Peek at my diary, Cao Cao dominates the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 395 Variables, Just Behind Boss Yuan (I haven't asked for a monthly pass for a long time, please ask for a monthly pass!)

In Yuan Jun's camp, Gao Lan returned after failing to attack the city, and came to Yuan Shao to plead guilty.

These days, Gao Lan comes back every day to plead guilty, which seems to be a routine.
Let Gao Lan go down to rest first.

Yuan Shao sat in the main tent, his expression was not in a hurry.

In his opinion, Cao Jun's defense will be broken by him one day, but it is only a matter of time.

After pondering for a moment, Yuan Shao asked the judge who was standing below: "Zhengnan, how is the progress of the digger army?"

The judge heard Yuan Shao's question, so he stood up and cupped his hands and said: "My lord, the digger army is about to reach the moat, as long as they can pass the moat smoothly, the digger army can dig down Cao Jun's city wall!"

Yuan Shao smiled and replied: "Okay! Keep digging, as long as you can knock down the city wall, Cao's army will definitely be in chaos."

This is Yuan Shao repeating the old trick, planning to use the trick he used to dig down the walls of Gongsun Zan Yi's capital to deal with Cao Jun.

At this moment, a messenger from outside rushed to report, saying: "My lord, General Han Meng was defeated by Cao's army at Jiluo Mountain, and returned home in a complete defeat."

The news of Han Meng's defeat and return dilutes the joy of diggers who are about to complete their mission.

And Xu You, who stood at the head of all the counselors, looked even more ugly at the moment.

He was the one who contributed to the strategy of hijacking the Liang Dao, but now the partisan who hijacked the Liang is defeated, isn't this just slapping himself in the face in public?
Although the failure of robbery does not hurt the overall situation, it is his own plan after all, and after all, he still has a somewhat ugly face when he fails.

What Xu You is worried about now is not the failure of borrowing money, but what he is more worried about is his competitor Guo Tu, "Guo Tu looks like a villain. I'm afraid he is laughing at himself right now?"

Thinking of this, Xu You couldn't help but cast a glance at Guo Tu.

Sure enough, that guy was staring at Xu You with a smile that was not a smile, which made Xu You feel a chill in his heart.

If it was Jushou, maybe it would have been a big blow by now, but Xu You is a self-proclaimed gentleman, and he would not do such a thing by hand.

In fact, Guo Tu was not just watching Xu You's jokes.

You know, when Xu You was in Jizhou, he was somewhat greedy for money on weekdays, and his family was even more unscrupulous, seeking the people's fat and anointing.

In order to take the position of the mastermind, Guo Tu sent people back overnight to collect Xu You's crimes.

Poor Xu Ziyuan, who claims to be unparalleled in intelligence and resourcefulness, still thinks that Guo Tu is just reading his jokes at this moment. Xu You still underestimated the viciousness of people's hearts after all.

Less than a quarter of an hour after the messenger came to report, Han Meng stumbled in with disheveled hair and a smoky smell all over his body.

Yuan Shao, who was still a little angry in his heart, was shocked when he saw Han Meng who was about to be smoked into bacon.

"My lord! My subordinates were negligent, and Cao's army set fire to the mountain, which resulted in a bad start and a great defeat."

"Set fire to the mountain?! Is Cao Jun so ruthless?" Yuan Shao was surprised again.

You must know that there may be many local people relying on the mountains to eat. This fire may not only cut off the livelihood of the people, but may also affect the survival of the surrounding people.

However, the people in Yingchuan and Chenliu areas under Cao Cao's rule had long been lifted out of poverty and became rich, and those who lived at the foot of the mountain might have to find a new place to build a house.

"Cao Jun is really crazy." After Yuan Shao sighed, he said, "Han Meng, please explain the process in detail."

Han Meng then put himself in an ambush in Jiluo Mountain, but Cao Jun fired rockets and set the woods on fire, and he finally retreated, emphasizing it.

Of course, in these remarks, the main point is to clarify Han Meng's bravery and fearlessness in order to let the soldiers retreat, and to weaken the small details that he was ambushed because he underestimated the enemy and rushed forward.
After hearing Han Meng's narration, Yuan Shao was speechless and fell into deep thought.

After a few breaths, Yuan Shao said, "Forget it, Cao's army set fire to the mountain, and no manpower can stop it.

Moreover, raiding the grain road is just the icing on the cake. Even if Cao Jun has food, they will inevitably be defeated in a few days. "

Han Meng escaped, and immediately knelt down on one knee begging for his life: "Master, please give me another chance, let me make up for my mistakes!"

Yuan Shao said: "Since you are determined to make up for your mistakes, then when Cao Jun's defense is broken in the future, you can go to the vanguard to destroy the city and pull out the stronghold for me."

Han Meng was overjoyed, bowed deeply and said: "I guarantee my life, I will live up to my lord's expectations!"

In the next two days, Yuan Jun's digging army finally passed under the moat.

The general in charge of the digging army calculated the distance and shouted loudly: "Brothers, according to the estimated distance, we will be under the city wall in a few steps ahead. Everyone, work harder and finish your work. You will have meat when you go back today." Drink the soup!!"

When Digger heard that there was broth to drink, bursts of cheers erupted, and even the shovel he waved in his hand became lighter and more powerful.

Yuan Jun, who was at the front, dug down with a shovel, but suddenly there was a sound of metal and stone.

"Shut up!", and a clear voice sounded, and the digger turned his head and shouted: "General, I seem to have dug a big rock in front of me!"

Hearing this, the general of the Die Zi Army pushed aside the crowd and came to the front. With the help of the faint light of the fire, he groped and inspected the boulder in front of him carefully.

After a while, the general seemed to have thought of something, and immediately yelled: "What kind of boulder is this! You bastard Cao thief, his grandma actually built the city wall down to the ground!"

It turned out that when Ren Jun built the city wall, he got Lu Yan's suggestion and laid the foundation underground.

Moreover, the fact that Gongsun Zan was dug up by Yuan Shao to the base of the wall was known all over the world, so Ren Jun did not stop doing two things, and laid the foundation two feet deep, which can be called frenzied.

The tunnel should not be too deep, otherwise the risk of hypoxia and landslides will be multiplied.

Yuan Jun's diggers dug the tunnel at a depth of about four or five meters. Their current depth is about two meters away from the deepest part of the city wall foundation.

The soil on the part of the moat is extremely unstable, and it may collapse due to being soaked in water at any time.If Yuan Jun dared to take the time to dig deeper, it is very likely that the city wall did not fall, but he buried himself first.
In desperation, the general Die Zijun had no choice but to report the problems he encountered to Yuan Shao.

Knowing that this plan might not work, Yuan Shao finally had to give up the method of digging tunnels.

Another trick was broken by Cao Cao, and Yuan Jun could only return to the tug-of-war with Cao Cao.
But in another place, another variable came.

We all know that the Yellow River often floods or diverts its course.

Even because of a serious flood and breach of the embankment, the middle reaches of the Yellow River in the late Eastern Han Dynasty were actually diverted.

That is to say, the Yellow River forked somewhere, and the two rivers were separated by several miles or even hundreds of miles and drove eastward side by side, and finally merged at a certain place and finally returned to the sea.

Yanjin and Baima are both ferry crossings of the Yellow River, but these two ferry crossings are only crossings between the North Stream after diversion.

The reason why Cao Cao dared to abandon Baima and Yanjin Ferry after abandoning Liyang and other important towns in Hebei, and continue to shrink southward for defense, is that there is still the southern flow of the Yellow River and Guandu Ferry as the last barrier.

Now that Cao Jun and Yuan Jun are confronting each other in Guandu, Yuan Jun is a hundred miles behind, leaving Cao Jun with room to make a difference.

Cao Ren, Xu Huang, and Le Jin from Hanoi County have disappeared from everyone's eyes for a long time.

Now that Yuan Shao left a large space behind him, this gave Cao Ren and others room to show off their maneuvers.

(End of this chapter)