Cao Cao's face sank suddenly, and his eyes approached Guo Jia's eyes.

"Fengxiao, what basis do you have for thinking that Yuan Benchu will attack Qingzhou?"

Although Xia Guan didn't dare to say that it was inevitable, he was also eighty or ninety percent sure. As for the basis for the lower officials, it comes from the current development of the situation, and the situation in the north will be decided. Wen Bufan conquered and annexed the state, and if there was no accident, the annexation would fall into his hands. In Youzhou, Liu Yu, the assassin of Youzhou, was worried about Gongsun Zhan's rebellion and wanted to kill him, but his ability was mediocre, and there were no generals available under him, and 100,000 elite soldiers were repelled by Gongsun Zhan's 20,000 soldiers and horses. Later, Gongsun Zhan took advantage of the situation to pursue, and broke through Juyong City in three days, captured Liu Yu and his wife and children alive and returned to Jixian County. Later, Gongsun Zhan framed Liu Yu and Yuan Shao for seeking to become emperor, and beheaded Liu Yu and his wife and children in Jishi. After Gongsun Chan killed Liu Yu, he got the entire Youzhou.

Yuan's original Jizhou was located in the northern center, surrounded by Bingzhou, Youzhou, Yanzhou, and Qingzhou. Gongsun Zan and Yuan Benchu were like fire and water, although Wen Bufan and Yuan Benchu had no conflict now, Wen Bufan had been persecuted by him again and again in the past, and it was impossible to be friendly with him. And the lord and Wen Bufan are well-known best friends in the world. Yuan Benchu was ambitious, and with such a huge force, he was naturally afraid that the lord and Wen Bufan would join forces to attack him. Therefore, if Yuan Benchu did not take advantage of this time, and the state had not yet fallen into the hands of Wen Bufan, and the lord had not yet obtained Yanzhou, if he had preemptively obtained Qingzhou, it would be difficult to move an inch in the future, even if there were 200,000 male soldiers, it would be useless. ”

At this time, because of the slow intelligence communication in ancient times, Cao Cao and others had not yet learned that Wenhan had obtained the news that he had annexed the state. The more Cao Cao listened, the darker his face became, and he said slowly.

"In this way, Qingzhou, Yuan Benchu is bound to win. I don't know Fengxiao, what is the clever plan, can you teach me to stop Yuan Benchu? ”

Guo Jia shook his head slightly.

"It is not appropriate for the lord to turn his face with Yuan Benchu at this time. After all, Yuan Benchu had a lot of talents and 200,000 soldiers. At this time, Yanzhou is undecided, and the lord wants to forcibly take Qingzhou. undoubtedly forced Yuan Benchu into a dead end, Yuan Benchu was bound to fight back, and he lost both defeats in the battle with the lord. In this way, it will only cheapen Gongsun Chan in Youzhou for nothing. ”

"In this way, I can repair a letter to send to Wen Bufan, and I will form an alliance with him and fight Yuan Benchu together."

"Nope. At this time, the state was undecided, even if Wen Bufan obtained the state, the soldiers and horses were exhausted from the war, and the state was ravaged by the war for many years, it was the time when all kinds of waste were needed, Wen Bufan had no time to fight with the Lord Alliance Yuan Benchu. Moreover, even if Wen Bufan really forced it and allied with the lord. Yuan Benchu will also try his best to ally with Gongsun Zhan, after all, his lips are dead and his teeth are cold. If the lord and Wen Bufan force the alliance of these two giant tigers, with the current strength of the lord and Wen Bufan, it will undoubtedly hit the stone with an egg. And don't forget, the lord is that there are 700,000 black mountain thieves here in Yanzhou at the moment. ”

"Is it possible, I want to watch Qingzhou fall into the hands of Yuan Benchu!?"

"Don't worry, my lord. In these troubled times, if you don't have enough troops to protect and a large population to maintain, what is the use of having more territory? And the people of Qingzhou almost all joined the Black Mountain Thieves, and all the Black Mountain Thieves have such a huge number. As long as the lord is here in Yanzhou, half of the Montenegrin thieves who will commit crimes in the future will be collected, and then the population will be brought in from all counties and counties in Qingzhou with lightning speed. So even if Yuan Benchu can get Qingzhou, he will only get a big open space. ”

Cao Cao's eyes lit up suddenly, and the original dark color was swept away, and he even laughed.

"Hahahaha. If it weren't for Feng Xiao's reminder, I wouldn't have woken up. Good! In this way, I will first follow Wenhe's plan, borrow the hand of the Black Mountain Thief, and plot Liu Dai, an uneasy and kind old horseman, to death, and then take all the remnants of his army, and then fight a decisive battle with the Black Mountain Thief. After defeating the Montenegrin thieves, they will collect their surrendered troops, and finally bring back a large number of people from Qingzhou! ”

With the advice of Jia Xu and Guo Jia, two geniuses, Cao Cao finally decided the next movement of his forces.

And the development of the current situation is also as designed by Cao Cao and others. Ten days later, the gate of Changyi was opened by Cao Cao's eyeliner, a large number of black mountain thieves rushed into Changyi City, Liu Dai was unexpected, with his family fled in a hurry, but the number of black mountain thieves is really terrifying, Changyi City is almost full of black mountain thieves, Liu Dai in the support of Yanzhou soldiers, has not escaped out of the city, its army was killed from all directions Black Mountain thieves to disperse, Liu Dai and his family died under the knife of the Black Mountain thieves, after Liu Dai died, the Yanzhou army was leaderless, the remaining soldiers scattered in a hurry, lost their armor and fled everywhere. The Black Mountain thieves covered up all the way, killing the 60,000 Yanzhou soldiers who were scattered to the point of blood, and inside and outside Changyi City, there were the corpses of Yanzhou and Yanzhou. In the end, the number of Yanzhou soldiers who escaped was less than 30,000.

At this time, Cao Jun, who had already led the army to lurk thirty miles outside Changyi City, suddenly killed Changyi City the next day, and after repelling all the black mountain thieves who were chasing the remnants of Yanzhou, he collected more than 10,000 remnants of Yanzhou. The remnants of Yanzhou who fled to the surrounding area either encountered scouts sent by Cao Cao, or heard the news of Cao Cao's troops coming along the way to escape, and rushed to Cao Cao's camp one after another. Five days later, Cao Cao exhausted the remnants of Yanzhou, with a strength of nearly 90,000.

Cao Cao has a new army, and he will first do the integration and rest. During this period, the Black Mountain thieves made a series of attacks, all of which were repelled by Cao's army. On one of the occasions, Jia Xu planned to teach Cao Cao to lead the army to withdraw from the camp at night, and at the same time place flammable materials on both sides of the camp.

When the black mountain thieves entered the camp, they saw that the camp was empty, and they knew that it was the time of chaos. Cao Cao's generals Xiahoudun and Xiahouyuan shouted in unison on both sides of the camp and ordered the ambush soldiers to release arrows together. The burning arrows crossed the night sky, like a huge meteor shower falling into the camp, there were many flammable materials in the camp, under the burning of countless rockets, the camp suddenly rose into flames, and for a time there were countless black mountain thieves who were shot to death and burned to death by their comrades who were pushed and trampled to death. The nearly 50,000 black mountain thieves who attacked were almost dead, and later the black mountain thieves in Changyi City saw the fire in the distance, and burned the night into day, and the black mountain thief generals in the city immediately sent 50,000 soldiers and horses to rescue. Rushing halfway, they were ambushed by Dian Wei and Cao Ren, and the Black Mountain thieves who came to the rescue were frightened again and again, and suddenly became chaotic, Dian Wei and Cao Ren led the army left and right to rush into the crowd of Black Mountain thieves, killing all the blood and red flying flesh one by one.

Later, Cao Cao led the army to come, and Dian Wei, Cao Ren two soldiers and horses rushed to kill, killed until dawn, the Black Mountain thieves who came to the rescue died more than half of the horses, and the rest fled back to Changyi City. Cao Cao saw that the soldiers had been killed all night, and he did not chase them, so he immediately ordered all the generals to lead all the troops to return to the village.

In this battle, nearly 80,000 Black Mountain thieves died, and Cao Cao's prestige once again hit the heart of every Black Mountain thief. Since then, the black mountain thieves in Changyi City did not dare to attack rashly, and their morale plummeted. There were a few black mountain thief generals, and even thought that Cao Cao used soldiers like a god, and they were even more afraid of Cao Cao who could not be defeated.

A few days later, Cao Cao received a secret letter from these Black Mountain thief generals and was immediately overjoyed.

"Angel, I have Changyi!"

Later, Cao Cao rewarded the people, and at the same time called his subordinates, and after discussing with Jia Xu, Guo Jia and other strategists, he decided to follow the promise and lead the army under his command to attack Changyi City on the night of three days later.

On the appointed day, Cao Cao divided his army into three teams and came to the city of Changyi. Cao Cao looked at it first, and saw that the city was full of flags, and on the corner of the west gate, there was a white flag with the word "righteousness", and he was secretly happy in his heart, thinking of this matter.

At noon, the city gate opened, and two Montenegrin generals led the army to battle. Cao Cao was not in a hurry to rejoice, even if Dian Wei and Xiahou Dun went out of the horse, Dian Wei rode his horse and went straight to the general on the left, while Xiahou Dun waved his gun and slapped the horse to meet the general on the right. Dian Wei roared violently, like thunder, and before the people arrived, they frightened the black mountain general on the opposite side almost off their horses. When Dian Wei arrived, he raised his halberd and fell, and stabbed him to death with a halberd. As for the other side, Xiahoudun greeted the general on the right, a shot flew and stabbed, and the shadow of the gun was like fire, and the black mountain general, before he could shoot, was pierced in the head by Xiahoudun with a shot. The two Black Mountain thieves were killed, and the sergeants under them immediately dispersed, and they all turned around and fled into the city. Dian Wei and Xiahoudun rushed to the side of the suspension bridge, and after killing for a while, the two were brave and killed hundreds of black mountain thieves.

At this moment, several Black Mountain thieves took advantage of the situation to meet Cao Cao, saying that he was a confidant of the general who surrendered to Cheng and presented the secret book.

Shuyun: "At the beginning of tonight, the gong will be sounded in the city, and the army can be marched." At that time, the three city gates in the southeast and north were guarded by a few people, and Cao Gong came to attack on time, and we will lead the army to present the three city gates in the southeast, north and south. ”

After Cao Cao finished reading, the smile on his face was even more victorious, dialing Xiahou Dun to lead the army in the east, Cao Ren to lead the army in the south, and he led Xiahou Yuan, Li Dian, Le Jin, and Dian Wei four generals, and led the troops at the north gate.

At the beginning of the day, the moonlight was not on and the night was not thick. I could only hear the sound of blowing shells on the three gates of the southeast and north, and the shouts suddenly rose, the torches on the doors were in chaos, the city gates were wide open, and the drawbridge was put down.

Cao Cao saw that the thief really offered the city as promised, and immediately rushed to enter first. Xiahou Yuan, Li Dian, Le Jin, and Dian Wei hurriedly followed behind Cao Cao, and at the same time, on the southeast side, Xiahou Yuan and Cao Ren also led the army into the city at the same time.

The three armies of the Cao army were killed in the city, and the black mountain thief defenders in the southeast and north cities suddenly counter-killed the black mountain thieves who rushed to the city gate, and those black mountain thieves saw that their former comrades actually waved their chopping blades at them, and they suddenly panicked. At this time, the three armies of the Cao army had rushed from the rear and rushed towards the chaotic army of the Black Mountain thieves. As several Black Mountain thief generals were killed by Xiahoudun, Cao Ren, and Dian Wei who bravely rushed into the enemy's formation, some of the Black Mountain thieves could no longer bear the fear in their hearts and fled to the West Gate one after another.

With the escape of some of the Black Mountain thieves, it was like a plague overflowing, and the Black Mountain Bandit troops fled to the West Gate with their lives. Cao Cao's three armies were in one place, and those black mountain thieves who surrendered to sincerity had a white belt tied to their left arms, and Cao Cao's soldiers and horses all knew in advance that they could distinguish between friend and foe, so they did not kill anyone by mistake.

Subsequently, Cao Cao led the army to the west gate to cover and kill, killing a group of black mountain thieves screaming, like a downpour of rain, resounding endlessly. After fighting for three hours, about 500,000 Black Mountain thieves were able to successfully escape from the city, and the remaining 60,000 or 70,000 thieves were all surrounded and killed by Cao's army.

Cao Cao saw that at this time, it was a good time to subdue these black mountain thieves, and hurriedly shouted.

"If you don't want to die, lay down your weapons, and don't kill those who surrender!!"

As soon as Cao Cao drank, the surrounding Cao troops all raised their weapons and shouted in unison.

"If you don't want to die, lay down your weapons, and don't kill those who surrender!!"

These 60,000 or 70,000 thieves have long lost their will to fight, and at this time they have been besieged and killed, and their morale is completely lost. Soon, the sound of soldiers falling to the ground sounded, and the sixty or seventy thousand black mountain thieves all knelt down and surrendered.

So far, Cao Cao has won Changyi City, surrendered, and surrendered more than 80,000 Black Mountain thieves, and the army has increased dramatically. Excluding the 10,000 people who died in the repeated battles with the Black Mountain bandits, the number of troops reached 160,000.