Chapter 178: The best strategy is to attack the enemy, and the two sides will rush to the enemy【Subscribe】

The letter was from Yuan Shao, and its content was about recalling the bitter past and thinking of the sweet present.

Recalling the time when the two knew each other since childhood, they traveled together, formed a group of friends and worked hard for the world.

At the end, it says that if the two of them join forces, they will be able to travel across the north and south and be invincible in the world.

First recall the past and accumulate emotions. Then imagine the future, build a vision, and reveal your purpose.

The letter was very sentimental.

But when it comes to the rise and fall of the world and the supreme throne, there is no such thing as personal feelings.

It has been three and a half years since Dong Zhuo entered Luoyang and the world fell apart.

Among the northern heroes, only Cao Cao and Yuan Shao are of the same level.

The outcome of the two men's battle will determine the ownership of the most important states and counties of the Han Dynasty, and may even determine the initial situation of the world.

At the end of the letter, Yuan Shao hoped that Cao Cao would submit to him, and made it clear that he was confident that he could defeat Cao Cao, but he could not bear to mobilize all his troops. If Cao Cao could submit to Jizhou, he would treat him with state courtesy as before.

The letter also invited Cao Cao to cross the Yellow River for a while.

It was impossible for Cao Cao to keep the appointment.

It was Yuan Shao who initially suggested inviting Dong Zhuo to Luoyang, but when he saw that Dong Zhuo was difficult to control, he fled Luoyang and then planned to establish Liu Yu as emperor.

Yuan Shao had no king and no country, and only had his family in his heart. It was impossible for him to be a good emperor.

It is even more impossible to make Cao Cao submit to him.

When a family of aristocratic families controls a country, as the Sima family later did, it would only lead to the destruction of the country and the family, and the prevalence of excessive demands and extravagance.

Once the aristocratic class comes to power, political problems and social contradictions will be further exacerbated.

This has gone too far, Cao Cao regained his focus.

He said to the scout outside the carriage, "Go back and tell Xun Sima that it's not that he can't handle it, just do as he wants."

Yanzhou will ignore Yuan Shao's letter.

Cao Cao didn't even have the mood to reply to Yuan Shao and have another talk.

Just display your troops clearly and decide the victory on the battlefield.

Since they all want to be emperor, let’s see who can be invincible and shoulder the heavy responsibility of ruling the country.

Inside the carriage, while Cao Cao was on the move, he still received news from various parties from time to time.

At present, Yanzhou is fighting with Xuzhou on the eastern front.

On the western front, Zhao Yun led the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry, cooperating with Zhang Liao, one positive and one surprise.

Zhang Liao seized territory from the front, while Zhao Yun led the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry, taking advantage of their high mobility, infiltrated the northern line, attacked the Liangzhou Army, and gradually compressed their living space.

Li Jue, Guo Si and Fan Chou had no choice but to gradually move westward to fight against Ma Teng and Han Sui on the other side of Liang Province.

Cao Cao's arrangements for the northwest are underway.

This time, he traveled in the large carriage that was modified by Jia Xu.

The cart was very heavy and had to be pulled by two horses.

But the interior space is spacious, like a small mobile study.

Wen Ji was wearing a clean white waisted long skirt and silk stockings of the same color. She sat on a fixed low seat in the carriage and meticulously completed her clerk work, helping Cao Cao record and send messages and convey orders.

"Reports came from the western front that the emperor took advantage of the fact that Yanzhou was using troops against Liangzhou troops and sent secret envoys to recruit Yang Feng and other former Liangzhou troops to surrender, in order to divide them.

Yang Feng led his troops, along with Xu Huang and other generals, into Chang'an, where he was rewarded by the emperor.

Wen Ji has beautiful handwriting.

While transcribing the news, she read it to Cao Cao in a clear voice.

Yang Feng participated in the Baibo Army in his early years. Historically, he was under the command of Li Jue. Later, he betrayed Li Jue and escorted Emperor Liu Xie back to Luoyang in the east.

Later, he depended on Yuan Shu and Lu Bu.

Xu Huang, his subordinate, was a good general.

"The emperor wants to recruit some people to surrender. What do you think?"

Cao Cao encouraged Wen Ji to express her views.

"The emperor was anxious to seize power and to escape the clutches of others."

"But he is too young after all. In recent years, the imperial power has been suppressed again and again by Dong Zhuo and others. He no longer has any prestige."

Wen Ji said: "The emperor is still a little anxious, but if he doesn't do this, he is afraid of missing the opportunity... He has to do it."

Cao Cao hummed and said, "The emperor will soon find out that the more he does, the more mistakes he makes."

On the other side, Diao Chan was busy settling accounts.

Wen Ji recorded and conveyed Cao Cao's orders, and almost every one of them involved money, either incoming or outgoing.

When encountering large bills, Diao Chan's pretty eyebrows would slightly frown, and her little face would be full of pain.

The carriage is moving forward.

A few days later, they arrived at Dongjun of Yanzhou.

Along the way, Cao Cao inspected the situation in each county, the deployment of defenses, the upcoming spring plowing, and other matters.

He finally came to the Yellow River and looked north over the riverbank.

Jizhou and Yanzhou were both accumulating strength, trying to sweep across the surrounding states, until the famous Battle of Guandu was fought to decide the outcome.

On the south bank of the Yellow River, troops from Yanzhou have been arriving one after another.

Cao Hong led the troops here.

But they couldn't fight for the time being.

When Cao Cao arrived at the coast, a group of Tiger and Leopard Cavalry came back from the northwest corner of Bingzhou and Yanzhou. More than a thousand people, led by Cao Chun, joined Cao Cao's personal army.

The next day, Cao Cao went south through Dongjun and arrived at the border area between Chenliu and Yuzhou.

This is the heartland of Cao Cao's forces. It has been operated for the longest time, has a good mass base, and is heavily guarded on all sides.

Yanzhou spent a huge amount of money to build a construction camp here.

Armor preparation, weapons research, harness forging, etc. The Mohist craftsmen have accumulated manpower over more than three years.

Cao Cao came to inspect.

The camp received the news in advance, and the garrison general and the chief craftsman came to the outside of the camp early to wait.

The sound of hoofbeats is like thunder.

Cao Cao used military tactics to conceal his tracks, and only when he approached the camp did the sound of hooves suddenly break out.

More than a thousand tigers and leopards, and nineteen heavy cavalrymen whose faces were covered in armor, protected the two chariots and revealed their tracks.

Cao Cao got off the car and, surrounded by the crowd, went straight into the camp to check the various weapons preparations.

He picked up a giant spear that was eight feet long. The front of this weapon had an angular blade with a blood groove, and the handle and the edge of the blade were engraved with Mohist patterns.

Its scientific name is armor-breaking awl, a kind of horse lance, which is best at breaking armor.

But it has very high requirements for users.

Zhao Yun single-handedly selected the Nineteenth Cavalry, and this is the horse-fighting weapon.

Cao Cao met a Mohist craftsman who was in charge of the construction camp, named Xu Hong, who was about fifty years old, with a calm look in his eyes and long fingers.

Unfortunately, two fingers are missing from his left hand.

He was once involved in a bandit group, had his little finger cut off and was forced to work for the bandits. He was rescued from the Yellow Turban Army by Yanzhou.

Cao Cao asked: "How much have you understood about the spell array I gave you?"

“There has been no progress.”

"Not at all?"

"Ah."

Xu Hong's face was serious: "The curse pattern given by the governor uses a superposition method of array patterns that we have never seen before.

We tore it apart, copied it, and tried it over and over again, but nothing worked.”

Cao Cao copied a small part of the spell array of the Xiantai Seal and gave it to Xu Hong for research. He asked him to try carving it when preparing weapons and armor to see the effect.

But Xu Hong and other Mohist craftsmen studied it for months.

Got nothing.

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Changyi.

The mansion where the Fu brothers and sisters settled.

"Cao Cao has been gone for four or five days. It looks like he won't be back anytime soon. Let's go too. What's the point of staying in Changyi any longer?"

Fu Yu has been a little depressed ever since he met Diao Chan. The more he boasted about his beauty, the more sensitive he was to Diao Chan's lethality.

It's probably the effect of looking through a magic mirror.

Fu Yu even took the initiative to give up the idea of ​​becoming Cao Cao's wife.

"Not only can we not leave after Cao Cao leaves, this is also an opportunity."

Fu Ping said: "Since Cao Cao came to Yanzhou, everything has gone too smoothly. Everyone is waiting for him to make a mistake."

“And he finally slipped up.”

"The nobles from all over the world gathered in Yanzhou from all directions, and he actually brought his beautiful concubine with him. What a great opportunity this is!"

"We should stay here and take the opportunity to contact the nobles who came to Changyi."

"Cao Cao's departure at this time shows his disrespect for the gentry."

"We just happened to form an alliance with other noble families."

"I am looking forward to seeing what his reaction will be when he returns and finds out about our alliance."

Fu Yu's eyes also lit up:
"Let's first ask His Majesty. If Chang'an agrees, we can use this opportunity to pressure the governor of Yanzhou and see if he will give in and stop fighting with Xuzhou as we wish."

The Fu family, the emperor of Chang'an, quickly formed a hidden camp.

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Two days after Cao Cao came to Chenliu to inspect the military preparation camp, he continued south and entered Yuzhou.

Then go towards Yingchuan.

Here, they met up with another group from Qiao County.

The leader was Cao Cao's eldest son Cao Ang.

Many people know that Cao Cao was an outstanding politician and military strategist, but most people overlook his educational ability.

He practices what he preaches.

Among the children, there are many talented ones, and the lower limits are also very high, and there are no useless ones.

Cao Zhi, Cao Chong, Cao Zhang and others, each of them has their own name passed down to later generations.

Take Cao Pi for example. He was taught hunting at the age of five, riding a horse at the age of six, and shooting arrows on horseback at the age of eight.

At this time, Cao Ang rode a pony and happily came to meet Cao Cao.

Beside Cao Ang was a young man with a stern temperament and a cold expression. He was Wang Yue's disciple, the sword-doing genius Shi A.

The group gathered together and advanced towards the southwest of Yingchuan County.

In addition to inspecting various places, Cao Cao had another hidden purpose when he came out this time.

Everyone in the world thought that after Cao Cao sent troops to Chang'an and occupied Sili, his power would increase dramatically. He would take advantage of the gathering of gentry from all sides to celebrate in Changyi, unite all parties and raise his momentum.

Cao Cao left Changyi at this time not to avoid idleness or give up his duties, but because he saw an opportunity to strike a strategic target with a blitzkrieg.

When Zhang Xiu first arrived in Nanyang County, his troops were not yet stable.

He is busy appeasing all parties and trying to gain a firm footing.

When Cao Cao saw the information about Zhang Xiu in Nanyang, he had an idea.

All parties gathered in Changyi, and when they thought that Yanzhou would take a break, they secretly dispatched the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry to raid Nanyang County.

In history, Cao Cao had a very difficult time dealing with the Nanyang issue. He was repeatedly attacked by Zhang Xiu, and his eldest son, Dian Wei, and nephew all died because of it.

But now Cao's camp is very powerful, and Zhang Xiu has just arrived in Nanyang and is full of loopholes.

If we don't attack Nanyang and get rid of him at this time, we will be wasting the opportunity.

Therefore, Cao Cao's inspection tour was just a superficial appearance.

Those who want to take advantage of loopholes in Nanyang will soon find out that they are extremely wrong.

To the southwest of Yingchuan is Nanyang!
During the forced march, Cao Cao glanced at Dian Wei and Cao Ang beside him.

The battle of Nanyang would be meaningless without them, and it would not be in line with history!
As Cao Cao approached Nanyang, a troop of soldiers was already waiting there, ready to meet him at the appointed time.

The leader was Dong Zhao, who was willing to pay for himself to work in Cao's camp.

Cao Cao wrote back to him, asking him to start working on his way from Chang'an to Yanzhou, providing him with manpower and asking him to go to Nanyang to prepare for the expedition.

Dong Zhao gladly accepted the order and rushed to Nanyang to cause trouble.

Now is the time to verify Dong Zhao's level.

He wanted to meet Cao Cao, just as Cao Cao wanted to meet him, and both sides were full of expectations.

Running in both directions.

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