Luoyang, Cao Cao's camp.

"What? Thieves dare! Cao Cao heard the news of Zhang Miao's betrayal, and his heart was extremely angry, seeing that his plan was about to succeed, but he didn't expect to encounter such a thing, Zhang Miao and Chen Gong actually tried to rebel, especially hateful, after hearing that Zhang Miao and Chen Gong rebelled, the counties and counties actually looked at the wind and surrendered, and Taishan County at this time also chose to return to Xuzhou under the command of Tao Qian's general Zang Ba, just a few days of work, the entire Yanzhou was left with only two counties of Shanyang and Jiyin and two counties of Dong County and Dong County, Dong A two counties were struggling to hold on, because the defenders of the two counties of Shanyang and Jiyin are Cao Ren, who is good at defense, and the defenders of Juanxian and Dong'e are the resourceful Cheng Yu, the rebels' attacks are difficult to work, so they can barely hold on, but if there is no rescue, they will sooner or later fail because of the problem of food and grass.

Now tens of thousands of troops, henchmen, strategists, and generals are eager for Cao Cao to come to the rescue.

Although Cao Cao was furious in his heart, but it was to no avail, he originally thought that Zhang Miao and Chen Gong were reliable people, but he didn't expect that they would choose to betray, and bring such heavy losses to themselves, so he had no choice but to convene Guo Jia and Xun Yu and others to discuss the solution.

In fact, now Guo Jia and Xun Yu are also very troubled, I really didn't expect that the things that had been plotted well would have a new change, their own backyard caught fire, and Zhang Miao and Chen Gong, who had always been reliable, suddenly rebelled, which was really a bit unexpected.

Guo Jia even thought about the cause and effect of the matter carefully, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt a cold sweat behind his back, because it seemed that many things were not connected, but if he thought about it carefully, he could find that there was definitely someone behind it who was manipulating or fueling the troubles.

"Touching the setting of Captain Jin, Bian Rang was killed, and Chen Gong Zhang Miao's rebellion These things seem to be isolated, but if you think about it carefully, they do have an inseparable connection, it is precisely because Bian Rang knew these things that he asked the lord, it was precisely because Bian Rang was killed that Chen Gong and Zhang Miao rebelled, but these things are almost all secret, why can Bian Rang know? Even if Bian Rang is killed, it will take a few days for the news to reach Chen Liu from Luoyang, right? If such a thing was not deliberately spread, how could it have spread to Chen Liu so quickly? So Jia believes that there must be someone behind this. ”

"This must have something to do with those who spread rumors, and I will order a thorough investigation of those who spread rumors, arrest them, and interrogate the masterminds behind them." When Cao Cao heard this, he immediately ordered a thorough investigation of those who spread rumors near Bian Rang's residence before killing Bian Rang.

Guo Jia said with a wry smile: "Since the other party has been prepared, he must have retreated after the matter is over, and we are afraid that it will be futile if we want to investigate, but Jia has an intuitive judgment, this matter must be related to Pei Qing, because this matter is the most beneficial to Pei Qing and is what he is most happy to see." ”

"But the plan of the lord to touch the gold was proposed by Cheng Zhongde, and out of secrecy at that time, the lord did not tell anyone, how did Bian Rang know about it? We want to say that Cheng Zhongde is meticulous, which is simply impossible, because Cheng Zhongde is now fighting desperately against traitors in Dongjun, so who among us revealed this news? Xun Yu first raised a question, although he did not agree with Cao Cao's approach in his heart, but after all, he was not a pedantic person, Cao Cao's purpose in doing this was also to rescue the Son of Heaven, the so-called big things are not informal, so they can reluctantly accept this approach, now since the group has a problem, of course, we must do our best to think about countermeasures, and want to find out the details behind the scenes.

However, Cao Cao shook his hand and said: "The matter of the fine work will be investigated slowly in the future, in fact, I don't believe that there will be a fine work among us, maybe the secret was inadvertently leaked, the most important thing for us now is to discuss a way, whether we urgently need to defend Luoyang or immediately recapture Yanzhou." ”

At this time, I saw Mao Jue say: "Guarding Luoyang is a key part of our current establishment of the Son of Heaven, if we retreat now, it is tantamount to traveling a hundred miles and half ninety, and everything has been lost, so the lower officials think that we should guard Luoyang." ”

But he saw Manzhong open his mouth and said: "Otherwise, Yanzhou is our foundation, if there is no Yanzhou, we will not be able to resist the attack of the surrounding heroes with the ruined land of Luoyang, and in this way, we can only sit back and watch the traitors become bigger, and it will also let General Zixiao and Cheng Zhongde and other loyal and brave people fall into thieves, at that time, the traitors will unite Pei Qing and other forces with the power of Yanzhou, where will we still have a foothold?" Therefore, the lower officials believe that we should immediately retake Yanzhou, on the one hand, to teach the thieves a lesson and punishment, and on the other hand, to restore the homeland and revitalize the military prestige. ”

"But in this way, we have missed the best period to welcome the Son of Heaven, so we are busy in vain, which is not only a pleasant laughing stock, but also detrimental to our subsequent development." Strategist Ren Jun shook his head and said with a wry smile.

Cao Cao was also hesitant and asked Xun Yu, "Wen Ruo, I don't know what you think?" ”

Xun Yu thought for a moment before saying: "Yanzhou is our fundamental place, it is impossible to sit idly by, if you ignore it, the arrogance of the thieves will become more and more arrogant, we go to Chang'an on the front foot, they will be stationed in Luoyang on the back foot, and Yanzhou still has loyal and brave people fighting bravely against the enemy, if we don't care, it will chill the hearts of the soldiers, which will make Yanzhou completely fall into the hands of thieves, so sending troops to Yanzhou is a choice we must make, this point does not need to be considered at all, but leading the army to the king is the most profitable thing, and we must not give up." As long as Luoyang is still there, the Son of Heaven will always have a time to return in the future, but now we must also focus on Yanzhou, as for Luoyang, we can only defend it with a small number of troops, and when the thieves collapse, we will send a brigade to Chang'an to meet the Son of Heaven. ”

Cao Cao thought for a while when he heard this, and then asked Guo Jia, "Fengxiao, what do you think?" ”

Guo Jia nodded and said: "Xia Guan completely agrees with Mr. Wen Ruo's point of view, we must have such a way of both worlds, this is the best choice for us, but the traitors are powerful, and we must pay attention to it now, so we can only garrison Luoyang with a small number of troops, and the lord will personally lead a large army to conquer the traitors, and this has another benefit, the Xiliang army will see that our army has few soldiers, and it must not be concerned, so it will definitely concentrate the main force against Pei Qing, the Xiliang army has gone through a previous melee, although there is damage, but the main force is still there, In this case, the battle between the two sides will definitely be protracted, if we are lucky, maybe after the Yanzhou rebellion is quelled, the battle between Pei Qing and the Xiliang army is not over. In this way, the general who stayed in Luoyang was particularly important, and he must be a loyal, wise and brave person, and good at defense. ”

Cao Cao thought for a moment, but he never knew who to reassign to stay in Luoyang, and he was very troubled, so he simply asked Guo Jiadao: "I don't know if there is a recommended candidate for Fengxiao?" ”