Chapter 1024

In Shanyang County, Yanzhou City, Cao Cao's FeiTing Marquis's residence, Cao Cao's face was very black and blue, and he was gathering people to discuss affairs step by step. It was because he didn't expect that the Yuzhou army had become the eastern expedition army, which led to the loss of four counties, especially Qiao County. But in that year, he started a big county with more than ten counties and a population of more than one million.

In addition, Pei, Liang and Jiyin counties have four counties with more than 40 cities and a population of more than 2 million. You should know that Cao Cao has only 18 counties with less than two hundred cities and a population of more than 8 million. After more than a month, he has lost nearly 30000. Although Xia Houyuan was confident that he would take both Qingzhou and Yuzhou in one month, how could Qingzhou and Yuzhou compare.

What's more, he has lost 70000 elite troops, but the loss of the eastern army is not big, so the war on the western front will be more difficult.

One of the things that made Cao Cao even more uncomfortable was that sun Qijun in the South was attacking himself desperately. In the past month, he had captured the cities of Jiujiang, and now he had invaded the territory of xiapi. Fortunately, sun CE's troops were not enough, and his territory in Jiangdong was not stable. Under the attack of xiapi Xiangman Pang, he had blocked tens of thousands of his troops to the south of Tongguo county.

At this time, Cao Cao understood what it was like to be attacked on all sides. He needed troops everywhere, but he had only tens of thousands of elite troops on hand, so he did not dare to send them out. Fortunately, up to now, Pengcheng Prime Minister Lu Qian has assembled tens of thousands of troops and is waiting in Pengcheng. In addition to man Pang and Cao Ren, the war situation in the three prefectures of Xuzhou should be basically stable.

In fact, Cao Cao didn't know that he was. The war potential of the expeditionary army had been brought into full play. He had captured dozens of cities in the four counties. Although nearly 300000 of the expeditionary army had only lost about 30% of its troops, after the capture of dozens of cities, Yan Sheng had diluted the troops in Huangfu Chaobo's hands and almost assigned all the guards in his hands, that is to say In this way, there are not many garrisons in each city. There are about 2000 garrisons in important cities, but only a thousand garrisons in general cities.

In addition, several counties and cities need soldiers stationed in two or three schools, so at this time, only less than 100000 soldiers can be dispatched by Huangfu Chaobo. If we insist, there are tens of thousands of civilians and prisoners.

After introducing the current situation to everyone, Cao Cao said in a deep voice, "all of you, tell me what to do in the next war?"

"Father, I don't think we have enough troops, so I should order us to recruit again and step up training, otherwise Cao ang said at first;

"Wen Ruo, what's the situation of the conscription of the cities under his rule?" Cao Cao nodded and looked at Xun Dao beside him;

"report back to the Lord, the city leaders and generals have reported the recruitment situation, which has reached the scale of 2000 people."

"Go on and increase the number of soldiers and horses in each city to 3000. No, 4000." Cao Cao shook his head and waved his hand.

"but Lord..." Xun Yu said hastily, "in terms of the current situation of our army, 3000 people are already the limit. If each city increases by 2000 people, there are 140 cities under its rule, that is 300000 troops, which will not be able to support."

But Cao Cao waved to stop Xun Yu's words and said, "let's go through this pass first."

Xun Yu was speechless, so he had to retreat in silence. Yes, if he was driven out of Yanzhou by the East army, what's the benefit of leaving more money and food? However, there are nearly 300000 new troops added. In terms of Cao Cao's current situation, he will be dragged across by the army in less than a year. But if we don't recruit soldiers, all these cities will be lost. In time, Cao Cao Jun will be a lost dog.

"Give orders to Zixiao and Zilian to keep the three counties of Xuzhou. If they can drive sun Qijun out of xiapi, it's best. If they can't, at least they should keep the richest place in Xuzhou to the north of Xiaxiang."

After a little meditation, Cao Cao continued: "give yuan rang an order, let him guard Dongjun no matter what. Let him not care about the battle of Shanyang. If I lose, let him guard Dongjun and Dongping. If I win, let him fight Puyang as far as possible. Then send someone to miaocai for a month. If someone gives him a month, he must occupy Qingzhou and then lead the troops back to the West. "

Just when Cao Cao recruited generals and counselors to discuss countermeasures, Huangfu Chaobo was also worried. After more than a month, he had captured dozens of cities in Cao Cao's four prefectures. However, Huangfu Chaobo suddenly found that he had no soldiers in his hands, and three hundred thousand troops were sent out in all directions. In only a month, he could use only one hundred thousand soldiers However, all the rest were sent to the newly occupied cities for defense.

Nowadays, there are no fewer soldiers in Zhucheng of Henan. Otherwise, in case of any emergency, there will be no soldiers available.

Therefore, after discussing with the three counsellors, Huangfu Chaobo had to order that Huang Zhong led the 30000 troops of Shenwu camp in Runan to defend Pei, Qiaojun and Liang, and the Li troops of Huangfu went north to Shanyang to participate in the battle of Changyi together with the troops of Huangfu Chaobo.On April 8, the Li army of Huangfu arrived at Shan Fu. After a day's rest, they began to send troops to defend the eastern county. On the same day, Huangfu Chaobo left behind two schools of soldiers and 20000 guards to defend Dingtao. He personally led the guards, 10000 soldiers of huangwudi department and 20000 soldiers of Zhangying department, accompanied by 10000 guards, 10000 Minfu and 10000 Caocao soldiers. A total of 80000 troops crossed Jishui and left Changyi all the way East.

Two days later, the army arrived at the foot of Changyi city. After arriving at Changyi, the army did not attack the city immediately. Instead, it planted a strong camp in the west of Changyi city while waiting for the arrival of Huangfu Li army in the south.

Like Dingtao City, Changyi city was built by Jishui. However, Dingtao is located in the north of Jishui, while Changyi is located in the south. Changyi city is about ten li long and wide, with a height of four Zhang, a bottom width of six Zhang and a top width of more than three or four Zhang. Except for the six Zhang high turrets at the four corners of the city wall, the defense at the head of the city is much tighter than that of Dingtao city. There are horse faces every hundred steps along the city wall, and there are sheep and horse walls behind the moat outside the city.

In addition to these, the news from the front of the shadow guard shows that there is an urn city in the South Gate of Changyi, and there is a stronger inner city in the city, which is a double wall pattern of Hui character.