Originally, Cao Cao was not prepared to rush to the Tiger Prison Pass so quickly.

If it was really Ye Zhao who personally sent troops, Cao Cao would definitely gather a large number of soldiers and horses and then go to the Tiger Prison Pass, which would take time, after all, although Xuchang was the capital, it was impossible to raise too many soldiers and horses, and it was impossible for the soldiers and horses in the surrounding counties to gather for a while, so Cao Cao was originally preparing to march while sending people to notify the soldiers and horses from all over the country to assemble outside the Tiger Prison Pass, but now although the Tiger Prison Pass was captured, the main general of the enemy army this time was Ye Zheng instead of Ye Zhao.

Just to deal with a junior, Cao Cao felt that there was no need to be so energetic, even if there was a lesson from Cao Hong's past, but in Cao Cao's heart, it was obvious that he also had some contempt for Ye Zheng, a junior.

Therefore, after Cao Hong returned, Cao Cao accelerated the speed of the march, and his colleagues issued an order to let the soldiers and horses that were originally going to come from the surrounding counties temporarily stand still, and Cao Cao only brought 40,000 soldiers and horses near Xuchang to Xingyang early the next morning to join Cao Zhen's 10,000 vanguard army.

Although it has not yet been found out how many soldiers and horses Ye Zheng has, in Cao Cao's opinion, after all, it is the first time to lead the army, Ye Zheng will not have more than 20,000 soldiers and horses in his hands, although the soldiers and horses in Guanzhong are strong, but with Cao Cao's understanding of Ye Zhao, it is impossible to give Ye Zheng too many soldiers and horses, even if Ye Zheng is powerful, he is too young, Ye Zhao was up and down in the position of the county commander back then, until the end of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, he did not bring tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, although Ye Zheng is Ye Zhao's son, but he can't come according to the rules.

"See the lord!" In the Xingyang County Yazhong, Cao Zhen bowed respectfully to Cao Cao.

"Zidan did a good job." Cao Cao looked at Cao Zhen with satisfaction, this time he went on the expedition, bringing most of the second generation of the Cao Group, that is, the younger generation of talents, such as Cao Ang, Cao Zhen, Cao Pi, Xiahou Ba and others.

Cao Cao and Ye Zhao are facing the same problem, the older generation of generals are now getting old, but today, if you want to be unified, I am afraid it is impossible to do it in recent years, Cao Cao and Ye Zhao are competing for power in the north, and Sun Ce, Liu Biao, and Lu Bu in the south rely on the terrain to divide one side, and I don't know when the two heroes in the north will decide the victory or defeat, at least this time, even if Ye Zhao personally goes out, Cao Cao does not think that the situation in the north will be divided in a short time.

Cao Cao and Ye Zhao's territory is too big, a tiger is in the pass, holding the land of Yongliang and Shu four states, and many territories outside the Saiwai are included in Ye Zhao's territory, if Cao Cao can defeat Ye Zhao this time, he will directly attack Guanzhong, divide Ye Zhao's territory into two, and then gradually encroach, first swallow Xiliang, and the land outside the state, you can slow down, and then concentrate your forces to attack Shuzhong.

Even if everything goes as smoothly as Cao Cao imagined, after defeating Ye Zhao, he will spend at least five years to annex and annex the state and Xiliang, which also includes digestive problems, as for Shuzhong, as Ye Zhao's first territory, and the road in Shuzhong is difficult, Cao Cao doesn't know if he can completely eliminate Ye Zhao in his lifetime.

Similarly, even if Ye Zhao wins this battle, it is not possible to annex Cao Cao's territory in a short period of time, not to mention that there are Jiangdong Sun Ce and Nanyang Lu Bu on both sides, so at this time, even if Cao Cao and Ye Zhao's older generation of generals can still fight, the two have also begun to increase the training of the younger generation.

In the past two years, with the issuance of the order to seek talents, Cao Cao also began to build schools to provide fresh blood for Cao Cao, especially in the cultivation of the younger generation of the Cao clan, Cao Cao began to focus on training.

After all, Cao Cao is different from Ye Zhao, although he has begun to continue to join the cold talents under his command, but the main force in the DPRK and China is still controlled by the scholar class, and now the two sides are interdependent, but if Ye Zhao is defeated, the scholars will definitely not be as obedient as now, so in order to avoid the backlash of the scholars, Cao Cao can only focus on cultivating clan talents while constantly promoting the cold family, and rely on these clan talents to provoke the big beam in the future after a hundred years.

Cao Zhen did not attack Ye Zheng without authorization, but steadily occupied Aocang and Xingyang first, compressing Ye Zheng's activity space outside the Tiger Prison Pass, Cao Cao was very appreciative, not arrogant or impatient, and had the style of a general.

"Tell me what Ye Zheng was doing after he occupied the Tiger Prison Pass?" Cao Cao looked at Cao Zhen and smiled.

"Back to the lord." Cao Zhen bowed down and said: "That Ye Zheng saw that our army occupied Xingyang Zhihu, and sent people to seize Aocang, but the last general sent people to occupy it first, not a battle, but directly retreated to the Tiger Pass, yesterday and one day, they were repairing the city wall and digging traps outside the city, it seems that they want to be patient with our army." ”

Cao Cao nodded, sighed and said, "Xiu Ming gave birth to a good son. ”

The seizure of Ao Cang failed, without the slightest drag, but directly withdrawing the army, avoiding the possibility of being trapped, and can afford to take it, put it down, plus the previous performance, Ye Zheng has a strong purpose, and he is also very decisive, otherwise, if Ye Zheng insists on laying down Ao Cang and the Tiger Prison Pass into horns of each other, it will only make Cao Cao, who was killed closely, be attacked before and after, lose the army, and will not get any benefits.

Ye Zheng saw that he couldn't do anything, and he turned around and walked away decisively, which made Cao Cao a little amazed, Cao Hong was unjustly defeated, even if he was a famous general in the world, in this case, I am afraid that he could not be as decisive as Ye Zheng.

"In addition, the last general estimates that there are at least 20,000 defenders of the Tiger Prison Pass!" Cao Zhen said solemnly: "Yesterday, Ye Zheng led the troops to Ao Cang, the last general wanted to take the opportunity to sneak attack the Tiger Prison Pass, but was blocked by Guan Ping leading the army out of the city, the last general did not dare to be greedy for war, and returned to Xingyang. ”

This may also be Ye Zheng's plan to lure the enemy, inducing Cao Zhen to attack the Tiger Prison Pass, and then he returned to the army to attack Cao Zhen with Guan Ping, and took Xingyang by chance.

However, Cao Zhen is obviously not an easy person, and he also gave up decisively, which made Cao Cao very satisfied, Cao Zhen's performance was not inferior to Ye Zheng too much, and the two sides tried this time, which was a tie.

But now that Cao Cao is leading the army to come, Ye Zheng is afraid that he will not dare to go out of the pass to fight again, and the 20,000 defenders are ......

Cao Cao had a headache, the Tiger Prison Pass was originally Xiongguan, and he sent Cao Hong to guard it was only 5,000 soldiers and horses, if Cao Hong did not make a mistake, 5,000 soldiers and horses were enough to guard the Tiger Prison Pass, and now Ye Zheng had 20,000 soldiers and horses in his hands to guard the Tiger Prison Pass, and the possibility of a strong attack was extremely low.

At that time, Dong Zhuo invested only more than 30,000 troops in the Tiger Pass, but the princes almost used more than 100,000 lives to add up, although at that time the people had come to consume the spirit of the Tiger Pass, the means were a little despicable, and it was not benevolent, but even if it was replaced by the army of the princes from all walks of life, if they wanted to take the Tiger Pass, it was impossible to break through the Tiger Pass without filling in 70,000 or 80,000.

Now Ye Zheng has 20,000 defenders in his hands, and judging from Ye Zheng's means, even if it is Cao Cao, it is not too easy to break through the Tiger Prison.

"Do you have any plans to help me break through?" Cao Cao raised his head and looked at Xun You and the others.

"This ......" Xun You and the others shook their heads with a wry smile, the best way is to trick Ye Zheng out of the Tiger Prison Pass, annihilate the enemy from outside the city, and then the Tiger Prison Pass is easy to break, but judging from Ye Zheng's performance, this method does not seem to work.

Ye Zheng is unlikely to give them this opportunity.

If you can't lure the enemy out of the city to annihilate the enemy army, then there is only one way to attack, but there are only so many ways to attack, and it has been the case throughout the ages, relying on human life.

Cheng Yu said tentatively: "Maybe you can try the digging army, if you can dig a tunnel from here to the Tiger Prison Pass, you can put the elite soldiers of our army into the pass, and the inside and outside should be combined." ”

In the past two years, Cao Cao followed Ye Zhao to recruit a large number of craftsmen, and there was also a digging army in the army that was good at digging.

"No, Tiger Prison Pass is not Yecheng, and the land here is not suitable for digging holes." Cao Cao shook his head, if you can dig it, how could the battle of the Tiger Prison Pass be so hard back then, the Tiger Prison Pass is such a high city wall, and the foundation is also quite deep, even if you don't consider whether it will be discovered, to dig a passage that can lead to the inside of the Tiger Prison Pass, at least you need to dig five or six zhang underground, the Tiger Prison Pass is close to the Yellow River, the soil is soft, such a deep hole, not to mention the water seepage in the tunnel, there is a slight movement above, which may directly lead to the collapse of the tunnel.

"Then if it is impounded and attacked...... Cheng Yu said halfway, he won't say it, this place is close to the Yellow River, and they are in the downstream, once the Yellow River bursts, it is not known whether the Tiger Prison Pass will be flooded, but their army in the lower reaches may have to be flooded by a flood first.

"In this way, there is still only one strong attack!" Cao Cao smiled bitterly, this is the result he is most unwilling to see, attacking the Tiger Prison Pass, his own losses will inevitably be huge, at this time, Cao Hong's trouble to lose the Tiger Prison Pass will also be seen, if the Tiger Prison Pass is not lost, they will occupy the initiative, advance can be attacked, retreat can be defended.

And now that the Tiger Prison Pass has been seized by Ye Zheng, attacking and defending in a different position, Cao Cao's situation is a little embarrassing.

"Not necessarily!" Xun You looked at Cao Cao and said with a smile: "Lord, if you can say that Lu Bu, Liu Biao and us join forces to attack Ye Zhao, our army may not have a chance to win." ”

After Lu Bu swallowed Yuan Shu, he occupied the two large counties of Nanyang and Runan, with a population of one million, although among the princes of the Five Roads today, he belonged to the bottom of the existence, but his combat effectiveness was not weak, Liu Biao wanted to recapture Nanyang several times before, but he was defeated by Lu Bu.

If Lu Bu can break through Yique Pass, then the pressure on the side of Tiger Prison Pass will be greatly reduced, and if Liu Biao can send troops to Xishu at this time, Ye Zhao will also have a difficult situation in the first place.

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