Chapter 717 Yanzhou Army Destroys Pingyang City
When Ma Chao saw that the Zhen family agreed, he was still very satisfied. After all, the purpose of coming to Wuji this time was to achieve it. After that, as long as Zhen Mi was sent to Chang'an, it would be done. If you get married, you have to wait a few years before you can get married. After all, your son is not very old now, only ten years old, so it is indeed not suitable for getting married.
After that, the Zhen family members said a few more words to Ma Chao, and then Zhen Yan even held a banquet to entertain Ma Chao and Zhao Yun. He also knew that Zhao Yun was Ma Chao's brother-in-law, so in fact, they were all family members.
Zhen Mi's marriage was settled like this. To be honest, she was actually not very happy to her.
Anyway, women from big families like them are basically used to marry each other. But Ma Chao directly led 90,000 troops from Changshan to Wuji. This made Zhen Mi feel that he still attaches great importance to his son's marriage. As for his son being nearly ten years younger than him, to be honest, Zhen Mi is not an ordinary woman after all, so in her eyes, it doesn't matter. No one dislikes anything, so naturally he will not worry about this matter.
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In Pingyang City, Cao Cao ordered Le Jin to take the soldiers of Yanzhou to attack once, but the result was that he was not very similar to what he thought.
Cao Cao discovered that the cohesion of the Jizhou army seemed to have increased, or in fact, the morale of its army increased. Logically speaking, they were not as good as food and grass, and they should have been depressed, but the result was exactly the opposite, so Cao Cao had no doubts.
In his central army tent, Cao Cao expressed his questions. "Look at the performance of the Jizhou Army's defense today, is it that the problem of military food and grass has been solved."
Xun You said: "What the lord said is right. Now, this is the only thing that can be done."
As a result, the Yanzhou Army's Seizuo came back from Yecheng and came to the tent to see his lord. Yecheng is not closed all the time, so it is not that nervous. However, the investigation is indeed very strict, so the Yanzhou Army's Seizuo came back to report the latest news about Yecheng.
After listening to the detailed report, Cao Cao said: "It's true that the situation is the same as everyone said. The food and grass problem of the Jizhou Army has been temporarily solved!"
Cao Cao also had to sigh that you should not underestimate these people, such as aristocratic families, powerful men and tycoons.
And only Yuan Benchu, who was born in a noble family, could have such appeal. If he encountered such a thing, even if he used hundreds of thousands of people to put pressure on these people, the effect would definitely be that he was not as good as his Yecheng. He could only make the powerful have more food and grass. As for those aristocratic families, they have bad relationships with him. Although he would not take any food and grass, he probably wouldn't take a lot of food and grass. Anyway, they must have some countermeasures.
Cao Cao really knew that a good background would have an impact on great cause. Of course, although he knew that his background was not as good as Yuan Shao, he had no feelings for this. Originally, he didn't have much favorable feelings for those aristocratic families. This is certain. And in Cao Cao's eyes, if it could become like this today, to be honest, it is absolutely inseparable from them. As for Cao Cao's origins from aristocratic families, but a powerful man, so he naturally likes the powerful man much more than the people of those aristocratic families.
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Cao Cao waved his hand and asked Xizuo to retreat. Xizuo said goodbye and left the tent.
And everyone did not hear anything from the words of their lords. I don’t know whether it was happiness, regret or something, but everyone understood that according to common sense, when encountering such a thing, some people might feel a little regretful. After all, they clearly have an advantage, but they disappeared at once. However, their lord would never be like that. The more the two sides were evenly matched, the more Cao Cao felt that it was worth a fight at this time. For him, if the opponent was too weak, it would be boring.
At this time, Cheng Yu said: "Lord, now it has been confirmed that the Jizhou army has temporarily solved the food and grass problem. In this way, one of our army's advantages will be gone. Our army should be quick to enter Yecheng!"
Cao Cao nodded, "Now that the Jizhou army has temporarily solved the problem of food and grass, it may be a good thing for our army. In this way, the Jizhou army can go to war with our army with all its might, but there is no need to worry about anything for the time being. Compared with before, I hope to fight them in a dignified manner! What do you think?"
"The lord is wise!"
Everyone said in unison to express their approval of the lord.
Cao Cao laughed, "Okay, everyone, we will attack Pingyang City with all our might tomorrow!"
"promise!"
Everyone spoke in unison again, and everyone was extremely confident. If Pingyang City could not be taken down, then how could they take over Yecheng in Wei County?
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On the second day, Le Jin continued to lead his troops to attack Pingyang City.
It is true that the morale of the soldiers of Jizhou who had sufficient food and supplies has improved, but even so, they are still no match for the soldiers of Yanzhou. After all, the combat power is not something that these can make up for. So it is definitely not possible to rely on Pingyang City to resist the attack of Yanzhou soldiers. In the end, they can hold on for a few days, and the city will inevitably be destroyed. After all, Pingyang City is not a strong city like Jinyang and Yecheng.
For Le Jin, he hadn't led his troops to attack the city like this for a long time. After all, he had been confronting the Jizhou army in Guandu before, and then Li Yang took it down without going to attack the city. So this time, he was satisfied again. Le Jin really liked to lead troops to attack the city, and he had a lot of experience. Otherwise, could Cao Cao ask him to lead the troops?
However, the soldiers of the Jizhou Army did indeed have a lot of morale after the problem of food and grass, so they added a lot of trouble to their side. Le Jin had this idea at this time, but even so, he did not think that the Jizhou Army would be his opponent. In addition to the large number of people, there was nothing else that could compare to his own soldiers. Anyway, it was not Le Jin's arrogant self-confidence, and it seemed that there was nothing left, really.
The fierce attack of the soldiers of the Yanzhou army was barely defended by the soldiers of the Jizhou army. This is also because they had no worries about food and grass, and the second is that they were well prepared and arrived early, so they just kept their energy and waited for the rabbit, and relying on the benefits of the city. Although Pingyang City is indeed not a strong city in the world, it is not a city no matter how hard it is to send it to it, so there are naturally convenient conditions to increase your own defense.
So on the second day of the attack, the Yanzhou army still failed to capture Pingyang City.
But Cao Cao was not so anxious. For him, breaking the city was just a matter of time. What he cared most now was how to take over most of Jizhou and Youzhou earlier. However, Cao Cao did not discuss this with everyone at this time, after all, even Pingyang City has not been taken down. Besides, Cao Ren, Guo, Huai and Zhang He divided their troops to Anping Kingdom, and they could make achievements in the process, so they could still talk about what they thought.
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On the third day, Le Jin finally led his troops to break through Pingyang City. The city gate was immediately broken, and the Yanzhou army rushed into Pingyang directly.
Cao Cao was still satisfied with his soldiers. After all, it was within his expectations that he could win Pingyang City in three days.
After entering Pingyang, Cao Cao summoned everyone again, and he heard him say to everyone: "Everyone, since we started the war with Guandu and the Jizhou army, we have always overlooked an important thing!"
When everyone heard this, they ignored an important thing? What is this important thing? Everyone didn't know it, so they could only continue to listen to their lord.
Cao Cao continued, "Everyone, we sent people to persuade Ma Mengqi of Chang'an to send troops, but this was indeed true and was beneficial to our army. Although the Liangzhou army has already entered Zhongshan, even if we didn't go to cooperate with them, wouldn't they send troops? So today, we are not going to talk about the Liangzhou army. Because in Hebei, there is still a group of people, so we should be my help, and we must not let them get the income from the Liangzhou army. I believe you remember it?"
When everyone heard this, especially Xun You and Cheng Yu, they heard what their lord said that the local people in Hebei must be famous, and there were many people. As a result, they thought of that person at once. Yes, it was him, because there were really no other people in Hebei that meet the conditions.
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At the same time, Ma Chao, who was still in the Wuji, was also saying similar words to his subordinates, "Everyone, we are in Hebei, but we still have the power to leverage him, but we have forgotten him!"
When Guo Jia heard this, his eyes lit up, "Is it that the lord said, "Is it Zhang Yan in Heishan?" (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, the novel is better and faster!
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