—187 A.D.——

Southeast of Luoyang, Bishui Pass.

Cao Cao finally chose to bypass the Tiger Prison Pass and march along the river towards Luoyang.

Although there is also the reason that the Tiger Prison Pass itself is easy to defend and difficult to attack, but the more important reason is that the Tiger Prison Guard at this time will be called Chun Yuqiong, when Cao Cao served as the captain of the northern part of Luoyang, he served as the captain of the West Garden, and he had many contacts because of official business, and he could barely be called a "friend".

If it is really a confrontation between the two armies, it is just a matter of each for its own master, but at this time, Cao Cao has the support of Princess Wannian, and directly changed the nature of this battle from a "state affair" to a "family affair".

Therefore, after he learned that Cao Cao's army was coming west, he drank all day long, and was drunk and bedridden at the gate, as if he planned to use the lesser "drunken mistake" to fool the fatal "standing in line".

The "stand-in" suggested that he go to Shangguan and pour a basin of cold water on Chun Yuqiong's head, but Cao Cao rejected the idea after thinking about it carefully and ordered the whole army to make a detour through Bishui Pass.

The reason is also very simple, Chun Yuqiong is his "friend", and he will be kicked away as a stumbling block, which makes those officials in Yanzhou who have just been attached and have never even reached the friendship of nodding their heads think?

And the guard of Bishui Pass, Wang Fen, Cao Cao is completely unfamiliar, just heard the "stand-in" mentioned as a joke, saying that when he served in Jizhou, he and Xu You had planned to promote Emperor Ling's cousin Hefei Marquis to succeed to the throne, but was frightened by the sword saint's "three swords to the sky", completely abandoned the plan that was almost completed, and resigned from the table.

Then, this Cao Cao's "can fight" person, after receiving the report of the spies, fled without hesitation, not to Luoyang, but directly packed up the soft and abandoned the official and fled back to his hometown in Jizhou, judging from the speed of his action and the decisiveness of his escape, this escape plan has been prepared for a long time.

This led to Cao Cao's capture of Bishui Pass without any loss, and in addition to the high-level who participated in the plan, the lower levels of civil and military admired him.

Now, since Luoyang is close at hand, in order to prevent mistakes in the busy, Cao Cao ordered the temporary repair at Bishui Pass, and sent a scout horse to investigate Luoyang's intelligence and make the next plan.

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Bishui Guan, Council Hall.

"Oh, is this the case in Luoyang now?"

When the scouts sent to Luoyang returned to report, the "stand-in" also seized the time to check and fill in the gaps beside him, so that Cao Cao could speak to him naturally, even if he asked questions about what the scouts did not mention, it would not be strange, and it would also appear that he could see the subtleties and draw inferences from others, which was very wise.

The original information has expired, he once said that Yuan Shu was preparing to attack the palace, and at this moment Yuan Shu has entered the palace for the second time, and he also took the [Euphorbia] secretly cultivated by the Yuan family to fight with the inexplicably crazy Lu Bu, if it weren't for Lu Bu regaining his consciousness after that, disdainful of dealing with "miscellaneous fish" and leaving, this special force might be completely wiped out.

And Lu Bu's arrival only means one thing, that is, the Liangzhou army is not far away, no matter what Cao Cao's plan is, with them involved, the probability of success will drop by at least fifty percent.

"Strange, how I didn't know they were cultivating that kind of big ...... Uh, big? "Yuan Shao's focus is still different.

"It's the 'Euphorbia'," the expression of the Yuan family's brothers, who was very clear about the personality of the Yuan family's brothers, replied without any fluctuations: "Just as Cao Qingzhou's 'Tiger and Leopard Rider' is a 'body strengthening' type general, the 'Euphorbia' is used to deal with the 'Peerless Release' type. ”

"That's exactly the case," Cao Chunying, the commander of the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry, who also participated in the meeting, said: "No matter how special the 'Wushuang' of the 'Peerless General' is, most of them will fall into these two categories, but it is difficult for the 'Body Enhancement' type to achieve the effect of 'Peerless against the Army' or above." ”

“…… Introduce qi into the body, refine qi and transform gods? Zhang Jue, who was listening in a corner, muttered to himself, but no one noticed except for the "stand-in".

"[Sun Jian seems to have kidnapped the Yang family's son-in-law and is fleeing to the southeast,] "The "stand-in" said to Cao Cao: "[They have already left the center of the vortex, so I didn't continue to track. 】”

"Hmm......" Cao Cao nodded and looked at Xun Yu: "Wen Ruo, in your opinion, what should I do at this time?" ”

Earlier, after Xun Yu got Cao Cao's answer that he "wants to be a weekly", Xun Yu gave Cao Cao a list of "upper, middle, and lower" three strategies.

The best strategy is to mobilize all relations, drive out or control all the forces that influence the emperor in Luoyang, and control the entire city when the people of Luoyang are not aware of it, so that it can return to the state of "business as usual".

The middle strategy is to take advantage of the stalemate between all parties to negotiate terms with the Sword Saint, directly rescue the entire royal family to Qingzhou, abandon Luoyang, and turn to Jinan as the national capital.

The next policy, that is, if there is disharmony, choose one of the two princes to rescue Yongli, and ask Liu Nai to supervise the country for the young emperor as the eldest princess, if someone does that "unbearable thing", you can also copy the ancient tradition of ascending the throne as the empress.

Regarding these three strategies, "stand-in" and Cai Wan respectively complained to Cao Cao that "the order is completely reversed".

In this regard, Cao Cao also considered it, with Xun Wenruo's wisdom, he would not fail to see that Qingzhou could only complete the "next policy" at present, so the purpose of his deliberate proposal of the upper and middle two strategies is also obvious - that is, to warn himself not to think about wrongdoing.

At this time, due to the unexpected disturbance of the Liangzhou army, the original strategy of nine out of ten was seriously disturbed, but it was just right to throw this problem back to Xun Yu, and he always pondered the "best strategy" in the province.

"This matter is easy," Unexpectedly, Xun Yu responded confidently: "Lu Bu's [trapped camp] is a heavy infantry, and it is impossible for him to rush here, he should only bring ordinary Liangzhou soldiers and a small number of unequaled generals here, and when he fights with the Sword Saint, he can besiege the troops brought by him with [Tiger and Leopard Rider] and [Euphorbia], and he can go down with one drum, as for Lu Bu himself, even if he is not severely injured by the Sword Saint, and is besieged by two troops against the 'Peerless General' at the same time, it is impossible to escape." ”

He seems to be quite familiar with Lu Bu? Well, think about it, a self-proclaimed "unparalleled general" who is "invincible in the world", the imperial court will definitely find a way to restrain him - but you can use "Tiger and Leopard Rider" and "Euphorbia" really easily.

Although he had not yet seen the special troops of the Yuan family, Cao Cao still felt some sympathy for them.

Xun Yu was still talking: "As long as you can successfully besiege and kill Lu Bu, then the Liangzhou army will be leaderless, and then——"

"You're going to regret your idea."

Cao Cao heard a familiar voice ringing outside the door.

"Who's coming?" "Lord Cao Cao is in a meeting, and I won't let you pass!"

At the same time, there were also the voices of Dian Wei and Xu Chu, who took the initiative to guard the door outside because they couldn't understand the content of the meeting.

Someone deceased? Cao Cao was about to raise his voice to let the two of them go, but he heard Dian Wei and Xu Chu change their attitudes in an instant.

"Well, that's right, the lord is inside." "Come in, let's go in."

"Hmm...... Could it be that the Xiahou brothers are back? But they didn't recognize it? The "stand-in" guessed.

How thick does that have to be? Cao Cao glanced at the "stand-in" covertly, got up and walked towards the door.

"Yo, lord." A young man with a handsome face, but a somewhat thin figure, wearing a light blue scholar's robe, a turban, and a narrow sword hanging from his waist, opened the curtain and walked in, and greeted Cao Cao without seeing any other places.

"Bong-hyo? How did you come here now? Before Cao Cao could begin to think about it, Xun Yu spoke out in surprise.

It turned out to be him...... In Cao Cao's eyes, the face of the young man in front of him coincided with the face of the young man who let him go to see Xun Chen.

"I haven't seen you for many years, Fengxiao's demeanor is still the same, when you float a big white, someone comes-" Since the other party directly called himself the lord, although the reason is unknown, Cao Cao will not show rustiness, and stepped forward to hold Guo Jia's arm, and wanted to lead him into the seat.

"No, no, my lord, I'll be beaten if I drink." Guo Jia's hand that was not held was waved.

Who hits?

Cao Cao looked out the door, after all, what Xu Chu said just now was "you".

Qiang, qiang.

There were two clashing sounds from the steps at the doorway, what seemed to be the crash of armor and stone steps.

Crawling on the ground? Before Cao Cao could think clearly, he saw a figure wearing Qingzhou-style light iron armor rolling in.

After Cao Cao pulled Guo Jia to dodge, he noticed that it was a strange general, his face looked a little ruthless, but because he fell into a coma and fell to the ground, he looked a little ridiculous: "Who is this?" ”

"His name is Huang Zu, and he wants to shoot Sun Jian and Yang Xiu." A girl's voice came from outside the door.

The curtain was lifted again, and a little girl of about ten years of age entered, dressed in a rather neat blue light armor, with an inky short plush cloak on her shoulders, her long shawl hair tied into a ponytail, and a white mask in the shape of a kitten on her forehead on the other side.

"......" Cao Cao suddenly had a strange feeling, feeling that this little girl was his favorite daughter, she should give everything she wanted, she should listen to everything she said, if someone upset her, she should send a tiger and leopard rider to trample that person into powder.

No, I don't have a daughter, only two stupid sons, Cao Cao frowned, and quickly got rid of the influence.

"Wow! So cute! I want to hug! The reaction of the "stand-in" was much more straightforward, and he directly opened his arms and rushed over.

Cha. "[Whew! 】”

With some illusory cracking sound, the "stand-in" hit his head against an invisible wall, covered his head and squatted down, while the little girl clapped her hands without stopping.

"Ahem!!" The reactions of the people in the tent were almost the same, only Xun Yu had an expression of "like this again", so Cao Cao coughed heavily to wake them up: "Fengxiao, who is this?" ”

"Sister ......" Guo Jia turned his head to look at the little girl: "Phantom? ”

"I've seen my brother's lord." The girl raised her hand and pulled the cat-faced mask down, and the strange feeling that Cao Cao always wanted to treat her as a daughter disappeared, and he was a little stunned.

"According to Wen Ruo's plan, you are probably dead," Guo Jia led Cao Cao to sit down: "Although our brothers and sisters have brought a lot of information this time, let me try to say a thing or two." ”