The Rise of the Song People of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 552 Yuan Shao's Response
However, Cao Cao is still Cao Cao. After receiving a terrible lesson in the first battle of Wancheng, he basically got rid of the problem of being complacent. Several counselors discussed.

Regarding the question of whether to fight Yizhou or Jingzhou, Guo Jia, Xun You, Cheng Yu and others agreed to fight Yizhou!The reason is as follows!

First, although the road to Yizhou is difficult, it can avoid premature contact with Lu Heng's forces!
Second, although Yizhou also experienced civil strife, it is relatively stable and has a sufficient population compared to other places, while most of the people who fought in Jingbei for years fled to other regions.

Thirdly, Yizhou has been known as the Land of Abundance since ancient times. With this place and Hanzhong, the food and grass problem that has been troubling Cao Cao can be easily solved.

Fourth, compared with Jingzhou, which extends in all directions, Yizhou is naturally dangerous and easy to defend but difficult to attack. Yizhou acts as a barrier and then expands outward. It can be attacked and defended!

Under the summary of everyone, Guo Jia overturned his previous plan without hesitation, and didn't mind readjusting the plan at all!

What is being used now is the strategic policy sketched out by Zhang Song before!

That's right, because various changes have led to different situations, the strategic policy of Cao Cao's retreat into Sili has undergone major adjustments.

Originally, Guo Jia and others envisioned retreating into Sili, capturing Hanzhong and then attacking Liangzhou, using the combat power of Xiliang iron cavalry to regain the Central Plains, and a showdown with the victors of Yuan Shao and Lu Heng.

Unexpectedly, Ma Teng's reputation suddenly became so high that no prince can take the initiative to beat Ma Teng now!Otherwise, the reputation will be over, including Lu Heng and Cao Cao who were the initiators.

Of course, Ma Teng's status as an anti-border hero prevented Ma Teng from fighting civil wars, otherwise it would affect Ma Teng's own reputation.

So either Cao Cao would forcefully gnaw at Li Jiqian in the northwest, or Xiliang would not even think about it. As for rashly sending troops to forcefully gnaw at Li Jiqian, a not weak force, Cao Cao's brains are not broken, and he would not take the initiative to fight. This is definitely not in Cao Cao's interests.

Of course, if Xi Xia came to provoke Cao Cao, Boss Cao would let these ignorant savages know why the flowers are so popular!

But the situation was changing rapidly, Zhang Song's arrival greatly reduced the difficulty of the road to Shu, and gave Cao Cao the hope of entering Yizhou. In addition, under Lu Heng's plan, he did not want to fight Yuan Shao, so Cao Cao's original plan was aborted.

If Cao Cao succeeds according to Guo Jia and Zhang Song's strategy, it is not impossible for Cao Cao to occupy half of the country and create an Eastern Han version of the "Chu River and Han World" against Lu Heng!

But all this will have to wait until next year. This year is impossible. Cao Cao's attack on Hanzhong is already approaching autumn, and the autumn harvest will follow. The food in Hanzhong will solve Cao Cao's urgent needs.

Under such circumstances, it is too late to grab food!What battle are you fighting?Everything will be discussed next year!

During this period, Yuan Shao, who was in Yingchuan, woke up leisurely and knew the absolute disadvantageous situation. First, he fainted again, but since he was able to wake up, it was not a big problem.

Through Fengji let the spies bypass Lu Heng's territory, or walk through Hulao Pass and finally contact Hebei, and learned about the situation.

When Yuan Shao learned that his two sons, especially his favorite son Yuan Shang, refused to send troops to the south, it was another blow, and he was almost pissed to death by this unfilial son.

But the good news is that Lu Heng did not go north to Jizhou after taking Qingzhou and Yanzhou, Yecheng is still stable, and Youzhou is very turbulent because of Yuan Xi's death!
Now that the situation is urgent, Yuan Shao immediately wanted Lu Junyi, Han Qiong and others to counterattack Hebei, but he got a bad news.

Lu Heng's navy completely destroyed Yuan Shao's ships on the Yellow River!

This means that Yuan Shao in Yuzhou can't counterattack to the north, how can he fight without a boat?
Could it be that more than [-]% of the soldiers who can't swim, jumped into the Yellow River and fought desperately with Lu Heng's navy?

Therefore, Yuan Shao's main force wanted to fight back to Hebei, and only Yuan Tan, Yuan Shang, or Gao Gan from Hebei could break through Lu Heng's blockade of the Yellow River.

Some people are going to question here, isn't Yuan Shao occupying some places in Yuzhou, and he still has an army of 10,000+, so he can't build ships?

I really want to tell you no, because Yingchuan, where Yuan Shao shrank, has no population, and they all escaped when Fengji searched for food and grass.

Shipbuilding is a technical job. In this age without maritime universities, this craft is a housekeeping skill passed down from generation to generation, especially the craftsmen who make warships are precious talents.

In Yuan Shao's army, there may be one or two shipbuilding craftsmen from his ancestors, but it is absolutely impossible to build a ship for an army of [-].

As for 10 people, it is indeed feasible in theory to make rafts to cross the Yellow River.

[-]% of the soldiers who can't swim are sitting on a raft on the Yellow River, fighting against Lu Heng's elite water army. You can calculate the probability of winning by yourself.

"Let Xianfu and Xiansi lead troops to break through the Yellow River, and let Jigui (Cui Yan's word Jigui) go to Youzhou to stabilize the local situation."

Yuan Shao ordered a few more words to recuperate, and then recuperated again. Even with Yuan Shao's order, Feng Ji was still very worried.

There was no hope for the people from the North to fight water fights, and they had to think of other ways. Fengji found Lu Junyi.

"General Lu, we can't rely entirely on rescue from the north, we have to save ourselves, and now that autumn is coming, Lu Heng's direction must be ready for no chance!
The general also has a cavalry force. We will attack Cao Cao's Nanyang County and rob more food and grass. "

"The last general takes orders!"

In order to survive, Fengji has done everything possible. Lu Junyi's cavalry is the last cavalry in Yuan Shao's hands, with about a thousand cavalry. There is no need to think that there must be Fengji Battalion and Thunder Cavalry battalion in Lu Heng's direction. Only Nanyang has a chance. take!

Of course, Feng Ji also knew that this method would treat the symptoms rather than the root cause. Cao Cao's Nanyang garrison and guard Cao Ren would definitely adjust their defenses and prepare for it.

Fengji's strategy was quite effective, because Lu Junyi's surprise attack caught Cao Ren by surprise, and he still robbed a lot of food and grass.

As for Yuan Shang in Yecheng, Hebei, he received Yuan Shao's order to send troops one month after Yuan Shao woke up (the Yellow River blockade was bypassed to deliver the news). This made Yuan Tan overjoyed and encouraged Yuan Shang to step up the dispatch of troops.

It's a pity that even if Yuan Shang wanted to send troops, there was nothing he could do, let alone Yuan Shang who was disgusted with this order.

That's right, it is very difficult for Yuan Shang to send troops now, because when Yuan Shao went south, he took almost all the boats. The boat he came from Yuan Shang crossed the Yellow River?
There are still bits and pieces of boats used to deliver news, but what about the boats with tens of thousands of troops crossing the river?

So when Yuan Shang used this perfect excuse, saying that he had to wait for the craftsmen to build enough ships before he could dispatch troops, Yuan Tan was speechless. He couldn't use sampans and bamboo rafts to fight head-on with Lu Heng's elite navy, right?

In this way, Yuan Shao's direction settled down!

(End of this chapter)