Cao Cao also looked envious when he heard Liu Bei's battle report. It is good to have the righteousness of the imperial court. When he attacked Yuan Shu, the entire Yangzhou officials were dismayed. Yuan Shu's army of 70,000 to 80,000 people did not last for two months. You know, just marching.
, it took less than half a year to cross the entire Yangzhou, and it only took Liu Bei two months to fight.
His 50,000-strong army just patrolled and did not exert any force. Liu Bei alone destroyed Yuan Shu's forces.
If he were to fight this, he might not be able to defeat Yuan Shu even if he fought for a year and a half. If he wanted to annex Yuan Shu's power, it would cost a lot of money. However, Liu Bei had the righteousness of the court and spent a very small price to conquer Yuan Shu's power.
Vision is completely absorbed.
Liu Zhang now occupies the natural barrier of Yizhou and has 100,000 troops, but he cannot stop Liu Bei's army. In less than a month, the entire Ba County fell. Liu Bei's army has almost reached Chengdu. It has only been a few months.
At that time, the natural dangers in Shu, strong soldiers and horses, all of them had no effect in the face of the righteousness of the court. Cao Cao thought that I could do it. If his territory was not far away from Sili, he would have gone to Guanzhong to be the King of Qin, and let Liu Bei pick him up like this for nothing.
Big and cheap!
At this time, the Big Han brand is still somewhat useful. Although the current Liu Bei looks like an enhanced version of his power, in fact Liu Bei is still the same Liu Bei. He is now invincible and his invincible momentum is the bonus given to him by the Big Han.
Cao Cao in history is the same as Liu Bei. Before there was no Emperor Xiao to command the princes, Cao Cao only occupied Yanzhou, and he thought that fighting Tao Qian and Lu Bu would almost turn the entire Yanzhou into a white field.
The relationship with him fell apart, and Cao Cao even found it difficult to maintain his power in Yanzhou, which made Cao Cao want to defect to Yuan Shao.
At that time, Cao Cao was just an inconspicuous vassal force in the Central Plains, and there were many vassals stronger than Cao Cao.
And when he went to Luoyang City to serve as king, he almost got a place as a scribe for nothing. Although Luoyang City was destroyed at that time, the land east of the river and Hanoi could still be barely maintained, and Yuzhou was easily occupied by Cao Cao because he had the righteousness of the court.
With the great righteousness of the imperial court, there was no shortage of talents. Talents from Guanxi, Guandong, and Yingchuan of the Han Dynasty came to Cao Cao one after another. His old rival Yuan Shu was even surrounded and beaten by several princes forces he summoned in the name of the imperial court.
This was the complete defeat.
Cao Cao only had the qualifications to dominate the world by borrowing the shell of Dahan, a listed company.
It can be said that with the righteousness of the court, Cao Cao rose from a middle-level prince to a top prince who could compete with Yuan Shao. If Cao Cao had not been unlucky, natural and man-made disasters would have continued throughout the Central Plains during the years of his rule, so that he occupied
A prosperous Central Plains could not compare with Yuan Shao who had only one Jizhou in terms of food, grass and military strength.
To a certain extent, it is not wrong for Yuan Shao to launch the Battle of Guandu in advance, because from a basic point of view, Yuan Shao, who only occupies a land in Hebei, is simply not as good as Cao Cao, who occupies Xuzhou, Yanzhou, and Yuzhou Sili. Time is running out.
The longer the time goes by, the faster the Central Plains recovers, and the stronger Cao Cao becomes. However, Yuan Shao did not expect that he would have the advantage in military strength, but in the end, Cao Cao fought a battle with less and won more, causing his power to decline from prosperity!
But now that Cao Cao's destiny has been transferred to Liu Bei, Cao Cao can only envy and hate him, watching Liu Bei be invincible and invincible in every battle.
But Xun was unaware of Cao Cao's jealousy and continued: "Liu Bei is about to unify the south, and Yuan Shao has also occupied the three states of the Central Plains. The only territory left for us to expand is Xuzhou. If we can't take advantage of Liu Bei's far away
If we occupy Xuzhou during Yizhou, Xuzhou will definitely be occupied by Yuan Shao or Liu Bei, and then we will have no room for development at all!"
Guo Jiadao: "Except for Lei Gong, the biggest rebel, and the Xiliang rebellion, the only remaining princes in the world are Liu Bei, Yuan Shao, Lord and Tao Qian. The first two occupy the land of three states, and they have many generals and powerful forces.
.We and Tao Qian can barely maintain our power by allying with each other!"
"So Xuzhou is very important to us. With Xuzhou here, we can also join forces with Liu Bei and Yuan Shao to resist the Thunder God. Without Xuzhou, we are just a fish in the net, struggling to death.
Cao Cao has two states and can resist Liu Bei and Yuan Shao who have three states. He can barely be on an equal footing with them. But if Liu Bei and Yuan Shao both have three states, and Cao Cao only has one Qingzhou, then he will most likely be defeated.
If Liu Bei or Yuan Shao annexes it, it can be said that Cao Cao's life and death has now come to an end!
Cao Cao knew his situation and said seriously: "This is the only chance to get Xuzhou!"
Now that Liu Bei is leading the army to attack Yizhou, Liu Zhang has no time to pay attention to the affairs of Qingzhou and Xuzhou. Yuan Shao is exhausted by the drought in the Central Plains. At the same time, he also focuses on the war in Yizhou.
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What Cao Cao could think of, he could also think of. If Yizhou was captured by Liu Bei, the entire south of the Han Dynasty would be occupied by Liu Bei. Liu Bei would far surpass Yuan Shao in terms of territory and population. In addition, Liu Bei also
Despite the righteousness of the court, Yuan Shao's strength was far inferior to that of Liu Bei. This was something Yuan Shao could not tolerate.
So during this period, Yuan Shao was trying his best to support Liu Zhang, not wanting Liu Bei to easily occupy half of the Han Dynasty.
Now Yuan Shao has no time to pay attention to the situation in Qingzhou and Xuzhou. When the two major princes of the Han Dynasty are focusing on Yizhou, Cao Cao wants to occupy Xuzhou, and now is the best time!
Cao Cao murmured to himself: "The only difficulty now is how we can completely occupy Xuzhou in a short period of time without letting Liu Bei, Yuan Shao and Lei Gong stop our actions!"
In terms of military strength, Cao Cao was very confident that he could beat Tao Qian violently, but if he wanted to occupy Xuzhou, it was useless to rely on military strength alone. In other words, it was useless to rely solely on his military strength being stronger than Tao Qian.
Although Tao Qian's army is not as large as Cao Cao's, due to the rampage of the Yellow Turban Army, the entire Xuzhou Army still has 50,000 troops, and all of them are elites with rich experience in defending the city. The millions of Yellow Turban Army did not conquer Xuzhou.
It is still difficult for the army to conquer Xuzhou.
These large armies were defending the city. Cao Cao knew that he would not be able to conquer Xuzhou without a year and a half, and such a long time would be enough for Liu Bei, Yuan Shao and even Lei Gong in Hebei to react.
If any one of them sends a small amount of troops at will, his plan will easily fail. It is even possible that the war between him and Tao Qian will turn into a mantis stalking the cicada, with the oriole behind, especially since he is a mantis with three men behind him.
A yellow bird is here.
Xun You thought for a while and said: "The action to occupy Xuzhou must be based on political means and supplemented by military means. If we have to use troops as a last resort, we must defeat the Xuzhou army within half a month, otherwise our army will be in danger."