Chapter 302 (2/2)
A drop of cold sweat on Cao Ren's forehead slowly slipped from his forehead to his chin. He did not think that he was Cao Cao's younger brother, so that Cao Cao could turn a blind eye to his mistakes. Cao Ren quickly clasped his fist and replied, ”my Lord! This time, the reason was that several assassins who violated the Lord's ban without authorization, were greedy for money to chase down Dong Huang and his party. Only in this way did Soochow notice the trend of our army. After that, Chen Yang, the son of Chen Ren, and Lu Xun, the son of Lu Jun, were also sun CE's students, which should be Chen Ren's disciple. It is because of these two sons that our army's operation this time has finally failed. ”
”In the final analysis, it's Chen Ren.” Cao Cao rubbed his forehead with some headache. As he grew older and older, his body was not as good as before, and gout came out. Now when he thought of Chen Ren, Cao Cao's head was aching faintly. Cao Cao waved his hand and said to Cao Ren, ”although the main reason for the defeat is not entirely due to you, as a commander-in-chief and an old general of our army, you will be defeated by two young boys! In this way, you will be punished to demote one grade of official post, and then take the post of governor of Yanzhou. Later, you will go down to the lower level and order 30 times of flogging! ””Here it is Strictly speaking, Cao Cao's punishment to Cao Ren is relatively light. After all, Cao Ren is still an excellent general of the Cao family. Cao Renyi clasped his fist, and then went straight back to ask Cao Cao to give him punishment. For Zhang Liao and others behind him, Cao Cao also made corresponding punishments, such as salary. After all, Cao Ren is the commander-in-chief and has already undertaken most of the responsibilities. These subordinates only symbolically assume some secondary responsibilities.
However, Cao Cao was very interested in Chen Yang, the son of Chen Ren, who had lost the war. According to the previous intelligence, Zhang Liao once had a hand with Chen Yang, and asked Zhang Liao, ”Wenyuan, I heard that you had a fight with Chen Ren's son. How do you feel about this son?”
Zhang Liao just sat down, heard Cao Cao's words and asked, he immediately stood up and clasped his fist at Cao Cao and replied: ”report back to my Lord, the last general has only fought with this son once, but according to the last general's view, although this son is only 15 or 16 years old, his martial arts are no longer under the last general! I'm ashamed to say that if I hadn't been interrupted in the first battle outside Xiaopei, I'm afraid that I would eventually be defeated by this son! ”
”Oh?” Cao Cao's interest was immediately raised. The intelligence only briefly explained that Zhang Liao and Chen Yang were in a decisive battle. However, he did not expect that Zhang Liao would admit that he was not Chen Yang's opponent. This also surprised Cao Cao.
And several generals sitting next to Zhang Liao are also showing the appearance of disbelief. They all know Zhang Liao's martial arts. Now Zhang Liao even says that he is not the opponent of Chen Yang, who is only 15 or 6 years old. It can be imagined that in a few more years, Chen Yang will certainly grow up to be no less powerful than his father. In particular, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, the two top generals, had some friendship with Chen Ren at that time, but they didn't expect Chen Ren's son to be so outstanding.
At this time, man Chong on the other side also got up and said, ”Lord! If his subordinates have not guessed wrong, Chen Yang may not only have excellent martial arts skills, but also his father Chen Ren Chen Ren has become famous now. Cao Cao has already seen through Chen Ren's way of hiding his clumsy skills. In Cao Cao's eyes, I'm afraid Chen Ren's wisdom is more frightening than his martial arts.
Man Chong continued to explain: ”after this retreat, his subordinates specially captured several soldiers who were fighting with Chen Yang at that time, and inquired about the process of the war at that time. Chen Yang was calm and calm when guarding the city. His skill of guarding the city was no worse than that of Bao Bao. Moreover, when general Song Xian withdrew his troops, he even thought of pursuing general Song Xian with thousands of cavalry. Although this move is a bit risky, it is just this move that has become the key to the defeat of our army! ”
Cao Cao also nodded, which he had learned in the previous intelligence. Now Cao Cao has a headache because of this. If Chen Yang is just a member of the force general, pour also, did not expect unexpectedly and Chen any kind, is a literary and military all-round talent, this is the most terrible. But now that the problem has come out, no matter how much headache it is, Cao Cao turned to Jia Xu, his most trusted counselor: ”Sir, now that the Xuzhou plan has failed, how should we deal with it next?”
However, Jia Xu frowned and thought all the time. Before that, Jia Xu offered the Xuzhou plan to Cao Cao, which was to surprise the eastern Wu. Cao jiuren was defeated completely, but he didn't have a plan. Jia Xu bowed his hand to Cao Cao and said, ”my Lord! Now that the Lord has torn his face with Soochow, I'm afraid the next thing we have to face is the counterattack of Soochow. We should make countermeasures as soon as possible! ”
”Well!” Of course, Cao Cao understood what Jia Xu said. In fact, Cao Cao's question was not to blame Jia Xu. Jia Xu's Xuzhou strategy was indeed a good strategy, but it failed for various reasons. It can only be said that the plan is made by man and the task is done by heaven!
Jia Xu knew that Cao Cao was waiting for him to continue, so he did not stop and said, ”the counterattack of Soochow is only in three places in my view! The first is Zhao Yun in Hanzhong. However, the Lord has arranged two generals Li Dian and Yu Jin to guard Qishan mountain, which is protected by the natural danger of Qishan mountain. Zhao Yun is also the best at cavalry attack, so the Lord should not worry about this way; the second is Hangu pass, where Jingzhou army can be stationed in Hangu pass and take Chang'an directly. However, Hanguguan has already penetrated into the Northern Wei territory. If Jingzhou army really marches from Hanguguan to Yongzhou, the Lord only needs to send an army to cut off its back, and the Jingzhou army will be defeated, so the Lord doesn't need to be concerned. Thirdly, it's the Xuzhou army, but his subordinates can't determine whether the Xuzhou army is marching towards Yanzhou or attacking Qingzhou, so he can't give it to the Lord A clear solution. ”