"Cao Cao collected Guan Yu, defeated Liu Bei, and occupied the land of Xuzhou?" After Ma Chao finished reading this sentence, his face became strange again, and his tone was a little elevated: "Sun Ce's 150,000 troops entered Yangzhou, attacked Chengde, and forced Yuan Shu to withdraw his troops from Xuzhou to resist?" ”

With these two pieces of heavy news in front of him, Ma Chao felt overwhelmed. My heart also rose suddenly: the world is unpredictable, white clouds and dogs. Back then, Ma Chao only used a few battles to win Fufeng County. After that, it can be said that it was a smooth ride, and after accumulating steadily, the army came out to win the entire Yongzhou. Even, there are other clear examples of this, Liu Biao was a scholar, and he invited the local Haoqiang to have a meal, and only after cutting off more than 50 heads, he took Jingzhou, which had 100,000 armor and thousands of miles of fertile fields.

At that time, it can really be said that the time is for the benefit, and the result is twice the result with half the effort. But now, the power of the princes has been achieved, even if they capture a Jiedongchuan, they need to send a large army twice to defeat the strong enemy. In the end, he almost died in Pang Tong's calculations, and it took him four months to go down to Dongchuan.

Especially at this time, the situation is even worse: under the confrontation between the Ma family and Yuan Shao's army, there were several small battles. But after two months, not even a single county in Hanoi was taken.

How can the difference between before and after be so big?

Of course, Ma Chao knew the reason, and for a while, he only felt bitter and astringent in his mouth: The current situation is indeed not smooth for the Ma family. It is also because of this that the Ma family has fallen into such an embarrassing situation.

In order to make the Han Li Shu strong after a hundred years, the Ma family prematurely stepped into the quagmire of competing for power in the eastern part of the country. Cao Cao took a fancy to this, and he used a good plan to join the Ma family and avoid Yuan Shao, and easily took Xuzhou. Sun Ce also hibernated for more than half a year, and when he was completely unprepared with Yuan Shu, he broke into Yangzhou. It is conceivable that poor Yuan Shu will definitely suffer heavy losses under the attack of the two.

"My lord, these characters today can be compared to beasts. Cao Cao Sun Ce, comparable to a lion and tiger; Yuan Shao and Liu Bei, comparable to jackals; As for Yuan Shu, Liu Zhang, Liu Biao and the like, they are all lucky enough to be rampant. Guo Jia saw Ma Chao's expression, stepped forward and said: "Now most of the rats are trembling, hiding in the cave and watching the changes. If the lord no longer makes a decision and blindly falls into the quagmire of Jizhou, then Cao Cao can successfully rise in the past two years, and Sun Ce will also use Yangzhou as a springboard to enter the Central Plains. Ma Yuan fought a battle, and he should make a decision as soon as possible today. ”

"My lord, judging from the terrain, Sun Ce's steel knife was fiercely inserted into Yuan Shu's buttocks, which would make Yuan Shu bleed in a short period of time. What's more, Sun Ce is brave and fierce, and with his proud character, it is impossible to give up halfway. The Cao and Sun families really united, and Yuan Shu was broken in less than a year. At that time, the two families of Cao and Sun will divide the two states of Yu and Yang, and their momentum has been achieved, and they will not be inferior to the second Yuan Shao, and I hope that the lord will think about it deeply. Xun You couldn't help but step forward, and it seemed that he agreed with Guo Jia very much.

"Alas......." Ma Chao sighed, looked up at the ugly brother and said, "What about Liu Bei, Cao Cao didn't cut the grass and eradicate the roots?" ”

"Liu Bei was raided by Xiahou Yuan's cavalry in Xuyi, and the soldiers were defeated, and since then he has been in disguise, looking at his route, he should have fled in the direction of Jingzhou." The ugly brother clenched his fists, his face was calm, and he waited for Ma Chao to digest and think.

"Well, it seems that Liu Bei can't afford to make any waves in a short period of time." Ma Chao nodded, picked up the letter that Jia Xu gave him again, and after observing it carefully, he asked, "Zishan, after the old fox wrote this letter, did he really emphasize not fighting with war?" ”

"Indeed, the law of it needs to be grasped by the lord himself." Yang Fu nodded.

At this moment, the changing situation and the good words of Guo Jia and Xun Yu finally made Ma Chao understand what Jia Xu's old fox meant: After Ma Jiajun blocked Yuan Shao's troops with a strong army, not only would it not reduce the killing in Kanto by a few points, but would make those careerists more unscrupulous. If you really don't want to be ashamed of Han Min for a hundred years, then you need all means to eradicate dissidents, and you can already dominate the world before you can rule the outside world.

Since Cao Cao didn't want to fight with Yuan Shao, the Ma family couldn't always be the wrongdoer. Now, it is time for the Ma family to take action to change the situation: people are not for themselves, and the heavens and the earth will be destroyed, and the Ma family must be well fed before they can take care of the things that have been thinking for a hundred years. If the Ma family looks like a worryer before it matures, I am afraid that it will not be able to bear any troubles in the future.

At this time, a sergeant outside the door came to report: "Lord, Yuan Shao raised another 20,000 elite soldiers, called for battle outside the camp, and also played a slogan saying that he would fight with troops to fight until death!" ”

When Ma Chao and the strategists heard the news, the worry on their faces was lightened for a while. And Ma Chao waved his hand lightly, and after letting the sergeant go out, he shook his posture, showing a kind of relief after thinking clearly, and said: "Okay, these days, I have also wronged you foxes." I know that you have been holding back the bad water for a long time in order to deal with Yuan Shao, and today you will pour it all out while Yuan Shao doesn't know how to live or die. ”

Seeing Ma Chao wake up, Fa Zheng's eyes lit up, and he was the first to speak: "Lord, are you really going to clean up Yuan Shao?" You no longer care about the common people, and you are worried about the next hundred years? ”

"Gu Nian naturally still has to take care of Nian, but if I do nothing like this and make a small fight all day long, isn't it a little unfounded to worry about the sky?" With a smile, Ma Chao waved his hand and said, "What tricks do you have, tell them quickly." I want to see today what you foxes can do to make Yuan Shao troublesome. ”

Fa Zheng was overjoyed when he heard this, but before he could make a plan, Sima Yi on the side said coldly: "That guy from Pang Tong is in Yuan Ying, we can't ignore this person." ”

"That's when you treated him as a dish, a fifteen-year-old doll who learned some military book formations, and with his talent and intelligence, he wanted to change the world, which was too whimsical. Let's talk about the last battle, even if our 10,000 troops rush into Yuan's camp, what can we do? He really thought that with such small carving insect skills, he could take off the head of the lord and decide the world in one battle? Fa Zheng sneered, the two temperaments of laziness and joy and wisdom were fused together, and there was a bit of contradictory charm: "It's just a matter of playing with children occasionally, and you can move the real character, ouch....... I'm really afraid of hurting your self-esteem." ”

Naturally, this was a bit big, and Ma Chao couldn't help but smile bitterly: Pang Tong was hiding so deeply, if Yuan Jun hadn't exposed his whereabouts in the previous battle, then everyone would have made Pang Tong calculate a few times under unknown circumstances, just like the time when Yan Liang was ambushed - however, it can only be like that time, the scale of sexual harassment is impossible to cause ruin to the Ma family.

The reason is very simple, he is hidden in the shadows, so naturally he can't be too public. And if he can't publicize it, it means that he can only make small moves, and he can't control the military power of the Yuan family at all. Therefore, no matter how strategic he is, he can only be like Qiji and the horse in the same groove, and his skills will perish with the grass and trees.

"Don't put Pang Tonghe on the same level as me, I'm different from him!" Sima Yi was most annoyed by the foxes of the Ma family, and every time he heard about their tricks, he felt uncomfortable that his self-esteem had been seriously frustrated.

"Indeed, you are not on the same level as him, because you are not as good as him." Fa Zheng doesn't have a good character of respecting the old and loving the young, and when he saw Sima Yi being embarrassed, he was even more proud: "You are luckier than him, and you have found a master who can let you play to your heart's content." But you look at Pang Tong, find a Zhang Lu and a Yuan Shao, who were almost strangled to death in Ming last time; This time, I learned smartly, but it took a lot of effort, and I only mobilized 30,000 cavalry. If it were you, you would have stopped doing it a long time ago. ”

"You!" Sima Yi was stunned, and said a little angrily: "The army of 500,000 is strictly guarded to the death, and the soldiers are full of food, and I have not had a good plan for three days." Today, I want to see, what means do you have to turn your hands into clouds and turn your hands into rain?! ”

As soon as these words fell, Sima Yi suddenly felt that the atmosphere of the whole big tent was a little strange, especially Ma Chao, who looked at himself with a kind of pity, and seemed to say: Child, accept your fate, these people are really moving, I can't sleep for three days and three nights! …….