Chapter 23 Fighting Method 1: Straw Boat Borrowing Arrows

At this time, the time has come to the seventh year of Jian'an, and it has been more than ten years since Li He measured Cao Cao's characters and the princes of the Eighteenth Road crusaded against Dong Zhuo. Cao Cao, who once had no soldiers or generals and was wanted all over the world for assassinating Dong Zhuo, has also become the biggest prince today.

He even abolished the Han Emperor, ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, and changed the era name to "Wei Wu".

And Lu Bu, who chased and killed Cao Cao at the beginning, killed him so that he had no way to go to heaven and no way to enter the earth, and he also became a courtier under his command, even with Lu Bu's famous Erwuzai character, he did not dare to have the slightest rebellious heart, let alone the strength to rebel.

Because Cao Cao's current power is too great!

There are a large group of top generals alone, such as Dian Wei, Xu Chu, Ma Chao, Zhao Yun, etc., as well as a group of top strategists who are superior in wisdom and can strategize, and are far more powerful than military generals.

Guo Jia, Chen Gong, Li Ru, Cheng Yu, Xun Yu, Xun You, Lu Su......

There are too many capable generals to count, and Lu Bu is even a little inconspicuous among them, and he can't make waves at all.

And the troops, after digesting Yuan Shao's territory and taking Hanzhong and Xiliang, have reached 1.5 million, even if the troops are divided into ten roads, the strength of each road is not less than that of one prince, and the combined strength is even enough to be as long as the Han Dynasty at its peak!

After becoming emperor, Li He's cultivation advanced by leaps and bounds, and the "Heavenly Master Hall" headed by Zhang Lu was also completed.

With a large number of Heavenly Masters and first-class generals and top strategists, the overall strength of the Great Wei is extremely rare throughout the history of China.

Under such circumstances, how could Cao Cao be afraid of the so-called "Red Cliff Alliance"?

"Don't be careless." Li He shook his head and said, "Meng De, haven't you always wanted to ask me, who will win the world in the future?" In the future I saw at the beginning, Meng De you had an army of one million, and you had two thirds of the world, and there were only about 100,000 soldiers left in Jiangdong, and there would be no opponents. ”

"And then?" Cao Cao asked.

"You were defeated, and you fought for decades in three parts of the world, until your grandson became the emperor, and you failed to unify." Li He said: "What we did before is just a detail, whether we can change the future, it depends on whether this Chibi battle can be won!" ”

Hearing this, Cao Cao was silent and didn't say much.

He is suspicious by nature, and he will not have 100% trust in anyone.

He believes in Li He, but it is not ruled out that he is alarmist.

Even, he was a little skeptical, did Li He deliberately let Liu Bei go and deliberately lifted Zhuge Liang out, wanting to put himself under pressure, so as to rely on him more?

There was no answer to this question, and he would not have explored it.

But once in a while, I really think about it!

"This battle will be won!" Cao Cao said.

Next, as if history repeats itself, Cao's army faced the alliance of princes, pushed all the way and soon hit Chibi. And the coalition of princes who were originally at odds with each other for various reasons finally united and worked together in Chibi to block Cao Cao on the other side of the Yangtze River.

At this point, the strength of both sides has increased a lot, and the battle of Chibi, which is even more huge than in the original book, has begun.

"National teacher, is Zhuge Liang really like you said, so pedantic and celestial?" On the red cliff, Cao Cao Yao looked at the other side of the Yangtze River and said.

Hearing this, Li He smiled and said, "If Your Majesty doesn't believe it, you will know if you fight a few battles." ”

Because the alliance of princes is far more complicated than the alliance of Sun and Liu in the original book, and there is no good old man in Lu Su to maneuver around, the alliance at the beginning is not strong, and even fights for power and profit to announce personal vendettas, which is almost chaotic.

Zhuge Liang, who single-handedly promoted the alliance, not only did the coach not get involved, but even the power was taken away.

Just because Liu Bei's power is too poor, the master can't do it, and the courtiers don't speak hard.

Therefore, in the first few major battles, the coalition army was defeated and retreated, and did not organize enough counterattack force at all, so that most of Jingzhou was lost in a short period of time, and finally the decisive battle against Chibi was like in the original book.

Chibi is the last line of defense, and once it is lost, the alliance of princes will no longer have the power to resist.

Sensing the crisis, they finally truly united and handed over power to Zhuge Liang, who led the alliance, and he commanded the war. And Zhou Yu, who was originally the commander, became his lieutenant general, and the two faced Cao Cao together.

This is a little different from the Battle of Chibi in the original book, but Zhuge Liang, who is in power, is definitely much more terrifying than Zhuge Liang who can only give advice in the original book!

"Water warfare is inseparable from bows and arrows, but we have bows, but there are not enough arrows." Zhou Yu said.

Hearing this, Zhuge Liang thought for a moment and said: "In this way, you go and arrange twenty big ships with straw men on them, and go around in front of Cao Ying in seven days, only call for battle, do not attack, and borrow their arrows to use!" ”

"Good!" Zhou Yu nodded.

Seven days later, twenty large ships carrying straw men went to the front of Cao Ying's formation.

At the same time, fog rose on the river.

"Today's fog, you say, is it possible for the coalition forces to take advantage of the fog to sneak attack?" Cao Cao asked the strategists.

Hearing this, Chen Gong immediately spoke: "I don't think it's very likely, the fog will not only cover our vision, but also their vision, although it is not conducive to defense, but it is also not conducive to attack." ”

These words made everyone agree very much.

"But with Zhuge Liang's character, he won't do nothing." Li He said.

Immediately, Cao Cao smiled and said, "Can the national teacher dare to make a small bet with me?" ”

"Bet on what?" Li He asked.

"Bet on Zhuge Liang if he will have trouble in the future." Cao Cao said: "If he doesn't come to life, I will win, and the national teacher will perform a technique of attracting heaven and thunder in front of you, so that I can wait to open my eyes, how about it?" ”

All along, Li He didn't show his spells, even if he dealt with Zuo Ci at the beginning, he couldn't see the momentum.

The only one who has ever seen Li He cast a spell is Lu Bu.

For this, Cao Cao regretted it.

Regarding Cao Cao's proposal, Li He nodded with a smile and said, "Okay, but if Zhuge Liang comes to make trouble, what will you lose, Your Majesty?" ”

"What does the national teacher want?" Cao Cao asked.

"I heard that Cao Cao and Cao Mengde are not only good at governing the country, but also good at poetry and songs, if you lose this bet, why don't you drink ten glasses of wine and compose a poem for us on the spot?" Li He said.

Hearing this, Cao Cao immediately laughed and said happily, "Okay." ”

Li He could feel that another hot fortune had arrived.

Then, as if cooperating with him, the straw boat sent by Zhuge Liang drove to the gate of Cao Ying to call for battle and began to borrow arrows. Cao Cao, on the other hand, said: "It's still a national teacher's clever calculation, at today's dinner, I will drink ten glasses and compose a poem." ”

At this time, Lu Bu in the crowd opened his mouth and asked, "Your Majesty, Lu Bu please fight!" ”

Among the people, he is the most belligerent, because he always wants to win the coalition army, and then he slashes the big-eared thief Liu Bei.

"No need to fight." Cao Cao smiled: "We have bows and arrows, and we can't shoot them all in a year, so why send people to fight hard?" The order was sent to send forty large ships and 50,000 archers to meet the enemy. ”

This is the same as in the original book, falling for Zhuge Liang's plan of "borrowing arrows from grass boats".

However, Li He didn't open his mouth to stop it, but asked Zhang Ludao: "Is your 'Heavenly Master Hall' ready?" We've recreated 'Scattering Beans into Soldiers' to 'Scatter Rice into Arrows', which can come in handy! ”