After the commander of the Cao army in Yanzhou received Shouchun's order, they all exploded.

They gathered in the military tent where Xiahou Yuan and Xiahou Yuan were located, and they all surrounded the two of them and expressed their thoughts.

"Two generals, how could Shouchun have such an order to let us withdraw, what is going on?"

"General, we have been fighting for life and death in Yanzhou for so long, Shouchun will let us withdraw with an order? As soon as it is withdrawn like this, Yanzhou will not be occupied by Liu Yu's thief army! ”

"The general can't withdraw! In order to defend Yanzhou, we have already killed many brothers in battle, and if we do this, they will die in vain! ”

"General, what are we going to do?! Once Yanzhou is lost, we will have only one place left in Yuzhou. ”

A large group of generals disturbed and said a lot, they said so much, that is, to express one meaning, they were unwilling to evacuate Yanzhou.

Xiahou Yuan and Xiahoudun were upset by what they said, and their mood was not very good, and they were even worse when they were made like this.

Xiahoudun, who was more short-tempered, shouted: "Don't make any noise!" What does it look like to be noisy and yelling! ”

When the generals saw Xiahou Tang angry, they all shut their mouths.

"The lord wants us to withdraw, so naturally he has a reason. Let's not doubt the lord's orders. Xiahou Yuan came out and said.

After Xiahoudun became angry, he also became calm, and said calmly: "Let's all go down!" ”

"Let's all go down. Ben will discuss it, and the specific arrangements will wait for our military orders. ”

"Yes!" All the generals knew that they could not be disturbed, and they all immediately went out of the tents.

Until only Xiahou Yuan and Xiahou Yuan were left, Xiahou Yuan said: "Yuan Rang, it seems that Xiaopei's loss has meant that Yanzhou has no need to continue to defend it. ”

"That's right, Xiao Pei is the key to our army's defense of Yanzhou, and only by guarding Xiao Pei can our army's reinforcements and grain routes be guaranteed to be delivered to Yanzhou safely. It is only natural that the lord now has such an arrangement. Xiahoudun nodded and said.

"The lord wants us to destroy Yanzhou. Isn't that a bit too ruthless? Xiahou Yuan was still a little resistant to Cao Cao's order.

Xiahoudun disagreed, and said: "If you don't destroy Yanzhou, do you leave it to Liu Yu?" The meaning of the lord should be to leave a mess for Liu Yu, didn't Liu Yu always say that he was a benevolent king, so he would not watch the people of Yanzhou starve to death. As long as we do it properly, it will take at least five years for Liu Yu to recover after he gets Yanzhou. In this way, our army will have enough time to prepare or counterattack Liu Yu. ”

"The ancestral graves of our Xiahou family are all in Yanzhou!" Xiahou Yuan knew this truth, but he was still a little relieved in his heart.

Xiahoudun patted Xiahou Yuan's shoulder and said, "Miaocai, I know you are a little resistant, but this is related to the great cause of the lord, and it is also related to the rise and fall of my Xiahou family and the Cao family, and sometimes we have to be ruthless." As for the family business and ancestral grave, as long as we are instructed to go down, there will be no problems. ”

"I understand that this is also a helpless move." Of course, Xiahou Yuan knew that Cao Cao was also forced to do this.

"Alright, let's arrange it now. This thing needs to be implemented as soon as possible, otherwise once Liu Jun finds out, then we will be attacked by unpredictable. Xiahoudun said.

Xiahou Yuan nodded in agreement, and the two of them immediately called in all the generals outside the military tent, and then issued an order to destroy Yanzhou.

The generals really couldn't accept it in their hearts, and some generals who still had a conscience in their hearts opposed it on the spot. However, Xiahoudun took Cao Cao's military order as the standard, and locked up these conscientious generals.

There was no opposition, and the Yanzhou Cao army carried out sabotage operations against Yanzhou.

The Cao army of Yanzhou began to transport all the grain, grass, money, and grain from the treasury. In order to conceal their true purpose, Xiahou Yuan and Xiahou Yuan personally led the army and took the initiative to attack Zhang Liao and Ma Chao, who were confronting them, in two directions.

Zhang Liao and Ma Chao didn't know Cao Jun's true intentions, and they wished that Cao Jun would come out of the turtle shell. So, Zhang Liao and Ma Chao each set up their postures and prepared to have a decisive battle with Cao Jun.

Xiahou Yuan and Xiahou Yuan led their troops to constantly entangle with Ma Chao and Zhang Liao, but they didn't fight with them. The rest of Cao Jun's troops secretly moved Yanzhou's money and grain back to Yuzhou little by little under Liu Jun's nose.

Yuzhou also began to build large-scale fortifications at various dangerous checkpoints in Yanzhou, and Cao's army was preparing to build these checkpoints into the strongest fortresses, so that it would be impossible for Liu Yu's army to attack them in the future.

Yanzhou has already experienced a protracted war, and many fields have become desolate. The people here all live on the relief of Cao Jun or Liu Jun. The people suddenly discovered that Cao Jun, who usually distributes grain, is not distributing grain. This is not a matter of one or two days, but has been happening for a long time. The people elected their own representatives to go to Cao Jun, and the result was that there was no food left, and they were now waiting for rescue from the imperial court.

The innocent people believed the lie. But it didn't take long for them to find Cao Jun, but they couldn't find it. Moreover, when Cao Jun left, he also lit a fire to the city, turning the entire city into ruins. This situation continues to play out in various parts of Yanzhou. The whole of Yanzhou was in chaos, and some of Cao's troops launched a bloody massacre as they prepared to leave. Anyway, the order above is to destroy Yanzhou, so they don't have much scruples. The dark side of human nature was quickly exposed at this moment, rape and plunder, and many cities became ghost towns. The people didn't think that this Cao Jun would become like this.

There are one and two, and the other Cao Jun, who had not originally planned to do so, saw that their brother troops were doing the same, and they began to follow suit.

In the end, it is the people of Yanzhou who suffer.

And Xiahoudun and Xiahouyuan were no longer entangled with Zhang Liao and Ma Chao, and rushed directly to Yuzhou with their troops, without wasting time in Yanzhou. Ma Chao and Zhang Liao both suspected that the other party had any plan or an ambush, and were ready to wait and see.

It wasn't until Lu Bu, who had been fighting in Yanzhou, that he first discovered this situation.

Lü Bu and Pang Tong saw some people who had escaped, and these people were immediately half frightened to death when they saw the army, and hurriedly pleaded for mercy.

Lu Bu was very strange, although he was very frightening, but he had never encountered the people who escaped, how could these people be like this.

After careful questioning, Lu Bu and Pang Tong finally knew why these people were like this. It turned out that the Cao army had already launched a slaughter of the people of Yanzhou, and these people had escaped, and they would naturally be scared when they saw the army.

When these people knew that the army in front of them was not Cao's army, but the army of Emperor Shenwu, they all wept bitterly and told Lu Bu and Pang Tong what happened to them, and this matter was no longer just them, it was like this in many places in Yanzhou.

Lu Bu and Pang Tong were furious, this Cao Cao was preparing to destroy Yanzhou.

"Cao Mengde! You're going to have you broken into pieces! Lu Bu shouted.

Pang Tong felt that Cao Cao was ruthless enough to destroy Yanzhou, so Liu Yu would not be able to go south even if he got Yanzhou. It's just that Yanzhou is also the place where Cao Cao rose, and the ancestral tombs and ancestral halls of the Cao family are all in Yanzhou, where did Cao Cao come from to do such ruthless measures to his hometown.

Lü Bu and Pang Tong immediately sent knights to inform Zhang Liao, Ma Chao, Guan Yu and others of the matter, and told them to stop what Cao Jun was doing.