Chapter 325 (1/2)

“Cao Cao, Cao Mengde! I will kill you!” Liu Bei sry Even when he was angry, it could only be seen through his eyes and even then, it would be hard to notice unless a person paid attention He was ahis erasp on political affairs and paid little mind to the Emperor On the other hand, Liu Bei was a careerist He was respectful to the Emperor and also Cao Cao However, the moment a person turns around, Liu Bei would drive a sword into his back That hy even Cao Cao had been deceived by Liu Bei It was also why Liu Bei is known as a hero

Now, Liu Bei was so furious he was unable to hide it This was because he had certain victory in his hands He could have captured Shouchun and conquered Yangzhou However, it was thwarted by Cao Cao

The nearby soldier trembled This soldier was one of the spies that revealed hiether, there were about a hundred spies that revealed themselves Xu Shu would definitely not be lenient and wiped them all out in one fell swoop He was spared to deliver this e to Liu Bei Otherwise, he would also be dead

“A hundred thousand provisions! Well played, Cao Mengde!” Liu Bei felt awed He also had enough provisions at Yuzhou However, he would be unwilling to give away that ave that amount to the Lu Bu’s Army at Shouchun

“A hundred thousand provisions! Where did Cao Mengde get those provisions?” Liu Bei asked This was not a sathered before this, Cao Cao was being pressured by Yuan Shao at Guandu Although Cao Cao ed to defeat Yuan Shao’s Army of a hundred thousand with his thirty thousand navy, Yuan Shao still had several tier had enough provisions The only reason the army had not yet crumbled is because dead people do not need food Even then, they were at death’s door Cao Cao was also not a self-sacrificing person That begs the question, where did the provisions come from?

“Milord The battle at Guandu should already be over!” Pang Tong laughed bitterly They had received two bad news that day The first one was that Shouchun was now difficult to capture With a hundred thousand provisions, they would be able to feed the inal plans had all been disrupted Pang Tong planned to attack the heart and confuse the people Now, not only his stratagem had failed but the millions of people were now stimulated by the provisions If they wanted to capture Shouchun, they would need to fight the people

According to the spy that returned, the people in Shouchun now hated Liu Bei and have already treated hi so many of their people Liu Bei would need to sacrifice a lot of lives if he wanted to continue to attack Shouchun

Most ier had much provisions His own provisions had not been transported over In the past few days, they had been eating out of their own savings and they also needed to give so

The second bad neas that winner at Guandu had been decided The amount of time Liu Bei had left was little It could easily be seen that Cao Cao was the winner It would be better for them if Yuan Shao did not die If Yuan Shao were to die, his two sons would not be able to hold out long It would become impossible for Liu Bei to capture the Central Plains if Cao Cao were to conquer the north before he could do so

“shi+ Yuan! Does Zhang Xiu have any news?” Zhang Xiu had dispatched to Guangzhou two days ago in order to protect the provisions and if possible, wipe out Liu Mang’s main army This is to re-establish the flow of provisions

“There is still no news!” Pang Tong shook his head and replied

“Hht now, Shouchun was blocking his way After capturing Shouchun, he would be able to join up with Sun Ce and defeat Lu Bu This caused hiitated

“Milord, there is no need to worry It would take two days to reach Guangzhou fro Cavalry should have arrived at Guangzhou It is possible that they have already started fighting Once they defeat Liu Mang’s main army, ould be able to re-establish the supply routes and it could also serve as h it was difficult to capture Shouchun, Xu Shu’s men were also trapped within Shouchun Even if there werebattle

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“Hahaha!” Cao Cao stepped on the land of Jizhou It here the ancient capital of Zhaoge used to be He was here because he had won the Battle of Guandu Cao Cao did not even have a hundred thousand soldiers On top of that, his soldiers were all exhausted after fighting against Lu Bu and Liu Bei On the other hand, Yuan Shao had three hundred thousand soldiers This was truly frightening to Cao Cao

Before this, Cao Cao only defended against Yuan Shao’s attacks with thirty thousand soldiers for half a year Cao Cao’s Ar down about fifty thousand of the eneh Yuan Shao lost a lot of men, he still had his heavy cavalry Once they cross the Yellow River and enter Yanzhou, Cao Cao could only choose to flee Cao Cao had already thought of many ways to ensure that he was not completely destroyed by Yuan Shao He never would have expected to step into Yuan Shao’s territory instead

“Milord Yuan Benchu has gathered his forces at Yecheng! It see general said to Cao Cao If he was anyh he had a face that would make women jealous, his attire and the scar on his face would tell theeneral A few days ago, this man was Cao Cao’s enemy The two of them would have tried to kill each other ThisHe, Zhang Junyi Cao Cao was very pleased with hiation of the Yellow Turbans Later, he joined up with Yuan Shao and contributed in defeating Gongsun Zan, and then getting pros Peace to the State1 for his achieve He When the two arest headache as the y Cao Cao defeated Yuan Shao because of the battle at Wuchao However, he had al He Fortunately, it was Yuan Shao that gave Zhang He to hi He had warned Yuan Shao that Cao Cao’sat Wuchao At that time, Yuan Shao’s ambition would come to an end However, Yuan Shao’s advisor Guo Tu said that Zhang He’s idea was not good and suggested attacking Cao Cao’swas that Cao Cao would pull back his forces once hisHe retorted that Cao Cao’s uarded and the attack would end in failure and that they would all beco is defeated In the end, Yuan Shao listened to Guo Tu and ignored Zhang He’s advice When Guo Tu’s stratage pleasure in their defeat to draw attention away fro He became afraid when he heard of this and defected to Cao Cao

Cao Cao was naturally happy about this and i He a Lieutenant-General1 and Marquis of a Chief Village1

Cao Cao had high opinion of Zhang He, causing Zhang He to feel as though he had h he was one of Yuan Shao’s Four Pillars of Hebei, he did not even have his own division He had a large halberd in his hand but during battle, he was only controlled by Guo Tu In Yuan Shao’s Army, position is not dependant on a person’s ability but on a person’s reputation This is especially true after defeating Gongsun Zan Yuan Shao beca to his ears Talented people like Tian Feng would be re He could not tolerate this Most i power There were two camps in Yuan Shao’s Army One supported his eldest son Yuan Tan while the other supported Yuan Shang Normally, the heir should be the eldest son However, Yuan Shao preferred his younger son Besides that, Yuan Tan’s ’s al wife This caused both factions to be like oil and water

Many of Yuan Shao’s subordinates have already chose a side The ones that haven’t gets restrained and pushed away by both sides Zhang He was one of those victioodwas Yuan Shao’s ho caused a huge blow to the morale of Yuan Shao’s Army which would also cause their effectiveness in battle to drop

This hy Cao Cao needed to capture Ye Cheng even if he needed to spent lives At that moment, Cao Cao had a considerable amount of troops He had obtained hundreds and thousands of provisions and also the scattered and defeated soldiers from Wuchao There had been about ten thousand enemy troops Only about three thousand had perished while the rest joined up with Cao Cao Ast those that defected, about five thousand were still capable of battle Cao Cao had also received about ten thousand cavalry, increasing his own to about twenty thousand cavalry

That being said, Yuan Shaocah defeated, Yuan Shao still had no shortage of capable people and more than a hundred thousand troops It would not be an easy battle

“Who is the ene on in the Yuan Shao’s Aruard even though he won at Guandu He wanted to know everything so that he could coordinate his forces

“Report The flags at the front are Yan, Wen, Shen and Feng!” Zhang He replied without hiding any infor?” These referred to Yan Liang, Wen Chou, Shen Pei and Feng Ji In this ti and Wen Chou As a result, those tere still alive With over a hundred thousand troops along with terful generals and two first class advisors, Cao Cao would experience a hard battle

“Hahaha!” A wild laughter was heard thefalls, Hebei would be ours4!” The person that laughed was a ed scholar The h position

“Aman?” This was Cao Cao’s childhood nickname The only ones that could call him with that name are his elders He was also called that by his play his childhood However, ever since he became a Lord and controlled others, only a feould dare to call him with this name Even Yuan Shao would not call hier Cao Cao frowned subconsciously His nearby vassals also started to becory They held their breaths in this heavy ater