Summary of the previous chapter: Zhao Yun killed Xia Houen, took his Qingyu sword, and then found the lady and the little lord smoothly, on the other hand, Ma Xiaoquan was counterattacked by history, and the seven holes were bled out

++++++++++++++++++++++ Zhao Yun didn't know that Cao Cao at this moment had already adopted Ma Xiaoquan's Jianyi, made way for him, and let him live, otherwise, if Cao Cao really wanted to stay with Zhao Yun, Zhao Yun might not be able to escape from the Cao army completely.

There was another rush of killing, and Zhao Yunshun jumped out of the encirclement of the Cao army.

"Ma'am, are you hurt?"

"General Zilong is polite, I'm fine! By the way, how is Adou? ”

Zhao Yun nodded: "Madame, don't worry, the little lord is in my arms, and it is no big deal if he is protected by armor!" Madame, shall we go and meet the Lord at once?" ”

"Then there is General Lao Zilong!"

On the low mountain, looking at Zhao Yun's distant back, Cao Cao felt very uncomfortable.

Ma Xiaoquan knew that if he didn't disturb Cao Cao's train of thought now, if this old boy reacted, he would definitely be furious.

Ma Xiaoquan stepped forward and said: "Xiao Cao, ran away with Zhao Yun, in fact, you earned it!" ”

Cao Cao sighed and asked, "I have died so many elite soldiers, what have I earned?" ”

Ma Xiaoquan pointed at Cao Cao: "You just pretend, then Liu Bei will run away with more than a dozen horses, won't these hundreds of thousands of people become your wealth?" ”

Cao Cao glanced down the mountain, suddenly reacted, and laughed.

"Yes, this Liu Xuande has made a good thing for Lao Tzu, haha"

In times of war, the most important thing is not equipment and food, but population. Whether it is the Western Han Dynasty or the current Eastern Han Dynasty, the size of the population directly determines the strength of a region.

Cao Cao was strong because his territory was large enough, and secondly, because Cao Cao took a series of measures to stimulate population growth, such as Tuntian, and for example, Cao Cao's recruitment system.

The more Cao Cao laughed, the louder he became, and he had unconsciously left the matter of Zhao Yun running away behind.

After a long time, Cao Cao stopped laughing, arched his hand to Ma Xiaoquan and said: "Lord Shangxian, actually, haha, I think it, this bet, I won yours, haha"

Ma Xiaoquan waved his hand and said: "You old boy, you are really shrewd, you say this, Ben Xian suddenly feels that his son is still too much of a loss to be an official!" ”

Cao Cao said: "Huh? Lord Shangxian, you are an immortal, and immortals can't be fooled, haha"

At night, Cao Jun set up camp, on the one hand, to appease the people, and on the other hand, to rest temporarily.

In the main tent, Cao Cao smiled triumphantly, very happy.

Ma Xiaoquan knew that Cao Cao was so happy, not only because he had gained so many people, but also because he caught Xu Shu's wife.

Speaking of Xu Shu, we have to start with Cao Ren's defeat at the beginning

It is said that Cao Cao sent Cao Ren to attack Liu Bei, and Cao Ren set up a gossip array, of course, this gossip array is only a very rudimentary kind, but it was also a headache for Liu Bei at that time, and the person who helped Liu Bei to break Cao Ren's gossip array at that time was Xu Shu.

Later, Cao Ren returned from defeat and mentioned Xu Shu to Cao Cao, and Cao Cao paid attention.

It's good now, I didn't expect to not only capture so many people, but also capture Xu Shu's wife.

Seeing Mother Xu, Cao Cao was also polite, but when he mentioned that he wanted Xu Shu to surrender to him, Mother Xu scolded Cao Cao for being bloody.

Cao Cao came out of Xu's mother's small tent with a grizzled face, with an embarrassed expression.

Ma Xiaoquan smiled and said: "Xiao Cao, look, don't worry, you don't listen!" ”

Cao Cao said in his heart: You demon Dao, you want me to come to see Mother Xu or you said it, you are now relying on me again, really

Cao Cao smiled bitterly: "Then what should I do?" ”

Ma Xiaoquan waved his hand: "I heard that Xu Shu is a filial son, um" Before he finished speaking, Ma Xiaoquan threw up his sleeves and walked away.

How smart Cao Cao was, although Ma Xiaoquan hadn't finished speaking, he had already guessed the meaning.

Cao Cao ran back to his tent with a smile, and immediately asked someone to write a silk letter to Xu Shu in imitation of Xu's mother's notes

Xiakou, Liu Bei and others have joined Liu Qi.

Zhao Yun also took his wife and the little lord to meet the lord smoothly.

Feeling Zhao Yun's loyalty, Liu Bei was very happy, but when he thought that he had such a few people left now, he was suddenly deflated again.

Cao Cao was also more uncomfortable, due to the large number of captured people, Cao Cao's original intention was to chase Liu Bei first, and then appease the people, but some of the people were very excited, and there were frictions with Cao Jun's soldiers several times, Cao Cao had no choice but to suspend the opportunity to pursue Liu Bei first, and appease these people first.

This appeasement took several days.

At this time, Cao Cao's forged letter had also reached Xu Shu's hands.

Xu Shu opened it and saw that it was his mother's letter, and his heart was shocked, from the letter, Xu Shu felt his mother's helplessness and helplessness, which made Xu Shu's heart suffer.

Finally, two days later, Xu Shu told Liu Bei that her mother was arrested by Cao Cao, and she couldn't stand it anymore, so I wanted to find my mother.

Liu Bei was shocked when he heard this, but soon, Liu Bei calmed down and agreed to Xu Shu's request.

When Xu Shu left, he didn't forget to remind Liu Bei to use Zhuge Liang more often, and Liu Bei also agreed.

Seeing Xu Shu away, Sun Qian asked puzzledly: "Lord, I think Xu Shu's letter is fake." ”

Liu Bei sighed, and suddenly remembered what Ma Xiaoquan had told him at the beginning, and said helplessly: "I don't know, it's just that those who should come will come, and you can't stay if you don't come." ”

Sun Qian didn't understand what the lord was talking about, but at a moment like this, it was inconvenient for him to ask more, so he had to retreat quietly

After getting the news that Xu Shu had come to find his mother, Cao Cao laughed, but quickly calmed down.

Cao Cao asked Ma Xiaoquan: "Lord Shangxian thinks that I get Xu Shu, how should I arrange him?" ”

Ma Xiaoquan said: "It's up to you!" ”

Cao Cao said: "Xu Shu's filial piety is touching, but he is blinded by emotion, there are several flaws in my imitation letter, if Xu Shu takes a closer look, he will definitely see the flaws, but it's a pity, Cheng Yu, you look at the arrangement of a position!" ”

Cheng Yu said respectfully: "Yes! ”

After nearly ten days, Cao Cao pacified hundreds of thousands of people, this wrong time, directly missed the good opportunity to pursue and intercept Liu Bei, of course, in fact, if it was according to Cao Cao's resoluteness, it would take 5 days to appease these people at most, but with Ma Xiaoquan, a bastard, Cao Cao "had to" delay for nearly 5 days. [Ma Xiaoquandao: Damn, Juefeng Xuan, did you say this? Xiao Jue: Hehe, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, this is prominent, prominent] At this time, Liu Bei had gradually calmed down, and also adopted Zhuge Liang's construction, and made a series of deployments, the most important of which was to adopt Zhuge Liang's plan to unite Sun Quan.

As early as when Liu Bei fled from the beginning, Sun Quan sent a messenger Lu Su, and after some twists and turns, he finally met Liu Bei in Dangyang, but the situation was critical at the time, and the two did not say a word well, until Xiakou, Liu Bei officially met Lu Su.

The two were polite at first, and then went straight to the point, after some negotiation and game, Liu Bei said the will of the alliance through Zhuge Liang's mouth, and Lu Su was very happy to hear it, because he also visited Liu Bei on this trip to ask the Sun Liu alliance to fight against Cao together.

The two sides have their own thoughts, but the general direction is unified, and naturally they reached a consensus of opinion in an instant, and after Lu Su resigned happily, Liu Bei immediately asked Zhuge Liang with a gloomy face about the powerful relationship between the Sun-Liu Alliance.

Zhuge Liang rigorously analyzed the current situation, and asked Liu Bei for instructions, and he would negotiate with Sun Quan first to explore Sun Quan's tone, and Liu Bei agreed

On the Cao army's side, because Cao Cao got Xu Shu and got the former general Liu Biao, he was very happy, and he was full of ambition for a while, and he said that he would attack Xiakou immediately, at this time, Ma Xiaoquan suddenly stood up and told Cao Cao a small story, and Cao Cao immediately changed his mind.

After that, Cheng Yu was very curious about what Ma Xiaoquan said, so he cheekily went over and asked Ma Xiaoquan.

Ma Xiaoquan didn't hide his selfishness, and told Cheng Yu about that little story.

After hearing this, Cheng Yu looked at Ma Xiaoquan in surprise and said, "Lord Shangxian, is this true?" ”

Ma Xiaoquan nodded: "Of course, what am I lying to you for, if you don't believe it, you can investigate it!" ”

Cheng Yu acted cautiously and immediately set about implementing it, and once he investigated, it was as the Shangxian Lord said, or even worse.

Cheng Yu was shocked and hurriedly reported to the lord Cao Cao, Cao Cao was also shocked when he heard this, and then quickly made arrangements and ordered Cheng Yu to handle the matter.

The response time of the whole thing is very fast, and it doesn't add up to more than 2 days.

Watching Cheng Yu go to deal with the tricky things that the lord said, Zhang Liao asked Ma Xiaoquan curiously: "Lord Shangxian, what did you say, the lord and Cheng Gong (referring to Cheng Yu) are so nervous?" ”

Ma Xiaoquan waved his hand and said: "Ben Xian just told a small story, well, the name of this story is - on how the internal strife was refined." ”

Zhang Liao was stunned for a moment and patted his head: "No wonder! ”

Ma Xiaoquan smiled and walked away.

After Cao Cao Chengyu dealt with the internal strife, a few days passed.

Cao Cao was very depressed in his heart, but there was no way, although he was the prime minister, but this Han world was not his Cao family, to say it was good, he coerced the Son of Heaven to order not to obey, it was not good to say, he Cao Cao was also the enemy on his back.

Wiping the sweat from his head, Cao Cao sighed and said, "It's really thanks to the reminder of Lord Shangxian!" Otherwise, it's unimaginable, I didn't expect me to fight on the front line, those guys hum, wait, one day"