Chapter 881: Black Clouds Crush the City and Want to Destroy It
Wen Chou and Xu Shu led an army of 50,000 to rendezvous with Dian Wei, and also escorted 100,000 stone of grain and grass.
Zhao Hui himself has not left for the time being.
In the west, Tai Shi Ci was forced to withdraw and merge with the state because of Ma Teng Han's attack, although it had little impact on Zhao Hui as a whole, but Cao Cao was able to free up tens of thousands of troops.
And Sun Ce, who was used to contain Cao Cao in the south, is now also poisoned and unconscious, which makes Cao Cao's pressure lose three points.
Every time Cao Cao loses a point of pressure, he can take out an extra point of strength to deal with Zhao Hui.
According to the news from the spies on the front line, Liu Bei, who was originally stationed in Xiaopei, had also raised troops and began to join Cao Cao.
Although the number of soldiers and horses in Liu Bei's hands is not large, it is only 5,000 people.
But he has a thousand white-eared elite soldiers in his hands, which is at least worth an army of 10,000.
In addition to the two fierce generals Zhang Fei and Guan Yu, Liu Beijun's combat power is very high.
It just makes up for the lack of top generals in Cao Cao's army.
The recent news is all good news for Cao Cao, which makes Zhao Hui a headache.
Fortunately, he still has a backhand.
His overall strength is still far stronger than Cao Cao.
"My lord, over there in Yanzhou, I didn't know that Cao Cao sent an assassin to assassinate Sun Ce."
Knowing that Sun Ce was assassinated, Zhao Hui also wanted to know if it was Cao Cao behind it.
Zhou Yu suspected that there were other people plotting behind Xu Gong's doorman, and Zhao Hui also didn't believe that it was just Xu Gong's doorman.
If Sun Ce was really so easy to assassinate, he would not have been called the Jiangdong Tiger.
Although there were many disciples of Xu Gong, after Xu Gong's death, some of those disciples were killed, and the rest fled and had already dispersed.
It is difficult to guarantee loyalty to the doorman, and at most a few people are willing to die for Xu Gong.
Some may have died with Xu Gong before.
There are three people who came to assassinate Sun Ce, which is already a lot.
"Forget it if you don't find it, let them not be reckless, lest they be killed."
Zhao Hui was just curious, and he didn't necessarily know if it was Cao Cao's plan behind it.
This is what Sun Ce and Zhou Yu want to consider and investigate.
Naturally, he didn't want to lose manpower because of this.
Cao Cao's army is now stationed in Guandu, and Cao Ren's soldiers and horses have arrived in Baima.
In addition, Xiahou Yuan also led an army of 30,000 and arrived in Yanjin.
The three are one line, Yanjin is in the middle, if Zhao Hui attacks Baima, Xiahou Yuan of Yanjin can be rescued.
If he attacked Yanjin, Cao Cao could also lead his army to the rescue.
Originally, Yuan Shao should have attacked Yanjin Baima at the same time, but unfortunately the result was the loss of Yan Liangwen and Chou, and Guan Yu's supreme prestige.
Zhao Hui did not intend to attack Baima Yanjin at the same time.
His strength is now stronger than Cao Cao, and he just pushes it over steadily.
Even if Cao Cao's concerns behind him seem to be getting fewer and fewer, Zhao Hui is still stronger in terms of overall strength.
The army advanced in batches, and at the front, a hundred thousand troops had already been assembled.
The 100,000-strong army, like a black cloud crushing the city, made the defenders on Cao Cao's side seem to be out of breath.
The vanguard led by Cao Ren is now stationed in Baima, and although the morale in the army cannot be said to be low, it is really depressing.
Everyone knows it's an uphill battle.
The 10,000 of them may never go back, and all of them will die in battle.
Cao Ren boosts morale every day.
After all, he is also a famous general, following Cao Cao for many years, facing Dian Wei's army, Cao Ren only needs to defend, so Cao Ren does not seek to attack.
Attacking is also not what Cao Ren is good at, he is better at defending the city.
Many times, it was Cao Ren who held the line of defense for Cao Cao and gave Cao Cao the opportunity to fight back.
In particular, Guan Yu's Northern Expedition, flooded the Seventh Army, and shocked China, but it was blocked by Cao Ren, in order to break through Cao Ren's defense line, Guan Yu continued to increase his troops, so that Jingzhou was empty and was attacked by Lu Meng.
Cao Ren may not be as good as him ten years later, but he has already become a general.
However, the strength in Dian Wei's hands has grown to 100,000, while he only has 10,000 in his hands.
The disparity in strength between the two sides is too great.
The only thing that can be relied on is the 30,000 army commanded by Xiahou Yuan in Yanjin behind him.
Cao Cao was in Guandu and had been waiting.
He was waiting for Zhao Hui to send troops to Yanjin.
Zhao Hui's number of soldiers and horses outnumbered Cao Cao, and Cao Cao wanted to win, so he scored and attacked him.
He needed to lure Zhao Hui into dividing his troops, and then he concentrated his superior forces and attacked Zhao Hui's weakest troops.
Although he may not be able to hit Zhao Hui, Cao Cao at this time really needs a victory to boost the morale of Cao Jun.
Even if the Son of Heaven personally recruits, it is difficult to change the low morale of the Cao army now.
In order to improve morale, even before the war, Cao Cao had already asked all the soldiers to change to three meals a day.
Cao Cao wanted to wait for Zhao Hui to send troops to Yanjin, and then he was quietly increasing his troops on Baima, and he was caught off guard by Zhao Hui first.
But Zhao Hui is now turning a blind eye to Cao Jun in Yanjin, which makes Cao Cao very uncomfortable.
Zhao Hui did not make a move, and the army of 100,000 gathered in Baima, unless Cao Cao wanted to fight Zhao Hui in Baima, otherwise Cao Cao would not attack the Zhao army in Baima.
Zhao Yun returned to Yecheng with Hua Tuo. It only takes ten days to go back and forth.
The poison in Sun Ce's chest is not a strange poison, the only trouble is only because the injury is in the chest, and the toxin has spread.
Hua Tuo was directly along Sun Ce's wound and separated it with a knife.
Cut off all the rotting flesh.
Because it had been poisoned for a while, the bones in Sun Ce's chest had a hint of black.
Hua Tuo scraped a layer on the sternum with a knife until the black color disappeared.
Then he applied his special gold sore medicine.
The poison on Sun Ce's body was at a loss to the doctors in the army, but it was not difficult for Hua Tuo.
After bandaging, Hua Tuo also gave Sun Ce a pair of antidotes.
Since he came to detoxify Sun Ce, Hua Tuo also regarded Sun Ce as a patient, and treated Sun Ce with all his heart, and would not deliberately keep a little poison.
He is a doctor, even if he is doing things for Zhao Hui now, Hua Tuo still adheres to his own heart.
He will not shake his heart because of money and power.
In this life, he can only practice medicine to save people, pass on art and teach industry, and it is absolutely impossible to harm people.
After Zhao Yun returned, Zhao Hui finally personally led an army of 100,000 to set out.
Cao Cao, who learned the news, became more and more urgent in his heart.
"The Zhao army does not divide the troops, do you have a way?" Cao Cao asked.
Cao Jun belongs to the defender, and it is not so easy to lead the attacker by the nose.
Although Zhao Jun's forward is Dian Wei, he is also followed by a very calm Xun Chen.
Cao Cao couldn't find a chance.
The successful assassination of Sun Ce made Sun Ce's army retreat, and he could not worry about Xu Du.
Xi Zhicai did give Cao Cao a surprise.
Xun You suggested that Xi Zhicai should be released, but in fact, Cao Cao did not tell Xi Zhicai how to do it.
Cao Cao is in his heart that a dead horse is regarded as a live horse doctor, just holding a chance to succeed.
I didn't expect Xi Zhicai to really succeed.
When he first got the news, Cao Cao felt a trace of regret in his heart, regretting that he had let Xi Zhi dig the grave.