Liu Bei? Who are they? When Cao Cao led the army back to Juancheng, Liu Bei had already withdrawn, and looking at the battle report handed by Xun Yu, Cao Cao frowned.

Although Liu Bei now has some reputation, he was appointed by Gongsun Zhan as the prime minister of the plains, and later because he saved Kong Rong, he had some friendship with Kong Rong, and this reputation was not enough to reach Cao Cao's ears.

"Liu Bei is a disciple of Lu Gong, and Gongsun Chan is a classmate, when the Taiping Sect was in turmoil, he had quite a lot of military exploits in Youzhou, and then when he was the lieutenant of Anxi County, he whipped the post and hung the seal and left, voted for Gongsun Zhan, went to Qingzhou Yellow Turban to resurrect, when the soldiers surrounded Beihai, he had a rescue, broke the Yellow Turban, and was introduced by Kong Rong as a guest." Xun Yu has also collected Liu Bei's information during this time, and he has almost checked Liu Bei's past.

After that, Cao Cao attacked Xuzhou, and then Chen Gong, Zhang Miao and others took the opportunity to make trouble and lead Liu Bei into Yanzhou, just like welcoming Cao Cao into Yanzhou back then, but it was to fight against the Yellow Turban, but now it is to fight against him Cao Cao.

"Lord, now Liu Bei's troops in Puyang are looking for helpers everywhere, so break it quickly." Cheng Yu said to Cao Cao.

Liu Bei knew that he wanted to fight head-on, and he was definitely not Cao Cao's opponent, after retreating to Puyang, he sent people everywhere to ask for help, Beihai Kong Rong, Qingzhou Tian Kai, Xuzhou Tao Qian and even Jianghuai Yuan Shu, those who knew did not know, Liu Bei sent people to invite, although Liu Bei did not have this face, but Zhang Miao had, and even Chen Mo's teacher Zang Hong was among Liu Bei's invitations, hoping to be able to invite Yuan Shao to support Liu Bei through Zang Hong.

Cao Cao nodded, this Liu Bei is a little slippery, if he just raised troops to fight with Cao Cao, Cao Cao was naturally not afraid, but Liu Bei was looking for people to help him everywhere, which made Cao Cao a little tired, this Yanzhou is a place of four wars, invite these princes, even if he Liu Bei wins, will this Yanzhou still be his in the end?

"For today's plan, it must be broken quickly, Wen Ruo, you write a letter to Benchu on my behalf, and you don't need Benchu to help, as long as he ignores Liu Bei, and at the same time restricts the counties of Jizhou not to help." Cao Cao rubbed his temples and looked at Xun Yudao.

What he is most worried about now is Yuan Shao's meddling in this matter, but Chen Mo is not worried about it, the drought in Guanzhong this year, plus Ma Teng, Han Sui and even the Southern Huns are not honest, Chen Mo is busy enough.

In addition, Yuan Shu is also a trouble, if Yuan Shu joins forces with Tao Qian at this time, many of his previous preparations will be wasted, so the best way is to destroy Liu Bei before these princes react.

"Whoa!" Xun Yu nodded, the longer the war dragged on, the more unfavorable it would be for Cao Cao.

"This time I was able to keep Juancheng alive, thanks to Wen Ruo." Cao Cao sighed.

"Almost all of the things that defend the city are done by the son, and Yu is just assisting from the side, and he doesn't dare to take credit." Xun Yu shook his head and smiled.

"Him?" Cao Cao looked at Cao Ang and said with a smile: "Wen Ruo doesn't have to praise him, if there is no Wen Ruo's guidance, how can he have such a ability?" Besides, he can block Liu Bei's siege on the city wall at most, but the things in the city are the most complicated, if there is no Wen Ruo in charge, Zixiu can't handle these things. ”

For his own son, Cao Cao still knows a lot about it, Cao Ang is naturally not bad, but limited by his own experience, it is no problem for him to preside over the defense of the city, but the problem of Juancheng at that time was not only in Liu Bei, if Dong Cheng and Liu Fan in the court honestly waited for him to come back, Cao Cao was the first to believe it, these people did not take the opportunity to make trouble, it can only be said that someone suppressed these people in the court, and this is by no means what Cao Ang can do now.

Xun Yu just smiled and didn't speak again, if he continued to praise it, it would not only be a bit hypocritical, but Cao Cao would not be happy, Cao Cao was borrowing this matter to point Cao Ang, and it could be seen that Cao Cao was very concerned about his eldest son.

"Liu Bei is now stationed in Puyang, it seems that he wants to confront us." Cao Cao gestured to the map and said, "I heard that the soldiers under Liu Bei's command are all cobbled together by the powerful people of various counties?" ”

"Exactly, when Liu Bei entered Yanzhou, he only had two thousand soldiers and horses borrowed from Gongsun Zhan and two thousand soldiers and horses given to him by Kong Rong." Xun Yu nodded.

"That's it!" When Cao Cao heard this, he smiled and said, "Cao Ren, Yu Ban!" ”

"The last general!" Cao Ren and Yu Ban hurriedly came out of the ranks.

"The two of you will lead 10,000 troops, capture Lihu, block Pushui, and cut off the communication between Puyang and Yanzhou." Cao Cao laughed.

"Whoa!" Cao Ren and Yu Ban bowed down to accept the general order handed by Cao Cao.

"Wonderful!" Cao Cao looked at Xiahou Yuan.

"The last general!" Xiahou Yuan was listed.

"Take five thousand troops and subdue the counties." When Cao Cao handed a general order to Xiahou Yuan, he pressed it in his hand and said, "Those who resist will be punished all over the door!" ”

This time, the Yanzhou family joined forces to welcome Liu Bei, and almost broke Cao Cao's foundation, but it really angered Cao Cao, he now holds the Son of Heaven in his hands, there is no shortage of talents, and there is no shortage of talents who want to harm themselves at all times, since these people have jumped out, then Cao Cao will not show mercy.

Xiahou Yuan and Cao Cao's brothers, naturally understood what Cao Cao meant, took the general's order, bowed down and said: "Don't worry, the lord will know what to do." ”

"The rest of the people, gather soldiers and horses, besiege Puyang with me, I want to behead Liu Bei with my own hands! to vent the hatred in my heart! Cao Cao got up and said.

"Whoa!"

……

Cao Cao returned to Juancheng, rested for three days, then led the army straight to Dongjun, during this period, Yuan Shao had sent someone to persuade Cao Cao to submit to him, after all, most of the territory was gone, Yuan Shao let Cao Cao defect to himself, but also hoped that this friend would not be too ugly, but Cao Cao refused, Cao Ren, Yu Ban cut off Liu Bei's contact with Yanzhou, Cao Cao personally led 30,000 soldiers and horses straight to Puyang.

After Cao Cao cut off Liu Bei's connection with Yanzhou, he was not in a hurry to attack the city, and sent people to shout outside the city day and night that Yanzhou had been recovered by him, and if these people continued to follow Liu Bei, their Yanzhou family members would inevitably be implicated by them.

Liu Bei had the intention of fighting a decisive battle with Cao Cao in Puyang, at least for a month or two, and let Kong Rong and Tao Qian send troops to join forces with him to attack Cao Cao, but obviously overestimated himself, and these Yanzhou soldiers and horses under Cao Cao's attack strategy had no fighting spirit, and many of them even fled at night and went to Cao Cao to ask for surrender, but on three days, Liu Bei's city gate was almost opened by these Yanzhou soldiers.

Seeing that the big thing was not good, Liu Bei was also simply, on the night of the third day, he quietly opened the city gate, and fled directly from the city with the elite soldiers he brought and the military advisor Chen Gong, and when Cao Cao reacted, he was nowhere to be found, and Puyang almost went down without a fight.

As soon as Liu Bei left, the scholars who launched a mutiny in Yanzhou couldn't go, Xiahou Yuan almost killed all the way from Rencheng to Chenliu, at least dozens of families were wiped out, Cao Cao's killing this time was justified, that is, there were no more people who were dissatisfied, but this time it was a rebellion, in general righteousness, Cao Cao was right.

However, after this battle, Cao Cao was still injured after all, when the news reached Chang'an, Cao Cao had returned to Juancheng, began to recuperate, after this battle, and then wanted to attack Xuzhou can no longer be, can only find an opportunity to come again, Liu Bei's appearance, to Cao Cao brought a lot of blows, the most important thing is that not long after Liu Bei fled to Xuzhou, Tao Qian died, Cao Cao began to plan Xuzhou two years ago but could not, but in the end Liu Bei picked up cheap, where is the reason.

……

Chang'an, General's Palace.

"My lord, why are you so happy? Cao Cao is dead? Dian Wei looked at Chen Mo suspiciously.

"Rude, that's my brother!" Chen Mo closed the bamboo slip and glared at Dian Wei: "Can you speak, brother, he...... It's hard enough...... Haha~"

In the end, Chen Mo still couldn't help laughing out loud, he planned for a few years and wanted to serve the Son of Heaven, but in the end Cao Cao took advantage of the chaos to steal the Son of Heaven, and he was somewhat depressed in his heart, but this time it was Cao Cao's turn to be unlucky, and Xuzhou, which had been planning for two years, was taken away by Liu Bei, which made Chen Mo's heart suddenly balance a lot, which was really unpleasant!

Judging from the current situation, Cao Cao is located in the land of four wars, if he can't open the situation as soon as possible, it will be a matter of time before he is destroyed, but it is a pity.

However, since he chose this path, Chen Mo will feel sorry for Cao Cao, but he will not help him, and even when necessary, he will not hesitate to recapture the Son of Heaven and deal Cao Cao a heavier blow, they have chosen the same path, and it is destined to become opponents.

The Yanzhou war report, for Chen Mo, can be regarded as alleviating his depressed mood since he lost the Son of Heaven, but that is also someone else's business, and for the next period of time, Chen Mo is reorganizing his forces.

After a battle of rumors, as Zhong Xuan secretly released the list, many Guanlong celebrities began to fall to Chen Mo's side, Chen Mo also selected a group of good talents, not famous but with real talent and learning, such as Xinfeng County Ling Zhang Ji, famous Liangzhou Thorn Shi Weiduan, just by Chen Mo's fancies, there are more than 30 people, all over the court and places, these after this incident, can be regarded as Chen Mo's power, henchmen naturally can't talk about it, so far, Chen Mo's voice in the court is a little heavier.

In the first year of Xingping, the princes of the whole world were relatively busy, Chen Mo was busy treating the disaster, fighting with the courtiers, and suppressing the Qiang rebellion, and fought more than a dozen battles with Ma Teng and Han Sui, although Chen Mo did not come to the front line in person, but Xu Rong and Hua Xiong and Ma Teng Han Sui almost never broke off.

Yuan Shao is laying out Gongsun Zhan, Youzhou and Qingzhou are about to be won, Cao Cao needless to say, Liu Bei's affairs made him almost comb Yanzhou in the second half of the year, and there is no sign of moving troops again.

However, compared with these three, when Chen Mo collected war reports from all over the country at the end of the year, he paid more attention to the two emerging forces, Jiangdong Sun Ce, although he was attached to Yuan Shu's account, but it could be seen that this young man of the same age as himself had gained a firm foothold in Jiangdong, and the other one that Chen Mo paid attention to was Lu Bu, who occupied Nanyang.

After the rebellion in Chang'an, Lu Bu went out of Wuguan, originally wanted to vote for Yuan Shu, but Yuan Shu was very wary of Lu Bu, Lu Bu was not happy, and later when Yuan Shu attacked Cao Cao and was killed by Cao Cao, Lu Bu was in the Ping area, and the military rations were seized.

Later, Cao Cao formed an alliance with Liu Biao, but Cao Cao stole the Son of Heaven, Nanyang had no owner, and Liu Biao did not take Nanyang for a long time, Lu Bu took advantage of the situation to seize Wancheng, Cao Cao had already driven away Liu Bei at that time, and was in the state of combing Yanzhou, after learning that Lu Bu occupied Wancheng, he immediately named Lu Bu as Nanyang Taishou in the name of the Son of Heaven, helped him contain Liu Biao, and fought with Liu Biao in Xinye, after all, the two sides took the Han River as the boundary, and each ceased their troops, after all, if you go further south, it is the world of water warfare, and Lu Bu is not good at this aspect.

At this point, the pattern of the world seems to have undergone new changes......