I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 329, Cao Cao goes northward

The assassination of Zhang Wenwen and Yuan Shao made Yang Biao very angry, so he allied with Liu Bei to help Liu Bei move the refugees from Guanzhong to Jingzhou, and also helped Liu Bei control the central army in the hands of the court. If the central army of the imperial court was in the hands of Yuan Shao, Yuan Shao's power will be unstoppable.

And the alliance between him and Liu Bei is different. Liu Bei and Dong Zhuo both came from humble backgrounds. This background determines that Liu Bei has no old disciples to help him maintain the stability of the court. He needs an ally to help control the power of the court. And now the Guanzhong clan, who has been seriously injured, also needs Liu Bei, a general who can fight, to become an ally, at least to restore their vitality.

Jizhou, Nanpi!

At this time, the situation in Jizhou is even more dangerous than what Ju Shou introduced!Only when Xu Wei sent a large number of cadres of the Rattan Armored Army to Jizhou to fight the local tyrants and divide the fields, Jizhou's defense line completely collapsed.

First, the entire countryside of Jizhou was occupied by the Rattan Armor Army, and hundreds of thousands of troops of the Jizhou Army were trapped in several large cities in Jizhou. After dividing the fields, the Jizhou Army had no morale to continue fighting.

Counties and counties in Jizhou began to fall under the offensive of the Tengjia Army. In the end, only Lu Nu, guarded by Shenpei, and Nanpi, guarded by Ju Yi, remained unconquered!

Xiahou Dun stood at the forefront of the army, looking into the distance.The village in front of him was completely devoid of people, and the surrounding area was even more dead silent, which gave him a bad premonition.

He dispatched scouts to the village to inquire about the situation, and soon the scouts reported: "There is no one in the village ahead, and it has become an empty village!"

"Explore again, we must find the local people and ask about the situation!" Xiahou Dun said loudly.

Xiahou Dun found his lieutenants Cao Ren, Li Dian, and Yu Jin and said, "Now the situation in Bohai County is unknown, we must be cautious, first slow down the marching speed, and slowly advance to Nanpi, safety first!"

Xiahoudun had to be so careful. After all, Jizhou now has 10 cavalry in the Tengjia Army, and if they are a little careless infantry, the entire army will be wiped out!
Cao Ren and the others also nodded, they could not attach too much importance to the Tengjia Army.

Xiahou Dun asked Tan Ma to explore the situation within a radius of 30 miles. As a result, the entire Bohai County seemed to be empty, and there was not a single person in sight. Such a strange situation made Xiahou Dun dare not move forward. Instead, he reported the situation here to the playground. And ask him to direct the next course of action.

Pingyuan County, Gaotang City

After Cao Cao led an army of 3 across the Yellow River, he did not immediately support Nanpi. Instead, he stationed the army in Gaotang City, and sent Xiahou Dun as the vanguard to lead 5000 soldiers into Bohai County!
The battle report from Xiahou Dun made him unbelievable. He looked at Cui Jun in surprise and said, "All the people in Jizhou have disappeared. Did you kill them all, or did they hide?"

Cui Jun abided by the motto that a gentleman is not under a dangerous wall, and had fled to Pingyuan County before the Tengjia Army surrounded Nanpi. However, the powerful clans of Jizhou saw the unstoppable attack of the Tengjia Army, and took their clansmen and property southward to cross After crossing the Yellow River and hiding in Yanzhou or Qingzhou, Cui Jun ran to Pingyuan County and met Cao Cao's reinforcements supporting Jizhou, and Cao Cao also wanted to know the situation in Jizhou, so he asked him to stay in Pingyuan County first.

Cui Jun smiled wryly and said: "How could we massacre the people under our own rule? These people must have been bewitched by the Rattan Armored Army, and they hid. Brother Meng De, you have never been to Jizhou, and you don't know how terrible Lei Gong is. He is a natural rebel. Anyone who listens to his bewitching will immediately become his soldier, and even his relatives will turn against each other. Now there are more than 15 troops surrounding Nanpi, and most of them are locals from Bohai. Brother Meng De, have you heard of such a thing as conscription by the border?"

Cao Cao shook his head and said: "Brother, I have never heard of it, and I have never seen it!"

Cao Cao provided the information he got from Cui Jun, and found that the clansmen in Jizhou were really seeking their own death. They only knew how to recruit soldiers and expand the number of troops, but they didn't know how to improve the treatment of soldiers. Cruelly oppressing the people of Jizhou, so that when the Tengjia Army attacked Jizhou, the Tengjia Army was like a master of the king.

Lei Gong became the master of the king, and the nobles and nobles in Jizhou became thieves instead. Cao Cao didn't know what to say.

Cao Cao knew that the Tengjia Army was invincible in Jizhou, not because of how powerful their army was, but because their political offensive was too powerful. The people in Jizhou were bought by his 30 acres of land.So much so that the nobles of Jizhou have become the enemy of the whole Jizhou. Under such circumstances, how can the nobles of Jizhou be undefeated?
At the same time, he was also secretly worried, if Lei Gong's method of dividing the land was used in Qingzhou, would his subordinates collapse like the Jizhou army, and would the people under his rule rebel like the people of Jizhou?

After thinking about it for a long time, Cao Cao reluctantly admitted that the nobles in Qingzhou would not be much better than those in Jizhou!The living conditions of the people in Qingzhou will not be much better than those in Jizhou!

If Lei Gong uses the same means to deal with the clan of Jizhou, it will be the same to deal with the clan of Qingzhou. Even the strength of the Qingzhou army is not as good as that of Jizhou's county, he might not be able to resist it for a month!
But this made Cao Cao even more determined to fight the Tengjia Army. Only by understanding the strength of the Tengjia Army can he make a strategy to deal with the Tengjia Army!

Cao Cao continued to ask, "What does Lei Gong mean by doing this? By moving the people to hide from us and the army, is this an attempt to ambush us, or to lure the enemy in?"

Cui Jun thought for a while and said: "The Tengjia Army has 15 troops in Nanpi, and 5 cavalry alone is not something we can deal with. There is no need to ambush or lure the enemy deep.

It may be that Lei Gong was worried that the local people would be slaughtered by us, so he hid them in advance, but Brother Mengde, be careful. Now your vanguard army is less than 300 miles away from Nanpi. This distance will take less than two days for the cavalry to gallop The 5 cavalry in Li Gang's hands is useless to attack Nanpi. If Li Gang orders this cavalry to attack General Xiahou, General Xiahou and the others will be in danger! "

Cao Cao looked at the north and said: "How can I not know the danger of supporting Jizhou now, but if I don't take this opportunity to understand the strength of the Tengjia Army, I am afraid that the current situation of Jizhou will be the future of Qingzhou when the Tengjia Army reaches Qingzhou. Look, so I need to understand the combat effectiveness of the Fujikor army, and prepare for dealing with the Fujikor army in the future!"

In fact, after knowing that Nanpi had an army of 15, Cao Cao thought of retreating. With so many soldiers in the Tengjia Army, the more than [-] Jizhou Army did not resist the Tengjia Army for two months. His [-] troops Going to Nanpi is simply a sheep entering the tiger's mouth!
Now he just wants to find a small unit of the Tengjia Army to fight and determine the strength of the Tengjia Army. This is not a trip to Jizhou in vain!

Cao Cao thought for a while and ordered Xiahou Dun to be careful and find the Tengjia Army!
(End of this chapter)