Whose life is more important?
Is the life of a president important, or is the life of a beggar important?
This is a good question.
There are too many people in the world who hold their arms high and shout equality and freedom, but when asking this question, they often either talk about it or pretend to be deaf and dumb.
There was nothing to burn in the camp itself, so after burning the hay and some unfortunately ignited things, the flames naturally went out.
Not many people were killed by poisonous smoke, but among them were the unlucky Zhang Xi.
There are quite a lot of soldiers who were poisoned, but most of them have no life worry. Most of them can recover after a period of time. After all, this kind of local poisonous smoke is not as toxic as that of later generations, but these wounded people made Cao Hong frown deeply.
"How did this idiot die?" Cao Hong whispered to the guard who was sent to the camp to urge Zhang Xi last night.
The guard's eyes were red by the poisonous smoke, and he said in a hoarse voice: "He...
The guards had no idea when Zhang Xi died.
The scene was chaotic at that time, and the guards fled first, so where would they pay attention to Zhang Xi?
But now Cao Hong asked, the guard could not say that he had seen nothing and paid attention to nothing, but was just patronizing himself for his life...
Your own life is important, but nothing else is important?
The guard said with red eyes, as if he was very aggrieved, "He... I pulled Captain Zhang out, but he didn't know why he rushed to the camp..."
『Run back again?" Cao Hong frowned, 『Why did he go back? To save others?"
"Maybe...yes..." The guard nodded.
Cao Hong pondered for a moment and waved his hand.
The guard let out a secret breath and was about to turn around and leave, but was stopped by Cao Hong, and his whole body shook, "General... the Lord?"
"Just say you went back to save people... it was dragged out by others..." Cao Hong whispered, "Prince Zhang sacrificed himself for others... It's worthy of admiration, do you understand?"
The guard nodded repeatedly.
"roll."
Cao Hong cursed in a low voice.
They are all their own guards, so how can they be unclear on weekdays?
If you really have the ability, how can you just be an escort?
You should know that Cao Cao is also short of talents.
Now that Zhang Xi's death made Cao Hong very angry.
Not only was he angry at Zhang Xi, but also at Sima Yi.
If this is really a fight and death, Cao Hong would have forgotten it. After all, he is not as skilled as others, but now...
"Sima's little thief! A ghost and monster!"
Cao Hong yelled, and he waved his arms and walked past the wounded soldiers. "Sima villain! His mind is not fighting, his appearance is mysterious! He may hide in the dark, wait for an opportunity to move, or openly cause chaos, and he is lawless! His heart is cruel and his behavior is cunning! He is like a rat, afraid of the burning light of the sky! However, the way of heaven is bright, even if the villain can gain benefits for a moment, he will eventually suffer from evil consequences! We adhere to the way of a gentleman, and are upright and upright. Even if we are harmed by villains, we will eventually be famous in history!"
"Therefore, it is said that villains do evil and will not have a good end! A gentleman is upholding the righteousness and will be where the destiny of heaven comes!"
Cao Hong took off the cloak on his body with his own hands, covered Zhang Xi's body, then squeezed the corners of his eyes hard, and finally rubbed it with his hands, "The Spirit of Warriors, and bless me to avenge you!"
Cao Hong straightened his waist and looked around for a while. The ferocious look on his face showed up. He raised his arms and shouted angrily, "Revenge! For our brothers!"
The last sentence was finally understood by most of the soldiers, so some people followed and raised their hands and shouted, "Revenge!"
"revenge!"
Cao Hong shouted again.
『Revenge! Revenge!』
The rest of the soldiers shouted.
"Transfer the order to march into Puban County!"
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Compared to the bloody battles in Tongguan, the battles here at Zhang Yangchi cannot be considered very tragic, but they do not mean that such battles can be taken lightly and arranged at will...
The shameless villain in Cao Hong's mouth, Sima Yi, was preparing to attack the camp behind Cao Hong.
"Sima joins the army, how do you know that Cao's army will go to Puban now?" Huo Nu asked in a low voice.
Sima Yi laughed, "This... this is what the lord told us..."
『Ah?』 Huo Nu was stunned for a moment, 『Lord, when did the lord say this?』
Sima Yi smiled and said, "Did you forget? The lord sent someone to send a head over..."
Huo Nu nodded, "I know this...and what? At that time, there was nothing but a head?" Huo Nu indeed remembered that there were only heads at that time, and there were no other letters, nor did he listen to what the soldier who gave the head told Sima Yi.
Sima Yi smiled, "If you have to explain everything clearly and explain it to each one, what else do we have to do?"
『…』 Huo Nu was a little silent.
Sima Yi explained, "Actually, this is simple... Do you think, if Cao's army gets angry when they receive the head? If they get angry, they will come to fight us. When we fight, we use grenades and do not strangle Cao's army. This is equivalent to making General Cao's anger accumulate... Then we will attack again... General Cao's anger has nowhere to vent, and he thinks that we can only use small tricks, and will inevitably go straight to Puban..."
Huo Nu didn't understand very well.
Sima Yi's eyes flowed and glanced at Huo Nu's expression, "I heard that you also like drinking..."
Well?
Why is it "also"?
Huo Nu was stunned for a moment and waved his hand quickly, "Join the army! I didn't drink any medicine for rescue... Uh, I mean I didn't drink alcohol!"
『Haha…』 Sima Yi smiled and narrowed his eyes, 『If someone said you can’t drink when you are drinking happily, and don’t drink when you are drunk, would you not drink if you listen to your advice?』
"This... I'm afraid I can't..." Huo Nu responded, and then suddenly realized, "Is joining the army saying... that's what Cao's army is like?"
Sima Yi nodded, "Absolutely... But Huo Junhou, drinking for no reason in the army... you should pay attention."
In fact, when Sima Yi was in the Northern Region, he knew that there were a few people in the army who would try every means to drink, but what these people didn’t know was that in fact, there was a habit of hiding registration in the logistics system... These guys who thought they used various means to get alcohol thought they had made money, but in fact they would be postponed in the promotion and selection. What they drank was not alcohol, but their own future.
Huo Nu beat him haha.
Sima Yi didn't say much.
Just make a good relationship, you don’t have to be impressed by it.
What Cao Hong did was actually within Sima Yi's expectations. Cao Hong urgently needed a victory to stabilize the morale of the army, which was also Cao Cao's need, but desire would rush people's minds and drive their actions to move in different directions.
When Sima Yi received the head of Cao Zhen, the son of Cao Hong, who was sent by Fei Qian, he made an overall plan and even had alternative plans. Unfortunately, Cao Hong was too cooperative, so Sima Yi's alternative plans were not used...
"Send the order," Sima Yi urged the horse to move forward, "The whole army accelerates! Fight quickly and decides quickly!"
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『Bang!』
Amid the dull sound of impact, a soldier from Cao was knocked away by a war horse and fell to the side. His bones and tendons broke and his mouth were spitting blood, and he couldn't even get up.
The Hussars and cavalry whistled, flexibly passing by, running quickly in the Cao army camp like a swimming fish.
Psychological tactics seem to be very high-end, but in fact, as long as you master the key points, even ordinary Hussars can play well.
The Cao army soldiers who were left behind by Cao Hong did not expect that they would be attacked by Sima Yi during the day.
When the seven or eight Hussar cavalry disguised themselves as Cao's scout team, no one doubted that these Hussar cavalry easily approached the camp gate. Then the cavalry rushing from another direction attracted the attention of most of the Cao's soldiers. So Sima Yi just had to go around Cao's camp and run from one end to another with his men, and then rushed in along the open camp gate.
It was obvious that the two legs could not run four legs. When the Cao army soldiers found that Sima Yi had a flick at the front door and rushed to the back camp, the Hussar soldiers who disguised as Cao's scouts had already gained control of the back camp.
『Stop them! Stop…』
The soldiers of Cao's army shouted, hoping that others would stop him.
The Cao army soldiers who tried to stop them were either knocked away or killed. So the other Cao army soldiers avoided the head-on impact of the war horses in a panic, thinking that it was okay for them to let them go, anyway, the people behind them would stop them...
In the rear camp of Cao's army, most of them were auxiliary soldiers, errands, and those injured soldiers.
Relying on these people to stand up and intercept the Hussar Cavalry?
Stop kidding.
If Cao Hong's attitude towards the wounded soldiers was slightly better, or if it was not just Cao Hong, but the entire Cao army's system of treating the wounded soldiers could be better, then there will definitely be people who dare to stand up now, and there will be many.
This is the public's psychology, a very simple reaction.
Such things are not something you can do just by wanting them temporarily.
"Reject horses! Who will go and win the horses!"
To resist cavalry, of course, it is best to resist horses, but everyone is blaming others for not taking them.
"Damn it! Who will hit their horses! Cut their horse legs!"
As long as the war horse is injured, the Hussar cavalry will immediately lose most of their combat power and reduce the threat, but no one will go.
Everyone understands this principle when raising troops for a thousand days.
But what if the word "张" in this sentence is replaced by "张"?
Amid the chaotic shouts, the Hussars skillfully controlled the war horses, and ran through the gaps in the tents in the camp, constantly advancing into the middle of the camp, expanding the chaos to the entire camp.
Under Sima Yi's command, the Hussar Cavalry did not pay too much attention to the helpless Cao soldiers, but instead rushed towards those who tried to gather to resist, reducing their own damage by attracting side attacks in a frontal way and amplifying the other's panic.
The Cao army soldiers believed that it was meaningless shouts of Hussar cavalry, which actually represented a different meaning. Hussar cavalry would not blindly collide towards the infantry, because it has been proven to have certain losses many times, and it will naturally be easier to impact from the flanks or behind the infantry array, and often there will be no damage to itself.
Moreover, once the infantry battle formations that were trying to assemble were scattered from the flank or the rear, the other party would psychologically feel that there was no safe place. Then, even if there was a chance to assemble for the second time, no one would be willing to obey the orders...
The war horses were digging snow and soil on the ground, and blood and flesh were jumping from swords and guns.
『Roam…』
"Puchi..."
『Hold on it!』
『Fire! Who will put out the fire?』
Amid the chaotic sounds, the Cao army camp was in chaos.
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Habits are a very interesting thing.
Once a habit is truly developed, it is not easy to change, whether good or bad.
In fact, many people know that some habits are good and some are bad, but if you know, if you want to change...
If you get used to it, you will get angry and punch and kick the person who wants to change it.
The Cao army also has the habit of the Cao army.
Cao Hong's forward arrived in Puban County.
Even the veterans who had been fighting for many years in the Cao army were not feeling well.
Even people from Jizhou are not all used to this cold weather.
The snow is flying, and the sky is as cold as ice.
The smoke from the soldiers and horses during the march was stained with their mouth, nose and beards.
They do not have the cloth yarn to cover their mouths and noses.
Because they don't have such a habit.
Silk cloth and yarn are something that only senior generals and non-commissioned officers in military academy have, and they do not belong to ordinary Cao's soldiers.
So what should they do when they feel the hardship or even pain?
Bear with it again.
This is also their habit.
If you can't bear it and die in the end, no matter whether you struggle to die or die silently, there will be no attention from many people, and it will not be left in their memories.
They will quickly delete the dead person in their mind...
This is also their habit.
These habits, to some extent, make them feel less painful.
The instinct of human nature is to seek profit, and this kind of seek profit may not be "comfortable".
Because this "profit" is relatively speaking, 100 yuan is "profit" compared to 10 yuan. Similarly, pain at level 3 can also be a "profit".
These Cao's habits have their own reasons for forming them, and it is also the basis for the Cao's victory in the Central Plains.
They have a large number of people, and the troops have suffered huge losses, so no one can remember anyone.
Just like Zhang Xi's defeat and death, even if Cao Hong repeatedly emphasized and encouraged, he wanted to inspire the soldiers' revenge, but it did not have much effect.
Because except for some of the elite core private soldiers of Cao's army, most of the other soldiers did not have any concept of revenge...
Otherwise, how do you calculate the revenge in Xuzhou?
Where is Qingzhou?
Jizhou, Jingzhou?
If everything is said to be revenge, it will be endless.
Even regardless of region or friendship, Zhang Xi is not everyone's friend.
As for comrades...
If there are new recruits joining the army and then they will struggle day and night with a group of new recruits from their hometown, then they will be filled with comrades.
Unfortunately, Cao's army did not.
The soldiers in Jizhou were surrendered and Yuan Shao captured them.
The Qingzhou soldiers were Yellow Turban thieves, so they were just for the sake of their food.
The soldiers in Yuzhou were recruited, so they wanted to pay a bounty.
If you have bravely moved forward in battle, gained merits and promoted, and look at the admiration and fearful eyes of the recruits, and feel that you can realize yourself in the army for the first time, then you will have comrades.
Unfortunately, Cao's army still did not.
If you want to be promoted, it has to do with it.
It doesn't matter, there must be gold and silver.
If you don’t even have gold and silver, how can you express yourself to be motivated? How to show your sincerity? How to show that you need to move closer to Prime Minister Cao?
They are not afraid of fighting. After Zhongping, they struggled to survive until now. Who has not experienced many wars?
But they have no future.
No matter how hard they try to fight, they are still outsiders.
Among Cao's army, the Central Leader and the Central Guards are a circle, and outside this circle, all outsiders are outsiders.
So, when Zhang Xi was dead, Cao Hong shouted for revenge, and the other soldiers just shouted on their lips.
Most of the Cao army soldiers had no sense of belonging to the Cao army, and even to the Han Dynasty, let alone having such a strong feeling of "revenge" for someone or part of the Cao army...
The reason why the Cao army still maintained the rule of superiors and subordinates, and the soldiers were able to obey orders is strictly not because of the military discipline of the Cao army or how good the management was, but a habit, a habit formed over the years.
Regarding war, they are more in a state of numbness, without any thoughts, and will not think too much.
Before, they followed the orders to attack Tao Qian, Yuan Shu, and Yuan Shao...
Now they also obey the orders to attack Fei Qian.
As for why, they don't understand.
Puban County is not big. If it weren't for Pubanjin, it would have been said that even a village would be desolate here.
When Cao's army arrived outside Puban County, he immediately began to build civil engineering and build a camp.
This is their profession and a good show that Cao Jun is good at.
They are used to doing this.
This is how they handled it in history...
In history, Cao's army could not defeat the Xiliang army in its prosperous field battles, and there was no doubt that even Ah Man himself said so frankly and commanded the same way. He did not fight head-on with the Xiliang cavalry, but because of various innate defects such as discipline, the Xiliang army had no choice but to use Ah Man's field fortifications. This is also a fact. So when Lao Cao built a tough camp, he dared to constantly move the camp under the eyes of the Xiliang army, from Tongguan to Weikou, from Weikou to Weinan, and played with defending but did not lose mobility. This is the fundamental reason why Cao Cao defeated the Xiliang cavalry in history.
Therefore, it was impossible for the Cao army to abandon the projects they were good at and fight guerrilla warfare with the Cavalry Army. They started from Tongguan and advanced step by step, and pushed from Zhongtiao Mountain all the way to Puban County. This was also their habit.
Chapter completed!