Long before the Yellow Turban Uprising, Chen Gong had already been in Yanzhou, and he had a fight with Zhang Qiang who passed through Yanzhou. Since Chen Gong has been a state and county official in Yanzhou for so many years, he is naturally very familiar with Yanzhou, especially an important city like Chen Liu.

Later, due to Bian Rang's death, Chen Gong followed Zhang Miao to raise troops against Cao Cao. After Zhang Miao's army was defeated, he fled Yanzhou with Chen Gong and others and went south to join Liu Biao. Liu Biao was extremely enthusiastic about Zhang Miao, who was also one of the party celebrities, and regarded him as a frequent guest. But for Chen Gong, a "no-name person", Liu Biao has no good treatment.

The conceited and talented Chen Gong only got a county lieutenant under Liu Biao, and the dissatisfaction in his heart can be seen from this. So, when the news of Zhang Mad through the method of the imperial examination and a large number of talents was reported to Jingzhou, Chen Deng thought about it again and again, and finally resolutely packed up and went to Jizhou with a group of poor scholars from Jingzhou, wanting to try his luck.

It is also Chen Gong's luck, and the arrogance from later generations is deeply impressed by the image of Chen Gong in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". After Chen Gong successfully passed the imperial examination, he found out the arrogance of "Chen Gongzi Gongtai" from the list of conferrers, and he actually summoned Chen Gong to meet with him on a momentary basis.

After the death of Cao Cao in Yanzhou Assassin Liu Dai, he was able to successfully succeed Yanzhou Assassin History, although it was borrowed from Yuan Shao's light, Chen Gong's lobbying of Yanzhou officials was also indispensable. Chen Gong, who has such ability, is of course quite eloquent. After Zhang Yan came into contact with him, his evaluation of Chen Gong was not low.

After a face-to-face detailed discussion, Zhang Mad thought that this Chen Gong's ability was good and could be of great use, so he placed him next to Guo Jia and became Guo Jia's assistant. Guo Jia is now a military priest of the fifth grade, and he has a history of serving the emperor of the sixth grade. As soon as he entered the office, he was specially promoted by insolence to the Chen Palace from the seventh grade. saw his future from Guo Jia, and naturally worked extremely hard. The strategy of attacking Chen Liu was specially offered by Chen Gong to Zhang Qiang by using his familiarity with Chen Liu.

According to the plan of several powerful strategists, Zhang Qiang's gathering of troops in front of Cao Cao was actually just a false move. In the eyes of the princes of the world. If Zhang Qi wants to successfully conquer other states and counties, the key lies in the word "fast". The occupation of Qingzhou and Xuzhou illustrates this point.

If the war drags on for a long time, when the other princes react and the reinforcements they send arrive one after another, the next war will be stalemate and attrition, and it will be difficult to achieve the strategic goal that Zhang Dong demanded in the plan.

However, with Cao Cao's management of Yanzhou, as well as Yanzhou Haoqiang's hostile attitude towards the Duchy of Zhao. If you want to take Yanzhou quickly like Yuan Tan who had infighting and Lu Bu, who had an unstable foundation, the possibility is really a bit small. However, Zhang Qiang simply did not directly attack Cao Cao, but chose another method to deal with the southern princes. That is:

-- Encirclement and reinforcement.

Don't look at Zhang Mad in front of Cao Cao, making a posture of constantly gathering troops, in fact, in the army of 40,000 or 50,000 around Zhang Mad . , except for less than 7,000 people, which can be regarded as regular soldiers. The rest are mostly filled with county soldiers and people.

To put it bluntly, insolence is bluffing, so as to attract Cao Cao's main force and create conditions for a breakthrough on other fronts.

In addition, the composition of the army of more than 10,000 Zhao troops in the direction of Stubble Ping and Linyi is also roughly the same. Don't look at that army under the banner of the fierce general Lu Bu. In fact, there are only more than 3,000 elite troops, and the rest are all undertrained county soldiers and civilians.

However, with Lu Bu and his unparalleled cavalry guards, even if Chun Yuqiong in Linyi found something, it was impossible to get any benefits in the field. A battle of about a thousand people. But the battlefield where Lu Bu has the highest victory rate.

So, will Lu Bu take the opportunity to rebel and be arrogant?

In this regard, Zhang Qiang is not worried at all.

As long as the wives and concubines and daughters that Lu Bu valued were still obediently staying in Julu City, it would be impossible for Lu Bu to have substantial rebellion. Zhang Qiang can see him through, this guy is not Liu Da'er, his interest in women is greater than his interest in power.

What's more, insolence did not treat him badly in terms of name. And with only 3,000 soldiers in the direction of the stubble, even if Lu Bu launched a rebellion, it would be just a small mess that had nothing to do with the overall situation.

Using a small number of elites as a cover, and thinking that a large number of county soldiers and people were expanding their momentum, Zhang Qiang successfully contained Cao Cao's main elite soldiers. When the rest of the princes of the world rushed north to rescue Cao Cao, Zhang Madness would use his carefully hidden main army to suddenly launch a fatal blow to wipe out the reinforcements of those southern princes!

Cao Cao's various measures when the arrogant army was launched were actually expected by Guo Jia and Chen Gong. With the power of Cao Cao, it is completely impossible to resist the arrogance of many generals and generals.

Therefore, Cao Cao's allies will definitely send troops quickly to help Cao Cao hold on to Yanzhou, lest Cao Cao follow in the footsteps of Yuan Tan and Lü Bu and become the third great state to fall. If it really gets to the point that Cao Cao is also defeated, then there will be no one in the world who can resist and occupy half of the world's arrogance.

However, if you think about it the other way, if Cao Cao's reinforcements are all defeated, then Cao Cao still has the strength and confidence to continue to hold Yanzhou?

In fact, it was not as difficult as imagined to defeat Cao Cao's reinforcements.

Among the princes who were likely to come to Cao Cao's aid, Sun Jian would definitely send troops. Although Chen Wang Liu Pet was very dissatisfied with Cao Cao, Liu Biao and others claiming to be the king, considering the truth that his lips were dead and his teeth were cold, he would definitely go out. Liu Biao of Jingzhou has put down the "Zhang Xian Rebellion" in the four counties of Jingnan that has lasted for many years, and the possibility of sending troops is also quite large.

As for Yuan Shu, given the combat effectiveness of this guy's army, it is not too important whether he sends troops or not. There are also Liu Zhang, who are far away in Yizhou, and Ma Teng, who was disabled, and it is obviously unlikely that they will send troops. The last Liu Bei, who occupied half of Jiangdong, heard that this guy was at war with Yan Baihu, Zulang and other local sect marshals, and it was difficult to get out of the southern war situation in the short term, and it could almost be ruled out.

In this way, there seem to be a lot of princes in the world who are allied with Cao Cao, but those who really have the strength and interest to support Cao Cao are Sun Jian, Liu Chong and Liu Biao.

Moreover, for the act of rescuing others, he will never send out all his main forces. Therefore, the number of reinforcements that need to be eliminated in the arrogant plan is really not too much.

Of course, if the reinforcements of the three families are combined, there are at least 40,000 or 50,000 people. However, after all, the three are not the same force, and the time to send troops must be early and late, and it is impossible to dispatch them at the same time. In this way, Zhao Guojun has the possibility of breaking through.

What's more, Zhao Guo's side, which has espionage and strategy masters such as Wei Xiao, Guo Jia, and Chen Gong, naturally has some secret means to use.

It's just that when Zhao Guojun's rear hand has not yet been dispatched, Zhang Qiang had to face Cao Cao's initiative to attack first.

Originally, it stands to reason that with the posture of the arrogant headquarters, the total of more than 50,000 soldiers and horses seems to have nearly 100,000 troops. And Cao Cao certainly succeeded in assembling his main army, and the strength was only about 30,000. The huge gap in strength between the two makes it seem that Cao Cao's challenge is definitely not a good idea.

However, Cao Cao had the courage to take the initiative to fight. Even if what he is in front of him is the "Heavenly Master" who is known as "a hundred victories in a hundred battles".

Courage is not the same as recklessness. Cao Cao is not the kind of reckless man who crashes headlong and dies and pulls down. The reason why he dared to take the initiative to fight in the face of the arrogant superior forces was that he had enough trust in the legion he had trained single-handedly; The second is that there is a great suspicion about the details of the arrogant army.

Cao Cao was suspicious, which was known to those who were interested in the Three Kingdoms in later generations. After the main force of the arrogant commander crossed the Yellow River, he did not march immediately, but unusually stayed in the area of Baima. This is obviously a very strange place in the eyes of Cao Cao, who has studied the process of sending troops many times.

Although due to arrogant interference, among the strategists under Cao Cao, Cheng Yu and Guo Jia, two first-class strategists, were missing, there were still Xun Yu and Xun Yu, who were not inferior to the first two. Xun Yu's energy is mainly focused on internal affairs, but Xun Yu is a first-rate strategist who is dedicated to military affairs, and is known as a "talent for good peace".

Under the development of the wise man Xun You and his former advisers who had died of illness, although Cao Cao's spy system was not as good as that of Zhao Principality, it was not a vegetarian. Cao Cao's successful surprise attack on Jizhou two years ago was due to the hard work of Xun You and others.

There are so many people under Zhang Mad, it is inevitable that they will be bought by Cao Cao. Even if the arrogant cultivation of the "Dunjia Heavenly Book" is close to the completion of the book, as long as it takes some energy, you can see whether a person is loyal to him or not. But there are so many people under him, how can he be arrogant to check them one by one?

An important reason for supporting Cao Cao's large-scale dispatch was that a spy who lurked in the arrogant army and served as a grain calculator found that in the records of receiving grain and grass, the standard of grain and grass spent was basically low-level auxiliary rations and civilian rations. And the number of rations for elite soldiers who need to be paid out is only a few thousand.

What does this mean?

And what does that mean?

According to the military practice formulated by Zhang Qiang, the generals with different statuses need to supply different supplies in logistics.

Specifically, the lowest-level existence, such as the Minfu, only needs coarse grains to be full, and even vegetables are rarely rationed. The auxiliaries had a higher status, and in addition to food, they had to regularly provide a large amount of vegetables, and from time to time a small amount of meat.

As for the soldiers, they are the main force of the battle, so they naturally have to eat better, at least a little meat every day. Otherwise, who would be willing to take the initiative to kill people by eating pig food and dog food every day?

The flaw discovered by the grain clerk spy was in the amount of meat available. (To be continued......)