Lu Bu's sudden withdrawal saved Yuan Shu's life and gave Yuan Shu time to breathe. However, due to Yuan Shu's failure in Chen State, the food he brought back was limited, and the Huainan River Basin suffered a disaster this year, the harvest was not high, Yuan Shu fought in several sides, ran out of money and grain, and the few remaining remnants of the army were defeated, and all of them retreated to Shouchun, resulting in the grain and grass that Yuan Shu brought back from Chen State also became a drop in the bucket.

The first reaction was that Yuan Shu naturally sent someone to Lujiang to find his old subordinate Liu Xun to ask for food, but now Lujiang is also short of food, how can Liu Xun get the excess grain and grass? Since Yuan Shu ascended the throne, to be precise, since Feng Fangnu's death, Yuan Shu's temperament has become very irritable, Liu Xun can't get food, which is completely excusable, but Yuan Shu directly ordered that Liu Xun must take out grain and grass no matter what method he uses, otherwise Liu Xun is asking.

So, by mistake, Yuan Shu's unreasonable move pushed Liu Xun out of Lujiang to find food.

In addition to the factor of Yuan Shu, another reason for Liu Xun to rest assured to go out of the city is also because of Sun Quan. Like Lu Bu, at this time, many people in the world, including Liu Xun, thought that Sun Ce's westward expansion was a cover, and Xuzhou, which Sun Quan was invading, was the real target of the Jiangdong Army in the next step.

Sun Ce has never fought a tough battle at all this time in the west, and Liu Xuan's death has cheapened Sun Ce in vain, and the world has completely failed to see the military strength of Sun Ce's side. In other words, Sun Ce's side, on the surface, is mighty, but in fact it is likely to be a false battle, and the main core of the Jiangdong Army may secretly follow Sun Quan and settle in Guangling!

This should be the so-called sound of the east and the west, the children of his grandson family, aren't they the ones who love to use these virtual and real art of war the most!

Since Sun Ce's side is a cover, then Liu Xun has nothing to worry about. Even if Sun Ce really has a lot of soldiers and horses on his side, the focus is on his old opponent Jiangxia Huangzu, Liu Xun secretly went out of the city, and by the time Sun Ce reacted, maybe he had already grabbed the grain and came back. The combination of various reasons made Liu Xun make a decision quickly, although Qiao Xuan also contributed to it, but in fact, it played a very small role.

Other than that

Sun Quan's capture of Guangling affected not only Lu Bu, not only Yuan Shu, not only Liu Xun, but also Cao Cao, and naturally Liu Biao. Liu Biao, who was originally extremely nervous, was somewhat relieved to hear the news, of course, the biggest impact was Cao Cao, only Cao Cao himself knew that Chen Deng was actually his person, Sun Quan captured Chen Deng, occupied Guangling, and directly destroyed Cao Cao's plan to steal Xuzhou in the future. Without Chen Dengli, he will attack Xuzhou in the future and face Lu Bu, it will be a tough battle!

XU Du,

Cao Cao convened a meeting of advisers, and to be honest, looking at today, the most troublesome thing is not those precarious forces, but Cao Cao. First of all, Cao Cao is in the core area of the Central Plains, southeast, northwest and northwest, and the four directions can be regarded as his enemies, although the friction in some directions is not big for the time being, but once the fight really starts, when he can't free his hand, I am afraid that there will be no fewer people around him who are in danger. Secondly, Cao Cao held the card of offering the emperor, in a sense, like Yuan Shu, became the target of the public, but all the princes who are interested in the world and are unwilling to bear the infamy of the emperor have the intention of snatching the emperor into their hands.

These are just external troubles, and there are also a lot of internal worries about Cao Cao. Also on the issue of offering the emperor, welcoming the emperor to Xudu, Cao Cao's purpose is to coerce the Son of Heaven to order the princes, from a certain point of view, the emperor is a tool of Cao Cao, and Cao Cao is doing things in the name of the emperor. So, as an emperor, will Emperor Xian be this puppet with peace of mind?

Regardless of whether Cao Cao has the intention of usurping the throne or not, the current emperor is completely locked in a cage, from the perspective of the emperor, he can't see the general trend of the world, he can't see the chaos of the princes, and what Emperor Xian can see is only Cao Cao, who is disobedient, not disciplined by him, and powerful! Therefore, secretly, Emperor Xian is also secretly contacting people with lofty ideals, trying to assassinate Cao Cao and regain power!

"In the north, since Yuan Shao defeated Gongsun Zhan, he has begun to move, and has asked me to move Emperor Xian to Yecheng several times. I have been refusing like this, and it is estimated that it will not be long before he will use this as an excuse to raise troops to attack. Cao Cao frowned, he had more and more headaches recently, "In the south, the rise of the Sun family is unstoppable. That Sun Ce and Sun Quan are not easy to match, and now, one is attacking Jiangxia to the west and trying to occupy Jingzhou, and the other has occupied Guangling and is trying to plot Xuzhou. The Sun family played with the art of war, but they didn't know whether it was true or false, and they didn't know whether their purpose was Jingzhou or Xuzhou. Cao Cao said in a deep voice.

"My lord, we don't need to guess, it's useless to guess. The art of war, the original is to switch between the virtual and the real, today's Sun family, in fact, has occupied the advantage of the rear, when everyone thinks they will attack Xuzhou, they will attack Jingzhou, on the contrary, when everyone thinks that they will attack Jingzhou, they will go to Xuzhou. Guo Jia, who was at the bottom, spoke.

"That's right, Yuan Shao's strength is getting stronger day by day, and the Sun family is also rising step by step, the top priority is not to think about what others do, but to think about how we should do it." Xun Yu said.

Cao Cao frowned and said,

"According to our original plan, Zhang Xiu has surrendered, and that step is to plot against Xuzhou. As long as Xuzhou is occupied, there will be no worries in a short period of time, so that you can let go of your hands and feet and fight a decisive battle with Yuan Shao. But now, Sun Quan occupies Guangling and directly buries a chess piece in Xuzhou, once we really take Xuzhou, we will face the Sun family, even if they will not fight with us for a while, when we fight Yuan Shao, with the cunning of the Sun family, how can they not take advantage of the danger of others! Cao Cao paused and continued, "Besides, without Chen Deng, the situation in Xuzhou is already unclear, and it will not be so easy to defeat Lu Bu in a short period of time." ”

"Lord, I have a plan."

At the very beginning, a person suddenly spoke. Everyone turned their heads and found that this person was Jia Xu. Jia Xu was originally a staff officer under Dong Zhuo, and after Dong Zhuo's death, he instigated Li Dao Guo Bi to kill Wang Yun and Lu Bu, and then defected to Zhang Xiu. This time, Zhang Xiu surrendered to Cao Cao at the most critical moment, giving Cao Cao a glimmer of life in his predicament, and it was Zhang Xiu who was persuaded by Jia Xu.

While Cao Cao treated Zhang Xiu well, he knew better who was the driving force behind this incident, so when Jia Xu first arrived, he entered the inner circle of Cao Cao's strategists in one fell swoop.

At this time, listening to Jia Xu's mouth, many people wanted to see for themselves whether this famous poisoner really had real materials.

"Sir, please!" Cao Cao was a little excited, he believed that Jia Xu would never be untargeted.

Jia Xu smiled lightly and said,

"Lord, in fact, the Sun family's so-called truth and truth, in the final analysis, is just a trick. We don't need to guess whether they want to fight Xuzhou or Jingzhou, we can push them to make decisions. ”

"Oh? How? Cao Cao hurriedly asked.