The five years of Xingping passed quietly, but the ensuing six years of Xingping were not a good year for Cao Cao.

Since last year's defeat at the Ma family, surrounded and trapped by 400,000 Ma family troops, hundreds of thousands of Qingzhou soldiers were lost in Jizhou, and finally even he almost became a ghost under Ma Chao's gun, which is really a fiasco that Cao Cao has never had since he commanded the army. I lost face and couldn't raise my head, and my vitality was so hurt that I couldn't straighten my waist. Especially in the later period, Cao Tai also lost power and humiliated the country, directly turning all the previous trends into a joke in the world.

If it were possible, Cao Cao really wanted God to strike a thunderbolt and kill Ma Chao and his Ma family army.

Before the trauma of the war could be recovered, it encountered a natural disaster. Maybe the winter of Xingping was not too cold and didn't freeze those locust eggs to death, or maybe God intended to give the common people a fair. In July, groups of locusts covered the sky of Yanzhou, like rolling dark clouds, raging storms, where they passed, chewing grass and eating trees, in the blink of an eye, the whole land was as empty as a field, and there was not even a single millet stalk left. The common people were eaten hungry and cold, and the wails were all over the field, helping the old and the young to flee to Sizhou, Qingzhou, and Xuzhou, and the people who starved to death along the way blocked the Yingqu. Cao Cao stood on Xuchang City, looking at this tragic scene, and couldn't help but feel sad.

And what is even more tragic is that Cao Cao is still the one who holds the Son of Heaven hostage. Historically, locust plagues have been considered to be morally uncultivated, and the emperor should issue an edict against himself. However, everyone in the world knows that the emperor has lived in the deep palace for a long time, and the decrees issued by the Sikong Mansion are all decided. All of a sudden, Cao Cao was pushed to the forefront, and those old Hanchen began to stir up rumors again.

The most unbearable thing for Cao Cao is that this civil strife is only aimed at him, Cao someone. But Jing'an Cao reported that the folk customs in various parts of the world have actually pointed to the orthodoxy of the Han family! -- With the previous case of the locust fighting in Majia Town, people suddenly discovered that when the orthodox Han family and the Cao clan Sikong faced a natural disaster, they did not have very strong measures to displace the people. As a result, for a while, the Ma family did nothing, but it successfully suppressed the prestige of the Han family and raised its prestige.

For this, Cao Cao and his staff frowned. It was at this time that the relationship between the Cao family and the Han family did enter a very unfriendly node. After Ren Jun analyzed that Liu Xie still had the heart to cut off the Cao family last year, Cao Cao took a cooler approach to the Son of Heaven and limited Liu Xie's power to the deep palace. However, the more this was the case, the more it was opposed by the ministers. Although the resistance of Dong Cheng's family has been completely uprooted, there seems to be an emerging force above the court.

The most obvious thing is that Cao Cao thinks that Yang Biao, who is inextricably linked to the Ma family, is not a good thing. Cao Cao thought that his assassination could have an indescribable connection with Yang Biao no matter how he looked at it. What's more, Cao Cao recently discovered that Yang Biao had been avoiding him, and even, after the locust plague, he would never go to court on the grounds of illness, unless His Majesty gave a message.

There is also Kong Rong of Shaofu, who was lucky enough to get away with the elimination of Dong Cheng's faction, and recently put on a posture of reviving the prestige and loyalty of the Han family, and also declared that this is a great mission, just like his twentieth ancestor Kong Qiu diligently sought to revive the Zhou rites - this made Cao Cao very annoyed with Kong Rong, but he couldn't do it because of Kong Rong's status as a famous scholar.

The main ruling force of the middle and lower classes of the Cao clan is the Shilin people. The imperial examination of the Ma family has captured the hearts of the scholars of the world, and a huge number of students in the opposition have worked tirelessly to pour into the holy land in Chang'an's heart. On the one hand, Cao Cao also learned to reform the way of recruiting talents, and on the other hand, he also needed to use Kong Rong's name to win over those children of the scholar family.

This embarrassing and angry reality made Cao Cao be in the court from time to time, revealing his murderous intentions to Kong Rong. In order to deter Kong Rong, Cao Cao also deliberately dismissed Sikong Zhang Xi and killed Zhao Yan, a speaker who liked to put forward opinions. But Kong Rong saw this, and even rebuked Cao Cao for excluding dissidents and bullying the king.

For all this, Cao Cao was anxious on his face and hated in his heart. Since the beginning of this year, small-scale rebellions have begun to appear again in various places. There are still signs of a resurgence of the Yellow Turban thieves in Yanzhou, and the people at the bottom of Xuzhou also have voices calling for the return of Uncle Liu....... in the face of many crises, Cao Cao and his staff unanimously decided that a victory must be won to stabilize Cao's position. Strengthen Cao Cao's prestige and divert the contradictions under his rule.

So, Cao Cao set his sights on Yuan Tan in Qingzhou - although Cao Cao currently seems to be suffering from internal and external troubles, he is still very powerful compared to Yuan Tan. Especially Yuan Tan, who remembers eating and not remembering, after Cao Cao married his daughter to him, he even thought that he did not send troops to Jizhou to attack Cao as a merit, and Jing'an Cao caught Yuan Tan's praise and contempt for Cao's mouth several times. And this guy is really dishonest, he doesn't listen to the tune, and it is really justified to crusade against him.

In September, Cao Cao ordered Cao Ren, the general of Zhendong, and Zhang He, the general of Pingdi, to go out of Mount Tai, and the general of Zhennan, Xiahoudun, to go out of Qu County. He personally led 30,000 elite soldiers from Qingzhou, and led the generals Cao Zhen, Cao Tai, Xiahou Shang, Li Dian and others to the Chinese army and sent troops to Xuchang. Cao Cao used force again, and its deterrent effect was still very great. Under the three-way army, Qingzhou was in an emergency. Yuan Tan was originally an incompetent person who loved to kill, and at this time there was only Wang Xiu as a strategist, and he never listened to persuasion. In the face of Cao Cao's offensive, Yuan Tan was immediately furious and personally led an army of 50,000 to resist.

However, after never facing Cao Cao's main force and encountering Cao Ren, Yuan Tan saw that Cao's soldiers were far superior to his own weapons. Two thousand tigers and leopards rode and charged, and 10,000 infantry were killed and lost their armor and left. Yuan Tan couldn't figure out why he didn't even have a chance to fight against him, so he lost in vain. After that, he had no choice but to retreat to Huang County, Donglai County, and held on to the clear field.

Cao Cao's army came in person, on the one hand, he ordered the soldiers to pile up the soil and dig the tunnels, and set up a roofless high platform tower near the city, and released arrows into the city, and the arrows rained down, and the soldiers defending the city were shocked; On the other hand, they also sent generals who were capable of conquest and habitual warfare to lead their troops out and quickly occupy the surrounding counties. After Yuan Tan was trapped for two months, he suddenly found that he had even cut off the way to retreat, and he lost his courage and took the route of his wife.

After Cao Cao's daughter entered the Cao camp, instead of interceding for Yuan Tan, Cao Cao told him that he knew himself and the enemy, first pretended to agree to Yuan Tan's surrender, and then sent Cao Tai to lead 500 tigers and leopards to escort his daughter back to Huang County. Yuan Tan was overjoyed when he saw it, and set up a banquet to drink with Cao Tai, and Cao Tai immediately poured down Yuan Tan and tied his hands. After that, he opened the city gate and led Cao's army into the city, and Qingzhou was peaceful.

This battle can be said to be the only bright spot of the year, Cao Cao once again used his genius combat talent to let the world see clearly who the traitorous male they despised the most in their hearts, and greatly shocked the hearts of those doctors in the court who can only talk about it.

However, the war in the year of the destruction of Yuan was too strange and huge, so that the people of the world, who were already a little numb, did not have much feeling about this war. Everyone thinks that this year, if the two genius teenagers of North Ma Chao and South Sun Ce do not make a move, there seems to be no big war in the world that can be praised.

Cao Cao beats Yuan Tan? Isn't that a foregone conclusion?

What, and more than three months of fighting?

The level is too stinky, it should be done in a month......

In this way, in the regret of the world, the six years of Xingping have quietly passed. And the Ma family and Sun Ce, who they have high hopes for, have always been quiet. It wasn't until after the Spring Festival that another news suddenly broke out, which made the ordinary world have something to talk about after dinner: Jiangdong's little overlord and beautiful son Zhou Yu want to marry Qiao Guolao's second daughter as his wife!

After the news reached Chang'an, Ma Chao suddenly raised his head from government affairs and asked Diao Chan: "I remember, you said at the beginning that Li Junyou is either Mi Mi or Da Qiao?!" ”

Diao Chan was also stunned, but then his face returned to calm, and he said leisurely: "It seems that what should come is still coming." Yes, that Da Qiao, you should be sure that it is undoubtedly your little lover Li Junyou, who you had been thinking about in your previous life......"