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In Xudu, Cao Cao's mansion, Cao Cao, who had just returned to Xuchang, was dealing with official business. Before returning, his eldest son Cao Pi pleaded guilty and is now squatting in a prison.

As for Cao Pi's family members and servants, they are currently confined at home and are not allowed to go out. In addition, Cao Pi's brain truster Sima Yi, after being interrogated by Cao Cao and Guo Jia, is now also in prison, and no one can approach him.

During this period of time, Cao Cao used his prestige and skilled political means to resolve an invisible crisis. Xuchang, after all, was Cao Cao's Xuchang, and the soldiers and horses in the Central Plains still obeyed him.

However, in order to resolve this crisis, he has lost the best time to exterminate locusts and stockpile food.Seeing that the land of Hebei was already growing food, Cao Cao himself could only sigh at the information coming from all over the place.

"My lord, according to the current statistics, there are still more than 15 elite soldiers in our army, and the rest of the field soldiers and soldiers from all counties and counties add up to no less than [-].

Before going north to Qinghai and Hebei, and going south to Wancheng, although our army lost a lot of elites, Chen Feng didn't get any advantages. Right now, it depends on who can breathe faster. "

Cheng Yu had just sorted out some information, and rushed over to report it to Cao Cao.There is a summary of the series of wars last year, which has just ended.

"If you really care about it, Chen Feng still got a bargain."

Cao Cao sighed, as shrewd as he is, how could he not know how many losses he had suffered.Chen Feng lost more people than him, so he also gained a lot.

"Attacking Wancheng, disturbing the Central Plains, and going north to Qinghai and Hebei, Chen Feng has always taken the slave army as the vanguard. According to the statistics ahead, Chen Feng lost a total of about 10 slaves around last year.

Compared with the losses of our army, Chen Feng's side is indeed much more than ours.But, you have to be clear, those are just slaves of Chen Feng, as long as he is willing, there will be more slaves in the north.

This guy, hehe, is really cruel, he doesn't treat slaves as human beings.It's a pity, I don't have such an opportunity, otherwise, I would have to form a 10,000+ slave army and let Chen Feng slowly kill them. "

Cao Cao's face showed a cruel and helpless smile.The aristocratic families and military generals from all over the Central Plains had ridiculed Chen Feng's cruelty. Because of Chen Feng's own orders, tens of thousands of slaves died in the Central Plains.

But Chen Feng didn't say anything, it seemed that the tens of thousands of slaves who died had nothing to do with him.I don't know, I really thought he could stay out of it.

But many people who knew the inside story knew that those slaves could be arranged by Chen Feng. It can be said that at the beginning, Chen Feng had no intention of letting them leave alive.

With just a few words, the lives and deaths of tens of thousands of people can be decided, and Chen Feng can be so calm and indifferent, it is no wonder that Cao Cao would say that he is cruel and merciless.

However, Cao Cao himself was not much better. After all, because of his insistence on going his own way, many soldiers under his command also died, and countless people in Qingzhou and Jizhou died of war, plague, and hunger.

In real terms, he and Chen Feng are the same kind of people.In the final analysis, in order to fight for world supremacy, their hands are all covered with blood, and no one is a good thing.

Two months later, the locust plague subsided across Hebei, and the grain in the fields was growing well.The situation in various parts of the Central Plains is much worse. With the ups and downs, Hebei will probably be able to keep its capital this year, while many places under Cao Cao's rule will probably have to eat their capital.

"I thought I could exchange the lives of those common people for a unified world, but I didn't want to be ruined by Chen Feng's plan of exchanging [-] slaves for Hebei, hehe, but I still have a chance..."

At the corner of Cao Cao's mouth, there is still that confident but indifferent smile. He will continue to walk on the road of striving for world supremacy.

Chapter 702 The Year of Evil 1

After the arrival of autumn, Jingzhou and Jiangdong are busy harvesting food, but in the Central Plains, it is miserable.Due to the impact of the locust plague, the production in the Central Plains has been reduced for a year.

As for Hebei, despite the locust plagues and floods, with Chen Feng, a powerful figure, and hundreds of thousands of slaves mobilized from the grasslands and all kinds of food and supplies, the people in Qingzhou and Jizhou are doing fairly well. Can.

The most important thing is that during this time, Chen Feng mobilized more than 30 slaves to complete the construction of basic water conservancy facilities in Jizhou, and also repaired the embankments of Zhangshui and Weishui.

Guo Jia's plan to destroy Hebei and drag down Chen Feng finally failed.After all, Chen Feng mobilized all the people in Hebei, and hundreds of thousands of slaves were taken out to work together. The number of people is great, this sentence is true.

However, in order to build these water conservancy facilities, hundreds of thousands of slaves died of exhaustion, disease, and various accidents. No less than [-] people died. This is actually a terrifying number.

Fortunately, Chen Feng mobilized the army to guard these slaves closely, otherwise, such a high death rate alone would have prompted all the slaves to launch a rebellion.

Fortunately, the generals of all ministries made preparations before mobilizing these slaves to work.At the same time, secret operations are also arranged inside the slaves. As long as there is any information about the riots, secret soldiers will immediately follow the corresponding slaves.

In general, Chen Feng's biggest achievement this year is to rectify Hebei's strength and build Hebei's infrastructure.So far, the hearts of the people in Hebei have completely surrendered. It is really rare for Chen Feng to accomplish such a feat in such a short period of time.

"Report, my lord, an urgent report from the grassland. In the clear autumn, the Hu people outside the Great Wall are harvesting grass. Some nomadic tribes are gathering in the north of the Mobei grassland. It seems that they are going to hold sacrificial activities."

Meng Zhan was originally on the prairie to farm and train soldiers, but he grew up on the prairie, and he has such an unusual feeling for autumn.Because, he knows better than anyone else that as long as autumn comes, the Hu people will not be peaceful.

"North of the Mobei Grassland? Is it across the desert? Who is guarding the Mobei Grassland now?"

Chen Feng doesn't have a deep impression of Mobei. After all, the climate and soil there are not as good as the Hetao, and there is a desert to separate him, so he has no choice but to go further north.

"Reporting to my lord, it is now General Zhang Liao who is training troops in the grasslands of Mobei."

"Oh, it's Wen Yuan. It should be appropriate for him to be there. Meng Zhan, I want you to join hands with Zhang Xiu, divide the troops into two groups, and each command [-] elite troops to go northward, cross the Mobei Desert, and go to the Mobei Desert. North to North to guard on my behalf.

The Hu people outside the Great Wall are wild and unruly, and the further north you go, the more ignorant and ignorant the Hu people will become. Keeping them will always be a threat to our Hetao grassland. How dare you go there. "

"No, my subordinates dare not obey."

Meng Zhan's face showed a look of joy. Originally, he thought that Zhang Liao was guarding the Mobei grassland. The good things of patrolling the grassland and hunting in autumn had nothing to do with him. Who would have thought that Chen Feng would send him there at this juncture. Mobei Grassland.

You know, this is not just as simple as patrolling the grassland, leading so many soldiers and horses, and going north in this season, that is to say, he wants to use this opportunity to wipe out the alien tribes in the Mobei grassland. Find ways to plunder enough livestock and supplies.

Nowadays, the soldiers under Chen Feng's command have formed their own faction, and the outside world calls it the Northern Frontier Army, because Chen Feng's territories are all in the north or northwest, and most of the soldiers under his command are composed of northerners.

The fighting power of the northern border army may not be the best in the world, but it is no problem to bully those barbarian tribes on the grassland. In particular, under Chen Feng's rule, iron smelting and forging technology was developed, and various armor weapons emerged one after another, far surpassing the barbarian tribes on the grassland equipment.

In the past two months, Youzhou Artisan Camp invented a new type of crossbow, which has an effective range of two hundred steps and can be operated by one person. It is almost comparable to the existence of the former Qin strong crossbow.

In addition, after being reformed by the craftsmen of the Craftsmanship Battalion, they improved a cavalry crossbow based on this strong crossbow that could be wound by cavalry on a war horse.

Although these two crossbows are inferior to sharp weapons like the rhubarb crossbow in the army, they are superior in that they can be mass-produced and are easy to maintain. This is the scary part of this powerful crossbow.

At present, both the Youzhou Craftsmanship Camp and the Hetao Craftsmanship Camp are working overtime to make this crossbow, and there are already [-] in stock.

The battle-tested generals all know that their lord will never build so many weapons for no reason.This kind of strong bow and crossbow is a sharp weapon for hunting grassland cavalry, so many people have already guessed whether their lord is going to use troops against the north again.

Meng Zhan had this question in his heart for a long time. When he visited the Youzhou Grassland this time, he was summoned by Chen Feng, and he hurried to Jizhou to report the situation to Chen Feng. In addition, he also wanted to find out what Chen Feng said. .

This time, Meng Zhan was right.Chen Feng really wanted to send troops to the north, and it was a big move.For this nominal patrol, he will send two generals under his command, and they are cavalry generals, which proves Chen Feng's intentions.

At this moment, Yan Cheng, who was guarding Bingzhou, hurried to Jizhou. Chen Feng sent someone to send a letter to him, asking him to go to Jizhou to obey orders in a short time. It seems that Chen Feng had a big intention.

More than ten days later, Yan Cheng led a thousand personal guards to march towards Hetao, Meng Zhan and Zhang Xiu were gathering troops and horses, waiting for the dispatch of supplies, and Ma Chao, who was far away in Xiliang, also received an order from Chang'an at this time.

After seven or eight days of preparation, the two generals Zhang Xiu and Meng Zhan each led their soldiers and horses, each carrying [-] strong crossbows and other supplies, and marched northward.

At the same time, Yan Cheng, who had just arrived in Xiliang, also joined Ma Chao, and after receiving the armor, weapons and supplies from Chang'an, more than 7000 elites marched westward.

Those who are careful can see that this time, it seems that Chen Feng invaded the Hetao before retaliating, or the tribes outside the Great Wall and small countries in the Western Regions that were hostile to his side.

But if it was for revenge, it seemed that there was no need to dispatch so many troops. After all, a small group of troops going to harass or sneak attack would also cause headaches for the enemy. More importantly, the losses on Chen Feng's side would be quite small.

But after Cao Cao received this information, he could only sigh helplessly.Others may not know what Chen Feng is thinking, but how can he not know that this guy is not going to take revenge, it is clearly to rob.

"Predatory, predatory, Chen Feng, your ruthless thoughts are beyond the reach of this old man..."

Regarding Chen Feng's decision, Cao Cao admired Chen Feng's decision, but at the same time felt a little helpless. The losses suffered by Hebei may be recovered from those foreign races.

Chapter 703 The Year of Evil 2

In terms of cruelty, none of the few princes in the current world is bad.Since Sun Quan took charge of Jiangdong, have there been few ways to persecute his brothers, sisters-in-law and nephews?Is Cao Cao's number of murders and crimes still low?Liu Bei's hypocritical means of harming others, are there still few?