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- Chapter 143 "Ma Chao has no choice but to vote for Liu Jia"
Although Cao Cao had more than 400,000 troops and occupied places with relatively large populations such as Youzhou, Yizhou, Bingzhou, Qingzhou, Yanzhou, Yuzhou, Xuzhou, and Yongzhou, he also had fierce generals like clouds and counselors like rain. *Piaotian Literature Network () But Cao Cao has his own weaknesses: []
First, the defensive surface of Cao Cao's territory is much larger than that of Liu Jia. In addition to sharing a common border with Liu Jia that needs to be defended, there is also a river line that needs to be guarded against Sun Quan's attack, and there are Hu people in the north that need to be guarded against.
Second, he still has opponents to eliminate. Ma Chao's troops in the west are an example. It takes hundreds of thousands of troops to gain the upper hand.
Third, there were still signs of instability within him. Cao Cao, who was on the front line, received news that Tian Yin and Subo in the north were preparing to start an uprising in Youzhou and Jizhou. This undoubtedly made it impossible for him to concentrate much force to deal with it.
Speaking of Ma Chao, I have to mention the battle between Cao Cao and Ma Chao.
Since Cao Cao failed to use his trump card, the heavy cavalry, Cao Cao no longer dared to take the initiative. They just defended the sand city. Of course, Cao Cao did not adopt the most conservative method - building more sand cities to block the outlet of Ma Chao's army, thereby forcing Ma Chao to side with Liu Jia.
With the news that Zhang He sent troops to the north to attack Ma Chao's home base of Xiliang, Cao Cao waited for Ma Chao to withdraw, so that he could weaken the Xiliang army by blocking the middle or cutting off the tail during Ma Chao's retreat.
Ma Chao and others who have been on the battlefield for a long time naturally know what Cao Cao has in mind, but because all the soldiers' families are in Xiliang. Even though he knew that there were many risks ahead, he still had to give up his current camp. Withdraw to Xiliang along the passage left by Cao Cao.
It was only then that Ma Chao and others truly understood that it was difficult to win the final victory of a war simply by relying on the courage and brute force of soldiers. Fighting a war depends not only on the bravery of soldiers and the fighting spirit of generals, but also on many factors that restrict the outcome of a war. Nowadays, Cao Cao is so powerful that he has a lot of land and resources. He can organize a group of troops from his territory at will, which is difficult for people with weak family backgrounds like them to resist. The powerful Xiliang soldiers can't care about the end even if they care about the head.
Although the two sides basically fought to a draw on the Tongguan front line, in terms of the overall situation. Ma Chao and the others were obviously at a disadvantage.
When Xu Shu¡¯s army returned to Chengdu, Ma Chao¡¯s army also began to return to Xiliang. Although Ma Chao knew that there were countless traps on the way home. But there is my home, the base for re-emergence. Without this home and that vast base, being trapped here would definitely be a dead end. Besides, there are all the soldiers¡¯ fathers, brothers, wives, children, and children there. How could they possibly watch them fall into the enemy¡¯s hands? Ma Chao, who is full of blood, is convinced that his army will be able to fight back, even if he loses the most, he will still go back!
The decision to withdraw troops was passed unanimously without any suspense. The army was led by Ma Dai and Hou Xuan, who led 20,000 people as the vanguard; Ma Chao and Yang Qiu, who led 30,000 troops, were the central army. Liang Xing, who was seriously injured, was lying on a stretcher with them. At the same time, the army's food, fodder, baggage, and wounded soldiers were all in the central army; Han Sui, Cheng Yi, and Pang De set off immediately with 25,000 troops as rearguard.
Originally, Ma Chao's intention was that he would personally lead the army to seize the rear, and Han Sui would serve as the commander of the central army. However, Han Sui, who felt aggrieved, firmly disagreed, and instead volunteered to stay behind the team to take on the dangerous task of seizing the rear. Ma Chao saw other The generals all had this idea in their hearts and hoped that they, the backbone of the army, would be in charge of the central army, so they did not insist on their opinions.
As everyone expected, not long after Ma Chao¡¯s army set off. Cao Cao's army began to harass them continuously: first, Cao Ren led 5,000 men in front to massacre Ma Chao's troops and the vanguard troops. When they encountered the large troops chasing Ma Dai, they retreated, but as soon as Ma Dai's troops returned to the ranks, , they rushed over to curse or shoot arrows, and resolutely wiped out the small group of troops exploring the road, leaving Ma Dai and Hou Xuan with nothing to do. They no longer dared to send out small groups of troops. Instead, they asked more than a thousand troops to search and advance slowly three or four miles in front of their own large army in place of exploring horses, while the large army moved forward cautiously behind. There was constant communication between the two groups of troops, and when they camped at night, they were even closer to each other, ensuring that lights could be seen and shouts could be heard. In this way, although Cao Ren had no chance to make a move, the advance of the army would be extremely slow.
In addition to the troubles of the front army, the rear army was also under great pressure. At noon on the second day when the army set out, Cao's army had three troops taking turns to attack. First, Xu Chu led 5,000 troops to attack the left wing of the rear army led by Pang De. After killing for a long time, it was only after Han Sui came with the center wing troops. Xu Chucai led the victorious Cao army to retreat. When Han Sui's troops went to rescue the left wing, Cheng Yi, who had been left alone on the right wing, was immediately attacked by Cao Hong's 5,000 troops. Cheng Yi fought hard for more than two hours. It was not until Han Sui arrived with his troops that Cao Hong retreated.
In the days that followed, the eight thousand troops led by Han Sui almostThey became a fire brigade and rushed to both sides all day long, causing the eight thousand soldiers to complain endlessly.
For Han Sui and his generals, their pain was not physical exhaustion, but reflected in their hearts. Every time they went to rescue, the rescued soldiers not only did not appreciate them and took them for granted, but the rescued soldiers also looked at them with hatred.
Some people even said in a weird way: "You are really capable. As soon as you came, Cao Jun took the initiative to withdraw. Our soldiers died one after another, but you did not lose a single person."
"That's right, it's better to let all 8,000 of you take charge of this rear army. Why do we, who have nothing to do with Cao's army, do the hard work?"
"We fought hard, and the reputation of victory is yours. It's so fucking irritating!"
Han Sui¡¯s subordinates were naturally unconvinced. Their legs were almost broken all day long and they had to suffer from this kind of jealousy, so they often exchanged curses with each other:
"You ***, you have no ability, so you blame others. If you have the guts, kill them and let them run away when they see you"
"What's the use of all the kung fu being done on the lips?"
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Once a crack occurs, it is extremely difficult to repair it in a short time.
This situation soon appeared on the battlefield. As long as Cao's army appeared, whether it was Pang De's troops or Cheng Yi's troops, they would call Han Sui's troops to come over. If they were late, those people would start making sarcastic remarks. Han Sui's troops had long lost their previous enthusiasm and had to go on their way to support. Many soldiers even prayed that Cao Jun would beat these ungrateful guys hard.
Seeing that their goal had been achieved, Cao Jun immediately increased the intensity of his attack and attacked from both the left and right wings at the same time. Han Suijun, who was running around here and there, was unable to take care of both sides for a while. They had no choice but to support Pang De's army, which was in danger first. When Xu Chu's troops were driven away and then turned back to rescue Cheng Yi's troops, Cheng Yi's army had been wiped out by the joint attack of Cao Hong and Xia Houyuan - Cheng Yi himself was killed. Most of the troops were either killed or surrendered, and less than 2,000 of the 7,000 troops were left. These surviving soldiers fled to the Chinese army led by Ma Chao in despair. The first thing these people who escaped back did was to file a complaint. The words that sued Han Sui's troops for refusing to save him almost made Ma Chao's ears calluses.
After Cheng Yi's troops were wiped out by Cao Jun, the three rear armies supporting each other were reduced to two, and the defensive area was greatly reduced. The safety of Ma Chao's central army was directly threatened by Cao Jun. Cao Jun's light cavalry began to appear not far from the central army, showing off their power. Ma Chao had no choice but to order Yang Qiu to lead 5,000 troops to strengthen the rear army.
But the cat-and-mouse game was still going on. Except for the 8,000 troops led by Han Sui who suffered no major losses due to fatigue, the other two divisions had battles happening every day and suffered losses of troops all the time.
When Ma Chao's army was only one day away from Chang'an, Cao Jun launched the most violent attack on Ma Chao's rear army: 40,000 troops were dispatched. First, 10,000 troops were dispatched to attack Yang Qiu's troops, and then Han Sui went to rescue them. Immediately attack Pound's troops with 20,000 troops. Ten thousand troops were left to forcefully insert themselves between Ma Chao's center and rear troops to block Ma Chao's rescue.
After several hours of fighting, Pound's thousands of tired soldiers were killed in pieces. In the end, he only managed to escape with more than a thousand soldiers. And Yang Qiu's five thousand people were completely made dumplings by Cao Jun. When Ma Chao led his army to break through the obstruction of 10,000 Cao Cao troops to rescue Han Sui's troops, Han Sui was already threatened by his subordinates and led his troops to surrender to Cao Cao.
The news of the surrender of Han Sui, the horse owner who had lost more than 20,000 people, made Ma Chao almost fall off his horse in anger: Oh my god, how far have we traveled now?
After entering Chang'an City, Ma Chao's army only had more than 50,000 troops left from the 130,000 before the war! Only two and a half of the ten leaders were left: Ma Chao, Hou Xuan, and Liang Xing, who was lying on a stretcher with his life or death uncertain.
Just after entering the city, Di Ma Chao was undecided. When he didn't know whether to stay and guard Chang'an or continue to venture to Xiliang, something happened that almost made Ma Chao angry and vomited blood: Seeing that the situation was over, Hou Xuan, under the persuasion of the emissary sent by Cao Cao, took advantage of Ma Chao's unpreparedness and led him. The more than 10,000 troops surrendered to Cao Cao. Moreover, he also kidnapped the half-dead Liang Xing and thousands of Liang Xing's men. If Pound hadn't discovered the anomaly and led his troops to investigate, I am afraid that Chang'an City would have been Cao Cao's.
It¡¯s really overwhelming!
Then the bad news kept coming:
Seeing that Cao Cao's army had driven more than 40,000 horses into Chang'an City, he ordered all his armies to march day and night to the southern counties of Yongzhou, asking these armies to conquer all the cities close to Hanzhong. The purpose was naturally to completely cut off Ma Chao's path south and prevent the desperate Ma Chao from surrendering to Liu Jia.
Zhang He, who was attacking on the northern front line, saw that Ma Chao had entered Chang'an City, and immediately took the 50,000 troops hidden near Jinyang City.They were all dispatched, preparing to recapture the northern counties of Yongzhou in one fell swoop and then march to Xiliang. Completely occupy Ma Chao's lair. Completely cut off the retreat of Ma Chao's tens of thousands of troops and trap them in Chang'an first. After Cao Cao's army seizes the counties in the south, they can catch turtles in a jar.
It¡¯s time. Ma Chaozhen understood Cao Cao's intention to attack from the north and south or to be besieged on all sides. If Cao Jun's conspiracy succeeds, it will be difficult for his 40,000 troops to return to Xiliang. Even if Cao Cao's army was partially successful, if he wanted to return to Xiliang, he would not only have to break through the blockade set by Zhang He, but also resist Cao Cao's pursuing troops behind him. But if you don't go back, staying in this isolated city of Chang'an will be a dead end.
"What to do?" Ma Chao looked helplessly at his two loyal generals.
Pang De and Ma Dai both bowed their heads and said nothing.
After a long time, Pang De said: "Pang thinks it is best to seek refuge with Liu Jia in Yizhou."
Ma Chao said: "Ma has also thought about it, let alone the young man Liu Jia telling us what to do. What should we do with our family members in Xiliang? Do we just have to watch them suffer at the hands of Cao Cao?"
Pang De said painfully: "Then what can we do? If we rush back now and fight all the way, the final result will be at most 10,000 troops, and the whole army will be annihilated. The situation will be even greater. Even if these 10,000 troops are not captured by Cao Cao in the future, Extermination, if we want to rely on it to make a comeback, who knows what year and month it will take?"
Ma Dai also said painfully: "At this time, we can only think about how to take revenge in the future. If we really rush back and there are less than 10,000 people left, can we still talk about avenging our father? We may not even survive. Difficulty. As the saying goes, it is never too late for a gentleman to seek revenge. Now only Liu Jia has the capital to confront Cao Cao. Only he can help us avenge ourselves. As long as we can avenge our father and our wives, children, and children, what does it matter if we listen to him?"
"But it's very difficult for us to break through Cao Cao's blockade in the south! Besides, Liu Jia's large army is still campaigning in the south. Will they take the risk of immediately offending Cao Cao and accept us? We used to have hundreds of thousands of troops. At that time, they were afraid of offending Cao Cao and did not dare to send troops directly. They just sent us some food and grass. Now that our strength is smaller, aren't they even more afraid?" Ma Chao saw Ma Dai say this. asked confused.
Pound reminded: "At this time and that time, it was impossible for us to surrender to them. Also, don't they have a special envoy with us? The general can ask him, as long as we enter Hanzhong and join them, we can definitely help them Defend Hanzhong to resist Cao Cao's attack. How can a few of us defend Cao's army with the city? As long as we help them defend Hanzhong, how much risk does Liu Jia have? Pang thinks that Cao Cao and Liu Jia will fall out sooner or later, Liu Jia Chia is absolutely willing to take that risk to take us in.¡±
When Ma Chao heard that Pang De mentioned the special envoy Liu Jiadi, he said angrily: "It's okay not to mention the special envoy. If he hadn't considered the relationship with Liu Jia of Yizhou, Ma would have killed him long ago. When he came to us, Didn't he advise Ma to be absolutely assured of Han Sui, the traitor, and promise that the traitor would never surrender to Cao Cao? Ma actually trusted the traitor as he wanted, but what happened? Haven't you surrendered yet? Fortunately, Ma didn't let him participate in the military plan and put him aside. Otherwise, I'm afraid we would have been dead long ago. Thinking of this guy, Ma didn't dare to make the decision to join Liu Jia .¡±
Pang De shook his head and said: "Actually, the special envoy cannot be blamed for this matter. This is because Cao Cao is too cunning. We all fell into Cao Cao's alienation plan. Now that I think about it carefully, General Han Han Sui has always done his best. . It is indeed good for the general to trust him, but Pang and other generals failed to do so, and many generals doubted him. Pang thought for a long time and felt that Han Sui was also forced into submission by his subordinates. If he really wanted to surrender to Cao Cao, how could he He waited until Cao Cao's army completely surrounded him and was threatened by his subordinates before he surrendered. He would always have a better chance to throw himself over and let Cao Cao thank him"
"No matter what, he shouldn't surrender. It's just death. A general is being threatened by his subordinates. Humph! Who believes it?" Ma Dai interrupted Pound angrily.
Ma Chao did not continue the topic, but asked Pound in a questioning tone: "How about we listen to his opinion?"
Pang De nodded and said: "It's okay to give it a try. If they don't take the risk to take us in, the worst they can do is die here."
After listening to the words of Ma Chao, Pang De and others, Yang Hong, the special envoy of Liu Jia who was summoned, smiled and said: "Of course the King of Shu welcomes General Ma to join us. As General Pang said, it will only be a matter of time before we fall out with Cao Cao. Cao Cao is a Han thief, and everyone can kill him. Killing him will not only avenge General Ma, but also avenge thousands of heroes in the world, and seek justice for tens of thousands of people in the world. General Ma dares to rely on a state The army can fight against the powerful Cao thieves. Our lord, the King of Shu, owns the land of three states. How can he be afraid of Cao thieves and not accept the generals? The three generalsThe army is overly worried! With the addition of three generals, our Yizhou has become even more powerful, far more powerful than adding another state. "
Ma Chao asked: "We need to break through Cao's army to enter Hanzhong now. Can your Lord send troops to meet us?".
"Absolutely. As long as General Ma writes a letter and orders Chencang, Guangwei, Yicheng, Tianshui and other cities to allow our Hanzhong troops to enter, our army can immediately send troops to respond." Yang Hong said.
"Aren't you afraid that Cao Cao will attack your Hanzhong?" Pound asked strangely, "As far as we know, your troops are currently quelling the chaos in the south. Once troops are sent to meet us, won't Hanzhong be empty?"
"Haha, the three generals don't have to worry about Hanzhong. We have achieved a comprehensive victory in the south. Xu Shu's army is now on its way back to Chengdu, and the soldiers and horses near Chengdu are now heading towards Hanzhong day and night. Even if they send out reinforcements Troops, our Hanzhong is still impregnable." Yang Hong said with a smile.
When Ma Chao heard this, he felt a little reassured, so he asked, "Why should we leave?"
Yang Hongdao: "It's not very important when to set off. The most important thing is that the sooner General Ma's letter is sent out, the better. The news that we failed to enter Chang'an must have spread throughout Yongzhou, and Chencang, Guangwei, Yicheng, Tianshui and other cities must have People are panicking. If our Hanzhong army does not immediately enter these cities to calm the morale of the army and the people, then as soon as Cao Cao's army arrives, those cities with few troops to defend will be quickly occupied by Cao's army. According to Yang's estimation, it is General Ma who is writing the letter now, then Chencang, which is close to Cao Jun, has also been captured by Cao Jun."
Pang De asked: "Special envoy Yang must also know the principle of rapidity. Why doesn't our army set off immediately now instead of just ordering it to go first? Does Yizhou only value the territory we occupy and ignore our 40,000 Xiliang army?" ".
Ma Chao and Ma Dai also felt this way, so they both looked at Yang Hong dissatisfied.
Yang Hong laughed: "Where did you generals go? How can a few cities be more important than three generals and an army of 40,000 tigers and wolves?"
Pang De said: "But Special Envoy Yang's arrangement makes Pang a little confused."
Yang Hong said with a smile: "The area of ??Yongzhou is so vast. As long as our Hanzhong soldiers hold one or two cities in the south of Yongzhou, the generals and their 40,000 tiger and wolf troops will not be cut off by Cao Cao's army from entering Hanzhong. Cao Cao has less than 100,000 soldiers. How can our troops cut off all our paths forward in a short period of time? If they guard the east, we will go to the west, and if they guard the west, we will go to the east. So the most important thing now is to ensure that our Hanzhong Army can smoothly and quickly seize several cities."
Yang Hong continued: "We have only fought continuously for several days now. Our soldiers are very tired and their morale is low. If we rush out of the city to meet Cao's army now, the army will be in danger of collapse. Tens of thousands of wounded soldiers will undoubtedly fall into the trap." Rival? In that case, even if a few of us run out, how can we bear it? Since there are troops in Hanzhong to help us guard the passage into Hanzhong, we will rest here for a while and recharge our batteries before setting off. Generals, what do you think?"
Ma Chao and Pang De did not answer immediately, but Ma Dai said: "At that time, Cao Cao saw that he could not cut off our retreat and immediately withdrew his troops, and then came to surround us. We are trapped in Chang'an, how long can we hold on? You Yizhou will send a large army directly Can we capture Chang'an?"
Yang Hong
He shook his head honestly and said: "Sending troops directly to Chang'an is definitely not possible. It will take more than a month for Xu Shu's army to return to Chengdu from the distant south, and they are very tired. They will definitely need to rest for a while before they can join the war. The troops outside Chengdu It would be good if we can defend Hanzhong and the several newly-received cities from Yongzhou with the Hanzhong troops. It would be great if we could capture Chang'an, but the strength of the troops is really difficult."
Ma Dai quickly took over and said: "That's right! Since you can't send troops here, and you ask us not to be in a hurry now, isn't this a contradiction?".
Yang Hong explained calmly: "We in Yizhou need time, but Cao Cao and the others need more time! First of all, Cao Cao didn't know that we had won in the south, and he didn't expect that our Hanzhong army would now have no worries and could quickly enter Yongzhou. At that time, General Ma, you guys When there were hundreds of thousands of troops near Tongguan, our Yizhou did not send troops directly. Cao Cao must have thought that Yizhou would not send troops now. That's why he ordered his army to occupy the southern counties of Yongzhou. The reason why Cao Cao This is of course intended to cut off the Xiliang troops from going south, but it is also intended to prevent our Yizhou troops from going north and entering their hinterland of the Central Plains."
Chapter 143
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