At the end of the ninth year of the first peace, the Zhenbei Gongshang suddenly stopped negotiations with Cao Cao, and mobilized the elite main force to go south to Yanzhou.

At the same time, the princess of Chang'an, Diao Chan, declared Cao Cao a rebel, and controlled the imperial court to announce to the world that the Duke of Zhenbei would send troops to rebel.

Although the incident happened suddenly, Cao Cao, as a generation of heroes, was not defenseless in the face of this situation. In the direction of Luoyang, Cao Cao's confidant general Cao Hong is responsible for guarding Luoyang, monitoring Diao Chan's every move at all times, and martial law was imposed on Ruoyang City when Diao Chan just sent troops.

The real thing is the Yanzhou part.

In the eastern part of Yanzhou, Zhao Yun led the Qingzhou Corps, starting from Xuzhou and attacking Lu County; In the north, Shang Ji led the elite main force from Qinghe County to the south, mainly attacking Dongjun; On the west side, Lü Bu led an elite cavalry corps, which passed directly through the north of Sili Lieutenant and raided Chenliu County, the core base of Cao Cao.

The three-way army, the commander of each road is an SS-level general, and the combat effectiveness of any one way is enough for Cao Cao to drink a pot, not to mention that the three roads are attacking together.

Because of the new defeat on Cao Cao's side, the morale of the army was fluctuating, and the core rear of Luoyang was surrounded by Diao Chan, which was not only unable to support Cao Cao, but caused him a serious burden.

However, Cao Cao's personality is extremely tenacious, and in the face of this unfavorable situation, he gritted his teeth and persevered. Although the army was defeated and retreated, it was defeated again and again, and it fought very tenaciously.

The only thing Cao Cao could hope for now was that the Shang army was short of food and grass, so he took the initiative to retreat.

This was the only place where Cao Cao's group strategists thought it was possible to defeat Shang Ji after collective research.

Bingzhou is barren, and it is difficult to achieve self-sufficiency even during the Chengping period, let alone the current period of war. Although Xuzhou and Jizhou are rich, they are not very optimistic after being scraped by Liu Bei and Yuan Shao, and now they are in turmoil, and the food is also beyond their means, and there is no major famine.

It is possible to support the Shang War only in You, Ping, Chen, Yong, and Qingzhou, of which Chenzhou should give priority to protecting the expeditionary force of the Japanese Kingdom, and Qingzhou and Youzhou also need to support the newly occupied Bingzhou and Xuzhou.

Pingzhou is rich in food, but the distance between Pingzhou and Yanzhou is almost half of the Huaxia District, even if there is a sailor to help, a stone of grain is transported to the road here, at least five stones will be consumed on the road, and the grain in Pingzhou is piled up and cannot support such a terrifying consumption.

Therefore, Cao Cao's strategy is to consume, and the consumption of clearing the wall field will take two or three months, until Shang Ji can no longer support the initiative to retreat.

In fact, Cao Cao was not fighting alone at this time, not to mention the three brothers of Liu Bei, who had clearly joined Cao Cao's camp, Guan Zhang and the others were the strongest force to resist the Shang army on the battlefield.

In addition to Liu Bei, Sun Ce and Liu Biao, the two princes who did not deal with it, also began to silently support Cao Cao, from weapons and armor to grain, grass and horses.

Now Sun Ce and Liu Biao have already regretted a little, regretting that they did not join the Discussion Alliance as soon as possible when it was established, which led to the fact that the Shang Ji is now completely bigger, and one party is out of control.

Out of the truth that the lips are dead and the teeth are cold, Sun Ce and Liu Biao are the people who do not want Cao Cao to be defeated, if it weren't for the fact that the Shang Ji army and sailors have always been cruising in the waters of Yangzhou to deter Sun Ce, I am afraid that Sun Ce would have sent troops long ago.

"Hey, the thief army is rampant, and the sky has no eyes!"

On the city of Luoyang, an old man in a Confucian robe looked at the dense enemy troops outside the city, and looked up to the sky and sighed.

"Don't worry, the business thief is brutal, the hearts of the people in the world are in me, even if the business thief can be rampant for a while, it is impossible to be rampant for a lifetime, as long as the loyal and righteous people in the world work together, Hugh said that if the business thief is repelled, it is not difficult to save His Majesty from fire and water."

A general in armor clasped his fist at the old man and said loudly.

This person has a loud voice, a handsome posture, a calm attitude, and inexplicably gives people a sense of trust. At least the surrounding soldiers listened to the general's words, and the low morale was obviously improved.

"What the general said is very true, but he hates the old and frail, and it is a lifelong regret that he cannot join hands with the general to kill the thief."

The old man sighed and said with regret on his face.

"Fu Gong's words are serious, going into battle to kill the enemy is his duty, Fu Gongde is highly respected, if there is a mistake, the end will not be able to afford it. Fu Gong only needs to wait for good news in the city and see how Hong breaks the thief. ”

"Then we'll see!"

After speaking, the old man arched his hand, and after a polite gesture, he left the city wall.

After the old man left, the military general frowned and looked at the old man's back, and a look of suspicion flashed in his eyes.

This military general is not an outsider, it is Cao Cao's younger brother, Cao Hong, the famous general of the Cao family who is responsible for guarding Luoyang! As for the old man just now, he was the head of the Fu family, Fu Wan, who was the mastermind of the plan to offer clothes and clothes to Emperor Han Xian in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and his daughter was also the Fu queen who was imprisoned to death by Cao Cao in history.

Of course, the history in the beacon fire has long been changed beyond recognition, Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty is gone, and the edict of Yi Dai and Empress Fu are naturally impossible to talk about.

However, the Fu family, as the top wealthy family in the beacon fire, did not end in advance because of historical changes.

As mentioned before, after the battle against Dong, Luoyang was teamed up by Shang Ji and Diao Chan, and the city of Luoyang obtained by Cao Cao was an empty city that was almost demoted.

In order to quickly restore Luoyang City, Cao Cao adopted the suggestion of Yiren and used the method of "attracting investment", using Luoyang City as a bait to attract a large number of wealthy families to bring their own funds and talents to invest.

This certainly greatly accelerated the recovery of Luoyang City, but at the same time, it also caused an extremely serious division of power, in Luoyang City, Cao Cao was at best the leader of the alliance, or the "President of the Luoyang Development Industry Association", and important matters had to be discussed with the wealthy families in Luoyang City.

Among the wealthy families who invested in the "Luoyang Development" project, there are three of the most dicked, namely the Yang family represented by Yang Biao, the Fu family represented by Fu Wan and the Xun family represented by Xun You.

Because the Xun clan was divided into two, a large part of them went to Xiangping with Xun Yu, so relatively speaking, Xun's strength was the weakest.

These three families are powerful, and their influence has penetrated into all corners of Luoyang, and even Cao Cao dare not underestimate them. Just now, Fu Wan, on behalf of the three major families, sent a full 10 million gold, saying that it was a salary, and said that as long as there is a need, more can be provided at any time.

This made Cao Hong a little flattered, you must know that in the past, these three major families fought openly and secretly with Cao Cao for the ownership of the rights of Luoyang City, and now they actually took the initiative to take out a huge amount of money to help defend the city, which made Cao Hong feel like he was in a dream.

But after thinking about it carefully, Cao Hong was relieved.

Shang Ji's attitude towards the wealthy family is well known, even if it is for self-preservation, the three major families do not want Luoyang to fall into the hands of Shang Ji, and it is understandable that there will be some blood at a critical moment.

However, Cao Hong ignored one point, the wealthy families in the world cannot be generalized, and the gap between them is huge!