Chapter 3621 The rain erodes iron armor, the government is lazy and the border wall is declining

The temporary camp established by Liao Hua's second relocation was attacked by Cao's army.

Because the camp is temporarily set up, it cannot be comparable to the formal field camp in any aspect.

The walls of the camp cannot be tamped and erected on the ground due to heavy rain. The wooden stakes that were punched are either too soft or even if they were punched, they would easily be soaked in the rain.

As for the trenches and traps, you naturally don’t even think about them in such rain.

However, the prosperity of the Cavalry Army still played a certain role in these temporary camps.

The fake grain truck sent by Li Dian has now become the wall of Liao Hua's temporary camp.

Two or three people supported the shed with oil cloth, and then they squeezed into the baggage truck to sleep. Although it was not spacious enough, it was at least much better than lying in mud and water. However, the number of baggage trucks was still limited, so they could only take turns to sleep.

In the heavy rain, although some ditches were dug to drain water, there was still a lot of water in the potholes on the ground, which also made the soldiers who came to attack Cao Ren exposed their bodies very early.

However, on rainy days, any long-range weapons, as well as gunpowder firearms, are equivalent to failure, so even if both sides discover each other at a distance, they will only start hand-to-hand combat after getting close.

The Hussar soldiers under Liao Hua would not be afraid of face-to-face fighting, but fighting on rainy days still brought severe challenges to the Hussar soldiers under Liao Hua.

Unlike the Cao army, the great advantage of the Cavalry Army is based on long-range weapons and gunpowder weapons. On rainy days, it not only causes the bowstring to be damp and loose, resulting in the range attenuation, but also loses flight stability after the arrow feathers absorb water. It also causes gunpowder weapons to be unable to be used at all, which makes the Cao army soldiers more at ease and boldly impact and fight.

At the same time, although steel was an advantageous defensive equipment for the Cavalry Army, under the conditions of the Han Dynasty, rust removal was extremely difficult, especially after the iron armor encountered a mixture of mud and water, the rust rate exceeded the ordinary people's imagination.

If a piece of iron armor is not worn on the body at all times, the armor pieces at the joints will rust and stick together within two or three days. If worn on the body, although some of the rust will be removed during movement and the nail pieces will not stick together, it will accelerate the loss of heat in rainy days, which will make the soldiers lose their physical strength, endurance and exhaustion faster.

The bronze swords that Cao's army was prepared for were targeted equipment in this rainy environment. Although the bronze also rusts, it does not corrode as quickly as it does on rainy days!

Another point is that Cao's soldiers did not wear shoes...

Fighting in mud and water makes shoes become inconspicuous, but they also affect the burden of fighting effect.

Although Hussars and the non-commissioned officers of the military academy soon discovered this and ordered the soldiers to take off their shoes to fight, they also suffered a loss during the initial contact and fight.

This brings about a second more serious problem...

Injured soldiers.

On rainy days, even if there are occasional clear gaps, it is not enough for the doctor to prepare all the wounds and clean up all the wounds. The wounds are soaked along the rain, not only are sand and gravel, but there are more bacteria and fungi, which causes many injured soldiers to start getting inflamed the next day or the third day and fall into a coma.

The doctor was in a state of great difficulty and even invented a method to prevent moisture and stop bleeding when he had no choice but to use lime, but there are still limited conditions for use and the wounded cannot be allowed to enter the wound again...

In comparison, the pattern of Cao's soldiers being used up and throwing them away is less troublesome.

Although Liao Hua knew that after fighting each other, he only needed to consume all the suicide troops under Cao Ren, Cao Ren had no strength left, but in the face of his own side's damage, especially the sudden increase in damage after being injured, he still had to retreat, give up some of the achievements he had achieved, and retreated to a safer military camp for rest.

Liao Hua and Li Dian's attack was successfully curbed by Cao Ren.

Everyone knows that this is only temporary.

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Jizhou.

Wuyi County.

When governing a country, does not mean that there are several metropolises, such as Chang'an and Luoyang, representing the dynasty empire. It can only represent the upper limit of this country. The lower limit depends on what happens in more remote counties like Wuyi County.

Only when the upper limit is high and the lower limit is high can it be called the overall high level of the country. Unfortunately, the current upper limit of the Han Dynasty is average, but the lower limit is very low.

Outside Wuyi County, there was originally a military camp, but now it is in chaos.

The same is true for city defense. Some battlements collapsed and were not repaired in time, and they looked messy.

The letter of the request for the funding of the city wall was delivered early, but it was never approved, so the upper and lower parts of Wuyi County were just watching.

After all, repairing the city wall is equivalent to spending money on the public. Who is willing to pay for their own pockets? It would be very good if the public is not worthy of personal gain. However, according to ordinary practice, even if the superiors allocate the repair funds, Wuyi County is likely to be paid for 30% or 20% or 20% or 20% of the funds. It would be considered good if it could use 30% of the funds to repair the public.

After all, if a corrupt official is not full, how can he have the energy to work?

Therefore, even though I knew that the Cavalry Army had gone south, I was still lazy and wandering like a lonely ghost. I waited for the time being to have a meal and then go to bed, and then spend another day of time.

At dusk, a group of people suddenly came from outside the city.

At first, the soldiers on the walls of Wuyi County were panicked, but soon after seeing the banner of "Xiahou", they became lazy again.

Xiahou Ru was in the queue.

Although he was wearing armor, there was no sword around his waist.

A trip to northern Hebei also changed Xiahou Ru's mentality.

The butt determines a person's position.

When I was young, I had diapers on my butt, so my most concerned thing was eating, drinking, defecating, and sleeping.

The corpse of adolescents grew hairy on the buttocks, and they immediately thought about it...

Now Xiahou Ru's butt ran with Wei Yan, and his thinking began to turn into a cavalry.

Wei Yan stabbed Xiahouru in the back with a scabbard, "Go up and call!"

Xiahou Ru hesitated, but Wei Yan poked the back of the waist again, and then he pushed forward with a little bit of slight slight squeezing. However, for some reason, after shouting, it became smoother...

The military academy at the city gate was familiar with "Xiahou", but not with Xiahou Ru. Therefore, at the beginning, he did not give Xiahou any good looks and refused to open the city gate.

This time, Xiahou Ru did not need Wei Yan to remind him, and immediately raised his head and cursed, threatening the military academy guarding the city.

But what's interesting is that the military academy guarding the city sneered on the top of the city and even argued with Xiahou, pointing at the broken camp outside the city, asking Xiahou Ru to take people there to rest. Anyway, the city gate will not open again after it is locked at dusk.

Seeing this, Wei Yan pointed his eyes slightly and signaled to the guard.

The guard took advantage of the cover of the soldiers in front and took the bow and arrow. He found an opportunity to raise his hand and shoot!

The arrow shot out like lightning, hitting the military academy's face at the top of the city!

As the defenders shouted, Wei Yan slapped Xiahou Ru aside, "Baoman! You can't even open the door! Come on! Snatch the city for me!"

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To be fair, the situation in Jizhou is not too bad.

No matter what, it is still a civil war between Cao Cao and Fei Qian.

Even the national wars in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period were not considered as civil wars of the princes.

On the one hand, Cao Cao had made corresponding arrangements before. Yecheng was the core of Jizhou, and the core was not lost. Cao Cao originally didn't care about too much in other areas, so it didn't matter whether he lost it or not.

On the other hand, Jizhou is too big. Compared with Youzhou, if the number of county towns expanded, if the Cavalry Army wants to completely occupy it, it will inevitably lead to dispersion of troops. If it is not occupied and just changes the flag on the city, then whether the Cavalry will occupy it or not will be of little significance.

War is the continuation of politics, but it is also the ultimate solution to political contradictions...

If you win the battle, everything is easy to say.

If Cao Cao wins, even if the counties and counties in Jizhou are occupied for a while, they will only be a matter of one word. Once defeated, even if these counties hold the Cao family's banner tightly, they will not be able to do anything beneficial to the Cao family.

However, those who are familiar with Cao Pi know that Cao Pi is still the most outrageous anger now that Cao Pi is trying his best to maintain a stable aura...

Because this may be the first time in his life that he encountered such a direct and straightforward betrayal.

If Xiahou Ru surrendered under the siege or in some difficult environment, although Cao Pi would be angry, he would not be so angry.

Just imagine, if it weren't for the relationship between the Cao family and the Xiahou family, how could Cao Cao send Xiahou Ru to Cao Pi and let Ren Xian be Chen Qun's deputy?

This itself is divided into closeness and distantness.

Or on the other hand, the Xiahou family has made great efforts to have the status of today. It should be that they both lose and prosper. For a long time, the Cao family and the Xiahou family have both sides. Cao Pi also knew this, so he unknowingly had higher requirements for the Xiahou family.

It's like seeing someone else's naughty child get 50 points if he scores 100 points. Most of the time, he chooses to say that grades don't mean everything, but his naughty child only gets 50 points, and when he sees it, he feels blood rushing upwards and cerebrovascular veins are about to explode.

Both are fifty, and the effect is completely different.

In other words, Cao Pi cannot understand what a "harsh relative phenomenon" is. After all, many people are accustomed to taking off social masks in front of people who are closer to each other and expressing emotions more freely, including but not limited to dissatisfaction or high demands, because the subconscious mind believes that intimate relationships have higher tolerance for faults.

And there is no need to be polite to people outside of the kinship group.

This is also because the Xiahou family of the Cao family enjoyed more benefits during the rise of Cao Cao, so Cao Pi naturally hoped to get higher rewards from the Xiahou family of the Cao family. However, Cao Pi forgot that Xiahou Ru was just an ordinary person. If he was not the surname Xiahou, his talent would not even have the qualification to get along with Cao Pi.

Cao Pi obviously did not understand these things enough, so he became dissatisfied with his psychological account imbalance, probably saying, "I have paid so much for you, why can't you do better?"

This kind of "harshness" for relatives comes from excessive expectations, and obviously Xiahou Ru's personal ability cannot support this expectation, so it is easy to form a vicious cycle. As Cao Pi's identity, it is impossible to express his excessive expectations to Xiahou Ru. After all, he still has to maintain the face of the "prince". As a result, from Xiahou Ru's perspective, this is like Cao Pi's airs of the "prince"...

Anyway, by chance, Cao Pi felt that he was sincere to Xiahou Ru and even gave him the task that was most likely to obtain military achievements to perform. On the other hand, Xiahou Ru felt that he was the slave raised by Cao Pi and the hunting dogs who were often scolded and insulted, without any personal dignity...

Originally, this misunderstanding and conflict would have erupted violently because Cao Pi dealt with Xiahou Ru's family, but at the last moment, Cao Pi instead let Xiahou Ru's family go, which also made the thunder that would have exploded within the Cao family and the Xiahou family safer for the time being.

However, no one knew whether this thunder had been removed or turned into a time bomb.

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If in history, someone asked Cao Cao, when Yuan Shao had the advantage, he was obviously short of troops, so why could he still feel that he could win? Cao Cao would probably smile disdainfully.

Yuan Shao's troops were far superior to Cao Cao at that time, and the probability was more than 100,000, while Cao Cao had only about 30,000. The Battle of Wuchao was Cao Cao's sneak attack on Yuan Shao's granary, which led to the collapse of Yuan Shao's morale and thus reversed the situation. So if there was no Wuchao, would Cao Cao win?

Cao Cao still felt that he would win.

Although Yuan Shao had the advantage in his military strength, there might be some internal problems, such as the discord between the strategists, and Xu You's rebellion may be because Yuan Shao did not listen to the advice. Although Cao Cao had few people, his command was more unified. Generals such as Xun Yu and Guo Jia had outstanding abilities. Qingzhou soldiers were more willing to die than Yuan Shao's Jizhou soldiers.
To be continued...