Volume 2 The Rise of Jingzhou Chapter 287 - Yuan Tan's Plan
"Sir, please tell me more!"
Yuan Tan's eyes lit up directly after hearing Na Guo Tu's words, and then he continued to ask Na Guo Tu with a little smile.
"What the general is worried about is nothing more than whether there will be a risk of unloading the mill and killing the donkey after uniting with that Cao Mengde, but why doesn't the general want to think about it, what is Cao Mengde doing this for?
He was just worried that the general would cooperate with that Yuan Shang, or... What he's worried about is that the general is acting behind his back! ”
"Behind his back...."At this moment, after Yuan Tan heard Guo Tu's words, he finally understood, "You mean that Cao Mengde plans to let go of the east of Jizhou..."
Now Yuan Tan himself is in the eastern part of Jizhou, which is the so-called Pingyuan County, and Yuan Shang is confronting him outside the city.
As for Yecheng, the heartland of Jizhou, it is in the west of Jizhou, far away from them.
Yuan Tan didn't understand it a little before, but now Yuan Tan finally understood, so Cao Mengde didn't plan to come here to fight with them at all...
"It seems that the general already knows, the direction of Cao Mengde's attack has been carefully studied during this time, although their path is a division of troops, but in fact it is to start a war and attack around Naye City.
As for this land of the Nanpi Plain, although they had soldiers and horses advancing in this direction, they were not so much coming to flank Yuan Shang.
It is better to put pressure on Yuan Shang, forcing Yuan Shang to withdraw from the army and then turn back to Naye City.
Tu felt that if nothing else, on the way back to the army, Cao Mengde must have ambushed the soldiers and horses..."
When Guo Tu spoke, he also took the map of Jizhou to Yuan Tan, and then drew a route for marching and possible marching on it.
At the same time, a few locations are marked, which may be where there will be big problems.
Of course, these places say that Yuan Shang may have problems....
And it is enough to see from this map that he Guo Tu is not a guy who can only try to speak his tongue, and his skills in other aspects are also quite good.
Of course, this is also his Guo Tu's ability, after all, Guo Tu can become his core strategist by Yuan Shao's side, the biggest reason is not that he can speak, but that he understands Yuan Shao's mind, plus... He's an all-rounder!
Yuan Tan looked at Guo Tu in front of him, and he was really glad that he decided to keep Guo Tu by his side and sent Xin Ping to Yecheng as a hostage.
This Guo Tu is indeed an extremely useful strategist, although his reputation is very bad in the mouths of everyone, but no one can object to his merit and hard work and ability for so many years.
When there was no chaos in the world, he Guo Tu was already a planner under the command of Yingchuan Taishou Yin Xiu, and he had a lot of fame to be known.
After that, he and Xin Ping, Xun Chen, Gao Gan, and Zhang Dao relied on the three-inch incorruptible tongue to be stunned, and the huge Jizhou was changed from the hands of Han Envoy Jun to the hands of Yuan Fujun.
The benefits of this tongue can be seen, and the scheming calculation should not be underestimated!
After that, he lived one by one, turning the situation of the two sides competing for the position in Yingchuan, Hebei Province into a monopoly of the Yingchuan family.
Tian Feng was sent to prison by him, and he was so frustrated that he stopped talking, and if he hadn't been protected by Feng Ji, he would have been pressed down directly.
But even so, the military power of trial and frustration is gone.
In addition, Zhang He Gaolan was also suppressed by him, and old people like Chun Yuqiong and Xu You retreated into the background.
If it weren't for Yuan Benchu's defeat too quickly, if he waited a few more years for stability, and he Yuan Benchu would be a few years younger, then it might be possible to make Guo Tu look like something.
After all, with Yuan Benchu's ability and power at the beginning, he could succeed if he listened to anyone, and Guo Tu almost made him a Yiyantang in Yuzhou...
If it was that time .... Yuan Tan thought about it and knew that it was time to wake up from his sweet dream!
However, with Guo Tu's prompt, his Yuan Tan's plan in the future is also much simpler....
The war in Hebei was still continuing, and Yuan Shang really panicked immediately after hearing that Cao Mengde had won successive battles and that the generals he had left behind had surrendered one after another.
Ignoring everyone, the whole clan rushed directly towards Yecheng, wanting to take advantage of the fact that the encirclement had just closed, and directly rushed out of the Cao army's interception and turned to Yecheng to defend it.
But I never thought that I couldn't move an inch directly under the obstruction of Lejin.
Immediately followed by Zhang Liao led his troops to directly raid his rear, and under the attack of both sides, Yuan Shang's lost troops had no choice but to flee into Youzhou with some of his henchmen...
Most of the army under his command surrendered, and the generals under his command fought to the death except for Yuan Shao's die-hard loyalists such as Tao Sheng, and the others finally chose to surrender to Cao's army.
Faced with such a scene, Cao Mengde was of course overjoyed, and immediately led his soldiers and horses to drive straight in, preparing to surround Naye City.
Just when these soldiers and horses rushed towards Yecheng, and the defenders of all the counties and counties they passed were all looking forward to the wind, on the other side... The battlefields of the other two places had a big accident!
The first to have an accident was Yuan Tan.
This guy who married his daughter to Cao Mengde's son Cao Cheng with joy was when Cao Mengde defeated Yuan Shang and attacked Yecheng with all his might.
He suddenly rebelled, and then captured many counties such as Ganling, Anping, Bohai, and Hejian at a very fast speed, and for a time made a mess of Jizhou, which Cao Mengde had just obtained.
Not only that, but it was precisely because of his Yuan Tan's attack that Cao Mengde had to suspend the speed of attacking Yecheng, so that the judge had enough respite
The trial who got this opportunity took down all the Su Shang and others who had been exposed as soon as possible, and then beheaded them all.
At the same time, he shot again and beheaded Xin Ping, who Yuan Tan had left in this Yecheng, to avenge that this guy had attacked them with Guo Tu, and even Yuan Tan's grudge against his friend Feng Ji.
On the other hand, the biggest hidden danger has been avoided, Xin Bi has surrendered to Cao Mengde for a long time, who knows what this loyal Xin Ping will be.
Killed... It's a hundred!
And Ye Cheng directly became impregnable under such a toss in his trial, and several attacks made Cao Mengde lose his troops.
was so angry that Cao Mengde almost split his daughter-in-law he just got, if it weren't for Xun You, Guo Jia and others desperately protecting her, this woman would probably have died without a place to be buried.
But they don't care about this woman, they just don't want Cao Mengde to be too fast...
At the suggestion of Xun You and Guo Jia, Cao Mengde endured his anger and sent Yuan Tan's daughter back, and then immediately ordered an attack on Yuan Tan!
However, Yuan Tan also fully proved what it means to be called mud that can't support the wall.
Originally, in the early stage of the fight between Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang, the trial match also saw that if the two brothers were allowed to continue to fight like this.
I'm afraid that something big will happen, so he once gave Yuan Tan a secret letter.
No one knew what was written in this secret letter, but everyone knew that Yuan Tan was crying on the city wall after getting this letter...
If it weren't for Guo Tu by his side, maybe Yuan Tan would have surrendered at the beginning.
Now that Yuan Tan is blatantly rebelling against Cao Mengde at this time, he more or less has the idea of rescuing Yecheng.
But!
After attacking Cao Mengde's rear, this waste could have pulled Cao Mengde's army away with Yecheng, and then dragged Cao Mengde's army.
As a result, after capturing several places such as Ganling, Anping, Bohai, and Hejian, he directly turned his head and attacked Yuan Shang, who had just gained a foothold in Zhongshan.
This time he took revenge, although he did not completely kill Yuan Shang, but he also completely beat him to the point that he had no power to fight back.
But he not only made Yuan Shang's soldiers and horses cheap his second brother Yuan Xi for nothing, but also caused a big problem in the territory he had finally captured.
Because of his willfulness, Cao Mengde seized the opportunity to recapture the lost territory, forcing Yuan Tan to continue to trap Nanpi.
This time, even Guo Tu didn't know what to say.
Looking at Yuan Tan, who looked resolute, as if he had revenge, all he could do was to follow this guy's side!