Cao Cao did not launch a strong attack on the Tiger Prison Pass, not because he was afraid of Ye Zheng, but because the loss of the Tiger Prison was too great, and once the Tiger Prison was captured, Ye Zhao's main force would come, and when the time came, Cao Cao would have a full-scale battle with Ye Zhao.

Therefore, Cao Cao chose Xun You's strategy and fought with Lu Bu, if Lu Bu could break through Yique Pass, then even if Ye Zhao came over at the moment, there was still a Lu Bu in front of him, although Lu Bu was the bottom of the princes, but for so many years, there was still a reason why he had not been annexed.

In terms of leading troops to fight, Lu Bu is indeed a good hand, when he was fighting with Sun Ce for Runan before, Sun Ce was almost not killed by Lu Bu, and I heard that he is still cultivating.

If Lu Bu and Ye Zhao are opposed, they will still be able to cause some trouble to Ye Zhao, and the grievances and grievances between the two sides have been concluded as early as Luoyang, plus Lu Bu has been entrenched in Nanyang for many years, but there are many conflicts with Ye Zhao, Cao Cao is still very optimistic about this alliance.

However, the candidate to envoy Nanyang, to everyone's surprise, Cao Cao actually let his son Cao Ang go.

Although there were some surprises, but after thinking about it, everyone also understood, obviously Cao Cao was stimulated by Ye Zheng, your Ye Zhao's son has been able to lead an army alone, so if my Cao Cao's son can't make some achievements at this time, wouldn't it mean that my Cao Cao's son is not as good as your Ye Zhao's son?

Counting, Cao Ang is also twenty-three years old this year, seven years older than Ye Zheng, Cao Cao is also very concerned about the cultivation of several sons, as the eldest son, Cao Ang's education since childhood is not worse than Ye Zheng, the only difference is that Cao Cao is not as ruthless to his son as Ye Zheng, so although Cao Ang has been on the battlefield, most of them are with Cao Cao, and he has no experience in leading troops alone, at this point, Cao Ang is worse than Ye Zheng.

Therefore, this time, Cao Cao handed over the alliance with Lu Bu to Cao Ang, and hoped that Cao Ang would be able to grow up quickly through this matter.

Cao Ang was not ambiguous, and early the next morning, he bid farewell to Cao Cao, and only rushed to Nanyang with his personal guards, preparing to persuade Lu Bu to join Cao Cao and attack Ye Zheng.

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In the past few years, Lu Bu has actually mixed well in Nanyang, putting aside the fact that he likes to cut the boss, in this troubled world, if you want to talk about ambition, Lu Bu really doesn't have much, he just can't stand the restraints and others look down on him, on the whole, he belongs to the kind of person who is a little rich and safe.

With the popularization of books over the years, there is no need to look at the faces of those scholars, even if it is Lu Bu, he can also recruit a lot of poor talents, since he can select talents from the people, why should he praise the stinky feet of scholars?

Therefore, although Lu Bu has a lot of dissatisfaction with Ye Zhao, Lu Bu is the fastest learner of the system of selecting talents in Guanzhong, and there are no scholars under him, and Lu Bu is short of talents, so he can naturally find many self-taught people, but there is no way.

However, as the territory gradually stabilized, after conquering Runan, the momentum rose sharply, and Lu Bu had no ambition to continue to forge ahead, mainly because the two great gods in the north were in town, even if Lu Bu was arrogant, he also knew the gap between himself and Ye Zhao and Cao Cao, so although there was constant friction with Ye Zhao, but all along, he never thought of starting a war with Ye Zhao, although Wei Qi used many ways, and even bought Gao Sheng, wanting to persuade Lu Bu to wave his troops to capture Hanzhong, cut off Ye Zhao's retreat, and then plan Shuzhong, but Lu Bu didn't listen much.

Every day, he either accompanies his wife and concubine to enjoy the gentle country, or takes a group of brothers to hunt.

As for Liu Biao in the south, Lu Bu didn't take it to heart, or in other words, after Liu Biao fought with Lu Bu a few times, both sides tacitly quit the army.

Between the two sides, there are Han water and Huanshui separated, Jingzhou soldiers and horses to the Nanyang boundary, naturally by Lu Bu pressed on the ground and rubbed, but most of the soldiers under Lu Bu are from the north, do not practice water warfare, want to cross the river to fight Liu Biao, crossing the river is a problem, come and go, Lu Bu also gave up, let Hou Cheng guard Xinye, he sat in Wancheng, nothing to practice martial arts, accompany his wife and concubine to do some physical and mental exercises, life is not too leisurely.

The only thing that made him unhappy was that recently, in the Yingchuan area, Cao Cao's soldiers and horses came to harass him from time to time, and he didn't kill anyone, but set fire to the fields, and what made Lu Bu even more puzzled was that Cao Cao also had a group of Lu Bu's men and horses set fire to the sky, resulting in a large number of displaced people.

Guarding the Yingchuan area was Cheng Lian, a general under Lu Bu, for which Lu Bu personally wrote to ask if Cheng Lian had a conflict with Cao Cao privately, but Cheng Lian was also at a loss.

Lu Bu could only ask Jia Xu to see his opinion on this matter, and he always felt that there was a conspiracy behind this.

"The lord's concern is not unreasonable, now that the battle between Cao Cao and Ye Zhao is imminent, it is impossible to anger the lord for no reason." Jia Xu followed Lu Bu's words a few words without being salty, but did not give a complete answer.

"In this way, it must be Ye Zhao who is provoking it?" When Lu Bu heard this, he raised his eyebrows.

Jia Xu smiled and said nothing, although forced by Lu Bu's military oppression, Jia Xu was a strategist for Lu Bu in Nanyang, but he never thought that Lu Bu had the ability to win the world, so many years, how many times did Lu Bu give up his chances by Lu Bu.

It is understandable that Ye Zhao and Lu Bu in the north are not easy to provoke, but you can find some soft persimmons to pinch, and the naval army on Liu Biao's side is not easy to deal with, but this Jingzhou is not Jiangdong, and it is mainly based on land warfare, if Lu Bu really wants to fight Liu Biao, there are only two rivers, and it is not the Yangtze River and the Yellow River, so it can't be stopped.

If Lu Bu can take the entire Jingzhou, even if he is not as good as Ye Zhao and Cao Cao, it will not be Lu Bu's turn to become the bottom of the princes, but let Sun Ce catch up?

But Lu Bu watched Ye Zhao pacify Xiliang and merge with Zhou, Cao Cao swept across the Central Plains and seized the land of He/Bei, Sun Ce rose step by step in Jiangdong, and everyone was developing, but Lu Bu and Liu Biao just held the mentality of eating the old book, seeing that the pattern of the world was changing day by day, but they didn't want to forge ahead.

Liu Biao is old, but you Lu Bu is in the prime of life, but he doesn't want to forge ahead, the only one who plays Yuan Shu is because of Yuan Shu's teasing, such a lord, Jia Xu really can't see any future.

If Lu Bu could take advantage of the fact that the northern princes were busy enclosing land five years ago to occupy Jingzhou, and then use the Jingzhou naval army to enter Jiangdong, with Lu Bu's ability and Jia Xu's strategy, he may not be able to destroy the combination of Sun Ce and Zhou Yu.

Jia Xu once vaguely mentioned it, but Lu Bu only listened to the wind, after all, Jia Xu is not a direct minister, he will not do it if he is forced to die or something, since Lu Bu does not have this idea, then Jia Xu will never say a word more, anyway, in this world, it is not that anyone who leaves him can't live, at least Jia Xu doesn't feel that he can't live without Lu Bu, it's a big deal to change the boss, and the situation in the world has reached this point, basically, there is nothing to do with Lu Bu.

Lu Bu didn't know that his most relied on strategist had already given birth to the idea of choosing a new boss, and when he saw Jia Xu smiling silently, he said fiercely: "It must be Ye Zhao, what this person is best at is this kind of trick to sow discord." ”

Jia Xu was speechless when he heard this, although he also felt that this matter was mostly done by Ye Zhao's side, but Lu Bu's words were simply emotional, and Cao Cao was no worse than Ye Zhao in this kind of means of sowing discord.

Nodding silently, Jia Xu didn't want to say anything more.

"My lord." A personal guard walked in and saluted Lu Bu with a fist.

"What?" Lu Bu turned his head and looked at the guard.

"There is a Xuchang envoy asking to see!" The guard bowed.

"Xuchang envoy? What are they here for? Lu Bu looked at Jia Xu puzzled.

Jia Xu thought for a while and said, "Now that the war between Cao Gong and Prime Minister Ye Cheng is imminent, it must be that I have come to invite the lord to make a move." ”

"Together?" When Lu Bu heard this, he frowned, originally he was watching the fire from the other side and watching the excitement, it was best that both sides could lose in the end, and then let him get some benefits, but now Cao Cao sent someone to pull him into the gang, and Lu Bu was a little unwilling.

wanted to pick people up, but was stopped by Jia Xu and said: "Lord, no matter what, after all, he is the envoy of Gong Cao, this is directly picking people, and it is not in line with etiquette!" ”

When Lu Bu heard this, he waved his hand a little impatiently and said, "Since this is the case, let Cao Cao's envoy come in." ”

"Whoa!" The guard said yes and turned to leave.

Lu Bu took Jia Xu to the main hall, and since he wanted to receive the envoy, he naturally had to be more formal.

Soon, a young man in his twenties, led by the guards, walked in, and saluted Lu Bu indifferently: "I've seen the hussar general!" ”

Lu Bu frowned slightly: "Meng De sent you here, but because of the Yingchuan Liukou matter?" ”

After so many ups and downs, Lu Bu is not really brainless, especially in the past few years, he has been the lord, and Lu Bu can't avoid many political affairs and the entertainment that should be there, so he didn't directly say that he was an alliance, but took Yingchuan's gang to make trouble and pretend to be soldiers and horses on both sides to talk about things.

Roving bandits?

Cao Ang was slightly stunned, thought for a while, and said: "I came in a hurry, but I haven't heard about the rogue, and I came here on the order of my lord this time, but there is a happy event to report to the hussar general?" ”

"Happy event?" Lu Bu raised his eyebrows and said, "Where does the joy come from?" ”

"My lord has asked His Majesty for an edict, and the general Wei Xu under the general's account will be the captain of the division." Cao Ang smiled.

"Captain Sili?" Lu Bu glanced at Jia Xu, then looked at Cao Ang and said, "It is indeed a happy event, after Meng De captures Luoyang, I will ask Wei Xu to take office." ”

Ye Zhao has already sent people to start rebuilding Luoyang, and has already fought with Cao Cao's soldiers and horses, and also captured the Tiger Prison Pass, this news has already spread, and now he will give him the captain of Si Li, and it is clear that he is asking him to merge with Ye Zhaohuo, although Lu Bu is not as good as other princes in politics, but he is not a complete idiot.

Besides, Luoyang is now a wasteland, even if it is defeated, there is not much benefit, but he has to send troops to attack himself, this Cao Cao, really think of himself as stupid?