Lu Zhi, who was fighting with Yuan Shao's army in Jizhou, was furious immediately after hearing about the changes in Yanzhou.

If it weren't for the fact that Lu Zhi was fighting with Yuan Shao's soldiers and horses at this time, I was afraid that Lu Zhi would be angry and go directly to Zhang Miaoxing to ask for the guilt.

However, despite not being able to leave, Lu Zhi still sent people to question Zhang Miao.

Of course, Lu Zhi's questioning was easily answered by Zhang Miao, and now Zhang Miao's strength has become stronger, and he has people in his hands, so he doesn't pay so much attention to Lu Zhi, and when Lu Zhi sent people to ask, Zhang Miao directly pushed Liu Dai's death to Liu Zheng's body.

It is said that Liu Dai died in the battle with Liu Zheng, and he only temporarily replaced Liu Dai to manage Yanzhou, and made his own decisions, directly handed over a petition to the Luoyang court, asking him to be the pastor of Yanzhou.

This result made Lu Zhi even more annoyed, on the one hand, he secretly scolded Zhang Miao for not knowing how to lift, and on the other hand, he didn't believe what Zhang Miao said, and at the same time he sent someone to ask Cao Cao, who had experienced the battle of Huainan together, and wanted to get more detailed information from Cao Cao's mouth.

After all, Cao Cao had been engaged in Lu Zhi's work for a while, and he was familiar with Lu Zhi.

Lu Zhi, the current hussar general, is also a person that Cao Cao respects, so Cao Cao did not hide anything from Lu Zhi, but directly relayed what happened that day to Lu Zhi in 1510.

After Lu Zhi knew what happened, the whole person was shocked by the news, and he was angry on the spot, and directly ordered the three brothers of Liu Guan and Zhang under his command to lead 20,000 soldiers and horses to crusade against Zhang Miao.

Of course, knowing that Zhang Miao's strength was much stronger, Lu Zhi did not crusade against Zhang Miao so blatantly, but secretly asked Liu Guanzhang to go to Yanzhou, anyway, the location of Jizhou and Yanzhou is not too far.

At the same time, after determining that Cao Cao was not involved in Zhang Miao's incident, he directly wooed Cao Cao and let Cao Cao defect to the imperial court and eliminate the ambitious Zhang Miao.

Cao Cao Zheng didn't know how to get rid of Zhang Miao, and after being wooed by Lu Zhi, he resolutely decided to join Lu Zhi's side and help Lu Zhi crusade against Zhang Miao together.

In just this month, the three brothers Liu Guan and Zhang, led by Lu Zhi's 20,000 elites, have reached the border between Yanzhou and Jizhou.

So Zhang Miao still knew that Lu Zhi had sent soldiers and horses, but Zhang Miao was not afraid, he now has tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, and he is not afraid of only 20,000 people at all, he has a total of 80,000 people, except for the 20,000 troops led by his brother Zhang Chao stationed in Huainan, the remaining 60,000 horses are almost all in Yanzhou.

He transferred two-thirds of his troops to deal with the three brothers Liu Guan and Zhang, and he only left 20,000 soldiers and horses to defend various counties in batches, and only 10,000 people were left in the old nest of the headquarters.

Originally, there were 40,000 troops, and it was a defensive battle, in fact, Zhang Miao's side still had a great chance of winning, but there was Cao Cao, a traitor, after Zhang Miao sent a large number of soldiers and horses out, Cao Cao directly lobbied the previous generals under Liu Dai.

Among these soldiers and horses recruited by Zhang Miao, a large part of them were Liu Dai's people before, Liu Dai's death, these people knew that Zhang Miao did it, after all, Cheng Yu and others escaped from the siege at that time, and Cheng Yu had already spread the news.

However, those generals who originally belonged to Liu Dai did not have a high status in Zhang Miao's army, and they never found a suitable opportunity to rebel.

Now that the war is imminent, those generals who originally belonged to Liu Dai have also been given the opportunity to be reused, which allows them to find an opportunity, these people, together with Cao Cao, opened the city gate at a critical time, and let the soldiers and horses of Cao Cao and Liu Guanzhang enter the city.

The soldiers and horses in the city who originally belonged to Liu Dai attacked first, made a rebellion, and then let Liu Guanzhang and Cao Cao's men and horses enter the city, and easily suppressed Zhang Miao's men and horses.

In just two days, the 40,000 troops under Zhang Miao were lost, some of them directly surrendered to Cao Cao, and the other part was beheaded by Liu Guanzhang's people, and the junction between Yanzhou and Jizhou was also opened by Liu Guanzhang.

When the news reached Zhang Miao's ears, Zhang Miao was dumbfounded.

He only controlled Yanzhou for a few days, and as a result, there was a great defeat of the army and the loss of tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, which made Zhang Miao, who still had some ambitions and ambitions in his heart, completely dumbfounded.

He didn't even have time to escape, he was already besieged in the lonely city by Liu Guanzhang and Cao Cao's soldiers and horses.

Seeing Cao Cao and Liu Guanzhang outside the city mixed together, Zhang Miao was very angry, he still underestimated Cao Cao, he knew that it would be like this, he shouldn't have let Cao Cao come back in the first place.

But now it was too late to say anything, a few days later, Zhang Miao still could not rely on the last soldiers and horses to block the attack of Cao Cao and Liu Guanzhang, and died, Zhang Miao died in Yanzhou with his own ambitions.

Cao Cao made great contributions because of this, and was favored by Lu Zhi, and went to the Luoyang court to canonize Cao Cao's Yanzhou assassin history, and Liu Bei was because of the Han family's relatives, and made meritorious contributions one after another, and had already become He Miao and Lu Zhi's henchmen, replacing Liu Dai and becoming the new Yanzhou pastor.

The combination of Cao Cao and Liu Bei made Yanzhou suddenly an iron plate.

However, they were not in a hurry to find trouble with Liu Zheng at this time, but to clean up the mess left by Zhang Miao first, most of the cities in Yanzhou still need to be recovered a little bit, and Zhang Miao's younger brother Zhang Chao is still in Huainan, and Cao Cao and Liu Bei need to deal with it.

At the same time, in Xiangyang City, Jingzhou, Cai Mansion, another thing is happening.

The Cai family is a well-known family in Xiangyang City, especially in recent years, after Cai Mao, the head of the Cai family, became the confidant of Mu Liu Biao in Jingzhou, the status of the Cai family in Jingzhou is also increasing day by day.

At this time, in the small courtyard, a woman was holding a doll in her hand, and the doll was sleeping sweetly in the woman's arms.

In the verandah, a middle-aged man hurriedly walked over.

"Little sister, little sister, big news, I have big news."

Cai Mao quickened her pace and walked towards the woman in the courtyard.

This woman, hearing Cai Mao's call, turned her head and looked at Cai Mao, with a hint of suspicion in her beautiful expression, but he still frowned and called softly.

"Big brother, be quiet, the child just fell asleep, don't wake him up."

Cai Mao looked at the child in Cai Yao's hand, first stunned, but then couldn't help but sigh.

"Hey, is this kid Liu Zheng's bastard?"