Puyang is only more than 100 miles away from Liyang, and it is the county of Yanzhou East County.

Since Xu Rong withdrew his troops from Yanzhou, Cao Cao took advantage of the opportunity of the second princes to discuss the Dong alliance and march into Luoyang, and unknowingly occupied all the remaining western areas of Yanzhou.

Of course, there are still blank spaces in some places to the west of Yanzhou, such as most of the area of Chenliu County bordering Sili, where Cao's army has not been stationed, but there is no intention of returning to this place on the Luoyang side, and the two sides seem to maintain such a tacit understanding and let it become a natural buffer zone.

On the one hand, he wanted to go north to Qingzhou, but he had to pay attention to the situation in Yangzhou at the same time, after all, the situation on Sun Ce's side was not good, and Liu Miao also asked him for help from time to time, and he could not ignore Yuan Shu, the biggest enemy in the south; In addition, it is also necessary to guard against the movements of Si Li, especially Luo Yang, Lu Bu is now listed by him as one of the most feared people, and his every move is of particular concern to him, in this case, it is necessary to leave a buffer zone, at least if one side suddenly makes a move, the other side will not only be able to deal with it hastily.

On the other hand, now such a large territory of nearly two counties is a little stretched in terms of troops and governance, and in Yanzhou and Xuzhou, it is not like Hebei, Guanzhong and Sili are outstanding and talented, even if Cao Cao's reputation is far better than the current Lu Bu, it is impossible for people in the world to leave their hometowns to help him, not to mention the current more attractive princes such as Yuan Shao, so Cao Cao can only make the maximum reasonable use of the human resources under his hands.

Since occupying a large area of Yanzhou. Cao Cao now lives in Yanzhou, and now he is temporarily living in the Puyang Yuanzhou Pastoral Mansion, of course, the Cao family is still in the rear of Xuzhou, after all, Yanzhou is still facing the threat of both Hebei and Sili, it is too dangerous Cao Cao does not dare to let them take the risk lightly.

As for appearing in the northwestern part of this eastern county, close to Yuan Shao's sphere of influence in Hebei, Cao Cao naturally did not want to settle here or go out to play idle, he went out with the army.

Just a few days ago, Cao Cao received a letter of help from Han Fu in Jizhou, and he knew that Han Fu had sent a request for help to the imperial court before. Of course that's in Ming. The one given to him is naturally in the dark, and this has to be regarded as Guo Jia's work, it is he who advocated contacting Han Fu's mastermind and connecting them with Han Fu. Judging from this letter asking for help, Han Fu was indeed persuaded by him. This also made Cao Cao, who was eager to see talents, quite excited.

And Guo Jia even said: "The lord has Jia's understanding of this frustration. If the lord wants to get his effect, he will not be able to bypass Han Jizhou, whether Han Jizhou is dead. Or make him die for Han Jizhou, so that he can turn to work for the lord. ”

Cao Cao thought so, but just as he was about to start his Hebei strategy, which was also a strategy for talents and other resources, he was caught off guard by Lu Bu's sudden dispatch of troops.

Although he also thought that Lu Bu might eventually send troops at Han Fu's request for help, Cao Cao thought that this possibility was not too great, after all, Lu Bu was still facing the chaos in Xiliang and had to take care of it, don't look at the stalemate between Jincheng and Ma Teng now, but a big war may break out again anytime and anywhere, and then it will be a battle of life and death, and no matter which of the two is a couch trouble for Lu Bu, it is not unpleasant; And there is also an undercurrent in Luoyang City, the drama arranged by Lu Bu cannot be hidden from everyone, those royalists will inevitably make some moves in the near future, so under such internal and external troubles, even the Tiger Prison God of War will choose to seek stability temporarily.

But Lu Bu still sent troops, pointed directly at Hebei, and even entered Jizhou soon.

Cao Cao was still here to guard against Yuan Shao's detection of his movements, but he didn't expect that it was such a caution that allowed the flamboyant Lu Bu to take the lead.

Just as Lu Bu thought, even the people on the other side of Luoyang did not know the specific number and scale of his troops this time, and Cao Cao, who was far away in Yanzhou, naturally did not know, but according to the speculation of all parties, he could still get a basic judgment.

According to the speculation of Xilu, Guo Jia and others, the number of Lu Bu's expedition will not be too much, at most not more than 100,000, after all, Luoyang, Sili, Yuzhou and even Lu Bu's own merger state need to be guarded by assured soldiers and horses, so that even if there are no less than 100,000 imperial city troops gathered in Luoyang inside and outside, as well as 100,000 Xiliang troops collected from Yuzhou, plus 30,000 soldiers and horses brought to Hanoi by Zhang Liao and others, but it still seems a little insufficient, at most he can support him to spend less than 100,000 soldiers and horses to deal with the eastern expedition here.

But if it is compatible with the soldiers and horses of Han Fu's headquarters, and then with the cooperation of the state side, I am afraid that Yuan Shao will not be able to take him, Han Fu's danger can be solved, and Lu Bu can also take this opportunity to fully intervene in the situation in Hebei, including the previous fall of Gongsun Zhan.

In the end, Han Fu understood that he asked the court for help before, this is a well-known thing in the world, Lu Bu is now carrying the holy decree to raise troops, occupying the name of righteousness, far from being comparable to Cao Cao, who is secretly united, and now he has the lead, although judging from his movements, he has not fully intervened in the battlefield of Yuan Han Guangnian at this time, but the temporary stationing is just the main road that Cao Jun must pass through if he wants to go north, and it is obviously with the intention of blocking the Cao army's marching route, if he can't break through this blockade, It is likely that Cao Cao's plan to take the opportunity of rescuing Han Fu to enter Hebei, stir up the situation, and then divide it with Yuan Shao, will be aborted.

But it's not easy to break through the blockade, Lu Bu may not mind fighting Cao Jun at this time, but Cao Cao doesn't want to do this, firstly, it is unreasonable, and secondly, it will give Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu an opportunity.

And in terms of troops, this strength Lu Bu can afford to lose, he has no choice, at the moment in the entire world, the most abundant troops are probably he Lu Fengxian, followed by Yuan Shao, who is not much different, but if it is judged by the elite who can really fight, Yuan Benchu is far behind him.

Cao Cao finally decided to stay here for the time being, he knew that Lu Bu was probably not playing any good ideas, otherwise he would not have rushed to the aid but there was no big move until now, his side braked with static, and observed the movement at any time, as long as the other party moved, he could immediately carry out the next targeted strategy.

Of course, Cao Cao did not forget that he wanted to add fuel to the internal and external troubles of Lu Bu, who really dared to send troops, and actively contacted those royalists in Luoyang, and secretly supported them to stir up the situation in Luoyang.

But before Cao Cao could make any moves, the news from Xiliang made him directly extinguish this plan, which can be regarded as making Cao Cao somewhat understand why Lu Bu would dare to raise troops directly.

On August 23, the third year of the early peace of the Han Dynasty, Sima Yanxing of the Jincheng Army suddenly assembled the Jincheng Brigade to defeat Liangzhou Mu and Huaili Hou Ma Teng.

Ma Chao led the army to fight with it, this is also the second battle between the two sides after half a month ago, this battle was very tragic, both sides suffered heavy losses, Ma Teng continued to send troops to support, Yan Xing finally could not support it alone, at this time Chang'an finally made a move, Cao Xing, who had already received Lu Bu's secret order to lurk here, took the opportunity to lead the army to attack Ma Teng's rear.

Due to the continuous sending of troops to support the front-line war, the rear of Ma Teng's army was empty, and it happened to be taken advantage of by Cao Xing's army, and he was caught off guard.

At this time, Cao Xingjun also took advantage of the victory to pursue until the two sides of Wuwei County and Yuanwei County entered a stalemate, but at this time, Cao Xingjun had already formed a front and rear attack with Yan Xing.

And at this time, Yan Xing also changed the previous decline, and the vanguard army of the horse army was defeated several times, this vanguard army only then found that they had been lured by the enemy at the beginning, and fell into the enemy's ambush circle, at this time it was too late to react, the vanguard team of nearly 10,000 people was wiped out under the ambush of Yan Xing's army, which was also the beginning of Yan Xing's counterattack.

In the following days, there were many battles between each other, and they were considered to have won and lost each other, but the situation had become more and more inclined to the side of Cao Xing and Yan Xing, and the situation of the Ma army was becoming more and more bad.

Ma Teng's army was disheartened to a low point, and the rout seemed to be only in the blink of an eye...... (To be continued......)