After Cao Cao consulted with a group of advisers and generals, he finally felt at ease.

Because, now he finally has a comprehensive plan to defeat Yuan Shaojun. There is no need to be like in recent days, under Yuan Shao's constant attacks, his heart is always up and down, and he doesn't plan for a while.

Well, Cao Cao also knew that this was actually a way he had no choice. According to what Xun You said, it seems that it is easy to find Yuan Shao's granary and burn Yuan Shao's military rations. However, Cao Cao knew that this would definitely not be too easy.

Military rations, this is a very important material for everyone. Take Cao Cao himself as an example, his military rations are well protected and stored in a very secret place, and no one knows about it except for his most trusted generals. Every day, the sergeants ate and drank food, and they themselves did not know where the road came from.

But it's not easy, it's not easy, it's always a way, isn't it? As long as you work hard according to this goal, maybe there will always be a day when Yuan Shao will be defeated.

However, Cao Cao, who finally had a good mood, after the generals dispersed, when he spoke to Xun You alone, all his good mood dissipated at once.

It turned out that Xun Yu was in Xudu, and he was waiting for Ruo Jia Xu in the New Han Dynasty, which was equivalent to Cao Cao's military and political minister.

Now, Xun You only reported to Cao Cao the only military rations Cao Cao had now.

Now, Cao Cao's military rations are only enough for him to maintain his military horses in Guandu for ten days.

As soon as Fang heard Xun You's report to him, Cao Cao really didn't dare to believe it. A dignified court. Is that all there is to it?

The number of military horses in Guandu is only about 300,000, which is more than half less than Yuan Shaojun's. If Xun Yu said. If his Cao Cao's current military rations are only enough for the army to consume for ten days, then, wouldn't his Cao Cao's military ration reserves only have the grain reserves of Yuan Shao's army for three or a few days? That's too much of a difference, isn't it?

Through Xun Youyi's explanation, Cao Cao was speechless, and immediately had a sad face.

Well, what does Xun Yu say?

Cao Cao passed through Xuzhou in succession and fought with Zhang Xiu and Yuan Shu. That's more than a year or two years old. Anyway, Cao Cao got the emperor himself. After the restoration of the imperial court, there was almost no cessation of fighting.

You must know that what Cao Cao is practicing now is the Tuntian system. But this war has been going on for many years. How did Cao Cao Tuntian? He commanded an army of hundreds of thousands. Eat military pay non-stop.

And look at it, every time Cao Cao wins a battle, every time he wins a place, what can he get? Those are Cao Cao's expenses for nothing, not to mention what Xun You wanted to say to Cao Cao from the beginning, the reward for meritorious deeds after winning the battle and the cost of compensating the fallen soldiers.

It's really not easy to maintain a family, let alone a court? When money is needed in all aspects, it may be unconsciously and at the right time. I suddenly found that I was so embarrassed and poor.

Well, it can be calculated. After Cao Cao established the imperial court, the civil and military officials of the imperial court also had to eat Lu. Not long after it was established, because of the death of his father Cao Song, he raised troops in Xuzhou.

Of course, this time to raise troops in Xuzhou, Cao Cao did not say that it was a loss, although he did not really kill and slaughter the city all the way, but many towns in Xuzhou were mostly looted by Cao Cao's army, and the money obtained was innumerable, but those were only enough for Cao Cao to maintain a court normally and be able to raise his own military horses. followed, because Lu Bu invaded Yanzhou, Cao Cao failed to capture the richest Xuzhou City, and Cao Cao lost countless money to replenish it.

And you must know that Yanzhou was originally Cao Cao's base camp, and most of Cao Cao's money and grain were obtained from the people of Yanzhou. In that year, in order to win the hearts of the people, Cao Cao did not collect a large amount of taxes from the people as usual after recovering Yanzhou, that is, the money and grain obtained from this aspect were greatly reduced. Until now, there has been no complete return to normal tax collection.

followed by the battle against Yuan Shu, but it only captured some towns, and did not officially attack Yuan Shu's Shouchun, so he failed to obtain Yuan Shu's rich supplement.

Later, when Lu Bu was destroyed and Yuan Shu was destroyed, Cao Cao seemed to have only gained those territories, and he did not get the real benefits.

When he captured Xuzhou, Cao Cao was not able to harvest the hearts of the people in Xuzhou, and gave him a tax-free policy, even with Xuzhou City, Cao Cao did not wave his army to rob him, because he also wanted those local tycoons in Xuzhou to stabilize the hearts of the people in Xuzhou for him and use them for him. Therefore, although Xuzhou is rich, it cannot be used by Cao Cao.

If Cao Cao knew the way, what might make him vomit blood was that Yuan Shu's guy would just run away, but he would take away the money and food he had looted in Yangzhou, but he was taken away halfway, and Cao Cao was afraid that he didn't know who he was. He always thought that Liu Bei had won it. However, now that he has recaptured Xuzhou, he has not found the large amount of money that Yuan Shu has.

Therefore, it is no wonder that Cao Cao set up a special captain to make a fortune for him. If there is no supplement in this regard, Cao Cao, the imperial court, I am afraid that it will be really difficult to maintain it.

Cao Cao, who had never been abundant, realized at this moment how panicked Lu Dao was when he had no money and no food, which was only enough for him to last for ten days.

Of course, in fact, now, after the summer harvest, Xun You said to Cao Cao that if he seized the time to collect some grain from the people, it was estimated that he would be able to maintain some more time, but this could not be done in a short period of time.

Ten days!

Cao Cao was ruthless, he secretly summoned a group of generals, and ordered them, no matter what method they adopted, they must burn Yuan Shao's army within ten days to force Yuan Shao to retreat.

As long as Yuan Shao is forced to retreat, Cao Cao can get a respite.

Liu Ye really lived up to Cao Cao's expectations, and early the next morning, he sent a trebuchet from Xu to Guandu.

The military situation is urgent, for fear that Yuan Shao will launch a general offensive today and seize Guandu.

Therefore, Cao Cao immediately ordered the sergeant to immediately move the trebuchet to the civil wall of the defensive line, ready to give Yuan Shao a head-on blow.

And at the moment. For Yuan Shao, he has a feeling like a spring breeze.

Because, he felt. Guandu's breakthrough is in sight, as long as Cao Cao's main army in Guandu is defeated, he can wave his army and aim directly at Xu Du. Xu Du is not a dangerous city, although it has been transformed by Cao Cao, but compared with Luoyang, Chang'an and other big cities, Xu Du is still inferior. Yuan Shao felt that as long as his army was killed in Xudu. Cao Cao will be destroyed. He even fantasized about killing Cao Cao and making another accident. Kill the little emperor Xiandi.

Well, they are the fourth and third dukes of the Yuan family, so what? It's all about being someone else's courtier, and he's now. Be your own king. back then. At the end of the Qin Dynasty, when Chen Sheng and Wu Guang raised troops against Qin, didn't they shout that the princely general Xiangning was a kind of thing? Now, Yuan Shao asked himself that he was born noble, and he was born as the fate of a prince and general. Those lowly people like Chen Sheng and Wu Guang have the heart to win the title of prince and general, so they are already princes and generals, should they go further to become emperors?

His younger brother Yuan Shu had already walked in front of him, for the death of this younger brother Yuan Shu. Yuan Shao didn't feel too sad, because this younger brother was in his eyes. It's really never done a good thing. The only thing that made Yuan Shao feel that Yuan Shu had done a good thing was that this guy was not right, and he wanted to give up the throne to himself. Yuan Shao is not the only one who knows about this matter, in fact, now, there are many people in the Han world who know about it.

Regardless of whether the people of the world admit that Yuan Shu is the emperor or not, but he got the jade seal of the country, which is the destiny of heaven, this seems to be a folk legend, right? Now, the seal with the jade seal of the country is in his hand, and it cannot be faked, if he can, Yuan Shao is not afraid to ascend the throne as the emperor.

However, Yuan Shao's heart also hated Yuan Shu, this guy said that he would send someone to give him the jade seal of the country, but the jade seal of the country was lost again, and he didn't know where to go, if he got the jade seal of the country in Yuan Shu's hand, Yuan Shao felt that he would be more righteous and smooth when he ascended the throne as the emperor.

But so what? Princes and generals, would you rather have a kind? Yuan Shu can be called the emperor, why can't he be called himself? As long as he captures Xu Du and Cao Cao's powerful territory, then he will really own half of the Han Dynasty, and at that time, even if he shares the world equally with Liu Yi's New Han Dynasty, he will feel that his life is in vain.

What's more, the document in his hand that Yuan Shu passed on to him, and the golden seal of the jade seal on it may be the only one in the world, and the last seal. When the time comes, as long as you take it out, you can convince the people of the world, well, the Han Dynasty has been around for hundreds of years, and it should be changed to a different master, so it is okay to change the surname to his Yuan.

People are like this, whenever they are proud, there will always be many thoughts that they usually dare not think of, or, when they see success in sight, people will always get a little carried away. This is the case with Yuan Shao now, and it is also the same when Cao Cao led hundreds of thousands of troops in Chibi in history.

Now, Yuan Shao decided that the army must seize Guandu as soon as possible, and he personally wore gold armor and rode an extraordinary white horse, and personally led the army to advance to the gate of Guandu Pass.

Now Yuan Shao, he can no longer listen to the different opinions of the strategists, Yuan Shao, who was originally a little indecisive, at this moment, he also has great confidence, quite a longwei.

On this day, Yuan Shao was about to decide to break through Guandu and fight Cao Cao. Many of the strategists under Yuan Shao's account persuaded Yuan Shao and gave Yuan Shao advice on how to defeat Cao Cao.

For example, there are strategists Xin Ping, Xu You, as well as Guo Tu, Judge, etc., they all have different opinions. Because, they all felt that Yuan Shao should not attack too quickly at this moment, although the large array of wooden stakes seemed to be easy to use, but none of them had used it, and they didn't know if Lu Dao would be able to break through Guandu by virtue of that.

Among them, he persuaded Yuan Shao that now he has successfully crossed the Yellow River, which is equivalent to half the success. At this moment, no matter whether Yuan Shao wants to wave his army to attack Cao Cao, it will make Cao Cao feel a lot of pressure, instead of attacking Guandu, it is better to divide an army, take Xu Du directly, and cut off Cao Cao's back road.

It's a pity that Yuan Shao now, he thinks that he can force Cao Cao to do this, and he can successfully capture Baima and Yanjin, and now cross the Yellow River to kill Guandu, which is the result of his insistence on concentrating superior forces. Well. Although Gao Ran has been found by his people, it is not a loss, but. Counted, that's an army of 200,000, Zhang Yiyi lost, he lost tens of thousands, and Gao Ran was defeated, it was also tens of thousands.

Well, Yuan Shao's heartache. Don't look at the fact that he now has an army of millions, but the loss of tens of thousands of military horses. How many times can he lose? Now, if you don't do anything that can defeat Cao Cao head-on, why do you still think about those sneak attacks and stabs in the back? Know the way. Sneak attacks are only the work of the weak. Under the circumstance that he can defeat Cao Cao head-on, those disgraceful means are not needed.

Yuan Shao was originally not as good as Yuan Shu, but now he was carried away by his own power, thinking that he was bound to win.

At the same time, some people also gave Yuan Shao advice, thinking. Relatively speaking, Cao Cao's armament was definitely inferior to his own army. It's better to confront Cao Cao first, if you wait until Cao Cao's food is exhausted and the army's morale is weakened, then you will attack Cao Cao and you will get twice the result with half the effort.

But what do you say Yuan Shao said? He disdained the strategist's side, but ridiculed the strategist for his lack of strategy, and thought of some tricks that harmed people and disadvantaged, and he also calculated an account for the strategist, and said to the strategist: I have an army of more than 700,000, and Cao Cao is in Guandu, at most only 300,000, and there are many horses and horses, if you add the military horses that have not crossed the river, more than 800,000 men and horses, the consumption of this food, but Cao Cao's consumption is more than doubled, if you don't rush to attack, if you don't move, this is equivalent to Cao Cao's consumption, if there is the same amount of food, Can you fight for consumption over Cao Cao?

Well, Yuan Shao actually thought that Cao Cao's armaments could be compared to him, and he actually thought that Cao Cao had as much grain and grass as him. If Yuan Shao is told that the current Cao Cao, his military food is enough for Cao Cao's army and horses for ten days, Yuan Shao may really vomit blood, because he really doesn't have to fight, as long as he doesn't make mistakes, he can really defeat Cao Cao without a fight.

However, at this moment, Yuan Shao, he didn't know how many times Lu Dao hesitated to use troops against Cao Cao, but now, once he moved, he didn't waver at all, and he didn't hesitate at all, but was anxious to solve Cao Cao as soon as possible.

Cao Cao and Yuan Shao finally officially met on the battlefield, and since they said goodbye from the Tiger Prison, the two friends met officially for the first time.

Well, compared to the unlucky ghost of Yuan Shu, these two people are really fateful. The three heroes of Fengchen who were called brothers and brothers, since the Tiger Prison was closed, Yuan Shu and Cao Cao and Yuan Shao met again, so Yuan Shu should have said that he was a blessed person, and before he died, he couldn't see his childhood friends.

But when the friends met, they no longer had a touching relationship, but looked at each other angrily, as if the other party had abandoned them, and they all suffered countless grievances.

I saw that Yuan Shao was left and right, and there were a number of generals, namely Zhang He and Gao Ran, who were almost healed from their injuries. There are also Han Meng, Chun Yuqiong, etc., a total of dozens of generals guarding the golden armor Yuan Shao.

Gao Ran was able to check his life, and he really counted his fate, he was by the Qinghe River that day, but in fact, he was just shocked by Guan Yu's strength, and he was shocked by Guan Yu's internal strength and breathed a sigh of relief. After he fell into the Qing River, he absconded by his water nature. Later, after he went ashore, he didn't dare to return to see Yuan Shao immediately, he was worried that his defeat would miss Yuan Shao's major event, and he was worried that Yuan Shao would hold him responsible, so he had been hiding in a family by the river, hiding in the name of recuperating from his injuries. He had to find out how Yuan Shao felt about his defeat and how he handled it, so that he could make a decision on whether to see Yuan Shao or not.

Fortunately, Yuan Shao didn't seem to hold him accountable, and sent people to search for him, so Gao Ran would be in Yuan Shao's army.

However, after Zhang He and Gao Ran, who had gone through the defeat of Baima and Yanjin respectively, their mental state was very bad, and there was a taste of slump.

Well, the two generals have been shocked by Guan Yu's martial arts, which has made them lose their courage, and now, if they are allowed to go to the battlefield and charge again, they will always have an illusion, and they will always feel that Guan Yu is watching them and will kill them at any time.

Fighting with Guan Yu really seriously affected their confidence, at this moment, if any small soldier pretends to be a military general, he will not dare to fight.

On the other side, Cao Cao ordered the gate to be opened, and also took Xiahou Xuan, Xu Huang, Zhang Liao, Xiahou Yuan, Cao Hong, Li Dian and other generals out of the customs to meet and talk to Yuan Shao.

This is the practice of the ancients to salute first and then soldier, and before going to war, it is always necessary to say something. Especially Yuan Shao and Cao Cao, they are finally once friends.

Cao Cao was forced to suffer by Yuan Shao, so there is no need to be kind to Yuan Shao at all, the so-called friends, turning their faces are enemies, not to mention that they are indeed enemies now?

Cao Cao pointed at Yuan Shao with a horsewhip, and said angrily: "Before the Son of Heaven, I protected you as the general of the chariot and cavalry, why do you want to rebel now?" ”

Well, Cao Cao will definitely not admit that he is a thief who controls the government like Dong Zhuo. Therefore, he didn't care what Yuan Shao said when he launched the attack on Cao Yuwen, he had to bite back now, saying that Yuan Shao led the army to attack him like this is a rebellion and a rebellion.

Of course, Yuan Shao was not to be outdone, he also scolded Cao Cao angrily: "You are a famous Han Xiang, but you are really a thief!" The sin is more than recklessness and excellence, and it is against the accusation of rebellion! ”

"Humph!" Cao Cao snorted coldly and said, "Say Cao is a thief? But Cao is now coming to beg you on the orders of the Son of Heaven! (To be continued......)