Imperial Power Of Han Dynasty - Chapter 919

Chapter 919

After a discussion between Cao Zhen and Han Hao, they unanimously decided to send troops to pursue the Yuzhou Army. In fact, it was not just because Cao Xiu was angry that the enemy shot Xiahou Dun, but more importantly, he recovered more than 30,000 people abducted by the Yuzhou army.

There are more than 30,000 people. Among them, Ding Zhuang, who is over 16 and under 50, said there are five to six thousand people. As long as these people wear armor and hold weapons, they can become soldiers. And these 30,000 people are used for farming, which is also a huge amount of productivity, and you absolutely cannot give up easily.

Among the princes in the world, only Cao Cao has the ability to compete with Liu Ye, but Cao Cao’s strength is far inferior to Liu Ye. Liu Ye occupies the first part of Yong, Liang, Sili, Yi, Yan, Henan, Hebei, and Qizhou in Guanzhong, and half of Jingzhou (the local administrative system of the Han Dynasty is one of the thirteen states, and the other is the school Wei of Si Li Ministry), with a population of over 10 million, but under Cao Cao’s rule, there were only Xu, Qing, Yang, and a small part of Jingzhou. His strength was only half that of Liu Ye.

Therefore, the population of 30,000 appears to be very important. After all, the population under Cao Cao’s rule is not as large as Liu Ye. If you lose these 30,000 people, it will be even more traumatic.

In the history of Zhuge Liang’s Northern Expedition, the first thing he had to do after his defeat was to move the people under the rule of Cao Wei to Hanzhong, because the population of Shu was too small.

Han Hao immediately ordered Zhu Ling, Lu Zhao and other four soldiers to enter the city, and then deported the 10,000 soldiers brought by Cao Zhen, plus the 3,000 soldiers brought by Cao Zhen, so that there were nearly 30,000 soldiers in the city. horse.

“In that case, the army was divided into two parts, half of the Han Hujun leader stayed at Shouchun City, and a certain and two generals Zhu and Lu went after Liu Bei and regained the abducted population, how about?” Cao Zhen suggested.

“Alright…but Zidan must be careful, that Liu, Guan and Zhang are not easy generations.” Han Hao exhorted.

Cao Zhen nodded, and immediately mobilized his generals, leading more than 13,000 soldiers and horses, along with Zhu Ling and Lu Zhao, chasing Liu Bei all the way west. Although Cao Zhen was young and did not have a military post, he was a general in the Cao family clan. Zhu Ling and Lu Zhao had higher military posts than Cao Zhen, so naturally they could only listen to Cao Zhen’s command. Although Cao Zhen was young, he was familiar with military books and had a good command of marching and fighting, so Zhu Ling and Lu Zhao were also convinced.

In fact, don’t look at Cao Cao’s saying that “only talents are used”. He once issued an order for seeking talents and widely used the world’s poorest talents. In fact, his family members were used in important positions. For example, the commander-in-chief of Cao Wei on the Western Front was Xia Houyuan, because after Xia Houyuan was beheaded by the veteran Huang Zhong at Dingjunshan, Zhang Jai was temporarily the commander.

In the south, Cao Ren was guarding Wancheng, and Xiahou Dun was guarding Huainan. After the generations of the Xiahou and Cao families died, the successor was the Cao family. Cao Xiu served as the commander-in-chief of the eastern front of Cao Wei, Cao Zhen succeeded the commander-in-chief of the western front, and Xiahoushang served as the commander-in-chief of the southern front.

In the later period, the Cao clan fell beside the great power of the Wei State and was eventually replaced by the Sima clan, which has nothing to do with the decline of the Cao family’s generals. It is precisely because of the successive deaths of Cao Zhen, Cao Xiu, Xia Houshang and others, that those who hold military and political power have become like Cao Shuang and were eventually conspired to usurp “Wei” by “Cao”.

In fact, the Wei Ming Emperor Cao Rui deliberately did not use Sima Yi because of this. Later, the Cao family died, and in desperation, he had to ask Sima Yi to leave the mountain.

But now, Cao Ren, Xia Houyuan, Xiahou Dun and others are still alive, while Cao Zhen, Cao Xiu, Xia Hou Shang and others are even younger, and the Cao family is still full of talents.

Huaishui.

Although it has been a long time since the earth-shattering battle of Huai Shui, red is still faintly visible on the land on both sides of Huai Shui. The blood-stained soil transmits a rotten **** smell in the air. Some animals can be seen torn and bite human corpses, and the plants that receive the corpse’s nutrients are growing wildly.

Tatata!

A shocking stepping sound suddenly came from the east avenue. A fox was biting the carrion. Suddenly, he took a look to the east, and saw an army of more than 10,000 people marching in densely. It was shocked. He didn’t dare to stay where he was, with a large piece of rotten flesh in his mouth, turned and ran away.

“School Lieutenant Zhu, is the Huaihe River ahead?”

Cao Zhen rode on the horse, looked far forward, and said to Zhu Lingdao on the side.

Zhu Ling nodded: “Exactly, soon after crossing the Huai River, it was Xia Caicheng. After fifty miles of Xia Cai, we entered the territory of Runan County.”

Cao Zhen said, he had already smelled the smell of blood in the air, and it didn’t take long before he reached the Huai River. Seeing the scene in front of him, he recalled the tragedy of the previous battle in his mind. I don’t know how many Sergeant Cao was buried in his bones. this. Thinking of this, Cao Zhen couldn’t help but sigh.

“Send my order, quickly explore the upper reaches of the Huai River to see if any enemy has done anything.” Cao Zhen shouted.

The battle of Huai Shui is ahead, and Cao Zhen is not cautious. If the enemy forces follow Han Xin and Xiahou Dun, block the river in the upper reaches, taking advantage of Cao Zhen’s army to cross the river, digging up the upper reaches in one fell swoop, is there any life for the more than 10,000 Cao troops?

After a while, the spies reported back: “Report! Upstream is safe and sound.”

Cao Zhen nodded and waved: “The whole army crosses the river!”

More than 13,000 Cao Jun immediately started erection of the pontoon bridge. After the pontoon bridge was erected, more than 13,000 Cao Jun had crossed the Huai River in a mighty manner. And Cao Zhen himself did not cross the river first, but ordered Zhu Ling to lead 5,000 people to cross the river first, then lead 3,000 people to cross the river, and finally Lu Zhao led the five thousand troops to cross the river.

In the famous Battle of Weishui, Longqi led 200,000 Chu Jun against Han Xin. Longqi personally led the front army to cross the river. As a result, Han Xin ordered people to dig the sandbags blocked upstream. For two paragraphs.

There were only a few Chu army who followed the dragon and crossed the river. Han Xin immediately ordered the Han army to attack, eventually beheading the dragon and defeating the Chu army.

Cao Zhen, who is naturally cautious, can’t make this mistake, so he first ordered Zhu Ling to cross the river and center himself.

After all the 13,000 Cao troops had crossed the river, Cao Zhen ordered all Cao troops to move forward.

Over 13,000 Cao Jun came hurriedly towards Xia Cai. Suddenly he saw a tower-like black-faced general on the small road ahead, with a black horse under his hips, an eight-point steel spear in his hand, a leopard head, eye-catching, and beard Like a steel needle, majestic and majestic.

“I am Zhang Fei from Yan, and Cao Jun’s child hasn’t gotten out of his horse and got caught!”

The loud shout was like a thunderbolt in the clear sky, Zhu Ling and Cao Jun in the front row only felt the eardrums tremble with pain.

“Zhang Fei?”

Zhu Ling was taken aback, and suddenly shouted: “The whole army has stopped!”