Chapter 229 Xu You offers a plan to break down Cao Cao
"Hahaha!" Cao Cao laughed.
"Xu You???"
"Xu You is Yuan Shao's mastermind! Can they really be alienated so easily?" Xun You asked doubtfully.
At this time, Cheng Yu suddenly thought of something, so he asked: "Chang Sheng, tell me honestly, is your shadow guard doing something secretly again?"
Lu Yan smiled and pointed at Guo Jiada: "Then you have to ask him. I basically don't care about the shadow guard now."
Everyone looked at Guo Jia, but Guo Jia shook his head in confusion, which made everyone even more confused.
Lao Cao and Lu Yan are a little too weird, there is no logic at all!
"We are just cheating, what nonsense logic!" Lu Yan snorted coldly in his heart, thinking secretly in his heart.
Now that everything has been said, Lu Yan stopped hiding it and said to everyone: "Guo Tu is a narrow-minded person who loves great achievements.
He originally wanted to replace Tian Feng as Yuan Shao's mastermind, but after Yuan Shao imprisoned Tian Feng, he made Xu You the mastermind.
Therefore, Guo Tu has always held a grudge against Xu You in his heart. If Guo Tu discovers Xu You's weakness at this time, he will definitely slander Yuan Shaojin secretly."
Xun Yu suddenly said: "Although Xu You has a strategy, he is a little greedy. I'm afraid his family will be even more unscrupulous..."
"So, if Guo Tu finds out about Xu You, he will definitely attack Xu You!" Cheng Yu added.
At this time, Jia Xu, who had been fishing with his eyes half closed, also opened his eyes and joined in: "Fengxiao's shadow guard will have room to show off again..."
"The shadow guards have actually collected a lot of information related to Xu You, so my subordinates immediately sent someone to send a message to the shadow guards in Jizhou, asking them to expose some evidence to Guo Tu in a 'just right' way..."
When Guo Jia said this, he smiled and instinctively touched his waist to drink something, but suddenly found that his wine bag was gone...
"Disappointing..."
Cao Cao didn't care whether Guo Jia was a spoiler or not, he really had a great time today!
If we can really drive a wedge between Xu You and force Xu You to vote, then the key to victory mentioned by Lu Yan will come as promised!
"The defeat of Yuan Shao is just around the corner. Please encourage me to do so together with Cao!" Cao Cao bowed his hands and saluted everyone.
Lu Yan and others quickly stood up and returned the greeting to Cao Cao: "I will encourage you with my lord (Cao Gong)!"
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In mid-September of the third year of Jian'an.
In the Battle of Guandu, Cao and Yuan had been at a stalemate.
But in the past two days, Yuan Shao's army almost broke through Cao Jun's first city wall twice.
Although Cao Jun built two city walls, everything was difficult at the beginning. As long as the first city wall was breached, the difficulty of breaching the second city wall would definitely be greatly reduced.
After the fighting ended during the day, Cao's camp was heavily guarded.
Xu You keenly noticed the slight anomaly of Cao Jun. So as soon as the sky darkened, Xu You took a group of scouts and took a detour from other places to sneak outside Cao Jun's camp to carefully investigate.
Yuan Jun's camp.
Guo Tu looked at the letter sent from his hometown in Jizhou in his hand. He could not help but reveal a sneer at the corner of his mouth and said sarcastically:
"Xu You, Xu You! When you took away my position as mastermind, did you ever expect that one day you would fall into the hands of me, Guo Gongze!"
Xu You really didn't expect... He thought that even if everyone had different political opinions or fought for the interests of their own groups, the most they would do was run against each other and say some disgusting things.
He never thought that Guo Tu, a man with no moral integrity, would secretly collect evidence of his family's corruption and perversion of the law, trying to beat him to the end...
A sinister smile appeared on the corner of Guo Tu's mouth, he shoved the letter in his hand firmly into his arms, stood up and walked towards Yuan Shao's handsome tent.
The sky had completely darkened. Yuan Shao was sitting behind the desk, still looking at a map on the desk.
Guo Tu shouted outside the tent: "Lord, I have something important to report!"
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Yuan Shao heard Guo Tu's voice and said, "Come in."
Yuan Shao glanced at Guo Tu, who was walking in quickly, and asked: "Gongze, do you have anything to report for coming so late?"
Guo Tu behaved as gentle and graceful in front of Yuan Shao as always. He took a few deep breaths. After he took a deep breath, he handed over his hand and replied: "Back to my lord, there is news from Jizhou about the wine sacrifice Xu You... Subordinate
I originally wanted to wait until after the battle to tell the Lord, but after thinking about it, I thought it would be better to tell the Lord first!"
Guo Tu took out the letter from his arms and handed it to Yuan Shao with both hands.
Yuan Shao took the letter, glanced at Guo Tu, who had a low eyebrow, and then opened it to read.
The more he looked, the deeper Yuan Shao's brows furrowed.
There were only a few sentences in the letter, but the content made Yuan Shao very angry. It probably meant: "Xu You's family is corrupt and perverts the law, has no discipline, and plunders people's wealth and anointing. They have committed a heinous crime... Shen Pei."
"My lord, Xu You has always been trusted by the lord, and even appointed him as an extremely important mastermind. But Xu You is greedy and allows his family members to take bribes and bend the law... He also said..."
Speaking of this, Guo Tu raised his eyes and glanced at Yuan Shao, deliberately looking embarrassed.
Yuan Shao slapped the letter on the table and asked sternly: "Xu You, what else did he say?!"
Guo Tu bowed his hands, not daring to look directly at Yuan Shao, and said: "Xu You said... If he had listened to his plan earlier, General Yan Liang, Wen Chou would not have been defeated and died in battle!"
"Arrogant!" Yuan Shao was furious. He was about to send someone to fetch Xu You, but suddenly there were hurried footsteps and Xu You's brisk shouts outside.
"My lord! My lord! My lord!"
Yuan Shao snorted coldly, temporarily suppressing the anger in his heart.
The footsteps outside the tent stopped, and the guard's voice came, "Your Majesty, please offer me some wine to see me!!"
"Come in!" Yuan Shao tried to keep his voice as normal as possible. He wanted to see what Xu You was up to.
Xu You walked into the camp and trotted all the way to Yuan Shao.
However, when Xu You was saluting Yuan Shao, he caught a glimpse of Guo Tu, who was standing about two or three meters away. His face suddenly looked like he was constipated, and he greeted, "Gongze is here too."
Guo Tupi smiled and replied, "I've seen Xu Jijiu."
Although Xu You was a little disgusted by Guo Tu's existence, when he thought of the top-secret information he had received today, he immediately put Guo Tu's trouble in the back of his mind.
He looked at Yuan Shao, with a smile on his face, and said: "My lord, during the past two days of fighting with Cao's army, I saw something unusual about Cao's soldiers. Therefore, tonight, my subordinates led the scouts to take a detour to Cao's camp to investigate in person."
"Oh? What did you find out?"
"Oh, my lord, don't be impatient...please let me explain in detail."
Xu You still wanted to give him a pass, but unexpectedly Yuan Shao ignored him at all and lowered his head to look at the map again...
Xu You hit a soft nail and did not dare to play hard-to-get tricks anymore. He simply said directly: "My lord, I and the scouts have been guarding Cao Jun's camp for nearly two hours. Then Cao Jun's camp was in just two hours." , there was a group of grain transport soldiers coming in and out three or four times."
Yuan Shao was finally interested, raised his head and asked: "Why is this?"
Xu You smiled proudly, stroking the goat's short beard under his chin, and said: "I thought that the food and grass in Cao's camp must be running out, so I used this method to confuse the soldiers in an attempt to maintain morale and order."
Yuan Shao thought it made sense, so he nodded and said, "Continue."
Xu You cupped his hands and continued: "Then I waited patiently around, and sure enough, at midnight, a knight rushed out of Cao's camp and headed straight to the east!"
"My subordinates immediately sent scouts to catch up, then shot him over with random arrows, and finally found a letter from the cavalry general!"
After finishing speaking, Xu You took out a piece of flimsy letter paper from his sleeve, handed it to Yuan Shao, and said, "My lord, please read it!"
After Yuan Shao took the letter, Xu You continued: "Then Cao Cao actually sent people to Xuzhou to urge for food. It seems that the food and grass in his Yanzhou base camp have been exhausted!"
After Yuan Shao read it, he raised his eyebrows, looked at Xu You and asked, "What do you think should be done?"
Xu You showed a wise smile again and said: "My lord, now we are at a stalemate with Cao Cao's main force in Guandu. Cao Cao is running out of food and grass and is at the end of his war...
The subordinates thought that we should divide our troops into two groups, one with an army of 100,000 to continue the feint attack on Guandu; the other with an army of 300,000 to take a detour and attack Xuchang directly! No matter which route succeeds, Cao Cao will be in ruins, and the lord will annex Cao Cao's power. It’s just a matter of time!”