Chapter 30: War Horses and Equipment
Cao Cao, Xun Yu, and Xiahou Yuan walked into Zhang Guang's camp, and once again felt embarrassed for despising Zhang Guang's subordinates.
The military discipline is strict, each doing its own thing, and the speed of encampment alone is much better than Cao's army.
Dian Wei took a few steps and planted the battle flag of the Ninth Regiment in the middle of the camp.
The flagpole nearly three zhang high, Xiahou Yuan walked up and tried it, but he couldn't pull it out at all, and his admiration for Dian Wei became even stronger.
Of course, Cao Cao's voice scolding Zhang Miao in his heart was even louder.
"Brother Zhang Guang, why did you name your army the Ninth Regiment?"
"This, they are all my brothers, we are such a small number of people, we must be in a group in order to survive in this troubled world, so we are called the Ninth Regiment!"
"I see that your Ninth Regiment is not only having no problem surviving, but also attacking the city!" Xiahou Yuan said coldly.
"That's right, General Xia is right, you have to have your own strengths in order to survive better, right?"
Now, Zhang Guang is no longer hiding, they have seen his own strength, and Zhang Guang took action to relieve Cao Jun again.
It is impossible for Cao Cao to poison himself now, and if he really wants to do it immediately, Zhang Guang is not afraid.
"Brother Zhang Guang, yesterday Zhang Miao came to summon the news, saying that you escaped from Chen Liucheng, my lord was in a hurry for a night, if you knew that you came to help, not to mention how happy you should be!"
"Well, I watched the stars at night, and found that the northeast direction of Chen Liu was faintly fierce, and I was worried that something was wrong with you, so I specially led the ninth regiment to come to help one or two!"
"Then why didn't you come to us directly, but ran to attack the city?" Xun Yu interjected.
"At the beginning, I thought that I was just such a small person, and I guess I wouldn't be able to help much, so I thought about bypassing Shouzhangcheng and secretly burning the grain and grass behind them."
"What I didn't expect was that Zhang Xiao and the others didn't have any food and grass at all, they were all tens, hundreds, or even thousands of people in groups to grab food everywhere."
"Last night, our ninth regiment was divided into three teams, attacked everywhere, worked all night, and killed dozens of their grain grabbing groups, there are always some."
"As soon as the morning dawned, we went to Shouzhang City, I thought that you should have captured Shouzhang, but I didn't expect to be besieged by Zhang Xiao and them on the top of the mountain."
"I'm just a few hundred people, if I go directly up the mountain to fight Zhang Xiao, I will definitely not be able to take much advantage."
"As a last resort, I had to continue to use the suspicious tactics that deceived Sun Jian at the beginning, so that they thought that the large army came from to attack Shouzhang City."
"Zhang Xiao, this person, does not have any military talent, he will definitely withdraw his troops to help Shou Zhang, your predicament will naturally collapse."
Zhang Guang's words made Cao Cao, Xun Yu and Xiahou Yuan's faces red and white.
It's really all out of the world, 50,000 Cao troops, in the end, it depends on Zhang Guang, who has hundreds of people, to save them.
In the end, it was because Zhang Guang burned the grain and grass of the Yellow Turban Army that he had a chance to turn defeat into victory.
Cao Cao shaved off his beard and white and pure skin, and he couldn't hang it anymore.
"Zhang Guang, you are a blessed general, but it's a pity that my lord doesn't have that blessing!" It was Xun Yu who came back to his senses first.
"Good luck, good luck, Brother Xun Yu, General Xia, Cao Cao is not here, how are you going to fight next?"
"Zhang Xiaohe Guan Hai retracted back to Dongping, Dongping is not as small as Shouzhang, it is easy to break, Dongping has a strong city wall, and there is enough food in the city, I am afraid that there will be a vicious battle."
"Brother Xun Yu, I have a plan, I don't know if it's feasible!"
Zhang Guang thought that Pang Tong and they should be able to recruit a lot of recruits in Shouzhangcheng, and wondered if they could get some equipment here from Cao Cao.
"You say, Brother Zhang Guang, even if there is anything to be decided by the lord, I will immediately go to the lord." Xiao Man looked more urgent than Xun Yu.
"Now Zhang Xiao and Guan Hai's remaining soldiers have all retracted back to Dongping, and they are ready to rely on the advantages of Dongping City to have more solid grain."
"If we attack, we will definitely lose a lot, so why don't we start from their rear?"
"The rear of the Yellow Turban Army, the Plains, Jinan, Beihai Chunyu and other places, is now under the command of one person to lead the troops to garrison."
"If Cao Cao agrees, our Ninth Army will make a detour to the north and go to attack Jinan and other places, then the Dongping Yellow Turban Army will definitely panic, and Cao's army can take the opportunity to break the city."
"If Brother Zhang Guang is willing to go north alone, the lord will definitely thank you!" Xiaoman said.
"Since that's the case, then I'll say it bluntly, five hundred war horses, one thousand sets of war armor, three hundred broadswords, three hundred spears, and three hundred strong bows."
"The surname is Zhang, why don't you go and grab it directly? Xiaoman, Lord Xun Yu, I said a long time ago that he was uneasy and kind, either asking for food or weapons. Xiahou Yuan said angrily.
"General Xia, don't be impatient, I'll go to the lord to report, before dawn tomorrow, there must be a letter."
Xiao Man got up and left, Xun Yu said goodbye and left at the same time, Xiahou Yuan shook his hand and smashed the bowl, stared and left, Dian Wei rolled up his sleeves and was about to ask Xiahou Yuan what he meant, but was blocked by Zhang Guang.
"Big brother, look at his virtue, why don't I cut him with a knife!"
"Dian Wei, if you can't bear it, you will make a big plan, our purpose is war horses and weapons, and the rest, let it go."
On the way back to the camp, Cao Cao was nagged by Xiahou Yuan all the way.
"Lord, you don't really want to give him Zhang Guang's war horse and weapons, do you?"
"I said lord, what is so good about him Zhang Guang? Worthy of your attention? ”
"Xun Yu, you speak, why don't you speak for me?"
"General Xia, today, if it weren't for Zhang Guang's rescue, we would have been chased back to Dongjun by Zhang Xiao and Guan Hai, and we can still discuss how to fight Zhang Xiao here?" Xun Yu persuaded Xiahou Yuan not to be impulsive.
"Xun Yu, you, why are you also the same as the lord? I don't believe it, without a fortune teller, our Cao Jun can't turn around? ”
"I'll take my troops to surround them, and if he still doesn't fall under the lord's name, I'll kill them."
"Xiahou Yuan, come back to me!" Cao Cao was also angry.
"Don't you know that this is the key battle for my Cao Mengde's rise? If I win, my position as Yanzhou pastor will be secured, and if I'm lucky, Qingzhou will also be mine. ”
"If I lose, when will I, Cao Mengde, have such a good chance to become a prince?"
"Xiahou Yuan, do you want to stay in Chen Liucheng all the time to be the overlord?"
"I ...... Okay, I don't care, I'll go to Dongping City to scold the formation, and scold Zhang Xiao for that stuffed hippie! Xiahou Yuan was aggrieved and angry, and he really scolded under Dongping City for a night.
"Lord, are you really going to give Zhang Guang war horses and equipment?"
"Xun Yu, if you leave Zhang Guang behind, according to your plan, how long will it take to break through Dongping and defeat Zhang Xiao and others?"
"There is enough grain in Dongping City for half a year, and if there is no external force, at least more than three months."
"What about three months from now? How long will it take to occupy the territory of the Yellow Turban Army in Qingzhou? ”
Xun Yu thought about it for a long time, and then he understood Cao Cao's true purpose.
What is Yanzhou pastor, that's just a fictitious position.
What Cao Cao really wanted was the soldiers, people and territory of the Yellow Turban Army Zhang Xiao, Guan Hai and others.
Now Yuan Shao is fighting with Gongsun Chan in the north, and Yuan Shu in the south, if they all have their hands freed, this Qingzhou, there will be nothing to do with Cao Cao.
Time is what Cao Cao needs most now.
A few hundred war horses, armor and weapons, and the entire Yanzhou and Qingzhou, that is really a drop in the bucket.
"Lord, the question is, how much of a role can those hundreds of people just rely on Zhang Guang make?" Xun Yu still didn't believe that with Zhang Guang's hundreds of people, Cao Cao could quickly take Dongping City.
"Don't forget, this morning, it was also a few hundred of his people who fled in a panic with more than 100,000 troops of Zhang Xiao and Guan Hai."
"Don't forget, it was his hundreds of people who killed tens of thousands of people sent out by Zhang Xiao to grab food last night, just one night."
"Moreover, did you see any seriously wounded soldiers in his camp today? has achieved such a big record, even our tiger and leopard riding can not do it at all with only a few minor injuries. ”
"I'm sure that as long as he Zhang Guang has war horses and equipment, he will definitely be able to let Zhang Xiao and his subordinates escape from Dongping City again in a hurry in a short period of time and return to their lair."
"Also, Xun Yu, tell me, can we still divide our current forces to attack Jinan and other places in the north?"
"That's not okay, absolutely not, with our little strength, if we divide the troops again, we will be divided and eaten by others if we don't get it right." Xun Yu said.
"That's right, let Zhang Guang make trouble, we are waiting for his good news here."
"Well, since the lord has made a decision, let's give it, and Zhang Guang, I heard that when the princes of the eighteen towns were discussing Dong, Liu Bei, Sun Jian and others all wanted to recruit him to serve under their accounts, but he didn't agree, and now he actually took the initiative to lead troops to help the lord, proving that he is biased towards the lord's side, and it shouldn't be a bad thing to give him war horses and equipment."
"That's right, Xun Yu, you have finally figured it out, just by virtue of his merits this morning, he deserves such a reward, go, find Cao Ren, and give them the best war horses and war preparations."
Before dawn, Xiao Man and Xun Yu sent Zhang Guang a thousand strong war horses, the best battle armor, broadswords and spears, and five hundred strong bows.
Compared with Zhang Guang's own mention, there are two hundred more pieces of each.
"Brother Zhang Guang, the lord asked me to thank you for saving your life on his behalf, yesterday morning, if you hadn't led your troops to besiege Shou Zhang, the lord would probably have died under Zhang Xiao's arrow."
"Haha, Xiaoman, Brother Xun Yu, wait for my good news, if one day, Zhang Xiao and Guan Hai suddenly abandon the city, you don't have to suspect that there is a fake, although the pursuit is, you can always chase and kill to Jibei, and the troops and territory along the way are Cao Cao's."
Xun Yu still wanted to say something, but Zhang Guang didn't want to say more, so he got up and shouted: "Dian Wei, gather the team, divide the equipment, and prepare to go." ”
"Brother Zhang Guang, farewell!"
"Please!"
Not long after Cao Cao and Xun Yu left, more than 700 people of the Ninth Regiment, driven by more than 1,000 war horses, quickly rushed to the direction of Shouzhangcheng.
"Lord, didn't Zhang Guang say that he wanted to go north? How to run to Shouzhangcheng? Xiahou Yuan came back with a hoarse voice.
"Your voice is hoarse, did you scold Zhang Xiao and them?"
"There is a ghost coming out, except for the occasional person who shows his head on the city wall, there is no one."
"Haha, back to the camp, we are here waiting for Zhang Guang's good news."