The Cao family's original clerical system, that is, a primitive grass platform team, even after the Son of Heaven agreed, Cao Cao served as the secretary, and then became the prime minister, opened the government and set up officials, and even divided Cao into affairs, the departmental planning and hierarchy were still quite sloppy. In short, the officials of the Sikong Mansion and the Prime Minister's Mansion were all Cao Cao's staff officers, and their offices relied on temporary "dispatches", rather than according to their specific official positions and functions.

However, after the establishment of the country, it was Xun who designed a complete state system and bureaucratic system, and the structure was much more advanced and strict, and even surpassed the Han court that was still in Xudu. In this context, it is impossible for Shi Xun, Xun You and others to perform their duties and serve as prime ministers, so it is impossible to leave Beijing lightly and follow Cao Cao to fight in the south and the north. So this time Cao Cao crusaded against Jiangdong, the three prefects and deputy officials did not bring any of them, and the three eunuchs only brought one Yang Xiu by his side.

Even so, there are still Jia Xu, Cheng Yu, Zhuge Liang, etc., and it is not necessary for Cao Cao to go into battle in person. It's not that as long as Jia Wen and them follow, Cao Cao will definitely be able to win the battle, but if there is no such generation, maybe he is Hongfu and dares to abuse the number, since this generation, there are not many battles that should be won, and he still can't help the battles that should be lost, and it will be in vain to go.

As a Zhongshu Ling, although Shi Xun is accustomed to making a big deal and entrusting the general affairs to the adjutant, when Cao Cao is still in Anyi, there are often major meetings to discuss, and he may not be idle. Now that Cao Cao is marching south, a considerable part of the affairs processing center has been moved to the camp, and everything in the capital is simple, and after being busy with the imperial examination, Shixun is idle in an instant. Life becomes boring......

So he simply shifted his energy to household chores. First ask for the Chinese-style exam papers. After the Qianren transcribed and compiled it, it was immediately printed and published - there are indeed no rules and regulations, saying that this part of the article cannot be called after it is archived, and the relationship between Shixun and Ren Yan can naturally be obtained by borrowing. In addition, Shixun also spent a few days adding notes to several volumes that he admired—this was also a deep personal imprint of Hongsuke, which helped to increase his prestige in the Confucian forest.

During this period, information from all sides, especially from the front, also passed through Guan Jing's intelligence network. It has been passed on to Shixun's case one after another, although the news is still lagging behind, but it is already precious in this year.

Let's say that Cao Cao's southern expedition, the number of troops mobilized from the Central Plains is far less than when Liu Biao was conquered in the past. First, because it was necessary to guard against the reinforcements of Liu Biao from Jiangdong and Yizhou, and the Huaishang soldiers and horses were used to guard against Sun Quan, and they could not be moved lightly - even so, they were finally forced to increase their troops one after another, until 200,000 people, and they could barely get a draw - this time there was no such worry. The second is because Huaishang Tai Shici, Lu Su, and Chen Jiao have 50,000 or 60,000 land and water soldiers and horses, and Jiangxia Huangzu has nearly 30,000 people. It can be used as the main force of the southern expedition, so Cao Cao's headquarters can be cut as much as possible.

There is one more reason. That is, the total number of soldiers in Jiangdong is far from that of Jingzhou. In the past, although Jing and Yang were both vast but had few hukou, and there were large tracts of undeveloped land in the south, there were still certain differences. Jingzhou includes Nanyang, the emperor's hometown, according to the statistics of the Shun Emperor Dynasty, there are 520,000 households, while Yangzhou, even Yuzhang, which has the most prosperous number of households, is only 400,000. Since the Yellow Turban Uprising and Dong Zhuo's chaotic government, the Central Plains scholars have migrated one after another, and Guanzhong and Henan have suffered the most fierce soldiers, and most of them have fled to Nanyang and Nanjun, and have been pacified by Liu Biao, and soon settled down; The Kwantung region was relatively less affected, and most people fled to Wu County and Huiji, but the land of Wu and Hui was also repeatedly attacked by soldiers for a long time, and it was not until Sun Quan came to power that the killings gradually subsided. Therefore, in contrast, if you only talk about the number of households, stability, or only the number of soldiers but not the quality of soldiers, Liu Biao in the past is absolutely above Sun Quan.

Before the Battle of Chibi in the original history, Liu Bei led the remnants to flee to Jiangxia, and there were 20,000 people under his command, and Zhou Yu asked Sun Quan for 50,000 soldiers to Yucao, Sun Quan was not enough for a while, so he could only give him 30,000 first-which can be seen.

Therefore, Cao Cao needs 200,000 troops to fight Liu Biao, but he does not need the same number of soldiers to fight Sun Quan - although "the lion fights the rabbit, you should use all your strength", but there are too many soldiers, and the consumption of grain and straw is also large, and the gains inside and outside will definitely outweigh the losses. Moreover, in history, a huge number of troops were sent, for example, the invasion of the Eastern Jin Dynasty by the former Qin Fujian, and the invasion of Goguryeo by the Sui Emperor Yang Guang, as a result, the corpses were cut off on the rivers and Liaoshui...... It doesn't mean that if you have more soldiers, you will be able to win the war. Especially in this era when communications are extremely underdeveloped, the more troops there are, the more difficult it is to command, and there is no need to even engage the enemy, and it is easy for oneself to lose one's position......

Therefore, Cao Cao had nearly 100,000 people in Huainan and Jiangxia, and transferred nearly 10,000 Youzhou Navy to the south, while he himself only led 30,000 elites such as tigers and leopards from the Central Plains, and then drove to the Jiangdong region. Then before Cao Cao walked to Huainan, Lu Su moved first.

In mid-to-late September, Lu Zijing first sent Cao Cao's edict to summon Jiangxia Huangzu, so that he led the boat division down the river and went deep into Pengli. Since Zhou Yu was killed, Sun Quan took the general Cheng Pu as the governor of the west, commanding Peng Li's army, and was ready to fight when he heard the news. More than 200 ships of the Jiangxia army and more than 300 ships of the Sun Wu army, from the time of Chen, until the afternoon of Shen, the attacker was defeated, half of the boats capsized, the front governor Zhang Shuo for Jiangdong Xiao Lu Meng jumped into the building boat, and the head was taken down with a knife.

Even Huang Zu himself was wounded several times and was forced to flee with wolves. Cheng Pu ordered the whole division to chase after him, and Huang Gai advised: "Although Huang Zu goes, Lu Su can't come out, he will serve behind, if I chase after me, I am afraid that I will be attacked, what can I do?" Cheng Pu shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Don't I know? However, now that it is over, the Jiangxia soldiers cannot be broken, and the Lujiang people will attack again, how to deserve it? For today's plan, the only way to take advantage of the victory is to work hard, or you can frustrate the enemy. ”

Cheng Pu and Huang Gai guessed not wrong at all, Lu Zijing led the Lujiang Naval Division to hide behind, but pushed the Jiangxia soldiers to the front line to be cannon fodder. However, Huang Zu was defeated so badly that even Lu Su did not expect it in advance, so he hurriedly waved the flag on the ship, asking the defeated troops of Jiangxia to divide left and right, and withdraw from the battlefield as much as possible, and at the same time drive the ship and beat the drum forward.

According to Cheng Pu's idea, if we take advantage of the momentum of victory, defeat the Jiangxia army in one fell swoop, and then storm the Lujiang people in Lusu, then our army will be prosperous and the enemy will be depressed, or we can win more with less. The previous layer of calculation was basically achieved, and the Sun warship sailed forward, and the morale of the Jiangdong soldiers was like a rainbow, and everyone was brave, and they rushed into the Lujiang Naval Division in an instant, dividing the fleet in Jiangbei one after another.

It's a pity that the latter layer of calculations fell through. If it is two formations of one army, then the front formation is defeated, and the rear formation is naturally depressed. Question: It was the Jiangxia Army that was defeated in front, what happened to the Lujiang people behind the pass? Lu Su sent people to spread the boats, saying: "The Jing people are weak, not as many as my Yang, and Yangzhou is the best at fighting with Lujiang and Jiujiang, how can the southerners be yes?" All you are fighting, so that the Jing people know my bravery! ”

Although the imperial court has been divided into states for many years, ordinary people and soldiers are still accustomed to calling Jing, Yuan, and Hunan all Jingzhou, and Lu, Hong, Yang, and Quanzhou are all Yangzhou. It is said that when Lu Zizi Jingchu founded the water division in Jiangbei, Huang Zu had not yet surrendered to Cao Cao, and they had seen a few battles with each other, so the Jiangxia soldiers were deflated, but it was something that the Lujiang soldiers liked to see.

So the morale did not drop but rose, coupled with Lu Su's scheduling, he quickly stabilized his position; In contrast, the southern army was already exhausted after half a day of fierce fighting, and it had only relied on the support of a blood qi in its chest, but once it failed to break through the enemy army in front of it in a short period of time, the blood and courage dissipated, and the combat strength would inevitably fall instantly.

Lu Su put the warships and fighting ships in front, and fought with the enemy's white blades, and since he put several building ships behind, each with a small pillar on the boat, and attacked the enemy's big ship from a distance with gunpowder balls. In fact, if you talk about firearms, Sun Wujun also has them, and the technology stolen by the problem is always not as good as the original, and Dongwu does not have enough environment and talents to improve the technology, so the quality of gunpowder is greatly reduced. The air on the river is already humid, and if the preparation and storage of old-fashioned black powder is illegal, it is very susceptible to moisture, so the northern army attacks the enemy with gunpowder balls, rockets, and baking, and only seventy percent can ignite it, while the southern army also uses gunpowder balls, rockets, and baking to return each other, but the effective ones are less than fifty percent......

Although it was a draw on the surface, Sun Wu's generals such as Ling Cao and others also killed more than a dozen of them, and nearly 30% of the soldiers were injured and the ships were sunk, and many people were injured. Lu Su knew that he was no longer in trouble, but divided one-third of the Lujiang water army, and the remnants of Jiangxia, and commanded Chen Zhuo and Su Fei by his subordinate Jiang Jidu Huang Zu's subordinates - Huang Zu was seriously injured and had returned to Xiling - to monitor and block the Peng Lishui division of Eastern Wu. He himself went down the river and invited the Danyang Sailor.

After Sun Quan inherited the foundation of his brother Sun Ce, the initial goal of the attack was to go up the river and attack Huang Zu, on the one hand, to avenge his father, on the other hand, he also wanted to invade the land of Jingzhou and expand his power in Jiangnan, so Zhou Yu immediately set up camp Chaisang and trained sailors in the south of Pengli. Later, Lusu guarded the Lujiang River, and also began to build ships and train troops in the north of Pengli, and the two armies clashed from time to time. Therefore, the main force of Jiangdong's naval division is the Peng Li Water Division, and the Danyang Water Division patrols the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, just to prevent the Northern Army from crossing the river, and its strength is less than half of Peng Li's Water Division.

Therefore, Lu Zijing won three battles and three victories, broke the Danyang Water Division, and Zhu Zhi, the governor of Eastern Wu, was almost inevitable. Immediately, Lu Zijing immediately passed a letter to Cao Cao, saying: "The river is cleared, and when Wei Gong comes, you can cross it." ”

Cao Cao was overjoyed to believe it, and even couldn't help but joke with the strategists: "Even if you are alone to clear the river, is there a reason why you can't clear it?" "It is ordered that Tai Shi Ci will take from Niu Zhu and Chen Jiao from the river, and cross the river in two ways. He stationed his army in Liyang - I am not in a hurry to cross the river first, now that my status is precious, although I have won the opportunity, I should be more cautious. (To be continued......) R1292