Chapter 259: Cao Cao responds
"Gong Jin, all the armies have already arrived, right?"
"Back to the lord, the grain, grass, soldiers and horses are ready, and our army can launch an attack on Donghai County at any time. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info"
"Okay, what's the situation on Cao Cao's side?"
"Cao Cao mobilized 150,000 troops to personally garrison the East China Sea, and Cao Cao's general Cao Ren led 100,000 troops to garrison the front line of Baima to resist Yuan Shao."
"It's pretty much what I thought." He looked around, and finally fell on Sun Ce's face, and said: "This battle is different from the past, Cao Cao is a difficult opponent, so intelligence is very important, the wolf has been riding into the army for more than ten years, and all along, Benhou has deliberately hidden this army, so that the princes of the world only know that there are many cavalry under Benhou, but they don't know that Benhou has an invincible cavalry in the world, Bo Fu, I grant you the right to arbitrariness in this battle, you lead the wolf cavalry to Cao Cao's belly, and destroy the enemy's grain and grass to the greatest extent, when necessary, You can decide whatever is good for our army, and from today onwards, you will have full command of this force, and you will not have to report to me, understand? ”
"The last general obeys!" Sun Ce had long wanted to cross the battlefield, but he didn't expect Su Chen to have such high hopes for him, and he was very happy in his heart.
After speaking, he said to Zhang Jaw: "Yunyi, your intelligence is very important, you must report Cao Cao's every move at any time, if you win this battle, you should be the first to take the lead." ”
"Subordinates take orders!"
After arranging these two people, he asked the strategists in the army, "What do you think this battle should be?" ”
Zhou Yu knew the situation in the East China Sea best, and first said: "Lord, Cao Cao's generals have 150,000 soldiers, and our army has nearly 300,000 troops, twice as many as the enemy army. ”
"Well, Gong Jin's words are not bad, in this way, you give Cao Cao a war letter and ask him to fight a decisive battle, if he doesn't, we will think of countermeasures."
"No!"
Su Chen's war book soon arrived in Cao Cao's hand, holding Su Chen's war book, Cao Cao was a little hesitant and asked: "Everyone, this time Su Chen went south, Chen Bing 300,000 invited me to a decisive battle, do you think we should fight?" ”
"The lord can't fight!" As soon as Cao Cao's voice fell, Chen Qun said: "Yan Hou is famous for being good at fighting all over the world, and the soldiers under his command have experienced hundreds of battles, and the soldiers are brave, and now they are twice as large as our army, if they are in battle, our army is afraid that it is not an opponent." ”
"Why should you have to grow others' ambitions to destroy your own prestige." It was Cao Hong who spoke: "What about Su Xingyu?" Over the years, the world has only known Su Xingyu's reputation for being good at fighting, don't you know that our lord is still one of the initiators of the princes' discussion of Dong back then, Su Xingyu and the others are not good, our army should give him a head-on blow, otherwise, when our army runs out of food and grass, it will be defeated without a fight. ”
"No, my lord, Zhong Xuan will never agree to the battle, our army only needs to hold the city, even if the enemy army is twice as large as me, it will not be able to break through our fortified city, our army should not move, and wait for the enemy to wait for the opportunity to move, looking for fighters."
Zhong Xuan's words can be regarded as the words of the old minister to seek the country, but Cao Cao doesn't know if he agrees with it, Cao Cao's two factions of martial arts, the views are clear, the martial faction advocates fighting, and the Wen faction advocates sticking, Cao Cao saw that everyone was arguing, and asked Xun Yu, who had not spoken: "Wen Ruo, what should you do in your opinion?" ”
"Dare to ask the lord, if you fight with Yanhou, what are the odds of winning?" Xun Yu did not directly answer Cao Cao's words, but asked a question.
"Less than 30%!" Although Cao Cao didn't admit it in his heart, he had to answer like this.
"If the lord is defending the city, what are the odds?"
Cao Cao thought for a moment and replied, "There is a forty percent chance of winning." Bengong and Su Xingyu have known each other for a long time, and they know the combat effectiveness of his subordinates very well. ”
"In that case, why should the lord hesitate? You might as well put on a position, a big battle, even if you lose, there is still room for turnaround, you really want to reach the end of the bullet and food, at that time there will be no will to fight, the soldiers have no will to fight, I am afraid that the lord will want to make a comeback is in vain, that is the real defeat. ”
"Wen Ruo's words are like an initiation, which is not considered by this father." Cao Cao suddenly ordered: "Pass on the military order of this duke, and three days later, this duke and Yan Hou will have a decisive battle on the coast of the East China Sea." ”
"The last general obeys!"
Cao Cao sent someone to send a reply, promising a decisive battle on the coast of the East China Sea in three days, which made Su Chen a little surprised, and he had to admire Cao Cao's courage to dare to fight him with a mere army of 150,000.
Su Chen immediately ordered that 100,000 Qingzhou soldiers and 80,000 Hanying light cavalry be on standby, ready to set off at any time, as for the county soldiers, he didn't plan to use them, after all, the county soldiers were used as auxiliaries at the beginning.
The time of three days soon came, Su Chen and Cao Cao lined up on the coast of the East China Sea, the two rode forward, separated by more than ten zhang, Cao Cao stopped the horse's hooves, Su Chen stepped forward a few zhang, and tightened the reins at a distance of ten zhang from Cao Cao and stopped.
"Meng De, I never thought about Luoyang in the past, but today I met in such a scene, when Ben Hou left Luoyang, only Meng De and Wentai came to see off, and now Wentai has gone immortal, I have different political views with Meng De, and I have to fight each other with swords, it is really a lot of feelings, Meng De rest assured, no matter whether Meng De is defeated or not today, Ben Hou promised the safety of Meng De's family, and he must take care of Meng De's family safely."
"Thank you Xingyu, in the final analysis, in this troubled world, strength is respected, if I am in Xingyu's position today, I will also decide to deal with Xingyu first, you and I both know that we are each other's biggest enemies."
"Meng De is really my own, I won't tell you, all the princes in the world are not afraid, but Meng De is afraid of himself."
"Hahahaha, thank you Xingyu for looking up to my father, my father thinks so in my heart, among the princes in the world, only Xingyu can be the opponent of my father."
"Ben Gong also promises here, if Xingyu is defeated today, Xingyu's family will be Ben Gong's family, and Ben Guild will take care of them."
"Okay, you Mengde, you really don't miss any chance to hit Ben Hou, it's just that the gap between you and me is too big, it's not that Ben Hou looks down on your soldiers, do you know that the Qingzhou soldiers brought by Ben Hou today are the troops brought out from the Yellow Turban period, so ah, if Meng De knows the times, why don't you surrender to me, you and I will still be brothers in the future."
"In that case, let's see you on the battlefield." Cao Cao patted his horse back.
Su Chen watched his back get farther and farther away, and then he also slapped his horse back into the formation.