Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 364 Yan Hou (Twelve)
half a year later
Spring of the 16th year of Xingping (209)
Everything is recovering, and the war for hegemony in the Central Plains is finally coming to an end.

After more than a year of siege, Yuan Shao finally captured the entire Yingchuan County except Xuchang, and Wang Jue also surrendered the entire Yuzhou.

Yuan Shao retreated and returned to Hebei to recuperate and replenish supplies, while Cao Cao abandoned the isolated city of Xuchang and moved to Luoyang with more than 2 people.

Of the 2 people, there are only more than 1000 elites and more than 4000 veterans, and the remaining 8000 are young men who have just joined the army.

Yangren City

Many years ago, Sun Jian defeated Lu Bu here, and the Xiliang army also went east from here to plunder Yingchuan.

Thirty miles west of the city
"Everyone, work harder, don't stop, if you persist, you will reach Dagu Pass!"

Cao Cao passed through Yangren City with his army, but he did not enter Yangren City to rest. Instead, he kept moving towards Daguguan without stopping.

He was afraid that taking a day off would delay the transfer to Luoyang. Once Wang Jue knew that he was transferring from the route of Xuchang-Yangzhai-Yangrencheng-Daguguan-Luoyang, it would be over.

There are three passages for Xuchang to enter Luoyang, namely the Xingyang route, the Daguguan route, and the Xincheng route.

Among them, the Xincheng route is the farthest, the Daguguan route is the closest, and the Xingyang route is the flattest.

"As long as you reach Luoyang, you can stop Yuan Jun by defending the checkpoints like Dong Zhuo did back then. While stopping Yuan Jun, attack the Guanzhong area westward, and you will also have a chance to achieve supremacy!" Cheng Yu said to Cao Cao.

Among Cao Cao's many advisers, Xun You was born in Yingchuan and belonged to the Yingchuan gentry, so he was the same as Xiapi Chen, whoever occupied Yingchuan would be his adviser, so Xun You has now taken refuge in Wang Jue.

However, after Xun You took refuge in Wang Jue, he was directly sent to Penghu Island by Wang Jue to serve as the Penghu Commander, and Xun You carried out land reclamation on the island, which was unexpected by the Central Plains people.

As for Jia Xu, he also took refuge in Wang Jue, but was then thrown by Wang Jue to develop a frozen soil swamp on Fumao Island (Sakhalin Island), allowing Jia Xu to use poisonous tricks on the local aborigines.

Jia Xu was born in Liangzhou, Liangzhou is a place of bitter cold, and Phi Mao Island (Sakhalin Island) is also a place of bitter cold, so Jia Xu should be able to adapt to life there, and there is nothing wrong with it.

Guo Jia was weak and died of illness.

After counselor Liu Ye took refuge in Wang Jue, he was thrown by Wang Jue to Niulang Island to manage livestock and became a livestock manager.

Sima Yi was more clever, he wanted to be reused by Yuan Shao directly, so he skipped over Wang Jue and went directly to Yecheng to join Yuan Shao face to face, and now he was Yuan Shao's counselor, replacing Xu You's position at the beginning.

Only Cheng Yu, because he had a family feud with Wang Jue, always followed Cao Cao.

As for Xu You, he didn't want to follow Cao Cao to hide in Tibet to endure hardships, and he didn't want to return to Yuan Shao's camp to be punished, so he went directly south to join Liu Bei and became Liu Bei's fourth adviser.

Now Liu Bei already has four advisers, Zhuge Liang, Xu Shu, Xu You, and Jian Yong.

Seeing Cheng Yu, the only counselor by his side, Cao Cao was filled with emotion. He had worked so hard for decades, but now he is back to the beginning.

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at the same time
Luo Yang
Wang Jue repeated his old trick and asked Xu Rong to disguise himself as merchants with fifty tiger and leopard riders, successfully controlling the city gate, and then Lu Bu and others led three thousand tiger and leopard riders into the city.

"Cao Cao is dead, and the general's heavenly soldiers have arrived, so don't hold back!"

No one thought that Luo Yang would be attacked. After all, Luo Yang would not be attacked until Hulao Pass, Dagu Pass and other checkpoints were lost.

And these checkpoints are all only this city gate, no one is allowed to go out, so these checkpoints don't have to worry about being attacked by disguised tiger and leopard riders.

Therefore, Luoyang did not choose to close the city gates. After all, this would disrupt the normal life of the local people. Unless it was a special case, it was best not to close the city gates at all times.

Under normal circumstances, Luo Yang would close the gates of the city only after a certain checkpoint was attacked to prevent the enemy from suddenly coming over one day.

however……

Cao Chun, the defender of Luoyang, was very confused. He didn't receive the news that the checkpoint was lost. How did these tiger and leopard riders suddenly appear here?

You know, there are Luoyang scouts at every checkpoint, and as soon as the checkpoint is attacked, they will immediately return to Luoyang to report the news.

But he, Cao Chun, never received any notification of the attack on the checkpoint.

"Could it be that these tiger and leopard riders can fly? Fly directly over the mountains and enter the Luoyang Basin?" Cao Chun was terrified, and was leading a thousand defenders to resist.

The soldiers guarding Luoyang were not elites, and the real elites were dispatched to the front by Cao Cao to fight.

In addition, their number was far smaller than that of Tiger and Leopard Cavalry, and they were suddenly attacked, so the [-] Luoyang defenders were quickly wiped out by [-] Tiger and Leopard Cavalry in street fighting.

Wang Jue has always been like this in wars, concentrating superior forces to attack the enemy's inferior forces.

To use a metaphor, Wang Jue has 40 soldiers, and the enemy has 40 soldiers. Wang Jue will not think about eating the 40 troops in one go, but find a way to mobilize the 2000 troops, let them move, and then move During the process, kill a single enemy army with only one to two thousand people.

Then use 1000 to fight [-], and always create an absolute advantage of playing more and fighting less, so as to easily eat the opponent's [-] people.

After eating these 1000 people, continue to mobilize the enemy, and then eat 1000 people who are alone in the enemy.

Such an infinite loop and repeated cycles eventually exhausted the enemy's 40 army and ate them all.

To put it simply, it is to find ways to force the enemy to single out, so that our side can easily siege.

He integrated his own concept of mobile warfare in the Great Plains, and called it [Mobile Warfare]. His wife Cai Yan is writing an art of war based on his combat ideas, methods, skills and examples, and the name is [Wang Jue Art of War], which is Supplements and extensions to [Sun Tzu's Art of War].

"Cao's man, you have to die standing up, not kneeling to live, you would rather die than surrender!" In desperation, Cao Chun was hysterical and launched the final fearless charge.

Wang Jue would admire this kind of enemy, but he would never show mercy.

To be merciful to the enemy in war is to betray the comrades and soldiers, and to be warm to the enemy is to be cold to the companions.

"Kill him, and then bury him!" Wang Jue said indifferently.

Killing a heroic enemy who is alive is to protect the lives of his soldiers, and burying a heroic enemy who has died is to establish a sense of honor as a soldier in the hearts of soldiers.

For Wang Jue, the dead Cao Chun is more useful than the living Cao Chun.

Dead people are often more valuable than living people!
"kill!"

Lv Bu, Zhang Liao, Gao Shun, Lv Lingqi, Tai Shici, Xu Rong, and Gongsun Du rushed towards Cao Chun at the same time and fought Cao Chun for the final battle.

The tiger and leopard knights deliberately did not participate under Wang Jue's order, but watched how Cao Chun fought against the beast.

clang--

"puff!"

"what!--"

"Duke Ming, Cao Chun, I can no longer fight for you!"

Cao Chun died in the end. He couldn't even kill a single person before he died, but he was heroic.

"Bury him next to the emperor's tomb according to the specifications of the hero of the Han Dynasty." Wang Jue wanted to use the tomb of the emperor of the Han Dynasty to show his respect to the warriors to the soldiers and establish a sense of honor for them as soldiers.

You see, even enemies can be buried next to the emperor's tomb, so you have to fight hard. If you die on the battlefield in the future, I, Wang Jue, will give you even greater specifications!

By consuming the dignity of the dead emperor, to establish a sense of military honor for his soldiers, so as to enhance their soft power, isn't this blood money?

(End of this chapter)