A fine spring rain kicked off the prelude to spring ploughing, and Yuan Shao's army chose to do it at this time, which made people feel a little surprised, but if you think about it carefully, it is also expected, and even makes people feel that Yuan Shao's actions are a little too slow.

Rencheng, the western part of Shanyang, and Yingcheng in the eastern part of Dongjun have actually had a power vacuum in these places for a long time, and there are almost no decent troops in the entire northern part of Jiyin around the New Year, only the troops of the Iron Army and Zhuge Jin are wandering and transferring the few remaining people. Most of the people had already scattered and fled, some went south and some west, and the last refusal to leave was forcibly taken away by the Iron Army and the aliens.

Therefore, in the eastern part of Jiyin, Shanyang, and Rencheng, it has long been a blank area, and Yuan Shao has such a good opportunity not to do it, and it will even make people feel that Yuan Shao is not too 'gentleman'.

Yuan Shao's army suddenly dispatched, in addition to destroying a lot of wild monsters on the road, there was basically no battle, it was easy to occupy Yingcheng, Gao Gan entered and occupied Fangping, Pan Feng went out to Changyi, opened his jaw through Juye, garrisoned Chengshi, and in a few days, Yuan Shao swallowed Rencheng and Shanyang counties in one bite.

Puyang of the Iron Army in the north is far away, the central part is less than two hundred miles away from Dingtao, the south is more stable, and Cao Cao in the south is carefully guarded.

Cao Cao also moved at the right time, and directly appointed Zhang Jaw as the Taishou of Jiyin, which meant that Yuan Shao and Liu Bei would compete for Dingtao.

In fact, Dingtao City is now in the hands of the Iron Army, and the Iron Army is not arrogant enough to think that it can hold Dingtao, so Dingtao is basically an undefended city, and the Iron Army is only obliged to maintain order and prevent chaos in the city. There are basically only life-type players left in Dingtao City, I heard that Yuan Shao's army is coming, these people don't matter, anyway, Yuan Shao can't confiscate these people's properties, what should they do and continue to do anything, as long as there is no chaos in the city.

Received Cao Cao's appointment. Yuan Shao was naturally secretly refreshed, and immediately ordered Zhang Jaw to march to Dingtao, and he led the army to Juyang.

Yuan Shao easily won a large piece of territory, satisfied and a little rich and peaceful, Cao Cao happily waited for a few days, and found that Yuan Shao was nesting in Juyang and Dingtao again, which was really angry and funny. Is this guy a donkey, he won't move if he doesn't smoke it, and now Liu Bei's main force is being involved in Yingchuan by himself, this is a good time to go west to Chenliu and Dongjun, Yuan Shao is unexpectedly unambitious.

Yuan Shao did not move and did not engage the Iron Army. Gongsun Chan in the north didn't dare to move, Gongsun Chan didn't dare to move, Huangfu Song didn't dare to move, as for Sima Fang, that guy was the same as the old fox, he wouldn't be easily fooled, Sima Fang would definitely not move Liu Bei. will even help behind Liu Bei's back, maybe take the opportunity to subdue Huangfu Song.

Cao Cao was anxious, and wrote to Cheng Yu to ask Cheng Yu to find a way to see if he could make Yuan Shao move, and the way Cheng Yu could think of was the money-greedy clans around Yuan Shao.

Cheng Yu sent someone to secretly meet Guo Tu and others, and according to these people's report to Cheng Yu, Guo Tu generously accepted the gift, and patted his chest and promised to do certain things.

In fact, Guo Tu is not stupid. These people claim to be the old clan of Chen Liu, hoping that Yuan Shao can hit Chen Liu as soon as possible and rescue them from the dire situation, but Guo Tu understands that the one who is most looking forward to Yuan Shao's westward advance is either Cao Cao or Gongsun Zhan, and it is not a bullshit old clan, and the reason why Guo Tu dares to accept this generous gift. It's all because the people around Yuan Shao are now divided into two camps, and the person who actively advocates continuing to move westward is Xu You, with this guy taking the lead. With the help of Guo Tu and others, it must be able to move Yuan Shao.

Dingtao City is a giant city, this kind of giant city can be taken bloodless is a strange thing, what is even more strange is that Dingtao changed hands three times, but the city is clean, there is no looted look, except that there are fewer people, there are stray dogs and mice everywhere are a bit of an eyesore, Yuan Shao feels that this city is still good, and even better, there is a palace here, Yuan Shao lives in the palace now, the appearance of this palace, and the ease of getting Dingtao, let Yuan Shao, who is a little superstitious, have some strange ideas, In the past two days, he can't help but think of the heirloom jade seal carved by He's bi, is all this God's arrangement!

Arrange deliberations in the main hall of the palace, although some ministers muttered in their hearts, but they did not dare to openly oppose it, this is the old palace is not the palace after all.

Xu You looked at the somewhat shabby palace, quite disdainful, this palace and the original Luoyang and now Chang'an palace naturally have no way to compare, looking at Yuan Shao who was sitting on the dragon chair and enjoying himself, Xuan Tuo felt that as he grew older, Yuan Shao's momentum became more and more insufficient, and he often showed this mentality of being rich and peaceful, which made people feel a little muddy and couldn't support the wall.

"Ladies and gentlemen, if you have something to do, you can say it, and if you have nothing to do, you will disperse, Ziyuan, Yuantu, Zhengnan, and Gongjie will leave discussions."

"Lord, there is something wrong with my subordinates."

"Public rule? What's the matter with you? ”

"Lord, my subordinates want to ask Lord, are we going to stop fighting for the time being, and we must focus on recuperation, especially these newly acquired territories, do we also have to manage them carefully?"

"Isn't this about to be discussed?1

"Oh, I thought that the lord planned to stop here, now from Luxian to Dingtao, where more than 600 miles, all the way are deserted fields, and there is not a single person, if it is not rectified, our army's logistics are particularly worrisome, if the enemy counterattacks, if our army is a rootless tree, it is difficult to hold each other1

"Hmph, what can even be understood by the public rules, but I can't understand it at the beginning? Or maybe you don't want to understand 1

Xu Yu interjected in a strange way, choking Yuan Shao's face for a while.

Ziyuan said cautiously! It's not that he can't understand it, but he needs to listen to the opinions of all parties, and he needs to weigh it more, and he can't act alone.1

"Yes, yes, so can you think about it? Do you continue to Tao Taoran in Dingtao City, or do you lead the army out of the city to attack the injustice and Jiyang, and take back the people who have been taken captive? ”

"This"

"Lord, Gong Ze and Ziyuan are right, if there is no support from the people, this large piece of land is equivalent to nothing, although we stabilized Taishan, Lu County and Jibei after also began to transfer displaced people to enrich it, but the population is far from recovering, and now there are so many territories, no population can be done, whether it is to continue to attack or stabilize the current situation, population is undoubtedly a big problem."

The statement of the trial is more euphemistic, but the meaning Yuan Shao still understands, the trial also advocates taking the initiative to attack, robbing the population is a saying, the ultimate goal is the entire division, from the strategic situation, Liu Bei is now firmly glued to Yingchuan, if he attacks himself at this time, maybe he can take Luoyang and Henan in one fell swoop.

But this is not without risks, once Yuan Shaojun goes deep into Si Li, Yuan Shao has to worry that his abdomen and back will be threatened by Cao Cao, and will Liu Bei give up Yingchuan and stick to Si Li? Didn't he make a wedding dress for Cao Cao for nothing?

"Originally, I know what you were worried about?"

"Oh, then what do you say the officer is worried about?"

Without him, what I was worried about at first was that I was worried that I had made a wedding dress for Cao Cao1

"Ugh"

"At the beginning, we don't have to worry about this, if Liu Bei withdraws his army and sticks to the division, we will stop at Chen Liu, if Liu Bei gives up the division, we can take the population back, and we don't have to occupy the division, in case the battle line is too long. Cao Cao's goal was actually Yingchuan, and after taking Yingchuan, Cao Cao would be able to turn back and take Runan, and then attack Tongbai Mountain, at least to share Tongbai Mountain with Liu Bei, so as to completely eliminate the unstable factors on the western front. As for Sili and Yanzhou, that is the next step, and what happens in the future depends on the wrestling of the three parties. ”

"However, once we start a war with Liu Bei, how can we stop it easily."

"Why not, we can make peace with Cao Cao, why can't we make peace with Liu Bei anymore, this kind of thing depends on the strategic situation at the time, and it has nothing to do with other things."

Yuan Shao raised his eyebrows, and the judge also spoke: "Lord, the initiative of the war can be in our hands, who to fight, to what extent, we can completely control it, now if we don't take advantage of Cao Cao and Liu Bei's stalemate, we will miss a great opportunity 1."

"But the Iron Army is strong, and they are Inhumans, so they may call on more Inhumans to fight against our army."

"Your lord, don't worry about that." Guo Tu said confidently: "The lord has some misunderstandings about the aliens, in fact, compared to the iron army, the aliens are more willing to believe in us, the aliens are unrighteous, but they will choose to believe in us who uphold morality, in addition, the strength of the iron army is not as strong as they show, according to the knowledge of the subordinates, the iron army has only two total of 40,000 capable soldiers, these heavy infantry have war horses, which are established by imitating the heavy armored dragoons of the original Youzhou, and their speed and field ability are certainly not comparable with the light cavalry of our army, and the five cities under the command of the iron army, How to defend two combat troops? ”

"That's right, as long as we contain and keep an eye on the main force of the Iron Army, we can easily pull out the Iron Army, and after swallowing Dongjun, we can turn back to deal with Chen Liu, and at the same time, we can let Gongsun Chan go south to Hedong at the right time to cooperate."

"I think this is a feasible strategy1

"Seconded 1

Yuan Shao glanced at the ministers who echoed him, frowned and groaned for a while, finally gritted his teeth, straightened his waist and said in a deep voice: "In this case, then start a war, and the goal is to take Puyang, and even take all of Dongjun 1."

"The lord is wise 1 Guo Tu flattered Yuan Shao, but he was happy to think about the other half of the remuneration that had not yet arrived, I don't know if it was Cao Cao or Gongsun Zhan's handwriting, it was really generous!

Xu You had a hint of smugness on his face, but he still noticed the sudden turn of Guo Tu and the others, and couldn't help but glance at Guo Tu and the others suspiciously. To be continued...