In Houqiu City, Mi Zhen said to Mi Fang: "Brother, you have made mistakes several times. If you wait for others to save you now, you will only deceive others and even harm the Mi family."
Mi Fang's expression was quite ugly, "My little sister is too alarmist, the matter may not be that serious!"
Mi Zhen's face showed anger, "I misjudged my brother. At that time, he actually used the people of Qu City as bait. How could this be done by the county governor!"
Mi Fang looked unhappy after hearing this, "Little sister, if I don't do this, I'm afraid that we will all fall into the hands of the enemy. As a woman, what will happen to you then? You don't need to say more for my brother, right?"
Mi Zhen's face was cold, "I will probably die by then!"
"Brother, how should you explain when you meet Liu Yuzhou?"
After hearing this, Mi Fang's face became uncertain, "Don't worry about these things. Although what I did was not appropriate, I have a clear conscience!"
Mi Zhen sneered: "Brother, do you really have a clear conscience?"
"Brother, I thought of a way to appease the people and defend the city!"
"Master Xian Yi is in Haixi. He can come to your rescue in less than half a day. Why should I run away in a hurry?"
"I thought that the army was coming, so I was forced to abandon the city. Later I realized that I didn't even find out much about the enemy's situation, so I opened the city and fled!"
"What do you think, brother?"
Mi Fang's face became even more ugly, and she gritted her teeth and said, "You don't have to worry about this."
"You just need to know that I am thinking about the Mi family."
Seeing that Mi Fang didn't listen to the advice, Mi Zhen sighed softly and turned around to leave. As a woman, she couldn't do anything now.
Xun You looked at Houqiu City in the distance and smiled at Cao Ren: "I'm afraid Mi Fang has completely lost her mind..."
"I don't know if it's because he was too stupid to react, or because he didn't have the courage to show up, but no matter what he does now, he is just an insect twisting on the fishing line."
"The more it moves, the bigger the fish will be attracted."
Luring Mi Fang to Houqiu and besieging it can be said to be a key link in the entire plan. For this reason, Cao Ying's counselors came up with a series of plans and calculations, and finally achieved their goal.
Mi Fang's abandonment of the city was not accidental, but Cao Ying's counselor pretended to be Yuan Tan's secret envoy and reached a deal with Mi Fang, allowing him to take the opportunity to abandon the East China Sea. After the event was completed, Mi Fang would receive compensation that far exceeded that of the East China Sea governor.
As expected, Mi Fang fell into the trap. When he learned that there were Taishan bandits outside the city, he thought the opportunity had come and decisively abandoned the city. However, it was not until Cao Jun, whom he pretended to be Taishan bandits, was intercepted at the ferry that he realized something was wrong, but it was already too late.
Xun You could even imagine Mi Fang's helpless and furious look, and sneered in his heart. Those who betray their lord will not have a good end. Mi Fang's current situation is entirely his own fault.
Mi Fang is now mute and eating Coptis chinensis, unable to express her sufferings, and will even try her best to cover up the matter. If the truth is revealed, the Mi family, including himself, will be doomed!
Xun You sneered in his heart, Mi Fang's pants were gone because of the scheme, but they had not been squeezed dry yet, and they could still be used as fishing bait to exert the last remaining value.
Two big fish were caught.
Now everything is ready, just waiting for the fish to bite the hook, which makes Xun You feel a little proud.
Cao Ren saw Xun You's confident look and said worriedly: "I'm afraid they won't come. If so, this plan will fail."
Xun You smiled and said: "Indeed, if both sides hold back, we may only be able to achieve the goal of seizing the East China Sea in this battle. This is obviously a bit disappointing."
"But I guess based on the personalities of both parties, they won't sit idly by and ignore it."
Seeing Xun You's confident look, Cao Ren muttered in his heart, but he knew that there were some things he should ask and some things he shouldn't ask.
In order to design Xuzhou this time, Cao Cao not only sent Li Dian, Xia Houen and others disguised as Taishan bandits to attack Qucheng, Cao Hongle entered the siege of Houqiu City, but also secretly sent an elite ambush led by Cao Ren and Xunyou for insurance!
It can be said that Cao Jun is bound to win Xuzhou, and he has made careful plans for the two big fish he wants to lure out!
Houqiu is besieged and Tancheng is threatened. Unless Liu Bei ruthlessly abandons the East China Sea, he will inevitably lead an army to rescue him.
Although Liu Bei faced Yuan Shu's army, he might be unable to retreat and wait for the rescue of Yuan Xi's army in Guangling City to break the siege. However, Guangling was also attacked by Yuan Shu's army and was overwhelmed with self-care, making it almost impossible to send reinforcements.
Therefore, Liu Bei is likely to cut off his strength and abandon Xiapi, or withdraw his entire army to the East China Sea, or divide his forces to rescue Houqiu.
The possibility of the latter is very high. After all, Cao Hongming only had a few thousand soldiers besieging the city. It seemed that Guan Yu and Zhang Fei could lead an army of 5,000 alone and relieve Houqiu.
This is the right number for Cao Jun, and Cao Jun has several follow-up responses.
Either sit back and wait for the rabbit, or attack him halfway. As long as either Guan Yu or Zhang Fei is killed and Liu Bei loses his arm, there is nothing to worry about.
But that's not the most important thing.
In this plan, including the gains and losses in the East China Sea, these are all added up.
Its real and greatest purpose is the Yuan family’s fierce tiger!
Cao's trusted generals all received an order.
At any cost, lure out and kill the ferocious tiger!
In the past few years, the fierce tiger has caused a lot of trouble for the Cao family. After a long discussion, the Cao family's counselors finally reached a consensus.
Must kill the ferocious tiger!
Originally, at this point in time, it was extremely risky to kill the children of the Yuan family. If Yuan Shao knew the truth, he would probably fall out with the Cao family immediately.
So Cao made a lot of preparations, including pretending to be a Taishan bandit and attacking in Qucheng, just to frame the blame.
Of course, this clumsy strategy can be easily exposed. Afterwards, as long as Yuan Tan, the governor of Qingzhou, investigates the troops under his jurisdiction, the secret will be exposed easily.
But the Cao family has already made a plan among them.
Yuan Tan had the motive to kill Yuan Xi.
Since the birth of Yuan Xi's two sons, the matter of Yuan's inheritance has become confusing again, and Yuan Xi has actually become a thorn in the side of Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang.
In the eyes of outsiders, both brothers already had the motive to kill Yuan Xi.
Especially for Yuan Tan, the Cao family has several evidences of his previous conspiracy against Yuan Xi. When the time comes to kill Yuan Xi and throw them out, Yuan Tan will not be able to clear out even if he jumps into the Yellow River.
Moreover, the strategy that Cao Cao's counselors came up with is almost a conspiracy, because with Yuan Tan's character, even if he learns the inside story, he might be happy to see it come to fruition. After all, Yuan Xi's death will be more beneficial to him!
Yuan Tan is in Qingzhou. Once Yuan Xi dies, Yuan Tan can openly and openly occupy the Youzhou and Xuzhou territories left by Yuan Xi!
For Yuan Tan, who is currently confined to Qingzhou and the surrounding territory is blocked by his two brothers, what would he think if such a big temptation is placed in front of him?
This strategy speaks directly to people's hearts. It is the conclusion reached after accurately predicting Yuan Tan's thoughts, that is, Yuan Tan will sit back and ignore it. Even if he knows the truth, he will most likely pretend to be stupid!
As for whether the fierce tiger will come to rescue Houqiu, Cao Ying's counselors are divided.
Some people think that it will definitely come, because Yuan Xi has led Xuzhou Mu, and when Cao Jun slaughters several cities, Yuan Xi will definitely be unable to hold back and come out to stop it.
However, some people think that although Yuan Xi cherishes his reputation, he is cunning. In this case, he is likely to send his generals here, and he will not personally be in danger.
The key to the matter is Yuan Xi. As long as he survives, killing several of his generals will not help the ultimate goal.
Moreover, Cao Jun also had a huge weakness.
No navy!
If Yuan Xi sticks to the waterway, Cao Jun will be unable to do anything to him!
Therefore, Cao Ying still has plans for this, but only a few people know the key points, not even Cao Hong's team.
Now the generals of Cao's army are like patient and cold hunters, waiting for the target to step into the trap step by step.
In Qu city, Lu Xun stood up and stopped in front of Yuan Xi, saying flatly: "Xun firmly opposes sending you out of the city."
"The situation outside the city is unknown, the enemy is unknown, and there are still one or two hundred miles away from Houqiu. Do you still want to save Mi Fang?"
"Didn't you really go there because of that girl from the Mi family?"
After Jushou heard this, he couldn't help laughing and said: "Bo Yan is so anxious. He is usually a humble gentleman, but he can be forced to act like this."
Lu Xun knew that he had made a mistake and couldn't help but blush. He was still strong enough to say: "Then Cao Mengde openly attacks Liu Yuzhou, so he must have something to rely on. What if his intention is the young master?"
"If something happens to the young master among the rebellious troops, we can completely assume that he didn't know it!"
Yuan Xi and Jushu looked at each other and couldn't help laughing. He asked someone to take out a map, spread it on the table, and said to Lu Xun: "Of course I don't know that this matter is very strange."
"But staying in the city may not be the solution."
"Bo Yan also read the military information sent back from all around. If he has any thoughts on the current situation, he can deduce it on the map."
After hearing this, Lu Xun immediately picked up a charcoal pen and circled the cities of Houqiu, Tancheng, Qucheng, Haixi, Xiapi and Guangling.
Then he drew a few arrows around several circles to represent possible directions of march and strength, and then began to speak.
He spoke very carefully, constantly changing the direction of the arrows and increasing or decreasing the number of arrows. Sometimes when the deduction was no longer possible, Jushu would give some advice, and Lu Xun suddenly figured it out and continued drawing.
After talking for two hours, Lu Xun was sweating profusely and almost exhausted. He put down the almost used charcoal and said to Yuan Xi: "These are dozens of changes that Xun can think of."
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"Most of them are extremely detrimental to the envoy, and there may be a few enemy ambushes missed."
"No matter what the situation is, it's not easy for us to deal with."
"Therefore, I advise you not to leave the city."
Yuan Xi smiled at Jushou and said, "What do you think of Boyan's words?"
Jushou stroked his beard and said with a smile on his face, "I'm afraid that within five years, I won't have anything to teach you."
"The proudest thing I have done in the past few years is that I snatched this disciple from Fengxiao."
Yuan Xi thought to himself that what Lu Xun just said was right, and it was much more thoughtful than he thought.
However, the only thing Lu Xun didn't know was what he wanted to do.
He said: "I admit, Boyan said it very well."
"Normally speaking, I should wait for help from Guangling, Youzhou."
"But Cao Cao wants to kill me, so why don't I?"
"He forced me to leave the city, but he also had his reasons for leaving the city."
"This is the most golden opportunity to weaken the strength of Cao's army. If I don't leave my children, I can't trap the wolf. If I don't win, how will they be fooled?"
Lu Xun just understood what Yuan Xi wanted to do and lost his voice: "It's too dangerous!"
Although he knew that Cao Cao was indeed difficult to calculate, Yuan Xi had no choice but to have this idea, but it was still too reckless to take risks himself!
And how could we know that it wasn't Cao Cao who figured out what Yuan Xi was thinking and instead tried to use it to his advantage?
Jushu sighed: "I knew the young master would think so."
"But have you ever thought about what role Yuan Qingzhou played in it?"