Yuan Shao, the father of Fanghua in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 492 Who is the hunter
In Houqiu City, Mi Zhen said to Mi Fang: "Brother, you have done wrong several times, if you wait for others to rescue you, you will only deceive others, and even harm the Mi family."

Mi Fang's face was quite ugly, "Little sister is too alarmist, the matter may not be that serious!"

Anger appeared on Mi Zhen's face, "I misunderstood brother, at that time brother actually used the people of Qucheng as bait, how could this be done by the county guard!"

When Mi Fang heard this, her expression was displeased, "Little sister, I don't want to do this, I'm afraid we will all fall into the enemy's hands, and what will happen to you as a woman, so you don't need to say anything for brother?"

Mi Zhen's face was cold, "At that time, I will die!"

"Brother met Liu Yuzhou, how should you explain?"

After hearing this, Mi Fang's expression became uncertain, "Don't worry about these things, although I didn't do it properly, I have a clear conscience!"

Mi Zhen sneered and said, "Brother, do you really have a clear conscience?"

"Brother thought of a way to appease the people and stick to the city!"

"Young Master Xian Yi in Haixi will come to help within half a day, so why should you run away in a hurry?"

"Back then, I thought that brother was forced to abandon the city because of the army's attack. I realized later that brother escaped from the city without even finding out the situation of the enemy army!"

"What do you think brother?"

Mi Fang's face became even more ugly, she gritted her teeth and said, "You don't need to worry about these things."

"You just need to know that I'm thinking of the Mi family."

Seeing that Mi Fang didn't listen, Mi Zhen sighed softly, turned around and left, as a woman, she can't do anything now.

Xun You looked at Houqiu City in the distance, and smiled at Cao Ren, "Then Mi Fang may have completely lost her mind."

"I don't know if it's because he was too stupid to react, or because he didn't have the courage to show up, but no matter what he does now, he is just a bug writhing on the fishing line."

"The stronger the movement, the bigger the fish will be attracted."

Leading Mi Fang to the siege of Houqiu can be said to be the key link in the whole plan. For this reason, Cao Ying's counselors came up with a series of plans, and after many calculations, they finally achieved their goal.

Mi Fang's abandonment of the city was not accidental, but Cao Ying's advisers pretended to be Yuan Tan's secret envoy, and reached a deal with Mi Fang, allowing her to take the opportunity to abandon the East China Sea.

Mi Fang really got the trick. When he learned that there were Taishan thieves outside the city, he thought the time had come, so he decided to abandon the city. However, he didn't realize it was wrong until Cao Jun, who was pretending to be Taishan thieves, was intercepted at the ferry, but it was too late.

Xun You could even imagine Mi Fang's impotent and furious appearance, and sneered in his heart. Those who betrayed the lord will not end well, and Mi Fang's current situation is her own fault.

Now Mi Fang is dumb and eats Coptis chinensis, and she can't tell the pain, and even tries her best to cover up the matter. If the truth is revealed, the Mi family, including himself, will be ruined!
Xun You sneered in his heart, Mi Fang's trousers were all gone, but they hadn't been squeezed dry, and they could be used as bait to play the last remaining value.

Caught two big fish.

Now everything is ready, just waiting for the fish to bite the hook, which makes Xun You feel a little proud.

Seeing Xun You's confidence, Cao Ren said worriedly, "I'm afraid they won't come. If so, this plan will fail."

Xun You said with a smile: "Indeed, if both sides hold back, we may only be able to achieve the goal of capturing the East China Sea in this battle. This is obviously a bit disappointing."

"But I guess according to the personalities of those two sides, they should not sit idly by."

Seeing Xun You's full confidence, Cao Ren muttered to himself, but he knew there were some things he should ask and some things he shouldn't.

In order to design Xuzhou this time, Cao Cao not only sent Li Dian, Xia Houen and others to attack Qucheng as Taishan thieves, and Cao Hongle entered the besieged Houqiu City.

It can be said that Cao Jun is bound to win Xuzhou, and he has made careful calculations about the two big fish he wants to attract!

Houqiu was besieged and Tancheng was threatened. Unless Liu Bei gave up the East China Sea cruelly, he would definitely lead his army to rescue him.

Although Liu Bei may not be able to shrink back from Yuan Shu's army, waiting for the rescue of Yuan Xi's army in Guangling City to solve the siege, but Guangling is also being attacked by Yuan Shu's army now, and it is almost impossible to send reinforcements because he is too busy to take care of himself.

Therefore, Liu Bei is likely to break his wrists and give up Xiapi, or withdraw his entire army to the East China Sea, or divide his troops to rescue Houqiu.

The latter is very likely. After all, Cao Hongming only had a few thousand soldiers besieging the city. Guan Yu and Zhang Fei could lead [-] troops by themselves, and it seemed that they could also rescue Houqiu.

This is the right number for Cao Jun, and Cao Jun has several ways to deal with it.

Either sit back and wait for the rabbit, or hit him halfway, as long as you kill Guan Yu or Zhang Fei, Liu Bei will lose his arm, and there is no need to worry about it.

But that's not the most important thing.

In this plan, including Donghai's gains and losses, all of these are extras.

Its real biggest purpose is the fierce tiger of the Yuan family!

Cao's confidant generals have all received an order.

At any cost, lure and slay the vicious tiger!
In the past few years, the fierce tiger has caused a lot of trouble to the Cao family. After a long discussion, the Cao family's counselors finally reached a consensus.

Must kill the fierce tiger!

Originally, at this point in time, the risk of killing the Yuan family's children was extremely high. If Yuan Shao knew the truth, he might immediately turn against the Cao family.

So Cao made a lot of preparations, including pretending to be a Taishan thief and attacking Qucheng, just to set the blame.

Of course, this kind of clumsy strategy can be easily exposed. Afterwards, as long as Qingzhou Inspector Yuan Tan investigates the army under his jurisdiction, it will be easy to reveal his secrets.

But the Cao family already has a layout in it.

Yuan Tan had the motive to kill Yuan Xi.

Since the birth of Yuan Xi's two sons, the matter of Yuan's succession has become confusing again, and Yuan Xi has actually become a thorn in Yuan Tan's and Yuan Shang's eyes.

In the eyes of outsiders, the two brothers already had the motive to kill Yuan Xi.

Especially for Yuan Tan, the Cao family has a few pieces of evidence against Yuan Xi before, and when Yuan Xi is killed and thrown out, Yuan Tan can't clear it even if he jumps into the Yellow River.

Moreover, the strategy that Cao Cao's counselors came up with was almost a conspiracy, because with Yuan Tan's character, even if he learned the inside story, he might be happy to see it come to fruition. After all, Yuan Xi's death would be more beneficial to him!
Yuan Tan is in Qingzhou, and when Yuan Xi dies, Yuan Tan will be able to occupy the territory of Youzhou and Xuzhou that Yuan Xi left behind in an open and honest manner!

For Yuan Tan, who can only be confined to Qingzhou at the moment, and the surrounding area is blocked by two brothers, what would he think if such a big temptation is placed first?
This strategy is directed at people's hearts, and it is the conclusion made after accurately predicting Yuan Tan's thoughts, that is, Yuan Tan will sit idly by, and even if he knows the truth, he is very likely to pretend to be stupid!
As for whether the fierce tiger will come to rescue Houqiu, the counselors of Cao Ying have different opinions.

Some people think that it will come, because Yuan Xi has led Xuzhou Mu, and when Cao Jun slaughters several cities, Yuan Xi will inevitably be unable to restrain himself and come out to stop it.

But some people think that although Yuan Xi cherishes his reputation, he is cunning. In this case, he will probably send his generals here, and he will not personally risk it.

The crux of the matter is Yuan Xi, as long as he does not die, killing several of his generals will not help the ultimate goal.

Moreover, Cao Jun also has a great weakness.

No sailors!

If Yuan Xi sticks to the waterway, Cao Jun can't do anything to him!
So for this, Cao Ying still has something to do, but only a few people know the key points, not even Cao Hong's team.

Now Cao Jun's generals are like patient and ruthless hunters, waiting for the target to step into the net step by step.

In the city of Qu, Lu Xun stood up and stopped Yuan Xi, saying decisively: "Xun firmly opposes sending you out of the city."

"The situation outside the city is unknown, the enemy is unknown, and there are still one or two hundred miles away from Houqiu. Does the envoy still want to rescue Mi Fang?"

"Shi Jun really didn't go for that girl from the Mi family?"

After hearing this, Ju Shou couldn't help laughing and said: "Bo Yan is in a hurry, a gentleman who is usually modest, can be forced to be like this by the envoy."

Knowing that he had made a slip of the tongue, Lu Xun couldn't help blushing.Still forceful, he said, "Then Cao Mengde must have something to rely on when he openly attacks Liu Yuzhou. What if his intention is for you?"

"At that time, in the chaos of the army, if something happens to the young master, he can completely ignore it!"

Yuan Xi and Ju Shou looked at each other the same way, and couldn't help laughing. He asked someone to take out a map, spread it on the desk, and said to Lu Xun, "Of course I don't know that this is very strange."

"But staying in the city may not be a solution to the situation."

"Bo Yan also looked at the military information sent back from all around. If you have any thoughts on the current situation, you can deduce it on the map."

After hearing this, Lu Xun picked up a charcoal pencil and circled the cities of Houqiu, Tancheng, Qucheng, Haixi, Xiapi and Guangling.

Then he drew a few arrows around several circles, representing possible marching directions and strength, and then began to speak.

He spoke very cautiously, constantly changing the direction of the arrows, increasing and decreasing the number of arrows, and sometimes when the deduction could not continue, Ju Shou gave some pointers, Lu Xun suddenly figured it out, and continued to draw.

This time, after talking for two full hours, at the end Lu Xun was already sweating profusely and almost collapsed, so he put down the charcoal pencil that was almost used up, and said to Yuan Xi: "These are dozens of accidents that Xun can think of. .”

"Most of them are extremely unfavorable to the envoy, and some of them may have missed a few enemy ambushes by mistake."

"No matter what the situation, we are not easy to deal with."

"That's why Xun advises you not to go out of the city."

Yuan Xi smiled at Ju Shou, "What do you think of Bo Yan's words?"

Ju Shou stroked his beard with a look of color on his face, "I'm afraid that within five years, the old man will have nothing to teach."

"The most proud thing I have done in the past few years is snatching this disciple from Feng Xiao."

Yuan Xi thought to himself that what Lu Xun said just now was very correct, and he was much more thoughtful than he thought.

However, the only thing Lu Xun didn't know was what he wanted to do.

He said, "I admit, what Boyan said is very good."

"Normally speaking, I should really wait for Guangling from Youzhou to come to help me."

"But Cao Cao wanted to put me to death, why didn't I?"

"He made me have to go out of town, but he also had reasons why he had to go out of town."

"This is the most once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to weaken Cao Jun's strength. I can't bear the children and can't trap the wolves. If I don't make the city, how can they be fooled?"

Only then did Lu Xun understand what Yuan Xi wanted to do, and he lost his voice: "It's too dangerous!"

Although he knew that Cao Cao was really difficult to calculate, and Yuan Xi had no choice but to have this idea, but it was too reckless to take the risk himself!
And how do you know that it wasn't Cao Cao who guessed Yuan Xi's thoughts, and instead came up with tricks?
Ju Shou sighed, "I knew you would think so."

"But have you ever thought about what role Yuan Qingzhou played in it?"

"Also, is Liu Yuzhou really reliable?"

(End of this chapter)