So far, Sun Ce has crushed his opponent with absolute superiority for the first time, and finally verified a sentence: in the face of absolute superiority, any conspiracy is meaningless.

Having said that, after all, such opportunities do not come often, and usually, he does not say that there is no absolute advantage, and there are not many opportunities to have an advantage, so the conspiracy and trickery have to be used, and they must be used more.

Letting Lu Qian go is not just to take the lake and land lightly and kill a few fewer people, but has a more far-reaching intention. Guo Jia thinks that Chen Gong seems to be smart when he uses the opportunity of Xin Bi's injury to seek benefits for Cao Ang, but he is actually stupid, or at least he is too anxious to be truly clever. This exposes Cao Ang's intention to be self-reliant, which will inevitably create a rift between him and Yuan Tan, at least suspected of taking advantage of others' danger.

Guo Jia decided to seize this opportunity to see the needle and turn this suspicion into suspicion. Lu Qian is just a pawn, and his life and death are not in Guo Jia's plan at all. In Guo Jia's view, even if Lu Qian has the potential to be a famous general, if he can't meet a Ming Jun who can give full play to him, he will be no different from ordinary people, and maybe he will be jealous because of his talent. And Yuan Tan is obviously not a Ming Jun, no matter how he pretends to be a corporal of Lixian, the family background of the fourth and third princes makes it impossible for him to regard a strong man like Lu Qian as a confidant.

Even Cao Ang is not qualified for the honor, let alone Lu Qian. The only people who can act as Yuan Tan's henchmen are destined to be celebrities like Xin Bi and Chen Gong.

Lü Qian left, and Guo Jia immediately urged Sun Ce to carry out the next plan: to attack Cao Ang.

Sun Ce did not attack in person, he handed over this matter to Sun Jian, not only Zhu Zhi and Huang Gai returned to Sun Jian's subordinates, but Lu Su and Dong Xi were also temporarily transferred to Sun Jian's command, listened to Sun Jian's command, and replenished Sun Jian's ordnance and baggage in time.

After receiving reinforcements, Sun Jian's morale was greatly boosted, and he took the initiative to attack and forced Cao Ang.

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Cao Ang was cautious. Before Sun Ce entered Hulu City, he knew the news that Lu Qian had abandoned the city and left.

He was stunned at the time, and he didn't know why Lu Qian made such a choice. He immediately invited Chen Gong to discuss, and after hearing this, Chen Gong was also a little crying and laughing. He originally thought that Lu Qian could support it for at least ten days and half a month, and maybe he could support Sun Ce's retreat, but he didn't expect that Lu Qian couldn't hold it for even two days, and directly abandoned the city and left.

Unlike Cao Ang, he was not concerned with why Lü Qian abandoned the city and left, but the consequences of Lü Qian's abandonment of the city. Sun Ce took Hulu lightly, and then he would inevitably attack Cao Ang with all his might, and even attack Rencheng all the way north. Before that, Sun Ce had said such a thing, and now he had the opportunity to implement it. And to take Rencheng, Gaoping is the only way to go, and Cao Ang's situation is very dangerous.

Chen Gong advised Cao Ang to retreat quickly. There is a huge disparity in the strength of the two sides, Sun Jian and Sun Ce are both good fighters, with Cao Ang's current strength, once they fight, the losses will inevitably be heavy. He advised Cao Ang to abandon Gaoping City and return directly to Rencheng. Gaoping is the county seat, and the city defense conditions are not as good as the lake and land, although there is terrain available next to it, but the advantages are limited, and it cannot prevent Sun Ce from bypassing and cutting off the back road.

Cao Ang didn't dare to slack off and immediately set up camp. He moved quickly and set off almost at the same time as Sun Jian. Although Sun Jian chased very closely, he still failed to bite Cao Ang. In the evening, he rushed to Gaoping and met Gao Ping Haoqiang, who came to greet him, only to know that Cao Ang had abandoned Gaoping and retreated directly to Rencheng.

Last time he suffered a loss in Changyi, this time Sun Jian accepted the lesson and politely declined, claiming that it was too late to enter the city to harass, but he left Haoqiang who came to greet him in the camp, set up a banquet and entertained him, and at the same time sent people to Hulu to inform Sun Ce of the relevant situation.

After receiving Sun Jian's news, Sun Ce and Guo Jia looked at each other and smiled.

"Chen Gong is going to be unlucky. Having given up Gao Ping, those who want to dig up his ancestral grave may have to queue up. Guo Jia smiled proudly.

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Lu Qian lowered his head and came to Yuan Tan's face.

Yuan Tan grimaced and didn't say a word. He was very disappointed in Lu Qian, and gave up such an important place as Hulu without firing an arrow, proving that his use of Lu Qian was a wrong decision.

"Zike, what's going on?" Mao Jue said. He is Gong Cao, who is in charge of personnel, and Lu Qian was recommended to Yuan Tan by him. Lu Qian is incompetent, and he doesn't look good on his face.

Lu Qian knew it, but he had already prepared, and before speaking, he took out the offensive and defensive map that Sun Ce gave him from his arms. Yuan Tan glanced at it, and was not in the mood to look at it at all. Xin Bi on the side was very curious, reached out and took it, looked at it carefully, and raised his eyebrows.

"Zike, don't you know that Cao Dongjun is going to reinforce you? After receiving your message, the envoy gave an order to Cao Dongjun overnight. Gao Ping was only a day's journey from Hulu, and he should have arrived a long time ago. With reinforcements from Caodong County, you have enough troops to defend the city, how can you be understaffed? ”

"Yes." Lu Qian bowed down and said, "But Cao Dongjun didn't enter the city, I waited for him for three days, and I didn't see a single soldier." ”

Xin Bi didn't speak, and turned his head to look at Yuan Tan. Yuan Tan was puzzled, took the picture from Xin Bi's hand, looked at it carefully, and suddenly became furious, and his face was pale. Cao Ang was ordered to reinforce but stayed endlessly, resulting in the lack of strength of Lü Qian to defend the city, and he could only abandon the city in the face of Sun Ce's superior forces, and the primary responsibility for the loss of Hulu was not Lü Qian, but Cao Ang. If Cao Ang entered the city in time, five thousand men would be enough to hold the lake and land. Even if Cao Ang didn't enter the city, as long as he took the initiative to attack and attract some troops, Sun Ce would not be so calm.

"How can this be reasonable, Cao Ang mistook me for a big matter. The lake and land are lost, the door of Shanyang is wide open, and this door is open and thieves are also! ”

Xin Bi gave Yuan Tan a look and signaled him not to lose his temper. Although Yuan Tan saw it, he still couldn't suppress his anger. It was not surprising that Hulu was lost, he had already decided to face Sun Ce in Changyi, but Hulu was lost so easily, it was not in his plan. After Sun Ce took Hulu lightly, Fang He and Dongwei did not have enough conditions to refuse, and Sun Ce could go all the way to Changyi, leaving him with very limited time to prepare.

It's easy to drive Sun Jian out of Changyi, and now that Sun Ce is here again, can you still give people a respite?

At this time, Xin Bi said to Liu Biao: "Brother Jingsheng, is your family still in Gaoping?" ”

Liu Biao was stunned for a moment. "Yes."

"You send someone to fetch them. Sun Ce had said before that if he wanted to take Rencheng, Gaoping was the only way to go. He can kill the single family, or he can kill you Liu Biao. ”

Liu Biao's face changed suddenly. In this regard, he knows better than Xin Bi that it is not just a single family, Sun Ce killed the Xi family and the Kuai family when he was in Xiangyang. "No, Cao Ang has nearly 10,000 people, and it is more than enough to keep Gaoping."

Xin Bi didn't speak, just looked at Liu Biao with pity. Yuan Tan saw it really and was unhappy in his heart. Xin Bi's words are suspected of falling into the ground. He was also very angry when Hulu was lost, but now was not the time to trouble Cao Ang, he also needed Cao Ang to guard the Lu Kingdom and Rencheng area.

"George, Cao Ang won't be so cowardly, right?"

Before he could finish speaking, Cao Ang's messenger arrived. Sun Jian went north, but Cao Ang had insufficient troops and could only retreat. He decided to abandon Gaoping and retreat to Rencheng.