We agreed that you, a weak strategist, would fight against three heroes by yourself?

"Lord, for our current plan, we will march eastward and pursue the victory with all our strength. We will defeat the remaining Yellow Turbans in one fell swoop and pacify Yanzhou!"

Inside the big tent, Xi Zhicai raised his hand to give advice.

During this period, Xun Yu was handling government affairs in the rear, and most of the battles between Cao's army and the Yellow Turban were carried out by Zhicai, who was behind to designate military strategies.

As he spoke, all Cao Ying generals nodded in agreement.

Cao Cao laughed.

"Okay, what Zhicai said is right. There are too many changes in the world now, and we can't wait too long to pacify Yanzhou!"

"This time, let's fight and win!"

In the past half a year, Cao Jun and the Yellow Turbans fought repeatedly, with more victories than defeats.

Nowadays, the morale of the entire Cao army is at a high level, but on the Yellow Turban side, due to the autumn harvest and other reasons, the Yellow Turbans are completely at the end of their strength.

After the strategy was decided, Cao Cao planned to take the initiative to lead the army eastward. He and Xi Zhicai led a group of generals to pursue the Yellow Turbans.

Xi Yu naturally stayed. As Cao Cao's boss, it was not until recently that he had some official duties to handle.

However, these official tasks are not many and are easy to deal with.

Xun Yu sat in the rear and coordinated the provisions.

In the next few days, Xiyu's life still didn't change much.

Until, more than ten days later, the news of Cao Jun's victory over the Yellow Turbans came back.

As is the case in history, at the end of September, Cao Cao led the army to defeat the remaining main force of the Yellow Turbans in Yanzhou in one fell swoop.

After this battle, the entire Yanzhou was completely pacified.

And Cao Cao also unknowingly gathered hundreds of thousands of Yellow Turbans during the Yellow Turban War in the past six months.

Even in the final battle, 300,000 Yellow Turban soldiers were gathered in one breath.

At this moment, Cao Cao already had 400,000 troops in Yanzhou.

After half a year of fighting, Cao Cao became rich in one fell swoop.

With more than 300,000 Yellow Turbans gathered, the entire Yanzhou soldiers' attitude towards Cao Cao also completely began to change.

Immediately afterwards, in a short period of time, many people came to serve Cao Cao.

Late September.

Cao Cao's return with an army of 400,000 men was of course a happy event for Cao Cao.

However, a more troublesome thing immediately appeared in his mind.

food!

He only focused on annexing more than 300,000 Yellow Turbans in one breath, but he ignored the most important point.

That's food.

In the past, the Yellow Turban Army could not afford to support the Yellow Turban Army. Even though he had cut some of the troops, there were still more than 300,000 soldiers today.

Cao Cao was naturally reluctant to part with these people.

However, even if the autumn harvest is good today, the food and fodder to supply the 400,000 troops may not last long.

After this winter, if there is no source of food and grass, it may not take more than a year for the more than 300,000 Yellow Turbans to collapse.

In fact, it would even bring him down.

For more than a month, Cao Cao could hardly sleep.

As the time passed from late autumn to cold winter, as the 400,000 soldiers were consumed, food began to become less and less.

Changyi, in Cao Cao's mansion.

As the depth of winter approaches, it looks like it will snow soon.

Cao Cao was even more worried.

In the back hall, Cao Cao, who was heating the stove, couldn't help but sigh.

"Wen Ruo, how long can our army's current food and grass be supplied?"

As Cao Cao asked, Xun Yu, who was sitting next to him, raised his head.

"Back to my lord, our army's food and fodder can probably last until April next year!"

This is what Xun Yu carefully condensed and counted.

The entire Yanzhou has to eat not only the 400,000 troops, but also the families of these soldiers, etc. Naturally, the food and grass are consumed very quickly.

"April!"

Cao Cao took a deep breath. Can he only hold on until April?

Even if planting is started in winter and spring, there will still be several months in between when it comes to harvest, which is too late.

It’s too late!

Of course, there cannot be any delay in spring planting.

He subconsciously glanced at the actor brothers beside him.

Now there were only the four of them in the entire back hall. As Cao Cao's chief advisor, Xi Yu was naturally present.

Xi Zhicai frowned, the lack of food was obvious.

Moreover, the situation Xun Yu calculated was that these soldiers had reduced their training!

However, how can the training of soldiers be reduced?

Nowadays, the world situation is changing, and if you are not careful, foreign enemies may attack.

The pacification of Yanzhou now is only the first step of the plan, and the next step is to start development.

At this time, naturally we cannot let the food and grass get off the chain.

Xi Yu didn't say anything. He knew that Cao Cao in history often asked his big brother Yuan Shao for food and grass.

Currently, Yuan Shao is in Jizhou, next to Yanzhou.

Cao Cao lived here, and in Yuan Shao's eyes, Cao Cao was still his younger brother.

Of course, Yuan Shao would not do anything about giving food and grass for free. Perhaps only Cao Cao and Yuan Shao knew what the dispute was.

While Xi Yu lowered his head to think, Cao Cao's eyes had already fallen on him.

"Fengyi, do you have a plan in mind?"

Cao Cao just asked casually, not expecting Xi Yu to give him any good answer.

However, upon hearing Cao Cao's question, Xi Yu subconsciously responded.

"My lord, not only will Yanzhou have a good harvest this year, but also all over the Han Dynasty, as long as there is spring plowing, most of them will have a good harvest!"

After several consecutive years of disaster, this year is a year of good weather.

"I heard that Jizhou also had a good harvest!"

Today's Jizhou is the number one state in the Han Dynasty. With this year's bumper harvest, there is no shortage of food in the entire Jizhou.

What's more, at the moment, Yuan Shao has the Hebei Zhen family standing behind him, and he probably won't be short of food.

As soon as Xi Yu spoke, Cao Cao was stunned for a moment.

Jizhou?

Yuan Shao?

In just a moment, Cao Cao understood that Xi Yu was asking him to go to Yuan Shao for food!

This matter is easy to handle.

His relationship with Yuan Shao is still very good. His former governor of Dongjun was also appointed by Yuan Shao.

"Haha, Fengyi woke me up. I can ask Yuan Benchu ​​to borrow some food. I think he won't refuse."

"After that, I'm sending people to other states to buy some food. I think it won't be a big problem!"

After thinking about it, the depression accumulated in Cao Cao's heart was relieved a lot.

"Right now, it's time to start winter and spring plowing. Do you have any good ideas for this?"

It would not be difficult to get grain from Yuan Shao to sustain next year's autumn harvest.

However, the next most important thing is the spring plowing. Once there is a problem with the spring plowing, the 400,000-strong army will become a devastating disaster. ,

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