Shortly before Cao Cao personally came to the door to find Shi Xun to ask for advice, the army received an official letter from the imperial court, which was actually from Shangshu Ling Xun Yu, informing him of two things: first, the grain stored in the capital, after being detained by Zheng Xuan, the great farmer, there was no surplus to help the front line, and he hoped that Cao Cao would end the battle in Jiujiang as soon as possible; The second is that Yuan Shu sent Yan Xiang, the chief bookkeeper, to Xu Du to ask for guilt, hoping that the imperial court could let him go for the time being.

Therefore, Xun You, Guo Jia and others suggested that the troops should be withdrawn for the time being, and it was enough to hold two-thirds of Jiujiang County - Yuan Shu was no longer enough to fight, if he was forced to complete this last blow, he was afraid that he would unite with Sun Ce, which would lead to a recurrence of the war. Cao Hong opposed the retreat of the troops, and shouted on the spot: "How can you go so far short of a hundred miles and half ninety?" In the past, Shushu had plotted to kill his eldest father (referring to Cao Song), and this hatred of the sky was also forgiven? ! Xiahoudun, Tai Shi Ci and other generals also agreed with Cao Hong, and Tai Shi Ci also said with a smile: "Ci used to rescue Hongfu in Lumenting, and fought with Sun Ce, but unfortunately failed to kill the enemy. If you dare to come, please behead it for the Lord! ”

Cao Cao couldn't make up his mind, as far as reason was concerned, he agreed with Xun and Guo's suggestion to withdraw from the army, but he was reluctant to be emotionally reluctant - it's not that he avenged his father, after all, Yuan Shu didn't really kill Cao Song, but I have been fighting with this Yuan Lao Er for so many years, and I finally seized an opportunity to strangle him, and my hands reached out to his neck and I had to retract it temporarily? Unwilling, really unwilling!

That's why he followed Mao Jue's advice and came to discuss with Shi Xun.

In fact, these situations have already been mastered by Xun for a long time, and he has seriously thought about it - anyway, there is not much to do lying down all day, what else can he ponder if he doesn't think about the battle situation? In the past few days, including Tai Shici and Xiahoudun. One after another, Wenchen military generals, who had always been good friends, came to visit his injuries. It's Xun, and it's not a vegetative person who is so badly injured that he can't speak. Let's talk about it, once the gossip skills are opened, is there any public or semi-public news that you can't inquire about?

But he didn't hear about it and didn't expect that Xun You, Guo Jia and others planned to withdraw from the army. What he was thinking about was that he would simply take Hefei with all his might, Yuan Shu would let him escape if he wanted to escape to Chaohu, if you have the ability, you will always be in the water, and if you want to go ashore, you will die. As for Sun Ce. With the current team of "Little Overlord", Zhou Yu is on the Western Front again, and he should not be Cao Jun's opponent, if you dare to come, we will dare to fight, WHO is afraid of WHO!

But in terms of strategic planning and campaign planning, he can't catch up with Xun Gongda and Guo Fengxiao by himself - it is estimated that those two don't see it that way, and think that Hongfu Man has a few brushes, but Shi Xun has a clear understanding of himself - since they said that they want to withdraw the army, it is safer to withdraw the army.

Listening to Cao Cao's words at the moment, it was Xun's brain. Suddenly laughed again, and said to Cao Cao: "I see. The lord can know. Xun lived at this time, that is, the residence of Yan Xiang, and it was expected that before our army attacked Shouchun, Yuan Shu immediately sent Yan Xiangjian Dao to Xu Du to ask for guilt, so he did not have time to hide Yan's belongings when he retreated-Xun gained a lot. ”

Cao Cao said in his heart, why did you suddenly talk about this? Is it intended to dedicate the Yan family's property to the military? I believe that Yan Xiang, as Yuan Shu's henchman, has also made a lot of money over the years, but after my army entered the city, although the military discipline was rectified and looting was not allowed, all the grain stored in the city was confiscated, and even if the Yan family still had private collections found by you, it shouldn't be too much, and it couldn't solve the current military food problem. He knew that Lu Dao was Xun suddenly interrupted, and there must be something to say, so he didn't ask, just smiled and said: "It's all rewarded with Hongfu, Hongfu don't quit." ”

Shi Xun arched his hand and said: "Thank you to the lord, but there is a treasure in the Yan family, which must be dedicated to the lord." As he spoke, he nodded to Qin Yi, who was standing at the door: "Take that thing." ”

Qin Yi understood, and hurried to his house, and after a short time, he came over with a lacquer plate and handed it to Shi Xun. Shi Xun put the lacquer plate in front of Cao Cao, Cao Cao looked down, and saw two lacquer boxes placed on the left and right on the white silk: "What is this?" ”

Shi Xun smiled and lifted the lids of the two lacquer boxes, and immediately steamed, revealing the treasures hidden inside—it turned out to be two boxes of chess pieces, but they were not the usual stone and jade textures. Cao Cao was knowledgeable, and couldn't help but gasp: "Ivory and rhino horn!" ”

Shi Xun nodded: "Looking at the quality of this chess, it should not be a new system, but an antiquity, the son of a rhino and an elephant, I haven't seen it if I think the lord has seen it, right?" Cao Cao frowned: "Hongfu knows that a certain thing is not good, if he feels that the divine object is a treasure, he does not dare to use it without permission, he can be dedicated to the Son of Heaven, and he does not have to be with a certain person." "The heart said that you are worried about offering this thing directly to the Son of Heaven, I will suspect that you have any different intentions, so you have to come and say hello to me first? I promise you, go and offer it.

Shi Xun shook his head lightly: "The lord doesn't take this thing, is he willing to play with Xun?" As he spoke, he reached out and removed the two boxes of chess pieces, but unfolded the plain silk underneath. Cao Cao said in his heart that I thought it was a cushion cloth, but was it a chessboard? But what is this—what is this!

In fact, compared to the ivory and rhino horn texture of the chess pieces, it is the plain silk that Xun spread out later, and for Cao Cao, it is the real treasure. It turned out that the plain silk was not snow-white, there were a lot of lines drawn on it, and words were marked, Cao Cao could see it at a glance - this, this is a map!

Of course, this is not an ordinary map, and it is estimated that there is no map in this year and month that covers a wider area, the mountains and rivers are more distinct, and the location of the city is more accurate. This is the "map of the territory of the Han Dynasty" drawn by Xun according to the memory of his previous life, first sketched with charcoal and then with a brush, covering an extremely wide range of areas from the east to the sea, north to the grassland desert, northeast to Goguryeo, south to Jiaolu, and northwest to the Green Mountains.

It was Xun Qian's life when he was a child and he was a history control.,I don't want to listen honestly when I'm in class.,Often draw maps on the desk.,Especially the map of the Three Kingdoms era.,And then substitute yourself into a certain side of the power to YY how to develop.,How to march into the army - I don't do this thing after class.,I don't have that time to play games after class.。 Therefore, although he has never studied surveying and mapping, if you ask him to draw a map of Zhang County and Township, he will be blind, and if he is asked to draw a simple map of the whole country, it can still be done.

Of course, the specific coastline, the direction of mountains and rivers, and the location of cities cannot be so accurate, and it is inevitable that they will be missed by a millimeter, but they are much more decent than the maps of this year. As for the long coastline in the south, as long as you draw a semicircle in the shape of a belly, and then mark the Yangtze River, Zhejiang (Qiantang River), and Yushui (Pearl River) at the mouth of the sea, it is enough. In fact, the coastline of Bohai Bay and the southern part of the Yellow Sea at that time was much smaller than that of 2,000 years later. In terms of mountains and rivers, the trend of the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, the Yangtze River and the Huai River is similar, the general range of Taihang and Qinling Mountains is also easy to handle, and the Liaoshui, Chushui (Han Shui) and Yushui are very different - but Cao Cao can't go there for the time being anyway. The last is the city, he only marked the county and the location of a dozen other famous cities, with the map of this era as a reference, it should not be too far behind.

Cao Cao stopped talking, staring at the map with his eyes, and his small eyes were full of light. Shi Xun didn't expect that the first question Cao Cao asked after looking at it for a long time was: "Where is this?" "Follow Cao Cao's finger and look past, it turns out to be a famous island in the southeast sea-" This is passed down by the seafarers, or the name Yizhou. "In fact, that is the island of Taiwan, few people know the way in these years, and it will take more than 30 years to send the generals Wei Wen and Zhuge to lead a fleet to the sea to visit Xianshan, and the island of Taiwan was discovered for the first time.

Cao Cao listened to Shi Xun's introduction, and couldn't help asking: "Could it be that this picture was also found in Yan's house......" Before he finished speaking, he himself figured it out first: "This is clearly Hongfu's handwriting!" "Yes, Xun Xin said yes, you should recognize my handwriting, and immediately grabbed an ivory white child from the box and put it in Xuchang's position: "Xun dares to ask the lord to play the world." ”

Cao Cao said yes, you're just going to get down to business - but I think this map is worth studying and discussing. I've long heard that Hongfu is on the knowledge of the heavens and geography, but he usually doesn't show it, I occasionally ask, and he was sloppy, how many treasures is hidden in this little guy's stomach? Just this map, I don't know from afar, the Central Plains is drawn like a look, it is estimated that there is no second person in the whole world, and he can draw it! He's not very old, and he doesn't have a lot of places to run...... Oh, it seems like a lot in the past few years, how can you draw so decently? This ability can only be said to be God's grant.

However, the map issue can be studied slowly after all, and the most important thing at present is how to act next, whether to continue the crusade against Yuan Shu, or to withdraw the army and return to Xuchang. So Cao Cao suppressed the curiosity in his chest, and also grabbed a handful of blackspots with rhino horns, and first put one down in Yecheng.

Shi Xun smiled and said: "Those who know what the lord is worried about, Yuan Shaoye." Then the two of them dropped chess pieces one after another, and the Central Plains region was basically full-

There were only four Baizi: Cao Cao in Xudu, Cao De in Juancheng, Yuan Jian in Qiaoxian, and Potter in Liuxian - but there was no indication of Liuxian on the map of Shixun, so he had to be placed in Pengcheng for the time being.

There are a lot of sunspots, from east to west and from north to south: Gongsun Du in Liaodong, Gongsun Zan in Jixian, Yuan Shao in Yecheng, Yuan Tan in Linzi, Liu Bei in Juxian (Cao Cao didn't take Liu Bei seriously, this sunspot was put down by Xun), Lu Bu in Anyi, Duan Xuan in Huayin (this was put down by Xun again), Li Dao and others in Chang'an, Han Sui and others in Jincheng, Sun Ce in Wu, Yuan Shu in Hefei, Zhang Xiu in Wancheng, Liu Biao in Xiangyang, Liu Zhang in Chengdu...... A large area in the south is empty, after all, Hua Xin, Wang Lang, and Shi Kun's generation, the Cao family really doesn't pay attention to it.

After the chess pieces were arranged, Shi Xun said: "If the lord really wants to destroy Yuan Shu, he will fight with Sun Ce, he has the Yangtze River natural danger, the victory can sweep Huaishang, threaten Xu Du, and if he loses, he will retreat to Jiangdong, I have no water division, and it is difficult to chase." This battle is won, but I am afraid that it will be protracted, if Yuan Shaoping destroys Gongsun at this time, and leads the army south to protect Ji, Qing, You, and four states, how should he deal with it? ”

Cao Cao nodded slightly: "I and the beginning, there will be a battle." (To be continued......)

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