Chapter 835 Cao Cao's Tactics

Autumn is cool, grass grows and horses are fat, which is the best time of the year.

Especially for the whole Yanzhou, a place that has always been a must for soldiers, this season is even more difficult for it to calm down. In fact, for more than a year, the situation in Yanzhou has been endlessly changing.

Yanzhou has a total of eight counties with fertile land and rich products. From the west to the east, Chenliu County in the southwest of Yanzhou is more than 200 miles away. The two cities of sour dates and Fengqiu in the territory are opposite to the original Wu and Yangwu in the west. Fugou City in the southwest is close to the two cities of Yanling and Fule in Yingchuan County, Yingchuan County, Yuzhou, and the Kaocheng in the southeast corner guards the key to the capital of Liang in Yuzhou. Tao. Dongjun, Dongping and Jibei are across the river (Yellow River) and Jizhou; in the east, Taishan County is magnificent and the terrain is dangerous, which is the only way to Xuzhou in the east; while Jiyin, Shanyang and Rencheng counties in the south of Yanzhou are intertwined with Liang, Peiguo and Lu in Yuzhou.

From the map, the shape of the whole Yanzhou is like a wide belt, slanted in the middle of the four states of Ji, Yu, Xu and Sili. It is the key to the south and north of the whole Han Dynasty, and thus becomes a must-have place for any prince to enter the Central Plains and compete in the world.

In such an important state, the princes of all four countries want to get involved and have many scruples. The main reason is that this state is both a strategic place and a dangerous place. Under the whole world, only Cao Cao was the most shrewd and capable and benefited from the times. During the Yellow Turban Rebellion in Yanzhou, after several fights, he finally became the actual ruler of the whole strategic thrust.

However, since he sat in the position of Yanzhou Pastoral, he has been sitting unsteadily. Until now, Yanzhou has become a battlefield between Ma Chao and Yuan Shao. The two sides fought for wisdom and courage and showed their own means, which made Yanzhou, which had just put out the war, once again become a beacon.

At this time, Ma Chao led 3,000 soldiers and was on an expedition with Gan Ning, Lv Qiling and others in this wild and desolate Yanzhou. The purpose of their expedition this time is to complete the heroic words Ma Chao said in the military hall before.

The current situation facing Lv Bu is very dangerous. However, as Ma Chao said, the whole battle of Yanzhou was actually a morale war: in the early stage, after Lv Bu took advantage of Cao Cao's unpreparedness and almost captured the whole Yanzhou, the grain and grass war sounded. Later, no matter how many tricks Cao Cao used, Lv Bu only adhered to the principle of having food in his hand and not panic in his heart, and calmly cracked Cao Cao's several attacks.

However, after the self-determined Tao was taken away, Cao Cao was funded by Liu Xie and Yuan Shao and quickly recovered his strength. In contrast, Lv Bu, who had to be rescued by the Ma family on a long journey, became thinner and thinner, so that he was beaten by Cao Cao.

If you want to win back this disadvantage, Ma Chao, Chen Gong, Lv Bu and others all realize one of the most important points: food and fodder!

And now, where is the grain and fodder in Yanzhou besides those under harvested fields?

The answer is naturally: Cao Cao's camp!

As long as you win a battle and motivate the morale of the soldiers, you can break several strategic centers of the enemy like Cao, grab back food and fodder, and reverse the decline in one fell swoop!

Therefore, after sending Hou Cheng and Xue Lan to harvest grain and fodder in Shanyang and Jiyin counties as soon as possible, Ma Chao led out strange soldiers and waited for Cao Jun's reaction.

After discussing with Lv Bu and Chen Gong, Ma Chao believed that Cao Cao, who had a snake camp to serve him, would definitely find Lv Bu's behavior. Ma Chao and others have more knowledge of Cao Cao's tactics: Cao Cao has always been empty and traceless. But there is one hobby that Cao Cao can never give up.

Although Cao's use of troops is ever-changing, he is inseparable from his sect. His way of using troops is nothing more than complementing each other, yin and yang. He often leads a large army, and then sends an army as a partial division, or leads a large army to attack the city and breaks through the village, or makes the partial division attack the flanks of the enemy. In addition, now Cao Cao's soldiers are full of grain, we are against Cao Cao. , often to the point of being bullied by him. Although Chen Gong in the Military Hall broke Cao Cao's means. However, he admired Cao Cao's military ability, and even in the end, he directly praised Cao Cao: "The wisdom is different from others, and his use of troops is like Sun and Wu!"

Hearing this, Lv Bu's face was extremely gloomy. If it hadn't been for the great improvement of several twists and turns, and Liu Xiu and Lv Qiling secretly comforted him, maybe Lv Bu might have said angrily. However, Ma Chao has his own opinion on this.

At that time, after comforting Chen Gong and Lv Bu respectively, he said fairly and objectively: "Cao Cao used troops every time, or sent Yu Jin, Lejin and others to ignore the enemy, or simply let Xia Houyuan run thousands of miles away. As a result, the enemy is always afraid to divide the troops easily against Cao Cao, but even so, once they are relaxed, they are often taken advantage of by Cao Cao. However, the two have thought that every time Cao Cao sent troops, in fact, he had his inherent goal. The strange soldiers complement each other's yin and yang, just to achieve his set goals!"

"Yes!" Chen Gong was the first to wake up. Seeing that he followed Ma Chao's guidance, his memory woke up a trace and said, "In the battle of Zhencheng, Cao Cao's surprise attack was rapid and fierce, which was nothing more than to stand firm; in the battle of Puyang, he wanted to take back Puyang with all his strength... In these two battles, if we can defeat Cao Cao, we know his intention. Under the plan, Cao Cao has nothing to do. But after the reversal of the military situation, we could no longer break Cao Cao's goal, so we were led by Cao Cao..."

"Not bad! So far, we still don't know how Cao Cao will deal with cards. But there is a little..." Speaking of this, Ma Chao couldn't help smiling at the corners of his mouth, and his eyes also glowed strangely. He said, "At this moment, one thing is that grain and grass are the top priority of the two armies. We can't figure out Cao Cao's mind. Can't we create a chance for him?

In this way, poor Hou Cheng and Xue Lan, thinking that they were just performing ordinary tasks, led 2,000 soldiers and horses to buy grain in Juye County in Shanyang County. However, in fact, the two did not know that they had actually been sold by Ma Chao, Lv Bu, Chen Gong and others as the bait for Cao Cao to attack...

However, although the two of them did not know, their lives should be assured: just half a day after the two sent troops, Ma Chao led Gan Ning, Lv Qiling and others; while Lv Bu led Wei Xu, Cheng Lian and others, each with 3,000 soldiers and horses, and sneaked in two directions to ambush at both ends of Juye County. Then Chen Gong also led all the troops in person, and then set off after the battle!

With such all-round and three-dimensional protection, Hou Cheng and Xue Lan, not to mention just fighting for food, even if they want to cut their wrists and commit suicide, Lv Bu and Ma Chao can also arrive in time to save them! For Cao Cao, who had the snake camp as his eyeliner and knew the essence of the Yanzhou war, Ma Chao didn't believe it. After seeing Lv Bu's 'last struggle', he couldn't help doing it!

As long as Cao Cao sent troops, he would fall into the net under Ma Chao! Once Cao Cao falls into the net, no matter how hard he struggles, he will inevitably lose a big defeat. Thus, the whole situation in Yanzhou can be changed in one war!

marching with such an idea, unconsciously at night, Ma Chao looked up at the sky and saw that the whole sky was like an overturned inkstone. The thick and mellow night quickly covered all the shining things, and it was lifeless and dark. The night wind is humid and dull, although it is mild but not soft, and it is very uncomfortable to blow on the face. It seems that there is a sense of killing in the world, floating in the night wind, or lurking in Ma Chao's heart:

"Cao Cao, this is the first real contact between us. Let Ma Meng see the handwriting of you, the first soldier of the Three Kingdoms!"