Volume 3: The Land of Jingchu Chapter 341 Cao Cao: ^_^
When Xu You left Yecheng, he felt a little unhappy, but compared to the betrayal in history, this was not much unhappy...
Yuan Shao did not order his family to be captured, and... the surprise attack on Xu Du was indeed Xu You's suggestion!
Now Xu You was just dissatisfied that Yuan Shao had invested too little effort, and expressed some distrust, or even fear.
Qu Yi's army of halberd warriors originally had only about a hundred men left. After returning to Yecheng, they simply drew troops from various armies to supplement the number to 300. This was all the force needed to launch a surprise attack on Xu Du!
Originally Qu Yi also felt that it was because of his previous performance in Nanyang that his lord intended to make things difficult for him, and there was no way out.
However, Xu You's ability is indeed not proportional to his character, and he is particularly good at this strategy of secretly stabbing people in the waist!
He actually came up with a solution...
That is to take advantage of the migration of the Black Mountain Army at that time, first blend into the Black Mountain Army, and then identify the leader who can be instigated to rebel, and directly use him as a substitute!
In this way, they can conceal their tracks and also obtain "cannon fodder".
After all, elite soldiers alone cannot attack a city. Even on flat ground, even a halberd warrior who can fight against dozens of generals alone cannot do it!
The Yellow Turban Army was undoubtedly the best cannon fodder. They were low-cost and did not require training. In addition, the Yellow Turban Warriors had the ability to partially extract manpower to "train" the Yellow Turban Army, so there was no need for Huang Tianji. This was why the Yellow Turban Army spread so quickly during the Yellow Turban Rebellion.
Xu You soon discovered Tao Sheng and judged that this former Neihuang County official originally just wanted to "kill people and set fires to wait for amnesty", so he decisively extended an olive branch, and the two sides really hit it off.
At the same time, as a young talent who had been with Yuan Shao and Cao Cao in Luoyang, Xu You naturally had many connections in the court. After joining forces with Tao Sheng, he also secretly contacted Xu Du...
When the emperor returned to the east, Yuan Shao's subordinates only debated whether to "hold the emperor hostage". The honest man Ju Su was a member of the "hold the emperor hostage" faction, but Guo Tu, Chunyu Qiong and others believed that "holding the emperor hostage" would bring constraints on fame and practical operations, and therefore opposed welcoming the emperor back.
Yuan Shao at that time was much more arrogant than Cao Cao - Cao Cao was at least "serving the emperor" in name, while they had already discussed the issue .
However, this did not affect Xu You's trip to Xudu, where he "spoke nonsense" and acted as if he was loyal to the Han Dynasty.
Although Liu Ai, Zhong Ji and others did not completely trust Yuan Shao, under the increasing pressure from Cao Cao, cooperation between the two sides was a natural outcome.
Liu Bei, on the one hand, agreed to cooperate with Xu You to send the Han emperor to the north, and on the other hand, he actively prepared to send troops from Xuzhou while taking advantage of the chaos... At the same time, he repeatedly warned and warned Dong Cheng not to know about this, so as to prevent him from doing anything bad!
Xu You did not trust Liu Bei either, but for him, the most important thing was to capture Xu Du first, otherwise A Man would probably kill Yuan Shao.
In May of the sixth year of Jian'an, Cao Cao beat Yuan Tan in Wei County...
Yuan Tan also had a tragedy. His brother died, and not long after he laughed out loud, he was inexplicably suspected by Yuan Shao.
To be honest, although Guo Tu had been encouraging him to settle accounts with Feng Ji and Shen Pei, Yuan Tan's straightforward nature did make him want to do so, but... he was not stupid!
Instead of agreeing, Yuan Tan asked Guo Tu to help him make friends with several important aides. Seeing that Yuan Shao was seriously ill, he was ready to take over. Wasn't this the right thing to do?
However, even though Yuan Shang was dead, Guo Tu was still able to mess things up like this? As long as he worked hard, there was nothing he couldn't mess up?
In this way, with the second son Yuan Xi being totally unpopular and without any background, Yuan Tan's position as the heir was unshakable. However... when he was leading troops outside and needed to transfer people and materials from Yecheng, he was always treated with extra caution!
Originally, Cao Cao was an opponent to Yuan Tan whose attributes far exceeded his own and whom he needed to crush in level to have any hope of winning. How could he have any chance of winning when Cao Cao was holding Yuan Tan back from behind?
Even the "Hebei Generals" sent to him by Yuan Shao, Yan Liang and Gao Lan, were torn to pieces by Dian Wei one after another.
Jizhou, the Yuan family's old nest, was equivalent to the combination of Wei and Zhao during the Warring States Period. Not only was its area almost as large as two of the three states of Yan, Yu and Xu, but before the Yellow Turban Rebellion, its population was second only to Jingzhou, at nearly six million. Even now, there are nearly one million households!
Yecheng was an important town of Wei State in the pre-Qin period, and is now the seat of the Yuan family...
With Zhao in the north and Wei in the south, Yecheng naturally belongs to the central Jizhou of Hebei, a relatively southern location.
Yuan Tan suffered defeat in successive battles, Yuan Shao was bedridden in Yecheng, and disagreements arose between Ju Su and Shen Pei again.
Ju Su believed that the capital should be moved north to Handan to avoid the attack of Cao's army and to fight a protracted war with him by relying on Hebei's population and resource advantages.
Shen Pei was determined to defend Yecheng to the death. After all, if he went to the north, no one knew how Tian Feng would deal with him. Previously, in order to resist Gongsun Zan, Yuan Shao handed over the military power in the north to Tian Feng and Zhang He.
Now the last hope of Shen Pei and Feng Ji is to hold Yecheng and Yuan Shao. At least they can survive before Yuan Shao dies. As for what happens after that... just take it one step at a time!
And if they leave Yecheng, wouldn’t they lose their last amulet?
So Shen Pei went to talk to Yuan Shao, whose IQ was so high, and said that Ju Shou was persuaded by Tian Feng to do something bad - evidence? The evidence is Ju Shou's current proposal, and does it sound similar to Tian Feng's proposal before the war?
You taste it, you taste it carefully!
After hearing the beautification of the battle situation on the front line, Yuan Shao smacked his lips and decided to stay in Yecheng and not go anywhere else.
Cao Cao also didn't expect that after Yuan Shao fell ill, Hebei would become so weak. He threw left hooks and right kicks, but the opponent couldn't even clench his fists?
And he actually stayed in Yecheng without moving. Isn't this God's help to this Prime Minister?
Originally I thought it was a tough nut to crack, but now it seems that within two or three years, I have a hope of unifying the north!
If it weren't for the winter in Hebei, the weather was not suitable for deploying troops, Cao Cao even thought that this time would be shorter...
In October, Cao Cao had fought all the way to Yecheng, while Yuan Tan...had already retreated to Zhaojun, preparing for a decisive battle with Cao Cao further north.
As for Yuan Shao, when his condition improved a little, he finally figured out the current situation, but he was almost killed by the bad news!
He couldn't retreat now even if he wanted to. At the last moment, Yuan Shao finally summoned some courage. On the one hand, he sent messages to Tian Feng and Zhang He in the north, and to his nephew Gao Gan in Bingzhou, asking them to fully cooperate with Yuan Tan . On the other hand, he put on armor despite being sick and personally supervised the battle on the city wall.
Yuan Shao didn't think he could turn the tables, but he had to at least drag it out until the coldest days of winter, by which time Cao Cao would have no choice but to retreat. His own body... was probably already in a state of irreparable damage, but he had to at least buy some more time!
Surprise attack on Xudu? What surprise attack on Xudu?
Yuan Shao himself almost forgot about this matter. After all, Qu Yi and Xu You acted completely freely. Yecheng could not help them, and it was difficult for them to send a message to Yecheng!
When Cao Cao saw Yuan Shao on the tower, he was filled with emotion and even wanted to recite a poem...
However, just when Cao Cao was feeling proud and complacent, an urgent letter came like a bolt from the blue and woke him up!
A surprise force suddenly appeared in Xinzheng. They defeated the enemy troops one after another from Xinzheng to Changsha in just half a month. When they sent the letter, they were less than 30 miles away from Xudu - and this letter was sent a month ago!
