Xuzhou City.

The black "Cao" character banner fluttered on the four sides of the city, the strong Cao soldiers were neatly arranged at the head of the city, and every other hour, there was a team of elite soldiers patrolling by.

From a distance, the entire city of Xuzhou seemed to be shrouded in a murderous atmosphere.

In the Taishou Mansion, Cao Cao sat on the seat that originally belonged to Tao Qian, Xiahoudun, Cao Hong, Han Yu and others stood on both sides, and Chen Si father and son and other Xuzhou generals stood at the end, surprisingly, a white-clothed scholar with a sickly face actually stood on the lower side of Cao Cao.

To be so close to Cao Cao must be Cao Cao's henchman.

"Where is Yuan Shu's army of vicious dogs?" Cao Cao asked in a deep voice.

Xiahoudun came out and hugged his fists and said: "Back to the lord, Ji Ling has approached Guangling with an army of 100,000 troops. ”

"Ji Ling, hum, 100,000 troops, he Yuan Shu is really good at picking up cheap! If it weren't for the fact that the people of Xuzhou were not attached to the people, and my army was not firmly established, I really wanted to lead the army to raid Shouchun and let him Yuan Shu taste my power! Cao Cao said disdainfully.

Cao Hong said: "Lord, Ji Ling's army of 100,000 is menacing, and my army is only 50,000, and we have to take care of the rear, this battle is difficult to fight!" ”

"Let's report carefully, Liu Pi and Gong Du of Runan have been on the move recently, and they seem to be going to attack us while Ji Ling's army is fighting us!" Cheng Yu said worriedly.

"These jumping clowns, I wanted to recruit them, but they don't know each other, so they have to fight against me!" Cao Cao said angrily.

"Report! Eight hundred miles expedited! The pro-army shouted and rushed in, holding a document aloft in his hand.

"What's so tense?" Everyone's hearts tightened, and they looked at the document suspiciously.

Someone had already stepped forward to take the paperwork. Hand it to Cao Cao. Cao Cao took the paperwork. glanced at it twice, and the more he looked at it, the more shocked his face became, and beads of sweat slipped down like beans.

"It's broken! Broken! This damn Lu Bu didn't entangle with Ma Teng and Han Sui, and actually paid attention to me! Cao Cao scolded indignantly and threw the paperwork to the ground.

Everyone was shocked, and a sense of foreboding surged in their hearts.

The white-clothed scholar coughed a few times, clenched his fists and asked, "I don't know what Lu Bu did to anger the lord so much?" ”

Cao Cao scolded: "That damned Lu Bu issued an edict in the name of the Son of Heaven. reprimanded me for slaughtering tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Xuzhou, wantonly killing the officials of the imperial court, without the law of the country, without the son of heaven, and deprived me of all my official positions, and also called on the people of the world to denounce me, the most ridiculous thing is that I was ordered to go to Chang'an to wait for punishment, and Yanzhou, Xuzhou and other places are temporarily governed by the nearest magistrate! ”

When everyone heard this, they immediately scolded Lu Bu for causing trouble in the dynasty. Hijacking the Son of Heaven and many other crimes.

The white-clothed scholar thought for a moment, stomped his feet, and said, "My lord." I'm afraid that in that Lu Bu's edict, there is still his will! ”

"Oh? What else is he going to do? Cao Cao came to his senses and looked at the scholar in white.

The white-clothed scholar said with a smile: "He asked the nearest magistrate to temporarily act as an agent for Yanzhou and Xuzhou, so who is this local magistrate?" The closest to Xuzhou are Yuan Shu, Zang Ba, Gong Du, Liu Pi, and the closest to Yanzhou are Kong Rong and Zhang Miao, who called on the people of the world to denounce the lord, but in fact he wanted the people of the world to crusade against the lord.

Therefore, I dare to assert that Zhang Miao and Kong Rong will definitely respond to Lu Bu and lead the army to raid Yanzhou, so that the lord will lose the rear, and Yuan Shu, Zang Ba and others will attack Xuzhou, so that the lord will not be able to take care of the end! ”

Cao Cao's body was shocked, touched his chin, and said with a smile: "Then according to the words of filial piety, what should I do?" ”

The white-clothed scholar said with a smile: "Zhang Miao and Kong Rong are all wine bags and rice bags, their soldiers and horses are vulnerable, I implore the lord to send two elite soldiers, before they have raised troops, take the lead in launching a surprise attack, and they will be able to succeed in a battle, as for Zang Ba, we don't need to pay attention to him first, from the lord attacking Xuzhou, he did not move, regardless of Tao Qian's life and death, he is a careful first, protect his own people, will never be the first to respond to the edict, and when the lord loses power, he will raise troops."

Our main energy at present should be on Ji Ling's army of 100,000, as long as this army is broken, the rest will not be enough. ”

Cao Cao nodded, agreeing with the words of the white-clothed scholar, "Since I attacked Xuzhou, Chen Liu and Beihai have been two thorns in my back, which must be removed!" Ladies and gentlemen, who is willing to lead two elite armies and destroy them for me! ”

"I do! I do! The generals scrambled out and shouted.

Cao Cao pondered for a moment and said, "Xiahou Yuan, you go and get Chen Liu, Cao Ren, you go and take Beihai." ”

Xiahou Yuan and Cao Ren were overjoyed when they heard this, and hurriedly replied.

The white-clothed scholar said again: "Since Lu Bu issued an edict in the name of the Son of Heaven in a vain attempt to stand on the commanding heights of morality, we can also return the way of others and issue a letter to denounce Lu Bu for holding the Son of Heaven hostage and causing trouble to the dynasty.

I think Yuan Shao must have hated Lu Bu to death, so the lord can send someone to Yecheng to lobby Yuan Shao, unite with Yuan Shao, and discuss Lu Bu together! I don't think Yuan Shao will refuse! ”

"Myoya! It's so nice that God has sent Bonghyo to me! Cao Cao was overjoyed.

Bong-hyo? Not long ago, Guo Jia left Yuan Shao and defected to Cao Cao, and as soon as he entered Cao Cao's army, he was reused and appreciated by Cao Cao.

Lu Bu sent a letter to Guo Jia, Guo Jia received, but Guo Jia disdainfully burned it with fire.

In fact, there are many people who do this, for example, Xun Yu, Lu Su, these people are still unknown, if they go to Lu Bu's account, they will definitely be reused, but unfortunately, they refused.

"Yuan Benchu! Yuan Benchu! You're really confused, you don't need such a good talent, it's cheap for me! Cao Cao laughed at Yuan Shao in his heart.

Tongguan.

On the martial arts field, Gao Shun stepped on the tiger step, looking around at the tens of thousands of soldiers on the field, one of which had a clear banner, with the book "Charging into battle", about 500 people, and the killing spirit was obviously several times stronger than other sergeants.

This is after Gao Shunzhen guarded Tongguan, he had itchy hands and trained a strange soldier in the camp. But. This camp is trapped. Because of the weak foundation and other reasons, it is far from being comparable with the trapped camp in Jicheng.

Not long ago, after the reward of the imperial court, Gao Shun was named the general of Zhendong, Yihou, and guarded Tongguan and other places, which made Gao Shun excited for several days.

Therefore. Gao Shun trained the soldiers and horses even harder, and was optimistic about Tongguan for Lu Bu.

However, Luoyang and other places in the east were already desolate, except for a few desolate people and a few poor bandits, there was almost nothing that could threaten Tongguan's power, so there was almost no pressure on Tongguan.

Different from Zhang Liao's northern front, on the side of Bingzhou, there was a general Zhang He who led an army of 50,000 and garrisoned Shangjun. Therefore, Zhang Liao is under a lot of pressure.

"Lord!" Gao Shun learned of Lu Bu's arrival. hurriedly left tens of thousands of troops, handed over the training of soldiers and horses to the deputy, and hurriedly walked into the big tent, but saw Lu Bu standing majestically with his hands in his hands.

"Old Gao, how are you doing in Tongguan?" Lu Bu asked casually.

Gao Shun's heart trembled, and he hurriedly replied: "It's good, it's just that you can't follow the lord to the front line to kill the enemy, and I'm upset." ”

Xindao, isn't the lord on the Xiliang front, and he wants to level the gang of thieves in Ma Han, why did he run to Tongguan? Could it be that someone reported me for rebellion, so the lord himself came to test me?

Lu Buha smiled, "I heard that you have recently trained another team of warriors who have fallen into the camp, but is there such a thing?" ”

"Yes, because there are too few elite soldiers, the combat effectiveness of this trapped camp is much worse than the previous one." Gao Shun replied truthfully.

"Okay, this elite army will be under my command for the time being, and I will take them to the front line to kill the enemy for training." Lu Bu said.

"The lord is here, is it to lead this trapped camp to kill the enemy?" Gao Shun mistakenly thought that Lu Bu was deliberately coming to test him, and then proposed to take the camp back to Xiliang to kill the enemy.

Lu Bu waved his hand, "In addition, you are selecting two thousand elites, plus dry food, I will raid Yanzhou." ”

"Yanzhou?" Gao Shun screamed, this sentence thundered him, and what shocked him was that Lu Bu was not in Xiliang to command the battle, but he wanted to lead the army to Yanzhou, Cao Cao's base camp, to carry out a surprise attack.

"Lord, Cao Cao must have laid a net in Yanzhou, this raid is very dangerous! Please think twice!" While Gao Shun took a long breath in his heart, he was worried about Lu Bu again.

"As you said, Cao Cao is so shrewd, but could he have thought that I would abandon the Xiliang battlefield and lead an army to raid his base camp?" Lu Bu said with a smile.

Gao Shun said: "More than 2,000 people raided, it's too dangerous. ”

"I've thought about this, and there will be people to support me." Lu Bu said with a smile.

Gao Shun's eyes lit up, he had already read the edict issued by Lu Bu in the name of the Son of Heaven, and after thinking for a moment in his mind, he thought of the entry of Chen Palace not long ago, and understood the before and after of the matter.

"Lord, can you let me go with you? I haven't been on the battlefield in a long time, and my hands are itchy! Gao Shun pleaded bitterly.

"You want to go too?" Lu Bu smiled dumbly, the most Tongguan guard, Gao Shun's burden is very heavy, how can he just leave.

"Forget it, Lao Gao, you better stay and clear the customs, this time, I have already brought Hao Meng and Cheng Lian, you go and help me select elite soldiers, prepare dry food, I will raid Yanzhou." Lu Bu smiled and waved his hand.

Gao Shun sighed, arched his hand, and retreated.

Chen Liu.

Zhang Miao, Chen Gong and others gathered in the Taishou Mansion to discuss many matters related to the surprise attack on Yanzhou.

During the day, more than 10,000 soldiers were gathered together for training and preparation for battle in a few days, and at night, all of them were so tired that they fell asleep, and the guards on the castle tower fell asleep with their spears in their clubs.

Chen Gong is proficient in government decrees, good at governing government affairs, and is excellent in strategy, but he is deficient in military training and other aspects, so in this regard, he is almost useless, he is just thinking about how to surprise attack Yanzhou and strive to win a war.

Xiahou Yuan, the word is wonderful, when Cao Cao raised an army to crusade against Dong Zhuo, he followed him, and Sima of the official residence was not in the department, all along, he was unknown and suppressed by his brother Xiahou Dun, but Cao Cao also valued him a lot.

Zhilu Dao Xiahou Yuan is best at running and fighting, so he raided Chen Liu, and Xiahou Yuan became the most suitable candidate.

With 5,000 elite soldiers, Xiahou Yuan traveled day and night, and went straight to Chenliu. (To be continued......)