Liu Qi, the hegemon of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 246 Cao Cao's Troubles

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Ever since Liu Qi's troops attacked Yizhou in two ways, many people were paying attention. After all, Liu Qi was a big boss and he was attacking Yizhou, so how could he not pay attention.

Every move is a matter of concern to many people.

Land of Liangzhou...

After Han Sui and Ma Teng had a life-and-death struggle, Cao Cao also led an army into Liangzhou and took the opportunity to capture Liangzhou.

When Han Sui and Ma Teng reacted, most of Liangzhou fell into the hands of Cao Cao. Together, the two of them were no longer Cao Cao's opponents, and they were beaten and retreated steadily.

Moreover, Yuan Shao in Jizhou also led his troops into the land of Bingzhou.

Under the attack from both sides.

Han Sui and Ma Teng finally couldn't hold on anymore.

Han Sui betrayed Ma Teng again, invited him to the camp, beheaded him, and surrendered to Cao Cao.

The entire land of Liangzhou also fell into the hands of Cao Cao.

Cao Cao didn't stop there, and continued to lead the army to Bingzhou. You must know that Han Sui and Ma Teng were fighting because of his plan, wanting to take Liangzhou and Bingzhou two states in a row.Now, Yuan Shao has repeatedly come to steal the fruits of his victory and seized most of Bingzhou, this is intolerable.

at this time.

Cao Jun has reached the junction of Liangzhou and Bingzhou, and is about to enter Bingzhou.

The barracks of hundreds of thousands of troops, at a glance, the flags are unfurled, like a long dragon, continuous, covering the sky and the sun, it is really spectacular.

In the main account.

Cao Cao looked at some documents, rubbed his temples unconsciously, and frowned.

From the outside world, with an army of hundreds of thousands, he is quite a sight to have captured the land of Liangzhou, but who knows that there are a lot of troublesome things waiting for him to deal with.

For such a huge army, the daily expenditure is an astronomical figure, a very large amount.

Now, because Yuan Shao of Jizhou has won most of Bingzhou, if he wants to win most of Bingzhou from Yuan Shao, it is inevitable to go to war. Once he goes to war, he will have to continue to consume manpower and financial resources. All these need to be considered things.

"Ah!" Cao Cao sighed, looking at the counted numbers, he felt very painful.

"Why is my lord sighing?"

I don't know when, someone has already walked in.

Cao Cao looked up and saw that it was Xi Zhicai, the number one adviser under his command, and he was not surprised at all. You must know that Xu Zhu was guarding outside the camp. Except for a few people who did not need to be notified, if the rest wanted to come in, they had to Reported by Xu Chu, with his consent, then Xu Zhu will let people in.

He didn't speak either, and handed the proclamation to Xi Zhicai.

Xi Zhicai took the notice, glanced at it, and understood why Cao Cao sighed just now.

"Wen Ruo asks someone to report that the food and grass he has collected for the army can only be enough for two months at most!" Cao Cao said.

heard.

Xi Zhicai also frowned. If Yuan Shao hadn't seized most of Bingzhou's land, two months' food and grass would have been enough, but
Then he said: "Master, Yuan Shao has an army of 15. As long as he is not careless, it is not easy to drive him out of Bingzhou within two months. It may be enough for us to win half of Bingzhou. land, we cannot continue the conquest!"

"I don't know this, but all the way, the expenditure of hundreds of thousands of troops is indeed a huge amount. If it weren't for Wen Ruo's turnover in Chang'an, there might not even be two months of food and grass now. Stop here step!" Cao Cao sighed.

Xi Zhicai also fell silent. In this regard, he is indeed inferior to Xun Yu, and he also knows how terrifying the daily consumption of hundreds of thousands of troops is.

But without food and grass, the army could not continue the conquest, and it was impossible for the soldiers to go hungry to fight. It would have no meaning at all except to give away the heads for nothing.

For a while, I didn't know how to speak.

Seeing Xi Zhicai's tangled expression, Cao Cao sighed inwardly.

The original plan was very perfect, but man is not as good as heaven, and Yuan Shao can more or less guess when he sends troops, and he will not feel any surprise.

But he miscalculated Ma Teng's strength, so it took a lot of time before he really won the land of Liangzhou.

Ma Teng is not very outstanding, nor does he have much ability, but he has a good son, a tiger - Ma Chao, Ma Mengqi.

Think of Ma Chao.

Cao Cao also showed a look of praise in his eyes. Although he almost died in the hands of Ma Chao once, it could not prevent him from praising Ma Chao. He was indeed a hero.

And Ma Chao also has two lieutenants, Pound and Ma Dai.

Ma Teng and Han Sui joined forces to resist his army, and it was only because of these three that they were able to hold his army steadily for so long.

Otherwise, Ma Teng and Han Sui had already been taken by him early in the morning, and Yuan Shao would not have the time to take over half of Bingzhou. In the end, he still had the strength to conquer Bingzhou and hold it firmly in his hands.

Pity.
Man proposes, God disposes!
"There is only two months of food and grass, let's just two months, there will always be a solution at that time!" Cao Cao said lightly.

"promise!"

Xi Zhicai didn't have any way to solve this kind of problem. Even Xun Yu tried his best to raise food and grass for two months, let alone him as a layman.

Although there is another way, that is to expropriate by force, but that will cause public grievances among the people in Sili and Liangzhou, and that will not be worth the loss.

From now on, he can only walk around, striving for the greatest benefit.

Cao Cao glanced at Xi Zhicai and said, "Zhicai, I don't know what's the matter with you coming to see me?"

heard.

Xi Zhicai also remembered that he had come to look for Cao Cao because he had something to do. Before seeing Cao Cao frowning and sighing, he asked about it. After learning about the grain and grass, he almost forgot the business.

"Master, this is a letter from Yizhou!" Xi Zhicai took out a letter from his pocket and handed it to Cao Cao.

After knowing that Liu Qi used the excuse of destroying Zhang Lu to enter Yizhou in two ways, Cao Cao also asked him to send many scouts into Yizhou to keep an eye on the battle situation in Yizhou.

It will also be able to keep an eye on the movements of the Jingzhou army.

A gleam flashed in Cao Cao's eyes. After receiving the letter, how could he not pay attention to the matter of Liu Qi leading the army to seize Yizhou?

After all, the territory controlled by Liu Qi is just below his territory, and it is impossible not to pay attention to it, not to mention that in his heart, Liu Qi is more troublesome than Yuan Shao, Gongsun Zan, Sun Quan and others, even if he owns the current Strength, I dare not say that 100% can win Jingzhou.

Otherwise, they would not send troops to the land of Liangzhou, but seize the land of Jingzhou. A land of Jingzhou is better than capturing Liangzhou and Bingzhou, not to mention that most of the land of Bingzhou is still in Yuan Shao hands.

(End of this chapter)