After Cao Cao received Tao Qian's assurance, he waited for Tao Qian to fulfill his conditions, and hinted to Tao Qian that as long as Tao Qian's promise was fulfilled, he would immediately withdraw his army.

Although Tao Qian has decided to give up the position of Xuzhou Mu, but there is no way to do it, if there is really hope that the dispute can be resolved peacefully, and at the same time can win huge prestige for himself, he may be able to continue to be Xuzhou Mu, although he promised Lu Bu before, but he did not say when to pass the position of Xuzhou Mu to him, at least wait until he has arranged everything, right? For example, the future life of yourself and your children, the appointment of local governors, etc., if these things are not handled well, if you don't say anything else after you leave office, at least your life must be guaranteed, right?

So Tao Qian ignored the dissuasion, and immediately ordered the promised 100,000 stone grain, 5,000 horses of silk, and 10 million money to Cao Cao's camp as a commetic benefit to Cao Song, and at the same time promised that he would not give up the pursuit of Zhang Min in the future.

Although there were a lot of promises, they were sent to Cao Cao's camp in just half a day, which shows how urgent Tao Qian was for this?

Cao Cao was so pleased with this that he accepted the benefits with great pleasure, and ordered the army to retreat that night.

On the way to retreat, Cao Cao said to Cheng Yu with a grateful face: "When I negotiated with Tao Qian during the day today, thanks to Mr. for falsely reporting the matter in Hanoi to relieve me of the siege, otherwise I really don't know how to change my mind and agree to Tao Qian?" ”

But seeing Cheng Yu's heavy face, he said: "Xiaguan didn't make a false report, doesn't the lord know yet?" Things did happen in Hanoi, and the matter was just yesterday, and the spy Pegasus came to report, and the lower official reported it to the lord as soon as possible, and the lower official thought that the lord had already made arrangements, but he didn't know it. ”

"What? Is there really such a thing? Cao Cao was surprised when he heard this, and hurriedly said angrily: "I really didn't expect this to be true, Yang Feng is so ignorant, colluding with the Huns to commit me Luoyang, and daring to commit such a crime, this time I will definitely not spare him!" In this way, it was wrong to give him a chance before? ”

Cao Cao's expression and words are naturally true and false, half-truths and half-truths, in fact, after hearing this news, his heart is still very happy, because it is just an excuse to send troops to occupy Hanoi, although the territory of Hanoi County is not large, but the geographical location is very important, as long as he occupies this place, he can peep at any time and merge the state, and at the same time, it can also pose a threat to Pei Qing's Hedong and prevent him from posing a threat to Luoyang.

Therefore, after learning the news, Cao Cao immediately ordered to leave the baggage troops to advance slowly, while Cao Cao personally led the elite to advance lightly, and must reach Luoyang in the shortest possible time to repel Yang Feng's attack.

After Cao Cao retreated, Pei Yuanshao also led his troops to retreat, sent troops to occupy Pengcheng State according to the prior agreement, let Li Tong temporarily replace Peng Chengxiang, and sent people to pick up Liu He, the king of Pengcheng who had fled to Lu State, and issued a notice to stabilize the people.

"What? actually let that Pei Yuanshao occupy Pengchengguo! Seeing Pei Yuanshao's march into Pengchengguo, Lu Bu's heart was very dissatisfied, after all, he was about to become the new master of Xuzhou, and seeing that his territory was missing, his heart would naturally not feel good.

However, Lu Bu knew that now Cao Cao could not be counted on at all, and his Xuzhou Mu could only count on Pei Qing's support if he wanted to be recognized, so he still didn't dare to offend Pei Qing at present, so he had to let Pei Yuanshao lead the army to occupy Pengchengguo.

"Let Pei Yuanshao occupy Pengchengguo, so that he will become a barrier to my Xuzhou, and I don't have to worry about Cao Cao attacking my Xuzhou anymore." Lu Bu can only comfort himself now and find a psychological balance, and the most important thing for him now is to succeed to the position of Xuzhou Mu, since Tao Qian has promised, then he naturally thinks that this matter is already a sure thing, and it will come naturally.

So the day after confirming Cao Cao's departure, Lü Bu led all his civil and military forces, including soldiers, to Xiapi to prepare to accept Tao Qian's appointment.

However, when Lu Bu came to Xiapi City, he saw that it was already heavily guarded.

Tao Qian personally stood at the head of the city and said with a smile to Lu Bu: "I don't know what General Lu wants to lead so many people to Xiapi City?" ”

Lu Bu was not lazy, got off the horse, and said: "The envoy said before that as long as Bu helped the envoy to repel Cao Cao, he recommended Bu as the pastor of Xuzhou, and Bu came here today, mainly because of this matter. ”

"I see." Tao Qian laughed and said to Lu Bu: "General Fengxian, since Tao has agreed, how dare you disagree?" It's just that now the strong enemy has retreated, and the military and people of Xuzhou are in a panic, if the state pastor is changed at this time, I am afraid it will cause greater panic, so Tao's intention, first I will temporarily govern Xuzhou on behalf of the general, and after the military and the people are stable, it is not too late for us to hand over, anyway, Xuzhou is a general sooner or later, why should the general be in a hurry? ”

"This ......" Lu Bu felt justified when he heard this, and immediately hesitated.

However, Chen Gong on the side said loudly under the city: "Tao Envoy, how can you go back on your word? You have clearly promised to promote General Lu as the pastor of Xuzhou after Cao Cao retired from the army, but now you refuse with such a shoddy reason, do you really think that there is no one in our army? Tao Gong previously betrayed Zhang Min and Zhen Rong because of improper employment, and then led to the defeat of Cao Bao, and later made peace with Cao Cao at a huge cost, which has already made the people disappointed, and General Lu led the army to break Cao Cao and forced Cao Cao to retreat, so prestige Tao Gong You can reach? If you appease the hearts of the people and the army, I'm afraid that General Lu is more qualified than Tao Gong, right? ”

Lu Bu realized that he was almost deceived by Tao Qian, an old guy, and immediately pointed at Tao Qian and said: "Tao Gong, I thought you were a humble gentleman and a man with lofty ideals, but I didn't expect you to do this, it is really disappointing, now the belonging of the human heart has been very clear, I hope Tao Gong will not go against the sky, such words will inevitably bring disaster to himself, and at the same time bring endless disasters to Xuzhou!" ”

Tao Qian suddenly smiled bitterly when he heard this, he really didn't expect that there were really smart people under Lu Bu's command, and he could see his intentions at a glance, after all, Lu Bu's soldiers were strong and strong, although the people under his command looked okay on the outside, but the ability to fight was almost none, if Lu Bu really bent on attacking the city, these wastes would not be able to resist at all, but would bring more unwarranted disasters to Xiapi.

"General Lu misunderstood, the old man was just worried that the general would not be able to appease the people, so he reluctantly stayed in office, in fact, the old man was already tired of the life of officialdom, since General Lu has the confidence to appease the people, it is naturally no better."

So Tao Qian ordered to open the city gate, let Lu Bu enter the city, and at the same time transferred the seal of Xuzhou Mu to Lu Bu, and recommended Lu Bu as Xuzhou Mu.