Three Kingdoms, I open a tavern in Xudu

"Zian, you once said that Yuan Tan would surrender, but he must not be sincere?"

In the main account, Cao Cao said again.

"It's definitely not sincere. He just wants to use us to help him attack Yuan Shang, let him be the Jizhou shepherd, and then try to get out of our control, or even betray him."

Chen Yang said: "We did this to take advantage of him."

Cao Cao thought for a while, and then asked, "What's the point of treating Yuan Tan like this and starving them all afternoon?"

Chen Yang explained: "The Prime Minister thinks, what about the soldiers under Yuan Tan's command?"

"The people in Hebei are strong and strong. Yuan Tan's soldiers were brought from Jizhou. They are all former subordinates of Yuan Shao. They have fought with Yuan Shao for many years, and their strength is not weak."

When Cao Cao said this, he seemed to have thought of something, and said, "Zian, do you want to take Yuan Tan's soldiers into your own?"

Chen Yang nodded and said, "That's right, Yuan Tan doesn't sincerely want to surrender, but it doesn't mean everyone wants to surrender as he does."

"He brought more than 2 soldiers. Even if we only recover 1 soldiers, it will be of great benefit to us."

Chen Yang continued: "It's actually not difficult to recover, as long as you give them hope in a desperate situation, it will be done."

"It makes sense. As for how to recover, I won't ask."

Cao Cao said: "However, what you said just now is to let Yuan Tan go to work tomorrow, what are you going to do?"

"I want to do it all over again."

Chen Yang said with a smile: "At the beginning when we attacked Xiapi, we couldn't attack for a long time. Using the method of attacking Xiapi to deal with Yecheng may also work."

Cao Cao pondered for a while, without any objection, he followed Chen Yang's arrangements, because Chen Yang never let him down.

It was already late at night to leave the main account.

Chen Yang walked to the school field and saw Yuan Tan and other soldiers.

"Eldest son, I'm really sorry for not being able to take care of you in time today."

Chen Yang waved his hand behind him, and several doctors in the army hurried over, and said: "Today you fought a battle, many brothers must have been injured, I have good wound medicine here, give it to you brothers quickly. Heal."

Those doctors hurried forward, and under this inspection, they found that many soldiers had wounds of various degrees.

Although the injuries suffered by the soldiers were not serious, the wounds were already inflamed. If they continued to deteriorate, given the medical conditions here, they might die.

The medicine used to treat the wound was all prepared by Hua Tuo, and the effect was excellent. As soon as the medicine powder fell into the wound, it relieved a little.

Seeing this scene, those soldiers were very grateful to Chen Yang. It was common for them to be killed by the enemy or die of serious injuries on the battlefield.

They were just ordinary soldiers, and they were usually injured and rarely asked. It was the first time I saw someone who cared as much as Chen Yang.

Next, Chen Yang distributed some intact tents to them.

"General, thank you very much!" Yuan Tan said politely.

But he was thinking in his heart, what do those soldiers do?Why don't you bring me something to eat, I'm starving to death.

"Eldest son, it's getting late, you should go to rest too!"

Chen Yang also smiled politely, then turned and left.

"I……"

Just as Yuan Tan was about to speak, his stomach rumbled, aggrieved and embarrassed.

"My lord, are you hungry?"

Xin Ping asked in surprise, "Didn't the prime minister invite you to a banquet just now?"

Yuan Tan's cheeks flushed, and he covered his stomach to prevent it from screaming.

Feng Ji seemed to understand something, and took out two big cakes from his body: "Master, this is what I just left, if you..."

"Delicious, really fragrant!"

Before Feng Ji could finish speaking, Yuan Tan had already snatched it up, stuffed it into his mouth indiscriminately, and solved it in twos and threes.

"It's too much for Prime Minister Cao to treat my lord like this!" Xin Ping whispered.

"My lord, Prime Minister Cao is like this, do we really want to rely on him?" Feng Ji said worriedly.

"of course not!"

Yuan Tan swallowed hard, and said again: "I just want to use Cao Cao to help me resist Yuan Xi and Yuan Shang, and then get the whole Jizhou, but now I have to live under the fence, all of you should pay attention to me, as long as there is someone who resists Cao Cao Opportunity, arrange now."

This is already the only way out, if not, they would have been killed by the coalition forces of Yuan Xi and Yuan Shang.

"My lord, with Chen Yang in Cao Jun, it may be more difficult for us to do this." Xin Ping said.

Yuan Tan wanted to say something, but suddenly saw a figure approaching, he stopped the topic quickly, worried that others would overhear.

"General Zhang, it's you!" Yuan Tan laughed.

He felt that Zhang Yun was also Yuan Shao's old subordinate, and he might be able to win him over.

"Come with me!"

That figure was none other than Zhang Yun, who snorted lightly and brought them into a dilapidated tent, and said, "You will live here for the time being."

The tent was dirty and messy, and exuded a faint stench.

Yuan Tan is the eldest son of the Yuan family, how can he live in this ghostly place?

But before he could open his mouth, Zhang Xi said again: "This is General Chen's arrangement. If you don't want to live, go to sleep in the schoolyard!"

After speaking, he turned and left, and arranged many soldiers to stare at them, which was distrust.

Yuan Tan definitely didn't want to sleep on the school grounds, so he had to walk into the tent aggrieved and endured it for the time being.

"Chen Yang, you are deceiving people too much!" Yuan Tan gritted his teeth in hatred.

"They did this to target us on purpose!"

Feng Ji sighed: "In Cao Ying, his life is also controlled by them, so he has to bow his head!"

Yuan Tan could only sit aside and wait for the time to pass.

the next morning.

Before Yuan Tan woke up, he heard Zhang He's voice: "Get up, everyone, General Chen wants to see you."

Yuan Tan just wanted to yell, what are you arguing about!

Then he realized that this was not his place, put on his clothes and left the tent, and saw that Chen Yang was already on the school field.

"General Chen, what do you want from me?" Yuan Tan asked.

"I still remember that the eldest son said yesterday that it doesn't matter what you are asked to do?" Chen Yang smiled playfully.

"I said, General, what do you want me to do?" Yuan Tan had a bad feeling.

Chen Yang saw through his worries, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, I don't want you to die, or to do some hard work, but it will be a little tiring."

It's better to die, Yuan Tan patted his heart and said: "I'm not afraid of being tired, if there is any hard work, just leave it to me to do it."

He was thinking, there are more than 2 soldiers under his command, what is the mere hard work?

However, he never dreamed that Chen Yang would bring him and hundreds of soldiers to the bottom of Ye City.

"General, what are you going to do?"

Yuan Tan was in a daze. If they wanted to attack the city, how could they attack with only a few hundred people?

"Dig the canal."

Chen Yang pointed to Yecheng, then pointed to the nearby Zhang River, and continued: "I have a plan to attack Yecheng, but I need to dig a canal to divert the water to flood Yecheng. You have to dig according to the blueprint. It doesn’t need to be too deep, just dig three feet deep and three feet wide!”

He left thousands of soldiers behind, stared at Yuan Tan and the others nearby, briefly stated his request, and was about to go back.

"General, wait a minute, what's the use of digging this canal? It's only three feet!"

Yuan Shao was puzzled and said: "We are just below Ye City, if Yuan Shang sends people out, we are also in danger!"

Chen Yang pointed to the thousands of people around him, and said, "They are here to protect the eldest son. It would be best if Yuan Shang dared to open the city gate and come out. We will kill them directly."

He patted Yuan Tan on the shoulder, and continued: "Come on, I'm optimistic about you!"