Chapter 1057: Break the cauldron and fight to the death
Chapter 1938: Fight to the death, fight to the death
Who is the most calculating, it is naturally those who are reckless and unruly!
Originally, with Xu Shiji here, the people below could still be restrained by military orders.
However, nowadays, many people are ready to take action in this situation, especially Xu Shiji, who has just arrived. In the minds of many people, they are willing to obey his orders only because of Liu Bei's orders, not because of Xu Shiji's own prestige.
Chi You only led 6,000 yellow turban warriors out of the city to hide in darkness, while Zhang Dingbian was scolding and fighting every day!
Chi You not only mobilized these 6,000 most elite and powerful Yellow Turban warriors, but also took away most of the remaining food and grass.
With the little food and grass left by Huangjin now, it will only last a few days. In these days, Huangjin can still drink some gruel, and there is some shredded meat in the porridge.
In a few days, there may not even be porridge left, and only water will be left!
If you want to have food to eat, you really can only eat "meat"!
If Cao Cao and Chi You had not been short of food, even if Cao Cao and Chi You were defeated, they would not have been defeated so quickly and looked like they were about to perish. Even at this time, Cao Cao had simply perished.
As long as there is a chance of victory, people like Cao Cao will not go to the finals, but send most of their own forces to Li Xiang!
Cao Cao at least had some people to send away, but Chi You didn't have so many scruples.
Chi You was different from Cao Cao. Cao Cao came from a real big family. Although Cao Cao and Yuan Shao's origins were incomparable, they could still be ranked high in the late Han Dynasty.
Cao Cao's father was Cao Song, who recognized the eunuch Cao Teng as his adoptive father, succeeded Fei Tinghou, and was ranked as the ninth minister.
Cao Song was also a man who knew how to use his power for profit. He accumulated countless gold and silver through corruption and bribery, and spent 100 million to become a Taiwei, one of the three princes. His power reached its peak, and the Cao family became even richer.
When Cao Cao and Chen Liu started his army, didn't all the wealth of the scattered family depend on their fathers? More importantly, the Cao family was a very influential family. At the beginning of Cao Cao's uprising, Cao Hong, Cao Ren, Xiahou Dun, Xia Houyuan and others led a group of people. A group of men and horses came to invest; Wei Zi used his family wealth to help Cao Cao obtain 5,000 elite soldiers.
Not to mention brothers from the Cao family and the Xiahou family, if the influence of the Cao family was not enough, why would Cao Cao receive funding from Wei Zi when he first started his business? This family financial support directly helped Cao Cao recruit 5,000 elite soldiers. This is a huge amount of money, and it cannot be given away just by giving it away.
The Cao family comes from a big family with a big business and numerous children.
But Chi You was different. This one was born at a lower level, but he happened to meet such a noble person as Zhang Jiao.
Chiyou had no relatives, not even a bloodline left behind. It is indeed incredible that he had several wives and concubines, but he never had any heirs, which was the only one among the princes in the world.
Even in order to maintain his rule, Chi You was not allowed to adopt Zhang Dingbian's son as his adopted son. Of course, this was only one of his adopted sons. Chi You had several adopted sons, the most famous of which was Xian Zhong.
As for the Han army, under the restraint of Xu Shiji at first, the generals could barely suppress it. However, it was not until the suggestion of a Yellow Turban counselor that Zhang Dingbian trampled the Han banner and Liu Bei's portrait under his feet and insulted the news. After returning to the Han army camp, many generals were completely unable to suppress them.
Xu Shiji, after all, lacked some prestige in the hearts of many Han generals. The generals who originally belonged to the Shu army might buy his account, but those who belonged to Liu Bei and Liu Xiu's people at the beginning would not buy it. his account.
Shi Jin and three other generals disobeyed the general's orders and attacked without authorization. However, several generals including Shi Jin were killed by General Qu'a himself, and few of the more than a thousand soldiers he led out of the camp without authorization came back.
When the news came, Xu Shiji was also helpless!
Of course he couldn't fall into such a simple calculation, but the problem was that not everyone under his command listened to him. Wasn't Shi Jin the first one to show up!
Xu Shiji also had to scold his teammates as pigs. If you lose, you lose, but at least you come back alive!
Now that Shi Jin has died in the battle, it will naturally be settled once and for all. The dead are the most important. Unless it is really serious to a certain extent, otherwise there will generally be no further investigation after death.
However, he died and everything was settled, but Xu Shiji was in trouble, leaving a lot of problems!
If Shi Jin could come back alive, at least Xu Shiji could kill him and use it to scare the monkeys and enforce military orders. But this guy was killed directly in battle, leaving him without anyone who could kill the chickens to scare the monkeys.
But at least, with time and lessons learned, the remaining generals, no matter how reckless they are, will not act so easily.
Xu Shiji and Xue Wanche actually had similar ideas, that is, they were not in a hurry to engage in battle and kept dragging it out until the food crisis broke out on the Yellow Turban side. Even if they could not defeat the enemy without a fight, they could easily defeat them. The Yellow Turban is destroyed.
What famous marshals like Xu Shiji actually like is not the kind of head-on battle to defeat the opponent to prove their ability. What they like is the current situation. If they can win without a win, they can win without a win. , if you can win at the lowest cost, win at the lowest cost, it doesn't matter even if you spend a little more time.
Soldiers are important matters of the country and cannot be ignored!
Those who can be called handsome are basically at a different level from the generals. They don't need to take more risks to show their abilities. Even if they may appear to be more incompetent, they still You have to wait until you have a better chance of winning before taking action.
Even if they already have a 70-80% chance of winning, they are willing to wait a little longer as long as they can get a little more chance of winning.
This kind of difference may not be visible much in small-scale battles, but in the kind of national war that determines the life and death of a country, that is when they are most highlighted.
Xu Shiji was not afraid that Chi You and the others would dare to break through. Although the troops everywhere would inevitably be relatively weak after forming a strategic encirclement, Xu Shiji only needed to pay attention to a few strategic points. The rest of Chi You could break through if he wanted to!
With the little food and grass Chi You had left, even if he took his soldiers and ran away, how far could he run!
Xu Shiji was in a stalemate with him here every day. If he didn't come true, the soldiers' demand for food and grass would be less, and they could survive for a while longer.
But once Chi You breaks through, there will definitely be a bloody battle with real swords and guns. Under the fighting situation, the soldiers' demand for food and grass increases greatly. The food and grass that could originally last for ten days may barely last three days. Even if Chi You Even if you break through, you won't be able to break out.
