At this time, Cao Cao had fallen to the point of despair, and he couldn't help but look up to the sky and sigh, feeling related. I saw him ask a little blankly: "Xun Yu, do you think I really did something wrong?" ”

Xun Yu on the side couldn't help but say: "Cao Gong didn't do anything wrong, he just chose the wrong opponent." ”

Cao Cao asked again: "So, what do you think?" ”

Xun Yu replied: "Regardless of the previous suspicions, turn hostility into jade silk; Then they worked together to welcome the Son of Heaven to return to Luoyang, pacify the world, and rejuvenate the Han Dynasty. ”

"Hmm!" Cao Cao groaned deeply, no longer had any other expression on his face, just nodded and said, "Well, just do as you say." ”

At this time, Cheng Yu on the side suddenly said: "This move must not be!" Everyone couldn't help but look at Cheng Yu, but they heard him say again: "Lu Bu and Shaoran are proud of their own martial arts, do not connect with the surrounding areas, and vainly try to disobey the etiquette and law, and openly harm the family of the same name; They are not able to work together on the inside, nor are they supported by allies outside, and although they are strong now, they will perish in the future. ”

When Cao Cao heard this, he couldn't help but move, and hurriedly said: "As Zhongde said, can there be a way to deal with it this time?" ”

Cheng Yu said: "Cao Gong can first pretend to reconcile with the two of them to ease his heart; and then secretly move the rescue troops to Jizhou, and then the inside and outside should be combined, and it can be broken. ”

Cao Cao's brows immediately stretched, and he said with a smile: "This time it is really thanks to Zhongde's mention that I suddenly woke up." ”

Xun Yu on the side couldn't help but groan when he heard this, but he was expressionless.

Cao Cao then sent an envoy Li Gan to negotiate with us, and presented the seal of the assassin's history, saying: "Two generals, Cao Gong said, 'He was carried away by hatred before, and only then did he make a great mistake; Now that he has repented, he hopes that the two generals can give him a way out." ”

I couldn't help but chuckle at this, and shook my head in my heart. Feng Xian on the side said: "Since Cao Mengde has figured it out, then it can be reconciled; Virtuous brother. Do you think that Cao Cao will turn the war into a jade silk? ”

I nodded, smiled, and said, "Yes." ”

Subsequently, Feng Xian accepted the Thorn Shi Seal Ribbon. Due to the limited power of the position of assassin, the appointment of some important officials required the first consultation with the imperial court. Therefore, I proposed that Bongxian should be appointed directly as the governor of the state, so that he could decide for himself the appointment of officials in the state. After that, he moved the administrative office from Dongwuyang to Changyi Castle in Sanyang-gun.

Immediately, I became the consul-in-chief's soldier. Chen Gong served as the bookkeeper in charge of the documents. Zhang Liao was the Taishou of Dongjun and stationed troops in Puyang. Afterwards. Chen Gong also recommended Xue Lan, who was known as one of the "Eight Juns" in the world, to be engaged in other driving, and Li Feng, a famous family in the state, to be engaged in Zhizhong. Cao Cao was appointed Taishan Taishou. Xun Yu is the prime minister of Jibei. Cheng Yu also continued to serve as the Minister of State of Dongping.

I knew Cao Cao's plan very well in my heart, so I directly arranged his people in the counties and countries bordering Qingdao, Hebei, and Xuzhou. Since he wants to cooperate with Yuan Shaoli, then let the two of them get closer to each other, and it will be more convenient to deal with it when the time comes.

In the past two months, there has been a drought situation in various places. Drought-tolerant crops such as wheat and sorghum are fine in the north, but the situation is bleaker in the rice growing a little further south.

At this time, the situation in the Sanfu area is particularly serious. Since the price of millet has risen to 500,000 yuan a stone, the people near Chang'an have eaten all the vegetation such as grass roots and tree bark. When there was no food, the cannibalism began. In order to solve such a situation, Liu Xie hurriedly ordered the servant Shi Houwen to open a warehouse and release grain to help the people.

However, a few days passed. The death toll of the population has not decreased. In this regard, Liu Xie couldn't help but deeply suspect that some people were enriching their own pockets. So he summoned all the ministers to the royal court, and immediately ordered people to put five liters of rice and red beans into a pot to cook two large pots of thick porridge. This is followed by the principle of distribution by volume. to ask Hou Wen why the number of deaths of the people every day has not decreased. Hou Wen had nothing to say about this.

At this time, Li Dao and the others immediately invited. It is believed that Hou Wen should be beheaded to set an example. However, Liu Xie did not agree, and only ordered Hou Wencane to be punished by 50 and ordered him to continue to be responsible for handling disaster relief matters. It's just because Liu Xie's heart knows very well that those who fill his pockets are definitely not Hou Wen, but someone else, and Hou Wen is just a scapegoat.

Cao Cao personally went to Jizhou to bring reinforcements from Yuan Shao. In this regard, Yuan Shao couldn't help but snort lightly, but said: "At the beginning, I wanted you to get rid of Zhang Miao along with Lu Bu and Shaoran, but you refused to listen to you when you were killed; Now it is good, but his own territory has been taken by the two of them; You said that you are kind enough to become a donkey's liver and lungs, burp or not? ”

Cao Cao said: "Hiccup; But now that things have come to this point, even a little hiccup will not help; The only thing that can be done now is to take back what has been taken away by others. ”

"Ugh." Yuan Shao couldn't help but sigh, and said, "That's it, who let me be small with you?" ”

Immediately, Yuan Shao allocated 5,000 soldiers to Cao Cao, and personally mobilized a large army to attack Yanzhou.

At that time, an army of locusts attacked from Guanzhong, and almost wiped out the wheat that was about to be harvested in Yanzhou overnight. Although I had discovered this beforehand, I could not save it in time. No matter how good I am, the forces of nature are not what I am now. It can only be said that all this is providential.

Now that there is no food to eat, we can only temporarily feed ourselves on locusts. In other words, the locusts themselves are rich in protein, and the cholesterol content is lower than that of ordinary domestic animals. Therefore, eating locusts also reduces the incidence of cardiovascular disease and is a healthy food.

Knowing that Yuan Shao led tens of thousands of troops to attack Dongjun, Feng Xian and I led thousands of troops and quickly rushed from Changyi to Puyang to meet the battle. At this time, our army only had more than 6,000 soldiers, except for hundreds of brothers and 2,000 veterans under Zhang Liao, the others were all recruits recruited some time ago, and they had no combat experience. Therefore, the difference in strength between the two armies in this battle is quite wide.

Subsequently, Yuan Shao was stationed in Liyang, Cao Cao was stationed in Dunqiu, Cheng Yu and Xiahou Yuan were stationed in Fanxian, and Xun Yu and Xiahoudun were stationed in Dong'e. At that time, Zhang Miao sent Gao Shun and Gao Feng to lead 4,000 troops to help in the battle, and I ordered the two to divide 2,000 troops each to settle in the two cities of Baima and Yanxian in the east. He also ordered Zhang Liao and Song Xian to lead 2,000 soldiers from their headquarters to settle in Juancheng, and Chen Gong and Hou Cheng to lead 3,000 soldiers from their headquarters to settle in Xiaqiu. As a result, there were only a few hundred brothers and 4,000 recruits left in Puyang City, which was basically not enough to fight against Yuan Shao's tens of thousands of elites, so I had to mobilize the people in the city to help defend the city.

At this time, after Zhang Yang heard that Yuan Shao had launched a large army to prepare to attack Yanzhou, he wanted to send troops to help Yu Fengxian and me.

In this regard, Dong Zhao also said: "Yuan Shao's heart has no Han family, so he can't be allowed to sit big; When sending troops to help the two generals. ”

Zhang Yang said: "This is exactly what I want. ”

So, Zhang Yang sent his subordinate general Hao Meng to lead 2,000 foot cavalry to Puyang to help in the battle. For the arrival of Zhang Yang's reinforcements, I feel that it is really timely.

This time, Yuan Shao heard Cao Cao say that I have a special weapon in my hand, which can blow people apart, and even the strong armor cannot easily resist, and the power is extremely powerful. Therefore, he did not rush to attack, but ordered craftsmen to make crossbow beds with a range of more than 500 meters. Naturally, I have a countermeasure to this. I ordered the craftsmen to make several return cannons, and sent one to each of the other cities, and allocated special engineers and a corresponding amount of explosives.

Speaking of which, the firing range of the return cannon is quite good, even if it is an object weighing more than a hundred kilograms, it can be projected to a distance of about 400 paces. And for lighter objects, it is thrown farther. Therefore, this time to deal with Yuan Shao and Cao Cao, our army does not need to cross the Pushui, it is enough for them to suffer. (To be continued......)