Han counter current

You must know that Chen Feng's every move is related to his next plan. No matter whether Chen Feng is going to plunder or use other methods, if he is allowed to relax first, it will definitely not be good for Cao Cao.

Unless, Cao Cao already had calculations in his heart, he had a way to solve his current difficulties, and even, he already had absolute confidence to solve the troubles before Chen Feng.

Guo Jia's ability to control current affairs is beyond ordinary people's imagination, and the situation in Bingzhou is already very bad. Even if Gongsun Xu adopts the strategy of using work in lieu of relief and abandoning the party, the premise is that there must be enough food delivered in.

At the same time, this is just to settle down the people. In Bingzhou, there are a large number of troops stationed, especially the Tabai Army that Gongsun Xu is in charge of training.

All of them are professional soldiers, and they consume a lot of food every day.In addition to them, there are more than 2 garrisons in Bingzhou and a large number of county soldiers.

In order to ensure the safety of Bingzhou, it is necessary to ensure the supply of food and grass for the army. It may be quite difficult to rely solely on the delivery of food and grass from the outside world.

"For the current plan, the only way is to strictly abide by the Shangdang, make friends with Jizhou, and dispatch some troops to other places for training."

Gongsun Xu is worrying about the army. Although natural disasters continue, the training plan cannot be stopped, especially the White Army. This is the army that Gongsun Xu is training. He naturally hopes that the White Army will take shape as soon as possible.

"General Gao, I want to take away [-] cavalrymen from the Tabai army, and another [-] cavalrymen from Bingzhou, go north out of the Great Wall, and enter the grassland for training.

As for the rest of the infantry, I will leave it to you. In addition, I will also hand over all the military affairs of the Shangdang to you. Keep an eye on Cao Cao. "

Before that, Gongsun Xu had received Chen Feng's instructions, nominally to train soldiers, but in fact, he was trying to find a way to obtain food and grass sources. It seemed that Guo Jia really planned Chen Feng to death.

Chapter 590 Disaster Relief 2

The huge grassland was not owned by Chen Feng alone. Even though he had defeated the Huns and conquered Xianbei, there were still many tribes on the grassland that were independent.

After all, Chen Feng is a Han Chinese, and he is different from those nomadic herdsmen in his bones. Those nomadic tribes have not fully agreed with him yet.

Coupled with Chen Feng's implementation of slavery on the grasslands, the Han people were placed in the middle and upper layers of the pyramid, which is unfortunate for nomadic tribes.

If it weren't for Chen Feng's strong military strength to back him up, some tribes would have rebelled long ago. Therefore, on this grassland, Chen Feng still has many potential opponents.

In this seemingly calm situation, Chen Feng always wanted to take the opportunity to solve these potential opponents.

Immigrating people from the interior into the grasslands, encouraging those nomadic tribes to fight against the Xianbei or the remnants of the Huns, etc. These are Chen Feng's strategies to control the enemy. Although the effect is good, it takes too long.

Only by launching a war can we destroy the enemy physically in the shortest time. However, judging from the current situation, it is not so easy to launch a war.

After all, there is Cao Cao in Central China, the Yuan brothers in Hebei, Zhang Lu in Hanzhong and Liu Zhang in Yizhou may have conflicts with Chen Feng, especially Cao Cao, I am afraid that he will stare at Chen Feng all the time.

"Report, report,,,,,,"

A messenger hurriedly sent a secret letter to Chang'an Hussar General's Mansion, and then the guard delivered it to Chen Feng's meeting room.

Pang Tong is dealing with intelligence from various places, and Li Ru has entrusted the full power of this work to him. It can be seen that Li Ru attaches great importance to him.

"Good news, my lord, Cao Cao is making moves."

After reading the secret report from Hebei, Pang Tong shouted excitedly: "There is a mobilization of soldiers and horses in Yanzhou, and Zang Ba, a thief from Mount Tai, is also collecting food and grass. It seems that Cao Cao is about to launch a battle to go north again."

There is still one month before the harvest of summer grain. This time is actually not suitable for launching a war, but Cao Cao is a master of military use in this world, and his military methods are not restricted by the season.

"So fast? How long has Cao Cao been in a hurry for the Northern Expedition? It seems that this is not in line with Cao Cao's style, Wen You, what do you think is going on?"

After Chen Feng heard the news, he couldn't figure it out. The summer grain hadn't been harvested yet, and Cao Cao was in a hurry to go north. Could it be that he had enough surplus grain?

Li Ru slowly opened his eyes. Cao Cao's behavior was indeed abnormal, and even exceeded Li Ru's expectations.

"Now the Northern Expedition is indeed against common sense, but Cao Cao, how has he ever followed common sense? This old man is a bit confused."

It is well known that the Central Plains suffered a drought, so it should not be possible to send troops at this time, but Cao Cao just did so.

"Perhaps it was because of the lack of food that Cao Cao wanted to go north?"

Pang Tong put forward his own idea, seeing Li Ru's encouraging eyes, Pang Tong continued to explain: "It is well known that the Central Plains suffered a disaster.

Even we think that Cao Cao will not send troops, so do the Yuan brothers in Hebei also think so?

It is the way of a military strategist to catch him by surprise and attack him when he is unprepared. Cao Cao has an excellent adviser like Guo Jia by his side, how can he not know this.

My lord, please see that the land occupied by Cao Cao during the Fourth World War in the Central Plains is not suitable as a foundation. The most regrettable thing is that there is not a piece of land in the Central Plains that can continuously provide Cao Cao with food and grass.

On the other hand, the Yuan brothers, especially Yuan Shang, occupied Jizhou and inherited the Zhanghe Plain, where the water conservancy facilities are complete and the people are sufficient.

These years, the Yuan family has been defeated again and again, and Yuan Shang has never won a single battle, but why he can survive until now, isn't it because of the Zhanghe Plain? "

Pang Tong pointed to the map and began his own analysis. Jizhou's geographical conditions are not comparable to other places, especially the infrastructure here is complete and the population is large, so it's hard not to make people jealous.

Back then, Yuan Shao gradually grew after capturing Jizhou, and occupied the four northern states after defeating Gongsun Zan.

However, Youzhou and Bingzhou were barren and cold places where life was lost, and Qingzhou suffered from the Yellow Turban Rebellion, and it was also dilapidated.

At that time, Yuan Shao relied entirely on the support of Jizhou to develop and grow, and fed back to the other three states, becoming the number one prince in the world in one fell swoop.

Even though he suffered the defeat of Guandu on his back, with Jizhou still in his hands, his strength should not be underestimated.

In these years, Cao Cao thought about Jizhou many times, and Chen Feng himself did not dare to go south blindly because the Yuan family's foundation in Jizhou was too deep.

There was a conflict with Yuan Shang before, and they captured Zhongshan, Hejian and other places in Jizhou, but they were still taken back by Yuan Shang in the end, and Yuan Shang did not become weak because of this, which shows that Jizhou is rich.

"If Cao Cao really sent troops to the north, it would be a great thing for our army. He is short of food, and we are also short of food. Especially Bingzhou has suffered from drought. Now is the time to shift the conflict."

Li Ru said slowly: "General Gongsun proposed to send [-] cavalry north to the grassland for training, in fact, he wanted to save food and grass for Bingzhou.

However, if [-] troops are transferred away, there will be a certain emptiness in Bingzhou's defense system, and Cao Cao will probably not let this opportunity pass.

Now, Cao Cao will attack Hebei first, so he will have no extra energy to worry about Bingzhou, and with General Gao Lan guarding the Shangdang, there will be no troubles if he thinks about it. "

Regardless of Cao Cao's intention of sending troops to the north, it was actually a good thing for Gongsun Xu and others in Bingzhou.

Cao Cao sent troops to the north, of course, he wanted to support the war with war, to bridge the crisis of food and grass shortages, and at the same time to attack his opponents, looking for opportunities to capture Qingzhou or Jizhou.

Why didn't Chen Feng want to do this? Due to the agreement of the Hebei Alliance, he definitely couldn't attack the Yuan brothers, but there were still many unaffiliated tribes on the grassland, and they were all the targets of Chen Feng's troops.

Gongsun Xu proposed this plan before, but both Chen Feng and Li Ru feared that Cao Cao would not agree to it. Now, the situation is different.

"Since this is the case, continue to investigate. If Cao Jun really sends troops to the north, order Gongsun to act accordingly. In addition, order Gao Lan to deploy defenses in Shangdang, in case it is Cao Jun's plan to build plank roads and secretly hide Chencang."

After thinking for a while, Chen Feng felt that this was indeed an opportunity.Cao Cao has already shot, how can he still hide.

Everyone has food and grass crisis, so it depends on who can get over it first. Now, Cao Jun can be regarded as the first to make a move. If Chen Feng can't keep up, he must be the one who will be unlucky in the end.

A few days later, Cao Cao, who was far away in Xuchang, received a secret report from Bingzhou. After learning that the Shangdang area was under military control, he immediately ordered General Xiahou Dun to withdraw to Xudu, and then led his troops northward, with the potential to invade Hebei.

At the same time, Zang Ba also led [-] subordinates to fight for Xiahou Dun. It seems that Cao Cao wanted to use war to divert the crisis of food and grass.

Chapter 591 Unexpected 1

While Gongsun Xu of Bingzhou was still watching, General Cao Jun Xiahou Dun led an army of [-] into Mount Tai, which had seriously threatened the safety of Beihai.