At the same time, in Nanton City not far away, Cao Wei's army, which had just occupied Nanton City, was quickly taking over important military facilities in the city. In the meeting hall of the city guard, Cao Ren, Xun You and Li Dian were carefully checking
Reporting on the main situation of Nandun City. After reading the briefing in his hand, Cao Ren slowly raised his head, breathed a long sigh of relief, and sighed: "They all say that Western Qin is rich, but today I realized that wealth is beyond description.
!Nandun City is just a small border town in Yuzhou. The materials in the city are comparable to the reserves of a large city in Cao Wei! If Cao Wei goes to war with Western Qin, we will be far from Western Qin in terms of resource reserves alone.
Opponent!"
Xun You remained silent. Cao Ren was right. Xun You's uncle, Xun Yu, was responsible for Cao Wei's government affairs. Xun You knew very well about Cao Wei's strategic reserves. When the two armies went to war, it was the generals who competed.
They are soldiers, but if the two countries go to war, then the competition will be resources! From this we can see how powerful Western Qin has become!
Li Dian, who was standing next to him, advised: "General, don't worry too much. Although Western Qin is powerful, it's not like it hasn't been able to do anything to us, Cao Wei, for so many years! Besides, the reason why Western Qin has developed so powerfully is because it has nothing to do with the emperor."
It is not irrelevant in Western Qin! This time we welcome the emperor back to Yanzhou, the general trend of the world will inevitably change. With time, our Cao Wei can also develop so powerful, even surpassing Western Qin!"
Neither Cao Ren nor Xun You responded to Li Dian's consolation. Everyone knew what the truth was. It was certainly a clever move to welcome back the emperor, but whether it would have the expected effect is still open to question. But now these things
It was not Cao Ren's turn to worry here. Cao Ren immediately nodded and said to Li Dian: "Mancheng, you go and take the soldiers to move out all the food and supplies in the city! When Ma Chao comes back, we will evacuate Nanton.
, go back to Yanzhou!"
Cao Ren never thought about occupying Nanton for a long time from the beginning. This is the territory of Yuzhou. Cao Ren, who participated in the Battle of Hangu Pass, knew the strength of the Western Qin Army! This time the mission was just to rob the emperor.
As long as the emperor is captured, the mission has been completed. If you stay here, you will only suffer tyrannical revenge from the Western Qin army! It is better to withdraw from Nanton. As for the food and supplies, it will be free if you don't take it!
Li Dian cupped his fists in response to Cao Ren, then turned around and left. After Li Dian left, Xun You said to Cao Ren with a worried face: "General Cao! General Ma has been gone for so long, and there is still no reply.
,Will something happen?"
Cao Ren hesitated for a moment, but then shook his head and said: "Although I dislike Ma Chao's virtue, I have to admit that Ma Chao is superb in martial arts. There is absolutely no way to stop Ma Chao with just those deserters! Don't worry, Mr. Xun.
! I believe it won’t be long before Ma Chao will definitely come back with the Emperor!” Cao Ren was sincere and did not speak harshly because of the conflict between Ma Chao and himself.
Xun You thought the same thing. When he first attacked Nandun City, couldn't he just rely on Ma Chao to defeat Nandun in such a short period of time? Before, the Western Qin army had a neat lineup and could not do anything to Ma Chao. Now it is just a group.
Of course deserters would not be Ma Chao's opponent! However, Xun You changed his mind and said again: "Although those defeated troops don't need to worry, what if reinforcements come to support? This is the boundary of Yuzhou, and Wenpin, the governor of Yuzhou,
That is also one of Luo Yang's generals, so you must be on guard!"
Regarding Xun You's question, Cao Ren smiled faintly, waved his hand and said, "Master Xun, there is no need to worry about this! Before the expedition, the lord had already ordered people to inquire about the current situation in Yuzhou! In order to attack Guangling, the governor of Yangzhou
Zhang Liao personally led the army to Xuzhou. In order to fill the loopholes in Yangzhou's defense line, Wenpin took Yuzhou's main force to the border of Yuzhou and Yangzhou as early as half a month ago to set up defenses. From there to Nanton, it would take at least as long to go back and forth.
More than ten days! And the soldiers and horses of Yongzhou have to defend the Bingzhou line, and there is no time to rescue them. As for the soldiers and horses of Jingzhou, Yizhou and Liangzhou, that is not to mention. So there is no need to worry about reinforcements.
, if we weren't worried about the counterattack of the Western Qin Army, maybe our troops and horses would be enough to capture most of Yuzhou!"
After Cao Ren said this, Xun You realized that Cao Wei's intelligence was now managed by Man Chong, and Man Chong was directly taking orders from Cao Cao. Without Cao Cao's orders, even Cao Wei's number one think tank Xu Shu would not have known any information.
!This information was obviously given to Cao Ren by Cao Cao before the expedition, but Xun You was completely kept in the dark. Now after learning this information, Xun You understood why Cao Ren was so idle just now and let Li Dian carry the south.
The baggage was packed. However, I don't know why, Cao Ren's words were clear and logical, but Xun You felt that something was wrong in his heart, but he couldn't say anything.
After saying all this, Cao Ren suddenly shook his head and said: "Now that Sun Quan has been destroyed and Brother Miaocai has suffered another defeat in Youzhou, the power of the Western Qin Army is probably getting stronger and stronger. I don't know.
What will be the future of our Cao Wei?" Regarding Cao Ren's sigh, Xun You could only smile bitterly, but he couldn't say much. Cao Ren was a descendant of the Cao family, but Xun You was not, so there were some things that Cao Ren could say, but he
Xun You, however, could not speak casually.
After saying these words, Cao Ren suddenly reacted and felt that he had made a mistake. He smiled awkwardly and said to Xun You: "Master Xun! You can continue to check here, and I will go and see the situation outside!
"After saying that, Cao Ren quickly left the meeting hall as if running for his life, leaving Xun You alone to continue busy in the meeting hall.
After leaving the city guard's mansion, Cao Ren also breathed a long sigh of relief, mounted his horse directly, and led the soldiers towards the north city head. The battle just started at the north city head. Although Cao Wei's army won, but
There were also considerable losses, and the inventory on the battlefield was still going on. When they reached the top of the city, Cao Ren looked at the soldiers busy on the battlefield, stopped an officer directly, and asked: "How is the inventory on the battlefield going?
?”
When the officer saw it was Cao Ren, he immediately saluted Cao Ren with clasped fists, and then replied: "Report to General! Our army's losses have been counted! There are 3,729 soldiers killed in this battle! They were seriously injured and unable to fight.
One thousand, three hundred people were injured! Six thousand and forty-five people were slightly injured!"
Listening to the officer's report, Cao Ren couldn't help but frowned. The losses in this battle far exceeded his expectations. He didn't expect that the army's casualties would be tens of thousands! The defenders of the Western Qin Army only had a few thousand people.
That's it! Even if there is a city wall to rely on, it shouldn't be so different? If Ma Chao hadn't taken action, I'm afraid we might not have been able to capture Nanton City! There is only one explanation for this result, and that is the Western Qin Army
The combat effectiveness of Cao Wei's army is far stronger than that of Cao Wei's army! Thinking of this, Cao Ren felt heavy in his heart. Whether it was a comparison of soldiers, generals or resources, Cao Wei would be at a disadvantage. How should we fight this battle? Cao Ren's heart
That’s no basis at all!
Seemingly thinking of something, Cao Ren quickly asked: "Where are those iron boxes that were placed at the top of the city before? Have you ever found them?"
What Cao Ren mentioned was the arrow chariot that had brought great trouble to Cao Wei's army before. Of course, Cao Ren didn't know what it was called. The officer heard Cao Ren's question and quickly replied: "The villain has been found.
Those iron boxes, but those iron boxes seem to have been destroyed, and the mechanisms inside have been smashed into a mess, and it can’t be seen that they have any function at all!”
After listening to the officer's answer, Cao Ren's face was full of bitterness. It seemed that the guard of Nanton City was really cautious! He shook his head helplessly, waved to the officer and said, "Go and do your work!" and dismissed him.
After meeting the officer, Cao Ren walked straight to the female wall and looked at the scenery outside the city, but his heart felt as cold as an ice cave.
Several soldiers around Cao Ren seemed to notice that Cao Ren was in a bad mood, and wanted to comfort him, but they didn't know how to speak, so they could only keep silent. After more than half an hour, Cao Ren took a deep breath.
He took a breath and relaxed the suppressed emotions in his heart a little, then turned around and said to the soldiers: "Let's go! Let's go see how the baggage transport is going? Uh! What is that?"
After Cao Ren finished speaking, he raised his legs and was about to leave, but he glanced outside the city inadvertently. He stopped, turned his head, and looked carefully outside the city. He saw the people outside the city.
On the line where the sky meets, a dark shadow is slowly coming here, like a dark cloud. And as the dark cloud gets closer and closer, Cao Ren's eyes become more and more round,
I almost didn't stare! I finally recovered and immediately shouted to the soldiers on the left and right: "Quick! Quick! Beat the war drum! There are enemies! Go quickly!"
Those soldiers were just waking up from a dream. They hurriedly turned around and ran towards the war drum stand on the top of the city. Everyone was rushing to beat the war drum. One soldier even used his head in a hurry.
Hit the drum head!
"Dong dong dong!" The sound of war drums spread throughout Nanton City in a blink of an eye! The Cao Wei soldiers who were slowly clearing the battlefield under the city wall outside the city also ran into the city one after another, closed the city gate tightly, and there were more people on the city.
It was a mess.
For all this, Cao Ren had no intention to care about it. In his mind, he was thinking hard at this moment. He had clearly calculated the movements of all the troops of the Western Qin Dynasty before, so why did the enemy army pop up again at this time?
Come on? What is the miscalculation? Cao Ren has always been known for his wisdom among the generals of Cao Wei, but now he can't figure out the reason even if he thinks hard!
At this time, the army had slowly moved outside the city. Cao Ren didn't need to think about it at the moment, because the flag of the army outside the city was fluttering in the wind, which contained two big words: "Arrest!"