The Rise of the Song People of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 364 Cao Cao's Crisis Today, the monthly tickets of Random Crisis Brothers and Long Fei Jingtian Brothers have been added!

After receiving the information, Cao Cao believed that the worst outcome was that Chen Deng abandoned Guangling and retreated to Xiapi with Yu Jin to defend Xiapi. The Taishan army would be stuck in the dangerous position of Taishan, so Xuzhou could be protected.

But the current situation is beyond Cao Cao's expectations. Xiapi's fall to the forbidden surrender led to the collapse of the situation in the south of Xuzhou. Although Zang Ba lived up to his expectations and blocked Yuan Tan from going south on Mount Tai, Chang Xi's rebellion made all this meaningless. It can be said that Cao Cao has lost Xuzhou, a strategic location.

The loss of Xuzhou meant that Yanzhou and the east of Yuzhou were unprepared and exposed to Lu Heng's troops. What's more, the battle situation in Guandu was also at a disadvantage. The most critical food and grass were about to be in short supply.
Cao Cao looked at the battle report from the direction of Xuzhou and a scribe, the veins near his temples were throbbing, he pressed his aching head, and showed the scribe the top-secret information.

After reading the information about Xuzhou at a glance, the latter sighed deeply: "The situation in Xuzhou has deteriorated to this point, Duke Cao has no need to send troops!"

"Ji Bi (Chen Jiao's name is Ji Bi) is a great talent. The matter is now over, and you don't need to go back to Xuzhou. How about working under a certain command?"

Chen Jiao thought for a moment and bowed to Cao Cao: "I am willing to serve the Lord!"

"Haha! A certain Ji Bi is really lucky!" Chen Jiao became Cao Cao's official, this is the only good news that Cao Cao has received recently!
If Lu Heng were here, he would sigh, Cao Cao is Cao Cao!Even in such a desperate situation, he still has the mind to recruit talents. He deserves to be the top hero in the late Han Dynasty.

That's right, this Chen Jiao is the scribe sent by Chen Deng to ask Cao Cao for reinforcements. This person was originally surnamed Liu and was given to the Chen family of the Mu family after passing the season. Since then, he has changed his surname to Chen. He is also a member of the Chen family. He also helped Chen Deng retreat in the original time and space. Cao Cao who later took refuge.

Chen Jiao's refuge is just a piece of insignificant news, it cannot change the status quo. Now that Cao Cao is at an absolute disadvantage, Cao Cao still wants all his advisers to discuss how to break this desperate situation.

Although there were many counselors under Cao Cao, there were only four counselors who were at the core of the decision-making team: Guo Jia, Xun You, Cheng Yu, and Xun Yu.

At this stage of the original time and space, Jia Xu, a "poison man", joined Cao Cao's core counselor team following Zhang Xiu's refuge, but he was also the type who only said a word by name and was not active.

But this time and space, Jia Xu returned to Liangzhou with Zhang Xiu, and was not under Cao Cao at all. As for Xun Yu, his faith collapsed and he became seriously ill after Liu Xie died. Shencai, Chen Qun is now staying in Xudu, assisted by Man Chong, Yan Xiang, Sima Lang and others.

It can be said that compared to the original time and space, Cao Cao lacked two great counselors!
After a while, Guo Jia, Xun You, and Cheng Yu arrived together. Chen Jiao was originally not eligible to attend the meeting, but he was considered a party to the situation in Xuzhou, so Cao Cao left him behind.

When Cao Cao handed over the Xuzhou information and the earlier Yuzhou information to the three counselors, each of them looked solemn, and Guo Jia took a sip of wine and coughed for a long time. of Yin Hong.

Cao Cao personally stepped forward to gently tap Guo Jia on the back. Xun You and Cheng Yu turned pale. As Cao Cao's three masterminds, Guo Jia, Xun You, and Cheng Yu naturally knew the current situation of Cao Jun. It seemed that Cao Jun was fighting with Yuan Shao. There was a stalemate, but there was already a shortage of military rations!This is still the consumption of troops by Cao Cao and Yuan Shao, and there are many battle losses!

Now Cao Jun is holding his breath, and Cao Cao's army will be defeated soon!

In fact, from this point of view, if Yuan Shao listens to Jushou's advice and takes advantage of his huge strength to slowly consume Cao Cao, Yuan Shao will be invincible!
Now that Guandu has been fought, Cao Cao has played all his cards and used his last breath to gamble, but Yuan Shao is still relaxed. You must know that Yuan Shao's military strength is far stronger than Cao Cao's, and his food consumption is several times that of Cao Cao's!
What's more, after Yuan Shao's defeat at Guandu, he easily pulled out an army of [-] in Cangting. Although it was not as elite as Guandu's army, it was still a full [-] army!
Even after Yuan Shao's death, each of Yuan Tan, Yuan Shang, Yuan Xi, and Gao Gan had quite a few troops. The overall strength of the combination made Cao Cao daunting, and it was necessary to divide the four talents!It took eight years to annex the Yuan family.

From this, it can be seen that Yuan Shao's advantage is so huge, with a good hand, he can't help but pull his hips!

Not to mention how Yuan Shao pulled his hips in history, now Guo Jia, Xun You, and Cheng Yu even want to mobilize food and grass from Xuzhou to the front line of Guandu, but now because Lu Heng sent troops to take Xuzhou, Cao Cao's situation can be said to have taken a turn for the worse, not even Lu Heng According to the analysis, Xuzhou is dispensable, this is Lu Heng's inadvertent stabbing into the vitals!
Guo Jia, Xun You, Cheng Yu, Cao Cao, and Chen Jiao are all outstanding people in the world. Even Chen Jiao is an excellent internal affairs talent, but now they look at each other face to face. There is a saying that "a clever woman cannot cook five meters long ', no matter how resourceful the four are, they can't change food, let alone elite soldiers!
Several people sat there for an hour, but there was nothing they could do to disappoint Cao Cao, so they had to go back and think again. Before leaving, Guo Jia's hesitant eyes were in Cao Cao's eyes.

That night Cao Cao stayed up all night, unwilling to fail. He was defeated by Yuan Shao, who had always thought he was sure of winning, but it turned out that Lu Heng was born. Cao Cao's elite and resourcefulness still have a certain winning rate, so now Yuan Shao and Lu Heng's strength is absolute suppression, at least now Lu Heng unilaterally and fully cooperates with Yuan Shao to destroy himself, this is obvious.

This can be seen from the fact that Lu Heng learned that Yuan Tan sent troops to Mount Tai, and that Chang Xi took refuge in Yuan Tan, and that Lu Heng never sent a single soldier to the north.

In other words, Yuan Shao occupies the four states north of the Yellow River, Lu Heng occupies the entire Yangzhou and Jiaozhou, and Cao Cao occupies three and a half states, so no matter how strong Cao Cao is, he cannot compete.

Cao Cao, who was tossing and turning, recalled Guo Jia's look, that is to say, the "ghost" Guo Jia has a way to break the game, but the price may be very high.

At this time Cao Cao found Guo Jia alone and asked how to break the situation.

"My lord, the enemy is strong and we are weak. The combined strength of Yuan Shao and Lu Heng is far superior to our army. The harmony lies not with our army but with Yuan Shao and Lu Heng."

"Since Yuan Shao destroyed Gongsun Zan, he must develop southward. Our army is the only one bordering Yuan Shao in the south. This is an irreconcilable conflict. At the same time, although there are Sun Ce and Liu Biao around Jiangdong where Lu Heng is, Lu Bu's incident has made our army and Lu Heng's army The contradiction cannot be resolved. Yuan Shao is in the north and Lu Heng is in the south. The key is that Yuan Shao and Lu Heng are not geographically adjacent, and the geographical advantage is not on our side."

"The right time, the right location, and the right people are not on our side, so how can we win?"

(End of this chapter)