Listening to the wind is rain. Plus the soft ears and the heart is active. This is exactly Yuan Shu’s usual weakness.
At this time, Sima Fang said everything he should say, pretending to be drunk and withdrawing from the seat. He said goodbye the next day and left. But Yuan Shu was having fun here.
Since Yuan Shu attacked Liu Ming and sent Hua Xin to help him, he originally planned to take advantage of Ma Chao's troubles in Cao Cao, and Cao Cao had to guard against Liu Ming and could not be separated. Yuan Shu was preparing to take this opportunity to send troops to Yanzhou and seize Cao Cao's foundation.
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But now, Sima Fang sent by Cao Cao swore this little wind, and Yuan Shu was afraid that after he drove Cao Cao away, he would become Cao Cao's scapegoat, and he would face Liu Ming directly and fight against Liu Ming.
Moreover, Yuan Shu was also afraid that Liu Bei would become a climate in Yangzhou, so he would give himself a knife behind his back.
Yuan Shu thought about it before and after thinking about it, what was wrong, so he summoned the ministers to discuss it.
Staff Yang Hong said, "Cao Cao held the royal family and thought it was orthodox, and he attacked him recklessly, and was despised by the people of the world. Therefore, it was not taken by the wise."
Lord Bo Yan Xiang also spoke: "When today, heroes will rise together and controversy will continue to stop. The lord should accumulate and prosper. Looking for the strong to think of the alliance, looking for the weak to think of the weak to swallow, waiting for the foundation to be stable and full of wings, you should be able to do the achievements of the five hegemons.
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Even Yuan Shu's commander Zhang Xun was scared by Guan Yu's troops and horses, and did not want to destroy Cao Cao and become an enemy of that terrifying existence.
Therefore, Zhang Xun also advised Yuan Shu: "Lord, Cao Cao and Liu Ming are neighbors, each fighting for the enemy and each losing their strength. If Cao Cao wants to grow, it will be impossible. Moreover, now that Ma Chao is in chaos in Cao Cao's territory, Cao Cao's strength will only be
Therefore, Cao Cao is not afraid of it. Instead, it can become a barrier between us and the Grand Marshal Liu Ming. If we attack Cao Cao and take over Yanzhou, we will be neighbors with the Grand Marshal Liu Ming. Although the lord is strong
Heavy, but the strength of the Grand Marshal Liu Ming is even more unfathomable. Even if the lord can compete with the Grand Marshal Liu Ming, the strength of the lord will be consumed in the battle with the Grand Marshal Liu Ming. Moreover, Liu Bei stationed his troops in Yangzhou, and it was reported the day before yesterday that
Even the Jiangdong tiger Sun Bofu suppressed the lord's tiger, which was powerless to breathe. It was actually a lord's confidant. If the lord attacked Cao Cao against Liu Ming, then Liu Bei took the opportunity to attack the lord's back and seized the lord's foundation. The lord was attacked from both sides and the lord was in danger. Therefore,
Attacking Cao Cao is the best strategy. It is better to take advantage of Liu Bei's wings and Sun Jian's battle, and we will join forces with Sun Jian to annex Yangzhou in one fell swoop and expand the foundation of the lord. Then, when Ma Chao consumed Cao Cao's strength almost.
, Let's return troops to annex Ma Chao and Cao Cao in one fell swoop, so that we can accumulate enough strength to fight against the Grand Marshal Liu Ming. At that time, the lord will make great achievements, wouldn't it be great?"
Originally, Yuan Shu had already heard that his two counselors opposed his attack on Cao Cao, and his mind had already been active, and Zhang Xun's words even more spoken to Yuan Shu's mind.
Yuan Shu immediately sent an order to send 150,000 troops to attack Shouchun in three groups.
The army was in charge, with Chen Lan as the commander, leading 30,000 troops to the left.
The second army was commanded by Lei Bo. He led 30,000 troops on the right.
The third army appointed Zhang Xun as the general, led 50,000 troops, and commanded the entire army.
Finally, Yuan Shu also sent his confidant general Ji Ling as the commander of the Three Routes, leading 40,000 troops to support the three Routes, in order to win in one battle.
It is not for now that Liu Bei suffered under the joint attack of Yuan Shu and Sun Jian.
It is said that while Cao Cao sent Sima Fang to persuade Yuan Shu, Cao Cao also sent Man Chong to Zhang Xiu to comfort him.
Man Chong went to Zhang Xiu and said to Zhang Xiu: "The day before yesterday, Liu Bei was rumored to rebel, and the general did not distinguish right from wrong, so he brought troops to help the evildoer. Now my prime minister defeated the bandits and wanted to attack him, but he thought about the general's former subordinates, Dong Gong, who is now a guest living.
In this case, my prime minister and Mr. Dong had an alliance, so it would not be investigated. However, now the traitor Ma Chao gathered in Huang Turban's old subordinates and thought it was a chaos. In this country's crisis, my prime minister did not want the general to make mistakes and harm him.
Your own innocence. As long as the general can fulfill his loyal duties, manage your territory well, and avoid the spread of the Yellow Turban bandits, my prime minister should make contributions to the general and support the general's military rations to help the military."
The things in front were all empty and were of no use to Zhang Xiu, but the 30,000 dan of military rations that Cao Cao had given in the end really touched Zhang Xiu.
Zhang Xiu's subordinates were all military generals, with few governance talents. Zhang Xiu was sandwiched between several major forces and had to expand his strength. Now Zhang Xiu's soldiers and horses all made Zhang
After eating, Xiu was clean and she could only rely on Liu Biao's support. Therefore, when Chen Gong used military rations as bait, he immediately persuaded Zhang Xiu and personally led his troops to rescue Liu Bei and fight against Cao Cao.
Now, Man Chong once again used military rations as bait and suddenly hit Zhang Xiu's weakness again.
However, Zhang Xiu still asked tentatively: "The great virtue of Cao Gong, I will never forget it. Now Ma Chao is in trouble. Does Cao Gong need his general to send troops to serve? If so, I will be a general to be a dog and horse,
Repay the great virtues of Cao Gong.”
Zhang Xiu used words to test Man Chong. I want to know whether the harm caused by Ma Chao to Cao Cao was serious. If Cao Cao had been entangled by Ma Chao at this time and needed help, Zhang Xiu would not mind Cao Cao's body.
A piece of meat comes down.
Unfortunately, the person Zhang Xiu tested was wrong. What did Man Chong do? He is an old diplomat. He is really versatile and can be seen at a glance. Compared with Zhang Xiu's diplomatic level, that is the comparison between beginners and masters.
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Zhang Xiu just revealed a sound, and Man Chong understood everything. Man Chong secretly laughed: Zhang Xiu, don’t do this, I understand. Don’t you just want to know what the situation is in my prime minister now? I will let you know
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Man Chong said contemptuously: "Who is Ma Chao? An unknown young man. Moreover, the man was not well-planned. He just wanted to be rich and honored in the Central Plains, so he ignored his father Ma Teng's life and death, which caused his biological father to be impolite. Later,
My Prime Minister was defeated, and even his foundation was taken back by Mr. Dong. He was floating outside. He was useless. Now, he contacted a group of Yellow Turban Remnants and made trouble again. Don’t you know that those Yellow Turban Remnants were originally
A bunch of mobs were all the remnants of defeated soldiers and generals driven out of Yanzhou by my Prime Minister. How big a storm can Ma Chao lead such troops? Thinking back to the beginning, even General Zhang led the iron cavalry into our Yanzhou and used the general's soldiers.
The general is fierce, but just General Yu, led a sentry horse under my prime minister, made the general stop moving forward. The horse Chao is far inferior to General Zhang, so how could my prime minister take his intention? Therefore, I am afraid my family will be
There is no chance for General Zhang to serve in the Prime Minister."
Zhang Xiu's face turned red and she felt a little dissatisfied. However, Zhang Xiu thought about it carefully and it was indeed the same. Even if Ma Chao was making a big fuss with Cao Cao, with his own strength, Cao Cao only needed to send Yu Jin to stop him, then he
Just being a villain in vain, but you can’t get any benefits.
So, Zhang Xiu had no choice but to say so. He gave up the idea of taking the opportunity to attack Cao Cao, and just waited for Cao Cao to quell the rebellion and gave him the benefits.
After receiving the rewards from Sima Fang and Man Chong, Cao Cao finally had no worries. Moreover, when Ma Chao first visited, the little soldiers and horses he squeezed out were trained.
Cao Cao kept the troops and horses to guard Yanzhou. He also asked Cheng Yu, Cao Ang, and Cao Chun to stay in Xudu and stay in the court.
Cao Cao ordered 100,000 troops and personally took Xiahou Dun, Xiahou Yuan, Xu Chu, Xi Zhicai, Xu Huang, Yu Jin and other generals to Rongyang to fight Ma Chao.
At this time, Ma Chao was still busy without knowing anything.
At the beginning, with the help of Liu Ming, Ma Chao incorporated Yang Feng and Yu Du's Yellow Turban remnants through Jiang Fang. Although his command was not very flexible, he still swept through Cao Cao's territory because of his numerous soldiers.
However, with the implementation of Cao Cao's strategy of stabilizing the wall and clearing the field, it became increasingly difficult for Ma Chao's supply of troops. Moreover, due to Cao Cao's stabilizing the wall and clearing the field, Liu Ming's intelligence agency there was also unavoidable to be evacuated by Cao Cao with the public. Ma Chao also
Then he lost his eyeliner.
Finally, after Ma Chao swept over Cao Cao's more than ten small county towns one after another, but no results were achieved, Ma Chao's troops once again became dissatisfied.
In desperation, Ma Chao was forced to divide the troops that had now formed a scale of 500,000 into eight-legged gangs.
Among the eight people, the seven leaders of the old Yellow Turban Army, Jiao Ting, Wu Kui, Yan An, Che Bao, Kui Mulang, Wang Biao and Zhang Deshou were led by seven people, and each commanded 50,000 troops and horses a hundred miles around Ma Chao's army.
Within the range, he sought food on his own and followed him. Ma Chao led Yu Du, Yang Feng, Pang De, Ma Dai and others from his headquarters to continue to advance along the scheduled route.
However, at this time, Ma Chao no longer held the hope of breaking through Chen Liu.
As a family of military generals, Ma Chao has a bad temper, but Ma Chao is definitely not a military idiot. Although Ma Chao has broken through many small county towns along the way, this does not confuse Ma Chao.
Ma Chao fully understood that the breakup of these small counties was made up by himself using the sea of people tactics. The other was also the poor defense and improper command of those cities. Later, the cities where Cao Cao had firmly defended the walls and cleared the fields could be regarded as empty cities that Cao Cao abandoned for him.
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However, when Ma Chao personally led the elite troops of his headquarters to attack a small county where Cao Hong defended, Ma Chao deeply understood the difficulty of siege. Now, these subordinates are a group of mobs who are fighting against small cities, and that's still the same.
It's nothing, but if you attack a strong city like Chenliu, the information given to you by those spies in the past few days was that Chenliu City had high walls and complete city defense facilities, and it was the foundation for Cao Cao to make his fortune. There were many soldiers, horses, food and grass, and
It was his old rival Cao Hong and his brother Cao Ren who were defending there. With these mobs, they would never be able to conquer them at that time.
Therefore, Ma Chao wanted to bypass Chenliu and follow the strategy formulated by Chiang's side for himself, break through from Sili, occupy Cao Cao's Qingzhou, and connect it with Liu Ming's territory so as to obtain Liu Ming's military support.
With money and food in hand, the mobs were fully rectified and the equipment to attack the city was being used. At that time, he was counterattacking Cao Cao.
However, Ma Chao never expected that he wanted to let Cao Ren and Cao Hong go around Chen Liu, intersperse from Rongyang, and head to Qingzhou. But Cao Ren and Cao Hong didn't want to let Ma Chao go.
After Cao Ren was captured by Zhang Fei in Guandu, he was redeemed by Cao Cao. Although Cao Ren was very satisfied with the steps given to him by Liu Ming and Zhang Fei, he was also grateful to Liu Ming and Zhang Fei, but Cao Ren was also very grateful to him after he came back.
Some gossips were upset and depressed. I felt that my failure had damaged my reputation.
Therefore, Cao Ren was given the order to protect Chen Liu this time. Then he was determined to make a great contribution and revitalize his reputation. Therefore, Ma Chao wanted to let Cao Ren go, but Cao Ren would never let Ma Chao go.
And Cao Hong, let alone Cao Hong. Although Cao Hong once fought against Ma Chao in blood and blocked Ma Chao's attack, forcing Ma Chao to hide in the mountains, Cao Hong lost more and lost less and the first time he lost to Ma Chao was Cao Hong
It was regarded as a great humiliation. Cao Hong had long been incompatible with Ma Chao in his heart.
So, Cao Ren and Cao Hong hit it off. They all waited for Ma Chao to come and give Ma Chao a great deal.
But now, Cao Ren and Cao Hong's horse exploration report to Cao Ren, Cao Hong and Ma Chao's troops are about to bypass Chenliu and turn to Rongyang.
Cao Ren and Cao Hong stopped doing it at that time. Didn’t this just run away from the opportunity to make contributions?
Cao Ren and Cao Hong immediately ordered the troops to attack Ma Chao.
Li Dian comforted him: "General, the Prime Minister has an order to keep us in Chenliu and not make any mistakes. Now that the general is attacking without authorization, it may violate the Prime Minister's order."
Cao Hong was furious at the time and pointed at Li Dian and cursed: "You guy, can you want to suppress me with the Prime Minister? Do you know that the Prime Minister is my brother. How could the Prime Minister blame me for such a trivial matter?"
After all, Cao Ren had some strategy to stop Cao Hong and turned to Li Dianyan and said, "Don't say: I'm away, and I'll accept something. I just say that the Prime Minister ordered my brothers to come here to stay. It's also for the sake of
Ma Chao is about to attack Chenliu, but he is afraid that Chenliu will make mistakes, so Cai ordered our brothers to come here to stand firm. Now, Ma Chao is afraid of the reputation of our brothers, and moves around Chenliu. The Prime Minister is far away in the capital but does not know
If my brothers don’t know how to adapt and do not change their food, wouldn’t they be able to lose the opportunity and make the army of Ma Chao even stronger? It should be noted that Ma Chao’s small thief acts in the style of the remnants of the Yellow Turban, and wherever they do, it is like a locust passing through the border.
There was no grass left, and he was able to follow the thief by taking good people. In just a short time, he was able to carry more than 100,000 people. If this beast is not eliminated, how can the world be safe?"
Li Dian shook his head and persuaded him: "If the general leaves the city to pacify the thieves, the thieves will take the opportunity to rob the city. Chen Liu made some mistakes, but what if he can do?"