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Chapter 885 Yuan Shao's Dilemma
"What happened to my father?"

Yuan Xiaoyu was shocked to hear what Su Yao said and asked eagerly about the situation.

Yuan Xiaoyu knew very well that in this era, men were the backbone of the family, and her father Yuan Shao was the hope of their family. If anything happened to him,
Even without considering the issue of family ties, just losing the support of her natal family would make it difficult for her to have a good life in the deep mansion of the Duke's Mansion.

"Don't panic, don't panic."

Su Yao squeezed Yuan Xiaoyu's hand:
"Your father is not that fragile. He just suffered a little loss. Now he has stabilized his position."

"Really?"

Yuan Xiaoyu didn't quite believe it:
"Isn't General Huangfu here? Then why do you, Lord Tang, need to come in person?"

"General Huangfu, that's one thing for another."

Su Yao embraced the girl, gave her a deep kiss, and said:
"Yuan Benchu ​​gave me such a wonderful and lovely woman. Now he is having troubles, so it is natural for me to go over and take a look."

"Is that so?"

Yuan Xiaoyu lay in Su Yao's arms, biting her lower lip lightly, seeming to want to say something but stopping herself.

"Why, you don't trust your husband?"

Yuan Xiaoyu quickly shook her head and stammered, "Xiaoyu doesn't dare, but... I'm a little worried."

"Silly, what are you worried about?"

Su Yao pushed Yuan Xiaoyu down on the bed and said, "I have fought on many battlefields and have seen all kinds of monsters and demons. A mere Yuan Gonglu is not a problem for me. You just stay at home and wait patiently for me to come back."

As soon as the words fell, a gust of wind blew out the candlelight in the room, and at the same time a warm feeling covered the girl's lips.

Yuan Xiaoyu's eyes suddenly widened in the darkness, then slowly closed, her thick eyelashes trembling uneasily. She subconsciously clutched the quilt beside her with both hands, tightly clamping her legs together.
Outside the window, the night wind blows, the branches sway, and the shadows of the trees dance on the window paper, as if peeping at the hot and beautiful scene in the house.

However, in the darkness, everything was hazy, with only occasional gasps and soft whispers interweaving to add an ambiguous pink hue to the dark night.

I don't know how long it took, but everything slowly calmed down. The two of them lay in each other's arms, their sweat mixing together. Yuan Xiaoyu buried her face deeply in Su Yao's chest and fell into a deep sleep.

Su Yao stared quietly at the ceiling of the tent with curtains, his thoughts already drifting to the battlefield in the distance.

"what?!"

"Yuan Benchu's escape route has been cut off, and he is in imminent danger?!"

Lu Zhi, Zhu Jun and others exclaimed in surprise, obviously not expecting the situation on the front line to deteriorate so much.

Yes, since Su Yao was going to take action personally this time, the situation was naturally not as simple as he told the girl.

The next day, after arriving at the Council of Government, Su Yao handed the front-line news to everyone.

It turned out that Yuan Shu's counterattack was not just this one. Yuan Shao had penetrated deep into enemy territory and his supplies depended largely on water support.

Yuan Shu's Shouchun was located at the confluence of the Huai River and its tributary the Bi River.

Earlier, when Yuan Shao attacked the crossing river, Yuan Shu did not move his troops. When the ambush was launched, Yuan Shu's navy also attacked at the same time.

The six counties where Yuan Shao retreated were on the east bank of the Bi River (now Lu'an, Anhui). Yuan Shu's navy went upstream and rushed towards Yuan Shao's grain transport fleet.

Their warships were equipped with sharp rams on their bows, like ferocious beasts, easily crashing into Yuan Shao's weakly protected grain ships. For a moment, wood chips flew across the river, grain ships tilted and sank one after another, and transport ships loaded with grain and grass were directly destroyed.

Yuan Shao's army not only lost its supplies in the rear, but was also trapped on the east bank of the Bi River.

Six county towns.

Yuan Shao looked at the enemy navy showing off its might on the water outside the city and slammed his sword to the ground. "Damn it!"

"Yuan Gonglu, you despicable villain dared to plot against me. Once I escape, I will tear you into pieces!"

Feng Ji, who was standing by, was extremely anxious when he saw this. He quickly stepped forward, picked up the sword on the ground, handed it back to Yuan Shao with both hands, and urged him:
"General Yuan, please calm down. The most urgent task right now is to find a way out of this predicament."

A way out of this predicament?

Yuan Shao grabbed his sword and held it tightly in his hand, his anger boiling. After hearing this, he simply asked back:

"You are a counselor, tell me, how can our army escape from this predicament?"

Feng Ji was speechless when Yuan Shao asked him this question, and beads of sweat oozed from his forehead. He hesitated for a while, but ultimately failed to come up with a practical solution.

Yes, what else can we do now?
To be honest, their Nanyang Army actually has a fairly large navy.

But the problem is that their navy controls the Han River and cannot reach the Huai River at all.

The reason why they were able to cross the Huai River this time was because they borrowed the navy of Runan County to assist in transportation.

However, they never expected that the Runan Navy, which they thought was already under their control, was secretly infiltrated by Yuan Shu and one of his deputy generals was lured to surrender.

When the deputy general saw that Yuan Shao was defeated in the land battle, he actually turned against Yuan Shao and cooperated with Yuan Shu's navy to wipe out their escorting navy in one fell swoop.

All of a sudden, Yuan Shao's grain transport fleet lost its protection and was slaughtered at will by Yuan Shu's navy, ending up with a tragic end of being completely annihilated.

Having lost control of the waterways, their only options for breaking out were to flee into the Dabie Mountains or head north along the coast to Shouchun.

Obviously, for Yuan Shao's army, which has now suffered a major defeat, these two choices are tantamount to pulling teeth from the tiger's mouth and are actually a way to self-destruction.

Seeing that Feng Ji had no solution and was still nagging him to calm down, Yuan Shao snorted angrily and cried out:
"If Ziyuan were here, I would never have ended up like this!"

Yuan Shao was in so much pain.

Only at this moment did he remember Xu You's kindness.

Although that guy is not a very decent person, he is indeed very intelligent and can always come up with unexpected ideas in desperate situations.

More importantly, if he were there, his plan would have been more thorough, and perhaps Yuan Shu would not have taken advantage of such a big loophole.

However, no matter how painful it is, it is useless.

Not only did Xu You offend Su Yao in the past and was captured by him, ending up with his entire family being executed, but even Guo Tu was killed by Su Yao.
Yuan Shao now only has two advisers, Feng Ji and Chen Lin. The result of insufficient advisers is his current situation.

"The only solution now is to wait for General Huangfu's reinforcements."

Feng Ji gritted his teeth and offered a suggestion:
"I heard that the general mobilized troops and also called on the navy from Qingxu and Liaodong for assistance."

"As long as we wait for the imperial navy to arrive, our army can cooperate with General Huangfu to defeat Yuan Shu's navy in one fell swoop and reopen the grain route!"

"Wait? How long?!"

Yuan Shao laughed in anger:

"The food and grass in this county are only enough for my army to use for half a month. The imperial court has always been unhappy with me. I had to sell my daughter to get the qualification to send troops."

"Now, that old bastard Huangfu Song is dithering. I'm afraid he just wants to see Yuan Shu and I both lose. By the time he arrives, my army will probably be too hungry to even lift their weapons!"

(End of this chapter)