While Zhu Wei was busy cleaning up the follow-up things on Shouchun's side, Xuzhou's side gradually changed because of Lu Bu's death.

At the beginning, because of Lu Bu's death, there was indeed some chaos on the Xuzhou side, and Zang Ba, who occupied Taishan County, immediately sent troops to Pengcheng's side, wanting to take the opportunity to expand his power, and also wanted to occupy a place in Xuzhou.

And Zhang Liao, Wei Xu and others are also a little dissatisfied, although Zhang Liao is the remaining general ordered by Lu Bu, but Wei Xu is Lu Bu's relative, and Wei Xu was also Lu Bu's cronies who stayed to contain Zhang Liao.

Now that the news of Lu Bu's death has come, but Lu Bu has no son to inherit Lu Bu's position, although Zhang Liao is the general left behind, it is obviously impossible to succeed Lu Bu's position, so Wei Xu wants to take the opportunity to take the position.

It's a pity that Zhang Liao doesn't look down on him again, Zhang Liao and Gao Shun are originally a small gang, so there are small contradictions between Zhang Liao and Wei Xu, which makes Zhang Liao how can he be dominated by Wei Xu.

The forces left by Lu Bu in Xuzhou could have been divided into three small groups.

The first gang is the powerful faction led by Gao Shun, Chen Gong, and Zhang Liao, they are all powerful and capable figures, and they originally controlled some real power on Lu Bu's side.

But because of the temperament of Gao Shun and Chen Gong, they were not very liked by Lu Bu, so their rights were gradually differentiated.

Only Zhang Liao is relatively tactful and knows how to follow Lu Bu's temperament, so now he can be left by Lu Bu in Pengcheng, Xuzhou, and he can be regarded as controlling Pengcheng's military power.

The second gang is the slippery head faction, including Chen Deng, Wei Xu and others, of course, they may not be in a group, and sometimes they also take their own profits, but they all know how to welcome Lu Bu's joy, but they are reused by Lu Bu, but unfortunately they still can't control too much real power because of their own abilities and qualifications.

The last gang is the independent Taishan thief Zang Ba, who took his subordinates Sun Guan, Wu Dun, Yili, Sun Kang, and Chang Xian, and the five generals, basically a gang that listened to the tune and did not listen to the propaganda.

In this way, within Lu Bu's army, Zhang Liao and Wei Xu and others actually had contradictions, and there were already entanglements of interests in the struggle for military power between them, and now that Lu Bu is dead, the ownership of the army left by Lu Bu has naturally become the target of their contention.

But what added fuel to the fire at this time was that after Taishan Zangba heard about Lu Bu's death, he also had a little covetousness for Xuzhou in his heart, so he also led his troops to Pengcheng, saying that he would protect Lu Bu's family, but in fact he also wanted to take the opportunity to seize Xuzhou.

It's just that Lu Bu has no son to inherit the power, only a lady in the main room, a concubine Diao Chan and a daughter Lu Lingqi, so naturally there is no way to suppress the selfishness of these subordinates.

Originally, because Wei Xu and Mrs. Yan were cousins, Mrs. Yan certainly believed in Wei Xu more, and under Wei Xu's words, she had the intention of supporting Wei Xu to take charge of the army.

But after all, Zhang Liao was the left-behind general left by Lu Bu, and now he actually controlled the military power of Pengcheng in Xuzhou, and he looked down on Wei Xu and was naturally unwilling to hand over the military power.

Under normal circumstances, the army left behind by Lu Bu might be split directly, Zhang Liao would be forced by Madame Yan to leave with a part of the army willing to follow him, and Wei Xu could also retain some troops to occupy Pengcheng or something.

This is just like the situation when Dong Zhuo died in Chang'an, the various parts of the Xiliang army split and seized power, and Lu Bu's army immediately fell apart.

Fortunately, Chen Deng, who came back with the news that Lu Bu was dead, still had the task of pulling Xuzhou to Zhu Wei, so he came forward to act as a middleman, and then raised the question of Xuzhou's future whereabouts.

Chen Deng brought back 20,000 Xuzhou recruits and young men this time, and he can be regarded as a powerful person with a certain amount of military power, although there is also Cao Xing by Chen Deng's side, who seems to have a certain influence on the troops brought by Chen Deng.

can be Chen Deng's Chen family identity, this army composed of Xuzhou people is still controlled by Chen Deng, so his words also made Zhang Liao and Wei Xu pay some attention.

Coupled with the external threat brought by Taishan Zangba, Zhang Liao and Wei Xu finally did not directly split and divide the troops, so Chen Deng invited Mrs. Yan and convened everyone to discuss the future of Xuzhou.

In this business meeting, Chen Deng did not immediately express his intentions, but only explained to everyone the situation that Xuzhou is facing now, and explained that the forces that Xuzhou can throw into now are roughly Zhu Wei, Cao Cao and Yuan Shao.

Now Xuzhou is surrounded by these three forces, but Yuan Shao's territory in the north and Pengcheng are separated by Zang Ba of Mount Tai, and Cao Cao's Gunzhou and Pengcheng in the northwest are also separated by Liu Bei of Xiaopei, and only Guangling County and Pengcheng occupied by Zhu Wei in the south are not blocked.

Then Chen Deng also explained that now that Pengcheng has lost Lu Bu, it is impossible to let Wei Xu, Zhang Liao and others stand on their own, it can be said that Xuzhou will become a meal on the plate of these three families, just to see which one will put down chopsticks and eat Xuzhou into the stomach.

So now Zhang Liao and Wei Xu are fighting for Peng Cheng and Lu Bu's left army, which is actually a meaningless thing, and now all we have to consider is which side everyone should throw themselves into Zhu Wei, Cao Cao, and Yuan Shao.

However, Chen Deng also explained that no matter which side Xuzhou throws to now, it will definitely be hated by the other two parties, and then send troops to attack.

It's just that Chen Deng deliberately made a little trick here, and proposed the existence of Zang Ba and Liu Bei, which means that Cao Cao and Yuan Shao want to attack, or they are separated from Zang Ba and Liu Bei, but if Zhu Wei comes to attack, he can directly kill him.

In this way, no matter what Zhang Liao and Wei Xu want, they will definitely have to face this problem in the end, so can Zhang Liao and Wei Xu stop the attack of Zhu Wei's army?

After listening to Chen Deng's words, Zhang Liao and Wei Xu really calmed down, and began to think about their future destinations, considering the first choice of investment goals in their hearts, after all, this is also a major event related to their future future.

And Mrs. Yan on the throne is also a master of the six gods, originally she supported Wei Xu, but Wei Xu promised that she could continue to live in the current mansion, Wei Xu would not change her current treatment or anything, but now it seems that Wei Xu's promise is meaningless at all.

As a result, Wei Xu felt that he could go to Yuan Shao in the north, but Zhang Liao thought that he should take refuge in Zhu Wei in the south, and as for Cao Cao, they had no intention of choosing.

After all, Lu Bu had taken them to copy Cao Cao's lair in Gunzhou before, and they were also hostile to Cao Cao before, so they were worried that Cao Cao's side would be targeted, and there was no prospect for development.

However, Wei Xu chose Yuan Shao, mainly because he felt that the Yuan family had the family background of the fourth and third princes, and Yuan Shao might be able to dominate the world in the future, so he wanted to go to Yuan Shao's side to hug his thighs.

But Zhang Liao didn't think so, Lu Bu actually lived on Yuan Shao's side before, but Lu Bu was suspicious of Yuan Shao, and the two sides turned against each other, forcing Lu Bu to flee to Hanoi to temporarily rely on Zhang Yang, and then he joined Chen Liuzhang Miao to copy Cao Cao's lair in Gunzhou and resolve the crisis in Xuzhou.

Therefore, although Zhang Liao didn't think that Yuan Shao would not accept them because of this, he felt that Yuan Shao was not a good lord who could tolerate people, but Zhu Wei in the south created such a foundation with his own strength, but it was the time to recruit talents to fill the foundation, and they could only be reused if they invested in Zhu Wei's side.

For a while, Wei Xu and Zhang Liao argued again, and they had the intention of parting ways again and dividing up Lu Bu's family and choosing one side to defect.

And Chen Deng heard Zhang Liao's words here, and he couldn't help but be overjoyed, since Zhang Liao's heart belonged to Zhu Wei, then of course he could add fuel to the fire, so he asked Wei Xu another question, if Wei Xu went to vote for Yuan Shao, what would he take as a gift, and why should Yuan Shao value him......