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- Chapter 174 "The scheming battle between Liu Jia and Cao Cao"
Cao Cao was obviously a commander who could take things seriously and let go. As soon as Xun Yu finished speaking, Cao Cao began to give orders vigorously and resolutely: ordering Han Hao to lead 30,000 soldiers to Xu Huang's camp to replenish the forward troops; ordering Jia Xu to send out more More detectives were sent to inquire about the mobilization of Liu Jia's troops and horses in Yizhou and Jingzhou, as well as changes in Wu's military strength. *1*1*
At the same time, he lifted up the wolf hair dipped in ink and waved it away, and the word "war" that penetrated the back of the paper appeared in front of everyone.
Cao Jun¡¯s expedition horse has just entered the boundaries of Yizhou and Jingzhou, and has not yet collected useful information. The detailed work originally arranged here presented the relevant military changes to Cao Cao¡¯s case:
The military forces of the states under Liu Jia's jurisdiction are gradually moving to the north. It is estimated that nearly 100,000 troops can directly join Liu Jia's troops currently confronting Cao's army outside Wei Mi City. The Wu army, led by Zhou Yu, Zhou Tai and others, gathered to the east of Yangzhou and used the warships collected there to attack Yizhou.
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Of course, relevant information also appeared on the desks of Shu army commanders Liu Jia, Pang Tong, Xu Shu and others. While Liu Jia was looking at the reports sent from various places, he said to Pang Tong who was also reading the reports: "Sun Quan seems to know how to do it. He is afraid that both of us will blame him for sitting on the mountain and watching the fight between tigers, so he just doesn't care. Regardless, he ran to Taiwanran to Yizhou to occupy his territory. The defense line of the river was emptied." Although Liu Jia is usually careful not to name the places of later generations, sometimes Liu Jia can't help but pop up. Two, making myself nervous for a while. But Liu Jia was worried in vain, because Pang Tong and others just listened to it and didn't take it seriously. One or two words or words that they have never heard of before will hardly arouse their suspicion. They either think that Liu Jiahua did not explain clearly or said some meaningless words, or they think that they heard wrongly.
Whenever this happens, Liu Jia secretly vows that after the country is unified in the future, he must change all the place names to be the same as those of later generations, so that they are easy to remember and catchy - obviously this is just his personal idea.
The report Xu Shu put in his hand said in Liu Jia's words: "Sun Quan not only wants to expand his territory, but also wants us to fight with all our strength. He obviously hopes that both of us can use all our strength under the city of Wei Mi. . It can be regarded as playing hard to get."
"is not that right?". Liu Jia simply stood up and walked to the screen with a huge map hanging on it and looked at the map. "He took the initiative to relax the defenses on the Jiangshui line. Cao Cao naturally thanked him, and Cao Cao was able to transfer the hundreds of thousands of troops stationed here to Yumi City. And we also have to thank him, because he put Fankou and Xiakou on the line Our defenses have also been relaxed. We can also transfer the troops in this area to the north, and we can even remove the troops of Zhang Liao and Gan Ning and come to the north. Haha, this Sun Quan is really not simple"
"Haha. No matter what the plot is, Sun Quan also plotted not only our true intention. The commander-in-chief thought that our army did not need to gather too many soldiers and horses under this small Hemi City, so that the troops in Jingzhou and Yizhou could march at a slightly slower pace. A little bit, but don't let Cao Jun notice it." Pang Tong walked over and said with a smile, not in a hurry.
"Judging from the detailed report, Cao Jun will gather 400,000 or even 500,000 horses in this area, and we will have to gather nearly 300,000 horses. Now the total is already 260,000, and another 120,000 will be needed. Let Cao Cao believe that we are fighting with all our strength." Xu Shu did not stand up, but just raised his head and said.
"Yeah. Let other troops gradually gather secretly towards Xiangyang, forming a sharp knife there. As soon as Cao Jun here is defeated, let General Gan Ning go north to kill Cao Jun from behind, and see if he can be suffocated this time. Haha. " After talking about it, Liu Jia laughed.
"Judging from the current situation, Cao Cao really thinks that we are making a final death struggle. They are obviously ready to deal with us in the end. As long as we are unable to survive due to the severe cold, they will rush out and wipe us out in one go." Pang Tong He smiled confidently.
Liu Jia turned to Xu Shu and asked, "How are our preparations for oil bombs and gunpowder?"
Xu Shu nodded and said: "We are almost here. Forty thousand kilograms of gunpowder has been secretly transported to the military camp by grain trucks and hidden. Now only the stone lacquer has not been completely arrived because it has to be transported from Chengdu and Bajun. The journey is long, but Nanzhu has already arrived." It¡¯s here. It only takes seven or eight days.¡±
Liu Jia smiled and said: "Then let's just sit and wait for a few days. By the way, we can bring more stone paint. We won't need so much for the war. We can use it to keep the fire warm and keep out the cold."
Three days after Cao Cao replied, the Shu soldiers, who had been silent for a while, began to move out. This time, Huang Zhong and Ma Dai led 5,000 troops to challenge Cao Jun's camp.
"Huang Zhong is here! Who in Cao's army has the guts to fight Huang for 300 rounds?" Veteran General Huang Zhong stopped his troops in formation and shouted loudly just a stone's throw away from Cao's camp. His long white beard was stained with snowflakes and ice. mouthWhite steam floated far away with the shouts. Ma Dai next to him also looked eager to try, and the horse underneath him was scratching unsteadily on the ice.
As always, there was no big movement in Cao's army. Only a lot of archers were quietly added behind the fence of the camp. These soldiers lined up neatly with their bows and arrows aimed at the Shu soldiers in the distance. In front of them were several rows of spearmen and swordsmen, all of whom looked like they were about to go into battle, with resolute and calm expressions on their faces. It was obvious that they were a group of well-trained soldiers. Behind this group of soldiers were General Le Jin and General Han Hao who had just arrived here not long ago.
An hour passed, and the Shu soldiers cursed louder and louder, but the silent Cao camp was still silent. Only when the patrolling soldiers walked around the camp gate and inside the village did they know that Cao Ying was a lively military camp.
As a result, the scolded Cao soldiers were not impatient, but the scolded Shu soldiers could no longer control their anger, and their scoldings changed from neat and uniform to random scolding:
"Are all Cao's troops cowardly?"
"You are not a man, you don't have eggs?"
"How can you be a general or a soldier if you are so timid? Just go back and hug your wife!"
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After a while, I don¡¯t know whether it was because the Shu soldiers scolded them too harshly or because Cao Jun wanted to take care of the Shu soldiers¡¯ emotions, and Cao Jun¡¯s camp was opened wide. Le Jin and Han Hao led their troops to kill them. Of course, Generals Le Jin and Han Hao did not foolishly challenge Huang Zhong and Ma Dai to a duel. Instead, they sent their troops to cover them up as soon as they left the village gate, deciding to take advantage of the large number of people and close distance to defeat these tough-talking guys.
Seeing Cao's army leaving the camp, the Shu soldiers were overjoyed. They also shouted and rushed forward. Of course, the two generals Huang Zhong and Ma Dai rushed at the front of the team like two sharp knives.
The battlefield is fierce. It was even more bloody, with blood and body parts flying together. The head and the weapon fell together. Not long after the battle started, the cold land was covered with the corpses of people and war horses. Because of the cold weather, many injured soldiers and horses howled miserably for a long time before making no sound. Because it was not a warm day, as soon as the blood of these people was injured, the cold air penetrated into their bodies, and they died faster than Usually much faster. As a result, the groans on the battlefield were much less and lower than usual.
In the early stage of the battle, because few of Cao's troops rushed out, the Shu troops, led by two tiger generals Huang Zhong and Ma Dai, once had the upper hand. When the morale of the troops was at its highest, they even rushed to the front of Cao Jun's camp, and some soldiers even slashed with their swords. On the fence of Cao Jun's camp. A few soldiers wielding hoes, protected by other soldiers, dug several times in front of Cao Jun's camp, digging several small holes with a depth of one foot in the hard soil.
But as more and more soldiers came out of Cao's army, the Shu soldiers gradually surrendered the initiative on the battlefield, after losing hundreds of soldiers. Huang Zhong and Ma Dai could only retreat while fighting while covering the soldiers whose morale was slowly declining. Especially after Cao's army came out with nearly 20,000 soldiers, the Shu soldiers were left to flee. Of course, because the Shu soldiers had Huang and Ma to cut off the rear, their losses were not great, but they were absolutely unable to defeat the pursuing Cao army. After the Shu soldiers retreated two or three miles in one breath, the Shu army general Zhao Yun led 10,000 soldiers to greet them. Cao Jun saw that the Shu army camp was not far away and stopped pursuing. He cursed loudly and retreated back to the camp.
Naturally, before entering the camp, they filled in the few small holes dug by the Shu soldiers. Some Cao soldiers were too lazy to look for dirt, so they took out their trousers and took out the stuff from their crotches and peed happily. A few of them came down like this. , those shallow pits were filled with the yellow smelly liquid, and it didn't take long for the urine to turn into ice cubes. Of course, the pits dug by the Shu soldiers were also filled.
"Haha, the soldiers of Shu are so **** good. They work hard just to dig urine and feces pits for us."
"It would be good if they come here every day, and it would be good for us to come out and relieve our qi."
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The days from now on will repeat like this, except sometimes Huang Zhong leads the team. Sometimes Zhao Yun leads the team. Sometimes Wei Yan leads the team. Sometimes it was five thousand, sometimes ten thousand. Of course, there were times when 20,000 or 30,000 Shu soldiers came out, but as long as they saw that there were so many Shu soldiers, Cao Jun could not hold on and would rather urinate in the barracks than outside.
In this way, the Shu soldiers had nothing to do. In order to lure Cao's soldiers out, they had to send thousands of people to challenge each time, leaving dozens or hundreds of corpses and a few shallow urine puddles each time. return.
The situation was truly reflected in Cao Cao's case. On the one hand, Cao Cao and others were happy that the Shu soldiers had nothing to do, but they were also puzzled by the futile and dedicated persistence of the Shu soldiers in "digging holes."
"Why are the Shu soldiers so reckless? Do these gunpowder really need to dig holes to be effective?" Cao Cao asked solemnly.
Jia Xu said: "According to the previous secondary use of gunpowder, gunpowder needs to be buried deep in the soil. When it explodes, it can destroy the surrounding mud.Earth and rocks were thrown up, killing people, and knocking down city walls. According to the detailed information we sent, the gunpowder needs to be large in quantity and buried deeply. If it is ignited in an open space, it will only produce sound and black smoke, but will not explode much. If it is farther away, it will have no effect. "
"Oh, no wonder they want to dig a hole so much. But it's so cold and freezing, how can they dig it? It's really embarrassing for them. Haha" Cao Cao felt a little pity for them.
At this time, a soldier came over holding an arrow, and a cloth roll was obviously tied to the arrow. Obviously this was another piece of information sent out by the spy who was stationed in the Shu camp.
Jia Xu quickly took the arrow, untied the cloth strip on it with familiarity, and read it carefully. Soon he said to Cao Cao: "This is to the King of Wei, Liu Jia has nothing to do now. He sees that he cannot dig a hole in front of our camp." , they loaded five wooden carts with gunpowder and prepared to push the carts to our camp and light them."
"Ah!" Several counselors opened their mouths in surprise.
Cheng Yu immediately asked: "Is that powerful?"
Cao Cao also looked at Jia Xu with questioning eyes. Jia Xu shook his head and said cautiously: "I don't know for sure. But judging from the fact that the Shu soldiers deliberately dug holes and dug trenches before, the power of the gunpowder on this vehicle must be limited, and it must be far less powerful than the one buried on the ground." explosion. Otherwise, there is no need for them to spend so much energy digging holes. But how powerful they are is really difficult to predict. From what I see below, anyway, the life of the Shu soldiers is getting more and more difficult, and there is no need for General Xu Huang and the others to make any more attacks. The camp is ready to fight. We can send more bows and arrows there, and at the same time strengthen the camp to prevent the Shu soldiers from approaching the camp. I understand that these gunpowder will not have much effect. It only takes another month, maybe only half a month. The Shu soldiers will not be able to hold on. Come down. Then the day will come for us to counterattack."
Cao Cao glanced at several counselors inquiringly, and then said: "We still can't take it lightly. We know too little about gunpowder. Since they have figured out a way to put them on the car, they must have their role. General Xu Huang The Di camp needs to be further strengthened. We will send another 5,000 archers there. As for whether to go out to fight, this is under the flexible control of General Xu Huang. We can neither allow Shu soldiers to approach the camp nor allow Shu soldiers to be near our camp. Dig trenches and large pits.¡±
Sima Yi suggested: "The most important thing now is to find out how much gunpowder the Shu soldiers transported to the military camp? We also want to see if we can find out how powerful the gunpowder loaded on the car is. If it is really not powerful, then we You can be sure of victory. So I suggest you send more detailed information to find out how much gunpowder they have, where they put it, and whether you can send someone to sneak in and burn it."
Cao Cao nodded in agreement and said: "A thousand days of raising an army is spent in a moment. The battle with Liu Jia now is a key battle that determines who of us can rule the roost. Win. Eliminate the twenty men in front of Liu Jia. With more than ten thousand troops, we can not only take back Liangzhou and Yongzhou, but also occupy Hanzhong and Jingzhou. We can even follow Liu Jia's defeated army into the hinterland of Yizhou. On the contrary, if we lose, we will lose Yongzhou and Chang'an. Xuchang and other places will also be directly threatened."
Speaking of which. Cao Cao felt that what he said was too serious, and worried about damaging the morale of his men, he quickly changed his tone and said: "Of course we will not be defeated so miserably. Even if General Xu Huang's camp is breached by them, we still have this The fortified Hemi City can be defended. There is also Chang'an that can be defended. Now there are 260,000 troops stationed in our small city, 100,000 troops transferred from the Jiangshui defense line, plus nearly 100 troops from other places. With tens of thousands of troops, Chang'an is also impregnable. If we win, we can drive straight into Liu Jia's lair, but if we lose, we will only lose 60,000 to 70,000 troops."
Seeing everyone nodding, Cao Cao changed his words. Said: "But! This is our most critical battle. There is no need to wait for the details we have sent over the years. As long as we can find out how much gunpowder the Shu soldiers have. How powerful is the gunpowder mounted on the car? Then, even if we lose all our fine work, it is still worthwhile. Of course, it would be better if we can burn the Shu soldiers' gunpowder without our fine work being discovered. Wen He¡ª¡ª"
Hearing Cao Cao calling him, Jia Xu quickly stretched his head and listened attentively.
Cao Cao said categorically: "Order them to find out their situation no matter what, no matter what the cost."
Jia Xu quickly responded: "Yes! I understand!"
The Shu soldiers' "digging" game is still going on day after day. The knife-like north wind has stopped in the past few days, and the sun, which has not been seen for many days, finally showed its face near noon. Many soldiers from the south among the Shu soldiers had a little joy on their faces. They really couldn't stand the freezing cold in the northwest. Most people's faces and hands were covered in blood. This was not caused by injuries from the battle, but from the cold. As long as it¡¯s a naked place,I saw strips of frozen wounds, which were very long and deep, and the wounds were full of red muscles. The most frightening thing is that the chilblains on my hands and heels have festered and turned into pus. If I don¡¯t use the fire, my whole body will feel cold. When I use the fire, the places covered with wounds and chilblains will feel painful and itchy, especially the itching that cannot be scratched. It makes people feel uncomfortable, like someone rubbing straw in their heart.
When they saw Taiyang, who was covered in hair, they all began to have a little hope in their hearts:
"It should be warmer tomorrow, right?"
"Will the cold be lighter?"
¡°It won¡¯t be so cold at night, right?¡±
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Good wishes cannot replace reality. In fact, soldiers in the north know that the coldest days are not snowy days, but melting snow days. If snowy days are like knives pricking holes, melting snowy days are like hooks, hooking one piece at a time. Meat. And those who understand astronomy and the local climate know better that a colder wave is coming.
The only good thing for the southern soldiers should be that through various efforts, cold clothes, wood, and stone paint were gradually transported into the military camps. Although the situation of freezing people to death will not fundamentally change, the situation has improved somewhat. At least they no longer need to go out to patrol and fight in single clothes. , there is hot soup to drink when we return to camp, and there is more than two hours of fire roasting in the evening, which is much better than before.
One night, there was a sudden earth-shattering explosion in the Shu camp, and soon a column of black smoke rose into the sky along with a huge fire. The loud noise and the long-burning fire not only confused Cao's army in the distance, but also made the Shu soldiers at a loss.
The soldiers who were awakened from their sleep were dressing in a panic while questioning each other uneasily:
"What happened?"
"Is Cao's army attacking?"
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However, because the Shu soldiers were highly disciplined and most of them were battle-hardened soldiers, although it was a bit chaotic, it was far from the level of bombing the camp. After a few generals showed up on horseback, the military camp quickly settled down.
Cao Jun was also panicked for a long time, and finally sent a small force to tentatively approach the Shu camp to find out what happened. It's just that they didn't dare to get too close, because they all knew that the Shu soldiers were on tight guard no matter at night or during the day. It was a question whether they could escape unscathed if they got close.
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