Wei Yan received Jin Jue's order, and he had completed the handover from last year, and secretly transported his troops to Shangyong, while he himself took Sima from other departments and a small number of elite soldiers to prepare to rush to Montenegro as soon as the spring of next year begins.

Because Lü Bujun himself was not there, except for a few counties in the east near Taihang Mountain, such as Taiyuan County, Shang County and Hedong County, all their county guards followed Chen Gong's orders, adopted a policy of cultivation, and focused all their attention on Tuntian.

Comparatively speaking, the number of troops in these three counties is not very large.

Once the Cao army suddenly led troops to break into Henan Yin, it was really difficult for Lu Bu's army to draw or train enough soldiers to attack Cao's army in a short period of time.

As for Liu Beijun, let's not mention that Liu Bei has secretly begun to implement the 'Let Xuzhou' plan.

In terms of military strength alone, on the surface, Liu Bei's army is not a lot of troops, almost equal to Cao's army. However, in fact, there are really not many soldiers in Liu Bei's army who can really participate in field battles or siege battles now, accounting for only about three to four percent of the total number of Liu Bei's soldiers, and the remaining six or seven percent are only recruits who were temporarily recruited during the war to assist the main army in defending the city or defense line.

Therefore, if Cao's westward expedition plan goes smoothly, it will be really difficult for the surrounding forces hostile to Cao Cao to make timely and effective countermeasures in a short period of time.

On the third day, Cheng Yu immediately returned to Dongjun.

Originally, Cheng Yu planned to leave Xu County yesterday, Cao Cao was worried that Cheng Yu was in a hurry, and if he was tired and sick, this loyal military division and general, the gains outweighed the losses, so he insisted on leaving Cheng Yu in Xu County for a day.

Cheng Yu returned to Dongjun this time and had three tasks.

The first task, after Cheng Yu returns, will immediately send his subordinates to sort out the entire Yanzhou, dig deep into the detailed work sent by Yuan Shao and Liu Beijun to the territory, and prevent the news of the Western Expedition plan from leaking from Yanzhou.

In the second task, Cheng Yu will deploy troops to prevent Liu Beijun in Taishan County from sending further troops to threaten the security of the Yanzhou counties in the west or north of Taishan County.

And for the third task, Cheng Yu also had to prepare in advance, and after the beginning of spring, he began to migrate the people of Yanzhou westward.

As for spring ploughing, it is naturally abandoned.

Cao Jun's plan was to wait until the summer harvest season, and the soldiers left in the counties and states of Yanzhou under the command of Cheng Yu would immediately withdraw from the entire Yanzhou after harvesting the winter wheat.

It's not that Cao Cao is stingy, for this bit of food, he put Cheng Yu and Cao Jun's soldiers in danger, it is really because in recent years, Cao Cao has repeatedly raised troops and consumed a lot of food, but he has gained nothing, so that Cao Jun is now extremely short of food, and the migration of the people will undoubtedly consume a lot of food.

Taking food from Ma Teng's command to supplement his own shortcomings, Cao Cao basically did not consider this. Because, according to the intelligence, in addition to the first county of Hanyang County, the land of Guanzhong Sanfu not only lacks the people, but also the chief officials of the three counties are all the sons of Ma Teng, and it is really difficult for them to let the three generals manage the government affairs of the first county.

As for the talents who are good at governing the three counties, they were either forcibly 'invited' to their command by Jin Jue in advance, or they all lived in seclusion or hid in the mountains, and they were not willing to come forward to work for Ma Teng at all.

Ma Teng once joined the black history of the Xiliang rebels, and before, he suddenly turned against Jin Jue for no reason, and sent troops to attack Luoyang County, but he encountered these two things, which made the family and the Han scholars in Guanzhong extremely unoptimistic about him.

This point has long been confirmed by Xun Yu from Su Ze, who is on the list of loyal ministers of the Han Dynasty.

Because Su Ze himself knew very well that at the beginning, the people who were invited to Luoyang County with him were undoubtedly all very capable talents in Guanzhong.

Accompanying Cheng Yu to Dongjun was accompanied by two generals - Yu Ban and Le Jin.

Yu Ban is good at managing the army, and letting him participate in the work of migrating the people is undoubtedly the most suitable candidate, and Lejin is newly defeated, let him go to Yanzhou, he can re-recruit and train a group of new soldiers, and at the same time, he will guard against Liu Beijun in Taishan County.

Li Tong continued to lead the remnants and stationed in the southern part of Yingchuan, which was close to Runan County and the northern part of Nanyang County, to prevent Wei Yan or Fu Tong from leading troops to attack Yingchuan County.

After the military meeting, Cao Cao roughly made such personnel arrangements.

Of course, this is only temporary, once the snow melts, the other Cao Cao and Xiahou generals under Cao Cao will also go to the counties of Yanzhou or Yuzhou to participate in the task of migrating the people.

And when the time comes, Cao Cao will personally lead the troops as Xiahou Yuan's backup and participate in the western expedition.

It's not that Cao Cao doesn't worry and doesn't believe in Xiahou Yuan's ability, but in this western expedition, Cao Cao wants to ensure that he can get it as quickly as possible, and between Jin Jue's army and Lu Bu's army's reaction, it is best to be able to capture Guanzhong Sanfu immediately within a month.

And the battle for Zuo Feng Yijun has become the key to it.

Cao Cao had learned that Yang Feng, who had a grudge against him, had now led his troops to take over Xihai County in the north of Zuo Fengyi County, and the extremely capable Sima Yi was the Taishou of Hedong County close to Zuo Fengyi County.

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Let's talk about Sun Cejun.

In the first month of the fourth year of Jian'an, Sun Ce also summoned a cadre of advisers and generals to Moling County, Danyang County, to hold a military meeting, and among the people attending the meeting, Zhou Yu was also far away in Yuzhang County.

Moling County was actually the city of Nanjing in later generations, and later, Liu Bei also suggested that Sun Quan should use it as the capital.

For Sun Ce to recruit Zhou Yu back to participate in such an important military meeting this time, those veterans who looked down on Zhou Yu before, this time, they didn't dare to say anything more.

In the battle last year, if Zhou Yu hadn't suddenly dispatched troops in time to cross the river and save Sun Benbu, who was being attacked by Wei Ming and Tai Shici at that time, in the third battle of Xuzhou, Sun Ce's army in Jiangbei could only end up with a whole army annihilated.

It was also the sudden appearance of Zhou Yu that left the last fig leaf for the military operation led by Sun Ce, and preserved the only county in Jiangbei that has not yet been captured by Liu Bei's army.

In the face of such feats, even Sun Ce was a little ashamed, let alone other generals.

Due to the distance, even if he came by boat, Zhou Yu was the last to arrive in Moling County.

As soon as he saw Zhou Yu walk in, Sun Ce hurriedly got up, greeted him personally, and asked enthusiastically, "Gong Jin, is it all going well along the way?" This time, if it weren't for you, Lone would be bullied by the lame little two! ”

As for the reason for the participation in the third Xuzhou and the defeat of Jiangbei, Sun Cejun, starting from Sun Ce himself, formed a consensus among the whole army, that is, Sun Ce was defeated by the reinforcements sent by Jin Jue, not by Liu Bei.

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