(Khan, I thought about it for a while, and I'm not in a hurry to return to Ruoyang now, so the previous chapter is wrong, and it should be changed to "When I return to Luoyang, I will officially hold a banquet to accept Gongsun Xin as a righteous son, I hope Zhao Yun can participate, and Zhao Yun readily agreed", the VIP chapter is not easy to modify, so it won't be troublesome, it is written here that yesterday's cold affected the mind, everyone forgive me!) ）

The situation in Hebei today is very interesting, or rather eccentric.

The original Hebei Sanxiong, Gongsun Zhan and Han Fu are dead, and the only remaining Yuan Shao is not a monopoly because of this, although he still has enough troops in his hands and his strength is still very strong, but the territory has actually shrunk a little, which has a lot to do with the previous Guangnian War after being raided by Lu Bu.

But these territories were not occupied by Lu Bu or Gongsun Du, and neither of them seemed to have too strong thoughts about this, which made most of Hebei become borderless land at this time, or a buffer zone for three things.

Lu Bu's chaotic entry has also added more variables to the chaotic situation in Hebei, although many things have settled with Han Fu's death, especially after Gongsun Du knew each other very well and went all the way from Youzhou to Liaodong, the situation in Hebei gradually stabilized, but everyone can see that this is just a short-term stalemate, of course, whether it is really short depends on the movements of all parties, especially the actions of Cao Cao, who is still staying in Yanzhou.

In the Battle of Guangnian, he was forced by Lu Bu to move without movement, and Cao Cao also discovered some abnormalities of Han Fu in Guangnian, which made his action into Hebei hesitate. However, after discovering that Lü Bu had finally left Liyang and marched north towards Guangnian, although he then received the news that Lü Bu had raided Yuan Shao and Han Fu and was suddenly attacked by Gongsun Du, Cao Cao was still a little impatient at this time, until the situation in Yangzhou was so eroded that he had to look back.

At this time, Wang Lang and Liu Xuan, who were originally able to compete with Sun Ce in order to compete with Yuan Shu, were attacked from the sea, which greatly reduced the pressure on Yuan Shu, who was originally attacked on both sides, although Yuan Shu was a bit of a straw bag, but he was not without some capable people under his hands, whether it was Yan Xiang or Ji Ling, these civil and military ministers were very good, as long as Yuan Shu was willing to calm down and use them well. Sun Ce and others, who have always been at a disadvantage in terms of strength, want to compete with him in Yangzhou, it is very difficult.

Although among the tripartite forces currently entrenched in Yangzhou, the strength of the naval army under Sun Ce is higher. Moreover, the staggered river lines in Yangzhou have a great role in the play of the navy, but Yuan Shu also has a good naval force under his hands, and with the support of Yuan Shu's money-burning, he has successively established a much larger and much more powerful warship. And the number of trolls is also larger. Even if you can't suppress the Lujiang water army. But it can also contain them, so that the role they can play is greatly reduced, when there is no Wu County on the other side to contain them. Lujiang Sun Ce's situation became precarious, and he had no choice but to ask Cao Cao, the father-in-law, for help.

It is a rare thing to get Sun Ce to take the initiative to show weakness and ask for help, Cao Cao has been thinking about this before, but now after the scene he is looking forward to appears, he is not in such a good mood, because according to the joke, Guo Jia and others continued to observe the situation in Hebei, especially when they found that Gongsun Du of Liaodong actually took the initiative to avoid it when he encountered Lu Bu, and finally coerced the remnants of Gongsun Zan and Han Fu who took the opportunity to retreat directly to Liaodong. They comprehensively speculated that the real mastermind behind the dilemma that Cao Cao could only enter and retreat in Puyang, Yanzhou, was likely to be Lu Bu.

From the earliest mutation of Liangzhou, Yan Xing and Cao Xing's sudden joint hit Ma Teng by surprise, Ma Liangzhou almost became history, Ma Chao was like a lost dog, and it was difficult to set off big waves in the short term, and then the Hebei situation suddenly changed, Han Fu was finally buried under Lu Bu after repeated defeats, and Gongsun Du of Liaodong suddenly attacked, one on land and two at sea, but it had a great impact on Cao Cao in both aspects.

According to Guo Jia's speculation, it is very likely that Gongsun Du and Lu Bu secretly reached an agreement, dealing with Han Fu and the navy to Wu County are all Lu Bu's commands, if this is the case, it is not surprising why Lu Bu was able to attack Yuan Shao so calmly and completely ignoring Cao Cao behind him, which only needed to fight a time difference, so he secretly broke the army into pieces, and disguised a fake military camp to deceive Cao Cao's investigation, thus delaying Cao Cao's only chance to catch up with his sabotage intentions.

But now, even if he guesses this, and even can be sure with full certainty, it is useless, and the key thing for Cao Cao is what to do next.

To say that he withdrew his troops like this, Cao Cao was unwilling, especially the current situation in Hebei, whether it was to unite with Yuan Shao to fight against Lu Bu or continue to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, it would be a good thing for him to reap the benefits when the time came; If you don't retreat, the hard work in Yangzhou is likely to come to naught, which is not something he is happy to see.

Sun Ce is indeed a rare fierce general, and with the assistance of Qu A and Tai Shi Ci, his development momentum is very rapid, but unfortunately compared with the history that Lu Bu knows, many things have changed, and the two princes' alliances to fight for Dong have made Yuan Shu's mentality change very much, and he is no longer so arrogant, even if his self-ability is still insufficient, but it is not like that self-established as the emperor and become the target of the public's misguided righteousness attracted attacks from all sides, and invisibly laid the groundwork for Sun Ce's elimination in his occupation of Jiangdong, I can also listen to Yan Xiang, a strategist who has been buried a lot, although Yan Xiang is still too much worse than top strategists like Tian Feng, Jia Xu or Guo Jia, but in Yangzhou, Yuan Shu has taken advantage of the time and place, so Sun Ce has always been suppressed, and the resurgence of Wang Lang of Wujun is just a flash in the pan, and it is just a paper tiger, but the Gongsun Du Navy has completely exposed the essence of toothlessness with a slight temptation.

In fact, before Wang Lang's resurrection, if it weren't for Cao Cao's several secret helps, Sun Ce should have been forced into a desperate situation by Yuan Shu at that time, after all, he had not completely gained a foothold in Lujiang at that time, and now although his foothold is stable, the Sun family was born in Fuchun, Wu County, and did not have much foundation and relationship in Lujiang. Even if Qu A, Huang Gai, and Cheng Pu actively contacted the local families, they could only be persuaded not to oppose Sun Ce, and it was very difficult to completely pull them into their camp, which was the reason why Sun Ce was never able to get rid of Cao Cao's shadow and Yuan Shu's suppression.

Now asking Cao Cao for help is more like a delaying tactic for him, and he also believes that Cao Cao will not sit idly by, but he didn't expect that this time Cao Cao really sat idly by, and led the army to continue to be stationed in Puyang County, whether it was for the situation in Hebei or Yangzhou. All took a posture of spectatorship.

Fortunately, at this time, the Liaodong Navy suddenly disappeared just as suddenly as they appeared. Wang Lang and the others, who were scared, were sure that everyone had gone after a few days before they dared to appear again, and the first thing they did when they came out was to run to the border of Danyang and harass Yuan Shujun. Yuan Shu had to withdraw some of his troops to prevent a sneak attack by Wu County. This was finally a timely relief for Sun Ce. The pressure was greatly reduced, and the situation in Yangzhou returned to the original stalemate, just like Hebei.

In the process. Cao Cao is more like a bystander, but he has invisibly become the key to this balance, because as long as he moves casually to that side, this balance will be broken immediately, and it is likely that both sides will be at the same time, because Yuan Shu does not dare to break Sun Ce's real jealousy still comes from him.

And the whole area east of the Han Dynasty can finally form such a situation, which is already a good ending for the current Lu Bu, especially in Hebei. With his current manpower, material and financial resources, in addition to the original merger and division, it is already a bit difficult to supply Jizhou Julu, Zhongshan and other counties, after all, the territory after the war always needs to invest and pay more at the beginning, but fortunately, the Hetao Plain is gradually reproducing the prosperity of the past, and this year is about to reach the harvest year, which greatly relieves his pressure.

In the foreseeable future, Hebei, especially the land of Jizhou, will also be an important granary, which can also be said to be before the Ming Dynasty, basically have not seen an important reason for the unification of the world in the south, the productivity of the south is difficult to compare with the north, the population is naturally at a disadvantage, after three large population migrations in history, it was created that the later Jiangnan water town, and only then did the Ming Dynasty unify the north and south.

However, at this time, Lu Bu was not able to return to Luoyang, although he had missed several ladies and children very much after coming out for so many days, although he was not alone at this time.

The Zhen family was destroyed under Han Fu's anger, but in addition to Zhen Jiang, Zhen Mi, who Lu Bu paid the most attention to, that is, Zhen Jiang's little sister, still survived by luck, and the other was Zhen Jiang's second brother, who can be regarded as the only surviving male in the Zhen family's lineage.

However, with Zhen Jiang's relationship, he is also Lu Bu's brother-in-law, although Lu Bu is not a cronyistic person, it is impossible to treat him badly, but after a little investigation, I found that this Zhen Yan has a good personality, and I don't know if it was stimulated by what kind of stimulation when Zhen Bu died at the time of his death, compared with Zhen Mi, who became quite excited when he saw Lu Bu, Zhen Yan is much easier to get along with.

Although Zhen Jiang and Lu Bu are not yet famous, he also shows respect for Lu Bu equivalent to his eldest sister, in addition, due to Zhen's background and the strict requirements of his mother Zhang, he seems to be very educated, the important thing is that he is a literati student with something in his chest, and his family origin allows him to contact a lot of Confucian scholars with real talents, but he is very lacking in vision, experience and experience, but if he is handed over to Lu Cui to take it well, Lu Bu believes that he will become a good minister of practical work to deal with civil and government affairs.

Lu Bu's arrangement of Zhen Yan also invisibly reflected his love for Zhen Jiang, which moved him very much, and his memory of the wrong time and wrong place where he occupied himself seemed to fade a lot.

Of course, Lu Bu didn't stay for them, mainly because the situation in Hebei is about to break out at any time, and according to the news from Jia Xu and Diao Chan, Luoyang is not calm at this time, Lu Bu decided to continue to stay here to observe for a while, especially for many ministers in the DPRK and China, after the coercion at the banquet at the beginning, many people still respect him on the surface, but secretly there is already a sense of respect and distance, although now Lu Bu's reputation is still much better than Dong Zhuo at the beginning, But he is not the same person as many royalist ministers in the court, even if he can come together for some reason temporarily, it will not last, so he must be more careful, Lu Bu needs to judge which of them can be used for his own use, and those people can be used. And who are the ones who must be watched out for or even eliminated?

On the contrary, Lu Bu is not so worried about staunch royalists such as Fu Wan and Dong Cheng, and what are they doing now? Isn't it just thinking about how Fa'er would persuade the little emperor who was "addicted to alcohol and lost his ambition" every day to change his mind, Lu Bu naturally went with them, as long as he didn't make trouble for himself.

On the second day, Lu Bu was in the temporary mansion in the city of Hanchang, and once again summoned Liangle, Xun You, Ji Zhao, Wang Cheng, and Chen Xi to participate in the military meeting. Zhao Yun hesitated. finally agreed, which made Lu Bu a little overjoyed, because this was a good signal and a good start.

Look at the crowd. Lu Bu said with a smile: "Although Hebei is still a mess now. And there are demons dancing everywhere. However, Gongsun Chan and Han Fu passed away one after another, and Yuan Benchu could only retreat to Wei County, and Gongsun Chan continued to shrink to a corner of eastern Liaodong. We seem to have the general trend. I don't know what you think, but you can speak freely. ”

Lu Bu's opening remarks made Zhao Yun feel refreshed, although he accepted the invitation this time, he was only responsible for bringing his ears and did not intend to participate in the discussion, but Lu Bu's words made his brain involuntarily turn away.

Yesterday, Lu Bu talked a lot with Zhao Yun after that, and talked about the general trend of Hebei and the overall situation of the world, Zhao Yun has learned a lot from Lu Bu, and now he is not backward in information.

Lu Bu and Yuan Shao are now the largest forces entrenched in Hebei, but after the deaths of Gongsun Zan and Han Fu, whether it is in Youzhou or Jizhou, there are large areas of land that no one occupies.

As Lu Bu described, it is really called "Dancing with Demons", of course, whether it is Yuan Shao or Lu Bu, they will not take these people in their eyes, but Zhao Yun is somewhat sad for the ordinary people in these places, no matter what, they are the most miserable in this situation, but he also knows that Lu Bu's status is different, his vision is different, and his foothold is naturally different, it is impossible to disrupt his overall deployment plan just because he pity the people in these places, and it is good if he succeeds in the end, If you fail, you won't even have a chance to start over.

Just as Zhao Yun was thinking, Liangle was the first to speak as always: "Le thinks it may not be, Hebei is just in a stalemate at the moment, although I can't be sure how long this stalemate can last, but Lejiao thinks that I am afraid it will be broken soon." ”

was the first to be denied by Liangle, and there was no dissatisfaction on Lu Bu's face, which was also a place that made Zhao Yun feel different, if it was Gongsun Chan before, if someone dared to talk like this in the military meeting, it must be self-inflicted, Gongsun Chan's measure is not so big, especially in the army, but this is the same as his attitude towards Karasuma, it has gone to the extreme.

No matter how you compare, Lu Bu's quality of being able to listen carefully to other people's opinions and even criticism is far better than Gongsun Zhan.

Xun Yu over there also smiled and said: "Wen Hou looks like he already knows how he has long known, won't he deliberately lead me to say his opinions one by one, Wen Hou will say a wonderful plan again, overwhelm us and other good strategies, and make us admire, right?" ”

Xun You's words made everyone laugh, and the atmosphere became extremely relaxed, this kind of atmosphere was also something that Zhao Yun had never seen in Gongsun Zhan's military tent, and it was impossible to see someone like Xun You talking to Gongsun Zhan like Lu Bu, presumably even if Xun You was bold, if he was placed in front of someone like Gongsun Zhan, for his own life and future, it would be difficult to say such things without scruples.

The more Zhao Yun compared Gongsun Chan with Lu Bu in his heart, the more he felt that Gongsun Chan was inferior to Lu Bu, of course, this was also because he only knew Gongsun Chan as a prince now, if he met Liu Bei first as in history, maybe he wouldn't have such a feeling in his heart.

There is often no gap without comparison, and now that there is a comparison, Gongsun Chan has a big gap with Lu Bu in any aspect, and it seems that it is no wonder that the situation of the two is very different now.

Zhao Yun didn't know that Lu Bu called him here today, just deliberately, although this was not deliberately acting, because usually the discussions between Lu Bu and Xun You are mostly in such an atmosphere, Xun You not only no longer has the original disgust and rejection of Lu Bu after entering the role, but now he can afford to joke at will, and Lu Bu's purpose in doing this is naturally to create an atmosphere that can attract Zhao Yun. It's hard not to bow your head.

This time the military discussion actually didn't talk about anything in the end, but looking at the change in Zhao Yun's eyes, Lu Bu knew that he had achieved his goal, and he believed that his second-step strategy to subdue Zhao Yun had achieved results again.

Just as the first time he used both soft and hard, looking for weaknesses to break through his defense, this time he did what he liked and attracted the other party with his own charm.

It's just that Lu Bu himself would not have thought that there would be another wave in this matter.

After this military meeting, Liangle and the others went down separately, their "task" had been completed, and they naturally retired, and Lu Bu was ready to take Zhao Yun to the martial arts arena for some discussion.

The two of them regarded each other as a very good opponent, if it weren't for the fact that Zhao Yun was chased and killed by the wolf bèi and escaped and injured his vitality, and he had only recovered until now, Lu Bu would have found him a long time ago; And Zhao Yun had long heard of Lu Bu's name as the God of War, and he had been looking forward to the opportunity to fight against him for a long time, and Lu Bu was naturally happy to take the initiative.

But from the lobby to the Yanwu Hall, there is also a side hall, there is nothing to attract attention in the side hall, only a horizontal spear, that is one of Lu Bu's trophies, this time to Hebei Lu Bu will be specially brought, and Zhao Yun also has a certain relationship, and when he came to Hanchang, he also brought it, and he didn't think much about it and put it directly in this place.

But he didn't expect Zhao Yun to turn his head at this time, and just happened to see the spear, and at that moment his body suddenly froze, as if struck by lightning. (To be continued......)