Chapter six hundred and fourteenth to see who can run fast
The march of the infantry cannot be compared with that of the cavalry, but when Yuan Shao personally visited the front line, he encouraged the soldiers to move quickly and told them that they were going back this time to save their fellow villagers. When the soldiers saw Yuan Shao, they all ran to the front of the army.
Come, and what Yuan Shao said is very reasonable. Most of his troops are from Jizhou.
Now that the state capital has fallen, they are also anxious. Therefore, encouraged by the morale of going back to rescue their parents and brothers and defend their homeland, Yuan Jun soldiers are not working hard. It would have taken at least ten days to retreat from Yijing.
, they rushed to Zhuojun in only five or six days, and they could enter Jizhou in two days.
Under this high-intensity rapid march, even the strong soldiers lost a layer of skin, let alone the elderly Tian Feng and Jushou.
Tian Feng followed Yuan Shao on the road these days and nights. Not only did he lose weight, but he also fell ill because he couldn't stand the high-intensity march.
Tian Feng, who was lying on the hospital bed, heard Yuan Shao say that Cao Zhi's army appeared in the west. He jumped up from the bed with a "poof!" and said, "Quick, my lord, let me see!"
Yuan Shao looked at Tian Feng who suddenly sat up, and hurriedly asked him how he was doing with concern. However, he still put the urgent military information sent by Chun Yuqiong into Tian Feng's hands as quickly as possible.
At this time, Ju Shou also looked at Tian Feng strangely. To be honest, he didn't understand why Cao Zhi sent troops to the west, but looking at Tian Feng's reaction, he seemed to have thought of something. So he chose to shut up and even stopped the impatient Yuan Shao.
, trying to express his personal opinion. He asked Yuan Shao to be patient and wait until Tian Feng finished reading.
"They want to go to Youzhou!"
After reading the military situation, Tian Feng, with sunken eyes, suddenly raised his head and expressed his opinion with certainty.
"You mean Cao Zhi wants to go to Youzhou?"
Ju Shou waited for Tian Feng to finish speaking, and immediately spoke. Moreover, he immediately thought of Cao Zhi's possible intentions. Just as Ju Shou was plucking a few withered yellow beards and thinking, Yuan Shao couldn't help but said: "Tian Feng said that Cao Zhi is going to flee to Youyou."
Zhou! Why is he going to Youzhou?"
"Join Gongsun Zan and cut off our retreat. Or even annex us!"
"Impossible. Cao Zhi has already severed ties with Gongsun Zan. He also contributed a lot in the battle of Baoqiu. He and Gongsun Zan must have sworn to be incompatible. How could it be possible..."
Tian Feng didn't wait for Yuan Shao to finish, and interrupted: "Driven by interests, good people can become bad people, and bad people can also become good people. Nothing is impossible, my lord. This Cao Zhi and his brother may have had a plan to help us weaken Gongsun Zan first.
, then set fire to our backyard, and then turned around to join forces with the dying Gongsun Zan to deal with us. It seems that the ambitions of these Cao brothers are not small!"
When Yuan Shao heard "the ambitions of the Cao brothers", his heart twitched inexplicably. He had always known that Cao Cao had ambitions, but he didn't expect that Yuan Shao, who thought that Cao Cao had always been in his scheme, turned out to have been plotted by Cao Cao. So, he
He immediately abandoned his doubts and started to believe what Tian Feng said.
"Then based on what Military Advisor Tian said, how should we resolve their conspiracy?"
As soon as Tian Feng mentioned the strategy, he immediately felt much better. He reluctantly stood up, shook the letter in his hand, and said: "The Lord immediately ordered that the army and horses along the way surge to General Chun's western front, and urgently ordered General Chun to
Delay Cao Zhi's army until reinforcements arrive. The second step is to prevent accidents. Please set up a second line of defense in Zhuo County immediately. If General Chun loses his position, we can stop Cao's army here.
, as long as Cao Zhi and Gongsun Zan are not allowed to join forces before we recapture Ye City, we will still have a chance. We can also stop Yan Liang. What is to the east is Cao Zhi's blind trick. It is useless to catch up. Let him stay.
In addition to the strength of the troops to prevent Cao Cao from advancing westward, the 10,000 cavalry also quickly turned ninety degrees to cooperate with the main force to attack Wei Commandery, and ignited the war on Wei Commandery's right wing. Thirdly, please, my lord, put aside your wealth and ask Gongsun Zan for peace!"
"What? What did you say? You want me to ask Gongsun Zan for peace?"
As soon as Tian Feng's third point was mentioned, not only Yuan Shao exclaimed, but even Ju Shou, who had always been mature, was shocked. This step seemed to be too big a step back. Gongsun Zan was almost destroyed by Yuan Shao, and now But he asked Yuan Shao to seek peace with him.
"I think this is unnecessary. Even if Cao Zhi and Gongsun Zan join forces, I won't be afraid. What's more, under such a dense defense line, it's a matter of two minds whether they can get together. Why should we go to Gongsun Zan? This dying man asks for peace!"
Regarding Yuan Shao's opposition, Tian Feng insisted that the third point was very important. Because whether Gongsun Zan agreed or not, this third point would be very critical and he could buy Yuan Shao the time he needed.
Yuan Shao refused to bow his head on this matter no matter what, but he could not defeat Tian Feng. So the two turned to consult Ju Shou for his opinion. In fact, Ju Shou had always been known for his smoothness. Yuan Shao pulled him out to make judgments at this time, and he somewhat thought that Jushou will definitely stand on his point of view tactfully and support him.
But Yuan Shao soon became disappointed. Under Tian Feng's affirmative explanation, Ju Shou also believed that if Cao Zhi and Gongsun Zan succeeded in joining forces, they would face a situation where they would be attacked from both sides. They were scholars and were not as impulsive as Yuan Shao. They thought they would return to Jizhou. After gathering the soldiers and horses scattered in various counties, there is no need to fear anyone. Cao Zhi's power cannot be underestimated, and the best way to prevent this from happening is to take the first step and eliminate Cao Zhi's political power. The possibility of an alliance with Gongsun Zan must be eliminated first. And the best way to avoid it is for them to also unite with Gongsun Zan. Indeed, as Tian Feng said, no matter whether this "union" will succeed, it will at least put Gongsun Zan in a dilemma. Time, and to win this war, what they need most is time, so Jushu thought he was very righteous and stood on Tian Feng's side. He even thought that Tian Feng's idea was really unique and great!
While Ju Shou applauded Tian Feng's brilliant strategy, Yuan Shao felt very unhappy.
He finally agreed to Tian Feng's suggestion and sent a peace proposal to Gongsun Zan. But he was unwilling in his heart. Yuan Shao was annoyed that he only had these two counselors around him now, and they were obviously wearing a pair of trousers. Yuan Shao felt a bit underwhelmed by them on this issue. The feeling of being forced on him made him feel very bad. If either Shen Ping or Guo Tu were by his side now, things would never be such a one-sided situation. Yuan Shao secretly vowed to bring more people with him when he went to war in the future. The counselors of different factions cannot allow this kind of situation to happen again.
####### "Du Damu died in battle! How could Chunyu Qiong run to the west? Damn it!"
Cao Zhi took the battle report just sent back by Le Jin, and his originally good mood fell to the bottom. He couldn't imagine how they could get out of the way of Chunyu Qiong on their supposedly smooth westward march.
"Xu Chu!"
"exist!"
"I order you to quickly bring a thousand cavalry to reinforce Lejin and make sure to open up the road to the west!"
"As you command!"
While Cao Zhi was walking around the tent with a gloomy face, bad news came one after another into the tent.
"Wen Chou has already fucked Zhang Yan! Yuan Shao's pace this time was surprisingly fast. I thought it would take two days for his forwards to arrive! But it's okay, let them fight more intensely and attract everyone's attention. In the past, no one will pay attention to us anymore, haha..."
Cao Zhi just tried to forget the grief of losing a general, and tried his best to cultivate a good mood, but when Li Ru arrived with another latest battle report, it disappeared.
"Yuan Shao divided his troops into Jizhou in three groups. Yan Liang led one group into Jizhou earlier than Wen Chou, and went to the east. Why do we know now that Zixiao (Cao Ren's name) didn't know if he was walking fast enough, and the eldest brother didn't
Do you know if Dongjun will take the initiative to respond? Why is that Yuan Shao unwilling to give up that little food and grass, must he allocate a limited force to deal with our furthest troops?"
Cao Zhi complained, his words became more and more childish, and he walked back and forth in the tent more uneasily. He just felt grief and anger in his heart again, this time not for Du Damu, but for Cao Ren. Cao Zhi felt that he should lead him
He retreated first to get food and fodder, but Cao Zhi seemed to treat him as a living target, leading the enemy to pursue him. If Cao Ren was up to no good, Cao Zhi would be blamed.
"There shouldn't be anything going on with General Cao. My lord has to worry about himself. Will he be able to reach Bingzhou smoothly?"
Xun Chen, who had been silent all this time, suddenly walked out from a dark corner. He had been listening. After synthesizing all the information, he began to express his opinions.
"Tian Feng must be playing an extremely important role next to Yuan Shao now. He likes to use such a fast method to break into the battle situation, which has always been his specialty. The troops are divided into three groups, hum! Chunyu Qiong unexpectedly appeared and we headed west.
It must have been his idea on the road, but we didn't expect that he actually blocked us." At this point, Xun Chen, who was thinking for a while, took two steps and came to the light. When he raised his head again, he said firmly
: "Since we let him send it
It is not a bad thing to discover that we are on the way to the west. At the very least, he will give up the pursuit on the eastern front and divide his troops again to intercept us. Tian Feng has always liked to make quick responses, and he is indeed very good in this regard.
Insight. But people always make mistakes. No matter whether he knows the purpose of our westward march or not, the competition between us and him now is speed. Let’s see whether we can jump out of the encirclement first or make Tian Feng the first to be famous. Lord, please give the order!"
After listening to Xun Chen's analysis, Cao Zhi looked at him with sharp eyes for three minutes. Cao Zhi made some judgments in these three minutes. At this time, a mistake in judgment may very well cost him more than 40,000 troops and horses.
Pushed into a bottomless abyss.
Cao Zhi finally decided to believe the opinion of this newly joined counselor. His reason was simple: at this time, no one knew Yuan Shao and the people around Yuan Shao better than Xun Chen.