Liu Xie's warning in the letter was that Sun Ce really didn't take it seriously at the beginning.

It's just that after seeing the end, I found that Liu Xie didn't know why he knew about the existence of the two daughters of the Qiao family, and he wanted to gamble with himself righteously, which stimulated Sun Ce's competitiveness.

An emperor who had been under house arrest in the deep palace for several years in Cao Cao's disguise could know things thousands of miles away, which really made Sun Ce a little puzzled.

Is Liu Xie about to come to Jiangdong and afraid that he will treat him like Cao Cao, so he sold his favor to himself, or is Liu Xie showing weakness to the enemy in Xuchang all these years, pretending to be unconscious, and waiting for today?

Or did he not know where he heard about the beauty of the Qiao sisters, so he exchanged such a secret for the two daughters?

In short, Liu Xie's move made Sun Ce unable to guess for a while, whether he was hidden or mediocre, and he only had women in his eyes.

Sun Ce is a person who is willing to gamble and lose, he naturally understands that Liu Xie has reached his own territory, once the announcement of the relocation of the capital will have on the current pattern of the Han Dynasty, he still remembers what Zhang Hong said to himself before leaving: Whoever wins the Son of Heaven will win the world.

Obviously, after a few years of conquest, Sun Ce has now been qualified to compete in the world, and his father died here, so of course Sun Ce wants to try.

The Han Dynasty's surname in the world has been Liu for a while, and if he really has the opportunity to be surnamed Sun, Sun Ce is really quite excited to even think about it a little.

With this idea, Liu Xie is a person of great use to him.

When he was about to return to Wu County, Sun Ce shook his head, wanting to throw away those strange thoughts in his head, he thought of Cao Cao, Cao Cao was able to hold Liu Xie in his hands for so many years, and had the ability to compete with Yuan Shao in the Central Plains, why couldn't he be?

Sun Ce was a confident person, so at this moment, he once again strengthened his thoughts.

After Liu Xie came, Sun Ce thought of the first thing he wanted to figure out was the identities of the three assassins, and he pondered several of them, but he couldn't be sure.

Since Liu Xie was able to foresee this happening, then he must have known the identity of this person, there is no doubt about it.

There are also the two daughters of the Qiao family, Sun Ce knew that his actions should have to be postponed a little, but once Liu Xie arrived in Wu County, he found that Liu Xie was just a stupid person, and if he did all this just for beauty, he really wouldn't necessarily give these two women to Liu Xie.

After all, Wu County is the world of their Sun clan, not the world of his Liu Xie, Liu Xie only has the name of an emperor, and there are no soldiers or generals in his hands, no matter where he goes, he has to look at the faces of others, which Sun Ce understands very well.

Sun Ce didn't even say anything about what happened around Wu County, and after he came back, he ordered his attendants to secretly dispose of the corpses, as if nothing had happened.

The cold handling of this matter does not seem to have an impact on Wu Jun or any other major event, but this is obviously a butterfly flapping its wings, and sooner or later it will have a profound and huge impact on this era.

And the person who made this butterfly really flap its wings was none other than Liu Xie.

The air in Xuchang is particularly solemn these days, and in the barracks outside the city, it is almost also practicing day and night, everyone knows that a big war is inevitable, for ordinary soldiers, the only uncertainty is when to fight, where to fight, and whether they can appear on the roster of the Han soldiers after the fight, as for who will win, in fact, it is really not what they can imagine.

Sikong Mansion, whether it was Cao Cao or a few military generals under his command, their minds were no longer in Xuchang, but flew to the Guandu they were about to go to.

In the past few months, although Cao Cao was from Xuchang, whether it was before Liu Bei rebelled against him or after he killed Liu Bei, Cao Cao was preparing for a battle with Yuan Shao.

Although Yuan Shao had already waved his army to the south a few months ago, Cao Cao's advisers unanimously judged that Yuan Shao was indecisive and would hesitate when making a decision, so Guo Jia, Xun You, Cheng Yu and others persuaded Cao Cao to be fully prepared before sending troops.

So in the past few months, Cao Cao has not only beheaded Lu Bu and defeated Liu Bei.

From the second half of the fourth year of Jian'an, Cao Cao had successively sent Zang Ba to lead elite troops from Langyu into Qingzhou, occupying Qi, Beihai, and Dong'an, in order to contain Yuan Shao, consolidate the right flank, and prevent Yuan Shao from attacking Xudu from the east.

At the same time, he also ordered Yu Ban to lead 2,000 foot riders to guard Yanjin, an important ferry port on the south bank of the Yellow River, and assist Liu Yan, the Taishou of Dongjun who was guarding in Baima Town, to prevent Yuan Shao from crossing the river or driving south.

Finally, and most importantly, he placed his main force in the area of Guandu to build a fort to block Yuan Shao's attack from the front.

After doing this, Cao Cao also sent people to pacify Guanzhong and win over Liangzhou in order to stabilize the flanks.

It can be said that Cao Cao set up suitable soldiers and horses in all the places where he might be attacked by Yuan Shao or his little friends, and some cities and passes only have thousands of people, but Cao Cao and his advisers understand that for Yuan Shao, there is no essential difference between two thousand and ten thousand.

In fact, in the past few months, Cao Jun can already be said to have choked Yuan Shao's throat, but Yuan Shao is still in the dark.

At this point, the balance of victory has gradually tilted in favor of Cao Cao, but it has not yet reached the time to be realized by both sides.

In fact, when Cao Cao and Liu Bei fought in Xuzhou, Yuan Shao's adviser Tian Feng once persuaded Yuan Shao to raid Xuchang, but Yuan Shao refused on the grounds that his youngest son was weak and sick, and he almost vomited blood to Tian Feng at that time.

Cao Cao and his advisers are happy here, and Yuan Shao is such a virtuous person over there, in fact, many people who have jumped out of the circle have already made some judgments.

The fifth year of Jian'an had just passed the New Year, and Yuan Shao sent Chen Lin to write an essay and scolded Cao Cao to the point that he was basically a dog blood spray.

Then he marched into Liyang in February of the fifth year of Jian'an, wanting to rely on the numerical advantage of his army of tens of thousands to have a decisive battle with Cao Cao's main force, and completely take Cao Cao once and for all.

Yuan Shao's first step was to send his general Yan Liang to attack Liu Yan, the Taishou of Dongjun stationed in Baima, wanting to seize the key points on the south bank of the Yellow River and ensure that the main force crossed the river, but such a strategic intention was a little too obvious in the eyes of Cao Cao and his advisers.