Yuan Shao watched his youngest son Yuan Shang staggering towards him, staring at him with two big black eyes, looking at him with a blank eye, laughing happily, reaching out and putting his hand under Yuan Shang's armpit, and lifting him high. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info Yuan Shang giggled, drooling, dancing like lotus root-like little arms and legs, excited and unusual.

"The general is in good spirits." Guo Tu walked in with a smile and praised him: "General, this kid is very similar to you." ”

"Yes, of the three sons, he is the most like me." Yuan Shao held Yuan Shang in his arms, glanced at Guo Tu, and saw him smiling, and couldn't help laughing: "Gongze, what's so happy?" ”

"How can I not be happy when I see the family happiness of the general's father and son?" Guo Tu exclaimed: "I think that the one who can inherit the career of a general in the future may be this child." ”

Yuan Shao's eyes flashed, and he laughed unnaturally: "A little child, it's too early to say this." What, something? ”

Guo Tu said no more. He knew that Yuan Shao liked this child the most, and he was not as good as his eldest son Yuan Tan and second son Yuan Xi as he was to this child, and he didn't have the idea of abolishing Chang Liyan in his heart, but at the moment Yuan Shang was still young, and it was difficult to say whether he could grow up, so he refused to show it. Guo Tu took out an urgent letter from his arms and handed it over with both hands: "Yuan Gong's urgent letter is a big thing and a good thing. ”

Yuan Shao listened, oh, took the urgent book with one hand, turned around and sat down in the hall, first placed Yuan Shang, and then shook open the book with one hand and read it carefully--After finishing, the corners of his eyes trembled, and a disdain snorted out of his nose.

"The highway has finally grown."

"General, if you can defeat Cao Cao and take all the Kanto, the general will not have to be confined to the land of Jizhou, and he can make great progress." Guo Tu patted his thigh with a smile: "The general has been stinging for three years, and the time has finally come to soar into the sky." ”

Yuan Shao also laughed. put the book on the table, patted it gently, and said with relief: "Yes, all the Kanto is taken, what Liu Xiu can do, we can also do, and we can do it better than him." When the time comes, Liu Xiu will have 100,000 fine riders. What can I do? He can't let his soldiers go hungry to fight. ”

Guo Tu stroked his beard and thought for a moment, but shook his head and said: "General, I think that the fine cavalry is also very important, important in Jizhou, and also important in Jianghuai. He reminded: "General, don't forget, isn't the reason why Cao Cao has been able to support him in the cracks until now is because the imperial court can continuously allocate war horses to him from Heliang?" He now has 10,000 elite horsemen under his command, and he has built a tiger and leopard horse, and almost every time he uses this to turn the tide of battle. We've won and then lost a couple of times. But it's all because of this tiger and leopard ride. ”

The smile on Yuan Shao's face was gone. What Guo Tu said happened to stab him in the sore spot. Cao Cao has been able to hold on until now, although it is not like what Guo Tu said, it is all about tigers and leopards. But I have to say that this 10,000 elite cavalry led by Cao Cao's younger brother Cao Ren is the sharpest sword in Cao Cao's hands. Every time the battle was deadlocked, Cao Cao would send this elite cavalry to the battlefield and deal a fatal blow to Yuan's army. Although the Yuan army also had cavalry, no general had cavalry of this scale, and even Yuan Shao himself only had 5,000 elite cavalry, and with the continuous loss of war horses. The combat effectiveness has been declining, and it is not an opponent of the tiger and leopard ride at all.

Cao Ren is not yet twenty years old, relying on this elite horse. He became the most powerful general under Cao Cao, which made many generals in Yuan's army who could fight well be terrified.

It's just that it's already so troublesome to fight against Cao Cao now, and if you defeat Cao Cao in the future and fight Liu Xiu directly, wouldn't it be even more of a headache? Liu Xiu's subordinates are not 10,000 horsemen, but there are more than 10,000 fine horsemen under Zhao Yun, the general of Beizhonglang in Bingzhou. As for the abilities of Zhao Yun and Lu Bu, the two masters of riding, Yuan Shao himself is very clear. Cao Ren, who is very beautiful at the moment, is much inferior to them.

Cavalry, cavalry, how to solve it. Yuan Shao is now trapped in Jizhou, which has a large population and strong financial resources, and after several years of fighting, Yuan Shao still has sufficient food. However, Jizhou does not produce war horses, and Yuan Shao can only buy war horses from Youzhou sporadically through merchants, the price is high, the quantity is small, and the quality cannot be compared with the war horses produced by Liang Muyuan.

"General, I just got a message." Guo Tu lowered his voice and said mysteriously: "After Liu Xiu captured Yizhou, he wanted to recommend his own people to be the assassin of Yizhou, but the imperial court rejected his request. ”

Yuan Shao was very surprised, at this time, the imperial court still dared to refute Liu Xiu's request?

Situ Fu arranged for Zhang Zhong, the son of Empress Dowager Dong, to go to Yizhou, but Zhang Zhong fell to his death on the plank road. Later, Gai Sheng was arranged, but Gai Sheng did not fall to his death, but as soon as he arrived in Chengdu, he was killed by Liu Xiu, and he was accused of intending to assassinate. ”

Yuan Shao heard the meaning. He knew Zhang Zhong, he also knew Gai Sheng, and knew that these two people were the forces of the Empress Dowager Dong.

"This ...... Is this someone going to borrow Liu Xiu's knife to kill someone? ”

Guo Tu smiled: "The general is really in one sentence." He couldn't help but shake his head: "Although the Empress Dowager Dong hates it to the core, the Dong family has no strength, how can she help Liu Xiu?" I can only swallow my anger. ”

Yuan Shao's eyes rolled, and he suddenly had an idea: "Then wouldn't we be able to benefit from it?" ”

"General Yingming, I have this plan, but I haven't thought of any good ideas for a while."

Yuan Shao smiled proudly: "This is not simple, let's add firewood and let Empress Dowager Dong and Lu Zhi fight more ruthlessly." Lu Zhi is terrible now, his son is the Taishou of Shanggu, and one of his disciples is General Zuo and the other is a general of Che Cai, I am afraid that even the Son of Heaven will avoid three points. is just a Empress Dowager Dong, how is it his opponent. However, the strength is too strong, it is easy to be taboo, Lu Zhi is too strong, and he doesn't know how to protect himself at all. ”

"yes, yes." Guo Tu quietly led Yuan Shao to his own train of thought. The reason why he came to Yuan Shao was, of course, to make a move, but he knew Yuan Shao's character, instead of saying it directly from him, it was better to inspire Yuan Shao to come up with it himself, so that Yuan Shao would have a sense of accomplishment and trust him more. As Yuan Shao himself said, the strength is too strong, and it is easy to be jealous.

He can't be a judge, and he doesn't want to be Tian Feng, he is Guo Tu who knows Mingzhe to protect himself.

Yuan Shang climbed onto the case and reached out to pull Yuan Kui's book. Yuan Shao thought about it for a while, and it wasn't until Yuan Shang stuffed the book into his mouth and tore it apart that he reacted and hurriedly grabbed it. The ink on the paper was blurred by Yuan Shang's saliva. Looking at Yuan Shang, whose little hands and mouth were black, Yuan Shao was angry and funny, stretched out his hand and slapped Yuan Shang's little buttocks, and scolded with a loving smile: "Little shaft, do you want to eat Yanzhou?" ”

Guo Tu smiled playfully: "I think the little boy not only wants to eat Yanzhou, but also annexes the world." ”

Yuan Shao laughed, and said to Guo Tu with bright eyes: "Gongzhi, you help me think about how to drive Lu Zhi out of Luoyang." ”

"Whoa." Guo Tu bowed and said: "The minister has some foolish opinions, and I am willing to give the general a detailed view." ”

"You say." Yuan Shao looked at Guo Tu with satisfaction.

"General, there are elite cavalry in Youzhou, but with Gongsun Zan and Lu Min here, we can't pocket Youzhou. Gongsun Chan is known as brave and invincible, but in fact it is just the courage of a horseman, not the opponent of the general at all, although Lu Min is not known for his bravery, but he is good at governing the people, in Shanggu for several years, the people obey, Wuhuan returned to the heart. If you drive him away, only Gongsun Chan will be left, and it will be easy to take Youzhou. ”

"What about Liu Yu?" Yuan Shao groaned: "Liu Yu is a clan, and he is also deeply popular with the people, and he is better than Lu Min." ”

"Not really." Guo Tu shook his head: "General, the reason why Gongsun Chan is convinced of Lu Min is not because Lu Min is a celebrity, but simply because Lu Min is his senior brother and Lu Zhi is his husband." As for Liu Yu, as far as I know, Gongsun Zhan has never thought so, and he also had a conflict with Liu Yu because of the reconciliation of the Wuhuan people and the Xianbei people, and later it was Lu Min who mediated, so there was no accident. If Lu Min is no longer in Youzhou, Gongsun Chan and Liu Yu will clash sooner or later. ”

Yuan Shao suddenly realized and suddenly became excited. If he can take Youzhou as Guo Tu said, he will not only have a relatively stable source of cavalry, but also solve his worries, and he will be able to calmly lay out against Liu Xiu in the future.

"Wonderful, wonderful!" Yuan Shao slapped his thigh and praised loudly: "Gongzhi, you really reminded me." ”

Guo Tu smiled modestly: "That Yuan Gong's plan ......"

"Don't worry, you can make arrangements first, wait for me to take Youzhou, and lead Youzhou to rush south, what is Cao Cao's way." Yuan Shao was overjoyed, thinking of the spectacular scene of tens of thousands of Youzhou riding south, and couldn't help laughing. Youzhou is in hand, what is Cao Cao, and what is Yuan Shu fighting for me? Even if Liu Xiu comes, I'm not afraid of him. I have what he has, and I have what he doesn't. He only has one Yizhou and is considered rich, but I can own the entire Kanto, which can be said to be two-thirds of the world, I Yuan Shao is not the lord of the world, who else is qualified to be the lord of the world?

Youzhou. Yuan Shao pointed at Guo Tu with a smile and said, "Gongzhi, if you can win Youzhou, you will be the first meritorious." ”

Guo Tu hurriedly bowed and saluted: "Then I will score the glory of the general." ”

"Haha, there is glory, and it should be shared with the public." Yuan Shao said generously. He knew that now that Yingchuan had fallen into the hands of the court, whether he could win the hearts of the people of Yingchuan was very important, Guo Tu, a scholar from Yingchuan. There are only talents in the world who come out of Ru Ying, and Runan is already Yuan Shu, and he can't compete with Yuan Shu for the time being, so he can only work people's hearts. Saying something about the future is just a matter of opening his mouth for him, but it can give Guo Tu and these people a thought, so that they will not be disheartened and have a side thought.

Only with the support of these Ruyingshi people can he gain a foothold in the guest land of Jizhou, otherwise, he will be led by the nose of the Jizhou people sooner or later.

He didn't like it very much. This is also the reason why he insisted on ranking Yan Liang, the evil man of Lang, in the first place, and Zhao Guowen in the second place. In fact, in terms of bravery, these two are comparable, but in terms of the ability to command troops, Wen Chou is slightly better than Yan Liang.