"That's natural, but it depends on your performance, now that the Xiliang Army is at the end of its rope, and Zhang Ji's uncle and nephew's strength has been greatly reduced, can it continue to be as beautiful as it is today? Besides, my lord Pei envoy Jun has 100,000 soldiers and 100 generals, and has a strong appeal in the Kanto region. If you can cooperate with our army and surrender Zhang Ji's uncle and nephew, there will naturally be a goodbye day? Since I am a fellow colleague of Zhang Jiqi, how can I possibly seize his wife? But it depends on your sincerity. ”

"Concubine, concubine body will definitely do her best to recruit Zhang Ji's uncle and nephew, the general can rest assured." Who would want to abandon their husband and join someone else's arms if it wasn't a last resort? Zou was just in exchange for a chance to live, so he thought about making compromises, but now he saw that he didn't have to be humiliated and could exchange for the opportunity to reunite with his husband, so he was naturally pleasantly surprised, and hurriedly made a guarantee.

Chen Zhi was very satisfied with this, he nodded, and then ordered someone to escort the Zou family to a special courtyard, send a special person to guard it, and ask the servant women and maids to take care of it.

Later, Chen Zhi went out to the list to calm the people, rectified the city defense, and immediately reported the specific situation to Pei Qing, and ordered someone to send it to Qian County at an expedited speed of 800 miles.

Pei Qing, who received the news, immediately laughed and said: "Haha, well, I really didn't expect Chen Shuzhi to move so fast and break through Shang County so easily, this battle killed more than 5,000 enemy troops, recruited more than 3,000 people, and the city garrisoned by 30,000 people was taken by him in one meal, and captured Zhang Ji's wife Zou, this battle can be regarded as very successful, Chen Shuzhi made such a great achievement, enough to make the world excited, and the evil was deterred." It has been half a year since I returned to Chang'an, and in the autumn of this year, our army has obtained a bumper harvest of grain, accumulating more than 100,000 yuan of grain and grass, which is enough to support this big war, and the Xiliang thieves and thieves have killed each other and suffered heavy losses, and it seems that it is time to raise troops to fight against them. ”

For this point, the three major strategists under Pei Qing's command did not say anything to stop it, they also thought that it was indeed time to take action at this time, the Xiliang army had been greatly injured, even if it was united again, after all, it was "the army was not evenly united", and it was impossible to resist the attack of the Kwantung coalition army.

And in their opinion, now that the Xiliang army has shown signs of decline, all the princes with strength and conditions will not let go of this good opportunity for King Qin to invite merit, so that the Kwantung coalition army will work together to sweep the Xiliang army with the autumn wind sweeping the leaves and recovering Chang'an.

Pei Qing was very happy when he heard this, and immediately ordered Wang Cang to draft a document in his name, inviting the princes from all walks of life in the world to lead the army to Qin Wang, sweep away the Xiliang group of murderers, and restore the Han family.

After the news came out, Tao Qian of Xuzhou was the first to respond, ordering the general Zang Batong to lead an army of 5,000 to help in the battle.

Subsequently, there were the former Yangzhou assassin Zhou Gan, Beihai Xiangguo Kong Rong, the former Jiujiang Taishou Fu Qian and others responded, came to Qian County to meet Pei Qing, of which Zhou Gan, Fu Qian and others each brought hundreds of people, Beihai Xiang Kong Rong personally brought the famous Zheng Xuan, two thousand soldiers came, at the same time Beihai people Guan Ning and Bing Yuan also came to meet each other.

Later, Jingzhou Mu Liu Biao responded and sent his son Liu Qi to lead 3,000 soldiers to serve him.

A few days later, Pei Qing got the news that Liu Beitong, the minister of the Qingzhou Plain, led 5,000 soldiers and horses to respond, but now he is on the way, and it is estimated that it will arrive in a few more days.

When the news reached Changyi in Yanzhou, Cao Cao summoned his advisers to discuss countermeasures.

I saw that the general was full of favor and said: "Lord, in the opinion of pet, we don't have to participate in the battle between Pei Qing and the Xiliang army now, we just need to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, or take advantage of Pei Qing's absence in Yanzhou to take Yuzhou, or lead the army to conquer Xuzhou, expand their own strength, and wait until Pei Qing and the Xiliang army are both defeated, and then we will take action to clean up the mess, so that the Central Plains can be obtained and the world can be determined." ”

However, Mao Jue, who was engaged in Yanzhou Zhizhong, disagreed, and said: "My lord, the lower officials think that Man Boning's words are wrong, and now the Han family is declining, but it has not completely lost the hearts of the people, in this case, if we want to develop, it is best to follow Guan Zhong's approach, respect the king, if today's son needs King Qin, if we send troops to deal with Pei Qing and his allies, it will cause the world to criticize, so that although we have land, but also disappointed the world, but also make Pei Qing's alliance more consolidated, Later, Pei Qing will inevitably crusade us in the name of the imperial court, and then we will be isolated. ”

Later, he saw that the strategist Cheng Yu agreed with Mao Jue's point of view, believing that at this time, he should not rashly start a war with Pei Qing and his allies, and should take this opportunity to make enough political capital, and at the same time suggested that Cao Cao go to Qian County and compete with Pei Qing for the position of alliance leader.

Xun Yu also stepped forward and said: "My lord, the lower officials also think that Mao Xiaoxian and Cheng Zhongde's opinions are right, but I don't think we need to go to Qian County, let alone compete for the position of alliance leader." ”

Why is that? With the position of the lord's Zhendong general, can't he still compete for Pei Qing's miscellaneous general? When Dong Zhuo was defeated at the beginning, the lord was the first righteous teacher, but because Yuan Shao was the fourth and third princes, it was easy to better gather the heroes of the world, so he gave up the position of the leader of the alliance, and Yuan Shao was just that, but what is Pei Qing'er? Is it also worth giving in to the lord? Cheng Yu didn't understand this and asked.

I saw Xun Yu explain: "Zhong Dexiu wants to be angry, although Pei Qing is not famous, but after all, he is the princess's fiancé, plus his subordinate Chen Zhi captured Shang County in one fell swoop, which made him more famous, if the lord fights for the position of the alliance leader, it is not possible, but at that time, Pei Qing will definitely propose the princess as the alliance leader, and the princess's heart is to Pei Qing, and she will inevitably propose Pei Qing as the deputy alliance leader to control the alliance leader, so we will fight for nothing, and it will become a joke, so Yu Cai thinks that this alliance leader is not fighting." ”

"Then, Mr. Wen Ruo, what do you mean that we are willing to live under it and let Pei Qing'er command and dispatch?" Cheng Yu was still unwilling and asked again.

But Xun Yu said: "This is not necessary, we can respond to Pei Qing, but we don't have to act with him, as long as the two sides are friendly forces, they can act separately, and now Li Dao has sent his nephew Li Huan to guard Hongnong, what is Li Huan's role?" If it's an ordinary force, it's fine, and if the lord leads the army, how can it be stopped? In this way, our army captured Surabaya, Xingyang, Luoyang, and Mianchi through Chen Liu, entered and occupied Hongnong, garrisoned Huayin, and could attack and retreat. ”

Cao Cao asked Guo Jia again what his opinion was, only to see Guo Jia open his mouth and say: "My lord, Jia also agrees with Mr. Wenruo's words, and at the same time, Jia offers another strategy, which can make the lord coerce the Son of Heaven and make him not subordinate, and gain a great political advantage." ”

"Oh? I don't know what kind of trick Fengxiao has? Quick as it gets. Cao Cao was suddenly pleasantly surprised when he heard this, and he actually stood up and said to Guo Jia with an expectant face.