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Two days ago, on the sixth day of February

After Cao Cao learned that Shanyang County and Rencheng County had been attacked by Zhang Liao, Wei Yan and others, he was shocked when he heard that Feng Yao had personally led a large army into Lu County regardless of the safety of Runan, and immediately consulted with the strategist Xi Zhong.

Xi Zhong said: "Feng Yao is holding on to the momentum of victory, I am worried that Cheng Yu and Li Dian will not be able to resist!" Please send the general to meet the enemy as soon as possible! ”

Cao Cao pondered for a long time, looked at Xi Zhong, shook his head, and said: "Zhicai, I also want to send it, but at present, in our battle with Zang Ba, we only have the upper hand, if we send another general, how can our army capture Qingzhou?" ”

"Then please ask the lord to quickly withdraw the population, money and grain of Yanzhou, and retreat all to the east of Linyi! Even if Feng Yao and Lu Bu captured the entire Yanzhou, there would be no population to develop! As long as it can drag on for a year or two, wait for Yuan Shao's war in the north to end, and then have a decisive battle with Feng Yao! Xi Zhongdao.

"If this is the case, how can we take out the grain and grass that we are already short of for the people to eat? Also, what about the families of the counties and counties of Yanzhou who are living in Juancheng? Is it going to be withdrawn too?? Cao Cao said.

"Of course we have to withdraw them all!! We first sent people to secretly spread the rumor that Feng Yao would slaughter the city if he broke through Yanzhou, and the people must be afraid, and then all the people were moved to Qingzhou, and then all the men over the age of fifteen were forcibly conscripted into the army, as long as they were in the army, their families could get food and would not starve to death, and promised to be high-ranking officials, allowing the people to loot the captured territory, if they could capture the county seat, the leader of the generals could become county commanders no matter what position they had before! Xi Zhongdao.

"This ......, this will make me infamous again!" Cao Cao was shocked, staring at Xi Zhong in amazement, not daring to imagine the result of the implementation of Xi Zhong's vicious plan, thinking of the tragic lesson of Tu Xuzhou in the past, Cao Cao couldn't help but shudder! Looking at Xi Zhong's eyes, there was slowly a trace of anger in his eyes.

"Zhicai! I have listened to your schemes, treated scholars well, and swore that I would never slaughter ordinary people without regard to it in the future, but now that you have asked me to do such a thing, if the officials and families of Juancheng are forcibly robbed by me and come to Qingzhou, how will the governors of Yanzhou counties who are still loyal to me think of me? How can those people who were killed in Qingzhou obey me? Zhicai, I'm so disappointed in you, you're hurting me!! Since the Battle of Puyang, I have listened to you every time, and the result is that I am now being chased and beaten by a nameless junior!! And I had to retreat!! Cao Cao said angrily.

Xi Zhong was shocked: "Lord!! You can't blame me for that! Do you think about it, which defeat was due to my ploy? I don't know why things always end up against us, it's like there's an invisible hand helping Feng Yao in the dark!! ”

"Say no more!! You go down, I'm going to pass Xun Yu here!! Cao Cao was even more angry and shouted.

Xi Zhong was stunned, his expression was extremely painful, he gritted his teeth and shook his head, and withdrew from Cao Cao's big tent, but when he walked to the door of the big tent, he fainted and fell to the ground!

Cao Cao was furious, and he also felt that his tone was a little heavy, and when he saw Xi Zhong fall to the ground, he ran over in shock and shouted, "Someone!" ”

"Zhicai! Zhicai!! What happened to you! Cao Cao bowed down and shouted anxiously.

Cao Cao and the two guards who came to hear the sound turned Xi Zhong face up, and found that Xi Zhong's nose had broken and bled out, so he hurriedly swung his sword and cut off the corner of his robe to help Xi Zhong wipe the blood.

The guard sniffed and said, "Lord, he's fine, just fainted!" As he spoke, he pinched Xi Zhong's people with his hands, and soon Xi Zhong groaned and opened his eyes.

"My lord! I'm sorry! The subordinates have made you angry again! Xi Zhongdao.

Cao Cao ordered someone to help Xi Zhong to the table, and said ashamedly: "Zhicai, I know your loyalty, I'm just unhappy, I'm angry with you, don't mind, I decided, at this critical moment, we must use some extreme measures, otherwise all our previous efforts will be in vain!" I don't want to fail like this! Please cheer up and keep up the advice for me, I need your help! ”

Xi Zhong nodded, and said weakly: "Lord, please gather the crowd to discuss the matter, if it is feasible, don't hesitate!" If it doesn't work, it is better to immediately lead the army to join Yuan Shao! ”

Cao Cao said that the gathering of generals was discussed, and Xiahoudun, Xiahou Yuan, Cao Ren, Cao Hong, Le Jin, Dian Wei, Han Hao, Shi Lian, Niu Jin, Chang Diao and others all participated in the deliberations.

Xiahoudun said: "We can ask the people not to use our banner, and let them attack the city and plunder the land, and rob the money and food, so that it will not be our business, and Zang Ba's army is not good at attacking the refugees, so they can only retreat!" ”

The other generals also spoke one by one, most of them agreeing with Xi Zhong's strategy.

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The seventh day of February

No salt, the seat of Dongping country.

Cao Cao's subordinate Cheng Yu since the meritorious service, was entrusted by Cao Cao with a heavy responsibility, as the minister of Dongping State, Dongping State can be said to be Cao Cao in order to defend Juancheng is the most important place, if Dongping is broken, Gangfan County is in danger, Fan County is lost, then Juancheng can not be defended!

In the past six months or so, Cao Cao relied on Cheng Yu to block the attack on Lü Bu's South Road in Dongpingguo, so that he was able to keep half of Yanzhou, keep Yanzhou's state governance of Juancheng, and have the capital to compete with Lü Bu for Yanzhou!

Dongping Kingdom has almost incorporated all the five major mountain ranges of Liangshan into the territory, and there are grave water flowing horizontally through the country from east to west, there are fertile basins to provide grain production, and there are five mountain ranges of Liangshan, Qinglong Mountain, Tiger Mountain, Turtle Mountain, and Phoenix Mountain, and it is difficult to pass through the hundreds of miles wide Juyeze! The real thing is that the terrain is complex, easy to defend and difficult to attack, so Lu Bu's army has not been able to break through Dongping Kingdom!

Of course, this is also related to the fact that Cheng Yu is in charge of Dongping State, Cheng Yu not only has a high prestige in this area, but also has more strategies, and the soldiers are all killed.

After Li Dian lost Juye City, he led his troops back to Dongping and was ordered by Cao Cao to assist Cheng Yu in defending Dongping Kingdom.

However, on the morning of the sixth day of the second month, an envoy brought Cao Cao's order.

After the envoy left, Li Dian and Cheng Yu were relatively silent, and finally Li Dian couldn't help it and said, "Uncle Cheng, what should we do?" Is it really necessary to evacuate all the population, money and food from other counties? This is our roots, in this case, Dong'e County, where my uncle is located, will also be destroyed, can you bear it? ”

Although Cheng Yu was only in his fifties, he now looked like he was ten years old all of a sudden, and sighed and said, "The Lord's order cannot be violated!" Man Cheng, if you can, I hope you can lead your troops out of here, this time Feng Yao, Zhang Liao, and Xue Yong have a total of 80,000 troops! You can't keep it without salt! ”

"No, I won't leave Uncle Cheng, if you want to go, let's go together, if you want to stay, stay together! Moreover, even if we want to evacuate the people, this will inevitably let the enemy know, I am afraid that as soon as we withdraw from the city in front, the enemy army will chase and kill us!! Li Dian said. (To be continued.) )