Chapter 985

In Luoyang City, Huangfu Chaobo was relieved. After more than a year of planning, he finally decided on the plan to attack Cao Cao's army. Now, only after the spring of next year, when the army is ready, can he launch a thunderbolt against Cao Cao's army.

But what he didn't expect was that Cao Cao, his old rival, was also gathering generals in Yanzhou and Changyi city hundreds of miles away, and the content of the meeting was to send troops to attack Qingzhou after the spring of next year.

In the assembly hall, Cao Cao sat down above the throne, and below were Cao Cao's army officers, several relatives and trusted generals. Among the civil servants, Xun Yu, Cheng Yu, Sima Yi and Liu Ye were the leaders, and several prefectures were added, such as the prefect man Chong of PI, Chen Qun of Shanyang, Chen Jiao of Le'an, Wei Hong of Ren Cheng, Zhong Yao, Ren Jun and Xi Zhou. The generals were led by two CAOS and two Xiahou, and Li Dian and Le Jin were the first to take refuge in Cao Cao.

On one wall of the assembly hall, there is a map of the Central Plains States. In front of the map, young Sima Yi is holding a long wooden pole and explaining his plan to the public.

It's a pity that since Sima Yi took refuge, he has planned several battles against Huangfu Chaobo, but none of them has been successful. Moreover, Huangfu Chaobo's power is stronger and stronger. Therefore, Cao's family and Xiahou's family only look at him in the face of ridicule and don't say a word.

When Sima Yi finished, Cao Ren said, "Meng De, do you want to listen to this baby again this time? You know, before several times to Huangfu Chaobo, in the end we can not get much good, but let Huangfu Chaobo strength stronger and stronger

When Cao Cao heard this, he laughed bitterly. He didn't expect Cao Ren to ask himself this question in front of everyone. Isn't he beating Sima Yi in the face on the spot?

Just as he was about to speak, he saw Sima Yi blush and say to Cao Ren, "general Zixiao, I've been aiming at Huangfu for several times, but I didn't succeed. But Yanzhou army has made great progress."

After listening to Sima Yi's words, Cao Ren is hard to refute. It is true that Huangfu's Chaobo power is getting stronger and his family's situation is getting stronger. In recent years, he has attacked Xuzhou first and Qingzhou later, doubling his control.

Seeing this, Cao Ren stopped talking and went back.

Seeing this, Cao Cao quickly said, "Zixiao, this is something that someone asked Zhongda to plan. There has been a situation between someone and Huangfu Chaobo for a long time. If Huainan is settled, sun Qijun is also against someone. If we don't take this opportunity to weaken Huangfu Chaobo, it will become a future trouble in time. So someone decided to send troops to Qingzhou as soon as possible to capture the two counties of Qingzhou and weaken the power of Huangfu Chaobo. "

As soon as Cao Cao opened his mouth, it was hard for the people to say anything more. Sima Yi explained the deployment of the army to the people again.

According to Cao Cao's discussion with Cheng Yu, Xun Yu and Sima Yi, their purpose of sending troops next year is to capture the two counties of Huangfu Chaobo. Therefore, the army must prevent the attack of Huangfu Chaobo army in the west, and launch a thunderbolt attack on Qingzhou in the East. At least most of the two counties of Qingzhou must be occupied before the reinforcements of Sizhou arrive.

There were only two ways for Huangfu Chaobo's Sizhou army to reach Qingzhou. One was to attack Yanzhou Dongjun, Jiyang and Liangguo, so as to encircle Wei and save Zhao. The other was to gather forces to March eastward from the river and send troops to support Qingzhou directly.

Originally, Sima Yi's suggestion was to send troops directly before the freezing of the river, but Cao Cao didn't agree. First, it's not easy to send troops in winter. If you don't do it well, you will be defeated. On the contrary, if you steal chicken, you will lose a handful of rice. The second is that it will take time to mobilize the army and to prepare the food, grass and equipment.

Therefore, after careful consideration, Cao Cao also decided to send troops after spring ploughing in March. As for the reinforcements of Sizhou, Cao Cao's consideration was the flood season of the river.

In recent years, with the phenomenon of river freezing in winter every year, there are four seasons in a year, which are called peach flood, summer flood, autumn flood and ice flood.

At the end of March and the beginning of April every year, due to the thawing and opening of the Bingzhou River, the water storage of the river channel is discharged, but because the ice flood in the Bingzhou river reaches spreads to the downstream, it is in the peach blossom season, so it is called "peach flood"; the rainstorm flood formed in July and August in summer, because it is in the rainy day, is called "summer flood"; the rainstorm flood formed in September and October in autumn, is called "autumn flood", and it is called "autumn flood" The flood season is connected with each other, and it is also the season of rainstorm and flood, which is called "Fu autumn flood". In January and February of spring, due to the freezing of the lower reaches of the river, a large amount of water storage in the channel, when thawing and opening the river, it often forms a flood peak, accompanied by a large amount of ice discharge, which is easy to block water in the curved narrow river, backup the water level, and threaten the safety of the embankment, so it is called "ice flood".

The time selected by Cao Cao is the period of peach flood. If the time is well coordinated, it will be able to block Huangfu Chaobo's reinforcements in Sizhou.

In fact, Cao Cao chose to go to battle after spring ploughing in March, which was the same as Huangfu's purpose of Chaobo, not delaying Qingzhou's summer harvest. If the Zhengdong army was able to buy grain from outside, Cao Cao could only grow grain on the territory under his control, and he didn't even have the opportunity to buy it. Therefore, Cao Cao attached great importance to grain.Finally, Sima Yi was convinced by Cao Cao that the time of sending troops was set between March 10 and 15.

As for the arrangement of troops, several people think that it is best for Cao Cao to lead the army personally to defend against possible attacks from the direction of Sizhou, and leave the task of attacking Qingzhou to Xia Houyuan, the prefect of Qingzhou. Under his command, the number of Chinese soldiers and horses in Rencheng, Lu, Jibei and Qingzhou counties will reach nearly 40000. In addition, tens of thousands of foreign troops drawn from the seven counties are not soldiers and civilian soldiers, with a total force of nearly 100000.

There were only 50000 elite soldiers in Qingzhou, but they had to defend the area of dozens of cities in the two counties. As for the thousands of soldiers in each city, no one paid attention to them.

In order to be on the safe side, Cao Cao sent ten thousand tigers and leopards to Xia Houyuan to deal with more than ten thousand cavalry in the eastern expedition of Qingzhou. Although Cao Cao didn't attach importance to the most important ally of Huangfu Chaobo, kongfu's Yuzhou army, he transferred another 10000 of his 30000 Chinese troops to Qiao County and handed them over to Cao Hong. Cao Hong led 10000 Chinese troops, 10000 Chinese troops of Cao Cao's department and 10000 soldiers of counties and states. A total of 30000 troops defended Qiao County. In his opinion, Cao Hong's 30000 troops were enough to deal with the attack of Yuzhou army.