Chapter 1718 Receiving the Imperial Decree Ma Jun Goes South
"When I was reading military books, I saw Sun Tzu say: The way to siege a city is a last resort. Repair the sculls, build equipment, and build them in three months. It will be three months after the distance. The anger will be overwhelming, and the ants will attach them. Killing one-third of the soldiers but not pulling out the city will be a disaster for this attack; I am deeply convinced that it is difficult to attack a strong city without losing troops, but why is it so easy for Shen Zifeng to attack the city?" Cao Zhen saw it again at the top of the city of Yuzhou Shen Long's banner, so he sighed.
The current situation is similar to the time difference in Wancheng, but at the beginning, he still thought that he could firmly block Shen Long under Wancheng, just like Shen Long blocked him and Cao Pi from Fancheng back then. Who would have thought that Shen Long Leng took Wancheng with a frontal attack, and now he will face Shen Long's siege, but Cao Zhen does not have much confidence to defend it.
It has not been long since Shen Long took Wancheng. After returning to Yuzhou, Cao Zhen summoned generals Xu Huang, Guo Huai, and Wang Shuang every day to review the battles of that day, but he felt that Shen Long used dignified and upright weapons. Although the attack was not flexible enough, it also left them with no chance. Even if they did it again, they still failed.
"The defeat of our army is that the equipment is not as good as the Shu army. If we can have the catapults and bed crossbows like the Shu Han, the enemy army can be defeated!" Guo Huai thought for a long time and only came up with such an unrealistic method.
"I have written to Your Majesty, please send Ma Deheng to Yuzhou to help. However, Ma Deheng is far away in Fufeng. Even if he leaves immediately after receiving the order, it may be too late!" Cao Zhen smiled wryly, of course he knew, but the craftsmen of Wei State would not Such powerful trebuchets and bed crossbows cannot be made, and when they fled Wancheng in a hurry last time, a large number of craftsmen fell into the city, and now even the original trebuchets cannot be made much.
He pinned all his hopes on Ma Jun who was the best at making machinery in the Cao Wei dynasty, but now that Ma Jun is still in his hometown in Fufeng, it may take some time before he can reach Yuzhou. By then, Yuzhou may have fallen already? And...and even if Ma Jun came, would he be able to manufacture these ordnance in a short time?
Cao Zhen heard that Ma Jun restored the guide car; improved the clumsy weaving machine; invented the keel waterwheel that diverted water from the low place to the high ground; made a rotary stone sending machine, which can continuously launch stones as far as hundreds of steps; The wooden driving wheel is installed under the puppet, which is called "Water Turning Baixi Picture" and many other legends have always regarded Ma Jun as "Luban at that time".
However, compared with the Shu Han military equipment that he had seen before outside Wancheng, Cao Zhen lacked confidence, but hope is better than nothing. Cao Zhen could only order his trusted lieutenant to lead a team of elites to go north to meet Ma Jun; I hope that Ma Jun can come sooner, even if... Even if Yuzhou cannot be defended, there are still Xiangcheng and Yingyang behind, right?
"This is Yuzhou where Your Majesty once served as the shepherd of the state!" Shen Long led the generals to a high place outside Yuzhou city to check the city defense layout of Yuzhou, but he remembered Liu Bei's several times in charge of Yuzhou.
For the first time, Tao Qian appointed Liu Bei as the governor of Yuzhou, and added 4,000 Danyang elites to Liu Bei, and stationed troops in Xiaopei. .
The second time was when Liu Bei went to Xudu to defect to Cao Cao. Cao Cao gave Liu Bei soldiers, horses, food and grass, and appointed Liu Bei as the shepherd of Yuzhou. The generals Gao Shun and Zhang Liao were defeated, and after Liu Bei was defeated, he joined Cao Cao and joined forces with Cao Cao to attack Lu Bu, and finally defeated Lu Bu completely.
The third time was during the Battle of Guandu, when Yuan Shao and Cao Cao fought decisively. Liu Bei led his army to detour and attack Cao Cao's rear in the name of Yuan Shao.
Caused harassment to the south of Xuchang, and beheaded Cao Cao's general Cai Yang, but Liu Bei was defeated by Cao Ren again, gave up Yuzhou and defected to Liu Biao.
Yuzhou is one of the Kyushu prefectures, and it has jurisdiction over Yingchuan County, Chen County, Lu County, Runan County, Qiao County, Yiyang County, Yang'an County, Xiangcheng County, Ruyin County, as well as Liang Guo and Pei Guo. Located in the Central Plains, the land is rich and the population is large. At first glance, it seems that just occupying Yuzhou is enough to compete for world hegemony.
However, why didn't Liu Bei achieve hegemony by virtue of this, but was driven out one after another like a bereaved dog? Shen Long pondered that there might be two reasons.
First, Yuzhou is the center of Kyushu, known as Zhongzhou. It is the place of the Four World Wars, and most of them are located in the plains without danger. There are enemies from east to west, north, south, and it is not suitable as a foundation for starting a business.
Second, Yuzhou is rich, which is of course a benefit, but because of Yuzhou's wealth, there are far more noble families here than in other places; needless to say, just look at Yingchuan, Xun Yu, Xun You, Guo Jia , Chen Qun, Xi Zhicai, Xu Shu, Zhong Hui, Guo Tu, Xin Ping, Xin Pi, and Sima Yi all came from Yingchuan, which can be described as "the world's counselors are half Yingchuan".
But when counting these people in detail, except for Xu Shu who once worked under Liu Bei for a short time, none of the rest have surrendered to Liu Bei; After taking Yuzhou, Chen Qun and his son immediately went out to worship Cao Cao when they saw him. Cao Cao had heard his name for a long time, so he enlisted Chen Qun as Sikong Xi Cao's vassal. Assist Cao Pi.
This in the end is why? It’s not because Cao Cao is a gentry. For the Yingchuan group, they and Cao Cao are a natural party; High or low, the Yingchuan soldiers naturally chose Cao Cao. As for Liu Bei, he was just a dilapidated clan, so they looked down on him.
After welcoming Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, Xun Yu introduced a large number of Yingchuan talents to Cao Cao, and formed a huge Yingchuan scholar group around Cao Cao.
Then why did you miss Xu Shu? Because Xu Shu came from a poor family, and he was not from the same group as them. Although Guo Jia was also from a poor family, he had already anticipated the chaos at the end of the Han Dynasty, and he had already started preparations to make friends with the Yingchuan gentry, so he was in Xi Zhicai. After Cao Cao's death, when Cao Cao asked Xun Yu who could succeed Xi Zhicai, Xun Yu recommended Guo Jia without hesitation.
Xu Shu defected to Liu Bei, but thinking about it carefully, it turned out that a lost person defected to another lost person; Xu Shu was not reused in Cao Cao's tent in the future, and it was said in the novel that he had always been loyal to Liu Bei, but in fact Shen Long felt that he was afraid of being with Liu Bei. The exclusion of the Yingchuan gentry group has a lot to do with it.
While Shen Long was observing the situation in Yuzhou, Ma Jun also received the imperial decree, packed his bags and headed south.
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