Chapter 2796 Zhang Liao fought against Cao Cao by Guandu, Gao Shun captured Cao Bianjiao alive
Chapter 2793: Zhang Liao fought against Cao Cao by Guandu, Gao Shun captured Cao Bianjiao alive
"Grandmaster, Yuan Sect Master, Yuan Sect Master..."
Hearing his subordinates'' words, Cao Bin suddenly felt an ominous premonition in his heart and asked quickly, "What''s going on?"
"He is gone, Sect Master Yuan."
"What?"
Cao Bin suddenly widened his eyes, and then without saying a word, he rushed to Yuan Jiuling''s hospitalization, but there was no one there. Yuan Jiuling had already left Xuchang last night.
As a grandmaster, if he really wanted to leave, the ten-meter-high city wall would obviously not be able to trap him.
Looking at the empty mansion, Cao Bin was so crying that he knew that he must have been urging himself to escape from Xuchang overnight, but what is this?
"General Yu, what you ask is not human."
Cao Bin beat his feet and stamped his chest in anger. After all, there was no Yuan Jiuling. How could he guard Xuchang City?
At this moment, Chen Gong came over and handed over a letter, saying, "Grandmaster, Gong thinks you should read this letter first. There is another reason why the Yuan Sect Master avoided the war and left without saying goodbye."
Hearing this, Cao Bin didn''t care about being angry, so he quickly took the letter and browsed it, and also learned that the Qin Dynasty had sent twenty-four great masters to the Central Plains.
The impact of this news on Cao Bin was far less than that of Yuan Jiuling, because the senior executives of all countries knew from beginning to end that although there were many masters who stood in the Qin Dynasty, the Qin Dynasty took the unified route of the kingdom.
Therefore, Ying Hao would never send these masters to deal with the countries directly, and at most, he would send them to deal with those top masters who were hostile to the Qin Dynasty.
Cao Bin also admires Ying Hao''s behavior that can be simply unified but chooses a difficult mode.
The reason why Cao Wei borrowed too much power from the Demon Sect was that the local area was controlled by the Demon Sect. Now Cao Wei can no longer control the local area.
The Qin Dynasty is now strong and even if it leverages its power, it will not see any consequences. However, it may be backfired in the future, and the best way to unify will ultimately depend on itself.
Of course, another reason why Ying Hao would do this is that the Qin Dynasty is strong enough, and even without the help of external forces, he could still complete the unification. Otherwise, he would not have chosen this way. After all, the great unification of heaven and earth is the greatest.
Since the fist cannot hit him, Cao Bin will naturally not feel scared, but this iron fist can hit Yuan Jiuling.
Therefore, after learning the news, Cao Bin also understood why Yuan Jiuling escaped in the last battle.
After all, no one who is targeted by the twenty-four great masters can die at any time, and it is impossible not to be afraid.
"Immediately, Fei Ge sent a letter to the lord and informed him of the situation in Xuchang City."
Cao Bin said with a decisive look on his face. He actually understood in his heart that Xuchang would not be able to hold on for long as Yuan Jiuling left.
Once Xuchang is lost, the Qin army in Yingchuan will be able to advance straight and cut off the retreat of Chenliu and the Wei army in Dongjun. At that time, Cao Cao and Le Yi will probably be wiped out.
Therefore, the real intention of Cao Bin to send a letter to Cao Cao was actually to persuade Cao Cao to give up Guandu, or even give up the entire Western Front, retreat to the Eastern Front, and continue to resist Qin.
Cao Bin actually wanted to persuade Cao Cao to surrender, after all, the gap between the two sides was too big.
The war has only been two months since the beginning of the war, and the Wei army is almost unable to withstand it, and the Qin army''s food and grass reserves can support the army to fight for at least one year.
But the Wei army was at a disadvantage on the three major battlefields, and the Yingchuan battlefield was about to be defeated.
If you continue to fight like this, you really won’t see much hope.
Of course, although Cao Bin has this intention, he dare not speak out. After all, Cao Cao is already a little hindered.
The Ying and Cao families have close relationships. Not only is Cao Cao a sworn brother with the Emperor of Qin, but his two daughters are Ying Hao''s concubines. With these two relationships, even if Cao Cao resisted Qin to protect Wei, he could have a decent way of ending.
But now Cao Cao is like a gambler who cannot afford to lose. In order to protect the power in his hands, his methods have become more and more extreme, and he has reached the point of completely disregarding his family and his clan members.
Whoever dares to speak this will be unlucky at this time, even if it is Cao Bin, the clan relative, is no exception. If this trend continues, Cao Wei will probably find it difficult to end.
Cao Cao was unwilling to give up his power, and he still had the luck of defeating the Qin army. Cao Bin had no choice but to do so. All he could do was to defend Xuchang as much as possible so as to buy time for retreat for Cao Cao in Guandu.
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Guandu was the decisive battle between Yuan Shao and Cao Cao in official history, and the famous Battle of Guandu broke out here, and now it has become a frontier position on the center line of one of the three major battlefields of Qin and Wei.
In order to defend Chenliu, Cao Cao carefully built three lines of defense in the eighteen counties in eastern Henan, hoping to resist the Qin army''s attack layer by layer and consume the Qin army''s troops. Guandu is the core of the last of the three major lines of defense.
But what Cao Cao never expected was that even though Ying Hao was not among the middle army, the Qin army led by Zhang Liao was so fierce.
Under Li Cunxiao''s fierce attack, one or two lines of defense were successively broken, a large number of cities such as Mi County and Xinzheng fell, and the passage between Yin and Yingchuan in Henan was opened, forcing Cao Cao to retreat to the third line of defense, mainly based on Guandu.
Just as Cao Cao was worried about how to defend Guandu, Bai Qi transferred Li Cunxiao to the northern battlefield, which naturally greatly relieved Cao Cao''s pressure.
Cao Cao thought that without Li Cunxiao, he would be more relaxed when facing Zhang Liao, but he did not expect that Zhang Liao would be so difficult to deal with. Although Li Cunxiao left, Zhang Liao had many powerful generals under his command, including Zhang Dingbian, Xu Huang, Yu Jin, Zhang He, Li Dingguo.
Especially Zhang Dingbian, Xiahou Dun and Jiajutu were both defeated by him one after another. Only the general Dan Tai Yu, who was recognized by Cao Wei as second only to Shang Zhou, could be tied with him.
In addition, after Li Cunxiao left, Zhang Liao also changed his previous aggressive style and instead advanced steadily while eliminating the threats in the rear. The 150,000 army was steadily fighting, which made Cao Cao unable to find any opportunity.
Although Cao Cao was full of wisdom, Zhang Liao''s military advisor was Jia Xu. When it comes to conspiracy, he was still much worse than Jia Xu. Even with Fan Li and Cheng Yu, it was difficult to calculate Jia Xu, who was full of vigilance.
Under Jia Xu''s plan, Zhang Liao divided the army into two, and from the north of Lingling, he rushed from Juan County to Yuanwu, and finally confronted Cao Cao at Guandu.
The southern route was led by Li Dingguo and led an army of 40,000 to Xinzheng. After capturing Yuanling, he did not go north to attack Zhongmu, but headed straight east to Kaifeng.
Kaifeng in this era was not very famous, nor was it far less famous than Kaifeng in the Song Dynasty. It was just a small county town with a population of tens of thousands.
During the Yellow Turban Rebellion, Ying Hao also defeated Huang Chao''s 200,000 Yellow Turban Army head-on with 50,000 Han troops in Kaifeng. This was the first time that Kaifeng became famous.
Kaifeng''s position in Cao Cao''s third line of defense is also very important. After all, behind Kaifeng is Chenliu City. Although Chenliu City is as solid as a rock, it does not mean that Kaifeng is not important. Therefore, Cao Wei''s defense in Kaifeng was still very strict, and it was guarded by Cao Ren, the general of the royal family.
Zhang Liao led a 100,000 army to Guandu after he captured Yuan Wu, but after Li Dingguo broke through Yuanling, he pointed his sword at Kaifeng, which gave the Wei army in Guandu a bad feeling.
After all, it is common sense that Li Dingguo should come to Guandu to meet with Zhang Liao, but now Li Dingguo is doing the opposite, which makes all the generals, including Cao Cao, smell the scent of conspiracy, and the person who uses the trick behind it is 100% of the old thief Jia Xu.
Cao Cao had already suffered a lot of losses at Jia Xu''s hands, but he didn''t want to be plotted against by the other party, so he was very cautious every step he took, for fear of falling into the other party''s trap.
Looking at Cao Cao who was like a frightened bird, Fan Li sighed and said, "Lord, with General Cao Ren here, Kaifeng will not be lost in the short term.
Even if Kaifeng is lost, Li Dingguo will find it difficult to threaten Chenliu, and the real threat to our army is still Zhang Liao.
Li believes that Li Dingguo''s move should be just a fake shot, and his real target is Zhongmu City. ”
Cao Cao was stunned. He didn''t think about this, but he cared more about Chen Liu''s safety, so he subconsciously ignored it.
"What the military advisor said was reasonable, and he ordered Xiahou Yuan to immediately lead a army of 5,000 to support Zhongmu."
After giving the order, Cao Cao''s eyes fell on the envelope on the table. This was the information that the school office desperately intercepted and sent back. It recorded the storage location of the Qin army''s ration road and the transportation route.
Zhang Liao''s style of conduct was too stable, and with Jia Xu''s assistance, Cao Cao could not find any opportunity to take advantage of. If he wanted to defeat this pair, he had to take risks, so he wanted to attack the Qin army''s food route.
Of course, this time Cao Cao could not have attacked Wuchao unexpectedly. After all, Wuchao''s location was in the northeast of Guandu, while the Qin army was on the west of Guandu.
Cao Cao still wanted to use surprise attacks to burn the Qin army''s food and grass to defeat Zhang Liao.
But even though he knew where the Qin army''s granary was located, Cao Cao became a little timid. He was scared by Jia Xu, worried that this was a trap set by Jia Xu on purpose.
Cao Cao was suspicious at first, and when he thought about it, he even more doubted that the origin of this information was wrong. After all, how could the Qin army''s grain storage land be easily obtained by the school office?
But if this is really a trap, Cao Cao could pretend not to know and take a plan, but he was afraid that Jia Xu would guess that he would take the plan, so he arranged other traps for him later.
Thinking of this, Cao Cao felt his head hurt again, and even the headache was cured again. It can be seen that Jia Xu really gave him a big shadow.
"Lord, let''s put it aside for the surprise attack on the Qin army''s ration warehouse. The most urgent thing is to defend Guandu first. Once Guandu falls, the third line of defense will be completely unable to defend." Fan Li said again.
Cao Cao only grasped the point of the matter when he heard this. After all, Zhang Liao’s 90,000 troops are now approaching, with thousands of catapults and three thousand various combat crossbows firing tens of thousands of stone bombs and hundreds of thousands of arrows at Guandu every day.
Therefore, the pressure on Guandu is actually very great. It requires a large amount of materials to be consumed every day to defend Guandu under the bombardment of the Qin army.
But the consumption of fighting like this is too great. The Qin army can consume its wealth, but the Wei army may not be able to consume it.
"Immediately send the rear to raise supplies from Zujua, Fengqiu, Junyi and Pingqiu, and transport them to the front line..."
Before Cao Cao finished his words, an immigrant soldier reported: "Report to the lord, Zhongmu has lost, and the guard general Cao Bianjiao was captured alive by Qin general Gao Shun."
Cao Bianjiao Cao Wenzhao''s nephew was also a famous general in the late Ming Dynasty. He was brave and capable of the three armies, brave and resourceful, and was called General Cao Cao with Cao Wenzhao.
Cao Bianjiao was appointed as the garrison of Zhongmu by Cao Cao, which shows his extraordinary ability, but compared with Li Dingguo, there is obviously still a big gap.
This time the city was captured, it was not blamed for Cao Bianjiao. The main reason was that the Wei army''s reaction speed was not fast enough. If Xiahou Yuan could arrive in time, how could Zhongmu City be compromised by Li Dingguo?
After hearing the news of Zhongmu''s loss, Cao Cao couldn''t help but smile bitterly: "As expected, Jia Xu made another move."
Since the war with the Qin army, Cao Cao received news that either this city was captured or that the general died in battle. There was basically no good news, and he was even getting used to being attacked.
But this time, Cao Cao couldn''t help but feel trembling in his heart. After all, Cao Bianjiao was his nephew who grew up and was also one of the descendants he valued most among the Cao family clan.
(This chapter ends)