Although it was a revenge battle decided to launch under the provocation of Deputy Director Tao and Boss Cao, after learning from the lesson of the Guandu War's light and urgent battle, the Grand Duke of Yuan was much more cautious and cautious when sending troops this time. He no longer went south to attack the heavily defended Baima of Cao's army. Yanjin and Guandu chose to go east to enter Guantao, first met with the team of Yuan Xi, the second son stationed in Guantao, then entered the army Cangting to cross the river, and then captured Dong'a, Fan County and Dongping and other important military towns in Yanzhou, opened up contact with the army of Xuzhou, protected the rear and the food route, and finally planned to go west to Xuchang.

The advisers under the command of the Grand Yuan Sangong also made some progress. Although they were very opposed to the fact that the Grand Yuan Sangong was not fully prepared and launched a war of revenge, after the Grand Yuan Sangong forcibly passed the resolution to send troops, Ju Su and Cui Yan and other capable advisers were dedicated to the planning of the Grand Yuan Sangong's combat plan, and together they suggested that Grand Yuan Sangong must fight steadily in this battle, advance to Yanzhou step by step, plan and then move, and see clearly how the Grand Yuan Sangong played the cards and then attacked others. Therefore, the Grand Yuan Sangong, who had listened to some advice, was not very fast. He rushed from Yecheng to Guantao and met Yuan Xi for eight days, and then took a break in Guantao for two days, and then slowly went south to Cangting, deliberately leaving Cao's reaction time, so that the Grand Yuan Sangong could take action first.

In addition, considering the time of harvesting staple food in the Ji and Yanzhou prefectures, Ju Su also proposed a crazy combat plan, which is to first attract the main force of the Cao army to the front line of Cangting, and then confront the Cao army with high walls and deep lanes, delay the time until the end of July, and launch a decisive battle in early August! In this way, the Cao army with wheat as the staple food will inevitably be insufficient at that time, and the Yuan Shao army with rice as the staple food can obtain sufficient food and grass supplies, which can not only attack the enemy to make a weak point, but also have enough food to support the Jizhou team to occupy the city and land in the central and eastern Yanzhou.

Some friends must ask, Yuan Shao's army is located in the north than Cao's position, why is Cao's team always eating wheat? Da Yuan Sangong's team eating rice as the staple food? Is it wrong? In fact, this is not wrong. Da Yuan Sangong can grow rice on the territory of the territory of the territory of the land of the river. It is a bastard who threw a witch into the river to negotiate with the river god. This guy had already repaired water conservancy in the Yecheng area hundreds of years ago, and created the infamous Ximen Twelve Canal to irrigate thousands of hectares of fertile land, so the territory of the Yuan Shao's army located in the north can grow high-yield rice. Because the Cao army's territory south of the Yellow River lacks such large-scale water conservancy facilities, it can only plant low-yield wheat.

The words are too far away and back to the point. Although the arrogant and arrogant Duke Yuan San refused the crazy suggestion proposed by Ju Su, it was also a suggestion that Cao would definitely cry without tears, after learning that Duke Yuan San sent troops again, Da Cao fell into the plot of Ju Su and Cui Yan, hurriedly led the main force to Cangting to prepare for the war, and took the initiative to cross the Yellow River to establish a camp in Hebei. Not only did he enter the dangerous land, but he also completely exposed the fatal weakness of his army's lack of potential. It made Yuan army think tanks such as Ju Su and Cui Yan feel more at ease, and he became more determined to drag the war into a war of attrition.

But then again, the boss Cao took the initiative to lead the army across the river to set up a camp, which still played a certain role in seducing the enemy. Not to mention that the generals of Yuan Shao's army who were anxious to take revenge came to the Grand Duke of Yuan San to ask for battle. Even Grand Duke of Yuan San was extremely moved and planned to give up the plan of step by step to immediately send troops to fight. Fortunately, Ju Su and Cui Yan tried to persuade him to stop him. For the Grand Duke of Yuan San, the Grand Duke of Yuan San changed his mind and ordered the army to advance slowly, set up camp thirty miles north of Cangting, build a solid camp thirty miles north of Cangting, and make long-lasting plans.

As a result, the boss Cao, who was not well-off in logistics, waited for a few days without seeing the attack of the Jizhou army. Cao could only take the initiative to attack when his troops were far inferior to the enemy, and personally led the army to fight in front of Yuan Shao's military camp. When he received this news, the third duke of Yuan Yuan was a little unbelievable and said nothing that he would not expect that the boss Cao would take the initiative to fight with his weak forces. Ju Su and Cui Yan took the opportunity to point out that this was the self-defense tactic of the army, which forced Cao to this point. After a sudden realization, the third duke of Yuan Yuan also personally led his third son and nephew to fight with the generals under his command to fight against Cao's army in the wilderness.

In the two armies, in order to anger the Grand Duke of Yuan and urge him to launch a decisive battle as soon as possible, Cao personally took action and deliberately surrendered the Grand Duke of Yuan in public in front of the two armies and mocked the Grand Duke of Yuan for his miserable defeat. The Grand Duke of Yuan was indeed trapped. Mr. Yuan Shang, who had gone to war with his father for the first time, slapped the Red Rabbit Horse and rushed out of the formation, dancing with both swords to demand the fight. Seeing that the Grand Duke of Yuan's favorite third son took action personally, Cao was of course overjoyed and quickly asked the generals to capture Yuan Shang alive. Who knew that as soon as he finished speaking, before Cao could even ascend a capable general to fight, his general Shi Huan had already rushed into the formation to fight.

As soon as they fought, Mr. Cao found that he was too underestimating Mr. Yuan Shang, who seemed to be embroidered pillows. The battle lasted only three times. Mr. Yuan Shang suddenly released an arrow and shot Shi Huan's left eye, causing Shi Huan to fall and die. The general of Cao army Le Jin hurriedly came out of the formation to fight with Mr. Yuan Shang. After more than twenty rounds, Wen Chou was worried that Yuan Shang would safely slapped out to help the battle. Mr. Cao urgently sent Dian Wei to fight Wen Chou. Wen Chou, who was equally excellent in archery, had already shot an arrow, hit Le Jin's cheek. Le Jin shouted and turned around and left, and Cao's army was defeated again.

Seeing that his beloved son won two consecutive victories, the Grand Yuan Sangong immediately waved his whip and urged the two wings to rush forward to rush forward. The Jizhou army, whose confidence has recovered, shouted. The eldest son Cao was forced to fight. The two armies fought in a melee, and it was difficult to decide the outcome. Ju Su hurried to the Grand Yuan Sangong and suggested that the Grand Yuan Sangong follow the Xuzhou army and send a mobile cavalry to knock on the back of the Cao army, forcing the Cao army to divide the troops to fight. The Grand Yuan Sangong followed him. Yuan Xi, who had been familiar with the cavalry in Youyan for a long time, volunteered to lead the army to attack.

Leading three thousand cavalry to attack Cao's army fiercely, Cao, who had suffered a lot of trouble, was forced to divide his troops to fight. The central army was immediately weak. When the Grand Duke of Yuan San ordered a general attack again, Cao was a little unable to resist. He could only hurriedly withdraw his troops and lead his troops to retreat to Cangting. Yuan Shao's army took the opportunity to chase him, but he had a small victory, but Cao's army was too elite to disperse Cao's army and expand the results of the battle. So after chasing for more than ten miles, Grand Duke of Yuan San also listened to Ju Su's suggestion and ordered Ming Jin to return to the camp.

The first battle was defeated and the losses were not large, and the boss Cao was not discouraged. On the contrary, he felt that after the third Duke of Yuan won the first battle, he would definitely feel relaxed in his caution and decided to take the strategy of luring the enemy into depth to defeat the enemy. Cheng Yu also took the opportunity to offer a plan of ambushing the enemy. Cao followed him. After a intensive preparation, he sent Dian Wei to replace Xu Chu and led his army to the Yuan Shao army camp to rob the camp, luring Yuan Shao's army to pursue him.

History has undergone earth-shaking changes due to the flapping of the wings of Deputy Director Tao, the demon moth. Dian Wei, who was the one who led Xu Chu to rob the camp, completed the mission excellently, deliberately exposed his whereabouts and asked Yuan Shao's army to send troops to fight back, and then he was defeated and left. He pulled Yuan Shao's army to run into the ambush circle. However, just when Yuan Shao's army was about to step into the ambush circle of Cao's army, Ju Su and Cui Yan, who should not have appeared on the battlefield of Cangting, came to the front of the Grand Yuan Sangong, and persuaded the Grand Yuan Sangong to take back the team and beware of the Cao's army's ambush at night. When the Grand Yuan Sangong didn't want to listen to the advice, Ju Su grabbed the reins of the Grand Yuan Sangong's horse and begged the Grand Yuan Sangong to act cautiously. The Grand Yuan Sangong sent a large number of cavalry to search everywhere, and indeed found the Cao's ambush.

After Cao's ambush was exposed, the Grand Duke Yuan, who knew it was a plan, immediately ordered a retreat. Ju Su hurriedly advised Grand Duke Yuan to lead the elite troops behind the palace with a fierce general Wen Chou. Grand Duke Yuan agreed immediately without thinking. As a result, he once again made trouble for Cao. When the Grand Duke Cao, who was already standing on the Yellow River embankment, rushed to pursue, it was not only too late, but also encountered the tenacious blockade of the Wen Chou team, covering the successful withdrawal of Yuan Shao's main force. Cao Cao's arrangements were made for a long time. The Cao army fed mosquitoes in the wild for half a night, but in the end, he only obtained less than a thousand pieces of capture, and the self-armed army paid almost equal price.

After almost being imprisoned by Cao's boss, the Alzheimer's disease of the Grand Duke Yuan also showed some signs of improvement. No matter how provocative and tempting Mr. Cao was, the Grand Duke Yuan refused to take risks easily. The battle generals and formations were OK. However, when the Cao army retreated, they would not chase them as long as the signs were wrong. At the same time, they hid the food and grass into the city behind Fagan. They sent Ju Su's son Ju Hu to lead the army to protect them properly, and resolutely adopted the tactics proposed by Ju Su and Cui Yan to jointly use the advantage of more troops and abundant food to destroy the Cao army's poor support. They were so anxious that they were worried that Cao, who was eager to fight, were almost trying to call the Grand Duke Yuan out to fight one by one, and decide the outcome!

There was more than a month of confrontation between each and every victory, and forty days were about to pass. As the food in Dong'antun was getting exhausted, the boss Cao, who had never found a chance to fight, was forced to follow Mao Jie's advice and risked sending Xizuo to the Yuan army camp to contact Mr. Yuan Tan. He threatened Mr. Yuan Tan's last attempt to collude with Cao's army to kill his father and seize the throne as a threat, forced Mr. Yuan Tan to use his power in his hands and instigated the three great Yuan Tan dukes to send troops to fight the two Yuan Tan besties, Guo Tu and Xin Pi, also came to the battlefield of Cangting. However, Ju Su and Cui Yan have been too stolen the limelight recently, and Guo Tu and Xin Pi have no chance to show up. But if Mr. Yuan Tan comes forward to ask them and Ju Su, Cui Yan will be embarrassed and disrupt the internal affairs of Yuan Shao's army again.

The skillful and meticulous ones sent out. Before he could hear back, the defenders at Cangting Ferry first took a Xuzhou meticulous one who attempted to smuggle the Yellow River, and presented a letter from Deputy Director Tao that he found from Xuzhou meticulouse. When he opened the letter and looked carefully, a little black face from Boss Cao suddenly turned into a snatch. He asked Xuzhou meticulouse who was escorted: "In addition to you, can the Tao thief send other messengers? To be honest, spare your life, and if you tell lies, you will be killed!"

"Yes." In order to survive, Xuzhou Xizuo, who was captured, immediately sold Deputy Director Tao and replied: "The lord's letter is in duplicate. One is sent by the villain through Yanzhou to Cangting Xian and Yuan Shao, the other is detoured by Taishan, and Qingzhou to Cangting. The villain and another messenger did not act separately until Rencheng, so I know."

"So, did the Tao Ying traitor deliberately give our army a chance to stop this letter in your hand?"

How cunning, Boss Cao immediately gritted his teeth and asked. Of course, Xuzhou Xizuo, who was captured, could not answer, but kept begging for mercy. Fortunately, Boss Cao was still trustworthy and asked another messenger who set off from Rencheng. After getting the answer, he asked the guard to take this Xizuo down and punish him for hard labor. Then he slapped the table in front of him with a heavy palm and cursed: "Tao Ying Xiao Thief, did I throw away your ancestral grave or rob your wife? He actually cheated me like this!"

Seeing that Boss Cao was so angry, Guo Jia, Xun You, Cheng Yu and others present hurriedly asked for letters to watch. When Deputy Director Tao urged the Grand Duke of Yuan San not to easily fight and wait for the letters sent by the main force in Xuzhou, Xun You, Guo Jia and others were frightened and were all in a trembling manner. They questioned: "Really, fake? The traitor Tao Ying would do such a loss-making business? He would send troops to let Yuan Shao take advantage of this? It seems that Tao thief had never done such a loss before?"

"It doesn't matter what is true or false now!" Boss Cao roared: "As long as another letter is delivered to Yuan Shao's common man, we will be in trouble! Yuan Shao's common man was determined to waste our army to death. When he saw this letter from the Taoist thief, Yuan Shao's common man would not send troops to take risks!"

"Can you use Yuan Tan's power and intercept another messenger of the pottery thief?" Mao Jie suggested: "Yuan Tan has been in the plain for many years and has a deep foundation. As long as he can take action, he should have hope of stopping another messenger of the pottery thief."

"I'm afraid it's too late." Lao Da Cao said with a gloomy face: "The Xuzhou Seizure just now. It took five days to get from Rencheng to Cangting Ferry. Although another pottery messenger was a detour. However, along the way, there were official roads and horses that could be replaced. The speed was very fast. According to time, he should have entered Jizhou at this time."

Mao Jie closed his mouth, but Cheng Yu reminded: "Prime Minister, I will ignore him if Yuan Shao reacted after seeing the letter from the Tao thief. However, the Tao thief threatened to personally lead the army north to pick up Yuan Shao. Although the Tao thief has always been treacherous and slick, he has always been doing his word, especially in the open promise, in order to maintain his hypocritical image of a promise of a thousand gold, he has not breached trust so far, so the subordinates are worried that our army's southern line may soon usher in a fierce battle."

Boss Cao looked calm and did not speak. Xun You still had a hint of innocent fantasy and said, "Even if the Taoist thief really sent troops, it should be like Guandu last time. He only sent some old and weak auxiliary soldiers to come forward and do things perfunctorily. It is unlikely that the elite troops will really attack our southern line. This is not in line with the cunning character of the Taoist thief."

"Be careful." Cheng Yu opposed it and said: "Although our army and the Taoist thieves are at the same time, they are still connected, but they have irreconcilable hatreds. Unless one side falls early, there will be a life-and-death battle sooner or later. Now our main force is firmly restrained by Yuan Shao on the northern line. It is impossible to rule out that the Taoist thieves have the intention to defeat each one and take the opportunity to annihilate the elites of our southern line."

Boss Cao nodded slowly, admitted that there was this possibility, and then gritted his teeth and said, "We must be prepared for both ways. While letting Xiahou Yuan defend Changyi and strangle the pottery thieves to the north, we send envoys to contact the pottery thieves to test the pottery thieves' real intentions, and then make a decision."

Everyone praised the good, but Guo Jia warned: "Prime Minister, although General Xiahou Yuan is brave and good at fighting, he has always despised his plans and is prone to trappings. If the Taoist thief decides to start a war, he is afraid that General Xiahou Yuan is not the opponent of the Taoist thief."

"I'm just thinking about this." Boss Cao nodded again and said, "Xiahou Yuan does not have too many soldiers and horses, and head-on battles may not be the opponent of many powerful generals under the Tao thief. A capable adviser needs to go and help him. All the wise men. I wonder who would like to hold my letter to meet Xiahou Miaocai and help him resist the Tao thief?"

"I am willing to go." Xu Shu, who had never spoken, stood up and bowed and said, "Shu Meng's collection is included, I regret that he has no merits. Now that the Taoist thieves are about to invade Shanyang, please go south to Changyi, Xingye to assist General Xiahou Yuan in guarding the southern line and resist the Taoist thieves invasion north."

Boss Cao stared at Xu Shu, and after a long time he got up and walked to Xu Shu, patted Xu Shu's shoulder and said, "Then it will take Yuanzhi to work hard, but I must also remind you that the southern line of Yanzhou is the same as Xuzhou, and both have broad terrain and no danger to defend. Xiahou Yuan's team is the only barrier for our army on the southern line. After Yuan Dynasty went to Changyi, it is necessary to protect the army's city first. Never take the risk to deal with me and break Yuan Shao. The gentleman wants to seek revenge on the pottery thieves, so there are opportunities."

Xu Shu also knew that Boss Cao had seen through his thoughts, so he bowed and said, "Prime Minister, don't worry, family and national affairs, so he can still clearly distinguish between the Taoist thieves. If the Taoist thief really leads the army north and assists General Xiahou to resist the Taoist thief, it will be a kind of revenge."

Boss Cao felt relieved and told Xu Shu that he must stop Xiahou Yuan from impulsively fighting. Then he wrote a letter to Xiahou Yuan, asking Xiahou Yuan to defend Changyi and block the Xuzhou army from the north. He should discuss with Xu Shu and Cao Chun when encountering problems. He must not act impulsively. Then he handed the letter to Xu Shu and sent a team of cavalry to escort Xu Shu south to Changyi at night without mentioning it.

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Let's take a look at the situation in Yuan Shao's army. After Cao's army made a detailed work, the letter was successfully delivered to Mr. Yuan Tan. Mr. Yuan Tan, who was guilty, suddenly looked like a traitor. He wanted to kill Cao's army in detail, but he was worried that Mr. Cao would reveal the scandal of sending Liu Xun to the Cao army to kill him and resign himself. Even if Mr. Cao could not provide conclusive evidence, once Mr. Yuan Tan could not explain clearly that the head of his confidant Liu Xun was hung on the gate of the Cao army, even if there was no evidence, he would not think of a legitimate son in his life. So Mr. Yuan Tan thought about it and had to take a delay plan. While asking the Cao army to bring a message to Mr. Cao, he said that he agreed to Mr. Cao's request, but did not take any action, and waited for the situation to change with fear.

Fortunately, as the war prolonged, the problem of military strength and huge consumption of food and grass also appeared within Yuan Shao's army. The three duke of Yuan, who was not very patient, gradually began to be unable to calm down. He discussed with the civil and military officials several times how to use tricks to defeat the enemy, and once considered excessive troops to attack Dongjun. Although he was firmly stopped by Ju Su and Cui Yan every time, the voices against continued consumption were getting louder and louder, and the three duke of Yuan Yuan also gradually became less and less popular with Ju Su and Cui Yan's passive and conservative tactics. Therefore, even if Master Yuan Tan did not deliberately order, Guo Tu and Xinpi, who were good at observing words and expressions, spontaneously began to slander and persuade Yuan San Gong to give up the conservative tactics and take the initiative to attack to find opportunities for fighters.

The dream of Mr. Cao and Mr. Yuan Tan was shattered by the new strategist of Xuzhou army, Shi Yi, the help of Yuan Ruo Cao. Three days later, the Qingzhou Biejiawang Xiu, who was left behind in the plains, sent a team of Qingzhou messenger who detoured north. He also sent a letter from Deputy Director Tao to break Cao. Seeing this letter from Deputy Director Tao, the third Duke of Yuan was of course ecstatic. Even praising his son-in-law for his filial daughter and did not marry in vain, Ju Su and Cui Yan were relieved and said together: "Lord, since the envoy Tao has decided to lead the main force in Xuzhou to attack the southern battlefield of Cao thieves, our army will have a chance to win on its own as long as we persist for a few more days. The subordinates believe that the lord must not take the risk of going to fight at this time. As long as we stick to the confrontation, the thieves will definitely reveal their flaws!"

Grand Duke Yuan San nodded, but Guo Tu said unconvincedly: "What if the pottery thieves are untrustworthy? Every time our army delays one day, it will be a expense of nearly 7,000 hu of military rations. If the time is delayed for a long time, how much more food and grass will our army waste?"

"Mr. Gongze, when did the envoy Tao have any mistakes without trust?" Ju Su asked without hesitation and said, "If Mr. Gongze can find a precedent for envoy Tao who broke his promise and became fat, then I would pretend that I did not say anything before. I immediately supported Mr. Gongze and encouraged the lord to fight! If Mr. Gongze cannot find it, please do not question the envoy Tao's credit!"

"Mr. Gongze, our army's food and grass cost nearly 7,000 hu of food every day, but the Cao thief consumed more than 2,200 hu of food every day." Cui Yan also said: "And our army is close to the grain production area of ​​Ye County Lord, which is beneficial to the grain transport of grain in the canal, so it is relatively easy to transport grain! The day before yesterday, our army made a detailed report saying that a large number of Cao thief transport ships had been found on the Pushui River in the Chenliu area. This is enough to prove that Cao thief's Dong'acun grain had been basically used up by our army, and he could only be forced to transport grain from Xuchang, thousands of miles away. Since this is the case, I dare to ask Mr. Gongze, will it be detrimental to our army if it continues to consume? Or is it detrimental to the Cao thief?!"

Guo Tu had nothing to say, but he hated the Grand Duke of Yuan to gain fame and appointed Cui Yan, a famous scholar in Jizhou who was "no talent and no virtue". Grand Duke of Yuan also made up his mind to stand up and draw out his sword, cut off the case in front of him with one sword, and shouted: "My intention has been decided, continue to fight with Cao thieves to the end, waiting for my son-in-law to send troops, and the fighter appears! If anyone else says he will fight, the same as this case!"

All the civil and military officials in Jizhou who had persuaded Grand Yuan Sangong to take the risk of fighting before shutting down their mouths and were silent, but Grand Yuan Sangong still refused to relieve himself. He threw the sword in his hand directly to Ju Su, and shouted again: "Your Duke, you are the supervisor of our army. This sword is given to you. If anyone who persuades Grand Yuan to take the risk of fighting without authorization in the future, there is no need to report to me. You can hold the sword and kill it immediately!"
Chapter completed!