"Drag!"

Frustrated, he copied his hand, spit out a word calmly, and then said: "The Ming Duke has the land of four states, and the soldiers are good and the food is sufficient, even if there is no worry about food and grass in this confrontation for a year."

However, the Cao family is not, and the grain and grass are far less abundant than that of Ming Gong.

The Duke of Ming only needs to build a high camp here, and when the grain and grass of Cao's army are exhausted, he will do everything possible to find an opportunity to fight with the Duke of Ming.

Then I'll be able to take the initiative. ”

Although the people of Jiqingyou and the four prefectures also suffered from war, it was in the north of the Yellow River after all, and the production of the people in many places was not disturbed.

Relatively speaking, what has the Central Plains in Henan looked like?

Ten rooms and nine emptiness, white bones are exposed in the wild, and there is no rooster crowing for thousands of miles, it has simply become purgatory on earth.

It is true that the Cao family has finally gained a little popularity in this area in the Central Plains this year, and has harvested a lot of grain, but after all, it is only one year, and there is not much surplus grain to save.

The strategy of Frustration is to fight a war of attrition with Cao's army, and when Cao's army runs out of food and grass, even if it has the best weapons, it will be in vain.

It is impossible for the soldiers to fight for your Cao clan hungry, and when the time comes, the Cao army camp will not attack and be in chaos.

"Hmm!"

Yuan Shao stroked his beard and nodded, and said after thinking for a long time: "For today's plan, it can only be like this."

The order was passed down and a barrier was built from now on to prevent Cao Jun's sneak attack.

In addition, he secretly built a granary, collected all the grain and grass from the rear and hoarded it inside, I want to see how long he can support Cao Apu? ”

He paused, turned around, and tapped his finger on the brown sheepskin hanging behind him and said, "The location of the granary, choose this place, Wuchao."

As for the guards, let Chun Yu Zhongjian lead 20,000 horses to guard it! ”

"Duke Ming, this matter is not allowed," Fu Zhi immediately stood up and objected: "Chun Yu Zhongjian is a good drinker, it is inevitable that he will drink and make mistakes, and Ming Gong must not hand over this important task to him." ”

At this time, Chun Yuqiong was in the tent.

Chun Yuqiong, along with Yuan Shao and Cao Cao, were both one of the eight captains of the West Garden set up by Emperor Ling.

At this time, although he was working under Yuan Shao's account, his status was relatively detached, how could he listen to frustrated accusations in person?

You're just surrendering from Han Fu, and you dare to say me?

Chun Yuqiong hurriedly stood up, and said angrily: "Frustrated, what do you mean by this?"

It's true that I'm a good drinker, but how can I treat the lord's orders as child's play?

Slowly, the black nest is secret, even if it is in the wilderness, I Chun Yuqiong led 20,000 troops to garrison, even if Cao Cao personally led a large army to attack, it can be guaranteed. ”

"Lord, this battle with the Cao clan is who can't support it first, so the grain and grass are particularly important," Fu Zhu took a step back and said: "Even if the Ming Duke wants to use Chun Yu Zhongjian to guard the black nest."

The defense of the army here and right is more than enough, why don't Ming Gong send two other teams of men and horses to patrol around the black nest, so that nothing goes wrong. ”

"Gonghe is too careful," Yuan Shao waved his hand, and said nonchalantly: "I know that Zhong Jianzhi is able, if he dares to drink, I will cut off his head."

In this way, it is enough to lead 20,000 horses! ”

Chun Yuqiong, who did not drink, led 20,000 horses to defend the camp, which was enough to resist the enemy army several times his size.

How many people are there in Cao Jun?

The frustration was too careful.

……

After repelling the attack of the Yuan army, Liu Ping ordered the stone thrower to be launched into the sky to attack the Yuan army's tower on the opposite side.

The front of the turret is defended by wet cowhide, but there is no one on the top.

Countless stones fell from the sky, and soon smashed the buildings built by Yuan Jun to pieces.

However, Yuan Jun did not build again, but began to build barriers as far as the eye could see.

With the help of fortifications, Cao's army was worry-free in defense, but it did not have the strength to attack and fight a decisive battle with Yuan's army, so he could only watch Yuan's army build fortifications.

The two sides confronted each other from a distance.

Liu Ping led the army to be stationed here, from the warm spring to the scorching summer, and from the scorching summer to the slight autumn coolness, and in the blink of an eye, he was stationed here for nearly half a year.

The more he got to the end, the more he felt that something was wrong, and he was a little anxious at this time.

According to the historical process, when Cao's army was about to run out of grain and grass, Yuan Shao's strategist Xu Yu came to vote and reported to Cao Cao the secret of Yuan Shao's Wuchao grain.

Then Cao Cao personally led a large army to attack Wuchao and burned all Yuan Shao's grain and grass, which became a turning point in this war.

Now that it is time for the green and yellow to be scarce, it is about the same after the consumption of Cao Jun's military food in the past half a year.

But...... What about it?

After Xu You was pitted by Liu Ping on the grassland, he was imprisoned when he returned to Yecheng, and he has not been released yet, and he has not come to Guandu at all.

And what Liu Ping didn't know was that when Yuan Shao knew that his good horse was stolen by Liu Ping, he was angry that Xu You had made a mistake and had already sent someone to assassinate Xu You in prison.

In that case, who will come to snitch?

Although Liu Ping, who is familiar with this period of history, also knows that Yuan Jun's grain and grass are stored in Wuchao, he can't blatantly show that he has the ability to predict the future, right?

On this day, Cao Cao summoned Liu Ping to go to the big tent to discuss matters.

In the face of the civil and military forces, Cao Cao said in a deep tone: "I have been confronting Yuan Jun here for half a year, and now it is a time when there is no success, and our army's food and grass are only enough for ten months, and it is not good for me to continue to confront each other."

There are only two paths in front of us, either fight or retreat.

What do you think? ”

"You can't withdraw," Guo Jia stood up first and said: "Even if we withdraw to Xudu, there should still be a shortage of grain and grass, but let Yuan Junchang drive straight in, and then our side will be more passive." ”

"Hmmm! Feng Xiao's words are similar to those in Wen Ruo's letter, "Cao Cao raised a letter in his hand.

It turned out that Cao Cao was short of food and had already had the idea of retreating, so he wrote a letter to Xun Yu to discuss.

Xun Yu's letter was consistent with Guo Jia's opinion, if he retreated, Yuan's army would inevitably pursue.

At this time, the Cao army's strength still could not meet the conditions for a decisive battle with the Yuan army, and when the Yuan army chased after him, the situation was the same as now.

"You can't retreat, if you rush out and fight to the death, it's hard to say what chance you have," Cao Cao shook his head.

In fact, everyone can see that Yuan Shao is fighting a war of attrition, and what he is waiting for is the day when Cao's army runs out of food and grass.

But knowing that this was Yuan's goal, there was nothing he could do about him.

After all, at this time, Yuan Jun was still several times larger than Cao Jun, and if he fought in a dignified manner, he would be in Yuan Jun's intention.

In this way, he couldn't advance, he couldn't retreat, and there was not enough food and grass to defend it, so Cao Cao couldn't help but fall into a difficult choice.

"Lord, there is a plan down there, I don't know if it's feasible or not." An old voice came from behind.

Everyone followed the voice and looked, and the person was Jia Xu.

Jia Xu has been very low-key since he surrendered to the Cao family, and rarely spoke during the deliberations, and everyone was immediately interested, not knowing what strategy this world's number one poisoner was going to do.

"Wen He, please speak," Cao Cao waved at Jia Xu.

"Since this battle is a heavy attrition, has the lord forgotten the saying that one thing is better than the other?" Jia Xu's old god said.