Chapter 176: The Death of the White Horse
Originally, everyone thought that the important thing was "salt", but now it has been discovered...... It turns out that the terrible thing is the "lead".
There is a salt field that produces millions of stones of salt every month, and two salt farms under construction as a guarantee, and the "salt introduction" attracts the wealth of the world, and just a differential pricing naturally forms a siphon on the Central Plains and Jingzhou......
This is still the commodity economy of the Eastern Han Dynasty, which itself is not developed, or simply put, ...... Ordinary people simply do not have the "wealth" to sustain themselves, otherwise this siphon will be even more obvious.
Even now, Yuan Shu, who was already struggling to survive, was about to fall before Bai Tu could make a move.
Even now even Xuzhou's grain has entered Baitu's control from Guangling - if it weren't for Baitu's feeling that he had a good relationship with Liu Bei, so he didn't have any preferential treatment for Xuzhou's grain, the effect might be more obvious.
After all, it is much closer to Guangling from Xiapi to the south than from Huiji, Poyang to Guangling, and the transportation cost is much lower, and Guangling County is also within the scope of "disaster relief discounts".
At the same time, if Liu Bei did not have any radical reaction to the outflow of grain from Xuzhou, and even thought that Bai Tu's setting of what salt introduction was a "disaster relief priority", which was a very wise and benevolent move, then Cao Cao was already a little furious after learning the news.
In fact, the situation in Yanzhou and Yuzhou is much better than that in Jingzhou, after all, half of Runan County is still in the hands of Yuan Shu, and it is not easy to transport grain from the Central Plains to Huainan, and it is easy to be "confiscated" by Yuan Shu.
Not everyone has a way to transport food from Shouchun......
However, the hand of "salt introduction" made Cao Cao feel threatened!
Or long before that, when Cao Cao got the news of "Guangling Offering the City", he had already begun to regard Baitu as a great enemy.
And Cao Cao and his think tanks can naturally understand that Guangling is just the beginning, it can be said that from the moment Guangling dedicated the city, Baitu has broken through the geographical restrictions of Jiangdong......
Although at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, everyone didn't know what "guarding the river must guard Huai", but Cao Cao, who had a group of top thinkers such as Xun Yu, Guo Jia, and Mao Jue, couldn't see how much difference there was between "Jiangdong" and "Huainan + Jiangdong"?
Not only has the population and arable land doubled, but in terms of geographical advantages, it has also changed from being weak in the face of the Central Plains to a balance of power.
It's just that whether it is Cao Cao, who is suspicious, Xun Yu who is talented in Wang Zuozhi, or Guo Jia, who has always been wary of white pictures...... No one thought that there would be so much food in Jiangdong before, so it was too late to stop it, let alone imitate it.
I could only watch as most of Huainan fell into the hands of Bai Tu under the opening of the grain road.
Think about it last year, in order to capture Shouchun, they not only lost their troops and lost their generals, but also in the end they gained little because of the lack of food, and even Runan could not completely occupy it...... For the first time, many people have discovered that the "second attack of the army, the next attack of the city" in "The Art of War" is really reasonable!
The information about Yan Yin has also been placed in front of Cao Cao.
Although until now, they do not understand why the salt production in Jiangdong has suddenly skyrocketed, but the changes they have brought are already obvious.
Right now...... No matter how Bai Tu behaved, Cao Cao would no longer believe that he was a "harmless saint", even Xun Yu!
It doesn't matter whether Bai Tu is ambitious or not, Koto ...... No, it should be said that Bai Tu's Che Cavalry General's Mansion has developed to the level of "sticking to the face".
Even if it was not cost-effective, he even refused to "help" Yuan Shao with grain and grass, and Cao Cao transported the grain from Yanzhou to Xudu.
If he lets it go any longer, Cao Cao is afraid that he won't even have to drink the soup!
And it is in the Central Plains, Jiangdong, Guanzhong, Jingchu...... When focusing on Huainan, a news that shocked the world took the first step to grab the attention of the whole world - the duel between the two males in Hebei officially came to an end!
In August of the third year of Jian'an, Yuan Shao sent an envoy to send Gongsun Zhan's head to Xudu......
After all, Gongsun Zan was a rebel who killed Liu Yu, and Yuan Shao crusaded against him to occupy the righteousness of the imperial court.
Even now his cousin has raised the flag to rebel, and the court ...... Or Cao Cao, who still named him a "general" as a pacification.
In fact, many people have expected this day, after all, Gongsun Zhan's performance in the later period seems to have been cursed, and after the defeat of Jieqiao, he has completely lost his previous wisdom and decisiveness.
Especially after retreating to Yijing, Gongsun Zhan had become unwilling to believe in his soldiers, and built a large Wu fort outside the city, cast iron as the gate, repelled the left and right, and moved into it with his wife and concubines, so that men over the age of seven were not allowed to enter, and even the generals under him were not seen......
Even when giving orders to the outside world, they were all passed on by the healthy women in Wubao, and naturally their subordinates were becoming more and more centrifugal.
Cao Cao wondered if this guy had suffered some kind of blow, and even wanted to send a few women over to explain it - after all, Cao Cao didn't want Gongsun Zhan to be defeated so quickly.
However, considering that Yuan Shao was still in the middle, it would be bad if he was discovered, so he didn't make the trip......
After the incident of Bai Tu's "serving the people as his father" a year ago, Gongsun Zhan suddenly cheered up, wanted to reorganize the army's morale, clean up the war situation, and united Gongsun Xu in Liaodong and Zhang Yan in Hebei to fight against Yuan Shao together!
However, people's hearts are already easy to disperse and difficult to gather, and the result of Gongsun Zhan's re-energizing is that he was killed more than half a year earlier than in the "History of Another World".
It's just that this time he had to die with more backbone, and he was killed on the battlefield when he personally led the White Horse Yifu, who was still willing to be loyal to him, and attacked Yuan Shao's base camp in the rear.
Instead of being like a dead pig, lying in Yi Jing and watching Yuan Shao bite it over, he finally committed suicide in aggrieved......
Even when the battle was back, Gongsun Zhan's surprise attack was indeed almost successful, if it succeeded, Yuan Shao may have already hit the street, and then the battle between the two heroes in Hebei may be a different result.
However, what Gongsun Zhan didn't expect was that Lu Yi, who once beat himself to self-containment, was actually left by Yuan Shao's side to serve as a guard?
A commander of the army, a military training wizard, was added as a guard?
Obviously, Gongsun Zhan's surprise attack, seeing that he had taken advantage of the chaos to kill the Chinese army camp, and there were still the Black Mountain Army and the Liaodong Army in front of him to contain attention, who knew that Yuan Shao actually seemed to have expected it, and left the "Euphorbia" and Lu Yi not far from the Chinese army's tent......
In the battle of Jieqiao before, it was Lu Yi who led the eight hundred halberds he trained to defeat Gongsun Zhan's invincible White Horse Yi on the spot.
That battle was also the beginning of Gongsun Zhan's decadence.
At this time, although the white horse righteous servants led by Gongsun Zhan were still willing to be loyal to his elite after going through a lot, they were still in chaos when they saw the familiar troops and familiar military formations in front of them......
Yuan Shao was also shocked - in this war, he dispatched 150,000 soldiers and horses, not a lie, but a real 150,000.
This is also another super-large battle of more than 200,000 soldiers and horses between the two sides after the battle of Guangzong between the Yellow Turban Army and the Han Army and the Battle of the Tiger Prison Pass when the princes of the Eighteenth Route fought against Dong.
This number of major battles is bound to be multi-divisional, and unless the soldier Han Xin is resurrected, no one can command so many troops alone.
It's not just a matter of personal ability, if you have to return to the Chinese army every step of the way, and then send back the order......
It is equivalent to jumping thousands of pings to play League of Legends, and professional players may also be folded in the hands of stubborn bronze.
In addition to Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zhan, as well as the helpers Zhang Yan and Gongsun Xu brought by the latter, in addition to each side having a large camp, there are many strongholds and even fortress watchtowers between each other.
Originally, Yuan Shao deliberately suppressed him because he became more and more arrogant and arrogant after his meritorious service, so he deliberately suppressed him and left him in the Chinese army, under his nose - in Yuan Shao's opinion, what three alliances are simply a rabble, an old wolf who has lost his courage, a thief who occupies the mountain as the king, and a rich man in a bitter cold land...... It's already time to reap the feats.
The inflated Lu Yi, let's stay behind honestly!
In the "History of Another World", Lu Yi died not long after Yuan Shao's jealousy, and a poor genius general who created a miraculous record of 800 infantry scattering tens of thousands of cavalry withered and died before it could bloom, and did not have time to leave too much ink in the coming real troubled times.
Lu Yi even faintly felt that he had lost Yuan Shao's trust, as for what to prevent a sneak attack? I believe you're a ghost!
Lu Yi, who was bitter in his heart, was already about to give up on himself, who would have ......
it! My lord didn't lie to me! Is there really a sneak attack?
That's right, while Gongsun Chan was feinting head-on, he miraculously led the white horse to follow, turning into a sharp knife from an unexpected direction, directly into Yuan Shao's Chinese army camp, seeing that the attack had been successful in the early hours of the morning, the other party had signs of bombing the camp, but ......
Lu Yi took five hundred halberds to meet this sharp knife, even if other soldiers had already bombed the camp, but all the halberds composed of real warriors would not!
Like a reef, the white horse righteous servants who came like waves were scattered alive - this is also the sequelae of the battle of the boundary bridge, and the natural morale of the white horse fell by three points when he met the halberders......
The originally perfect sneak attack was fought into a chaotic battle, and in the end, although Gongsun Zhan killed the Chinese army camp, he was still protected by Lu Yi Yuan Shao.
even regained Yuan Shao's trust because he sacrificed his life to block Gongsun Zhan's (laser) arrow!
On the contrary, Gongsun Zhan had already reacted in the surrounding camps, but he had already been wrapped in dumplings before he killed Yuan Shao - this was a tactic that would be unsuccessful and become benevolent.
Even though the White Horse Servants shouted the false news that "Yuan Shao is dead", causing chaos in the ranks of the troops who came in from the outside bread, Yuan Shao's Chinese army has gradually stabilized.
In the end, after Gongsun Chan shouted "Heaven is dead, I will die", he simply took his own soldiers to break off, temporarily attracted the attention of Yuan Shaozhong's army, and let the remaining Bai Ma Yi break through from their respective sides.
The White Horse General, who was once a powerful Wuhuan, has since withdrawn from the stage of history......