When Cao Cao walked into the official office of Pingyu, he did not forget to praise Liu Bei a few words.

"Liu Xuande did things, in the end, he still understood it, and knew that General Ben was going to come to Pingyu in person, so he cleaned up the inside and outside of this official office, and put a seal on it before leaving."

Liu Ye, the chief secretary who followed behind Cao Cao, was not in a good mood, it was only a little more than a month since he last came to Pingyu, and when he came here again, he found that the entire Pingyu City was as clean as if it had been carefully licked by someone with his tongue, and the treasury in the city was even more clean than even a mouse who did not want to stay. This Liu Bei is doing things, why is he too picky?

After Cao Cao led his army into Pingyu, he was no longer in a hurry to continue to advance south, but waited for news from the troops on the left and right in Pingyu.

Soon after, Xiahou Yuan led his army into Haoyang, which was only one hundred and twenty miles away from the position of Cao Cao's central army. However, Xiahoudun's right army, which advanced into Runan from the direction of Peijun, encountered a situation, originally according to the marching route, Xiahoudun would take Qiaoxian by the way when passing through Peijun, but Yuan Shu's subordinate Lu Mian took the lead and occupied Qiaoxian a few days ago.

This county is not only Cao Cao's hometown, but also Xiahoudun's hometown, but now it is occupied by Yuan Shu's subordinate Lu Mian, how can Xiahoudun be willing? On the one hand, he sent people into the city to threaten Lu Mian, demanding that Lu Mian immediately lead the army to withdraw from Qian County, and on the other hand, he sent someone to send a letter to Cao Cao, asking Cao Cao whether to launch a strong attack on Lu Mian if Lu Mian did not withdraw from Qian County.

When Cao Cao received Xiahoudun's urgent report, the good mood that had occupied Pingyu was ruined, and he gave an order to Xiahou Yuan, who was stationed in Haoyang, to lead his army to continue sweeping southward, while he himself led the Chinese army to leave Pingyu immediately and march towards the Ruyin area where Huang Shao was entrenched. Cao Cao's intention was to first sweep away the Yellow Turban forces in the eastern part of Runan, and then turn north and go north to attack the north and south of the Qiao County occupied by Lu Mian with Xiahoudun, who was blocked in Qian County, and beat Lu Mian, a guy who did not know whether to live or die, back to the prototype.

When Cao Cao led his army to the vicinity of Gushi, he was harassed and attacked by Huang Shao's subordinates, but did not cause much damage. The pioneer Lejin rushed to the crown angrily. asked Cao Cao for his life, and was willing to lead the 3,000 elites in the army to attack Pingyu and behead the thief chief Huang Shao. Cao Cao also hated Huang Shao to the core, so he agreed to Lejin's request.

Le Jin ranked second in the "Five Good Generals", followed by Zhang Liao, and before Yu Ban, Zhang He and Xu Huang, he was the first to defect to Cao Cao with courage and heroism, and followed Cao Cao to fight in the south and the north, and made countless achievements.

Historically, Le Jin once accompanied Cao Cao to fight against Yuan Shao in Guandu. Fight bravely and behead Yuan Shao's general Chun Yuqiong. Later, he followed Cao Cao to attack Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang in Liyang, and beheaded his general Yan Jing. Later, Le Jin attacked the Yellow Turban, Yongnu, and Guan Cheng, all of which were broken. He also pacified Jingzhou, stayed in Xiangyang, attacked Guan Yu, Su Fei and others, and recruited Sun Quan from Cao Cao, and Cao Cao returned to the division. Liule Jin and Zhang Liao and Li Diantun in Hefei.

Although later generations debated the question of Lejin's personal strength value, there is no doubt that Lejin is definitely a very fierce general with troops, and even fierce people like Zhang He and Xu Huang have to be ranked behind him, which is enough to prove what kind of outstanding military exploits he has made.

But it was said that after Le Jin led 3,000 elite soldiers to leave Gushi. He asked the soldiers to change into the clothes of He Man's subordinates, disguised the troops as a group of fleeing Yellow Turban forces, and then followed Yingshui to the downstream direction of Ruyin. In order to cover Le Jin's whereabouts, Cao Cao also set off from Gushi and continued to approach Ruyin. But the marching speed was reduced to half the original speed. Huang Shao did not see through Cao Cao's surprise attack plan, and still focused on Cao Cao's main force.

Four days later, on the night, Le Jin and his men suddenly attacked Ruyin. In the midst of the chaos. Le Jin rushed into Huang Shao's lair with his personal guards and cut off Huang Shao's head with a knife. As soon as Huang Shao died, the Yellow Turban Army entrenched in Ruyin scattered and fled in the direction of Fubo.

After Cao Cao successfully captured Ruyin, it was less than two hundred miles away from Shouchun, and in order to avoid further irritating Yuan Shu, Cao Cao did not stay in Ruyin for a long time, but immediately rushed to Chengfu County, which was close to Qian County in the south of Runan.

Cao Cao's soldiers were tired from the march, and when the troops arrived on the south bank of the river, Cao Cao told the troops to rest and recuperate, and at the same time sent people to investigate and get in touch with Xiahoudun north of Qiaoxian.

Soon after, Lu Mian in the city of Qian County received the news that Cao Cao was approaching from the south, and he was worried that he would be attacked from both sides by Cao Cao and Xiahou Dun, so he arrested Zhuang Ding everywhere in Qian County to help him build trenches and strengthen the city walls, but he got into a big trouble.

It turned out that there was a pair of very powerful brothers living in Xujiazhuang near Qian County, the elder brother was named Xu Ding, and the brother was named Xu Chu, but they were famous far and wide. Lu Mian's subordinates were in a hurry to catch enough Minzhuang to return to the city to make a difference, and they didn't inquire in advance, they actually wanted to break into Xujiazhuang to arrest people, but the 300 people who came to arrest Ding were all confessed outside Xujiawu Fort, and only a few legs and feet crawled back to the city to report Lu Mian's funeral.

But it is said that the Xu family brothers had led the men in the clan to resist the siege of more than 10,000 thieves in Runan Gepi, when Xu Chu and Xu Ding were outnumbered, exhausted from the battle, and the arrows were used up, so they ordered both men and women to find big stones to smash the thieves. When the thieves rushed up, Xu Chu stood on the top of the dock fort and threw flying stones, forcing the thieves to dare not approach. It wasn't until the food was about to run out that Xu Chu pretended to make peace with the Gepi thieves and discussed using the cattle in the dock fort to exchange food for the thieves.

Soon after the thieves moved the cattle away, the cattle ran back by themselves, and Xu Chu rushed to the front of the formation and walked more than 100 steps in front of the thieves dragging the tail of the big bull. After the thieves besieging Xujiabao saw Xu Chu's amazing brute strength, they were frightened and did not dare to come to fetch cattle again. From then on, the nearby thieves were all afraid when they heard Xu Chu's name, and they no longer dared to come to Xujiazhuang to cause trouble.

When Lu Mian learned that a team sent outside the city to arrest Ding had been wiped out in Xujiazhuang, he was furious, so he personally led 5,000 soldiers to surround Xujiawu Fort overnight, vowing to slaughter everyone in the fort and avenge the death of his subordinates.

The people of Xujiawu Fort had faced the siege of tens of thousands of thieves back then, and now after seeing Yuan Junbing besieging Wuwu Fort, they didn't feel how frightened, anyway, everyone just needs to understand a truth.

If the fort is there, people will be there, and if the fort is broken, people will die.

Lu Mian commanded the soldiers to launch a fierce attack on Xujiawu Fort, and although he killed and injured hundreds of young and strong people in the fort in one day, he also suffered a lot of losses, and he did not get a bargain. Lu Mian, who was in a hurry, returned to the city to mobilize all kinds of siege equipment, and prepared to attack Xujiawu Fort again in the coming day.

Perhaps it was the endless Xujiabao, just as Lu Mian led the army to make a comeback, Cao Cao and Xiahoudun launched the two armies together and began to attack Qiaoxian.

Lu Mian took advantage of the cover of the city wall of Qiaoxian County and guarded it for three days. The two brothers of Xu Chu in Xujiabao heard that Cao Cao led the army to attack Lu Mian, so they went to ask for battle in person, and were willing to help Cao Cao open the gate of Qian County.

After Cao Cao heard about Xu Jiabao's heroic deeds, he liked Xu Chu and his brothers very much, and intended to recruit them to serve in front of his account. He asked the two Xu Chu brothers to be brought into the tent, and then asked the two with anticipation: "Are you two brothers willing to enter my camp to fight for a future?" ”

Xu Chu replied: "If the general allows me to kill Lu Mian with my own hands, I will be willing to join the army!" ”

Cao Cao hesitated for a moment, and it was not good to immediately agree to Xu Chu's request. Cao Cao was a politician first, and then a general who commanded the army, and he knew that it was not difficult to kill Lu Mian in Qian County, but after killing Lu Mian, things would be troublesome. Lu Mian is one of the four major generals under Yuan Shu, and his status is like Xiahoudun and Cao Ren in front of his tent. After Xuzhou caught Zhang Xun last time, it was not because he was released in the end, but also because he didn't dare to force Yuan Shu to a situation where he didn't want to die.

Cao Cao pondered for a moment and said solemnly: "General Ben agrees to your request, but you also have to promise me a condition, what do you think?" ”

"What are the general's conditions?"

"When to kill that Lu Mian, you need to obey my orders, and don't act without permission!"

"Okay, so-and-so agreed!"

Cao Cao received a pair of tiger generals, and he was greatly relieved, and he asked people to immediately bring wine and meat to catch the wind for the two Xu Chu brothers. At the banquet, Cao Cao repeatedly signaled his generals to toast Xu Chu and Xu Ding, and finally dozens of high and low generals worked together to get these two big-shouldered and round-waisted bull brothers drunk.

After Xu Chu and Xu Ding were carried down, Cao Cao asked people to give Lu Mian an ultimatum in the city of Qiaoxian, saying that he could let go of a road and let Lu Mian evacuate Qian County with all the dead and wounded soldiers, during which tens of thousands of Cao's army would never launch any attack.

Lu Mian has been waiting for Yuan Shu to send reinforcements to come, but there is no news from left and right, and he also knows that Cao Cao does not want to kill himself this time, so he agreed to Cao Cao and withdrew from Qian County to Dan County overnight.

The next day, when the Xu Chu brothers woke up, Lu Mian had already led the army away, so naturally he had no chance to kill this enemy with his own hands.

Cao Cao comforted Xu Chu and said: "It is not too late for a gentleman to take revenge. If you kill Lu Mian now, you will inevitably annoy Shouchun's Yuan Shu, and after you leave Qian County with my army, if Yuan Shu sends troops to attack your Xujiawu Fort, won't the thousands of people in Xujiabao suffer because of your momentary will? ”

Xu Chu listened to Cao Cao's words and bowed his head and remained silent.

Cao Cao persuaded again: "Since General Ben promised you, he will definitely fulfill his promise in the future, don't say that he will kill Lu Mian at that time, even if you kill his master Yuan Shu, it is not impossible!" ”

Xu Chu raised his head suddenly, and his eyes lit up with a raging light.

Cao Cao attaches so much importance to Xu Chu, because Xu Chu and he are authentic fellow countrymen, and they are naturally emotionally close. Cao Cao is confident that as long as he trains for a period of time, the two brothers of the Xu family will be as loyal to him as the Xiahou brothers and become the two sharp blades in front of his account. (To be continued......)