Chapter 3511 The troubles in price

The sunlight fell from the gaps in the clouds, jumping naughtyly on the tricolor flags and soldiers' armor, then twisted their waists and rotated, and then disappeared without a trace.

The wolf smoke rose in the distance.

The soldiers nearby were cold.

After the raid succeeded, Li Dian began to move the soldiers and supplies from Hanzhong to Shangyong City.

For any general, if you have a little military knowledge, you will know the principle of "smartial speed", but not all nodes at all times and at all times.

Except for those wars that are forced to happen and have no time to prepare, most wars require sufficient reserve resources and sufficient logistical support.

The success of the raid on the mortal world requires many prerequisites, and it is not simply a slap in the head and then it can be successfully achieved.

In order to get closer to Cao Cao, the Shen family even betrayed the Di people who had originally gathered around the Shen family.

These Di people may not recognize a few big characters, nor do they know how to pronounce Confucian scriptures, but one thing is certain, they have absolutely no custom of being slapped on the left and having to stretch out the right face.

Building trust is difficult, but it is easy to destroy.

The trust relationship that Shen family established with the surrounding Di people for more than ten years or even decades was destroyed after the Cao army arrived, which almost all the spies that Shen family had originally had in the surrounding areas were broken.

Even if a Di person saw Li Dian sending troops, he would not call the police to Shen.

At the same time, Li Dian's policy of winning over the Di people gradually achieved results.

For most people at the bottom, whether they are Di people or Han people, the most important thing is to eat enough.

Although eating is a bit too shallow for some gentry children, in the feudal dynasty, not many people are willing to do it.

Although some of Li Dian's experimental fields in Hanzhong were destroyed, some were preserved. The harvest of those preserved fields made Li Dian knock on the "Gate of Friendship" of the Di people.

The Shen family, who had lost their tribes and had no tentacles, was like a big tree without foundation, and was pushed down and fell.

Therefore, in a sense, it was not Li Dian who caused the Shen family to perish, but Shen family itself.

When the news of Shangyongshen's destruction was conveyed to Jingzhou, Cao Ren's hand couldn't help but tremble.

Of course, in the message of sending Jingzhou, many Shen family remnants. Cao's scouts exaggerated the number of Li Dian's soldiers and horses, exaggerated more than a hundred people into more than a thousand people, and directly mentioned more than a thousand people into tens of thousands of people, which made Cao Ren's final hand that Li Dian raised tens of thousands of soldiers in Hanzhong, and pointed directly at Jingzhou!

Who saw this news that it didn’t wet the crotch?

Cao Cao originally planned that the Cavalry Army would not advance until next spring as soon as possible.

Cao Ren was speechless while holding the emergency military newspaper for a long time.

But then more war reports and military reports followed one after another, overwhelmingly fast.

Since Shangyong fell, Hussar soldiers were found in Yamaguchi Road!

There are also cavalry troops appearing on Wuguan Road!

Cao Ren was angry, but he was somewhat helpless.

When Cao Zhen got the news and rushed back to Xiangyang, he saw Cao Ren faced an anxious report from a table, with anger and helpless look on his face...

『General…』 Cao Zhen asked, 『This is…』

Seeing that it was Cao Zhen, Cao Ren did not hide it, so he gritted his teeth and trembled the urgent reports on the table one by one.

"This part...we retreat!"

"This part! Yazikou meets the enemy! Defeat!"

"Cabinet of the Cavalry!"

『Ten Thousands of Hussars!』

『Defeated!』

『Great collapse!』

『It's a big collapse again!』

A series of urgent reports were raised, as if outlining a terrifying line of beacon fire, stretching out from Hanzhong and Wuguan, and heading straight for Jingxiang!

It seemed that thousands of Hussar soldiers had set out in formation, jumped out of the mountains, and carried blood and fire to Jingzhou along the road, carrying smoke of gunpowder!

"Why did Shangyong lose it?" When Cao Zhen saw these news, he couldn't believe it.

The land of Shangyong is between the river and the Han River. "The above is flat, so it is called Shangyong." Moreover, from Hanzhong to Shangyong, there are many mountain passes and passes, which are not so easy to walk. In some places, even plank roads dug out on cliffs and stone walls, you only need to block the intersection, even if there are thousands of troops, you can't use them!

Cao Zhen had a deep understanding of this when he led his troops to attack Hanzhong!

But why can't he even enter Hanzhong? Then Li Dian attacked like this and defeated Shangyong?!

Doesn’t these two comparisons seem to be incompetent?

However, the current situation made Cao Ren and Cao Zhen not have time to think about their face, but felt that the two swords were on the top and the side, and they both reached their sight!

The road is on the way, which is the direction of Wuguan Road, connecting Wancheng and threatening the north of Jingzhou Xiangyang.

Shangyong's journey directly hit Jingbei's flank!

In history, Shangyong was the last private land of local princes. Shen family and later Meng Da were in a "neutral" state in the Shangyong area for a long time. It was not that all the three parties in history could not afford Meng Shen, but because conquering cities did not simply occupy a city.

After having a city, we had to support the common people and then form a stronger army. However, because Shangyong is in a mountainous area, the land that can be cultivated is much less than that of other cities in the Central Plains. There are fewer acres of farming and continuing to explore wastelands outwards. It was also difficult under the conditions at that time, so the number of people that can be supported will be small and the taxes will be less. At the same time, in the Shangyong area, Di people and others live in mixed places, and there are many conflicts with each other, and they often fight, and from time to time, they need to send troops to mediate or suppress.

Therefore, if you have strong capital, you can certainly have certain military advantages to take down Shangyong and use it as a frontier position to attack other directions more conveniently. However, if you need to be stationed for a long time, then Shangyong may require long-term and large-scale cost expenditures.

It may be possible one year or two years, and over time it takes a long time it is like a bottomless pit, just like some areas of Central Asia in later generations. It is fine to occupy it in a short time, but over time, even the great empire was dragged into the abyss, fat to the point of thinness, and thin to the point of collapse…

It is precisely because of this consideration that Cao Ren and Cao Zhen believe that there is no need to stay in Shangyong.

The supply line from Hanzhong to Shangyong is very long, and even with the help of Hanshui, it is not easy.

Cao Ren and Cao Zhen felt that Li Dian had not taken over Hanzhong for a long time, and Hanzhong might not be very stable. If Li Dian occupied Shangyong, he would inevitably move troops, food, etc. to Shangyong, and he might lose control of the Hanzhong area. The time would be a little longer, and at that time, it would be impossible to lose both ends, and Hanzhong would also be a collapse.

As a result, neither of them expected that Li Dian would launch an attack on Shangyong at this time, and now he is directly approaching Fangling!

It is not surprising that Xicheng was defeated, after all, Xicheng is already rotten, like a bus, and anyone can get on it.

But why is Shangyong so easy to be captured?

Cao Ren and Cao really couldn't figure it out, and in the end they could only say, "Shen's family is a waste!"

Since Shen's family is already at the level of waste, the original promise and the Shen's son who stayed in Jingzhou will be useless...

"Let the Shen son be more at peace! Stay at home and don't go out to get angry!" Cao Zhen ordered, "If you jump up and down again and make a call, you will be punished for the crime of chaotic troops!"

I won't kill you now, just to see if the Shen family's flag is useful when you have the chance to fight back in the future. If even the name is useless, then the Shen family's son will die of illness quietly.

After hearing this, the guard glanced at Cao Ren.

Cao Ren didn't look up, just waved his hand.

The guards took the order and left.

Cao Ren swept all the urgent reports on the table to the ground, then took Shangyong's map and spread it on the table to expand it.

Cao Zhen also stood up.

The two stared at the map together, speechless for a while.

Now we continue to study why Cao Zhen can't beat him. It's no point in being able to beat him easily. Now we can only see how we should deal with him...

This time, Xiangyang is in trouble.

In history, Xiangyang was once in a critical moment, and was almost stabbed by Guan Erye.

A court meeting was held in Xu County to urgently discuss whether to take refuge in Yecheng...

But at that time, Liu Bei asked Commander Liu Feng to defeat Yong, which was a failure. Liu Feng actually knew that he could not inherit Liu Bei's position, but was very unwilling to accept it. After all, when Liu Da'er had no son, Liu Feng served tea and water every day. Now that he had a new son, he forgot his old son. Who would be happy?

And in one stroke, Liu Feng was pushed to the Shangyong land. It was barren and on the front line. Everything had to be supported by the rear. It had a little outrageous action, either by Meng Da's arm or by the rear. So when Guan Lao Er asked Liu Feng to send troops to cooperate, on the one hand, Liu Feng was not capable and could not beat Meng Da's old fox. On the other hand, it was also possible that Liu Feng felt that if he sent troops too early, he would be the foil of Guan Lao Er, so even if he wanted to send troops, he would have to go out again when Guan Lao Er was in danger...

Of course, the battle interval is too short and insufficient preparation is also an objective reason.

Coupled with Guan Lao Er's bad temper, he might be a little rude to see Liu Feng failing to move. But for Liu Feng, he has no position as a prince, and his father doesn't want him anymore, so it would be even more meaningless to recognize him as a second uncle.

Therefore, in the Battle of Xiangyang in history, the two groups of troops actually only moved one way, and the Cao army only needed to resist one direction. However, now, there is Wuguan in the north and Shangyong on the side, and there is no mutual restraint and suspicion. Instead, it will cooperate with each other to a certain extent.

Unless it is...

The eyes of both of them were almost always at Fangling.

Cao Zhen took a breath and pointed at a place on the map. "The current strategy is to quickly assist Fangling!"

"Why isn't Yunguan?" Cao Ren asked.

The reason why Shangyong is important is not only because Shangyong lives in the middle of the three eastern counties, but more importantly, Shangyong is a key node. When you go north through the Wudang Mountain area and conquer Yunguan, you can directly enter the Nanyang Basin and connect directly with Wuguan Road and Wancheng.

If you go south and conquer Fangling, you can reach Jingshan and then conquer Zhuyang, it is equivalent to kicking open the side door of Jingzhou!

So Cao Ren's meaning is that Li Dian will go north to fight Yunguan or Fangling next.

Cao Zhen judged that Fangling was more likely, so the next step was to send reinforcements to Fangling instead of Yunguan.

"Li Mancheng raided Shangyong, and passed the Xicheng without being surprised by Shangyong," Cao Zhen said, "There must be soldiers who are good at raiding the mountains and forests... like walking on the Han River, meeting our Jingzhou navy... undoubtedly giving up our strengths and making mistakes..."

Cao Ren nodded slowly.

Cao Ren looked up at Cao Zhen, "Do you know... Fang Ling's goal..."
To be continued...