"I don't want to eat, I want to see the Prime Minister! Don't stop me! I'm doing this for the Prime Minister! The situation of this battle has changed, and I really can't fight! If you fight the Prime Minister, it's over!"

Xun Yu has been trapped in his residence these days and is very bored. At this moment, he looked at the heavy snow outside the window, worried about the situation of the army, and wanted to see Cao Cao several times.

However, the guards at the door were taken care of by Cao Cao and did not allow Xun Yu to join Wen's military affairs again, so they failed.

Xun Yu seemed to have the only reliable opportunity to appeal, but when the waiter delivered him a food box early in the morning, he pulled the waiter and told the other party to tell the Prime Minister, but there was no reply for a long time.

Xun Yu couldn't eat at all, so he piled up the food boxes in front of him. The food was cold quickly in winter and it became cold in less than half an hour. Xun Yu sat there, feeling a slight pain in his spine. It seemed that he was not adapting to the environment these days, worried, and had a swelling on his back.

(Note: There is also a school of sayings in history that records that Xun Yu died of ulcers and anger. It is said that he died of poisoning because of his worries and anger.)

This health condition made Xun Yu increasingly pessimistic about the current situation. Of course, what he was pessimistic about was not his life span, but his increasingly felt that the situation was extremely ominous to Cao Cao's side!

Xun Yu is familiar with history books. He knows very well how Fan Zeng, the number one counselor of Liu Bang and Xiang Yu, died more than 400 years ago. Wasn't that also a death from a gangrene?

While the cervical sore was in pain, Xun Yu heard the noise behind his back. Someone came in outside the door and thought he was forcing him to eat again. He waved his hand irritably and scolded the person: "I said that I was unwell and I wouldn't eat it if I didn't eat it! Take it away!"

However, someone grabbed his arm when he waved his hand. Xun Yu was stunned. He turned around and realized that it was Cao Cao himself who came.

Xun Yu was stunned for a moment, but he still restored his etiquette and bowed to him: "Prime Minister! This battle cannot be fought! Even if you still have hope ten days ago, now there is almost no hope!"

Cao Cao raised his hand to stop him: "You and I have been together for ten years. I don't want to be nice when I leave, so don't force me to do it. You said you are unwell, so why don't you feel uncomfortable?"

Xun Yu: "That's all a trivial matter, let's talk about military information first! Prime Minister, one time and another, when you and Feng Xiao designed to lure the enemy, even if you succeed, it was based on the premise that Liu Bei's entire army advanced recklessly.

Now that Liu Bei is cautious and divides his troops to test, his main force will naturally have enough time. Once an accident occurs, he will turn to attack and build a base on the spot. How can our army get the chance to attack? This is one of them!

Our army has many new soldiers, low morale and heavy snowfall, and the soldiers will only become more and more likely to escape. In particular, there are hundreds of thousands of people on both sides, and heavy snow covers their vision, and their eyesight cannot be far away. There are many people and powerful people, but no one can see clearly whether their number is the dominant one.

Heavy snow is not conducive to the attacking side, but also to the large number of people. Both harms lie in our army, and this is the second. This is not the case. This battle cannot be fought! Let’s just surrender!”

Cao Cao was dissatisfied and shook his sleeves violently: "Share you to fulfill your ambition! You said that Liu Bei had one or two days to react, and if he found that something was wrong, he could turn off the attack and defend? Not to mention what kind of camp and long trench he could build in just one day to protect hundreds of thousands of people.

Just talking about the snowy days and the cold weather, isn’t this just making it more difficult for Liu Bei to turn punctual digging of frozen soil? Wen Ruo, when will you look at the military planes only to the enemy, but not to the points that are beneficial to our army! I really regret seeing you for the last time before the decisive battle!”

After saying that, Cao Cao was about to leave and was in a bad mood.

Xun Yu pulled Cao Cao's sleeve tightly and said nothing, but he was weak when he was sick. He was pulled hard by Cao Cao and dragged it to the ground. Xun Yu didn't bother to get up, so he just stood on the ground, and spoke quickly and finally explained:

"Prime Minister! It's not that the cold weather is also bad for Liu Bei, but the subordinates have been to Ruyang in person and have seen the construction skills of Liu Bei's soldiers. The engineers trained by Zhuge Liang are extraordinary.

The engineers trained by Zhuge Liang may do what our army cannot do in one or two days and what we cannot do in the frozen soil! At that time, we will attack the camp in the heavy snow!

There is also a saying that my subordinates don’t want to say. Prime Minister Chacai asked about his subordinates’ condition. In fact, he suffered from cervical cervical dysfunction! I dare not say whether it can be cured! The Prime Minister read "Records of the Grand Historian" well and knew that when Xiang Yu and Emperor Gaozu were in stalemate, Fan Zeng died of cervical dysfunction.

Now the Prime Minister withdrew from Honggou and retreated hundreds of miles to Qiao County to fight to the decisive battle. If his subordinates die again with a cervix, wouldn’t the Prime Minister feel that this dilemma is too ominous! I’m afraid it’s a big danger! Why do you have to die hundreds of thousands of great men in vain again!"

Cao Cao was also a little confused. He was furious when Xun Yu was hit by this blow. He directly drew out the Yitian Sword and gestured over. Fortunately, in the end, he couldn't bear to kill this old brother who shook the morale of the army because of his ten-year-old friendship.

"Xun Wenruo! You dare to disrupt our morale many times! Please remember your life and deal with it after the war! Aren't you unable to eat with a cervix? Don't you like to ask the waiter who delivers food to the other party to tell me? Okay, lunch starts today, no one will give you a food box! Do you like to eat it or not!"

Cao Cao turned the Yitian Sword with the flow and did not cut it towards Xun Yu, but cut the sleeve that Xun Yu was holding, which was considered to be a broken robe and absolute meaning.

Xun Yu pulled himself empty-handedly, grabbed the piece of brocade in his hand and fell backwards, and his head hit the blue brick floor, and he fainted.

...

After Cao Cao scolded Xun Yu, he felt a little refreshed. It seemed that after venting his anger, the blood clots in his head loosened slightly.

He was just about to take care of other military affairs and prepare for himself to supervise the fight, but he didn't work long. At noon that day, some bad news came from the front.

Xiahou Dun hurried back, saying that it was the vanguard of Cao's army near Luyi who fought with Ma Chao and Huang Zhong's cavalry for a while.

At the beginning, we should be deceiving defeat and luring the enemy into the deep end. In actual implementation, there is no need to be deceiving defeat.

Because when the number of people on both sides is equal, even if the Cao army is not three to five times more than the Han army, it is normal for the Cao army to be defeated when encountering Ma Chao's assault.

Therefore, the first wave of troops in front of us who brought the Internet to guard the Internet were really beaten by Ma Chao, and they were defeated by thousands of people, and the Cao army was trampled and dispersed.

Ma Chao and Huang Zhong chased each other from the beginning of the Si hour to the last moment. When Cao's army fought and walked, reinforcements from each direction were surrounded, Ma Chao actually chose to stop when he saw the situation.

Cao's cavalry was insufficient and Ma Chao could not be kept at all.

This is like watching a shark catch a murderous intent, eating up all the bait, unhooked and left.

"I also expected that Liu Bei asked Huang Quan to supervise Ma Chao and Huang Zhong to tentatively pursue him, and then he would hold a heavy hand. Now that's true, he has no choice at this point.

The entire army took the initiative to march! Can't we catch up with Ma Chao or Liu Bei's infantry? The entire army will press into Wuping County! Fight against Liu Bei to the death on the Great Plain!"

"Here!" Xiahou Dun, Cao Hong and other royal generals all took the order and left.

Le Jin and Li Dian, other foreign generals, also sent their own tasks and began to march in an orderly manner.

The generals in Cao's army also included some mediocre talents such as Lu Qian, Ren Jun, Xu Ding, and Han Hao.

In terms of military civil servants, in addition to military advisor Guo Jia, there are also some civil servants responsible for commanding troops, such as Mao Jie, Lou Gui, Liu Fu, Xu Yan, Ding Fei, etc.

The civil and military positions in Cao's army have become more vague. This is mainly because the army is expanded too quickly and the generals are not enough. Moreover, the generals were killed in battle in the previous stage and were captured and surrendered too much.

Those who lack trusted and reliable commanders had to temporarily transfer some civil and military officials to lead the troops.

Nowadays, Xiahou Dun and Cao Hong both have to directly command more than 100,000 people, and the command burden is very heavy.

Not only are they not Han Xinzhi's talented people who can "more than one hundred thousand soldiers" may not even be able to do Liu Bang's "only one hundred thousand soldiers".

Xiahou Dun, who was the heaviest, had 150,000 people directly under him. There were occasional troubles between the marching and dispatching. Either a certain unit did not keep up with the speed of the entire army, or another unit was obviously short of people as they walked.

Originally, under Cao Cao, those who were not surnamed Cao or Xiahou could not command more than 50,000 troops alone. Now this unspoken rule has been broken. Le Jin was assigned 80,000 directly under the army, and Li Dian assigned 60,000 people to command.

The other large number of ordinary generals and capable ministers who turned from civil to military affairs, either 10,000 or 20,000 or 20,000 to 30,000, were considered to have brought the troops up.

On the evening of the 28th day of the 12th lunar month, all the main forces of the Cao army advanced to Luyi County, and the vanguard was still thirty miles away from Wuping.

On the 29th, the army continued to push forward, and the vanguard finally saw Liu Bei's main force in the central army, Ma Chao and Huang Zhong, who had also successfully retreated to meet with Liu Bei at the suggestion of Huang Quan's staff.

Liu Bei's army got about eighteen hours of breathing on the plain outside Wuping County before waiting for the general attack of Cao's army.

But as Xun Yu expected, in these eighteen hours, except for the necessary rest time for soldiers to eat and sleep, Liu Bei did not waste any of the rest.

More than 100,000 soldiers with experience in digging canal construction, led by professional engineers, dug several trenches several feet wide and deep, and piled up the excavated soil behind the trenches to form low chest wall fortifications.

The most vicious thing is that Liu Beijun also used the cold to make fire and cook snow, made some freshly melted cold water, and then sprinkled it on the chest wall where the snow was piled up very thick.

When water above zero degrees encounters snow, the snow will melt immediately and the fluffy volume will instantly decrease. However, because the weather is still extremely cold, these melted snow will freeze again in less than half a minute while flowing downwards.

The simple chest wall of the Han army quickly turned into an ice wall - who made Cao Cao not have the experience of attacking Ma Chao in this life? Therefore, he had not had time to use the ice wall tactics to defend the enemy. So he used it by Liu Bei.

More than 500,000 Cao troops were congested on the plain battlefield with a width of two and a half counties from south to north, and had to attack the seemingly unsolid temporary defense line on ice and snowy days. At least, this was still a field battle, not a tough battle.

Cao Cao knew that his troops could not withstand the freezing and could not fight for a long time, so he would do it quickly.

He didn't talk too much nonsense with Liu Bei, but just called Liu Bei to the front of the formation. The two sides were at least two or three hundred feet apart, each with dozens of scolding hands, and shouted and scolded each other with wooden horns. Then it was the link where the whole army rushed forward.

Liu Bei would not be polite to him, after all, the more he argued, the more he became clearer, and Liu Bei was the one who prevailed the truth, and he had the right name to be honest. If he had the chance, he would still scold him.

"Cao Bidder! You are holding a fake dynasty. I thought you were just planning to usurp the Han Dynasty. But today, for your own selfishness, you treat the people of the world like grass, and you are happy about the troubles, cut off the Yuan Yuan, and the remnants of the people to show off, and poison the ghosts..."

"The soldiers obey orders! Eliminate the traitors and suppress the thieves! Restore the entire Han Dynasty! Today!"

Liu Bei cursed but did not let his soldiers charge forward, which was very good. It can be seen that he was always very clear and knew that he was going to play the role of defensive counterattack today.

Let Cao Cao take the initiative to come to the ice wall and trench defense line first and break the blood! Let’s consume the number and morale of Cao’s army!

Sure enough, Cao Cao on the opposite side was scolded so much that he could not stand it. He personally supervised the battle and asked the entire army to attack: "Liu Bei! Don't show off your verbal advantage again! The world is raging, just for you and me! Today I will see you and die! All the generals attack!"

Xiahou Dun, Cao Hong, Le Jin, Li Dian... all the soldiers flocked out.
Chapter completed!