In fact, for Yuan Shu's careful thinking, Pei Qing has long been able to guess, and has already made arrangements, he has left Yin Kaishan as the main general, Tang Bohu and Yin Hao as the military division of 20,000 troops to guard Peiguo, at the same time Pei Qing also entrusted the internal affairs of Yuzhou to Pei Qian and Chen Qun to deal with, he believes that in this case Yuan Shu wants to capture Yuzhou, there is absolutely no possibility of victory.

However, the next piece of news shocked Pei Qing and all the strategists under his command.

Just when Pei Qing's coalition army had not yet arrived in Nanyang, he heard the news that Cao Cao had conquered the Tiger Pass, and then Cao Cao announced that he would respond to Pei Qing's call to conquer the Xiliang army.

Then the news came like snowflakes, the next day, Cao Cao's army conquered Xingyang, on the third day, Cao Cao's army entered Chenggao, Kexuanmen Pass, a day later, Cao Cao's army entered Gong County, broke the Yan division, and the Luoyang defenders of the Xiliang army fled without a fight.

"This Cao Cao, why is he so active? Could it be that his heart is really full of ambition to serve the country? When Pei Qing heard the news, he was puzzled, and he didn't know what Cao Cao was doing.

In fact, Pei Qing still doesn't believe in Cao Cao's ambition to serve the country, because if he was really loyal to the Han Dynasty, he would not have been crowned king in the future and bullied the Son of Heaven and hundreds of officials, so this proves that Cao Cao must have a conspiracy.

At this time, Pei Qing's army had already arrived in Wancheng, and after getting the news, he secretly gathered all the strategists under his command to discuss what conspiracy was behind Cao Cao.

"As the saying goes, if you don't get up early, Cao Cao will never be so aggressive in Luoyang, let alone take the initiative to attract the main force of the Xiliang Army for us, unless he has a special purpose, is his purpose to take the opportunity to occupy Luoyang?" Hu Zhao first expressed his opinion, but he was also a little unsure, because although it was reasonable to just enter and occupy Luoyang, but now Luoyang is so broken, although it is easy to attack, but it is not easy to defend, otherwise Zhu Jun would not have been easily defeated by Li Dao and Guo Yan after occupying Luoyang.

After hearing this, Xun You also felt that things were not so simple, but he couldn't guess Cao Cao's purpose, because Cao Cao didn't seem to have anything else to do except occupy Luoyang.

Zhang Chao also fell into deep thought, although he has the characteristics of "divine calculation", but he can't guess the purpose of the other party, which means that there must be a master in the opponent's camp, and this person has the corresponding characteristics, which can restrain or weaken the effect of his "divine calculation".

And now, although Zhang Chao has Zhang Liang's intelligence, he does not have Zhang Liang's experience, so he is not comparable to Zhang Liang at his peak.

For a while, the venue was so quiet that a single needle could be heard, and everyone was using their brains to think about Cao Cao's purpose.

At this moment, I saw Xun You's eyes suddenly light up, and he said: "Princess, do you say that Cao Cao is doing this for the Son of Heaven?" When he was an official in the imperial court before, he often heard that the Son of Heaven missed his hometown Luoyang, and now Cao Cao occupies Luoyang, is it in order to return to the Son of Heaven, make great contributions through this, and then let himself gain a political advantage? ”

"Hold the Son of Heaven hostage to order the princes? How did I not think of this? Pei Qing listened to Xun You's words, thought of his performance in the history books of later generations, suddenly woke up like a dream, and said: "It must be like this, Cao Cao wants to occupy Luoyang, repair the palace, and then use the homesickness of the Son of Heaven to lure the Son of Heaven back to Luoyang, and then he can coerce the Son of Heaven to order the princes to gain political advantages, this Cao Cao, is really a generation of traitors, and he is so treacherous that he easily occupies Luoyang, which is also what I didn't notice for a while, and let him seize the opportunity." ”

Pei Qing regretted that he let Cao Cao occupy Luoyang in one fell swoop, thus establishing a great advantage, which was definitely a mistake of his own, and this mistake needed to pay a great price to make up.

"But Cao Cao simply doesn't have enough materials to repair Luoyang, and at that time, we can use this reason to prevaricate Cao Cao." Hu Zhao was a little puzzled, in fact, he also thought of this, but he also thought that Cao Cao had just recruited hundreds of thousands of Yellow Turban troops, and the materials were already in short supply, if he forcibly requisitioned materials to repair Luoyang, it would definitely cause a rebellion under his rule, which was definitely more than worth the loss for him.

Zhang Chao also didn't understand this, and he couldn't figure out how Cao Cao could solve this problem.

However, Pei Qing thought of it, because there are relevant records in historical materials, Pei Qing solved the problem of material shortage by robbing tombs, and it was precisely because of this incident that the title of Captain Touching Gold appeared in history, and since then it has become synonymous with the industry of tomb robbing.

So Pei Qing said very directly: "If I guess correctly, Cao Cao must have taken the means of robbing tombs, hehe, not to mention anything else, how many mausoleums are there around Luoyang from ancient times to the present, and who can say clearly?" As long as he can find a location, he can use the strength of the army to quickly steal and dig an ancient tomb, get property and raise the army, and repair Luoyang, killing two birds with one stone. ”

"What? How would Cao Mengde do such a thing? Shouldn't it be? Cai Yong and Cao Cao also had some friendship, and when he heard this, he was suddenly a little incredulous, so he shook his head and said.

Pei Qing sneered: "Since Cai Gong and Cao Cao were old friends, they should know who he is, this Cao Cao used means to deceive his grandfather Cao Song when he was a child and lost trust in his uncle, he is a deceitful person, what can he not do?" ”

Subsequently, Pei Qing ordered all counties and states to strictly check the people who entered and exited, and absolutely did not let the tomb robbers succeed in their own territory, especially the kingdoms of Liang and Chen, which were even more important.

But what do they do next? This becomes a major issue before them.

"Cao Cao will definitely not continue to act after winning Luoyang, but to find a way to hold on and repair Luoyang, on the one hand, in order to tempt the Son of Heaven to return to Luoyang to prepare, on the other hand, it is also to let the Xiliang Army focus its attention on us, let us drag the main force of the Xiliang Army, but he took the opportunity to take Chang'an lightly, at that time, the main credit for welcoming back the Son of Heaven is his, although we lost our troops, but we did not get benefits, the other party is really calculating."

Pei Qing snorted, and then asked the strategists, is there any way to crack Cao Cao's conspiracy?

Hearing this, Xun You said: "It's not difficult to crack it, as long as we all stand still, Cao Cao naturally can't find a chance, but this will cause disagreements within our alliance, resulting in the same result as the last crusade against Dong Zhuo, so this method is just a strategy." ”

"So what else can we do?" Of course, Pei Qing was not very satisfied with this "next step", so he continued to ask.

But after that, no one spoke again, but during this period, Hu Zhao gestured with his eyes, which seemed to have something to say, but it was inconvenient to say.

Pei Qing suddenly understood and announced the dismissal of the meeting, asking everyone to think about it after they went back.

Not long after, I saw Hu Zhao come up and say that there was a way to solve the problem, but, but this approach is a bit damaging, it is a matter of harming others and benefiting oneself, and at the same time, it also depends on how Cao Cao made up his mind, so this method can be described as a middle policy. ”

"Oh? I don't know what to do? Pei Qing was overjoyed when he heard this, in this situation, it is impossible to have a perfect solution, and it is already very rare to be able to think of a middle strategy, so he hurriedly asked.