Cao Cao nodded and said, "That's true. Luan Zi Qitun grain fish platform is really unexpected! ”

Dong Cheng added, saying: "Luan Yitun Grain and Fish Station is not just for surprise. One more point is crucial. ”

Xun Yu said strangely: "Listen to me." ”

Dong Chengwei said, "Since the first year of the Shengyuan Dynasty, Luan Yi has recruited craftsmen to build the Grand Canal in Jinan, Qingzhou, Yanzhou and Xuzhou. After three and a half years, relying on the water potential of various places, an artificial river has been dug out from the north and runs through the Daqing River, Luohe River, Jishui and many other waters. So that the boat can go down the river from the northern river, along Jinan, through Qingzhou, Yanzhou, directly to Xuzhou Xiapi County, the canal south of Xiapi is still being excavated, it is expected that Yingshui can be penetrated in the next year, and the southern end of the canal is as far as Yangzhou Shouchun. Throughout the canal, there are several ports of great importance, the northernmost is the Luokou Wharf in Licheng County, Jinan, where there is a large factory of the Luan family, and the workshops in the factory will produce countless glass, cloth, and Shencai paper every day...... Exchange a steady stream of wealth for Luan Yi. ”

Dong Cheng pointed down the river line on the map, "The wharf in Yanzhou is the top priority. Because the armor factory set up by the church is located in Rencheng, and countless ordnance and armor in the church are produced from there, and they are all stationed there. Outside of Rencheng, the second largest wharf in Yanzhou is the current Yutai wharf. It is connected to the Yanzhou front line in the west and Xuzhou Forte in the south. It can not only supply grain and grass to the Luan Yi army in Yanzhou, but also supply and transport to Lu Zhi in Xuzhou, which can be said to have taken full advantage of the location. Therefore, Luan Yi chose the location of the grain storage here. ”

"I see!" Cao Cao nodded, "Wen Ruo, what do you think?" ”

"Yu Shao knew Luan Ziqi and Guo Fengxiao, and knew that it was not common sense for these two to lead the troops to fight. In addition, Dong Gong said that Yutai has convenient transportation and is easy to transport grain and grass. If you want to come here, it must be a place for the church to hoard grain and grass! ”

"That's what I think! With this opportunity, God really helped me. Cao Cao smiled, "I want to send a brigade of elite soldiers to raid Yutai and burn Luan Yitun's grain, but what?" ”

"As it should be!" Xun Yu and Xun Yu echoed.

Cheng Yu frowned, looking preoccupied, "Yu thinks that there may be fraud in it!" ”

"Is there any basis for Zhongde's statement?" Hearing Cheng Yu question the information he sent, Dong Cheng looked displeased.

Cheng Yu responded embarrassedly, "There is no basis." I just think that although Ziqi, Fengxiao, and Yuanzhi like to win by surprise, they are all cautious people. They should know that Yutai is their lifeblood. There will never be such a big hole in such a big matter as grain and grass. What do you think? ”

As soon as they heard this, Xun Yu and Xun You also hesitated, "What Zhongde said is not unreasonable. It's better to think long-term. ”

Dong Cheng saw that Cao Cao also had the meaning of wavering, and said: "Cao Gong, this is where Luan Yi is clever!" He expected that the unbelieving churches would store grain and grass in weak defensive areas, so he set Yutai as a place to store grain. Cao Gong, everyone, don't be deceived by him! ”

Cao Cao was in a dilemma. At this moment, the small fish platform on the map seems to have turned into a scorching sun, which is extremely scorching. But after thinking about it, Yuan Shao has now ended the war in Hebei, and it is only a matter of time before he pacifies Youzhou and merges the state. Once he occupied Hebei, Hebei, You, and the three major states, he moved south. It was difficult for Luan Yi to fight for a long time when he was attacked on both sides, and then the powerful Yuan Shaohui occupied most of the territory of Qing, Xu, and Yan. Although he Cao Cao can also get a small cup of soup, but his lips are dead and his teeth are cold, and after Luan Yi is destroyed, the weak Cao Cao will definitely bear the oncoming blows from Yuan Shao...... At that point, the consequences were unimaginable. "Everyone, listen to me. That's right, Luan Ziqi, Guo Fengxiao, and Xu Yuanzhi are all geniuses in the world. It is precisely because of their talents that we are afraid of them that we are so uncertain. Now, I ask you to calm down and think about it. No matter how talented they are, they are also people. It is that people will encounter difficulties beyond their strength, and they will make mistakes in their actions. Just like the fish platform in front of them, could it be a mistake made by them who were overconfident! it's likely. ”

He glanced around at everyone and said, "The other way around." Our army only needs to send a brigade of elites, no more than 3,000 men and horses to burn grain, even if Yutai is a trap set by Luan Yi to catch turtles in the urn, the loss is not big for us. On the contrary, if Luan Yi's granary in Yutai is burned down by us, they will fall short. ”

"What the lord said is very true!" Cao Ren was very supportive of Cao Cao's remarks, and Xiahou Dun, Xiahou Yuan and other generals echoed him. "Fellow military advisors, don't think too highly of Luan Ziqi."

"yes, yes!"

Xun Yu hesitated for a while and agreed, but for the sake of insurance, he proposed to send a team of elite scouts to infiltrate Yanzhou and go to Yutai to investigate. If it is found out that there is a large amount of grain and grass in Zhentun in Yutai Port, troops will be sent to conquer.

Cao Cao also felt that Xun Yu's words were more secure, so he arranged a group of 12 scouts to cross the mountains and mountains across the Yanzhou border in four ways, and went straight to Yutai.

Half a month later, the scouts returned one after another and gave a unanimous answer - there was indeed a grain store in Yutai City, and the grain was not a little bit. Every day, the soldiers and horses transporting grain go in and out like a horse, judging by the number of carriages and horses, as well as the depth of ruts, the grain transported out every day is enough to tens of thousands of stones.

"Are you sure it's all food, not sand?" Cheng Yu is still not at ease.

The scout replied, "The little one saw with his own eyes the grain bag sprinkling grain out of the gap." Xiao even took advantage of the church's grain convoy to leave, picked up some rice from the ground and tasted it, all of which were good corn. He took out a small bag from his arms and handed it to Cheng Yu, "Strategist, please see, this is what I collected!" ”

Cheng Yu poured the rice grains in the bag into the palm of his right hand, flicked it with his left index finger, observed a burst of luster, and then put it on the tip of his nose and sniffed, "My lord, it is indeed a high-quality rice." ”

"Haha......" Cao Cao smiled happily and shouted to the generals under the account: "The opportunity to break the enemy is close at hand, who is willing to take a trip to Yutai and make this first contribution?" ”

"The last will go!" Xiahou Yuan is out of the list, please Ying.

"Well, it's hard to make a trip! , Miaocai, I instruct you to lead 3,000 elite soldiers, eat at the time of the unitary tonight, send the soldiers to Yutai, and burn down the warehouse of the Yutai Church, there must be no mistake! ”

"Order!"

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Located at the southern tip of Yanzhou, Yutai Town, Weishan County, which borders Xuzhou Xiaopei, is a beautiful place. There are mountains and rivers here, the newly built Grand Canal passes by the county seat, and the sparkling Weishan Lake Wetland is close at hand. The abundant water system makes this land the land of fish and rice in Yanzhou, with abundant mass production and a very developed fishery.

As the so-called benevolent people are happy mountains, wise people are happy water, the ancients of Chinese civilization took a fancy to this beautiful place between mountains and rivers early, so they reclaimed the wilderness and built a city here, and a beautiful civilization was born here.

In the thousand-year-old civilization process of Yutai, many celebrities have been born. Not to mention the distance, as far as the current situation is concerned, Liu Biao, the assassin of Jingzhou, is an authentic person from Yutai Town, Weishan County, Shanyang County, Yanzhou.

In the last years of the Qin Dynasty, this decision had been placed on the desk of the third Qin prince, but it was ruined by the peasant uprising at the end of the Qin Dynasty. Later, the Qin Dynasty fell, and Liu Bang used Zhang Liangming's plan to repair the plank road and secretly control Chen Cang, defeated Xiang Yu, won the world, and became the ancestor of the Han Dynasty.

As we all know, Liu Bang has been the pavilion chief of Xiaopei, and now he has turned a crow into a phoenix and become an emperor, if his place of origin is just a small pavilion, it will be undignified. As a result, Xiaopei jumped to a county, that is, Pei County. And the Han law inherited from the Qin law has "a hundred miles and a county!" In other words, with the county seat as the source point, only one county seat can be set up within every 100 miles. Yutai is just within a radius of 100 miles from Pei County, so Yutai is still a town-level city.

And because of the constraints of the Han law, as a town, the city wall of Yutai is not high, just over three zhang, and the city wall is not thick, only allowing two people to go side by side.

Therefore, when Xiahou Yuan led more than 3,000 Cao troops to launch a fierce attack on the city in the middle of the night, although the church guards defending the city were heroic, they were too few in the end to have less than 1,000 people, and coupled with insufficient defense, they could not organize an effective resistance.

From the very beginning, the battle showed a one-sided situation, and the Cao soldiers who came from afar flocked with the mentality of breaking the cauldron and sinking the boat, facing the rain of arrows and stones, and frantically attacking the city. The battle lasted only about half an hour, and with a bang, the city gate was smashed by wooden pillars. Thousands of Cao soldiers rushed into the city, killed people on sight, and set fires everywhere.

The church guards could not resist and retreated from the other gates in an orderly manner. Yutai falls.

After occupying Yutai, Xiahou Yuan led his troops to find more than 100 towering granaries. In order to verify his identity, he also specially ordered the soldiers to open the warehouse one by one to inspect the grain, and after making sure that all of them were real and bright corn, not hay, he was so happy that he couldn't keep his mouth shut. "Burn ...... for me"

The flames rose to the sky, and the crimson fire light was like the sun, illuminating the entire sky of Yutai, and it was reflected in the water of Weishan Lake like scarlet blood.

The scorching smoke was everywhere, Xiahou Yuan didn't dare to stay for a long time, and with a roar, he led his men and horses to take the trail and return to the Yanzhou border.

After receiving Xiahou Yuan's report and determining that the Yutai granary was burned down, Cao Cao got up from his sleep with a grunt, and summoned all the civil and military personnel to discuss the matter without wearing socks.

In the course of the discussion, a group of generals led by Cao Ren, Xiahoudun, Xiahou Yuan, and Cao Hong, plus the newly surrendered Dong Cheng, suggested that Cao Cao take this opportunity to launch a decisive battle against Yanzhou. The group of people mainly composed of Xun Yu, Xun You, Cheng Yu, and Zhang Xiu persuaded Cao Cao to see what Luan Yi did next, and to respond to all changes with the same, in case Luan Yi had a back hand.

Reason told Cao Cao that the strategists under his account planned the most prudently. As they said, they waited for the battle and waited for the change.

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