Chapter 882

"Prime minister, it seems that Liu Ye is going south with great fanfare. It seems that he intends to wipe out Jingxiang with all his might. Now Cai Mao is defeated and the front of the army points to Jingnan. In this way, our army will be in danger."

The actor's face was serious and suggested to Cao Cao.

"Yes, if Liu Yuqing is really allowed to take Jingzhou, our army will be in a passive situation of being beaten and unable to defend itself." Cao Cao also frowned.

Jingzhou, also known as Hunan and Hubei today, is located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River. Liu Ye had already conquered Bashu before. If he could obtain Jingzhou again, it would be equivalent to occupying the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River.

When Cao Cao occupied Yangzhou, he was in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. In case Liu Ye launched an attack from the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, as Sun Tzu said in his art of war, it was very disadvantageous to Cao's army that he was in a commanding position.

We should know that in history, the Eastern Jin Dynasty destroyed Wu and occupied Jingzhou. Wang Jun, the general of the state of Jin, asked to build a warship in Bashu. Finally, he went south from Bashu and destroyed Dongwu.

In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Huan Wen's family, who once said that "if you can't live forever, you'll have a long history of immortality." his family also occupied Jingzhou for a long time. However, the state capital of the Eastern Jin Dynasty was in the lower reaches of Jingzhou. It can be said that if he wanted to, Huan Wen could lead his troops to the south at any time and swing on the left side of Pingjiang river at one stroke. The Sima royal family and a group of aristocratic families were worried all day long. Fortunately, there were many restraints, which made Huanwen fail. Otherwise, the Eastern Jin Dynasty would die before Liu Yu, Emperor Wu of Song Dynasty, was born.

Suddenly, he coughed violently and covered his mouth. Cao Cao quickly held up Xi Zhicai: "Zhicai, how are you? Are you ok?"

After coughing for a while, Xi Zhicai shook his head: "it's OK, it's old."

Before Cao Cao frowned, Xi Zhicai immediately said, "prime minister, our army must not just watch the Xiliang army annex Jingzhou, or our army will have to fight against the front of the Xiliang army alone in the future, and we must not be indifferent."

Cao Cao nodded heavily: "well, Zhicai, according to what you said, what should our army do?"

"Prime minister, now the Xiliang army has occupied the northern part of Jingbei and is ready to take the southern part of Jingzhou. Zhou Yu was Sun CE's sworn brother. He was also a strategist. He would do his best to protect sun's family. He would certainly fight with the Xiliang army. However, the Jingnan gentry certainly would not wholeheartedly help the sun family. Therefore, our army must send troops to contain the Xiliang army, so that the Xiliang army and the sun family in Jingnan are equally matched. "

"It is said that the Xiliang army has already played the banner of Liu Ye. Liu Yuqing did not lead the troops in person this time. If this is the case, even though there are many generals in our army, no one can compete with Liu Yuqing. The prime minister must lead the troops in person."

"Well, Jingzhou is very important. It can't fall into the hands of the Xiliang army. It seems that Ben Xiang has to lead the army in person this time."

Cao Cao sighed: "I thought I could let Yuan Shao and Gongsun Du sit on the mountain to watch the tiger fight. I didn't expect that Ben Xiang would lead the troops out so soon."

"The prime minister can take directly from the Xiliang army and cut off the food supply channel of the Xiliang army. In this way, he will win..."

after finishing this sentence, the playwright coughed violently again, his face turned pale, and the whole person knelt down directly and his body shook violently.

"Well..."

when the actor looked down, he saw that there were red blood drops on his palm, which was bright in color...

"come on! Send the talent down for cultivation, and call it the imperial physician! " Cao Cao exclaimed.

Among the many counsellors of Cao Cao's army, the two most valued by Cao Cao were Xunzi and xizhicai. Xunzi was good at political strategy. He could handle all kinds of government affairs in an orderly way, which was called Wang Zuo Zhicai.

In history, after the death of the playwright, Xun you and Guo Jia stood out and were introduced by Xunzi.

"Directly from the Xiliang army, cut off the grain road?"

Cao Cao pondered over the words of the dramatists, and suddenly his eyes lit up: "among the Xiliang army, isn't that Jiangling?"

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Jiangling and Xiangyang are in the south of Xiangyang. Jiangling is the important town next to Xiangyang in the southern county, but now it has fallen into the guard of Xiliang army.

Jiangling is adjacent to the Yangtze River in the south. As an important town in the north and south of Jingjing, Jiangling has always been the transportation place of military grain and utensils. In the annals of the Three Kingdoms, Liu Bei led the people to the south. Cao Cao had long heard that Liu Bei had accumulated a large number of grain, grass and utensils in Jiangling. Therefore, he sent General Cao chun to lead 5000 tigers and leopards to ride south day and night. Before Liu Bei, Liu Bei captured Jiangling and seized a large number of military supplies.

"Well, is that?"

The garrison on the head of the city saw a puma army and horse galloping from afar, and could not help shouting.

"The enemy is coming, the enemy is coming!"

With this cry, the whole city of Jiangling became flustered. The drums on the top of the city were sounded, and thousands of soldiers poured into the city, holding weapons.

And at this time, the army horse that rushed all the way finally showed its original shape. It was the Cao army with the banner of "Cao"!The chief general, with broad shoulders and all over his body, cried out: "I am Cao Ren, general of Zhenbei under the prime minister's command. Why not open the city and surrender as soon as possible?"

At this moment, it is enough to call Cao Houdun and Cao Rencao the vanguard of XiahouDun, and call it a great responsibility.

After a while of pushing and shoving on the head of the city, a valiant general came out. He was eight feet tall and his face was like double dates.

"I'm Wei Yan, a military officer. I'm ordered to guard Jiangling city. How can I be reduced to Cao thief?"

Wei Yanda said: "if you are not afraid of death, just attack."

Cao Ren snorted coldly: "if you don't eat or eat, you'll die."

"The whole army is ready to attack the city!"

"Here it is

Despite the fact that Cao's troops are only the vanguards of Cao's army, there are 20000 people in front of them alone. Looking at the vast area under pressure, the whole Jiangling city is surrounded by dark clouds. It really feels like the city is being destroyed by dark clouds.

Under Cao Ren's order, the 20000 strong army did not attack the city immediately, but dug trenches outside the city. At the same time, all kinds of trees outside Jiangling city were cut down. These trees were carved into various kinds of siege weapons such as ladder cars, wood bumping vehicles, and rushing cars.

"Quickly bring up the rolling wood stone, fire oil and gold juice, and prepare to resist the enemy!" Wei Yan's expression is congealed.

Cao's army was ready to attack the city, and the garrison at the head of the city could not be idle. They carried all kinds of garrison items to the top of the city one after another. In addition to the conventional rolling wood and stone, there were also poisonous gold juice, as well as the kerosene specially used to burn the siege vehicles and ladder trucks.