Three Kingdoms: Cao Cao and Liu Bei help me to ascend the throne

Chapter 221

— Pull!
Although there are only two short words, the meaning is different.

At first, Cao Cao only read the letterhead of the third brother Liu Yu in a serious way, but as the content deepened, he couldn't help but frowned, and first fell into some kind of imagination.

"Cavalry fights infantry, there is no need to fight hard. The enemy advances and retreats, the enemy retreats and advances, repeatedly pulling... The enemy is tired and I fight!"

Cao Cao muttered...

"The enemy advances and retreats, preserve strength, wait to transfer the offensive, the enemy retreats and advances: hit their morale, accumulate small victories into big victories."

"The enemy is stationed and we are disturbed: to tire the enemy and create a situation that is beneficial to us. When the enemy is tired, we will fight, concentrate our forces, and take the initiative to attack to annihilate the enemy."

Cao Cao has unusual acumen and talent for military affairs. When he saw these, a picture could already emerge in his mind.

Of course...this theoretical idea, Liu Yu's proposal is based on "guerrilla warfare", but it is different from "guerrilla warfare" here. To be precise...it can be understood as "pull warfare". Pulling...tiring the enemy!

Originally...these tactics seemed to be biased towards the ideal state.

But... in Liu Yu's letter paper, the weakness of the moth thief was clearly explained one by one.

——Poor mobility, poor organization, dragging the family, can only take care of the part, and have no time to take care of the whole.

And the most crucial point, they have no foundation among the people, they have lost the support of the people!

These weaknesses will undoubtedly be magnified again and again in "pull warfare" and "guerrilla warfare".

call…

With a long breath, Cao Cao said with emotion: "The third brother and Wen Ruohui have sharp eyes, if they can grasp the weakness of these moth thieves... Even though the moth thieves have an advantage in numbers, they are still just paper tigers, and they will collapse at the first touch!"

Thinking of this...

Cao Cao got up suddenly, and planned to offer advice to Huangfu Song.

嗏

Just as he took his steps, Cao Cao paused and sat down again.

The "tit for tat" with Huangfusong these days made him especially terrified, he dared not, couldn't... and there was no need to report these to Huangfusong, otherwise... what he would get in return would be blank eyes.

"Humph…"

With a soft snort, Cao Cao continued to look down. The end of the letter was nothing but the forging diagram of the "stirrup".

Stirrups are no strangers to Cao Cao. Once... the third brother Liu Yu mentioned it to him more than once, and he also tried it many times...

And here is the forging diagram of the stirrup, Cao Cao's heart is like a mirror.

Cao Cao is in charge of the logistics, so he can send people to forge stirrups... and the horses in the logistics are also the most abundant.

The second... is the trinity of "man, horse, and bow" that this stirrup brings to the cavalry. This allows the cavalry to easily master the art of riding and shooting on the horse, so as to cooperate with the "pull and harass" tactics. It is often unfavorable.

The only pity is.

Cao Cao shook his head, and he sighed helplessly.

He was thinking, if... If he dedicated these strategic matters to Huangfusong, would he take back Huangfusong's indifferent words - "Do your own thing well, these are not yours to worry about!"

Thinking about this...

Cao Cao got up again, and he went to the forge alone, and he asked the craftsmen in the forge.

"Well, forging it out...how long will it take?"

"I want... three hundred pairs!"

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Nanyang, the Third Route Army, divided into two groups...

The road led by Lu Zhi and Zhang Mancheng's main forces were stalemate under the city of "Changshe", while Zhu Jun led the other road to bypass "Changshe" in an attempt to raid Wancheng and cut off the retreat of "Changshe City" from behind, making the Changshe City has become an isolated city!
Rather…

Because of underestimating the enemy and rushing forward, the vanguard of Zhu Jun's vanguard army with more than [-] people was protected by the Yellow Turban general Bocai, and the entire army was wiped out.

And Zhu Jun's soldiers and horses were also surrounded by heavy siege.

For a while, the Third Route Army fell into a stalemate.

Lu Zhi hurriedly sent someone to ask the court for help!
That night...everything was silent, but the candles in Zhu Jun's tent were always on.

He didn't expect that these moth thieves were far more powerful than he imagined. This kind of power was not because of their combat effectiveness, but because of their familiarity with the terrain!

The first generation of Nanyang Wancheng was mostly mountainous, and the performance of the cavalry was far less stable than that of the infantry.

Not far from Zhu Jun's tent...

Surrounded by the bonfire, Wei Yan and Huang Zhong also frowned. Wei Yan sat on the ground... thinking in his heart, back then he dared to go deep into the barbarian land with thousands of people, and slaughtered tens of thousands of barbarian dogs, but facing these peasants ...to lose, and to lose so aggrievedly.

Huang Zhong held the military flag with one hand and stroked his beard with the other.

He said with emotion: "I heard that Zhang Mancheng's generals Bocai and Zhao Hongjun were born in Nanyang Changshe's generation, and they are quite familiar with this place. Even you and I didn't expect that they would set up an ambush on that mountain..."

Huang Zhong was a little discouraged, but he was generally convinced... The defeat in this battle was not wronged.

"Then what should we do now?" Wei Yan broke off a branch, as if to vent his dissatisfaction. "We raided Wancheng, but now it's Wancheng in front of us... But the raid has become a joke... The mountains around our basin are all enemies, we can't go in, we can't retreat... What should we do?"

call…

Huang Zhong also sighed. "Didn't General Zhu Jun say to stand by and wait for help? General Lu Zhi will never let us go, will he?"

"Hmph..." Wei Yan smiled, "Didn't you understand this journey? The two generals Lu Zhi and Zhu Jun...are not of the same mind!"

undoubtedly…

Wei Yan sees it more clearly, Lu Zhi is Ma Rong's disciple, Yuan Wei is Ma Rong's son-in-law, plus... the former Lu Zhi was recommended by the old Taiwei Chen Fan, he is a proper family camp , and Zhu Jun... Although he was recommended by Yang Ci, but he came from a poor family... Most of the aristocratic families would look down on this status.

"Ah..." Huang Zhong sighed helplessly, "The generals are at odds, how can we fight this battle? How can we win... If I had known, I would not have proposed to Guanzhu Liu and joined the army to go south."

"Alas..." Wei Yan also sighed.

This battle made the two of them personally experience the sense of desolation and frustration that Kong has martial arts but is unable to change the situation!
at this time…

"Captain Huang, Captain Wei..."

A soldier walked up to the two of them, "A villager said they were two old friends and wanted to see them..."

Hmm... villagers?Old friend?

Huang Zhong and Wei Yan look at each other, isn't that ridiculous?
They were loyal to the Deng family in Nanyang before, they were the descendants of the generals of Xinye City, and here is Wancheng... How can there be any villagers who are old friends of the two?

"Could it be the secret work of the enemy?" Huang Zhong muttered in a low voice.

Wei Yan has a lot of eyes, and his eyeballs rolled, "You might as well meet up! It's an enemy or a friend, you can tell it at the first sight!"

They were in a round, but the soldier continued to add, "The villager was afraid that the two captains would not believe him, so he made a point of saying, 'There is a willow man who bows his head in Yulin'... saying that he is an old friend in Yulin Temple!"

——Is there a willow man in Yulin who bows his head?

—— Yulin Temple?

As soon as these words came out... Wei Yan and Huang Zhong looked at each other, their eyes met, their cheeks froze suddenly, and Wei Yan who was sitting on the ground suddenly became aroused.

——"Lead the way ahead..."

But only a few breaths apart, Wei Yan and Huang Zhong became extremely urgent.

The dark night is like a rock, the dark night where you can't see your fingers...

In a big tent, all the soldiers inside and outside were pushed back.

In the tent here, only Wei Yan, Huang Zhong and the mountain man were left...

"Do we know each other?"

Wei Yan asked first, with a suspicious look on his face, he searched the face of this person countless times in his mind, but in the end... he had no impression.

He was sure that this was the first time he had seen such a person.

The mountain man shook his head.

Wei Yan then asked: "Then you said... an old friend of Yulin Temple, and you also said, 'There is a willow man in Yulin Temple'!"

The mountain man still shook his head, but took out a letter from his bosom...stuffed it to Wei Yan, and walked out immediately...

Huang Zhong wanted to chase after him, but Wei Yan stopped him. He quickly unfolded the bamboo slips... and when the two saw the writing on the bamboo slips clearly, they were startled.

"Really, fake?" Huang Zhong asked in surprise...

"What do you think?" Wei Yan asked back.

Huang Zhong shook his head, "I'm not sure, but I think...he is definitely not from Yulin Guanzhong, but...but it seems..."

Wei Yan followed Huang Zhong's words: "He doesn't need to lie to us, because..."

Having said that, Wei Yan raised his head and looked towards the sky. "Even if we don't do anything, this is already a dead end! Why don't you... fight!"

This…

Huang Zhong hesitated for a moment.

But in the end, he clenched his fist, "But we only have 500 people!"

Wei Yan closed his eyes, and his eyes looked at Wan Wan: "If the information is reliable, 500 people... is enough!"

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Three days later, on the official road from Luoyang to Jizhou.

The [-] Northern Expeditionary Army has been in a hurry for a day and is resting... Numerous tents have already been set up.

Huangfu Song pays attention to a fast word when using soldiers, and he has to march at least two hundred miles a day!

Within ten days, they will arrive at Guangzong City in Jizhou, where they will have a decisive battle with Zhang Jiao's main force!
Cao Cao's logistics army is more than ten miles away from the main army. This is to ensure that... the main army can come to help at any time.

certainly…

For Cao Cao, the logistics army is more difficult than the main force when traveling two hundred miles a day.

Aside from food and grass, just the luggage, as well as the spears, sabers, and arrows that the regular army needs to replenish at any time... Cao Cao has to personally ask about each item.

For example... recently, due to the forging of "iron stirrups", a batch of arrows could not be delivered on time...

Huang Fusong also blamed Cao Cao!
But Cao Cao...he didn't care about Huangfusong's accusations at all.

Compared with when he just joined the army, no doubt, he has been relieved.

under the moonlight...

Cao Cao set up several targets beside the grain carts of the logistics army, and he and several cavalrymen respectively drew bows and shot arrows.

"Whoosh..."

"Whoosh..."

"Whoosh..."

The sound of piercing through the air was endless, and all the cavalrymen except Cao Cao shot arrows.

It's just... because of the slight headwind, I didn't shoot at [-] paces, but the target was at [-] paces.

"Power, or not!"

"It's hard to shoot accurately!"

"Ugh…"

A group of cavalrymen complained, "No wonder, General Huangfu has repeatedly postponed the expedition. This riding and shooting is too difficult... How can you be proficient without years of trying!"

It's not just these logistics soldiers who are so emotional... Even the cavalry of the regular army are also quite worried because of riding and shooting.

Horseback riding is the best way to utilize the mobility of cavalry, but... riding and shooting is easy to learn but difficult to master.

Cao Cao didn't speak...

During this period of time, he strictly required the logistics army to add riding and archery training after completing the daily tasks, and he could also feel the difficulty of these knights riding and shooting.

Man, horse, bow, trinity, how can it be so simple?
A point on the crotch is simply not enough to support the stable galloping of the knight on the horse, but if you hold the rein with your hands, the strength of your arms will be damaged...

This is also the reason why the long shot is not accurate, but the accurate shot is not far... This problem, without decades of hard training, how to overcome it?
"Look at me!"

At this moment, Cao Cao yelled, and he also drove away, "Swoosh, swish..." He shot three arrows in a row, and with the sound of piercing through the air, two of them hit the bull's-eye, and one missed the target.

Of course...it's not important, what's important is that the power of the three arrows is far beyond eighty steps, even... even at a hundred steps away from the target, You Zi's remaining prestige remains undiminished.

call out…

For a moment, the other knights were stunned.

They murmured: "How is it possible, so accurate... so stable?"

Without waiting for them to think carefully...

Cao Cao bent his bow and nocked his arrow again...

"嗖嗖嗖" is still three arrows like a full moon. Under the reflection of the torch, this time the three arrows all hit the bull's-eye... But Cao Cao's riding position has retreated twenty steps, which is... one hundred and twenty steps !

This…

The crowd was shocked.

This...how is this done?The limit of a person's archery on a horse is only [-] paces. Being able to reach this distance is already competent, and he becomes a horse archer that everyone in the barracks envies.

But...Cao Cao...can do one hundred and twenty steps!

And their surprises didn't end there...

Because at the position of [-] steps and [-] steps, Cao Cao hit the bull's-eye with precision again!
This…

For the crowd watching, this is no longer surprise, this is horror, it is huge horror!

How can a man shoot a distance of one hundred and forty paces when he is on horseback?Unless...unless you can gather the strength of your whole body on your arms like on land, but the requirements for balance are too high.

Only then did Cao Cao drive back. "See? How many steps?"

"One hundred and forty steps!" The soldiers shouted in unison.

However, Cao Cao took a torch and shone the light on the position of his feet, not the iron stirrups...Because he was rushing like a marching army, the forged iron stirrups had not yet been completed.

It's just a piece of strong twine!

The two ends of the hemp rope were tied into two circles...they drooped down respectively, and Cao Cao's feet stepped on the hemp rope.

And Cao Cao's voice came out again.

"Who said our logistics army can't compare to the horse archers of his bow and arrow battalion! With this 'magic weapon', our logistics army can kill the enemy and make meritorious deeds!"

Not to mention, under the circumstances, Cao Cao's words...inexplicably convinced all the surrounding knights!

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Nanyang, under Wancheng.

Three hundred soldiers are lurking here...

Now Zhu Jun's soldiers and horses are surrounded by the Yellow Turban Army surrounded by mountains on three sides, but Wancheng in front of them is their only chance to break through.

Exactly... this city of Wan is also located on a high slope, if you attack from above... it will be extremely difficult!
call…

Heavy breathing broke the silence here.

Among the bushes, black shadows gathered, and a line of soldiers had already arrived at the north gate of Wancheng.

"Master Wen, we are going to lose this time, and we are bound to be punished by General Zhu Jun's military law...Going to fight without permission is a capital offense!"

Huang Zhong's subtle voice came out.

Next to him is naturally Wei Yan, "Never mind him, sitting still is death, and soldiers are dying if they are in danger. At least... that mountain man can say 'there are willows in Yulin with your head bowed', so I am willing to believe him!"

"What is the flag at the top of the city?" Huang Zhong looked over, but couldn't see the flag at the north gate of Wancheng clearly.

"It seems to be a yellow flag..." Wei Yanning frowned.

"That's not right..." Huang Zhong's brows suddenly frowned, "Didn't it be agreed..."

The voice just fell...

"It's changed!" Wei Yan shouted quickly: "It's changed...it's become a red flag!"

Thinking of this... Wei Yan raised his arms and said: "Brothers, if you make meritorious deeds to earn a beautiful wife, fight with me!"

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(End of this chapter)