Chapter 786 I laughed at Li Boya for no reason, Zhuge Liang Shaozhi

"It seems that Yuan Xi has not had much time, and the progress is faster than expected. At most one month, he will definitely take Yuan Xi's head."

As it was evening again, Zhang Fei got off from the siege tower in the south of Jixian County, and the day's siege battle almost stopped.

It can be seen that Zhang Fei was quite satisfied with the speed of progress. Yuan Xi probably couldn't see the Mid-Autumn Festival moon.

Recently, Zhang Fei's daily routine has become Zhang Fei's daily routine with his telescope, climbing the tower to watch and supervise the battle, and dispatching the troops to adjust the main attack direction.

However, today was a little different. He had just climbed downstairs and found that Pang Tong was waiting for him downstairs. Obviously, because Pang Tong was not good at martial arts and was afraid of heights and was unable to climb up to report, so he had been waiting for him for a long time.

Without waiting for Zhang Fei to stand firm, Pang Tong directly took a piece of information and handed it to Zhang Fei: "The Lord of Mifu in Liaodong came to report that the day before yesterday, he had several fast sand ships pretending to be passing merchant ships and patroled and investigated the northern part of the Yishui River estuary on the Bohai Coast.

It was discovered that a large number of Cao's army had ships transporting troops and grain to the north, with about hundreds of large ships. Mi Fujun's scout immediately distributed people to report to us through the Youbeiping Express Malay, and then quickly returned to Tuhe Port in Changli to deliver a letter.

I believe that within five or six days, the naval forces of General Wei and General Zhennan will attack from the east of Bohai Bay and cut off the fleet of Cao's army north along the Bohai Coast in half."

After informing the enemy situation and the situation of friendly troops, Pang Tong paused and changed his tone and immediately added: "General Guard must also hope that our army will cooperate in time and control the advancement speed of Cao's army, so that he can find the right opportunity and attack on the front side."

Zhang Fei was very excited when he heard this. He grabbed the information and looked at it a few times. He was immediately overjoyed and even his beard stood up, as if he was covered in steel needles:

"I said Zilong was too cautious. At the beginning of the year, my elder brother originally asked him to help Mi Zhu to defend Liaodong, but Cao Cao was unable to find trouble for Mi Zhu, so he kept hiding. He said that if the enemy doesn't move, I won't move, the enemy is in the light and I'm in the dark, so that it is easier to act according to the opportunity.

Now it is a chance for Zilong to find this opportunity to "act according to the opportunity". OK, if he wants to share half of the credit, he can share half of the credit. But he agreed that he will take down Jixian and the entire territory of Fuyan, all the credits are ours, and Zilong cannot take them away!

As for the credit for attacking aid, half of them are not bad. Anyway, Jixian is about to be defeated, and in the last month it can still seduce all the enemy rescue soldiers and fight rabbits, which can also be considered as squeezing Yuan Xi's little use value."

Zhang Fei directly ordered, not planning to reply to Zhao Yun, but just asked his troops to deploy as soon as possible to prepare to fight against Cao Cao's reinforcements that would appear within a few days.

He did not reply because he was considering that he and Zhao Yun were still far apart, and that he was in the west and Zhao Yun was in the east. If the messenger changed on the way back, the situation of the enemy-occupied area changed, and he had to pass through the newly occupied defense zone of Cao Cao in the middle. If the messenger was arrested and military information was leaked, it would be unfair.

It’s better to play a game without early communication, relying on adaptable semi-cooperation. After Zhao Yun appears, communicate in full.

As for the credit, Zhang Fei had already decided to share it in his heart. I believe that Zhao Yun could not take it away, and there was no need to break up with him: Fu Yan's contribution was all Zhang Fei, and he made half of the credit for the fight.

As for how to attack this aid without communicating the details with Zhao Yun in advance, we still need to make a little calculation.

Fortunately, Zhang Fei brought Pang Tong with him. Pang Tong already knew Zhang Fei's intentions. After thinking for a moment, he suggested: "For the sake of the present plan, to maximize the effect of General Wei's attack, the first thing is to seduce all Cao's army to cross the north to chase after Yishui.

As long as all Cao's army go ashore and chase far away, even if they can cross the river in the end, and the troops of our army and General Zhao's army move quickly, they will definitely be able to bite the tail of Cao's army and form a pursuit force of half-crossing. Just like this..."

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Two days after Zhao Yun contacted Zhang Fei, July 16th.

After 100,000 Cao troops gained a foothold at the entrance of Yishui River and initially settled into the water camp. They finally began to flow upstream along the river, penetrated the Yishui River and Gushui River, trying to solve the problem of Yijing Tower first, and then rescue Jicheng.

The reason for the 100,000 is that 20,000 of them are complete new recruits. When they marched north to Bohai County, they forced the army to enlist on the spot. They sent out a spear without a boss that had been killed before, and they directly joined the army without armor.

(Note: Yishui, Mashui, Huongshui, Gushui and other rivers all belong to the "Haihe River" in modern times. However, in the Han Dynasty, because most areas of Tianjin today were still at the bottom of the sea, they were not alluvialized into land by the mud and sand brought by these rivers.

So before the estuaries of these rivers could be fully merged together, they entered the sea in advance. The location where Cao Cao camped could actually cover and guard the estuaries of all the above rivers at the same time, and each was only about ten miles apart.)

This time, the Cao army generals included Le Jin, who had been fighting for the vanguard Yao for temptation, Xiahou Dun, who had just recovered from injuries, as well as Cao Hong and Xiahou Shang, and other grassroots generals whose names were not worthy of being mentioned, such as Wang Zhong and Shi Huan.

The most important thing is that Cao Cao himself personally took the rescue force, thinking that he would supervise the battle, but instead entrusted the battlefield of Yecheng siege to Xiahou Yuan.

It was not that Cao Cao wanted to come, but because there were more than half of the veterans in his army, Zhang He, Gao Lan and other newly surrendered generals, as well as the newly strong men on the Bohai side.

Cao Cao was more or less worried about calling Zhang He and others to work for him for the first time and had to supervise himself, so as not to maintain his strength and not work hard.

After fighting once or twice, the people's hearts and the troops were connected, and the soldiers also recognized their masters and became accustomed to being his subordinates, so that they could gradually let go.

In order to better control the troops that originally belonged to the Yuan family, Cao Cao has arranged some political manipulation in the past few months and can't wait to express a new official position to himself.

Considering that Liu He was still in Yecheng and was still being held hostage by Yuan Shang, Cao Cao's self-report was of course unable to get a reply immediately.

But just as Liu Bei claimed to be the King of Hanzhong and the Grand Sima in history, and Liu Xie could not reply, and Liu Bei could still claim to be himself. Cao Cao is now a rebel against Yuan Shang and wants to rescue the emperor, so as long as his statement is recommended by everyone and Yuan Tan can still be supported by him.

In order not to stimulate Yuan Tan, Cao Cao did not want to continue to use the title of general that Yuan Shao had used, and even suggested that after killing Yuan Shang and saving the emperor, he would still let Yuan Tan be the general.

The general could not be a general, and Cao Cao was originally a general of chariots and cavalry, so the official position he had presented was the Prime Minister of the Han Dynasty this time.

At the beginning of the month, a certain ceremony was held in Anyang near Yecheng, and the senior officials who fled from the Liu and the imperial court in Yecheng, who had served as the "Three Dukes" jointly discussed and promoted it. Even if Cao Cao was in a hurry to become the prime minister.

As for the "three dukes" used in this process, it is obviously a bit humid. Xu You counted one, and Guo Tu among the other two is at least considered. The last one is Kong Rong, who was only at the level of Jiuqing before, and was temporarily raised to cover up half a level to cover up his shame.

The civil servants and strategists under Cao Cao, even Xun Yu, who was the most respected, were not at the top of his position in this life, so he could not play any role of Qinggui persuading him in this farce.

Although everyone knows that after using Guo Tu and Kong Rong, after leaving this motion, their status will definitely be overtaken by Xun Yu and others.

(Note: Cao Cao also served as Sikong for 12 years in history, and became prime minister a few months before the Battle of Chibi. The opportunity was to finally clear the last remnants of the Yuan family and dare to be promoted to prime minister. Now the Yuan family is about to be officially finished. In order to control the old subordinates of the Yuan family in advance, they urgently became prime minister.

But the prime minister recommended by everyone did not bring any favorable etiquette and law, so there was no "like Xiao He's story" treatment such as "no name or no desire, no sword or shoe to the palace". These must be given to Liu He himself after breaking through Yecheng.)

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During this rescue of Yuan Xi, during the march, the cavalry of Cao's army directly chose to march by land, expand the occupation area, and plunder the four fields. The infantry mainly took boats to ensure both mobility and safety.

Most of the Cao army's ships were large river and sea dual-purpose sand ships that could carry hundreds of people, and could come and go freely in the Yellow Sea and Bohai Sea.

These ships are much stronger than the small broken ships that Zhang Fei drove from the upper reaches of the Sanggan River and the Hutuo River, so the infantry was not afraid of Zhang Fei's large troops suddenly counterattacking.

Even if you can't beat it in a hurry, you can retreat along the river safely, and you can't stop it.

Moreover, the water camp at the mouth of the river flows into the sea is easy to dig trenches and defend themselves, which is equivalent to forming an island and not afraid of the army's attacks. It is equivalent to giving Cao's army a trump card to advance, attack and retreat, and ensure an invincible place.

Under such steady and unbeaten guarantee, Cao's army made a very smooth progress on the first day. He went deep into Yishui for seventy or eighty miles and occupied all the land between Yishui and Mashui. One day, he would probably reach the location of the Yijinglou Fortress ruins.

In addition, the troops were divided into groups to advance along Gushui, restoring the two port counties in Yuyang County as their footholds, and covering the flanks of the army just in case.

After all, even after even the Gushuikou belonging to Yuyang County was occupied, Cao's army could have a warning time in advance for the enemies coming from the east. Although Mi Zhu's navy was not afraid, adding an insurance to warn in advance would be prepared and the flanks were thicker.

Because the establishment of a village, occupying the port, and advancing were all very smooth, the contacts with Zhang Fei's small cavalry scouts were easily won, and Zhang Fei's cavalry was not daring to get close. Cao Cao was in a very good mood, and he rarely felt that he had bet the right time this time.

In the early morning of July 18, the entire army was shrouded in an atmosphere of inspiration that "Today we will go to Yijing Tower to rescue thousands of Yuan Xi's remaining soldiers who were still trapped in Yijing Tower."

I wish I could "destroy this court food", so I rushed to Yijinglou first to free up the circumference and then have a meal, and have a good celebration banquet.

Yijinglou is a purely military fortress that is stronger than Jicheng. After Gongsun Zan's death, Yuan Shao had no need to continue to deliberately destroy its fortifications. So now under the guards of Yuan Xi's army, Yijinglou is actually an existence that is more difficult to conquer than Jicheng.

At the same time, this place does not have much strategic value or publicity significance. Liu Bei's army has not given high priority to attacking here, so Zhang Fei did not spend a lot of troops here to waste it. It seems that it is indeed not difficult to rescue it.

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Cao Cao was a poetic presence. The cooler morning breeze blew on his face. This atmosphere made him no longer choose to supervise the battle on a boat, but instead rode his horse and whipped it ashore to walk with the cavalry.

If you are excited, you can improvise and write poems.

After warming up for a while, Cao Cao's entire body secreted dopamine and norepinephrine, and his spirits gradually became excited.

He raised the whip, pointed at Yishui, and smiled proudly: "Hmph~huhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Cheng Yu, the adviser who was accompanying the army, felt a little distressed when he heard it, and couldn't help but ask for advice: "Why is the Prime Minister laughing?"

Cao Cao let out a few breaths and signaled Cheng Yu to pay attention to Yishui geography: "Everyone in the world said that Li Boya shines thousands of miles, and has a thousand years of enlightenment. Zhuge Liang has a brilliant idea and a great talent. In my opinion, this is the case after all!"

Cheng Yu asked for advice and said, "I don't understand, please let the Prime Minister make a clear statement."

Cao Cao's mouth raised: "Have Zhongde ever thought about Zhao Zilong of Changshan and Taishi Ci of Donglai, where is the current military flag?"

Cheng Yu was very familiar with this and replied without thinking: "I heard that he was still in Wujun, guarding the Yangtze River estuary with sea ships in the south sea, and he also patrols and deters our defense line in the north of the Yangtze River from time to time."

Cao Cao shook his head: "Today, Gu can use the Yellow Sea sand boat to seize the benefits of controlling Yishui. All under Gu's command is Lu Xun's navy. Li Boya and Zhuge Liang advised Liu Bei to take advantage of the civil strife of Yuan's family to not attack the culprit Yuan Shang and instead take the swaying Yuan Xi. It was a good move, but when Yuan Shang and Yuan Tan refused to submit, they first took the land of a state for nothing.

But Li Boya saw that things were not far away. He could not have expected that Gu would be able to take action when Zhang Fei was in danger of attacking Youzhou. He did not expect that after Yuan Xi changed his banner, Gu could use his skills to let Zhang He Gao Lan turn against Zhang He and return home today, and immediately organize an army that could support You!

Therefore, although Liu Bei had a sharp and sharp navy, he was still relocating in the Jianghuai River. Our army only relied on Lu Xun's sand ship to make the benefits of the coastal areas of Hebei and the dangers of the water.

If Li Boya has a vision, he will let the navy and navy of Wujun in advance to rescue Mi Zhu, and lie on the side, cutting off our waterway. If our army is unfavorable and forced to retreat, in addition to the cavalry, how many will the accompanying infantry be left behind because of the slow retreat by land?

On that day, Zhongde, you advised Gu to beware of Mi Zhu's navy. Gu did not care about it and said that Mi Zhu's navy was not worthy of fear. In fact, those who are afraid of it were only Mi Zhu's warships that matched Zhao Yun and Taishici's navy troops to achieve miraculous results. Unfortunately, Li Su couldn't see this and had no chance."

When Cheng Yu heard this, he was a little worried and regretted that when he persuaded Cao Cao that day, he did not analyze it more thoroughly, so he went to Yishui in person and inspected the geography of the battlefield to have this experience.

As expected, it is still not possible to build a car with a stick and a drum. Those who are generals do not understand astronomy and geography, but are just talented people after all.

He sincerely admired: "The Prime Minister is very knowledgeable, and his subordinates admire him."

After Cheng Yu said this, he suddenly saw smoke and dust coming from the Yishui River in the west, and tens of thousands of people rolling towards him.
Chapter completed!