Previously, Cao Cao ordered the killing of several officials, on the one hand, to deter those officials with bad intentions, and on the other hand, to unify his thinking, at this time he did not want his officials to be inconsistent with his thinking, so as not to affect the overall situation of the battle with Liu He. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

It was only at this time that Cao Cao deeply realized the disadvantages of coercing the Son of Heaven to order the princes, he relied on this strategy to hold the Son of Heaven hostage into his own hands, and he did get great benefits, at least he could justifiably appoint the civil and military officials under his command as court officials, although the actual treatment was similar to that of other warlords, and even worse than the treatment of some warlords, such as Liu He's officials, but this was an official appointed official by the imperial court, and it was definitely different in form, ranking as the secretary of state, Even if such a thing is said, it is a very face-saving thing.

It is precisely for this reason that many gentry and celebrities have gathered under his command, and the talents under his command may not be talented, but their influence in the government and the opposition is definitely very large.

But another problem also arises, the loyalty of these people is really worrying, Cao Cao doesn't know whether they are loyal to the court or loyal to him, so Cao Cao's heartstrings have always been very tight, and there are doubts about many officials, and it is precisely because of this that he is ruthless and merciless to those who dare to rebel against him, whether it is a friend or a confidant, such as Xu Yu before, such as Cui Yan and Mao Yu not long ago.

From this point of view, Cao Cao only secretly surrendered to Xun Yuming, which can be regarded as merciful to his subordinates.

Although it seems to be more cruel, Cao Cao's several shots did have a miraculous effect, under his high pressure, no one dared to put forward a proposal for peace or surrender, everything was only Cao Cao's horse, and the efficiency of the government was unprecedentedly efficient.

And those generals were all replaced by Cao Cao's henchmen, these people led the army to practice day and night, high alert, according to Cao Cao's orders, dug dozens of trenches outside the city, built dozens of dirt mountains, desperately made defensive equipment, waiting to fight with them when Liu He's army attacked the city.

However, to their surprise, Liu He did not launch an attack on Xudu City, but led a large army to besiege Xudu City, and set up dozens of camps outside the city.

The other party did not attack, but camped outside the city, which is more intimidating than attacking, like a giant beast ready to choose people and devour at any time, if they really attack, their hearts will calm down, anyway, it is a counterattack, what is this? But if they don't attack now, they don't know how to fight back, even if they want to.

Seeing this scene of Liu He's army outside the city, even Cao Cao felt a little numb, because even he couldn't think of a strategy to deal with it, Liu He's approach was too cunning.

Although it was said before that as time goes by, the morale of the opponent's army will gradually fade, but that is when the opponent's siege is frustrated, and the current problem is that the opponent has not attacked the city at all, so naturally there will be no setback, and the morale of the own side will decline completely because of the decrease in food and grass day by day.

What's even more wryling is that as the other party besieged Xudu City like an iron bucket, the grain and grass from all over the country could no longer be transported in, and the truckload of life-saving grain and grass was either burned by Liu He, or forcibly confiscated by Liu He, in short, a month has passed, and not a single grain of grain has entered Xudu City!

"Liu Hexiao'er's move is really ruthless, so that after half a year, this battle will not have to be fought at all, and the soldiers and civilians in our whole city will starve to death even if they are hungry." Thinking of Liu He's rogue play, Cao Cao couldn't help but grit his teeth.

At this time, I saw Cao Hong smile and said: "This lord actually doesn't have to worry, because we are consuming grain and grass, and the other party is also consuming grain and grass, and because his army is outside the city, the consumption rate of grain and grass is faster than ours, Hong believes that the other party will definitely not be able to support too much time." ”

saw Cao Cao snort: "If only it was as simple as you imagined, you Murphy don't know how vast this Liu He occupies now?" Not to mention anything else, just the Guanzhong region is a rare big granary in the world, from where Liu He can continuously transport grain and grass, but what about us? Our grain and grass are limited, eat a little less, if you really consume with them, who do you say will suffer in the end? ”

"Well, what the lord said seems to make sense, so what should we do? You can't lead the army out and burn Liu He's camp, right? Cao Hong wiped his sweat and shook his head helplessly.

At this time, I saw the young general Cao Zhen and said: "Uncle, what Uncle Zilian said is not unreasonable, we can't always be passive like this, right?" Rather than this, it is better for us to give him a sneak attack, anyway, such a long time has passed, I don't believe that Liu He can calculate that we will rob the camp, in fact, we don't need a big victory, just a small victory, as long as the morale of our army is boosted, it means that the morale of the enemy army is starting to decline, in addition, we can take advantage of this battle to test the reality of the enemy army, to be honest, the little nephew has never believed that this time Liu He requisitioned 200,000 troops to besiege Xu Ducheng, after all, Liu He is still governing the people with a benevolent attitude on the surface, This means that the proportion of soldiers and civilians under his rule will not be too high, plus he has to divide troops to guard Lujiang, Jiangxia, Hanzhong, Xiangyang and Northern Xinjiang, plus the soldiers who attacked Dongjun, Luoyang and Hongnong, the nephew expects that the number of people he will attack Xudu will not exceed 100,000 at most, and the 200,000 army will be scattered into dozens of camps, how many people can there be in each camp? I don't believe he would have guessed when we were going to rob the camp, and which of his camps we were going to rob. ”

"According to your meaning, is it possible that we are really going to rob the camp?" Cao Cao listened to Cao Zhen's words, asked casually, and then said to all the civil and military personnel: "You guys also discuss together, should we go to rob the camp?" ”

At this time, I saw Sima Yi say: "According to the opinion of the lower officials, instead of sitting and waiting for death, we should really go and test the truth, Yi also thinks that Liu He will never guess where the goal of our action is, and as long as he can't guess the direction of our action, we have already won." ”

"Oh? So Zhongda agreed? Seeing Sima Yi's clear statement, Liu He nodded and said: "Actually, I also think that we should do this, but who should go to rob the camp remains to be discussed." ”

"There's nothing to discuss, I think General Zidan is definitely competent." Sima Yi looked at Cao Zhen and said.