Wuchao guard general Chun Yuqiong, along with Yuan Shao and Cao Cao, is the eighth captain of the West Garden, and he is not a reckless man who drinks a lot of wine, and Yuan Shao will not let the reckless man guard the grain land.

Cao Cao led the elite troops to attack Wuchao, and Chun Yuqiong actively organized the defense, at this time, the Cao army was desperate and launched an attack at any cost, which made the Wuchao defenders feel difficult.

You must know that at this time, it was 5,000 to 10,000, and Chun Yuqiong still had a camp fortification, which could make Chun Yuqiong feel hard, which shows how desperate Cao Jun was at that time.

Chun Yuqiong led 10,000 troops to protect grain from Hebei to Wuchao and stayed behind, at that time, he had offered advice to Yuan Shao, suggesting that Jiang Qi should take people to garrison Wuchao to assist in the defense to prevent Cao's army from sneaking up and looting grain.

At first, he openly opposed the attack on Henan, secretly constrained Yuan Shao's preparation of materials and soldiers and horses, and later fought in Baima and Yanjin and openly contradicted and bewitched the army.

Yuan Shaogu and the forces behind him did not deal with it, but they would no longer listen to this kind of prickly words, even if the advice was beneficial.

Yuan Shao was targeting people at this time, not things, and sensibility occupied his mind.

Cao Cao fought in Wuchao until dawn, and the military information spread to the Guandu camp forty miles away, Yuan Shao's general Zhang He suggested rescuing Chun Yuqiong, and the strategist Guo Tu offered a plan to besiege Wei to save Zhao.

At the critical moment, Yuan Shao made two mistakes, laying the groundwork for his failure.

Yuan Shao finally followed Guo Tu's suggestion, sent Zhang He and Gao Ran to attack Cao's camp, and sent light cavalry to rescue Wuchao, completely ignoring the consequences of the loss of Wuchao, one of which was also;

Secondly, whether it is attacking Cao Ying or rescuing Wuchao, Yuan Shao should be like Cao Cao to fight in person, instead of leaving his fate to his subordinates to fight, and this is the second.

Doing big things and sparing his life, seeing small profits and forgetting his life, Yuan Shao profoundly interpreted this sentence.

Maybe it's because Yuan Shao's family background is good, or maybe the first half of his life was too smooth, Yuan Shao is unwilling to go out and play with his life, so God won't give him luck.

In the end, on the eve of the arrival of Yuan's light cavalry in Wuchao, Cao Cao led his army to break through the Wuchao camp, and Lejin killed Chun Yuqiong in the battle and took the only granary on Yuan Shao's front.

Yuan Shao had hundreds of thousands of soldiers in Guandu, but only had less than three days of grain storage.

The news of panic spread throughout the north and south of Guandu, and Zhang He and Gao Ran were forced to surrender when they heard the news.

Yuan Shao took hundreds of thousands of people to the south, and finally fled to Yanjin with only 800 people, and the price was not unmistakable.

In the course of the all-out counteroffensive, Cao's army captured countless weapons, baggage, and treasures, and captured more than 80,000 prisoners from Hebei.

Cao Cao and Long Xiang were in the same predicament in Shishui, and the number of prisoners was much more than that of the soldiers of his own army.

Cao Cao is not as good as Long Xiang has the confidence to stock food, he and Yuan Shao have been fighting for half a year and have run out of food, and in order to make a quick decision when they attacked Wuchao, the grain was burned to ashes by a fire.

Cao Cao really wanted to keep these 80,000 prisoners, but Cao's army was already out of cooking, and adding another 80,000 mouths would definitely mutiny, so he took the same approach as Bai Qi.

All pit kills.

In late October, Cao Cao's class returned to Xudu.

After two or three months of backlog of official business, the envoys to be met gathered in Sikong Mansion.

During Cao Cao's confrontation in Guandu, the most important events occurred in Yangzhou in the southeast, among which Sun Ce was assassinated, and Shi Yanxiang was booby-trapped the most important, and recently Sun Quan raised troops to attack Li Shu, and both of them sent envoys to Xu.

Cao Cao did not express his position when he saw the envoy, but convened his ministers to discuss countermeasures.

"Yangzhou has been moving a lot during this time, all the princes are talking about it, who is credible Li Shu and Sun Quan?"

The ministers returned to Xudu, but they were not clear about the situation in Yangzhou, and they were silent at first.

Seeing this, Cao Cao pointed to Guo Jia and asked: "Sun Ce tried in vain to cooperate with Yuan Shao to attack Xudu, fortunately Chen Yuanlong blocked his way, Feng Xiao once said that this son had a short life, but I didn't expect it to come true, Sun Quan, what do you say?" ”

Guo Jia thought for a while, and replied: "Sun Quan succeeded to the throne in a hurry when he was young, and there were many disobedient people in Jiangdong, so that Li Shu rebelled, and Sun Fu had the intention of surrendering to the lord, but this person was able to endure for several months, which shows that he is not a brave and reckless person, and he seems to be better than Sun Ce." ”

"Oh? Sun Quan is stronger than Sun Ce? ”

Cao Cao was a little surprised, "Fengxiao looks at people very accurately, if they are allowed to develop, it will be a big disaster, at this time Sun Quan and Li Shu are at war, Sun Fu is willing to be the internal response, I want to take the opportunity to seize Jiangdong, what if?" ”

"Well..."

Guo Jia couldn't answer for a while, the timing of taking Jiangdong was good at this time, but Cao Jun had just experienced a big battle, and his expedition strength was not enough, so his eyes glanced at Xun Yu intentionally or unintentionally.

Xun Yu bowed his head slightly, and took the next step when he went out of class.

"The timing is indeed good, but if you want to take Jiangdong, you have to prepare warships, otherwise it will be difficult to break through the Yangtze River natural danger..."

"Ahh That's right, the south ships and the north horses..."

Cao Cao stroked his beard and muttered to himself, and suddenly saw Liu Xun in the corner, so he beckoned and shouted: "Zitai once fought with Sun Ce, do you know how strong the Jiangdong Navy is?" How geometry does a warship have? ”

"Uh... Sun Ce defeated Huang Zu last year and seized almost all the warships in Jiangxia, and there will be no shortage of more than 10,000 ships..."

Liu Xun stood up with an embarrassed face, he himself lost thousands of boats, and at this time he was worried about being embarrassed in front of people, but he added the total number to Huang Zu's head.

Cao Cao asked again: "What is the combat effectiveness of Jiangdong soldiers?" ”

Liu Xun clenched his fists and replied: "The soldiers of the Sun family are second to none in Yangzhou, but they are not as strong as the soldiers under the command of the lord. ”

"Hmm..."

Seeing Cao Cao frowning and pondering, Xun Yu hurriedly accosted and added: "Even if Sun Quan is a tiger, he is also a milk tiger at this time, although Yuan Shao was defeated in Guandu, but Hebei's strength is still not to be underestimated, and the lord should not use troops in the southeast for the time being, so as not to have an opportunity for Yuan Shao..."

"What Wen Ruo said is very true, but he can't let Sun Quan of the milk tiger go..."

Cao Cao looked at Xun You as he spoke, as if to say that you are my mastermind, so I don't plan to say a few words about it?

Xun You and Xun Yu glanced at each other first, and then arched their hands and said: "As the so-called one mountain does not allow two tigers, if the lord is worried about Sun Quan's milk tiger, he might as well raise a few more tigers or wolves in Yangzhou, and wait until he recovers Hebei and then goes south." ”

"How many more?"

Cao Cao was stunned when he heard this: "Who else is there besides Li Shu?" ”

Xun You said with a smile: "Li Shu counts one, Sun Fu counts one, and Hefei Longxiang also counts one." ”

Hearing the name Long Xiang, Cao Cao looked puzzled and puzzled.

"Long Xiang? Sun Quan's performance of the southern lieutenant of Jiujiang? I have never heard of this man before, do any of the princes in the palace know this person? ”

"It is said that he was the Marquis of Yuan Shu's army, and he was also the general of Chu Long, who killed Zheng Bao and defeated Sun Ce in Hefei last year, and broke Zhang Duo, captured Lei Xu, and retired Li Shu last month, and was very famous in Huainan." Xun Yu explained.

"Zheng Bao, Zhang Duo and other grass cowards are not worth mentioning, but they do have some skills to defeat Sun Ce, it seems that they are worth cultivating than Li Shu, what else does Wen Ruo know about him?"

Cao Cao suddenly became interested.

Xun Yu shook his head lightly: "Long Xiang became famous not long ago, I don't know enough about him, if the lord wants detailed information, he can send someone to Hefei to investigate..."

"That's all for later, since Sun Quan has played the official position of Long Xiang, the two must collude with each other, maybe he has been surrendered by Sun Quan, and the plan to raise tigers and wolves is dedicated by the right talents..."

When Cao Cao hesitated, Liu Xun suddenly got up and clenched his fists.

"Ming Gong, the last general probably knows something, this dragon Xiang, the word cloud, is about twenty years old this year, he was the Qu Hou under Qiao Rui, this person was originally unknown, but suddenly rose in Hefei, it seems that it was because of Lu Su's help..."

Some people died, but not completely......