shook his head and said, "The Yanxu dispute, the root cause is that Tao Qian attacked and killed my father and brother's clan, Zilian, Zihe, are all my relatives, and this can be done." ”
The two stepped forward to receive the order, and then led the soldiers and horses to sweep and capture the people.
This move, naturally, will not be polite, and the looting that is carried out is light, and the massacre and torture will follow.
The north of Langya suddenly became like hell.
But just as Cao Cao and others thought, when they saw the people who were ganged into a string and forced to attack the city by swords, the defenders of Dong'an and Ju County were about to go crazy.
Especially these people, while crying, they shouted the names of the soldiers in the city, and the defenders in the city saw these people, and they also recognized them as their third aunt and sixth aunt and uncle.
That's where it works.
The generals who guarded the two cities gritted their teeth and asked the soldiers to shoot arrows, but before they could shoot a few people, the city itself was in chaos.
Because for most officers and soldiers, whether Tao Qian is the state pastor or Cao Cao is the state pastor really has little to do with them.
But when the relatives and friends outside die, the relationship is really big.
In one day, both cities were lost.
Lu Zhi, who was sitting in the camp, learned the news that both cities were lost, and his shocked books fell to the ground.
"How so? In one day? How did Cao Cao use his troops? ”
When they learned that Cao Cao was using to drive people to attack the city, Lu Zhi and the others stopped talking.
Such a way of playing... It's tricky indeed.
"Cao Cao. Cao Mengde... Do you need Xuzhou like this? Lu Zhi sighed, he has been fighting horses for many years, and he is not a soft-hearted person, but he still can't accept the civil war in the Han region, and some princes use such indiscriminate tactics.
What Lu Zhi didn't know was that in a few decades, on the land of Jingzhou, Lu Meng also used the same tactics to disperse Guan Yu's army overnight, forcing Guan Yu to defeat Maicheng and die in Eastern Wu.