Yuan Shao’s letter
"Xu Chu? I've never heard of it!"
Cao Cao quickly went through the memory in his mind, convinced that he had never heard this name before.
Xu Chu snorted coldly and asked back:
"Who are you? I've never seen you in the barracks before!
Could it be that you are Zhao Zilong? You don't look like your age!"
"What Zhao Zilong, I'm Cao Mengde, the shepherd of Yanzhou! I'm Cao Ziyou's father!"
Xu Chu was taken aback, realizing that he seemed to have gotten into trouble again.
"Ahem, well, I actually lied to you, let me reintroduce, my name is Dianwei."
Cao Cao was overjoyed.
"I've met Dian Wei before, and I know him very well!"
Xu Chu was dumbfounded.
"Then who have you never met?"
"I've never seen you as an idiot. Xu Chu, I remember you."
Cao Cao felt that Xu Chu was a bit cute, and wanted to continue to tease him, but he didn't expect Xu Chu to cover his face and run away shouting that he was not Xu Chu.
This kind of person can be the second in command, Cao Cao asked the soldiers leading the way suspiciously.
"You Commander Xu, is this always the case?"
"I don't know. We only know that he and Commander Dian Wei once fought from day to night. They fought for a day and a night without a winner."
The soldier's tone was mixed with admiration, after all, the army has always worshiped the strong.
"What? He's on par with Dian Wei?"
Lao Cao's old problem has been committed again. When he sees a talent, he will win him over to his account.
The former Dian Wei had been greedy for him for a long time, but Dian Wei believed that he was Cao Ziyou's old guard, so he was unwilling to leave anyway.
It seems that this Xu Chu can work hard to get into his own army!
While Cao Cao was thinking, he came to Cao Ziyou's camp.
As soon as he lifted the curtain, he happened to find that Xu Chu was pouring bitter water on Cao Ziyou.
"Master Ziyou, later your father will ask you about me, Xu Chu, so please don't sell me."
"What? You met Lao Cao? Did you beat him up?"
Seeing Cao Ziyou's expectant expression, Xu Chu was stunned.
Isn't Cao Cao your father?
Why do you still want to see me beat him up so much?
"Ding, Cao Cao's resentment +1, filial son's value + 1"
Cao Ziyou nodded in satisfaction. He had discovered it when Cao Cao opened the tent.
When answering Xu Chu, he was deliberately angry with Lao Cao.
Sure enough, Cao Cao was really angry. "You little fart, you want Xu Chu to beat me up!"
Cao Ziyou spread his hands.
"Hehe, who's father looks at his son's army every day, and wants soldiers and generals at the same time? When I am free, I will find a group of literati to write a biography for you, and try to spread this matter to the whole big man. !"
Cao Cao became anxious when he heard this, and hurriedly waved his hands and said:
"Don't, Ziyou. The reason why I want to poach people is because you have a good eye for talents! Dad is old, dizzy, and it is difficult to identify talents. The heavy responsibility of finding talents has to be entrusted to you!"
"Hehe, pull it off. I heard that Yuan Shao wrote you a reply, what's the matter? Isn't your best friend, Mr. Yuan, planning to borrow food?"
Cao Cao took out the letter and handed it to Cao Ziyou. After browsing through it roughly, Cao Ziyou smiled. The news of the surrender of the Yellow Turban Army in Qingzhou has reached the ears of Yuan Shao in Jizhou.
Of course, the main force of persuading the Yellow Turban Army to surrender was changed from Cao Ziyou to Cao Cao.
In Yuan Shao's view, Cao Cao is his little brother, occupying one state is enough.
Now that they have acquired hundreds of thousands of elites, their strength has increased dramatically, and they have already threatened Yuan Shao.
Therefore, Yuan Shao put forward the condition that it is fine to borrow food, but Cao Cao must send troops to help him.
There is no way, Yuan Shao has already fallen into the quagmire of war at this time.
Gongsun Zan of Youzhou, Tao Qian of Xuzhou, and Yuan Shu of Yangzhou formed a coalition to attack Yuan Shao.
In addition, Zhang Yan, the leader of the Black Mountain Army, sent Du Chang and others to help Gongsun Zan.
Yuan Shao was besieged on all sides.
If Cao Cao can send troops to help, it will not only consume Yanzhou's military strength, but also solve the immediate predicament.
Therefore, Yuan Shao's attitude is very firm. As long as Cao Cao sends troops, Jizhou will be responsible for all food and grass problems!
Cao Cao discussed with Xun Yu and others before, and they all felt that they should send troops to help.
He came to the barracks this time to borrow Ziyou's army from Cao Ziyou.
After all, in Cao Cao's view, Cao Ziyou must have not collected the required amount of food and grass in ten days.
In the end, we still need food and grass from Jizhou.
As for why Cao Cao didn't join the coalition to help fight Yuan Shao together.
This is the result of discussions among many advisers.
Xun Yu and others believed that after defeating Yuan Shao, the fruits of victory would be shared among the more powerful Yuan Shu and Gongsun Zan.
It is even very possible that at the end, Yuan Shu and others turned around and annexed Cao Cao's Yanzhou.
On the contrary, Yuan Shao is currently at a disadvantage. Once Cao Cao and Yuan Shao join forces to defeat the coalition forces of Yuan Shu and others, the benefits will be huge!
The most important point is that Yuan Shao has a good relationship with Cao Cao at this time, and he will not forget Cao Cao when the territory is finally divided.
The counselors agreed that Cao Cao should help Yuan Shao fight against the coalition forces. Coupled with his relationship with Yuan Shao, Cao Cao finally made up his mind.
It's just that the main force going to support Jizhou has to rely on a large number of Ziyou troops.
Cao Ziyou thought about it carefully, the Battle of Guandu was one of the battles Cao Cao would experience in the
future.
If Yuan Shao's strength can be exhausted before the battle of Guandu, future wars will be easier.
Yuan Shao has eight counselors and four court pillars under his command.
Among the eight counselors, Tian Feng and Ju Shou are the most useful. If Yan Liang, Wen Chou, Zhang Yun, and Gao Lan are recruited, then Cao Ziyou will make a lot of
money.
Moreover, Gongsun Zan has war horse, Tao Qian has food and grass, and Yuan Shu has Da Qiao's father.
Confronting them, the benefits that can be obtained are also enormous.
Thinking of this, Cao Ziyou said excitedly:
"Old Cao, how about this, I will take Ziyou's army to support, and you send Uncle Cao Hong to follow me to pick up the spoils. After a battle, we will score four or six! I will be six!"
"Stop making trouble, Ziyou, you haven't fought a war, you will kill 30,000 troops. Be good, leave Ziyou's army to me, and I will reward you later."
Cao Ziyou wanted to refuse, but when the words came to his lips, he changed.
"Okay, then you let Uncle Wen Ruo come, and I will hand over the command to him first. In our Yanzhou, I only trust Uncle Wen Ruo!"
Cao Cao was overjoyed, he never expected that Ziyou would be so well-behaved this time.
Excited, Cao Cao made a promise.
"Ziyou, don't worry. Dad is going to Jizhou to help this time, see if there are any beautiful women, and I will bring you back when the time comes, and be a concubine first!"
"It's a deal."
Cao Cao left in a hurry, half an hour later, Xun Yu hurried over.
"Master Ziyou, by the order of my lord, I am here to take over the command of Ziyou's army."
"Command authority? What command authority?"
Seeing Cao Ziyou pretending to be stupid, and seeing the surrounding soldiers pulling out the camp and preparing to leave, Xun Yu had a bad premonition in his heart.
"Mr. Ziyou, you don't want to kidnap me and go to Jizhou together?"