The military advisors and strategists under Yuan Shao's account were originally divided into three factions: Hebei, Nanyang, and Yingchuan.

Now, when Yuan Shao convened the military advisers several times to discuss, on weekdays, Feng Ji, Guo Tu, Xu Yu and other strategists from Nanyang and Yingchuan who belonged to the opposing factions with Fu Zhu and Tian Feng, who belonged to the opposing faction, also joined forces in order to combat the status of Fu Zhu and Tian Feng in Yuan Shao's heart.

They proposed to Yuan Shao that they could leave a part of their troops to continue to garrison on the north bank of the Yellow River, while Yuan Shao himself would return to Yecheng with a large army to repair first, and then send troops to attack Luoyang when the weather turned cooler.

According to them, now that the weather is hot and the war is generally not likely to start, then placing so many troops on the north bank of the Yellow River is, on the one hand, a pressure on logistical supplies, and on the other hand, a waste of manpower.

Anyway, Yecheng and the north bank of the Yellow River here are not very far away, and Hanoi County is completely Yuan Shao's territory, so Yuan Shao's main force withdrawing to the base camp in Hebei can allow his soldiers to get a certain amount of recuperation, and can also appease the current chaotic army.

Then leaving some troops on the north bank of the Yellow River is enough to threaten Zhu Wei not to easily send troops to Xu Du, in other words, even if Zhu Wei really sent troops to fight Cao Cao, it would be an opportunity for Yuan Shao.

They believe that Cao Cao still has a certain ability to protect himself, so if Zhu Wei's army attacks Cao Cao, it will naturally not be something that can be completed in a short time, and he may be dragged by Cao Cao in Yingchuan into a stalemate.

At that time, Yuan Shao took advantage of the situation to send troops south again, wouldn't he be able to take advantage of the weakness to enter, and take advantage of the fact that Zhu Wei's army was entangled with Cao Cao, cross the Yellow River to capture Luoyang, and directly copy Zhu Wei's back road.

I have to say that the talents under Yuan Shao are still good.

In addition to super military divisions such as Fu Zhu and Tian Feng, other people such as Feng Ji, Xu You, and Guo Tu can also think rationally and responsibly, and now they have put forward a suggestion that Yuan Shao can temporarily withdraw his troops to observe the situation and wait for the opportunity to move, which is also somewhat reasonable.

According to them, the current confrontation between Zhu Wei and Yuan Shao across the Yellow River is actually a kind of mutual jealousy, a confrontation of equal strength.

However, now that it is the height of summer, both sides are reluctant to move troops easily, but they dare not withdraw easily, in fact, they also have the taste of being put on a high platform and unable to get on and off the stage.

So instead of wasting time and money and food on each other like this, it is better for Yuan Shao to retreat first and return to the north to rest first.

In this way, Zhu Wei will not easily retreat to the south, Zhu Wei has already occupied Luoyang as a forward position, so at that time, Zhu Wei will only turn his target to the disabled Cao Cao, so as to use troops against Cao Cao to seek the Central Plains.

However, although Cao Cao had lost the main army before, he still had some spare strength to protect himself locally.

Therefore, once Zhu Wei launched a war of extermination against Cao Cao, he would naturally have to press on the whole front of the army, and Cao Cao was not an easy person, so he should still be able to contain Zhu Wei's army.

Then Yuan Shao waited for the opportunity to go south, maybe he could avoid Zhu Wei's current army gathering the defense strength on the south bank of the Yellow River, and he could take the opportunity to break through Zhu Wei's Yellow River defense line and hit Luoyang, Zhu Wei's forward base camp.

Zhu Wei and Cao Cao were defeated on Xu Du's side, and Yuan Shao just took advantage of it to reap the benefits of the fisherman, so it can be said that this is the strategy of retreating.

Feng Ji, Guo Tu, and Xu You put forward the statement, that is, it catered to Yuan Shao's intention of retreating first and returning to Yecheng to escape the summer, and it brought a little truth, and gave a seemingly good plan, which inevitably made Yuan Shao suddenly moved.

It's just that Frustration and Tian Feng know Yuan Shao's nature, and now they finally encourage Yuan Shao to send troops south, thus forming a situation of confrontation with Zhu Wei's army here, once Yuan Shao returns to Yecheng, it is not so easy to let Yuan Shao send troops.

With Yuan Shao's indecisiveness, there will definitely be more situations that affect Yuan Shao's decision to send troops, and when the time comes, if the time is delayed, nothing can be undone.

As the saying goes, one blow, then decline, and three exhaustion, although the morale of Yuan Shao's army has weakened because of the unhappiness in the war and the influence of the weather, after all, it is also on the battlefield, as long as the war is together, it can naturally be agitated to fight.

Now, if Yuan Shao retreats, first say what the people of the world will think, and people who don't know the truth must think that Zhu Wei defeated the combined forces of Yuan Shao and Cao Cao, then Zhu Wei's reputation will suddenly rise to an unrivaled state.

The hearts of the people in the world are also likely to fall to Zhu Wei, even if Yuan Shao has the heritage of the fourth and third princes of the Yuan family, but now this heritage will be exhausted, so without the support of the people, how can Yuan Shao fight against Zhu Wei.

The most important thing is that the premise of Yuan Shao's retreat is based on the fact that after Yuan Shao retreats, Zhu Wei will turn his head to attack Cao Cao.

But if Zhu Wei did not attack Cao Cao first, but first attacked Yuan Shao's army left on the north bank of the Yellow River, and then pressed the war to Hebei, then as long as Zhu Wei delayed the main force of Yuan Shao's army here, he could completely divide his troops to fight Cao Cao, but Yuan Shao would have no way to take Zhu Wei at that time.

Then this so-called strategy of retreating is equivalent to giving Zhu Wei to the first hand in vain, and he insisted on putting the war on his own territory, and he may lose the overall situation of the Central Plains.

Of course, Fu Zhu and Tian Feng also knew Yuan Shao's temper at the beginning, so they were relatively tactful when persuading, but Yuan Shao already wanted to return to Yecheng in his heart, and after all, Fu Zhu and Tian Feng's persuasion was also a groundless remark to speculate on Zhu Weijun's intentions, and Yuan Shao naturally couldn't accept it easily.

Then Feng Ji, Guo Tu, and Xu You also deliberately spoke coldly, saying that Fu Zhu and Tian Feng were thinking of encouraging Yuan Shao to fight, so as to gain military power and real power in affairs, because only if Yuan Shao continued to be on the front line of the Yellow River, they could make Yuan Shao obey their mercy, so as to give them more real power to do things.

However, what do Fu Zhu and Tian Feng want to do if they want to control real power?

At the beginning, Yuan Shao took over Yizhou from Han Fu, but afterwards he forced Han Fu to flee and commit suicide, it can be said that Yuan Shao did a very bad job in this matter, and when Han Fu gave power to Yuan Shao, many of Han Fu's subordinates disagreed, but Han Fu still insisted on doing it.

It can be seen that these Hebei people in Yizhou did not welcome Yuan Shao into the master at the beginning, but Fu Zhu and Tian Feng were originally all people under Han Fu's account, and they were even more famous people in Hebei, and they were also against Han Fu giving up Yizhou at the beginning, so will they think about revenge for Han Fu now when they seek power?

At the same time, Guo Tu also deliberately said that he was frustrated before the Tiger Prison Pass, first let Wen Chou go out of battle and was lost, and then was defeated by Zhu Wei's army, but he lost the general Zhang He who led the troops again, both times, is it that Frustrated Zhu deliberately wanted to obtain military power, so he deliberately framed Wen Chou and Zhang He......