When the news of Liu Chong's rebellion reached Min Chun's camp, Cao Cao was burning the bamboo slips in the wooden box in front of everyone, and Liu was lying on the straw mat on the edge of the ice in the camp tent, looking at it with some mixed tastes through the tent door that pulled up the curtains.

Li Cheng had already mentioned the situation of many other camps before, Liu Dai was furious once, and most of the rest of the Taishou also called a few subordinates with dirty means to reprimand and punish him, but Cao Cao didn't say anything, and asked people to put the wooden box outside the camp tent and burn it in public.

This scene, just like the memory of Cao Cao after the battle of Guandu, Cao Cao knew that many of his subordinates had letters to Yuan Shao, and it also made people burn it, just by looking at the looks of Shi Lian, Xi Zhicai and others, you can know how clever this method is.

However, Liu Zheng thought about it, and his mood was complicated. He has been here for four or five years before he came to fight against Dong Zhuo, if history has not changed, there are still the battles of Guandu, Chibi, and Yiling, then it will have to be fought until the Year of the Monkey, and it seems that his role is too small.

It's just that you can't be in a hurry at this time, the road ahead has probably been paved, and now with Tian Feng's assistance, and then Xun Yu Xun You and others, plus Zhang Yan and Zhang Mancheng, Ke Bi can command those people, as long as he grabs the Son of Heaven and has the merit to save the driver, after the meritorious deeds, he can change more of the situation in the future.

Soon after, the news of Liu Chong's rebellion was brought here, and Cao Cao also specially asked the soldier who was going to continue to go to other battalions to preach the news, and learned that Feng Ji did not want to find Liu Zheng, he sent the soldier, walked to Liu Zheng and squatted down, and said with a smile: "This matter can't really be related to you, right?" ”

It stands to reason that this time Liu Zheng turned the corner and found out Dong Zhuo's meticulous work, how could he have made a contribution, no matter how difficult Feng Ji and others wanted, they had to take care of their own face, as well as Gongsun Zhan's face, at this time, Liu Zheng was still excluded from the list of people discussed, no matter how you look at it, it seems that Liu Zheng is being squeezed out again.

Cao Cao didn't think that Liu Zheng would instigate Liu Pet to capture Yang Zhai, but Liu Zheng had just finished making trouble here, and in the afternoon, the news of Liu Pet's capture of Yang Zhai came over, that is to say, Liu Pet attacked Yang Zhai five or six days ago, just enough for Liu Zheng to send a message to the past, plus Liu Pet did not have the opportunity to attack Yingchuan before, but he waited until Liu Zheng arrived to find a chance to start, and kept rumoring that Liu Zheng was his person, and Liu Zheng was also kind to the five killers sent by Liu Pet that he caught before, if these two people are not related, how can they not be trusted.

"Hey, General Cao's eyes are clear, it's really Liu." Liu Zheng pouted, turned his back to Cao Cao, and touched Bingjian's feet with both hands.

"Yin and yang are weird, I don't want to say it." Cao Cao pushed Liu Zheng, knelt on the mat, and waved his hand outwards to signal Shi Lian, Ding Chong and others to get busy, Xun Di came over, sat next to the two, and said with a smile: "What are you two doing?" One is summoned every minute, the other has just passed the storm, and there are still a lot of affairs in the camp, all of which are not left here? ”

Cao Cao patted Liu Zheng's arm and teased: "Let me guess, Jiao Chu and the three of them are going to be put back, right?" There may be others in the camp who are traitors. Now that Tian Yuanhao is dealing with this matter, this bird is here to take refuge here, so as not to see those people pleading with him, and feel uncomfortable? ”

"Ha, I'm sorry, I don't have bamboo slips in my camp. Not so much trouble. Liu Zheng teased, turned his head and said, "I just came here to rub the ice jian." It was too hot. ”

"The heart is calm and naturally cool, is it annoying?" Cao Cao smiled, Liu Zheng touched his short hair, and glared at him, "Don't hit people in the face." If you want to do this, I'll kidnap Ziyu and the Absolute Shadow. ”

Xun Di smiled and patted Liu Zheng's calf, "Since Meng De is not leaving, you can talk to Brother Wei quickly." Was it your idea? You still said today that you were going to attack Henan Yin, but they didn't suspect that you were involved in Liu Chong's affairs? If you don't speak, I'll lead my troops south. Yingyin can't be left alone. ”

Liu Zheng sat up impatiently, "Who the hell are you?" Are you really going to follow him? ”

Cao Cao and Xun Di glanced at each other, smiled and said nothing, Liu Zheng spread his hands, and said helplessly: "Kong Ling's mother has repeatedly slandered me, and he wants to take away my Zhongxing sword, which is to put me to death." Can I not deal with him? Naturally, Liu Pet's attack on Yang Zhai has little to do with me. I have to say yes, but I found him an ally. ”

Xun Di was stunned for a moment, Cao Cao retracted his expression, and suddenly put his hand on Liu Zheng's shoulder, "Yuan Shu?!" Cao Cao was a little nervous, Yingchuan County bordered Henan Yin, Runan County, and Nanyang County, Runan County had already stood in the previous position, most of the scholars took refuge in the Yuan clan in Runan, and because Yuan Shu and Yuan Shao divided their troops in two places, except for a small number of people who moved to the Bohai Sea, they were gone with Yuan Shao, and the rest of the people stayed in Runan and became Yuan Shu's people.

And now that Liu Chong is moving towards Yingchuan, Yuan Shu has already occupied Nanyang County and Runan County, if he inserts another bar, this means that half of the two counties and four kingdoms of Yuzhou are very likely to fall into the hands of King Chen and Yuan Shu.

When Cao Cao thought of this, his expression was awe-inspiring, "Why don't you discuss this matter with Brother Wei?" Do you know that Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu are the same as water and fire, once the routes of Yingchuan and Nanyang to march into Luoyang are in the hands of Yuan Shu, the two of them may not be able to cooperate. The matter of asking for Dong will be abolished. ”

Xun Di suddenly coughed lightly, Cao Cao looked over, as if he realized something, looked outside, and whispered: "The crusade against Dong Zhuo is not trivial, and there is no room for sloppiness." You just want to take refuge in Dong Zhuo, and you also need us to cooperate with the outside world. Originally, Kong Yuzhou was sandwiched in the middle, Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu might not necessarily make trouble, once Yingchuan fell, Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu both intended to become the master, and together with internal strife, what else did Dong Zhuo crusade against? When the time comes, you will go to Luoyang, but you will be alone. You can't just mess around like that. For my brother can help you. Now that Youyang and Dezu have gone to Qian County to wait, this is Cao's determination, can you really ignore you as a brother? Don't leave me alone when something happens. ”

"I didn't mean that, I mean, he probably thought of something again." Xun Di said with some embarrassment.

"Brother Zhongfu still understands me." Liu Zheng laughed, got up and walked to the map hanging in the camp tent, and flicked his finger at Yingchuan County, "If I really have such a small belly, why didn't I attack Yingchuan in the first place?" ”

Cao Cao Xun also leaned over, and Liu Zheng pointed to the map southeast of Luoyang: "According to your old strategy, from Yingchuan to attack Yuyuan Pass and Dagu Pass, I think I should be more suitable than Kong Ling." Then there is Brother Wentai from Nanyang to send troops to the north, break the county, Danshui knock Wuguan into Jingzhaoyin, the west can attack Chang'an, the east can cut off Dong Zhuo's back road, you go to Chenggao to attack the revolving gate pass, Yuan Shao land and water two ways to attack Ping County into Luoyang. Can Dong Zhuo break it? ”

Cao Cao bowed, "Now I'm worried that Luoyang will be burned, so I'm undecided." You've been mentioning that you've been going west for the past few days, if I hadn't known the inside story...... Zhicai ......"

In the corner of his eye, Liu Zheng turned his head to look at the camp tent, Cao Cao followed his line of sight, and saw Xi Zhicai standing at the door of the camp tent, stunned, and then smiled: "Since you are here, let's come and listen together." ”

"A certain family came to deliver the letter, I didn't think about ......it," Xi Zhicai smiled a little embarrassedly, but walked in very quickly, and then held a red white book bag wrapped in bamboo slips in both hands, "Lord, Captain Zilian's letter." ”

"Brother Zilian went to Hanoi, right?" Liu Zheng smiled, Cao Cao frowned and took the bookbag, turned his head and said in astonishment: "You know this?" ”

"Your little, now there are so many of your families in my camp, just find someone to inquire clearly. Besides, your eldest son is now mine. Don't have anything to do with him. Liu Zheng smiled proudly, raised his chin towards the book, and said curiously: "Yide and I agreed to send a letter every five days, and every major news must be reported in time." The letter he arrived four days ago did not mention you, but said that Yuan Shao and Wang Kuang were recruiting troops in Ji County. You let me see what Brother Zilian has found. Red white sac, this is the book of life, right? What did you ask him to look up? ”

This year and month also have specifications, if it is a wooden slip, by virtue of the number of mud seals on the wooden slip to distinguish the significance of the event, a mud seal is the lightest, five mud seals are the heaviest, on behalf of the situation is urgent, of course, you can also cover six or seven irregularly, but this extent, everyone knows that it is already the time of life and death.

In the case of bamboo slips, the degree is determined by a book bag that is put on the outside. In the imperial court, the book bag for transmitting news is generally a green sac, the emperor's seal book uses a green sac, the border county's emergency official document "Running Life" uses a red and white sac, and the emperor's secret music uses a soap sac, that is, a black sac, which is the highest standard.

Cao Cao and others have been officials, so they naturally use the rules of the court, generally using the green sac to represent the letters on weekdays, and the red and white sac are related to the war.

However, it is worth mentioning that Yuan Shao now carves the seal of the general with gold and jade, and seals the bamboo slips with soap sacs every time there is an order.

Of course, these rules Liu Zheng and Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Xun Yu and others are basically not used, this kind of rules and regulations that others can see at a glance is somewhat lacking in concealment, he generally uses pinyin letters to make special marks, Guan Yu Zhang Fei Xun Yu A few close people mostly followed Liu Zheng and Xun Cai to learn some, and because of long-term use, it is no problem to simply spell out words such as emergency military information.

Cao Cao opened the narrow strip of book bag, pulled out the bamboo slips, and saw that the sealing mud on the bamboo slips was dense, and in the solemn eyes of everyone, Cao Cao quickly opened the sealing mud, opened the bamboo slips, and after a while, looked at Liu Zheng with a solemn face.

The bamboo slip says that Cao Hong is in the vicinity of Chaoge, but he can't get in touch with the Lugushan Mountain on the side, because Wang Kuang has already sent troops from Ji County to attack Lugushan Mountain with 1,000 people on April 27, and also cut off the road from Chaoge to Lugushan Mountain, after which Yuan Shao led 10,000 horses to meet Wang Kuang, and ordered the surrounding cities to carry out a city ban, close the city gate and not allow anyone to go out.

The letter was sent from outside Asaka Castle after the city was banned.

As for why Cao Hong found out about the abnormality of Lugushan Mountain after Wang Kuang's action, it was also because Cao Hong arrived at Chaoge, because he delayed the time to go to Lugushan Mountain, originally worked hard all night, Cao Hong didn't take it to heart, and felt that it was too late, and when he knew that Wang Kuang was attacking Lugushan early the next morning, he had no time to go to Lugushan Mountain, so he could only leave Chaoge before the city ban and go to check around Lugushan Mountain, but Wang Kuang's people were everywhere, he couldn't get in, and he didn't meet the deserters who escaped from Lugut MountainAfter that, I could only take people to wander around and send letters to ask about the next move.

Liu Zheng's face tightened after reading it, and Cao Cao handed the letter to Xi Zhicai, "Zhicai, take a look, what should I do." He turned his head and scolded: "Zilian, that bird, rest your feet and go to Chaoge...... I told him to stay there, and run to Chaoge without running to the drug village first, because his mother was going to buy land...... I'll break his leg when I come back! ”

"Don't scold. There must be a place to stay. If he goes to Lugut Mountain first and stays overnight, he doesn't know if he can get out with the deserters. I may not even know the news. Xun Di frowned and looked at Liu Zheng, "Yingyin, Lugut Mountain, you say, where to go?" ”

"You don't have to go anywhere." Liu Zheng turned his head and looked at the map.

Xun Di was stunned and shouted: "Deran! ”

"Don't worry. Where is Lugut Mountain? It is adjacent to Jizhou Wei County and Dong County. Yuan Shao sent troops for two or three days, wanting to directly attack Yu Poison, there are 20,000 or 30,000 people in Yu Poison over there, plus my 3,000 people, where is it so easy to attack. ”

Liu Zheng said indifferently, Cao Cao frowned, "Yuan Shao's Guo Zu and Gongsun Calf should not be underestimated, they have been making weapons privately recently, if you underestimate Yuan Shao's courage, I am only afraid that Yide will be in danger of poison." ”

Liu Zheng was angry, and thought for a moment: "Yuan Shao is so crazy? Do you think he doesn't plan to negotiate? Zhang Junan, my face, he doesn't give any of them? ”

Xun Di shook his head and said, "I am the leader of the alliance, what are you negotiating?" Yu Poison was originally considered a thief by Wang Kuang and others, if he hadn't been protected by Zhang Yan, he would have been honest in the past few years, and he wouldn't let Yuan Shao and Wang Kuang wait until now to do ......"

Xun Di pointed his finger on the map, swiped up from Chaoge, and pointed to Shangdang County, which is adjacent to Hanoi County, "I guess that Yuan Shao left people in Sujuju, originally wanting to send troops to recruit Yu Poison in the name." After that, it's Shangdang County. If Yuan Shao recruits them, they will jointly cut off the connection between Luoyang and Bingzhou, and Bingzhou will be considered a borderless land, and Yuan Shao will be able to take it in one fell swoop. Taking a step back, with Zhang Yang and Yu Fuluo, Yuan Shao's troops have increased, attacking Luoyang, or other positions. Maybe I can get an alliance with Zhang Yan......"

"There is the Bohai Sea adjacent to Qingzhou, and with this force, Jizhou will be opened, and the three states of Jizhou, Jizhou, and Qingzhou will be connected, and most of the Kanto region will be in the bag." Liu Zheng nodded and said with a smile: "It's beautiful to think about." ”

Xun Di sighed, looked at Cao Cao and Xi Zhicai who were thoughtful on the side, and said impatiently: "Deran, don't play dumb riddles, tell me anything clearly." I'm really worried about my brother. Meng De and Zhicai are not outsiders, just say it! ”

"Oh, it's that Jizhou don't drive frustration and grant frustration and may come over in a few days, I didn't send a strategist to Lugu Mountain before, Yuan Haogong thought I was not thoughtful, and on the nineteenth day, let me send a letter to Jizhou Ward Black Mountain Junluo City to pay attention to Lugut Mountain, and let my branch frustrate Gonghe, when Fugong and come over, let him go to Jixian County to visit Yuan Shao first, and discuss the matter of sending troops...... Well, by the way, go over to Chaoge to have a look, and help me take care of the virtue and poison. ”

After Liu Zheng finished speaking, Cao Cao smiled dumbly, Xi Zhicai also nodded, and then said suspiciously: "I just don't know, why did Liu Gongzi talk about Jizhou and Qingzhou?" The alliance leader will really be like this, you have been investigating the camp recently, but you have found something? ”