Three Kingdoms: Liu Bei seeks the master and seeks to conquer the world

Chapter 313 Yuan Shao was beaten up

The arrival of Cao Cao intensified the conflict in Yanzhou.

Zheng Ping had already deduced this situation and formulated corresponding countermeasures.

However, if you hit it directly, you won't be able to fight it.

Whether it is Liu Bei's power or Cao Cao's power, they are all Liu Xie's courtiers in name, or courtiers with real power.

If you can't learn from the famous, it is easy to be caught by the opponent and hold it righteously.

Therefore, after Cao Cao came to Chenliu, he dismissed some officials in Chenliu, Dongjun, Jiyin and Shanyang counties on the grounds of investigating and dealing with corruption, and appointed trusted people to take charge of the four counties.

Quickly declare the sovereignty of the four counties!

Taishan County, Jibei Kingdom, Dongping Kingdom, and Rencheng Kingdom had long been infiltrated by Zheng Ping, and the postal governor dispatched by Cao Cao was directly tied up for insulting the soldiers and the people.

Cao Cao was not angry either, and no longer sent postal supervisors there.

Yanzhou was divided into two, and both sides tacitly maintained a delicate balance.

Shou Zhang City.

Zheng Ping drew a circle on the map of Yanzhou, and told Zhang Fei: "Yide, give Li Tong a battalion of [-] elite soldiers, go to Yanggu to Cangtingjin to station, and at the same time recruit civilians, and build a camp twelve miles south of Yanggu City. Granary for military supplies."

"There's no need to hide your whereabouts and purpose, just make a big show of it. If someone asks, tell the envoy to follow the Northern Expedition and build a granary here."

Facing Zheng Ping's arrangement, Zhang Fei felt puzzled: "Military Master, shouldn't I go to fight Cao Cao? Why should I go to Cangtingjin to garrison troops and build warehouses?"

"If Yuan Shao sends his generals south, how can I fight Cao Cao?"

Zheng Ping shook his head and smiled softly: "Yide, Cao Cao is definitely going to fight, but what reason do you have to fight Cao Cao now? No matter how many personal grievances there are, Cao Cao is still Sikong on the surface, not rebellious!"

"Sending generals to attack the current court Sikong, isn't this kind of behavior trapping the king into injustice?"

"Even if you want to fight, you have to create a reason to fight Cao Cao."

"Our enemies are not only Cao Cao, but also Yuan Shao."

"Your Majesty ordered the envoy to make the Northern Expedition, so we have to pretend anyway."

Looking towards the direction of Hebei, Zheng Ping had a sneer in his eyes: "What's more, the snipe and the clam fight, and the fisherman wins. If I don't pull Yuan Shao into the water, I will feel uneasy."

Yuan Shao didn't go south after destroying Gongsun Zan, and his purpose of becoming a fisherman was obvious.

If you fight Cao Cao to the death, and Yuan Shao suddenly goes south, then Cao Cao and Liu Bei will suffer.

Zheng Ping would not be so foolish as to benefit Yuan Shao.

Since Cao Cao sent troops to Chenliu and stationed a large number of troops in the four counties, wouldn't Zheng Ping waste a great opportunity if he didn't take the opportunity to pull Yuan Shao into the water?

Fighting Cao Cao is Zheng Ping's goal.

It was also Zheng Ping's goal to gather soldiers from the six states to attack Yuan Ni in the north.

After the goals are not prioritized, whoever meets the executable conditions first will be executed first.

If Cao Cao could sincerely attack Yuan, Zheng Ping would not mind destroying Yuan Shao first.

Not only did Zheng Ping not block the news of the garrison in Cangtingjin and the construction of granaries in the south of Yanggu City, but he also made a big fuss that no one would know. Whether it was Cao Cao's spies or Yuan Shao's spies, they all easily found out.

"Liu Bei really wants the Northern Expedition?"

Cao Cao was a little taken aback by this highly confusing deployment.

Everyone is here to fight for Yanzhou, and you suddenly went to the Northern Expedition?
Since the Northern Expedition is really going to happen, why use the excuse of "lack of food in Qingzhou" in the first place?

"Perhaps, the excuse for lack of food in Qingzhou was not from Zheng Ping but from other staff around Liu Bei." Guo Jia asserted.

Cao Cao said calmly, "Can Feng Xiao guess Zheng Ping's intention?"

Guo Jia thought for a while: "Jia thinks that Liu Bei is under the control of his teacher, after all, Chenliu Commandery, Dong Commandery, Jiyin Commandery and Shanyang Commandery have been controlled by Duke Ming."

"Unless there is no proper reason, Liu Bei can't come to rob these four counties."

"In addition, Yuan Shao is watching the tiger in the north, so he has to be on his guard."

"Therefore, Jia concluded that Liu Bei wanted to draw Yuan Shao into the dispute in Yanzhou to make profit."

"If the matter is successful, we will rob Yuan Shao's city together with Duke Ming. If the matter fails, we will take advantage of the situation to cut off the way for Duke Ming to return and rob the four counties of Yanzhou."

"Whether things happen or not, Liu Bei will benefit."

Cao Cao snorted coldly: "Zheng Xianmou is still as insidious and cunning as ever. The defeat in Huainan, I would be deeply ashamed, but Zheng Xianmou wants to repeat the old trick?"

If it weren't for the fact that the strength gap with Yuan Shao was too great, Cao Cao would have used Yuan Shao's hand to destroy Liu Bei's soldiers.

"You have to defeat Yuan Shao for a few battles first, and then you can use the original army to destroy Liu Bei's army."

"If Zheng Ping can also die at the hands of Ben Chu, Liu Bei will definitely hate Yuan Shao deeply and go on the Northern Expedition regardless."

Cao Cao kept pondering in his heart and gradually came up with a plan.

In Hebei, the information that Liu Bei stationed troops in Cangtingjin and built warehouses was sent to Zhuocheng urgently by eight hundred miles.

"Liu Bei will obey the imperial edict?"

Yuan Shao repeatedly confirmed the authenticity of the information, his face full of surprise.

In Yuan Shao's view, Liu Bei and himself are actually the same kind of people, ambitious and ambitious without being pedantic.

Thinking in another way, if Yuan Shao were Liu Bei, facing Cao Cao's behavior of coercing the emperor to order the princes, he would definitely not obey the imperial edict.

How can the weak order the strong?

"No, that's not right!" Yuan Shao quickly realized: "If Liu Bei sincerely obeyed the edict, how could he garrison troops and build warehouses with great fanfare."

"Soldiers are expensive, and Liu Bei never hesitated when he attacked Nanpi City."

"Liu Bei did it on purpose, he was trying to lure me into sending troops!"

Although he guessed Liu Bei's purpose of garrisoning troops and building warehouses, Yuan Shao was still hesitant.

If you don't care about it, if Liu Bei crosses the Yellow River directly, wouldn't he have to deal with it hastily?
Faced with Yuan Shao's confusion, Xu You insisted on the previous strategy, ordering Yuan Shao to deal with the Black Mountain Army first, and then seize Sizhou.

"Duke Ming, if Liu Bei really wants to go to the Northern Expedition, wouldn't it be better to go directly to Nanpi City for the Northern Expedition?"

"If you want to fight Qinghe County and Wei County, you can go directly to the east of Pingyuan Kingdom. Why do you need to station troops in Cangtingjin? Isn't this superfluous?"

"You think that Liu Bei's goal is still Yanzhou and Cao Cao, to garrison troops and build warehouses, but it's just an illusion, at most he pretends to send troops to attack!"

"If Duke Ming sent troops, then Liu Bei and Cao Cao would definitely join hands; otherwise, if Duke Ming defended the pass and the city of Jinkou, even Liu Bei and Cao Cao would not benefit from the Northern Expedition. When the morale of the Northern Expedition faded, they would inevitably fight again."

Xu You's analysis is based on Yuan Shao's most secure response to the current situation.

Even if Feng Ji wanted to refute, he didn't dare to speak out.

Rebutting means that Fengji supports sending troops.

However, even Fengji is not confident that he can win by sending troops.

If this fails, wouldn't it give Xu You another reason to frame him.

At that time, Xu You will definitely say, "Sure enough, Feng Ji had an affair with Liu Bei, otherwise, why would he insist on persuading Duke Ming to send troops, and then deliberately lose to Liu Bei?" If this is the case, Feng Ji's head will have to move.

When it comes to military disputes, it is natural to wait for the opportunity to come out and add insult to injury.

Feng Ji glanced at Xu You coldly and remained silent.

When Yuan Shao saw that Fengji's trial match did not speak out against it, his heart immediately relaxed.

No objection means that Xu You's analysis is correct!
"Then according to Ziyuan's plan, order the counties to strictly guard the passes, the passes, the cities, and the cities, and not to fight lightly!" Yuan Shao made a final decision and decided on a countermeasure.

Although Yuan Shao stood still, the granary at Cangtingjin was still built as scheduled, and grain and grass from Dongping Kingdom, Jibei Kingdom, Rencheng Kingdom and Taishan County were also being transported to the granary one after another.

Zheng Ping named the place where the warehouse was built as Cangshang.

at the same time.

In addition to the Flying Army Camp that fought with Yuan Tan in Liaodong, and the Broken Army Camp stationed in Nanpi, the soldiers and horses of the Ruishi Camp, Baipao Camp, Xiandeng Camp, Baimao Camp, and Daji Camp are also in succession. Go to Dongping country.

Guan Yu, who was originally hiding in Taishan County to attack Lv Bu, also showed his flag.

In less than one month, nearly 3 soldiers and horses from the fifth battalion arrived one after another.

Even Liu Bei came to Cangting Jinshou Zhangcheng!
In the same way, Zheng Ping changed the basic common sense that he needs to hide and hide when attacking a city, and directly asked Liu Bei to go on stage in Shouzhang City to sacrifice to heaven and earth, counting Yuan Shao's twenty crimes.

Compared with Zang Hong's impassioned speech in the past to discuss Dong Mengjun, Liu Bei's oath is more heroic.

There is an aura of "never retreat south until Yuan Shao is broken"!

Afterwards, Liu Bei sent Zhang Fei and Guan Yu as the vanguard, and each led his troops to attack Qinghe Kingdom.

However, in ten days, they even went to more than ten cities in Qinghe Kingdom.

The battle report for help floated towards Zhuocheng like snowflakes.

"Xu Ziyuan, didn't you conclude that Liu Bei was just pretending to send troops? In ten days, Qinghe Kingdom lost more than ten cities. Is this still called pretending to send troops?"

Xu You was also a little confused.

In ten days, Qinghe Kingdom lost more than ten cities?
With this offensive, is it true that Liu Bei is really going to the Northern Expedition?
Although Yuan Shao's main force is not in Qinghe Kingdom, there are still many soldiers and horses stationed in Qinghe Kingdom's cities.

Xu You concluded that Liu Bei didn't really want to go to the Northern Expedition. With the soldiers and horses stationed in the cities of Jinkou and other passes in Qinghe Kingdom, it would be no big problem just to defend the city.

However, now, Liu Bei has destroyed more than ten cities in ten days. If Liu Bei is pretending to be a Northern Expedition, Yuan Shao, who is angry, will probably be able to chop Xu You down.

"Shouldn't be."

"Isn't Liu Bei worried that Cao Cao will make trouble?"

"Is there really no selfishness at all?"

Xu You didn't believe that Liu Bei would think that Cao Cao was a good person in a pedantic way.

Before Xu You could think of a way to deal with it, another urgent report came.

"Report! Lu Bu crossed the river the day before yesterday, and the road was like a broken bamboo. The soldiers and horses have already arrived in Yecheng. Li Pan, the prefect of Wei County, please send troops quickly!"

Yuan Shao sat up in surprise, and then poured his anger on Xu You: "Xu Ziyuan, you will be a big deal if you are bad!"

Liu Bei stormed Qinghe State, and Cao Cao stormed Wei County. If this is a fake Northern Expedition, then what is the real Northern Expedition?
Xu You was stunned, "Impossible" "How is this possible?" "How could Cao Aman form an alliance with Liu Bei" in his mind?

Xu You is very clear about Cao Cao's personality.

If Cao Cao would sincerely form an alliance with Liu Bei, it would mean that the sun would come out from the west.

"What the hell is Cao Aman thinking?"

"How could he think of joining Liu Bei in the Northern Expedition?"

"If the Northern Expedition is successful, Liu Bei will inevitably lose power, and Cao Aman can only be subordinate to Liu Bei."

When Xu You was thinking hard, Feng Ji finally found an opportunity and said, "Ming Gong, Ji has evidence that Xu Ziyuan had an affair with Liu Bei!"

These words woke up Xu You who was thinking on the spot. Seeing Feng Ji framed him here, Xu You couldn't help being furious: "Feng Yuantu, why are you going crazy!"

Yuan Shao was also puzzled: "Yuan Tu, why do you say that Ziyuan had an affair with Liu Bei?"

Yuan Shao thought he understood Xu You's personality.

Yuan Shao may still hesitate to say that Xu You had an affair with Cao Cao, but Yuan Shao was really surprised when he said that Xu You had an affair with Liu Bei.

Feng Ji sneered: "Xu You has a nephew, Xu Yi, who has been in contact with Xu Ping, a salt merchant in Qingzhou. Xu Ping will give Xu Yi a boatload of salt every time."

"And Xu Yi is the horse dealer who will introduce Xu Ping to horse sales."

"Ji has conclusive evidence that every month Xu Ping will buy [-] good horses from horse dealers in Youzhou and bring them back to Qingzhou."

"Ji has already found out that the horse trade started in July last year, and now it is October. Within sixteen months, Xu Ping, under the cover of Xu Yi, transported more than [-] good horses to Qingzhou."

"Then Xu Ping is a salt merchant in Qingzhou, and he got more than three thousand good horses, so he will definitely resell them to Liu Bei."

"Selling horses into Qingzhou, isn't it an affair with Liu Bei?"

"There are more than three thousand good horses. Liu Bei was short of cavalry, but now he has more than three thousand good horses, which is enough to form an elite cavalry!"

The number of more than [-] good horses is quite watery. With so many good horses, not to mention Xu Yi, even Xu You would not dare!

However, Fengji's main focus is an exaggeration.

After getting rid of Xu You, Feng Ji can command the troops with confidence.

Although Wei County and Qinghe Country are in a hurry, as soon as the army arrives, the lost city can be easily brought back.

But there are not many opportunities to frame Xu You!
Xu You knew that Xu Yi had introduced horse dealers to Xu Ping, but with Xu You's character, even if he wanted to make money, he would restrict the sale of good horses, or just sell second-best horses as good ones.

However, Feng Ji's eloquent words made Xu You suspicious.

"Could it be that Yi'er broke my rules and really gave Xu Pingliang a horse?"

"No, it's impossible. Yi'er has always been steady, so he won't be so ignorant. At most, it will be a good horse written in the account book, and then give Xu Ping a bad horse."

Looking at Feng Ji's proud eyes, Xu You subconsciously clenched his fists.

But at this moment, Yuan Shao had obviously believed Feng Ji's words, and angrily scolded Xu You: "Xu Ziyuan, do you really dare to traffic good horses to Qingzhou?"

Xu You suddenly fell into a dilemma.

Since Feng Ji chose to speak at this time, it would not be groundless, and he must have obtained relevant evidence.

If he directly said no, Yuan Shao would be even angrier when Feng Ji presented evidence.

But if you want to say yes, wouldn't you take the initiative to give Feng Ji a handle?

Seeing that Yuan Shao was getting more and more angry, Xu You gritted his teeth, became ruthless, and glared at Feng Ji: "Feng Yuantu, you are ruining Minggong's plan!"

"Exchanging bad horses for fine salt will not only allow the people of Youzhou to have good salt to eat, but also allow Liu Bei to spend a lot of money and food to form cavalry with bad horses."

"How can bad horse cavalry resist Minggong's tiger and wolf cavalry?"

"This is a tactic that you dedicated to Duke Ming to exhaust the enemy. How dare you use this to frame me?"

"Fengji, could it be that Zheng Xianmou saw through You's plan to exhaust the enemy, so he asked you to frame me, and then you can be in charge of connecting with Xu Ping and selling good horses to Xu Ping?"

"Guo Tu is right, Feng Ji, you really had an affair with Liu Bei!"

Xu You perfectly interpreted what it means to call a thief and catch a thief. This burst of anger directly turned Feng Ji's frame into a mutual frame.

You said that I had an affair with Liu Bei and sold good horses?
I said that your affair with Liu Bei ruined my strategy of exhausting the enemy!
　Ask for a monthly ticket with the audacity
　　
　
(End of this chapter)