This strategy was made by Xun You, although it failed, but Cao Cao had his own tolerance and did not blame Xun You at all.

Cao Cao acted like this, if something failed, he took the initiative to take all the responsibility on himself, and if the thing succeeded, he gave the credit to all those involved, and did not hesitate to reward.

In this way, we can ensure that our subordinates can do things with confidence.

In contrast, Yuan Shao's behavior is the opposite, the credit is his original Yuan, but the fault is his subordinates.

This is one of the reasons why Guo Jiaxunyu and others ignored Yuan's courtesy and resolutely left Yecheng and defected to Cao's.

At this time, Xun Yu was impressed by Cao Cao's tolerance and generosity, and he couldn't sleep for the past few days and nights looking at Yutu to think about countermeasures, and his eyes were already red.

"Although the white horse is in the south of the Yellow River, it is too far away from the hinterland of our Central Plains, on the contrary, it is very close to the Liyang of the Yuan army's troops across the river."

Xun You pointed to the map spread on the table, and his fingers moved slowly: "Even if the lord personally leads the army to save this city, if he wants to defend it, it will take hundreds of miles to transport grain and grass.

And the Yuan army only needs to send a small army to attack and disrupt the grain transportation channel, and our side is completely unable to prevent it.

Therefore, it is suggested that he should simply abandon the white horse and find another place for a decisive battle with Yuan's army. ”

"Abandon the white horse?" Cao Cao looked at Xun Yu intently, he was not a person who could not be abandoned, in order to defend Xu Du, he could even give up the entire Yanzhou.

"The meaning of Gongda is ...... The enemy advances and I retreat? ”

"Exactly!" Xun You nodded, pointed his finger at a position on the map, and said firmly: "Guandu, located in the upper reaches of the chasm, on the verge of Bianshui, is the barrier to the north and east of Xudu, and it is the key and contentious place for Yuan Shao to march into Xudu.

If the main prince moves the division and the official crossing, he will shorten our supply line and lengthen the supply line of Yuan's army.

Therefore, it is believed that our army should retreat to Guandu. ”

Cao Cao was silent, he had been thinking about holding the Yellow River crossing in order to hit him halfway.

But the difficulty is in the Yellow River, there are many ferries, and his Cao soldiers are few, so it is impossible to garrison every ferry.

Now Xun You has proposed a new concept to him, taking the initiative to give up the natural danger of the Yellow River and retreat to Guandu, which is not far from Xu, so that the supplies of Yuan's army can be consumed.

Cao Cao glanced at the other strategists, wanting to see what others thought.

At this time, Guo Jia nodded and said: "I think that Gongda's words are reasonable, and retreating to Guandu will benefit me a lot, so I agree." ”

At the same time, Xun Yu, who had just arrived, also bowed slightly, obviously agreeing with this strategy.

Although the rest of the ministers also objected, but with Guo Jiaxun and Yu Xunyou's approval, Cao Cao thought it was enough.

What's more, he himself is also a strategist, and he knows that at this time, he can't discuss the gains and losses of one city and one pool with Yuan Shao, and the benefits of retreating to Guandu are obvious.

So I made up my mind and adopted Xun You's words.

"Since this is the case, then prepare to retreat," Cao Cao said categorically, but then muttered: "There are only two things that need to be arranged.

First, the strategy of retreating, and second, the white horse to recover. ”

If you want to withdraw the army, you can't withdraw it casually, you need to leave someone behind, otherwise Wen Chou will chase and beat his ass from behind, and the 50,000 army will easily become a rout.

However, after using a small number of soldiers and horses to break off, it is naturally not easy to block the 50,000 pursuing army of Wen Chou.

The second point is that although Baima is ready to give up, there are still 5,000 soldiers under Liu Yan there, and they can't just lose it, they have to send someone to pick it up, and how much can be saved.

However, Yan Liang also has an army of 50,000 under him, and it is also not easy to meet Liu Yan.

At this time, Guo Jia said beside him: "There are many brave generals in our camp in front of me, but there are also many generals who can match Wen Chou.

As for those who receive the white horse...... I heard that Ping Gongzi took the Danyang army to Xudu.

Now that Xu Du already has the army of the eldest prince, why didn't the lord arrange for the prince to lead the army to Baima? ”

Cao Cao nodded when he heard this, sighed and said with a wry smile: "Ping'er has just taken Xuzhou, and he hasn't been in Xudu for two days, but he is about to embark on a journey again."

But...... Now it is indeed the best choice to call on his army. ”

Cao Cao's subordinates led the main force of Cao's army, just like a fist pinched, and naturally it could not divide the troops without dividing the troops.

In the end, the decisive battle with Yuan's army depended on this military horse.

However, Liu Ping's Danyang army was accidentally obtained from Xuzhou, and it was most suitable to undertake such non-important tasks as harassment and response.

"Give Ping'er an order and tell him not to rush in easily, first of all, to protect yourself.

As for Liu Yan's military horses, how much can be saved, even if one can't be saved, there is no need to force it.

It is up to them to decide when to withdraw.

Go ahead! ”

The 50,000 troops under Yan Liang are not vegetarians, and Liu Ping only has 10,000 Danyang troops, in case they are entangled by Yan Liang, it is very likely that Liu Yan will not be rescued, and Liu Ping's Danyang army will be eaten by Yan Liang instead, so the gains outweigh the losses.

Therefore, Cao Cao's order to Liu Ping was extremely lenient, and everything was based on allowing Liu Ping to lead the army to escape.

On the premise that he can escape, he will consider rescuing Liu Yan.

The military order soon reached Xudu.

When Liu Ping received the military order, it was almost dusk.

He didn't dare to slack off at all, and straightened out the Danyang Army overnight, preparing to set out early tomorrow morning.

Although Cao Bao was a little reluctant to hear this, he was in Xudu at this time, and Tai Shici, Zhang Liao, Xu Huang and others had blatantly pulled Tao Qing and other middle and low-level generals before.

Liu Ping already has a life-saving grace for those middle and low-level generals, not to mention that the army is all advocating the strong, and there are generals at the level of Tai Shici and Zhang Liao who pull them together, they dare not disobey, and naturally obey one by one.

After all, if you give a face, you have to follow, and if you don't have a face, it's very likely that you won't even have a head.

Therefore, at this time, Cao Bao has gradually lost control of the Danyang army, and Liu Ping's control of this army is far better than Cao Bao's, so there is no problem at all in ordering and prohibiting it.

It's just that what bothers Liu Ping is that he still can't kill Yan Liang quickly.

Let him save the white horse, he naturally has to save it thoroughly, it can't be as Cao Cao said, how many can be rescued.

After Guan Yu relieved the siege of Baima in history, the Cao clan not only withdrew the defenders, but even the people of Baima moved to the Central Plains one by one.

The world said that Uncle Liu Huang was benevolent and righteous, and he had to take the people with him when he lost the battle and withdrew the army.

Don't you know that the withdrawal of Cao's army was also carried by the people......

……

Lu Bu and Lu Qi's father and daughter sat in front of Wei's couch all night, just waiting for Wei's breath to die and began to mourn.

Although Liu Ping was about to lead the army to the battle, he heard that Lu Qi's mother died of illness in an instant, and it seemed that his "Yuehua Fang" did not play a role, so Liu Ping was very humane and did not recruit Lu Qi.

At this time, Wei had already passed the shroud and lay quietly on the couch.

"Father, am I dazzled?"

When it was almost dawn, Lu Qi suddenly rubbed his eyes and said, "How can I see that my mother's eyelashes seem to move." ”