In the third year of Jian'an, Cao Cao, who coveted Xuzhou, secretly contacted Liu Bei of Xiaopei, preparing to lure the snake out of the hole, and then personally led the army to deliver a fatal blow to Lu Bu's men and horses who were entrenched in half of Xuzhou.

It's just that what Cao Cao and many of his strategists didn't expect was that the plan to contact Liu Bei to attack Lu Bu was accidentally leaked.

This is really a stone that has set off a thousand waves!

Lu Bu, who was in Xiapi, was furious when he learned that Cao Cao and Liu Bei were secretly plotting to capture Xuzhou, and immediately tore up the alliance with Cao and Liu, and chose to strike first, and quickly ordered Gao Shun, the general stationed in Pengchengguo, to lead the troops to attack Liu Bei's soldiers and horses in Xiaopei.

In the face of Gao Shun's soldiers and horses, Liu Bei, who received the information, also sent an envoy to Cao Cao in Xudu for help as soon as possible, and Cao Cao, who was startled, had to send the general Xiahoudun to lead the troops to Xiaopei to rescue Liu Bei.

However, when Xiahoudun and his troops arrived in a hurry, Liu Bei's soldiers and horses had been defeated by Gao Shun's troops, and his wife and children in the city were captured by Lu Bu's army again.

And Gao Shun, who was becoming more and more courageous, grasped the opportunity to seize the opportunity, and took advantage of the long-distance travel of Xiahoudun's soldiers and horses and the fatigue of the men and horses, and decisively ordered to abandon the city wall, and the whole army poured out of the nest and went straight to Xiahoudun's soldiers and horses.

Once the two sides fought, the tired and demoralized Xiahoudun soldiers and horses were quickly defeated. Helplessly, Xiahoudun could only retreat back to Yanzhou with the defeated army, giving up the idea of recapturing Xiaopei.

After Liu Bei, who escaped, successfully got rid of the pursuit of Lu Bujun's army, he took Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Liu Yan, Jian Yong and other civil and military men and horses, and went straight to Xu Capital to meet the Son of Heaven and plead guilty.

In the face of Liu Bei's defeat, Cao Cao also had a lot of contradictions in his heart. On the one hand, this chess piece used to draw out Lu Bu has broken the layout that Cao Cao had just set up not long ago to seek Xuzhou, and it has lost its due role; On the other hand, Cao Cao, as a powerful minister, did not want to have too much contact with a careerist who claimed to be a relative of the Han family and the young emperor under his control.

However, after all, Liu Bei was the Yuzhou pastor who responded to the imperial court's edict to raise troops, if he suddenly turned his face, showed no mercy, and blatantly punished him with the crime of defeat, then Xiahoudun, who was also defeated and fled, could not escape the blame.

After hesitating for a long time, Cao Cao finally chose to accept the heroes Liu Bei, promised to send troops to take revenge, and allowed Liu Bei to meet the Son of Heaven.

At the same time, Cao Cao also paid close attention to the movements of other parties, especially the direction of Yuan Shao in Hebei and Yan Xing in Guanzhong. He understood very well that Gongsun Zan was to Yuan Shao, just as Lu Bu was to himself, a tiger who temporarily restrained his minions and licked his wounds, and Yuan Shao would first completely get rid of this henchman behind him, and then mobilize the army to turn west to attack Sanhe, or go south to seek the Central Plains.

Therefore, he wants to find out as soon as possible whether Yan Xing, Guanzhong, who has been fighting for many years and has finally temporarily taken the lead at this moment, will be able to win Longwangshu and brazenly invade the dangerous and difficult land of Bashu, or will he rein in his troops and patiently digest the territory that has been greatly expanded in recent years, or unite with Gongsun Zhan, Montenegro Zhang Yan and others to meet the Hebei army that is already ready to go.

It's just that what Cao Cao didn't expect was that all his conjectures about the soldiers and horses in Guanxi were ultimately in vain.

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Hedong, Anyi.

Since this year, the hussar general's mansion of the various departments of Pengshi, the family of the officials and the slaves and maids of the official government have been ordered to cross the river and move west to Guanzhong, preliminary statistics, before and after the land of the three rivers, the various batches of westward migration of people and horses add up to nearly 100,000, which will greatly enrich the population of Chang'an in the future.

At the same time, this is also a big project to mobilize the people, in order to ensure the smooth progress of the westward relocation of the hegemony, in addition to the Yan Zhu, Pei Hui and other Peng Shi who stayed in Chang'an, in addition to the Peng Shi who stayed in Chang'an, Yan Xing, as a hussar general, I was also in charge of Anyi, coordinating and commanding the people and horses in Sanhe and other places, and the baggage was continuously transported into the Guanzhong area.

In Yan Xing's mind, Longyou, Hexi and other places are newly settled, and there are several major projects in Guanzhong and Sanhe, so in this year, he should try to avoid any wars under his rule, and the army and the people should work hard to prepare for emergencies, and also save grain and grass for the rescue of Gongsun Zan in the coming year and the joint Montenegrin army to attack Yuan Shao in Hebei.

However, an urgent report from Xihe County still broke the short-lived peace of Yan Xing's side.

in the lobby.

Yan Xing, who was wearing a crown robe, was sitting precariously, looking at Xi Zhicai, Zhou Liang, Sun Zi, Fa Zheng and others at the banquet, and said in a deep voice:

"Xihe County reported urgently, Xu Ziyu and Hu Chuquan led the army to attack the pastures of the Tu Ge tribes in Yanmen, but they fell into the trap of Tu Gehu, and were ambushed by Tu Ge, Xianbei, and Wuhuan people, and the Huns who attacked were defeated, and the armor staff and baggage were lost, and the Hu people in the northern grasslands were then ready to move, and many merchant posts were looted and burned, and the trade routes were basically cut off, and the situation of Meiji Shan Yuting was becoming more and more dangerous!"

In Yan Xing's heavy tone, the staff and ministers present had already received the relevant documents from the hands of Fu Gan, the secretary of the book, and passed them in turn, and Fu Gan also waved his hand to let the two officials assist him in hanging a map of Xihe in front of everyone.

Compared with the map of the conquest of the Southern Xiongnu a few years ago, the territory of this map has been expanded several times, including Shangjun, Shuofang, Wuyuan, Yunzhong, Dingxiang, and Yanmen around Xihe County.

After looking at the map in front of him, Sun Zi, the chief bookkeeper, thought about it and took the lead in speaking:

"Ming Gong, although the power of the Southern Xiongnu has declined, but the strength is still above Zhuhu, and there are Xu, Meng and other generals to lead our army elite cavalry guard, both the advantages of the Han family's armor equipment, in the past to attack the grassland, whip Zhuhu, repeatedly outnumbered the crowd, invincible, why now attack all kinds of slaughter, but suffered from the combined attack of Zhuhu, and returned defeated."

"The reason for this is intriguing, and I think that the most important thing today is to find out the reasons for the defeat of the Xihe army first, and then send troops to rescue the Southern Xiongnu."

Yan Xing listened to the words of the chief bookkeeper Sun Zi and nodded.

This is the old man's serious words, and it is not unreasonable. In the Yu Yu urgent report, it was also mentioned that the Tu Gol Hu encountered this time, and there were elite cavalry with strong armor and well-armed weapons, and the large number of ordnance armor that could arm the Tu Ge cavalry obviously did not flow out of the workshop in Hedong.

Faintly, the black hand behind the slaughter of various Hu people has been revealed.

Thinking of this, Yan Xing couldn't help but look at Zhou Liang.

Encountering Yan Xing's gaze, Zhou Liang's face couldn't help but be surprised, and the merchant post on the grassland also had school personnel, but for this large number of armor and ordnance falling into the hands of Tu Gehu, as well as the sudden changes of the Xianbei and Wuhuan people, they were not able to play the role of early warning, and the next accountability board will inevitably fall on his head as a military strategist.

Although most of the school's energy is now focused on Hebei and the Central Plains, for such a major event that has appeared on the grassland, Zhou Liang, who is to blame, still has to stand up from the table, facing everyone's complicated eyes, and said:

"Ming Gong, Liang has urgently ordered the school affairs of Xihe to find out the inside story of the Huns' defeat as soon as possible, and I believe that we will be able to get detailed information in the near future."

Yan Xing bowed slightly, and unexpectedly did not pursue the responsibility of the school affairs, but waved his hand to let Zhou Liang sit down again.

Before the incident happened, it was very difficult to find out the inside story first, but after the incident happened, it didn't take much time and energy to figure out the specific situation according to the map.

Although there are many problems within the school, it is not the time to deal with them.

Turning his gaze back to the side of the map, Yan Xing looked at it for a while, then turned to look at Fa Zheng and asked:

"Xiaozhi, what do you think should be done with the current situation?"

Since Fa Zheng was expelled from the General's Palace, this is the first time he has participated in military affairs of this level.

Therefore, as soon as he was personally named and questioned by Yan Xing, although he was surprised and happy in his heart, he quickly got up and left the table, came to the front of Yutu, pointed to the area of the West River, and said to everyone:

"Ming Gong, Meiji guards the danger according to the river, but it is a barrier to the northeast of the river, and it must not be lost. In the past, the Ming Duke did not hesitate to work hard and march on the edge of the sword, personally conquering the Southern Xiongnu and crusading against Yufuluo, precisely to consolidate the barrier in the north. At present, the Huns are newly defeated, the people are panicked, the wasps are rising, and the arrogance is arrogant. ”

"Therefore, I am daring to suggest that Ming Gong send brave generals in the army to lead the elite cavalry and rush to Meiji, one to stabilize the hearts of the Huns, the second to protect the trade routes, and the third to pacify the northern Zhuhu in advance, to explore the reality of the Hu people on the grassland, so as not to miss the opportunity because of sitting and watching the situation, and make a big mistake."

He was aware of the importance of the Huns to the strategy of Yan Xing, and also knew what the vast grassland meant to Sanhe and Guanzhong in the beggar-thy-neighbor situation in the interior of the Han family, and the war horses, furs, tendons and horns, and ploughing cattle that were continuously transported back from the trade routes of the northern grasslands were indispensable strategic materials for the Hussar General's Mansion to the internal and external and the conquest of Tuntian.

More importantly, Fa Zheng found that the hussar generals were familiar with capturing fighters, and in past battles, they were often able to seize opportunities and take the initiative to attack.

Therefore, this defeat of the Huns may be an opportunity for the general's palace and himself to show their glory.