After Cao Pi and Cao Zhang left Sikong Mansion and rode back to the house, Cao Pi suddenly said: "Third brother, I want to go to Kunyang for my brother." Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ”

Kunyang is on the edge of Xudu, and the household registration in the county is Lu Bu's food estate, Cao Zhang smiled when he heard this: "What? Want to see your fiancée? ”

Cao Pi smiled wryly and acquiesced.

Cao Zhang smiled: "Go ahead!" After saying that, he pulled the reins and went home.

After returning to Fuzhong, Cao Zhang sorted out his bags and waited for the time to send troops.

Three days later, Cao Chun brought a general to see Cao Zhang, because four hundred people happened to be one, and Sima would be placed alone, so Cao Chun had to introduce the highest governor who traveled with Cao Zhang to him first.

In the courtyard of Cao's mansion, Cao Chun patted the young general in his early twenties and said: "Third son, my Cao family's children talk about horsemanship, Zixiao ranks third, the last general ranks second, and this Wen Lie ranks first, we all call him 'Qianli Ju'." ”

The young general Shi Li said: "The last general Cao Xiu, see the third prince." ”

Cao Zhang said politely: "No need to be polite, are we equals?" ”

Cao Xiu replied: "Back to the third son, exactly." ”

"Okay, then I'll call you Brother Wenlie in the future." Cao Zhang said with a smile.

After seeing Cao Xiu for a day, Cao Zhang left Xu Du with four hundred tigers and leopards, and went to Pingyu in Runanzhi, because it was all cavalry, so it came to Pingyu in less than ten days, and the captain Manzhong and Taishou Li Tong went out of the city to greet them, and Cao Zhang and Cao Xiu went directly to the county government to discuss matters with the two.

Cao Zhang first said: "Li Taishou, Captain Man, although I lead the order of the supervising army, but the situation in Runan is not as good as the two of them, so the two of them need to coordinate the overall situation, and there is a place for me to ride a tiger and a leopard, even if I speak, Brother Wen Lie and I will naturally do our best." ”

Li Tongman's pet and the two said yes at the same time, and then Cao Zhang said: "Father's general order this time is to ask us and Chen Deng of Xuzhou and my brother to assist each other, if Yuan Shu flees to Xuzhou, then we will attack Shouchun, if Yuan Shu flees to Runan, then Chen Deng and my brother will attack Shouchun, according to the judgment of the two, I don't know where Yuan Shu is more likely to go?" ”

Man Zhong replied: "Runan is the nest of the Yuan family, when General Li and I have been here for a little longer, there are still local wealthy families to fund the mountain thieves, our army will be smooth when it arrives, and it will be reversed when it leaves, and it will be repeated repeatedly, because I am not enough troops, it is difficult to garrison the place, because the Hao clan is divided, and the money, grain and taxes cannot be collected, and they are still independent, Runan is still like this, not to mention other boundaries in Yuzhou?" It was the last general who guessed that Yuan Shu should flee to Runan, and then sneaked north to join Yuan Shao with the assistance of local wealthy clans. ”

Cao Zhang nodded when he heard this, and asked, "Since this is the case, we should prepare as soon as possible." ”

Li Tong said: "The last general has sent spies to investigate the various roads that must be passed, if Yuan Shu wants to enter Runan, he will definitely raise elite troops to intercept and kill, and punish the wealthy people who assisted him in escaping for treason." ”

Cao Zhang said: "Okay, if we receive the news, Brother Wen Lie and I will lead the tiger and leopard cavalry to intercept it first, and you will follow behind." ”

After Li Tong and the two agreed, a guard walked in and reported: "Third son, Huainan Yang Feng sent a messenger to beg for surrender. ”

"Oh?" Since Yang Feng was defeated by Cao Cao in Luoyang, he first took refuge in Yuan Shu, and then Yuan Shu rebelled against Yuan Shu when he said that the emperor and queen crusaded against Lu Bu, and since then he has been wandering around the boundaries of Huainan County, and he has not even had a fixed place to stay.

It's just that Cao Zhang didn't quite understand why Yang Feng wanted to surrender to him, instead of sending an envoy to find Cao Cao, and silently half-sounded, Cao Zhang said: "Call that envoy in!" ”

After the guard agreed, he went out and brought in a soldier, and Cao Zhang said to the soldier, "What does Yang Feng say?" ”

The soldier replied, "It's all in the letter!" After speaking, he presented a roll of plain silk.

Cao Zhang opened it and looked at it, but it was Yang Feng's handwritten letter, it turned out that since he wandered in Huainan, the military food has become less and less, and the soldiers have starved to death a lot, and then Huainan has a plague, and now there are less than 5,000 sergeants under his command, so he has long had the idea of surrendering, but because he had fought with Cao Cao before, and delayed the return of the Son of Heaven in Anyi, he knew that he was guilty, and he was afraid that his life would not be guaranteed after surrendering, so he had been hesitating.

Later, I heard that Cao Zhang came to Runan, and when the Son of Heaven returned to the east, he saw that Cao Zhang and Emperor Xian had a friendly relationship, and he was deeply favored by Emperor Xian, so he wanted to ask Cao Zhang to say a few good words to the saint to save his life, if Cao Zhang could do it, he guaranteed that Yuan Shu would never be able to leave Huainan.

Then Yang Feng also mentioned in the letter that he was originally a member of Sili Hongnong, although he participated in the Baibo Thief Army in his early years, and later became a thief marshal, but before that, he was also a relative of the Yang family of Yang Biao of the Hongnong clan, but he was a concubine, and the Yang family was not taken seriously, so he went to join the thief army in anger, but he said that he had also read the sage book and knew what it meant to be loyal to the monarch and patriotism.

In the end, Yang Feng also mentioned that he knew that Yang Biao was dissatisfied with Cao Zhang's father Cao Cao, and now he has returned to his hometown and returned to Hongnong, the Yang family is a big family in Hongnong, quite wealthy and prestigious, and has the ability to gather people to cut land.

More than a thousand words were sprinkled on a foot of plain silk, and the writing was very sincere, and Cao Zhang said to the envoy after reading it: "Go back and tell General Yang that as long as Yuan Shu can't go out of Huainan, I will repair a letter to show your majesty his merits." ”

Yang Feng's envoy was overjoyed when he saw Cao Zhang's promise, and said: "General Yang told me to be humble, if the third prince agrees, please write a letter back." ”

Cao Zhang smiled: "That's right! After speaking, he handed the plain silk in his hand to Li Tong to watch, and he asked people to present pen and ink to return the book.

After writing down his meaning, Li Tong, who had read the surrender book, said: "Third prince, we can send someone to send some dry food to Yang Feng, now that his troops are less than 5,000, he will definitely not besiege Shouchun, but want to carry out a surprise attack when Yuan Shu is fleeing, so that it is difficult for him to move an inch, this kind of tactics require a lot of dry food, so that it can also show our sincerity in accepting Yang Feng's begging." ”

Cao Zhang smiled and said, "What General Li said is very true! Leave this matter to General Li! With that, he handed the letter to the messenger.

Li Tong got up and said, "In this way, I will arrange this." ”

Cao Zhang said to Yang Feng's envoy: "Later, the envoy can go to the post house to rest first, and let the envoy take it away after General Li Tong has raised military rations." ”

The messenger thanked him again, and Cao Zhang waved his hand and asked the guards to take him out.

Man Zhong sighed: "I can't imagine that Yang Feng is also from the Hongnong Yang family, and he actually goes to be a thief, it's a miracle." ”

Cao Zhang smiled and said, "It's really novel!" In my heart, I thought that Yang Feng was in the big clan but would rather be a grass coward, obviously he already hated the big clan, so in this way, he was on the same front as himself! Moreover, he was born in the big clan, and he must know the disadvantages and weaknesses of the big clan very well, and if he is allowed to deal with the clan, he will definitely have no reservations, this person must be kept!