Xu You was an uncertain factor, even though he had tried his best to tie him to his chariot before and predicted the overall direction of the situation.
Not to mention anything else, it is impossible for the surrender of Cao to happen again in the Central Plains War. The reason is very simple. The Battle of Guandu was moved forward two years.
Therefore, letting Zuo Rong bribe Xu You by purchasing war horses, the money became a constraint on his neck at the critical moment when the two Yuans were fighting for power.
In fact, it went very smoothly. Apart from anything else, there was at least no discrepancy in Beiguo's prediction of where this would go. It was originally an excellent layout piece, but now, his attitude began to waver.
When Ma Yan was acting as a vanguard, he had sent a letter to Lu Bu, specifying that Lu Bu should lead troops in a sneak attack. He even pointed out the attack points and retreat points, in order to express his position to Lin Mo, which could be regarded as a pledge of honor.
But who could have expected that Zhang Yang would be killed. Lu Bu insisted on taking action and had to kill Sima Yi.
Lin Mo is a time traveler, not a god. He is just an ordinary person with human emotions and desires.
He is Lu Bu's weakness, and Lu Bu is not his shortcoming. Seeing him in such pain, even if he takes the risk, he can only give it a try.
However, this incident can be regarded as a wake-up call for Lin Mo. When he was in Anfeng, the three armies regarded him as the commander-in-chief, and he also felt that he could become the independent commander-in-chief.
In fact, it is still not qualified.
He hoped that Lu Bu would not be swayed by negative emotions and would focus on the overall situation when doing things. It would be best if the mountain collapsed and his appearance remained unchanged, just like those generals who were famous in history.
However, after Lu Bu and Zhao Yun left, Lin Mo himself had been in a state of uneasiness and did not dare to take risks.
It is true that he has Xu Sheng by his side. In terms of force and bravery, if the four pillars are no longer behind him, there will probably be no one under Yuan Shang who wants to kill him head-on on the battlefield.
But the problem is that in terms of reversals, breakthroughs, and direct attacks on the battlefield, the gap between Xu Sheng and the top-notch warriors is not small.
This was also the key reason for Lin Mo's hesitation.
Looking back now, the smooth road in the past completely relied on two points. The first was the prophet and the understanding of the character; the second was the reliance on strong generals like Lu Bu and Zhao Yun.
However, a commander who can truly act on his own will never be able to fight against the odds. When Wu Hou came out of Qishan for the sixth time, Liao Hua was already the vanguard. You can imagine how scarce strong generals are.
But he still fought vigorously, but at this point, he was no longer in another dimension.
After Yuan Tan left, Lin Mo calmed down and seriously considered this issue, the future and the choice.
Of course it will be much easier to fight when Lu Bu and Zhao Yun come back, but the only certainty in life is uncertainty. No one knows what will happen tomorrow.
In other words, from the day they embark on a thousand-mile pursuit, they have to bear the risk of not coming back, whether you are willing to accept it or not.
I can't just wait for something uncertain. Maybe they will be delayed, or even if something goes wrong on the way and the route is changed, then the date of return will only be delayed again and again. Shouldn't we just fight?
After understanding this truth, Lin Mo did not plan to delay any longer. Yuan Tan could not afford to delay because of his food and grass. Lin Mo actually could not afford to delay because his layout did not allow him to delay any longer. Otherwise, the previous layout would not only All previous efforts have been wasted, and he and his 20,000 troops may also be in danger, and even the pattern of the Central Plains will undergo tremendous changes.
"Wen Xiang, do you know Wucheng?" Lin Mo looked at the sunny boy standing aside.
"In a small country a hundred miles north of Xiajin, there are less than two thousand soldiers and no generals to guard it. If you want to go there, you need to cross the Qingshui River and go around more than ten dense forests and depressions. It can be reached by foot and horse in three days." Xu Sheng is like a treasure trove. Come on.
This made Lin Mo a little surprised. Although they had been getting along day and night these days, there were not many opportunities to really talk about military use. Only today did he realize that he had changed so much.
Looking at Xu Sheng and Lin Mo, he was in a daze. He was no longer the nurse of Pengcheng Lin Mansion.
"How do you know so well?" Lin Mo asked with interest.
"I have seen the terrain and cities in the surrounding hundreds of miles on the map, but unfortunately I don't have time to visit them all in person. However, I have asked the guide, and they are pretty much the same."
Facing Lin Mo's suspicious gaze, Xu Sheng scratched his head in embarrassment, "It was all taught by General Zhang."
Lin Mo showed an expression of surprise, forgetting that he had stayed in Guangling for a full year and a half. He had learned a lot from Liao Shen. Obviously, this was a Liao Shen who was not limited to falsehood, reality, and righteousness.
"If we let you take the city, how many troops and horses will be needed?" Lin Mo held his chin in his hand and looked sideways at Xu Sheng.
"With three thousand, we can definitely take over Wucheng!" Xu Sheng assured with a pat on his chest.
"Okay, call up 500 cavalry and 2,500 infantry, but there is no need to forcefully attack the city, just a siege. Of course, if you have a way to take down the city, you can also make your own decision. The battle situation is changing rapidly. For the general Players must learn to adapt to situations.”
"Don't worry, sir!" Xu Sheng excitedly accepted the order.
The stay in Xiajin has been delayed for almost a month, and nothing has been done. Xu Sheng can hardly stand it anymore.
However, he thought that the battle was just to follow Lu Bu or Zhao Yun as a charging lieutenant. However, the three thousand troops allocated to him by Lin Mo this time were completely decided by him. This was the first time that he led the troops alone. For a moment, only what Zhang Liao had said to him countless times came to mind, both true and false.
Don't worry, General Zhang, I will definitely live up to your reputation!
In Wen County on a rainy night, the county magistrate, county lieutenant and county magistrate died suddenly, and the Sima family was also killed in pieces. This incident caused an uproar in Hanoi.
Two people can turn Wen County upside down and almost kill the Sima family, a prominent family in Guandong. This is definitely explosive news.
In fact, just because there is a lag in the transmission of the news, after a while, this news will probably shock the thirteen states of Han Dynasty.
Slaughtering a wealthy family is a horrifying thing anywhere. Sun Ce only indirectly killed Lu Kang and almost drowned in saliva. This was a clear-cut killing.
Is there still king's law? Is there still law?
The most frightening thing was that there were only two people coming, which was almost a fantasy. For a time, everyone in the powerful Hanoi family felt in danger and began to strengthen their own armed forces, expand armaments, and strengthen night watch.
The disciples and former officials of the Sima family began to express condemnation, accusing the person who did this of being unnatural, and those who were more closely married or interested in the family began to look for the mastermind more directly.
Cao Cao was originally in Huai County. Although the surrender of Miao Shang and others was not worthy of Sikong personally coming to comfort him, he also brought 40,000 troops on this trip, preparing to go north to Bingzhou to make a difference.
Although the troops were extremely fast and the military planes could not be delayed, he had to come to Wen County in person when such a major event happened.
Fortunately, he has not completely handed over the Hanoi affairs. Otherwise, if such a tragedy happened on his own land, which almost wiped out the entire family, it would be difficult to successfully lead the troops north to Bingzhou without giving an explanation.
Sima Fang, who was lying on the couch, was very excited when he saw Cao Cao coming to the door. He drooled again. He raised his right hand with difficulty and pointed at Cao Cao tremblingly, babbling and not knowing what he was talking about.
"Don't worry, I will definitely find out the real culprit and bring justice to the Sima family." Cao Cao had an expression that said, "I know what you want to say." He patted Sima Fang's hand comfortingly and said a few symbolic words of comfort. Turned and left.
He asked several noble ladies and children who were lucky enough to survive that night, and the answers were basically the same. There should be no mistakes. But what Cao Cao didn't understand was why they were so afraid of him. They looked as if he could eat them. Seems like it.
Finally thinking about it, I must have been scared out of my wits.
Later, Cao Cao went to Zhang's house again, but failed to get any valuable clues, because that night, Zhang Wang ordered no one to disturb their conversation. I was afraid that no one would know that the three people were dead inside until dawn.
The Zhang family's family members were even worse than the Sima family. They didn't even see what the person Zhang Wang brought back looked like, and they couldn't answer any questions.
But there is something interesting. Zhang Wang's youngest daughter is only eleven or twelve years old, but she is the only one who does not cry and is not afraid of people.
"This girl will definitely do something great when she grows up." Cao Cao touched her head and felt that there was complexity hidden in her eyes that should not be present at this age.
After some inquiries later, I learned that the city gate guards on duty that day had seen Zhang Wang leading the two people into the city, but they didn't look at them at all, so they couldn't draw a picture of their appearance.
In the end, we can only blame this matter entirely on Zhang Wang's head. No one knows what happened, but there is one thing you can't change. It was you, Zhang Wang, who brought this person in. The Zhang family themselves are willing to admit it.
After leaving the city gate of Wen County, Xu Chu finally started to speak, "Sikong, one of the two is probably Zhao Yun."
Cao Cao, who was sitting on the carriage, leaned his head out of the carriage window and said with a smile: "What nonsense are you talking about? Didn't Zhao Yun follow Lu Bu to Qingzhou at this time? Can he kill people thousands of miles away?"
Is Zhao Yun capable of such a thing? The answer is yes.
But Cao Cao would not believe that he could travel from thousands of miles away to Wen County to kill people. Whose coach employs people like this? If he is not careful, he can bury a hard-working general in a foreign country.
If you want to say that he believes in sending an assassin, but if you want to let such a fierce general become an assassin, you cannot believe it at all.
"I don't know about this."
Xu Chu made a troubled face, and then explained: "But I asked the soldiers who escaped, and according to what they said, the body shape and weapons are no different from Zhao Yun."
"You can't be sure based on these alone." Cao Cao waved his hand.
"There are not many people in the world today who can hold a gun in one hand and a sword in the other and kill the armored soldiers who can't get close to them."
Of course, Xu Chu did not want to argue with Cao Cao, but just shared his conjectures, "Back then at Xiaoguan City, Zhao Yun had a green sword in his left hand and a bright silver spear in his right hand. He could not get close to killing our troops.
I have checked all the broken armors, and they were indeed split open by a very sharp sword. All the wounds on the soldiers were killed by one blow. Apart from him, I can't think of anyone else. "
Cao Cao frowned. At first he thought this was nonsense, but after hearing Xu Chu's analysis, he felt that it was a little possible.
Apart from Zhao Yun, there is no other fierce general in the world who holds a sword in one hand and a gun in the other. This is true.
Although it cannot be concluded that he did it based on this, at least there is suspicion.
But on second thought, he still rejected it because there was no reason for him to be in this place.
To put it bluntly, Zhang Yang's death stimulated Lu Bu, and it was impossible to guess that this incident was related to Sima Yi.
Therefore, this idea was rejected by Cao Cao himself.
"Where is there another person?" Cao Cao stuck his head out again and asked.
"I can't guess this. He also uses a gun. From what the soldiers said, his figure doesn't look like Zhang Xiu."
After Xu Chu finished speaking, Cao Cao was completely uninterested in listening.
This is nonsense. It is completely impossible for Zhang Xiu and Zhao Yun to come here to kill people.
Everyone is dead, so there is no point in talking about these things. Cao Cao has always been a person who is good at summarizing. He has no interest in digging deeper into who the person is because he knows it is futile.
However, he must find out how the other party came, because if he can't protect it, he will do it again later.
This was also the only gain from this trip. According to the gatekeeper's instructions, Zhang Wang would always go to the ferry in those days. In other words, people came by the river.
Xia Jin could indeed swim upstream from the Yellow River, but he still didn't think this matter had anything to do with Lu Bu unless he was already crazy.
However, it is true that the management and protection along the river will be strengthened in the future. Now that I think about it, apart from being concerned about the taxes on water transportation, I have never asked about the defense aspect of the river.
With a little care, it is possible to avoid this tragedy.
It's a pity that Sima Yi, such a great talent, died so cowardly.
This is the only sad thing about Cao Cao. He originally thought that he could attract a great talent, but who would have expected that such an episode would happen.
That's all, if he had come to vote for me earlier, he wouldn't have done anything like this. He deserves to have this end, and he can't blame others.
Fortunately, this incident did not affect his march north to Bingzhou. Xiahou Dun had already led his troops and could not wait any longer.
Cao Cao breathed a long sigh of relief and lay down to take a nap in the carriage covered with blankets.
Yuan Shang set up three strongholds in Xiajin, with an army of 150,000 in a Z-shaped layout. In this way, no matter which direction Yuan Tan Lu Bu wanted to attack from, he could support each other.
Yuan Shang was sitting on the commander's chair in the Chinese army's tent, with Ge You lying down. He was very comfortable. Now he finally had a hint of the comfort of the Lord of the North.
I originally thought that this trip would be a life-and-death bloody battle, and it might even be a decisive battle when they met.
Because he had made a judgment before coming here. Yuan Tan's biggest advantage was that he invited Lu Bu. His biggest disadvantage was that he couldn't fight for a long time because of the lack of food and grass, so this trip focused on a defensive counterattack.
Anyway, it is enough to move the army to the front line, make the family powerful, and let his second brother and senior officials see the glory of the new leader of the North Kingdom.
Therefore, he was very nervous on the way here. Before he arrived, he was worried that Ma Yan would be attacked by a sneak attack. When he arrived, he was worried that Lu Bu and Yuan Tan would risk their lives with him.
But after a month of confrontation, I found that not only did the other side not make any big moves, they didn't even make any moves like challenging them in front of the village. They seemed to be ready to fight a protracted war just like me.
This is of course excellent and just what you want.
"Lord! The scouts reported that a unit of the Lu Army was crossing the river in the upper reaches of the Qinghe River, with the target directed at Wucheng!" After receiving the news, the forward general Ma Yan hurried in and bowed to Yuan Shang.
Work overtime, try to get the second one out before six o'clock
(End of chapter)
