The Rise of the Song People of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 366 Yuan Shaoxu You
Moreover, relocating the population of Yingchuan, Chen Guo and other places is another strategy of Cao Cao to divide Yuan Shao and Lu Heng. After Cao Cao withdraws from Guandu, Yuan Shao will definitely continue to go south!
At that time, Lu Heng will get Yanzhou and Runan, which are rich in population, but Yuan Shao will evacuate Yingchuan, Chen Guo and other places. With Yuan Shao's character, will he let Lu Heng go?The two must go to war!
Now that he has made up his mind, Cao Cao will not hesitate to call the three major advisers now, not to ask the pros and cons, but how to delay the time as much as possible and keep the main force to retreat from under the eyes of Yuan Shao's army!

That's right, the difficulty now is how to retreat. Since ancient times, retreat is much more difficult than attack. In that era, there were no large trucks or planes to transport troops, and they all used their feet to travel. Now this morale is the last breath. Once the retreat is announced, the morale of the army will be lost. Believe it or not!

At that time, Yuan Shao will raise his troops to pursue him. How can Cao Cao, who has lost his main force, make a comeback?Complete Guo Jia's strategic policy?
Moreover, Cao Cao not only wanted to withdraw his troops, but also wanted to take away all the baggage, population, food and grass, etc. Although there was not much left, Guanzhong was also very poor. Can he save it?

When Cao Cao was discussing how to survive the desperate situation, Yuan Shao was naturally not idle. He was attacking day and night while looking for countermeasures. One day after about a month, Yuan Shao was in a very unhappy mood today. Yuan Shao had a gloomy face. Now that the war is at a stalemate, Cao Cao's defensive fortifications reminded Yuan Shao of the time when he besieged Yijing two years ago. He was also helpless. In the end, he still used his strong troops to kill Gongsun Zan. Is it possible this time? Want to kill Cao Cao?

In such a mood, Yuan Shao also received the news of Lu Heng's dispatch of troops, and asked everyone to discuss.

Yuan Shaogao was sitting in the commander's tent, with Feng Ji, Guo Tu, Xu You and Jushou on two sides, followed by generals Lu Junyi, Yan Liang, Zhang He, Gao Lan, Sui Yuanjin and Han Juzi on the left, and Han Qiong and Han Meng on the right. , Jiang Qi, Ma Yan, Zhang Wei, etc., the factions are clearly separated, and there is a sense of tension before it even starts.

"Now Xiansi (Yuan Tan's nickname is Xiansi) sent troops to Xuzhou but was blocked by Zang Ba. Changxi claimed to have surrendered to us but did not take any action. Qingzhou was unable to open up the situation. Lu Heng sent troops northward and already captured half of Xuzhou. What should we do?"

"My lord, our army has been confronting Cao Cao for a long time. Cao Cao's soldiers are exhausted and many have defected. There is news that Cao's army is short of food. Our army can send Jiang Qi to lead the support army, pretending to be a food delivery army, and lure Cao Cao to attack and eat away at his troops."

The first one to speak was the idle Jushou. Jushou, who had been beaten to the end by Yuan Shao, was still trying his best to make suggestions for Yuan Shao. However, what Yuan Shao saw was not Jushou's hard work, but that he no longer had any official position. Jushou could still get such news in the army, which shows Jusuke's prestige in the army. In this way, Yuan Shao was even more jealous of Jushou. His mind was almost filled with Jusuke's prestige in the army, and he remained silent without listening to any strategies.

"My lord, Cao Cao's troops are few, and if he concentrates all his strength to resist our army, the defense in the rear must be empty. If we send an army to advance lightly, harass Cao Cao's rear, and cut off his food supply, Cao Cao will be defeated!"

This time it was Xu You who spoke. He didn't attack Jushou's strategy. Instead, he expressed his thoughts complacently. He felt that his strategy was so good that he would definitely be able to defeat Cao Cao. face.

If it was Xu You like this usually, even if Yuan Shao didn't follow Xu You's strategy, he might laugh and scold him because of the relationship between the two of them. Xu You also enjoyed such a detached relationship with the minister and superior to everyone.

"Bang! You still have the face to be smug, let's see what your Xu family has done!"

Xu You was originally full of joy to offer advice, hoping to win the praise of his friend and boss, but he didn't expect to be reprimanded in return. The originally complacent look froze on his face, and he picked up the letter Yuan Shao threw in front of him and quickly opened it. Standing up in cold sweat.

The letter was written to Yuan Shao by the judge, explaining that the Xu family has been taken down, and the charge is colluding with other forces to sell military supplies and war horses. The law of any country is to lose one's head, and if it goes too far, it is a crime of collaborating with the enemy and even more implicated.

The person who sells military supplies here is Lu Heng of Jiangdong. Yuan Shao didn't take Xu You immediately because Lu Heng was cooperating with Yuan Shao's military operations and was not considered an enemy, but he couldn't tell for sure later!

Now there has been a change here. There is no historical record of the crimes of Xu You's family in the original time and space, and everyone is unknown, but this time and space Lu Heng makes people go north to buy war horses at a high price, and they want to buy stallions!

In the early days when Liaodong and Fuyu were stable, war horses were still available for purchase. As Wanyan Aguda began to integrate tribes, war horses could no longer be bought in panic in the Liaodong area.

At this time, Yuan Shao unified the four prefectures and besieged Gongsun Zan. By chance, Wang Chong came into contact with the Xu family, bought them at a high price several times higher than the market price, and even licensed the Xu family to sell Jiangdong's new tea. This is a monopoly. With the huge profit, Lu Heng bought a war horse from Xu You!
Since the emergence of this gray industrial chain, Xu You and the Xu family have made a lot of money. The horses produced in Youzhou and Bingzhou have been seriously damaged by years of fighting and the output has been greatly reduced. However, there are plenty of war horses in the grasslands. Although they are considered strategic materials, they are not impossible to buy. After the purchase, it was sold to Wang Chong at several times the price, which also made the relationship between Yuan Shao and Wuhuan very harmonious, because Xu You used Yuan Shao's name to buy war horses in large quantities several times and then sold them to Wang Chong.

In addition to war horses, cattle are also part of the gray industry line, but the price is much cheaper than war horses.

Xu You took advantage of his power to deliver hundreds of war horses to Wang Chong each time. Even so, he was using power for personal gain. You must know that war horses are a scarce commodity, and Yuan Shao himself does not have enough.

Don't you see that Yuan Shao only has [-] cavalry in the battle of Guandu. Yuan Shao, who has four states in Bingzhou and Youzhou, the horse-producing land, only has [-] cavalry, which is almost the same as the cavalry in Lu Heng's hands.

Under this circumstance, Wang Chong used this method to buy nearly [-] war horses from Xu You and Yuan Shao, all of which were supplemented by Thunder Cavalry, Wind Cavalry, and Chixin Camp's missing horses, and the rest were given to Lu Heng's relatives. Guard camp.

But now that Mrs. Xu is being interrogated and imprisoned, this industrial chain has been uprooted. From then on, even if Wang Chong wants to buy it again, it will be very difficult to buy a war horse.

Originally, Yuan Shao didn’t have enough cavalry, but Wen Chou lost half of his cavalry in Yanjin’s defeat. No matter how much Yuan Shao was criticized by later generations, he was considered experienced in many battles. He naturally knew the importance of war horses and cavalry. Yuan Shao didn’t know how long this industrial chain was. In short, the source of the problem of insufficient war horses was finally found, and it turned out to be Xu You's fault.

(End of this chapter)