In early May of the 14th year of Jian'an, Cao Cao received four expeditionary military newspapers within five days.

These four military newspapers come from Le Jin, Cai Mao, Yunshan and Cao Ren trapped in Jiangling.

A very amazing news was placed on Cao Cao's desktop in the military information of these four military newspapers.

Not long ago, Cai Mao, the governor of Jingzhou, personally led the prefect of Jiangxia Yunshan, and Cao Pi, the other subordinates of Le Jin, to march towards Dangyang, and defeated Guan Yu on the Han River, breaking Guan Yu's long blockade of the Han River. After that, Cai Mao left Yunshan to guard the Han River to ensure the safety of the rear team. He personally led a large army to Dangyang, and soon started a confrontation with the enemy.

During the battle, General Fenwei underestimated the enemy and was captured by the enemy general Zhang Fei.

But Cao Pi remained calm in the face of danger and led a group of soldiers and horses to beat drums and drums, pretending to be thousands of troops and horses to fight out, and defeated Zhang Fei's army and chased him to a place less than fifty miles away from Jiangling.

Le Jin, Yunshan, Cai Mao, and Cao Pi all said that the time for a decisive battle with Jiangdong is now up. They are not short of troops, only food and grass. They also asked the Prime Minister to quickly send food to rescue him. The Jingzhou battle is about to begin, and it is no problem to repel Sun and Liu!

Before Man Chong was captured, he signed a joint signature with Cao Pi to write a military newspaper asking for Cao Cao's rescue. Jiangling's school affairs also sent a message, confirming that Cao Pi did arrive near Jiangling for a time, which inspired Jiangling's enthusiasm for fighting. Cao Pi also hoped that Cao Cao would send troops to untie the siege of Jiangling, at least to drive the damn Zhou Gongjin down the Yangtze River!

Cao Cao's heart was pounding.

It’s not that he doesn’t believe in Cao Ren and Le Jin, but he still feels a little confused about the current situation.

In terms of tactics, Cai Mao’s choice is not only good, but also quite clever.

Le Jin has now opened up the land route south of Xiangyang, Cai Mao has opened up the Han River, and there has finally been some echo between Jiangling and Xiangyang.

They stationed troops in Dangyang and could minimize fighting against the Wu army on the river. Zhou Yu dispersed a lot of energy to guard the safety of the flanks. The soldiers who attacked Jiangling would inevitably be insufficient. The pressure on Jiangling Cao Ren would be greatly reduced.

But Cai Mao’s character is worrying.

He left Yunshan and entered Dangyang himself. On the first day he entered, Man Chong was captured by Zhang Fei.

In other words, the nail that Cao's sudden front was now completely grasped by Cai Mao, and he even had Cao Cao's two sons in his hand.

These two sons have many shortcomings. If Cao Ang and Cao Chong were alive, Cao Cao would not be willing to choose one from Cao Pi and Cao Zhi as his successor.

But now it is too late to give birth to a few temporarily.

These two sons are already quite strong and play an important role in the court.

Cao Zhi did not stop his fight against Cao Cao before, but instead encouraged him a little, which led to Cao Pi trying his best to gain military merits. Now, they are both at Cai Mao.

To put it nicely, Cai Mao trained his son for his old classmate, to put it badly...

Cao Cao picked up Cai Mao's military newspaper, and the words on it seemed to turn into Cai Mao's ugly face again.

The words are almost clearly written between the lines that require grain.

Prime Minister, you don’t want your son to starve, right?

If you don’t want your two cute sons to starve, then send me food and grass! Send me food and grass!

Cao Cao's fist was creaking and he kept thinking.

He really wanted to say that his son didn't want it anymore, but he hadn't died.

But Cao Cao now found sadly that he could no longer lose anything.

The great defeat of Chibi made the world realize that Cao's army was not invincible.

The killing of Kong Rong and the disappearance of Chen Qun and Xun You made the relationship between the old Han officials and Cao Cao even more irreconcilable. Cao Cao tried his best to barely stabilize the situation in the Central Plains. Sun Quan had been surrounding Hefei for several months before, but Cao's reinforcements could not even be brought up, which shows how weak they have now.

Confidence is more important than gold.

Le Jinyunshan and others finally opened up the situation in Jingzhou - at least that's how laymen see it.

If Cao Cao could not take the opportunity to expand the situation, his weakness would definitely be completely revealed to everyone, and I am afraid that many people would have the idea of ​​waiting for Sun and Liu.

So, beat it?

What to beat?

Cao Cao was able to defeat Cao Cao in Guandu, and Xun Yu's strong support played a huge role. Only with Xun Yu's strong support could he fight Yuan Shao. After that, he won by his own good luck.

However, due to the disappearance of two famous Yingchuan scholars, Chen Qun and Xun You, Xun Yu, was almost out of trouble. His friction with Cao Cao has become increasingly serious recently, and Cao Cao is no longer at ease to let him guard the rear for him.

Without this scholar who had been supporting him since many years ago, Cao Cao was not at ease to make an expedition in person.

In addition to Xun Yu's problem, there is another more realistic problem before Cao Cao.

It is not yet summer, and the crops in the Central Plains are still in a thriving stage.

This season, mobilizing large troops and raising military rations everywhere is a very important matter. Mobilizing a large number of soldiers at once will definitely lead to a large amount of farmland losing labor and forming a vicious cycle.

Cao Cao thought about it again and again, but he was confused for a moment.

For a long time, as long as the Cao army fought a big battle, Cao Cao would definitely lead his army to fight. This has become a convention. Now there are very few generals under his command who can mobilize and trustworthy, and one of them...

To be honest, Cao Cao really didn't want him to tread this muddy water before he had no choice.

"Zhao, Yuan Rang!"

Xiahou Dun, whose courtesy name is Yuanrang, was the person Cao Cao trusted the most, no doubt about it.

He can freely enter and exit Cao Cao's bedroom without having to communicate in advance. He can provide Cao Cao with any advice, no need to study wording, no need to consider etiquette, and even Cao Cao does not want Xiahou Dun to become his subordinate in his reputation.

This Cao army's meritorious service has been the magistrate of Henan many years ago, and built the broken Luoyang bit by bit. He personally led his soldiers to build water conservancy and open up wastelands, allowing the Central Plains grain area under Cao Cao to successfully survive many droughts and locust plagues, providing continuous power for Cao Cao's battle.

Although he is quite capable in military affairs, he is as good at dealing with relationships with local people like Wei Jiang back then. If he is placed in Jingzhou, he can pacify the barbarians and ease the relationship between the north and the south. Anyway, it is reasonable to have fun in the war.

But Xiahou Dun has a shortcoming that is more fatal than military shortcomings-

This person has a strong personality but is extremely honest and simple. He does not control the industry. He will all be given to his subordinates after the financial situation has passed. This behavior is simply a great deal of the world and can easily cause great damage to the grassroots system of Cao's army.

Cao Cao suffered a loss when he was sick and lieutenant in Luoyang. He then changed his past and started to struggle with Dunqiu Ling. He no longer lived with his youthful passion and ambitions. He gradually formed this army with a strange but extremely powerful combat power.

He had repeatedly hinted that Xiahou Dun must change his own problems, never do what he wants, and must understand the truth that no one can observe others, but the country is easy to change and nature is hard to change, and Xiahou Dun still insists on his own opinion. Cao Cao did not understand why he, a famous family, empathized with a group of ants-like military farming soldiers. But now, Cao Ren is trapped in Jiangling, and his two sons are taking the risk of expedition in the south. The war in Jingzhou is extremely tense, and people like Xiahou Dun need to be in charge. I hope everything will go very smoothly.

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Guan Ping knew from the news from Cai Mao that the battle was almost successful.

Without hesitation, he immediately notified Sima Fu, who was stationed in Shiyang, saying that he would fight a big battle, and this battle was of great importance and that military rations should be hoarded.

But there is a condition that you must ensure that your soldiers have enough food and drink.

Sima Fu knew the elegant meaning when he heard the strings.

Although he was not Guan Ping's confidant, he had already had considerable knowledge of all kinds of dirty things in the army.

He did not shy away from it and asked Guan Ping a question directly:

"How many of us can keep?"

"Thirty percent!"

"This, I'm afraid this is inappropriate." Sima Fu frowned.

Sanzheng just said casually that he didn't know how much this kind of thing should be kept, so he could only ask humbly:

"I think too much, what does Shuda think?"

Sima Fu is an honest and honest person. Seeing that Guan Ping is so good, he simply told Guan Ping about the tricks:

"According to normal, we can leave 40% of the military ordnance, and we can leave 60% of the military rations."

"Sixty percent!" Guan Ping was stunned, "So much?"

Isn't this kidding?

Sima Fu thought that Guan Ping had never seen the world before, so he simply explained to Guan Ping with his finger:

"Please look, General, the court transports grain according to tens of thousands of people. But there are always few brave and good men like Zhong Miao under the general. If they eat brown rice and drink cold water with other soldiers, they are afraid they will not want to fight for the general.

If those soldiers were full, they would definitely have nothing to do and were unwilling to fight to the death. It would be better for the general to keep them quite troubled, defeat them and let them rob and reward them. If they were defeated, they would use the deducted rice and grain to stabilize the morale of the army, so that they could win a great victory.

Ah, of course, we should deduct less weapons, otherwise we will lose if we lose our weapons."

He was afraid that Guan Ping would not believe it, so he quickly said:

"The battles have been fought in this way for so many years. If the general doesn't believe it, you can ask General Le.

These are common examples. If the general refuses, he is afraid that he will be held revenge like Xiahou Yuanzhang."

Guan Ping nodded silently and expressed his belief.

But he still has one question:

"Will anyone find this?"

Sima Fu immediately smiled:

"Of course there are several ways to do this. I'm telling the general now that the general can figure it out by himself."

The scribe proudly pointed at the soldiers who were busy farming in the distance and said:

"The soldiers under the general may as well be replaced. They like farming so much that they simply hide their military status, saying that they died on the battlefield or died in the army.

This is all a routine in the military. If someone comes to investigate and the general uses some money, he will easily expose it. It is not a big problem.

When the general wins, I will submit a memorial to impeach the general's corruption, and this matter will naturally be left unresolved."

Guan Ping:...

Is there any such trick?

If Sima Fu's family hadn't been doing things for Cao Cao, Guan Ping would have almost thought that he was a pure minister of the Han Dynasty and was devoted to his own side.

He had long thought of transferring a large number of Cao's soldiers into the mountains and transferring the food as much as possible to greatly expand the combat potential of the base. However, he was too thin and had never thought about how to operate it before.

Unexpectedly, Sima Fu took the initiative to provide advice to him.

His heart pounded and he whispered:

"I was still short of many civilians and money and food near Xiangyang, and all this matter was left to Shuda.

The money and granary can be controlled by himself. If you need to escort the dispatcher, just tell me it.

I also have old friends in Xiakou, so I can ensure that I can travel smoothly."

Sima Fu's eyes lit up, and his heart was even more happy:

"Don't worry, General, be loyal to the Han Dynasty, you must first be loyal to the superiors.
Chapter completed!