On the city wall, Cao Ang watched a large cart of grain being transported away in an endless stream, and felt distressed.

"More than half of the grain and grass have been withdrawn, so how can I survive until next year's autumn harvest? In this way, it is a big loss to lay down Dongguan County. ”

"Dongguan and Pengcheng counties are the northern gateways of Xuzhou, if you want to take Xuzhou, you have to fight." Cao Chun sighed beside him and said: "It's just that I didn't expect the Dongguan guard to be so loyal to Xuzhou, even if the city is broken and killed, the wall will be cleared, leaving us with such a big trouble." ”

In fact, in this era of division of the heroes, in addition to their respective core generals, the princes did not have much sincerity to think about their own forces before they died.

Now the princes are still nominally in the Han court, and the generals under them are also in the name of military attachés of the court.

After all, Cao Cao is also the assassin of Yanzhou in the Han Dynasty, so whether Dongguan County belongs to Xuzhou or Yanzhou is within the territory of the Han Dynasty, there is no need to fight to the death.

But I didn't expect the Dongguan guard to be so resolute, which put the Cao family in a dilemma.

Yanzhou used its own grain to feed the 80,000 people in Dongguan County, and it was difficult for itself.

At this time, Liu Ping suddenly smiled next to him and said: "Big brother, I have an idea to raise food and grass, I don't know if you want to try it?" ”

"Oh?" Cao Ang smiled, "I know you have a lot of ideas, you might as well talk about it." ”

"We can do business with the wealthy families in Yanzhou and let them give us grain and grass," Liu Ping said with a smile.

"I thought it was a good idea," Cao Ang was slightly disappointed, he knew that the wealthy clans had food in their hands.

In this era, the reason why the wealthy family is a wealthy family is because they hold a large piece of land in their hands, and the most important property of the wealthy family is also a large amount of grain stored in the family.

Although Cao Cao suppressed the wealthy clans before, he did not dare to blatantly send people to the door to rob them, the impact was too bad, no different from bandits, and it was not something that Cao Cao, the imperial court assassin, could do.

In fact, most of the princes in the world did not dare to do this, and most of them sent people to ask for donations, and Cao Cao also did this.

Now that the wealthy clans in Yanzhou have torn their faces with the Cao family, Cao Cao will inevitably send troops to conquer and suppress after returning to the army, and food will naturally be available.

But that would leave a reputation for brutality.

His Cao clan already has a bad reputation, and this attack on Xuzhou, Mi Zhu, Chen Qi and others led the Hao clan to help Xuzhou, which is the best proof.

If you rob the property of the wealthy families in Yanzhou again, I am afraid that the reputation will be even more stinky.

The evil result is naturally that in the future, if any state and county are captured, the wealthy clans in the jurisdiction will inevitably spare no effort to help the defenders and jointly resist the Cao thugs.

"You said you were doing business with the wealthy families?" Cao Ang was puzzled: "In addition to the soldiers and generals in our hands, how can we have any capital to do business with them?" ”

Cao Chun also laughed jokingly beside him: "Ping'er is joking, now that the wealthy families are inseparable from us, how can they do business with us?"

What do we have in our hands that they can look at? ”

"Human heads!" Liu Ping tapped his fingers on the wall tiles and smiled slyly: "We have 20,000 of their heads in our hands, roughly distinguish these heads, and then sell them to their own families, two stone grains per head, which one of them dare not buy it?" ”

"What a good idea," Cao Ang's eyes lit up, and he slapped the city wall excitedly: "This is a blatant knock on their bamboo poles."

They should be at home at this time, and we'll send the heads again.

Haha, I can imagine those guys panicking. ”

Cao Chun also rubbed his chin beside him and nodded repeatedly: "Although Ping'er's move is a little damaged, it is a good strategy."

After you have completely annihilated the rebels, there are not many soldiers in the hands of each family at this time, but they are just people to be slaughtered by me.

In exchange for food from the heads of their rebels, they will not dare to disobey.

In this way, their granary will be emptied, and we will have 40,000 stone of grain, which should last until next autumn's harvest.

Moreover, the biggest advantage of this is that my Cao family's reputation is not damaged.

Not bad, not bad. ”

Sending the heads of the rebels back to the wealthy clans is a naked threat.

You rebelled against me, and I sent you back, aren't you afraid? Isn't it reasonable to take out the food at home to eliminate the disaster?

Liu Ping's idea was actually to reach a compromise with them, and exchange all their food reserves for the lives of their entire family.

They took the initiative to hand over the grain deposits, so they could no longer afford to feed the diners, and they could no longer be a threat to the Cao family, and there was no need for Cao Cao to bother to conquer them after returning to the army.

Of course, whether Cao Cao had to kill them quickly or not, Liu Ping was not easy to judge, and he had to wait for Cao Cao to return to the army.

"That's it!" Cao Ang immediately made up his mind, he was appointed by his father to stay in Yanzhou, and in his father's absence, he was the highest military and political governor of Yanzhou, and he could make a decision.

After all, those heads have been displayed in front of the people of the city, and the military exploits belonging to him and Liu Ping will not be less at all.

And those heads, he kept them for no use, if they were all replaced with food, but it solved the current food shortage crisis in Yanzhou.

……

Two days later, Cao Cao's army returned.

Along the way, Cao Cao's heart was not calm.

The herald had already sent the news that his son and nephew had really killed more than 10,000 rebels with 2,000 soldiers, although it sounded incredible, but the herald reported it like this, and he couldn't help but believe it.

I had the heart to send someone to ask for details, but when the herald returned, his army had already returned to Yanzhou City, so it was really unnecessary.

Fortunately, knowing that the two of them are fine, his hanging heart can also be put down.

However, he put it down and put it down, and he was full of military books and war strategies, but he knew that since ancient times, those cases of winning more with less were all dangerous and had to be done as a last resort.

Even if he used his troops, he would not dare to take such a risk, unless he had to do so.

And it was already very difficult for Cao Ang and Liu Ping to hold Yanzhou City, and no one forced them to send troops, so they really didn't need to risk their lives and do such a risky thing.

Cao Cao even blamed himself on the road, he was usually busy with military affairs and had no time to teach his son military strategy.

As a father, he doesn't attach great importance to his eldest son, not to mention that Liu Ping is still his father's savior, if there is any mistake, won't the people of the world laugh at him Cao Cao for treating his kindness slowly?

When the army returned to the city of Yanzhou, they saw that the city gate was wide open, the people entered and exited freely, and the defenders at the head of the city were in good order, with a stable and peaceful appearance, and Cao Cao finally settled down in his heart.

At this time, Liu Ping and Cao Ang heard the news that Cao Cao had returned with his army, and they were already standing at the gate of the city and waiting.

"Congratulations to my father (uncle) on his victorious return," Liu Ping and Cao Ang said with their fists clasped into their fists.

Although Cao's army only captured a county this time, it did not complete the original strategic concept, and carried a big burden in vain, and the combat achievements were not very outstanding, but Cao Cao always had to put some gold on his face.

Cao Cao's face was not very good-looking, and he didn't want to deal with these two people, so he gave them a disadvantage.

But after thinking about it, it was not easy for Cao Ang to hold Yanzhou, Liu Ping attacked Puyang and captured Lu Bu alive, and the two also killed all the rebels.

The feats he has made are not insignificant, otherwise his tens of thousands of troops would face the embarrassment of having no place to stand.

"Go home! Ping'er also followed," Cao Cao said coldly without stopping.

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