Yuan Shao sat on a pile of grass by the river with a staggering ass, looking at the devastated river, the whole person seemed to have been drained of strength, and he was unconscious for a long time.

Cao Cao was able to destroy a batch of his military rations under his nose, and for Yuan Shao, the blow was really quite big.

Of course, it doesn't mean that the destruction of his batch of military rations hit him hard, in fact, the loss of this grain is nothing to Yuan Shao, and he is not short of food now.

This is also the advantage of his Yuan Shao and Cao Cao, he is only competing with Gongsun Zhan, and the truce is longer, Yuan Shao's army in the south of Hebei gives Yuan Shao more time to calm down and govern Jizhou, and has more time to accumulate grain and grass, which makes Yuan Shao's current grain and grass is still quite abundant, even if he stalemates with Cao Cao for a longer time, he will not worry about a shortage of food.

As for Cao Cao, he fought again and again, and he never officially recuperated at all, so there was almost no surplus of his grain and grass. What's more, there is another point, Yuan Shao governed the land of Hebei, and he did not think too much about the people under his rule like Cao Cao or Liu Yi of the New Han Dynasty. For Yuan Shao, as long as the people under his rule can survive, as for the rest, he will not care too much, he will collect as much grain as he wants to collect from the people, and there are few cases of rent reduction and interest reduction for the people under his rule.

What really made Yuan Shao feel the blow was that between him and Cao Cao, they were indeed very familiar with each other. Cao Cao not only knew him, but he also knew Cao Cao.

Yuan Shao had long known that Cao Cao was scheming and used strange soldiers.

Yuan Shao also knew for a long time that Cao Cao was not easy to mess with. There will always be a little psychological shadow for Cao Cao in my heart. Therefore, he did not seize the opportunity to send troops to attack Cao Cao. The reason why he had to wait until now to officially start a war with Cao Cao was because he felt that he was ready to go to war with Cao Cao. He knew it. To start a war with Cao Cao, it is absolutely not to be taken lightly, not only to outcompete the other party in terms of troops, but also to let himself once he fights with Cao Cao, he will no longer have any worries. In this way, there will be a chance to defeat Cao Cao.

Since the official start of the army to fight Cao Cao, Yuan Shao has awakened his spirits. Resolutely adopt a steady and steady approach, do it as much as possible, and not let Cao Cao have any chances. Because Yuan Shao knew the way. Cao Cao, the guy who knows best, is to make decisions on the spot, and he can always sew in a desperate situation.

Yuan Shao clearly remembered that Cao Cao had assassinated Dong Zhuo. But. In the end, Cao Cao was fooled in the name of offering a knife to Dong Zhuo and escaped. He asked himself, if he was in Cao Cao's situation at that time, he would definitely not be able to be so quick and wise as Cao Cao, I am afraid that he would have been destroyed by Dong Zhuo a long time ago, how could there be today?

Yuan Shao really did a lot of work on his military rations, from storage to escort. All exhausted their scheming. Because he knew the way, he fought with Cao Cao. If he is not optimistic about his own food, let Cao Cao know where his food came from, he will definitely make up his mind. Therefore, from the very beginning, he made his grain convoy only transport at night, and at no time was it allowed to reveal the route of his grain storage and escort.

Yuan Shao planned to do it, so that no matter how many tricks Cao Zhi had, there was nowhere to go, so he could only be defeated directly and head-on, and defeated Cao Cao in a dignified manner.

However, he didn't expect that he acted so carefully and cautiously, but finally let Cao Cao seize one of his loopholes and destroy his own batch of grain under his nose.

This is the biggest blow to Yuan Shao, and after all calculations, he can't escape Cao Cao's calculations.

Moreover, this incident also sounded a wake-up call for Yuan Shao, because Cao Cao could destroy his grain once this time, and there might be a second and third time. Cao Cao's military horses, from the upper reaches of the Yellow River, saw the opportunity to rush down, and his military horses were helpless.

After all, in Yuan Shao's army, there is no naval army, and even if there is, it is only a non-combat naval army, and it is the military horse of some transport ships without any combat effectiveness.

The northerners are not good at water, this is really not a talk, but it has always been like this.

Yuan Shao thought at this moment that if he would be attacked by Cao Cao every time he transported grain, then he would not have to fight this battle again, and their military horses on the banks of the Yellow River would starve to death.

Hehe, Yuan Shao didn't know what to say, Cao Cao is now afraid that it is unlikely to attack him like Fang Cai again, because Cao Cao does not have many ships in the upper reaches of the Yellow River, and it is only enough for Xu Huang to lead the army to carry out such an attack, and now, Xu Huang has led the army to the downstream, and it is impossible to return to the upstream. Their men could go back, but the ships were unlikely.

Moreover, Cao Cao's military horses also have the same situation as Yuan Shaojun's troops, Cao's men and horses are not good at water, if Yuan Shao can first send some fleets to protect the grain ships, and when he sees Cao's ships coming down from upstream, stop Cao Jun's ships, even if they collide with Cao's ships, they can also save Yuan Shao's grain and grass.

However, now Yuan Shao naturally didn't think about this, what he was thinking about now was to wonder if Cao Cao had already understood his grain transportation route.

At this time, Han Meng, the general in charge of escorting grain and grass, came to see Yuan Shao, Yuan Shao saw Han Meng, and he was really a little vicious, he repeatedly confessed, asking Han Meng to be careful again and again, but he finally fell in love with Cao Cao's way.

Yuan Shao was furious and wanted to escort Han Meng down and behead him.

Fortunately, a group of strategists rushed to the river and persuaded Yuan Shao.

Yuan Shao was a little anxious and said to the strategists and generals who found him: "Cao Cao must have found out about our grain and grass, and he knows the route of our escort of grain and grass." Otherwise, he would not have been able to grasp it so accurately, and would have rushed to attack us just when our military rations were about to be delivered from the north bank of the Yellow River to the south bank of the Yellow River. Han Meng is to blame for all this, if he is careful and does not expose it, then Cao Cao will definitely have nothing to do with us. ”

"Well, this attack by the Cao army is indeed too coincidental, and it is estimated that it is really possible for Cao Cao to know the route of our grain transportation."

The generals also felt that Yuan Shao's speculation was reasonable.

"Therefore, starting tomorrow, our grain escort will change the route, and we will send more military horses to escort it, and there can be no more mistakes!" Yuan Shao gritted his teeth, turned his head and said to Zhang He and Gao Ran: "Zhang He and Gao Lan, the current battle in Guandu is a contest between the army, and you two generals are here, and they can't play a big role, so in the future, the two of you will be responsible for escorting the military rations, and you must not make any more mistakes!" ”

"Yes......"

Zhang He and Gao Ran glanced at each other and took the order. (To be continued......)