Sanfeng Mountain, located at the junction of Yuzhou and Huainan, stretches for more than 100 miles from east to west, the main body is composed of three connected peaks, hence the name, its land is steep, strange rocks are born, there is a mountain road in the middle to pass through the north and south, that is, the natural dividing line of the two states, and it is also the place where soldiers must fight!

"In any case, the Three Peaks Mountain must be occupied!"

Yuan Shu was born in a family, visited famous teachers since childhood, and read a lot of military books and war strategies, although he was not an excellent commander, but he still knew the important role of 'geographical advantage' in the war, so he issued a military order to seize Sanfeng Mountain.

Occupying the geographical advantage is equivalent to grasping the initiative in the war, and when the time comes, you can attack, retreat and defend, and be flexible and free!

The Huainan Group originally planned to use ten days to recruit 250,000 troops and 100,000 people, which was already very hasty, but when he learned that Cao's army was advancing at a speed of 80 miles a day, Yuan Shu could no longer sit still, and prepared until the fourth day, and forcibly issued an order to go out without waiting for all the people to arrive!

"Woo! Woo! Woo! ”

General Ji Ling commanded 30,000 troops as the pioneer, and went straight to Sanfeng Mountain non-stop, before the Cao army arrived, occupy the favorable terrain, build a good fortress, and prepare for the decisive battle of the army, and then Yuan Shu led his Royal Forest Army as the second echelon to advance!

Don't look at it as a hasty departure, Yuan Shu's pomp is not small at all, a full set of emperors have been brought out, the dragon and phoenix sun and moon flag in front of the road, the back of the four buckets and five flags to protect the body, on both sides of the escort samurai, holding gold melons and silver axes, Huang Yue Baixuan, under a huge Huangluo umbrella cover, Yuan Shu golden helmet and gold armor, big red cloak, sit down on the free horse, slash the knife in his hand, majestic and unstoppable!

"Your Majesty, the people from all walks of life have not yet arrived, and the people, grain and grass, and Zizhong have not been properly prepared, so sending troops in such a hurry may not be conducive to the war!" Li Feng, the head of the four ministers in Huainan, ran over with black circles under his eyes, and in order to prepare for logistics in the past few days, he has not slept day and night, and even a big hole has run out of his boots.

"If Lone doesn't send troops again, Cao Mengde will be killed in Shouchun City!" Because of worrying about the war, Yuan Shu's eyes were also a little red, "How is the grain and grass prepared?" Are there enough people? ”

"Back to Your Majesty, the grain, grass, and people need to be requisitioned from various counties, the road is far away, and now there are less than thirty percent, and Weichen has tried his best to allocate it, but it will take at least eight to ten days to be sufficient!"

Li Feng lamented in his heart, Huainan was originally a place in the world, with sufficient money and food, and a large population, but since Yuan Shu took power, he has built palaces and gardens on a large scale, abused the people's power, exhausted countless people, and paid more taxes and miscellaneous taxes.

"The lonely Shouchun City is rich in the world, with a population of hundreds of thousands, can't it muster a little military rations, tens of thousands of young and strong?"

"What does Your Majesty mean?"

"The edict is that all the people of Shouchun will hand over the grain stored at home, and in addition, if there are two men in the family, one will serve in front of the army, and within two days, the requisition must be completed, and those who violate the order will be beheaded!"

Yuan Shu pulled out the Son of Heaven Sword on his waist and directly left it in front of Li Feng, "Within two days, either the military rations will come, or the heads will come, do you understand?" ”

"Your ......, obey the order!" Holding the sword of the Son of Heaven, Li Feng's tears were about to come out, this was forcing him to be a robber and rob the people in Shouchun City, but if he didn't do it, Yuan Shu said it clearly, either he scolded the name of the ages, or he offered his head, choose one of the two, and it is naturally better to be scolded than to lose his head!

Countless armor soldiers rushed into the homes of ordinary people with sharp knives, checked and looted, and the edict made it clear that two men drew one, which meant that as long as there were two men in the family, one had to be taken away, and as for the stored grain, as long as it was edible, there was not a single grain left!

"What, this is your family's rations, Uncle Bing doesn't care about these, rob, starve a few people, Shouchun City is still the Yuan family, if Uncle Bing is starving to death, Shouchun will have to change hands!

What, there's only one man in your family?

Nonsense, isn't that three-month-old little guy in your arms with a handle? Since it is a handle, it is a man, Your Majesty has an order, two men draw one, your husband has to go with us, go to the front line to contribute, there is no power to go out, block the arrow and arrow! ”

In this way, a team of young people were forcibly dragged out of their homes, trapped with ropes, and forcibly escorted to serve in the army, leaving behind only a Shouchun City full of old and weak women and children, crying!

There is no hell on earth!

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"Huh! Three Peaks Mountain! ”

Cao Cao and a group of strategists and generals also set their eyes on here, where the soldiers must fight, who can't see it!

"Prime Minister, our army has entered the territory of Yuzhou, as long as we work day and night, non-stop, we have every chance to occupy this strategic place in front of Yuan Shu!" Xiahoudun is a pioneer, thick and cautious, he has already made a detailed calculation of the distance, he said that if he can take the lead, then he will definitely not leave ten.

"Don't worry, it's just a mountain, so why not give it to him!" Looking at the map for a long time, Cao Cao smiled slightly, "Pass the order, the whole army will set up camp, and it's not too late to go on the road after resting." ”

"Prime Minister, the military situation is urgent, and Yuan Shu's army is working day and night to seize Sanfeng Mountain, why are we going slower and slower?"

Puzzled not only Xiahoudun, the rest of the generals are also puzzled, since the army set out, it can be said that it is galloping, advancing more than 80 miles a day, shocking the enemy, but since entering Yuzhou, the speed of the march is falling again and again, getting up and resting early every night, walking less than thirty miles to set up camp, the road is less, the soldiers' food has increased, eating four meals a day, there is fat meat, the brothers eat red faces, and there is nowhere to vent the energy!

"Haha, Yuan Shu is incompetent, and the marching array is all hard and scriptive, but he doesn't know how to apply it flexibly, he really wasted those hundreds of thousands of Huainan elite soldiers in vain!"

Cao Cao first looked at Guo Jia and Xiao Yi beside him, and the three of them looked at each other, all of them were shining; Then he pointed to the Sanfeng Mountain on the map and continued, "The army is fighting, the location is important, don't you know, the time is not as good as the location, the location is not as good as the people, in the final analysis, the battle is fought by people, the soldiers are the most important, the Huainan army rushed to occupy the territory day and night, and after arriving, it will be exhausted, and there is no combat power, and our soldiers, the day is only thirty miles, each meal with wine and meat, recuperate, when the time comes, it will be a group of tigers down the mountain, see how he Yuan Shu those weak soldiers resist!" ”

"The prime minister is a god, and the ghosts are unpredictable!" All the generals bowed down to praise, it is true, we eat enough, sleep well, go and beat those guys who have been hungry day and night, how to fight, how to win!

"This is close to Qian County, tomorrow the army will stop for a day, the old man just went back to visit the parents, and then clean the cemetery for the ancestors, in order to fulfill the responsibility of the son!" Cao Cao's hometown is in Pei County--Qian County, only a few dozen miles away from here, and the wanderer returns to his hometown, so he naturally wants to go back to see, which is the normal situation of people.

"No! ……”

Since you want to recharge your batteries, it's good to take a day off!

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Cao Cao's way of going home was very low-key, there was no guard of honor, no flags, and he didn't even wear armor, just a casual suit, with three sons, and the head of the guard, Xu Chu, led dozens of personal guards to escort them, plus Guo Jia and Xiao Yi.

His hometown is a very ordinary village in Qian County, relying on the mountains and water, saying that it is not big, it is not small, there are probably hundreds of households, thousands of acres of land, and a large mulberry forest, the people are simple, live a self-sufficient life, and even the name is very ordinary, it is called ---Caojiating!

Cao Pi brothers naturally became the leader, they have lived here since childhood, very familiar, and from time to time and passers-by to say hello, and so on to the entrance of the village, immediately surrounded by a group of naughty children, 'twittering' non-stop, the Cao brothers took out the dried meat and pastries that had been prepared long ago and distributed them to these friends, and also let their war horses out, so that everyone took turns to go up for a test ride, and had a lot of fun!

It can be seen that these guys used to play the role of 'child king' at home!

"Let's go, let's go in too!" The war horse and the brigade of personal soldiers were left outside the village, Cao Cao only took Xiao Yi, Guo Jia, and the guard Xu Chu to go inside, the Cao family has ancestral training, no matter how big an official is outside, how much wealth he makes, after returning to his hometown, he is an ordinary villager, not to be publicized, not to be arrogant!

The teenager left home and came back when he was already middle-aged, and how much emotion he felt was really hard to describe!

Every time he saw a stone tablet, a well, or a forest, several people would stop, and Cao Cao pointed out them one by one, that was the paradise of his childhood, that was the place where he practiced martial arts and studied in his youth, and that was the starting point of his determination to travel all over the world when he was young......

It can be seen that Cao Cao has indeed been away from home for a long time, and he has met a lot of pedestrians along the way, but none of them know him, and occasionally a few hesitate, and when he sees the clothing, temperament, and sword on his waist, he doesn't dare to come!

The white dragon fish suit, the prime minister who does not wear court clothes is still the prime minister, and the general who does not wear armor is still a general, and the temperament revealed in his bones cannot be concealed no matter what.

"The old man has been away from home for more than 20 years, and I am afraid that many of my playmates and friends back then are no longer known!" I haven't met an acquaintance, Cao Cao can't help but feel a little sad, twenty years is enough for another generation in the world, besides, although he was born here, he went to live in Luoyang with his father when he was a teenager, and there are naturally very few folks who can remember him!

Who knows who returns to their hometown, but has no hometown, who knows who is lonely?