Guo Jia shook his head silently. He had no way to persuade Yuan Shao to send troops to attack Xuzhou at this moment, because the threat from Gongsun Zan of Youzhou was real. Without dealing with Gongsun Zan, it was impossible to get Yuan Shao to strongly support the attack on Liu Bei.
"Mengde, the emperor is in Ye, and Gongsun Zan and the Black Mountain bandits are not eliminated. It is not appropriate to make an enemy of Liu Xuande at this time!"
Yuan Shao expressed his thoughts.
"If I send troops to help you pacify Youzhou and destroy Gongsun Zan, will you be willing to send troops to attack Xu?"
Cao Cao hesitated and said.
"Are you willing to help me attack Gongsun Zan?" Yuan Shao asked.
"Isn't there a rumor that I want to be connected with Gongsun Zan? I will send troops to help you attack Gongsun, just to clear your doubts. If Gongsun is destroyed, the Black Mountain bandits are just a mob, so there is nothing to worry about. When the time comes, you can send 50,000 troops to join me.
How about attacking Xuzhou?"
There is nothing Cao Cao can do now. Gongsun Bu is not destroyed and Yuan Shao refuses to send troops.
However, Yuan Shao refused to send troops and only relied on his own 50,000 troops. He was afraid of repeating the same mistake, so he could only help him destroy Gongsun Zan first, and then let him send 50,000 troops to destroy Liu Bei with him.
If Liu Bei is destroyed, even if Yuan Shao sends someone to be the governor of Xuzhou, he can still ask for the two counties of Langya and Guangling. With these two counties, Langya can resist the troops of Qingzhou, and Guangling can block the enemies of Yangzhou. If he wants to capture Xuzhou, he can
It's not difficult at all.
After capturing Xuzhou and conquering Yuzhou, with the power of Yan, Yu, and Xuzhou, we can fight against Yuan Shao.
"Hahaha... If you can kill Gongsun, of course you can."
The biggest headache for Yuan Shao now is Gongsun Zan. He is hiding in Yi Jing and building a fortress, which is easy to defend but difficult to attack. If Cao Cao has the help of his troops, he may be able to break through Yi Jing and destroy him.
If Gongsun Zan is destroyed, the north will have no worries and can use all its strength to deal with Liu Bei.
It's not that Yuan Shao is unaware of the threat Liu Bei poses to him, it's just that Gongsun Zan poses a greater threat to him now.
Jushou Tian Feng and others were naturally happy to see Cao Cao send troops to assist and defeat Gongsun Zan.
In this way, it can at least prove that Cao Cao is not connected with Gongsun Zan. Once Gongsun in the north is destroyed, Cao Cao in the south will not be such a big threat.
When the time comes, Liu Bei will be subdued, Yuan Shu will be defeated, and the two states of Xu and Yang will be under control. The remaining Cao Cao army will have to surrender, and no one in the world can compete with Yuan Shao.
Although Cao Cao arrived in Yecheng in person, he could not meet the emperor.
If you send an envoy, you can visit the emperor, but Cao Cao cannot.
Yuan Shao, like Cao Cao before, had the final say on who could see the emperor.
The only difference was that Yuan Shao was not as aggressive as Cao Cao, nor did he kill people randomly, which gave Liu Xie some peace of mind.
Yuan Shao and Cao Cao met again after a long separation, and originally wanted to keep him in Yecheng for a few more days to catch up on old times. However, Cao Cao was anxious to send troops to attack Gongsun Zan. He wanted to kill Gongsun Zan before Liu Bei captured Yangzhou, and then combined his forces to attack Xuzhou.
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Therefore, Cao Cao only stayed in Yecheng for two days, had a drink with Yuan Shao once, missed his youth for a while, and hurried back to Juancheng with Guo Jiadianwei.
He asked Cao Ren and Xu Huang to command 20,000 troops, including 10,000 veterans and 10,000 new soldiers, to assist the Jizhou army in attacking Yijing.
On the other hand, more detectives were sent to Xuzhou and Yangzhou to investigate Liu Bei's information and report back at any time.
At the same time, Liu Bei and Zhou Ping were also paying attention to Cao Cao's news.
First, they received news that Cao Cao had returned to Juancheng from Ye City, and then received news that Cao Cao had sent Cao Ren and Xu Huang to lead 20,000 troops to assist Yuan Shao in attacking Gongsun Zan.
For Liu Bei, this is good news. At least Yuan Shao and Cao Cao will not come to capture Xuzhou so soon. He still has time to capture Yangzhou.
But Zhou Ping knew that Cao Cao's purpose in doing this was to join forces with Yuan Shao to attack Liu Bei.
Therefore, the matter of capturing Yangzhou became even more urgent.
However, they have now led troops to Qu'a City, but Zhu Zhi also personally brought 5,000 troops from Wu County to guard Qu'a.
Now there are more than 10,000 soldiers garrisoned in Qu'a City, but they dare not go out to fight. Liu Bei only has more than 20,000 soldiers and horses, so a force attack will definitely not work.
It would definitely be detrimental to Liu Bei if such consumption continued. Perhaps Zhang Zhao, Zhu Zhi and others also saw this, so Zhu Zhi brought all the five thousand soldiers and horses from Wu County. He would rather abandon Wu County than defend Qu'a.
The good news is that Huang She and Chen Gong led the navy to break through Niuzhu and killed Sun Ce's general Song Qian. However, Huang She also lost more than 3,000 troops and horses, which was a tragic victory.
The fall of Niuzhu and Song Qian's death in battle, especially Sun Ce's coma, left Zhang Zhao and others in a state of confusion, and they didn't know how to deal with it.
The only choice they have now is to wait for Cao Cao and Yuan Shao to defeat Gongsun Zan as soon as possible so that they can send troops to attack Xu and relieve the danger in Jiangdong.
Liu Bei stood outside the camp, Zhou Ping stood beside him, Zhang Fei, Gao Shun, Xu Chu, Zhang Wu and other guards followed behind him.
"Sir, how can we attack this city?" Liu Bei asked, pointing to Quac City.
Qu'a was originally Liu Yao's prefecture, and later Zhang Zhao and others garrisoned it, and it was often repaired. Now it has thick and high walls, deep trenches and wide ditches, and there are so many soldiers and horses guarding the city. It is difficult to break through
Impossible.
Zhou Ping looked at Qu Acheng. He had been thinking about this issue recently. In the past two days, he finally came up with a way. Although it didn't look very good, it was better than waiting.
"My lord, the enemy soldiers are holding on to the city and do not dare to go out to fight. This city cannot be attacked by force. If we want to break the city, we must lure the enemy out to fight." Zhou Ping replied.
"How to lure the enemy into battle?"
Liu Bei heard that there was a plan in Zhou Ping's words and asked hurriedly.
"Sun Ce was still sleeping and there was no leader in the city. Zhang Zibu asked Zhu Zhi to lead troops here from Wu County and stick to Qu'a and Dantu. It must be for convenience to leave a way out. Zhu Zhi can abandon Wu County, but they must not be without Dantu. If we
Once Wu County is occupied, Dantu will be their last and only retreat."
"We can send troops to occupy Wu County in advance and cut off their way to retreat south. Then let Chen Yuanlong lead the troops from Guangling as if he wants to attack Dantu. We can then send troops to attack Dantu. The enemies in the city will think that we are going to attack Dantu.
Tutu, Dantu is their only escape route, and they will definitely go to rescue them. However, our soldiers and horses set up an ambush halfway, waiting for their reinforcements to attack suddenly, and they will definitely win. In this way, they are trapped in the isolated city without reinforcements, and they are either dead or dead.
drop."
Zhou Ping's move was to lure the snake out of its hole, attack it and rescue it, and besiege the city to provide reinforcements. If they were defeated for a while, the people in the city would be afraid. Sun Ce was still awake, so he sent people to persuade Zhang Zhao to surrender. Maybe Zhang Zhao and others would be willing to surrender.
Liu Bei was overjoyed after hearing this and thought this was the best strategy at the moment.
"Sir, since you have a great idea, why not tell me earlier? I have been unable to sleep at night these days!"
"Looking at the city now, Square has this plan." Zhou Ping said.
Liu Bei immediately returned to camp, and first asked Mi Fang to lead 3,000 men to occupy Wu County. He then sent people to Guangling and asked Chen Deng to prepare to send troops to attack Dantu from the river.
