Chapter 901: Retreat in the middle of the night with all the food and grass
Listening to the shouts of tens of thousands of soldiers, Xu Shu and Xun Chen's mood was also much better.
"Evil seems to be a rough person, but this ability to boost morale, you and I are not as good as him." Xun Chen said.
Xu Shu nodded, there is no problem for them to make suggestions, and it is no problem to govern the people, but after all, they are civil ministers and strategists, and they don't have much contact with the soldiers, so they can't understand the thoughts of those soldiers.
If you want them to boost their morale, they are the same as the ones they read in the book, but even if they say the same thing, the effect of what they say will be different from the effect of what Dian Wei said.
It is very difficult for them to infect these soldiers with words and emotions.
"Since you are not reconciled, then hold your head up, the next time you meet Cao Jun, kill them all, and avenge the dead brothers."
"Kill!"
"Kill!"
"Kill!"
One voice after another, the last battlefield, even if there is no enemy now, is murderous.
The murderous aura that soared into the sky allowed these defeated soldiers to come out of the shadow of defeat.
With Dian Wei here, they don't need to be afraid.
God blocks and kills God, and Buddha blocks and kills Buddha.
They are fearless warriors, where the blade is directed and where the soldier is pointed, they will make the enemy's blood flow like a river, and they dare not obey.
The flames behind him were extinguished, and the morale of all the soldiers was reunited.
No one thinks about the defeat of the previous days, the flight of the previous days.
They want revenge.
"This is the head of the enemy general Li Dian, and he hangs it on the flagpole of the school grounds."
"This is just one, and there are more heads behind it to pay tribute to the dead souls."
Dian Wei's voice was full of murder.
Cao's army had retreated to Yanjin, and Dian Wei sent new scouts.
On the third day after the re-encampment of the White Horse, Zhao Hui's army also arrived.
With Zhao Hui personally leading an army of 100,000 to Baima, morale has once again increased a lot.
Cao Cao couldn't completely destroy them before, but now that Zhao Hui is here, how can Cao Cao resist.
The morale of the defeated army of the white horse was also unexpected by Zhao Hui.
Originally, he planned to rest in White Horse for half a month to boost their morale.
Because of the arrival of a new army of 100,000, their morale is high and can affect the defeated army.
Of course, it is also possible to be affected by the defeated army.
But now there is no problem with the morale of the defeated army,
Zhao Hui only rested in Baima for three days, and the army began to set off towards Yanjin.
Cao's army built a strong defensive line in Yanjin.
Zhao Hui was not in a hurry to attack.
After arriving in Yanjin, he first prepared various siege equipment.
More than 100,000 arrows were consumed in Hakuba, and now they need to be replenished in large quantities.
Yanjin is not a place for a decisive battle, even if Zhao Hui wants to, Cao Cao will not agree.
Here, it was just a point that Cao Cao wanted to consume Zhao Jun.
Even if Zhao Hui did not attack Yanjin, it would not be long before Cao Cao would have to retreat to Guandu with his men and horses.
Although Yanjin White Horse is the boundary of Yanzhou, there is still a long distance from Xudu.
Cao Cao wanted to save resources as much as possible, and the battle line needed to continue to be shortened.
Dian Wei Zhao Yun Xu Huang them, and took turns to fight in front of Cao Jun every day.
Zhao Jun's feelings in Baima at the beginning were all returned to Cao Jun at this moment.
But Cao Cao was stable, and he didn't let Xu Chu Guan Yu fight.
No matter how humiliating he was outside, Cao Cao was indifferent.
Fortunately, because of the previous "White Horse Victory", even if Cao Cao avoids the war now, the morale of Cao's army is okay.
It is not like the previous Zhao Jun, who has been declining.
Now Zhao Hui has 170,000 troops in his hands, more than twice as many as Cao Cao.
But it was still difficult to storm Cao Cao's camp.
With Liu Bei's help, Cao Cao is no worse than Zhao Hui in terms of the number of fierce generals.
Moreover, the strongest heavy cavalry infantry in Zhao Hui's hands is difficult to play a role.
They were wearing heavy armor, and it was impossible to get over those obstacles.
Cao Cao couldn't hold out, and he saw the rain of arrows of the Zhao army on the white horse.
So he also prepared more than 100,000 arrows in Yanjin, wanting to use these arrows to consume the Zhao army.
But after waiting for ten days, Zhao Jun only asked Dian Wei and Zhao Yun to fight every day, only shouting and humiliating in front of the gate, and had no intention of attacking Cao Ying at all.
In the past ten days, the hundreds of thousands of arrows prepared by Cao Jun have only symbolically shot a few hundred.
None of Zhao Jun was injured.
On the contrary, it was the scouts sent out, and the casualties were not small.
Cao Cao is very uncomfortable now, it is clear that the Zhao army has the advantage, but the Zhao army never attacked.
What is this, is Zhao Hui here for an outing?
Cao Cao just wanted to be in Yanjin and consume a wave of Zhao troops.
When he retreated to Guandu, he was fighting a protracted decisive battle with Zhao Hui.
But apparently Zhao Hui didn't give him this opportunity now.
If we continue to consume it, we will only increase the consumption of grain and grass.
If Cao Cao wants to fight a protracted war, he needs to cherish every grain of food.
The grain and grass here in Yanjin are about to run out, and Cao Cao is not ready to continue transporting grain and grass to Yanjin.
Because every transportation requires a large number of people, the grain and grass that the people eat every day is wasted for Cao Cao.
Cao Cao was very distressed, his food was already less than Zhao Hui's.
Zhao Hui can withstand a battle line of thousands of miles, but Cao Cao cannot.
Recruiting tens of thousands of recruits at once has put a lot of pressure on Yanzhou.
If it hadn't been for the previous capture of Yuzhou, Cao Cao would not have been able to supply these hundreds of thousands of troops.
Yanzhou was almost disabled by Lu Bu before, and encountered an insect plague again.
Cao Cao occupied the land of the two states, but he only had more than 100,000 soldiers and horses in his hands.
It is not as good as those princes who occupy only one state.
"Tonight the whole army retreats."
It was still noon at the moment, Cao Cao looked at the scorching sun hanging in the air and said.
There will be moonlight tonight, and you can barely see the road surface.
The grain and grass have been almost consumed, and there is not much baggage.
More than 100,000 arrows were divided into more than a dozen on the back of each soldier, and they didn't even need ox carts.
Some other things that are not easy to take, Cao Cao just threw them away.
Anyway, it's not valuable, and it won't fund Zhao Hui.
Regarding Cao Cao's decision, Xun You and others had no opinion.
The Guandu will be used as the decisive point, which is recognized by everyone before.
It's nothing more than when to evacuate Yeonjin.
Some people want to be earlier, some people want to be later.
But now there is not much grain and grass left in Yanjin, and everyone has unified their thinking.
If you continue to transport grain and grass from the rear to Yanjin, although each stone of grain and grass is only one stone, it is also a big burden for Cao Jun.
If you retreat to Guandu, the consumption of grain and grass transportation can be reduced by half.
The saved grain and grass can allow Cao Cao to hold on for half a month longer.
And this half a month may be the key to this war.
The moonlight tonight was very bright, and Cao Jun wanted to withdraw quietly.
But it was Zhao Hui's scouts who found out.
"Report, Cao's army has left the camp and is retreating south."
The scouts found out that Cao Jun had left the camp and immediately returned to report it.