Of course, this is not because Yuan Shao is fighting in the front, and he can't be distracted at all, and secondly, he may not have expected that Cao Xing had already arranged Zhang Yan and Pan Feng and others in Jizhou, so for a while, his confrontation with Cao Xuan also fell into disadvantage.

However, even if the first move against Cao Xuan had failed, he also had a second move, that is, to order the Taishou county guards in various places, once Cao Xing's army was discovered, they were not allowed to go out of the city to meet the attack, and they were directly guarded to the death, he didn't believe that Cao Xing could still play any tricks.

It is true that as expected by Fu Zhu, since Yuan Shao adopted his suggestion, he issued a death order to the Taishou county guards in various places, not allowed to go out of the city to face the battle, and could only strictly guard against it, Cao Xing really had no way to do it, after all, all his subordinates were cavalry, and the cavalry was not suitable for attacking fortified positions, so every time he went to the bottom of a city, Cao Xing could only stare dryly.

However, Cao Xing didn't feel any discouragement in this regard, anyway, this is not his territory, he can make trouble at will, it doesn't matter if he can't beat the city, just harass the team transporting grain, and the soldiers who defend the city, it's no problem, right?

So in the past few months, whether it is the defensive soldiers or the transport soldiers, they have been made miserable by Cao Xing, some local officials roughly calculated, Cao Xing's invasion, because his subordinates are all elite soldiers, the weapons in their hands are quite advanced, and there are people in the rear to support, so Cao Xing's loss so far, it is estimated that there are only more than 100 people, but Yuan Shao's loss is large, not only the food was robbed, the time was delayed, the defending soldiers were harassed, this back and forth, Yuan Shao's loss, If it is exchanged for direct money, it is estimated to be as high as a million taels.

And Yuan Shao in front, it is said that because of Cao Xing's series of harassment, he fell into a bitter battle, originally he and Gongsun Zhan fought at the beginning, and then he had a little upper hand, but now because of Cao Xing's repeated harassment, Yuan Shao's battle situation has gradually fallen into the downwind, and Gongsun is seizing the opportunity to start counterattacking.

Cao Xuan watched the information passed to his hands one after another, not to mention how comfortable it was, this Yuan Shao was so disturbed by Cao Xuan this time, it is estimated that his plan to seize Youzhou will be more difficult, as long as Yuan Shao does not capture Youzhou, then Cao Xing's side is temporarily safe.

Cao Xuan continued to wander around Jizhou with the army, and on this day Cao Xuan and others seemed to have come to Qinghe County, as soon as he stepped into Qinghe County, Cao Xuan felt that this Qinghe County seemed to be a little wrong, and he asked people to open the map to see, Qinghe County was just a small place to put it bluntly.

There are only three counties in the county, and the population is not very rich, but with Cao Xing's most intuitive feeling, he always feels that this Qinghe County is a little different from other counties in Jizhou, for the sake of caution, Cao Xuan still let everyone stay in place, and then sent a waiter to find out what is going on in this Qinghe County.

But at this moment, another piece of information was sent to Cao Xing's hands, this information came from Bianyun County, the person who wrote the letter was Fengyun, Fengyun excitedly told Cao Xuan one thing in the letter, that is, Cao Xing's plan has been initially successful, Xu Shu has completely occupied the remaining three cities in Yanmen County, and the Taishou of Yanmen County has been beaten away by Xu Shu.

The current Xu Shu, while rectifying the soldiers and horses, continues to confront Zhang Hegaolan, anyway, now in Bingzhou, Jiuyuan County, Xihe County, and Yanmen County have all fallen into the hands of Cao Xing.

Cao Xing looked at this information and nodded with satisfaction, his plan was like this, anyway, now that he had completely torn his face with Yuan Shao, he didn't need any buffer zone, he asked Xu Shu to bring all Yanmen County under his command. directly began the confrontation with Yuan Shao.

In order to realize this plan, Xu Shu seems to have used his previous strategy, that is, when he started to fight with Zhang Hegaolan, he first showed a decline and retreated, but in the end, the enemy was careless, and supported Xu Shu's sudden attack, and not only captured Yanmenshan County with a thunderous momentum, but also cleaned up Zhang Hegaolan. Today's Zhang Hegaolan is also seriously injured, and it is estimated that he will not be able to fight again.

Cao Xing also has to praise, since Xu Shu followed the real master of the art of war, Lu Zhi, it seems that he has made rapid progress, and now his record does not seem to be worse than in history, and his reputation has really started in the Three Kingdoms.

Now that Xu Shu's side is finished, and Cao Xing's plan is almost complete, anyway, if he continues to harass him, it will not have any big impact on Yuan Shaozai, Cao Xing should go back to rectify government affairs, fight hard, and find an opportunity to have a good decisive battle with this Yuan Benchu.

However, just when Cao Xuan was just about to order the class teacher to return to the court, suddenly the spies sent out before came to report that there was really a problem in Qinghe County.

Cao Xuan looked at the scout who came back to report, and found that the scout's expression was quite strange, his face seemed to have a look of disgust, and there was a kind of concealment, wanting to cover his mouth and nose, Cao Xuan slapped the table and asked him what was going on, and the scout didn't dare to slack off anymore, and hurriedly said frankly.

"Return, back to the lord, there is a plague in the city, the gates on all sides are completely open, when I went in to look, I almost didn't find a single officer and soldier defending, many of the people fell on the street, in pain, as for the official mansion in the city, it is estimated that it has already run away at this moment!"

Hearing this news, Cao Xing was also stunned, he didn't remember when there was a plague in Jizhou in history, but for this matter, it was relieved to think about it, Qinghe County is just a small county town, it is estimated that history will not be recorded in such detail, and now Yuan Shao is fighting with Gongsun Zhan, where is there time to take care of here, so the plague is constantly spreading.

At this moment, Cao Xing's generals all glanced at each other, and it seemed that everyone had their own ideas. Someone admonished Cao Xing, this Qinghe County is to put it bluntly, it is not under their rule, they don't care what they do here, since Xu Shu has completed the plan now, then it is better for them to return as soon as possible, after all, there is a plague here, and it is not good if the plague spreads to the army.

But there are also people who seem to be a little unbearable, in their opinion, although this county is not big, but there are tens of thousands of people in total, can they just watch these tens of thousands of people die in front of them?

Cao Xuan listened to everyone's opinions, and there was some anxiety between his eyebrows, and finally Cao Xuan shook his head: "That's it, this world is a world composed of people after all, and human civilization can only continue to move forward, so Cao Xuan finally decided to stay here for a period of time to help deal with the plague!" ”

Of course, Cao Xing couldn't help aimlessly, Cao Xing made a plan as soon as he came, and first sent many spies to closely monitor Yuan Shao's movements. If Yuan Shao suddenly returns to the army here, Cao Xing can't control it so much, after all, it is important to save his life, just flee quickly. As for the plague here, let Yuan Shao solve it.

So Cao Xing also took out hundreds of people, these hundreds of people have more or less inherited a little bit of medical skills, Cao Xing also remembered a little about the way of Chinese medicine in later generations, he prescribed a few prescriptions, let these soldiers go in to diagnose the people, see what kind of plague it is, and then prescribe the right medicine.

The reason why this plague is not included in the history books may be because it is not large in scale and the reason why the disease is not violent, anyway, with these half-baked doctors under Cao Xing, they have been going for a few days, and they have really cured others, at least the condition has improved, and the conditions of many patients have been controlled.

Cao Xuan personally walked into the county, and the people in the county, no matter where Cao Xing was from, what they came here for, all stood up and expressed their gratitude to Cao Xing, and even some people proposed that they didn't want to stay in this place and were willing to leave with Cao Xing.

Looking at the appearance of the people after recovery, Cao Xuan also smiled knowingly, it seems that his help this time was not in vain, but for their kindness, Cao Xuan only understood it, Cao Xuan asked them to recuperate here, so as not to let the plague spread again.

However, some people are happy and some are worried, although Cao Xing's half-baked doctors have saved some people, but there are still some people who have died in the plague, Cao Xing let his soldiers wear gauze and gather all these people in one place, there is no way, in order to prevent the plague, they can only be cremated together.

Then he moved the people who were already terminally ill to a place again, and in the face of these people who were very seriously ill, some of the doctors under Cao Xing were useless at all, and they could not be treated, and perhaps the only thing waiting for these people was death.

For this reason, Cao Xing was also quite helpless, on this day he stood in the vast plain, the breeze blew through the clothes on his body, and directly blew his clothes fiercely.

And at this moment, Cao Xuan couldn't help but sigh: "I came to Jizhou this time to burn, kill and plunder, but I didn't expect to be nosy, should I be nosy!" ”

A voice like a silver bell came from the side: "Childe doesn't have to blame himself, Childe is kind-hearted, he has saved thousands of people, and he has made great merit, I believe that those dead people, they know under Jiuquan, and they will not blame you!" ”

Xiao Man said to Cao Xing, after listening to Xiao Man's words, Cao Xing's heart was much better, in fact, he was thinking, he, a good person, didn't do it all at once, saved some people, but didn't save some people, in this case, will anyone blame him Cao Xing? Cao Xing didn't want to do bad things with good intentions.