Chapter 351

In this way, in Xu Huang's camp, the two sides started a fight, not far away in Huyang City, there were even soldiers waving flags and shouting on the city wall, although they may not be seen by both sides of the enemy, but it is difficult to hide their excitement. Huang Zu, who was in charge of guarding Huyang, also never slept. He divided the soldiers into two groups, one group remained on standby, ready to support or accept civilian appointments at any time. A bunch to rest in the camp!

Huyang City is destined to be sleepless tonight, and those wounded soldiers who have been withdrawn from the battlefield, as well as those who were previously injured in the ambush, need to receive emergency medical treatment.

It was also Xu Huang who managed the army in a good way at peacetime, and Wen Ping also raided in the middle of the night, and the army of more than 30,000 still did not collapse. Xu Huang led his troops to resist Wen Ping and Liu Pan in front, and then Cao Zhen also joined the battlefield again. Niu Bi was constantly preparing in the center of the barracks, urging the soldiers and horses to rush to the front line one after another.

Of course, there are also those who are timid, and they don't even have time to get dressed and run away before they can pick up their weapons, they are running for their lives, and there are few people where to go. In this way, although Xu Huang had the advantage in numbers, he was in a hurry to respond to the battle because he was raided. This fierce battle continued until the east turned white, and it was over.

In the end, Wen Ping and Liu Pan saw that it was difficult to defeat Xu Huang for a while, and the soldiers began to show fatigue. He ordered the troops to be collected and returned to the camp. Xu Huang suffered heavy losses, more than 30,000 people, ran nearly five or six thousand, and was killed and wounded by the enemy in the attack. Xu Huang was afraid that Wen Ping would lure the enemy again, so he did not pursue Wen Ping when he retreated. He only hopes to hold the barracks now, and then collect some fetal movements after dawn, barely enough to gather 20,000 combat strength, so that he will not be eaten by Wenpin in the short term.

There were also three or four thousand casualties when Wen Ping took him out of the city. But it's insignificant compared to standing up. And Xu Huang told Cao Cao during the day while flying horses, while gathering the remnants of the army, and retreating the camp five miles! In order to buffer the pressure of confrontation with civilian employment and stabilize the morale of the military.

At noon, Cao Cao and Liu Cong both received a battle report from Huyang. Reactions are also different!

"What? Xu Huang's defeat? How can it be? Where did Wenpin come from? Thirty-five or six thousand people went out of the city to ambush? Fifteen thousand men attacking the camp after midnight? Are these people all iron-clad? Cao Cao didn't believe that it was two groups of people who went out of the city to ambush and those who attacked the camp at midnight. If that's the case, Huyang City will need at least fifty or sixty thousand people to be able to dispatch it. And if it was fifty or sixty thousand people, excluding the losses in the battle, then the number of defenders in Huyang City would be twice as many as Xu Huang's remaining soldiers. If Cao Cao still wants to maintain this left wing, he must increase his troops by more than 30,000!

But if it's a group of people, but they haven't slept in an afternoon and a night, and Huyang City is an empty city most of the time? That's too bold, isn't it? And Cao Cao knew that as a veteran of the battlefield, Xu Huang must have made a detailed ambush in Huyang City. This is not easy!

What a Liu Cong! Isn't it so easy to destroy your left and right wings? With the loss of tens of thousands of soldiers, Cao Cao could not afford to lose. But the morale is out of his hands. Since he returned to Xuchang from Fei, he has been defeated three times in a row by accounting with Liu Cong in Nanyang! Could it really be the same as Sima Yi's words?

Maybe you really want to promise Liu Cong? For the first time, Cao Cao felt that everything was out of his control. He understood that after receiving the encouragement of Huyang's victory, Liu Congjun's morale would definitely rise. And Guan Yu, who was attacking Wancheng, had not retreated, could Cao Ren, Xiahou Huidun and others hold on?

Although soon the second group of nearly 60,000 troops will soon arrive. But Cao Cao was really shaken for the first time! This is the first time since the troubled times pulled the flag! Liu Cong may be even more difficult to deal with than Yuan Shao......

And one of Xu Shu's entourage had just come from the camp opposite, and told Xu Shu in detail what had happened in the past two days. Xu Shu smiled with relief after hearing this, now look at how Cao Cao, the old fox, responds, these generals of the lord are really powerful. Don't look at Cao Cao's dominance, but they have done a good job of containing Cao Cao's two wings. And when they needed a breakthrough to increase their bargaining chips, Cao Cao was almost out of breath with two big victories.

Soon Cao Cao summoned Xu Shu again. He still had the same smiling face that couldn't see anything: "Mr. Xu, I'm still used to living in the camp, right?" ”

"Thank you Cao Gong for your hospitality! Shu received news from the lord today, urging Shu to return as soon as possible. I don't know how Cao Gong thought about the details of the peace talks? ”

Cao Cao coughed a few times in embarrassment: "Sir, don't you think that I, Cao Cao, will be defeated?" Don't hide it, sir, in another ten days and half a month, our army will have 60,000 support troops to arrive in Wancheng, which can completely make up for the losses in these two battles......"

What Cao Gong said, Xu Shu completely believed. However, if this continues, Jizhou and the Central Plains will be empty, and if someone takes the opportunity to raise troops, Cao Gong's backyard will definitely be in chaos. And even if Jizhou and Xuchang are safe and sound. In just one or two months, Jiangdong Sun Quan will definitely invade Hefei with a large army. At that time, our army only needs to send a naval army from Jiangxia down the river...... Shu dared to ask, is Cao Gong sure that he will win this battle in a few months?

How sure are you that after winning this battle, you can calmly support the Jianghuai and Xuzhou regions to ensure that these two areas are not lost? And will Ma Chao and Han Sui, who have had a gap with Cao Gong in the past few months, watch it? Xu Shu turned out the words he had repeated before again to refute Cao Cao, which means that my lord has no certainty of victory, and neither do you Cao Cao. Even if there is a situation now, it is impossible to win quickly! If you can't win quickly, it will inevitably cause civil strife and other princes covet the Central Plains......

Xu Shu used his mouth, but Liu Cong told Cao Cao with his actions that he couldn't win quickly, and if Xu tried to do it, it was not Cao Cao's intention. Cao Cao was also not prepared for a long battle. At least before Sun Quan was controlled, he really couldn't spend it with Liu Cong all the time in Nanyang. Of course, another reason why Xu Shu said was that Cao Cao was more worried. That's civil strife!

Although Cao Cao was an excellent military strategist, he was also an excellent statesman. But one person in power must face challenges from other families. If Cao Cao consumes the community unrestricted in Nanyang, Xuchang and Yecheng will definitely be rumored. In the past, Cao Cao was also the defender of the Han court and the supporter of the Han Emperor. Now that he has lost that aura, the gentry, the dissidents, will jump out and accuse him. A dead Kong Rong and a Xun Yu who fled Xuchang could not ensure peace in Cao Cao's territory from now on.

"What does your father-in-law want to say this time?" Cao Cao knew that it was not so much to keep pretending in front of smart people, and he couldn't hide it when he should confess, if he said that Zhang Jaw was defeated, Cao Cao was still hesitating, now Xu Huang was in danger, he had to make a choice, and he couldn't wait until Xu Huang was eliminated. Either immediately increase the troops in Huyang, or the two sides strike their troops!

"The lord asked the concubine to tell Cao Gong that as a clan member of the Han family, it is his duty to support the Son of Heaven, please don't worry about it anymore. If Duke Cao is willing, my lord is willing to immediately withdraw the troops stationed in Huyang and other places and return to Xinye before the war. Of course, since the battle was won or lost, there was naturally no such thing as compensation......"

"What a win and no score! Your lord is really high-spirited and magnanimous! "Cao Cao is basically satisfied with Liu Cong's conditions, the two sides strike and retreat to the pre-war line, at least it is beneficial to Cao Cao, otherwise Wencheng is stationed in Huyang, Wancheng and Luyang are like a sharp knife, like a fish in the throat!

Previously, Cao Cao proposed to let Liu Cong compensate in order to find a step and give an explanation to the officers and soldiers in the army. At that time, I didn't expect Liu Cong to agree! And now that Xu Huang has been defeated, Cao Cao knows even more that Liu Cong categorically will not agree to this request. And after his second allocation of 50,000 soldiers and horses is in place, at most he will rebuild the three fronts that can confront Liu Cong. But your own morale has become a big problem! Cao Cao knows this, and Liu Cong must also know it very well!

After some verbal negotiations between the two sides, Cao Cao finally agreed to Liu Cong's overwhelming logarithmic demand, and each of them was defeated. According to the agreement, Cao Cao withdrew to Wancheng first with endless regret and unwillingness, and then Guan Yu and Huang Zhong withdrew to Deng County, Wen Ping, Liu Pan and others withdrew to Xinye, and the Nanyang area gradually returned to its former calm!

A few days later, the two sides even invited Han Tianzi to mediate, and demanded that the two conclude a peace agreement in the name of Han Tianzi's announcement to the world. In order to support the Han family and the people of the world, the two sides must not raise swords again within three years!

Such a war in which the two sides mobilized hundreds of thousands of troops and hundreds of thousands of people, after a month and a half of stalemate and confrontation, ended in peace because of Liu Cong's two victories in five days. Cao Cao may not have imagined that this was the last time he took the initiative to attack Jingzhou and attack Liu Cong. After that, it's time to change offense and defense. An aging tyrant will be constantly challenged by a maturing political star.

And the two ended up peaceful, and the happiest people were naturally the people under their jurisdiction. Many families were exempted from military service. In particular, the people in the Nanyang area can also replant food with peace of mind before the arrival of summer. The common people are most concerned about the early end of the war.

The civil and military officials of the Cao Cao Group and Liu Cong Group also breathed a sigh of relief, and if they continued to fight like this, one of the two tigers would be injured when they competed. If it's their own side, the comfortable life they already have will be in vain!

But some people rejoice, and some people worry. The news came out quickly, and Sun Quan, who was about to move, naturally received it. I was very shocked that Cao Cao was able to endure this breath and discuss with Liu Cong and him! To be honest, although he and Liu Cong are allies, they still hope that Liu Cong will lose this battle. Of course, it is not a complete defeat, but a great loss of vitality, so that at least Liu Cong has no time to look east, and his ally is still valuable. Of course, if he was injured, Sun Quan could even attack Jiangxia and Changsha.

In Sun Quan's expectation, Liu Cong was a disastrous victory even if he was victorious. In this way, he can take the opportunity to attack Cao and seize the Huainan area, and even Xuzhou! In short, the longer the two of them fight, the worse the fight! The greater Sun Quan's profits! Reconciliation is the most unacceptable to Sun Quan. And the three-year peace treaty made Sun Quan even more restless! Cao Cao had already led his troops to the south before, and now he had concluded a three-year peace treaty in the name of the Emperor of the Han Dynasty, and Liu Cong would definitely not tear up the peace treaty. And in three years, Cao Cao will definitely conquer one of Xiliang or Yangzhou, and Yangzhou is the most likely!

"Damn! This Liu Cong actually reneged on the covenant! After reading the letter, Sun Quan smashed the case in front of his chest viciously in front of the civil and military officials! The crowd was taken aback. In fact, everyone understands in their hearts that this is the unreasonable of the lord Sun Quan. Liu Cong concluded an alliance with him, but it was an offensive and defensive alliance. Now that the Emperor of the Han Dynasty has issued an edict, how can Liu Cong be disrespectful if he is the prime minister? No one in the world can blame Liu Cong for this. This is the benefit of supporting the emperor of the Han Dynasty, and Liu Cong quickly brought his role into play.