The next day, Guan Yu led 3,000 soldiers and horses out of Picheng to fight against Cao's army, but he didn't think that Cao's camp was already empty, and he had already retreated overnight.

After Liu Bei learned the news, he was puzzled and secretly thought: I also talked to Cao Mengde about the old days, he actually listened to me and withdrew the army?

Tao Qian then also got the news of Cao Jun's retreat, and after breathing a sigh of relief, he raised his eyebrows and said to Liu Bei: "Most likely that Cao Ah saw that Xuande was coming, and he didn't want to directly attack Yun Changyi De's edge, so he retreated." ”

I have to say that when he was under the Tiger Prison, Liu Guanzhang failed to make a good story of the three heroes fighting Lu Bu, and he was a little depressed, but fortunately, in the previous battle between Yuan Shaojun and Gongsun Junjieqiao, Guan Yu and Zhang Feifen rejected Yan Liangwen and Chou, which made the two of them famous. It's a pity that Lu Yi first went to the camp to break Gongsun's White Horse Righteousness, which then made the Gongsun army shake the central army, and Yuan Shao's army was defeated and killed.

At that time, Liu Bei's army was small, less than 3,000 people, and even if Guan Yu and Zhang Fei won the heads-up, it would not help the defeat of the entire Gongsun army. Later, when he returned to the plains, Liu Bei repeated his old tricks and borrowed troops from Gongsun Chan again, but this time Gongsun Chan learned wisely and borrowed thousands of Liu Bei's defeated remnants. Liu Bei didn't say anything in front of him, turned his head and waited for Gongsun to go back to Youzhou, he got Tao Qian's letter of help, and he came to Xuzhou with his men and horses. As for Gongsun Chan wanting to fight to the death with Yuan Shao, he will kill Gongsun Chan.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he came to Xuzhou, he Liu Bei wrote a letter and ordered Cao Apu to withdraw his troops, which was really an eye-opener!

Therefore, after listening to Tao Qian's praise, even with the thickness of Liu Bei's dough, he almost couldn't bear it.

On the other side, Cao Jun returned to Yanzhou and sent scouts to inquire, and the news he got surprised Cao Mengde, Guo Jia and others.

Indeed, Lu Bujun took advantage of Guo Jia's calculations. It's a pity that about 10,000 cavalry and 30,000 foot soldiers were defeated by Xun Yu's 10,000 people, and finally did not dare to attack other cities, only chose Puyang, the state capital with a high and deep city outline, and could not shrink.

After reading the secret report several times, Guo Jia said: "Lord, this secret report may be untrue......

"Oh, what's the truth?"

"Wen Ruo and Zhong De, I know that they have a surplus of political strategies and a slight lack of troops, so it is okay for them to provide logistical support and defend the city, but it is almost impossible to defeat the elite of the state army!" Guo Jia analyzed.

"Then what do you think is going on? Could it be that someone is walking around and trying to lure our army into the army?" Cao Mengde said.

Guo Jia waved his hand slowly and said, "Let me think about it......"

At this time, a small colonel outside the tent came to report: "Lord, there is a secret letter from Xun Sima." ”

"Xun Yu's secret letter, submit it!"

The secret letter was quickly sent to Cao Mengde, and after he quickly browsed it, he stroked his beard and laughed: "Hahaha, if I knew this was the case, why should I withdraw the army!"

When Guo Jia heard this, he was slightly shocked: "Lord, what did you say in the secret letter?"

Cao Mengde's eyebrows fluttered and said: "What else can there be, good news!"

"What kind of good news?" Guo Jia said suspiciously.

"Yang Yankun set up an ambush in the hills outside Juancheng, used the fire wolf plan to cover up half of the elite of the Bingzhou army in a battle, captured more than 4,000 Bingzhou cavalry and 7,000 foot soldiers, and captured Zhang Liao and Zhang Wenyuan, the generals under Lu Bu. ”

"So powerful?!" Guo Jia was surprised, "I don't know how many people Yan Kun brought in an ambush?"

Cao Mengde was stunned for a moment when he heard this, then picked up the secret letter and turned it over the back to look at it, and said: "Five hundred sergeants trained by him, and another five hundred elite foot soldiers selected from the defenders of Juancheng, a total of 1,000 people. ”

Guo Jia was taken aback again: "Isn't it? Just such a few people can defeat tens of thousands of Bingzhou troops, which is too unbelievable!"

Cao Mengde was also a little unconvinced, so he sent a team of cavalry, led by Xiahou Yuan, to contact Juancheng. At the same time, Cao's army was also waiting for him, intending to attack the nearest city.

However, soon, Li Dian came to meet Cao Mengde with the city's city guards.

After Cao Mengde saw the city guard, he first drank a little, and after the city guard looked sincerely frightened, he asked about the current situation in Yanzhou seemingly casually.

The city guard's answer to the secret report and Xun Yu's secret letter described the same, although the current cities in Yanzhou are weak, they are still surnamed Cao, but the state capital Puyang is occupied by Lu Bu's army.

The next day, the cavalry team led by Xiahou Yuan also returned to the camp, and the news brought was basically the same.

"Lord, I saw Xun Sima, and he personally told me that Boss Yang went out of the city to ambush him, and he only brought a thousand soldiers. Xiahou Yuan and Yourong said, "A thousand breaks tens of thousands, this is so powerful that it is ......."

Cao Mengde stroked his beard and said: "In this way, Yan Kun is still an all-rounder!" paused, looked at Xiahou Yuan and said: "Miaocai, I remember that you have a cousin, who is eleven years old, right?"

"The Lord means ......"

"Yan Kun is the same age as Gan Xingba, and he is only twenty-three this year, which is a good match for a good woman. Cao Mengde said.

In fact, Cao Mengde wanted to marry the Cao woman to Yang Tang, but unfortunately he didn't have a sister, and his daughter was only a few years old, too young. Fortunately, although the Xiahou family has different surnames, they are related by the same blood.

Hearing Cao Mengde's words, Xiahou Yuan only hesitated for a while and said: "There is no problem on my side, but I am afraid that Yan Kun will not look down on the grace of the Xiahou woman." ”

When Cao Mengde heard this, he raised his eyebrows and said, "After Lu Bu Xiao'er is driven away, my relatives will talk to Yan Kun about this, and I believe he will agree." ”

As a result, this delay came to the beginning of the spring of the second year (194), Liyang Hou Taoqian finally hung up, and Liu Bei took over Xuzhou. At the same time, Puyang City was finally captured, and the remnants of Lu Bu's army had to flee in the wilderness and surrender to Liu Bei in Xuzhou.

At the same time, Cao Mengde finally had time to reward the "Yanzhou Rebellion", and at the same time met the captured Zhang Liao and Zhang Wenyuan.

Zhang Liao is still a junjie who knows the times, and he has long seen that there is no future with Lu Bu, but Lu Bu treats him well, and he has no chance to show his talents, so no force has poached him, so he has not been able to change jobs. Now Cao Mengde warmly invited and promised Zhang Liao that he would not let him participate in the battle of Pinglu, so Zhang Liao did not have any psychological burden and voted for Cao.

As for the engagement with Xiahou Nu, Cao Mengde asked Yang Tang to talk about it, and Yang Tang shirked and said: "When Xiahou Nu is married, it's not too late to decide on this matter!"

The so-called rite of passage is the coming-of-age ceremony of women in ancient times, and the crown ceremony of men in ancient times.

There is a cloud in "The Book of Rites: Qu Li": "The woman has fifteen words." ”

In other words, Yang Tang casually postponed Cao Mengde's desire to become a family with him for three years. However, Yang Tang's excuse was reasonable, and Cao Mengde was not easy to refute, so he had to give up for the time being.

"Yan Kun, you don't want to get engaged for the time being, I won't force it, but your exploits in ambushing Lu Bujun and capturing Zhang Liao must be rewarded. As soon as Cao Mengde thought of this, his face became clear again, "You say, what should I reward you?" You must know that yesterday Zhang Wenyuan competed with Ganxing in the horse battle, and there were more than 70 battles without a win. ”

Yang Tang was not hypocritical, and said directly: "I heard that our army has obtained a lot of treasures in Xuzhou, can I choose one of them?"

Cao Mengde's face darkened when he heard this, and he said hesitantly: "What's the matter? Don't you think that my order to slaughter the city in Xuzhou will hurt the peace of the heavens?" In fact, in the past few days, the ministers under the command of the Cao clan have been criticizing him for the order to slaughter the city at the beginning.

"What kind of Tianhe is hurt?" Yang Tang pretended to be puzzled, "My father, and the whole family were killed, but they still hid at home and fought with the murderer, and they didn't let out a single fart, are they still gentlemen?"

Cao Mengde was stunned, he didn't expect Yang Tang to comment on the Xuzhou massacre incident like this: "However, those people in Xuzhou ......"

"Are they innocent?" asked a question, seeing Cao Mengde nodding, Yang Tang pouted and said, "I don't think so...... If you really want to talk about innocence, those small animals in the forest are innocent, not only eaten alive by tigers, but also hunted by humans. Who do you think they're messing with?"

More importantly, in Yang Tang's cognition, there are few absolutes in everything. To put it simply, most of the Chinese are top-notch, but there are also bad guys, not to mention Han Yi. Comparatively speaking, there are at least some women in the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki who should be good people, and there may even be foreigners in the localities, but when the atomic bomb hit, all these innocent people died, but who can accuse the United States of dropping bombs? After all, the surrender of Germany by the two atomic bombs reduced the casualties worldwide, and it is really difficult to measure which is more important.

Because of this, Yang Tang's view of the slaughter of the city is very simple and straightforward, or the old saying, "If you are weak (backward), you will be beaten", even in modern society. The same applies to this sentence, except that in modern times human weakness is usually expressed in a different form than in the form of naked force.

Cao Mengde stared at Yang Tang's pupils, looked at it carefully for a long time, and after confirming that he was not lying, he seemed to have found a confidant: "Yan Kun, you are so right, Tao Gongzu didn't take my strength in his eyes at the beginning, so he dared to indulge in the deployment and murder of my father, so those people of Xuzhou are actually buying for his wrong judgment! Okay, don't talk about this, follow me to the treasure house, you can pick two of the things inside!"

Half an hour later, when Yang Tang was a little dazzled in the huge treasure house, he finally saw a life-extending treasure with his evil eye-lacquer leaf green sticky!

In addition to this life-extending treasure, Yang Tang also took a mink fur to make up the number. In this way, the two life-extending treasures he needs and "Five Fowl Play" are all in hand.

However, even so, Yang Tang did not immediately abandon Cao's army and get out of his dream, but participated in Cao's army's second attack on Xuzhou in the autumn of 194.

In the summer of 194 AD, Cao Jun took advantage of the civil strife in Chang'an to save Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty and some of the ministers of the imperial court to Xuchang.

After the autumn harvest, Cao Mengde, who had the capital of "coercing the Son of Heaven to order not to be subordinate", rose to the heart of Xuzhou again.

Yes, Yang Tang met Lu Bu again, beat him to the recurrence of the old injury, and then met Zhang Fei again, knocked Yanren Zhang off the horse, and ordered the left and right soldiers to be tied to Cao Mengde, so that he slowly had a headache about whether to kill or surrender.

It's a pity that Zhang Ji led troops from Guanzhong to attack Nanyang, and died for the arrow, and his nephew Zhang Xiu took over, with Jia Xu as a strategist, and connected Liu Biao, and stationed troops in Wancheng, wanting to raise troops to attack Xu Du and seize the car.

Cao Mengde listened to the advice of the strategist, and then made Liu Bei the pastor of Yuzhou, and sent people to Xuzhou to reward Lu Bujia and make peace with Xuande, so as to settle the flank of Cao's territory.

Then, 150,000 troops were raised, with Xiahoudun as the vanguard, and Cao Mengde personally led the army, advancing in three ways to defeat Zhang Xiu.

After inspecting the strength of Cao's army, Jia Xu persuaded Zhang Xiu: "Cao's army is large, and it is better to surrender with everyone." ”

Zhang Xiu obeyed him and ordered Jia Xu to Cao Ying to discuss the conditions.

The day after the surrender conditions were negotiated, Yin Xiu came to see Cao Mengde. Under the greetings, Cao Mengde promised Zhang Xiu a lot of benefits, and then led a part of the pro-army to follow Zhang Xiu into Wancheng Tunzha, and the rest of the army was divided into the outside of the city, stretching for more than ten miles, which was quite spectacular.

After living in the city, Zhang Xiu set up a banquet to entertain Cao Mengde every day, and this stay was six or seven days.

On this day, Cao Mengde was slightly drunk and lonely in the evening, so his nephew Cao Anmin found a beautiful woman for his enjoyment. This woman is Zhang Ji's wife Zou, and after having an affair with Cao Mengde, she is not without worry: "If you live in the city for a long time, you will be suspicious of embroidery, and you are afraid of outsiders talking about it." ”

Cao Mengde didn't care, but he also relied on the Zou family and moved to the military camp outside the city.

As a result, Zhang Xiu still knew about this matter, and he was angry, so he asked Jia Xu to discuss.

Jia Xu came up with an idea.

So Zhang Xiu used the "deserter strategy" to move his own pro-army to the area around Cao Mengde's main tent, and invited Dian Wei to eat and drink, and during the banquet, he secretly ordered Hu Che'er to steal Dian Wei's weapon iron halberd.

That night, when Cao Mengde was about to get drunk and lie on the knees of the beauty, he suddenly heard the outsiders shouting horses neighing, so that people could probe him, and reported that "Zhang Xiujun Night Patrol", Cao Mengde did not suspect it at that time, but after almost half an hour, he heard someone shouting, "The grass cart is on fire", and before the words fell, there was a miserable scream.

Cao Mengde heard that the screams were the desperate wails of a person before death, and he was immediately shocked, and was about to call the army, when he saw that there was fire outside the tent and inside the house.

At this moment, Cao Mengde panicked and hurriedly called Dian Wei.

Dian Wei was drunk, and not long after lying down, he suddenly heard the sound of golden drums shouting and killing in his sleep, so he jumped up, but he couldn't find the halberd.

At this time, Yang Tang also broke into Cao Mengde's tent with a Monkey King stick, and shouted: "Zhang Xiu is reversed, let's get out of here first." ”

So Yang Tang held the stick and opened the way, and on the way, he met Cao Ang leading the horse, and when he saw Cao Mengde, he immediately knelt down and said: "Father, please get on the horse." ”

When Cao Mengde got on the horse, he found that his eldest son Cao Ang didn't have a horse, and he wanted to come down again, but Cao Ang stopped and said: "Father, the current situation is extremely dangerous, our family can't live without you!"

As soon as these words came out, Cao Mengde almost didn't cry, and finally had to run away. Seeing this, Yang Tang ordered: "Dian Wei, hurry up and protect the lord!"

Dian Wei was a little dumbfounded and said, "Then what should you do with the eldest prince?"

Yang Tang replied: "I have my own way to take the eldest prince to get out, go quickly!" So Dian Wei no longer hesitated and chased after Cao Mengde.

Seeing Cao Mengde almost riding out of the camp, Yang Tang asked Cao Ang behind the inverted solid wood table: "Eldest son, are you afraid?"

"Don't be afraid!" Cao Ang said categorically, "With Uncle Yang here, I'm not afraid!"

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