Three Kingdoms New Emperor

Chapter 793
Even though the lights of Cao Ying were brighter than the Pingnan General's Mansion in the middle of the night, the passionate words of Cao Cao and Guo Jia were not as good as the singing of the Runan Mansion.

The reason is that Cao Cao did not expect the vanguard of the Han Dynasty army to come out of Yuzhou.He could accept Jiangdong's return to the Han Dynasty, but he couldn't bear the fact that the Han Dynasty's army was so magical.You know, Cao Jun at this time has only just defeated Jiangdong's [-] troops, and is still in the stage of rest.Even if you go south to the Yangtze River immediately, it will take two days.And these two days are enough for the emperor of the Han Dynasty to take Jingzhou's navy down the river to support Jiangdong.

Not to mention, there are also Yuzhou generals of the three armies under the personal command of Liu Bei on land, and the soldiers are pointing directly at Xuyi.

However, just when Cao Cao complained about this, a bigger blow came one after another: the edict of the Han Dynasty fermented rapidly in just a few days, until the world shook.Under Cao Cao's rule, within two days, many powerful families raised troops to respond to the Han Dynasty, hoping to get a share of the last great war in the world.And the people in Yan, Qing, and Xu prefectures were looking forward to the imminent unification of the Han Dynasty, and rushed to tell each other.

For a while, Cao Cao felt a little discouraged.He never thought that the seven-year curse of the Han Dynasty would be so unbreakable.Those people in the world who have been tortured by the Han Dynasty only need a little hope, and they can't wait to return to the Han Dynasty.

Unfortunately, this is the trend.Even if Cao Cao is a generation of heroes, there is nothing he can do.

Immediately afterwards, when Cao Cao ordered to continue going south, he wanted to fight to the death with the Han Dynasty on the Yangtze River.The entire Cao army suddenly became chaotic. At this moment, Cao Cao tasted the consequences of raising tigers.

The main force of Cao Cao's direct line is the Qingzhou soldiers who started his conquest of the Yellow Turbans. This army is an army of tigers and wolves fed by Cao Cao with a lot of property and the flesh and blood of the enemy.They are brave and brave, and the soldiers are brave and fearless. This is Cao Cao's greatest reliance in this troubled world.

Unfortunately, as can be seen from the name of this army, most of this army is from Qing and Yan.The Han Dynasty ordered the crusade against Cao Cao, and Yanzhou and Qingzhou were the first to bear the brunt.However, Cao Cao ignored the will of the army and insisted on going south. Immediately, this unruly tiger army chose to kill the lord.

A large number of Qingzhou soldiers and generals rebelled and left Cao Ying to return to Yanzhou and Qingzhou. No matter whether Cao Cao lured them with money or suppressed them with iron and blood, they could not extinguish the fire of rebellion and escape.Even one night, soldiers took advantage of the chaos and attacked Cao Cao's central army tent. If Xu Chu Dianwei hadn't been prepared, Cao Cao might have died before he could win.

Afterwards, when Cao Cao finally led the troops to reach the Yangtze River after several upheavals and only the true lineage troops remained, he received another piece of news that made him even more troublesome: Xuzhou was in chaos!
In view of the defection of Qingzhou soldiers, Cao Cao wrote a letter to Cao Hong who was guarding Xuzhou in advance, ordering him to patrol Xuzhou and stabilize the rear.After all, Cao Cao also knew that although Xuzhou would not bear the brunt of being attacked by the Han army, Xuzhou was always his Cao family's heart disease—for that state, Cao Cao had to be extremely careful.

However, when Cao Hong was inspecting Xiapi City and convening a meeting of local officials, the troops stationed in Xiapi suddenly mutinied.The battle started on the street outside the prefect's mansion in Xiapi.The rebel soldiers shouted the slogan "Expelling the country's thieves and rejuvenating the Han Dynasty!", and stormed the gate of the prefect's mansion three times.

The entire city of Xiapi was in chaos, and ordinary people also rushed to the streets to cheer for the rebel soldiers.The huge roar echoed over Xiapi, making the whole Xuzhou tremble.

However, there were not many rebellious soldiers. Cao Hong was also an excellent general who had experienced many battles. He sat in the prefect's mansion quietly and guarded the officials attending the meeting.When the battle was at its most intense, the arrows of the rebel soldiers were nailed three steps in front of Cao Hong, and all the participants jumped up in fright.However, Cao Hong drank a bottle of wine, straddled out of the mansion with his gun in hand, and personally led his bodyguards to fight the rebels.

In the end, Cao Hong rushed back and forth three times outside the mansion, his body covered in blood, and finally suppressed the rebellion.However, when investigating the cause of the rebellion, Cao Hong, a brave general on the battlefield, made a big mistake: he discovered that the soldiers who participated in the rebellion were inextricably linked with the Chen family, a prominent family in Xuzhou...

The Chen family is the family that has two father and son, Chen Gui and Chen Deng.This family was a wealthy gentry family in Xuzhou as early as Tao Qian's period. After Liu Bei and Cao Cao changed hands twice, this family not only survived, but became stronger.Especially after the Mi family entered Yuzhou with Liu Bei, and after Cao Bao's family was suppressed by the emperor of the Han Dynasty, the Chen family had terrifying power in Xuzhou, regardless of the military, civilian, and gentry.

Of course Cao Hong knew this, but as a military commander, his philosophy was to act decisively.Therefore, he made the most stupid decision: to send troops to surround the Chen family and search for the Chen family father and son.

After imprisoning the Chen family and his son, he hurriedly wrote to ask Cao Cao how to deal with the Chen family and his son.

After Cao Cao received the letter, he suddenly felt a splitting headache and was in so much pain that he lamented, "Zi Lian has lost me in Xuzhou! The Chen family and his son can be ignored, or they can kill the grass, but they can't be imprisoned!"

Xia Houyuan didn't understand what he meant, and asked entangledly, "My lord, why did you say that?"

"If you turn a blind eye to the Chen family, this matter can be turned into a minor matter. Cutting the grass and roots can also deter the rebels in Xuzhou, so that they don't dare to disagree. But once the Chen family and his son are detained, everyone in Xuzhou will be in danger. When someone with a heart instigates it again, is there anyone in Xuzhou who is not frightened and worried that my Cao family will do something wrong to Xuzhou?"

Sure enough, before Cao Cao's reply arrived at Xiapi, the entire Xiapi rebelled once, and set off a second, more violent rebellion.This time, the brave Cao Hong couldn't stop the situation, so he had to lead his troops to escape from Xiapi as a plan for the future.But I never thought that the rebellion in Xiapi was like a spark, which turned into a prairie fire in an instant, and the whole Xuzhou inevitably fell into chaos.

It wasn't until this time that Cao Hong found out about the first rebellion, and it turned out that there was also the shadow of the Jinyiwei of the Han Dynasty-unfortunately, all this was of no avail.

The house leak happened to Cao Cao, who was raining all night, and he already felt that time was not waiting for him.In order to boost morale, he endured his headaches and injuries and personally led troops to attack the Jiangdong navy camp—at this time, the Han army had not yet arrived, and he wanted to take advantage of this once-in-a-lifetime time.

However, he didn't expect that in this battle, he once again tasted the taste of the broken halberd: Although the main force of Jiangdong's navy was defeated, the remaining five thousand Jiangdong's children were all skilled in boats.At the same time, they also had the ambition of revenge and shame. Under the plan of the veteran Cheng Pu, they scattered the warships of Cao Jun on the river with a small boat.Cao Jun's boat formation was chaotic, and Jiangdong's children fought bravely to be the first, forcing many Qingyan soldiers who could not even swim into the bottom of the river.All of a sudden, the entire river was wailing loudly, and Cao Cao fainted in a panic when he saw this disastrous defeat.

After waking up, what Cao Cao saw was a gloomy and mournful look full of civil and military affairs.The sacrificial wine Guo Jia was broken, and within a few days, he was no longer as handsome as usual: "My lord, there is bad news in Qingzhou and Yanzhou. Lu Feng, the number one general of the Han Dynasty, led the state wolf to attack Puyang. Ding Fei, the prefect of Puyang, conquered the city and surrendered, and Puyang fell to Lu Fengxian again; the Qingzhou area had not yet fought against the Han army, but Chun Yuqiong had been showing off his power outside the city of Mount Tai all day long, saying that Zhang Wenyuan and Tian Guorang, the rising generals of the Han Dynasty, would lead the way in the near future. Yan Jingqi attacked the city, and the whole Taishan Mountain was terrified, and the gate of Qingzhou was in danger."

Cao Cao was silent for a moment, his eyes darkened, and when the full tent of civil and military officials thought that Cao Cao's fighting spirit had been taken away, and wanted to come forward to comfort him, Cao Cao slowly asked, "Today's defeat is all because we soldiers from the Central Plains are not familiar with water warfare. On board, the boat was pitched, and the soldiers were timid and timid, but Cheng Demou defeated them with a strange method. You are all well-learned and skilled fighters, do you have a good plan to solve it?"

Seeing Cao Cao's tenacity and perseverance, and all the difficulties like Mount Tai's weight on him, he was still thinking hard about how to defeat the enemy, and couldn't help respecting and worrying for a while.However, like Cao Cao, they are all from the Central Plains, and they are indeed not proficient in this kind of water warfare.

Just when the whole tent fell into deathly silence, a voice came from the end of the civil and military queue: "My lord, I am not talented, and there may be a solution."

All the people paid attention together, feeling unfamiliar for a moment, the man immediately said his name: "I am Jiang Gan, named Ziyi, and I am a classmate with Jiang Dong Zhou Yu."

Hearing that Jiang Gan and Dao Ming's origins were related to Jiangdong Zhou Yu, he was disdainful for a while, but Cao Cao could only use a dead horse as a living horse doctor at this time, so he asked, "Do you think there is a good way to solve my troubles? "

"My lord, the soldiers in the Central Plains are afraid of the turbulence of the boat because of the small size of the boat. If the warships are connected together with iron cables, they will be connected end to end, and it will be like walking on flat ground on the river. Then we will fight with the Jiangdong navy. Not afraid of enemy ships breaking through the formation of our army, and secondly, no more bumps, so that the soldiers in the Central Plains can regain the power of tigers and wolves."

As soon as Cao Cao heard this plan, he immediately jumped up from the sick bed and ordered: "Accord to this plan quickly!"

(End of this chapter)