The Three Kingdoms become stronger when they get treasures

Chapter 191 Sand Table
Zhang Wu welcomed Cao Jun's envoy in the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, Cheng Yu who stayed in Fancheng.

Both sides are smart people, and they both know each other's purpose, so Zhang Wu didn't go around any more, but Zhang Wu is a little interested in Cheng Yu.

Cheng Yu was older than Cao Cao, and he also followed Cao Cao very early. When Lu Bu stabbed Cao Cao's chrysanthemum and almost ended Cao Cao's lair, he and Xun Yu stayed behind and saved three cities for Cao Cao. Turning defeat into victory laid the foundation.

This guy is a ruthless person. He was a civil servant at the beginning, and then he worked together with civil servants and military generals. He is a rare talent with both civil and military skills. The key is that this guy is too cruel!
Cheng Yu was already over 50 years old when he took refuge with Cao Cao. In this era, he lived a relatively long time. He didn't know how many years he could live, so he made up his mind to ignore everything about himself and for the sake of his heart. Cao Cao, the lord of the Ming Dynasty, was loyal and dedicated to his duties.

Later, when Cao Cao fought Lu Bu, Cao Cao was already at a disadvantage, and then there was insufficient food and grass, and if he continued to fight, he would be finished.In the end, Cao Cao had no choice but to borrow food from Yuan Shao with the cheek. Yuan Shao was also shameless, and asked Cao Cao to send his wife and children as hostages.

How could Cao Cao agree, but if there is no food, there is no way to fight. When Cao Cao was hesitating, Cheng Yu took the initiative to ask Ying, saying that the Lord does not need to worry about the food, and I will solve it.

As a result, this guy actually killed a lot of people, and used human flesh to make dried meat as army rations, so that Cao Cao could tide over the difficulties and finally defeated Lu Bu.

It's too ruthless to even eat human flesh. Zhang Wu, as a modern person who came from time travel, is very disgusted with this practice.

During the period from the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty to the period of the Three Kingdoms, due to frequent wars, the people were in dire straits, and the phenomenon of changing children to eat appeared among the people, which was forced and helpless.

But Cheng Yu killed the people in order to raise food for the army, let the soldiers eat human flesh to fight for them, this is simply a big devil!Doesn't Cao Cao know about this?Judging from what Cao Cao has done, is it still necessary to go black?
If it wasn't because Cheng Yu came here as an envoy, Zhang Wu would have wanted to kill this guy. Although he didn't want to be a saint, he must have a bottom line in life.

Therefore, Zhang Wu neither gave Cheng Yu a good face, nor hosted a banquet to entertain him, but after seeing him, he sent him back to the library to rest, and sent soldiers to guard him, not allowing him to move around at will, and only after several days did he let Xiang Yu go. Lang negotiated with him.

Xu Shu, Ding Feng and others harassed Cao Cao to withdraw his troops along the road. Whenever Cao Jun was drawing water from the river, Jingzhou sailors would harass him.

The Jingzhou navy shot arrows on the boat. Although they couldn't kill many Cao Jun, they were very disgusting, and it also delayed Cao Jun's marching speed, making Cao Jun miserable.

It wasn't until Cao Hong, who was stationed in Rangcheng, and Man Chong, who was stationed in Wancheng, led their troops to respond, that Cao Jun got rid of the harassment of the Jingzhou navy.The army temporarily rested in Wancheng for a day, leaving behind the wounded and sick. Cao Cao personally led an army of [-] to Huainan to fight Sun Quan.

Gan Ning, Pang Tong and others attacked Chaisang in order to create trouble for Sun Quan. Now Zhou Yu led the army back to support Chaisang.Gan Ning no longer took the initiative to attack. After confronting Zhou Yu for a few days, he withdrew his troops and returned to Jiangxia on Pang Tong's suggestion. Pang Tong, Wen Pin, and Wei Yan returned to Xiangyang.

At the same time, Zhang Wu also got specific information about Sun Quan's surprise attack on Hefei. What surprised him was that Sun Shiwan's first attack on Hefei was actually defeated. What changed?
After both Pang Tong and Xu Shu returned, Zhang Wu summoned several generals to discuss the Hefei matter with his counselors.

Zhang Wu imitated the practice of later generations, and asked people to use sand to make a military sand table according to the map and the terrain detected by the scouts. It was exactly the terrain of Huainan. There were red and blue flags on the plate. Blue represents Jiangdong Army.

Of course, the sand table is still relatively rough, and the terrain is not very accurate, but it is much more convenient than the map looks, and it can also simulate the offensive and defensive battles between the two sides on the sand table.

Everyone was full of praise for the sand table and praised the governor for his wonderful idea. The sand table he made was really a weapon in the army and had many wonderful uses.

Zhang Wu looked at Pang Tong and others and felt very proud in his heart. Even though you are just "phoenix chicks" or something like that, I have more than 2000 years of knowledge that can crush you. Any idea you come up with is epoch-making. !
They didn't know at this time that Hefei had been taken back by Jiang Ji's design. There was still a small blue flag in Hefei City, while red flags were planted in Shouchun and other places.

"Sun Quan actually occupied Hefei. It seems that Xia Houyuan's cavalry did not arrive in time. Sun Quan has many soldiers. Cao Cao's main force should have just arrived in Wancheng at this time. There should not be many Cao troops in Huainan, right?" Zhang Wu said.

Xu Shu said: "According to the reports from the spies, the Jiangdong navy appeared on the Huaihe River and happened to block Zhang Yun's [-] cavalry, but according to the time, Xia Houyuan's [-] tiger and leopard cavalry should have crossed the Huaihe River, and now I don't know where they are. .”

Pang Tong said: "Once Hefei is lost, Cao Jun will be very passive in Huainan. As long as Sun Quan can hold Hefei, even if he cannot occupy the entire Huainan, given time, the territory south and east of Hefei will still be able to stand firm."

"Hefei is also very important to Cao Cao, but I am afraid that Cao Cao will not give it up willingly. I think that although there is no trace of Xia Houyuan, he must have joined up with Yangzhou governor Liu Fu and Yangzhou farewell Jiang Ji. Then Jiang Ji is not an ordinary person, there should be some According to calculations, although Xiahou Yuan's thousand cavalry cannot attack the city, they can still have some effect as long as they are used properly."

Zhang Wu didn't have much impression of Liu Fu, but he had only heard of the name, and it seemed that he was stabbed to death by Cao Cao after he was drunk.But he has some impressions of Jiang Ji, knowing that although this person was not well-known in the early period of the Three Kingdoms, he and Sima Yi staged a coup to overthrow Cao Shuang in the later period.

Sima Yi is a character who can compete with Zhuge Liang, and Jiang Jineng assisting Sima Yi in launching a coup is definitely not a simple role.

But Jiang Ji was still very young at this time, and Pang Tong and Xu Shu had never heard of this man's abilities, so it was difficult to make a judgment, but they still recognized Zhang Wu's knowledge of people.

"Hefei is very important to both Cao Cao and Sun Quan, so Cao Cao will never let it go. No matter how they fight, it will definitely involve a lot of their energy. We just use this time to recover our strength." Pang Tong said again.

Zhang Wu said: "Shi Yuan is right. Although we repelled the invasion of Cao Cao and Sun Quan this time, there will definitely be a next time. The most important thing at present is to restore the army to the previous number and expand it. Part of it, strengthen training."

(End of this chapter)