Qinglong Three Kingdoms

Chapter 777 Cao Cao's New Plan
Because of the natural barrier of the Yellow River, the large-scale fighting on the Yellow River defense line of Zhu Weijun temporarily stopped.

It's just that the fighting on the battlefield has temporarily stopped, but the contest outside the battlefield has not stopped. At this moment, Yuan Shao has also obtained the general military situation of Bingzhou and Xuzhou.

The news from the two places made Yuan Shao very dissatisfied.

Although the two sides temporarily restrained Zhu Weijun's peripheral troops, both sides were actually suppressed and beaten by Zhu Weijun, and there was no chance of winning at all. Should Yuan Shao send troops to support them?
It's just that Yuan Shao has gone all out in the current situation. At this moment, it is difficult for him to divide his troops to support the high officials in Bingzhou Taiyuan County and Yuan Tan in Xuzhou Taishan County.

Although Zhu Weijun withdrew to the south bank of the Yellow River, Zhu Weijun controlled enough ferries and could send troops across the river to launch surprise attacks and harassment against Yuan Shaojun at any time. Yuan Shaojun did not dare to send troops here to leave at will.

As a result, after Yuan Shao calculated the overall situation, he suddenly discovered that Cao Cao had been making soy sauce outside Hulao Pass, and he hadn't had any results so far.

So Yuan Shao sent an envoy to Cao Cao, expressing his dissatisfaction, asking Cao Cao to make some achievements, and not to stay still outside Hulao Pass.

After all, this time Yuan Shao sent troops south, he came at Cao Cao's invitation.

Ordinarily, Cao Cao should be the main force to attack Zhu Wei in Luoyang, but now Yuan Shao has lost [-] to [-] troops, which can be regarded as some achievements on the north bank of the Yellow River. Cao Cao has no progress outside Hulao Pass. Is it too unreasonable?

After Cao Cao met with Yuan Shao's envoy, he made a suggestion to Yuan Shao, hoping that Yuan Shao could cooperate.

It turned out that Cao Cao was blocked at Hulao Pass and couldn't move forward. It seemed that he was playing soy sauce. On the one hand, he really meant to preserve his strength, and on the other hand, he was looking for a fighter.

Cao Cao is naturally in control of the situation information in various parts of the world today. Even if the news of the wars in Bingzhou and Xuzhou is delayed, Cao Cao can still have a general understanding of the situation.

After Cao Cao and his military advisers analyzed the possible development of the future situation, they also felt that Zhu Wei in Luoyang must be defeated first, otherwise the future situation would become more and more unfavorable to him.

So after Cao Cao discussed with Guo Jia, Cheng Yu and other military advisers many times, he finally came up with a plan.

So after seeing Yuan Shao's envoy, Cao Cao took advantage of the situation and proposed to Yuan Shao the strategy he was going to carry out. At the same time, he also hoped that Yuan Shao could cooperate. Cao Cao hoped that Yuan Shao could send troops to Hulao Pass quietly, pretending to be Cao Cao's army and Zhu Weijun to confront each other. .

As for Cao Cao, he will take his main force through Yingchuan County to attack Guangcheng Pass and Dagu Pass in the south of Luoyang, so that he may attack Luoyang by surprise.

If Cao Cao can successfully attack Luoyang City, he can cut off the retreat of Zhu Weijun stationed on the south bank of the Yellow River, and can also intercept the food and supplies left by Zhu Weijun in Luoyang City. This may completely change the situation of the Luoyang war.

If the battle goes well, Cao Cao and Yuan Shao will be able to pinch the main force of Zhu Weijun on the south bank of the Yellow River. Even if they can't completely defeat Zhu Weijun, at least they can support Yuan Shao's army to cross the Yellow River.

As for why Cao Cao chose Guangcheng Pass and Dagu Pass as his targets, it was because Cao Cao tried to cut off Zhu Weijun's logistics and food roads before, and some troops had specially investigated here, so Cao Cao was familiar with the terrain here and Zhu Weijun's garrison situation.

It can be said that although Cao Cao failed to cut off the food roads of Zhu Wei's army before, it can be regarded as the early preparations for Cao Cao's army to attack Guangcheng Pass and Dagu Pass.

Yuan Shao got the strategy sent back by Cao Cao, so he also discussed it with Jushou, Tian Feng and other military advisers under the account. He felt that Cao Cao's strategy was still feasible. If it was really successful, it could indeed change the current battle situation.

Anyway, Yuan Shao's army is now idle on the north bank of the Yellow River. It is not a big problem to dispatch about [-] troops to replace Cao Cao's army outside Hulao Pass. Hulao Pass is also close, and they can be transferred back at any time.

So even if Cao Cao fails to succeed, it will not cause any loss to Yuan Shaojun, but only Cao Cao's own loss, which is also in Yuan Shao's interest.

So Yuan Shao used the means of dispatching the ferry to let Jushou, Zhang He, and Wang Mo sneak back to Hulao Pass with the [-] cavalry vanguard led by Wen Chou, and then stationed in Cao Jun's camp pretending to be Cao Cao's army.

However, Cao Cao left behind all the logistics soldiers, only brought about 4 main force, dry food for a few days with him, discarded all unnecessary logistics supplies, quickly withdrew from Hulao Pass to Yingchuan County, and then made a detour When they arrived near Liang County in the south of Luoyang, they prepared to launch a sneak attack on Guangcheng Pass leading to Luoyang.

At this time, Cao Cao had already mobilized the left-behind soldiers from Yingchuan to prepare food and supplies in Liang County, so when his army arrived here, they could also get supplies in time.

Now Cao Cao naturally found out that Zhu Weijun was guarding Guangcheng Pass and Dagu Pass by Sun Shangxiang, Sun Quan, and Sun Jing. Since the troops were divided to guard Guangcheng Pass and Dagu Pass, the original troops would naturally have to be dispersed. There are two places, so there are not many guards at each pass.

At the same time, because this side is connected to Luoyang and Nanyang, and theoretically it is also a passage to the Zhu Weijun base camp, so the threat of war here seems to be less, so the defense here should also be loose.

Cao Cao also thought of a sneak attack method. He specially sent Cao Ren, Xu Huang, and Xu Shang to lead [-] troops, pretending to be reinforcements sent from Jingzhou to Luoyang to cheat Guangchengguan, and then go to cheat Dagu on the way. Guan, thus achieving the result of Cao Jun's surprise attack on Luoyang.

And Cao Cao will follow behind with the remaining [-] soldiers, supporting Cao Ren, Xu Huang, and Xu Shang's sneak attack in time to deal with Zhu Weijun's possible counterattack.

This plan has been planned by Cao Cao for a long time. For this reason, Cao Cao also sent a lot of secret agents into Xiangyang, Jingzhou to investigate the news of Zhu Weijun's movements.

Cao Cao already knew the information that Wang Yuyan was recruiting new troops in Jingzhou to support Luoyang. At the same time, he also knew that troops from Yizhou and Hanzhong would be transferred to Jingzhou and then transferred to support Luoyang.

The robbery army sent here by Cao Cao also discovered the traces of the [-] "Dongzhou Army" going from Guangcheng Pass to Luoyang, which shows that Zhu Weijun is indeed continuously increasing troops to Luoyang.

Cao Cao and his counselors Guo Jia, Cheng Yu and others all believed that there could be flaws in this. As long as they pretended to be Yizhou or Hanzhong soldiers who were not familiar with Guangcheng Pass and Dagu Pass, there was still a high chance of deceiving Guangcheng Pass. , Daguguan...

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