Chapter 361: Xuzhou or Guanzhong? Cao Cao's painful choice

"This legion is really the legion sent by Yuan Shao to support Cao Cao, the main will be Gao Su, the deputy will be Zhu Ling and Lu Kuang, and the military division will be Fengji."

Chutian's army swept the entire battlefield, captured thousands of war horses from Jizhou, and captured more than 20,000 people. Through the captivity, Chutian obtained more detailed information.

"Lord, capture the enemy alive!"

Tai Shi Ci brought a captured military general over. The general was afraid of Chu Tian's momentum, and was frightened by the Tiger Army, and knelt in front of Chu Tian, with a smell of smell.

"Yuan Shao's general?"

Chu Tian rode a war horse and looked at this timid general.

It would be best if you could capture the Lanling King Gao Su alive, Gao Su had good military force and special troops. But the frightened general in front of him is obviously not the king of Lanling. If he is the king of Lanling, this posture will inevitably be too low.

"Who are you?"

"Villain Lu ...... Lu Kuang, the general of the Yuan Gong Ministry, ......"

"Lu Kuang?"

Chu Tian vaguely thought that there was indeed such a person. LΓΌ Kuang and LΓΌ Xiang were the generals of Yuan Shao's son Yuan Shang, and later after Yuan Shao was defeated, he defected to Cao Cao.

This is also a historical general.

"Loyal to me, I can spare your life!"

Chu Tian wanted to see Lu Kuang's panel, so he planned to spare Lu Kuang's life.

"The villain is willing to surrender, willing to surrender!"

Lu Kuang saw that he could live, so he immediately surrendered to Chu Tian.

Chu Tian couldn't help but muttered in his heart. If only all the captured generals could surrender so neatly. However, there are few truly loyal generals who surrender easily like Lu Kuang.

[Name]: Lu Kuang

[Identity]: Yuan Shang's general, and later defected to Cao Cao

[Rank]: Gold (Infantry)

[Loyalty]: 50

[Commander]: 56 [Force]: 68 [Intelligence]: 23 [Politics]: 22 [Charisma]: 21

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Chu Tian recruited a military general who was about the same as Mi Fang, and it was difficult to explain it. Lu Kuang's loyalty is very low, and he may defect at any time.

LΓΌ Kuang had a value worth using, and Chutian asked him to surrender all the captured Jizhou soldiers.

This group of Jizhou soldiers can be used as cannon fodder for attacking Puyang City.

Lu Kuang took the initiative to ask Chu Tian: "I am willing to be the vanguard and lead the troops to attack Puyang City!" ”

"General Lu is incomparably powerful, just a Cao Mengde, not worthy of General Lu as a pioneer, Tai Shici, you lead the Yue cavalry battalion to open the way."

Chu Tian appeased Lu Kuang, there is no doubt that after obtaining Mi Fang, Wu Anguo, and Gongsun Ao, Chu Tian got another god general, and he would soon be able to gather the five tiger generals.

Lu Kuang was frightened, his fear of Chu Tian was greater than his loyalty, and he followed Chu Tian to crusade against Cao Cao.

Yuan Shao's 50,000-strong army was almost wiped out south of the Yellow River, and King Lanling, one of the three famous generals of the Northern and Southern Qi Dynasty, was defeated, and Zhu Ling and Feng Ji fled in the wilderness.

When Yuan Shao learned that the 50,000 army he had managed to put together had just crossed the Yellow River and was annihilated, Yuan Shao, who was crusading against the Zhongshan Kingdom, was stunned and couldn't come back to his senses for a long time.

An army of 50,000, an army of 50,000, was wiped out like this!

Chu Zimou's sphere of influence in Xuzhou is like a bottomless pit, no matter how many armies enter Chu Zimou's sphere of influence, the whole army will be wiped out.

The enemy troops wiped out by the Xuzhou Legion were not millions, but hundreds of thousands.

"His subordinates once said that the lord should gather all his troops and horses and go south to support Cao Mengde. The lord did not listen to his subordinates and attacked Jizhou in the north. The subordinates also said that if they were determined to take Jizhou, they would concentrate all their forces and make a quick decision, and should not divide their troops to the south. Even if the troops are divided to the south, they can hold the white horse and make an offensive that threatens Xuzhou Mu. However, Ming Gong didn't listen, but he had to believe Guo Tu's words. ”

Fu Zhu and Tian Feng complained about Yuan Shao.

Guo Tu was frightened, and said to Yuan Shao: "Now that our army is newly defeated, Frustration and Tian Feng don't want to worry about the main public, but instead fight among themselves, this is a rebellion." ”

Frustrated, Tian Feng was annoyed: "Guo Tu, you are talking about it, when will we have objections?" ”

"Enough!"

Yuan Shao was angered by his advisors.

Defeated externally, quarreled internally, Yuan Shao had a headache.

Chutian has great prestige, and there are a group of elders to follow, and there are characteristics such as "Han Wu", "Four Worlds and Three Dukes", and "Heroine Linchao" to suppress various families, as well as Zhang Zhao, Lu Su and other ministers to reconcile the contradictions of various families, and there is no trouble with Yuan Shao for the time being.

As long as Chu Tian keeps winning, the families will shut up.

Yuan Shao's defeat will intensify the contradictions between the factions of the family.

"Go all out to run Hebei, let Cao Mengde and his generals come to Yecheng to join me, and I ask the imperial court to make him the general of Yanzhou Mu and Zhendong. Still let him lead the troops. ”

Yuan Shao did not dare to continue to send troops to the bottomless pit of Henan, so he decided to repair a letter and ask Cao Cao as a guest general, give up Dongjun, and come to Yecheng to conspire with great things.

"Yuan Shao was defeated? I advised him not to divide his troops to the south to make an enemy with Chu Zi, but he didn't listen, which is good...... If Yuan Shao does his best, he can still force Chu Zimou to ......"

In Handan, Jizhou, Zhao Long, the alien lord who served as a general under Yuan Shao, heard the person opposite mention that Yuan Shao sent 50,000 troops to Chu Zimou, and couldn't help but pat the table and sigh.

The person opposite said: "Yuan Benchu was stubborn and self-serving, not as good as the lord, and the lord can replace him." ”

Zhao Long poured wine for the man: "Although I have you, just like Liu Bang has Han Xin, I want to get Yuan Shao's Wenchen general." Fu Zhu, Tian Feng, Yan Liang, Wen Chou, Zhang He, Ju Yi, Gao Lan, Judge, Gao Su (King of Lanling, the three famous generals of the Northern Qi Dynasty), Hu Luguang (marksman, the three famous generals of the Northern Qi Dynasty) and others can all be reused. Some of them are loyal and not easily submitted, and I need to enter Jizhou in a more reasonable way. ”

The man said, "Since the lord wants to obtain Yuan Shao's Wenchen general, then he needs to plan carefully. ”

"I heard that some of Cao Cao's Inhuman disciples recruited assassins, and it was with the help of assassins that Cao Cao had the opportunity to capture Yanzhou. If I recruit this Assassin to my disciples......"

"Could it be that the lord wants to use assassins to assassinate Yuan Shao?"

"It's a hole card that you have to use...... The nephew of the judge, Shen Rong, has been bought by me. Once Yuan Shao and I won the whole of Jizhou, it was time to act. Yuan Shao's peak moment was also the moment of his demise. ”

Zhao Long relied on the subordinates in front of him very much, this was the emperor-level commander he obtained after the Battle of Mobei.

Dongjun, Puyang City, Cao Cao, the first hero of the Eastern Han Dynasty, frowned.

He also learned that Yuan Shao's reinforcements had just arrived in Henan, and he was even more afraid of Xuzhou Mu Chu Zimou. In Cao Cao's eyes, Chu Zimou, who participated in the Battle of Mobei together and suppressed Cao Cao for two consecutive years, is comparable to the god of war of the Han Dynasty.

Pang Juan, who had lost more than won too little, made a comeback again, and Guo Jia once again served as Pang Juan's military advisor, and surrounded Puyang with Pang Juan, making Puyang's teleportation array ineffective.

Guo Jia, who was supposed to be Cao Cao's military division, surrounded Cao Cao in turn, which made people suspect that this was deliberately done by Chu Zimou.

"The reinforcements sent by Yuan Benchu were defeated by Chu Zimou's cavalry, and he persuaded me to lead the remnants of the army to Yecheng to take refuge in it, what do you think?"

Cao Cao received Yuan Shao's proposal and hesitated.

If it were Cao Cao in ordinary times, he would not be so indecisive, but this choice will determine his life. Not only Cao Cao, but also the fate of Cao Hong, Xiahou Yuan, Xiahou Xuan, Cao Ren, Cao Chun and other clan generals.

Will Chu Zimou appoint him after he surrenders? Will Cao Cao's clan generals be reused? If no one can be reused in Chu Zimou's power, then the Cao family and the Xiahou family can say goodbye to the family in the future.

Cao Cao considered not only his own interests, but also the interests of his family.

Xun Yu said: "Although Yuan Shaobing is numerous, the laws and regulations are not orderly, and the military generals are intrigued although they are numerous. As for Yan Liang and Wen Chou, they are just the courage of a husband. The only people who are worth using are Fu Zhu, Tian Feng, Zhang He, and Gao Su, but Yuan Shao will not use people, and he will definitely be taken advantage of. Sooner or later, he will become a captive of the aliens, so why should the lord take refuge in a dying man. ”

Cao Cao asked, "Since Yuan Shao is a dying person, who does Wen Ruo think he can go to?" ”

Xun Yu replied: "Si Lixiao Wei governs Guanzhong, the people live and work in peace and contentment, coerce the Son of Heaven to order not to be subordinate, Kuang Fu Han Room, Yuan Chang (Zhong Xuan) wrote many times to come, please Wen Ruo go to Guanzhong." If the lord is interested in supporting the Han family, perhaps it is a good choice to go to Guanzhong to seek refuge with Si Li's lieutenant. ”

"Kuangfu Han Room ......"

Cao Cao faced Xun Yu's proposal and fell into deep thought.

Xun Yu was ingenious and thought that Cao Cao could go to seek refuge with the old Qin who was in the middle of the pass.

Cao Cao still had a little delusion of supporting the Han family, but he couldn't help but hesitate when he thought of Luoyang, the divine capital that was reduced to ashes in the fire that day.

The prosperous country was easily burned by a prince, and the Son of Heaven was first manipulated by Dong Zhuo and then by the old Qin, did the old Qin really intend to support the Han family? Can the Han family be ZTE for the second time?

Xun Yu and other Yingchuan scholars most likely still have the idea of reviving the Han family, after all, the Yingchuan scholars played an important role in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and they were unwilling to lose their former glory.

Under the banner of the Son of Heaven of the Han Dynasty in Chang'an, Lao Qin had a fatal attraction to Xun Yu's group of scholars. Therefore, Cao Cao was not at all surprised by Xun Yu's proposal to defect to Guanzhong. Perhaps, for the Yingchuan scholars, it seems to be more in their interests to take refuge in the old Qin, who has the Son of Heaven and reuse the Yingchuan and Runan families to replace the Guanzhong family. In addition to one Li Si, there is no Minister of the Interior, if he takes refuge in him, the influence of the Yingchuan and Runan Shi clans will be greater, and they will become the core group of the old Qin.

Zhong Xuan was helping Lao Qin to recruit the scholars of Yingchuan and Runan, and Xun You, Xun Yu and others were affected.

Xuzhou Mu Chu Zimou is also an important choice for the scholars, but Chu Zimou's team is dominated by the elders of the Langya State and the Xuzhou family, and the Yingchuan and Runan families join the power of Chu Zimou, and they will definitely become vassals, and they will be overwhelmed by the elders of the Langya State and the Xuzhou family, and they can only rank third in the power of Chu Zimou. This is difficult to accept for the Yingchuan and Runan families who once controlled the Han court.

Cao Cao, who was about to face surrender, now has no right to interfere with the choice of the Yingchuan Xun family. Once Cao Cao surrenders, he will only be a subordinate general of other princes, and Xun Yu and Xun Yu will become other people's courtiers.

Most disciples of the family will give priority to the interests of the family and then the individual.

Cao Cao looked at Xun Yu and sighed: "If Wen has Wang Zuozhi's talent, no matter where he goes, he will be reused." It was my Cao Mengde who was incompetent and failed Wen Ruo's talent. Soon, we will no longer be committed. For several years, the monarchs have been fighting, but they have always been trapped in the East County, and it is really my Cao Mengde who can't stand you......"

When Cao Cao said that he was in the depths of his love, he couldn't help but wet his robe with tears, and the eyes of the generals and ministers were red.

They were born and died for several years, only to be found to be the result of falling apart.

Everyone burst into tears, for a long time, everyone asked Cao Cao: "Please make a decision as soon as possible, we are willing to accompany you." ”

Cao Cao wiped away his tears with his robe, and his years of hard work were all in one fell swoop, so that his true feelings were revealed, and it was difficult for him: "All the gentlemen follow me to break through, go to Chen Liu, and use Chen Liu's teleportation array to go to Guanzhong!" Inform Xiahoudun and Cao Ren to evacuate to Chenliu and join us! If Chen Liu is also besieged by Chu Zimou in advance, then the various generals will go directly to Guanzhong! ”

"Listen to your orders!"

The military generals of the civil servants were ready to go to Guanzhong.

Dongjun's teleportation array failed because Puyang was besieged, and they could only go to Chenliu. If Chen Liu's teleportation array also failed, they could only go to Guanzhong on foot.

Cheng Yu, Man Chong and other Yanzhou scholars are difficult to explain Cao Cao's decision, and the taste is difficult to understand. Unlike the scholars in Yingchuan and Runan, they are not very willing to leave Yanzhou.

However, Cheng Yu, Man Chong and other Yanzhou scholars still chose to act with Cao Cao.

Cao Cao, as a hero, has his charm.

"You have worked for me for many years, Meng De has nothing to repay, if you are willing to go to Guanzhong with me, you can go. If you take refuge in Chu Zimou or other princes, you will also follow you, and you will never force it. ”

Cao Cao gathered a group of Inhuman disciples who supported him and announced the dismissal of all the disciples.

Now Cao Cao has chosen to give up his status as a prince and become a subordinate general of other princes, and he has no capital to support many guests.

The Inhuman Doormen looked at each other.

Who would have thought that the first hero in the late Eastern Han Dynasty would be forced to this point?

Even before the Battle of Guandu broke out, Cao Cao was already about to flee.

It was all due to the man.

"Cao Cao is going to escape to Guanzhong?!"

When Chu Tian heard the news, his heart was shocked.

He was too anxious to make Cao **, and Xun Yu's suggestion gave Cao Cao a new idea, causing great trouble to Chu Tian.

Chu Tian, as the first lord of the Eastern Han Dynasty, has been competing with Lao Qin, who is the second lord. Because he is relatively old, he belongs to the scheming old fox, he annexed Dong Zhuo's forces, the soldiers are strong and strong, if Cao Cao is driven to the old Qin, the strength of the old Qin will be strengthened by at least half, and Chutian will lose more than he gains.

"Order the military corps, as well as the major legions, to intercept Cao Cao's legion at all costs, and capture as many of Cao Cao's civil generals as possible, including Cao Cao himself!"

"In addition, persuade Cao Cao to surrender, Xu Taishou, the position of general, will not be persecuted, his father is still in our Xuzhou!"

Chutian immediately ordered all troops to pursue and intercept Cao Cao, who had fled westward, and at the same time encircled Cao Cao before he fled to the territory of Lao Qin, in an attempt to recruit Cao Cao.

In Guanzhong, the old Qin received a surrender request drafted by Xun Yu on behalf of Cao Cao, and promised Cao Cao the general of the chariot and the high-ranking official who led the Yanzhou pastor, and threw an olive branch to Cao Cao. Anyway, the Son of Heaven is in his hands, even if Cao Cao is named the third prince and the general, it is not necessary.

"Ordered Meng Tian, Li Xin, LΓΌ Bu and others who attacked Hanoi to meet Cao Cao...... No, I'm going to pick up Cao Cao in person! Otherwise, Cao Cao may be intercepted by Chu Zimou! ”

Old Qin was overjoyed. As soon as Cao Cao came, wouldn't his civil ministers and military generals all come to Guanzhong?