After leaving Cao Cao's main tent, Cao Chong returned to the camp tent and slept in the dark, and when he woke up again, the sky was already a little groggy.
Cao Chong stretched his waist, and after a short rest, he put on his armor and stepped out of the tent.
Outside the tent, the dripping rain still did not stop, and Cao Chong looked at the rain that fell to the ground, scattering the soft red mud, and knew that it was time for him to fight.
Before Cao Chong fell asleep, he went to Chen Ming to ask about the situation of military illness, and through the introduction of this Hua Tuo descendant, Cao Chong found that the number of people infected with military disease had an upward trend.
To put it simply, there are already five or six hundred people in the army who are suffering from military diseases, and five or six hundred is a small number for an army of 200,000, but for Cao Chong, it is a huge number.
You must know that these five or six hundred people are just the beginning, and later, this disease will sweep over like a hurricane, and more than half of them will be sick, and half of them will be what is the concept 100,000 people The removal of 100,000 troops also dragged Cao Cao's hind legs, and it was not without reason that Cao Cao retreated in later generations.
The time and place are favorable, it is obvious that Cao Cao is not advantageous in terms of time and place in addition to the people {Han orthodoxy}, Cao Chong knows that now he must fight quickly Quick Cao Chong's eyes were resolute, and after eating a little jerky, he walked quickly to Cao Cao's tent.
Cao Cao's big tent, there is no one, Cao Cao is as always in the big tent to read books, while the others are busy, marching in the rain, whether it is the main general or the soldier, in general, is unwilling, this is like the boss of the company in the future let you go to work in advance when it is dozens of degrees below zero in the cold winter, it is unpopular.
The soldiers did not know Cao Cao's situation, so they hoped that they would fight again after the rain, or simply not fight.
In the war, too many people have died in the front, and even Cao Cao's army of a hundred battles has risen into a war-weariness, which is not a good phenomenon for marching and fighting.
Cao Chong saw Cao Cao soon after the herald's briefing, compared to Cao Cao yesterday, today's Cao Cao looked more haggard, probably because he had been reading books overnight, and his body had not been rested.
Cao Chong bowed to Cao Cao, and then said, "Father still needs to pay attention to his body." ” Cao Cao squinted at Cao Chong and said, "My body, I know it, but you are a child, you don't stay in your own tent if you have nothing to do, what are you doing here for your father."
Cao Chong smiled and said, "The child has written a letter of request for war before, I don't know if my father has read it."
Petition for war Cao Cao put down the bamboo slip in his hand, stretched his waist, stared at Cao Chong with his eyes, and said, "I have read it." ” Cao Chong nodded, and then asked, "Since my father saw it, why didn't he make a move?"
Make movements Cao Cao shook his head and said: "The autumn rain is continuous, the cold wind is biting, the soldiers have no intention of fighting, I can't do anything about it."
Cao Chong knew that Cao Cao didn't tell the truth, you are a boss, it is not a matter of words to ask others to fight, there is no fighting spirit, draw a big pie, give a reward, and those soldiers still fly up one after another, so Cao Chong thought about Cao Cao's words for a while, and felt that he was taking the test again.
"How can soldiers have no desire to fight, the war will go early, get together with their mother-in-law and aunt at home one day sooner, go early for the war, and seal their wives and sons one day sooner, how can they have no heart to fight" Cao Cao looked at Cao Chong with burning eyes and said: "But the autumn wind is bleak, Wuling Liu Bei has hit our army hard, and the soldiers are afraid, so they can't do anything."
Cao Chong shook his head and said in a firm tone: "Liu Bei, but a pseudo-male, my father is a hero here, so why be afraid" Pseudo-male "Hahaha" Cao Cao laughed heartily and said: "Liu Xuande is a strong man in Jingnan, and his subordinates Guan Yu and Zhang Fei are all fierce generals in the world, you actually say that he is a pseudo-male" "Liu Bei is a little heroic, but compared with his father, it is no different from the insects than the Haoyue, and the dripping water is compared to the sea, which is not the same."
Cao Cao was very helpful to Cao Chong's words, but he still asked.
"Since Liu Bei is a pseudo-male, I am a hero, but why can't a hero be a pseudo-male now?"
"Although Liu Bei is a pseudo-male, he has the right time and place, so the hero can't break it quickly, but if today's time and place are reversed, my father can calm it down in one battle."
The First World War was settled Cao Cao had a lot of interest in his heart.
"Why do you say that the right time and place are reversed?"
Cao Chong smiled and said, "Because my father has the advantage of mortar firearms." firearm Although Cao Cao was moved by Cao Chong's words, there were still some doubts and disbelief on his face, no one dared to easily have confidence in an unknown thing, you must know that this is not playing at home, this is including the lives of hundreds of thousands of soldiers, and it can even be said that the pattern of the world has changed This does not allow Cao Cao to be imprudent.
But today's words of Cao Chong also made Cao Cao recognize in his heart, Cao Cao's eyes were sharp, and he already had his own plans in an instant.
"That mortar is so powerful, you can see it with your own eyes" Cao Chong nodded, this thing relied on his own thinking, Cao Chong naturally knew his general power.
"Can you let the father also see his power?"
Cao Cao still had some doubts in his heart, it was a matter of the whole army, and he had to let Cao Cao be cautious.
Cao Chong hesitated for a moment, but still nodded.
"Yes, but the mortar fire is strong, where is the father going to try" Cao Cao's eyes were bright, and he said categorically: "If he really has this power, he will shoot at Wuling City to strengthen the prestige of my royal teacher."
Cao Chong understood what Cao Cao meant, on the one hand, he wanted to dispel his doubts, and on the other hand, he wanted to stimulate the fighting spirit of the soldiers and let them see that Liu Bei was a "pseudo-male", a papier-mâché tiger, and there was nothing to be afraid of Grunt A mortar was erected at the gate of the camp, and then pulled forward, and stopped at a kilometer away from Wuling City, and the sergeant first set up a simple tent on top of the mortar, and after making sure that the rain would not fall, he tore off the tarpaulin of the mortar, and carried out the iron mortar shells one by one, a mortar shell, which weighed more than ten catties, of course, the heaviest thing in it was not gunpowder, but those iron pieces, which was the true embodiment of the lethality of the shells.
Debugging the distance, Cao Chong carefully compared it between the fields, and Cao Cao took a cadre of Wenchen generals to observe carefully in the big tent behind, although Cao Cao looked calm, but the back of the raised arm, still showed Cao Cao's nervousness.
If this mortar was not as Cang Shu said, Cao Cao would have already retreated.
Specifically, it was to let Liu Bei go first and swallow Sun Quan first, but Cao Cao himself knew that if he really did this, it was very likely that he would fall into the middle of the two armies, and the situation would not be optimistic in an instant, which was not what Cao Cao wanted to see.
Therefore, Cao Cao put his hope on Cao Chong.
Different from Cao Cao's hope, there is another person who hopes that Cao Chong's mortar will not have that kind of power
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