Chapter 3165: Too many people is just a few meal buckets
Did Old Cao, or Shandong, really develop all the war power?
Obviously, this is not the case.
As mentioned before, if the children of the gentry in Shandong donated 100 large sums of money to support the Han Dynasty and let Prime Minister Cao defeat the enemy, then most of these people would donate, and they would even be unwilling to donate money later.
Isn’t it just a hundred big money? Who looks down on whom?
But if they were asked to donate all their property...
Is this...
Damn who is who?
If people from Shandong can work together to fight hardships, even if the ten Feiqians are combined, they will still be unable to withstand it. After all, even if Feiqian advances in technology, it still needs people. Moreover, Shandong has a deep foundation. In history, the Three Kingdoms have finished fighting in history, and they still have the strength to fight a turtle battle until they are completely out of trouble. It will be considered as a stalemate...
But the problem is "uniqueness".
Want everything, often you can’t do anything well.
Everyone has their own little thoughts.
Who in Shandong could have expected Fei Qian's rise to such rapidity?
It's like the wind and snow, it's just like it's wind and snow.
The last time Fei Qian sent troops straight out of Heluo, the troops pushed the way flat and attacked the vicinity of Xu County.
This is almost a nightmare for Shandong people, well, to be precise, a nightmare for Yuzhou people.
Chinese people are not unable to unite, but when there are too many families, it is difficult. Some people can give up everything and strive for their ideals, but some people will stay because of the increasing number of families around them and cannot make progress. Even when they first stand together and support each other.
Just like Jizhou and Yuzhou.
These are the two core forces of Cao Cao's power, which belong to the core positions in the north and the south respectively.
In Liu Xiu's era, they were partners, but now they are more like enemies.
Jizhou is a place that is flat and flat, but it does have advantages in terms of geographical advantages. There is Taihang Mountain in the west, Qingzhou in the east, and Qingzhou in the south, and Yanshan in the north. There is no problem in making a happy nest.
As long as you can keep the edge.
When Yuan Shao was in Jizhou, he sent his sons to guard the border, one to Youzhou and the other to Qingzhou, and even tried to use his nephew to fight Bingzhou, and then asked his younger brother Cao Cao to Yanzhou. It can be said that it was really "unexpected".
But no matter how good your ideal is, it really won’t work when people are not good.
Otherwise, when Yuan Shao talked about the grand strategy of the Yuan family, the future ZTE strategy and other matters, the gentry in Jizhou would hold red wine glasses... Well, the rice wine glasses were laughing wildly, the kind that almost fell off the table.
It’s not that Jizhou guys don’t support Cao Cao, but they support themselves more.
Just like when they supported Han Fu, but later turned to Yuan Shao, if the head above could not bring them the corresponding "benefits", then they would not mind changing one.
The current local vassal system of the Han Dynasty was like the Midi Federation.
Did Han Fu do something wrong back then?
No, Han Fu even tried to please his fellow villagers. He tried to please his fellow villagers and provided the Yingchuan people with the opportunity to serve as local officials outside. At the same time, he tried to appease the local gentry in Jizhou, saying that he still valued the people of Jizhou, and at the same time he tried to please the three masters of the Yuan family. While accepting Yuan Shao, he also asked someone to stand outside Yuan Shao's residence and said that he would show Dong Zhuo.
Han Fu really wanted everything, but in the end he couldn't get anything.
Coincidentally, after Yuan Shao took over Jizhou, he wanted everything and had to balance everything, but the result was an imbalance.
Now Cao Pi is in Jizhou, but he has followed the old path of Han Fu and Yuan Shao.
Want anything.
The main sources of soldiers who attacked the Bingzhou direction under Fei Qian's rule were Hanoi and Jizhou.
These two troops were not really trying to conquer Bingzhou, but to hold Fei Qian's troops so that they could not return to Hedong or Guanzhong. If you delay for a while, Cao Cao would have a little more advantage, and the situation would naturally be better in the future.
If you want to hold the troops in Bingzhou, you must rescue them if you attack them.
Huguan is one, and Taiyuan is the second.
The troops attacking Huguan were mainly Hanoi soldiers, while those who marched into Taiyuan were mainly Jizhou soldiers. Unfortunately, Hanoi was only a county in Sili, and its power was relatively weak no matter how you say it was, so you must still need the assistance of Jizhou.
Such a division of labor is actually very good, but Lejin's attack on Huguan was not good, which led to Jizhou having to supply food and grass to Cao Cao and increase troops to Huguan. Then Xiahou Dun urged people to ask for food and grass again. Then Cao Chun encountered problems in the north of Youzhou, and asked for money, food and grass, and soldiers...
So Jizhou was completely ruined.
And Qingzhou...
Almost emptied by Cao Cao.
Youzhou, it’s a mess with the Hu people, and it won’t work anymore.
Therefore, Jizhou is now completely not providing any party with any supply, whether it is victory or failure. Although it seems to have no resistance on the surface, it actually drags on and waves its hands and feet very quickly, but it is actually standing still.
In other words, the entire northern area of ​​Cao Cao was shut down on a large scale, and the powers of the district and counties and central governments were quarreling with each other. There was a snorkel thing, but no one did the work in fact.
Let’s look at the southern part of Cao Cao’s power. The situation is not very good. The southern part of Cao Cao’s power is probably south of the river, including Yanzhou, Yuzhou, Jingzhou and Xuzhou. I won’t mention Xuzhou. Lao Cao didn’t do anything good in Xuzhou back then. Even if Xuzhou has recovered slightly now, he will be close and distant. Otherwise, Lao Cao would not have been calculating Chen Deng and then killed him in office.
The situation in Yanzhou was also very bad. The first time was the Sour Jujube Alliance. The coalition forces ate three feet of digging the ground, leaving nothing but a pile of shit and urine. Later, Zhang Miao and Lu Bu rebelled and killed a large group of people. Before he could recover, Yuan Shao led his troops to attack again. As the front line, he was beaten so hard that he could not take care of himself.
After finally Cao Cao defeated Yuan Shao and was about to resume production, he found that Yanzhou was facing the front line in Guanzhong!
Therefore, Yanzhou's overall strength has always been relatively weak, with severe population dislocation and recovery is nowhere to be achieved.
Jingzhou was originally in good condition, but after Liu Biao died, he was cut. Fei Qian, Cao, Cao, Sun Quan's family shared the meat and would not mention who is big or small. Just say that after this cutting, even if Jingzhou itself did not die, it would be a big damage to its vitality and would be difficult to recover in a short period of time. In addition, the Nanyang area was also in trouble by Yuan Shu, a prodigal son, so the entire southern part of Cao Cao was still healthy.
In terms of military strength, Cao Cao's direct central army had about 100,000 people, mainly commanded by the Xiahou personnel of the Cao family with the Central Guard as the core. Moreover, the Central Army with high loyalty values ​​could not be all brought to the battlefield. About 15,000 were placed on the two core points of maintenance, namely Yecheng and Xu County, as an existence similar to the "Imperial Guard", it was in charge of city defense, palace gates, and military affairs in the city. The rest of the soldiers were the old soldiers following Cao Cao, that is, at Tongguan.
As for the Cao army soldiers in other aspects, there were about 200,000. These were the surrendered troops that Cao Cao had recruited at various stages and the troops recruited from various places one after another.
Cao Cao was the core, Cao Xiahou was the general under the command, and the central commander was the backbone, and the big fat man was built.
This is an army system constructed by Cao Cao from the old system of the Han Dynasty.
In the old military system of the Han Dynasty, it was also composed of the source of the Central Army, which can be roughly understood as the North and South Army, plus the local field troops stationed, or the Caiguanlou Ship, etc., plus the mobile power gathered in urgent need of the expedition, which was called "Running" and "Recruiting" three levels. After Emperor Guangwu of Han, perhaps he was afraid of the disorderly expansion of local force. Emperor Guangwu abolished the local field troops, that is, Caiguanlou Ship, etc., which increased the force of the lowest level of the local force, and private parts were rampant.
So it is not that the system in Shandong is necessarily so bad, but the key is the person who implements it. It can be seen that Shandong's overall military strength still has great potential to be explored, but unfortunately, Cao Cao can no longer find anything at the moment.
If the situation in the nine years of Taixing was a chess game that started due to Fei Qian's conquest of the Western Regions, then both sides of the game basically put the chess pieces on the table, and the rest were means...
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『Wu Pass!』
When heavy snow fell in Shan County, Tongguan, the Wuguan area became a new chess eye.
Qin and Chu have been fighting here for a hundred years, and now they are once again trapped in the quagmire of war.
Wenpin was from Jingxiang. He was born and raised in Jingxiang. Now he fought against another person who was not Jingxiang for someone who was not Jingxiang.
Among the most dazzling generals in the Han Dynasty today, there is no name for Wen Pin, but it does not mean that Wen Pin is incompetent.
In history, Wenpin was also a person who was recorded because of "crying", but he was different from the Emperor of Han who went wherever he went. Wenpin only cried once.
In history, Cao Cao obtained Jingzhou. Wenpin was in Jingbei at that time and was within the power of Liu Cong. Liu Cong naturally also called Wenpin to surrender together. The Three Kingdoms record that Wenpin was very sad and said, "You cannot be in the whole province, you should just wait for punishment." Later, after Liu Cong surrendered, the handover procedures for military talisman seals and letters were completed, and Wenpin still came to pay a visit to Cao Cao. Cao Cao called Wenpin and asked, "Why are you here?"
Wen Pin said, "I cannot assist Liu Jingzhou in the future to serve the country. Although Jingzhou is not present, I always prefecture the Hanchuan area and preserve the land. I live to live to be lonely and weak, and die to be ashamed of the underground. I have no choice but to make plans, so I am really sad and shameless, and I have seen it early."
After Wen Pin finished speaking, he was "swept and shed tears."
"Shouji" refers to the way a person crys so hard that he breathes rapidly.
As a military general, he was used to life and death, so he naturally advocated tears without squirming. However, at this moment, Wen Pin cried loudly in order to be loyal to his old master. Even Cao Cao was moved when he heard this, praising Wen Pin as a loyal minister...
The implication is that other ministers who followed Liu Cong to surrender to Cao Cao, such as that, would not be a good bird.
Cao Cao's words may have been intentional or unintentional. Anyway, after he said it, Wenpin's life would not be easy.
Wenpin is an honest man, so he naturally fought Wuguan honestly.
Honest people often have to do dirty work.
Cao Ren asked Wenpin to do the most tiring and offensive things. Because only Wenpin Fair is honestly doing it, and what other people...
Wuguan is obviously very important, and it is precisely because both sides know that this place is important that the generals of both sides have always been steady before they have formally turned against each other, and they dare not act rashly, for fear of any action being alarmed. But in fact, there have always been conflicts in secret, and even when the two sides are fighting head-on, small-scale infiltration and penetration are indispensable, and then they look for each other's weaknesses to attack each other. But the honest man also made Liao Hua helpless, because the front is to fight head-on, and there is no room for tricks.
Cao Ren did the tricks.
When playing Go black and white, sometimes you can decide the winner and lose if you have a long breath.
Cao Ren wanted to breathe a little more on the chess chess in Wuguan. Even if he could not decide the life and death of the dragon, he could still have another robbery in the endgame.
Before Cao Ren entered the army, he did not have much direct contact with the Shen brothers, but after sending troops, Cao Ren sent someone to Shangyong and directly asked the Shen brothers to cooperate in the battle.
To say that cooperation is actually equivalent to asking the Shen brothers to take some measures to support the Cao army, and as an internal supporter of the Cao army, he should take down Hanzhong as soon as possible. In return, Cao Ren promised that the Shen brothers could have greater rights in Shangyong and settle in Shandong afterwards, and the positions he gave were also very good and very attractive.
Shen Dan believes that this transaction is not bad, but it still needs to look at Cao's army's strength before the final decision is made. After all, fencemen really have to encounter the wind before they will completely fall.
Fortunately, Cao Ren was unambiguous this time, not only immediately let Cao Zhen as the pioneer unit, go straight along the river and march into Shangyong.
The Shen brothers felt that Cao's movements were fast, but in Li Dian's heart, they felt that they were slow.
As spring plowing is coming, if we fight for a few more months, will this year be wasted?
So when Li Dian discovered that Cao's army was really advancing, he immediately withdrew his soldiers from Shangyong.
Cao Zhen led the army slowly, and the scouts around him ran back and forth, reporting on the military situation.
"The Hanzhong Army withdrew from Xian County and stationed in Mulan Village."
"Retreat?" Cao Zhen was a little confused.
The scout said: "Yes, he evacuated directly, and the evacuation was very straightforward, and he didn't even put a fire. The four gates of the entire Sandian County were wide open, without any warning."
Xianxian is a county town along the Han River.
Not big or small.
At the beginning, Cao Zhen thought that Li Dian had some conspiracy, such as setting up an ambush in Sandian County, or burning Sandian County, but he sent someone in to search carefully, but found nothing...
So even if Cao's army "free soldiers" took down a "major town" in the Han River.
When the news spread, those who were waiting and watching were of course surging.
"Shen's family came from Shangyong, and was two hundred miles away, with two thousand soldiers..."
"When King Liang came from Pingyang Mountain, there were five thousand soldiers..."
Cao Zhen, who was stationed in Sandian County, heard the new report, but frowned and said, "Where are the supplies, food and supplies of these people?"
The scout hesitated for a moment, "It seems that he hasn't brought much..."
Cao Zhen nodded.
The scout retreated.
There are quite a few people coming to cooperate with Cao's army.
If it were not compared with the Guanzhong Cavalry Army, Cao Zhen would not be happy, but now he is more worried. Whether it is the Di army or the Shen family's troops, it is impossible for them to train like the cavalry and horses, and they must be the peasant soldiers.
If you want to eat and poop, you will naturally not be behind, but if you want to fight bravely...
Whether it is waste or elite, they all have to eat, and it is possible that waste will eat more. So it is indeed a good thing to have these vitality, but it also means that there are thousands of mouths, which will increase the pressure on logistics supplies.
So, there seems to be only one way left.
Take action on the enemy.
However, around Shangyong, there are actually not many areas where Cao's army can eat.
Shangyong is the private land of the Shen brothers. Even if Cao Zhen thought a little about it, he would not be able to start fighting Shangyong as soon as he came up, so it must be other areas. For Shangyong, the mountainous areas and hills were mostly in the Zhang Lu period, and there was not much development. Later, after Fei sneaked into Hanzhong, because of the ambiguous attitude of the Shen brothers, the focus was still on the development of the Nanzheng area, and the more remote Shangyong was appointed, so the development level of Shangyong was far behind that of Nanzheng.
In this way, if Cao's army wanted to obtain additional material supplements, they could only start with the Yongren and Di people around Shangyong.
At first, the Shen brothers and the King of Liang felt very happy. After all, with the support of Cao's army, they could attack the mediocre and Di people around them who were not very good at dealing with them. In a flash, the smoke of wolf was everywhere.
But then the question arose.
The clichés of the Yongren and the Di people do have some savings, but how much can these clichés in the mountains have?
The army opened tens of thousands of times and hurriedly captured a parcel. Then it found that the supplies in the parcel were not enough to eat, and those broken copper and iron were not used. As the parcels along the way were conquered, they would inevitably need to attack further and further. In this way, the journey and efforts of the march were increasingly disproportionate to the gains of attacking the parcels.
At the same time, because of this plunder and destruction, the Yong and Di people who might have remained neutral or didn't care at all whether it was the Fei army or the Cao army, began to change their attitudes.
No one likes that their property is deprived of for no reason.
After Cao Zhen discovered that his efforts were not effective, he also tried to stop this behavior. The Shen brothers could still obey orders, but if they killed the dizzy Di people and asked the King of Liang, they were already out of control. Even if they heard the Cao army's orders, they would turn a deaf ear. After all, the broken copper and iron that Cao Zhen looked down upon was considered a good thing for the Di people. After passing this village, there would be no such store, right?
At this point, Cao Zhen suddenly realized that Li Dian gave up on San County was not a conspiracy, but an open conspiracy!
When did this Li Mancheng become like this?
Did you not discover Li Dian's potential before, or did you have any new skills under the Cavalry?
Chapter completed!