Pei Yuanshao led the army to set off early the next morning after agreeing to Tao Qian, and this time he led an army of 30,000 to the rescue, although this time it was not for battle, but the necessary preparations still had to be made.

Of course, Pei Yuanshao would not fight Cao Cao to the death for a Peng Chengguo who had been killed by nearly half of the population, he only needed to suppress people with force and force Cao Cao to retreat, he believed that Cao Cao was also a smart man, and it was impossible to attack Xuzhou at the risk of an all-out war with Lu Bu and himself.

Pei Yuanshao's movements were fast enough, so fast that Cao Cao didn't react, on this day, Cao Cao finally boosted his morale a little, and was ready to attack Lu Bu soon, but suddenly heard a news that shocked him: "Pei Yuanshao, the assassin of Yuzhou, led tens of thousands of troops and was waiting outside the camp. ”

"What? This Pei Yuanshao came so quickly? This is quite surprising. Cao Cao was shocked when he heard this, in his calculations, even if Pei Yuanshao was fast, it would take at least another three or five days to arrive, but this time it came too suddenly.

In addition, what puzzled Cao Cao was that after the other party came, he did not take advantage of his own unpreparedness to attack directly, but lined up outside the camp and named him to see him.

Cao Cao is not an ordinary person after all, and he understands the other party's intentions after just a little thought.

"It turns out that this Pei Yuanshao doesn't want to fight with me at all, but he doesn't want me to occupy Xuzhou, just use his army to coerce me to retreat, if I insist on not retreating, he doesn't mind spending it with me for a long time, Yuzhou has a bumper harvest this year, and the grain is very abundant, and my Yanzhou has just suffered a war, production has been destroyed, food is insufficient, and he can't afford to spend it at all, but if I choose to take the initiative to fight, I will definitely be attacked by him and Lu Bu, even if my army is strong, I don't have the confidence to face them at the same time, alas, it seems that what Bong Hyo said is right, I am destined to be in vain this time. ”

Cao Cao secretly smiled bitterly when he heard this, Guo Jia was sick at that time, Cao Cao took the opportunity to visit the patient to ask him for his opinion on this expedition to Xuzhou, Guo Jia said at that time that this battle would probably be futile, Cao Cao did not believe it at all, thinking that Guo Jia was really confused, and resolutely launched an attack, but he did not expect that by now, the words have come true.

Then Cao Cao ordered precautions, but he did not go out of the camp to meet Pei Yuanshao.

As a result, as he feared, Pei Yuanshao didn't have any other reaction at all, just ordered to set up camp not far away, and was also careful and vigilant, but he didn't make any moves, and even Cao Cao could see the movement in Pei Yuanshao's camp when he stood on the high place of the camp, only to see the grain trucks pushed over one by one, and the grain and grass were piled up like a hill, obviously Pei Yuanshao was ready for a long-term confrontation.

Next, Cao Cao can only hope that Lu Bu will take the initiative to attack, because with a person like Lu Bu, he will always be unable to help jumping out, as long as Lu Bu takes the initiative to attack, he can take the opportunity to plan and defeat Lu Bu with lightning speed, as long as Lu Bu is defeated, Pei Yuanshao will definitely take the initiative to retreat, because he will not be able to fight with him alone.

But Lu Bu's side also didn't see any movement, which made Cao Cao feel strange, because this Lu Bu has always been brave and impatient, and now he can hold back and not move, does Chen Gong really have such a great ability to persuade Lu Bu's impulse?

Of course, Cao Cao didn't know how much impulse Lu Bu endured under the joint persuasion of Chen Gong, Chen Deng, Zhang Miao and others for the position of Xuzhou Mu? In fact, even if he endured not to send troops, Lu Bu's heart would be suspicious, and even when Cao Cao disguised himself to send troops, he almost couldn't help it, but he chose to believe the words of these wise men after all.

However, Cao Cao didn't believe that Lu Bu could hold back after all, so he made all kinds of provocative and even provocative moves.

But Lu Bu insisted that he was not fooled!

Cao Cao finally gradually lost hope, he knew that Lu Bu could do this, the plan was very big, but he had no way at all, because his army was under the attack of Pei Yuanshao and Lu Bu's army, and the two sides had reached a tacit understanding, as long as he launched an attack on one of them, the other side would definitely do his best to help, at the same time, Tao Qian also gathered tens of thousands of troops to participate in it, although the combat effectiveness of these tens of thousands of troops could almost be ignored, but it brought a lot of pressure to the Qingzhou army under his command.

The confrontation lasted less than ten days, and Cao Cao was already a little unable to hold on, because he knew that the outcome would have little benefit except for money and food.

But Cao Cao couldn't save face at all, he came violently, if he went back like this, his reputation would definitely decline rapidly, and he also had a brutal reputation.

"The most critical part of this is that he didn't calculate Pei Yuanshao's horseman, he reacted so quickly and led the army to reinforce in time, if I give me another two or three days, I will be able to defeat Lu Bu and capture Donghai City." Cao Cao gritted his teeth and was depressed, in fact, if he wanted to say anything, Pei Yuanshao was nothing at all, because Pei Yuanshao was only following orders, if there was no Pei Qing's order, even if he killed Pei Yuanshao, he would not dare to do so.

So in the final analysis, I still didn't calculate Pei Qing, I really didn't expect Pei Qing's movements to be so fast, such a fast movement is amazingly creepy, this Pei Qing's intelligence is really terrifying, right?

In fact, this is not that Pei Qing's intelligence itself is terrible, mainly because Pei Qing is familiar with history and knows that after Cao Song dies, Cao Cao will definitely raise troops to fight against Tao Qian, so before Cao Cao decided to raise troops, he had already written to Pei Qing for authorization.

"Zhongde, now that we are difficult to ride a tiger, we can't advance, we can't retreat, what do you think we should do?" Cao Cao sighed with a smile on his face and asked Cheng Yu.

Cheng Yu thought for a moment and said to Cao Cao: "We are now under the attack of Pei Yuanshao and Lu Bu, and fighting is the next strategy, but if we retreat, we will inevitably become the laughing stock of the world. ”

"Oh? I don't know what the way is? Cao Cao's eyes lit up when he heard this, as if he suddenly saw a little light in the middle of the night, and hurriedly asked.

"Hehe, the bell must be tied to the bell, everything is on Tao Qian's body, we just need to do this, we can justifiably return to Yanzhou, and we can also create a contradiction between Tao Qian and Lu Bu, once Lu Bu kills Tao Qian, he will definitely lose the support of the people, and we will take the opportunity to conquer again, even Pei Qing will no longer have a way to help." Cheng Yu said with a hint of poison in his eyes, and said with a faint smile.