In fact, if we only consider it from a military perspective, even if Xu You really surrendered with the entire Yecheng, he would kill Yuan Shang, such a contribution would not be worth a county marquis, and the township marquis would be the one who could be the township marquis. He might even be the township marquis.

Because for Cao Cao, the only difficulty in dealing with Yuan Shang in the military was insufficient food and grass, and this only difficulty had been completely solved with Zhen Yi's surrender.

Yuan Shang's strength was even worse than Cao Cao expected: his morale was insufficient, his superiors and subordinates could not be united, his soldiers were unwilling to use their lives, he lacked flexibility in wartime, and so on. Let's just say that, in just one month, Cao Cao and his civil and military officials received a box of letters from Yuan Shang's subordinates, most of which were about to negotiate friendship. The least they expressed their political stance as a Han minister, and some were impatient and expressed their willingness to abandon the darkness and turn to the light.

It can be said that although the number of troops on the surface is not much different from that of the Yuan Shao period, and at least 60% to 70% of the size of the Yuan Shao period, the actual combat power may be only 30% to 40%.

As for Cao Cao, whether it is a soldier or a general, he is a veteran in the absolute sense. Moreover, under Liu Xie's inexplicable reform, the military system is infinitely close to the government system with almost the highest combat effectiveness in history. Compared with Cao Cao in history, it is actually much stronger.

Between this addition and subtraction, as long as there is sufficient military rations, Cao Cao can be said to have rubbed Yuan Shang on the ground and rubbed whatever he wanted. The difference between whether Yecheng surrenders or defeats him will not be particularly large.

Even if Xu You really surrendered and killed Yuan Shang and then repeated the battle of Guandu, Cao Cao, as an old friend, would not only not be happy about it, but would instead be particularly distressed.

If Yuan Shang is gone, how can he raise the enemy and respect himself?

In short, Xu You thought that Xiancheng surrender was really worthless, at least not as valuable as he imagined. Cao Cao was actually always trying to drive away Yuan Shang to occupy Yecheng and become the veritable Duke of Wei, but he did not lose his strength too much, so that he could still be raised by himself as a bandit. It would be better to raise the prince for more than 20 years and rack his brains when he was growing up.

When he was in the war, he was even afraid that he would fight hard and beat Yuan Shang away.

In Cao Cao's opinion, Wei Yan's approach to the navy and suddenly appeared under the city of Yecheng was not actually helping him. Objectively speaking, it was purely aggravated, and subjectively, it was purely provocative.

What do you mean? I am fighting Yuan Shang fiercely. Do you go to Yecheng to pick peaches?

Yecheng is to be the capital of Wei in the future. Will this achievement of destroying the city fall on you, a general of the Yang class? It is not like this to grab the merits! Are you so ignorant? Is it so ignorant? Do you still use your help to beat Yuan Shang?

To be honest, Wei Yan used such a risky strategy. It would be fine if he won. If he lost, he would definitely be in trouble, because Cao Cao was the commander-in-chief of the battlefield in Jizhou and was a fake Huang Yue. Wei Yan did such a military operation without Cao Cao's approval this time. He was devilish if Cao Cao didn't kill him.

Especially the one who was sent to cheat Wei Yan this time was Xiahou Dun. To be precise, he was not assigned, but he took the initiative to fight for it. Whoever robs him and whoever is anxious to speak out, and as long as Wei Yan can be killed, the governor of Yanzhou can not do it, and the lords can not do it, and it doesn’t matter if he is punished by the emperor afterwards and is directly killed.

In short, Wei Yan must die!

After all, was the reason why Wei Yan was able to jump from an ordinary small thief to become a general of the Central Army? Was it because he kidnapped Xiahou Dun and then took most of Nanyang like a monkey?

Is this more humiliating and insulting to a general who is fighting on the battlefield?

This is the kind of thing that Xiahou Dun knew about the general idea and knew that he could not cause trouble for Cao Cao, otherwise he would have had a duel with Wei Yan and died together.

So, for the first thing is that Wei Yan is wronged. He is because he does not obey the military orders and makes a fool of himself. He is defeated in order to seize the merits. He has no excuse for this.

Secondly, Xiahou Dun and Wei Yanzhen had a mortal grudge. According to the social atmosphere of the Han Dynasty, everyone can actually understand Xiahou Dun's actions. After all, this is an era of killing people for justice, so Xiahou Dun will definitely not be buried with him.

Finally, and most importantly, when Xu You led his troops to fight with Wei Yan's people in a daze, Xiahou Dun was not idle either. After turning a corner, he rushed straight to Yecheng. After Xu You was almost confused, he was surrounded by the victory of the army and headed northward. He chased Wei Yan's army to escape and hit Nanpi. After he almost effortlessly defeated Nanpi, he almost received news that Xiahou Dun had also captured Yecheng without any effort.

Is this thing a strategic change of family members? Using Wei Yan and his troops + Nanpi to replace Yecheng in Yuan Shang. At least on the surface, who can say that this wave of family members has lost money?

Don’t you understand the simple principle of being a soldier?

Wei Yan was really lucky. In fact, he was not dead yet. Under the protection of his personal guards, he successfully broke out a bloody road and then jumped into the river and ran away. He didn't even go back to Nanpi, so he ran back to sue Xu Du, and Xu You had no intention of chasing him.

In fact, Xu You was completely trapped in the huge doubts of life at this time and lived a distracted life every day.

Who am I, where am I, and what am I going to do?

Aren’t I going to surrender? Why… I captured Nanpi?

Is Yecheng lost?

I was originally planning to give away Yecheng! It was lost, so what if I don’t want to give it?

On the other side, Yuan Shang.

After fighting for so long, he almost realized the gap between himself and Cao Cao. His army was completely suppressed by Cao Cao and did not dare to go out. Especially Chunyu Qiong and Gao Lan were also dissatisfied with each other. If there were any problems with the friendly forces, his lord couldn't control it at all.

When Yuan Shang thought that Cao Cao had enough food and grass, he felt suffocated and felt like he was about to drown. News came from the front line that Yecheng was lost by Xu You. He simply turned black and shouted that my life would be over, and then fainted.

Then after waking up, someone told Xu You to take down Nanpi, and they still have a way out.

Let me explain here that Nanpi is actually the capital of the Bohai Kingdom. In Jizhou, at least before the chaos in the world, the Bohai Kingdom was the largest county, with a population of more than one million. Although Wei County has a high political status, its population is actually far less than that of the Bohai Kingdom, with only 500,000 or 600,000.

In addition, Wei County and Yecheng are too close to the Central Plains, and are they separated from the territory of the court by the Yellow River? In the past, Yuan Shao, as the superior party, putting the capital and army in Wei County, could certainly put a lot of pressure on the court, and it would be very convenient for him to fight. After passing Guandu, he could penetrate Xudu directly.

But now, as the weak side, Yuan Shang, as the defensive, puts the political center so close to the court. To be honest, it is not very wise to look at it, so this wave of changing homes... Actually, it seems that it is not good.

He knew that if he kept fighting, he would almost certainly not be able to defeat Cao Cao. By then, he would probably die, or simply become Cao Cao's prisoner, and Nanpi City took it, at least he would give him a direction to escape.

The experiences of life are so exciting.

He didn't know whether he should be grateful to Xu You or kill Xu You.

Especially when Yuan Shang ordered a retreat and carefully pretended to cut off the rear, he found that Cao Cao did not pursue him at all, his mood became more complicated.

Even Cao Cao honestly controlled his army in Wei County and did not continue to chase northward. Some counties in the north directly surrendered, and Cao Cao pretended not to see it.

So now, even Yuan Shang saw Cao Cao's true intentions.

This Cao Cao only wants Wei County!

"Mr. Ziyuan is really worthy of being a close friend who knew and met and became friends when he was a teenager. Today's situation seems to be within Mr. Ziyuan's expectations. He clearly saw that Cao Cao had the political demands of Wei County, and he tacitly sang a double act with his old friend."

"Hmph, then will you lose Weijun?"

Shen Pei's face was not very good-looking. You should know that he was from Weijun, and his family was from Weijun. Now, they were all under Cao Cao's hands, and his status in Yuanying will definitely plummet in the future.

Yuan Shangze said clearly: "If he hadn't sang such a double act, maybe we would have been at the end of the road now and we are not Cao Cao's opponents."

"But……"
Chapter completed!