"What do you mean by that?"

Lu Bu asked Hou Cheng in some surprise.

"If the main force of the Cao army is still there, how can they let Cheng Lian and the others evacuate safely, I watched from the city wall, the Cao army only threatened, but did not really pursue."

At this time, Lu Bu also remembered the scene at that time, Cao Cao should still have about 70,000 soldiers and horses, but the soldiers and horses he saw at that time were no more than 10,000.

"You two can see clearly, are the two generals really Cao Ren and Le Jin?"

"It's... The last general didn't see the appearance clearly, but the armor should be undoubtedly the two of them. ”

At this time, Lu Bu probably understood in his heart that it was indeed Cao Cao's suspicious plan, and he was actually deceived by Cao Cao for three months, which made Lu Bu extremely ashamed.

"Dispatch troops, today I will take Cao Cao's head."

Lu Bu ordered loudly.

"My lord..."

Hou Chenggang wanted to say something, but when he saw that Lu Bu was so resolute, he didn't speak.

The officers and men in the army didn't have a good rest last night, and they were deceived back by the suspicious soldiers today, so it is better to rest and recuperate, and send troops tomorrow, but thinking that Cao Cao's army may only have more than 10,000 troops, Hou Cheng did not speak again.

The city gate was wide open, and Lu Bu took the lead, except for the 3,000 soldiers who defended the city, Lu Bu poured out more than 40,000 troops under his command to kill Cao Cao's military camp.

When he was about to come to Cao Cao's camp, Lu Bu found that the silence here was a little too much.

Suddenly, the golden drums sounded again in the camp, and a large number of Cao soldiers appeared in front of Lu Bu.

Then two generals rushed out from both sides of the camp again, and the banners were still "Cao" and "Le".

"Cao Apu, you still want to deceive me."

Lu Bu held Fang Tian's halberd in one hand and pointed to the camp gate of Cao Cao's army camp and said.

"Hahaha, Lu Fengxian, you are more than brave, but you don't know how to strategize, and An Zhi is also deceiving you this time?"

Cao Cao's voice suddenly came from the camp of Cao Jun, and then he saw a rain of arrows pouring down from the sky.

Lu Bu hurriedly used Fang Tian's halberd to resist the arrows, and the number of arrows was by no means two or three thousand people could shoot.

"Oh no, it's a trick."

Lu Bu's heart sank, and he quickly understood.

"If you don't let the messenger into the city, how can you come out obediently?"

Cao Cao's voice came again, but Lu Bu was extremely angry, this kind of intelligence suppression was the most maddening.

"Lord, break through quickly."

Hou Cheng came to Lu Bu's side and said.

This is the two armies on both sides of Cao's camp that also came into contact with Lü Bu's army, this time each army numbered 10,000 people, and the generals who commanded the army were none other than Cao Ren and Le Jin himself.

Lu Bu struggled to cut one of Cao's soldiers in two, and he was now eager to vent his anger.

But his army was gradually surrounded, and Lu Bu didn't dare to fight, but Cao Cao's army was surrounded by him, so where could he flee at this time?

At this moment, suddenly there was chaos on the battlefield in the west, and a crack suddenly appeared in Cao Cao's army, which had originally surrounded Lu Bu.

"Lord, it is the banner of Chen Palace."

Hou Cheng immediately found out that this army was actually Chen Gong's army, and immediately reported to Lu Bu.

Lu Bu didn't expect that there was still a glimmer of life in this kind of place of nine deaths, and immediately led the army to approach Chen Palace.

"It's Chen Gong, General Xiahou said that Chen Gong led more than 10,000 troops to lose their traces, but I didn't expect him to come back to save Lu Bu."

"Chen Gongtai, I treat you well, why do you want to betray me."

Unlike his generals, Cao Cao had always trusted Chen Gong very much before, and could even be said to regard him as a confidant, but he didn't expect Chen Gong to betray him, and instead serve the brave and unscrupulous Lu Bu as the master.

"Lord, now that Lu Bu has fled, there is no need to kill too much, persuade these soldiers who are surrounded to surrender."

Xun Yu saw that Lu Bu had fled, and immediately admonished Cao Cao.

"What Wen Ruo said is extremely true."

After saying that, Cao Cao ordered the soldiers to shout and persuade them to surrender, most of these Lu Bu's soldiers were originally from Zhang Miao's command, and their loyalty to Lu Bu was not high, and when they saw that they had a glimmer of life, they surrendered one after another.

On the one hand, Cao Cao sent people to collect prisoners of war, and on the other hand, he sent tiger and leopard cavalry to continue the pursuit of Lü Bu.

The Battle of Yanzhou, which lasted six months, Cao Cao defeated Lü Bu in one fell swoop.

Of the 100,000 troops under Lü Bu's command, 60,000 were killed, 30,000 were captured, and the remaining 10,000 fled.

Cao Cao also paid a lot of price for this, this time he poured all his troops and horses, raised 110,000 troops, and killed more than 30,000 people in battle alone.

However, the harvest of this battle was also very rich, Cao Cao occupied almost the entire Yanzhou, and now the territory under his command has Yanzhou, Qingzhou and half of Yuzhou.

And Lu Bu, who was defeated by Cao Cao, had no way to go at this time, and he could only choose Xuzhou, which was Cao Cao's enemy at the same time.

At this time, Xuzhou Mu was no longer Tao Qian, because Cao Cao invaded Xuzhou on a large scale, Tao Qian was tired of coping, and coupled with his advanced age, he fell ill soon after Cao Cao retreated.

Tao Qian didn't want his son to join in this hegemony, so he wanted to give up the position of state pastor to Liu Bei.

Although Liu Bei was pleasantly surprised in his heart, he still shirked many times on the surface.

Finally, at Tao Qian's request, he took over the position of Xuzhou pastor, and Tao Qian died of illness soon after.

Among the three major families in Xuzhou, Mi Zhu took a fancy to Liu Bei's potential, expressed his willingness to surrender, and poured all the Mi family's assets to fund Liu Bei.

At the same time, he also married his only sister to Liu Bei.

The Chen family's attitude towards Liu Bei is a little vague, neither very positive, but also not opposed.

However, Cao Bao's Cao family was very resistant to Liu Bei's entry into Xuzhou, because Cao Bao had 8,000 Danyang elite soldiers under his command, and Liu Bei had no way to take him for a while.

However, with Mi Zhu's help, Liu Bei slowly sat down in the position of Xuzhou pastor, and after taking the throne, Liu Bei was benevolent, sympathetic to the people, and collected the homeless.

For a time, Liu Bei's reputation in Xuzhou increased rapidly, and some people even said that Liu Bei was a benevolent lord no less than Tao Qian.

Liu Bei's name of benevolence and righteousness also spread quickly.

After learning that Lu Bu had come to Xuzhou, Liu Bei was very pleased, and immediately replied to agree, and also vacated Xiao Pei and left it for Lu Bu to garrison.

Except for Zhang Fei, who was a little unhappy about this move, the rest of the people agreed with it.

Now that Cao Cao's power is getting stronger and stronger, his next target is most likely Xuzhou, and it is a good thing to have one more ally.

The reason why Zhang Fei was unhappy should be that he couldn't beat Lu Bu, when he was in front of the Tiger Prison, Lu Bu almost killed Zhang Fei many times, although in the last battle, Lu Bu was defeated by the three brothers, but Zhang Fei felt that Lu Bu was in a very strange state at that time.

However, soon Zhang Fei was unhappy for another reason, that is, Lu Bu came to meet Liu Bei after he was stationed in Xiaopei.

But Lu Bu did not regard himself as a subordinate, directly called Liu Bei Xuande, and even regarded himself as a brother, which not only made Zhang Fei dissatisfied, even Guan Yu was a little unbearable.

However, Liu Bei dissuaded the two righteous brothers for the sake of the overall situation, Cao Cao didn't know when he would come to fight Xuzhou, and Lu Bu's combat power was indispensable.

Since Liu Bei took over as the pastor of Xuzhou, Yuan Shu also began to think about Xuzhou, he and Tao Qian still have a friendship, but Liu Bei has only hehe.

Since Tao Qian was no longer the pastor of Xuzhou, Yuan Shu began to send troops to attack Xuzhou.

Liu Bei didn't expect Yuan Shu to come to attack Xuzhou at this time, so he could only hurriedly send troops to meet the battle.

But what Liu Bei never expected was that when he left Xuzhou City to face Yuan Shu, Cao Bao welcomed Lu Bu into the city.

First, Cao Bao couldn't get used to Liu Bei, and secondly, he admired Lu Bu's strength very much, not only worshiped Lu Bu as the lord, but also gave his daughter to Lu Bu.

As soon as Liu Bei heard that Lu Bu had actually occupied Xuzhou City, he hurriedly wanted to retreat.

But at this time, in addition to the original 10,000 troops, Lu Bu also had Cao Bao's 8,000 Danyang soldiers, plus some conscripted troops, and at this time it had reached the scale of 30,000.

Liu Bei was reluctant to attack the city, so he wrote a letter to Lü Bu.

At this time, Lu Bu, who had already taken the initiative, did not give Liu Bei any face, but allowed Liu Bei to garrison troops in Xiaopei.

Liu Bei never expected that welcoming Lu Bu into Xuzhou was actually to lure a wolf into the room, and the status between master and servant had changed dramatically in less than three months.

After Yuan Shu learned that Lü Bu had taken charge of Xuzhou, he also stopped his march and just stuck to the territory he had gained.

Xuzhou once again entered a period of stability, and the three parties were reluctant to take the initiative to start a war.

In fact, there was another reason why Yuan Shu did not continue to attack Xuzhou, that is, he suddenly heard that the jade seal of the country was still in the Sun family and was not taken away by Liu Biao.

Yuan Shu also knew that Sun Jian had obtained the jade seal of the country, he always thought that when Sun Jian died, this thing had been obtained by Liu Biao, but he didn't expect it to be still in the Sun family.

Now Sun Ce is a general under Yuan Shu. In addition to Xuzhou, Yuan Shu's target was also to spy on the counties in the south of the Yangtze River.

And the main attack on Jiangnan is Sun Ce and the veterans left by Sun Jian at the beginning.

After learning that the jade seal was in Sun Ce's hands, Yuan Shu summoned Sun Ce back and talked to him alone once, but Sun Ce insisted that he did not have a jade seal.

So Yuan Shu began to deliberately suppress Sun Ce, and every time there was a banquet, Sun Ce, as a general with great achievements, could only sit at the end of the banquet.

This made the arrogant Sun Ce feel very embarrassed, but he had no soldiers now, and he couldn't leave Yuan Shu directly.

After discussing with Cheng Pu and other old ministers, Sun Ce finally offered the jade seal of the country, but he asked Yuan Shu for 3,000 soldiers and horses.

Now Yuan Shu only has a jade seal, how can he care about only 3,000 soldiers and horses, and he immediately agreed.

Now Yuan Shu's mind is on the jade seal every day, and he can't see any other places, so he didn't see Sun Ce leading three thousand soldiers and horses back to Qu'a's hometown, recruiting troops there.

Sun Ce's move was helped by his friend Zhou Yu, who not only poured out the assets of the Zhou family, but also brought his friend Lu Su to Sun Ce.

When Sun Ce was recruiting warriors, several people came to defect.

One named Gan Ning, a native of Ba County, Yizhou, was a thief when he was young, entangled in manpower and robbed ships. Because of the extravagance of their ships, they were known as the "Sail Thieves".

When he was young, he was no longer a thief, and held official positions in Yizhou, Jingzhou and other places, but they were all petty officials and were not reused.

This time, he heard about Sun Ce's name and came to defect.

One was named Zhou Tai, who joined with Jiang Qin, a man from the same county, and both of them were powerful and good at water warfare.

With the help of Zhou Yu, Sun Ce's army reached 8,000 men at once, and he began his journey to conquer Jiangdong.

At this time, it was already the end of the first year of Xingping.

Qin Hua had already moved the administrative office to Chang'an at this time.

In recent years, there have been no natural disasters in Liangzhou, and many agricultural tools made by the Ministry of Industry have made Liangzhou's agriculture have been greatly developed, and the people live in peace.

Even if Qin Hua only levied the eleventh tax, Liangzhou would still not have the slightest financial crisis.

This was due to the commercial development of Liangzhou, because Qin Hua took Chang'an, and the tentacles of the Liangzhou Chamber of Commerce began to march to the rest of the states.

Although the world is still not peaceful, because of the pressure of Qin Hua's name, these caravans in Liangzhou will rarely encounter robbery.

Even those princes did not dare to collect heavy taxes easily.

Now the only battle in Liangzhou is to confront the Xiongnu army in the state.

However, Qin Hua has already handed over the matter of the state to Guo Jia, this matter was originally planned by him, and Qin Hua didn't want to make trouble for himself.

What's more, there are Zhang Liao, Gao Shun and others to assist, and even Qin Hua's most elite trapping camp and Xuanjia cavalry have been allocated to Guo Jia to be freely dispatched.

Qin Hua is basically handling political affairs in Chang'an now, and he goes to see his two sons and daughters when he has time.

As Qin Hua's wife, Cai Yan did not give birth to a son this time, but gave birth to a daughter.

However, as a traverser, Qin Hua doesn't care about his son and daughter, this is still his first child, and he may also be the eldest princess in the future.

Qin Hua named her Qin Yulong, which refers to jade engraved with a dragon-shaped pattern, which can only be worn by noble people. Qin Hua struggled to come up with this name.

As for Cui'er, she gave birth to a son to Qin Hua, according to the rules of the late Han Dynasty, although this child is Qin Hua's eldest son, he is indeed a concubine.

Qin Hua doesn't care about this, he likes Cui'er and this child, as for the matter of succeeding to the throne in the future, he doesn't want to think about it too early.

Qin Hua named this child Qin Tong, I don't know if he has a chance to unify the world, if not, he will be handed over to their generation.

In order to see the two children at the same time, Qin Hua asked Cui'er to move to Cai Yan's yard to live, both of them are people with a calm temperament, and there is no objection to this, which is cheaper for Qin Hua.

Dong Yuan and Dong Bai have a courtyard, and now Cai Yan and Cui'er are also in the same courtyard, Beigong Tiexin feels a little isolated, so she wrote to her father, hoping that Beigong Boyu can send another beauty to help her.

Although Qin Hua didn't think about refusing after knowing this, he still criticized Beigong Tiexin, he didn't want to delay the great cause because of his beauty.

However, he also knew that Beigong Tiexin, who had been snubbed recently, specially stayed with her for a few nights.

Soon there was a news that surprised Qin Hua, that is, he suddenly had a younger brother.

Just three months after Qin Tong was born, Qin Huang suddenly told Qin Hua that his concubine had also given birth to a son, and Qin Hua couldn't help but sigh that his father was really "old and strong".