"Congratulations, congratulations! The ancients said: It can't be long long, and it will decline after a long time, this sentence must be on that Wang Pengju! After this battle, the myth of the Qingzhou Army's victory in a hundred battles has finally been shattered, and the decline of power is not far away! ”

Now that Wang Pengju is definitely in a dilemma, no matter how he chooses, there is no room for change in the reversal of the situation. No matter how brave he is, how can he get out of the ten-sided ambush set by the lord? ”

"In terms of bravery, Pengju Xiao'er relies on his youthful might, and may be slightly better than the prince. When it comes to the use of soldiers calmly and tenaciously, it is too much worse! If it weren't for the fact that the lord had been holding on and making it impossible to break through our army's defensive line, Xu Yuanzhi might not have been in a hurry to fight, and finally ended up like this. is the so-called: after the storm, the clouds open and the moon is bright! ”

At the same time that the generals in Qingzhou lamented the impermanence of fate, were worried about Xu Shu's grievances, and worried about the future of the battlefield on the Western Front, the atmosphere in the Tiger Prison Pass had undergone earth-shaking changes.

Cao Ying's strategists swept away the previous depression, and enthusiastically surrounded Cao Cao, all of them were full of red light, and all kinds of praise and congratulations were endless, and there was a posture of serfs turning over and singing.

If you think about it carefully, in a narrow sense, it is since the start of the Central Plains War, and in a broad sense, the time may be traced back to the time in Luoyang in the first year of the First Peace. From then on, Wang Yu and his Qingzhou army were like a big mountain, weighing heavily on Cao Cao's head, and as time went on, it became heavier and heavier, until it was breathless.

Compared with Sun Ce, who kept saying that he was Wang Yu's old enemy, but there had been no substantive military conflict between them, Cao Cao faced Wang Yu's frontal pressure. Only those who have truly experienced it can understand1 what a feeling of oppression is extremely heavy.

Just think about the speed of Qingzhou's expansion.

In the first year of the first peace, Wang Kuang was still the most inconspicuous one among the princes of the Central Plains, but he hit the most dangerous muzzle one by one, suffering from internal and external troubles, and his downfall was only in the blink of an eye. After Wang Yu took over, he pointed to the east and the west, and actually broke out of a world for him, and became the absolute protagonist in the battle against Dong.

It was from then on that Cao Cao had a tendency to become a foil.

Wait until Wang Yu turns to Taishan's hometown, sweep away the yellow turban within half a year, take Qingzhou, defeat Yuan Shao within a year, enter Hebei, and then conquer the south and the north, occupy Xuzhou, Dinghuainan, Weiling Jiangdong, and sweep Saibei and Liaodong! In just a few years, the strength swelled up like a blow, from the projectile land of Mount Tai to a behemoth spanning half of the country!

In this process, those who dared to obstruct head-on were basically shattered, and even if they could barely save their lives, the forces they had worked so hard to build would collapse. Even those who are just secretly stumbling a little bit have not lost any benefits, and it doesn't hurt to stop in time, those who have been indomitable will not end up much better than those who are fighting head-on.

And Cao Cao is almost the only exception, he once confronted Wang Yu head-on, and as a result, he lost the general Cao Ren and tens of thousands of elites; Later, he mainly obstructed, but in the end, he did not gain much, but suffered heavy losses in Wang Yu's counterattack. In addition, he was also Wang Yu's main target of defense, although the Qingzhou army has not been expanding in the direction of the Central Plains, but has always maintained uninterrupted military pressure on the Cao army.

If the names of those Xuan He who fell under the wheels of Wang Yu's chariot are used as a backdrop, Cao Cao can be proud of his achievements today. Whether it is Yuan Shao of the Fourth Dynasty and the Third Duke, Liu Dai and Liu Yu, the heads of the clan, they are not the people Cao Cao was able to carry in the past, and his power is also bigger than the other.

Those people have fallen, but Cao Cao has persevered to this day, and his power has been expanding, which is enough to prove his ability.

However, Cao Cao's goal is not to surpass his previous opponents, but to win the world, and he must finally cross the high mountain of Wang Yu, how much pressure should he have? It can well be imagined!

This battle was only fought for two months, and Cao's army did not win a single victory, and was defeated and retreated on all fronts......

What a humble goal this is, Cao Cao is embarrassed to take it out and tell others. But in the eyes of the world, he praised Cao Jun's resilience and Cao Cao's steadiness in using troops, and recognized him as a famous general second only to Wang Yu

Only in Cao Cao's position can he truly understand what kind of torment it is to face an almost unattainable opponent who can't close the gap with all his might.

Persisting so far, the turnaround has finally appeared!

Although it cannot be said that the overall situation has been decided, it is just a flash of dawn, but the opponent facing it is Wang Yu, and such a turnaround is precious. The pressure accumulated for many years was vented, and the ecstatic state shown by everyone was not exaggerated.

In the face of everyone's congratulations and flattery, Cao Cao was completely unmoved, but fell again and again and regretted: "I only hate to listen to Feng Xiao's advice, and immediately launch a whole army pursuit, if the main force of Qingzhou has been bitten now, this battle is really a decisive victory!" ”

Cao Cao is not hypocritical, he really has the urge to grab the ground with his head.

No matter how Wang Yu thought about it and made the decision to withdraw his troops in advance, but if he let the other party retreat calmly and bite the other party in the back, the result would definitely be completely different.

At present, the spring ploughing is busy, and the militia in Qingzhou cannot be launched, and the militia is only the most effective when guarding the homeland. If he bites the main force of Qingzhou and makes Wang Yu unable to send troops and horses to rescue, the Western Front will definitely not be able to stop Ma Chao's follow-up offensive.

The Xiliang Army is the best at fighting a tailwind battle, and as long as Ma Chao's plan is above the mid-stream level, he can think that the cause of death of Ma Teng and Han Sui can be attributed to Xu Shu's discordant plan, and then play the banner of revenge and launch a fierce attack on the Western Front Army in Qingzhou.

Not long after Xu Shu's new defeat, there were not a few weapons and soldiers lost, as long as Cao Cao sent some siege equipment to Ma Chao, Taiyuan and Shangdang would definitely not be able to keep it. When the Xiliang army swept through Bingzhou, it could cross the Taihang Mountains and launch a full-scale invasion of Hebei, giving full play to the superiority of troops.

Even if Wang Yu gathered the militia to block the onslaught of the Xiliang army, the damage to the people's livelihood would definitely be great, and the damage caused by the Xiliang army was enough to make Qingzhou's war potential much weaker, and even overtaken by the anti-Qingzhou alliance, which completely reversed the balance of the war.

But Cao Cao hesitated for a moment and let the main force of Qingzhou retreat calmly, and things were not so ideal. Wang Yu will definitely send some troops and horses north to reinforce him, maybe the reinforcements are already on the way, and he missed a golden opportunity.

"The lord is serious." Guo Jia is just arrogant, not the kind of shallow person who likes to do things with hindsight, he said lightly: "The minister was just talking about things that day, and he intended to take risks, not to mention how sure he was, if Wang Hussar really encountered the defeat of Bingzhou, he may not be willing to take the opportunity to divide the victory with the lord first." ”

"Intelligence shows that Lü Bu's withdrawal from Xiangyi was almost at the same time as Wang Hussar's withdrawal, and if the lord really pursues later, it is likely to be flanked by two enemy forces. Although the main public army is stable and General Sun is coming quickly, the final trend of the battle situation is also quite unpredictable. It is not a good thing to let the poor chase and let him go. ”

People who do big things are not informal, and emotions such as regret rarely appear in Cao Cao. This time it's just because the opponent is Wang Yu and attaches too much importance to it, so he is a little entangled, and when Guo Jia said this, Cao Cao was calm and sighed: "Feng Xiao sees things clearly, and he doesn't take credit, it's really my arm." ”

"The minister just did his duty, and he deserves the praise of the lord."

"Fengxiao, in your opinion, how should our army act next? Is it to try to cut off Wang Yu's way to the north for reinforcements, or to hold his troops and wait for him to leave before attacking? ”

Cao Cao's straightforward way of asking questions made all the advisers envious, and the so-called obedience to words and plans thought that the brain stock was nothing more than this state. But there is no way, the gap is there, maybe in terms of calculation, there is not much gap between everyone, but compared to courage, or even intuition, Guo Jia has the feeling of standing out from the crowd, no wonder Cao Cao values it so much.

Cao Cao asked questions, and the ministers also considered various pros and cons in their hearts, thinking about how they should answer if they changed places.

Cutting off Wang Yu's northward march was essentially to open up a new battlefield and burn the flames of war to Hanoi and even Wei County.

The advantage of this is similar to the previous pursuit, that is, to drag the Qingzhou reinforcements, wait for the battle situation in Bingzhou to completely erod, and give full play to the strength of the Xiliang army. But there are also drawbacks to this, the Qingzhou Army withdrew its troops ahead of schedule, and the reinforcements may have already set off, and it is too late to intercept it, and it is easy to disperse the forces, so it is better to simply wait for the Qingzhou Army's strength in Yanzhou to weaken and concentrate on counterattacking.

However, if you bet on the battlefield of Yanzhou, there is also a problem. After the strength of the Qingzhou army weakened, it will definitely take a defensive position, which is relatively easier than the offensive, judging from the previous records of the two sides, even if the Cao army has a two-to-one advantage in military strength, it is difficult to guarantee victory.

If the Qingzhou Army's defense line cannot be attacked, or even gradually consumed by the Qingzhou Army through the defensive position, the situation will be even more tricky. Therefore, this question seems to be easy to answer, but it is a difficult choice to make when you think about it deeply.

"The minister thinks it's ......" Guo Jia didn't seem to think too much, just sighed slightly, and replied calmly: "The lord should go to see General Sun first." ”

"Hmm." Cao Cao was stunned, and the ministers were also slightly stunned.

General Sun, of course, is Sun Ce. Sun Ce has now arrived in Chenliu, and if Cao Cao goes to see him, it is obviously too late to mobilize troops and horses into Hanoi. Guo Jia's answer actually rejected the option of blocking Qingzhou's reinforcements, but answering in this way gives people the feeling that it is much more clever than directly choosing one of the two.

Guo Jia made a suggestion in disguise, suggesting that Cao Cao and Sun Ce should work together.

One family can't take the Qingzhou Army in Yanzhou, so what about the two together? If you still can't take it, then you can simply admit defeat.

Cao Cao thought for a moment, immediately figured out the pros and cons, slapped the table, and praised loudly: "This is very good, so I will follow the words of filial piety!" ”