Yuan Shu was angry in his heart, of course he was going to deal with the most hateful guy.

After that eunuch, such a short and treacherous man, he absorbed a large number of thieves, and got the support of the Yingchuan clan, and he developed rapidly in recent years.

However, I heard that he is now using troops to the west and capturing Hanoi, and he is in a tug-of-war with Zhang Xiu and Liu Biao. If you don't do it now, when will you wait!?

His eyes were fixed on Yuzhou, a place between him and Cao Cao.

Sandwiched between Cao Cao and Yuan Shu, there was a strong army guarding a piece of land and protecting nearly 200,000 people.

This is the state of Chen in Yuzhou, which is ruled by Liu Chong, the king of Chen. Liu Chong is the great-great-grandson of Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty and the sixth monarch of the Chen State. He was known for his excellent archery skills, and was said to be able to shoot ten arrows in a row at the same exact location.

During the Yellow Turban period, he trained an elite crossbow soldier of more than 1,000 people in the limited land of Chen, and beat hundreds of thousands of moth thieves around him who did not dare to invade Chen. Later, he actively participated in the fight against the Dong coalition army and had a good reputation.

At this time, although he is older, he is still the world's leading figure in archery. has always had the intention to crusade against the remnants of the Dong thief, but with the power of one country, facing the Xiliang Army is only a drop in the bucket, so in the past few years, it has mainly been to recuperate.

It happened that Luo Jun, a well-known scholar who was proficient in civil affairs, served as the state minister of Chen State, and governed this place in an orderly manner, which was not only enough for nearly 200,000 local people to eat, but also for the market near Yuzhou.

This time, Yuan Shu took a fancy to this place, especially the grain of Chen Guo. After all, Yuan Shu collected too many thieves and miscellaneous soldiers, and did not rectify them and let them engage in production, so every spring, he had to worry about military rations.

In the spring of the second year of Jian'an, due to poor governance in Huainan, Yuan Shu's army attacked and robbed the people, and the big clan took the opportunity to occupy the land. The people suffered a terrible famine, and people from different places attacked each other and killed each other.

Yuan Shu's solution to this matter was to eat other places, and he asked Liu Chong, Sun Ce and others for food. Because it was different from history at this time, he did not get the jade seal, so he had not yet proclaimed himself emperor at the beginning of the same year, so the two parts each gave him tens of thousands of stones to support the situation.

However, Yuan Shu was not satisfied with maintenance, he also wanted to obtain the grain and grass needed to attack Cao Cao. Boasting of his wisdom, he planned to kill Liu Pet directly, and then take his food to support him in attacking Cao Cao.

He sent the famous bandit Zhang Min to lead his troops through Chen Guo and take the opportunity to visit Luo Jun and Liu Chong.

This Zhang Min is the same Zhang Min who killed Cao Cao's father Cao Song back then.

He was originally under Tao Qian, but later switched to Yuan Shu. Yuan Shu had formed an alliance with Tao Qian, Gongsun Zhan, the Black Mountain Army, and the Xiongnu Army to besiege Yuan Shao and Cao Cao.

Zhang Kai, who killed Cao Song, has been hidden by him all the time, and he is just used to do this kind of ruthless thing at this time.

He received an order from Yuan Shu to lead more than 1,000 people in his headquarters to pretend to eat in the direction of Nanyang. Chen Guoguo's prime minister Luo Jun in line with the attitude of calming things and not offending all parties, tried not to be rude, and specially invited Zhang Min to a banquet.

I don't want this Zhang to be ruthless, so he will directly break out in the banquet and kill Luo Jun!

After killing Luo Jun, he threatened with death on the one hand, and on the other hand, he used Cao Song's family money to buy off the remaining officials and tricked Liu Chong into coming over in person.

Liu Pet, who didn't know the truth, thought that Luo Jun had something important to discuss, so he didn't bring many guards to meet them. Zhang Min broke out again and killed Liu Pet!

Pity the most prestigious archer at that time, Liu Pet, who created a paradise in the troubled times, fell.

He died, Chen was in turmoil, Yuan Shu led an army of 130,000 and claimed to be 400,000, taking the opportunity to invade this place, the discipline of the army was corrupted, and tens of thousands of people were openly slaughtered, and hundreds of thousands of stones of grain and grass were robbed.

Yuan Shu was overjoyed when he knew it, and praised "Hahaha!" So much grain and grass is enough for our army to attack Cao Thief with all our might, pass on my order, and the whole army will attack Yingchuan! ”

His subordinate strategist Yang Hong persuaded, "Our army has captured the state of Chen, but the rest of King Chen's troops are still resisting in the counties and townships in the south. ”

Yuan Shu said, "Yang Hong, you are a scribe and don't know how to fight and horses. This war is about seizing an opportunity, and now the main forces of Cao thieves are located in Hanoi, Wancheng and Shanyang in the northeast, and they cannot take care of each other. ”

"Our army captured Yingchuan with lightning speed, and besieged the Cao thief between Wancheng, maybe we can capture the Cao thief alive and annihilate his army, how can we miss such a God-given opportunity?"

Yang Hong wanted to persuade again, but Yuan Shu waved his hand, indicating that his mind had been decided.

As everyone knows, Yuan Shu's behavior happened to fall into Cao Cao's pocket.

"My lord, this is the real situation in the east hundred miles."

"Oh, it's Zhang Min!"

Cao Cao's forehead was bruised, this father-killing enemy was really active.

He said angrily, "Let us now raise up an army and slay the enemy!" ”

Guo Jia, who was on the side, calmly analyzed, "Lord, of course our army wants to take revenge, but this time we can go to the court and reprimand Yuan Shu for plotting to kill King Chen." The slogan of our army should also include avenging King Chen and destroying the world's worst evil. ”

Cao Cao calmed down a little and said, "Yes, just according to what you said, I will leave the above matter to Wen Ruo." As for the fact that we knew the situation in advance but didn't save King Chen, only you know. ”

"Yes, No."

Guo Jia's heart is awe-inspiring, he has specially established the intelligence system in charge, and it is not easy to cultivate a group of talents, but the road to the world always has to be watered with blood, and it seems that he has to send some of his own people on the road.

In fact, even if it is himself, as long as it is worthy and wonderful enough, he is willing, let alone a mortal in their eyes.

Cao Cao closed his eyes slightly and thought, and said, "Although it is tempting to think about the best strategy, the other party is prepared, and we don't need to take such a big risk now." Therefore, according to the middle policy, we must kill the enemy Zhang Min and beat Yuan Shu, who is looking for death. ”

"Pass on my order, the troops and horses from all over the country will be assembled, and some of the Qingzhou soldiers will be in stable production to guard against Xuzhou, and the rest will all be put into revenge and evil."

"No!"

Cao Ren, Cao Chun, and Man Chong went south from Xuchang to receive nearly 10,000 remnants of Liu Pet's soldiers and civilians, and obtained 1,000 elite crossbowmen.

Cao Ren and Man Chong outflanked Xiangxian in the south of Chen State, and used heavy infantry with elite crossbowmen to frustrate the offensive of Yuan Shu's general Zhang Xun's 50,000 troops head-on.

Cao Chun personally led 5,000 cavalry to attack the Yuan army's large array, including 1,000 iron cavalry, all men and horses wearing armor, each of whom was a 100-person general and above.

In the north, Xiahoudun led the army from Peixian, slammed into the southeast, easily cut off the retreat of Yuan Shu's army that entered Chen, and besieged Yuan Shu's main force in the Yuzhou area.

The entire pincer offensive directly cut off Yuan Shu's two wings, and a life-and-death battle between the two sides was about to break out.