Chapter Seventy-One: Cao Cao's troops moved, and the Quartet responded
The current situation is becoming more and more chaotic, and Cao Cao's grain and grass materials at this moment have been almost consumed. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info if the corresponding results and grain and grass materials cannot be obtained within a month, Cao Cao is estimated to have to give up the two counties of Yangzhou and return home. Of course, all this is not what Cao Cao wants to see, so Cao Cao summoned his advisers and generals to discuss countermeasures.
"Lord, if it is not available, we should return to the division as soon as possible to stabilize the rear, in case of Liu and Yuan." The sick drama Zhi spoke.
"Yes, my lord. The drama master is reasonable, and now Yangzhou can be described as tasteless food, and it is a pity to abandon it. The person who said this is the hero of the chicken ribs in history, Yang Xiu Yang is a great talent, and now he is a clerk under Cao Cao, and he usually thinks he is smart, and he never says much in front of people, but now he is speaking in front of everyone.
It's a pity that these dissuasions were directly ignored and filtered out by Cao Cao, and Cao Cao still said to Xi Zhicai with a smile on his face: "Zhicai is in poor health, you should rest more, so you don't have to work hard for this." I have made up my mind, and I will fight a decisive battle with Liu Bei's big-eared thief the day after tomorrow, and when I get rid of Liu Bei and then the prosperity of Yangzhou, our logistics crisis can be solved. Reorganize the troops and horses, and force Liu Qi'er to retreat to Jingzhou. ”
Seeing that Cao Cao was determined to do so, everyone did not continue to dissuade him, because in the eyes of everyone, Liu Bei was just a bone, and he was also a broken bone, and he could eat it whenever he wanted.
It was also because they were too confident that the Cao brothers ordered their military horses and prepared to attack.
And Liu Bei also got the news here, compared to the arrogant Liu Xuande before, the current Liu Bei three brothers can be described as like frightened birds. The original military advisor Xu Yuan was directly strategizing, and the three brothers followed Liu Biao's protection and became prosperous, and they have also developed some family backgrounds over the years. It's a pity that after being put on a stand by Yuan Shu, he helplessly resisted Cao Cao alone. Now that the military division has been detained by Liu Zhang, only a few tricks left by the three brothers and Xu Yuanzhi are left in Yangzhou to hold on. However, perhaps it was time to run, and Liu Qi, the eldest son of Liu in Jingzhou, actually came to lie in the troubled waters of Yangzhou, which made Liu Bei, who has always been known for his shamelessness, directly come to a great wish and give up the land of the two counties. wanted to drag Liu Qi into the water to resist Cao Cao together, so he Liu Bei was good at fishing in troubled waters.
In these days, Cao Cao had been standing still for two months before, which gave Liu Bei a chance to breathe. Yangzhou is a land of affluence, with a population of millions. Yuan Shu took away hundreds of thousands of Ding Zhuang before, which can be said to have taken away all the male Ding Ding between the ages of twenty and thirty-five in Yangzhou. But the rest of the old, weak, sick and disabled, he Yuan Shu can't look down on them. However, he, Liu Bei, also did the same, implementing a compulsory military system. Gather together all the males between the ages of forty and fifty, and get nearly 100,000 men. Remove the sick and disabled, get about 60,000 strong, and then send people to become thieves, attack the rich merchant families in Yangzhou, and loot the wealth, grain, grass and materials. Armed a soldier belonging to him Liu Bei.
According to the records of the wild history, Liu Bei's white and heavy infantry could single-handedly take on the cavalry, thanks to an unknown training general under Liu Bei, Chen Dao. This is a general of the unified army who is no less than Zhang Liao, and he has also trained more than 60,000 people in just a few months. In fact, most of them are old veterans of the previous Han Dynasty, who retired from the army and returned to their hometowns for various reasons. But in this chaotic world of cannibalism, after all, there is still no escape from the fate of going to the battlefield.
And unexpectedly got a talented Cui Jun, the word Zhouping, that is, Cui Zhouping, a friend of Zhuge Liang. Although he is not famous, he is a man of both intelligence. Jun Shao befriended heroes, had a name, and successively served as the general of the tiger and the Taishou of the West River. At the beginning of the emperor's dedication, Jun and Yuan Shaoju raised troops in Shandong to fight Dong Zhuo. Later, he was kind to Zhuge Liang, Xu Shu and others, and Shi Guangyuan (Mingtao), Meng Gongwei (Mingjian), and Xu Yuanzhi (Mingshu) were "Zhuge Four Friends". His talent can't learn Xu Yuanzhi, and the demon of his wisdom can also rely on the beauty Zhuge Kongming.
This great talent originally retreated to the mountains and forests and did not ask about the world, but unfortunately he was pitted by his friend Xu Yuanzhi. One of the several tips Xu Yuanzhi left to Liu Bei was written about this friend, which claimed that if Liu Bei could invite Cui Zhouping, Cao Cao would not be afraid.
For this Cui Zhouping, Liu Bei reenacted the historical Sangu Thatched House, but it was not Zhuge Lu but Cui Zhouping's study bamboo house.
In the face of Cao Cao's menacing army, Liu Bei now also has the strength to fight.
"Cui Junjun, I don't know what countermeasures are there for Cao Cao's attack this time?" Liu Bei's three brothers admired this army urger.
Liu Bei's army, which was short of soldiers and horses before, was able to pull up the current army of sixty or seventy thousand under his guidance. Compared with Xu Yuanzhi's strategy, they believed in the strategy of the army urging division in front of them even more at this moment. Compared with Xu Yuanzhi's emergency tactics, Xuzhou Ping is better at strategic control. From the introduction of Liu Qi to the secret alliance, Liu Bei sent his daughter to befriend Liu Qi, which was harmless to Liu Bei's side. And Liu Qi is not stupid here, he wants to lay his own turf, and he also has a military advisor on his side, and he is not a vegetarian. So the two sides hit it off, hiding people's eyes and ears and secretly supporting under the banner of attacking Liu Bei. Now that Cao Cao's army is attacking, Liu Bei and Liu Qi tacitly concentrate their armies to prepare for battle.
Compared with Liu Bei's fierce general Guan Zhang Chen, Liu Qi also has two generals Wen and Huang. The two sides combined are not inferior to Cao Cao's Cao brothers, Yu Ban, Xu Zhudian, Wei and others in terms of force compared to military generals.
At the same time, Liu Zhang, who had been standing still, followed the strategy of his eldest brother Liu Fan inside and outside the house, and at the instigation of Zhuge Liang, he befriended the Xiliang Ma family ahead of him, and married Ma Jianniang, the daughter of the Ma family. The two sides formed an alliance, which also had Ma Teng's plans. No matter what the Liu family says, they are all royal families of the Han Dynasty, and his Fuboma clan has been guarding the frontier for the Han Dynasty for generations, and he still has a sense of belonging to the Han Dynasty. According to the current form of the world, the biggest force and the most promising is that the Liu family will dominate the world and end the chaotic times at the end of the Han Dynasty. So Ma Teng also made his own choice. After solving his worries, Liu Zhang also got a delicate wife, although this one was a little more squeamish. But it is also right for Liu Zhang's personality of bullying the soft and fearing evil. Next, I learned that Cao Cao's army is still staying in Yangzhou, and if you don't take the opportunity to attack Si Li, then you can't stand yourself.
In fact, there is also a reason, why they have been avoiding Si Li and not fighting, because their Liu family originally had the ambition to dominate the world, and where Si Li is, it is where Xiao Tianzi lives. No one wants to add a emperor to their head for no reason, so it is not conducive to their Liu family's next actions. As for the matter of the princes ordered by the Son of Heaven, their Liu family was not interested at all. In today's world, that prince dares not to give their Liu family face, or that their Liu family is the new son of heaven in the future. Anyway, he also has orthodox blood flowing in his body.
Now that the time has come, the Xiahou brothers are smart, and just in case, they actually transferred the Son of Heaven to Gunzhou. Now Zi Si Li has completely become the fragrant pork belly in Liu Zhang's mouth, and he can eat it as much as he wants. Therefore, the combination of Liu Zhang and Zhuge Liang pulled up 60,000 cavalry and raided Sili Chang'an.