Chapter 436: Drawing Salary from the Bottom of the Cauldron

The news between Liu Biao and Sun's father and son naturally spread from Yingwei to Cao Ang.

Seeing the two families arguing with each other here, Cao Ang couldn't help but smile.

That's what he actually wants to see.

Now Cao Ang is attacking Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zhan, and most of his troops are hoarded in the north.

There are not many defenders close to Jingzhou and Yangzhou.

If Liu Biao and the Sun Group hadn't fought so anxiously, it would have been inevitable that the two of them would have different intentions and sneak attack Cao Ang's rear.

But now, Liu Biao and the Sun Group are inseparable, so naturally they have no time to sneak attack themselves.

What's more, there is still such a tumor as Lu Bu in Yangzhou.

Cao Ang couldn't help frowning as he looked at Lu Bu's recent situation.

After he appeared, the matter of Chen Gong catching and releasing Cao Cao naturally did not happen, and Chen Gong would not have thrown himself under Lu Bu's command after several rounds.

However, the news from the shadow guard said that there was one more military advisor in Lu Bu's army, which would make Cao Ang a little curious about who this military advisor was.

So Cao Ang gave an order to the shadow guard, and while collecting news, he also checked who Lu Bu's military advisor was.

After reining in his thoughts, Cao Ang muttered to himself: "According to the time, the letter I wrote should have been delivered to Liu Yu and Han Fu." ”

Now Yuan Shao can't hold out, Yuan Tan and Yu Ban are facing each other on both sides of the Yellow River, and Xiahoudun and Cao Chun can't take Gongsun Chan for a while.

These three armies, totaling 300,000, consume an astronomical amount of grain and grass every day.

If it weren't for the great success of Tuntian's strategy, Cao Ang would not have been able to fight such a protracted war.

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On the other side, Liu Yu and Han Fu respectively received letters from Cao Ang.

Liu Yu and Han Fu, the two of them are Youzhou Thorn Shi and Jizhou Mu respectively.

As a result, one was in Youzhou, and was pressed by Gongsun Zhan to hold his head up, and the other was almost killed by Yuan Shao in Jizhou.

Now in Youzhou, Gongsun Chan is powerful, and Liu Yu can only retreat in the area of Daijun.

Gongsun Chan was originally Liu Yu's subordinate, but Gongsun Chan was ambitious, and he resisted foreign clans and established a lot of prestige, so he was able to grow in a short period of time.

Facing the aggressive Gongsun Zhan, although he was angry, he was helpless.

It wasn't until this time that Cao Ang led the army to attack, and Gongsun Chan and Cao Jun fought hard around Yanmen, which made Liu Yu see the hope of exterminating Gongsun Chan.

Especially after receiving Cao Ang's letter, Liu Yu was even more happy.

"Cao Ang's letter contains a secret edict of the Son of Heaven, asking me to send troops to attack Gongsun Zhan, copy his back road, and attack him with Xiahou Xuan!"

"In this way, Gongsun Chan will definitely be defeated, and the power of life and death in Youzhou will still fall into my hands!"

Thinking of the days when he was suppressed by Gongsun Chan in the past, Liu Yu became angry.

That Gongsun Zhan is obviously his subordinate, but he has repeatedly committed crimes, and even killed himself!

This time, I'm going to have to kill this guy even if I say anything!

After Liu Yu made up his mind, he immediately gathered his soldiers and horses and prepared to go to Yanmen to attack Gongsun Zhan.

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On the other hand, Han Fu had also received a letter from Cao Ang a long time ago.

Cao Ang had a life-saving grace for Han Fu, if it weren't for Cao Ang back then, Han Fu might have died in Yuan Shao's hands long ago.

Over the years, as a pastor in Jizhou, he didn't care about anything, and only shrank in Changshan Shiyi for a generation.

In this way, the people in Jizhou only know Yuan Shao, but they don't know him Han Fu.

"It's just a Bohai too guard, forcing me to almost die as a Jizhou pastor, this revenge, I can't help but revenge!"

Han Fu said angrily, and then began to mobilize troops and horses, preparing to attack.

However, it suddenly occurred to him that Cao Ang's letter had not yet been read.

So he hurriedly picked up the letter again and began to read it carefully.

After reading the letter, a smug smile appeared on Han Fu's face.

"Okay, it's worthy of Cao Zixuan, and he actually came up with a trick to draw salary from the bottom of the kettle."

Han Fu said proudly, and then set off from Changshan with people.

In Cao Ang's letter, the thing he said was also very simple, Han Fu, as the pastor of Jizhou, deserved the support of those wealthy families.

But after Yuan Shao came, with the name of the fourth and third dukes of the Yuan family, those wealthy families soon turned their heads to support him, and then slowly emptied Han Fu.

Now, Yuan Shao is too busy to take care of himself, and the general trend has gone.

What Cao Ang needs Han Fu to do, that is, to rebel against those wealthy families and make them no longer support Yuan Shao.

You must know that in addition to the Cao group, the remaining princes from all walks of life have to march to fight, and in addition to their own reserves, the military food is more borrowed from those wealthy families.

When the war is over, the debts will be paid off with taxes from some places.

Now, Yuan Shao and Gongsun Chan are doing just that.

Han Fu found those wealthy families door to door, carefully analyzed the pros and cons with them, and asked them not to support Yuan Shao anymore.

Even if it drags on, Yuan Shao will not be able to win, so that the Cao Group will lose money and food, and when Yuan Shao is defeated, they will be unlucky.

Although the Cao Group will not wield a butcher's knife at them, people have the power in their hands, and it is not a matter of minutes to give them small shoes.

After weighing the pros and cons, the families finally decided to believe Han Fu and no longer provide military rations to Yuan Shao.

At the same time, Han Fu also sent troops to be stationed in Handan Guangping, cutting off Yuan Shao's back road.

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In the city of Wei County, when Yuan Shao looked at his grain officials, all of them returned empty-handed, he couldn't help but be furious.

"What's the matter, let you go to transport military rations, why did you all come back empty-handed, could it be that they were robbed on the way?"

At this time, Yuan Shao was furious, the time and route of this escort of grain and grass are all secret, how could he be robbed, could it be that there was a spy in the army?

The three grain guards looked at each other, and finally one of them said helplessly: "Lord, this grain and grass is not a robbery, but those wealthy families are unwilling to give us grain and grass." ”

"What?" Yuan Shao was shocked when he heard this: "What the hell is going on?" ”

Seeing this, the grain officer continued to bite the bullet and said: "My lord, the last general asked a lot of people, and finally learned that it was Han Fu who had been lobbying various families to ask them not to provide us with military rations. ”

"How can it be!" Yuan Shao scolded angrily and slammed the bamboo slip in his hand to the ground.

When the three grain guards saw this scene, they trembled with fright.

Seeing this, he frowned slightly, waved his hand at the three grain officers, and motioned for them to go down.

At the same time, he stood in front of Yuan Shao and said, "The lord doesn't have to be angry, I think this is Cao Zixuan's strategy to draw salary." ”

(End of chapter)