"I'll put this thing here for now."

Cao Cao put away the technique of movable type printing, and told Wang Xiao, "This matter should not be spread outside." ”

He also wants to break the monopoly of knowledge on the family's doorstep. But this kind of thing must be carefully planned and not rushed.

Since Cao Cao, a tall man, is willing to take the initiative to carry it, Wang Xiao naturally will not object.

After saying this, Cao Cao asked Wang Xiao what he thought about the next battle.

"Koto has already refused to surrender. It is pointless to continue to spend here except to spend money on food and make the sergeants suffer from the plague. ”

Listening to Wang Xiao still playing the same old tune, Cao Cao couldn't help frowning, "Alone mentioning 200,000 troops here, a little Jiangdong rebellion is nothing." After some time, the soldiers became familiar with the nature of the water, so they crossed the river and killed them without leaving a piece of armor. ”

Listening to Cao Cao's statement, Wang Xiao sighed and stopped persuading.

Facing a commander who believes in his own strength and has reached the point of fluctuation, he can only let the cruel reality educate him.

The Chibi opposite Wulin is indeed only 30,000 Wu troops.

But those are trolls. With them across the river, your 200,000-strong army will not be able to pass at all.

Moreover, the real main force of the Wu army was assembled near Chaisang. Even if you defeat Zhou Yu, the people set off from Chaisang all the way south, isolating the north and south of the river. Your past armies simply don't have logistical supplies.

As for looting on the spot or something, let's not mention that Jiangnan at this time was full of dense forests and swamps. The population is even more scarce to the extent that there is none.

Even if there are people, but the walls are clear and the city is guarded, you can't grab a grain of food.

How long can you hold out without logistical supplies.

If a meal is not eaten, the soldiers have to make noise. If you don't eat for a day, you have to start to break up.

Before there was a powerful sailor, it was impossible to destroy Soochow.

It was precisely because he saw through this that Zhou Yu dared to bring only 30,000 sailors to a decisive battle with Cao Cao.

Because Cao Cao is taking his own shortcomings and hitting the strengths of Dongwu.

This kind of stupid hat on the battlefield, don't hit him and fight anyone.

Movable type printing was made with the intention of breaking the monopoly of the Maison gate valve. This made Cao Cao very satisfied with Wang Xiao, and he didn't want to undermine his confidence too much.

He relieved a few words and casually changed the topic, "What do you think of Zhou Yu'er, how will you deal with it next?" ”

Zhou Yu is not stupid, it is impossible to watch Cao Cao train the water master. So he will inevitably choose to take the initiative to attack.

As long as Cao Cao's sailors were destroyed, then Cao Cao would have to retreat.

Wang Xiao said directly, "Next, someone from Zhou Yu's side should come to surrender." ”

"Huh?" Cao Cao was surprised, "Why do you say that, who came back to surrender?" ”

The serial boat has been set up, like a delicious feast in front of Zhou Yu. Next, he naturally sent someone to deceive him, so as to deceive the door of the water village and burn the water master clean. ”

"Hahaha~~~"

Cao Cao stroked his beard and smiled: "You are too worried." The west wind is blowing in winter, and if Zhou Yu'er really dares to send a fireboat, it will be useless at all. ”

"Prime Minister, let's make a bet."

Wang Xiao didn't talk nonsense, and directly proposed, "If there is a south wind sky, the prime minister will give me 5,000 gold." ”

Among the Three Kingdoms, Cao Cao was the richest.

Because he gave the fields to the common people, and the harvest was extremely abundant year after year.

And on the side of Soochow, it was the family in charge.

If Liu Bei wants to get ahead, it is impossible not to need the family's funding. Therefore, they have no way to divide the land and make tuntian.

During the Three Kingdoms period, the amount of land cultivated was far less than that of later generations.

The wild is full of dense forests and swamps, or uncultivated X-woman land.

The fields mentioned here refer to those fields that have been developed and can be directly used for production.

Such a precious field, the powerful families are firmly in their hands, and they do their best to tie the people to their own fields as serfs.

Of course, they couldn't have distributed the fields to do anything.

Because most of the wealth is concentrated in the hands of the family, Sun Quan and Liu Bei can only get it from the hands of the mud legs if they want to develop and want to make money.

Their approach is simple and crude, but of course it works.

That is, direct casting is worth hundreds of dollars, worth thousands of dollars.

To put it simply, Liu Bei, who is known for his benevolence and righteousness, is known as being kind to the people. An iron coin was minted, and it was declared that it was worth a hundred coins.

Then he took this kind of iron money, which was actually only one penny, and went to the people to buy something worth a hundred yuan.

What was the result, and the result was that the people were robbed of their valuable things. His own house was surrounded by walls, and those who were unclothed rushed to flee first.

As for Sun Quan, he was ten times more ruthless than Liu Bei. Because he directly announced that it was worth a thousand dollars.

Under this kind of plunder, the people are desperately trying to flee to Cao Cao's side. Because Cao Cao's side not only did not have this kind of thing, but also distributed field tools and seeds to make tuntian.

The products are abundant, and Cao Cao's taxes are also large. So five thousand gold or something, it's nothing to Cao Cao.

"What if you lose?"

"It's impossible." Wang Xiao first shook his head, and then said, "If you really lose, then congratulate the prime minister on calming down the world." ”

"Hmph."

Cao Cao smiled: "You don't suffer." Okay, that's a matter of course. ”

After saying this, someone outside came in to spread the news.

"Huang Gai, the general of Eastern Wu, sent someone to send a letter of surrender."

'Wow~~~'

Cao Cao got up abruptly and overturned the table in front of him. He looked at Wang Xiao, who was smiling and silent, with a strange expression. Someone really came to surrender.

Call the messenger in, take the letter and examine it carefully, and then let the messenger go back.

After some twists and turns, Cao Cao got up and came over, and handed the letter in his hand to Wang Xiao, "What do you think?" ”

Wang Xiao didn't read the letter when he took it, and directly tore it up. ”

Cao Cao's face was gloomy, and he paced back and forth with his hands behind his back.

After a moment, he paused and asked, "Is there really a south wind day?" ”

Wang Xiao laughed: "Prime Minister, let's prepare five thousand gold first." ”

Cao Cao has a suspicious personality, even if things are going on step by step as Wang Xiao said, but he still has a suspicious posture in his heart.

Essentially, he still wanted to believe that Huang Gai really wanted to surrender.

A few days later, Huang Gai sent a letter again, saying that he would cross the river with his own fleet tomorrow night to join the prime minister. He also asked for the name of the field house and the carriage woman Yunyun in the letter.

After reading the letter, Cao Cao was uneasy and consulted with many advisers, but everyone thought that Huang Gai really wanted to surrender.

Cao Cao, who was uneasy, went to look for Wang Xiao, but saw him running to the sentry tower of the barracks to see the moon.

"Are you going to chant poetry to the moon?"

Cao Cao, who climbed all the way up the watchtower, didn't think there was anything to look at in the dusky moon.

"It's going to be windy."

Wang Xiao dipped some water on his fingers and stretched out his hand to the wind, "It's the southeast wind." ”

Cao Cao was shocked and hurriedly followed his example to test the direction of the wind.

Although the wind was not strong, it was indeed southeasterly.

"How so." Prime Minister Cao Cheng's face was horrified: "How can there be a southeast wind in this winter?" ”

"Prime Minister, there are no wonders in the world. It's just a change of direction, which is nothing unusual. As you can see in the future, it is not uncommon for a man to become a woman. ”

Cao Cao frowned and waved his hand, "What kind of men and women, they think about these all day long." Tell me what to do now. ”

Wang Xiao bowed his hand and saluted, "Prime Minister, now the plague in the army is getting more and more serious. Either retreat now, or retreat tomorrow after defeating Zhou Yu. ”

"After defeating Zhou Yu, why do you want to retreat?" Cao Cao looked at him in amazement: "Why do you want to retreat if you win?" ”

"It's not a win, at most it's just a lesson for Zhou Yu. There are many people on their ships, and they are all elite sailors. Even if they saw through their plan, setting up an ambush and a big victory would not change the situation. If you drag it out any longer, when the plague in the army is uncontrollable, you won't be able to leave if you want to. ”

Cao Cao didn't know these things, he just couldn't accept them.

Obviously, he has a huge advantage, but he was stopped by a big river to calm the world.

Holding the guardrail with both hands, Prime Minister Cao Cheng silently looked at the dusk moonlight in the sky.

After a long time, he shook his head with a gloomy expression, "The sky treats me so thinly." ”

If the navy can't be defeated, it can't be defeated, and if it can't deal with the navy of Soochow, then it won't be able to cross the river. If you can't cross the river, then there is no way to talk about destroying Dongwu.

An army of 200,000 lives here, and the daily consumption is an astronomical amount.

In order to provide logistics for the army, hundreds of thousands of civilians kept sending supplies to this side day and night. The whole of Jingzhou is about to be drained.

On top of that, the northerners came down to the south, and the plague was rampant. Stay there until the whole army is sick, and then it's all over.

In the end, Prime Minister Cao had to accept this cruel reality.

He already agreed with Wang Xiao's statement in his heart and was ready to choose to withdraw from the army.

But before leaving, you must teach Zhou Yu'er a hard lesson.

The next night, the southeast wind howled.

Huang Gai set off with dozens of warships, and the first ten ships were loaded with dry firewood soaked in oil, and rushed quickly towards Ulin in the north under the cover of cloth.

The fleet took advantage of the southeast wind to quickly sail into the Cao Army's water village, and then ignited and broke into the Cao Army's ship formation.

As the flames erupted, the coalition forces were overjoyed and immediately attacked.

But it was only at this time that it was discovered that it was only the outermost circle of ships that were burned. The ships inside had already unchained, and the sharpening knives were waiting for them.

After a fierce battle all night, the Eastern Wu Navy was strongly watched in the narrow Cao Army Water Village.

Under the heavy losses, he had to force a breakthrough.

The Jingzhou naval army, which surrendered to Cao Cao, was not an opponent of the Eastern Wu naval army on the Great River. can fight in a narrow water village, that is pure consumption.

The losses on both sides are about the same, but the Eastern Wu army is small, which is definitely a nerve-wracking.

Fleeing back to the Chibi camp on the other side, Zhou Yu and others reorganized their troops, horses and ships, and waited for the attack of Cao's army.

But in the end, the news I received was that Cao Jun had withdrawn.

Zhou Yu and Liu Bei had the heart to pursue, but the losses were too great before, so they could only watch the Cao army, which was full of sick soldiers, withdraw safely.

Cao Cao left Cao Ren to garrison Jiangling, and left Manzhong to garrison Dangyang's throat where Xiangyang was stuck on his back.

With these arrangements in place, Cao Jun returned to the north on his back.

Wang Xiao, on horseback, looked back at the river in the distance. silently left a sentence in his heart, "The next time I come here, it will be the real battle to destroy the country." ”