The Three Kingdoms become stronger when they get treasures

Chapter 421 1 has been imitating, never catching up

Chapter 421 I have been imitating, never catching up
Cao Cao glanced at Jiang Ji and said, "Is someone looking for you? It's a big event for the court to go out for an army. I have 10,000+ soldiers to protect the people in Huainan from Zhang Wu. What's wrong with asking them to provide some food and grass? After I repel Zhang Wu, I will exempt them from taxes for a few years. Zhang Wu has never retreated. It seems that he is determined to take Huainan. There is no harm in storing more grain. Huainan, who can take responsibility?"

As soon as Jiang Ji heard it, the boss began to suspect that he had a secret relationship with the Huainan family, so he didn't dare to say any more. His boss is suspicious, and the more you talk, the more suspicious he becomes.In fact, there really were aristocratic families from Huainan who came to Jiang Ji. After all, Jiang Ji had worked here for many years and was familiar with them.But Jiang Ji's suggestion was really not to take advantage of others to speak for others, he just wanted to ease the conflict so as not to have an impact on the battle situation.

Huainan used to belong to Yangzhou, and the aristocratic families here have various connections with Jiangdong. It turns out that the Huaisi Gang, the largest faction in Jiangdong, is the hometown of many people, such as Cheng Pu, Lu Su, Lu Meng and others.That's why Jiang Ji was a little worried. Zhang Wu's policy towards the aristocratic family is well known in the world, so maybe some people have moved their minds.

Cao Cao asked the advisers again: "Is there any military situation between Hanzhong and Wancheng?"

Sima Yi replied: "I report to King Wei that Zhang Yun in Hanzhong wanted to attack Brazil, but he was ambushed by the enemy. Now he is confronting Xu Shu and Ma Chao in a village. General Cao Hong is guarding Nanzheng, and General Xiahou is stationed at Dingjun Mountain. It’s normal. But there were only a few enemy troops harassing Wancheng, Guan Yu led his army out of Fancheng, but he has been stagnant, and he withdrew to Fancheng not long ago.”

"It seems that Zhang Wu is really going to capture Huainan. There will be a fierce battle next year. Will Xu Du's troops be transferred over?"

Sima Yi is also a suspicious person, and when thinking about things, he likes to think about the bad side, so he is a little worried about Hanzhong.

On the one hand, he knew the importance of Hanzhong to both sides. Hanzhong was the gate of Yizhou. If Zhang Wu couldn't take Hanzhong for a day, he would have to be blocked in Yizhou on the western front and couldn't get out.

On the other hand, Sima Yi knew how powerful Xu Shu was. Zhang Wu was able to hand over all the military power on the western front to Xu Shu, which showed that Zhang Wu was absolutely assured of Xu Shu's loyalty and ability.Moreover, Zhang Wu still kept many generals in Yizhou. Ma Chao, Huang Zhong, Pang De, etc. were all enemies. Sima Yi felt that if the western front really started, Xia Houyuan, Cao Hong, and Zhang He might not necessarily be the opponents of each other.

Speaking of which, Cao Cao's military advisers were very envious of Zhang Wu's several military advisers, because Zhang Wu actually led the army as a military division commander, and had the final decision-making power in the military.And Cao Cao will only let the clan's generals command the army, no matter how powerful the foreign surname is, they can only be deputy generals.

For example, when Ma Chao rebelled and captured Chang'an City, Cao Cao sent Cao Hong as the chief general to lead his troops to rescue, but Xu Huang could only serve as the deputy general. In the end, Cao Hong lost Tongguan because of impulsiveness.

Xiahouyuan from Hanzhong, Xiahoudun from Wancheng, and Cao Ren from Hefei in the past are all Cao Cao's clan brothers. Cao Cao only rest assured to hand over the military power to these people.

Although Zhang Wu has no clan brothers to use, he also has two sworn brothers. It is said that such an important thing as military power should be handed over to the closest and most trusted talents, but this is not the case for Zhang Wu's two sworn brothers.Gan Ning has always been in command of the water army, unless he was the chief general of a partial division, he had never served as the commander in chief. If Zhang Wu did not come, Gan Ning would still be under Zhuge Liang's command.

Chen and Sun stayed at the rear all the time, and never led troops to war. Many people even forgot that Zhang Wu had such a sworn brother.

Sima Yi knew that as long as Cao Cao was still alive, people like them with foreign surnames would not be able to get involved in the military power, but none of them wanted to personally command the army in battle and show off what they had learned.

However, Cao Cao is also old, and he doesn't know how many more years he can live. As long as he finds a way to let his friend Cao Pi succeed him, maybe he will still have a chance in the future.

Sima Yi said: "In the past, Guan Ren once said: the number of twenty-nine, the soldiers will be divided into two groups; it is difficult to take care of the East and West. Twenty-nine is eighteen, and next year will be the 18th year of Jian'an. We still have to be careful of Zhang Wu taking the opportunity to take Hanzhong."

The few generals present didn't take it seriously, especially Yu Jin, Zhang Liao, Xu Huang and others, who had been marching and fighting for half their lives, how could they believe the words of a magic stick.If the war can be calculated, then what's the use of these generals?

These generals have much more seniority than Sima Yi. As long as any one of them is still alive, he can completely suppress Sima Yi. Therefore, Sima Yi endured until all the famous generals and generals died, and then took Zhang He to death before taking control of the power.

Le Jin said: "I have spent half my life as a soldier, how can I trust the words of the divination and confuse my mind!"

Yu Jin, Zhang Liao, Xu Huang and others also expressed their agreement. If marching and fighting can predict the results in advance, what's the use of it?If the magic stick said that we will eventually be defeated by the enemy, shouldn't we just stop fighting and surrender directly?
However, Cao Cao has seen the ability of Guan Ren before, and the soldiers and horses here are enough. If the [-] soldiers and horses in Xudu are transferred, the food and grass will be consumed. live.

Therefore, Cao Cao finally decided not to move Xu Du's troops to deal with some emergencies.

Cao Cao asked again: "How is the training of our war horses? Will we be able to fight next spring?"

Dong Zhao said: "Back to King Wei, we have already trained more than 1 war horses, and we expect to train another [-] horses by next spring. But we don't have gunpowder, so we can't test the actual effect."

"How is the development of the gunpowder formula?"

"Those alchemists are researching and experimenting a few times, but the results are not satisfactory."

Although gunpowder appeared a long time ago, it was accidentally obtained by Taoist priests when refining the elixir of life. Those Taoist priests did not pay much attention to this thing, and there were very few records.Therefore, although Cao Cao ordered some alchemists to be summoned, it was difficult to develop a mature and powerful gunpowder formula in a short period of time.

Historically, it was not until the Sui Dynasty that the ternary system gunpowder of saltpeter, sulfur and charcoal was born, while black gunpowder did not officially appear until the Tang Dynasty.

As a traverser, Zhang Wu had to experiment for many years before developing gunpowder that could be used in war. Even if Cao Cao guessed that Zhang Wu was using gunpowder, he would not be able to successfully develop it within two years.That's why Zhang Wu used gunpowder packs with confidence and boldly, not afraid of being imitated by Cao Cao.

Cao Cao felt that he was quite ashamed. In the past few years, he has been imitating Zhang Wu's back, from catapults to poisonous smoke bombs, and now there are kerosene bombs and gunpowder bags, but although he has been imitating, he has been following Not up to, let alone surpassed.

However, although the gunpowder bag made a loud noise, it was not very powerful, and its effect on the cavalry was only to frighten the horses. Once the horses were trained, the gunpowder bag would have no effect.

As for the matter of using gunpowder to blow up the city wall, Cao Cao felt that as long as his cavalry could fight, would Zhang Wu dare to attack the city?
(End of this chapter)

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