Chapter 919

After a discussion, Cao Zhen and Han Hao decided to send troops to pursue the Yuzhou army. In fact, it was not only because Cao Xiu was angry that the enemy had shot XiahouDun, but also that he recovered more than 30000 people who had been captured by the Yuzhou army.

More than 30000 people, of whom Ding Zhuang Shao, over 16 years old and under 50 years old, said that there were also 5000 or 6000 people. As long as they put on armor and hold weapons, they could become soldiers. These 30000 people are used for farming, which is also a great amount of productivity, and we can't give up easily.

At present, among the princes in the world, only Cao Cao has the ability to compete with Liu Ye, but his strength is far less than that of Liu Ye. Liu Ye occupied one of the seven prefectures in Guanzhong, including Yong, Liang, Si Li, Yi, Yan, Yu, Ji, and he, and half Jingzhou (the local administrative system of the Han Dynasty was one of the thirteen prefectures, and the other was the school Wei Department of Sili), with a population of more than 10 million. However, under Cao Cao Cao, there were only Xu, Qing, Yang and a small half of Jingzhou, which was only half of Liu Ye's.

Therefore, the population of 30000 is very important. After all, the population under Cao Cao was not as large as that of Liu Ye, and it would be even more painful to lose the 30000 people.

In the history of Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition, the first thing he had to do was to move the people under Cao Wei to Hanzhong, because the population of Shu was too small.

Han Hao immediately ordered Zhu Ling, Lu Zhao and other four soldiers to enter the city. Later, he demobilized the 10000 people brought by Cao Zhen, and the 3000 soldiers brought by Cao Zhen. As a result, there were nearly 30000 soldiers in the city.

"In this case, the army is divided into two parts. Half of the Han's Guard troops stay in Shouchun city. With two generals Zhu and Lu, some go after Liu Bei and take back the captured population. How about that?" Cao Zhen suggested.

"It's ok... But Zidan must be careful. Liu Guan and Zhang are not easy people." Han Hao admonished.

Cao Zhen nodded and immediately ordered his troops to gather his general. He led more than 13000 troops and horses, and Zhuling and Lu Zhao, and pursued Liu Bei to the West. Although Cao Zhen was young and his military rank was no more than Duwei, he was a general of the Cao family. Zhu Ling and Lu Zhao were superior to Cao Zhen in rank, so they could only listen to Cao Zhen's command. However, although Cao Zhen was young, he was well versed in military literature and had a good command of marching and fighting. Therefore, Zhu Ling and Lu Zhao were convinced.

In fact, despite Cao Cao's saying that "talent is the only thing to do", he once issued an order to seek talents and widely used talents from poor families in the world. In fact, he used his own people in an important position. For example, the commander-in-chief of the western front of Cao Wei was Xia Houyuan, because after Xia Houyuan was killed by Huang Zhong, an old general in Dingjun mountain, Zhang jaw became commander-in-chief temporarily.

In the south, Cao Ren was guarding Wancheng, and XiahouDun was stationed in Huainan. After the death of the Xiahou family and the Cao family, their successors were the Cao family. Cao Xiu was the commander-in-chief of the eastern line of the Wei Dynasty, Cao Zhen succeeded as the commander-in-chief of the western line, and Xiahou Shang was the commander-in-chief of the southern line.

The reason why Cao family lost power in Wei state and was eventually replaced by Sima family had something to do with the decline of Cao family generals. It was because Cao Zhen, Cao Xiu, Xia HOUSHANG and others died one after another. Cao Shuang, who was in charge of military and political power, was finally conspired to usurp Wei.

In fact, because of this, Cao Rui, the emperor of Wei Ming Dynasty, deliberately chose not to use Sima Yi. Later, the Cao family died and had no choice but to ask Sima Yi out of the mountain.

But now, Cao Ren, Xia Houyuan, Xia Houdun and others are still alive, while Cao Zhen, Cao Xiu and Xia HOUSHANG are even younger, and the Cao family is rich in talents.

Huaishui.

Although it has been a long time since the earth shaking battle of Huaihe River, there is still a faint red color on the land on both sides of the huaishui river. The soil dyed red by blood spreads to the air with a smell of rotten blood. From time to time, some animals can be seen tearing and biting human corpses, while plants fed by corpses are growing rapidly.

Step on it!

Suddenly, the sound of trampling came from the East Road. A fox, who was biting the rotten meat, was stunned and looked eastward. A large army of more than 10000 people was marching in a dense way. He was frightened and did not dare to stay in the same place. He held a large piece of rotten meat in his mouth and turned and ran away.

"In front of the school is Zhu Huaihe?"

Cao Zhen, riding on his horse, looks forward from a distance and faces Zhu Lingdao on one side.

Not long after, Cai Huaili crossed the water, and then he passed through the water

Cao Zhen Er, he had already smelled the bloody smell in the air, and soon came to the Bank of huaishui river. Seeing the scene in front of him, he recalled the tragedy of the previous war in his mind. He did not know how many soldiers of Cao were buried here. Think of here, Cao really can't help but sigh.

"Give me an order to explore the upper reaches of the Huaihe River and see if the enemy has done something wrong." Cao Zhen exclaimed.

Before the battle of huaishui, Cao Zhen couldn't be careless. If the enemy followed the example of Han Xin and Xia Houdun, blocked the river upstream and dug up the upper reaches at one stroke while Cao Zhen led his troops to cross the river, how could Cao Zhen's army survive?

After a short time, the scout reported back: "newspaper! The upstream is safe. "

Cao Zhen nodded and waved: "the whole army crosses the river!"

After the completion of the floating bridge, more than 13000 Cao troops crossed the Huaihe River. Cao Zhen himself did not cross the river first, but ordered Zhu Lingxian to lead 5000 people to cross the river, then led 3000 people to cross the river himself, and finally Lu Zhao led the 5000 army to cross the river.In the famous Weishui battle, long Qi led 200000 Chu Jun to meet Han Xin. Long Ji personally led the front army to cross the river. As a result, Han Xin ordered people to dig sandbags blocking the upstream. The flood surged and divided the Chu army into two sections.

Only a small number of Chu troops followed Longji across the river. Han Xin immediately ordered the Han Army to attack fiercely, and finally killed Longji and defeated the Chu army.

Naturally, Cao Zhen, who was cautious by nature, could not have made this mistake. Therefore, he ordered Zhu Ling to cross the river first, and he was in the middle of the river. After Lu Zhao palace, he was careful not to make a big mistake.

After all the thirteen thousand Cao troops had crossed the river, Cao Zhen ordered them to move on.

More than 13000 Cao's troops rushed to Xiacai. Suddenly, he saw a black faced general like an iron tower on the road ahead, with a black faced horse under his hip, carrying a steel spear with eight points in his hand, and a leopard's head and eyes like a steel needle.

"I'm Zhang Fei from Yan. Cao Jun's children will be captured if they don't get off the horse quickly!"

It was like a thunderbolt in the clear sky. Zhu Ling and a cadre of Cao Jun in the front row only felt the eardrum ache.

"Zhang Fei?"

Zhu Ling was stunned and immediately ordered: "the whole army stops!"