On April 11 of the second year of Zhongping, Cao Ying led the army to attack Juye.

On this expedition, Cao Ying accepted Guo Jia and Xi Zhicai's words, and swept away Lu Bu's forces in Yanzhou all the way.

At the same time, Chen Gong made a statement to Lu Bu and united Chen Liu's Taishou Zhang Miao and Hanoi's Taishou Zhang Yang to resist Cao Ying.

At the beginning, after Lu Bu killed Luoyang, he led the army to surrender to Yuan Shu first.

Yuan Shu treated Lu Bu with courtesy at the beginning, because Lu Bu killed Dong Zhuo and avenged the Yuan family's blood revenge, which can be regarded as a kindness to the Yuan family.

I don't want to be in the harsh winter of Layue that year, there was little food in Lu Bu's army, and there were many soldiers who died of hunger.

As a last resort, Lu Bu indulged his soldiers to rob the people's property, rice and grain, and for this reason, he had a very unpleasant quarrel with Yuan Shu.

Seeing that Yuan Shu's attitude towards him was getting worse and worse, Lu Bu knew that it was difficult for him to survive here, so he had to ask Yuan Shu to resign and go to Zhang Yang, a fellow villager who was the Taishou of Hanoi.

Zhang Yang was loyal to the royal family and righteous at the same time, and treated Lu Bu very well.

It's okay to treat Lu Bu, the key is that this person is too good to Lu Bu, which makes Lu Bu suspicious, and he is afraid that Zhang Yang will be difficult for him.

Moreover, Lu Bu found that more than one of Zhang Yang's subordinates was hostile to him, and he was even more suspicious in his heart.

So, Lu Bu once said to Zhang Yang at a banquet, "The court has a reward for catching me, and if you catch me alive, the reward is greater than that of me who catches me dead." Instead of killing me and sending my head away, you should bind me up and send me away. ”

I don't know if Zhang Yang is humorous or he is too kind, he didn't say "I won't betray you", but just nodded to Lu Bu seriously, "Your words are very right!" ”

Lu Bu was shocked by Zhang Yang's words and broke out in a cold sweat, and finally said that he was restless, so he had to leave.

After thinking about it, Lu Bu still led his subordinates to the east to defect to Yuan Shao.

At the beginning, Yuan Shao was overjoyed when he learned that Lu Bu was coming, treated him well, and even gave a county to Lu Bu and let him garrison his troops.

Afterwards, Yuan Shao's strategist Tian Feng said to Jinyan, "The lord, Lu Bu, the tiger and wolf!" If it is allowed to become the climate, it will fight back! ”

Yuan Shao hesitated in his heart and tested Lu Bu with a letter.

If you don't say it, Lu Bu replied, and the letter directly called Yuan Shao's words, Yuan Shao was angry and wanted to kill Lu Bu.

The strategist Tian Feng said again, "Lord, this is not appropriate, if you kill this person, won't it chill the people in the world who want to vote for the lord?" ”

Yuan Shao was shocked when he heard this, and asked Tian Feng for advice.

Tian Feng pondered for a moment and said, "Why don't you order Lu Bu to be the captain of the division under the pretense of the holy name, and kill him halfway!" ”

Yuan Shao nodded and agreed to Tian Feng's words, and sent a letter to Lu Bu to take up his post, and even sent thousands of elite 'escorts'.

Lu Bu was overjoyed at first, but Zhang Liao beside him looked at the elites sent by Yuan Shao to escort Lu Bu and said, "We also have an army, how can we let them escort them?" There must be a deception! ”

Lu Bu was shocked, bought off the people around Yuan Shao, got the news that Yuan Shao wanted to kill him, and left with more than 20,000 elite soldiers from Bingzhou overnight.

Yuan Shao had many generals, and the grain and grass were piled up, and Lu Bu didn't want to anger Yuan Shao because of this.

Knowing that Lu Bu led his troops away in the starry night, Yuan Shao had no choice but to give up.

Now that Lu Bu has figured it out, today I am afraid that only Zhang Yang treats him sincerely, so he rejoined Zhang Yang, and Zhang Yang, an honest man, did not care about Lu Bu's farewell last time, and took Lu Bu in again.

Soon after, Cao Ying avenged his father and raised troops to defeat Tao Qian, leaving only Jiang Zhe, Xun You, Cheng Yu and other cadres, etc., Cao Ying's Dongjun Taishou Chen Palace was dissatisfied with Cao Ying's reuse of the children of the Han family, slacked off with the family, and invited Zhang Yang to take advantage of the emptiness behind Cao Ying to attack it.

Zhang Yang had no intention of tyranny, but Lu Bu traveled back and forth for several months, and he was determined to find a place to live, so Zhang Yang gave Lu Bu 10,000 soldiers and let him take Yanzhou to settle down.

In addition to opening Zhang Yang, when Lu Bu was fleeing, he met another friend, Chen Liutai guarded Zhang Miao!

Zhang Miao also belongs to Cao Ying's command, when Cao Ying's friend Bao Xinli advocated Cao Ying as the assassin of Yanzhou, Zhang Miao saw Cao Ying's sergeant Xiong Wu and did not dare to make a mistake.

is also under the command of Cao Ying, Chen Gong and Zhang Miao also have several relationships, and after listening to Lu Bu's words, he went to persuade Zhang Miao.

Zhang Miao hated Yuan Shao, was afraid of Cao Ying, and was pro-Lu Bu, and hesitated in his heart, Chen Gong said that Guo Gong, the assassin of Yuzhou, also had the heart to attack Cao, and when Zhang Miao heard it, he turned against Cao Ying.

The three-way army converged into two roads, which was really powerful, but Chen Gong never expected that first, Fan Cheng Yu, who was too guarded, saw through Chen Gong's plan to attack the false road, and used 20,000 Cao soldiers to defend the three counties of Fancheng, Dong'e and Juancheng.

What Chen Gong didn't expect was that the 30,000 combined forces of Lu Bu and Guo Gong couldn't capture Xuchang, which was guarded by Jiang Zhe, a son of the Han family, and attacked 10,000 with 30,000, and ended up in a situation where the whole army was annihilated.

Cao Ying learned that Xuchang Yanzhou was in trouble, waved his army to rescue in the starry night, and got the plan of his strategists, so that Xiahou Yuan took Dongjun and guarded Dongjun.

In addition, because Lu Bu killed Guo Gong in a fit of rage, several counties in Yuzhou were in turmoil, and Cao Ying immediately ordered Cao Ren to transfer to Tuyuzhou and collect the land of those counties.

As a result, Cao Ying sat in the half of Yuzhou and Yanzhou, and many strategists and generals competed to serve each other, and their strength gradually grew.

And Lu Bu is the same, he occupies half of Yanzhou and refuses to let go, recruiting troops to expand his strength.

Today's Yanzhou is a thorn in Cao Ying's heart, this Yanzhou was originally obtained by playing in front of his old friend, but now he has lost half of it, how can Cao Ying not be angry?

But what makes Cao Ying deeply fortunate is that now he has a group of wizards under his command to help, and the old Luoyang to Jiaojiang Zhejiang Shouyi is even more amazing, and he crusaded against Xuchang in just half a year, and he actually governed Xuchang in an orderly manner.

Not to mention the expansion of the city, the property, rice and grain were piled up, and Cao Ying had the heart of Tulubu at that time.

It's just that at that time, Wen Tianzi wanted to recruit, and Cao Ying was not idle.

If Zi is already in Xuchang today, Xuchang is guarded by Jiang Zhe, Xun Yu, and Cheng Yu, so why don't Cao Ying rest assured?

In the battle in March and April, Cao Ying got the help of Guo Jia and Xi Zhicai, and there was only one last place left in Lu Bu, Juye!

On one side is Cao Ying's 50,000 elite soldiers, and on the other side is Zhang Miao, Zhang Yang, and Lu Bu's 40,000 allied troops.

In order to help Lu Bu, the good man Zhang Yang actually abandoned Hanoi and led the whole army to join Lu Bu, and Hanoi was taken by Yuan Shao.

And Zhang Miao was afraid of Cao Ying and had to help Lu Bu.

The two sides are far away from the giant field, the two armies are endless, Lu Bu lives in the giant field, Zhang Miao and Zhang Yang each set up camp outside the city, echoing each other from afar.

I didn't want Zhang Yang's general Yang Chou to be dissatisfied with Zhang Yang for Lu Bu and abandoned Hanoi, and saw that Cao Ying was powerful, so he killed Zhang Yang and wanted to vote for Cao Ying, while the other general Zheng Gu killed Yang Chou again, and led his generals to go back to Hanoi, that is, to vote for Yuan Shao.

Cao Ying saw the chaos of the Shuangzhang camp, took the opportunity to lead the army to attack it, and even beheaded Zhang Miao under the horse, Lu Bu could not rescue, and was dragged by Xiahou Xuan, Xiahou Yuan, Cao Ren, and Cao Hong.

Lu Bu, who was disheartened and lost two friends, drank with his wife Yan every time he drank and poured out his sorrows, and handed over everything to Chen Gong to deal with on his behalf.

Chen Gong had no choice but to administer on behalf of Lu Bu, but he didn't want to cause Hao Meng, the general of Lu Bu's department, to be greatly dissatisfied.

Hao Meng just admired Lu Bu's bravery and martial arts under his command, and he didn't want Lu Bu to be so decadent now, what made Hao Meng even more angry was that Lu Bu actually gave the right to order to the Chen Palace?!

It's just a weak scholar! The more Hao Meng thought about it, the more angry he became, and said left and right, "Lu Bu treats the general so badly, why don't you just turn around and go to Cao Envoy!" ”

Hao Meng was angry at first, then frowned and thought deeply, remembering that he had lost the camp, then Lu Fengxian didn't miss the old feelings at all, and said that he was going to cut himself, Hao Meng secretly made his left and right henchmen rush to Cao Ying with his own handwritten letter in the starry night.

Unexpectedly, due to the lack of food in Lu Bu's army, Lu Bu's general surnamed Cao saw that the soldiers under his command were hungry, and led several guards to hunt in the mountains, but on the way back, he bumped into Hao Meng's henchmen.

The surname Cao recognized that it was Hao Meng's henchman, and when he saw him looking at Cao Ying, he was surprised, and the guards captured him, and he got a letter from Hao Meng, and he was shocked at first glance.

Hurriedly rushed to the city to repay Lu Bu, who didn't want Lu Bu and his wife Yan to drink all night, drunk and unconscious, Cao suddenly remembered Chen Gong in a hurry, and hurriedly went to Chen Gongfu to inform Hao Meng of his rebellion.

After hearing this, Chen Gong set up a banquet and invited all the generals to the banquet.

The surname Cao was even ordered by Chen Gong to secretly ambush 300 swords and axes in the Chen Palace Mansion.

If Chen Gong invited himself alone, Hao Meng might think about something, but Chen Gong invited all the generals under Lu Bu, and Hao Meng did not doubt it at all and went to the meeting alone.

As usual, Hao Meng, who claimed to be a high merit and did not put Chen Gong in his eyes, was still the last to arrive, and when he walked into the hall, he saw that all the generals were there, where would he think more.

But Hao Meng looked around, and there was no place for him to sit on, and shouted angrily, "Chen Gongtai! How dare you insult me like this! Won't you set me a seat at the banquet? ”

Chen Gong smiled coldly and said, "Who is the one who is about to die?" Where is the axeman, take it down for me! ”

Hao Meng's heart froze, and when he saw that all the generals were looking at him with complicated eyes, he was shocked and said, "I am guilty, you want to kill so-and-so?" ”

The three hundred swords and axes that had been laid out early rushed in and surrounded Hao Meng, and Chen Gong said coldly, "I don't think about retreating from the enemy in danger, but I want to surrender to the enemy and get rich, this is the reason why I, Chen Gong, beheaded you!" ”

Hao Meng didn't want this matter to be known by Chen Gong, he was shocked, and suddenly slashed at Chen Gong with a knife, but a cold arrow shot from behind, hitting Hao Meng in the heart.

Hao Meng turned around with difficulty and saw that it was Ping's friend surnamed Cao!

The surname Cao couldn't bear to glance at Hao Meng, don't look over.

Chen Gong snorted coldly, "Knife and axeman, what are you waiting for!" ”

The knife and axe hands rushed up and chopped Hao Meng into pulp, and the generals sighed.

The general thought of surrendering to the enemy, and the morale of Lu Bu's army suddenly collapsed, and Guo Jia attacked the city three times in a row, and many of the sergeants and soldiers of Lu Bu's army fled for their lives.

Chen Gong shook his head helplessly, and now, he has no power to return to heaven, so he went to see Lu Bu and shouted, "The lord wants to die?" ”

"Hey!" Lu Bu smiled miserably, he already knew about Hao Meng's rebellion, and even his henchmen wanted to defect to the enemy, what else could he do?

"If you don't want to die, you can't live!"

Chen Gong nodded secretly, and immediately said, "Now that Cao Ying is powerful, Yanzhou can't protect it, so don't abandon it and go elsewhere!" ”

"Who to vote for?" Lu Bu shook his head and said, "Yuan Benchu and Yuan Highway don't want to see me, don't you want me to vote for Liu Jingsheng in Jingzhou?" Xiliang Ma Shoucheng? Or Xishu Liu Junlang (Liu Yan)? ”

Chen Gong shook his head and said, "Today, I learned that Xuzhou Thorn Shi Taoqian took Xuzhou with Liu Bei, so it is better to go somewhere else!" People say that Liu Bei is benevolent, and the lord is in trouble now, he will definitely not be embarrassed! ”

"Liu Bei?" Lu Bu thought about it, but decided to give it a try, it was better than waiting for Cao Ying to attack here.

So Lu Bu led his subordinates and the remnants of the army of 2,000 people, and threw himself into Xuzhou to assassinate Shi Liu Bei.

As soon as Lu Bu left, how could the rest of the Xiaoxiao stop Cao Ying's pace?

On June 11 of the second year of Zhongping, Cao Mengde recovered the entire territory of Yanzhou!

(To be continued)