Seeing this situation, Cao Jun naturally knew what it meant and hurriedly came out to make trouble, but the archer of Shen Pei had already prepared and shot the archers back together.
This matter was very urgent. Cao Cao once again summoned his advisers to ask for solutions. Liu Ye came out to make suggestions and said, "Just make some cars that can throw stones."
So Cao Cao asked Liu Ye to take the lead and made some catapults, then distributed the positions inside the fence, and then turned the shooting direction toward the small pile of soil that Yuan Jun was building, and then sent a small number of soldiers out and pretended to attack.
, guided the inspector to order arrows to be fired, and then asked the other soldiers in the camp to operate the catapult cart together, and then projected the transported stones out.
Since archers are shooting arrows in fixed places, there is no way to avoid them. The attack range of stones is very wide, and various stones fly around for a while, and Yuan Jun was killed and injured.
Many Yuan Jun were also killed by stones, and many of them were afraid, and gave Cao Jun a name, called "Pili Chariot".
Seeing that Yuan Jun gradually did not dare to shoot arrows, Shen Pei went to Yuan Shao and offered another plan, saying: "In this situation, I'm afraid that it would not work well with the mound of soil. It would be better for us to secretly send some people to dig a passage and directly lead to Cao Jun.
On the side, we are called the Die Scouts.”
Yuan Shao had no opinion at all, and someone came up with a plan and happened to use it, so he adopted it.
So Cao's army discovered that Yuan's army did not continue to make small mounds, but began to dig soil pits. This situation was told by Cao Cao, and Cao Cao immediately came to Liu Ye to ask.
Liu Ye said: "This is why Yuan's army cannot attack openly, so they turn to digging passages secretly, hoping to open a tunnel from underground to our camp."
Cao Cao said: "How should we deal with it?"
Liu Ye said: "This is very simple. You can dig some trenches around our camp and install some earthen walls. Then their secret passages will have no meaning."
So Cao Cao ordered the soldiers to do this overnight. Yuan Jun dug half of it and found that he could not dig it, so he spent some time.
So the two armies began to confront each other, using Guandu as the dividing point, Cao Cao guarded Guandu, and Yuan's army launched some attacks from time to time, starting from August and ending in September. After a month, the soldiers gradually began to get tired.
, The food and grass began to be a little short of it.
Cao Cao was very worried every day and hesitated. He was about to give up Guandu and return to his base camp Xuchang to guard. However, he still wanted to discuss this matter with some people, so he asked someone to write a letter to Xun Yu.
After reading it, Xun Yu immediately wrote a reply, which read: "I will answer the doubts of whether to go or guard according to the request of the Lord. I know that Yuan Shao has now mobilized the entire Hebei force and wants to win the referendum with the lord.
The lord must turn the weakest force into the strongest force. If he cannot suppress the opponent from his momentum, he will definitely give the opponent some chances. This is also an opportunity to determine the world. Although Yuan Shao has a large number of soldiers, he cannot be completely
Using it, although the lord doesn’t have many soldiers, he is wise and powerful, so what are you worried about? Now our strength is very small, not as good as the strength of the Chu and Han army when the Chu army was fighting against the Qin army. Now
Draw the ground into a prison, pinch the other person's throat and prevent the other person from moving forward. As long as this momentum is preserved, there will definitely be great variables. This is the time to use a strange strategy, and you must not miss this opportunity. I hope the lord can observe it clearly."
Xun Yu's words followed Cao Cao's confidence in continuing to persist. He was very happy and ordered the soldiers to do their best to guard Guandu.
Because Yuan Jun could not take advantage for the time being, he retreated for more than 30 miles. Cao Cao sent his generals to patrol. A general of Xu Huang caught a thin work lurking on Yuan Shao and tied it with a rope to see him.
Xu Huang and Xu Huang asked about the situation in Yuan Shao’s army and replied: “There is not a lot of food and grass in the team now. Every morning and evening, a general named Han Meng will transport food and grass over. He will order us to come and explore the way.”
Xu Huang thought this information was very important and immediately told Cao Cao.
Cao Cao asked for advice from the counselor Xun You and replied, "I know that Han Meng is the bravery of an ordinary man. If he sends a thousand people to take some cavalry and fight out halfway to intercept their food and grass, then Yuan Shao's army will definitely be in chaos.
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Cao Cao nodded and asked, "Who is more suitable to do this?"
Xun You replied: "Let Xu Huang go, you will definitely get good results."
So Cao Cao sent Xu Huang and his generals to intercept Yuan Shao's food and grass. In order to prevent other situations from happening, he sent Zhang Liao and Xu Qian to pick him up.
That night, Han Meng indeed escorted thousands of transport vehicles to the front line to transport food and grass, and the priority was naturally Yuan Shao's commander's camp. While walking, suddenly, Xu Huang and his generals appeared in the valley and intercepted the way.
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Han Meng rode a horse to make a duel with Xu Huang, and the two immediately fought together, while Xu Huang's general went to the grain and grass to cause trouble, burning the other party's grain and grass with fire.
Han Meng's martial arts skills were not as good as Xu Huanggao. After fighting for several rounds, he couldn't afford to eat and was ready to escape. Xu Huang thought there was too much food and grass and could not be transported away, so he asked everyone in the team to light the fire and burn Yuan Jun's food and grass.
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In Yuan Shao's army, he saw a huge fire in the northwest direction, and a strong smell of smoke came from. He was puzzled. Suddenly, some defeated soldiers shouted: "The food and grass were intercepted by the enemy."
Yuan Shao quickly sent Zhang He and Gao Lan to check the situation to see if there was a solution. He happened to meet Xu Huang and the soldiers burned the food and prepared to go back, so he continued to fight. Suddenly, Zhang Liao and the soldiers brought by Xu Qian attacked together.
Yuan's army was surrounded and killed and fled everywhere. The four generals sent by Cao Cao combined their troops and horses to return to Guandu together to tell the story of intercepting food and grass.
This incident inspired the spirit of Cao's army. Cao Cao was very happy and rewarded him heavily. Then he let the soldiers travel in front of the camp and turn them into a form of horns.
Han Meng was so naughty that he returned to Yuan Jun camp. Yuan Shao was just hungry and knew that the food had been intercepted. He was very angry and prepared to kill Han Meng. Everyone hurriedly pleaded for mercy and was exempted from punishment.
Shen Pei said: "During the march, food is a very important thing. We must find ways to beware of it. Wuchao is an important place for us to hoard grain. We must find ways to send serious illness handles."
Yuan Shao said: "My plan to prepare for food and grass has been decided. You can go back to Yecheng to supervise the food and grass situation. This must not happen again."
Shen Pei sighed and left, so Yuan Shao sent general Chunyu Qiong, with generals such as Han Tiaozi, and more than 20,000 troops to guard Wuchao, the food and grass transit place.
At first, Chunyu Qiong was not very happy and thought that he could not take up the glory of killing the enemy on the field, but he went to the most uninteresting place, which was to guard the food and grass, so he was much more neglected.
He thought there would be nothing wrong with Wuchao. After a few days, he even became alert and asked people to make some good wine and started to find someone to drink. At first, Yuan Jun was disciplined very strictly and was willing to drink with Chunyu Qiong.
However, Chunyu Qiong relied on his identity as the head coach and beat and scolded soldiers at all times, and finally forced some people to become drinkers. So everyone gave up and held a drink in Wuchao.