Chapter 3495 Ice and Fire
Everyone hopes that they are smart and that their subordinates are smart, but most of the time, things go against their wishes.
Even smart people have the difference between great wisdom and little cleverness.
Is Lao Cao smart?
The answer is yes, but he also made mistakes.
The only way is to reflect on it all the time.
Lao Cao was also reflecting.
In order to gain as much time and space as possible, Cao Cao has been planning almost day and night in the past two days.
Cao Hong insisted on staying, and together with Liu Fu, waiting for Cao Cao's final decision.
Cao Cao looks calm on the outside, but in fact he will be nervous.
The reason why he stayed here was that he knew very well that his current situation was very dangerous.
There are enemies outside and thieves inside.
The situation inside Shandong has changed, and a wired report has been delivered to Cao Cao.
This was not what he wanted to see, but it was not beyond Cao Cao's expectations.
These people from Shandong were not optimistic about Cao Cao, but thought that the Er Yuan was their real spokesperson.
From a certain perspective, this is indeed the case.
The second Yuan are the top existences of the gentry, and are the template for the development of rural tyrants and local surnames to the highest stage, so they are called models of the world by the children of the gentry.
Under such circumstances, Er Yuan's ambition to go further was exposed.
One was in the south and the other was in the north. The Shandong gentry suddenly broke open, and Cao Cao "picked a bargain" from the middle.
This is the view of many Shandong gentry children. Even though Cao Cao later integrated into the Central Plains of Shandong, this problem has not been improved. The gentry children still believe that the gentry is the most powerful, powerful and perfect political structure system, and the most powerful collective of self-cultivation, family management, country and peace. They do not agree with Cao Cao, a family that is a family that is a slutty family.
Especially after Fei Qian's rise, many Shandong gentry began to say that Cao Cao was the old man and had the ability to compete with Fei Qian. Is it interesting to target us every day? He disdained Cao Cao's suggestions that he should be vigilant about Fei Qian, boost Shandong's manufacturing industry, and re-produce and study new equipment.
Just buy good things about China, we are rich in Shandong!
Cao Cao could not resolve the contradictions within Shandong, so he could only eventually transfer the contradictions outward, attack Guanzhong, seek Hedong, and try to force Feiqian to fight on multiple fronts, travel thousands of miles to weaken his strength, and then gradually erode Guanzhong, and then take over the whole world.
When Cao Cao's march into Guanzhong was unfavorable, the Shandong children broke up again!
Some people think Feiqian is a threat, while others think Feiqian is an opportunity!
Some people shouted that Fei Qian was the next Dong Zhuo, while others sneered that even Dong Zhuo was dead?
Cao Cao went to Hedong and even lost his tribe brothers. He originally thought that he would sound a wake-up call to these gentry children in Shandong, making them alert and understand the danger level of Fei Qian, but things went against their wishes.
Some of the children of Shandong began to feel that Cao Cao was useless and began to plan to welcome a new "relative relative"!
That's right, Cao Cao was actually a "relative relative" in the hearts of Shandong people. Even if he is now the "Prime Minister", nothing has changed.
The Han Dynasty has been around for thousands of years, and the relatives of the foreigners have changed every year.
Eunuchs, relatives of the outside world, and clear streams.
This model was used from Guanzhong to Luoyang.
Cao Cao sighed slightly.
He actually understood the real purpose of some of Fei Qian's actions.
The Han Dynasty's "separation of powers" model actually aimed at the emperor to seize more ruling power from the local area. The so-called "eunuchs, relatives, and clear streams" seem to have three, but in fact there are only two, namely the central and local areas.
The conflict between the central and local governments, this problem, is the root cause of the Zhou Dynasty. Nowadays, many children of the Han Dynasty often advocate the law of Zhou Gong and the ancestral system. They do not really think that the Zhou Dynasty is good, but hope that the central government can enfeoff more princes like the Zhou Dynasty so that they can also become local emperors.
This is a disease and needs to be cured.
Fei Qian said, I have medicine.
When Cao Cao saw that the medicine was poisonous.
Fei Qian said that it is a medicine that is poisonous.
Cao Cao said that if you don’t take medicine, you should take care of yourself first.
Fei Qian said that he would not take medicine and he would have surgery...
So the fight started.
The situation Cao Cao is facing now is like having a difficult childbirth in ancient times. The midwife shouted and rushed out, "Save the big or the small?!"
The ending of everything is that both big and small will most likely die.
The result of protecting only one is that after the matter, the other one will leave resentment. Why not protect both?
Cao Cao's choice was to take another bet.
Ice and fire!
Either fall into the ice cave or return to glory!
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Compared to Cao Cao's worries, Ma Yue was very decisive.
Is he wrong?
Wrong.
His problem is that he has ideas, but he is unwilling to tell them and communicate and negotiate with Pang Tong.
But the question is, how many people in this world will treat everything honestly?
The more serious problem is what those who treat each other honestly end up getting?!
It’s like insulting those judges who support or despise the judgment, but the core point of the problem is to refuse to save the death, or to be guilty of being guilty, or is the judgment improper?
Those who can’t figure out these things out, most of them cannot figure out why Ma Yue made a mistake.
However, most of the time, people who make mistakes don’t think they are wrong.
That's how Ma Yue is.
After dark, Ma Yue issued an order to attack.
Compared with the many contradictions within the Cao army and the mutual doubts, the military academy of the Cavalry Army soldiers and soldiers did not have any opposition.
Everything has its pros and cons.
More than a thousand cavalrymen stepped on their war horses and followed the direction of the river toward the exposed river beach.
Even though it was wrapped in horse hooves and reduced the sound, the tremor could not be completely avoided.
Moreover, when the distance is closer, the sound of the collision between iron armor and weapons cannot be concealed by the sound of water in the big rivers.
But Ma Yue doesn’t care about fear!
He believed that as long as he rushed across the river beach, what could he do even if he was discovered by Cao's army?
So, when Ma Yue felt that he had entered the effective attack range, he issued an order to accelerate.
The Hussar cavalry began to speed up gradually, and the horses pedaled hard on the ground.
The earth trembled slightly, and the sound was like muffled thunder.
The tremor became more and more obvious, and the muffled thunder became tighter and tighter.
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"The Cavalry Army is here!"
As Cao's army, who had fought repeatedly with the Cavalry Army for this period of time, was already very familiar with this tremor.
Cao Jun dug a hole in the ground and buried a urn to collect some small sounds that were farther away, even temporarily inaudible to human ears. Therefore, Ma Yue and others were still exposed at a relatively long distance, at least at a safer distance that Ma Yue thought.
The horse's hooves roared, demonstrating the power that was like a rush of overwhelming seas.
The Cao army was in awe of that kind of power and longed for that kind of power.
Cao Cao is not an experience package, nor is he an NPC set up with the program. He only speaks repetitive words and does repetitive things.
When he saw the fear on the faces of the soldiers around him, he immediately raised his hand and said, "Send the order! All departments prepare!"
Let a person eliminate tension, not tell him not to be nervous, never be nervous, nervous, nervous will be over...
Then that person will definitely become more and more nervous.
The best way is to let him do something else. When his attention is diverted, his tension will gradually decrease.
The messenger ran and passed the order out.
Under the order, the soldiers of Cao's army began to check the weapons and other equipment around them. This simple behavior effectively suppressed the fear that the soldiers felt while waiting.
The thunderous sound gradually became louder, mixed with the sound of the river, like a big river roaring!
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If Ma Yue can not be blinded by the desire to win, then he may be more alert and perhaps nothing will change.
Desire really needs to be controlled so easily, and reason will not be so embarrassing.
When sprinting, the sound is out of control.
At a distance, the sound of the river will help cover up some sounds, but after reaching close distance, these sounds will definitely not be concealed!
So normally, if Cao's army had no preparations and had not expected the Cavalry Army to come, then they would definitely be alarmed by these sounds!
Maybe they would scream, maybe there was a warning, maybe it was some other reaction, rather than being quiet like now, like Cao's army was all asleep!
Unfortunately, this idea just hovered slightly in Ma Yue's mind, and he kicked it out of the sky by himself.
This is like those who have been deceived, or keyboard warriors who always watch, they will think that the scam is so stupid and ridiculous. However, what is even more ridiculous is that such a simple scam that cannot even be self-consistent with logic has caused people to be deceived, and even someone has dissuaded them, and still stepped in without hesitation!
This is how Ma Yue stepped in without hesitation!
He thinks he can win!
If he hadn't felt that way, how could he have called for a military order?
Military orders may not necessarily be beheaded, just like Guan Yu's military orders, but they also represent the courage to bet on ALLIN with everything he has.
I'll see the wrong version one by one!
After winning the game, Ma Yue doubled his original assets!
Not hit...
How could it be missed?
Who would think that he would definitely not win before the lottery draws?
I will definitely not buy it if I don’t win, right?
The cavalry army rushed forward unstoppably along the river!
There are actually opportunities every time, but not everyone can choose the one that is the right one or the one that suffers less. Sometimes the choice that looks good will actually bring more harm.
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The location where Cao's army chose to ambush was actually the place where Zhu Ling planned to ambush Cao's army last time.
Maybe it was a coincidence, or maybe it wasn't, but something special.
This mudflat is about a hundred steps wide, but the part close to the river is relatively soft, while the ground near the ground near the earth plateau will be more hard. From the earth plateau, archers can easily cover any corner of this mudflat.
When the Cavalry Army attacked, the side would be directly exposed to Cao's crossbow.
Cao's archers don't even need to aim specifically, they just need to shoot the crossbow out as soon as possible.
If the Cavalry Army wanted to attack Cao's army on the earthen plateau, they could only take a detour because in the area close to the river, there was an erosion structure close to ninety degrees or even greater than ninety degrees. Unless the war horses learned the ability of rock sheep, they would not cause any effective impact and damage to Cao's archers.
Even if the Cavalry Army wanted to detour to attack Cao's army on the earthen plateau, they had to pass through another section of ravine, where there were already four rows of swords, shields, spearmen, and some archers. The ravine was not wide, so Cao Cao only needed to arrange a small number of Cao's soldiers to build a defensive position with a certain depth.
Although time hastily and Cao Cao didn't have time to make more obstacles, he believed that with such a good terrain and such a position, it should be no problem to defeat the attack of the Cavalry...
Moreover, Cao Cao also found the "traces" left by Zhu Ling!
Those are the real "killing weapons"!
Unfortunately, Cao Cao doesn’t have much gunpowder on hand now, so he can only choose one or two places, and the rest can only be sighed.
The sound of war drums finally rang out, and Cao's army from the earthen plateau also began to throw torches under the earthen plateau.
When these torches were thrown down, Ma Yue realized something was wrong...
But just like those people who were trapped in a scam, perhaps when the first money was transferred out, their hearts began to panic, and reason once again reminded them that there was something wrong with this matter, but in many cases, they still couldn't think about it, or even were unwilling to accept this fact, because this meant that their previous investment had completely sunk!
To resist the mentality of sunk costs, you need strong willpower and accurate execution.
Choice is always the most important thing in life.
Especially after becoming a leader, the choice is not only for yourself, but also for the people you follow...
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Arrows roar down!
『Raising the shield——』
Ma Yue shouted.
He already felt something was wrong.
These Cao's arrows came too fast and too neatly!
If it were Cao's shooting in panic, it would have been a bit scattered and would not be so neat...
This means that Cao's army is likely to have prepared for a long time!
However, when the war horse gallops, it cannot stop just by saying that it stops. Moreover, Ma Yue’s rationality is still being pushed to the ground by a guy named “Lucky” to the ground.
At the same time, Ma Yue also discovered that although the arrows of Cao's army were neat, they were not many!
Long before the Ma Yue order, after hearing the sound of arrows and bowstrings, the Hussar cavalry raised the shield in their hands to cover the head of the war horse, their head, face, and neck.
Arrows thrust on shields or armor...
Some muffled groans sounded.
Some people were injured, but not many seemed to be!
This phenomenon made Ma Yue's luck become more and more arrogant, hahaha, trampling his rational face underground again.
"The Cao army has not many arrows! Rush! Rush over!"
The cavalry did not stop, and they accelerated again.
The sound of bows and arrows, horse hooves, war drums, and shouts mixed with the sound of the river flowing, as if it was a sudden symphony of flesh and blood, and the beginning was filled with the smell of blood.
『Back to the earthen plateau!』
Ma Yue shouted.
Ma Yue believed that Cao's archers shooting from top to bottom should have a shooting angle, and when they approach the soil plate, Cao's archers will lose this shooting angle. Moreover, for the cavalry in the queue, they only suffered one side of the shooting, so they need to concentrate on defending Cao's army on one side, and the direction on the river side is safe, which means they still have a chance to rush over!
『Divid one team! Divid one team!』
Ma Yue shouted, "Split a team and rushed to the earthen plateau! Took Cao's army!"
After receiving the order, a military academy in the queue, he whistled without saying a word, and took his men to leave the brigade and circled towards the flank of the earthen plateau.
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Cao Cao watched Ma Yue and others speed up the speed, and then smiled.
The morale of Cao's army was already very low. This ambush was almost the ultimate arrangement by Cao Cao. If Ma Yue immediately risked the war horses being trapped in river mud when he was attacked and turned around on the mudflat, although Cao's army would have gained some, it was obviously not enough to boost Cao's morale.
Cao's army urgently needed a victory.
Then you can retreat calmly.
Victory and retreat, two words that were originally unrelated, are now hooked up.
"The enemy general was reckless."
Cao Cao waved his hand and ordered all the archers to start.
Liu Fu also breathed a long sigh, "The lord is planning and wins a thousand miles..."
"Oh!" Cao Cao stopped Liu Fu's flattery, "Yuan Ying went to the rear camp and arranged the withdrawal of troops... Let the baggage go first... Tell the men that if there is someone here, they will definitely stop the thief army, so there is no need to be surprised!"
Liu Fu gave a deep courtesy, "I obey the order."
Fight here and retreat there.
Cao Cao was very calm. He did not feel that he could do it again because the horse Yue jumped into the trap, and he had the ability to compete with Fei Qian again. Instead, he took advantage of this wave of momentum and immediately prepared to evacuate without any hesitation.
With the order issued, Cao's archers who were originally standing inside the earthen plateau stepped forward and shot wildly at Ma Yue and others!
The powerful crossbow was also raised at the same time, and the cavalrymen below were madly outputting!
The casualties of the Hussar Cavalry soared in an instant!
Moreover, because the cavalry formed a long queue, it almost means that all the Hussars and cavalry passing through the earthen plateau will be forced to be washed by strong bows and crossbows!
The key is that this unfavorable situation was chosen by Ma Yue himself!
If the sword is successful, it will naturally have a huge effect. However, once it is discovered and targeted, the sword with a bias will be extremely weak and fragile!
I don’t know how many times, Ma Yue has changed from secretly to disdain for Pang Tong’s steady strategy, and I don’t know how many times, Ma Yue feels that Pang Tong’s behavior in this or that is simply slow and crazy, and it is simply a missed opportunity for the military!
What else is hesitant about Cao’s army?
What else to consider?
Go up, and then it's over?
What is Pang Tong doing?
Why do you have to rest after so many days?
Cao's army obviously withdrew its troops, so why didn't we immediately chase them?
This is an excellent opportunity. Could it be that Cao's army was let go back in vain?
Why don’t you send troops immediately to capture the Central Plains of Shandong in one fell swoop?
The Cao army has been destroyed like this, so what ability can we resist?
Is Pang Tong stupid? Are he afraid?
Ma Yue thought so, and once this thought arises, it obscures his reason and controls his thinking, making him increasingly impatient and look down on Pang Tong!
He felt that Pang Tong could not seize this opportunity, so he should not stop him from seizing this opportunity!
So he issued a military order, and he couldn't listen to the dissuasion of others!
Until now, until the blood flowed out and the soldiers died, Ma Yue realized why Pang Tong was so slow, why was he so steady, why didn't he choose this mudflat to raid, why did he repeatedly stop and persuade him...
But Ma Yue didn't listen!
Before Ma Yue, he only felt that he wanted to feel, and only heard what he wanted to hear!
Now, everything in front of Ma Yue was overwhelmed and covered by blood!
What he felt and wanted showed a ferocious look in the blood, and then laughed at him, mocked and insulted!
You are a fool!
You killed your brothers!
In this situation, even the stupidest person understands that he has fallen into a trap and is in a vain!
Chapter completed!