In November, Lü Bu had been fighting Cao Cao for nearly a month. When Cao Cao first came, Chen Gong said that Cao Cao was tired from afar, and our army could defeat Cao Cao with ease! Lu Bu didn't think so, so much so that he lost the opportunity.

Cao Cao led his troops and Liu Bei joined forces to trap Lü Bu in Kaiyang, Langya State. Lü Bu was unable to break through the siege several times, and Chen Gong persuaded Lü Bu to lead his troops to camp outside the city, and they were fighting each other. Lu Bu refused to obey, and Lu Bu wanted to send a messenger to ask Yuan Shu to send troops to save him.

However, as soon as the envoy left Kaiyangnan, he was captured by Tao Ying's military horse stationed in Jiqiu. The envoy begged Tao Ying again to send troops to save him, but Tao Ying knew that Lu Bu was capricious, so he did not come to the rescue, but only hoarded the soldiers and horses in Jiqiu, claiming to prevent Cao Cao from taking the opportunity to go south.

That is, the land of the mound has come out of Donghai County, and it is the county seat closest to Donghai County in Langya Kingdom. It is only a hundred miles away from Kaiyang, and Cao Cao naturally knows that Tao Ying is leading his troops here, but he is not very afraid. At this time, Cao Cao thought that he was several times stronger than Tao Ying, so he thought that Tao Ying would not take the initiative to break his promise and attack him.

Lu Bu's envoy was arrested to see Tao Ying, and Tao Ying put him back and asked him to tell Lu Bu that if he was surrounded, if he wanted to survive, he would open the bag. Now it was his time of life and death, and the messenger hurriedly went back to Kaiyang to tell Lu Bu.

When Lu Bu and Tao Ying first met, they once calculated a hexagram with him and gave him a tip. Fortunately, Lu Bu knew that Tao Ying could see through the heavens, so he still kept the tips. So when the time was about to reach December, Cao Cao adopted Guo Jia's strategy to lead Wu to flood Kaiyang, and the city of Kaiyang was flooded everywhere, and the people were all around, Hao Meng and others saw that there was Cao Cao in front of them, and Tao Ying knew that the general trend had gone, not to mention that Lu Bu whipped Cao Xing again, and several people agreed to surrender.

At night, Hao Meng shot the letter ~ outside the city, and Lu Bu listened to the words of the messenger and opened the bag left on his body. Under the candlelight, there was a letter in Lu Bu's bag, and the front of the letter read: "In 198, he died at the hands of Cao Cao. ”

After seeing the letter, Lu Bu was shocked, and cold sweat kept overflowing. Is it true that the naïve wants to kill himself? Lu Bu opened the north side of the letter again, and it read: "Chen Gong, Gao Shun, Zhang Liaoxin, Hao Meng, Cao Xing, Cheng Lian, Wei Xu, Hou Cheng, Song Xiananti. ”

After Lu Bu opened the letter, he hurriedly summoned Chen Gong and Zhang Liao. Both of them have a bag that Tao should give, Zhang Liao opened the bag, and it wrote: "In 198, Lu Bu died, I wish the general to come to Xuzhou, and Xuzhou will treat him as a VIP!" ”

Chen Gong opened the bag, and it was also written: "In 198, Lu Bu died. Cao Cao captured the public, he will kill him, and hope to do it himself. ”

Among the tips of the three, Tao Ying only invited Zhang Liao to go to Xuzhou, but in order to invite Lu Bu, he just told him who was credible and who would be opposed! Chen Gong put away the bag and said to Lu Bu: "Lord, I think this must be Tao Ying's divisive plan, the great enemy is coming, the lord must not harm himself and his siblings!" ”

Zhang Liao also said to Lu Bu after tearing up the bag: "Don't worry, my lord, we will stick to the city, and Cao Cao's grain will naturally retreat!" ”

Lu Bu hesitated, and at this time, Chen Gong was busy and offered a plan, saying that there was a plan to make Cao Cao and Tao Ying kill each other, but it would definitely break the siege of Cao Cao! Lu Bu asked what the plan was? Chen Gong told Lü Bu about the plan, so Lü Bu sent Chen Gong as an envoy to Cao Cao's camp.

Chen Gong entered Cao's camp and told Cao Cao that Tao Ying in the south would station his soldiers and horses in Jiqiu, and at this moment Tao Ying was staring at himself with fierce eyes, if Cao Cao and Lu Bu continued to fight, they would only compete with each other for fishermen. So Chen Gong suggested that it was better for Cao Cao and Lü Bu to defeat Tao Ying, and then lead the troops south to attack Pengcheng, and then divide the wealth of Pengcheng and divide the land of Xuzhou equally.

Cao Cao thought for a long time, what is the so-called thing that this Tao should be stationed in Jiqiu, it is really difficult to say. Although he said that he had to garrison the hill as a last resort to prevent himself from going south, how could he stand by and watch?

And if Lu Bu is forced to be anxious at that time, and Lu Bu leads his troops to take refuge in Tao Ying, wouldn't Tao Ying's power be even greater? When the time comes, they will unite against themselves, and they will definitely be defeated. Thinking of this, Cao Cao asked Chen Gong to go back first, and discussed it with Guo Jia, Cheng Yu and others.

Guo Jia suggested that Cao Cao could not believe Lu Bu's words, and now the situation in Yanzhou is grim, with Yuan Shao in the north, Yuan Shu in the south, and Tao Ying in the west occupying Xuzhou, carrying out reforms everywhere, and earning all the money of the people in the world.

There is also one of the eight horses in the southwest, Jingzhou Liu Biao has been running Jingzhou for so long, so the current Yanzhou is really in the land of the four wars. If Cao Cao wanted to survive in Yanzhou, he had to get along with Tao Ying. And Lu Bu's capricious villain, even if he took refuge in Tao Ying, Tao Ying didn't dare to keep him, who made him a capricious villain?

What's more, he surrendered to Tao Ying before, and betrayed Tao Ying within a year, taking his brother's land for himself, and he was really a scoundrel. Therefore, Guo Jia suggested that it would be better to ask Lu Bu to write a letter of commitment, and let him promise to attack Tao Ying together, and then divide Tao Ying's land equally.

Cao Cao was puzzled, why did he let Lu Bu write like this? Guo Jia said with a smile, in this way, Lu Bu can be completely sent to a dead end!

In Cao's camp, after Chen Gong wrote a letter of commitment to divide Xuzhou equally, the two of them had one copy, and Cao Cao stopped digging Wushui to irrigate Kaiyang City. After receiving the letter of commitment, Cao Cao sent an envoy to Tao Ying with the letter of commitment.

In Tao Ying's military camp, Cheng Yu took the letter written by Chen Gong to jointly attack Jiqiu and presented it to Tao Ying, and Tao Ying frowned after reading the letter. Jia Xu asked Cheng Yu what this meant?

Cheng Yu said: "Lu Bu wants to unite with my lord to harm Taozhou Muye, how can my lord betray the previous covenant?" Therefore, take this letter and ask Taozhou Mu to decide! ”

Tao Ying went to Jia Xu, and Jia Xu said beside him: "Duke Cao wants to unite with the lord to attack Lu Buye!" ”

Hearing Cao Cao's conspiracy, Liu Ye offered advice on the side: "The lord must not be involved in this dispute!" Jia Xu also agreed, so Tao Ying said: "Go back to Prime Minister Cao Cheng for me, and say that I have promised the neighbors around me not to use troops easily, so that Lu Bu can attack me." No matter who comes, I am not afraid of Xuzhou! ”

Cheng Yu saw that Tao Ying was not fooled, so he had to go back to Cao Ying to report. As soon as Cheng Yu left, Lu Bu sent a messenger with a letter, telling Tao Ying that Cao Cao wanted to send troops to attack Pengcheng with him, and that he did not want to be with Cao Cao, and was willing to send troops with Tao Ying to attack Cao Cao, and divide the land of Yanzhou equally when the time came.

Jia Xu saw through Chen Gong's plan at a glance, so he suddenly thought about it, so he asked Tao Ying to promise Chen Gong, and the two families would attack Cao Cao together. Tao Ying was under Jia Xu's offering, Chen Gong agreed that he might as well plan first, lead the troops to pretend to besiege Kaiyang, and then Chen Gong pretended to let Cao Cao attack the city, and then attacked it around the city, so that Cao Cao could not take care of it, and Cao Cao would be defeated!