Half a month later, Zang Ba really did not break his promise, led the army to defeat Qi County, and stationed heavy troops in the county, and connected with Cao Cao's army, forming an established strategy of attacking and retreating.

In this regard, Cao Cao was also deeply grateful, and went to Liu Xie, crowned Zang Ba as Langya Xiang, guarded half of Qingzhou, and left 50,000 soldiers, and handed them over to Zang Ba to let him resist Yuan Shao's attack. The reincarnation of history reappears at this moment, in history, Zang Ba originally served Lu Bu, and later after Lu Bu was defeated by Cao Cao, Cao Cao surrendered Zang Ba, and then Zang Ba guarded Qingzhou for Cao Cao for more than ten years, making Qingzhou the most reassuring barrier for Cao Cao. Now, although history has changed because of Ao Lie's arrival, Zang Ba still joined Cao Cao's account, and as in history, he took on the important task of guarding Qingzhou.

The matter of Qingzhou has come to an end for the time being, and it is impossible for Yuan Shao to invest more troops to compete for the half of Qingzhou in Cao Cao's hands, after all, Ao Lie of Youhe sent Zhang Liao, Xu Huang, Zhang He and others to station heavy troops on the border line of Youzhou, if Yuan Shao goes south, Zhang Liao and others will inevitably attack Jizhou, so that Yuan Shao can't take care of each other, Cao Cao believes that although Yuan Shao will occasionally do some stupid things, he will never be able to see the situation in the general direction. With Zang Ba commanding more than 60,000 Taishan troops and 50,000 Qingzhou troops, and resisting the 100,000 troops of Yan Liang and Wen Chou, Cao Cao was not worried that Zang Ba would not be able to cope with it at all.

In the next step, according to the previously set goals, Cao Cao prepared to return to his division to attack Yuzhou. Before setting out on the expedition, Cao Cao also spent two months alone to reorganize the army. Cao Cao is no longer what it used to be, when he only had 20,000 horses, after several years of expansion, his military horses skyrocketed several times, especially after the first battle in Qingzhou. He surrendered 300,000 Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army, and the number of soldiers under his command reached nearly 500,000. However, many of these 500,000 soldiers have not undergone systematic training, and their combat effectiveness is worrying, and they are not enough to entrust them with the important task of attacking the city and pulling out the fortress. Take the elite route.

As a result, Cao Cao implemented a series of assessments of the best and the fittest among the 500,000 troops under his command, reducing the 500,000 army to 380,000, and the rest of the 100,000 unqualified sergeants. All of them took off their uniforms and handed over their weapons. Go to the fields and do production. As for the 380,000 troops who passed the assessment. The detailed distribution was carried out again, and those with average combat effectiveness were sent to various counties to serve as county soldiers; Those with outstanding combat effectiveness were incorporated into the main force. In the end, Cao Cao got the main army of 260,000, and he divided the main army into four parts. The first and second armies were formed, an elite cavalry unit and an elite infantry unit, of which the first and second corps each had 100,000 men, with Cao Ren and Xiahoudun as the commanders of the two armies respectively; The elite cavalry is a tiger and leopard cavalry. There were a total of 30,000 elite soldiers, led by Cao Chun; The elite infantry army is known as the Wuwei Battalion, which is also composed of 30,000 elites, and is led by Cao Hong. The rest of the generals were scattered into four armies and held positions at various levels.

After two months of rectification, Cao Cao immediately sent troops to Yuzhou and launched a war with Yuzhou Assassin Shi Kongling. Kong Ling was originally a Confucian scholar, and it was not his forte to march and fight, and at first he relied on geographical advantages to fight with Cao's army, but after a long time, Kong Ling exposed the unique weakness of Confucianism - the killing was not decisive enough, and the opportunity was not arbitrary enough, so he could only talk on paper. In just over a month, the First Army commanded by Cao Ren and the Second Army commanded by Xiahoudun lost their armor and lost most of Yuzhou. Later, Cao Cao put Cao Chun's tiger and leopard cavalry into the army, and the tiger and leopard cavalry came out, and the elite like a wolf and tiger was even more invincible, and the Yuzhou army was defeated and retreated, and after a long-distance attack, Kong Ling was captured alive, and the armed resistance of Yuzhou was broken in one fell swoop.

So far, Cao Cao has completed the strategic goal set by Guo Jia, and in just a few years, he has connected half of Yanzhou, Yuzhou and Qingzhou, and then dominated most of the Central Plains. Cao Cao's rise is so fast and his means are so powerful that it can be called a mythical miracle. From ancient times to the present, there is no one like Cao Cao, who has changed from a forbidden military captain in a short period of time to a strong party in the Central Plains, even Liu Bang, the founder of the Han Dynasty who destroyed Qin in three years and Chu in five years, has not been able to achieve Cao Cao's brilliant achievements today.

Among them, Cao Cao's personal charm and wisdom are obviously a major factor in determining success or failure, but the military officials under his command worked together and tried their best to give advice to Cao Cao and attack the city, which was also another factor that helped Cao Cao quickly stabilize the Central Plains. Cao Cao also recognized this, so after taking Yuzhou, Cao Cao issued a conscription order again, summoned talented people to take up positions in his Sikong Mansion, and encouraged his subordinates to introduce well-educated people to him.

With Cao Cao's encouragement, Guo Jia recommended Huainan Liu Ye to Cao Cao, Liu Ye's name Ziyang, who was originally a relative of the Han family, and later went to the people. After Liu Ye arrived, he recommended to Cao Cao that the people of Shanyang were full of favor and full of Boning, and Cao Cao was happy in his heart, so he appointed Liu Ye and Man Pet to be in the army. Xiahoudun recommended to Cao Cao that the Juping people Yu Ban Yu Wen Ze, Yu Ban in front of Cao Cao, demonstrated the bow and horse marksmanship, Cao Cao was overjoyed to see it, and immediately sealed Yu Ban as the point army Sima. The rest of the people also recommended civil and military talents to Cao Cao, and Wei Zi, a wealthy businessman who stayed behind, also came to Cao Cao and voluntarily contributed a huge amount of money to subsidize Cao's army's food and salary. Since then, Cao Cao has a good strategy, a fierce general, and a powerful earthquake.

One day, after Cao Cao discussed with Wei Zi about the preparation of the tiger and leopard cavalry and the armament of the Wuwei battalion, he suddenly remembered that his father Cao Song had also scattered his family wealth to help him gather volunteers during the Dong Zhuo Rebellion, and later Cao Song fled to Xuzhou to live in seclusion to avoid the war. Whenever Cao Cao thought about this, he deeply blamed himself for being unfilial, and today he saw that Wei Zi took out a lot of money to help him prepare armaments, and Cao Cao missed his father even more. So, Cao Cao asked the sergeant to go to Xuzhou to pick up his father and the whole family to come to Xuchang to meet. Since taking Yuzhou, Cao Cao has moved the administrative center from Chenliu to Xuchang. It is convenient to observe the movements of Luoyang at any time, and it can maintain the pressure on Xuzhou and Jingzhou.

Since Cao Cao dominated the Central Plains, there is one person who can no longer be happy, and he is Liu Bei. At the beginning, when Yuan Shao ambushed Ao Lie, Liu Bei prevented Guan Yu and Zhang Fei from going to rescue Ao Lie on the grounds of a lack of soldiers, and secretly sent Jian Yong to spread rumors in Jizhou, saying that Xuzhou Mu Taoqian had leaked the news, causing Sun Jian, Lu Bu and Gongsun Zan and others to wave troops to rescue Ao Lie, which made the conspiracy of Yuan Shao and others fail. In Liu Bei's mind, Yuan Shao will inevitably be furious afterwards, in order to stop the mouth of everyone in the world, Yuan Shao will definitely attack Qingzhou, and then march to Xuzhou, only in this way can Yuan Shao stand on the commanding heights with a strong posture and cut off those treacherous and other abuses.

So, Liu Bei led the army to Xuzhou, nominally to serve Tao Qian, but in fact to secretly buy people's hearts, waiting for the moment when Yuan Shao raised troops to attack, he stood up and shouted, calling on the generals in Xuzhou to resist Yuan Shao. After taking advantage of Xuzhou's geographical advantages to repel Yuan Shao, Liu Bei's prestige will definitely overshadow Tao Qian in Xuzhou, and when the time comes, he will unite some local heroes and use them to oust the old and incompetent Tao Qian from power, so as to achieve his goal of occupying Xuzhou.

Liu Bei's intentions are not far-reaching, and it is impossible for Liu Bei, who talks about the Han family's clan relatives and benevolence, righteousness and morality anytime and anywhere, to do things that are forcibly plundered, which is inconsistent with the public image that he has painstakingly established. But borrowing Yuan Shao, the second ancestor, to achieve the desired goal, it will be different, and after Liu Bei repelled Yuan Shao according to the plan he wanted, he could completely use the mouth of the people of Xuzhou and the local heroes to oust Tao Qian from power, and at that time, Liu Bei could only be reluctantly embarrassed, expected, and humble, and had to sit on the throne of Xuzhou Mu for it.

However, Cao Cao's sudden rise and Ao Lie's ghost sent a god to burn down Yuan Shao's granary completely disrupted Liu Bei's plan, and now, the person who shows a trend of encirclement in Xuzhou is no longer the second ancestor Yuan Shao, but the eloquent Cao Cao. In the face of Yuan Shao, Liu Bei still had the confidence to repel him with Xuzhou's geographical advantages, but in the face of Cao Cao, Liu Bei had no confidence at all.

Therefore, Liu Bei fell into endless depression, and everything developed according to his vision, but he didn't expect that at the most critical step, the person who showed coercion to Xuzhou became Cao Cao. Now Cao Cao is in the Central Plains and occupies the city land of three and a half states in the Central Plains, what will Liu Bei do to fight Cao Cao? Once Cao Cao raises troops to attack, the first thing Liu Bei has to do is probably to immediately cover the flash. Whenever faced with a predicament and a Jedi situation, Liu Bei would always take out the useful body he had left behind, and come out with the great principle of serving the country in the future, coaxing others at the same time, he was also coaxing himself.

Walking slowly around the room, Liu Bei's mood was already extremely bad. Xuzhou, nine times out of ten, will eventually fall into the hands of Cao Cao, how can this make Liu Bei willing? It has been almost two years since he came to Xuzhou, and in the past two years, in order to win the hearts of Xuzhou Haoqiang, Liu Bei often held banquets to invite them to the banquet, or personally visited, or occasionally sent some gifts that everyone liked. After coming to Xuzhou, Liu Bei in order to deliberately win over the local heroes, even let Guan Yu and Zhang Fei pretend to be robbers and go to various places to rob rich and unkind businessmen, which caused Guan Yu and Zhang Fei's strong dissatisfaction, and Liu Bei couldn't take care of it.

Who would have thought that after the end of the day, all Liu Bei's calculations were made for Cao Cao's wedding dress, as long as Cao Cao rectified his internal affairs and waved his troops to Xuzhou, all Liu Bei's plans would come to naught, and all the efforts would be put into water, and even a little cost would not be recovered. (To be continued......)