The next day, Cao Jun launched another attack on Anyang City, but failed again, leaving only more than two thousand corpses.
Anyang City remained motionless.
Yecheng, Tian Yu, and Murong Ping have reorganized and selected soldiers.
According to Bai Xiaowen's requirement of "halving the selection of troops", only 60,000 soldiers were selected and sent to Anyang one after another.
The remaining 60,000 soldiers who were not selected were not of high quality, but they were more than enough for farming and could also be used as an external barrier to Ye City.
Let me mention here that psychic particles also have an impact on the maturity stage of food crops.
Just like mutated beasts on the earth, which can reproduce one generation in a few months, the maturity period of food crops has also been shortened a lot, and is very little affected by temperature. Even in areas north of the Yangtze River, crops do not need to go through the overwintering period and turn green.
Expect.
Take wheat as an example. Wheat planted that month will start heading and filling in one month, and will mature in one and a half months at most.
Some people may ask, if farming is so easy, why is there still a shortage of military rations in the Three Kingdoms plane?
The reasons are mainly three aspects.
First, the food intake of the armies of the Three Kingdoms in the Spirit Realm is much greater than that of ordinary armies. One person can eat as much as the previous two or three people.
Second, it is difficult to transport military supplies in the Three Kingdoms plane, and the consumption on the road is also very large.
The third, and most important reason: the proportion of the military to the total population seriously exceeds the warning line!
Taking Yuan Shao as an example, let’s first take a look at the total population during the period of separatist rule.
According to the records in The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, after Cao Cao captured Jizhou, he checked the household registration and found that there were only more than 300,000 registered people. Even so, Cao Cao happily said to Cui Yan: "(Jizhou) can be called a big state."
Of course, in order to avoid taxes and corvee, a lot of people were hidden away, and there were aristocratic families and tribes, etc., so the actual population was larger than the registered population. But no matter how full the calculation was, the total population of Jizhou was only a few hundred thousand larger.
The main area controlled by Yuan Shao is Jizhou. The other areas of Youzhou, Qingzhou, and Bingzhou are only small areas, and they are remote and sparsely populated. The total population will not exceed one million.
It is said in the novel that Yuan Shao "had millions of people and hundreds of thousands of soldiers". Almost one person out of three or four civilians was conscripted into the army. Excluding women and children, that is, all young men and women joined the army.
, even the old soldiers were not spared.
And what about the Three Kingdoms plane in the spiritual world?
After Bai Xiaowen took control of the four states, he checked the household registration and found that the total number of households was 180,000 and the total population was 970,000. This is basically consistent with the novel and historical data.
Farming is not difficult, the difficult thing is that no one is farming.
Therefore, it is not surprising that there is a shortage of military rations.
Now Bai Xiaowen is ordering old and weak soldiers to work in the fields, which is equivalent to a disguised disarmament, allowing 60,000 laborers to go back to work in the fields. Today, there are large areas of wasteland that can be reclaimed in Jizhou.
In addition, Xun Yu, as the Jizhou Biejia, has a passive skill that can increase the reclamation speed of farmland by 30%; Ren Jun, as the Dian Nong Zhonglang Jiang, also has the skill to accelerate the reclamation of farmland.
According to the characteristics of food crops in the spiritual world, you can start to enjoy the fruits of farming in one and a half months. Only with enough food and soldiers can you conquer the world.
However, the top priority is to defeat Cao Cao. Without defeating Cao Cao, the first main line of unification will not be completed, let alone the follow-up.
Anyang City added 20,000 elite soldiers, and Dazhai in the west of the city added 30,000 elite soldiers. The remaining 10,000 elite soldiers had long been taken to Wei County by Tian Yu and Murong Ping to defend it.
On the third day, Cao Jun did not attack again, but sent the fierce general Xu Chu to fight under the city. Bai Xiaowen stayed behind closed doors and took the opportunity to repair the arrow stacks on the city wall.
The same goes for the fourth day.
At this time, the detailed operations dispatched to various states in Henan finally returned the first batch of information.
Cao Cao borrowed 300,000 dendrobium (approximately 5 million kilograms) of grain from Zhang Lu and pledged the three auxiliary lands including Chang'an.
From the perspective of this transaction alone, it was definitely a huge profit for Zhang Lu. The land of Sanfu has always been called "Guanzhong". It was the cornerstone of Emperor Qin's imperial career and the first important place that Liu Bang conquered after he came out of Sichuan.
, it is also an ancient capital with extraordinary political significance.
However, Zhang Lu still lost blood and was tricked by Cao Cao.
Cao Cao also exchanged the land of Sanfu for the food and horses of Xiliang Ma Teng!
In this way, Cao Cao's military rations were enough to support an army of 200,000 for at least a month, and it temporarily alleviated the instability in the west. It can be said that he killed two birds with one stone.
Moreover, after Liu Biao in Jingzhou captured Xudu last time and failed to return, he was also attacked by Sun Ce in Jiangdong. Now, half of the nine counties in Jingzhou belong to the Sun family. Fortunately, Liu Bei's group assisted Liu Biao and saved Xiangyang. They are currently fighting against the Sun family.
I still don’t know how to win or lose.
In this way, Cao Cao did not have to worry about the problems in Jingzhou, Yangzhou, Hanzhong, Xiliang and other places. In addition, he borrowed military rations and regained his military strength, so he launched a large army to attack Hebei.
Yuan's camp, Anyang high-level military meeting.
Bai Xiaowen shook his head and sighed: "Zhang Lu and Ma Teng were deceived too easily. Cao Cao's plan was not very clever, but these two were short-sighted."
Dong Zhao said: "The leader of Zhang Lu's defense is Ma Teng, a Western Qiang barbarian, and he has no capable people to assist him. If Cao Cao uses this strategy of 'two tigers competing for food' on his lord, he will naturally bring shame on himself;
But when applied to Ma Teng and Zhang Lu, it’s no surprise that it’s successful.”
Tian Feng said: "Cao Cao brought a large army to Anyang City and only attacked it for two days. Yesterday and today, he only sent generals to fight without actually attacking the city. Could it be a fraud? We have gathered a large number of troops here, and we are very worried about Fan Fan.
Yang, Wei County."
Before Tian Feng finished speaking, a reconnaissance cavalry came to report that Fanyang City had fallen the day before yesterday, and Cao Xiong led three thousand partial troops to advance towards Wei County.
Dong Zhaodao: "My lord, Cao Xiong is Cao Cao's fourth son. Could it be that Cao Cao had a profound intention in sending him to attack Wei County in a roundabout way? Three thousand partial troops are certainly not something to be afraid of, but if Cao Cao pretends to attack Anyang, he secretly mobilizes elite troops to support him.
Cao Xiong, then Wei County is in danger."
All the counselors under his command felt that Cao Cao's move was suspicious. Otherwise, why would he suddenly stop attacking Anyang after attacking it for two days?
In addition, Cao Xiong is Cao Cao's biological son, and he only brought 3,000 troops deep into the hinterland of Jizhou. This is abnormal. Cao Cao will definitely send troops to support his son!
Bai Xiaowen narrowed his eyes and said: "Wei County has three military generals, Tian Yu, Qiao Rui and Murong Ping, with 10,000 elite troops to guard it, which is enough to protect itself. As for Cao Cao sending troops to support, I can't believe it, so don't worry about it for the time being. Just
Just send more reconnaissance cavalry to find out if Cao Cao has any secret plans to mobilize troops."
On the fifth day, the additional reconnaissance cavalry sent out sent back a report as expected.
Cao Cao secretly led his troops to Fanyang to support Cao Xiong!
After hearing this news, Tian Feng and Dong Zhao were both shocked and urged Bai Xiaowen to lead troops to help Wei County. If the troops in Anyang City did not understand, they could also send Zhang He or Gao Lan to lead the elite troops from Dazhai in the west of the city.