Since Xi Zhicai offered his plan, Cao Cao used his dangerous tactics to besiege Lu Bu's nearly 50,000 army for three months with less than 10,000 troops.

Whether it is his bearing or mentality, Cao Cao has undergone great changes.

After the wars in Xuzhou and Yanzhou, Cao Cao began to gradually transform from a prince to an overlord.

At the beginning of the second year of Xingping, Cao Cao led a large army back to Xudu (Xuchang).

After dealing with the affairs of Yanzhou, Cao Cao's next target was Xuzhou.

But before he can do so, he needs to get diplomatic relations right.

Now Cao Cao's most fearful two are Yuan Shao and Qin Hua, as for Yuan Shu, Cao Cao grew up with him since childhood, knowing the nature of this person, although Yuan Shu is now powerful, but Cao Cao thinks that this person is not to worry.

Yuan Shao also fought several battles with Gongsun Chan in the first year of Xingping, and now he has advanced the front to the hinterland of Youzhou, and he wants to defeat Gongsun Chan just around the corner.

As for Qin Hua, although the Hun Right Sage King is still eyeing him, Cao Cao believes that Qin Hua will be able to solve this problem soon, although it seems that the Liangzhou military horses have not made any big moves in the past year, but Cao Cao has this feeling in his heart.

After returning to Xudu, Cao Cao asked Liu Xie, the emperor of the Han Dynasty, to take the position of general, and he felt that the position of general of Zhengxi was no longer worthy of his status.

After Cao Cao welcomed the Son of Heaven, Qin Hua was named a hussar general, and the position of general of Zhengxi fell on Cao Cao.

Seeing that Cao Cao's power was growing, Liu Xie, who had already begun to understand things at this time, did not dare to resist too much, and although he was reluctant, he still handed over the position of general that belonged to Li Dao to Cao Cao.

Because he was worried that Yuan Shao would be unhappy, Cao Cao also applied for the position of captain for Yuan Shao, but Yuan Shao didn't appreciate it.

Of course, Qin Hua has not forgotten it, but Qin Hua is now the position of a hussar general, second only to the general, and there is no other position to seal.

So Cao Cao asked Qin Hua for the title of "Marquis of Wu'an".

The word Wu'an means "to rule the world with martial arts, prestige and security", although Qin Hua rarely participated in the Central Plains War, but the defeat of Li Dao in a battle is enough to make the world famous, not to mention that Qin Hua also has more wars with foreign races, although the deeds are not widely spread, but it is enough to deserve the word Wu'an.

Before Qin Hua, there were only two Marquis of Wu'an in the Han Dynasty, and the first one to be named Marquis of Wu'an was Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Gao, who was originally named Marquis of Wu'an by Xiang Yu, the overlord of Chu, rather than directly becoming the king of Hanzhong.

If you look at it from this point, Cao Cao's title to Qin Hua still has some other meanings in it, but Qin Hua doesn't understand, he has only heard of Wu Anjun Bai Qi, and his own Wu Anhou is only one word different from Bai Qi, but he also likes it very much.

At the same time that the court sent an envoy to deliver the edict, Cao Cao's envoy also accompanied them to visit the two.

The messenger had only one purpose, and that was to form an alliance with the two.

Now that Cao Cao has a large number of borders with Yuan Shao's territory, he must act as a cause.

Compared with Yuan Shao, Cao Cao is more like taking Xuzhou and other places first.

As for Qin Hua, although Qin Hua deliberately let Li Dao go, let him and Guo Yan continue to occupy the Luoyang area as a barrier.

But sooner or later there will be contact between the two.

After receiving the edict, Yuan Shao was very dissatisfied, although most of the time, the official position of the Tai Lieutenant was above the general.

(The lieutenant is in charge of the military attaché of the world, including the general)

But during the late Han Dynasty, because of the relationship between his relatives, the position of the general has been suppressed by the Tai Lieutenant, so Yuan Shao was very dissatisfied with his being under Cao Cao.

After so many years of conquest, not only Cao Cao has changed, but so has Yuan Shao.

The relationship between him and Cao Cao is no longer the best friend of his youth, and both are now princes who want to dominate the world.

"Lord, I think that because of the alliance with Cao Cao, now Gongsun Zhan is not peaceful, there is still Wuhuan rebellion in the north, and Han Sui in the west is also unclear, so I will not make enemies again at this time."

Tian Feng took the lead in speaking to Yuan Shao, and Fu Zhi immediately agreed.

Although Feng Ji and the trial were dissatisfied with Tian Feng's constant pressure on them, they could only agree with this matter.

These two people are also wise people, and this situation can still be seen clearly.

Seeing the rare unity of opinion among the strategists, Yuan Shao had nothing to say, so he immediately revised a letter and expressed his willingness to ally with Cao Cao.

As for Qin Hua, needless to say, although history has changed to a certain extent because of his own intervention, the general development has not exceeded his expectations, he gladly accepted Cao Cao's request for an alliance, and took the initiative to promise to be willing to undertake the attack on Li Dao.

After Li Dao was defeated by Qin Hua, he led more than 10,000 defeated troops to flee to Luoyang, and was forced by the situation to unite with Guo Yan again.

Because Cao Cao's army did not have much contact with Guo Yan, Guo Yan's military strength is still quite complete, and it still has a scale of nearly 50,000.

With the strong men of Qiangla, the army of the two still has a scale of 70,000.

It's just that the position of the commander has changed greatly, and it has always been Li Dao who suppressed Guo Yan before, but now it has turned around, and the leader has become Guo Yan.

Cao Cao was also very pleased with Qin Hua's willingness to attack Li Dao and Guo Yan, he had actually been very jealous of this force, worried that he would be stabbed in the back when he conquered Xuzhou.

However, Qin Hua is not that kind of honest person, the Luoyang area is already dilapidated, even if it is occupied, there is not much gain, the reason why he is willing to take the war in Luoyang is because he is confident that he can easily take down Li Dao, Guo Yan and others.

Now what Liangzhou lacks is still population, and the 70,000 troops under the command of Li Dao and the two are Qin Hua's ambitions, because although there are many new recruits, there are still many Dong Zhuojun's old troops, and even the soldiers of the Northern Han Army, these veterans are the important wealth of the army.

A few days after sending Cao Cao's envoy away, news came from Luoyang.

"Li Dao has been executed by Guo Yan."

Looking at Nighthawk's intelligence, Qin Hua closed his eyes and pondered.

"As soon as Li Dao dies, then only Guo Yan will be left, and this matter still depends on Xu Kui's performance."

"Haha, it's really hard to talk about that Xu Kui, and now he has served as Guo Yan's lieutenant."

Jia Xu still has a deep impression of Xu Kui, this person came to Liangzhou to report the news after all the hard work, and then when he went to Chang'an to plan, this person also helped a lot.

"Well, this person is very capable, then let him continue to do it, if he can directly kill Guo Yan and replace him, I will give him a Luoyang order, and even the position of Taishou will not hurt."

For Guo Yan's side, Qin Hua mainly borrowed the power of Nighthawk, he didn't want to consume his military strength in Luoyang, and he didn't want Guo Yan's army to suffer too many casualties, these soldiers were likely to become his backbone in the future.

"What's going on over there? Bonghyo should be going to do it. ”