Chapter 91: The Eve of the Battle of Guandu (3)
Here, Cao Cao's 200,000 army conscripted Liu Bei, and Liu Bei was busy resisting Cao Cao.
After Yuan Shao unified Hebei, he was also preparing to crusade against Cao Cao, and he was thinking of an excuse, and it was the right time to send the edict.
However, Yuan Shao still hesitated for a few days, because by this time Liu Yu had already destroyed the Xiongnu and recovered the Hetao, and he was worried that Liu Yu would take advantage of his battle with Cao Cao to cross the Hetao and plot to annex the state.
At this moment, a piece of news came from the Hetao.
It is said that Liu Yu is lustful, and after the destruction of the Huns and the killing of Hu Chuquan Shan Yu, he suddenly saw that Hu Chuquan Shan was born beautiful and moving in his daughter Moon Full Lun County Lord, so he forcibly accepted it, and the Moon Full Lun County Lord hated Liu Yu for killing Hu Chu Quan Shan Yu, and angrily stabbed Liu Yu while Liu Yu was sleeping next to him, Liu Yu was caught off guard for a while and almost died. What's more, when such a thing happened, Liu Yu was reluctant to kill the lord of the full moon, showing lust and hesitation.
When this news came, Yuan Shao laughed, and he said, "Liu Shimin is not worried! ”
Yuan Shao immediately relieved his concerns about Liu Yu and decided to go south to attack Cao Cao.
Then with trial and matching, Feng Ji as the unified army, Tian Feng and Xu You as military divisions, Yan Liang and Wen Chou as generals, starting with 150,000 soldiers and 150,000 cavalry, a total of 300,000 elite soldiers went south.
Hetao area.
When Yuan Shao finally raised troops to attack Cao Cao, Liu Yu smiled, how could he look a little injured.
The so-called assassination of the lord of Yuemanlun County and almost lost his life was, of course, just a plot by Guo Jia and Jia Xu, in order to dispel Yuan Shao's concerns about not sending troops after getting the edict, and also to confuse Liu Zhang in Yizhou.
It is said that Liu Zhang of Yizhou actually took advantage of his attack on the Xiongnu to send troops to attack Hanzhong County, which really made Liu Yu quite angry.
Originally, Liu Yu was preparing to return to Chang'an, and then raised troops to attack Liu Zhang, but was persuaded by Guo Jia and Jia Xu.
Guo Jiadao: "At present, Yuan Shao has unified the four states of Hebei, and is considering whether to send troops south to attack Cao Cao. And our army previously crusaded against the Xiongnu, which lasted more than two months, although it won a complete victory, but the granary in Guanzhong has been exhausted, and nearly 300,000 Xiongnu remnants have not been resettled, and the soldiers are not suitable for successive expeditions. In addition, the danger of entering the Jianmen Pass in Yizhou is abnormal, Liu Zhang's defeat in Hanzhong is also afraid of the revenge of the eldest brother, and he will increase the number of troops to strictly guard the Jianmen Pass, I am afraid that it will be difficult to break through this pass, Jia has a plan, which can not only make Yuan Shao dispel his worries and go south to attack Cao, but also make Liu Zhang re-unload his defense against the eldest brother. ”
Hearing Guo Jia say this, Liu Yu gave up his plan to attack Liu Zhang. He also knew that Yuan Shao and Cao Cao had not really started a war yet, both of them were tiger and wolf disciples with many soldiers, and they were originally afraid of him, if he showed excessive military power at this time, not to mention whether the battle of Guandu would break out smoothly, with Cao Cao's temperament, he may not be able to persuade Yuan Shao to jointly target him first, destroy him and then fight a decisive battle, so wouldn't he be a man who lifted a stone and shot himself in the foot, which is indeed inappropriate.
After thinking about it, Liu Yu asked: "What is Fengxiao's strategy?" ”
Guo Jia immediately made a plan.
The next day, Liu Yu sent a letter to Yizhou, in which Liu Yu first scolded Liu Zhang's villain, and righteously scolded Liu Zhang's decline in the Han family. Liu Yu said that he was extremely angry that Liu Zhang took advantage of his attack on the Xiongnu to send troops to attack his Hanzhong County, and angrily ordered Liu Zhang to apologize for this move, and Liu Yu asked Liu Zhang for money, food, and beautiful women as an apology.
Although Liu Yu's letter asked for a lot of money, food, and beauties, it was equivalent to telling Liu Zhang that although he was very angry, he would not attack his clan relatives because of this immorality, and as long as Liu Zhang was willing to apologize, he would not pursue it.
As soon as this letter came out, Liu Zhang not only did not get angry because of Liu Yu's scolding, but breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly sent someone to prepare money, food, and beauties to send Liu Yu to make amends, and seconded Liu Yu's words were too right, the clan relatives really shouldn't attack the clan relatives, never will, he knew it was wrong.
Then, it was revealed that Liu Yuqiang took the daughter of the Hun Hu Chef Quanshan Yu to the lord of the moon full lun county, but was assassinated by the lord of the moon full lun in anger and almost died, showing Liu Yu's lustful and indecisive nature, Liu Zhang suddenly became more relieved, and he was on guard against Liu Yu, and he also laughed at Liu Yu's temperament like Yuan Shao, which is not to worry.
It's just that Liu Zhang and Yuan Shao didn't know that Liu Yu did forcibly accept the lord of Moon Man Lun according to the plan, but the fact that he was assassinated and almost killed was fake, and he was not assassinated by Moon Man Lun at all.
Liu Zhang and Yuan Shao's understanding of the nomads is still shallow, in the consciousness of the nomads, women are just objects attached to men, and they are the trophies of the victors, and they should only increase the population for the victors to have children.
No matter what, Liu Zhang was so fooled that he let go of his fears and let go of his guards, and even more fooled Yuan Shao to let go of his scruples, and finally raised troops to attack Cao Cao, which was of great benefit to Liu Yu.
Yuan Shao raised 300,000 elite soldiers to the south, and when the news reached Cao Cao's hands, Cao Cao had just led a large army into Xuzhou.
He was so anxious in his heart that he almost gave up attacking Liu Bei and turned back to resist Yuan Shao.
Fortunately, he was persuaded by Xun You, Cheng Yu and others, Cheng Yu persuaded Cao Cao, Yuan Shao was indecisive, the speed of the army was not fast, and he would not attack Xu Du in a short time, and Liu Bei's foothold in Xuzhou was not stable, and the soldiers under his command were all the soldiers under the original Cao Cao, and now that Cao Cao's army is killed, they will not die to help Liu Bei resist, the two phases are superimposed, and it only takes a few days to take Liu Bei, how can they turn back and let Liu Bei go, and let Liu Bei become a big trouble in the future.
Cao Cao listened to Cheng Yu's words, gave up immediately turning back to resist Yuan Shao, and instead accelerated his army to attack Liu Bei.
At the same time, Yuan Shao's soldiers went to Liyang and were about to cross the Yellow River to kill Guandu, but news suddenly came from Jizhou City that his youngest son was suddenly seriously ill and feared for his life.
This move made Tian Feng angry, and bluntly said that Yuan Shao wanted to miss the opportunity for Cao Cao to go south to attack Liu Bei and Xu Du was empty because of a child's illness, which was a mediocre move.
Tian Feng's words didn't make Yuan Shao angry, he was already closer to Xu You, so he was even more alienated from Tian Feng, and Yuan Shao finally insisted on rushing back to Jizhou City.
When the news reached the ears of Cao Cao in Xuzhou, Cao Cao barely looked up to the sky and laughed, and it also reached Liu Bei's ears, but Liu Bei was like a mourner, scolding Yuan Shao for being incompetent and scolding him!
Cao Cao took the opportunity to speed up the pace of attacking and destroying Liu Bei to recover Xuzhou, Liu Bei was defeated one after another, and he wanted to attack the camp at night without success, and he was against Cao Cao's plan, tens of thousands of troops were Cao Cao's soldiers, and after being surrounded, they surrendered to Cao Cao almost without much resistance.
Liu Bei was defeated, only with Zhang Fei, Guan Hai and other less than 300 horsemen defeated and fled, and Yuan Shao went to Beitou.
After defeating Liu Bei and recovering Xuzhou, Cao Cao immediately returned to his army and stationed his army in Guandu to meet Yuan Shao's army.
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