mtl008 Chapter 121
Chapter 121
After subduing Xu Chu, Su Qing undoubtedly expanded the victory of this battle to the extreme.
However, with the loss of Cao Jun's generals, Su Qing had no plans to pursue and send troops to other counties in Yanzhou by taking advantage of the victory.
Instead, he continued to stand still, stabilizing the army at Chen Liu.
Such an approach may seem unconventional and even incomprehensible.
After all, chasing after victory is the consensus of all generals.
As long as there is an advantage, you should try.
However, Su Qing knew very well that his biggest advantage in this duel between him and Cao Cao was logistics and military food.
In contrast, logistics and military food were Cao Cao's biggest disadvantage.
Therefore, Su Qing knew very well that he had already grasped the biggest winning and losing factors.
As long as he continues to confront Cao Cao, the other party will collapse without a fight!
Even if he sent troops to fight, or even a complete decisive battle, Cao Cao was a hungry soldier.
Before the fight starts, like Cao Hong this time, he will be the first to lose some of his morale.
In short, the more time Su Qing consumes now, the lower Cao Cao's winning rate will be.
Either way, he has taken the initiative.
Of course, if Cao Cao dispersed the army gathered in Dongjun, he would let the other opponents collect food.
Then Su Qing will send out a large army and destroy them one by one.
Either way, Su Qing had firmly grasped Cao Cao's lifeline.
Therefore, in the following days, Su Qing's entire army was still waiting for work, maintaining training, and preparing for action.
At the same time, people in the world also have different views and actions on this war.
The first to react were the clans of the two nearby states.
After Su Qing slaughtered the Chen Liushi clan, these guys began to support Yuan Shao and Cao Cao in one side.
During this time, there were not a few clans of the two forces who defected, and even if they did not go to the camp, they supported some money and food.
It is like that Cao Cao and Yuan Shao can fight Su Qing and even eliminate each other.
But who knows, the army sent by Cao Cao this time is really too pulling.
The main general Cao Hong was defeated and fled, the deputy general Cao Chun was beheaded, and one was captured and surrendered.
After Su Qing's military might was fully displayed, the clans sighed, and their disappointment in Cao Cao was overflowing.
So seeing the wind at the helm, these clans stopped their assistance to Cao Cao and all began to invest in the largest submerged 04 share, Yuan Shao.
This situation made Cao Cao, who already had little food and grass, even worse.
And this is just one part of the chain reaction.
After learning that Cao Cao lost the first battle, most of the cities in Xuzhou, which had been slaughtered by him, also began to riot.
They all wanted to break away from the control of Cao Jun.
Suddenly, most of Xuzhou was in chaos.
After learning this news, Cao Cao, who had not yet digested the defeat, was anxious.
At this moment, the military camp of Yanzhou East County.
Inside Cao Jun's tent, Cao Cao was discussing with Cheng Yu and other advisers how to deal with this series of reactions.
Cao Cao, who was standing in front of the map, said with a serious face.
"The land of Xuzhou must suppress the rebellion!"
"Ma Chuan Ling Xia Houyuan! Let him take five thousand soldiers and horses to deal with the Xuzhou problem! "
Cao Cao is now repentant in his intestines.
Before he knew it, he would not let Cao Hong lead the troops as the main general and go to test Su Qing's falsehood.
The chain reaction of this defeat is really not timely.
First of all, the clan who saw the wind and steered the rudder, no longer funding themselves is a trifle.
Anyway, the money and food contributed by the other party are a drop in the bucket compared to an army of their own size.
But now that the Xuzhou department he occupied is in chaos, he can't ignore it!
Although at the moment his main battlefield is Yanzhou.
But as a soldier in the world, Cao Cao also knew the truth that before victory, defeat was counted first.
And Xuzhou is his last retreat.
There is no room for error.
Therefore, even if it is difficult now, he must let his subordinates suppress the rebellion of Xuzhou's subordinates.
Otherwise, once the war with Su Qing in the future goes down, he really has no way to retreat.
Chief strategist Cheng Yu naturally understood this truth, so he immediately asked the guards to go and give orders.
Then appeased Cao Cao.
"Lord rest assured, General Miaocai is the best at rushing to fight, and he has always led troops quickly!"
"This counterinsurgency against Xuzhou, it will definitely be thunder speed!"
Cao Cao frowned, bowed his head slightly, and at the same time felt regret in his heart.
They all blamed themselves for trusting Cao Hong too much, and they already knew that they should not have let the other party lead troops to test Su Qing before.
What he was most distressed about was that the tiger and leopard cavalry was destroyed by five thousand, and even Cao Chun, the member of the family and the best cavalry general under his command, lost it.
If it had been changed to Xia Houyuan at that time, I believe that the result would not have been like this!
In this battle, Cao Cao not only failed to achieve any purpose of the tentative attack on Su Qing, but also lost his troops and generals.
According to the news circulating, even Xu Chu, who was captured, was surrendered to Su Qing.
Although there is no deep affection between him and Xu Chu, who has not joined the army for a long time.
But he also understood that although Xu Chu was not very good at leading, he was also a good warrior.
Now he was abducted by Su Qing, and he really lost it to his grandmother's family!
But there is no regret in the world to take medicine, become a king or lose, this is the reality.
Therefore, after ordering Xiahou Yuan to suppress the rebellion against Xuzhou's headquarters, Cao Cao immediately pulled his thoughts back to the main battlefield of Yanzhou.
Then, he looked at several of his advisers and asked.
"Okay, let's put aside the matter of Xuzhou first, and everyone is still discussing the matter of facing Su Qing at the moment."
"Now that Cao Hong has been defeated and our army has lost the first battle, what should be done next, and can everyone have a good way to deal with it?"
Now the number of advisers under Cao Cao's account is not quite small.
But there are levels, but there are really not many.
Hearing the lord's inquiry, a column of advisers thought for a long time, and Mao Jie among them stood up first and said.
"Lord, now that Su Qing has won the first battle, it can be said that his morale has soared, and now is definitely not the time for him to fight hard."
"And our military food is becoming scarcer and scarcer, so we suggest that we simply let the army guard the counties and cities and collect food on its own."
"Lest in the end the military rations run out, and we... We don't break down without a fight..."
Mao Jie's meaning was more practical, that is, to persuade Cao Cao not to continue the confrontation with Su Qing like this.
Because you don't have that capital at all!
After the defeat of the army this time and the return of the remnants, they heard a lot about Su Qing's logistics.
One of the most "appalling" is that since the Su Qing military camp, the soldiers have eaten meat since the morning.
After repeatedly asking some of the surviving soldiers to confirm that this was really the truth, Mao Jie and these strategists were shocked into a cold sweat!
Although the Sizhou that Su Qing mastered, I don't know what the reason is, these years have been harvested every year.
However, Liangzhou's barren land and poor people are the consensus of the people of the world.
And the grain in the land of Hanzhong is enough for the locals to eat themselves, and they are hungry.
They couldn't understand at all, and they couldn't figure it out five years ago, where did Su Qing conjure up so many good things for his soldiers to eat?
This phenomenon is probably too exaggerated!
But this was also enough for Mao Jie to realize how powerful Su Qing's logistical strength was!
Under such a huge logistical comparison, if it continues like this, Su Qing will not have to send troops, and he will soon consume them.
Therefore, in order to seek stability, Mao Jie immediately proposed to Cao Cao that he divide his troops and go back to garrison the cities of each county, and by the way, let the troops collect their own food, so that they can preserve the size of the troops at the moment.
For this point raised by Mao Jie, Cao Cao did not know.
But if you really want to order the division of troops, wouldn't it give Su Qing the flaws of his troops one by one?
At that time, if it is their own scattered army, it is estimated that the troops will have just entered the county towns.
If Su Qing is not good, he will send out a large army, and then attack the city one by one to eliminate it.
Isn't this arrangement of oneself a slow death?
Also present who were aware of the serious consequences of this were Cao Cao's second strategist, Liu Ye.
"Not proper! This is not appropriate! "
Liu Ye immediately stood up and rejected Mao Jie's suggestion, and continued.
"Although we still have about 180,000 troops, it seems to be a lot."
"But how big is Yanzhou? Once the troops are divided to garrison the counties, it is estimated that each city can be allocated 20,000 people! "
"With Su Qing's good use of troops, as long as he finds out that we are doing this, even if he leaves 100,000 to continue to guard Chen Liu, and only brings the other 100,000 to attack the city one by one, we can't hold it!"
"At that time, Su Qing will come to the rescue point if he can't get it, and then we will really be led by him by the nose!"
"At that time, Yanzhou will change hands sooner or later, and it won't be just a little later!"
Although Liu Ye's opinion, like Cao Cao, knew that the method of dividing troops and garrisoning was not feasible.
But he can only prevent mistakes, and then he cannot propose a better way to defeat the enemy.
At this moment, Mao Jie, Cheng Yu and other advisers also couldn't think of a good countermeasure, and they were silent.
Suddenly, the big tent fell into a deathly silence.
Because they knew that with little food and grass and no division of troops, they had only one way to go at the moment.
That is to lead the remaining 180,000 troops and open a head-on decisive battle against Su Qing! (Read violent novels, just go to Feilu Fiction Network!) ）
But before Cao Hong's new defeat, he was of no value at all.
In addition to knowing that Zhao Yun and Zhang Fei and their army were powerful, they could no longer detect the other false situation of Su Qing's army.
In this situation of insufficient knowledge of the enemy and low morale, the chances of winning a decisive battle are really not great.
Therefore, a few advisers were afraid that under their own proposal of this law, they would destroy the army faster and bear the reputation of failure, so they did not dare to squeak.
Cao Cao knew this.
Of course, he knew that the only way to do this was to fight a decisive battle with Su Qing.
But the advisers under his command could not even mention a way to improve the morale of the army at the moment, and he couldn't help sighing in his heart, envious of Su Qing, who had many powerful advisers on his hands.
At the critical moment, the people under him can't give any decent decisions
But Cao Cao's disappointment was only fleeting.
Although Su Qing had already forced him to the path of only a decisive battle.
But as a hero in the world, he is not to the point of fear.
The various tricks made before were just hoping to force Su Qing away at the minimum cost of the army.
At the moment, since he can't use the space for strategy, he can't wait for the other party to grind himself to death with logistics, so that he can sit and wait!
And he understands that this is also his only chance to defeat the other party.
Even if there are fewer soldiers and horses, he has to make a Bo!
As a hegemon in the Central Plains, his hegemonic ambition is also not lost to any prince!
After making up his mind, there was no hesitation in Cao Cao's eyes, and he was determined to put aside all strategic tricks.
Battle with Su Qingdang in the battlefield!
Thinking of this, the natural domineering aura on Cao Cao's body suddenly appeared, and he immediately opened his mouth to break the silence in the big account.
"I already know what you just said."
"But now that the food and grass are running out, no matter what, we can't let Su Qing drag it on."
"I've decided!"
"Within fifteen days, lead the whole army and fight a decisive battle with Su Qing!"
Several counselors saw that the Lord had indeed made this judgment, and they also knew that there was no way to do it.
So they all said yes.
Then, in order to encourage everyone, Cheng Yu spoke: "Before the trial battle, it was far from hurting our army. "
"This time the lord is determined to be in command, we sit under the state, and we will be able to win!"
After abandoning all mental strategies, Cao Cao no longer had a trace of distress on his face at the moment, but was looking forward to the next decisive battle with Su Qing, and then said confidently.
"Before, I was too cautious to give Su Qing the opportunity."
"But his fortune is also over, and when he fights before the battle, I will definitely let him know who is the master of Yanzhou!"
Then, a fierce look flashed in Cao Cao's eyes, and he looked at Cheng Yu and the others and ordered.
"Pass on my order, order all troops, from now on in and around East County, to freely collect food."
"When the time comes for the decisive battle, I will fill the soldiers' stomachs!"
"When Xia Houyuan returns to the division in a few days, all the troops are assembled, and they will approach Chen Liu!"
After Cao Hong's defeat, Cao Cao realized that he must not be left hungry in the future.
In order to keep Yanzhou and defeat Su Qing, he can only be heartbroken at the moment.
The order was given that the army was free to collect food nearby.
Although this will surely lose the people and the hearts and minds of the people.
However, if he continued to leave the soldiers hungry, resulting in his defeat in the war and the loss of Yanzhou, these popular hearts would have no meaning to him.
Moreover, with Xia Houyuan's generals, I believe that within a few days, the rioting Xuzhou headquarters will also settle down.
In the case of this retreat, he was even more fearless and decided to give 690 a go.
In short, Cao Cao had already made up his mind.
As soon as his words came out, the corners of the eyes of several advisers jumped.
Because the so-called "free looking" is to let the army rob the civilian people of Dong County!
But they can also feel the compulsion of their own master.
In order to increase the next decisive chance, it can only be so.
So, mobilized by Cao Cao's order, the army under his command, which often had not enough to eat, all moved.
They began to collect grain in Dong County, and at the same time tried to collect grain from other counties in Yanzhou.
In the next few days, the people of Yanzhou Dong County. The surplus grain of every household was collected to the point of being exhausted.
But Cao Cao didn't care.
As long as he can defeat Su Qing, he will not hesitate to pay any price now!
And this big move of Cao Cao naturally quickly spread to Su Qing, who attached importance to the information of the enemy.
In less than a day, a military report on Cao Cao's movements was sent.
At this moment, Su Qing was leading a group of civil and military forces to review the army in training at the training ground.
On the parade platform, Su Qing sat in a high position, and after reading the military report about Cao Cao actively collecting grain, he smiled slightly, as if he had expected that Cao Cao would do this.
Afterwards, he reported it to a group of literary and military readers.
The fastest reaction was naturally a few strategists, seeing this Cao Cao's action, Guo Jia immediately asserted.
"Cao Mengde actually indulged his subordinate troops and grabbed grain in his own territory, which shows that he has made up his mind, obviously making final preparations!"
"It must be." Fa Zheng looked serious: "He has been forced to retreat by the lord, obviously the dog jumped over the wall and decided to fight us to the death!" "
Other Wen Wu, who were well aware of their own master's strategy, naturally quickly understood Cao Cao's obvious intention.
After all, if there is really a way to continue the stalemate and confrontation, who will rob the people in their own territory?
What's more, Cao Cao was definitely not the straw bales of Yuan Shu before.
Now in order to fill the army to ensure that it remains in shape in future decisive battles, even this method has been used.
It is enough to see that Cao Cao is already about to let go of the battle.
At this time, Su Qing said with a smile: "It just so happens that I have long wanted to personally meet Cao Mengde on the battlefield, and this decisive battle is exactly what I want!" "
The civil and martial artists knew that Cao Cao was difficult to deal with, stronger than any of the princes they had fought against before, and all of a sudden, their faces turned straight.
Their instincts told them that this battle must not be easy.
However, Zhang Liao, who was standing on the side, was curious: "I often hear that this Cao Mengde has always been good at strategizing, never fights uncertain battles, and has always liked to outwit. "
"I didn't expect that this time, he actually moved his drums, so determined to leave no backhand, it is also rare to see it."
Hearing this, Su Qing said with a smile: "Wen Yuan is simple, don't forget that Cao Cao still has most of Xuzhou in hand, a person like him, he always has a way back." "
Zhang Liao scratched his head, "Shhh! Three caves of rabbits! Cao Cao is indeed still a treacherous person! "
However, Su Qing, who had already seen through Cao Cao, followed by a meaningful statement.
"It's okay, if that's the case, I'll cut him off!"