Chapter 160: Joining Forces to Attack Ye

Cao Pi waited in the camp for a day, Gao Ran returned to the camp with more than 1,000 people, these sergeants were all covered in blood, and they experienced a very tragic bloody battle at a glance, especially Wang Shuang, his arrows had been used up, and the flying stone rope was gone, and the whole person was covered with dried blood, which looked terrible. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

When it came to the person he was waiting for, Cao Pi no longer paid attention to Yuan Shang, Shi Shiran retreated, the rear army volleyed on himself, and under the premise of lack of baggage, if Yuan Shang did not return to the army to protect Ye, it would definitely be a fool's approach.

After seven days of marching, Cao Pi returned to Liyang with the army, at this time Cao Cao's grain and grass has arrived, in addition to the grain and grass and the main general with 5,000 infantry to supervise the grain, Cao Pi's battle report in the plain has already been sent to Xu Du by fast horses, Yu Ban also knew on the road that Sikong's eldest son intercepted Yuan Shanghou's army and won a complete victory, and naturally congratulated him when he met, and said that he would soon go north to the plain to send grain to Yuan Tan, and at the same time to hand over Cao Cao's letter to Yuan Tan.

It is worth mentioning that Cao Cao sent food this time and casually set a family affair with Yuan Tan, Cao Pi has a younger brother named Cao Quan, under his influence, this little brother should not be more than 10 years old this year. But it was this child who wanted to marry Yuan Tan's daughter, obviously this was just a political marriage for Cao Cao to stabilize Yuan Tan, and Yu Ban's military order was to escort Cao Quan's wife, Yuan Tan's daughter, back to Xudu in addition to transporting grain.

After hearing this, Cao Pi was somewhat helpless, in fact, now that Yuan Shang and Yuan Tan are in a declining situation, they can't do this at all, but maybe they have a lot of sons and sons, and it is not a big deal to order a family affair.

After meeting with Yu Ban, Cao Pi gave Yu Ban all conveniences, cooperated with him to dispatch the people, loaded grain and grass, and then sent Yu Ban out of Liyang City. After the ban, Cao Pi asked Chen Qun to draw up a recital, the above list of meritorious generals in this battle, although he is now 17 years old as a 2,000-stone commander Jinwu, it is basically difficult to be promoted, but a sergeant like Wang Shuang needs military merit promotion, to win the hearts of the army, it is not enough to rely on blood and personality charm, with practical benefits to achieve the goal.

In this battle, Cao Xiu and Gao Ran were rewarded, and Wang Shuang was also promoted from Tunchang to military marquis, and suddenly changed from fifty people to a military marquis who commanded five hundred people, which made Shuangwang somewhat stunned, but Cao Pi did not give him much time to be stunned, but let him train five hundred Qiang fighting soldiers, since Cao Pi got hybrid rice, the people in Cao Cao's jurisdiction did not worry about food, all kinds of manufacturing industries have developed rapidly, bows and arrows, ring head knives These war equipment productivity has also risen a lot, and the equipment used in Qiang fighting Cao Jun can fully supply, So as long as Wang Shuang can single out people, it will not be a problem to form Qiang Douqu.

Half a month later, Yu Ban returned to Liyang with Yuan Tan's daughter, and Cao Ren, who ensured the safety of the grain route on the bank of the river, also wrote that Cao Cao's army had arrived at Cangting and was coming to Liyang.

Cao Pi immediately mobilized the people to get busy and build a camp for the upcoming Cao army, Cao Cao's army this time was very strong, in addition to 5,000 tiger and leopard cavalry, there were 10,000 tiger guards, and 50,000 sergeants, this expansion speed was obviously due to the increase in grain production, on the other hand, it also showed Cao Cao's determination to pacify the four northern states in one fell swoop.

Now that Yuan Tan has surrendered, Yuan Shang has suffered another defeat, it is really a good opportunity to pacify the north, although there are tens of thousands of soldiers in the senior cadres of Bingzhou and Yuan Xi in Youzhou, but the real elite soldiers in Yuan Shao's army are in the hands of Yuan Shang and Yuan Tan, as long as they are destroyed, Yuan Shaoyu's party is not worried.

At this time, the displaced people stationed outside the city played a great role, with the help of this group of people, the camp of Cao Cao's army was erected in three days, the evening of the day when the camp was built, the mighty Cao army came to Liyang, and entered the camp in an orderly manner, at this time, it was already the end of February of the ninth year of Jian'an, and it was almost the season of sowing, which reminded Cao Pi of the hybrid rice in the Central Plains, and he had to go back to the Central Plains next year, and there was no new seed cultivation for two years, and the high-yield hybrid rice seeds would decline, and these seeds would be used in the third yearIt is possible to return the harvest to its original shape, and in order to maintain Cao Jun's advantage and his own myth, it is necessary to ensure the yield of hybrid rice.

As soon as Cao Cao arrived, he immediately convened the generals to discuss the matter, Cao Pi was naturally among them, and this expedition Cao Cao almost brought people who could fight, including Le Jin, Zhang Liao, Zhang Xiu, Xu Huang, who had made great achievements in the battle with Yuan Shao, and it was obvious that Cao Cao wanted to beat Yuan Shang with a thunderous momentum.

The content of this meeting was very simple, that is, to distribute the work of attacking Yecheng, Cao Pi's 10,000 sergeants who were originally stationed in Liyang were appointed as the left vanguard army, and Lejin's 10,000 sergeants were the right vanguard army. The task of the two-way vanguard army is to sweep Jizhou and still belong to the remnants of Yuan Shang. There are eight counties in Jizhou, in addition to Yecheng, there are still a few fortified cities, some cities also have Yuan Shang's troops to defend the town, the number is about two thousand to three thousand, Cao Pi and Le Jin's task is to break through such a city.

Cao Pi and Le Jin received the military order and went to prepare, Jizhou is vast, this time the army is a lone army, so Cao Pi brought 20,000 people with him, and the grain and grass were enough to eat for two months, and then he left Liyang in a mighty way, and his army still had Cao Ren, Gao Shun, Gao Lan, Xiahou Ba, Cao Zhen, and the generals who were stationed in Liyang with him, as well as a group of scribes led by Sima Chen Qun. This time, Lu Lingqi still didn't follow the army to fight, presumably with Xin Xianying as a companion, she didn't want to march and fight.

There are two cities between Cao Pi and Yecheng, and the spies report that each garrison is less than 2,000 people, for Cao Pi, an army of 20,000 people, a lot of siege equipment can be made overnight, and the city of 2,000 people cannot resist his army at all, but Cao Pi still adheres to the principle of not attacking if he can not attack, so after arriving at the first city named Pingsi, Cao Pi first sent people to the city to shout and persuade him to surrender, but the city shot a rain of arrows, almost shooting his own messenger to death.

Gao Ran said on the side: "Ping Sishou General Han Fan is a diehard loyalty to Yuan Shang, and it is useless to persuade his son. ”

Xiahou Ba immediately asked for orders and said: "I beg the last general to give the last general a bowl of time to repair the siege equipment, and he will be able to go down to this city at noon tomorrow!" ”

"How many people?"

"Three thousand infantry is enough!"

"Yes, set up camp."