—179 A.D.——

In the seventh year of Xiping, Cao Cao, who was then the commander of Dunqiu, received a call from the imperial court and was appointed as a "cavalry captain", and the conscription order also required him to report to Zhang Wen, the general of Zhenxi, as soon as possible and go to Liangzhou to quell the rebellion.

"That's a good thing! A Captain! 5,000 men! Or cavalry! When Cao Cao convened everyone to discuss, Yuan Shao was the first to jump out and applaud, and then was collectively watched.

"So, at the beginning, did you think we had five thousand cavalry?" In order to prevent Cai Wan from opening his mouth to mock, Cao Cao took the first step to steal the conversation.

After two years of governance of Dunqiu, Cao Cao's temperament has precipitated slightly, becoming more steady, and the way of handling things has become more and more sophisticated.

"Huh? Not a court ration? Yuan Shao scratched his head.

In contrast, Yuan Shao still looks like he has not grown at all, and he looks like he has a tendon in his words and deeds, and it is said that the three princes of the Yuan family have gray hair and try to turn to cultivate Yuan Shu, but Yuan Shao's younger brother ...... It's hard to put it into words.

"You can calculate how much it costs to have five thousand cavalry horses, weapons, logistics personnel, and food and straw," Cai Wan continued: "Think about whether that iron rooster who can only enter but can't leave is willing to spend such a sum of money." ”

Yes, it didn't stop her from speaking, but she finally didn't call the emperor by his name, fortunately, Cao Cao secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Since Cao Cao currently has no civil officials, most of the government affairs are handled personally, and Cai Zhenji also shares some additional burdens, so she is relatively familiar with logistics, especially likes to account for accounts, and the result is that she has added a sense of intellectuality to her own talented and feminine temperament.

"It's too much trouble to count." Yuan Shao did not hesitate to interface.

“……”

"Wait! Sadahime! You should have known he had always been like this. Cao Cao hurriedly stopped Cai Wan's Gong Hou who was about to smash over, and said what about the intellectuality?

"Poof, hahaha! You're just hilarious about asking him to join the discussion, right? The "stand-in" laughed out loud.

This particular "Wushuang" is also growing, and is now almost completely unconstrained by the distance between him and Cao Cao, and has even traveled to Luoyang to listen to information, and those who think they have no one around them to discuss confidential information are the main victims.

After Dunqiu's "technology" reached the standard, Cao Cao tried to forge a long sword for himself and the "stand-in", named "Yitian" and "Qinghong" respectively, and handed them all over to the "stand-in" to carry, which could be directly "manifested" when needed, and had a surprise effect.

In addition, maybe there is something special about the "Sword Master", although the "stand-in" has tried, it can completely fail to infiltrate the palace.

"Well, I also think that if you are an official, there will be something that can be managed," the bald Dian Wei, who was a guard on the side, responded: "My lord, you have been sealed Dunqiu Order, don't you send a Dunqiu to you to manage." ”

Cao Cao didn't make much effort to recruit this bald man, Dunqiu's "technology" had not even developed to a high level, when the first batch of "ordinary" mixed with sporadic "excellent" weapons and equipment were sent to his hometown, several clan elders directly said that this person would be given to Cao Mengde, if it weren't for the fact that most of them were hunters, Cao Cao would not be useful for the time being, and it was not impossible to take away the men of the entire village.

In this regard, Cao Cao's conclusion is that as long as you give the people what they want, they will support you, and if you take away what the people want, they will oppose you, which is quite simple, as for what they "really need", it is better to let those Liu family members who are aspiring to be emperors worry about it.

"Generally speaking, when you are given a military position, you will be rationed troops," Dian Wei is no better than Yuan Shao, and some questions still have to be explained to him, Cao Cao tried to explain: "But the land of the three rivers is different, the families in these places originally had many cavalry waiting to be called up at any time, and the imperial court only needed to issue a conscription order to inform each family how many people they needed, and a large army could be assembled." ”

"Hmm...... Dunqiu is in 'Henan', and it also belongs to the land of three rivers......" Dian Wei raised his head and thought: "But the lord, are you a big family?" ”

Isn't an honest person good at getting to the heart of the problem? Cao Cao responded: "Yes and no, the problem with this conscription order is that I and I do belong to the family family, but there is no reserve of the so-called 'knights of the three rivers' in this land of three rivers, and it stands to reason that this conscription order should not be issued to us, but ......"

"But it would not be surprising if the issuer of the order pretended to be stupid and took the opportunity to embarrass or even punish Mengde." Cai Wan shook his head and said.

"Jian Shuo, Zhang Rang, Zhang Wen, hehe." "Stand-in" said four words briefly and did not continue to explain.

"Is that so? Where did the cavalry come from! Yuan Shao finally understood the current situation, he was just slow to react, and he was not stupid (?) "I'll contact Luoyang!" Let them send 10,000 cavalry quickly! ”

"Hey...... Originally, it didn't have to be like this," Cao Cao held down Yuan Shao, who jumped up directly and was about to rush out; "Since the conscription order is from Luoyang, you and I probably already know the content, so we just need to wait and see what happens."

This is the reason why Cao Cao and Cai Wan are willing to get along with him, no matter how many shortcomings Yuan Shao has, mainly in terms of IQ, and how much the Yuan family behind him has little calculations about this relationship, but he is righteous and not selfish, and this alone is enough to smooth out any other problems.

It's okay to tell him some innocuous little lies that belong to enhancing feelings, when did the big thing hide from him?

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"Report! A cavalry arrived outside the city, numbering about 5,000, and the general who led the team claimed to be surnamed Xiahou, and was temporarily stationed outside the city on the order of Cao Gong from Qiao County. ”

When Cao Cao and Cai Wan were discussing how to govern Dunqiu after he left, a herald came to the gate of the county government and reported loudly.

"Xiahou?" Cao Cao is really a little surprised this time, after his father Cao Song passed from the Xiahou family to the Cao family, he has no dealings with the family, and occasionally takes care of the Xiahou family casually, and is willing to send his children to help in this obviously embarrassed situation by the "Ten Standing Servants", if it is not for the deliberate request of his father, it is that this family is actually very optimistic about him Cao Mengde can make some achievements?

"Let's go, let's go meet Brother Xiahou." Cao Cao dragged Yuan Shao, who was muttering, "Why not 10,000, make it whole", and walked out with Cai Wan and Dian Wei.

"Huh? Mr. Cao, how did you know that it was a pair of brothers? The herald at the door responded stupidly, and was gagged by his colleagues.

"Oh, are they two? That's better. Cao Cao quickened his pace.

"Five thousand is the correct number," Cai Wan explained to Yuan Shao as he walked: "The cavalry lieutenant can only be in charge of five thousand cavalry at most, and if it exceeds, or there are infantry under his command, Shangguan has the right to transfer them directly to other places - with that Zhang Wen's style, and Zhang Rang's support, it is simply certain." ”

"Then beat him, even Zhang Rang!" Yuan Shao casually said what everyone had been thinking, and the surroundings were quiet for a moment.

"Report!" Another herald arrived on horseback to break the short silence: "There is a convoy under the banner of the Yuan family arriving from the direction of Luoyang, loaded with cavalry baggage and supplies. ”

"Only supplies, Dad is too stingy......" Yuan Shao muttered so that the people around him couldn't pick it up.

"Let the convoy turn around and join up with that cavalry," Cao Cao ordered, "and we'll go directly to the cavalry's temporary station." ”

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The 5,000 cavalry from Qiaoxian County, although the knights are very spirited, and the war horses are also quite miraculous, but there is no armor and drape, if this army is pulled out for the generals in the army to taste, it will probably only get the evaluation of "good reconnaissance light cavalry", but after this group of cavalry is equipped with armor and weapons transported from Luoyang, everyone who sees it will only sigh "It is actually a cavalry".

A war horse, in the evaluation has a breakthrough, protection and speed of the three attributes, reconnaissance and disturbance of the light cavalry pursuit of speed, head-on confrontation of heavy cavalry need protection, and breakthrough, is the most important attribute to deal with infantry array, a cavalry, if all by the breakthrough attribute outstanding war horses, put on the armor that is conducive to assault, and with a rider who is good at breaking through tactics, it can be called "assault cavalry", it also has another name, called "light cavalry killer", and as we all know, those unprotected cavalry of foreign races, All of them are light cavalry.

From this point of view, the Cao and Yuan families were very dissatisfied with the ten permanent servants who had done a black hand against them just after the plague ended, and directly sent elite cavalry that was enough to make extraordinary feats on the battlefield against foreign races, as well as outstanding generals of the younger generation, ready to slap Zhang Wen in the face.

At the cavalry station, Cao Cao saw the Xiahou brothers who came to help, tall and thin but unusually strong, with a serious face, with an eye patch, holding a single knife called Xiahou Yuan, and the body was so strong that he was a little fat, always with a smile on his face, and the one holding a longbow was called Xiahou Yuan.

Although they were nominally his subordinates, how they were treated represented Cao Cao's view of the Xiahou family, so Cao Cao did not put on any show of lords or chiefs at all, and affectionately commensurate with their brothers and introduced the people around him one by one.

Xiahoudun and Xiahouyuan were not too familiar with Cao Cao, and the etiquette was complete when they talked, but they expressed a lot of interest in Dian Wei behind him and wanted to learn.

Cai Wan didn't plan to get into a group of rough men and generals, and went straight to count the supplies.

Only Yuan Shao, after circling around Xiahoudun twice, pointed at his one-eyed and shouted, "Your blindfold is worn upside down!" ”。

Cao Cao was taken aback, and before he could come up with a remedy, he saw that Xiahou Tang was kind enough to change the blindfold to put on his eyes, and said "thank you", and immediately didn't want to say anything.