The current situation in the world is actually quite obvious.

Yuan Shao is now the strongest prince in the Han Dynasty, there is no one, and the remaining other princes have a certain gap with Yuan Shao, so a pattern of one super and many strong has been formed.

If Yuan Shao sent a message calling on the princes to attack Xudu, Cao Cao was also worried that other people would really respond and would not be very friendly to him.

Hearing Cao Cao's question again, Chen Zhou said: "The lord can really rest assured, I said a long time ago that the princes who will fight with us, except for Liu Bei for a while, only Yuan Shao remains." Xiliang Ma Teng and Han Sui, now they are our people, and they will not intervene, Sun Ce's life will not be long, and Liu Biao will soon take care of himself. ”

Cao Cao asked, "Are you sure of Duzhi?" ”

"Definitely!"

Chen Zhou nodded affirmatively and said, "We only need to deal with Yuan Shao, and by the way, hit Liu Bei." ”

Cao Cao pondered for a long time, and ordered: "Zixuan, tell Yuan to let them continue to mobilize our army, first assemble in Guandu, build a defensive line, and at the same time order Mancheng to lead 20,000 troops to stay in Xudu, listen to Wen Ruo's transfer, and guard the safety of Xudu." ”

When they faced Yuan Shao, they were most worried about Xu Du's unstable factors.

It is conceivable that Liu Bei, who went out from Xu Du, would definitely help Yuan Shao contact the Son of Heaven, and the remaining ministers would resist.

This has to be guarded against.

Leaving 20,000 people to guard, and Xun Yu to stabilize the situation within the scope of Xudu, then it is enough.

"As for Liu Bei, how is Du Zhi going to deal with it?"

Cao Cao is still quite worried, the second battlefield that Chen Zhou often mentions.

Since neither Sun Ce nor Liu Biao will participate in the second battlefield, it will be much easier to deal with Liu Bei alone, but how to deal with Liu Bei needs to be considered.

Chen Zhou thought for a while and said, "Liu Bei can only gather thousands to 10,000 people, and he is vulnerable. ”

In history, this second battlefield opened up by Liu Bei was indeed vulnerable, and it was easily solved by Cao Hong, and the threat was not very great.

"The pro-soldiers trained by Childe have not really been on the battlefield yet."

"We can let them deal with Liu Bei, our main force, and continue to invest in dealing with Yuan Shao's battlefield."

"Then there is no need to disperse our main forces."

Chen Zhou analyzed.

Cao Cao asked, "Is it feasible to rely on Zixu's personal soldiers alone?" ”

Chen Zhou said with a smile: "The lord still underestimates it, the prince's group of soldiers wearing thick armor and holding new weapons, they are 5,000 people, even if they dare to rush in the face of 50,000 people, they are not much worse than Gao Boping's trapped camp." ”

Those thick armor and new weapons have not yet been officially put on the battlefield.

Cao Cao did underestimate its power, but seeing that Chen Zhou admired it so much, he agreed: "Then let Zi Xuan deal with Liu Bei, our main force, and continue to go north to fight Yuan Shao." ”

This is how the next strategy is determined.

Cao Ang had just gone down and was about to deliver the order, when Cao Ren ran in and said, "Big brother, we just got the news that Yuan Shao has started to transport grain from Liyang to cross the river. ”

The three armies did not move, and the grain and grass went first.

Yuan Shao will indeed transport grain in advance, and then cross the river with a large army after the transportation is finished.

"How much grain was transported?"

Cao Cao asked.

Cao Ren said: "According to our careful estimates, there are more than 5,000 truckloads of grain and grass in the early stage. ”

More than 5,000 cars!

When Cao Cao heard this number, his eyes lit up: "Grain and grass go first, Yuan Shao's army will definitely go back, it will take a certain amount of time for the whole army to cross the river, you immediately lead 20,000 troops to the north, rob Yuan Shao's more than 5,000 carts of grain and grass, take it away as much as you can, if you can't take it away, all the fire will be burned." ”

Even if it is burned, it will not be left for Yuan Shao.

It can't boost Yuan Shao's strength.

"Yes!"

Cao Ren left immediately, and he was going to lead the troops to attack Yuan Shao's grain and grass.

Now Cao Cao, there is no shortage of troops.

Unlike in history, it was only possible to use tens of thousands of people to fight Yuan Shao, and with the help of Chen Zhou, the current military strength development is only a little less than that of Yuan Shao.

In addition to the fact that the grain and grass can't keep up, this advantage is insufficient, which makes them hesitate, and if they really want to fight Yuan Shao, the strength is enough.

Even Yuan Shao couldn't have imagined that Cao Cao's development would be so fast.

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Dantu Mountain.

Sun Ce sat on his horse and walked slowly along the mountain path.

At this time, Zhou Yu, Lu Su and others had already become Sun Ce's subordinates, and they followed Sun Ce together, as well as generals such as Han Dang and Huang Gai, who also followed him.

They went into the mountains to hunt.

By the way, let's discuss, the general trend of the world today.

"Yuan Shao sent a document calling on the princes of the world to attack Xudu."

"One of the documents was sent to us."

"He also copied a copy of the edict of the Son of Heaven and sent it to us as well."

"Gongjin, Zijing, Zibu, what do you think?"

Sun Ce asked.

For Xu Du, he is also a little yearning.

Before joining forces with Cao Cao to fight Yuan Shu, and finally being squeezed out by Cao Cao, Sun Ce has always been worried about this matter, but at that time, not long after taking Jiangdong, there was no internal stability, and he did not dare to fight against Cao Cao.

Now everything is stable, and there are enough troops to develop.

Shanyue and Danyang soldiers are the most fierce, and his subordinates, there are also many of these soldiers, who are confident that they have the ability to deal with Cao Cao and share a piece of the pie with Yuan Shao.

When he saw Yuan Shao's essay, Sun Ce was moved.

"I can fight!"

Zhou Yu first said: "At least you can take Huainan and Lujiang, and then compete with Yuan Shao." Yuan Shao's Hebei army is all northerners, and it is not suitable for fighting in the south, after we take Huainan, we can still have enough time to counter the war and finally fight against Yuan Shao. ”

"Gong Jin is right."

Zhang Zhao agreed.

"Wouldn't it be risky to do that?"

Lu Su's thoughts are a little stable, and he doesn't like to take too many risks.

Zhou Yu said: "We don't take risks at all, sometimes, opportunities are we earned, if we don't seize this opportunity, Yuan Shao crosses the river and seizes Cao Cao's territory, we may not get anything." ”

Now the world is divided, and Yuan Shao's family is dominant.

When Yuan Shao destroyed Cao Cao, they wanted to seize the Huainan region, it would be even more difficult, to talk about foreign expansion, Liu Biao was not easy to fight, Sun Ce wanted to seize this opportunity and cut Huainan away.

"Someone."

"Pass my order, after returning from hunting, immediately secretly transfer troops, garrison troops to the south of the Yangtze River, and then prepare ships to go north."

"I'm going to cut the flesh behind their backs."

"I want to see if Yuan Shao has the ability to snatch Huainan and Lujiang away in my hands."

Sun Ce said loudly.

They all believed that Cao Cao could not be Yuan Shao's opponent.

First, because Yuan Shao was too strong, and second, they misjudged Cao Cao's strength.

How strong Cao Cao is now, even Yuan Shao can't figure it out.

After arranging this order, Sun Ce suddenly rose up and shouted: "Look how I shoot a tiger, celebrate before we go on the expedition, come with me!" ”

After speaking, he rode his horse and walked to the depths of Dantu Mountain.

His mount is a fast horse.

The speed is far more powerful than the others.

Running into the mountains and forests, the cavalry that followed was left far behind.

Han Dang, they couldn't keep up.

Sun Ce went deep into it, picked up the bow hanging on horseback, and was about to look for prey, when he saw three people suddenly come out from the front and block Sun Ce's way.