In February of the first year of Xingping, Cao Cao killed the famous people who had ridiculed him many times, and even punished his family, and the old and the young did not let go. The Yanzhou scholars were so frightened that they were all silent and did not dare to speak. In mid-March, Cao Cao raised another 70,000 troops to attack Xuzhou to avenge his father. Han Yi also rose at the right time, led 50,000 troops, and also attacked Liu Bei, the prime minister of Pengcheng, in the name of revenge.

All of a sudden, the land of Xuzhou was full of wailing. The people of Xuzhou have no way to escape, and to the east is the sea; To the south was the battle of Yuan Shu's army to attack the blazing Jiangdong; To the north is the land of Qingzhou, where yellow turbans are rampant and roosters are not heard for thousands of miles; To the northwest is Yanzhou of the butcher Cao Cao; The southwest is again likely to be the new butcher Han Yi. No matter where you can't escape, you can only stay in Xuzhou to die.

Han Yi led the troops to Steroid Hill, only to see that the people of Steroid Hill were full of ashes, yellow and hungry, but the hatred in their eyes made people dare not touch them. Han Yi sighed: "Cao Cao's evil, but I am asked Han Yi to accept it at the same time." The order was given, and the army was stationed on the spot, and the horses went out to find out Liu Bei's movements. ”

A day later, Liu Beizhi's envoy Jian Yong came and said: "My lord knows the grudge with Han Zhengdong, and he is on our side. Now I heard that Han Zhengdong led the troops to Pengcheng to take revenge, and the lord of my family thought of more than 100,000 people in Pengcheng who had been through wars many times, in order to avoid being robbed again; So I deliberately gave up Pengcheng and went to the East China Sea to show my lord's true apology. ”

Han Yi laughed and said, "Liu Bei has nearly 10,000 people, but he doesn't dare to fight with me. Do you dare to send assassins to assassinate me? Now he is using the people of Pengcheng as an excuse to pretend to apologize for his crimes, and he wants to assassinate me in secret? It's shameless. If you want to make peace, you can send Zhang Feizhi's head first. ”

Jian Yongyu said: "The two assassinations were all the private acts of my lord's righteous brother, and they were not what my lord wanted. But my father-in-law is not willing to take the head of the righteous brother of life and death to come to the crime, but only wants to use Pengcheng as a country to accompany the crime, and I hope that Han Zhengdong will agree. ”

Han Yi reprimanded angrily: "Pengcheng is the land of the court, how can Liu Bei dare to use Pengcheng's belongings to settle his own personal vendetta?" You go back and tell Liu Bei that if Liu Bei is sincere in accomplishing the crime, he will either take Zhang Feizhi's head and send it. Either take it from your own head and send it. I don't take anything else. ”

Jian Yong left in embarrassment, and returned to Pengcheng to inform Liu Bei that Zhang Fei was about to kill himself with his sword, but was stopped by Liu Bei and another righteous brother Guan Yu. Liu Bei sighed: "I thought that Han Yi was here to take Xuzhou, but I didn't want to really come to avenge myself." Why did Cao Cao and Han Yi, the loyal and righteous people who fought against Dong back then, both conquer Xuzhou for personal revenge. The people of Xuzhou have suffered a lot because of the personal grudge between Tao Envoy Jun and Bei. ”

Guan Yu discussed: "Why don't the eldest brother really abandon Pengcheng and let Cao Cao and Han Yi, who want to seize Xuzhou, have a big battle for this, maybe Xuzhou will turn the corner." ”

Liu Bei nodded and said, "Brother Fool has this intention. After that, he led the army to Tancheng in the East China Sea, but the banner was to help Tao Qian resist Cao Cao.

Within two days, there was a horse to return to Han Yi, and Liu Bei had already led the army to move to Tancheng in the East China Sea. Han Yi was receiving many celebrities in Xuzhou at this time, including Pengcheng Zhang Zhao, Guangling Zhang Hong, and Liu Biao's subordinates, Zhuge Xuan, who went to Mount Tai to take care of his brother Zhuge Gui who died of illness, and was leading Zhuge Gui's widow and children back to Jingzhou at this time.

Zhuge Xuan said: "Han Zhengdong, since Cao Cao's conquest of Xuzhou last year, millions of people have died in the war in Xuzhou. In the prosperous Xuzhou in the past, in addition to Xiapi and Guangling, there were two or three out of ten losses, and Pengchengguo suffered the most casualties, almost seven or eight out of ten. The two counties of Donghai and Langxie are also four or five out of ten. If Han Zhengdong also led his troops to attack, Xuzhou would be empty. ”

Zhang Zhao persuaded: "Han Zhengdong, I was once imprisoned by Tao Qian's old thief, but fortunately I was rescued by Zhao Yu, the former Guangling Taishou, and I also hated Tao Qian's old thief very much. However, one person acts and one person bears the burden, like Cao Cao, because of Tao Qian's old thief, he slaughtered the people of Xuzhou, which is really a loss of morality. Han Zhengdong must not follow suit, can he only sin Liu Bei and Zhang Fei? ”

Zhang Hong also wanted to persuade, but Han Yi stopped laughing and said: "When did I, Han Yi, become a person like Cao Cao who wantonly slaughtered the people for personal revenge." Liu Bei is a hypocrite and shameless, can you believe what he says? I saw that the people of Pengcheng were as dead as ashes, yellow, hungry and thin, and it must have been because of Cao Cao's expedition last year, which made the people stranded. So he ordered grain and cloth to be transported from Runan, Chen and other places, thinking that it was a matter of relief. ”

"It just so happens that I don't have anyone in my hands who can win the trust of the people of Pengcheng, and Liu Bei abandoned Pengcheng again, so I asked Mr. Zhuge to temporarily act as the prime minister of Pengcheng, Zhang Zibu as the county minister, and Zhang Zigang as the relief ambassador?"

The three of them asked in surprise: "Han Zhengdong didn't blame the people of Pengcheng?" ”

Han Yi feigned anger and said, "Who is Liu Bei? It is also worthy of the people of Pengcheng to accompany the funeral? ”

The three of them were overjoyed, and when they heard that Runan would bring more than one million stone of grain and cloth to Pengcheng, they immediately accepted the order and focused on the relief.

Cao Cao led the army out of Mount Tai, attacked Xuzhou in the south, first pulled out the five cities, and slightly reached Langxi. Suddenly hearing that Han Yi had taken Pengcheng by leading the army, he was immediately shocked and said: "Last year, I conquered Xuzhou, first, to avenge my father, and second, to occupy the land of Xuzhou to resist Han Mingyuan. Now most of Xuzhou is afraid of submission, and it will not take three months to surrender the whole territory. However, Han Mingyuan led his troops to Pengcheng, why is this? Is it for Xuzhouhu, or just for Liu Bei? ”

Xi Zhong said: "If Han Mingyuan comes for Xuzhou, I'm afraid that Xuzhou will not be attacked." The lord can quickly send an envoy to ask Han Mingyuan, if he wants to stop the lord from taking revenge? ”

Cao Cao urgently ordered Manzhong to send an envoy to Pengcheng, and Manzhong asked Han Yidao: "Since Han Zhengdong promised my lord to attack Taoqian in Xuzhou last year to avenge his father, why did he bring troops to take Pengcheng this year?" Do you want to stop my lord from taking revenge? ”

Han Yi shook his head and smiled: "I have had a big enmity with Liu Bei for many years, and this time I want to seek revenge on Liu Bei." Now that Liu Bei has fled to Tancheng, I am afraid that Meng De will be suspicious, so I will garrison troops under Pengcheng and not enter the East China Sea, which is to facilitate Meng De's revenge. If Meng De gets Liu Bei's head to me, I will be infinitely happy. But if Meng De can't attack Tancheng, I will lead my troops to find Liu Bei. ”

Cao Cao believed in it, but he didn't dare to believe it. But it has come to this point, like an arrow on the string, and it has to be sent. I had to wave my army to the eastern counties of the East China Sea, and there were many slaughters in the places I passed. When the Hui army passed through Tancheng, Xuzhou Tao Qian's troops Cao Bao and Liu Bei were stationed in Tandong, invited Cao Cao to attack, and were defeated by him, and Cao Cao immediately pulled Xiangben westward.

Tao Qian saw that he was poor at dusk, and planned to flee to his hometown Danyang. Cao Bao hurriedly persuaded: "Lord, I heard that Han Zhengdong is near Pengcheng, Cao Cao has been defeated by his hands several times, if he is invited, Cao Cao will retreat, and Xuzhou will be safe." ”

Tao Qian said hesitantly: "When Han Mingyuan attacked Yuan Shu, I raised troops to respond. Although he did not send a large army to fight directly, he took the land of Feng, Xiao and Pei counties of Peiguo. It wasn't until last year that the three counties were abandoned. Besides, Liu Xuande and Han Mingyuan have a grudge, if Han Mingyuan comes, he will kill Liu Xuande. Liu Xuande fought hard for several months for my Xuzhou matter, regardless of life and death, how could I abandon him because of this? ”

Cao Bao shouted: "My lord, just one Liu Bei, can it be heavier than the entire land of Xuzhou?" The lord doesn't want him to die, but let him go, even if he returns to Qingzhou, as long as he is not in Xuzhou. ”

Tao Qian said hesitantly: "I once said that I entrusted the land of Xuzhou to Xuande, and then let him go, how can he not hate it in his heart?" ”

Cao Bao shouted: "What about hate? The lord wants to entrust the land of Xuzhou, and that is also after driving Cao Cao away. At this time, Cao Cao was rampant in Xuzhou, and he Liu Bei had no other way. I fought twice, and I lost each time, and I didn't fight as well as I did. What's the use of keeping him? ”

Tao Qian was late to make a decision, so he invited Mi Zhu and Chen Deng to come to discuss. Mi Zhu said: "It's good to be single-minded, how can you be half-hearted, as long as you keep Tancheng still, there will always be other good news after a long time." ”

Chen Deng said: "Mi Zizhong is a child's opinion, even if Cao Cao has withdrawn, but if Han Zhengdong comes to seek revenge on Liu Bei, so what? Will I fight again for Liu Beizhi's personal vendetta in Xuzhou? ”

Mi Zhu was speechless for a while, but this matter was not in harmony with his usual behavior, but for the stability of Xuzhou, he finally kept silent.

Chen Deng said: "Recently, I heard that Han Zhengdong took Zhuge Xuan as the minister of state in Pengchengguo, Zhang Zibu as the county minister, and Zhang Zigang as the relief ambassador. Millions of grain cloths were transported to Runan for relief, and there were many people who died in Donghai and Langxie counties. It can be seen that Han Zhengdong is strong, but he is not a butcher like Cao Cao, he is a person who can be trusted. Don't hesitate any longer. ”

Tao Qian finally made up his mind, and ordered Chen Deng to send an envoy to Peng Chengguo before Cao's army was besieged, and invited Han Yi to lead an army to help. He also ordered Cao Bao to lead the army on guard, and asked Liu Bei to come and explain the reason. Liu Bei was unwilling, and looked at Mi Zhu for help, but Mi Zhu closed his eyes and did not move. Liu Bei had no choice but to express his understanding of Tao Qian's choice, and led his troops to leave Tancheng and run towards Qingzhou on the same day.

When he came, there were 5,000 soldiers and horses, and when he returned, it was still 5,000 soldiers and horses, Liu Bei looked at the thousands of soldiers and horses behind him, and felt desolate in his heart. Han Yi is younger than his own age, but he already has all of Yuzhou, most of the state, the division of the small department, and one county each of Yan, Yang, and Jing. At this time, if he gets the land of Xuzhou again, his momentum has been achieved, with more than 300,000 troops, and no one in the world can threaten him.

It is said that Han Yi can also be regarded as a loyal minister of the Han family, and it is also a matter of pleasure for everyone to reunify the Han family by him. Moreover, Han Yi came from a humble background, so he must not have the courage to usurp the throne like Wang Mang. It's just that why is I so uncomfortable? Is it envy, or jealousy?

After thinking about it for a long time, Liu Bei sighed, but it turned out that in the depths of his heart, the old example of Emperor Guangwu's revival of the Han Dynasty was always looming in his heart. When I was a child, I once pointed to the mulberry tree and said, "In the future, I will be the Son of Heaven, and I should take this car cover." ”

His own emperor's dream will be shattered, how can his heart not hurt? Liu Bei glanced back at the south fiercely, then looked in the direction of Qingzhou, and said secretly: "Han Yi, you want to dominate the world, I, Liu Bei, will not let you succeed easily." ”