How the greedy and despicable Ding Fei, a person full of feudal dregs, corrupted Xu You, a loyal and righteous man under the cavalry general, will not be described in detail because he is too dirty and despicable.

In short, under Ding Fei's ability to attack, Xu You used his power to let Cao Cao go to the summoning mission, and asked Ding Fei to come to find Sima Lang and talk to him about Cao Cao's summoning conditions first.

If he thinks it is feasible and beneficial to both parties, he will naturally make the case in front of Yuan Shao.

Xu You knew in his heart: Yuan Shao now has no excuse to launch a complete and comprehensive war against Cao Cao. If he really fought to that level, the war would definitely not be over within a year. Yuan Shao expanded the invasion and would definitely be in a real way. At that time, Liu Bei could attack Bingzhou from Hedong and "mediated" under the banner of chivalrous and righteousness. Maybe he would ask the emperor for an order before mediation.

Although Liu Bei has an unbreakable alliance with Yuan Shao now, Xu You knows the value of the alliance that Yang Xiu said is very good. As long as you cross the boundary and give the population a real person, a shameless villain like Liu Bei will not be back-stopped in minutes. (This shameless villain is Xu You's psychological activity)

And if Cao Cao nominally surrendered to Yuan Shao, he was caused by Xu You, how much credit would be? It would be simply "with a word in front of the formation, Cao Cao turned against him and surrendered with Eli Li, and Cao's soldiers retreated without fighting."

Xu You fully believed that by then, his position under Yuan Shao's account would be able to leap to a level that was comparable to Ju Su and put other strategists under his feet! Tian Feng and Guo Tu are nothing special!

...

Sima Lang came to Xu You's tent first with Ding Fei's introduction, and secretly gave Xu You a clear idea of ​​the conditions Cao Cao wanted to convince Yuan Shao.

Of course, Sima Lang was relatively cautious. Xu You also said a few words, "Benchu ​​and Aman are old friends, so they can make the two families harmonious and justify what I want." He appeased Sima Lang, and Ding Fei was here to guarantee that Sima Lang was able to tell him.

"Reported to join the army, the conditions given to General Cavalry is that our envoy will be south of the Bian River and take Honggou as the boundary. In the future, if the princes in the south rebelled against the Han Dynasty, they would need to work together to suppress the two families. The county and county east of Honggou will be suppressed, and the county west of Honggou will be asked to "clean up the portal" by themselves."

As soon as Sima Lang spoke, this condition surprised Xu You slightly.

This is a secret diplomacy that is not hidden at all, and it openly unveiled the hidden topic of "We just want to work together to plot against Yuan Shu".

After all, Sima Lang's wording is "clean up the portal".

For Yuan Shao, beating other princes is not considered a clean-up portal. Only by solving Yuan Shu and drawing a clear line between Yuan Shu is called a clean-up portal!

"Get the map." Xu You thought about it, got up and walked for a few steps, and then he wanted to instruct the personal soldiers at the entrance of the camp to come in and help him get the map to confirm the distribution of the spoils.

However, Sima Lang stopped him and took out a map from his arms. Xu You was stunned and waved his hand to let his personal soldiers leave again, and then checked the map provided by Cheesema Lang.

Judging from the map, Cao Cao's "gungou" plan proposed is more than the plan he promised to "ced the six counties in total and give up the king's road to Luo" in total, and the six counties of Junyi, Xiaohuang, Kuangting, Lingting, Weishi and Fugou. The total ceded area reached twelve counties, which is another concession.

However, compared with the conditions for Yuan Shao to "completely cede Dongjun and Chenliu" counties, Cao Cao not only saved half of the Dongjun, but only ensured that the three counties in the Yellow River Ferry were ceded, but Chenliu was also preserved half.

After the boundary of Honggou, the Chenliu counties under Cao Cao's command, including the county seat Chenliu County, as well as Waihuang, Pingqiu, Changyuan, Jiyang, Yongqiu, Xiangyi, Jiwu, and Wuxian, and the remaining nine counties.

Among the eighteen counties of Chenliu, half of Yuan and Cao each.

However, Xu You of course knew that Cao Cao would rather fight to the death with Lu Bu than hand over the entire Chenliu to Yuan Shao directly. This was obviously not as simple as the territory of the nine counties, and he could not even explain it just by saying that "Cao Cao wants Yuan Shao to know that he has the ability to resist to the death, and has the determination to be bullied."

The real big head is Cao Cao's hope to make it clear to Yuan Shao: when dividing Yuan Shu's territory in the future, both sides will also use Honggu as the boundary! Cao Cao will seize the territory of the "rebel Yuan Shu" east of Honggu.

What is important is not the nine counties in the southern bank of the Pu River, east of Honggou, and south of the Bian River, but the division of the Honggou extension line.

If Chen Liu was given to Yuan Shao, Cao Cao would not be able to do much effort in the battle to pacify Yuan Shu in the future, because the artery that communicated between the north and the south was occupied by Yuan Shao.

As a Grand Canal dug by the Wei State during the Warring States Period, Honggou connected the Yellow River and the Huai River. From Huang to Bian, from Bian to Honggou, then connected to Yingchuan and injected into the Huai River.

According to this boundary, Cao Cao can take back at least half of the Chen County in the future than ceding the entire Chenliu. Of course, Chen County will fall into the hands of Yuan Shao. Then it will extend to the border between Chen County and Runan County. Xiang County, Wuqiu, Xinyang, Ruyin and Shen County can also belong to Cao Cao, and then go to Yangquan and pour into the Huai River. Huainan County, which is governed by Shouchun, is also belonged to Cao Cao.

Then the entire Yingchuan County under Yuan Shu, as well as more than 80% of the land in Runan County, and even the Jiangbei area of ​​Huainan (not Huainan County) that crossed the Huai River south, mainly some bad land in the Dabie Mountains, were all belonged to Yuan Shao.

As for Nanyang County, where Yuan Shu's current capital, Wancheng, Cao Cao nominally agrees that Yuan Shao will seize it in the future, but in fact it is just an admission. It depends on whether Yuan Shao takes action quickly enough and whether he can snatch Liu Bei. After all, Nanyang and Jingzhao counties are the westernmost part of Yuan Shu's territory and are already bordering with Liu Bei.

Liangjun east of Honggou, the entire territory of Qiaojun, belongs to Cao Cao.

If it were not signed so, Cao Cao would definitely not be able to obtain the entire Chen County area, nor could he obtain the land east of Yingchuan in Runan, and some of Liang County and Qiao County would be threatened by Yuan Shao.

After Sima Lang said this condition, Xu You was also thinking. He felt that his lord must be willing to share this way, because Yuan Shu's nominal strength is not weak. Yuan Shao could not do it if he wanted to swallow most of Yuan Shu's legacy alone when Yuan Shu was doing something in the future.

After all, Yuan Shao was too long to pull in depth, which meant that his territory would be in an inverted L shape, and he would drill all the way south from the western part of Dongjun, Chenliu, Chenjun and Yingchuan. Considering that the newly conquered areas might not necessarily provide military rations, the fight would definitely be very slow from transporting grain from Yecheng, Liyang, and Henoi to the south.

If Cao Cao was completely squeezed out, Liu Bei, Liu Biao and Sun Ce would definitely get more in the process of attacking Yuan Shu's legacy. Since that's the case, it would be better to let half of his little brother Cao Cao take a little. It's better to give Cao Cao than to Sun Ce and Liu Biao.

After the division of Yuan Shu's territory was preliminarily divided, Yuan Shao focused on seizing the western half and competing with Liu Bei, Cao Cao focused on seizing the eastern half and Liu Biao and Sun Ce.

Seeing Xu You hesitating, Sima Lang quickly made another speech: "And as long as the General of the Cavalry accepts this plan, our Lord is willing to send a hostage to the King of Yan as the guards, headed by Yuan Gong, and assist King Yan together. If there is really a change in the world in the future, Yuan and Cao will assist King Yan to achieve great achievements!

Our Lord is not calculating about this land with Mr. Yuan. It is because the Honggou communicates between the north and the south. If we want to go south in the future, without the Honggou transporting grain, we will not be able to transport the military rations and ordnances from the Yellow River Basin to the Huaihe River Basin. Mr. Yuan occupied Mr. Wang, and our army's efforts to make a huge investment.

What's more, my master has a little selfish filial piety: Mr. Yuan is from Runan, and he is the leader of Runan County. According to this classification, Mr. Yuan can obtain more than 80% of the land in Runan in the future, and the entire southwest of Yingchuan belongs to Mr. Yuan. Will Mr. Yuan return home in glory?

Our ancestral home is Qiao County, Qiao County, and Qiao County is across the Ying River from Runan. Only in this way can we ensure that Qiao County will return to our lord in the future. Isn’t it beautiful for both Yuan and Cao families to return home in glory?"

This condition is very deceptive and seems to be "loyal and honest elders". Yuan Shao wants to return home in glory and Cao Cao also wants to return home in glory, so we should respect each other.

Xu Yousizhi repeatedly and breathed a sigh of relief: "I can bring this for you and try my best to persuade the lord to agree to this condition. After the matter is completed, do not break your trust!"

Sima Lang and Ding Fei thanked each other: "When joining the army can promote harmony between Yuan and Cao, Cao must have thanked him more!"

Xu You waved his hand: "What are you thanking me? Benchu ​​Aman is all my brothers. I am helping them bridge the brothers' flanks. Tell me, Aman has any other plans to help this matter."

Sima Lang thought about it, but in the end he didn't dare to tell it all. He just said, "My Lord knows that Mr. Yuan is not at ease with Lu Bu, and he also knows that Mr. Yuan is greedy for small things. If he doesn't see the difficulties, he will probably not stop. Therefore, our Lord will use war to promote peace and try to make Lu Bu attack and then defeat him, but he will never attack Mr. Yuan's direct troops.

In this way, Mr. Yuan has a way out and can understand the reality. He also helped Mr. Yuan beat Lü Bu so that he would not make Lü Bu arrogant and ask for more from Mr. Yuan. In the future, everyone will assist King Yan, and our lord will be under Mr. Yuan's account. Of course, I hope that his reputation will be ahead of Mr. Lu Bu."

Xu You laughed: "What's the matter? Benchu ​​often regards Aman as a virtuous brother. How can Lu Bu compare with Aman in Benchu's mind? As long as he is lost, what's the point! You go to Liyang to meet Yuan Gong first. I will try to cooperate with Aman and force Lu Bu to attack Aman's Guandu camp, but I won't do anything else. Don't expect me to hurt Yuan Gong's direct line."

...

After Sima Lang was released by Xu You, he left for another three days and finally arrived in Liyang. He also handed out a post, preparing to ask for a meeting with Yuan Shao.

At the same time, under Guo Jia's plan, Cao Cao's army sent a side army to set fire in the Wuchao granary, pretending to be a large army to surround the back, and the plan was successfully implemented.

Cao Chun, with thousands of elite cavalry, found a weak gap in Lubu's defense zone patrol, passed through Wuchaoze, and then set a fire.

Of course, this fire is not at the same level as the real Wuchao Fire in history, it is completely a thunder and a small raindrop.

However, Xu You took this opportunity to criticize Chen Gong in front of the army, saying that he was attacked by tens of thousands of main forces in Cao Cao. Fortunately, he fought to the death to defend the Wuchao camp so that he would not lose all the food and grass. He asked Lu Bu how he fought and why Cao Cao's main forces were still not sure, and he delayed the fighter plane and did not take the opportunity to capture Cao Cao's camp!

There is no doubt that Xu You played the role of Guo Tu forcing Zhang He in history. However, Lu Bu also looked down on Cao Cao quite a bit, and he already had the titles of General Pingbei and Bingzhou Defense Envoy, so there is no need to worry about whether Lu Bu would surrender to Cao Cao if he was forced to do so - Lu Bu was reluctant to gain wealth from the rear.

At most, after a small loss, he was restrained and felt embarrassed to ask Yuan Shao for an official position within one or two years.

Yuan Shao also did not have to comment on him for the "General Zhenbei". The Bingzhou Administrator and Bingzhou Observer sent by Yuan Shao could perform their duties better and not be completely subdued by Lu Bu.

As expected, after being criticized and urged by Xu You, Lu Bu misjudged the situation of Cao's army, thinking that the Guandu camp was extremely empty, and really launched a desperate attack that lasted for one day. Lu Bu, Zhang, Liao, Wei, and Chenglian, four fierce generals, either supervising the battle or rushing. As for Hou Cheng, Song, Xian, Wei, and Xu, Hao Meng, the four generals, they dare not neglect.

The Bingzhou soldiers, who had more than 22,000 men, fought for one day and fought hard on Guanduying Village, which had been relatively broken but had not completely lost their defense of fortifications. Relying on the geographical advantage, Cao's army shot with crossbows and threw a rain of gravel stones, killing batches of Bingzhou soldiers like cutting wheat.

Lu Bu was extremely distressed and could not bear to spend the elite Bingzhou cavalry of his direct lineage so he asked the new black bandits recruited from Zhang Yan to fill in as cannon fodder.

After a whole day of fighting, nearly 3,000 people died in the battle between the new Black Mountain Bandits! More than 2,000 people died directly on the attack, and there were still 3,400 people who were killed in front of the formation by Lu Bu's commander for desertion because they wanted to escape! Such a swearing to supervise the battle to the death still did not break Cao Cao's camp.

Cao Cao waited until the sun was west, and it was almost the first time in the afternoon. He finally launched a counterattack, shouting, "The main force in Wuchao's grain-burning has rushed back to the camp, and Lu Bu's son is doomed!" Then Cao's army's reserve team was replenishing their energy and launched a counterattack when Lu Bu's army was about to lose strength and morale.

Cao Cao was very smart and didn't even shout, "Lu Bu, you've been trapped. I still have many reserve forces in the camp." Because if he shouted like this, wouldn't he betray Xu You? Such things cannot be done.

What Cao Cao wanted was the performance of "Xu You defended Wuchao with thousands of people and successfully dragged Cao Cao's army of 20,000 to 30,000 people, while Cao Cao only had less than 10,000 people in the ruined camp of Guandu, but he delayed Lu Bu's more than 20,000 attacking troops for a whole day and could not be broken", so it was easy to tell Yuan Shao and the people of the world: Xu You is a talent, and Lu Bu is a fool!

Lu Bu never expected that Cao Cao would still have so many new forces in such good condition. He was caught off guard and struggled to hold on for only a quarter of an hour before he collapsed. Lu Bu and his direct Bingzhou cavalry could still run, but the Black Mountain infantry without horses were miserable. He was covered by Cao Cao until dark, stained with blood in the Bian River, and killed thousands of people in addition. There were thousands of former Black Mountain soldiers with indecisive will either kneel down to surrender, or threw away their armor as birds and beasts, pretending to be civilians to leave the army.

Lu Bu escaped the Bian River and fled until Fengqiu before gaining a foothold. After counting his troops, he only had less than half of the 28,000 troops left before the southern expedition, and there were still 12,000 in total.

The eight thousand veterans of the direct line suffered little losses, and more than 6,500 people were alive, but the cannon fodder received from Zhang Yan was too heavy. There were only 20,000 black mountain bandits who were still following him. Others were either killed in battle, injured, drowned, or captured and fled.

After hearing the defeat, Xu You rushed to Fengqiu to be a good person to comfort Lu Bu: "Fengxian, victory and defeat are common in military affairs, and Mr. Yuan will not blame you. From this, we can also see how unfavorable the current way of fighting is to attack one side-

Cao Cao had sent his main force to attack my Wuchao camp before, but I repelled it by relying on the strong camp. I was also wrong when I failed this battle. I shouldn't have told you that Cao's camp is empty, which makes you feel that you can take advantage of the strong attack. Even if it is empty, it is not easy to attack."

Chen Gong always felt something was wrong, but he had no evidence and did not dare to speak nonsense.

Lu Bu was completely unstoppable. He still had self-esteem. Xu You helped him excuse him and took the initiative to admit to taking part of the responsibility. Lu Bu had nothing to say.

"Then I'll have to ask Xu to join the army to say a few good words in front of Yuan Gong. I'd better go back to be the Bingzhou defensive envoy and rectify the troops!" Lu Bu forced a smile and sent Xu You away. After he was so angry that he smashed things and drank wine, he was ready to give up his pick and go back to Bingzhou to stop fighting.

Forget it, it was enough for General Pingbei to lead the Bingzhou Defense Envoy, and he would not consider getting promoted within one or two years.

...

On May 19th, Liyang on the north bank of the Yellow River.

The news that Lu Bu was defeated and lost more than 15,000 troops in total also reached Li Yang, which shocked Yuan Shao's army.

Yuan Shao didn't believe in this evil at first, just like a gambler who had a slight decline in stock trading for two days. He also wanted to take advantage of the stock price falling and reduce the average cost of building a position. So he ordered Yan Liang and Wen Chou to continue attacking quickly!

However, Cao Cao had already freed up his troops to resist, blocking two waves of Yan Liang and Wen Chou's attempts to cross the Bian River, and slightly killed and injured some Yuan soldiers.

But at the same time, Cao Cao also knew Yuan Shao's temper well and knew that Yuan Shao was the kind of old child who was so greedy that "two children had to fight, Yuan Shao had to punch the last punch, and then the other party was not allowed to fight back again." If someone else punched the last punch, Yuan Shao would be so angry that he could not eat or sleep for several months that he could not eat or sleep.

Therefore, after Cao Cao defeated Yan Liang and Wen Chou, he asked Cao Chun to bring a few hundred cannon fodder (not the tiger and leopard cavalry), pretending to underestimate the enemy and advance rashly, and took the initiative to cross the Bian River north to pursue Yan Liang and Wen Chou.

Of course, all these hundreds of cavalry cannon fodders were given for free, and they were attacked and annihilated by Yan Liang and Wen Chou for half a trip.

Yuan Shao was so stingy that he finally felt comfortable. He was like a self-deceptionist who strictly complies with the "Consumer Experience Peak Law", and felt that it was acceptable to sit down and talk. Xu You also took the opportunity to slap in the past few days, asking Yuan Shao to be kind and conquer Cao Cao.

On May 24, Sima Lang finally got the opportunity to visit Yuan Shao under Xu You's introduction. He also expressed very well that "this condition was agreed by Xu Zongjun, otherwise Cao Gong would not be willing to give such a big discount at the beginning."

Yuan Shao felt that he had taken advantage of it, and it was as happy as an old child who had won the bargain, and he praised You for his ability to do things.

Moreover, in history, Liu Bang was on the west side of the Great Chamber Armistice Agreement and Xiang Yu was on the east side. Now that Yuan Shao got the west side, he had a psychological advantage and felt that he had played the role of Liu Bang.

"I have a son far away, but I have no worries. Well, since Meng De sincerely admits his mistake, we pardon him. We don't want the entire Chenliu area, so we use Honggu as the boundary! But we are the ugly words ahead! In the future, Mengde is not allowed to be involved in the land west of Honggu, and the water transportation of Honggu must be shared by our two families. If our army wants to transport grain and cargo, the transportation capacity of the Honggu waterway must be given priority, and our army can only use the remaining capacity to ship Mengde!"

"There are a lot of generals of cavalry, and my envoy will definitely be grateful!" Sima Lang praised the merits and agreed on behalf of Cao Cao.
Chapter completed!