Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 2536 Some eat meat while others drink soup

   While the dispute between Jiangdong and Jiangdong gradually subsided, the struggle in the north was quietly rising.

   Youzhou.

   Town of pylorus.

  Zhenyoumen was originally called Zhenbeimen, but after Cao Chun was stationed in Youzhou, he changed Yuyang’s Zhenbeimen to Zhenyoumen.

  Of course, if Cao Chun knew that there was another bacterium called pylori, he would probably not change the name. It's a pity that Cao Chun didn't know, so he thought the name was very good.

  Cao Chun originally wanted to change it directly to Zhenximen, but it was too intentional, just like the landscape of traditional Chinese painting. If the painting is full, it will feel congested.

  The north gate of the town, um, the pylorus gate of the town is actually in the west.

  That's right, the north gate opens to the west, just like the four heavenly kings must be five people, there is nothing wrong with it.

Inside the city gate is the main street of Yuyang, and not far away is the water canal. A stone bridge is built on the water canal. There are crowds of people on both sides of the stone bridge. At both ends of the bridge is a spontaneously formed market. It's called selling goods here.

   Although there are many soldiers in Yuyang, there are also some common people around.

  These people are like weeds, and they seem to be able to survive no matter in the Gobi or in the crevices of the rocks.

   With the people and life, it seems that the war is far away from here.

A man dressed as a literati walked up the stone bridge slowly with a servant, and seemed to linger on the stone bridge for a while. I don't know if he was lamenting the surging water or mourning the short life, but it seemed to be eulogizing anyway. After a few words, I slowly got off the bridge.

  Crossed the bridge and turned into an alley, and immediately entered a shop under the cover of servants. The shopkeeper raised his head slightly, and when he saw that it was a literati, he turned his head away.

The literati understood, quickly passed through the aisles and corridors of the shop, arrived at the backyard of the shop, exited the corner door, looked left and right, then took a few steps forward, pushed open a small door that was concealed, and entered In another small yard.

  『The 3,300 cavalry from the Yuyang Outer Battalion, and about 150 large and small snowmobiles, left the camp yesterday and headed north. After the literati saw the people in the courtyard, they immediately whispered.

  『Three thousand three? go north? The man in the courtyard looked like a middle-aged merchant, and he frowned upon hearing this, "This amount...not too much, not too little, not too little, but not too many, what is this for?" 』

  The scribe shook his head.

  『How do you see the morale of those soldiers? ’ the merchant asked again.

  『It should be okay. The literati said, "But you know, I don't know much about this..."

  Shang Jia nodded, "It's okay, just say you know." 』

"Before, it was really not very good. You know, after losing the battle, the army's salary and food supplies were not available for a while... I heard that there were many deserters. I don't know if it's true or not... But then, the money and food supplies in Jizhou came up. It’s much better... It’s just that most of these newly added soldiers are refugees and rangers from the surrounding area... Although they have been trained, they are almost like that, okay...』

  The literati talk, and the merchants remember.

   This is the benefit of literati status. Even if you look around, you can show that you are here to collect wind and experience, to enjoy flowers in spring, leaves in summer, leaves in autumn, moon in autumn and snow in winter. Anyway, there are sufficient reasons. It is a reason why later generations like to seek public knowledge after these things.

  The merchant frowned and said, "So, the 3,300 people who moved are elite soldiers?" 』

  『Forget it, at least it is better than the soldiers in other cities. The literati said, "It's just that those horses are a bit poor..."

  『Is there any other **** transfer? ’ asked the merchant.

  『That’s not so clear... It’s just that I saw on the stone bridge just now that there seemed to be fewer ships. Did they go out of the city? 』

  Shang Jia frowned, "You say so, it seems to be the same... okay, I'll inquire about this matter..."

  The merchant nodded, then took out a money bag from his sleeve and stuffed it into the scribe's hand.

  The scribe shook his purse, laughed a few times, and stuffed it into his sleeve without much fuss. He turned around and left, and went back along the original path.

   Seeing that the scribe had left, the merchant also turned around and left the small courtyard. After changing a place, he sat down and drew the information...

  painted on top of a lacquer box.

  The lacquer box was exposed to the sun for a while, and the cold and dry weather in the north made the paint attached to the surface of the lacquer box dry quickly.

Not long after, the lacquer box was picked up and put into a large box padded with hay and rags, then got into the car unsteadily, got out of the car again, and passed by a pair of old or old people. , or young, or fair, or cracked hands, I don't know how long it took, how many days and nights the sun and stars rose and fell, and finally arrived at a hand stained with some ink, which looked a little slender and slender. There are some calloused hands.

   This is Simpi's hand.

  Xin Pi stared at the paintings on the lacquer box, thinking deeply.

  The drawing is so ugly.

  Three larger figures, with a child, seem to be holding a stick or a fork, fishing by the river...

  Those who know know that it is a painting of people, but those who don’t know think it is three monkeys.

   or three matchsticks.

  『Yuyang...sent more than 3,000 troops...lack of training...』

  Xin Pi pinched his beard, "Cao Jiazi, what do you want to do?" 』

  …(O_O)?…

In fact, starting from September, not only Yuyang, but Cao Jun in various ministries in Youzhou have already begun to mobilize. Of course, the most important ones are still Yuyang and Yijing, both of which have dispatched cavalry, and Yuyang is the most numerous. , 3,300, followed by 2,500 in Yijing, some 800 in other small counties, some 3,500, and there are several thousand to nearly 10,000 cavalry in total.

   Round up to one hundred million.

  Of course Cao Chun did not go to beat Zhao Yun.

  Although Cao Chun had been wandering around this idea for a long time, he still didn't dare to implement it.

   That’s right, I dare not.

Because Cao Chun knew that there was still some gap between the cavalry under his command and the cavalry commanded by Zhao Yun. Maybe thirty men could be equal to thirty men, but three hundred men could be equal to three hundred men. If it goes up to 3,000 to 10,000, the winning rate will be poor, just like the national football team of later generations. Even against Myanmar, it seems that they are fighting for a tie, not a victory.

  The larger the battle, the greater the slight difference in the quality of the soldiers will be exaggerated.

One-on-one, even if there is a difference in strength, you can change the situation of the battle by throwing sand, shouting flying saucers and other small means, but when there are many people, tens of thousands, the so-called small means are useless. The competition is still the basic ones, soldier training, weapons and equipment, plus the general's ability to control and dispatch the battlefield.

  Although Cao Chun is unwilling to admit it, these are facts.

  So this time, Cao Chun's target is the Hu people.

  Although it is said that Cao Chun had been hostile, cooperating, and even made an alliance with the Wuhuan people, Xianbei people, and Dingling people before, but isn’t the alliance meant to be broken?

  Who is stupid enough to say that they will believe that the pledge of eternal love can last a lifetime?

No way?

  Cao Chun went for the horse.

  War horse.

  Youzhou is a good place, suitable for raising horses, but the Cao family does not have many war horses. If you want to get war horses, you have to trade with Fei Qian on the one hand, and trade with the Hu people on the other hand.

   But transactions cost money. Who would want to spend money if you can buy it for zero yuan?

  Hu people, whether they are Wuhuan people, Xianbei people, or Dingling people, their strength in the desert has declined, which almost made Cao Chun's jaw drop...

At first, Cao Chun was still thinking about it, thinking that this matter was not very reliable. After all, this was what Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty wanted to do back then. In the end, he devoted all his efforts to the Huns. Although the Huns were indeed disabled, the big man himself was also scarred , In the later period, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty had to issue a euphemistic edict of guilt, expressing himself and admitting his mistake.

   Then how long has the Hussar General been engaged in? How many soldiers were dispatched again? How could he be so ecstatic and torn apart in the middle of the desert?

Cao Chun naturally took all Zhao Yun's battle examples, the ones that could be collected and the ones that could not be collected, carefully deliberated, and finally made Cao Chun come to a conclusion, that is, Zhao Yun's several winter battles had a major impact on the Hu people. strike!

understood!

   This is Winter Offensive!

  Cao Chun began to calculate his small family fortune, his small treasury, and then wondered if he could draw a scoop according to the gourd? He calculated the grain and fodder, and after a few days of depression, he wrote another secret letter, reported it to Cao Cao, and got two words, "Try it".

  Of course, the specific content of Cao Cao’s letter is not so simple. Cao Cao also reiterated some places that need special attention, such as the transportation of grain and grass, the warmth of soldiers, the guidance of routes, and so on.

  No way, Cao Jun is too short of horses.

  『Is the food and grass ready? 』As the time of departure approached, Cao Chun reconfirmed.

  『Everything is ready. The first batch of grain and grass in the city was two thousand shi, and it has already been transferred to the north... The cavalry brought their own rations for ten days, totaling two thousand shi, and marched with the army. In addition, there were five hundred snow carts and three hundred boats...just...』

  Cao Chun frowned, "But what? 』

  『I am afraid that the river will be frozen in a few days, and it will be difficult for boats to sail by then. 』

  The temperature in Dahan is much higher than that of the later generations. Imagine that in the Sanfu area of ​​Guanzhong, it is actually a fern growing in the tropics and subtropics in later generations, and you will know it.

  『…』Cao Chun thought for a while, 『It’s okay, hurry up and ship, and when it’s frozen, it will turn around...』

  Cao Chun's goal is to beat the slow with the quick, make a fortune and leave. Anyway, his request is very simple, that is, war horses, war horses and war horses!

   Horse that can be ridden!

  But Cao Chun never expected that the first problem he encountered was not food, nor winter clothes, but firewood.

   That’s right, no one pays much attention to it, and burns it as soon as it is brought. There is not much firewood for money!

The military rations that Cao Chun was most worried about were nothing. After all, there was no war in Youzhou and Jizhou during this period of time, which meant that Youzhou had its own output and Jizhou’s support. Although it was not so much that it could be wasted, but How much is enough for Cao Chun to toss about, but Cao Chun really didn't expect that because of the lack of firewood, he would watch helplessly as he couldn't eat the food!

  In Guanzhong Sanfu River East, a large number of new fuels, coal, have begun to be used. Small in size and heavy in weight, it can carry a larger amount than ordinary wood.

Naturally, Cao Chun has heard about this matter, but forget it, after all, the big man still has a lot of vegetation, firewood and the like, walk a few miles, do whatever he wants in the mountains and forests, and there is no forestry and urban management to fine him. So Cao Chun naturally didn't pay much attention.

   But as soon as we left Yuyang and entered the Gobi desert, trees and shrubs began to thin out, especially in winter, the problem of firewood was magnified.

   Without firewood, let alone cooking, even heating is a problem!

   I finally came across a small forest, but I cut it down and used it as firewood, but it was still a drop in the bucket. Firstly, the sadness of using wet wood to light the fire really made everyone cry, secondly, such a small forest looks like a lot, but nearly ten thousand people have one point...

   Therefore, Cao Chun and his troops, before stabbing the barbarians with their swords, guns, swords and halberds, they first dug three feet to find firewood!

   But I couldn't find much, and it won't take long.

   It’s not that Cao Chun didn’t carry firewood, he did.

   Unfortunately not enough.

  Then the second problem Cao Chun encountered was that there were fewer Hu people.

   This is the biggest trouble...

Strictly speaking, this problem cannot be regarded as a problem. After all, there are fewer Hu people, which means that the threat and risk faced by the Han people has been reduced. This is a good thing for Youzhou, and even the Han people in northern Jizhou. But for Cao Chun, no.

With Zhao Yun's control and clean-up of the Northern Territory of the Desert, coupled with the operation of the affiliated army, some Hu people who were close to the Han area were either strangled or fled far away. As a result, the number of Hu people near Youzhou has decreased on a large scale.

Cao Chun didn’t realize this at the beginning. He thought that in the desert, the barbarians were like Zhuanghe in the fields. People can be planted in the ground, but it takes more than ten years to grow into adults...

  So, it's troublesome.

Cao Chun arrived at the place where the Xianbei royal court used to be, but now there is only an empty space left here. Maybe digging the ground can find some broken bones and broken weapons and armor that have not corroded, but I want to If you want to find barbarians and war horses, there will be none...

  Cao Chun fixed his eyes on the north, and seemed to hope that there would be some miracle there. Well, maybe he just hoped that a herd of wild horses would appear, but unfortunately, there was nothing.

  『Call the Marquis of the Scout Battalion! 』

  By now, even fools realize that the problem is wrong.

   It’s not that Cao Chun didn’t send people to investigate. He sent three times back and forth, saying that he saw traces of Hu people in this old royal court, and now…

   Either the barbarians got the news and ran away, or the scouts were lying to him!

  『The little one guarantees his life! 』

  『When the little one came here before, there were indeed barbarians! 』

  『At this place, the little one even fought with them for a while, won the first rank, and registered it in the register...』

   The scouts said that there is no problem. They did run into a barbarian.

  Cao Chun carefully screened, and then compared the words of these scouts before and after, and came to a conclusion.

   Cao's scouts did not lie to him.

Although these scouts all belong to the scout battalion, they are not in the same formation, and each of these scouts speaks decisively, and their tone is very affirmative. The most important thing is that Cao Chun can't find these scouts to speak for the barbarians. reason.

  After all, when the scouts came to detect, Cao Chunlai did not say that he would attack here, it was just a routine detection, so what's the point of their lying? And the scout family members are all in Yuyang.

  Although it is said that some of Cao’s troops still have a little spare pay, but in this matter, Cao’s soldiers have not yet reached the shamelessness of the martial arts Song Dynasty, or have not "evolved" to that level.

The reason why this place became the royal court of the Xianbei people in those days was because there was a large mountain range stretching for nearly a hundred miles in the north, with undulating peaks and hills. There are more than a thousand peaks and hills in total. The height is not very high, but it can just block the invasion from the north. The coming cold current prevents the cold wind from rushing directly to the old royal court. At the same time, the mountains also provide some rivers, which make the water and grass here rich.

  But no matter how good the place is, if it is not safe, it is useless.

  It’s like the Zhenbei Gate in Yuyang, which was changed to Zhenyou Gate, and it was a town gate before. If it just changed the name and the rest remained the same, nothing could be “suppressed”.

  So, there are indeed Hu people here.

   It's just that it's gone now.

  The subsequent search also proved this point. Some imprints were indeed found in some areas, indicating that there were indeed Hu people living in this area, but they have run away now.

   This shows that there are not many Hu people here. After all, there will always be some people coming to a place with such abundant water and grass, but the problem is that there are not many Hu people here.

   are small tribes.

  Dozens of people, hundreds of people are overwhelming.

Then when Cao Jun's scouts came, they naturally saw that there were Hu people. Even if the Hu people found Cao Jun's scouts, because there were only two or three people, Cao Jun's scouts would naturally not take the initiative to fight, and the Hu people might not be willing to provoke Han people, so Of course all is well.

   But with Cao Chun’s fanfare and the movement of the beacon, these barbarians, no matter how stupid they are, will know to run away!

  And why didn't they run away when they were in the Xianbei royal court?

  That's because the number of Xianbei royal courts at that time was several times more than that of Zhao Yun!

  And organize a few people, to a dozen people, to hundreds of people, thousands of people, and more than 10,000 people. Every time a level is raised, the matters involved will turn around and rise.

The small tribe tidied up and ran away in half a day. For example, in the heyday of the Xianbei royal court, the population of the tribe directly under it was over 10,000. In addition to the surrounding tribes, it would take a day to deliver orders, and even more so. Needless to say packing and packing will take extra time.

  The key is that Xianbei was still arrogant back then, and didn't take Zhao Yun seriously...

   Now, these barbarians in Mobei have become frightened birds, and they ran away immediately at the slightest sign of trouble.

  The Hu people ran away, and the horses were gone.

  Cao Chun, who came excitedly, now faces two choices, one is to withdraw.

  The other one is to chase down...

  (end of this chapter)