Five days later, Li Xian took Cao Min to Shanyang County to take office.

His fellow countryman Li Cai also followed him to Shanyang, which he specifically asked Cao Cao for.

Before, it was Li Cai who led the broken camp for him, but now that neither of them is in the army, the broken camp is led by Cao Hong.

Li Xian was accompanied by fifty guards and more than a dozen domestic servants.

After walking for three days, I arrived at Changyi.

Sanyang County doesn't look big, but it was the seat of the county and the political center of Yanzhou, so it is also a little prosperous. It has a population of 600,000, and the population of Dong-gun, which looks much larger than Sanyang-gun, is only 600,000.

When he arrived in Shanyang, he only briefly inquired about the affairs of Tuntian, and other things were done step by step, and the officials below performed their duties.

His main energy was spent befriending the local wealthy clans, drinking and having fun every day.

When the news reached Cao Cao, Cao Cao thought that Li Xian had complaints about his arrangement, so he would not be like this.

Cao Cao didn't trust Li Xian anymore, he just wanted to ease the relationship between him and Cao Ren, so he arranged for him to go to Shanyang.

It's April, and the weather is starting to get warmer.

Cao Cao failed to kill Tao Qian in his last expedition to Xuzhou, and he was always indignant in his heart.

This time, he is going to send troops to conquer Xuzhou.

After Li Xian got the news, he immediately called those wealthy families who drank and played together on weekdays: "You can raise two hundred warriors for me." ”

Those wealthy families have their own family soldiers, and Li Xian asked them to recruit them, in fact, he asked them to give their own family soldiers.

Everyone was puzzled: "What is the use of Ming Mansion Jun wanting warriors?" ”

Li Xian said: "Don't ask about this matter, just do it." ”

They usually have a good relationship with Li Xian, and Li Xian is too guarded, and they only have two hundred people, which is very simple.

Li Xian asked Li Cai to take these two hundred people to pretend to be ordinary people, and mixed into Puyang City in batches to hide.

He also sent people to monitor Chen Gong and Zhang Miao, and as soon as they met, or if there was any unusual behavior, he would report it immediately.

He even sent people to Hanoi to keep an eye on Lu Bu's actions.

He knew that Cao Cao was on this expedition, and Chen Gong and Zhang Miao would welcome Lu Bu to occupy Yanzhou, so he had to make arrangements first.

When Cao Cao set out on the expedition, he asked Chen Gong to lead 1,000 men to Dongwuyang, Dongjun, and Dongjun Taishou was Xiahoudun and led 3,000 troops in Puyang.

Chen Gong thought that Cao Cao was able to get Yanzhou, and he had a lot of credit.

In the end, he couldn't get Cao Cao's reuse, and he was not as good as Xun Yu and Cheng Yu.

Now that Cao Cao is leading his troops to the battle, there are not many people left to guard Yanzhou, and he feels that this is an opportunity.

He first went to find Zhang Chao, the younger brother of Chen Liutaishou Zhang Miao, as well as Xu Yan, who was engaged in Zhonglang, and Wang Kai, to discuss betraying Cao Cao.

It is far from enough to rely on the strength of a few of them, first of all, it is necessary to have the support of Zhang Miao, and then with the help of foreign troops, so that Cao Cao can be driven out of Yanzhou.

Chen Gong thought of Lu Bu, who was fleeing in all directions.

He came to Chen Liu and said to Zhang Miao: "Meng Zhuo is in danger, don't you know it yet?" ”

Zhang Miao was stunned: "Why am I in danger? ”

"When you forgot the Sour Jujube Alliance, did Yuan Shao ask Meng De to kill you?"

Of course, Zhang Miao knew that Cao Cao had rejected Yuan Shao at that time, which made him always grateful to Cao Cao.

"Don't forget, Yuan Shao is in Jizhou, and I'm in Yanzhou, how can you kill me."

"Yuan Shao can't be killed, but Meng De can. Previously, Meng De did not kill you because he was attached to you, and killing you may be in the name of murder. Now he is the pastor of Yanzhou, and you are just Chen Liutai, and the post is already under him. Besides, now that Yuan Shao and Meng De are close, Meng De can kill you at any time, and you don't know when you live or die now. Although you are in a big county, you are willing to stoop to others and trust your life to the hands of others, which is unwise. ”

Zhang Miao thought about it for a while, felt that it was right, and hurriedly said: "How about this?" ”

Chen Gong said: "Cao Cao led the troops to conquer Tao Qian, the state is empty, and Lu Bu is brave and good at fighting, it is better to welcome Lu Bu to take Yanzhou, then Jun Jin can be hegemonic, and retreat can be self-defending." ”

At this time, Zhang Miao's younger brother Zhang Chao was also persuaded on the side.

Zhang Miao agreed to them, betrayed Cao Cao, and sent someone to Hanoi to meet Lü Bu.

After Lü Bu was defeated by Li Dao and Guo Yan and escaped from Chang'an, he first prepared to throw himself into Yuan Shu.

He thought that he had killed Dong Zhuo and avenged his family's revenge for Yuan Shu, and Yuan Shu would treat him well.

Who knew that Yuan Shu didn't receive him and drove him away.

There's no way, my brother doesn't accept it, and my brother doesn't accept it.

So he threw himself to Yuan Shao again, and also helped Yuan Shao defeat the Black Mountain thief Zhang Yan.

However, Lu Bu connived at his subordinates to rob everywhere, and thought that he had meritorious service to Yuan Shao, so he asked Yuan Shao for troops, and he usually looked down on those generals under Yuan Shao.

Yuan Shao felt that people like Lu Bu were unreliable, and sooner or later they would harm themselves, so he planned to kill him.

was escaped by Lu Bu and ran to Zhang Yang in Hanoi.

Therefore, after Lu Bu received the invitation from Chen Gong, he was naturally overjoyed and immediately led his troops to Yanzhou.

He also had more than 3,000 soldiers and horses in his hands, and several generals followed him.

In particular, Zhang Liao and Gao Shun were both famous generals during the Three Kingdoms.

When Chen Gong and Zhang Miao were discussing, Li Xian already knew that they were starting to act.

He claimed to be sick to the outside world, and he didn't see guests, but he pretended to be a common man and mixed into Puyang City.

After Lü Bu led his troops to Yanzhou, Chen Gong and Zhang Miao spread the word to the counties and counties of Yanzhou.

Because both of them were from Yanzhou and were relatively prestigious in the local area, many counties responded to them and betrayed Cao Cao.

Only Li Xie's Shanyang County, Xiahou's Puyang, Xun Yu and Cheng Yu's Juancheng, Dong'e and Fan counties did not rebel.

Hearing the news, Xiahou hurriedly led 3,000 men and horses to Juancheng, Cao Cao and the families of the generals under his command were in Juancheng, and Juancheng must be protected.

Not far from Puyang, he encountered two thousand men and horses led by Lu Bu, Xiahou was in a hurry to Juancheng, and rushed for a while, and Lu Bu retreated.

Because of the rapid march, Xiahoudun was left behind by the baggage team, and was robbed by Lu Bu, who took the opportunity to attack Puyang.

At this time, Cao Cao had also received the news and was leading his troops back to Yanzhou. He captured five cities in Xuzhou, and met the troops of Liu Bei and Cao Bao in Tanxian.

Not to mention the fighting generals, just talking about the military formation, where is Liu Bei's opponent of Cao Cao.

Cao Cao captured Xiangben, burned and slaughtered all the way, and the people suffered many casualties.

Tao Qian did not fight in Tancheng, and Cao Cao could not attack it for a while. So he built a city called Cao Gong City in Langxi, which was used to garrison troops and fight a long battle between General Bei and Tao Qian.

Cao Gongcheng is located in the south of what is now Juzhou, which is now called Wuhua Camp.

Cao Cao led his troops back to Yanzhou and attacked Puyang first, where Lü Bu and Chen Gong were both located.

Li Xian immediately gathered Li Cai and other two hundred people who had mixed into Puyang before, and went to find Tiandan in the city.

The surname Puyang Tian is a big surname, and it also belongs to the Hao family, and Tian Dan is the person of the Tian clan.

Xiahoudun has been in Puyang in Dongjun for several years, and his governance has always been relatively good, and he has also been supported by the local wealthy families.

Li Xian has already figured out these circumstances.

That afternoon, at Tian Dan's house.

Li Xian, Tian Dan, Li Cai and others discussed.

"Now that General Cao is leading the army outside the city, I want to let people go out of the city first to inform General Cao and let him get ready. At night, Brother Tian led people to attack the South City Gate, and I led people to block Lu Bu. ”

Tian Dan said with some concern: "I have three hundred people, it should be no problem to attack the city gate suddenly." I heard that Lu Bu is very brave, you only have two hundred people, can you do it? ”

Li Cai said proudly: "Don't worry about this, we have attacked Lu Bu's squad several times in the past few days, and we have already obtained more than 100 sets of their soldiers' clothes. When the time comes, we will change into their clothes, wrap white scarves around our arms as identification marks, and infiltrate Lu Bu's camp, and then attack and kill Lu Bu. ”

"That's fine, I think it's doable."

After nightfall, Tian Dan first sent someone to hang down the city wall to report to Cao Cao, and agreed to open the city gate at midnight for them to enter the city.

Cao Cao was overjoyed, he heard Li Xian say that it was strange that he couldn't afford to be sick a few days ago, why did he fall ill at a critical moment.

It turned out that Chen Gong was going to rebel against Lu Bu, and there was a careful plan.

Thinking about it again, he felt that Li Xian was a little scary, if such a person was his enemy, he would be a fierce enemy. Fortunately, he is his son-in-law, and he should not betray himself.

Lu Bu and Chen Gong were both in this Puyang City, and Gao Shun and Zhang Liao were also there. Lu Bu and Chen Gong lived on the south gate of the city, and Zhang Liao and Gao Shun were on the north gate of the city.