Chapter 393, Cao Cao visited Sima Yi at night
For three days in a row, Cao Cao's offensive against the Tiger Prison Pass almost never stopped, with an endless posture, Zhao Yun has been sticking to the Tiger Prison Pass, and the more he thinks about it, the more strange he feels.
Whether it is attacking the city or capturing the pass, the attacking side has to face huge pressure, and the casualties paid are immeasurable, with Cao Cao's cunning and suspicious personality, this kind of almost suicidal thing, he will never do it, but looking at his performance, it is a posture of playing with life.
Of course, Yuan Shao's offensive was also very fierce, Xu Rong personally defended in Mengjin, repelled the attacks of Yuan's army several times, and the Xiandeng dead soldiers commanded by Ju Yi also exerted amazing combat effectiveness, and Ju Yi, who was eager for revenge, couldn't vent all the humiliation that Yuan Shao brought to him in one breath.
The roar of the mountains and the tsunami, the shaking earth are trembling, the war drums are like a thunderbolt on a sunny day exploding overhead, the rolling wood and stones are pouring down from the high city wall like a mountain and the sea, the iron arrows fly down with a sharp whistling sound, the dense Cao soldiers under the tiger prison are crowded and trampled, people turn on their backs, countless dead and wounded, the blood on the ground is like a river, the corpses are piled up, and the air is filled with the fishy smell of rotting corpses, because Cao Cao's war is too fierce, the old corpses are often covered by the new corpses before they have time to deal with them.
"Lord, be careful."
Although Zhao Yun had been in battle for a long time and had rich combat experience, Tai Shici still didn't feel at ease by his side.
"It's okay, what exactly does Cao Cao want to do?" Zhao Yun always felt that something was wrong, so he hurriedly went down the city wall, called a personal guard, and asked him to inform Jia Xu of the situation here immediately.
In fact, Jia Xu didn't look at the front line, whether it was the Tiger Prison Pass or the Mengjin Ferry, he paid close attention to the battle situation on both sides, Cao Cao's approach, at first glance, was reasonable, since it was a joint attack, he naturally would not show mercy.
But Jia Xu knew that there were still a lot of uneasy factors behind Cao Cao, and the old ministers of the Han family in Xu Du had always been unwilling to be at his mercy.
He let Liu Bei go to Xuzhou, Cao Cao was suspicious by nature, was he so relieved? What's more, there is also a Cao Cao Chen Deng in Xuzhou.
Sun Ce and Liu Biao in the south have also been Cao Cao's confidants.
All kinds of unfavorable factors gathered together, as long as a person with a reasonable mind would not be so reckless with Zhao Yun in the Tiger Prison, but Cao Cao did just that.
Jia Xu frowned, paced around the room several times, and suddenly, his gaze inadvertently fell on the cowhide map hanging on the wall, "Oh no, I know what he wants to do." ”
Jia Xu hurriedly called people over and sent people to rush to the upper reaches of the river.
"Teacher, what do you think of?"
Zhu Ming saw that Jia Xu's face was pale, as if he had suddenly seen some terrible scene, and his heart also hung up.
"It's not good, Cao Cao must want to send someone to dig up the water and flood the tiger prison!"
"Huh? No way. ”
Zhu Ming was stunned for a moment, and then shook his head, "If he does this, then it must be his people who will suffer first, it's not cost-effective." ”
"If Cao Cao did this without Cao Cao's knowledge, 100,000 Cao soldiers would be unlucky, but if Cao Cao had made careful arrangements in advance, he only had to let his men and horses retreat to safety before the flood came."
"But teacher, what is his purpose in doing this, even if the water is dug up, our people are in the Tiger Prison Pass, and the city wall is so high, there will not be much threat."
Jia Xu glanced at him in disappointment, "Who told you that he dug up the Bishui River just to drown our people?" Can't you stand in our way? The world knows that we are sitting on the Tiger Prison Pass, it is difficult for Cao Cao to take a step forward, if he storms the Tiger Pass, we just need to hold on, if he wants to make a detour from the Tiger Pass to Hanoi to join Yuan Shao, we can also send troops from the Tiger Prison Pass, and beat them in the ass, but if they dig up the water, by that time, he will no longer be able to break through the Tiger Pass, but accordingly he wants to Hanoi, we can do nothing, if Cao Cao and Yuan Shao both concentrate their forces in Hanoi, it will be terrible. ”
"Then ......," Zhu Ming suddenly realized, "will Cao Cao really do this?" ”
In fact, from the very beginning, Jia Xu wanted to dig up the water and give Cao Cao a generous gift, but was stopped by Zhao Yun, Zhao Yun thought that this was too hurtful to the heavens and the water, and the flood was ruthless.
Tiger Prison Pass and Mengjin Ferry can be each other's horns, echoing each other from afar, who thinks, the advantage of Tiger Prison Pass, because of Cheng Yu's strategy, instantly lost its effect.
Jia Xu's reaction was still a step too late, and on the night of the third day, Cao Cao's team suddenly withdrew, retreating for dozens of miles, and when Zhao Yun found out, an unprecedented flood became the demon of all the defenders.
The torrent roared, like a herd of frightened wild horses, rushing out of the valley frantically, unstoppable, the whole world seemed to be in chaos, and under the cover of night, the surging flood would block in front of it, swallowing it all.
The waves are turbulent, the mountains and the ground are cracked, the mountains and the sea are overwhelming, and the waves are overwhelming.
Zhao Yun stood on the city wall in a daze, looking far away, his eyes were full of whiteness, and in less than half an hour, the tiger prison had become a country outside me.
In this flood, I don't know how many people will be swallowed by the flood demons, and how many livestock and property will be swept away by the flood, Zhao Yun can't imagine it.
He can stop Jia Xu, but he can't stop Cao Cao.
In the eyes of the cicada, the life or death of the people does not matter, in the eyes of Cao Cao, when it should be ruthless, there is nothing in this world that he does not dare to do.
When Cao Cao was kind-hearted, in order for the people to offend the world, he acted vigorously and strictly enforced the law, and even his own war horse trampled on the people's crops because of a moment of fright, Cao Cao would cut his hair and lead by example.
But when he was ruthless, in order to avenge his father, he killed people and slaughtered the city, without any scruples, causing Surabaya to be blocked; When dealing with Lu Bu, he did not hesitate to dig up Surabaya and flood Xiapi City, and he didn't care about the lives of many people.
This is Cao Cao, all together to achieve his ambitions.
"My lord, while the flood has not yet poured into the Tiger Prison, let's withdraw our troops quickly."
Now that there are floods everywhere outside, it is no longer necessary to keep the 50,000-strong army in the Tiger Prison Pass.
Glancing at Tai Shici, Zhao Yun sighed helplessly, and his whole heart seemed to be stabbed violently.
Cao Cao's move was too ruthless, and in Zhao Yun's heart at the moment, what he was worried about was not his own team, nor the impact of Cao Cao's actions on the battle situation, but the people who were about to be persecuted by the flood.