Xu You smiled!

How could he not guess Liu Chuang’s thoughts?

However, how can you say that the ultimate move that can instantly turn the situation of the battle, just like a surprise attack on Wuchao? It depends on the timing and situation...

Cao Cao robbed people of food and would definitely protect his own food and food.

During the Battle of Guandu, Ju Su also offered advice to ask Yuan Shao to send someone to cut off Cao Cao's food route, but it was destroyed by Cao Cao.

Now in the Battle of Handan, Cao Cao's food and grass were stored in Liyang, Neihuang and Jiuhou City, and sent heavy troops to guard it. In this case, it is not easy to attack Cao Cao's granary? You must know that the people sent by Cao Cao to protect the granary were all his confidant generals.

However, it is true that I wanted to defect to Cao Cao and offer a plan to turn the situation around.

Now that he is working for Liu Chuang, Gan Ling is indeed a bit weak. Xu You knows very well that Liu Chuang has many capable people. It is not easy to gain a foothold under Liu Chuang. Not to mention anything else, just Xun Chenxin's comment on Tian Feng and Ju Su is worse than him?

At this time, he really needs to show off.

Thinking of this, Xu You's eyes rolled, and a plan suddenly appeared in his mind.

"Uncle the emperor took Qinghe this time, but he will fight Meng De to a decisive battle?"

Liu Chuang was stunned and then said, "Sir, know it well, why bother test me?"

Xu You said: "I was indeed not wrong. The emperor's layout has not been successful yet. I definitely don't want to fight Meng De at this time... But I think Meng De's goal this time is Yuan Shang of Handan. He might have wanted to suffocate Hebei in one go, but now...

The emperor's surprise attack on the Qinghe River in Bohai has caused Cao Cao's flanks to be attacked.

As the war in Hedong broke out, Cao Cao would not dare to take the high-ranking officials lightly even if he didn't take the high-ranking officials seriously. What's more, the emperor's uncle had a chance to go to Jiangdong to lobby Sun Quan. Jiangdong was unstable, and Cao Cao would be unable to feel at ease. Therefore, I thought that once Cao Cao occupied Handan, he would be in a dilemma. At that time, the emperor's uncle would give Cao Cao a reason to withdraw his troops, so he would naturally not continue to force him."

"But this reason..."

Xu You smiled and said, "The Emperor's Uncle is already doing this reason, but it's not done thoroughly enough."

"oh?"

"Where did the Emperor's uncle start his career?"

Liu Chuang was stunned and his eyes suddenly narrowed into a slit.

Xu You whispered: "The emperor's uncle was in Donglai, Beihai, and in just three years he ordered the rule of Donglai in Beihai. The people were very grateful to the emperor.

Now the emperor's uncle only attacked the coast of Qingzhou, which is too cautious.

I heard that the people of Donglai hope for the emperor's uncle, if they have been drought for a long time... The navy under the emperor's uncle can gallop across the sea, why not land in Donglai? As long as the emperor's uncle is willing to land in Donglai, Cao Cao will definitely be afraid. Not only that, Sun Quan of Jiangdong cannot stand by and watch."

According to Huangge, Zhuge Liang had visited Sun Quan, Lu Su and others in Jiangdong.

Judging from the information he received, Sun Quan was quite moved.

However, Zhou Yu was reluctant to express his opinion, while Zhang Zhao and Zhang Hong were afraid of Cao Cao's power, so Sun Quan was also hesitant.

If you can occupy Donglai...

Liu Chuang looked at Xu You, but saw Xu You smiling and nodding slightly at him.

Donglai is indeed the best entry point.

Now Cao Cao defeated Yuan Shao. Although his momentum has increased sharply, his troops still seem to be a little insufficient.

No wonder, he is in the Central Plains. Although he has a population of tens of millions, he is surrounded by enemies, far from Jiangdong, Jingzhou and other places, and there are not many enemies around him. Now Cao Cao, Jiangdong Sun Quan and Jingzhou Liu Biao are hostile to him, and Liangzhou Ma Chao returns to Xiliang in the west to take revenge.

There are too many enemies and the boundary line is too long...

So much so that Cao Cao had to be on guard everywhere and could not truly concentrate his troops.

This is also the biggest dilemma Cao is facing at present.

In history, after Cao Cao destroyed Sun Quan, no one could threaten his rule in the north. Even if there was Ma Teng and Han Sui in the northwest at that time, he could never threaten him. Now, he destroyed Yuan Shao, but Liu Chuang rose up. The threat Liu Chuang brought to him was even far more than that of the Yuan brothers. In this way, Cao Cao's dilemma of being surrounded by enemies was not only not alleviated, but became more and more serious.

This is also an important reason why Cao Cao has been eager to use troops to Hebei and wants to eliminate the two Yuans.

By destroying the two Yuans, he can concentrate his efforts to eliminate Liu Chuang.

But he didn't expect that the connections in Liu Chuang's hands were definitely not comparable to the two Yuans...

Thinking of this, Liu Chuang couldn't help laughing!

He found that Xu You was definitely a top strategist who was despised by history. Think about it, how could a person who was famous in the late Eastern Han Dynasty and assisted Yuan Shao and Cao Cao and made contributions one after another, be as ignorant as later generations have passed down? This guy has real talent and knowledge.

Perhaps, Xu You's surname is arrogant, but he also has to distinguish people.

At least in Liu Chuang's memory, Xu You never showed any contempt in front of Yuan Shao; but why did he suddenly change his temper after he arrived at Cao Cao's tent? Liu Chuang felt that there must be other reasons in this, and even Cao Cao's slut.

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In December of the seventh year of Jian'an, Cao Cao ordered Xu Huang to enter Guangzong.

Then, he ordered the strengthening of the offensive against Handan, and deployed 30,000 troops outside Handan City to launch a fierce attack.

Yuan Shang was trapped in Handan and repeatedly wanted to lead his troops to break through, but he was blocked by Cao Cao.

On the eighth day of December, a sudden snowfall occurred. Cao Cao took advantage of the storm and launched a sneak attack at night. His nephew Cao Peng personally led the Tiger Guards to force the head of Handan and opened the city gate. Cao Hong, who had been ambushing outside the city, took advantage of the situation to attack Handan, causing Yuan's army to be defeated immediately.

Seeing that the situation was over, Yuan Shang took his personal side to the granary of Handan, set fire to burn the granary, and then committed suicide.

After Yuan Shang committed suicide, those Yuan Shang's relatives committed suicide...

When Cao Cao attacked Handan, the granary fire had spread and could not be extinguished at all. Seeing that the granary nearly 100,000 stone in the city were burned, Cao Cao was also very angry. Although he took Handan, he had to face more serious problems next.

In Handan, the food and grass are exhausted.

According to Cao Cao's original idea, after occupying Handan, he would go north to seize Changshan Julu and Anping Kingdom.

Now that Yuan Shao has burned all the food and grass, Cao Cao's subsequent offensive will inevitably be blocked.

If you continue to go north, you will face the final battle with Liu Chuang.

If there was no sufficient food and grass, Cao Cao would not dare to act rashly.

In desperation, he ordered Le Jin to be the main general and Cao Peng as the deputy general, and attacked Julu.

After learning that Yuan Shang had died in battle, the garrison of Anping immediately announced his surrender to Liu Chuang... Sima Yi, who had already planned it properly, made a quick decision and ordered Gao Lan to march into Anping. At the same time, Xun Chen ordered Zhang Liao to send troops in Yanjing, taking advantage of the opportunity that Cao Cao had not yet collected the food and grass to enter Changshan and occupy Jingxing. The former garrison of Yuan's family at the Hutuo River Ferry, and the Heishan Captain Yang Feng immediately announced the change of flags.

He occupied Xiaquyang and echoed Zhang Liao.

The entire Jizhou was immediately divided into two...

The news of Yuan Shang's death spread, which made countless people's eyes focus on Liu Chuang and Cao Cao.

Zhuge Liang, who was far away in Jiangdong, also felt unusual changes.

Originally, the counselors of Jiangdong were extremely resistant to him. The counselors of Jiangdong led by Zhang Zhao and Zhang Hong were initially looked down on Zhuge Liang, and they were even more optimistic that Liu Chuang was Cao Cao's opponent. Therefore, during the period when Zhuge Liang first arrived in Jiangdong, they made things difficult for him.

Zhuge Liang had already prepared something, so he countered the moves when he saw it.

In addition, his brother Zhuge Jin was also determined to ease the relationship between his brothers, so he was very protective of Zhuge Liang.

In addition, Gu Yong, Lu Ji and other Jiangdong gentry also gave Zhuge Liang a certain degree of support intentionally or unintentionally... However, the situation of the battle was not decided, and Sun Quan could never make a decision. Can Liu Chuang block Cao Cao? It is also a problem that everyone, including Zhou Yu, is secretly paying attention to.

The defeat of Handan also put an end to the battle in Jizhou.

During this battle, Liu Chuang gained a lot of rewards from Anping, Changshan, Qinghe and Bohai counties.

Cao Cao took over Julu and Zhao and occupied the three counties of Jizhou. On the surface, the two sides were equal in size, but in fact, the advantage that Cao Cao had previously occupied was disappearing little by little.

On December 12th, the high-ranking official was attacked by Zhong Yao and Cao Ren in Linfen and retreated to Beiqu.

At this time, the senior officials also learned that Yuan Shang had died in battle and couldn't help but feel resigned.

Since Yuan Shang was dead, there was no need for him to continue fighting with Cao Cao in Hedong. After he had tens of thousands of troops in his hands, he could still become a prince and bargain with Cao Cao or Liu Chuang. Gao Gan thought very well, but unfortunately, Liu Chuang was ready as early as when he sent troops to Hedong. After Yuan Shang died in battle, Xun Chen immediately ordered Gao Shun to attack.

Gao Shun has been waiting for this order for half a year.

Since Liu Chuang mentioned it to him last time, he has been secretly preparing.

For this reason, he communicated with Guo Feng, the prefect of Yanmen, many times, and received strong support from Guo Feng.

On the tenth day of December, that is, the first two days after the high-ranking officials' defeat in Linfen... Gao Shun led his troops to attack, defeated Yangqu in one fell swoop, and quickly contacted Zhang Liao.

Zhang Liao immediately sent Hao Zhao to leave Jingxing, and head north along the Hutuo River, and joined forces with Gao Shun.

This was also the first time that Jizhou and Bingzhou joined forces. After Gao Shun received the support of Zhang Liao, he made a concerted effort and conquered the two cities of Yuxian and Langmeng for three days, with the troops aiming directly at Jinyang. While Gao Shun attacked, Huang Zhong secretly transferred from Dingxiang to Xu Sheng's troops, crossed the Beishan Mountain to attack Yangqiancang and captured Fenyang City. Huang Zhong led his troops and marched southward to capture Lishi on December 20th.

The Bingzhou strategy that had been planned for a year was about to begin.

Wei Yan, Taishi Ci and Xiahou Lan, who had already begun to prepare for the troops and wanted to try, received the order from Lu Bu, and the three armies went south with unstoppable momentum. Xiahou Lan captured Shuofang, Tian Chou captured Wuyuan. Taishi Ci and Wei Yan's troops rushed straight to Shangjun and captured Fushi. For a moment, the northern border was shocked... The senior officials received news in the north and were too busy to lead their troops to return to Bingzhou.
Chapter completed!