Cao Cao naturally agreed to this matter, after all, Emperor Xian finally came out to do something, and he couldn't give no face at all, so the two thanked him and left.

Then Cao Cao asked the Son of Heaven about Zhang Xiu, after all, there must be a good excuse to attack Zhang Xiu, so as to get the support of public opinion, Cao Cao gave the Son of Heaven face, and the Son of Heaven naturally gave Cao Cao a face, and personally arranged for Luan to drive and send Cao Cao out of the city.

Xun Yu has the name of Cao Cao's Xiao He, and with him sitting and dispatching in the rear, then he is much better on the front line, so he left Xun Yu in Xudu, and dispatched troops by himself to prepare for departure.

Yuyi was in Xiaopei, feeling that the master and the beloved had news, and he couldn't do anything like this anymore, this time he didn't say goodbye, but took the initiative to find Liu Bei, and also explained what he meant, I thought Liu Bei would be furious, but I didn't expect him to just nod silently, and said: "Pay attention to safety on the road, no matter what difficulties you encounter, our brothers will always find a way to solve them." ”

Liu Bei's words made Yuyi feel very warm, packed up his things, went to Zhang Fei and Guan Yu to say goodbye, and then left Xiaopei.

This action did not leave Lu Bu's figure, someone told him about the situation, Lu Bu came to Chen Gong to discuss, and said: "Cao Cao asked Liu Bei to be in Xiaopei, I'm afraid the intention is not so simple, Yuyi left this time, maybe to do something important, you can send someone to monitor." ”

Lu Bu listened to this suggestion, but it was difficult to choose, although Yuyi's martial arts were not high, but he was very clever, and he had flying knife stunts in hand, so he was afraid that it would be difficult for ordinary people to complete the task, so he chose to choose, and finally decided to let Zhang Liao monitor Yuyi.

After Cao Cao left Xudu, he marched in the direction of Wancheng, and suddenly saw that a piece of wheat was ripe, but he could not see that there were residents, so he sent someone to find a local, and knew the situation, it turned out that these people were afraid of the soldiers approaching, so they all hid far away, so that naturally no one dared to cut wheat.

After Cao Cao knew about this situation, he sent people to find the old people and villagers near and far, and then went to the places of officials everywhere and said: "I am in the edict of the Son of Heaven, send troops to crusade against the traitor Zhang Xiu, and eliminate harm for the people, now is the busy season of farming, the wheat has already ripened, I have to raise the army, large and small generals, whoever passes through the wheat field, if there is a trampling person, drag it out and behead, our military law is very strict, so don't be afraid, don't doubt." ”

When the officers and soldiers passed through the wheat field, they were afraid that the horses' farts were frightened and stepped on the wheat and were beheaded, and they all dismounted and walked, and none of them dared to step on the wheat, everyone walked carefully.

Cao Cao was riding a horse on the road, and suddenly a bird flew in the field, and the horse thought that it had encountered some danger, so in a panic ran into the wheat field and trampled on a large piece of wheat field.

If you don't do something, then it will be difficult to convince the public, Cao Cao sighed in his heart, but his adaptability is so strong, he immediately found the master of the army, and personally drafted a charge for trampling on the wheat field.

The master bookkeeper was a little puzzled, and said, "How can the prime minister draw up a crime for himself?" ”

Cao Cao replied: "I have stipulated that I can't trample on this wheat field, and now I have broken the law myself, so how can I convince the public?" After saying that, he took out the sword beside him and prepared to apologize for his crimes.

When everyone saw it, they hurriedly stopped it.

After Guo Jia saw it, he smiled secretly and said: "It is mentioned in "Spring and Autumn" that the criminal law cannot be used in the hands of the formulator, and the prime minister is the commander of the three armed forces, how can he kill himself in this place? ”

Cao Cao laughed secretly in his heart, "How could I not know this allusion, I just want to be pretentious and acting, and I am still cooperating with you Guo Jia." ”

So he pretended to think for a long time, turned into a painful expression, and said: "Since the sage said so, then I have no choice, I can only save myself from death first, but trampling on the wheat field, it must be a living sin!" After speaking, Cao Cao cut off a long section of his hair with a sword, threw it to the ground and said, "Then I will cut off the acting head." ”

cut off the hair, he asked people to show it to the three armies, and then shouted: "The prime minister trampled on the wheat field, and he should have been beheaded directly, but the thief was still there, so he replaced the head with the hair, and allowed to make up for the merits!" ”

This incident caused a shock in the army, whether it was in person during the attack on Shouchun, or taking the lead here, it made the soldiers admire, so that everyone was more united, the discipline of the army was more stable, and the people were very united.

After Zhang Xiu knew that Cao Cao was coming, he hurriedly wrote to Liu Biao, hoping that he would use him as a backup, on the one hand, and Lei Xu and Zhang Xian, two generals, to go out of the city to meet the enemy.

The two confronted each other, Zhang Xiu got out of the horse, pointed at Cao Cao and scolded: "You are a shameless person who is hypocritical and righteous, what is the difference between you and beasts." ”

In fact, Cao Cao knew this very well, after all, it was his sister-in-law who occupied other people's houses first, but he was still very angry when he was said like this, so he sent Xu Chu out to fight, Zhang Xiu sent Zhang Xian, the two soldiers and horses intersected, and they were killed by Xu under the horse in less than three rounds, the combat effectiveness of the two was too far apart, Zhang Xiu was defeated here, and hurriedly retreated.

Cao Cao chased all the way to the city of Nanyang, Zhang Xiu did not go out, Cao Cao saw that the city defense around the city was very balanced, the surrounding water was very urgent, and it was very difficult to attack, so he sent people to transport soil, and filled the pits dug by the city defense one by one, and then spread it on it with earthen cloth bags and weeds, made a simple ladder stool on the edge of the city, and stood on it to observe the situation in the city.

Then he came down and rode around the city to see the situation, so that after three days, Cao Cao ordered the soldiers to pile up firewood on the corner of the west gate, gather all the generals, and prepare to go to the city there.

After Yuyi came out of Xiaopei, he has been inquiring about the news, and learned that Cao Cao's army has had a head-on duel with Zhang Xiu, Zhang Xiu's army was defeated and entered Nanyang, and now Cao Cao is organizing a large army to besiege.

was worried about Jia Xu's safety, but this news made Yuyi's worries worse, and he regretted it a little, he should have set off for Nanyang earlier, but now he is surrounded by Cao Cao, what should he do?

Last time Jia Xu surrendered, it was good to say that he was going to persuade him to surrender, but if he was recognized by Cao Cao again this time, I am afraid that with Cao Cao's cleverness, he would be speechless and would have to die, so Yuyi fell into deep thought.

In the end, he made a decision, not to enter the tiger's den to get the tiger, Jia Xu was as kind to himself as a mountain, taught himself strategy, even if he died because of this incident, it was a well-deserved death, so Yuyi used the soil to stain himself, and then went to Yin A soldier and mixed into the Cao army.

It's also strange to say, Cao Jun didn't move for two days in a row, and Yuyi was also surprisingly idle, thinking that it was definitely not a way to wait like this.