Smack! "Smack!"

Several soldiers pushed Gao Shun in front of Cao Cao, pressed him to the ground, and shouted, "Kneel!" ”

Gao Shun's face was pale, and he didn't struggle, and knelt on the ground obediently.

Cao Cao saw Gao Shun and said with a smile: "Isn't this General Gao Shun who led his troops to resist in Xiaopei in the past?" How did it get to this point? ”

Gao Shun's hands were tied behind his back, he raised his head, his gaze calm, "General Cao broke through Xiapi with water, can this kind of thing come a second time?" Liu Yuanjun has a tough temperament, even if he breaks the next pi, he will continue to fight. I was caught by the general today, and I just left a few days early. When the general reorganizes Guanzhong and leads the army east, General Cao will be like me now! ”

The smile on Cao Cao's face suddenly froze, what Gao Shun said was exactly what he was afraid of in the deepest part of his heart. He narrowed his eyes, stared at Gao Shun for a while, and said, "Where are you in Liu Bei, you are just a partial general." If you will surrender to me, I will entrust you with the responsibility. If not, push it out and cut it out immediately! ”

Gao Shun said calmly: "Please take the axe." ”

Cao Cao was a little disappointed, he and the Xuzhou soldiers fought from last year to this year, and knew that Liu Bei was under Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Gao Shun, Chen Dao, these four generals. The rest of the generals, such as Cao Bao and others, are insignificant. If Gao Shun can surrender, he can not only know the reality of Xuzhou, but also inquire about a lot of things in Guanzhong. But since Gao Shun refused to surrender, he could only kill.

He adjusted his mood and said with a smile: "Then do you have any last words?" ”

Gao Shun thought for a while and said, "I don't have anything to say, it's just that since the Battle of Guanzhong, I haven't been able to see the old master again, and I deeply regret it." ”

Cao Cao laughed and said, "What's so difficult about this? I'll send your head to Chang'an, and I'll just enclose a letter. ”

Gao Shun listened and said, "Then thank you General Cao." ”

The expression on Cao Cao's face was solemn, and he shouted: "Push it out and cut it!" ”

The soldiers pulled Gao Shun out of the tent, and after a while, a soldier walked in with a wooden plate containing a blood-dripping head, and said, "My lord, Gao Shun's head is here!" ”

On the wooden plate, Gao Shun's face was pale, but he still maintained a calm expression, completely different from those who watched the slaughter in the past. When Cao Cao saw it, he regretted it slightly, and said secretly: It's a pity, if Gao Shun can be used by me, the speed of capturing Xuzhou can be accelerated a lot!

In such a long confrontation, Cao's army had won almost every battle with more than 10,000 people, so Cao Cao did not doubt that he could defeat Liu Bei. It's just that Liu Bei is too difficult, every time he is defeated, he can quickly gather his troops and horses, and then make a comeback, which makes him a headache.

After the Xiapi was broken, Cao Jun finally had no worries, and then crossed Surabaya in a big way and rushed towards Xiaqiu City, where Liu Bei was located. While Liu Bei was collecting soldiers, horses, grain and grass to prepare to defend Xiaqiu City, he urgently asked for help from the surrounding princes and the imperial court. In his private letters to Liu Biao, Fu Gan and Chen Cheng, he counted Cao Cao's crimes and told the tragic situation of the people of Xuzhou. Just by looking at the letters, one can feel a breath of blood rushing towards one's face.

After receiving Liu Bei's letter of distress, Liu Miao gave Xuzhou thousands of old, weak, sick and disabled people and some money and food, and then continued to entangle with the local tyrants in Jiangdong. Liu Biao sent tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to the border between Jingzhou and Yuzhou, and then .......... There is no then. Liu Biao, you say he is not very bold, he can kill dozens of Haoqiang in Jingzhou in one go.

But after gaining a firm foothold in Jingzhou, Liu Biao seemed to have lost his enterprising spirit, and he didn't want to expand his territory externally, nor did he think about further strengthening his power internally, as if he had exhausted all his subjective initiative after becoming the pastor of Jingzhou. There were more and more literary scholars under him, but he had no ambition to open up outward.

After Fu Gan got Liu Bei's letter, he sent the letter to Chang'an along with Gao Shun's head. Xu Rong, the governor of Sanhe (Hedong, Hanoi, Henan), took 2,000 soldiers and horses out of the Tiger Prison Pass and went around the border of Yanzhou to spy on the reality of Cao's army. After Cheng Yu sent the army, he immediately shrank back.

These things have put a lot of pressure on Cao Cao, although these people around him did not really come to embarrass him Cao Cao, but they showed a very dangerous trend. As a result, Cao Jun's attack on Liu Bei became more and more ferocious, and his methods became more and more fierce. At the end of the spring ploughing, Cao's soldiers cut the seedlings that had just grown in the fields to feed the livestock, and took the people's living rations everywhere they passed.

Yanzhou also squeezed out the last bit of grain and sent it to the front-line army. The soldiers of the Cao Army, who were fighting in front of them hungry, had not eaten enough for a long time, and after getting the meat, they were a little puzzled. The army has been short of food and grass for a long time, how can there suddenly be a butcher shop to eat? But in front of the meat, the only doubts that were there quickly disappeared without a trace.

"My lord, the soldiers are eating, why don't I go and bring you a bowl of broth?"

In the face of the courtesy of his own soldiers, Cao Cao's face showed disgust, he waved his hand, and said, "Just get me a fish, and don't want anything else." ”

The scale of the war in Xuzhou is further expanding, whether it is Liu Bei or Cao Cao, they are gritting their teeth and fighting to the death with their opponents. The reserves on both sides were close to exhaustion, and food shortages were a common occurrence in the army. Xuzhou has always been rich, Liu Bei, Guan Yu and others are often hungry, and the treatment of the soldiers below will only be worse.

As for Cao Cao, he had already borrowed the head of the grain officer and used it once, temporarily stabilizing the morale of the army, and he was also in a state of hunger. After more than ten days of difficult fighting, Cao's army finally broke through Xiaqiu City. But like the previous times, Liu Bei jumped out of the encirclement with Guan Yu and others, and led the remnants of the defeated army to retreat to Xu County.

Cao Jun was in hot pursuit, Cao Cao personally rode a horse to pursue, and he said to his subordinate generals: "If Liu Bei does not die for a day, Xuzhou will not be pacified for a day!" No matter how hard you work today, you have to take off Liu Xuande's head! ”

Liu Bei had only five or six thousand soldiers and horses left, and he retreated to Xu County in Xiapi County. Xiapi County had just been flooded, and the original plain area had become muddy, although Cao Jun's tiger and leopard cavalry was elite and numerous, but in the face of a large area of flooded land, it also lost the advantage of mobility, and could only chase after Liu Bei with two legs.

When the war has reached such a point, it is no longer the time when generals and soldiers can play a decisive role. Liu Beijun and Cao Caojun are just holding their breath and struggling to support, whoever vents their anger first will be defeated. Because of the shortage of grain and grass in the army, Cao Cao sent Xiahou Yuan back to Yanzhou to supervise the transportation of grain and grass and maintain the safety of the grain route.

After fighting with Cao Cao for so long and being cut off many times, Liu Bei also learned this trick. He "treated others in the way of others" and sent Zhang Fei to lead the cavalry to guerrilla attacks outside. Because of the help of the locals in Xuzhou, Zhang Fei repeatedly intercepted Cao's grain and grass, which caused Cao Cao to be furious, and sent many soldiers and horses to chase Zhang Fei, but failed.

Xiahou Yuan returned to Yanzhou with more than 1,000 cavalry, found Cheng Yu in charge, and asked, "How much grain and grass is there in the state?" The lord only has three days of grain and grass in Xuzhou! ”

Cheng Yu, like Chen Gong, is from Dongjun, but he is much older than Chen Gong. Because he was very prestigious in the county and was stable, he was given the important task of collecting grain and grass by Cao Cao. Hearing Xiahou Yang's straightforward question, a smile appeared on Cheng Yu's face and replied: "I have harvested a lot of potatoes planted last year, and I have made people ready to send them to the front line at any time." ”

"How many?"

"300,000 stones!"

Xiahou Yuan's face couldn't help but show a smile, he clapped his hands fiercely, and said loudly: "Great! With these potatoes, we were able to keep going! ”

These potatoes, sweet potatoes, sorghum, corn and so on, all came from Liangzhou. Because of its high yield and good resistance to harsh environments and insect pests, it has spread rapidly in Yanzhou. In many cases, a single potato dug up on the side of the road or in the woods can save a person's life.

Xiahou Yuan was happy for a while, and then suddenly remembered another thing, and his brows immediately furrowed. Cheng Yu saw it on the side and asked, "What else is difficult about the general?" ”

"No," Xiahou Yuan's brows were still tight, he raised his head, looked in the direction of the east, looked at the apprentice who was shrouded in blood and fire, and said slowly: "We have 300,000 stone potatoes, of course this is a good thing." But potatoes and sweet potatoes are all passed down from Liangzhou, we can have them, don't Liu Xuande have them? ”

Cheng Yu obviously thought about this problem, and said disappreciatively: "Our army is strong, even if the Xuzhou soldiers can harvest some miscellaneous grains, how can they be our opponents?" As long as Xuzhou is captured, the manpower and material resources over there can be used by me! ”

Of course, it would be good if you could capture Xuzhou, but what if you can't defeat it?

Xiahou Yuan still couldn't let go, but he pretended to agree with his face and said, "What Mr. Cheng said is true! ”

When he returned home, Xiahou Yuan picked up his hungry son and took him to play outside. The wife grabbed a handful of rice from the rice bowl and carefully put half of it into the pot. She thought about it for a moment, spread out her hand again, counted twenty grains and put them in the water, and poured the rest back into the rice bowl.

While cooking porridge, Xiahou Yuan put down his son and asked, "Is there enough food at home?" ”

The wife wiped her hands and said, "It's not enough to eat, and the grain in the field has been collected by the government." ”

She said with some complaints: "You are also a general, can't you let the government not accept our family's grain?" ”

Xiahou Yuan was silent for a while when he heard this, looked at him left and right, and asked, "Where is Juan'er?" ”

Xiahou Juan is the daughter of Xiahou Yuan's late brother, who was adopted by Xiahou Yuan, and is now eight or nine years old. The wife replied, "I went out of the city to dig wild vegetables." ”

While speaking, Xiahou Juan walked in from outside the door with a small basket, and when he saw Xiahou Yuan, he was very happy and shouted: "Father! ”

Xiahou Yuan had a smile on his face, stepped forward to take the basket, and said warmly: "It's too dangerous to go out of the city, you have to go with your neighbors, you know?" ”

Xiahou Juan nodded heavily, reached out and pulled out the wild vegetables in the small basket, revealing a few potatoes about the size of her fist, she took out the cherished place of potatoes, and said, "Father, I dug a few potatoes in the woods today, so that my younger brother can eat enough." ”

Xiahou Yuan's eyes couldn't help but moisten a little, and he forced a smile: "My brother is still young and can't eat much, you have to eat yourself first in the future." ”

The son pounced at this time, grabbed Xiahou Juan's clothes, and said in a milky voice: "Sister." I'm hungry! ”

Xiahou Juan smiled and said to his younger brother: "You wait, I will cook the potatoes and vegetables together, and I will serve them for you to eat." ”

Read the URL: