After settling Xiahoudun's coffin, Cao Cao immediately convened a military meeting.

The atmosphere of the meeting was a little dull, before the war, even Jia Xu, who looked up to Yuan Wei at the highest, never expected that Cao Jun would suffer such a fiasco.

The number one general under Cao Cao, the chief general of the Northern Route Army, Xiahoudun was killed!

Including Cao Cao's most relied on strategist Guo Jia, everyone is very clear about Xiahoudun's position in Cao Cao's mind, Cao Cao is suspicious by nature, he hardly trusts anyone, even his sons, he also doesn't trust, if there is one person in this world he will not doubt, then this person is Xiahoudun.

Moreover, Xiahou Dun's martial arts skills are extremely high, except for Xu Chu, there are few people in the army who are his opponents.

However, such a fierce general who was deeply trusted by Cao Cao and had strong martial arts skills actually let Yuan Jun be killed in a battle in the Laoqiu Mountain!

Before the war, even Jia Xu didn't expect such a result.

Of course, what really made Cao Cao feel heart-wrenching was not the death of Xiahoudun.

Although Xiahoudun is a fierce general, he is also a clan general who is deeply trusted by Cao Cao, but Cao Cao has experienced a lot of such blows, the first battle of Wancheng, Cao Cao even carefully cultivated his eldest son Cao Ang and his most trusted general Dian Wei died, Cao Cao didn't do anything to Zhang Xiu in the end?

If there is a war, there will definitely be casualties, and it is normal for anyone to die.

What really hurt Cao Cao was the loss of the cavalry!

In the first battle of Bedhill, Xiahoudun's 5,000 cavalry was completely wiped out!

5,000 cavalry, although there were not many killed, only less than 1,000 people, but the more than 4,000 cavalry soldiers who survived were all knocked off their legs by Yuan Yuxiaoer, and the thigh bones were basically broken.

Thinking of this, Cao Cao's chest swelled with a strong sense of disgust.

Yuan is a thief, why don't you just kill these more than 5,000 soldiers?

If you had killed more than 5,000 soldiers, the matter would have been much simpler, and I would have only had to pay a meager pension for each fallen soldier, and the matter would have been settled, but now, you have left behind these more than 4,000 wounded, and I have to spend a lot of money to take care of them, and I have to spend a lot of money to treat their wounds.

To heal the wounds, we have to find a way to settle these crippled soldiers.

It is quite foreseeable that these wounded soldiers will become a heavy burden for him.

Yuan no thief, you are really vicious, Cao Cao thought hatefully, you can't bear to kill prisoners of war, win the reputation of benevolence and righteousness, all the people of Li Shu and scholars and Confucian scholars all praise you, but this Sikong still has to carry a heavy burden for your benevolence and righteousness, I have never seen a more cunning, insidious and innocent thief than you!

In addition to the heavy burden of more than 4,000 wounded soldiers, the loss of war horses also made Cao Cao feel painful.

Although Cao Cao is based in the Central Plains and has Tianxian in his mouth, due to lack of financial resources, he can't buy enough horses, so the cavalry has always been the shortcomings of Cao's army. It's good now, only the battle of Sleepy Hill Mountain lost 5,000 war horses!

After Xun You Cao Zhen led the tiger and leopard cavalry to the battlefield, although he collected some of the war horses, but these war horses were greatly frightened, and most of them were crippled in the dark night on the rugged mountain road, although they were recovered, they could no longer be used as cavalry mounts.

In the face of such a large battle loss and such a fiasco, how could the atmosphere in the venue not be heavy?

Seeing Cao Cao's wooden face and not speaking for a long time, Xun You stood up and said, "Lord, I am responsible for the defeat of Bedhill Mountain......

However, before Xun Yu could finish his last word, he was interrupted by Cao Cao.

Cao Cao waved his hand to interrupt Xun You and said: "Gongda doesn't need to say it, I have already figured out the beginning and end of the battle of Sleeper, and the defeat in this battle is not yours, but Yuan Rang did not listen to dissuasion and insisted on going his own way." ”

Xun You sighed: "Having said that, but in the lower body as a military advisor ......"

"Gongda, you are indeed responsible as a military advisor, but now is not the time to hold you accountable." Cao Cao waved his hand, interrupted Xun Yu again, and continued, "The top priority now is to find out how the Battle of Bedqiu was lost?" Otherwise, maybe tomorrow we will also fall in love with Yuan Fu'er's way. ”

"The Lord is a wise man."

"The lord is wise."

"Cao Gong Mingjian."

Guo Jia Chengyu and Jia Xu deeply agreed, and Jing Yu didn't say anything more.

Cao Cao glanced at Xu Chu, Xu Chu walked outside the tent and waved his hand, and immediately two tiger guards carried a stretcher into the big tent, but there was a young general lying on the big tent.

This young general is also a child of the Xiahou family, Xiahou Jie.

Xiahoujie is also Xiahoudun's nephew, every time he goes on an expedition, Xiahoudun will take Xiahoujie with him, Xiahoujie because he concealed his identity, he was regarded as an ordinary colonel by Yuan Jun, so he just broke one of his thighs, so he luckily picked up a life.

It's just that although his life was saved, he was crippled from then on.

Cao Cao said in a deep voice: "Xiahou Jie, tell you what you know again and listen to it." ”

"No." Xiahou Jie answered, and told everything that happened that night as it was.

After Xia Houjie finished speaking, there was a long silence in the big tent, although Xia Houjie said very briefly, who were the people present? Whether it is Cao Cao, Guo Jiaxun, Cheng Yu or Jia Xu, they are all wise people, and they can easily draw the truth from Xiahou Jie's narrative.

From Xiahou Jie's narration, it can be known that Xiahoudun was not unjustly defeated!

After a long time, Guo Jiacai said: "Lord, through the battle of Bedhill, combined with the urgent report sent by General Lejin from Zhaoling, we can already roughly infer the tactics of the Yuan army. ”

Cheng Yu also said: "Whether it is the battle of Bedhill or the battle of Zhaoling, the Yuan army attacked our army's grain transportation team, the only difference is that the grain transportation team of Bedqiu was completely annihilated by the Yuan army, and the Zhaoling grain transportation team was spared because of the coincidences of General Lejin, but through the two attacks of the grain transportation team, it is still enough to infer the tactics of the Yuan army." ”

Xun You said: "The tactic of the Yuan army is to break the whole into pieces, get out of the way, not to fight a decisive battle with our army, but to return to the back of our army to attack our army's grain transport team!" In this way, it will not take half a month, and when our army runs out of food, it will inevitably retreat without a fight. ”

Jia Xu finally said: "But if the fighter plane appears, the Yuan army will be like a pack of wolves that smell blood, swarming from all directions in an instant, tearing apart our army that fell into the trap. ”

I have to say that the five strategists under Cao Cao are really powerful.

With just one scale and half a claw, the tactics determined by Yuan Wei were deduced to * points.

After a pause, Jia Xu continued: "Speaking of which, Yuan Fu's tactics are actually not new. ”

"Oh?" Cao Cao sighed and said, "Wen He's meaning is that he is familiar with Yuan No's tactics? ”

Jia Xu smiled slightly and said: "Yuan No's tactics are actually similar to Peng Yue in the Chu and Han dynasties. ”

"Peng Yue scratches Chu!" As soon as Jia Xu said this, Xun You, Guo Jia, Cheng Yu and Cao Cao immediately reacted, and Cao Cao's eyes lit up and said, "Yuan Xiao'er followed suit, but Peng Yue scratched Chu?" ”

"Exactly." Jia Xu smiled and said, "During the period of the struggle between Chu and Han, Peng Yue's department was always divided into pieces, went deep into the hinterland of Chu State, fought a small battle in three days, and a big battle in ten days. ”

"Yes, yes." Cao Cao stroked his palm and said, "If it weren't for Peng Yue scratching Chu, causing Xiang Yu to be exhausted, even if it was the soldier immortal Han Xin, it would not be easy to defeat Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu." ”

"But is there a solution?" Cao Cao asked Jia Xu again.

Jia Xu waved his hand and said, "Cao Gong, Xiang Yu's strategist, and Fan Zeng, the second father, can be described as wise, right?" However, even if it is Fan Zeng's wisdom, there is nothing to be done in the face of Peng Yue's scratching Chu, and he has repeatedly discussed Peng Yue's scratching Chu with his friends, and found that there is no way to solve it, sad? ”