Chapter 681 (2/2)
Cao Xiu refused to accept the way:” but prime minister, it is uncle Zixiao who is responsible for leading the army this time. Uncle Zixiao has strict military discipline and is hard to expose. ”
”Hehe, if you don't mention this, whether Zhou Yu is on guard or not, as long as he and Li Shu fight first, the situation of our army will be favorable.”
Cao Cao gave a smile and looked at the horizon. After a long time, he worried: ”the only thing I worry about is whether the scale of the war between Yanzhou and Jizhou will expand. If so, our army will fight in many ways, and the pressure will be quite great.”
Cao Xiu comforted him: ”prime minister, don't worry. Liu Ye mobilized tens of thousands of troops to Hebei Province. After a long campaign, the grain and grass were exhausted. How could Liu Ye hurt others with his own strength and strength, and the two prefectures of Qing and Xu carried out military garrison and hoarded more than 100000 stones of grain and grass? ”
In ancient times, the consumption of grain and grass was totally unequal to fighting or not fighting. If the army does not go to war, it is fair to say that once the army enters the combat readiness state, the amount of grain and grass consumed will rise sharply. First, the soldiers' physical strength was greatly consumed and their natural food increased greatly during the daily campaign. Secondly, the grain and grass needed to be turned around in the middle of the way, which inevitably led to the loss of food. After all, the civilians who transported the grain could not help eating or drinking. Thirdly, the war horses ate more than the people, and the horses in large families had to feed the fine fodder, soybeans and eggs, and the maintenance of the war horses was even more laborious.
Horses can eat grass, but not for a long time, just like people have to eat, can not always drink porridge. If you eat grass all day and don't eat concentrate, the horses will lose fat and can't be used.
Therefore, when it comes to the battle, the horses must be fed regardless of the cost and fatten up rapidly, otherwise the horses may die in the middle.
So why are the nomadic horses so fat? Are they richer than the people in the Central Plains? Tens of thousands of war horses use concentrate and eggs?
Of course, this is not the case, because there are few horses in the Central Plains due to the difference between the horse raising mode in the Central Plains and that in the grassland. As for the nomadic war horses with 100000 horses and large-scale stocking, there are a large number of horses with a wide range of choices. Naturally, there will be fat and strong fighting horses. Moreover, nomadic people often have two horses or even three horses for one person, so the horsepower consumption will be less naturally if they change to ride.
”Hurt people with this?”Cao Cao pondered the four words repeatedly and frowned: ”with Liu Yuqing's talent, Xunzi, Jia Xu and Guo Jiazhi's wisdom, we can't allow our army to attack Jiangdong, and we'll certainly respond. If we really get to the point where we hurt people with this...”
once Liu Ye is willing to ”hurt people with this”, he will fight against Cao Cao if he tries to exchange injuries for injuries. Cao Cao Cao can't rule the land of three states, and his overall strength is strong Nature can't match.
”In this case, our army should speed up and take the Lujiang River with lightning speed!” Cao Xiu resolutely said: ”our army should fight fast and hard. When Liu Yuqing reacts, our army has already drunk the horse and the Yangtze River. In this way, even he can do nothing.”
Cao Cao laughed, patted Cao Xiu on the shoulder and said, ”Wenlie, you are right!”
”Zhongde!”
Next to him, a man of letters, eight feet tall and strong, came up to meet him. It was Cheng Yu.
”What do you want from the prime minister?”
Originally, the most quick witted man in Cao's army was the playwright. However, in recent months, he suddenly fell ill, and his condition became more and more serious. Therefore, Cao Cao left him in Xuzhou to recuperate and rest, and went south together with Cheng Yu.
Cao Cao pondered for a while and ordered: ”Zhongde, you write on behalf of the prime minister, inform yuanrang and Zilian, and order them to intensify their harassment of Yanzhou and Jizhou, regardless of casualties. It is better to give the Liangzhou army a false impression that our army is in a certain position. We should do it in a real way.”
Cheng Yu nodded and added, ”prime minister, you can invite Yuan Shao to attack Jizhou in coordination, so as to increase the pressure on Xu Huang's Ministry.”
”Yuan Shao suffered heavy casualties. Will he send troops?”