Three Kingdoms: I, the Emperor of Wei, am loyal and honest! - #140 - Chapter 140

In Chaoge City, after some counting, Cao Ang had a look of relief on his face.

It’s no wonder that he ran all night in this cold winter weather, and his efforts paid off.

There are three million stones of food and grass in Chaoge City!

To be exact, it is three million one hundred and sixty-four thousand stones!

It can provide enough food for an army of 500,000 to 600,000 people for half a year!

This is also the biggest result Cao Ang has achieved since he took charge of the battle of Chen County!

Even the total amount of grain and grass that Cao Ang had seized from various princes before was not as large as the grain stored in Chaoge!

When he first took over Chen County, he received Chen Wang Liu Chong’s many years of food and grass savings and millions of stones.

Later, both Lu Bu and Yuan Shu were defeated by externally strong but internally capable guys. Lu Bu’s food reserves were less than 100,000 dan, and Yuan Shu’s food reserves were no more than 600,000 dan.

The raid on Chaoge and the capture of Yuan Shao’s military supplies were twice as much as those of the previous feudal lords!

It can be seen how wealthy the four states in Hebei are!

Logically speaking, with so much food and grass, it would take several days for even 100,000 people to move it all away.

What’s more, Cao Ang only brought ten thousand cavalry, and he could transport tens of thousands of grain and grass. It was just a fraction of Chaoge’s grain storage, and he couldn’t take away all of it.

Therefore, the best way is to burn these provisions to destroy Yuan Shao’s military morale and completely cut off Yuan Shao’s thoughts.

But Cao Ang didn’t want to do this.

First of all, food is precious, not only the lifeblood of the army, but also the lifeblood of the world!

It was indeed a sin to burn so much food and grass. Although Cao Ang was not a kind person, he was not that crazy.

Secondly, if all this amount of food and grass can be controlled by Cao’s army, it will be enough to support Cao Ang to wipe out all the princes in the world within a year!

No need to be constrained by food and grass anymore!

Although Cao Ang has begun to promote sweet potatoes, potatoes and other seed potatoes in Chenjun, Xuzhou, Yuzhou and other places, within a few years, the output was only enough to continue to be used as seed potatoes and promoted to more places, but could not be used as a substitute for rations. Taste.

Moreover, if so much food and grass are really burned to the ground, once Yuan Jun is defeated, there will be no way to feed the surrendered troops and they will have to starve to death!

And if the troops surrender without food, they will definitely not wait to starve to death, but will fight for survival.

In the Battle of Guandu in history, Cao Cao burned Yuan Shao’s grain garrison at Guandu. After defeating Yuan’s army, he received more than 70,000 surrendered troops!

However, Cao Cao did not have food to feed his troops, so he simply sent more than 70,000 Yuan Shao’s troops into captivity and killed them all to avoid future troubles!

In the Battle of Changping, Bai Qi killed 400,000 Zhao soldiers in a trap. This is the same reason!

Cao Ang does not intend to follow the old path of Bai Qi and Cao Cao.

Not only does it affect your reputation, but it also harms the harmony of heaven and earth!

Even though Cao Cao did so many bad things in history, he still lived to be over sixty and laid the foundation of Cao Wei.

However, neither his son Cao Pi nor his grandson Cao Rui lived long and died young. His great-grandson Cao Mao even became the first emperor to be killed by his courtiers in the street.

Cao Wei, who was originally the most likely to unify the world, was replaced by the Sima family only 40 or 50 years after the founding of the country!

Somehow, this is not unrelated to what Cao Cao did back then!

Taking a step back, if Cao Cao did less immoral things and practiced more benevolence and righteousness, even if he pretended to be benevolent and righteous like Liu Bei, when Cao Wei was usurped by the Sima family, wouldn’t there be some loyal ministers and righteous men who would have stood up? Protect Cao Wei?

How could he not be like Jiang Wei and Zhuge Zhan of the Shu Han Dynasty who fought hard and died for their country, trying to recreate the loyalty of Cao Wei?

It is precisely because Cao Ang learned from history and knew the lessons of Cao Wei that he tried his best to establish a benevolent and righteous character from the beginning.

This is not a false name, but a real foundation!

Cao Ang wants to lay a great and upright foundation for Cao Wei to win the country in the future, from winning the country unfairly to winning the country most righteously!

The beauty of a gentleman will be killed in five lifetimes!

Cao Ang laid a good foundation for Cao Wei and left a legacy for his successors. Even if there are traitors in the court in the future, there will definitely be many loyal ministers and righteous men who have been favored by Cao Ang to come forward, and there will be soldiers who are protected by Cao Ang. The people responded with great enthusiasm!

At the top of Chaoge City, Cao Ang’s thoughts slowly recovered from the above, and then made the next arrangement.

He first ordered some troops to surrender and bury the bodies of Yuan Jun who died in the battle last night.

He also asked the remaining troops to surrender, and filled the more than 1,000 carriages used to transport grain in the city with grain and grass. Each cart contained 20 stones of grain and grass, and a total of more than 20,000 stones of grain and grass were loaded.

After doing this, they mobilized all the surrendered troops and more than 20,000 stones of food and grass outside the city, preparing to transport them to Cao Ying.

Then he asked more than a hundred Jinyi guards who had been deployed in the city to investigate the people in the city and eliminate Yuan Jun’s spies and spies.

After ensuring that there were no problems, Wang Yanzhang, Zhang Liao, and Hu Cheer, the three generals, led the 3,000 hussar soldiers under their command to stay at Chaoge and guard the grain harvest.

Cao Ang led the remaining 7,000 cavalry, and each of the 7,000 prepared horses was loaded with two or three stones (totaling more than 100 kilograms in later generations) of grain and grass, totaling just over 20,000 stones.

The total is nearly 50,000 stones of food and grass.

Although it’s a lot, it’s a drop in the bucket compared to Chaoge’s more than three million stone in food storage.

Nearly 20,000 horses and horses can only transport 50,000 shi at a time. It can be seen that if they were all moved, 3 million shi of grain and grass would have to be transported back and forth how many times!

“Come and pile up wet firewood, wet grass, cow dung and other smoky things outside Chaoge City to create smoke!”

Cao Ang gave an order, and soon black smoke rose into the sky on all sides of Chaoge.

There was only smoke, no fire. Even from dozens of miles away, black smoke could be seen rising from Chaoge.

In this way , when Yuan Jun’s cavalry saw it, they would think that there was a fire in Chaoge City.

Wang Yanzhang and Hu Che’er’s two thousand cavalry stayed in the city, while Zhang Liao led a thousand cavalry troops to patrol outside the city in a radius of 30 miles, so that Yuan Jun’s patrolling cavalry could not get close to Chaoge City and could not see the truth.

This would force them to report to Yuan Shao that Chaoge City was filled with black smoke and food.���burn.

After Yuan Shaojun learned the news, he would definitely believe it when he saw on the front line that the heads of generals such as Chun Yuqiong and Han Meng brought back by Cao Ang, as well as Chaoge’s food guard Yuan Jun, were all captured by Cao Ang.

In this way, they will only choose to fight to the death instead of sending people to Chaoge.

With three million stones of food and grass in Chaoge City, it will be safe and undisturbed until the end of the war.

Wang Yanzhang, Zhang Liao, Hu Che’er, and three thousand cavalry were left behind just to provide additional protection for the food and grass.

After doing this, Cao Ang led 8,000 cavalry and Jiang Qi’s more than 10,000 surrendered troops, and more than a thousand carts of food and grass, and marched southward in a mighty manner, not avoiding people at all, as if he was deliberately letting Yuan Jun’s cavalry see him. Same.

In fact, Cao Ang did it on purpose.

It’s all a show, when Yuan Jun’s troops are riding in various directions, and they see Cao Jun returning victoriously with Chaoge’s surrendered troops and so much food and grass, and then seeing the smoke billowing from where Chaoge City is from a distance, they will naturally believe that Chaoge City is It has been attacked by Cao Jun, some of the food and grass were robbed, and the rest was burned!

Even some cautious cavalrymen who want to approach Chaoge City to confirm the situation will be intercepted and killed by Zhang Liao’s cavalry.

Only those Yuan Jun sentries who had never approached were able to live to report the false news that Chaoge’s grain reserves had been burned!

And everything was as planned by Cao Ang. On the north bank of the Yellow River, the patrolling cavalry of Yuan Jun were shocked when they saw the thick smoke in the direction of Chaoge.

Captain Yuan Junqi, who was leading a hundred cavalry, looked at the fire in Chaoge and his face was livid:”Go to the front line and report to the lord. There is thick smoke billowing in Chaoge. It is suspected of being attacked. Please be prepared to send troops for reinforcements.”!

The rest of the people will follow the captain to Chaoge to find out the specific situation and then report the details to the lord!”

The cavalry captain was quite cautious and sent more than ten cavalry to report the news. He himself was going to Chaoge. Inquire.

However, when the cavalry captain arrived thirty miles southeast of Chaoge, he encountered a patrol of dozens of hussars led by Zhang Liao before he saw Chaoge City.

Zhang Liao divided his thousands of cavalry into more than a dozen teams of different sizes. The other teams all had about a hundred cavalry, but he only led 30 cavalry and guarded them where they were most likely to encounter Yuan Jun’s cavalry.

Because Zhang Liao can be worth a thousand!

“Brothers, follow me to kill these Cao soldiers and go to Chaoge to put out the fire!”

The captain of Yuan Jun’s cavalry saw that Cao’s army only had thirty cavalry and he had nearly a hundred cavalry. He immediately felt confident and wanted to kill Zhang Liao’s thirty cavalry.

However, he soon realized that something was wrong. Hundreds of cavalry were behind him. In a short time, Zhang Liao’s thirty Yanmen elite cavalrymen killed most of them. Zhang Liao killed twenty or thirty Yuan Jun’s cavalrymen with one shot. They were knocked off their horses by Zhang Liao’s gun!

In this way, the entire group of Yuan Jun’s knights who wanted to find out the situation were wiped out.

There were also many groups of Yuan Jun’s knights in other directions, and they suffered the same fate.

There were dozens or hundreds of cavalry, and all those who wanted to get close to Chaoge to find out the situation were intercepted and killed by the hussars.

Gradually, the remaining Yuan Jun cavalry also realized that something was wrong, and no one dared to get closer. Chao Ge���Towards!

They just sent the news about Chaoge’s black smoke billowing and suspected fire to the front line.

There were also some unlucky Yuan Jun’s cavalry who ran into the large group of Cao Jun led by Cao Ang and retreated south in Muye south of Chaoge.

As a result, these rangers also suffered a disaster, and most of them were wiped out.

However, due to Cao Ang’s deliberate arrangement, a few Yuan Jun’s cavalry were left behind, and they”escaped with difficulty” with scars.

Because Cao Ang did not make a detour this time, but went straight south, it only took him most of a day to lead his army to the bank of the Yellow River with the surrendered troops and food and grass.

Then build a pontoon bridge to cross the river, and everyone will cross the river before dark.

After arriving at the south bank, Cao Ang released the Qianli Falcon and asked it to return to Cao’s camp to report the news, and then led his troops to circle eastward.

Because if you go straight, you will reach Yuan Shao’s Chinese army camp.

Of course, Cao Ang would not directly run into the ambush of hundreds of thousands of Yuan Shao’s troops. He headed east to avoid Yuan Shao’s camp.

The Qianli Falcon that was released would also bring Cao Ang’s news to Cao Cao, and Cao Cao would send light troops to”receive” Cao Ang and escort the food and grass.

While Cao Ang was going around Yuan Jun’s camp, in the night, Yuan Shao, who was unaware, was having sweet dreams in anticipation.

I saw him sitting in the dark tent of the Chinese army, with a smile on his face:”Tonight is the time when Cao’s army has agreed to attack at night.

Soon, Cao Ang will lead his elite cavalry to attack our Chinese army and fall into these In the trap! (To read Baoshuang novels, go to Feilu Novel Network!)

I wonder how frightened Cao Zixiu will be then, haha!”

Yuan Shao’s voice fell, and Guo Tufeng’s voice also sounded in the darkness of the tent. Ji and others echoed.

It turns out that all the counselors under Yuan Shao’s tent are here, but they can’t see them without lighting the lamps.

The reason why the lamp was not lit was to make it look like Yuan Shao had fallen asleep unprepared, so that Cao Jun would believe that Yuan Jun was unprepared and step into the trap!

With such a mood, Yuan Shao excitedly waited for the fourth update.

However, at the fourth watch, no Cao Jun’s beacon signal was seen!

“Already the fourth update! Didn’t Cao Ang agree to raise fire with Liu Bei as a signal, but there was no movement!”

Yuan Shao suddenly felt a little strange.

Tian Feng, Ju Shou and other counselors who were already a little worried felt their hearts skip a beat at this moment, and they immediately said:”My lord, Cao Jun is cheating!”

Yuan Shao felt a little uneasy when he was told that, and said in an irritable tone:”I have analyzed it before. It must be true that Cao Ang paid such a price.

What kind of fraud could there be?

Don’t you dare disturb our military morale!

Guo Tu also took the opportunity to say:”That’s right!” How every time something is a little strange, it can impress you!

Even if Cao Jun was deceiving, he was probably afraid that he would be discovered by lighting a fire, so he decided not to light a fire and secretly killed him!”[]

When Yuan Shao heard this, he felt that Guo Tu’s words were reasonable, and immediately nodded and said:”Exactly! It must be so!

Let General Wen Chou, Zhang He, Gao Lan and other generals be careful to prevent Cao’s army from sneaking in without lighting a fire. If this is the case, you should stay away and don’t scare Cao Jun!”

After Yuan Shao gave the order, he continued to sit in the tent and wait for the scene of Cao Jun’s attack.

During this period, Ju Shou Tian Feng and others tried to speak many times, but were blocked by Guo Tu and others.

However, until around five o’clock, there was still no sign of Cao’s army coming to attack, and Yuan Shao couldn’t help but become a little anxious.

Seeing that after the fifth watch, it will be dawn soon!

“It’s almost five o’clock, why hasn’t Cao Jun come yet?

Could it be that Sun Qian sent the message at the wrong time, and Cao Jun was not going to attack tonight?”

Yuan Shao frowned and said with his lips numb from the cold.

There was no light in the tent and no charcoal fire was dared to be placed. It was very freezing in the winter night.

Jushuo, on the other hand, had veins on his forehead throbbing and couldn’t bear it anymore:”My Lord, How could Sun Qian mistransmit such important information!

This must be Cao Ang’s plan!

Using Sun Qian’s mouth to spread false news, our army gathered troops to ambush in vain!”

After Jushou said these words, Xu You, who had not spoken for a long time, also sneered and figured out some points:”Hey, Mr. Jushou said it well, Cao Ang asked our army to gather troops to ambush in vain.

Since there is no night attack, it can’t be just to play with the Lord, right?

All our troops gathered here to ambush, leaving the rest of the troops empty.

Cao Ang is best at attacking in the east and in the west. How could he miss such a good opportunity?”

When Xu You said these words, everyone’s hearts were shocked!

The rest of the place was empty, and the first thing they thought of was food and grass!

For an army, soldiers and horses are important, and food and grass are equally important!

Yuan Shao felt a little panicked, But he didn’t dare to think about it, and subconsciously denied it:”Xu You’s arrogant words are disturbing the morale of our army. Someone comes and kills Xu You!””

At this moment, Yuan Shao is like a narrow-minded person who has done something wrong but is unwilling to admit it. He opposes those who point out his mistakes and holds a grudge.

Because he feels that Xu You’s words are unlucky, he wants to cross Xu You again, just like an ostrich!

Xu You laughed when he heard this:”My lord, can you only fork people out?”

How can such a foolish lord not be defeated?”

As soon as Xu You said these words, Yuan Shao couldn’t help but become even more angry:”How dare you curse me to defeat! Come on, kill this rebellious person!”

Seeing that Yuan Shao wanted to kill Xu You, Jushou Tian Feng and others hurriedly interceded for Xu You, and even said something that Yuan Shao didn’t like in their desperation.

But Yuan Shao was in a rage, and when he saw someone interceding for Xu You, he also said If he didn’t like it, he would take Jushou Tian Feng out and beat him with a military stick.

Guo Tufengji and others looked on and gloated, but Zhang He and Gao Lan heard the movement outside the tent. He hurriedly came in to plead for mercy.

The sky was getting brighter and he could already see the anger on Yuan Shao’s face:”If General Zhang He Gao Lan hadn’t begged for mercy, I would have killed you Xu You today!

And you, Ju Shou, and Tian Feng, are such crazy and disobedient people, and you will be punished for your disobedience to my lord!

Come, lock up Xu You, Tian Feng, and Jushou, and wait until I defeat Cao Ang, Cao Cao, and his son before we start arguing!”

Following Yuan Shao’s order, Xu You and the others were taken down and locked up, while Zhang He and Gao Lan sighed and could not say more. It was not easy to save the lives of the three of them.

At this time, the sky was already bright. It was the last touch of night before dawn, but there was still no sign of an incoming attack from Cao Jun.

Yuan Shao, who was already angry and impatient, couldn’t help but become more anxious, and he even felt a little ominous:”Then Cao Ahan Cao Zi.” What’s going on?

Why haven’t you come yet?

If you want to attack the camp, come here!

How to dawdle!”

As soon as Yuan Shao finished speaking, there was the sound of messengers coming hurriedly from outside the tent to report.

Yuan Shao’s face lit up:”Is it Cao’s army attacking our army?

The Chuanqi hurriedly shook his head:”Reporting to my lord, the Chinese army has not seen Cao Jun, but there are cavalry from the north bank coming to report. Yesterday, a large group of Cao Jun was found outside Chaoge City, heading south from Muye loaded with grain and grass!”

The defenders of Chaoge were also captured by Cao’s army and kept food for them!

In the direction of Chaoge, thick smoke was billowing, making it impossible to get close!

I think he was burned by Cao Jun!”

Boom!

At this moment, Yuan Shao felt like a bolt from the blue!.