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Chapter 305: The consequences of underestimating the enemy

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Ju Su failed to persuade him, so he had to leave in a bad mood. When he left the camp, he sighed to the sky: "Pei Qing is not as easy as he imagined. If the lord takes it so lightly, I am afraid that all of us will become Pei Qing's prisoners in the future!"

After hearing about this, Guo Tu immediately told Yuan Shao the words of Ju Su. After Yuan Shao heard about it, he was secretly angry and began to alienate Ju Su.

However, Guo Tu regained Yuan Shao's trust through this. He was secretly proud of himself. After some painstaking planning, he finally successfully persuaded his lord to alienate Ju Su and rebuild his trust in himself.

"Hehe, Jushu, Jushu, all this is something you ask for trouble, but it has nothing to do with me. Originally, if you were cautious, with your kindness to save your lord, even if I add any slander, you may not be able to treat you. But now you are arrogant and show your intelligence in front of your lord. Don't you know that the lord hates the kind of person who is good at expressing himself the most? If I don't grasp such a good opportunity, then am I still Guo Tu? As the saying goes, your personality determines destiny. Your personality is born to be unpopular. Even if you have life-saving grace to save your lord, it is useless. This is your life, and you can't accept it." Guo Tu was very proud in his heart. He had a victorious smile on his face, and he secretly cheered for his regaining Yuan Shao's favor.

In the following days, Guo Tu arrested several more detailed works from Pei Qing's command. These people went to Liu Yu's place to ask for help. Their themes were all urged for food without exception. They even later changed the interest to 50%, which shows Pei Qingqiu's eagerness.

Of course, there were also a few clever and clever tricks who took the opportunity to escape, which made several of Yuan Shao's advisers feel a little dissatisfied. In their opinion, those clever tricks did not play any role at all. Even if they really went to Liu Yu to borrow grain from Liu Yu, Liu Yu had to consider the alliance with Yuan Shao. As the saying goes, distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors. How could Liu Yu abandon Yuan Shao, who had maintained a close neighbor relationship with him and help Pei Qing? Unless there was something wrong with him in his mind.

So there is no need to worry about Liu Yu borrowing grain, it is impossible for this to happen.

After receiving this information, Yuan Shao immediately ordered his eldest son Yuan Tan, who was still in the north, to strengthen his vigilance and not allow anyone's food to be transported from the north to the south. If anyone dares to disobey, he will immediately confiscate it.

At the same time, Yuan Shao ordered the soldiers of the three armies to prepare for another attack on Yewangcheng soon.

However, after learning the news, Ju Su met Yuan Shao again and tried to advise him to stop the matter. He said to Yuan Shao: "Lord, even if there is no food in Pei Qing's army, we should not attack him directly. We need to wait until his food is exhausted and we are extremely poor and civil strife will arise. When we have to order the retreat, the lord can easily recover Hanoi, but why should we take the initiative to attack again?"

Before Yuan Shao could speak, he saw Guo Tu directly said: "The situation is changing rapidly. We can't watch such a good opportunity slip away before us, right? Besides, the Huns were capricious, closed the court the moment before, and maybe it would be reopened again next time. Also, the New Year is about to be celebrated. If the lord leads the army to Luoyang during the New Year, and today I will directly declare the lord as a general on New Year's Day, what a glorious thing would it be? From then on, the lord uses the emperor to command the princes, which is the cause of kings and hegemony. What's wrong with it? Besides, Pei Qing is already extremely troubled, otherwise he would not have urged to borrow food so eagerly. In this case, we attack him and lure him with food. The enemy will inevitably collapse without fighting. Wouldn't such a clever plan be much stronger than the self-restrained idea you have come up with?"

"That's right," Yuan Shao nodded and said with a smile: "Master and you, please keep your eyes open and look at it carefully. This time our army will surely win a great victory and realize our strategic intentions are just around the corner."

"I hope so, lord, the subordinate has something to ask for, please be fair and correct." Ju Su was very helpless now. He knew that things would never go so smoothly. Since he could no longer change Yuan Shao's decision, since he was useless here, it would be better to take a step back and manage the rear for Yuan Shao so that Yuan Shao would have a way out in the future, especially to guard against Cao Cao. He had a friendship with Cao Cao before, but he knew deeply that this old friend was definitely not Yiyou. He now gathered heavy troops in Pinggao County, but never helped him fight a battle, and he didn't even waving a flag and shouting. This was obviously abnormal. Perhaps what Cao Cao really cared about was not that Yuan Shao could win, but that he might hope that Yuan Shao would lose, because in this way, Cao Cao might take advantage of the victory to launch an attack on Jizhou. By then, I'm afraid that the entire Hanoi would not be owned by Yuan Shao...

So Ju Su decided to take the opportunity to stabilize the rear, and at least leave a way out for Yuan Shao when he retreated.

Of course, although he had decided to do this, Ju Su would not directly explain his purpose. Instead, he thought that Yuan Shao was in charge of transporting food and grass as an excuse. For him, such an excuse would not arouse Yuan Shao's disgust and might be able to encourage his success.

Sure enough, Yuan Shao agreed without any hesitation after hearing Ju Su's request, because in Yuan Shao's opinion, this Ju Su was not only useless, but would affect his mood. It would be better to throw him behind, so that he would not be laughed at by others for being ungrateful.

Guo Tu did not object to this, because for Guo Tu, as long as he was able to maintain his favored situation in front of his lord Yuan Shao, as for what ordinary officers were unwilling to do, what would it be wrong to give it to Ju Su?

Seeing that the result was indeed satisfying, Ju Su didn't say anything anymore and immediately took his troops to Wude County to take office.

Ju Su's departure immediately made Yuan Shao and Guo Tu feel relieved. When Ju Su left, the pressure on them was gone. From then on, they could deal with Pei Qing as they were willing to deal with it, and no one would obstruct it again.

So a few days after Ju Su left, Pei Qing was already in trouble with internal and external affairs and had a great advantage. In this case, he naturally had to take the initiative to launch an attack to make himself and his army famous in one battle.

After some planning, Yuan Shao decided to launch a sudden attack on Yewang City at dawn two days later, and at the same time, he used the advantage of military rations to induce the defenders in the city to surrender voluntarily and even turn against each other.

No one of the strategists opposed Yuan Shao's decision at all, and there was not even a trace of objection. They all became verbs.
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