Yong'an, the camp of the dry army.

Jia Xu entered the big tent of the Chinese army and bowed his hand to Luo Zheng and said: "Lord, the senior cadres ask to see you!" ”

Luo Zheng said 'oh' and asked, "Why did the senior cadre envoy come to see Lone, is it difficult that he still wants to ask Lone to retire?" ”

Jia Xu said: "The senior cadres want to be ministers to the lord, so they send envoys to offer surrenders!" ”

"Ministers?"

Luo Zheng frowned, and sneered: "What a fool, could it be that at this time, Gao Gan still wants to be the emperor of the soil in Bingzhou?" I thought he was a character, but I didn't expect him to be a complete idiot. Send someone to tell the high cadre, either take the family to Chang'an to retire, or attack Jinyang alone to punish his whole clan, as long as he merges the state, he wants him to be a fart. ”

"Hey, let's do it!"

Jia Xu responded, turned around and went out.

That's what he meant, of course, he can't say it like the lord, otherwise even if the senior cadres want to surrender, they won't surrender.

In order to dispel Gao Gan's luck thoughts, the next day, Luo Zheng immediately raised troops to the north, approaching Pingyang, and at the same time ordered the 50,000 Tuntian soldiers assembled in Caisangjin to cross the river and go north to attack Wuzhou.

Gao Gan was shocked when he heard the report, and once again convened a group of civil and military officials to discuss countermeasures.

At the same time, Luo Zheng's envoy Sima Yi also arrived in Jinyang and put forward a series of conditions.

Under Luo Zheng's step-by-step pressure, and under the internal pressure of the Bingzhou clan, Gao Gan finally couldn't withstand the pressure, withdrew the 3,000 soldiers and horses of Jiexiu, handed over the real surrender table, and surrendered the state.

At the beginning of March, Luo Zheng went to Jinyang in person, and Gao Gan led a group of civil and military officials out of the city for ten miles to greet him.

While Luo Zheng ordered the army to be reorganized, he also issued a wide range of information to appease the people and arrange for manpower to take over the territory.

When the news reached Yecheng, Yuan Shang was taken aback, and deeply regretted that he did not listen to the construction of the trial and the discipline, and sent troops to join the state to help Gao Gan repel Luo Zheng, so that Luo Zheng went down and merged with the state without blood, but it was too late to say anything now.

While Yuan Shang mobilized troops and horses to garrison the border, he sent envoys to Jinyang to sign a truce agreement.

How could Luo Zheng have time to pay attention to him, let Jia Xu find a reason to drag it out, and seize the time to straighten out all the things in the state.

Shouchun, Cao Cao's official residence.

"Lord!"

Cheng Yu hurriedly entered the inner hall and bowed to Cao Cao.

"Zhongde is exempt!"

Cao Cao put down the brush, waved his hand and said, "Zhongde's face is gloomy, but what happened?" ”

Cheng Yu said: "Just now the news came from Luoyang, Luo Zheng's army pressed the border, Gao Gan has already surrendered to the state, Luo Zheng entered Jinyang without blood, not only did not lose a single soldier, but also gained more than 10,000 soldiers and horses. ”

Cao Cao's eyes froze, and he was speechless for a long time.

Cheng Yu said again: "What's even worse is that the Bingzhou clan is not only hostile to Luo Zheng, but also quite cooperative, and it is effortless to stabilize the situation in Bingzhou by Luo Zheng's means, so I am afraid that Yuan Shang and Yuan Xi are also in danger." ”

"Alas!"

Cao Cao was silent for a long time before he sighed and said lonely: "Yuan Benchu is also a hero, but it's a pity that all the sons born are wasted, and the good foundation is all lost in the nest of several children of the Yuan family, it's really a pity!" ”

Cheng Yu said: "Yuan Shao is also to blame for this matter, if he didn't have the intention of abolishing the elder and establishing the young, and he was unwilling to set up a son, how could it cause the disaster of Xiao Qiang, it can be said that the chaos in Hebei was all caused by Yuan Shao." ”

Cao Cao nodded again and again: "What Zhongde said is that this is the lesson!" The inheritance of the foundation is a major event of the country, and there must be no negligence, Yuan Benchu can be regarded as a lesson to us, and we must not follow in the footsteps. ”

Cheng Yu sighed and said: "Now that the state is under the state, Yuan Shang and Yuan Xi brothers are not harmonious, and sooner or later they will be destroyed by Luo Zheng, but unfortunately our army is far away in Huainan and cannot stop its encroachment on Hebei, which is really a pity!" ”

Cao Cao was silent, only feeling heavy in his heart.

As Cheng Yu said, there is still the Central Plains between Huainan and Hebei, and even if Cao Cao and Sun Ce have the heart to stop Luo Zheng's expedition to Hebei, they will be powerless, because the Central Plains is full of 300,000 Tuntian troops.

It is not a problem at all to mobilize hundreds of thousands of troops to fight with the manpower and material resources under Luo's current rule.

The 300,000 army, even if it is a Tuntian soldier who has never been on the battlefield, even if he can't cross the Huai River, it is not a problem to hold the Central Plains at all, and with Cao Cao's understanding of Gao Shun, these Tuntian soldiers have been trained by Gao Shun for several years, and they will never be a rabble.

The only thing missing is the experience of the battle.

However, Gao Shun is an obstacle to the road, how can he intervene in the war in Hebei.

At this moment, Cao Cao couldn't help but have a sense of being born at an untimely time.

But then again, it is precisely because of an opponent like Luo Zheng that life will not be so lonely. Regardless of success or failure, he will always leave his name in the history books, no matter whether it is notorious or good, it will live up to his vigorous life.

Cao Cao quickly perked up and said: "The second brother of the Yuan family is not successful, Luo Zheng will sweep Hebei within the year, and then he will definitely drive the division south to Jingyang, our army can not sit still no matter what, Zhong De is responsible for contacting Sun Ce and Liu Qi, and discuss how to join forces to resist Luo Zheng's southward march as soon as possible, and borrow some military food by the way, the military food is running out." ”

"Yes!"

Cheng Yu agreed, and immediately retreated, his heart inexplicably heavy.

Although the two counties of Huainan and Lujiang are rich, no matter how rich they are, they cannot match the large counties with a population of more than one million in Nanyang, and the combined population of the two counties is less than 400,000, and they cannot support tens of thousands of troops at all.

Originally, the two counties of Huainan and Lujiang combined had a population of nearly one million, but after years of war, especially after several years of rule by Yuan Shu, the population has plummeted by more than half, if it were not for the slight increase in population in these years, I am afraid that there would not be even 300,000.

With such a small population, it is simply impossible to feed tens of thousands of troops.

Even if Cao Cao followed Luo Zheng's example and ordered tens of thousands of troops to open up the wasteland, he could only collect some rations, and other military equipment and equipment should be consumed is an astronomical amount, if it were not for Sun Ce and Liu Bei in the past two years, Cao Cao would have gone bankrupt long ago.

Xiangyang, Liu Bei's official residence.

"Lord!"

Xu Shu hurriedly entered the inner hall and bowed his hand to Liu Bei: "There is a great talent who wants to introduce to the lord!" ”

Liu Bei was surprised: "I don't know where the master can make Yuan Zhizan a great talent?" ”

Xu Shu said: "This person's name is Pang Tong, the word Shiyuan, is the Xiangyang people's clan, known as the phoenix, although the face is ugly, but there is a great talent, talent is far better than the next, can be recommended for the public account." ”

Liu Bei didn't believe it: "Yuan Zhi is a little exaggerated, if you want to say that this Pang Tong has some real skills, Bei still believes it, but if you say that this Tong Pang is far better than Yuan Zhi, isn't this nonsense, Bei doesn't believe that there are any talents in the world who can learn far better than Yuan Zhi!" ”

Although Xu Shu knew Liu Bei's thoughts, he still felt very warm, and said: "What Shu said is true, Pang Shiyuan definitely has the talent of the world, if the lord doesn't believe it, try it under the account!" ”R1152