Zhang Jie said: It's okay if the grain is wet, immediately order someone to fry the wet grain with a catastrophe, fry it dry, and make it into dry food. We must not let the grain become moldy and wasted.

Also, let the soldiers lead the horses outside to graze in the wheat fields. Eat crops without grass, and now you can't manage so much. You write it down and send someone to invite the people in the neighborhood, the villagers. Whoever has a wheat field for our horses to eat, we must write it down, and then pay double the price of the wheat as usual.

Give money first, and if the other party doesn't want to ask for money, as long as food, tell them to pay them double when the next batch of grain arrives. Be polite to the injured people, even if they are beaten, they are not allowed to fight back, and they are not allowed to play tricks. Tell the people that these people are exempt from taxes this year.

Remember, don't give a copper plate less, and send personal soldiers to supervise. If anyone dares to deduct it, they will be beheaded on the spot. You can do it yourself!

Promise!

When everyone saw Zhang Jie letting the horses eat the people's crops, they all wanted to persuade them. It can be seen that Zhang Jie's next arrangement is also very gratifying. It's urgent. It's good to be able to double the compensation for the people.

Guandu Cao's army camp, Cao Cao finally fled back to Guandu last night under the protection of a group of guards.

When they fled, they all became Hanako. The whole body is muddy and wet.

Cao Cao cried when he saw that there were only so many people fleeing back!

Cao Ren did not pursue with Cao Cao and stayed in the Guandu garrison. Seeing Cao Cao's appearance, you don't have to guess to know that they must have lost the battle. It's hard to talk about trying to persuade something.

Guo Jia laughed and said: It's okay, it's okay, God bless the lord.

Cao Cao thought to himself, it's all about the situation, and God bless you! I almost didn't let Zhang Jie catch it.

Cao Cao said: It's all like this, what does it mean to be filial?

Guo Jiadao: Lord, if it was changed to daytime last night, would we still be able to escape back? Even if they can escape, how many soldiers are left?

Xiahou Yuan said: But now we don't have a few soldiers left?

Guo Jia smiled and said: No, we retreated at night, and it rained heavily, and our soldiers scattered and fled. Just take shelter from the side of the road to escape. Zhang Jie's Jizhou army is not familiar with this place, how many people can be arrested at night?

Rest assured, we are waiting here, and our soldiers will flee back one after another.

Cao Cao listened to Guo Jiayi, yes! It was dark and raining again, how many people could Zhang Jie catch?

Hahahaha! Cao Cao laughed and said: What Feng Xiao said is extremely true, Zhang Shimin has calculated everything, he didn't calculate that it was night for us to chase Yangwu. It seems that the sky will not extinguish Cao!

Zixiao (Cao Renzi) You go quickly, prepare ginger soup to eat, and wait for the soldiers to return to the camp.

Promise!

Fengxiao, what should we do next?

Guo Jiadao: Jia Wenhe is really powerful. Jia was taught, and she was unjustly defeated. He knew that we would go to the Black Nest to burn the grain and grass, but he was willing to let us burn it, instead of setting up an ambush in the Black Nest, and wiped out the nearly 10,000 people and horses we went to burn the grain.

In this way, he let go of the enemy who attacked him, and even killed the horses to fill the food, and even Zhang Jie himself used himself as bait, in order to make us think that he had no food and boldly pursued. Then he surrounded us in Yangwu, and he had a large number of cavalry, if we were scattered, we would not be able to escape in the plain terrain of Yangwu. Such a poisonous trick is not a small appetite, and the bait is not heavy. Quite really.

What a pity! The old poison didn't count, and we chased Yangwu to it, and it happened to be dark. Otherwise, it's really over.

The lord can rest assured that Zhang Jie will not come to Guandu for the time being in the past few days, and the road is slippery and difficult to walk. Second, he must not have much grain and grass, so he has to wait for Hebei to transport grain. So we have at least three or four days to prepare. As for the next move, wait for the fleeing soldiers to return to the camp. At that time, Jia will consult with the lord.

Good! So be it! You are tired, go down and rest.

Promise!

The next day, as Guo Jia said, the Yuan Cao coalition began to flee back one after another.

Although Zhang Jie captured 15,000, Cao Cao's more than 30,000 horses still fled back to more than 20,000. Yuan Shao fled back 10,000, and the remaining thousands of soldiers mainly didn't want to be soldiers, so they took off their military uniforms and went home.

Yuan Cao's allied army of more than 50,000 people added up to a total loss of nearly 20,000. This made Cao Cao a little excited. Originally, he thought it would be nice to be able to escape back a few thousand.

On the evening of the second day, Le Jin and Xia Houlan's urgent letter was sent to Cao Cao's camp. As soon as Cao Cao saw it, Zhang Jie's partial division and state army, led by Gao Lan, were storming the Tiger Pass, with a number of about 50,000.

This time, Cao Cao was even more anxious. Call Guo Jia, Xun You, and Cheng Yu to discuss. Cao Cao was afraid that the news would leak out, and the army was unstable. So only these three henchmen were called.

After Cao Cao read the letter to the three of them, he said: What should we do now? There are only 8,000 people in Lejin, and he said that he can keep it for a month, but he is worried that he won't be able to hold it for so long!

If the tiger prison is broken, it will form a flanking attack on us.

And even if Gao Ran doesn't come to Guandu to attack us, what if we attack Xuchang? The state army was mostly cavalry, and the marching speed was extremely fast. Xuchang now has only a few thousand people, how can it hold on?

Ay! We're really at a dead end.

Guo Jiadao: Zhang Jie will rest in Yangwu for a few days, and he will come to Guandu again soon. It's time for the lord to make up his mind. It's too late to make up your mind.

Cao Cao said: Zhongde, let's gather the soldiers and horses. How many more are there in total?

Cheng Yudao: Now that Guandu has fled back, there are 5,000 people from Jia Zixiao, and more than 26,000 people. There are more than 8,000 people in Tiger Prison, and of course there are definitely not 8,000 now. Xuchang, Yuzhou, Nanyang and other places all add up to more than 10,000 people, right? In addition, there were nearly 10,000 wounded who withdrew from Baima last time, and of course, no more than 5,000 of these wounded survived and recovered.

If the lord is determined, he can gather 40,000 to 50,000 people, at least no less than 30,000 to 40,000. And most of them are elite soldiers.

Cao Cao said: Fengxiao, how long can you guarantee to win the mediocrity? (Shangyong County, Hanzhong, southwest of present-day Zhushan County, changed to Shangyong County in 215 years of Jian'an 20 years in history, and belongs to Jingzhou Administration)

Guo Jiadao: Only two days is enough, Jia has already arranged dozens of henchmen to replace the Shangyong defenders, as long as the army arrives, open the city gate Shangyong is at your fingertips.

Cao Cao was still a little reluctant to make up his mind.

Guo Jiadao: My lord, Zhang Jie is now in power, let's consume it here. There's no point in it anymore, even if you keep it this time, what about next time?

If the lord wins the mediocrity, Jia guarantees that he will win Hanzhong within a year. Hanzhong has always been rich, and most of the refugees in Guanzhong fled to Hanzhong, and Zhang Lu in Hanzhong did not know anything about military affairs. After the lord took Hanzhong, he could raise 100,000 male soldiers, and then Tubashu.

Yizhou is the country of abundance, rich in money and food, and has a large population, but Liu Zhang is weak and not the opponent of the lord, and the lord has Hanzhong and Yizhou. It can raise hundreds of thousands of soldiers. Wait for the time. If you go north, you can go out of the Qinling Mountains to plot Guanzhong, so as to become a strong Qin. If you advance eastward, you can seize Jingzhou. If you can't do anything, you can also retreat to the barrier to protect yourself.

Even if Zhang Jie occupies Guanzhong, how can the Qinling Mountains be easy to break?

If the lord still doesn't make up his mind, wait for these tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to be exhausted. How to seize Hanzhong then?