Cao Cao and Xu You, you are glaring at me, I am glaring at you, as if you are angry, you come and go, and you don't stop drinking. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Cheng Yu heard that Xu You had something to say, and he really wanted to keep Xu You, so he no longer concealed Xu You, and explained Cao Cao's plan to find an opportunity to go south to meet Cao Hong and Cao Chun to seize Xuzhou, and then occupy Jiangdong, waiting for an opportunity to counterattack the Central Plains.

After the decisive battle of Guandu, no matter whether he won or lost, Cao Cao's life was difficult to save, so he could only try to escape from Yuan Shao's control and go south to Xu and Yang with the intention of making a comeback.

There are only two results in the decisive battle of Guandu, either the coalition forces win, or the coalition forces lose, and there is almost no possibility that the two sides will draw and fix the battle line somewhere, because neither side can support a protracted war, and if Hebei, which is quite short of money, food and wealth, fails to defeat the coalition forces within the time conditions permit, the final choice must be to withdraw from the Central Plains, but Hebei cannot drag the decisive battle time to that time.

If the coalition forces win the decisive battle, Yuan Shao will need time to capture the entire territory of Yanzhou and stabilize Yanzhou, and he may also have to take care of the Guanzhong battlefield, which will give Cao Cao a short time to lead his army to capture Xuzhou.

In this short period of time, Yuan Shao and Liu Biao would help Liu Bei attack Xuzhou, so Cao Cao's situation was very difficult, but as long as he could survive this time, the pattern of the world would definitely change significantly.

If the coalition forces lose, Yuan Shao, Liu Biao, and Liu Bei will inevitably retreat to Luoyang and Xuchang, and at this time, the Northern Xinjiang Army has also reached its limit, and the war must be stopped, so Cao Cao can get enough time to occupy Xuzhou. Considering the overall situation, Yuan Shao and Liu Biao may appease Liu Bei and instead admit the fact that Cao Cao occupies Xuzhou, hoping that he can contain the Northern Xinjiang Army from the southeast and prepare for the future counterattack of the Central Plains by the coalition forces from the east and west. However, under the condition that the Northern Xinjiang Army has firmly occupied Yanzhou, whether it is Yuan Shao, Liu Biao, or Cao Cao and Liu Bei, the prospects are very bleak.

Therefore, Cao Cao's strategy has three very important premises, one is the decisive battle in the Central Plains, which must be won. The second is that Cao Cao must gain Yuan Shao's trust in the near future, or let Yuan Shao temporarily dispel the idea of killing Cao Cao, and instead work together to defeat the Northern Xinjiang Army first. The third is to make Yuan Shao deeply feel the threat of Liu Biao and Liu Bei to him, let him firmly control Liu Bei, and not give Liu Bei any chance to go south to Xuzhou.

Cao Cao looked at Xu You and asked, "I wonder what Ziyuan thinks of this strategy?" ”

Xu You snorted twice and fell to the ground.

Cheng Yu turned his head to look at Cao Cao, only to see Cao Cao's face purple, and he was pointing at Xu Yu on the ground and scolding and saying, "Fight with me, in the next life." ”

Xu You was carried down, and Cheng Yu, Mao Jue, Xi Zhicai, Xiahou Yuan, Ren Jun and others were urgently summoned to the big tent to discuss matters.

No one thought that the incident of hanging their heads not only did not deter Yuan Shao, but made things out of control. Although Yuan Shao would not immediately devise another plan to deal with Cao Cao, Xu You's escape to Cao Ying's escape would inevitably anger Yuan Shao, and the grudge between the two sides would become deeper and deeper, which was very unfavorable to the seizure of Xu and Yang.

Now Cao Cao not only can't hand over Xu Yu to Yuan Shao, but wants to protect him, and Yuan Shao is forced to stabilize the coalition army because of the decisive battle, so it is not good to tear his face with Cao Cao in public, so he can only hide this matter first, but in this way, he is bound to keep an eye on Cao Cao, and it will be very difficult for Cao Cao to get out of the Guandu battlefield.

"If it is really as Xu You said, Feng Ji and Wen Chou joined forces inside and outside to kill all the clansmen of the Xu family and uproot the power of the Xu family, then Xu You's betrayal will soon spread throughout the army." Mao Jue said worriedly, "At that time, the lord shielded Xu Yu and harbored rebellion, which just gave Yuan Shao the opportunity to make a move." ”

"But I can't kill him right now." Cao Cao said helplessly, "I kill him now, but also to give Yuan Shao a chance." If I hand over Xu You to Yuan Shao, with the virtue of Xu You, a bastard, he will definitely bite me back and wantonly slander and frame me, and I will still be unable to escape death. This time it was really unlucky. Although he escaped Xu He's assassination, he caused endless trouble. Bad luck, bad luck......"

"Since Ziyuan has arrived here, of course he intends to defect." Cheng Yu said, "Ziyuan's talent, you have all seen it. The verbal secret agreement between us and Liu Bei and Liu Biao, and our plan to plot south to Xuzhou, were all expected by him. Ziyuan guessed it, and Yuan Shao must have guessed it too, otherwise Yuan Shao would not be so eager to agree to Xu him and plot to assassinate the lord inside and outside. ”

"What does Zhongde mean is that Xu Ziyuan has a countermeasure?" Mao Jue hesitated for a moment and asked.

Cheng Yu nodded, and said with a smile: "When he came to the camp to warn the lord, it was to let the coalition forces work together. Now he has been forced to a dead end, knowing that escaping to the camp will make things more complicated and more detrimental to the unity of the coalition forces, but he still came, which is contrary to his original intention, with his intelligence and personality, it is obvious that he will not do such a thing, so I think he came to the camp to help the lord resolve the immediate crisis, in order to seek victory over the northern army, and let the lord get a chance to make a comeback. He wants revenge, wants to revive Sheji to fulfill his life's wish, and he urgently needs the force of the lord and us, so he must have a countermeasure. ”

Several people in the big tent looked at each other, each contemplating in thought.

"It's better we can figure it out, or we'll be ridiculed and insulted by him again." Cao Cao waved his hand vigorously, "I don't want to see his stinky face and hear his arrogant voice." ”

Cao Cao smashed his fist on the table and scolded a few words hatefully.

"The current situation is like a dead game of chess, Xu You is like a chess piece in our hands, if we don't put it well, this game of chess will be lost, and if we play it well, we can turn defeat into victory." Xi Zhicai looked at Cao Cao, who was angry, and whispered, "Judging from the current situation, if Xu You can escape to Hebei, the situation will suddenly open up." ”

There was silence in the big tent for a moment.

"yes, I didn't think of that." Cheng Yu suddenly slapped his leg excitedly, and said excitedly, "Ziyuan said just now, saying that Hebei is the safest, and he wants to go to Hebei." Oh my God, this old boy, he is old and fine, tall, high-trick......"

Cao Cao also suddenly realized, grinned and said: "This Xu Ziyuan has always liked to lie, nine out of ten sentences are false, only one sentence is true, but I didn't expect it to be this sentence." ”

The rest of the people thought of the key point one after another, and they were all very happy, and the atmosphere in the big tent suddenly rose.

"Zhicai, keep talking, keep talking......" Cheng Yu slapped Zhicai's thin shoulder hard, "Say what you think." ”

Xi Zhicai nodded, did not hide his clumsiness, and told his thoughts: "Xu You's reasons for defecting to Hebei now are very sufficient, he is cornered, if he wants to take revenge, he can only go to the opponent, and Yuan Shao has also prepared all the evidence for his defection to Hebei, his family was killed, his forces were uprooted, and the imperial court ordered him to be arrested and arrested, these are all facts, and Hebei can't believe it." Xu You mastered almost all the secrets of the coalition army, such as troop deployment, financial endowment, food and grass, offensive and defensive strategies, and so on. After obtaining these secrets, the Northern Xinjiang Army can quickly grasp the initiative on the battlefield and victory is within reach. With these things, Xu You can completely gain Li Yi's trust, and it is even possible to follow Li Yi's side and make plans for the decisive battle in the Central Plains. ”

"When the decisive battle comes, the defeat of the Northern Xinjiang Army is inevitable because of the leakage of the attack strategy."

"This is an impeccable counter-plot, and the lord relies on this counter-plot to quickly alleviate the contradiction with Yuan Shao. In any case, Yuan Shao's top priority at the moment is to defeat the Northern Frontier Army, and he will make the right choice very wisely. At this time, the lord expressed his allegiance to Yuan Shao as much as possible, and appropriately revealed the secret that Liu Biao and Liu Bei planned to hold the Son of Heaven hostage against Luoyang after the war, so that Yuan Shao could lighten his vigilance against the lord and gradually neglect the monitoring of the lord, so that he could cast the main force of surveillance on Liu Bei and Liu Biao. ”

"In this way, the three conditions necessary for the lord to implement the strategy of attacking Xu and Yang in the south have all been solved."

"I have a question." After Xiahou Yuan finished speaking, he immediately asked, "Yuan Shao has killed Xu You's family, the two turned against each other, and the friendship of decades broke down in an instant, what reason does Xu You have to take such a big risk to go to Hebei to carry out a counter-plot at this moment?" You must know that if the Central Plains War is won, Yuan Shao will benefit the most, and won't he make his hope of revenge even slimmer? ”

"In addition to going to Hebei now, does Xu You have any way to survive?" Xi Zhicai felt the same and smiled bitterly, "If the Central Plains War is lost, Yuan Shao will not be able to fight against Hebei alone." Under the strong attack of Hebei, the possibility of us joining forces to fight back again is even more minimal. In other words, if nothing else, our fate is a foregone conclusion. In this case, how can Xu Yu take revenge? But if we win the Central Plains War, everything is still possible. ”

In fact, in the hearts of people like Xu Yu, revenge for their families is secondary. For him, reviving the Han community is his goal. Since he was young, Xu You has formed friends with Yuan Shao and others, risked his life to rescue the party, and fought to the death, so he is well-known in the world. Later, he made an astonishing move, he conspired with Wang Fen, the assassin of Jizhou, Chen Yi, the son of the former Taifu Chen Fan, Xiang Kai and others to abolition the Xiaoling Emperor and set up the King of Hefei as the emperor. ”

Xiahou Yuan already understood. Xu You, a well-known scholar, there are not many people in the world, he is like the party members in the past, for his own beliefs, he is very persistent, even if he kills all his relatives of the nine clans, he still continues to do it with his head in his hand. This kind of person's thoughts can't be guessed with an ordinary heart, and of course ordinary people like themselves can't understand it. (To be continued.) )