It was already very late. If there were clocks, the midnight bells should have been ringing. Lying on the couch specially made for marching, I kept turning my body around, making the soft mattress specially sewn by my wife wrinkled but couldn't fall asleep for a long time. I got up, put on my clothes and went to the window to pull the curtains aside. Through the unblocked window, I could vaguely see the bright moon and starry sky.

I felt a little stuffy in the tent, so I walked out and started without a destination in the camp. The camp was very quiet. Except for the patrol soldiers who walked by from time to time, everyone else was immersed in their sleep. Some tents also had rhythmic snoring sounds from time to time.

What makes me toss and turn and unable to fall asleep?

Things have been going on in recent times. Without Guan Yu and the Battle of White Horse, two of Yuan Shao's love generals Yan Liang and Wen Chou were easily destroyed. Moreover, because they adopted the group fight tactic that the arrogant Yuan Shao and his civil and military officials looked down upon the most, Yuan Shao did not attract any extra attention except anger. When the Yuan Shao army, who claimed to be a million, came to Guandu obediently, I could already smell the upcoming victory aura getting closer and closer. The process of persuading Tian Feng was also unexpectedly smooth, without much effort, and even the promises that Guo Bing and his previous ones did not make it. But in that regard, Tian Feng's joining was an exciting harvest. With Tian Feng, it would be no problem to recover Ju Su in the future.

But such a smooth situation made me feel very uneasy. It felt good to have everything in my hands. But when the robbery appeared in advance two years ago, it seemed that I had such a moment when I felt good about everything.

I know very well that I am not a wise man who is planning and winning thousands of miles away. I just rely on the messy knowledge accumulated from TV, newspapers, and the Internet in the 21st century. In order not to let things get out of control, while interfering in the development of history, I was careful to maintain the original appearance of history in recent stages, but as time goes by, the consequences of the butterfly effect will definitely become more and more significant. Let’s not talk about the others, Guan Yu, who has lost the Red Rabbit Horse and passed five passes and six generals, should not have a chance to be respected as the Martial Saint by future generations. This is still a small matter. The key is whether the battle of Guandu will be affected by the butterfly effect. Is the robbery of grain in Wuchao or is it a turning point in this battle? If there is no robbery of grain in Wuchao, then what should I do to win this battle?

The founding leader of the proletariat once repeatedly taught us that we should despise the enemy strategically and pay attention to the enemy tactically! In my opinion, every opponent has its respectability. If you blindly belittle your opponent, you will also belittle yourself.

Although Yuan Shao is not a hero who rotates the world, he is also a sensational figure who had a significant impact on the political situation at that time. In the initial battle between heroes and the heroes, he was eventually defeated by Cao Cao in the "Battle of Guandu" with Cao Cao, which was his shortcomings. However, before that, he was once a powerful man and a famous tyrant, and he was definitely not a useless second-generation ancestor. When he was young, Yuan Shao was handsome and arrogant.

Fan was completely like the style of Mengchangjun in contemporary times. He had a reputation for dealing with people, which led to heroes in the world, "all fighting to go to their courts." At that time, Yuan Shao had a very equal concept on the surface and did not act like a noble person. This may have a lot to do with his noble background and humility. Yuan Shao's mother was just a daughter of the Yuan family. Yuan Shu, a half-brother who was incompatible with him, used this to satirize Yuan Shao as a "slave slave."

During the period when He Jin was appointed as the general, Yuan Shao and Cao Cao both had the Han Dynasty and were determined to eliminate the slanderous officials. It was not a mistake to suggest recruiting princes to enter the capital. At that time, the main military force in Kyoto was the "Eight Captains of Xiyuan". Among these eight captains, except for Yuan Shao, who was appointed as the Sili Captain, Cao Cao, who was appointed as the Dianjun Captain, Chunyu Qiong, who was appointed as the Right Captain, and the other five captains were all obedient. From the perspective of military strength, He Jin was at a disadvantage, and there was also Empress Dowager He supported the eunuchs, recruiting princes to enter the capital could not be considered a way. If He Jin had not listened to Yuan Shao's dissuasion and insisted on entering the palace and was killed, leaving the "Revolutionary Party" without leaders, then who is right and who is wrong in the future might be another way.

In my opinion, it is not only Yuan Shao, but even Yuan Shu, who has fallen, has his unique features. The Yuan brothers from a noble family have stood on their respective positions and made distinctive judgments on the political trends of this period.

Yuan Shu saw the inevitability of the demise of the Han Dynasty and the ambitions of the princes of all sides to replace him. In addition to the expansion of his ambition, his behavior of becoming emperor also hoped to gain the so-called political advantage in the so-called righteousness, and also hoped to reverse the situation of falling into a disadvantage in the struggle between family heirs. Unfortunately, he had too many shortcomings in his judgment of timing and his own understanding of his own strength.

Yuan Shao was much smarter than his younger brother Yuan Shu. Not only did he get the support of the Yuan family's former disciple and became the unscrupulous heir of the Yuan family, but I dare say that Yuan Shao had also seen the demise of the Han Dynasty. Although he didn't know how Yuan Shao went from being a loyal minister with a heart to a overlord who wanted to replace him, it should at least be much slower than Sun Jian, who had a strange intention when he saw the jade seal.

When later generations analyzed Yuan Shao's gains and losses, they all made a big mistake in not going to welcome the emperor when the emperor fled east, thus losing his political initiative, but Yuan Shao may not have no reason. It is easy to use the emperor to command the princes to make the princes, and it seems to be very glorious; but how many people can see clearly the sufferings. How about Dong Zhuo? So what is Wang Yun? Guo, what is the fate of Li? Even Cao Cao was made by the emperor with a robbery and was designated as a "traitor"? From this we can see that using the emperor to command the princes is not absolutely a complete solution.

Not having the Emperor of Welcoming does not mean that Yuan Shao has no vision. At that time, his strength was the strongest among the princes in the north. Although Gongsun Zan had not been destroyed at that time, it was one day later and one day earlier. I could imagine that Yuan Shao's plan was to destroy Gongsun Zan. After he had eliminated Gongsun Zan, he had four states. No prince could compete with him in terms of territory or population. In Yuan Shao's eyes, the days to unify the world and establish the Yuan Dynasty were not far away. Since he had already planned to be an emperor himself, why should he invite an emperor to his territory to be restrained by him? In the end, he might have a bad reputation of plotting against rebellion and usurping the throne.

Yuan Shao was not absolutely unlucky in this battle of Guandu. As long as Yuan Shao could divide a team of troops to fight Xudu, Cao Cao, who had lost his foundation, would be defeated without fighting. Unfortunately, Yuan Shao, who was born in a noble family, wanted to fight a beautiful annihilation battle on the front battlefield with dignity.

I have gone a long way without realizing it. I feel a little tired, not only physically, but also mentally. It has been more than 30 years since I came to this era. It is very difficult to not reveal my inner secret to anyone in more than 30 years. Isn’t there such a saying: I won’t hesitate to himself for three years!

After sighing in my heart, I wanted to go back to sleep, but then I realized that I was walking around like a sleepwalking, but I didn't know how to go back. Every tent in the camp at night looked similar. I was determined to find a team of patrol soldiers on duty to take me back. When I looked around, I found that there was a tent with lights shining in it. It seemed that I was not the only one who had insomnia. I couldn't help but walk over and went to the door and looked in through the gap, and saw a person flipping through the file.

I couldn't tell who the person inside was from my back. If I rashly went in, it would be inappropriate, so I coughed and said hello.

Sure enough, the person inside heard my cough and raised his head and asked, "Who is outside?" As soon as he spoke, I heard it. It turned out that this was Jia Xu's tent, worthy of being called an owl by later generations. He was so energetic at such a late age.

After walking in, I said, "Guo Jia has been wandering around here, disturbing Wen and brother!"

Jia Xu called me to sit down and said, "Have you rested yet?"

I smiled and said, "Brother Wenhe hasn't been to bed either?"

"I really want to go to bed," Jia Xu yawned and said in a sleepy state: "But the documents I received today have not been sorted out yet. I will report them to my lord tomorrow morning. Xu can't sleep even if he wants to! How could Fengxiao have the leisure to visit the camp at such a moment?"

This sounds very polite, but it seems that there is a lot of dissatisfaction in it! Because of my interference, the intelligence collection work has been much larger in terms of quantity and requirements, and the workload and difficulty have only increased but not decreased.

During this period, intelligence collection was a very primitive method, and the content I was exploring was nothing more than the movements and situations of other princes and their main ministers and the distribution of the other party's troops. On the one hand, it was limited by communication conditions, and on the other hand, it was not enough to understand the importance of intelligence. Although I was not very good at this, I watched too many movies about spy themes in my previous life, and I didn't do it myself, so I didn't care about others' life and death, especially for intelligence content.

The requirement of diversity can be said to be nitpicking. For example, if you want to attack a city in the past, it is nothing more than to check who the main general was? How many soldiers are there in the city? How many people are there? Under my suggestion, now we need to collect contents and add what main general is. The deputy general is there. Whether their parents are still there, whether they have married or not, how many wives or children are, what is the proportion of men, women, old and young in their city, what is the harvest in recent years, the daily training of soldiers... and so on!

It can be said that I was the culprit who made Jia Xu unable to sleep in the middle of the night. And when he was busy and unable to rest, I was so full that I couldn't sleep. I was wandering around in the camp. It was no wonder that Jia Xu had such a big opinion on me. Even though he was busy, Jia Xu was actually not unwilling to do it, and Jia Xu seemed to be the kind of person who couldn't sit still. He complained to me not because he was bored with what he did, but an alternative way of expression with pride.

Hearing the complaining meaning in Jia Xu's words, I smiled and said, "Do you have to work harder? It's just a hard work for Wen and brother!"

Jia Xu said in a conversation: "Wenruo is right at all!"

I asked curiously: "What did Xun Yu say?"

"He said Fengxiao was lazy and liked to take a break," Jia Wenhe said seriously: "and when he was taking a break, he liked to make some things come out to keep others busy. After summarizing it, we can conclude that Fengxiao likes to do the most... when he was free, he was so busy that he was exhausted when he watched other people get what he had done!"

This Xun Wenruo! Everyone is familiar with each other, but when you speak so randomly, I will still sue you for slander! Besides, am I such a person? Although I am really lazy, as a strategist, I am a normal thing to come up with ideas and think of ways and then let others do it. However... it seems that every time I make an idea, the few people who are most affected happen to be strategists! And they are all senior strategists. The busiest of the busiest one is already equivalent to the Premier of the State Council! I am ashamed! I can't help rolling my eyes in the direction of God!

Seeing that I was so embarrassed, Jia Xu smiled slightly and stopped teasing. He said, "I heard that Feng Xiao 'invite' Tian Feng, which is really admirable!"

I, who is thick enough, is no longer as uncomfortable as before. I smiled and said, "I dare not take it! I can invite Tian Feng over smoothly, and I also have to thank Wen and my brother's subordinates for inquiring about the news."

Jia Xu shook his head coldly and stood up and walked to the front of a pile of files. After a quick look, he took out a volume from it and spread it out. He said, "On November 7, the Yizhou Tian Feng was discussing the attack on Xudu with the participants. Xin Ping had a disagreement with him. During the dispute, he was disgusted by Yuan Shao, and was convicted and imprisoned. The place where he was imprisoned was... This military information arrived in Xudu on November 13 last year."

I said, "It takes only six days to spread the news from Yizhou to Xudu. Wen and brother have made great contributions!"
Chapter completed!