There are gentlemen in the Three Kingdoms

The emperor didn't know the purpose of Duke Cao's expedition this time.

Cao Gong mainly dealt with the Yanzhou gentry this time, and now the gentry in Puyang City are under the close surveillance of his own soldiers, and Xun Yu will represent Cao Cao to clean up the gentry in Puyang City as soon as the western front makes a move.

Since the ultimate goal is to clean them up, how can they help defend the city?

But Xun Yu couldn't say this to the emperor.

He just gave a long salute to the emperor helplessly, and apologized: "Your Majesty, forgive me, it is the minister who overstepped. He is just a servant of the gentry's mansion in the city. He is just a family guard on weekdays. How can he kill the enemy in front of the battle?" A bad one will easily affect our own morale. The minister has thousands of soldiers and horses, and it is enough to guard the city. Your Majesty does not need to worry too much."

Xun Yu is extremely respectful and polite to the Son of Heaven. No matter how precocious Liu Xie is, he is only 13 years old. In later generations, he just graduated from elementary school and entered the first grade of junior high school.

The little kid raised his head arrogantly, and rushed to the back room in a twisted manner, leaving Xun Yu with a big back.

After Liu Xie entered the inner room, Xun Yu immediately asked the servant, "How many Xuzhou troops are marching towards Puyang City?"

The servant replied cautiously: "At least there should be no less than five thousand people."

"No less than five thousand." Xun Yu stroked his beard and said quietly for a while, "Fortunately, if there are only 5000 people, the number of soldiers in the city is enough to deal with it. Xia Houlian was ordered to be the governor of the army. Guard the city carefully, don't let the Tao army take advantage of it! As long as you stick to it until Cao Gong returns from a major event, forgive the little thief from the Tao family who can't escape our grasp."

The servant swallowed lightly, and said in a low voice: "Master, I'm afraid this matter is not that simple."

Xun Yu frowned and said, "What do you mean?"

His servant said cautiously to Xun Yu: "Although Xuzhou's army came to Puyang, according to their current direction of march, it seems that they are not coming to the city. Their goal seems to be the wheat field cultivated in the east of Puyang. .”

"Wheat field!" Xun Yu trembled all over, almost fainting from shock.

Seeing him swaying slightly, the servant was startled, and hurried over to help him.

Xun Yu regained his composure, and then suddenly said angrily: "Such a vicious scheme, needless to say, it must have been planned by Guo Fengxiao for the pottery merchant!"

Since Cao Cao took over millions of Qingzhou Yellow Turbans, Bao Xin, Liu Dai and other princes' armies and some Xiliang soldiers, he has all the strength, population, combat power, fierce generals, counselors and other aspects, but there is only one shortcoming. Legs have always been difficult to work out.

That is his food problem.

The capital of the Eastern Han Dynasty was Luoyang, which was located at the junction of the two major northern strategic plates, Guanzhong and Kanto.

Since the Yellow Turban Uprising, the Central Plains has entered a period of great melee.

Yanzhou, which is located in the middle of the world, is the most affected by the crossing of soldiers and horses from the southeast to the northwest. Or the chaotic road led to population loss, a large area of ​​land was barren, and the places where the army passed, people trampled and trampled, and the crops were basically destroyed, and the harvest of the year was gone.

Therefore, at the beginning of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the agricultural production in Yanzhou was the most severe. The land was barren and the reclamation lagged behind. Especially the year before last, Sima Ju led millions of Yellow Turbans to the south, and the places they passed were like locusts crossing the border. Tragic.

Whoever is in power here is helpless.

Based on these objective factors, Cao Cao's combat power in history can be said to be among the best among the princes, but he has been worrying about food and grass for half his life.

Now Cao Cao has to offer advice, and he has reclaimed troops and villages in Yanzhou, and the problem of grain and grass in Yanzhou has just eased.

But even with the garrison system, Cao Cao's grain and grass scheduling is very tight.

Right now, Cao Cao is going west to the generals of Xiliang, and all the logistics supplies are handed over to Xun Yu, and the wheat fields waiting to be harvested in the east of Puyang are the most important supplies for Cao Jun on the western front. Once the wheat fields are lost, Cao Cao's elite soldiers on the western front horse, there is a danger of total collapse.

Xun Yu suddenly became nervous.

The Xuzhou army's move was so good that he had to lead his troops out of Puyang City and give up the advantage of the city.Compete with them for the wheat fields!

Chapter 344 I'm Not Here

The person who offered advice to the potters to attack the wheat fields was indeed Guo Jia.

Guo Jia has been in charge of setting up the school office for these years, so he knows the intelligence of all the states like the back of his hand, and the news that Cao Cao in Yanzhou has short legs in food and grass, naturally he can't hide it from him.

In this round of competition, it was not that Guo Jia was better than Xun Yu, but that Xun Yu did have a weakness in the matter of food and grass.

Even if he knew that Guo Jia was forcing him out of the city, for the safety of Cao Cao on the western front, he had to go out of the city to grab wheat from the Xuzhou army.

The safety of Cao Cao's main force on the western front is the safety of Yanzhou as a whole. If the main force on the western front loses food and grass, it doesn't matter whether Puyang wants it or not.

After arriving at the wheat field, the potter asked his men to cut the wheat, and at the same time asked Guo Jia and Chen Deng who were with the army: "You two, we are here to grab the wheat with Xun Yu. The combat strength of the soldiers defending the city should be the elite of Cao's army, and the numbers of the two sides are similar, and both sides are good at fighting, once they fight, I'm afraid it will be a stalemate or a bloody battle, and it may not be easy to defeat them."

Guo Jia nodded, and said: "It is precisely because of this that we have to lure them out. If we fight a tough battle around Puyang City, then there is no chance of winning this battle! What's more, the opponent is Xun Yu, who is well-versed in both military and government affairs. , without short legs, Guo has no certainty of defeating him."

Chen Deng said to the Tao merchant: "But having said that, we do have another wonderful move to take, that is to separate out an army and horses, ride Xun Yu to compete with us in Dongtun for wheat, and go secretly to Puyang. Invade the city, quickly welcome the emperor out of the city and go to Fan County, and take a drastic move."

Guo Jia said hesitantly: "Yuan Long must have underestimated Xun Yu too much. Although this person usually looks honest and refined, he seems to be an honest person, but in fact he is the most thoughtful. If he leaves the city, he will definitely stay in the city." Prepare, besides, even if you divide your troops to attack Puyang City, if you bring fewer soldiers and horses, you may not be able to take away the emperor under the eyes of the people and gentry in the city. After all, for them, the emperor has a great relationship and is unusual .”

Chen Deng seemed to have a plan for this, and said: "It's okay, when I went to Dongjun to negotiate secretly with Chen Gong, Zhang Miao and others, I knew that the big family Tian in Puyang City was also their insider, and Xun Yu took precautions against Puyang City. The gentry, but you can’t keep all the big merchants on guard, right? When I go to Chen Gong, I have already obtained the method of Tian’s contact, and I have already connected with him secretly. As long as I can enter Puyang City, I must have a way to take the emperor away quickly."

Guo Jia was stunned when he heard the words, and couldn't help secretly admiring Chen Deng's foresight.

But after thinking about it carefully, he frowned again and said: "But our troops are limited, and we can't send out many soldiers, so if we want to cooperate with Yuan Long in such a big event, we must have a wise and brave general to accompany you."

When the two said this, they immediately looked at the potter together.

No matter how the two wise men drafted the strategy, the final decision-making power still had to fall on the potter.

After listening to what the two of them said, the pottery merchant thought carefully for a while before he said: "According to the current situation, the strengths of both sides are equal. This strategy is feasible and the most important thing is that the general who will go with Yuanlong to divide the troops and seize the city must be a person with both wisdom and courage."

Guo Jia cupped his hands and said, "Tao Ji and Gan Ning are here with us this time, and the rest of the generals are training soldiers in Liang State, cooperating with Sun Qian to confuse Cao Jun's eyes and ears in Jiyin County, Gan Ning Although he is brave, his personality is too strong, he can fight well, but it is not enough to cooperate with Yuan Longkong, and Tao Ji is more than calm, but unfortunately he is not brave enough."

Chen Deng sighed regretfully, and said, "If I had known this, I would have brought Xu Rong along."

The pottery merchant suddenly laughed.

"You two are not right. In fact, this is not the case. Among the accompanying generals, there is one person who is enough to take on this important task! He can not only attack the city, but also cooperate with Yuanlong, and I personally think that he is better than Xu Rong. suitable."

"Who?"

"Zhao Yun under Gongsun Zan's command."

Xun Yu left Xia Houen to lead a thousand tiger and leopard riders to guard Puyang, while he himself led the remaining five thousand infantry and headed straight for the wheat fields in Dongtun.

Vaguely, Xun Yu could already see the potter's Jinling army harvesting wheat in Dongtun's wheat field.

It's okay if you don't look at it, but when you look at it, Xun Yu almost vomits blood out of breath.

Xuzhou soldiers cut wheat without sickles, but with ordinary plain knives!

The shattered wheat is scattered all over the ground, as many prodigals as there are prodigals, as many wastes as there are wastes.

Xun Yu's heart is about to break, Yanzhou is short of food, and these bastards are still in such a terrible disaster.

Turning his head, Xun Yu stared at Xia Houjie behind him, and ordered: "Quickly send an order to someone, enter the wheat field in a while, don't ask other questions, directly kill the Xuzhou army, kill one enemy, and reward a grain of food! Kill the enemy Those with more than ten people will be exempted from paying for one year!"

The so-called brave men must be rewarded with great rewards. As soon as Xun Yu's order reached the ears of the soldiers of Cao Bing, they immediately became excited.

Everyone is gearing up, just waiting for a while to rush into the wheat field and beat up these robbers who came to cut their own grain and rice.