Jizhou, Liyang.

The scorching sun in May is like fire, and even though Liyang City is close to the Yellow River, it can't relieve much heat. Similarly, the Yellow River after the flood season cannot relieve the anxiety in the hearts of many people.

The decisive battle of Guandu has been going on for more than half a year, but the general Yuan Shao still can't cross the Yellow River half a step!

After the beginning of spring, although there were many battles with Cao Cao, Yuan's army lost more and won less. In addition, the rainy season in late spring and early summer is also the flood season of the Yellow River, and even if the two armies are holding each other on both sides of the river, there is not much chance of confrontation.

This did not meet the expectations of the great general.

Last year, when he decided to fight a decisive battle with Cao Cao, Yuan Shao had planned that hundreds of thousands of troops would cross the river and go south, and Cao Cao would inevitably be unable to contend with it, and it would not be a problem to destroy Cao within a year. After Cao Cao is destroyed, it will take three to five years to digest Cao Cao's territory. Then, you can raise a million troops to sweep the whole world. But now, hundreds of thousands of Yuan troops have been blocked on the north bank of the Yellow River for half a year!

A quick battle has turned into a protracted war.

In the tent of the commander of the army, Yuan Shao was convening a meeting of the generals.

The flood season just passed a few days ago, and the recent period is a rare good weather, and Yuan Shao is ready to show off again.

Although it is said that Yuan Jun loses more and wins less every time he attacks, Yuan Shao doesn't care.

Isn't it just a loss of soldiers?

He Yuan Shaobing has a lot of generals, and he doesn't care about this loss.

On the contrary, if the Cao army on the other side continues to suffer such losses, Cao Cao is only afraid that he will have a headache, right?

Killing 3,000 enemies and self-inflicting 800 losses is an eternal truth.

During this period of time, although the Yuan army lost more and won less, the Cao army also suffered a lot of losses!

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"Lord, now that the spring planting has just passed, and the summer harvest is imminent, it is the time when the green and yellow are not harvested, and it is also the best time to compete with Cao Cao!" In the tent, Yuan Shao had just spoken to start the military discussion, and Xu You suggested.

Just after spring planting, the period before the summer harvest is the time when the green and yellow are not harvested.

At this time, most of the people lived on wild vegetable porridge, and the grain and grass in the army were not very sufficient.

Of course, the general Yuan Shaoxiong is located in Qingyou and Hebei four states, coupled with the savings of their old Yuan family for many years, there are still millions of stone grain and grass, and it is no problem to support the tax revenue of the summer harvest.

But Cao Cao on the other side may not be able to survive until after the summer harvest.

According to Xu You's estimate, Cao Cao was only afraid that he was demolishing the east wall to make up the west wall at this time, and he was collecting grain and grass everywhere, right?

After all, although Cao Cao has the territory of nearly four states, he only pays taxes to Yanzhou.

Xuzhou and Yuzhou were just pacified by Cao Cao last year, and the taxes in these two places had to wait until after the summer harvest. In addition, the central government has been in turmoil, and the taxes there are even more important.

In addition, in the past few years, how many stones of surplus grain can there be in Cao Cao's treasury?

Therefore, the last half a month has been the period of Cao Cao's lack of food!

Taking advantage of Cao Cao's lack of food, the Yuan army could attack on all fronts, and when the Cao army was half-starved and half-full, the combat effectiveness was naturally greatly reduced. If so, it is not too easy to decide the winner in a battle.

If he waited until after the summer harvest, within three or five months, Cao Cao would no longer be short of grain and grass.

At that time, if you want to destroy Cao again, it will become a stalemate again

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Listening to Xu You's suggestion, Yuan Shao said: "Along the Yellow River, Cao's army is very well prepared, and it is difficult for our army to cross the river, so what can I do?" ”

He is not a fool, how could he not know that Cao Cao was short of food during this period?

This is also the reason why he was in a hurry to convene a military conference just after the flood season, preparing to decide the victory or defeat with Cao Cao.

Cao Cao is already short of food, if you don't take advantage of his illness to kill him at this time, how long will you wait?!

However, what was in front of Yuan Shao was that it was very difficult to cross the river.

On the south bank of the Yellow River, Cao's army had beacon fires along the river, and there were also strongholds at every important crossing of the river.

In the past six months, Yuan's army has crossed the river many times and fought with Cao's army, losing more than winning less, and the most loss was at the moment of crossing the river. When the real decisive battle is a small fight, hundreds of thousands of troops cross the river together, and Cao Cao on the opposite side is not blind, and Cao Cao will inevitably gather heavy troops and attack in a half-crossing.

"Lord, you can divide the troops!" Xu Yu stroked his beard and smiled.

"The lord gathered a large army in Guandu, and made a posture of wanting the whole army to cross the river, so Cao Cao will inevitably gather heavy troops in Guandu."

"If this is the case, the other strongholds of the Cao army in Henan will inevitably be empty."

At this time, the lord only needs to send a general and lead tens of thousands of iron horsemen to cross the river on a detour, and then he can go straight to Xudu. The defenders of Xudu are insufficient, and the city can be broken in an instant. When the time comes, the one who rules the world will inevitably be the lord. ”

"Even if those tens of thousands of iron horsemen can't break Xuchang, they can lead Cao Cao to return to the army to rescue Xuchang."

"At that time, how many Cao troops will be left on the Guandu front?"

This is the words of Lao Cheng to seek the country, if this plan is really followed, Cao Jun will inevitably be difficult to care about, and its destruction is just around the corner.

However, there are many things in the world, and the most feared one is a but!

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As soon as Xu You's words fell, he only heard a voice in the big tent say: "Lord, Xu You's words are the words of the wrong country and the wrong king!" ”

Everyone looked at it, but it was Guo Tu standing on the side.

I saw Guo Tu come out of the queue and bow his hand to Yuan Shao and said: "My lord, our army has enough food, and the Cao army is short of food." In this situation, let me ask the lord, does the lord want to win or lose in one battle, or does Cao Cao want to win or lose in one battle? ”

"Yes, Cao Cao is short of food."

"However, there is always food and grass for three or five days in Cao's army, right?"

"In this way, it is natural that Cao Cao most wants to decide the winner in a battle within three or five days, or ten days and half a month."

"At this time, wouldn't the decisive battle with Cao Cao fulfill Cao Cao's wish?"

The situation that Guo Tu said is not impossible.

In the current situation, Yuan Shao has many soldiers and horses, and grain and grass are also abundant, not to mention a stalemate for another half a year, even if it continues to stalemate for three or five years, there is no problem. On the contrary, Cao Cao did not have the capital stalemate for so long!

The current decisive battle is very likely to fulfill Cao Cao's wishes.

Listening to what Guo Tu said, Yuan Shao also bowed slightly. He was anxious to fight a decisive battle just now, so he naturally felt that Xu You's suggestion was good, but now he also felt that what Guo Tu said was not bad. The opinions of the two strategists were different, and Yuan Shao was difficult to make a decision for a while.

However, Yuan Shao still favored Xu You's suggestion in his heart.

It doesn't matter if Cao Cao's wishes will be fulfilled and the troops will be divided to cross the river, there will be nothing wrong, right?

However, what Guo Tu said next made Yuan Shao suspicious.

"As for the division of troops that Xu You said, it is even more misleading to the country and the king!" Guo Tu seemed to be full of anger, as if he was questioning Xu You.

"Oh, how did I, Xu Ziyuan, mislead the country and the king, and ask Mr. Guo to tell me!" Xu Youzhizhu was in his hand and sneered.

Guo Tu pursed his lips disdainfully, and then bowed his hand to Yuan Shao and said, "Do you remember that a month ago, Cao Jun's grain and grass were constantly burned?" At that time, thanks to the advice of our Xu Ziyuan military division, we lost 50,000 or 60,000 horses! ”

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