Chapter 311: Yuan Shu's Crusade Eleven
"Sun Ce's army lasted for five months, wiped out 8.3 billion Jingzhou troops, obtained countless grain and grass equipment, suffered 35 million casualties, and the remaining 5 million, after this war, the Jingzhou army no longer had the strength to fight, and Sun Cejun was the same, the two sides directly gave up the war......" Cheng Yu read the recent battle report and said to Cao Cao and Li Yi.
Now this war has been more than a year, and the gains outweigh the losses, and Jingzhou has been disabled, but Yuan Shu's army is also exhausted, and only 100 million battleable troops are left in front of them.
No, it should be that after waiting for several months, Yuan Shu has no confidence that he can defeat Cao Cao, and Cao Cao doesn't want to do it now, they are all waiting, waiting for the battle situation in Jingzhou, if Liu Biao wins, then Yuan Shu will automatically retreat, defend Shouchun, if Sun Ce wins, Cao Cao decisively retreats, guards Yuzhou, and waits for other reinforcements.
But things are not as they imagined, Liu Biao, who is ready to go, was directly overshadowed by Sun Ce, because it was summer, there was a lot of rain, and the nearby rivers and lakes were full of water, and Sun Cejun directly broke the embankment, and the flood flooded the border between Jingzhou and Yangzhou, resulting in the death of nearly 10 billion troops, and countless residents were displaced.
Even Sun Ce's own army was the same, but Sun Ce's name resounded throughout the sky, and he had an army of 50 million, defeating the entire Jingzhou army and creating history.
"Haha, that Sun Ce and Sun Bofu are really a talent, worthy of being Sun Wentai's son, with backbone and ......ability" Cao Cao laughed, interrupted Cheng Yu's speech, snatched the letter, and read it carefully. The fastest, the newer, the newest
nodded while reading, and even admired Sun Ce very much.
"Lord, are we going to attack! It is estimated that Yuan Shu will not be able to support it. Cheng Yu said cautiously.
Behind Cao Cao, Li Yizheng sat quietly, listening to their conversation, and Cao Cao didn't mind and started to communicate openly.
"Zhongde, three days later, start attacking Yuan Shu's army, this battle must be won." Cao Cao said heavily.
He didn't want to drag it out any longer, he was in a stalemate, and he was still like this for ten years, he was watching his battle all day long, and he was going to be in the limelight but he was robbed of his light by Sun Ce, and he was very unhappy about this, and he wanted to prove himself with Yuan Shu's army.
"Then, what should Yuan Shu do? Shall we kill or stay? Cheng Yu asked cautiously.
For this problem, Cao Cao is ambiguous, neither saying to kill nor not to kill, so that Cao Cao's hands are very confused, and he doesn't dare to guess casually, and Xi Zhicai is because of Li Yi, and his condition is slowly worsening, so he doesn't care about anything, so Cheng Yu gradually rises.
No, Cheng Yu's ability is really good, Cao Cao likes it very much, although he doesn't have the foresight of Xi Zhicai, but the things he explained can be solved perfectly, so that Cao Cao doesn't bother.
"Give Yuan Shu a letter and give it to him, if he is obsessed, don't blame me for not being affectionate." After speaking, Cao Cao took out a handwritten letter and handed it to Cheng Yu.
and instructed Cheng Yu several times to find a reliable person to hand over to Yuan Shu, and it was best not to let others know.
After the explanation was completed, Cheng Yu also left, allowing Cao Cao and Li Yi to communicate with confidence.
"Mengde, you have a good hand." Li Yi looked at Cheng Yu who was leaving.
"Hmph, I am a capable person, and I am loyal, don't worry about it, what do you want to do if you have a drama talent!" Cao Cao said angrily.
However, his eyes were full of smiles, and Li Yi was very unhappy to see it, this was a cheap and well-behaved product.
has his friendship with Xi Zhicai, as long as Xi Zhicai recovers, he will definitely come back to him, in this way, Li Yi is busy working in vain, helping himself in vain, and when Xi Zhicai's condition is better, it will be when he rises.
"Hehe, let's see." Li Yi said lightly.
"Okay, don't talk about anything else, hurry up and end this war, if you don't go back, your hometown will be finished." Li Yi said again, he saw that Cao Cao had signs of an outbreak, and directly changed the topic.
And Cao Cao, who was about to speak, shut up directly, he also knew the situation in Bingzhou, where he gave Xun Yu full authority to deal with, this was a test he gave Xun Yu, and it was also an opportunity for those wall grasses to prove themselves, but I don't know what will happen to them.
"You're so relieved? In case Xun Yu rebels, you won't be able to eat and walk around. Haha......" Li Yi smiled and reminded Cao Cao by the way.
Don't play with fire yourself, Cao Cao in the previous life was almost played to death, when he fought with Yuan Shu, Xun Yu rebelled, returned the military power to the Son of Heaven, and stabbed a big basket, fortunately in Xuchang at the time, because it was Cao Cao's territory, and it was very firm, there was no major incident.
But if today's son is in Chang'an, Cao Cao has not ruled for long in that place, even if it is the Son of Heaven, it is longer than Cao Cao's life, in case of rebellion, it will be a catastrophe.
In any case, the Son of Heaven is still orthodox, unless the Son of Heaven is dead, and the Liu family of Heaven is dead, otherwise the common people still identify with the Son of Heaven, not him Cao Cao.
"I'm sure, I have to remind you, by the way, there's no movement on Gongsun Zhan's side?" Cao Cao said directly.
And talked about Gongsun Zhan's body, in his heart, he kept Li Yi's words in his heart, and let Cheng Yu directly meet Chang'an after a while, and arrange the back hand, although the back hand is already there, but it is good to arrange a few more.
"If you and Yuan Shu don't finish the fight, how can Gongsun Zan and Yuan Shao fight, this needs to end on your side before they will start a war, not just them, when you and Yuan Shu divide the victory, this day will also be chaotic......" Li Yi said and began to analyze the general trend of the sky.
Cao Cao also interjected from time to time, but compared with Li Yi, he was still an audience, and he was very depressed about this, so many of his books were really read in vain, and even Li Yi, a stranger, couldn't compare to ......
At noon on this day, a man walked into Yuan Shu's palace, he was wearing a gauze hat and plain clothes, and he met the son of heaven of the Zhong family, Yuan Shu, under the leadership of the eunuch.
"Where's the letter?" As soon as they met, Yuan Shu drank it directly, which scared the man.
Then he took out a letter directly in his arms and handed it to the eunuch next to him, asking him to pass it over to Yuan Shu.
However, the eunuch did not hand it over to Yuan Shu immediately, but first dropped the medicine on the top of the letter to test whether the letter was poisonous, which was related to the safety of Yuan Shu's majesty, he did not dare to omit, even Yuan Shu, who was a little anxious, was not in a hurry, compared to his own life, this time could still be wasted.
After the eunuch tested it five times, he changed three potions and two pills to ensure that the letter was non-toxic, and handed it over to Yuan Shu.
Seeing this, the man looked at Yuan Shu nervously, he knew that the time had come to affect his fate, in case there was bad news in the letter, he would definitely be implicated by Yuan Shu, his life was not guaranteed, and if the news in the letter was good, he would be rewarded by Yuan Shu, he was very anxious.
But Yuan Shu looked very slowly, the expression on his face was motionless, only his eyes moved back and forth, indicating that Yuan Shu looked again, and after a quarter of an hour, Yuan Shu put the letter, and then threw it into the brazier on the side.
"Crackling." The letters rattled in the burning charcoal, enlivening the quiet hall.
But in addition to the sound of books burning, there was also the sound of his heart beating, because of the result of being anxious for a while, his heart was beating so fast that it almost jumped out of his throat.
"You go, bring me a message, tell Cao Cao, I thank him for his kindness, but I am the Son of Heaven after all, I am the Majesty of the Zhong family, I will not compromise, let him fight with me." Yuan Shu's voice sounded, it was so cold.
At this moment, he only wanted to kill people in his heart, but that person was sent by Cao Cao, and the content of the letter was also Cao Cao's kindness, if he killed the messenger, he would be stingy, so he let the messenger go.
"Thank you, Your Majesty." When he got the way to live, he left a cold sweat, and after he finished speaking, he went out under the leadership of the eunuch.
When he walked out of the gate, there was a roar from inside the palace, which frightened him to quicken his pace.
"Damn, you're so dismissive of me! Ah, haha, I am the Son of Heaven, I am the Majesty of the Zhong Family, I am the Son of Heaven, I have the jade seal of the country......" The crazy Yuan Shu roared, venting the anger in his heart, to vent this anger, otherwise he would suffocate.
When the messenger returned, Cao Cao was also unambiguous, and the army directly began to move and launched an attack on Yuan Shu's army.
In the face of Cao Cao's attack, Yuan Shu retreated step by step, encroaching step by step, and used the wide depth of Yangzhou to consume Cao Cao's grain and grass, so that he could retreat in the face of difficulties and surrender without a fight.
In this regard, Cao Cao was very speechless, this move was very lethal to him, so big that it was more serious than failure, if he entered Yangzhou, his logistics would be difficult to maintain, and the grain and grass of Jingzhou and Sili could not be brought in, and he was in a dilemma for a while.
One way is to attack directly, fight to the death with Yuan Shu, and take over Yuan Shu with one or two big battles, but the losses will be great.
The second is to wait for Liu Biao's army, as long as a few months later, Liu Biao's army will set off again, with Liu Biao's help, it will be very easy to take Yuan Shu, even if Liu Biao can't do it, he can also let him support grain, grass and equipment, so that it can be slowly eaten.
But Cao Cao needs to fight quickly, Cheng Yu, who came back from Chang'an, brought bad news, although things have not yet reached the time of suffering, but after playing for a while, Chang'an will not be able to clean up.
For a time, Cao Cao and Yuan Shu were at a stalemate on the border, Cao Cao didn't want to attack, Yuan Shu didn't dare to counterattack, and fell into a strange stalemate.
At this moment, Sun Ce came and found Yuan Shu with five million elites.
"Uncle, it's time to give me the land of Jiangdong." Sun Ce stood in front of Yuan Shu and looked at him contemptuously.
After half a year, when they saw Yuan Shu again, the appearance of the two of them changed dramatically.
Yuan Shu's face was very tired, and he was weak when he sat in front of Sun Ce, while Sun Ce was full of vitality, his previous hypocritical mask was directly torn, and he stood in front of Yuan Shu openly, looking at Yuan Shu with a proud attitude.