Although Cao Jun leads Yanzhou, there are too many potential threats in Yanzhou, Guo Jia knows that there will be changes in Lu Bu in the future, of course, this is all a later story, but Guo Jia's power can easily prevent this incident, but this matter is too early, how to make a decision, Guo Jia has to wait for the future to weigh the pros and cons before making a decision.

Xiahoudun suddenly asked, "Sir, what is the purpose of our army's trip?" ”

Guo Jia smiled lightly and replied: "It is also a helpless move for our army to go out at this time, it is not easy for our army to rejuvenate the sword soldiers, rest and recuperate, and it is the best policy to train troops in Tuntian, but Yuan Shu is forced to fight hard, and there is only one battle."

A certain material Yuan Shu's intention, must be the first attack on Chen Liu, has avenged the defeat of the army, to break Chen Liu, homeopathic east expedition to Yanzhou, our army surprise attack Yuan Shu, will be able to hit Yuan Shu a surprise, at that time, even break Yuan Shu several cities, tiger look at Runan, how dare he go north? ”

After hearing this, Xiahoudun still had a question in his heart, and asked again: "Sir, the several counties of Yanzhou in our army have not yet been properly settled, not to mention that Yuan Shu has hundreds of thousands of armor, even if he breaks through several cities of the enemy's army, he is powerless to suppress the guards, so wouldn't he let the soldiers sacrifice their lives in vain?" ”

Guo Jia smiled bitterly, sighed helplessly, and said: "Before our army won Yanzhou, the Yanzhou family and wealthy families were divided into one side, all of which were the objects of Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, and at this moment, our army led Yanzhou, and Yuan Shu had a big enmity, it must be a life and death situation, a certain said before, if Yuan Shu is not beaten, he will always think about our Yanzhou, only let him understand our real strength, and at the same time eliminate the elite troops under Yuan Shu, Yuan Shu will really be afraid of us." ”

What Guo Jia said is true, at this time, there must be a battle, but it is the result of a defeat and defeat, the current strength of the Cao army, can not completely eliminate Yuan Shu, and even the captured city can not be defended, but it has to exchange the lives of tens of thousands of soldiers on both sides for a few years of rest and recuperation, and the Cao army is also helpless.

Xiahoudun seemed to have understood, and he had already understood Guo Jia's intentions in his heart, since Cao Jun and Yuan Shujun must have a battle, it was better to place the battle line in Yuan Shujun's sphere of influence, so that it would not affect the rear of Cao Shu's army, and at the same time, it could also destroy Yuan Shujun's grain and grass economy, killing two birds with one stone.

In fact, Guo Jia still didn't tell Xiahoudun in his heart, it was not that Guo Jia was hiding his own secrets, but that he was just strategically eliminating the living force of Yuan Shujun.

This is also Mao Taizu's strategic thinking, similar to the war of annihilation of Bai Qi during the Warring States Period, in fact, the essence is the same.

After walking for a long time, Guo Jia saw that there was a dense forest in front of him, and immediately ordered his soldiers to go and cut down trees to make siege equipment, as for the logistics supply and grain and grass of the 40,000 army, there was naturally a strategy of Xun Yu and Cao Cao, and Guo Jia did not need to worry about it for the time being.

And the 20,000 horses of Cao Ren's army, since they were partial divisions, naturally killed Yuan Shu in Yuzhou from a hundred miles away from the flank of Guo Jia's army.

From Dongjun to Yuan Shu's camp Runan, there are five passes and seventeen cities of Yuan Shu's army, which is the route chosen by Guo Jia, and Cao Renjun's army is to march on a different strategic route, one is to disperse Yuan Shu's troops, and the other can be used to respond to Guo Jia's army, and can also conquer the city.

……

……

Time flies, fleeting, half a month later, Cao Jun has traveled to Yuan Shujun Nanton outside the city of two hundred miles, riding horses all day long, grinding Guo Jia's legs are painful, physically and mentally exhausted, when he personally commanded the army of 40,000 people to understand, why Zhuge Liang was tired to death.

It is necessary to know how to set up camp in the army every day, how to organize the army, how to reward and punish them, plus document processing, intelligence analysis, there are countless troublemakers, brawlers, deserters, wealthy people, and rape women in the barracks.

However, for these bandit-like soldiers, Guo Jia showed all the leaders to set an example, which also played a role in establishing authority, so the situation of the army improved slightly.

Guo Jia remembered that it was said in the book that Zhuge Liang would personally ask for a decision if he rewarded and punished more than 20 military battles in the army.

Raid the Malay newspaper and spot enemy scouts ahead.

After Guo Jia heard the Malay report, he immediately made a decision, led 5,000 Cao troops and 10,000 elite Qingzhou troops to march forcibly and went straight to Nanton.

At this moment, the enemy army may not have run to Runan to report to Yuan Shu, although the defenders of Nanton have learned of the attack of Cao's army, but there is no general order or support, and it must be a mess at this moment.

Three days later, Cao Jun drove 180 miles to 20 miles outside the city of Nanton, Guo Jia had issued a death order, daring to be a raider, punishing the three clans, Cao Jun soldiers were afraid, it was because Guo Jia's prestige in the Cao army was too high, Cao Jun passed along the way was regarded as a fall without any crimes.

Guo Jiahuan looked around, and saw that the soldiers beside him were marching for three days, and they were exhausted at the moment, and at this moment, Cao Jun made a detailed report: "Nanton Taishou is Zhang Xun, and he is deeply trusted by Yuan Shu, but his character is indecisive and cowardly, and there are 10,000 defenders in Nanton City, and the defenders in the city have learned that we have arrived, and they are panicking at this moment. ”

Guo Jia bowed his head, waved his hand to let Na Xiaozuo go down to receive the reward, and then asked sideways: "A few generals, what is the best plan?" In fact, Guo Jia already had a strategy in his heart, and at this moment, he was testing the generals of the Cao army, and also let them learn to think for themselves.

Xiahoudun immediately bowed his hand and said: "Nanton City is two battles, the defenders in the city are 10,000 people, among which the boulders and bows and arrows are more sufficient, the Nanton city is strong, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and at this moment it is to wait for work, but our army has been forced to march, it is important to speed up, the last general thinks, our army should rest for a day, tomorrow morning, immediately storm Nanton!" ”

What Cao Hong and Xiahou Yuan said was similar to Xiahou Yuan, but they were slightly different, for example, Xiahou Yuan proposed to attack Nanton at night and other surprise attack methods.

Guo Jia bowed his head, knowing that the strategies of these three generals were all the best strategies in peacetime, but they still looked so vulnerable in front of Guo Jia, and they were a little worse, after all, Guo Jia's military level was too much stronger than them......

Guo Jia did not evaluate the level of the trio's plan, but immediately ordered: "Xiahou Yuan listened to the order and led 5,000 soldiers to loot the people of the surrounding villages along the way, but they must not kill innocents indiscriminately, do not molest women, and if there is any disobedience, they will be beheaded immediately!"

In the army of the people around him, if anyone who does not obey, he will be beheaded immediately!

Cao Hong listened to the order and led 3,000 troops as the rear army in case of accidents.

Xiahoudun listened to the order, led 7,000 soldiers with a certain person, and took Nanton directly! ”

The three generals were puzzled, but they didn't dare to ask, so they immediately turned around and gave the order.

Guo Jia sighed lightly, his face was gloomy, he knew in his heart that war was so cruel, he did everything he could, and he had dealt a fatal blow to the enemy army with the most vicious means, and all Guo Jia could do was to minimize the casualties of ordinary people.

What's more, Yuan Shujun has already been fortified and cleared, and at this moment, the people around the city have already hidden their money, food, and grass, even if Guo Jia is like this, he will not starve those people to death.

It's not that Guo Jia is ruthless, from ancient times to the present, marching and fighting are like this, and what Guo Jia did is already considered merciful.