Chapter 726: People Are Like Their Name
But it was said that on this day, Xu Huang's subordinate Shi Lian, with good luck and sharp eyes, caught Yuan Shaojun's fine work outside and took people to see Xu Huang. After some severe torture, he explained that the general Han Meng was about to transport grain to the front of the army to receive help, and they were the ones who came to explore the way first. Needless to say, the way was not explored, but exposed.
After Xu Huang asked for details, he hurriedly informed Cao Cao of the matter, and Cao Cao summoned the strategists to discuss. In today's stalemate situation, if you want to defeat the strong with the weak, you can usually only find opportunities in terms of grain and grass. Therefore, Cao Cao must seize this rare opportunity.
Xun Youjin said, Han Meng, as his name suggests, is a reckless man, only the courage of a horseman, only need to send a general, lead thousands of light horsemen, attack it from the halfway, cut off its grain and grass, and the Shao army is in chaos.
Cao Cao asked,
"Who can do this?"
This detail was discovered by Xu Huangjun, and the intelligence was also discovered by Xu Huang, so Xu Huang naturally took the initiative to ask for help. Cao Cao agreed, but for the sake of prudence, he asked Xu Huang to take Shi Lian and his troops to take the first step, rush to the ambush, and then let Zhang Liao and Xu Chu lead troops to respond. It can be seen that because of Guo Jia's reasons, Yu Ban, a general who has been focusing on ambushes for 20 years, can now be regarded as having lost his old job.
That night, Han Meng escorted thousands of grain trucks to Yuan Shao's camp. Pass through a valley, yes, there is always a valley in this kind of story for people to ambush. While walking, Xu Huang and Shi Jian suddenly led the army in the valley to intercept Han Meng's way. Han Mengren, as his name, faces the enemy as a "fierce" general. How can you not fight, and it doesn't matter if you are transporting food or not. Is it a heavy responsibility, just mention the weapon.
Han Meng flew to fight. Xu Huang caught the fight. And Shi Lian, taking this opportunity, specially picked persimmons to pinch softly, led soldiers, killed those scattered men who pushed the grain cart, and set fire to the grain cart. Earlier, after Han Meng and Xu Huang made a few moves, he gradually found that he was not as fierce as his name, and when he turned around, he saw that the grain and grass were also burned. So without saying a word, he pulled his legs and ran.
Seeing this, Xu Huang did not pursue, but urged the soldiers on the spot, quickly burned all the baggage of Yuan Shaojun, and could not leave Yuan Shao at all!
At this time, in Yuan Shao's camp, he saw a fire on the northwest mountain, because it was night. So it's more obvious, needless to say, Yuan Shao also knows that there is a problem with the grain and grass. So, Yuan Shao hurriedly dispatched Zhang He and Gao Ran to intercept the road. Even if there is really no grain and grass left, then we must destroy all those hateful grain burners there!
Zhang He and Gao Ran led the troops to attack, and they met Xu Huang and returned from burning grain. The narrow road met, and the two armies went to war directly. However, at this time, Zhang Liao and Xu Chu, who were sent by Cao Cao to respond, also came to the back with troops. Under the front and back attacks, Yuan Shaojun couldn't hold on and returned in a rout.
In this battle, Cao Jun not only burned the grain and grass transported by Yuan Shao from the rear, but also defeated Yuan Jun, which can be said to have won quite a beautiful game. Cao Cao was overjoyed, and rewarded him again! However, everyone knows that this kind of victory is not insignificant, just like the deaths of Yan Liang and Wen Chou before, the disparity between the strength and weakness of Yuan Shaojun and Cao Cao's army is far from being reversed because of this.
However, when you fight, you fight with troops, and you also fight with morale! If it is said that before Yuan Shao called at the beginning, most people on Cao Cao's side were terrified, thinking that they couldn't resist at all, and they would be destroyed by Yuan Shao in minutes. And now, maybe I still don't think that Cao Cao can defeat Yuan Shao beautifully, but at least he has the confidence to be able to resist Yuan Shao! Since then, people's hearts have gradually stabilized, and people have gradually discovered that Yuan Shao is not so terrible, not as powerful as it is rumored, it is simply a silver-like pewter gun head! No wonder giving birth to a son is not as powerful as Cao Cao. (Hey, that's redundant)
"I think this is our chance to turn it around!" Guo Jia finally spoke again.
"Sure enough, do you still want to make a fuss about grain and grass?" Xun You said.
"That's right, this time the grain that Yuan Shao transported from the rear was burned by us, which completely disrupted Yuan Shaojun's grain and grass arrangement, and there was a loophole in their grain and grass supply, as long as we can seize this opportunity, we may defeat Yuan Jun in one fell swoop." Guo Jia said that in order to be able to return to Xudu as soon as possible and go home before the birth of the child, Guo Jia, who has been making soy sauce, couldn't help but remind him a little.
"But the next time Yuan Shaojun transports grain, he will definitely be cautious to prevent us from robbing grain again, and if we want to repeat the old tricks, it's not that simple." Cao Cao couldn't help but say.
"Therefore, we must burn their current grain and grass before Yuan Shaojun's next grain is delivered, so that Yuan Shao's army will be temporarily in the predicament of starvation, and the army's morale will be in turmoil, and we will take advantage of the situation to attack, and we will definitely be able to defeat Yuan's army!" Guo Jia said affirmatively.
"But where is Yuan Shaojun's grain and grass stored now?" Xun You couldn't help but ask the key point, if this kind of thing was known, he would definitely have an idea, and besides, with the weight of grain and grass, Yuan Shao would inevitably take strict precautions, could it really be burned so easily?
As a result, Guo Jia shrugged his shoulders and replied,
"How do I know about such a thing?"
"Uh...... Ahem, then we can only send more people out to investigate. If we can know where Yuan Jun hid his grain, it will indeed be of great benefit to us. Cao Cao opened his mouth to conclude, although he felt that there might not be much hope. But there are always times when you are lucky, and there are always times when you collide with the right ones, just like this time, if you don't happen to catch Yuan Shaojun's meticulous work, how can you find out about Han Meng's grain transportation. Now as long as there is a glimmer of hope that Yuan Shao may be defeated, you can't give up, right?
But said that Yuan Shao's side, Han Meng's defeated army returned to the camp, Yuan Shao was furious, and wanted to behead Han Meng, but the officials persuaded him to forgive.
The trial reminded,
"The march is based on food, and it is important not to be careful. The black nest is a place where grain is stored, and it must be heavily guarded. ”
Judging from this alone, there is really a kind of god operator in the trial, and the rhythm of completely calculating the opponent is accurate. It's a pity that the trial is not the protagonist, as the name suggests, the trial is a supporting role, so it is destined to only be a tragic fate.
Yuan Shao thought that what he said was reasonable, so he sent the general Chun Yuqiong, the ministry leaders and governors Yuanjin, Han Juzi, Lu Weihuang, Zhao Rui, etc., to lead 20,000 horses and horses to guard the black nest. Then, let the judge personally return to Yecheng to supervise the grain and grass, and make up for the batch of supplies that Han Meng lost, so as not to make the grain and grass empty in the end.
The trial was ordered to leave, but Yuan Shao was missing a powerful strategist because of this. Although the defeat of a war cannot be completely attributed to one person, looking at the active performance of the trial match in the battle of Guandu, Yuan Shao suddenly lost such a strategist by his side, which must have had a great impact on the later defeat.
And so, a few more days passed. On Cao Cao's side, the grain and grass bottomed out again. So Cao Cao hurriedly wrote back to Xu Du, urging Xun Yu to send food quickly. Xun Yu said before that he would find a way to make up grain, but Cao Cao was able to hold on calmly until now, not flustered at all, and never thought about borrowing the grain official or anything. (To be continued......)