Cao Cao couldn't help but feel very surprised by our behavior of asking Cao Cao's family to take money to ransom him. After that, he and his captured subordinate generals all returned to Juancheng safely. He couldn't help but say: "It seems that Lu Bu and Shaoran and others are just people who are greedy for money, but that's it. ”

Xun Yu on the side had no opinion on this, and immediately asked: "I don't know what Cao Gong will do next, do you want to recruit troops to continue to fight against the two of them?" ”

Cao Cao snorted coldly and said, "The two of them took my city, how can I give up!" ”

Xun Yu couldn't help but sigh softly, but said, "Gong Cao, why don't we reconcile with them?" ”

When Cao Cao heard this, he looked at Xun Yu with a little surprise, but said, "What are you talking about?" What is the reason why they have taken my land, but they want me to reconcile with them? ”

Xun Yu was helpless, he understood that Cao Cao's character was already stubborn to the point of paranoia, and no one could dissuade him at this moment. So, he added: "Now that our army has been defeated again and again, even if we have enough resources, I am afraid it will be difficult to recruit warriors again." ”

Cao Cao said: "I know it in my heart, but there is no need to worry about this matter, I am ready to go to Jizhou to ask Yuan Shao for help; Jizhou now has a wide range of soldiers and sufficient grain and grass, and it should be more than enough to eliminate Lu Bu and Shaoran. ”

Xun Yu's expression moved, and he couldn't help but say: "Since you want to ask Yuan Benchu for help, then Cao Gong should leave immediately; While the two of them have not recovered at this time, they should move in as soon as possible to rescue the troops, which should play a surprising victory. ”

Cao Cao nodded and said, "Well, that's exactly what I want." ”

At this moment, a soldier suddenly ran in and hurriedly said: "Qi Cao Gong, Lu Bu and Shaoran led the troops to cross the Yellow River from twenty miles to the south, and they are coming towards Juancheng at this time!" ”

"What?" Cao Cao immediately felt a little incredulous when he heard this, and then said angrily: "What do these two mean! ”

Cao Cao's spirit had been in a highly depressed state before, and at this time his heart had begun to go a little crazy. It's just that he doesn't know what the hell we're trying to do.

In fact, the reason is very simple, it is impossible to leave any respite for the enemy in a war. The reason why I used the strategy of "wanting to capture and indulge" was to wear down Cao Cao's mind, and then gradually move towards a state of collapse. As the saying goes, to attack the enemy, you must first attack the heart. This move is similar to Zhuge Liang's crusade against Meng Shu's "Seven Captures and Seven Verticals".

It would be great if Cao Cao could soberly realize his past mistakes and put down his face to reconcile with us. But if he insists on fighting us, then kill him on the battlefield and make some compassionate peace with his family. There will be no worries.

Xun Yu couldn't help but smile slightly bitterly and said, "Forget it, Cao Gong; It is rumored that Shaoran is not a mortal, but now it seems that most of them are true; Looking at what he is doing now, I don't think he plans to let go of Cao Gong easily. ”

Cao Cao said: "Hmph, what is not a mortal, it's just nonsense!" How can there be any ghosts and gods in this world, I Cao Cao don't believe in that! The order went down, and ordered all the soldiers to go out of the city lightly and withdraw to Fanxian County to join forces with Cheng Yu. ”

"No!" The soldiers departed.

At this time. There were only more than 2,000 soldiers in Juancheng, and this little force could hardly resist the offensive of our army. And if you want to call in reinforcements from elsewhere, I'm afraid it's too late at this moment. Therefore, the only way to do this is to retreat.

Forthwith. Cao Cao led his family and all the soldiers to pack up and evacuate before we arrived. Speaking of which, Cao Cao didn't walk very fast with his family, and if Feng Xian and I led the light cavalry to pursue. But it will definitely be able to catch up. But at the moment, we are not in a hurry to pursue, everything needs to be done step by step.

Subsequently, we took over Juancheng. At this moment, there are still some treasures stolen by Cao Cao in the city, as well as a lot of food, which have not been taken away in time. However, when we came to the county government, we found that the people in the city were rushing for the treasure and food. Then, when they saw our team, they all stopped there, with a look of horror in their eyes.

Food is scarce at the moment, and the price is more expensive than gold. Therefore, it is not surprising that these people will grab food when they see it, and we do not blame them.

In fact, I have been trying to adjust the price of food in the past, but no matter what I try at the moment, it has not had much effect. Therefore, we can only wait for this season's grain harvest and every family has a surplus, which should be better. Fortunately, in just over a month, it will be wheat harvest season.

Although the food stored in the city is not small, in the face of the large number of people at present, if it is not distributed reasonably, it is afraid that some people will go hungry. So, I had to distribute the food according to the amount so that every resident could have a bite to eat.

Not long before, a lot of grain had been snatched away by some landlords and local tyrants in the city. So I immediately took a hundred brothers and went to the homes of those people to ask for the grain that they had taken from them, while Feng Xian took the rest of the brothers to distribute the food one by one at the government office.

Speaking of which, those people's families are still quite wealthy, so they can afford to raise private soldiers. Almost every family has at least 1,000 private soldiers to take care of their homes. And when I came to the door with my brothers to ask for food, the local tyrants of the first two households refused to cooperate because they had more people than us, and they even held us out of the courtyard with weapons.

I sneered at this, and gave an order to the brothers: "Anyone who obstructs the enforcement of the law will be killed!" ”

So, after hundreds of people were killed, they were really forced to the head, and the other party was willing to return the grain that had been stolen earlier. And the next landlords, after learning the fate of the first two households, all obediently cooperated, and did not let me make any more effort.

Logically speaking, you shouldn't kill people. But the current price of food is so expensive, many civilians are about to lose food, and these rich people are still relying on the power in their hands to grab food. As a manager, who do I trouble if I don't bother them?

In other words, even in the ruling world, there are many people who are very selfish, let alone in troubled times. And it is precisely because there are more and more selfish people that the world will gradually become chaotic. After all, people live only a few decades, and they always want to accumulate a lot of material wealth to do. Isn't it okay if it's enough to survive? To live, it is not necessary to earn endless material wealth to be valuable, and the value of survival cannot be measured by material things, otherwise human nature will become extremely superficial.

This time, in addition to the hundreds of brothers, Chen Gong allocated 2,000 soldiers from his command and handed them over to Feng Xian and me. Subsequently, Zhang Liao and Song Xian led 1,000 men to garrison Juancheng, responsible for managing the affairs of the city and transporting grain and grass for us. Feng Xian and I led the rest of the men and horses and continued to march towards Fan County in the east.

At this time, there were seven or eight thousand defenders in the city of Fan. Although there were several times more people than us, Cao Cao still did not dare to be careless, and then ordered Cao Hong to move his family to Dong'e, while he stayed behind to continue to fight against us.

Speaking of which, since the Qingzhou army was defeated by us last time, they have fled to the people, and they dare not come back to help Cao Cao against us. This was mainly frightened by the two explosives I thrown, and I thought it was Zhang Jiao's punishment for them in the spirit of heaven. In fact, it's no wonder that they think so, after all, I am Zhang Jiao's son-in-law, who will Zhang Jiao help if he doesn't help me?

Subsequently, Cao Cao led his army to engage us several times outside the city, but we were defeated by us. Due to low morale and unable to fight again, Cao Cao had no choice but to adopt the strategy of closing the city and defending himself.

As for Cao Cao's plan to close the city, I won't let him succeed so idlely. I asked the brothers to bring me some big rocks, and then I started smashing the gates. At this moment, we were at the west gate, and seeing that the door was about to be smashed, Cao Cao finally couldn't stay still, and led his subordinates to go out from the east gate and fled to Dong'a. Therefore, Fan County was so easily occupied by us.

The main reason why Cao Cao's side was defeated was because his soldiers had almost lost their fighting spirit. In addition, the military quality is far inferior to that of our brothers, so although there are many more people, it is still a ruin.

With Cao Cao's successive defeats and retreats, the counties that he had previously recovered fell to us again. And at this moment, there is only one Dong'a City left in his hands. (To be continued......)