The Warriors of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 330 stalemate
When Dongfang Sheng saw Yuan Jun's appearance, he also sighed in his heart: Yuan Shao's generals and soldiers are so loosely guarded, it's no wonder they are undefeated.

Seeing that Yuan's army was in disarray, Cao Cao immediately ordered [-] cavalry to mount and charge.

Looking around, Yuan Jun was only focused on picking up things, and Cao Cao led six hundred cavalry to reap Yuan Jun's life like cutting wheat.

After several back and forth punctures, Yuan Jun was defeated.

When the battlefield was finally being cleaned, Wen Chou, another fierce general under Yuan Shao's command, also died in the chaos.

Cao Cao rode his horse and ran to Dongfang Sheng and said, "Meng Ren will follow me to capture Ben Chu alive."

"it is good!"

Dongfang Sheng responded loudly, and the two looked at each other and laughed.

This battle, together with the white horse's sneak attack, caused Yuan Shao to lose two generals one after another, which directly slowed down Yuan Shao's offensive.

Cao Cao successfully consolidated the confidence of his soldiers through two victories, while the morale of Yuan Shao's soldiers was low. Ju Shou suggested that Yuan Shao and Cao Cao fight a protracted war, but Yuan Shao did not adopt it.

Fortunately, Yuan Shao did not adopt Jushou's suggestion, otherwise Cao Cao would be defeated if the battle was prolonged.

In July, Yuan Shao marched into Yangwu and camped in the sand dunes with his most elite euphorbia soldiers. The camps were connected and began to press on Guandu step by step.

At this time, Dongfang Sheng began to be in charge of harassment and spying, while Cao Cao faced the enemy head-on on the battlefield.

It's a pity that Yuan Shao's soldiers had a numerical advantage on the frontal battlefield, and they couldn't use their strength for surprise attacks, and Cao Cao began to suffer defeat.

At this time, Dongfang Sheng also felt the pressure brought by Yuan Shao. Although Yuan Shao was not strict in running the army, his camp was very solid during the march and battle. awesome.

After several battles, the soldiers under Cao Cao's command were a little frightened.

The most feared thing to lose during the stalemate was morale. Yuan Jun used tall sculls and earth mountains to create commanding heights and shot Cao Jun with arrows. Cao Cao also accepted Dongfang Sheng's proposal and built an improved version of Thunderbolt Chariot to fight back.

The improved thunderbolt car not only has stones but also kerosene. Once fired, it can not only carry out physical strikes, but also have the effect of fire attack. Even the smoke that is not completely burned can achieve the effect of tear gas.

Cao Cao was very grateful for Dongfang Sheng's suggestion. At first, he made one with a skeptical attitude. After finding out that the effect was very good, he directly made ten more, showing his might on the battlefield.

Every time Yuan Jun heard the muffled sound of the thunderbolt car, he would look up at the sky and run around.

The two sides had a great time fighting each other, but Cao Cao was under a lot of pressure because his food and grass began to be stretched.

Cao Cao began to formulate new regulations, ordering the counties and counties to urgently expropriate cotton and silk. The counties dared not refuse to collect them, and did not dare to force the people to be too hasty, so many counties and counties directly took refuge in Yuan Shao.

This is undoubtedly worse for Cao Cao, who was already at a disadvantage, so Cao Cao began to change his policy, returning the collected cotton and silk to the people, and at the same time adopting a series of appeasement policies.

But none of this can fix the fire in Cao Cao's backyard, because Yuan Shao didn't just rely on the frontal battlefield foolishly, he also sent people to sneak into Cao Cao's rear to keep wooing and provoking. In Yuan Shao, Liu Pi from Runan County directly joined Yuan Shao, and Dongfang Sheng's old friend Liu Bei also appeared near Xudu, all of which made Cao Cao a little anxious.

At this time, Dongfang Sheng also had to call out Yuan Shao's scout battalion to help. If Yuan Shao was allowed to go on like this, Cao Cao would almost have nothing to play.

Of course, Dongfang Sheng didn't tell Cao Cao about these things. If he exposed the strength of his scout battalion prematurely, and if he fell out with Cao Cao by then, he might have no trump card.

Dongfang Sheng successfully provoked the struggle among Yuan Shao's sons through the scout camp lurking in Yecheng, Yuan Shao's headquarters, and at the same time spread some rumors of Yuan Shao's defeat to confuse people. It was Tang Youqian who was the guest of Yuan's family at the moment.

Tang Youqian had been to Yecheng a long time ago. At that time, he was still a low-level character. Although he was rich, he couldn't go to the elegant hall.But now, he is very different from before.

No one can underestimate the financial resources he has, so when he entered Yecheng again, he quickly made some good friends of the same level, and finally he became the largest grain supplier in Jizhou. A chamber of commerce was set up, and the price of grain was set by him.

However, the price of grain, which had been stabilizing, began to rise little by little when Yuan Shao set out on the expedition, and now it has risen to a price that Yuan Shao cannot accept.

Yuan Shao, who was on the front line, received a letter from his rear saying that because the price of grain was too high and the grain and grass could not be shipped out in time, he tore the letter to pieces angrily.

Yuan Shao personally wrote a letter back to ask the people under him to take tough measures, but who would have expected that although Tang Youqian was a businessman, he opened a shop called Dongfang Escort in Yecheng, and all the clerks in the Dongfang Escort were very skilled. Yuan Shao's people were thrown out one by one as they passed by, and even the wealthy Tang could not be seen.

This matter was later found out by people from the Chamber of Commerce for some unknown reason, and then a huge business strike was triggered. When Yuan Shao received the letter, he was trembling with anger, because the letter said that after the Yuan family’s Freedom’s shop was removed, All the merchants outside are basically closed, and you can't buy anything.

In the end, Yuan Shao could only reply through gritted teeth, asking the people below to invite Tang Youqian over to have a good talk.

And the instigator of all this, Dongfang Sheng, was leisurely watching the news from Yecheng, with a gratified smile on his face and said: "Hey, are you afraid that you won't submit obediently?"

The ultimate goal of Dongfang Sheng is not to make Yuan Shao unable to buy food, but to make a lot of money from it, so Tang Youqian will eventually sell the food to Yuan Shao, but he will kill Yuan Shao, so as to achieve the purpose of disturbing Yuan Shao's rear , his own pockets are also full, and Dongfang Sheng likes to kill two birds with one stone.

And Cao Cao asked Cao Ren to lead troops to quell the rebellion in the rear and attack Liu Bei. Cao Ren directly beat Liu Bei to the point where he was powerless to fight back. At the same time, he also recovered the rebellious counties in time.

This allowed Cao Cao to deal with Yuan Shao without any worries, and Cao Ren also killed Yuan Shao's partial general Han Meng, which made Yuan Shao dare not divide his troops again. It can be said that the credit is very great.

Of course, Dongfang Sheng's role in this should not be underestimated, but his scout battalion is inconvenient to expose, so Cao Cao doesn't know about it, but the team of Qingqi trained by Tuobahan made Yuan Shao have a deep understanding, coming and going quickly, Like a hungry wolf that bites and leaves without procrastinating, Dongfang Sheng's light cavalry has almost become a nightmare in Yuan Jun's heart.

(End of this chapter)