Three Kingdoms.

  Chapter 1626 The Evolution of the Balance

On the battlefield, an excellent cavalry is like a real eye that can expand the field of vision several times. The opponent's every move will fall into the eyes, and then whether it is to fight in the wild or ambush, the operation of tactics will naturally be more flexible and changeable. .

  With the addition of 3,000 cavalry from General Hussars, although Cao Cao could not fully command all of them, the new force was enough to bring back the balance that had been somewhat out of balance, and even tilted towards Cao Cao's side.

  Yanping five years, summer.

  Liu Xie was preparing a "grand" foreign tribute in Xu County, but Cao Cao, Sikong, had no time to turn around at all. He just wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to expand his advantage, and then defeated Yuan Shao's attacking troops in one fell swoop.

Indeed, with the flexible operation of the cavalry, especially these big Han hussars are equipped with horseshoes and high bridge saddles, which are more suitable for long-distance movement, and do not choose routes. Also can go.

   After thinking about the horseshoes and Takahashi saddles for a day, Cao Cao immediately asked military craftsmen to imitate them. In Dahan, there is no patent right.

   "Father..." Cao Pi weighed the horseshoe in his hand, and couldn't help asking, "General Hussars traveled across the northwest, and he also got the help of this wonderful thing... In other words, General Hussars doesn't know how to hide things, this is really..."

Cao Pi was quite good as a mascot in the Chinese army camp, and Cao Cao was quite satisfied. He took it with him these days, so that Cao Pi could learn how to handle military and government affairs. After hearing Cao Pi's words, he raised his eyebrows. At the beginning, he stopped writing, glanced at Cao Pi slightly, and said: "General Hussars also has deep meaning, you might as well think about it..."

   "General Hussars has a deep meaning?" Cao Pi was stunned for a moment. After all, Cao Pi is still a half-grown child in his teens, trying to pretend to be an adult, but he is still not an adult, and he has no way to comprehend the meaning of it.

Cao Cao didn't explain, and continued to immerse himself in official duties. After a while, seeing that Cao Pi still couldn't find the answer, he was neither in a hurry nor scolded. Uncle Lian should be in Ma Ying..." After speaking, Cao Cao looked at Dian Wei who was guarding him.

  Dian Wei understood, nodded, stood up, followed Cao Pi who left the Chinese army tent, and headed for the horse camp.

Cao Cao's two left and right front battalions were damaged by Yuan Shao's attack, and the central army battalion was also dilapidated, and it is now being repaired. Almost all soldiers have been mobilized, either moving civil engineering or ramming earth. knock on the wall.

   As the saying goes, sharpening a knife does not cut firewood by mistake, no matter what, a strong camp can provide relatively stable support, and it is also conducive to the next attack of soldiers and horses.

  Cao Hong is in the horse camp, with the men and horses of this part of the original big Han hussars. Of course, not all of them, just some real hussar veterans, the rest...

To make ordinary soldiers accept new officers, naturally it is not enough to just sit on top and give orders. Cao Hong naturally knows this very well, so he lives and eats with these people day and night, and strives for the fastest Integrate into it, because Cao Hong also knows that the counterattack against Yuan Shao will start soon.

   "Uncle..." Cao Pi found Cao Hong, saw the ceremony, and asked impatiently, "General Hussar sent soldiers and horses without covering up such harnesses. I wonder if there is any deep meaning?"

   Cao Hong listened, looked left and right, pulled Cao Pi aside, and said softly, "Did Sikong ask you?"

  Cao Pi nodded awkwardly.

  Cao Hong laughed, patted Cao Pi on the shoulder, motioned him to sit aside, and said, "This matter, you have to look at it this way... In fact, we are also worried that General Hussars will take the opportunity to do something, right?"

   "So General Hussars is using this to express that we can rest assured?" Cao Pi said in a daze.

   "Yes, there is such a little meaning..." Cao Hong laughed, but quickly put his smile back, "Another thing...in fact, there is a little more..."

  Cao Hong was silent for a while, and then said solemnly: "If you look at it from another angle, General Hussars is also saying that he doesn't care whether we imitate or not..."

   "This..." Cao Pi's eyes widened.

Cao Hong sighed lowly, and said: "Although we have cavalry, firstly, they are not many. Secondly, it is actually water without a source... Seventy percent of the racecourse in the world is occupied by Yonghe, and the other thirty percent is in Hebei. Bei... Even if we imitate it, we don't have the source of the war horse, so what can we do? What can we do?"

  Cao Pi was dumbfounded.

   Immediately fell silent.

After the uncle and nephew sat for a while, Cao Hong came to his senses first, patted Cao Pi's shoulder again, stood up and said, "I'm going back to deal with military affairs, Pi Er, do you want me to call a guard for you?" Lead a horse for two laps?"

  Cao Pi thought for a while, shook his head, and said, "I won't delay my uncle... When I have free time next time, my nephew will come to chatter again..."

  Cao Hong laughed loudly and said, "That's okay! I'll leave you a good horse then!"

  Cao Pi bid farewell and walked back all the way. Halfway through, he couldn't help but stop and turned his head to look west...

   This big man, Hussar, turned his father and uncle into dismayed characters, but I don’t know if he has three heads and six arms, a blue face and fangs...

  ...Here is the dividing line for the draw...

  Jizhou territory.

   Gao Shan looked back at the long string of grain trucks and the tired soldiers and civilians behind him, and exhaled a long breath. Although he was anxious, the slow speed still made Gao Shan worry. Gao Shan couldn't help but pray to the gods and gods from all walks of life again, as long as the food for this trip can arrive safely, he will definitely go back and burn a few pillars of high incense to make three sacrifices or something...

   Gao Shan is from the Gao family, and he has been in Jizhou for many years. Somehow, he was a distant relative of a high-ranking cadre, and he had a position as a captain. This time, he was escorting a batch of grain and grass to Baimadu.

  Time is not forgiving, I am indeed old, Gao Shan returned his attention to his sore waist and legs, and smiled self-deprecatingly. I think that when I first joined the army, I was a strong young man, trekking through thousands of mountains and rivers, and I didn’t take it seriously. But now, after walking for dozens of miles, my legs, feet and lumbar spine are already sore and numb. It’s really not as good as before. up.

Generally speaking, the distance between Yecheng and Baimadu is still the rear of Yuan Shao's army, so the overall security is not bad, but since the previous two grain roads were intercepted, the risk of transporting grain and grass has suddenly increased a lot.

  Gao Shan did not become a captain entirely because of his relatives. As an old soldier, Gao Shan even participated in the fight against Youbei and the battle against Xianbei...

  The scene from more than ten years ago seemed to appear in front of him again, and Gao Shan could not help but shiver and let out a breath of cold air.

  Han Lingdi was still young back then, and then Xianbei invaded the south, once attacked Jizhou territory, the soldiers pointed directly at Luoyang, Han Lingdi summoned a large army, and went north to meet Xianbei...

  It was only the sixth year of Xiping...

  Thinking about it now, Gao Shan still shudders. There was a great battle that year, which will be unforgettable for a lifetime. Together they went out of the border, only one or two of the ten middle schools survived, and how many people died on the border of the desert, turning into countless bones.

Prefect Xia Yu sent troops from Gaoliu, defeated Xianbei Zhonglang general Tian Yan from Yunzhong County, Xiongnu Zhonglang general Zang Min and Southern Xiongnu Shanyu Tuteruo Shanyu marched from Yanmen County, and the three armies rushed into the desert During the crusade against Xianbei, but in the vast desert, it was impossible to find the main force of Xianbei for a decisive battle. Later, when the soldiers were exhausted, the Xianbei people came!

  The result was naturally a big defeat, and Emperor Han Ling extinguished his unrealistic ambitions.

  The lofty ideals of the past have long been forgotten by Gao Shan, but the cold wind outside the Great Wall, the ferocious cavalry, and the blood of his comrades still appear in nightmares time and time again, making him wake up in the middle of the night, covered in cold sweat.

  Was immersed in the memory of the high mountain, he suddenly felt a wave of fear in his heart. He didn't know when he seemed to think of some voices that made him shudder. These voices came from a distance and were rapidly approaching...

  The cold hairs all over Gao Shan's body stood on end. This sound leaped **** from memory to reality. He tensed his whole body and roared with all his strength: "It's cavalry! There is an enemy attack! There is an enemy attack!"

The entire food transportation queue was in a panic. Before these soldiers and civilians could form a defensive formation, the cavalry who rushed from a distance had already arrived, and the word "Xiahou" was held up high to show the identity of the opponent. .

  A round of arrow rain rushed forward, and immediately enveloped the sky above the grain transportation convoy.

  Many bewildered soldiers and civilians had no sense of evasion at all, and immediately screamed and wailed!

   Right in front of Gao Shan, a soldier was shot through the palm of his hand by a long arrow. The **** arrow penetrated from the palm and protruded from the back of the palm. The pain caused the soldier to hold his palm and rolled to the ground crying...

Gao Shan pulled the unlucky soldier to the side of the truck, then quickly broke the arrow, and then suddenly pulled the arrow out from the back of the soldier's hand, then cut off a piece of cloth, and smashed the soldier into the palm of his hand three times. Tie it tightly, then put the saber in his hand, and shouted: "If you don't want to die, don't **** cry!"

  On the battlefield, the most useless thing is tears.

   Arrows are like rain, and hooves are like thunder.

   The messy civilian husbands fled in all directions, and the smell of blood rose to the sky!

   Gao Shan yelled: "Pull the vehicles together! Fold them together! Counterattack! Counterattack!"

   The enemy’s attacking soldiers and horses are actually not many, only about five or six hundred people, and the number of soldiers and civilians under him is about the same, but the question is can the soldiers and civilians under his command stop the chaos and obey his orders?

  The dull sound of horseshoes began to circle to the side, and Gao Shan knew that it was the war horse with cloth strips tied to the horseshoes, which was preparing to attack...

   Gao Shan closed his eyes, and the scene of the nightmare was staged again, but this time he was not facing the **** Xianbei, but...

   But former comrades in arms...

   Gao Shan suddenly felt extremely tired. The Han people are always good at learning. This set of cavalry tactics of frontal invasion and side raids was actually first used by these nomadic peoples in the desert, such as the Huns and Xianbei, but now the Han cavalry has also learned it. And use it on your own people.

Gao Shan couldn't figure out why Cao Jun's cavalry bypassed the front line and appeared here, and he didn't have time to think about it, because the rockets had already started roaring down in the air, and stuck in the felt blanket covering the baggage cart. superior!

The mules and horses disturbed by the flames jumped and tried to break free, but they messed up the queue. Some exposed dry grass was ignited, and within a short period of time, it burned into a huge fireball, and engulfed the surrounding area. soldiers and mules and horses...

   Gao Shan shouted loudly and summoned his soldiers to resist, but soon he himself became Xia Houyuan's target.

  When the soldiers around Gao Shan were yelling and the shallow defense system was pierced by Xia Houyuan's reunion like a layer of paper, the last sight Gao Shan saw was Xia Houyuan's face that was almost distorted with excitement.

   "Hahaha!" Xia Houyuan stabbed Gao Shan to death with a single shot, and then yelled, "Quick! Burn up the food and grass! Burn up!" With the support of a large number of war horses, Xia Houyuan finally had a good time!

Lieutenant Yuan Jun died, and the rest of the civilians and soldiers lost the courage to resist. They left the baggage carts and fled. At some point, they found that the surrounding sounds gradually died down, leaving only the black smoke and howling cold wind in the distance. It was only then that I slowly walked back again, and then in the midst of the chaos, I saw the shocked expression on my family's face...

  ...Here is the dividing line that twists the waist...

Xu You's rebellion exposed all the grain transportation routes, and it is not so easy to temporarily change the grain transportation route. After all, people and horses can walk along the forest trails, but the baggage trucks have to leave the official road. The small road was extremely difficult, so before Yuan Shao had time to react, the grain and grass route from the rear to the front line was hit hard.

  By the time Yuan Shao realized what was wrong and dispatched a large number of troops to **** the grain and grass, the irreparable damage had already been sown...

  The large army was stationed outside, consuming tens of thousands of stones of grain and grass, and after Cao Cao's cavalry burned the baggage transporting grain and grass back and forth, Yuan Shao's grain and grass reserves immediately fell below the warning line!

  A very realistic and cruel question was put in front of Yuan Shao, what should he do next?

  Retire?

Although the battle with Cao Operation this time can be regarded as victory and defeat, and the Heluo area failed, but Yuan Tan in Qingzhou also went well, but the Taishan gang is still waiting and watching, otherwise it can basically be regarded as winning. I have left the whole of Qingzhou...

   Then the frontal battlefield also advanced to the border of Yanzhou, and overall it seemed to have the upper hand, so Yuan Shao felt somewhat unwilling to retreat like this.

   What's more, what was Cao Cao's identity before?

  It’s just my younger brother. Now my younger brother turns over and wants to be equal to him, and even wants to overwhelm him. This makes Yuan Shao feel unacceptable in his heart...

   But if we continue to fight, what about the military rations?

  Even if it is ordered to be re-deployed, the long-distance water cannot quench the near-thirst.

Thinking of the pain, Yuan Shao once again scolded Xu You for his betrayal. Although he had ordered the judges in Yecheng to execute Xu You's two servants, Yuan Shao also knew that this was of no importance to Xu You. , Most of Xu You's family is still in Yuzhou. Even if these two servants are dead, they are just the second sons of the two clansmen in his family. It is nothing at all...

  Tian Feng's suggestion is very simple, just one word, retreat.

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  (end of this chapter)