Cao Cao's side suffered heavy losses in the previous battles. After bringing the relocated population back to Yuzhou and Yanzhou for resettlement, they temporarily did not have the strength to plot southward. Or maybe this was just Cao Cao's excuse. From his letter,

From the information revealed between the lines, he seemed to be unwilling to develop further south in a short period of time. The previous war made him feel extremely shocked and exhausted.

As for Yuan Shu, although Cao Cao's army temporarily lost the opportunity to invade the south through a strategy in Shouchun City, its own losses cannot be ignored. It can be said that after this battle, Yuan Shu has completely lost his qualifications as a prince.

Then it became a sign enshrined by Sun Ce, a sign used to unify the southern clans and establish a stronghold in Jiangbei during the war.

From the letter, Li Shushi could see that Cao Cao was more "inhumane" to Yuan Shu than Dong Zhuo. The most important problem was that Cao Cao encountered many strange phenomena during this battle. In addition to those with "

Apart from the "Fire Man" who has the ability to identify friend and foe, what surprised Cao Cao the most was the appearance of those powerful soldiers in Yuan Shu's army who were "fearless and fearless of death".

Hmm. It does sound very similar to the style of the Xianbei infantry that appeared on the northern grasslands.

It's just that this time they all have Han-like faces, and many of them can be believed to be soldiers of Yuan Shu's army.

Because of this, although Cao Cao finally escaped after a series of difficulties and obstacles, the troops commanded by Cao Ren could only maintain an undefeated situation under Yuan Shujun's uncharacteristically furious offensive.

And as the war progressed, Yuan Shu's army showed more and more physical superiority and finally succeeded in causing some of Cao Cao's troops to collapse.

Even if Cao Cao personally appears, it may be difficult to save the battle in this situation. In other words, he can only make the battle less miserable, and at this point, Cao Ren has done a good enough job, whether it is a strong man who has broken his wrist.

Both determination and means can be said to be timely and effective. Although the loss seems to be great on the surface, it also avoids the dilemma of annihilating the elite that Cao Cao has accumulated for many years. Therefore, Cao Cao unabashedly praised Cao Ren in his letter.

Decisiveness in decision-making.

Although in Li Shushi's view, this may not be a good thing.

However, under the current circumstances, Cao Ren is obviously still the kinsman general that Cao Cao relies on, and basically no one can replace this point - Xiahou Dun may be able to fight with him if he gets rid of the problem of being in a daze in the market, but Xiahou Yuan acted too much

Irritable, as a vanguard general, he can be considered a top-notch general, but as the commander-in-chief of an army, he always makes people a little worried.

This letter was written by three people. The part written by Cao Cao not only informed Li Shushi of the "vision" that occurred during the Battle of Shouchun, asked Li Shushi, the legendary "professional", but also pointed out that this letter was written by Cao Cao.

Behind the incident was most likely the work of Sun Cejun, who had already established a foothold in the Jiangdong area. He invited Li Shushi to send a strong enough expeditionary force to deal with Cao Cao's army if he had time. He may have made even crazier actions than Yuan Shu.

Sun Cejun.

Li Shushi laughed off such a suggestion.

In the last so-called "expeditionary force", firstly, Li Shushi planned to take the opportunity to do some private work. Secondly, with the help of Yuan Shao, Cao Cao's army at that time could be said to have devoted all its efforts to compete with Yuan Shu again. In other words, Li Shushi was that

Even in a battle that can be said to be the average level of the Central Plains War, it was full of battles.

It doesn't matter a bottle of soy sauce. Anyway, as long as he appears, he can contain a large number of Yuan Shu's troops. Yuan Shu's four generals Qiao Rui, Ji Ling and others were not able to appear on the Eastern Front until Cao Cao defeated Sun Ce's Eastern Route Army.

On the battlefield, this was just right for Cao Cao.

As for Li Shushi's achievements on the Western Front battlefield, although the limelight was also very strong, it could not compare with the impact caused by the coalition forces of Cao Cao and Yuan Shao defeating Sun Ce, a young man who was wreaking havoc in the Central Plains.

But this time it was completely different. Cao Cao's army suffered a huge defeat at Shouchun City, just like when they won the Battle of Changping, they only lost embarrassingly in the siege of Handan and had to turn around.

The Qin State is temporarily resting and recuperating. Although it is more than adequate to maintain its achievements, it is seriously lacking in progress.

This means that Cao Cao's decisive battle with Sun Ce's army will obviously rely on Li Shushi's Bingzhou Army to be almost independent - for Cao Cao, he has a lot of excuses to throw the Bingzhou Army on the front line while he prepares to snatch the fruits of victory in the rear.

It's just sending Cao Ren, Xia Houyuan, etc. to lead some light cavalry, which is of no use in the Jiangnan water town anyway.

If the Bingzhou Army loses, it will not hurt the morale of Cao Cao's army, and it is even a good thing. As for the Bingzhou Army winning, then the Jiangdong enclave that is far away from its own sphere of influence will obviously involve a huge amount of energy from the Bingzhou Army. This

There were no nuclear missiles in this era. It didn’t matter if there was a lack of garrison troops.

Tactical nuclear missile forces must be deployed in the enclave, and publicly declare that whenever they encounter a military attack, they will be the first to use nuclear missiles to fight back. Even if the opponent uses nuclear missiles to attack, nuclear missiles will be used for theater missile defense, unless a neutron jamming system or the like is invented.

strategic weapon, otherwise it would be as stable as Mount Tai.

In this era, apart from the Four Sacred Beasts (or five?), even the most powerful weapons such as the Golden Cup Cannon can only be regarded as tactical-level weapons, which are still far away from strategic-level weapons.

Previously, he teamed up with Cao Cao and Yuan Shao to destroy Yuan Shu, which was to weaken the powerful Yuan Shu who was in the limelight. Now the real strong enemy is around. If we still implement the strategy of attacking from afar and close friends, it will be tantamount to weakening Yuan Shu.

You give the enemy an opportunity to take advantage of you.

As for the fact that the powerful enemy in the north has not yet gone, it is a cliché and I won’t go into details.

Li Shushi estimated that Cao Cao also said the same thing, just like what he had done more than once before - it is naturally good if it succeeds, but it does not seem to be harmful to himself if it fails, and it is also a pleasure to occasionally add trouble to Li Shushi.

If Li Shushi's brain is short-circuited and he agrees, then he, the black-skinned dwarf, will make a lot of money.

It is estimated that most of those who buy lottery tickets are motivated by this mentality.

It's just that Cao Cao obviously won't be like those gamblers who put all his wealth and life on something that has a probability of less than 3% and is classified as an "impossible event with a small probability" by probability theory. He knows very well that blacksmithing requires hard work.

reason.

What Chen Gong said in the letter was even more worthless than Meng De's children's shoes. It was just some official articles, saying hello to Li Shushi as Liu Xie's current favorite - although this was not stated explicitly.

But the arrogant energy between the lines is revealed vividly. Then I hope to make

Li Shushi, who is in the same palace as his minister, and he can jointly assist the young emperor Liu Xie to stabilize the world situation and become a spear for the Han Dynasty to spread its power all over the world. At that time, Chen Gongtai will definitely report Li Shushi's achievements to the great emperor.

This allowed Li Shushi to protect his wife and children, and his descendants would be blessed.

Well, such words are really unpleasant - not because of the arrogance of the other party's language, although it is equally unpleasant. But with Li Shushi's current temperament, if he wants to maintain his grace in front of his own girls, he still

There was no problem, but Chen Gong's words really gave him a chill in his heart.

From the time Li Shushi joined this troubled world to the present, although he is often called a "sycophant" due to his status, in general, he has indeed maintained a relatively deferential attitude towards the central court - even though he is a prince.

This kind of statement is a bit shameless no matter how you look at it, but compared to other princes, especially those ambitious clans, Li Shushi was obviously much more restrained.

Therefore, Chen Gong's current attitude is very memorable.

Do you really want to seize Li Shushi and use him as a tool to realize his ambitions?
Chapter completed!