Under Cao Cao's personal decision, gradually abandoning Yanzhou and Yuzhou, and instead placing the development center in the south became Cao Jun's next important strategy, and how to solve Liu Biao and Liu Yan at the fastest speed and the lowest cost was also the most urgent problem that Liu Bei and Cao Cao needed to face.

Cao Cao and Liu Bei discussed all night, and early the next morning, Liu Bei commanded 100,000 elite troops supported by Cao Cao and marched into Hanzhong. As for the name, it is naturally a crusade against the traitor Zhang Lu.

Speaking of which, Liu Yan is also sad, nominally Yizhou Mu, the lord of Yizhou, a big state in the world, but in essence, he is angry everywhere. Fortunately, Yan Huang transferred the development center to Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar and other Southeast Asian countries, otherwise Liu Yan would have died a long time ago.

Even if the influence of Yan Huang is ruled out, Liu Yan is not going well, and he still has Zhang Lu, the second and fifth boy.

Zhang Lu took advantage of his mother's good health, "has little tolerance", "and coerced ghosts", and gained Liu Yan's trust by taking advantage of going back and forth to Liu Yan's family. Hanzhong was too defended by Sugu to rebel, and Liu Yan ordered Zhang Lu and Zhang Xiu to march into Hanzhong to crusade.

As a result, Zhang Xiu killed Su Gu, and Zhang Lu took the opportunity to kill Zhang Xiu, seized his military power, and occupied Hanzhong and became a de facto separatist prince.

In the early days of the negotiation war, Zhang Lu waved his flag and shouted for the negotiation princes, but after Shang Ji gained an advantage, he quickly changed his camp and began to support Shang Ji.

Liu Bei seized this point, openly played the banner of begging for Zhang, and began to march to Hanzhong.

Cao Cao's side also frequently mobilized troops, constantly dispatching elite troops and main generals to gather in Nanyang, nominally to prepare for the loss of Yanzhou and Yuzhou, but in fact to seize Jingzhou.

Of course, this kind of thing is inseparable from Sun Ce's cooperation, Cao Cao sent Sima Yi as an envoy to Jianye to talk with Sun Ce secretly, and lured Sun Ce to participate in the plan with Jiaozhou as a bait on the day of the future event.

Sun Ce discussed with his advisers Lu Su and Zhou Yu for a whole day, and was finally told by Zhou Yu that "the Shang army is strong, and even the horizontal side can fight against it, and the second Liu is weak and not enough to conspire with it." "Persuaded and joined Cao Cao and Liu Bei's small circle.

It's a pity that at this time, Jingzhou Mu Liu Biao still doesn't know anything, and he is still stupidly providing Cao Cao with support for food, grass, and military salaries, and he is a stupid and sweet character.

Once Cao Cao made up his mind, his action was quite decisive.

However, giving up Yanzhou and Yuzhou did not mean that Yanzhou and Yuzhou would be handed over to Shang Ji in vain, and in line with the principle of making preparations for crossing the river and making trouble for Shang Ji, Cao Cao's army began to collect predatory taxes on Yan and Yuzhou.

Try all means and use all means to transfer the wealth of Yanzhou and Yuzhou in the shortest possible time, and even offend a large number of wealthy families for this reason, and even blatantly rob the wealthy families.

Although Cao Cao's drastic methods gained a great deal of wealth in a short period of time, they also provoked rebellion in Yan and Henan, and the uprisings in the two states once surpassed the most chaotic Jizhou before.

In this situation, the Shang army's attack was more rapid, and even many wealthy families persecuted by Cao Cao took the initiative to stand on the side of Shang Ji, although Shang Ji also suppressed the family, but as long as they did not make mistakes and honestly implemented the land replacement law, Shang Ji generally would not harm their lives, let alone loot floating wealth.

But Cao Cao is different, it is rumored that Cao Cao even took the suggestion of a strange person, and used a kind of torture and detention called a clamp stick, and dug up the cellar gold that many wealthy families had stored for hundreds of years.

By the way, Cao Cao did not forget the old business in history, while robbing Yuzhou indiscriminately, he also invited folk masters and appointed him as the general of Faqiu Zhonglang, who was responsible for digging the mausoleum and stealing the burial goods in the mausoleum.

Although the means are despicable, the effect is very good.

Yanzhou and Yuzhou have a long history, there are a lot of emperors buried here, and there are countless princes and generals, through the theft of the mausoleum, Cao Cao not only obtained a large amount of gold and silver, but also got a lot of precious props that money could not buy.

Cao Cao's abnormal kinetic energy can hide Liu Biao, but it hides Shang Ji.

However, Shang Ji had no good way for the time being, so he could only order the troops to step up the attack, and at the same time arrange for Qianhuan and Yingyi Miwu to contact the rebel forces in Yanzhou and Yuzhou to repel Cao Cao as soon as possible.

Don't look at Shang Ji's majesty now, but Shang Ji himself can understand the pain in it.

The newly occupied territory became a pot of porridge, and bandits swarmed, even affecting the logistical security of the merchant army; Since the Battle of Chenzhou, the army has not been effectively repaired, and the soldiers have been exhausted by the protracted battle, and their morale and combat effectiveness have declined to varying degrees.

Diao Chan's Chang'an Army, Lu Bu's Bingzhou Army, Yuan Shao's Jizhou Army, and the Himihu Yamatai Army that surrendered one step earlier, plus Shang Ji's own Pingzhou Army and the captured Cao Cao Army and Liu Bei Army, six or seven forces are intertwined, and the contradictions are big to think about!

Among the hundreds of millions of troops, the headquarters of the Shang Ji army is less than one-tenth of the total number, and now it is all supported by Shang Ji's own personal prestige and the prestige of winning a hundred battles, otherwise there would have been chaos a long time ago.

As for Liu Yi's expeditionary force's return to aid, it is also mostly bluffing, and there is still a long way to go before the end of the war, and there will definitely be a long war of law and order in the future, and there is no half a year to think of transferring troops from the Japanese country back, otherwise there is a risk of losing all the previous achievements.

In fact, Shang Ji has changed his strategic goal to conquer Yanzhou and occupy the part of Yuzhou except for Runan County.

However, Cao Cao's initiative to retreat helped Shang Ji solve a big favor, Cao's army was defeated and retreated, and the Shang army marched forward, and it took only two months to bulldoze Yanzhou and Yuzhou, and most of Cao Cao's army retreated to Nanyang, leaving only a small part of Yiyang County, which was regarded as leaving a nail in Yuzhou.

At this point, after occupying Yuzhou and Yanzhou, the Shang army also completely lost the ability to continue the offensive.

In order to delay the pace of the Shang attack, Cao Cao burned a large area of immature dealers in Yuzhou and Yanzhou, artificially creating famine. Unless the lives of billions of people in Yan and Henan Prefectures are raised in extreme ways, Runan County in Yuzhou is the limit of what Shang Ji can reach at present.

As the Shang army stopped attacking, the war in the north gradually subsided, and the mighty negotiation war came to a complete end, Yuan Shao was dying, Liu Bei once returned to the pre-liberation period, Diao Chan and Lu Bu surrendered, Cao Cao abolished half of his life, and the number of princes plummeted by about half, and the ownership of the world was basically clear.

The north has calmed down, but the south has risen again.

After two months of preparation and planning, Cao Cao finally showed his fangs and launched a fierce attack on Jingzhou.

Cao Cao, who had been defeated repeatedly in the north, finally regained his self-confidence in Liu Biao, and the army was like a bamboo, marching all the way, quite a kind of Shang Ji fighting Cao Cao in the north.