When Cao Cao launched this decisive battle, there was indeed a reason for necessity, and at the same time, it was also correct in the overall situation. Because just as Jia Xu said at the beginning, both sides need to recuperate, but in terms of the growth rate of the entire economic strength, Cao Cao cannot be compared with Lu Peng in any case.

The final result of recuperation between each other is that the distance between the two sides will become larger and larger, and Cao Cao wants to have a decisive battle with Lu Peng in a few years, and all he can get is to be ruthlessly crushed.

The decision of a million troops to cross the Yellow River to attack Lü Peng was not wrong, and he wanted to consume Lü Peng's economic strength at least for the greatest purpose in this war.

However, they had to reluctantly accept the reality that Lu Peng's economic strength and the quality of his fighters were far beyond their expectations, and Lu Peng's ability to mobilize for war was even more unheard of and unseen for them.

Seven-way attack, this strategy is absolutely correct, and the execution is also absolutely correct. The reason for the failure was not that the soldiers did not work hard, but because Cao Cao really did not expect that Lu Peng's garrison force would have the same combat effectiveness as real combat soldiers, and they also had the determination to dare to die and dare to fight.

What Cao Cao didn't expect was that when everyone thought that his strength was on the verge of exhaustion, Lu Peng suddenly made 120,000 grassland coalition iron cavalry.

Now Cao Cao is facing Lu Peng's army, which is not a claim, but a real army of 400,000.

When Lü Peng finally blocked Cao Cao's camp with 210,000 allied troops, Cao Cao knew that he had completely failed this time.

In this sortie, Cao Cao lost 120,000 real soldiers, and in total, in this war, Cao Cao lost a total of nearly 200,000 soldiers, lost the generals Cao Ren Cao Zhen, Wen Ping, Le Jin, surrendered Zhang Xiu Cao Hong, killed Yang Xiu himself, was killed by Xu Chu Jia Xu, lost the eastern part of Qingzhou, and Liu Bei fell into the well, occupied a part of Yuzhou, and all the divisions were subordinate, which can be described as heavy losses.

And the 450,000 horses and 300,000 people brought out at the beginning caused huge losses to their rear production.

And look at Lu Peng again, a force of 200,000 soldiers entrenched in Wulongkou, stable as a rock, a force of 200,000 cavalry coalition troops came and went like the wind, in the face of this dead end, Cao Cao finally decided to withdraw the army.

So what is now in front of Cao Cao is not how to have a decisive battle with Lu Peng, but how to bring these soldiers and people back to the south of the Yellow River at most, and do their best to maintain some of their original qi. In the future, Lu Peng may take advantage of the situation to attack, resist him, and then take a breather and then look for fighters. Therefore, Cao Cao personally supervised the formation, and the army was divided into two battalions, which retreated to the south bank of the Yellow River under alternate cover.

Poor Kou Mo chases, that's nonsense, taking advantage of his illness to kill him, falling into the well, and beating the water dog, this is Lu Peng's true colors.

So taking advantage of Cao Cao's retreat, Lu Peng mobilized 400,000 troops, overwhelmingly killed Cao Cao, attacked day and night, took turns, pushed out those heavy catapults, and threw fire bombs to Cao Cao's camp day and night, as long as Cao Cao built a camp, Lu Peng immediately turned it into a sea of fire.

The tenacious Cao Cao still built alternately, Lü Peng alternately burned, 200,000 cavalry chased the north, 200,000 infantry withered and decayed, and the smoke from the raging fires that burned every day obscured the sun. The military camp that burned every night reflected the whole heaven and earth, the screams of killing made the ghosts and gods fearful, and the abandoned corpses along the way had made the earth lose its original color, and the discarded and abandoned instruments on both sides were thrown everywhere.

People are already crazy, tired of fighting, they fall asleep among the corpses of the battlefield, wake up, and fight with knives and guns.

It was in this desperate battle that Cao Cao finally took his main civil and military generals, abandoned all the people, and finally withdrew to the south of the Yellow River.

And after continuous pursuit and fighting, Lu Peng's army has also reached the end of the crossbow, and when it attacked the bank of the Yellow River, it no longer had the strength to attack, and finally stopped walking on the edge of the Yellow River.

Stepping on the sea of blood all over the ground, standing on the edge of the rolling Yellow River, looking at Cao Cao on the other side and the broken military flag, Lu Peng could only sigh regretfully: "This time, I let it go, but next time, you will not be so lucky, and I will definitely not show mercy to my subordinates, and the battle for world domination will start with you and me." ”

The 2 million-person decisive battle between Cao Cao and Lu Peng finally came to an end in October of this year.

Cao Cao's million-strong army, less than 400,000 fled back to the south bank of the Yellow River, the general Wenchen suffered heavy casualties, and the Qingzhou Yanzhou Division north of the Yellow River was all occupied by Lü Peng. The eastern part of Qingzhou also became Lü Peng's land.

Now after this war, Cao Cao's land under his jurisdiction has been greatly reduced, only retaining the south of the Yellow River in Yanzhou, the west of Qingzhou, most of Yuzhou, and all of Xuzhou, with a loss of millions of personnel, and they are all young and strong, and Emperor Xian of Han, who has lost the political commanding heights, has become a situation that can only be defended by shrinking.

Liu Bei occupied the heart of the Central Plains, the banner of the symbol of the Han Dynasty in the world, Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, was obtained by Liu Bei, since then, Liu Bei has carried the political banner of coercing the Son of Heaven to order the princes and restore the Han family, and has Jingzhou, Yuzhou, most of the Si Li, in the Wenchen Group headed by Zhuge Liang, headed by Guan Yu, the four brothers of the Ma family as the core, and easily got Huang Zhong, Wei Yan, Ma Tan and the three fierce generals, can already compete with the heroes of the world.

On the other hand, Lü Peng benefited the most from this war, not only obtained the vast land population north of the Yellow River of Cao Cao, half of Qingzhou, and most importantly, obtained the entire Xiliang, fertile Guanzhong, Sili in the north, and captured no less than 300,000 young people. In terms of troops, it has also changed from the original infantry to cavalry, and the original soldiers have also been tested by the fire, which is enough to despise the world.

Sun Quan gained the least in this war, and it can be said that the gains outweighed the losses, and he originally wanted to take advantage of Cao Cao's fall to the north to fight a decisive battle with Lu Peng, and when the Central Plains was empty, he would get the entire territory of Yangzhou into his own hands.

But he was born at the wrong time, Zhou Yu still did not fight the ghost talent Guo Jia, not only did he not get the desired place, but in several battles, Cao Cao's poor sailors commanded by Guo Jia were powerless to fight back, and in the end they could only maintain the original power territory.

Liu Yan of Bashu died, his son Liu Zhang was weak and incompetent, and lost the way out of Hanzhong to send troops to the Central Plains, although he relied on his subordinate general Wenchen to defend Bashu, but in front of the strong Lu Peng, he could only shrink into Bashu, praying that Lu Peng would not come up and beat himself.

(End of chapter)