In public and private, in sentiment and reason, Zhang Xiu is Cao Cao's opponent who must be eliminated.

Cao Cao's slogan is "Fengtianzi to please not be a minister", Zhang Xiu is closest to Xu Du, and of course he has to pick up the softest pinch when he pinches persimmons.

Before sending troops, in order to deter the Han Emperor Liu Xie and those restless former ministers of the Han family, Cao Cao deliberately held a grand military parade in Xudu.

Emperor Liu Xie of the Han Dynasty sat on the tower of Xu Ducheng, playing a colorful canopy, one left and one right, respectively, Cao Cao and Shang Shu Xun Yu, and other civil and military ministers stood on both sides in turn, and then, there was a team of mighty and majestic tiger guards, one by one quiet as mountains, silent and silent, and Xu Chu, the commander of the tiger guard, held the Yanling big knife like an iron one, standing proudly in the center of the tiger guard.

Liu Xie was uneasy in his heart, looked around, and sadly found that there was no familiar figure beside him.

Uncle Dong Cheng and Guozhang Fu Wan, Liu Fu (also known as Wang Zifu), the prince of Liang, were not around, and Liu Xie was not seen in the crowd for a long time, and even Guanglu Xun Huandian and Wei Wei Zhang Jian, who had no real power, were isolated far away by Huwei.

The more Liu Xie looked at it, the more sad he became, and what he said was that he was reviewing the king's master, but in fact, it was just Cao Cao taking this opportunity to show off his strength to Liu Xie and shake his prestige.

Liu Xie was in a low mood, his expression was gloomy, and when he thought of what happened to him, although he had been tossed and turned several times, it was sad that he was like a canary in a cage, but he was just replaced with a new cage.

All around were Cao Cao's henchmen, and Liu Xie was surrounded in the middle, and the longer the time, the more suffocated he felt in his chest, and he was almost out of breath.

Liu Xie was absent-minded, and looked at the city tower at will, but he saw that the soldiers were layer by layer, layer by layer, the elite of the Cao soldiers was majestic and majestic, and the team was orderly, full of the sky-high killing atmosphere, the Cao family soldiers were full of ambition and triumphant, and those old ministers of the Han family were sluggish, like Liu Xie, on this occasion, they were all secretly holding their dark breath, and they were almost out of breath when they were suppressed.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty......"

Hearing someone calling for him, Liu Xie came back to his senses and saw that it was Cao Cao.

Liu Xie hurriedly squeezed out a smile from his face, leaned over and asked, "What is Aiqing?" ”

Cao Cao pointed down and asked with a smile, "Your Majesty, do you think this Wang Shi is excellent?" ”

Liu Xie replied perfunctorily, "The soldiers carefully selected by Aiqing are powerful and strong, and when they are hundreds of elite soldiers, they are naturally invincible and invincible!" ”

Cao Cao saw that Liu Xie's face was displeased, and he knew it in his heart, and bowed with a fake appearance, "Weichen is in order for His Majesty to be able to sweep away the wolf smoke as soon as possible and calm the troubled times. ”

The implication is that I am in power, and in fact, it is all for the sake of the Han family.

Cao Cao's nonsense Liu Xie knew it, but he didn't dare to refute it on his face, and nodded again and again: "Aiqing doesn't have to blame yourself, you are eloquent and strategic, and you have the ambition to sweep the world. As the saying goes, those who can work hard, like such elite soldiers, I will not rest assured when handed over to others, you don't think too much, you must do your best, I will have a good reward. ”

The two of you say a word, I say a word, they all say clichés against their hearts, one hides a ghost, the other thinks it is a snake, in fact, what the other party is thinking in their hearts, both of them know very well in their hearts.

After a while, Cao Cao bowed down again, "Weichen should do his best to live up to the grace of God." ”

Liu Xie stayed for a while, and his heart was so happy that he was about to get up and leave, but there were so many tiger guards and so many courtiers and ministers around him, but no one gave Liu Xie a ride.

Cao Cao didn't speak, no one dared to move, Cao Cao deliberately looked at the city tower, at first glance, he looked at it with relish, and clapped his hands from time to time, but he was stunned and hung Liu Xie there.

Liu Xie is not leaving, nor is he staying, he is embarrassed in his heart, he is extremely stunned in his heart, he can't help but bow his head and sigh, or Xun Yu found that the situation is not right, he can't bear it, and he is busy saying to Liu Xie, "Your Majesty, the weather is hot and dry today, and there are many soldiers and horses, it is too noisy, and the dust is everywhere, Your Majesty should not stay for a long time, and you want to move quickly." ”

Even if he knew that Liu Xie wanted to leave, Xun Yu had to change to a set of elegant rhetoric, so as not to embarrass Liu Xie, and he couldn't say, "Cao Cao is too arrogant, Your Majesty is uncomfortable, so let's go back early." ”

Liu Xie nodded with satisfaction, since he came to Xu Du, he was quite satisfied with Xun Yu and Liu Xie, among Cao Cao's henchmen, only Xun Yu has always adhered to his duties as a courtier, abided by the courtesy of the monarch and ministers, and handled things fairly, and would never have the slightest contempt and neglect because Liu Xie was a useless puppet.

"Summons the order to return to the palace!"

Liu Xie cleared his throat and shouted.

But no one paid attention to it, it was still that sentence, Cao Cao had the final say here, whether it was the guards in the palace or the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, who should not look at Cao Cao's face and act.

The guards were indifferent, the courtiers were also motionless, Xun Yu really couldn't stand it, touched Cao Cao with his hand, and reminded, "The holy driver is going back to the palace." ”

Cao Cao pretended to be stunned for a moment, hurriedly turned around, and bowed respectfully, "Respectfully send the holy car back to the palace, long live, long live." ”

Liu Xie waved his hand, and those civil and military ministers knelt on the ground with hypocrisy, pulling their throats one by one, shouting: Long live the return to the palace.

When Zhao Yun returned to Luoyang, Cao Cao's army had already arrived on the banks of the Shushui River.

Cao Cao first paid tribute to the soldiers who died in Wancheng last time, and then swore an oath on the bank of the Shushui River, inspiring the soldiers of the three armies to fight bravely to kill the enemy and destroy Zhang Xiu.

……

Zhao Yun first visited his parents and reported safety to the second elder, as soon as he saw Zhao Yun come back safely, Zhao Yun's parents couldn't stop their tears anymore, the family hugged each other, tears flowed, sad and sad, even the people in the house were all crying.

"It's good to come back, it's good to come back......"

After crying for a long time, Zhao's mother couldn't wipe away her tears, took Zhao Yun's hand, looked left, right, up, and down, and looked at it for a long time, as if as soon as she let go, her son would disappear in the blink of an eye.

"The child is not filial, and Lao's mother is worried."

Zhao Yun was full of self-blame, and the tears of the iron-beaten man couldn't stop pouring out of his eyes.

"Second brother, second brother......"

After a while, the door was slammed open by force, and immediately after, Zhao Liang suddenly hit Zhao Yun's arms, "Second brother, you can be regarded as back, but you think of us badly." ”

After a while, everyone in the family arrived, Cai Yan and Zhen Mi also hid their faces and wept, if it weren't for everyone, I am afraid that they would have thrown into Zhao Yun's arms to tell their hearts.

After a good meal, it finally quieted down, and the family got together and had a rare reunion dinner.