Chapter 3437 The gentleman under the wall
What kind of system determines what kind of combat effectiveness.
This is not a fresh argument that was only found in later generations, but a truth that was repeatedly proven in ancient times, even in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.
In ancient times, divine power and royal power coexisted. By the Shang Dynasty, the competition between divine power and royal power became fierce. The Shang King and Zhou King were not willing to let the divine power invade the royal power, but the strategies adopted were different. The Zhou King learned from the Shang King's lessons and did not directly conflict, but instead spread the divination method, that is, the Zhou Yi spread to the people, breaking the mystery of the witch.
After breaking the shackles of the witch, the new system of productivity that the Zhou Dynasty exploded and adopted continued for eight hundred years.
The Han Dynasty broke the shackles of the old nobles, giving the Han Dynasty a lifespan of three or four hundred years.
This is something that Shandong is mostly scholars, so it is naturally impossible not to understand. They may not understand the definition of class, but they can understand these changes.
But when it was their turn to do it, they still liked to put shackles on others and began to become class-shaped.
The system of Cao's army also determines the combat effectiveness of Cao's army.
The core force of Cao's army was composed of veterans recruited in the early stages and Qingzhou soldiers collected in the early and mid-stage periods.
These Qingzhou soldiers did have a certain advantage when they faced the princes and soldiers from other parts of the Central Plains.
This advantage, to some extent, is also brought about by the system.
The princes in other places do not allow the "Yellow Turban Thief" to survive.
There are many reasons why Yuan Shu resigned at the beginning, but in the later stage, the world rebelled again. However, there is one reason. The fellow villagers in Runan were not satisfied with the relationship between Yuan Shu and the Yellow Turban thieves in Runan. Even if Yuan Shu said that he would not be able to eat some fast food occasionally.
After destroying the Yellow Turban, the whole world praised Huangfu's killing for the reason and killing was justified, which shows that it was obvious.
In addition to Cao Cao's rebellion against Cao Cao, Cao Cao also dared to make peace with Qingzhou.
At the same time, Shandong's malice towards Guanzhong was also partly because Fei Qian gathered a large number of "thieves", even more than Cao Cao!
Xiliang thief, Baibo thief, Black Mountain thief...
Therefore, Fei Qian is a thief chief, almost something that people from Shandong believe.
Previously, Cao Cao's troops swept across the Central Plains, defeated and defeated the two Yuans, occupied Qingzhou, Xuzhou, Jingzhou, and reorganized soldiers from other princes. Although these troops were not short of elite soldiers, they did not get along well with the core of the Cao army. At the same time, these Qingzhou soldiers earlier also gave Cao Cao a headache and repeatedly plundered and caused trouble in the countryside.
Therefore, the Cao army's system is obviously a problem, but the problematic system will only expose its disadvantages when there is a certain amount of external pressure. Just like the problems exposed by Cao army at Suoyang Pass now caused Cao Hong to suffer a great loss.
Is it Cao Jun’s equipment messy?
Not.
Are there many old people and weak people but strong people?
Not really.
But when they confronted the Cavalry, they did not have firm confidence and will.
When you have the upper hand, you will be smooth and when you are at a disadvantage, you will be worse and worse.
Cao Cao himself also knew these issues.
However, it is useless to know it alone.
Cao Cao rose up like Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu in the early days with the help of the power of aristocratic families and local tyrants, so it is inevitable that he could not completely get rid of the imprint of aristocratic families and powerful people. This may have been influenced by Yuan Shao and followed Yuan Shao's old path. By the time Cao Cao himself found something was wrong, it would be difficult to change.
Unless you cut your flesh and replace your blood...
Before planning, Cao Cao was worried about gains and losses and was worried, but after it was implemented, Cao Cao did not toss and turn. His heroic nature was reflected. He acted in sequence according to the planned plan, and looked at the bloody storm that he had rolled up with his hands, without any mercy in his heart.
Cao Cao wanted to reform it very early.
Xun Yu has always disagreed.
Cao Cao's feelings for Xun Yu were very complicated, so in the end, Cao Cao still didn't break up.
But now, Xun Yu can't let it go any further.
The order and system of Han that Xun Yu hoped to restore were gone forever.
So this time, Xun Yu was forced to agree to the reform. But only the Xun family in Yingchuan did not mean that the Central Plains gentry also agreed to change and agreed to cut off their flesh and replace them with blood.
unless……
Is it painful to cut flesh and blood?
Now, Cao Cao almost feels heartbroken whenever he thinks about his brothers and tribe members' deaths and injuries in the war. However, on the surface, he is still calm. He is not only receiving returns from various places to review them every day, but also arranging retreat matters and transferring personnel. He falls asleep every night, even though countless people die outside of him every day, Cao Cao doesn't even have a nightmare.
Cao Cao is already maneuvering everything now as much as possible.
But there was still an accident...
"Zi Lian went to Suoyang Pass?" Cao Cao frowned, thought for a moment, and then slapped the table suddenly, "Damn it! Come, pass it quickly..."
Halfway through the words, Cao Cao stopped.
The messenger arrived outside the tent, but did not hear the second half of the sentence. He couldn't help but move his feet awkwardly, lowering his head and not daring to look at Cao Cao.
"Then Le Wenqian is ordered to march into Yusaka Road immediately! Be sure to stop the Cavalry Army from leaving Heluo!"
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If Cao Hong knew that the plan he had made eventually led to accelerating the abyss of failure, would he still struggle?
The answer is, it still does.
It's like a person falling into a swamp. Although he knows that the more he struggles, the more likely he is to fall into a deeper place until he has no support, there are still people who still try to grab it, trying to grab the last straw.
Suoyang Pass is the straw in Cao Hong's hand. He grabbed it, but it was light and could not bear the strength at all.
Xu Chu attacked fiercely in the south, and the north was destroyed by people who had always waited for it, just like there was a tiger at the front door, a wolf at the back door, and a cliff outside the window...
The morale of Cao's army is shaking, visible to the naked eye.
『General! Come on an idea!』
Military Academy urging.
"Master! You can't stay here!"
The guard was also shouting anxiously.
Whether it is making a decision or not, it is actually the same meaning.
retreat.
As the saying goes, a step back makes the sky wider, and it can be said that a gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall. Anyway, it can be said no matter what.
But Cao Hong knows more clearly in his heart than anyone else about what retreat means!
Once retreating, it is not too difficult. As long as Cao Hong turns on the spot and draws the troops from the south back to kill people, he will inevitably either kill people in the North intersection, or he will be forced to flee again and give up the access to the North intersection. So Cao Hong can go straight to Heluo along the North intersection.
But in this way...
Cao Hong is likely to survive, but there are too many things he has left behind.
The first thing is to pull the trick.
The recruit and found order came to rescue urgently, but Cao Hong escaped first?
This is not just a moral issue, but represents the complete collapse of Cao Jun’s credit system!
Although there is no more credit...
But you always have to have a pair of underwear. If you really can’t use a headscarf or socks. Anyway, after having a little cover, you can calmly say that you are not naked, and at least you still wear one, right?
But if he does not retreat, he will fight against Xu Chu in the south and divide his troops to eliminate the traitors in the north. Now that the morale is falling, can the soldiers of Cao's army really complete the task of fighting on both sides?
Cao Hong thought it was OK before, but now he feels it is difficult.
"General!" Cao Hong's confidant guard fell to the ground. "Xiao Ke has been kind to the general for many years and cannot repay him... Now things are urgent, Xiao Ke is willing to guard Suoyang Pass for the general! It is difficult for both north and south. General can go down the mountain along the broken road of the rock wall!"
Let the substitute stabilize the morale of the army, and then walk on the rock wall silence road by himself? Although the rock wall silence road has been demolished and burned before, it only takes a rope to go down from the top, which is much easier than to get it from the bottom.
This is indeed a solution. Because my confidant has been with Cao Hong for many years and is familiar with Cao Hong's habits, etc., and wearing armor and covering it, it is difficult for people who are not familiar with Cao Hong to tell whether it is a real person or a substitute.
Just like Cao Cao's previous substitute.
Cao Hong was stunned and immediately helped his confidant up, "How can you bear to let you take risks?"
"General, now the cavalry is attacking each other, and the morale of the soldiers is in chaos. The flag of the general is rarely changed, so the entire army will collapse! The small one who receives the kindness of the general is to use the general's armor to stabilize the morale of the army!" The trusted guard said earnestly, "Now that if you want to obtain the law of both worlds, the only one who can stabilize the entire army here will quickly go down the rock wall and rush to the Zhongtiao Mountain Camp, and send troops to help. Otherwise, if you are really attacked by the Cavalry Army from north to south, the general will be trapped here, not only will it be personal safety, but also the Zhongtiao camp will be difficult to protect! As the saying goes, a gentleman does not stand under the dangerous wall, please think twice!"
"This..." Cao Hong hesitated a little.
The confidant kowtowed again, "Master! Don't hesitate anymore, make a decision quickly! The young man doesn't ask for anything else, but asks the general to take care of his wife, children, and young people!"
That's right, the condition for dying for others is to entrust your wife and children to the other party for care.
Things that seem incredible in this later generation, but are very common in the current Han Dynasty.
In later generations, most people had names, but in the Han Dynasty, most ordinary people did not even have big names, only cheap names, and even surnames!
Because their ancestors had no celebrities and had never had high-ranking officials, they were not worthy of their surnames.
Therefore, in the concepts of some people in the Han Dynasty, sacrifices themselves to get a name and a brighter future for their children, which is undoubtedly the right thing that parents can do for their children and for their families.
Cao Hong was silent for a while, and finally sighed to the sky, "Don't worry, your wife, I will raise you!"
The trusted guard bowed deeply.
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Compared to Cao Hong's hesitation and concerns, Xu Chu seemed much more firm.
In Anyi, Cao Hong made him a move. Although Xu Chu also returned Cao Hong with a knife later, Cao Hong was finally allowed to run away. Now Cao Hong is blocked at Suoyang Pass, so Xu Chu has no reason to give up easily.
At the beginning, Xu Chu's main attack direction was the gateway passage of Suoyang Pass.
On the city gate passage, Xu Chu also met the Cao Army Military Academy who dared to challenge him.
In Shandong, there are also many brave and burly men in the Cao army. There is a Cao army military academy, which is like this. Relying on his size, he tried to fight Xu Chu alone.
This man may be a good fighter under Cao Hong's command, but when facing Xu Chu, he could not withstand Xu Chu for a few rounds, and was killed by Xu Chu.
The Cao army soldiers who followed this fierce man were uproared and turned around and ran away.
At some point, it is indeed an advantage, but it also requires the cooperation of combat skills.
Xu Chu's attack also requires skills.
At first, Xu Chu and others wanted to follow Cao's army and directly blocked Cao's army and rushed forward, but they were violently shot by Cao's army near the mountain gate. Even if there were shields, many Hussar soldiers were injured after rounds of arrows and crossbows.
Seeing this, Xu Chu could only withdraw from Cao's range for the time being.
Although Xu Chu could also infer that the number of arrows left by Cao's army was not large, it was not a solution to try it out little by little. Xu Chu looked around and immediately changed the direction of the impact, avoided the shooting boundary of the archers above the city gate hole, and chose to build a human ladder to climb up the earth wall linked to the outer wall of the Suoyang Pass...
Coincidentally, this is also the route Cao's army chose to capture Suoyang Pass before.
When Xu Chu chose to attack on multiple lines, the Cao army was a little overwhelmed, just as he could never withstand the Cao army's attack on multiple lines before. Suoyang Pass was small and the overall defense structure belonged to the model of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. In the face of many new war models that had evolved, they could not adapt to it at all. Whether it was Cao Hong, they could only work hard on software, but the hardware restrictions could not be broken through.
Cao's defense in the outermost circle quickly collapsed and he rushed back to the second layer of defense circle.
Perhaps because the inner circle has a smaller defense area and the density of Cao's army has increased, or if the Cao army soldiers saw Cao Hong standing with a knife on the high place, the two sides entered a brief stalemate.
『Follow me!』
Xu Chu, who had slightly retreated and rested, saw that the front line was blocked, immediately lifted up the sword again and led the people forward.
In this situation, whoever breaks the deadlock first will be like a snowball, making the advantage bigger and bigger!
The place where the two sides' stalemate was really a small slope.
The Cao army occupied the upper end of the earth slope. Because of the advantage of height difference, when the Cavalry Army attacked upwards, the vital parts of the head and face would be directly exposed to the attack range of the Cao army. The Cao army just had to be careful not to be cut to the legs by the Cavalry Army.
"Why don't you use a grenade?"
Xu Chu rushed to the front line and asked.
In such a stalemate, most people used to take shields to support them, but now there is an extra option.
"The grenades are almost used up! There are not many left! I will leave it to the general...if...
The military academy answered somewhat hesitantly.
If you really want to retreat, it would be better to have a few more grenades to open the way for Xu Chu.
Military academy is good intentions.
Grenades, like arrows, are consumables, and the number of grenades is smaller than that of arrows.
Previously, the Cavalry Army used grenades to break up Cao's infantry front and crushed Cao Hong's arrangements, but they also consumed all the grenades they carried. Another batch was used when they broke through the outer wall of Suoyang Pass, and now there are basically no few left.
"Don't worry! Use it first! I'm important, but soldiers are not important?!"
Xu Chu made a decision soon.
The military academy responded, but it still didn't use it all, so he secretly saved two.
The grenade was thrown up, and the Cao army array on the earth slope was in chaos.
Xu Chu took this opportunity and cut out a small open space with his sword.
When I just climbed the slope, I had less to fight against more enemies. The most important thing was to stabilize the front and let my own soldiers follow behind.
Although Cao's army guarded the earth slope, how could he stop Xu Chu?
More Hussar soldiers rushed up.
The soldiers of the Cao army were all veterans. Even though they were low in morale, they still had the instinct to fight and the arrangement was not bad. A group of Cao army soldiers rushed over from the other side, all holding spears and poking at Xu Chu and others. Behind this group of Cao army soldiers, there were several archers, staring at Xu Chu and greeting him with arrows.
At this time, we can see Xu Chu's ability.
But Xu Chu had already picked up the shield and blocked the front.
If it is indeed difficult to block during the climbing process, but now that it has already climbed up, it is naturally different. In addition, Xu Chu's shield skill is considered to be of the master level of a specialist. The heavy shield is in his hands, and it is flexible and light. He keeps changing the angle according to the direction of Cao's attack, not only to cover himself tightly, but also to take into account his comrades around him.
Cao Hong and other Cao army soldiers believed that the Hussar cavalry was powerful on horseback, and if they were off the horse, their combat effectiveness would be reduced. This may be true for ordinary Hussar cavalry, but it was an exception to Xu Chu.
Xu Chu originally took the route of infantry fighting, and followed the cavalry general Fei Qian, who learned cavalry and cavalry fighting, but he was better at infantry fighting!
This time, Cao's army retreated to Suoyang Pass, thinking that it could weaken the combat effectiveness of the Hussar Cavalry, but unexpectedly gave Xu Chu a full display stage!
In addition, the pass of Suoyang Pass has been beaten back and forth several times. Even if there were any sinister and vicious defensive fortifications and methods of killing, it was basically destroyed. Now the two sides are competing with each other, who is more brave and tougher, and whose hand-to-hand skills are stronger, can gain more advantages after the collision between the two armies.
The brave ones win when the two armies meet.
Xu Chu's martial arts in infantry battles were naturally almost first-class, and Cao's army could not resist them at all!
Ordinary people may be in a hurry to deal with the array of Cao's soldiers, and they will lose sight of each other. However, as long as Xu Chu glanced at it, he knew which side he should move to, which side he should dodge, block that part of the swords and guns, and then let the other part of the swords and guns fall into nothing.
Xu Chu also noticed Cao Hong's figure above Suoyang Pass, as if he was still standing on a high place and commanding the battle. It was also an important factor that these Cao's soldiers were still resisting and persisting.
What trap did Cao's army set up on it?
However, the structure of this Suoyang Pass is simple and almost clear at a glance. No matter what Cao's army does or what traps it has, or what Cao Hong's plan is, as long as he rushes straight to the middle formation and kills him, all major events will be settled!
Xu Chu believed that Cao Hong might have seen reinforcements coming, and might have entangled him. When his retreat collapses and has to retreat, he will chase and encircle him.
For this reason, Cao Hong did not hesitate to use his body as bait!
Since that's the case, Xu Chu wanted to swallow the bait directly!
Chapter completed!