With the dispatch of the cavalry units of Ma Teng, Zhang Xiu, Zhang Liao and the Southern Huns, Zhu Wei turned back to Luoyang and began to arrange the next military deployment.

First of all, Pang Yan and Zhuge Liang took the main force of the Xionglu battalion to cross the Yellow River in Yanjin and march north to the direction of Chaoge, while Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin, who crossed the Yellow River with Zhu Wei, also led their troops to converge.

Next, Zhu Wei asked Wen Ping, Xu Huang, and Xu Shang, who were stationed in Luoyang, to send troops to Yuyuan Pass to replace the Xionglu battalion led by Ling Cao.

So Ling Cao took a part of the Xionglu battalion, and boarded the Jiangjiao battalion warship of Ganning at the crossing of the Yellow River, and also went north to join the main force of the Xionglu battalion led by Pang Yan.

Not long after, the first army under Zhu Wei's account, about 50,000 troops of the Xionglu battalion led by Pang Yan, gathered in Chaoge County, and sent troops to Liyang County between Dangyin County of Hanoi County and Wei County and Yanzhou East County of Yizhou.

Zhu Weijun's military movements looked like Zhu Wei's army was heading north one by one, and it seemed that it was about to launch a large-scale counteroffensive against Yuan Shao in the north.

Zhu Wei also deliberately made a lot of false rumors, saying that his next strategy was to go north to capture Yecheng and eliminate the northern enemy Yuan Shao in one go.

As for Cao Cao's side, the main force has been wiped out anyway, and there is no need to be afraid, Zhu Wei even sent an envoy to Xu Du to persuade Cao Cao to surrender, quite a kind of use of peaceful means to coerce Cao Cao to surrender without a fight.

With Zhu Wei's actions, the time has also reached mid-September, and the weather has gradually cooled down at this time.

So Zhu Wei officially swore in Luoyang to send troops, and the army marched directly from Luoyang to the land of Rongyang, and it seemed that he was also preparing to cross the river from the Yanjin Ferry of the Yellow River along the northward route of the Xionglu camp led by Pang Yan before, and along the route of the battle of Guandu in the original history, go north to fight Yuan Shao's Yecheng.

To be honest, Zhu Wei's actions, Cao Cao's side is also skeptical, but Cao Cao is not an ordinary person after all, so naturally he will not be easily deceived by Zhu Wei's method of attacking the west.

Previously, Cao Cao's defense of Zhu Wei was mainly based on the direction of Yingchuan facing Nanyang County, and then the northern line of defense against Xuzhou and Shouchun.

Now that the movements of Zhu Wei's army have been discovered, Cao Cao has also gathered the troops originally scattered south of Yingchuan, forming a new line of defense on the front line of Changshe, of course, Cao Cao also knows such defensive means, and if he encounters a large-scale attack by Zhu Wei's army, he may not be able to stop it.

In fact, Cao Cao was already ready to evacuate from Xudu, ready to withdraw from Xudu to Chenliu at any time, and then withdraw to Puyang County, East County, Yanzhou.

Puyang County in Dongjun is already close to Yizhou, and it is not much away from Yuan Shao's old camp Yecheng, so Cao Cao can continue to rely on Yuan Shao here to resist the attack of Zhu Wei's army.

Although in this case, Cao Cao basically gave up Yingchuan County, Chenliu County and other southern Yanzhou prefectures and counties, but at least he could still save the northern prefectures and counties of Yanzhou, and if necessary, he could also withdraw Yizhou and Qingzhou, directly relying on Yuan Shao's protection.

Anyway, now that Emperor Han Xian, the Son of Heaven on Xudu's side, is dead, Xudu is not of much value, and Xudu without the Son of Heaven is actually just a small Xu County.

In fact, when Cao Cao returned from the defeat at Guangcheng Pass and Dagu Pass, he already had such a military arrangement.

After all, the territory he originally occupied was really surrounded by enemies on all sides, so now tightening the territory he can actually control can also reduce the enemy area, and it can also unite his remaining army together.

On the eastern front line of Yanzhou, Cao Cao felt that the defense line he had constructed could also resist the Zhu Wei army, Huang Zhong and Tai Shici, who were now on the Xuzhou side.

In this way, Cao Cao gathered back the forces of the southern defense line of Yingchuan, and concentrated about 50,000 or 60,000 soldiers, although many of them belonged to the second-line troops and the Tuntian troops, but at least they were regular troops capable of fighting.

Then Cao Cao also began to migrate the people of Yingchuan, and at the same time moved a large number of people to Yanzhou, he also recruited young people as a new army to supplement his troops.

Anyway, this can be regarded as a means of erecting walls against Zhu Weijun, and even if these places are occupied by Zhu Weijun at that time, they can only occupy the land without population, and it will not bring much practical significance to Zhu Weijun.

At the same time, the new soldiers recruited from these people will not dare to surrender at will on the battlefield because their families are controlled by Cao Cao to move north, as if they are controlled by Cao Cao as hostages.

Cao Cao is still very wise, and he also knows how to give up, not to mention Yingchuan at this time, even the population on Chenliu's side is already migrating and mobilizing.

However, it is not easy to really do all this, after all, Yingchuan and Chen Liu's side are originally the gathering places of big families, and these people may not all listen to Cao Cao, and many of Cao Cao's subordinate families are also here.

It can be said that ordinary ordinary people only need a mobilization order, and they can only obey the order to relocate, but many large families may not care about any mobilization order.

It's just that Cao Cao didn't dare to let some families really stay here and not leave, otherwise let Zhu Wei occupy this side, and then threaten Cao Cao's officials from these families with these families, so with Cao Cao's suspicions, how can he believe that his officials will not fornicate with Zhu Wei.

For this reason, Cao Cao put a lot of energy in these days on this kind of relocation persuasion, even if these families left some people to guard the original home mansion, but the main figures in the family had to follow Cao Cao to move together.

However, just when Cao Cao sent troops to Changshe to defend against a possible attack by Zhu Wei's army, Xu Du's side encountered an unexpected attack.

This attack was the Yellow Turban forces of Liu Pi and Gong Du, who were secretly appeased by Zhu Wei before, and then supported and trained by the Jingnan Battalion of Shouchun Huang Zhong, and now the two of them also have an elite Yellow Turban force of nearly 10,000 people in their hands, and their weapons and armor are also equipped with the support of Huang Zhong.

Now, under Jia Xu's plan, Zhu Wei deliberately gathered his army in Rongyang to attract Cao Cao's attention, while Liu Pi and Gong Du led nearly 10,000 troops from the land of Shangcai in Yuzhou to the north to attack Xudu.

Liu Pi and Gong Du, who have been active in Runan County of Yuzhou all the year round, are naturally very familiar with the mountainous terrain here, so when they led their troops to quietly kill the periphery of Xudu, they were discovered by Cao Cao's local garrison.

For a while, Xu Du was suddenly alarmed, and Cao Cao hurriedly mobilized troops to protect Xu Du first.

But in fact, now Cao Cao's main army, under the leadership of Xiahou Dun, is stationed in Changshe to defend the Zhu Wei army that has gathered troops in Rongyang, while the other part of the army is carrying out the affairs of relocating the people.

As a result, the Cao army in Xudu was only five or six thousand people, and suddenly faced with the attack of more than 10,000 troops led by Liu Pi and Gong Du, the situation in Xudu was really a little critical......