Chapter 52: The Two Thieves
Of course, Liu Ping would not trap Cao Ang, and let him use 3,000 people to fight the 13,000 people of the Hao Clan Alliance, which would be simply sent to death.
And the front is not Liu Ping's style, for Liu Ping, if you don't play some tricks, it's still called war?
In fact, the coalition formed by the private armed forces of dozens of wealthy families is very similar to the dozen or so princes who crusaded against Dong Zhuo four years ago.
At that time, the alliance of the princes was several times larger than the Xiliang army, but there was nothing to do about Dong Zhuo, just because the princes from all walks of life had their own ghosts, and they all waited and waited to preserve their strength, waiting for others to send them to death, so that they could reap the benefits of the fishermen.
Even the coalition forces are full of contradictions, hindering each other, and even attacking has occurred, how can such an army have combat effectiveness?
Although the scale of these wealthy coalition forces in front of them is much smaller, their nature is exactly the same.
In the past, there was Lu Bu, and they could still work together for the common anti-Cao plan, but now that Lu Bu has been captured, as long as they provoke internal contradictions, they don't need to fight, I'm afraid they will mess up first.
"Uncle, Brother Liu Pingxian is right, you can't let these rebels go back to their respective prefectures and counties," Cao Ang said: "If they are allowed to go back, I am afraid that it will be protracted to pacify Yanzhou again."
At this time, it is a one-and-done strategy to wipe them all out of Yanzhou City. β
I took 2,000 men and left 1,000 men for my uncle to defend the city, which should be enough. β
"Ang'er, you are the eldest prince, Yanzhou and my Cao family's future are all on you, how can you take such a risk?" Cao Chun still persuaded bitterly: "I don't know that the elimination of these rebels will be beneficial to my Cao clan to pacify Yanzhou, aren't we not weak now?"
That's it, since you insist on fighting, then let me go with Ping'er, and you stay to defend the city. β
Although Cao Chun is an uncle, he is the same age as Cao Ang, and he has played together since childhood, and his relationship is naturally not ordinary.
He knew that Cao Ang was the meat of his eldest brother's heart, how could he watch him go to death?
Using 2,000 people to attack 13,000 people is simply a fool's dream, do you think you two are Sun Wu and Han Xin?
But Cao Ang already has unreserved trust in Liu Ping, after all, so many seemingly impossible things have been done by Liu Ping.
He smiled at Cao Chun nonchalantly and said, "Uncle still doesn't believe in Liu Pingxian's ability?"
Since he said that he could fight, he would definitely be able to fight. β
Then Cao Ang glanced at Liu Ping playfully: "This kid is more life-sparing than me, do you think he will do it when he dies?" β
Liu Ping couldn't help but his thumb and smiled: "Those who know me, big brother, we will be able to succeed and exterminate the rebels." β
In the end, the two of them ignored Cao Chun's dissuasion and set off with 2,000 men......
"These two are dreaming!" Cao Chun watched the two leave, and shook his head angrily, but there was nothing he could do.
The Yanzhou guard appointed by his eldest brother before his departure was Cao Ang, not him.
At this time, someone suddenly said behind him: "This is General Cao Chun?" β
Cao Chun turned around and saw a middle-aged man with a short body and an ugly face standing with his hands in his hands, and his attitude was quite arrogant.
"Who are you?" Cao Chun was angry in his heart, and he was naturally not very polite to that person.
The middle-aged man smiled slightly, raised his head and said, "Yingchuan drama Zhicai, I have come to join Cao Yuanjun." β
In this era, all the princes are recruiting talents, and Cao Cao is no exception, but Cao Chun has never heard of the name of Xi Zhicai, and even Yingchuan has never heard of a family with a surname Xi, most of them are here to eat and drink.
He frowned and said, "Big brother is out on the expedition, you go to the post house to rest first." β
After saying that, he left.
Xi Zhicai's smile froze, Cao's attitude towards virtuous talents is this?
He still had Xun Yu's recommendation in his arms and didn't take it out.
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In the team to exterminate the rebels, Le Jin has been looking for who the two people who captured Lu Bu alive are.
Such a record can be famous all over the world, why are the two just willing to be ordinary lancers?
But Liu Ping didn't say it, and he didn't dare to ask.
He carefully inspected Liu Ping's twenty lancers, but found that all of them were very capable, but none of them were particularly abrupt.
I have to say that Tai Shici and Zhang Liao are not the type of rough and conspicuous fierce generals.
Tai Shi Ci looks like he is just a young man of spirit.
And Zhang Liao, because he has been a county official, looks like he still has a trace of culture, if he takes off this armor, he looks a little like the shopkeeper of the store.
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The camp of the Cao army in the east.
"Smack"
Cao Cao slammed a tea bowl on the ground, and said with an angry face: "It's annoying and hateful, wait for me to fight that thief to the death in person." β
Two days ago, the news came that Zhang Miao Chen Palace welcomed Lu Bu's rebellion, Yanzhou City was in danger, and Cao Cao immediately wanted to withdraw his troops and return to help.
Yanzhou was his old nest, but also the source of his grain and grass, was captured by the rebels, his army became a rootless tree, without the supply of grain and grass, starved to death in the wilderness.
Unexpectedly, Xuzhou City quickly sent over two armies of horses, each with about more than 10,000 people, each led by Guan Yu and Zhang Fei.
These two armies and horses did not fight him head-on, but kept attacking him, like two poisonous snakes with fangs bared, biting him to death.
In this way, it will not be so easy for him to withdraw his troops.
Cao Cao was deeply versed in military strategy, and if he was chased and beaten from behind when he withdrew his troops, it was very easy to cause a rout.
After the collapse of the army, it is useless how many soldiers and horses there are, they are all cattle and sheep to be slaughtered.
And according to the time calculation, when he led the army back, Yanzhou City would probably have been lost, and he needed to reorganize the siege battle.
If Lu Bu did not come out of the city, and there were such two armies and horses behind, how could he dare to attack the city with confidence?
Therefore, his top priority is to defeat these two troops first, and then he can go back to regain the lost territory with peace of mind.
As long as Cao's army retreated, they would immediately attack it, which can be said to be my retreat to the enemy, and I retreated to the enemy, which made Cao Cao annoyed.
Cao Cao rubbed his eyebrows and stabilized his emotions, staying calm at this time was more important than anything else.
He slowly said to the generals in the tent: "Now that Ang'er has no news, Yanzhou City must have been lost.
Since this is the case, we will not do two things, first fight to the death with the two thieves of Guan Zhang, and then return to the army to avenge the shame with our families. β
He said this in a sad tone.
He and his generals and their families were all in Yanzhou, if the city was broken by the rebels, how could their families escape?
Those Yanzhou gentry hated him Cao to the core, and if they caught their families, all the men would be killed, and the women would inevitably lose their reputation.
This is a great hatred and shame!
The big tent fell silent, although these generals were all killing people countless times, but their families were the softest part of their hearts.
The thought of the death of the family and the humiliation of the undead at this time, everyone was furious and could not help themselves.
They couldn't wait to immediately break the bodies of the two thieves who were hiding in Pengcheng, and then they had wings and hurried back to avenge the male members of the family and rescue the female relatives in the family.
"Big brother, I'll lead the soldiers and horses to attack Pengcheng now," Cao Ren stood up, gritted his teeth and said loudly: "I want to personally lead people to attack the city, I don't believe that I can't kill him and the two thieves." β
"Big brother, I will also personally lead people to attack the city!"
"Envoy, I am also willing to go!"
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All the generals were anxious, stood up and hugged their fists one after another.
The big tent are all senior generals of the Cao Group, and everyone has the ability to dominate one side, if they are not forced to be in a hurry, they will definitely not personally lead the team to attack the city.
In siege warfare, the role of a military general is not much greater than that of an ordinary soldier, and of course the probability of death is not much smaller than that of an ordinary soldier, but the military general personally leads the team, which can greatly boost morale.
In the era of cold weapons, the morale of the army was the most important factor in victory, and Cao Cao just shouted that he personally went into battle to fight the thieves to the death, precisely to boost the morale of the soldiers.
"Good! In that case, I will personally beat the drums with the princes," Cao Cao stood up and said loudly and angrily.
In this situation, Cheng Yu could only shake his head helplessly.
He knew that these famous generals were the cornerstone of the Cao clan, and it would be a pity for them to personally lead the team to attack the city.
However, Cao Yuanjun is obviously desperate, so those famous generals don't know how many people can be left.
But without this method, how can you capture Pengcheng as soon as possible and kill the military horses led by General Guan Zhang?
The longer it drags on, the worse it will be for them!
At this time, suddenly a herald ran into the tent: "Good news! β
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There's something going on today.,The code word is late.,It's only a change now.,But there's definitely a second shift.,It's probably the second half of the night.,It's recommended to look at it tomorrow morning.γ
Thank you Tang Sanjing for the reward.