.The central army tent in Guandu Cao's camp was filled with a dull and depressing aura at this moment. Everyone inside looked at the door. The tent, where no one spoke, could hear the breathing of the people in the tent. This unusual tranquility formed a strong contrast with the rumbling sound of war drums outside and the sound of killing that shook the sky.

The battle with Yuan Shao was unexpectedly difficult. In the first few days, both sides were killed by the coach and generals in front of the battlefield as usual. The opening remarks were similar every time. It was nothing more than saying that one had passed the imperial edict to fight against the rebels, and the other was saying that one was receiving the imperial edict to eliminate traitors for the country. Although everyone did not regard these unprotected words as a wise thing in their hearts, they still had to do the articles on the surface.

After both sides cast the banner of righteousness, they naturally fought. The generals of the two armies went out to fight one after another, but they were evenly matched and there was no big difference. Occasionally, several unknown people were killed or injured, which could not affect the overall situation. This result made Yuan Shao very angry and even more worried about the deaths of Yan Liang and Wen Chou.

In the first few days, both sides had their own victories and defeats. Yuan Shao relied on the large number of people. The soldiers we rely on were generally not very casualties. After a tentative battle, Yuan Shao thought that Cao's army was just like this and pulled out his most proud crossbow soldiers. These crossbow soldiers were ambushed behind the infantry during the battle. When Yuan's army was defeated and lured Cao's soldiers to attack, they caught Cao's army off guard.

At first, Cao's army didn't care much about seeing Yuan's army throwing a large number of archers into the battle, because they had obtained information about Yuan Shao's equipped with a large number of archers and crossbowmen for a long time, and they also made many heavy shields to deal with these long-range attacks.

Besides, a few days ago, there were many bow and archers in Yuan Shao's army participating in the battle. I didn't see anything unique in several battles, so I didn't care much. But what I didn't expect was that these thick shields could block the arrows shot by the archers but could not stop the crossbows fired by the crossbows. In my words, I know they are very powerful, but I didn't know that they are so powerful! The whistling crossbows easily penetrated the shield, and many Cao soldiers were nailed to the ground with their shields, so although Cao's army was prepared, they still suffered heavy casualties. If it weren't for the loading of crossbows, the interval between the two launches was very long, I'm afraid that this battle would not be able to be fought at all. In desperation, Cao's army could only rely on the camp to defend.

Yuan Shao and his men seemed to have put a lot of effort into studying the method of fighting with crossbows. When the front of the Cao army camp was blocked by crossbows, more than 100,000 people carried shoulder poles and drove a cart to transport a large amount of sand. In Cao camp, Yuan army saw that he built a mountain of earth and wanted to go out to conflict, but Shen Pei directed the crossbowmen to hold the key path and could not move forward. Yuan army only took more than ten days to pile up more than 40 earth mountains not far from Cao camp. Not only that, Shen Pei also made people build many ladders more than ten meters high on these earth mountains. The archers stood on it and could clearly see the situation in Cao camp. Cao army was very afraid and all defended with a silence. There was a sound of suppressing the child on the earth mountain, and the arrows were raining. Cao army was covered with shields and silenced. Yuan army laughed when he saw it.

Although these bows and arrows did not cause much casualties, it felt very bad to be ridden on the neck. In order to reverse the passive situation, Cao's army organized troops to go out to attack Tushan for several consecutive days.

Cao Cao, who had a calm face, leaned on the back of the chair. Although he could not see anything on the surface, he looked at the door of the Central Army's tent for almost an hour. He should be very anxious now.

The shouts of killing outside gradually disappeared. When Xu Chu, Zhang Liao and others were covered in blood, they lowered their heads and walked into the tent, they didn't need to say that everyone already knew that this powerful attack failed again.

Cao Cao frowned slightly but did not blame them. Instead, he comforted him and announced that the account would be disbanded.

That night, Cao Cao ordered three people to call him into his tent. These people were Xun You, Jia Xu and me.

Cao Cao said straight to the point: "The Tushan outside the Ying is really a confidant. He has been unable to attack for several days, and the soldiers suffered heavy casualties. Do you have any way to solve it?"

The three people asked were staring at me with big eyes, and six eyes were you looking at me and I looked at you, but no one made any noise.

When Cao Cao saw this, he couldn't help but snorted heavily.

Xun You had the thinnest face. He wanted to speak when he opened his mouth, but Jia Xu stopped him with a wink. Xun You looked at him in confusion, looking confused. Jia Xu pointed at me with a happy and contentment, and Xun You nodded immediately and closed his open mouth.

Cao Cao and I could see their little movements clearly. They were doing small movements. Without any obstruction, they would be beaten drums and drums. So when Cao Cao put his eyes on my face, I had to say, "I must be alone to break the ground."

Cao Cao said happily: "Who can relieve my worries?"

I said, "You must be Liu Ziyang!"

At this moment, a personal soldier came in outside and reported, "Liu Ye is looking for a meeting outside!"

It’s really like Cao Cao, Cao Cao is here! As soon as I spoke his name, Liu Ye came uninvited. Cao Cao, Xun You and Jia Xu looked at me together, and I felt so furious.

Liu Ye got in and took out a small thing from his wide sleeves and presented it to Cao Cao to watch. This small thing was made of a few wooden strips, and there was a spoon-like thing on it.

Cao Cao asked inwardly, "What is this?"

Liu Ye smiled but did not answer, put the little thing on the table. Then he took out a few more beans. He placed one of them on a small spoon and pressed the other end of the spoon with his fingers. The bean immediately flew up and landed far away.

Liu Ye said: "This object is a stone launcher. I calculated it and its range should be above the crossbow arrow."

Cao Cao laughed and said, "Okay! OK! OK! With this thing, how can you be so good at arching and crossbows!"

The craftsmen in the army began to rush to make hundreds of stone carts overnight, spreading them inside the Daying wall, facing the earthen mountain to climb a ladder.

The next day, just as the morning was dawn, when the archers in Yuan Shao's army were preparing to shoot archers according to the past practices, Cao soldiers, who were full of anger in Cao's camp, pulled the stone cart together, and the cannon stones flew upwards. Countless stones fell on the earth, like a mountain collapsed and cracked the ground. There was nowhere to hide on the people above, and countless archers died. Yuan's army called his car "Pili Cart".

Facing the stone carriage, Yuan Jun never dared to climb up and shoot arrows again. Shen Pei offered another plan: He ordered the soldiers to use shovels to secretly hit the tunnel and penetrate directly into Cao's camp, called "Digu Scouts". Cao's army saw Yuan Jun digging a pit behind the mountain and reported to Cao Cao. Liu Ye offered another plan to dig and dug a deep trench around the camp, causing Yuan Shao's army to waste his energy and return without success.

After seizing the earthen mountain, I was bored and took Cao Cao to borrow Dian Wei to a land mountain closest to Yuan Shao’s camp. After someone put the speaker on the ladder, I handed the microphone to Dian Wei and said, “I’m willing to accept the loss! Sing!”

Dian Wei said with a sad face: "Can you stop singing?"

I held back my smile and said with a stern face: "How can a man speak without trust? If you think you are not a real man, you can not do this!"

Dian Wei, whose face was flushed, took a deep breath and was about to start singing! I quickly went out two small pieces of cloth and stuffed them into my ears. Dian Wei, who was not fully tuned, sang the song like an iron tool rubbing in the sand and stones. It was as unpleasant as it was. During this period, I suffered a great sin in order to teach him this song.

Dian Wei sang loudly with a broken voice: "(Cough!) Yuan Shao on the opposite side, look over, look over! The performance here is very exciting, please don't pretend to ignore it! Yuan Shao on the opposite side, look over... Look over! Don't be scared by my appearance! Actually, I... very... love! Who understands the sorrow of the lonely Dian Wei? Please give me a charming look and make me happy! (Hehehe, no one pays attention to me, hehe!) I look around and look up and down! It turns out that Yuan Shao is really not simple!..."

When this revised version of "Yuan Shao on the opposite side" was passed to Yuan Shao's camp, Yuan Shao was so angry that he was furious that he immediately ordered Zhang He and Gao Lan led 30,000 troops to attack Tushan.

Expecting that Yuan's army would fight back, Cao's soldiers, who were prepared, smashed the stone carts on the earthen mountain and killed almost more than 10,000 people who came to attack the mountain. Zhang He and Gao Lan had to stop the troops when they saw things, and it was probably inevitable that he would scold him.

Both strategies were destroyed, and now so many soldiers were killed and injured by rash actions. The morale of the soldiers in Yuan Shao's camp was greatly depressed. Unlike Yuan Shao's army, Cao's army was very motivated at this time, and he used his stone chariot to attack Yuan Shao's camp every day. In desperation, Yuan Shao had to retreat thirty miles to set up the camp again.

After having room for maneuver, the tiger and leopard cavalry of Cao's army showed their advantages. The tiger and leopard cavalry, which had expanded to 20,000, was divided into several teams under Cao Chun, Zhang Liao, Wei Yan, Xu Chu and Xu Huangdi, and used Rangers as eyeliner to harasse Yuan Shao's supply line. After being burned twice, Yuan Shao also designed several times while strengthening the protection of the supply line, using fake grain transport teams to lure the tiger and leopard cavalry. After several competitions, the tiger and leopard cavalry did not get much cheaper, and almost fell into an ambush, so he no longer wasted his energy. You come and go on both sides.

The battle was difficult to solve and divided, and the stalemate formed. This stalemate lasted for more than four months. As time went by, the food and grass on both sides began to be tight. Fortunately, the autumn harvest season was about to come, and Yuan Shao sent Shen Pei back to Yecheng to supervise the food and grass. While writing a letter to Xun Yu to ensure the food and grass in front of the army, Cao Cao asked whether he should give up Guandu and return to Xudu, and fought with Yuan Shao with the Xudu city. After all, Xudu is much closer to Guandu. So Xun Yu quickly wrote a reply, and the content in the letter was exactly the same as what I remember.

I knew that the time was almost over when I saw this letter from Cao Cao. The key now was Xu You. According to the history of his previous life, Xu You should have offered advice to Yuan Shao after intercepting the urgent documents of Cao's army's food and supplies. Not only was he not accepted, but he was scolded by Yuan Shao. He was dissatisfied with him and was in Yecheng while Xu You was away. He collected evidence of his arrest for receiving money and greed for taxes. Then he reported it to Yuan Shao, and Xu You then defected to the ground when he was desperate.

But now Cao Cao would not write this emergency document for grain and grass. Because sufficient grain and grass were being transported from Xu Du under the supervision of Xu Yu, an expert in internal affairs, should not have any surprises. Jia Xu's subordinates were already preparing in Yecheng and sent evidence about Xu You's greed for the moment Shenpai arrived. I am worried that Yuan Shao would not follow the history, and it would be troublesome if he imprisoned Xu You directly. As for Wuchao, it should still be where Yuan Shao hoarded food and grass. Although the siege sent did not bring back the exact news, one or two of them could be seen from there and the strict garrison nearby.

In order to get Xu You to Yuan Shao to offer advice, I asked Cao Cao to write a fake emergency document that had no food in the army. Although Cao Cao was puzzled, he still wrote a fake book for me. I asked someone to take this document to wander outside the camp, but for several days, the people carrying the document ran safely out of the camp that had returned safely for more than 40 miles. I was so angry that I only scolded Yuan Shao's spies in my heart for being fools, but I thought about it, because of my reason, Cao's army deployed a large number of rangers responsible for checking the enemy situation on this battlefield, and Yuan's spies who had no experience in this area naturally had no return.

Fortunately, God blessed! Just as I was thinking hard about how to deliver the documents to Xu You, Xu You came!

On that day, someone came to mail the lord to summon civil servants and generals to discuss military affairs. When I came to the central army tent, I found that there was someone I didn’t know around Cao Cao. I asked Xun You who came with me, and it turned out that this person was Xu You! Hehe! It seems that Shen Pei did not disappoint Jia Xu and I for him, and he really sued Xu You. Xu You, who was scolded, must have felt that he had no future in Yuan Shao, so he changed jobs overnight.

The rest is simple. Cao Cao is the only one who is responsible for dispatching troops and generals in the last battle. The task of us strategists is to listen to it and see if there are any mistakes.

According to the deployment, Xun You, Jia Xu, Cao Hong and Xu You guarded the Dazhai, Xiahou Dun, Xiahou Yuan led an army to the left, Cao Ren and Li Dian led an army to the right, in case of unsuccessful surprise. He taught Zhang Liao, Xu Chu was in front, Xu Huang and Yu Jin were in the back, Cao Cao led all the generals to the middle, under the banner of Yuan's army, and the soldiers were all tied up with firewood, and the men were holding the throne and horses were holding the mouth. At dusk, they looked forward to Wuchao.
Chapter completed!