Chapter 3283 Looking for an opportunity
Some people only suffer once.
Some people will fall down in the same type of pit.
Sima Yi is undoubtedly a person who is unwilling to suffer losses, and he is even more unwilling to make mistakes and fall in the same place.
After handing over with Huo Nu, Sima Yi led his troops down with three hundred cavalry, one man and two horses, and bypassed Puban County and headed towards Cao's army Zhongshan.
Although Huo Nu was injured and could not fight directly, there was no problem in placing soldiers, especially when he pretended to be suspicious of soldiers on Emei Ridge, which naturally scared Cao Ping and others not to act rashly.
This is true for people. When there is nothing, you can often give it a try, but when you hold something in your hand, you will most likely not be able to let go. After Cao Ping got the empty shell of Puban County, he was like a snail with a shell on his back. His speed suddenly dropped, and he no longer had the same sharpness as before. He even began to dismantle the house, transport supplies to Puban County, and organize the repair of defense fortifications on the spot...
Perhaps in Cao Ping's eyes, if he got such a piece of land, Sima Yi would definitely bring reinforcements to fight for the recovery, but he did not expect Sima Yi to bypass Puban early and did not care about the gains and losses of such an empty shell.
"Langjun," Sima Yi's guards couldn't help but feel a little worried, and followed Sima Yi's half horse, "Only we are really going to attack the Zhongtiaoshan of Cao's army?"
This time, Sima Yi and his men were fewer than the last time they attacked Cao's army's transfer camp.
On the one hand, after the last loss, both people and horses suffered considerable losses. On the other hand, Sima Yi discovered the real purpose of the archer...
"Of course I am not a little bit like me when fighting against Cao's army camp," Sima Yi smiled, "But some things don't require too many people. What's more, we have Captain Hao, right?"
During the war, the positions of generals and generals such as the Sima of the Duwei Army were often granted temporarily, not as formal titles or as popular. They were naturally lifted after the war, and no additional notice was required. This was a practice in the Han army.
Sima Yi's guards were still a little worried, "Even if we found Hao Ziwei, we would probably not be able to cause much harm to Cao's army camp! What if we come again... I mean...
The last time that the Cao army's transfer camp almost attacked Sima Yi, the guards of the Sima family were worried.
A young man has already died in the Sima family. If another one dies, the old Sima may be crying and fainting in the locker room.
Bah bah bah bah bah!
The guard secretly spat a few times, worried about his ominous thoughts, but he still felt that Sima Yi was a little reckless, afraid that Sima Yi would lose his mind because he was eager to take revenge.
"Do you think I'm crazy?" Sima Yi smiled and said, "The success or failure of a moment is not enough to make me helpless and unaware of advancing and retreating. Well, I ask you, what does Cao's army is very vigilant about the transit camp and even does not hesitate to transfer cavalry from the front line to return to defense. What does it mean?"
"What does it mean?" the guard asked subconsciously, then stuck for a moment, something seemed to flash through his head, but he couldn't grasp the key points.
"My third brother..." Sima Yi said, and then seemed to have some sobs and pauses. "When he was a child, he liked to hide some fun and delicious things... After all, I have many brothers..."
The guard fell silent.
"He, we always think we don't know where he hides things..." Sima Yi laughed, but the laughter was a little shriveled and bitter. "Actually we all know... He can't help but go and look at that place... The more he doesn't want people to find something, the more he will expose something..."
A silence.
After a while, the guard whispered: "But, Mr. Lang, even if it is us... we are not enough food and grass now. I'm afraid the dry food carried by Captain Hao is also... What should I do?"
"Easy!" Sima Yi cracked his mouth, revealing a few big teeth, and a word popped out, "Give it!"
"Ratch?" The guards didn't understand. "Cao's army concentrated the food and grass in those camps... Isn't the Lang Jun just saying he wanted to transport the food team? If it was transported every ten days and a half months, we would have to...what would it be?"
Sima Yi shook his head, "If the grain team meets it, of course it will also be robbed. However, there are still some places in Hedong that have food and grass..."
"Ah?" The guard reacted, "You guys are talking about those gentry? That's right! If these guys join the thief army, they will no longer be ours. They should rob and kill them!"
Sima Yi laughed and said, "There is one thing wrong! It's not us who robbed it, it was Cao's army robbed it!"
"Cao...ah?" The guard was stunned.
Sima Yi looked back at the flag behind him, "Didn't you notice it? In fact, the armor flag that Cao Jun wore has many similarities with ours?"
Is Hedong rich?
Compared with Jizhou and Yuzhou, Hedong is not rich. After all, Jizhou and Yuzhou are naturally suitable for the development of agriculture. The land is fertile and flat, and there are rivers and lakes. In the dynasty that mainly farm, Jizhou and Yuzhou are the "Feng Shui Treasure Land" given by God.
However, Hedong has accumulated considerable wealth through trade exchanges in recent years.
The consumption conditions, market varieties, etc. of the Han Dynasty and later generations were incomparable, so the money earned by the Hedong gentry habitually hoarded into money and grain.
This is the most clear thing about Sima Yi, who is half of the Hedong gentry.
Even fools know that in troubled times, money is not very useful, and only food can we feel at ease. Therefore, it is not surprising that these gentry gentry in Hedong are cunning and rabbits in three holes. Even though Cao's army plundered them over and over again, the howling sounds of the gentry in Hedong are louder and louder, they are really cleaned up?
Sima Yi smiled and said nothing.
If the Cao army had completely emptied the granaries of these gentry gentry in Hedong, would these Hedong gentry and their family still stay here? Food cannot be transformed into something by sipping the left and right pockets, so Sima Yi concluded that these guys must have food and grass hidden!
In the Yuncheng Basin in Hedong, the villages and villages may have been hungry all over the ground, but there must be food, grass and supplies in these gentry and gentry, which can all be used as supplies along the way.
Sima Yi looked at the guard who had understood a little and retreated again, then glanced at him with a squint, and then set his eyes forward again.
He knew that although his guard did not seem to say anything against him, in fact, the guard also represented the ideas of some soldiers under Sima Yi.
After all, Sima Yi failed the last time...
People are so strange.
If you can succeed all the time, then there is nothing to say, but if you fail halfway, your previous success will be completely pushed down and then you will turn to another extreme.
Although Sima Yi was very determined about this action, the soldiers under his command were somewhat worried. This is easy to understand. He could have returned to Emei Ridge safely and had some rest, but now he has to follow Sima Yi in a big circle and break into the control of Cao's army. It is naturally inevitable that he is worried.
If Sima Yi had won before, then they could only listen to what Sima Yi said. Now that Sima Yi has lost once, they will also think that Sima Yi had luck in his previous victory? Sima Yi deliberately explained it to the guards, in order to use the guards' mouth to dispel the concerns of these soldiers.
This is a defeat once.
If Sima Yi failed again this time, even if Sima Yi could escape and save his life, if he wanted to raise the prestige in the army, he would probably be considered as Sima Yi was going to do something blind, which was "stubborn" and "arbitrary".
Thinking of this, Sima Yi couldn't help but sigh in his heart. It was already like this that he was in control of this few people. To command so many generals and soldiers, he needed to be very cautious!
"There are many military tactics, and those with more temples will win, while those with fewer temples will not win."
Many people know this, but how many people will really do it like the General of the Cavalry?
When your mind gets hot, fight and fight! Kill and kill!
You should know that the higher the position, the more you will bear the consequences of victory or defeat.
It was the same not only for Sima Yi, but also for Fei Qian and Cao Cao.
It is certainly safe to defend Emei Ridge, but doing so will not save Sima Yi's failure. Therefore, Sima Yi must break the common sense of military law and seek opportunities, and must have the courage to live to death. He dares to do things that ordinary people dare not do, so that he can break the deadlock again and establish prestige...
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Guo Jia is the one who stayed in Zhongtiaoshan Camp.
Guo Jia has not been in good health recently, perhaps because of the dry climate in Hedong.
He felt very thirsty, but he still felt very thirsty after drinking a lot of water. He couldn't drink a water bag one day before, but now it's been two or three days. Guo Jia needs to drink at least three water bags in a day...
In fact, Guo Jia's thirst is because his mouth and nose are not adapted to the dry climate of the loess in Hedong, so he is just thirsty, not really thirsty in his body. However, the large amount of water that Guo Jia drank really increased the burden on his body, especially the kidneys.
But Guo Jia still couldn't rest well.
Because some soldiers came to report that a Hedong gentry from the Zhangyangchi area of ​​Puban came to cry and cry out, saying that he was looted by Cao's army.
The Cao army's robbery is not a big news. After all, there are many people in the Cao army who even "comrades-in-arms". It is normal to rob the place, but the problem is that sometimes, within a day, three or four Hedong gentry were robbed in succession.
This is something wrong.
Guo Jia couldn't help but frown.
"Is it sure it's Cao's army? Who is the commander?"
"Reporting to the military advisor, it was said that it was General Jie and Cao Duwei... and it was said that General Jie said that he had taken Puban and now he was raising military rations, recruiting people, and preparing to attack Emeiling..."
"What a bastard!" Guo Jia suddenly felt a headache, "How can he march without military orders?"
The soldiers who came to report the news bowed their heads and said nothing.
Now that the world is chaotic, the Cao army has already been a very good military and political system among the princes in Shandong, otherwise they would not have defeated the two Yuans. But even so, Cao Cao is still known for his strict military law and emphasizes military discipline the most.
This seems to be the case on the surface, but in fact, people who understand a little bit clearly know in their hearts that the more they lack something, the more they will emphasize.
Just like people without consciences often emphasize letting others touch their consciences, the most unreasonable people often shout whether they can still reason.
Cao Cao emphasized military discipline, but if the generals such as the Cao family of Xiahou were unfortunately defeated, they would always scold them in public and scold them in an upright manner, and then let the swordsman push them out and ask for the killing. Then Xun Yu, Guo Jia or other civil servants and generals must immediately come forward and say, "People are left under the sword..."
The speed of the knife and axe hand walks is very skillful, but who knows the family!
Therefore, in this case, military discipline is to deal with the lower part and the upper part, and to the outside part, so it is a very normal reaction to find an opportunity to turn the tables and win the record after losing before, and it is not very strange.
But this kind of thing...is very troublesome.
Cao Cao led the army to suppress the battle in order to lead the cavalry out to fight to the decisive battle. If this problem may cause something in advance, or may make Cao Cao's rear unstable...
Cao Cao kept Guo Jia in the rear, on the one hand to take care of Guo Jia's health, on the other hand, because someone needed to take charge of the back line. Now that the back line is out, Guo Jia naturally cannot ignore it.
However, Guo Jia could not tell Hedong gentry that "relieving the sage" was already showing mercy. After all, he just robbed money and food, and did not do the three tricks of killing people and burning houses to silence the house. It was already quite polite.
You should know that Cao's army has done something about the land that is thousands of miles away in other places, and it is not without it.
The most critical point is the food and grass reserves hidden by these gentry, and Guo Jia also knew...
Because Guo Jia also has to consider the retreat of Lao Cao!
If the front line is unfavorable, then once Mr. Cao retreats, he always has to bring some food and grass on the way, otherwise how can the morale of the army be maintained? Therefore, these "pig dogs" are not blind and cannot be seen by Guo Jia, but are deliberately staying behind in case of emergency needs.
Now, I was killed by "relieving" several times. If the panic of "Pig Dog" is triggered and the plan is broken, what will I do?
After thinking about it, Guo Jiasi could only say that he would deal with it, and then drew a big pie and asked the crying squire to take the big pie to go back first. After all, what is there to say about "Pig Dog"?
Immediately, Guo Jia hurriedly sent troops and brought orders to Jie Qing and Cao Ping to garrison in Puban, and not to act rashly!
As for the issue of robbery, Guo Jia didn't say it, and there was no need to talk about it at this point in time. After all, the most important thing now is to ensure the needs of Lao Cao on the front line.
However, Guo Jia seemed to think that this matter was a bit strange, but the messy back camp matters quickly turned his attention to other directions.
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There is jing water in the northeast of Zhangyang Chize.
There are river valleys in the water.
Now that the weather is dry and the water level has dropped, Sima Yi has brought three hundred pairs of horse archers and hid here.
This is a relatively hidden place.
Having water and grass can reduce the pressure on some of the food and grass. The key is that after walking along the river bank for a while, the river will cover up some traces for Sima Yi and others. Even if Cao's army wants to follow the horse's hooves to investigate, it may not be possible to find the hiding place of Sima Yi and his group.
Sima Yi was not familiar with this kind of place. Only Qiang people who ran around and were very familiar with Hedong water plants knew such a place...
That's right, among Sima Yi's 300 people, some of them were from Baishi Qiang.
Except for the poor combat skills, these Qiang people are good at other aspects, especially when identifying terrain and orientation, they do not even need a map.
Of course, they can't understand the map of the Qiang people.
Originally, the Qiang people were not very interested in the Han people's own struggles, but the subordinates of Lao Cao were not strong enough. When they saw the Qiang people, they were like bears and honey. This caused many scattered tribal families of the Qiang people, which led to the hatred of Baishi Qiang when they mentioned Cao's army.
After all, Cao's army lacks horses...
Sima Yi has now gradually approached the Zhongtiaoshan Camp of Cao's army, but if he really wants to threaten the Zhongtiaoshan Camp of Cao's army, he still needs an opportunity, an opportunity that can make him close enough to the Zhongtiaoshan Camp.
At the beginning, Sima Yi wanted to focus on Cao Cao's grain transport team to do something, but Sima Yi found that Old Cao was very cunning. Cao Cao divided three grain transport routes, one was close to Yuxiang, the middle was to Yixian, and the other was to go to the other side of the salt pond...
Unless Sima Yi arranged all the people on all three routes, it would be impossible to break the food route of Lao Cao.
"This old thief..."
Sima Yi muttered, very dissatisfied.
So if you really want to fight a transfer camp, you have to knock out three camps on three routes in one go, otherwise it will only hurt you, but it will not be fatal for Cao Cao.
Sima Yi was just a few people. Even if Hao Zhao was summed up, it would have only doubled. Moreover, the dry food that Hao Zhao brought was almost used up. If it weren't for Sima Yi's pretending to be Cao's army and looting some food and grass, it would probably be difficult to supply now and would have to retreat.
The night was dark, and Hao Zhao came back after checking around.
"Zhongtiaoshan camp is very vigilant." Hao Zhao whispered, "I have led people to test it. Even if I pretend to be Cao's army, I can't get through. They have a special way of identifying... I don't know what it is, but there must be."
Sima Yi nodded, he believed Hao Zhao's words.
Hao Zhaoneng has been wandering around Zhongtiaoshan Camp for so many days without any major mistakes. He really has two tricks.
Sima Yi's glory in history is undoubtedly several times stronger than Hao Zhao. After all, Hao Zhao finally stopped at Chen Cang's highlight and left the field to get a lunch box. He had no chance to display his own abilities at all. You must know that Hao Zhao relied on his few soldiers at that time, although he had terrain advantages, his opponent at that time was Zhuge Liang. As a result, Hao Zhao should have resisted Zhuge Liang and resisted tens of thousands of attacks with one thousand troops. He delayed for more than 20 days until the reinforcements arrived...
At this moment, Hao Zhao has gradually proved his ability in this war. After he met with Sima Yi, Sima Yi was willing to listen to Hao Zhao's suggestions.
At the beginning, Sima Yi just wanted to unify the two ideas and facilitate the next step of the battle, but Sima Yi did not expect that Hao Zhao had come up with a wonderful plan in the past few days, which made Sima Yi admire...
Chapter completed!