The text of begging for thieves became a tool for everyone to sing, and it soon spread to Xudu. At that time, Cao Cao's headache was committed again, and he happened to be lying on the bed, and passed the thief's text to see Cao Cao and took a look, Cao Cao was very happy after reading it, very excited, and broke out in a cold sweat, and felt that the headache was also relieved a lot, jumped up from the bed, and said to Cao Hong: "Who wrote this?" ”

Cao Hong replied: "This is written by Chen Lin"

Cao Cao didn't get angry, but laughed and said: "There is such a writer, you must use force and strategy to cooperate, although Chen Lin's writing ability is very strong, but Yuan Shao's strategy is obviously insufficient!" ”

So he consulted with all the advisers on how to meet the enemy.

After Kong Rong heard the news, he went to see Cao Cao and said, "Yuan Shao's power is too huge to fight against him, so he can only make peace with him." ”

Xun Yu sneered: "Yuan Shao is a useless person, why should he negotiate peace?" ”

Kong Rong said: "You may not understand, Yuan Shao has a lot of soldiers, and his subordinates have outstanding strategists such as Xu You, Guo Tu, Xian Pei, and Feng Ji, Tian Feng and Fu Zhu are all loyal and good, Yan Liang and Wen Chou are all first-class fierce generals, and the rest of Gao Lan, Zhang He, and Chun Yuqiong are also famous generals in the world, how can you say that Yuan Shao is a useless person?" ”

Xun Yu said with a smile: "Although Yuan Shao's soldiers are many but not well trained, Tian Feng is strong and easy to commit, Xu You is greedy, not careful enough, and the trial is too domineering, as for Feng Ji, he is particularly showy, these people have their own shortcomings, water and fire are incompatible, and there will be changes after a long time, Yan Liang and Wen Chou are all brave and brave, without the talent of a general, they can be captured in a battle, as for the others, they are all some people who do nothing, so what do they need to care about?" ”

Kong Rong was speechless after hearing this, and stood aside.

Cao Cao smiled: "Sure enough, everything escaped from Xun Yu's eyes." ”

So he sent Liu Dai of the former army and Wang Zhong of the rear army to lead 50,000 troops, and went to Xuzhou to attack Liu Bei under the banner of prime minister. Liu Dai was previously the assassin of Yanzhou, and after Cao Cao took Yanzhou, he surrendered to Cao Cao, so Cao Cao used him as a partial general, let him and Wang Zhong lead the troops together, and Cao Cao himself led an army of 200,000 into Liyang to meet Yuan Shao.

Cheng Yu suggested: "The prime minister sent two people to attack Liu Bei this time, I'm afraid he won't be able to complete the task." ”

Cao Cao smiled: "I also know that they are not Liu Bei's opponents, so let's take it as a bluff." ”

So he instructed the two: "Don't attack easily, wait for me to break Yuan Shao, and then turn around and destroy Liu Bei." ”

So Cao Cao personally led his troops to Liyang, and held each other without fighting in a deep ditch and high fortress at a place where they gathered for eighty miles. From August to October.

According to the previous plan, it should be ready to attack, but there were different opinions within Yuan Shao, Xu You was not satisfied with the matter of judging and leading the troops, and he had opinions about Yuan Shao not adopting his own suggestions, so he didn't think about attacking, but fought in the nest.

Yuan Shao didn't know what to do at this time, so he didn't consider sending troops quickly, so he was deadlocked, so Cao Cao called the general Zang Ba, who surrendered to Lu Bu, to defend Qing and Xuzhou, Yu Ban and Li Dian put their troops on the river, Cao Ren, as the governor, guarded in Guandu, and Cao Cao himself led a team of troops and quietly returned to Xudu.

Liu Dai and Wang Zhong led a team of 50,000 horses, camped in a hundred miles of Xuzhou, stood by under the banner of the prime minister, did not dare to enter the army, but sent people to frequently inquire about the war in Hebei and the news of Cao Cao, Liu Bei did not know Cao Cao's strategic intentions, and it was not easy to take the initiative, so he did not dare to move, and at the same time he was also listening to the news of Hebei to see the situation of Yuan Shao's march.

After a period of stalemate, Cao Cao sent someone to deliver a letter to the two, asking for an immediate attack, and the two actually quarreled in the camp, Liu Dai said: "The prime minister urges the siege of the city, you can bring the troops to go, and I will come later." ”

Wang Zhong said: "The prime minister is obviously sending you, I'll take care of you later." ”

Liu Dai said: "Don't you know? I am the main general, where is the reason why the main general strikes first. ”

Wang Zhong was unrelenting and said, "I definitely won't go first, or we'll go together." ”

Liu Dai immediately denied it, and said: "If both of us go, who will guard our base camp, so let's do it, let's catch lots, and those who catch them will go." ”

As a result, Wang Zhong caught the word "first", and had no choice but to divide half of the military horses to attack Xuzhou.

The reason why neither of them went was because they were self-aware, everyone knew the bravery of Zhang Fei and Guan Yu, and they didn't want to die.

Liu Bei heard that someone was attacking over there, so he asked Chen Deng to discuss, and said: "Although Yuan Shao is stationed in Liyang, several of his advisers have no unified opinion, so he has no action, and he doesn't know where Cao Cao is. ”

Chen Deng analyzed: "Cao Cao has a lot of tricks, but he will definitely focus on Hebei and personally supervise, so he deliberately did not build a banner and bluffed here, I think Cao Cao's strategic intentions are not in this place." ”

Liu Bei said to the two people standing beside him, "Which of you is willing to explore the truth and the truth?" ”

Zhang Fei said: "Leave this matter to me." ”

Liu Bei shook his head and said, "Your temper is short-tempered, I can't let you go." ”

Zhang Fei was not happy after hearing this, and said: "Why can't I go, even if Cao Cao is really here, I will also arrest you back, and you can make a military order." ”

Guan Yu said: "Let me go, the third brother can rest assured, just observe the movement on my side." ”

Liu Bei said: "When the second brother goes, I will rest assured." So Guan Yu took 3,000 soldiers and horses out of Xuzhou and walked outside.

After Guan Yu left, Liu Bei suddenly felt that something was missing, he always felt that something was wrong with Chen Deng's words, but the person he wanted to find was no longer there, that is, the fourth brother Yuyi, if it was usual, he would definitely come out to speak, although most of his thoughts were a little different from his own.

It was the early winter, the weather was covered by clouds, snowflakes were slowly falling from the sky, and the military horses were covered with a thin coat.

Wang Zhong came out and said: "The prime minister has personally arrived at this place, do you still have to resist stubbornly and not surrender?" ”

Guan Yu said: "Since the prime minister has already come, let's trouble him to come out and speak." ”

Wang Zhong was a little weak-hearted and said: "Who are you, how can the prime minister be what you say you can see." ”

Guan Yu was furious and said, "Since that's the case, I'll see how many catties you have." So he drove his horse forward and took Wang Zhong directly.

Wang Zhong knew that Guan Yu was strong in martial arts, but for the sake of face, he could only fight with a gun, and before the two could fight, Guan Yu turned his horse's head and prepared to flee.