Naturally, all the news between Liu Biao and Sun's father and son reached Cao Ang through the shadow guards.
Seeing the two families arguing with each other here, Cao Ang couldn't help but smile.
What he actually wanted to see was this effect.
Cao Ang is currently attacking Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zan, and most of his troops are hoarded in the north.
There are really not many defenders near Jingzhou and Yangzhou.
If Liu Biao and Sun's group hadn't fought so anxiously, it would have been inevitable that they would have had different intentions and sneak attack on Cao Ang's rear.
But now, Liu Biao and the Sun Group were at loggerheads, so naturally they had no time to sneak attack on him.
What's more, Yangzhou still has such a cancer like Lu Bu.
Cao Ang couldn't help but frowned when he looked at Lu Bu's current situation.
After he appeared, Chen Gong's capture and release of Cao Cao naturally did not happen, and Chen Gong would not have surrendered to Lu Bu after several changes.
However, the news came back from the shadow guard that there was an additional military advisor in Lu Bu's army, which made Cao Ang curious about who this military advisor was.
So Cao Ang gave orders to the Shadow Guards. While collecting information, he also checked who Lu Bu's military advisor was.
After gathering his thoughts, Cao Ang murmured to himself: "According to time, the letter I wrote should have been delivered to Liu Yu and Han Fu."
Now Yuan Shao could not hold out, Yuan Tan and Yu Jin were facing each other on both sides of the Yellow River, and Xiahou Dun and Cao Chun were unable to defeat Gongsun Zan for a while.
These three armies, totaling 300,000 people, consume an astronomical amount of food and grass every day.
If it were not for the great success of the farming strategy, Cao Ang would not be able to fight such a protracted war.
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On the other side, Liu Yu and Han Fu received letters from Cao Ang respectively.
Liu Yu and Han Fu were the governor of Youzhou and the shepherd of Jizhou respectively.
As a result, one was in Youzhou and was suppressed by Gongsun Zan, and the other was almost killed by Yuan Shao in Jizhou.
In Youzhou now, Gongsun Zan is powerful, and Liu Yu can only hide in the Daijun area.
Gongsun Zan was originally Liu Yu's subordinate, but Gongsun Zan was very ambitious. In addition, he resisted foreigners and established a lot of prestige, so he was able to grow in a short period of time.
Facing the aggressive Gongsun Zan, although he was angry, he was helpless.
It was not until this time that Cao Ang led his army to attack, and Gongsun Zan and Cao's army fought fiercely around Yanmen. Only then did Liu Yu see hope of annihilating Gongsun Zan.
Especially after receiving Cao Ang's letter, Liu Yu felt even more happy.
"Cao Ang's letter contains a secret edict from the emperor, asking me to send troops to attack Gongsun Zan, steal his retreat, and attack him with Xiahou Dun!"
"In this case, Gongsun Zan will undoubtedly be defeated, and the power of life and death in Youzhou will still fall into my hands!"
Liu Yu became furious when he thought of the days when he was suppressed by Gongsun Zan and was breathless.
That Gongsun Zan was obviously his subordinate, but he repeatedly committed wrongdoings and even had murderous intentions towards him!
This time, I have to kill this guy no matter what!
After Liu Yu made up his mind, he immediately gathered his troops and prepared to go to Yanmen to attack Gongsun Zan.
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On the other side, Han Fu had also received a letter from Cao Ang a long time ago.
Cao Ang saved Han Fu's life. If it weren't for Cao Ang, Han Fu might have died at the hands of Yuan Shao.
In these years, as a shepherd in Jizhou, he did not care about anything and only lived in Shiyi, Changshan.
As a result, people in Jizhou only knew Yuan Shao, but not Han Fu.
"It's just a Bohai governor who forced me, a Jizhou shepherd, to almost die. This revenge must be avenged!"
Han Fu said angrily, and then began to mobilize his troops and prepare to attack.
However, he suddenly thought that Cao Ang's letter had not been read yet.
So he hurriedly picked up the letter and began to read it carefully.
After reading the letter, Han Fu showed a proud smile on his face.
"Okay, as expected of Cao Zixiu, he actually came up with a trick to draw out the firepower."
Han Fu said proudly, and then set off from Changshan with his people.
What Cao Ang said in his letter was very simple. As the shepherd of Jizhou, Han Fu deserved the support of those wealthy families.
But after Yuan Shao came, relying on his reputation as the fourth and third son of the Yuan family, the wealthy families quickly turned their heads to support him, and then slowly ignored Han Fu.
Now, Yuan Shao has too much time to take care of himself, and the situation is over.
What Cao Ang needs Han Fu to do is to instigate those wealthy families to stop supporting Yuan Shao.
You know, except for the Cao family group, the remaining princes have to march and fight. In addition to their own reserves, they have to borrow more military supplies from those wealthy families.
After the war is over, some local taxes will be used to pay off the debt.
Now, Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zan are doing this.
Han Fu went door to door to find those wealthy families, carefully analyzed the pros and cons with them, and asked them not to support Yuan Shao anymore.
Even if it drags on, Yuan Shao cannot win. This will cause the Cao Group to lose money and food. When Yuan Shao is defeated, wealthy families like them will also be unlucky.
Although the Cao Group will not wield the butcher's knife against them, they have the power to give them small shoes, which is not a matter of minutes.
After weighing the pros and cons, all the aristocratic families finally decided to trust Han Fu and no longer provide military rations to Yuan Shao.
At the same time, Han Fu also sent troops to station in Guangping, Handan, cutting off Yuan Shao's retreat.
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In Weijun City, when Yuan Shao saw that his grain escorts all returned empty-handed, he couldn't help but became furious.
"What's going on? I asked you to transport military rations, but why did you all come back empty-handed? Could it be that they were robbed on the way?"
At this time, Yuan Shao was furious. The time and route of escorting the grain and fodder were all top secrets. How could it be robbed? Was there a spy in the army?
The three grain officers looked at each other, and finally one of them said helplessly: "My lord, this grain and grass is not for the robbery, but because the wealthy families are not willing to give it to us."
"What?" Yuan Shao was shocked when he heard this: "What on earth is going on?"
Seeing this, the grain officer continued to bite the bullet and said: "My lord, I asked many people, and finally found out that it was Han Fu who has been lobbying various aristocratic families not to provide us with military rations."
"That's unreasonable!" Yuan Shao cursed angrily and threw the bamboo slips in his hand heavily to the ground.
When the three grain officers saw this scene, they were trembling with fear.
When Jushou saw this, he frowned slightly and waved his hand to the three grain officers, beckoning them to go down.
At the same time, he stood in front of Yuan Shao and said: "My lord, there is no need to be angry. I think this is Cao Zixiu's plan to drain the fire from under the cauldron."
(End of chapter)
