Cao Cao and Guo Jia both agreed with Xun Yu's judgment and nodded. Not to mention the big fight, even the Qingzhou Army at home also consumed most of the food and grass!
Xun or pointed at the map on the gum table and said, "We will hold Luoyang City as a stronghold on the West Front. Yuan Tan and the noble families of Yuzhou are in Yingchuan. Chen Guo and Liang Guo have deployed heavy troops. The general will definitely support the defenders of Yuzhou. . And we will find a way to control Xuzhou, so that the Daqian Army will be restricted to the Central Plains area."
Cao Cao was a man of perseverance, and he was also a man who suffered repeated defeats in history. He calmed down, thought about it carefully, and found that now was indeed their best chance to occupy Xuzhou.
So he said: "I listen to your plan to go south to Xuzhou, but we have to write a letter to Yuan Tan and Liu Bei each, telling them that we occupy Xuzhou only to guard against the large Qian army and strengthen ties with the imperial court, and also to support Henan. Zhang battlefield allowed Yuan Tan to concentrate his main force to deal with Lei Gong. Tell his generals not to hurt any soldiers of the Xuzhou army and send them to Yuzhou! Yuzhou still needs their strength!"
Xun You, Cheng Yu and Guo Jia looked at each other and nodded. The Qingzhou Army went south to Xuzhou in this critical situation not to take advantage of the situation, but for the overall interests of the imperial court and to save Xuzhou before the large Qian Army.
Xuzhou is in the hands of the Qingzhou Army. It is in the hands of the Han Dynasty. At present, the only ones who can rush to Xuzhou in time and defend Xuzhou are Cao Cao and the others. This statement is true no matter where it is, and Yuan Tan certainly does not dare to do so now. Break up with them.
Then Cao Cao said calmly: "The defeat of the coalition forces was due to the lack of enough cavalry, which allowed the Daqian Army to take the strategic initiative. Qingzhou could not buy war horses, and we had no way to change this. But relying on the Taishan Mountains, we There are also ways to weaken the advantage of Daqian cavalry, and Zang Ba did it well this time.
The second is that the number of artillery in Daqian far exceeds our imagination. The Han coalition only has hundreds of artillery, but Lei Gong has thousands of artillery. In this Central Plains war, we suffered the loss due to the lack of artillery firepower. Any fortified city of the Han Dynasty would fall to pieces if faced with the bombardment of thousands of artillery pieces from Thunder God.
From now on, we in Qingzhou will collect all the copper mines, copper coins and copper products and make them into bronze cannons. Qingzhou will need hundreds or even thousands of cannons for defense in order to withstand Dagan's attack!"
This artillery war was the power of God, and it was fully demonstrated. Without artillery in future wars, we are destined to be passively beaten.
Guo Jia, Xun You, Cheng Yu and Xun You all nodded. If the Daqian Army in the Central Plains War did not have thousands of artillery to assist them, the coalition forces would not be able to defeat them, but at least the strong defenses would be enough to withstand the Daqian Army. The attack can even turn this war into a war of attrition that will hurt both sides.
Cao Cao looked at Guo Jia and said: "The paper money mentioned by Feng Xiao can be implemented in Qingzhou now. We must change all the copper coins in Qingzhou into paper money, and then cast all these copper coins into artillery.
Although we lost this battle in the Central Plains, Lei Gong also gave us a weapon to deal with his cavalry, which is artillery. If each of our infantry battalions is equipped with a few artillery, it will be enough to control the cavalry with foot. The cavalry must use their mobility and only need to It can bring light and short-range thunder cannons, but our infantry does not need much mobility. Anyway, it can’t outrun the cavalry at 50 miles or 30 miles. But after we bring long-range artillery, we can rely on it. We use artillery to repel the cavalry charge, so that in the future our infantry will no longer be helpless when facing the cavalry of a large army in the field."
Xun He and others were surprised when they heard Cao Cao's words and found that artillery could indeed restrain cavalry to a certain extent!
But Guo Jia smiled bitterly and said: "It is too late for Ming Gong to issue banknotes now. The most important thing in issuing banknotes is credibility. You must make others believe that you are money, so that we can use banknotes to buy everyone's goods."
But in this war in the Central Plains, Lei Gong defeated the Han Dynasty's hundreds of thousands of allied troops. Now everyone in the world, from the common people to the powerful nobles, knows that Lei Gong is the one who is most likely to establish a new dynasty and ascend the throne as emperor.
Under such circumstances, who can believe that the banknotes we issue can really be used as money? You must know that the Central Plains has been occupied by Daqian. The next target of the Daqian army is either Sili or our Qingzhou. In this critical situation of life and death, At this time, who dares to use their wealth to trust our banknotes, which may be defeated at any time, and who is not afraid that all his wealth will be wasted.
I'm afraid that even the nobles of Qingzhou are not willing to help Duke Ming now! They helped Duke Ming in the past, firstly because they had no choice, and Duke Lei would not accept them at all. Secondly, because of their hatred of Duke Lei, the wealthy nobles of Han Dynasty wanted to use Minggong. We must gather their strength to defeat Lei Gong and completely eradicate this alien being, Lei Gong. However, with this great defeat in the Central Plains, I am afraid that all the noble families in Qingzhou will be disappointed with us!"
Cao Cao snorted coldly: "If they are disappointed, how dare they seek refuge with Lei Gong? If Qingzhou is really captured by Lei Gong, all their students and former officials will be kicked out. Lei Gong will not want their people. They have their own students. With their background In Daqian, you can only become a businessman, not even an official, not even a petty official.
They can endure falling from the first-class family to a situation where they are not even as good as a businessman! You must know that Lei Gong has always killed them. As long as they don't want the whole family to go to the Western Regions, to the desert, to the desolate island, besides supporting me, what else can they do? Who do you support?”
Guo Jia shook his head and said: "But now they can't see the hope of victory. They can still survive by surrendering and continue to support us. They are also afraid that their families will be destroyed! Now I am afraid that many people are contacting Lei Gong secretly, hoping to help Qingzhou in the future. Defeated and found a way out.
Cao Cao said angrily: "How dare you threaten me? Do you really think that I can't do what Dong Zhuo can do? From now on, give the blueprints of the artillery to the entire Qingzhou noble family and let them spend all their family money." To make artillery, they wanted to avoid being killed by Lei Gong, so they had to find ways to strengthen their weapons.
At the same time, we forced private transactions to use paper currency, confiscated all private copper coins, and used them to cast cannons. Anyone who dared to trade with copper coins would have their goods and copper coins confiscated. This would have prevented even a single copper coin from flowing out of Qingzhou!"
Xun You said in surprise: "What about our transactions with the outside world? Other parties will not agree with the banknotes issued by us in Qingzhou!"
Cao Cao sneered and said: "If the outside world doesn't recognize it, we will barter, but not a single copper coin can leave Qingzhou. If it is not enough, we will not buy these goods!"