Infinite war begins with Cao thief

Chapter 159: Charming and Romantic (please vote for me)

After gaining an in-depth understanding of the general trend of the world, Liu He did not fight a decisive battle with Cao Cao, but formed an alliance like Liu Bei and Sun Quan in history. Liu He even generously gave Wei County and Qinghe State to Cao Cao.

Liu He obviously had no good intentions in doing this.

Liu He wanted Cao Cao to fight Dong Huang from the front.

Of course Cao Cao was dissatisfied with this, but he had no choice.

With Cao Cao as a human shield, Liu He actually had time to devote his energy to Bingzhou and Qingzhou.

After experiencing the battle with Dong Min and seeing the majesty of the Xiliang cavalry, Liu He no longer believed that he could defeat Dong Huang with his current strength. Therefore, Liu He's strategic goal was changed to separatizing Hebei and preserving his foundation, so as to obtain more war scores.

Both Liu and He thought about it. In the early stage, they would hold on to the front line of the Yellow River. In the later stage, when there were still ten days and a half months before the end of the mission, they invited Cao Cao and the generals in Cao's camp to come and take the opportunity to kill them in exchange for war points. .

Aboriginals, to put it bluntly, are just resources.

Liu He didn't mind killing any natives.

If by the end of the mission, there are still people among Liu and his generals who have not returned home, he will not hesitate to kill them in order to gain the possibility of receiving their inheritance.

Of course, after killing Cao Cao, his wife and children could not be spared. Cao Ang, Cao Pi, Cao Zhang, and Cao Zhi were all killed. Cao Cao's wife and daughter were pulled over to test the clock to see if they could get new attendants.

It is said that Liu He has no special preference for wives, but if he can seize Emperor Wu of Wei's wife, the pleasure brought by the blessing of that status will be enough to drive Liu He crazy.

In short, Liu He has arranged everything clearly and is just waiting for the mission to be over.

In order to better complete the task and prevent Dong Huang's army from crossing the river, Liu He also ordered Tian Yu to lead 30,000 horse archers across the river to burn and destroy crops in Qingzhou and other places, destroy bridges and roads, and strive to make Dong Huang's army unable to Collecting grain and grass from Yanzhou and Qingzhou made it even more difficult to march smoothly.

At the same time, Liu He was also prepared to break the banks of the Yellow River if things changed.

No drug, no husband.

Liu He, who was able to endure loneliness and spend two years fighting in the prairie to train a cavalry that was good at Mongolian warfare, had always been a person who regarded life as nothing.

He never minded creating an unscrupulous yellow zone.

When Hebei was in chaos, Dong Huang did not continue to play in Huangshan. Instead, he led an army of 200,000 tigers and soldiers to bypass Jingzhou by water and returned to Chang'an.

Dong Huang's departure greatly reduced the logistical pressure on the East Route Army, allowing Fazheng to command the East Route Army's operations quite calmly.

Both Cao Cao and Liu He could think of the importance of food, and naturally Fazheng, Xi Zhicai, and Jia Xu could also think of it.

Coincidentally, when Cao Cao, Liu He and their troops were preparing to capture, Dong Huangjun's troops also quickly entered Yanzhou and Qingzhou.

Dong Huang's army adopted a strategy of cavalry harassment and infantry siege. The infantry marched from city to city, while the cavalry went deep into the enemy's rear. They would rob the enemy if they did not find it. They would fight when they encountered a small group of enemies. When they encountered the main force of the enemy, they would light up the beacon and call out. Main force.

This kind of tactics made Cao Cao extremely uncomfortable.

Cao Cao, who had no strategic space to begin with, could only concentrate his troops on Puyang and other places.

In fact, in the face of Dong Huang's army's cavalry harassment, Cao Cao also tried to send several cavalry to fight. However, among these cavalry, those who were originally affiliated with Niu Fu's troops often surrendered directly, and the rest were not Dong Huang's army. Rivals of cavalry.

This is true for Cao Cao, let alone the direction of Qingzhou. At this time, the effective forces in Qingzhou were Sun Ce, Guan Cheng, and Chang Xi. They were originally ordered by Yuan Shao to cross the river to attack Liu Biao. As a result, the Taishan soldiers were delayed, and when they finally sent Chang Xi out, Yuan Shao was already dead.

Chang Xi, who was unaware of the information, accompanied Sun Ce, Guan Cheng and others to Qingzhou, only to later learn about the news that Yuan Shao had defeated Xuzhou and changed its ownership.

Now, the three of them were in no mood to cross the river.

Chang Xi was clamoring for his hometown in Taishan, Guan Cheng was clamoring to surrender to Dong Huang and asked Dong Huang to help him take revenge. Sun Ce was worried about the safety of Zhou Yu and Sun Quan but did not want to surrender to Dong Huang.

As soon as the three of them were delayed, Liu Biao got angry, and Zhao Yun's troops also entered Qingzhou with the surrendered Taishan bandits Zang Ba, Sun Guan and others.

Chang Xi, who had rebelled many times in history, was very aware of the current situation and chose to surrender. Guan Cheng because Liu Biao was dead and because he realized that this troubled world was indeed as his third brother Guan Qi said, the three brothers could not participate in it, so He decided to take the rest of the Yellow Turbans who were willing to follow him across the sea to find Guan Qi.

After much hesitation, Sun Ce chose to surrender to Zhao Yun and made a request: After he crossed the river to receive his father's bones, he would return to his hometown to get married and have children.

Zhao Yun agreed to him.

Zhao Yun's troops then took over Qingzhou, where the people's livelihood was in decline, and attacked Linji halfway across the river, annihilating the forward of Tian Yu's army and blocking Tian Yu's army to the north of Jishui.

At the same time, the Japanese expedition fleet with Zhu Heng as the chief general and Mi Fang as the deputy general was also assembled in Qingzhou, waiting for the monsoon to make final preparations; Zhou Tai, Jiang Qin and others prepared ships that could cross the Yellow River The boat was ready to go straight up the river and cut off Cao Cao's army's retreat.

Cao Cao, who knew how Yuan Shao was defeated, after learning that Liu He's troops failed to cross the river, in order not to be alone, on Guo Jia's suggestion, he abandoned Yanzhou, crossed the Yellow River with the main force, and reorganized his army in Weijun and Qinghe State in Hebei. , relying on the Yellow River for defense.

This made Fazheng's plan to use his old tricks to annihilate Cao's army come to nothing.

When the first snow of winter arrived, Yanzhou and Qingzhou had been completely captured by Dong Huangjun.

Dong Huang's army confronted Cao and Liu's coalition forces across the river.

As Guo Jia expected, Dong Huang's army, which was short of cotton-padded clothes due to the cold weather, could only let the southern soldiers, especially the southern barbarians, go south. The military pressure of Cao and Liu's coalition forces on the south bank of the river was greatly reduced.

However, this is the only good news left for the Cao and Liu coalition.

Although the coalition forces of Cao and Liu held the river bank, they failed to capture Bingzhou.

Dong Yue, the governor of Bingzhou, was often in panic after the arrival of Li Jue and Guo Si. On the one hand, he felt that Li Jue and Guo Si were right, and there was definitely something fishy about Dong Zhuo's death; on the other hand, he did not think that Dong Huang, who was far away in the south of the Yangtze River, needed to plan such a thing. In addition, Li Jue and Guo Si had always had a reputation for bravery and had bad records of massacring Li Meng and others and annexing his army, which made Dong Yue deeply fearful.

As the pressure from Liu He's troops in Jizhou increased, and the powerful families such as the Wang family in Bingzhou also put pressure on him again and again, Dong Yue became more and more shaken.

Li Jue and Guo Si noticed Dong Yue's wavering and wanted to strike first, but their subordinates Yang Ding and Wu Xi reported him.

So Dong Yue planned to kill Li Jue and Guo Si, and personally took their heads to Chang'an to plead guilty.

When Dong Yue arrived, Dong Huang had just finished burying Dong Zhuo and was comforting the frightened Niu Fu's wife Dong Fei and the charming Dong Zhuo's granddaughter Dong Bai.

Hearing that Dong Yue had come to surrender, Dong Huang received him at a family banquet and invited Dong Hui and Dong Bai to attend.

This made Dong Yue completely relieved.

(End of this chapter)