Xiahou Yuan and Cao Hong took his army of 50,000 and chased after Pan Feng's ass, and the continuous march of more than half a month had exhausted them, but no matter how hard they chased and caught up, their two legs could not catch up with Pan Feng's team with a four-wheeled carriage pulled by two war horses, this is the difference between technology and strength.

So just a few days ago, Xiahou Yuan and Cao Hong discussed and decided that since they couldn't catch the enemy's tail no matter what, there was no need to consume it like this, so they would just stop here and rest for a few days, and when they had enough energy, they would seize the fighter and give that cunning Pan Feng a ruthless blow.

As a result, the two of them had just rested here, and the embarrassed Xiahou Shang ran over and reported to them that the Heyang he was guarding was lost.

This huge news surprised Xiahou Yuan.

What is surprising is that Pan Feng, who was also being chased by himself, still has the ability to capture Heyang in the blink of an eye, which shows how strong the combat effectiveness of the Lu family army is, and how strong Pan Feng's killing is and how strong his ability is.

But the good news is that according to Xiahou Shang's report, Pan Feng actually discarded the original style of coming and going, gathered three or four hundred thousand people, as well as all the materials that could be moved in Heyang, and was preparing to move towards Bingzhou.

Moving, it's not about lifting your ass and leaving, it's about bringing all the pots and jars, especially the 300,000 people, men, women, the old and the weak are mixed together, which can definitely slow down the enemy's march. Not only can it slow down the enemy's march, but the most important thing is that the enemy can no longer call around, so that you can chase after him, catch up with him, and defeat him. This is really an eye-opener, how can such an opportunity be given up?

So Xiahou Yuan and Cao Hong seized this golden opportunity, while writing a report to Pegasus to report the situation to Cao Cao in Xudu, and on the other hand, writing a letter to Cao Ren's cavalry who was far away, asking him to immediately give up continuing to entangle with Zhao Yun's cavalry, move closer to himself, and cooperate with the two armies to annihilate Pan Feng's army and cut off one of Lu Peng's arms.

All arrangements stopped, and without waiting for Cao Cao's reply, Xiahou Yuan and Cao Hong immediately urged the team to continue to pursue Pan Feng, but after chasing for a day, they found that their people also slowed down their march, so Xiahou Yuan and Cao Hong discussed, Xiahou Yuan took Xiahou Shang and divided 30,000 horses to pursue lightly. Cao Hong took the remaining 20,000 horses and 100,000 people to follow up urgently, as long as Xiahou Yuan caught up with Pan Feng and entangled him, then Cao Ren and Cao Hong's army was arriving, and there would be no problem in annihilating the 20,000 Lu family army.

Xiahou Yuan led the army directly to Heyang, and when he entered Heyang City, Xiahou Yuan really had a headache.

Originally, he calculated that his 30,000 troops left behind the 100,000 people and rushed directly to Heyang, where he asked for grain and grass from those big families, and continued to pursue after being replenished. The people all ran away, and the houses of the families in the city who were committed to Cao Cao, as well as all their granaries and materials, were all burned to the ground by a fire by the Lu family's army, and those families saw Xiahou Yuan's army coming, not only did they not take out the grain and grass materials to reward the army, but ran to his war horse one after another and begged for some food to keep the family alive.

Now Xiahou Yuan still has something to appease these loyal families, and he can only tell them that his supplies are behind, and everyone will wait patiently for three or five days.

These big families need to be appeased and wait, and they need to wait even more here, and they can't march to fight at all, so Xiahou Yuan, who is full of fire, can only stay in this Heyang City, waiting for Cao Hong behind to escort the grain and grass over.

As a result, after waiting for two days, Cao Hong came, but Cao Cao's general also caught up with them with an urgent situation of 800 miles.

The four of them got together and carefully studied Cao Cao's new strategic arrangement, and they couldn't help but become worried.

This is the arrangement for a decisive battle with Lu Peng.

"The lord's arrangement is really too impatient, no matter in any way, we don't have the basis to fight to the death with Lu Peng at this time." Cao Ren took Cao Cao's order and said regretfully.

However, Xiahou Yuan had a different opinion: "General Cao Ren only saw the problem that we and Lu Peng could not fight now, but General Cao Ren have you thought about it, how wise is the decision of the lord at this time?" ”

Cao Ren disagreed, in the Cao family, among these brothers, Cao Ren is the eldest, Cao Cao is a few years younger than him, of course, now the status is different, Cao Ren does not dare and cannot discuss this elder and young generation with Cao Cao. Not only did he not dare, but he also had to do his duty as a subordinate, so that he could set an example in front of other brothers and fully support Cao Cao's hegemony wholeheartedly. Now that Xiahou Yuan said this, Cao Ren thought that Xiahou Yuan was patting Cao Cao's sycophants.

"General Xiahou is really handsome." At this time, an exclamation sounded outside the hall, and the words fell, and with a burst of urgent footsteps, a high-crowned scribe strode in, and everyone looked at it, it was not Cao Cao's second strategist Jia Xu or who?

The four of them were shocked, why did Jia Xu come? And it looks like the wind and dust are full of dust, is there any unspeakable change in things?

The four of them hurriedly stood up and saluted Jia Xu, Jia Xu waved his hand and didn't talk nonsense, and then Xiahou Yuan's words continued: "General Xiahou has seen the original situation, and you haven't foreseen the long term." ”

Cao Hong, Cao Ren and Le Jin hurriedly invited Jia Xu to take a seat, and then humbly asked for advice.

The three of them all know Jia Xu's talent, and they know that his character is bad, in Cao Cao's attention, everyone dare not slack off, and in his character, everyone dare not offend.

After Jia Xu and everyone saluted, they sat directly in the first place, and Jia Xu shook off the dust on his body: "I rushed all the way for 800 miles, and I was ordered by the lord to lead your two armies." ”

The four of them glanced at each other, hurriedly tidied up their clothes again, and solemnly greeted Jia Xu, which can be regarded as accepting Jia Xu's leadership.

Jia Xu accepted it calmly, and then continued to say what he just said: "I said that General Xiahou Yuan had foresight, because you only saw that we and Lu Peng were injured in front of each other, and we suffered the most losses when we were against Yuan Shao, according to normal theory, we should squat here to recuperate, and wait for a few years to recover our vitality, and then fight to the death with Lu Peng." ”

Cao Hong Cao Ren hurriedly nodded yes, this is also the way of thinking of all normal people.

Jia Xu shook his head and said, "But you are wrong. ”

Cao Ren Cao Hong hurriedly asked: "I don't know where I am wrong, please teach me." ”

Jia Xu said proudly: "I don't dare to teach, I'm just talking about my thoughts." Then he said with a heavy heart: "The world's major events, divided for a long time, will be divided for a long time, this is a principle of ancient and modern, now the world is in chaos, after more than ten years of chaos, the world has become a situation of princes, but this status quo of disintegration will not be too long, after all, the world must have heroes to stand up and reintegrate this chaotic situation, throughout the world, can have this ambition, our lord, as well as that Lu Peng, Sun Quan of Jiangdong, Liu Bei of Jingzhou, other people, but ambitious, incapable, Some people who go with the flow. ”

For such an evaluation, everyone present nodded in agreement.

"And in my opinion, there are only two people who can unify the world, that is, our lord and that Lu Peng, Sun Quan just wants to be in a corner of peace, and Liu Bei is just taking the opportunity to pick peaches." Then he talked about the situation in front of him: "We and Lu Peng will have a decisive battle sooner or later, in the eyes of normal people, we need to rest and recuperate, is this possible?" In fact, we don't see one of the most lethal keys, when we are resting, you are also recuperating and breathing, but Lu Peng has given us an economic strangle, he is vigorously developing, if both of us are resting and breathing, the distance between us will be bigger and bigger, and in another three or five years, our development strength will be left behind by Lu Peng, which is the root of our downfall. ”

Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, everyone still understands, Lu Peng's development is too fast, as Jia Xu said, now there is a gap between the two sides, but it is only about 50 steps, but if they all develop together, after three or five years, Lu Peng will throw himself off a hundred steps and thousands of steps, think about this truth, the Cao family brothers and Le Jin couldn't help but gasp for a while.

Seeing that several people understood their statement, Jia Xu said with a heavy face: "It's a pity that the whole world is drunk and I wake up alone, and the idea of continuing to recuperate and recuperate has been insisted on by all the people, and no one can understand my anxiety, so at this court meeting, I had to do the opposite, and deliberately proposed this method of giving up the north to continue to breathe, which aroused fierce opposition from everyone." ”

Everyone immediately thought of the scene in the court, how intense the situation that Jia Xu's Qianfu was referring to would be.

The Cao family brothers and Le Jin glanced at each other, stood up from the table, and bowed respectfully: "Mr. is the great cause of the Lord and has been wronged, I thank Mr. on behalf of my two families." ”

Jia Xu said indifferently: "Looking at those bastards who are standing on the road of morality, my heart is full of contempt, but I am very relieved, the lord can still understand me, and I don't care if I am accused like this." ”

Then he proudly said to the four people: "Now that I have explained the current situation, I hope that all of you here can work together with me to make a final fight for the great cause of the Lord." ”

The four immediately replied firmly: "Just for death." ”

Jia Xu slapped the table, "Generals, since you have such pride, then listen to me to dispatch troops." ”

(End of chapter)