“…… Lao Cao is a person who wants to achieve something great, and he will not do this kind of loss-making business. ”

Zhang Xiu breathed a sigh of relief, but still couldn't help but ask worriedly: "Then the family clan I left in Xu Duzhong ......"

Lu Ren said: "Don't worry, since Lao Cao said such things in front of so many people, he will definitely not embarrass your family clan." If nothing else, Lao Cao will find a suitable person among the children of your clan to inherit your official title, and then distribute your original food to the children. If these things are not done in place, Lao Cao will have to worry that everyone will no longer work for him in the future. ”

Saying that, Lu Ren smiled at Zhang Quan again: "Quan'er, I definitely don't have as much money as Lao Cao, but if you want to make your father and son's little life comfortable, I dare to say that I can definitely do better than Lao Cao." ”

Zhang Xiu's reaction at this time was not slow, and he hurriedly saluted Lu Ren respectfully and said, "Lu Servant shoots great grace, and it is unforgettable." If there is anything that can be used by Lu Servant, he will definitely do his best. ”

Lu Ren said: "General Zhang, you are polite. If you want to live a peaceful life, I can set aside some fertile land in Yizhou for you to eat. Of course, if you, General, are willing to help me, I will be grateful. But for now, please ask your father and son to adapt to life in Yizhou first. After all, Yizhou is the land to the south, and you have long been accustomed to life in the north, so you can't adapt to many things. ”

Zhang Xiu's face showed a sense of fascination, and he muttered: "I really want to see what kind of place Yizhou was built by Lu Servant now." ”

Lu Ren smiled, and said in his heart that you will talk about it when you get to the ground, it's strange if you don't look at flowers with your eyes! Glancing at Zhang Quan again, Lu Ren smiled again, because Zhang Quan, a seventeen-year-old boy, looks pretty good, and as a young general, he is also quite heroic, and such a kid appeared in Yizhou......

"Quan'er, you haven't married yet, have you? Then you have to be careful, don't let those bold women in Yizhou eat you. ”

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Cao Cao took Shanhaiguan, which meant opening up the plain corridor along the coast between the North China Plain and the Northeast Plain. If you start from Shanhaiguan, the straight-line distance from Liucheng is less than 200 kilometers, and in addition to this plain area in the coastal area, it is relatively convenient for the march of large troops.

But with all the pros and cons come with the pros. If it is according to Guo Jia's original idea, it is "Hu Qi is far away, and there will be no equipment." Because it is unprepared, it can be destroyed if it is struck suddenly", that is, taking advantage of Karasuma's unprepared surprise attack, he put the Badon out in one go.

But the premise of this decision is that standing in Shanhaiguan was originally in the hands of Lao Cao, that is, first using the barrier and cover of Shanhaiguan, first gathering troops without knowing it, and then suddenly sending troops from Shanhaiguan to attack Liucheng. But the current situation is that Shanhaiguan was snatched back by Lao Cao from the hands of Badun, and there was such a big movement, which undoubtedly means that Lao Cao's intentions and forces were exposed, and as long as Badun was not stupid, he would definitely mobilize troops to take precautions.

Of course, the distance from Shanhaiguan to Liucheng is less than 200 kilometers, which is about 500 li when converted into the Han system, and it is not impossible for Cao Cao to mobilize rapid mobile troops to go there immediately, but the problem is that he followed Yuan Shang's advice to capture the Shanhaiguan before, which obviously proves that Bandun has gathered a considerable number of troops in the Liucheng area.

Another corroboration is the two battles fought by Zhang Xiu when he was covering Lao Cao's capture of Shanhaiguan. The first team consisted of 5,000 resident Karasuma cavalry, and the other was 20,000 Karasuma cavalry who rushed to reinforce it. The first team arrived, and the second team was able to rush to Shanhaiguan in a short time.

With the proof of these things, Lao Cao knew that it was impossible to make a surprise attack, and the next thing could only be to advance steadily according to common sense, and most of the time he would have to fight a decisive battle with Badun on this plain corridor. But in this way, there are two problems, the first is that although Lao Cao is not afraid of a big battle, and even hopes to directly solve the problem with the last decisive battle, but Lao Cao's troops are mainly infantry after all, and if he and almost all of the cavalry are in the plains, they may not be able to please him, and the huge losses that he may produce are enough to make Lao Cao's flesh hurt, not to mention, the key is that it is difficult to get a complete victory.

Infantry chasing cavalry is nonsense, everyone understands, suddenly see that the momentum is not good, retreat a little, then fight and retreat a little, then fight and retreat a little, then Lao Cao is not equivalent to ...... To use modern game jargon, isn't that tantamount to being kite-flying? The purpose of Cao Cao's trip was to cripple and frighten Karasuma, in other words, to eliminate Karasuma's sufficient number of living forces, so that Karasuma would not have much strength to cause any more trouble. But once he was given a kite by Badun, he would still destroy the living force of a chrysanthemum? Even if Cao Cao took Liucheng down, what could he do? Do nomads care about cities?

That's not all, Lao Cao's other problem is in the follow-up military supplies. Because this time it was a surprise attack to seize the pass, the main force and the odd troops all threw down the transport troops and hurried to the pass. At this moment, Shanhaiguan is certainly robbed, but the follow-up transport troops......

The army was resting in the Shanhaiguan area, and Cao Cao was standing on the pass and looking northeast. After a long time, Cao Cao suddenly asked Cao Ren behind him: "Zixiao, how is the weight of our army?" ”

Cao Ren responded: "A little troublesome, after all, the lord is leading a large army to the north, such a long distance, the transfer is already very difficult, plus the previous lord wants to seize the important land here, in order not to waste time, the last general has to temporarily throw away most of the baggage to speed up the march." Counting the time and itinerary, it may take about ten days for the baggage to be delivered. Now the food and grass in the army can barely support the needs of the ten days. ”

Cao Cao frowned and didn't speak again. The successor grain and grass and military supplies did not keep up, and Cao Cao could not do anything even if he wanted to march to Liucheng now. The most important thing is that there is about ten days to do this, and the troop build-up and combat preparations on the side of Badun will only be more sufficient, so the next battle will become more and more difficult to fight. So much so that at this moment, Cao Cao's heart had the idea that since he had won Shanhaiguan, he would simply accept it when he saw it. After all, Shanhaiguan is a strategic location, as long as the corresponding people are left to garrison, if nothing else, it should not be able to pass.

After thinking about it again, Cao Cao convened a meeting of his staff to discuss the matter. But I don't know what kind of thoughts Cao Cao had, so he asked Zhao Yu to invite him to a meeting, and his identity was counted as a guest. Zhao Yu is a girl! Being called by Cao Cao to attend such a military meeting was simply ...... at the time Forget it, let's not talk about it, anyway, with Lao Cao's personality, there are often some surprising moves. Besides, Zhao Yu has been recognized by many Cao generals after these days. Besides, Cao Cao's idea was that maybe Zhao Yu could come up with some novel ideas.

So the meeting was held, and Zhao Yu also sat on Cao Cao's side as a guest with a shocked face. At the meeting, Cao Cao said the concerns in his heart, and everyone almost one-sided just stayed in the Shanhaiguan area, and did not approve of Cao Cao's further attack on Badun. At the meeting, there were only two people who did not express their opinions, one was Zhao Yu, who didn't know what to say at all; The other is Guo Jia, who has been thinking hard about something.

The meeting dispersed, and Cao Cao had not yet made a final decision, after all, Cao Cao also had the idea of wanting to make a big deal for the north in exchange for a longer period of peace in the north. In addition, Guo Jia's failure to express his position also made Cao Cao still have some hopes.

These people didn't care for the time being, after the meeting was dismissed, Zhao Yu was relieved, and left the barracks cautiously to go back to his ship to rest, but only walked out of a short way, Guo Jia called Zhao Yu, first chatted a few words, and then saw that there was no one nearby, Guo Jia whispered to Zhao Yu: "Yu girl, how many soldiers can your fleet transport?" If you depart from here, how many days can you reach the south bank of Liucheng? ”

"Well...... this"

Zhao Yu thought about it carefully and roughly answered Guo Jia. I want to explain here that although it is not possible to ask Zhao Yu to give advice at the meeting, on the one hand, Zhao Yu feels that it is inconvenient for him to speak on such an occasion, and on the other hand, Zhao Yu is really incapable of making big decisions. To put it simply, Zhao Yu does not have strategic ability, but he still has tactical ability.

As soon as he heard Guo Jia's question at this moment, Zhao Yu immediately understood Guo Jia's intentions, and after thinking about it carefully, Zhao Yu shook his head at Guo Jia again and again: "Guo Lao (Zhao Yu's joking name for Guo Jia after getting acquainted with each other), Xiaoyu understands what you mean, but I advise you not to make such a plan." Although the fleet under Xiaoyu's current jurisdiction can transport more than 10,000 elite soldiers, according to the information collected by Xiaoyu, the number of troops that Bandun has now assembled in Liucheng is about 100,000. And this is not the most important thing, because if there is no today's event, Cao Gong led more than 10,000 elite soldiers to suddenly land on the south bank of Liucheng can catch him off guard, but because of today's events, Bandun will definitely set up sentry posts along the coast, so the 'strange' of the strange soldiers is already gone, and the more than 10,000 elite soldiers can only deliver food to Badun. ”

Guo Jia frowned after hearing this...... Don't talk nonsense here about letting Lu Ren send ships to carry out large-scale shipping, and then go around to the southeast area of Liucheng for landing. Cao Cao has a total of 100,000 troops, and Lu Ren can't transport 100,000 even if he gathers all the ships now, plus supplies and war horses or something, even in modern society, I am afraid that he will not be able to eat the two aircraft carrier battle groups without tuning.

Of course, if he really wants to take such a route, Cao Cao will not be able to let the 100,000 army go to the sea route, according to Guo Jia's imagination, there should be about 30,000 in the past. But...... With Lu Ren's current ability in the northern seas, transporting 10,000 people is almost the limit. Besides, it is impossible for Lu Ren to shake out all his old bottoms...... (To be continued.) )

PS: (The time was too tight before, and the bottle forgot to say it.) It seems that there was no Shanhaiguan in the Three Kingdoms era, and the name Shanhaiguan seems to have only begun to appear in the Ming Dynasty. The bottle was written in this way to save trouble. ）