Huang Zhong was silent for a while, and then promised, "Okay, I'll go see my uncle!" ”

After Xu Cong said goodbye and left, Huang Zhong came back to his senses, he was used by Xu Cong, but he really couldn't solve this matter.

One day later, the Huang patriarch sent someone to Xu Cong, saying that he agreed to hand over the private soldiers and ordnance, and Xu Cong, in order to show goodwill and ease relations, reported to Qin Feng for special approval and allowed the Huang family to keep a guard of thirty people.

In the next few days, Xu Cong went to meet with several landlords and Shi clan chiefs who opposed the weak willpower and not very strong strength, and disintegrated the fragile alliance of these people by provoking and dividing.

Then he moved them with affection, understood with reason, and coerced and enticed, with a big stick in one hand and a carrot in the other, to bring them to their knees, and took over their private weapons.

Seeing that more and more scholars and landlords had succumbed and handed over their private arms, the remaining three powerful Haoqiang could not sit still, these three were the He family, the Dong family and the Zhu family.

The He family and the Dong family started as relatives of the royal family, and they did not take a long time, but under the management of two or three generations, they accumulated a lot of wealth in a very short period of time through clever robbery, and they were able to recruit some young people to form a private armed protection dock and industry in the Yellow Turban Rebellion.

The ancestor of the Zhu family is the minister Zhu Hui, during the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the dock fort of the Zhu family was almost breached, and a lot of people died, after the Yellow Turban was suppressed, Zhu Jiabao has recruited many young men and women over the years, and built weapons and armor, and even Yuan Shu and Zhang Xiu were polite to the Zhu family during their reign in Nanyang.

At this time, in Hejiabao, the head of the Dong family and the head of the Zhu family made an appointment to visit.

"Why did the two virtuous brothers come together?" Patriarch He asked as he led the two into the inner room.

Patriarch Dong said with a worried face: "Brother He, now the other Haoqiang and Shi clans have compromised, not only handed over more weapons and armor, but also handed over all the people, although their dock fort seems to be big, but it has no protection!" Now there are only three of us left, in my opinion, I am afraid that Qin Feng will soon attack us, I don't know if Brother He thinks about it, whether to admit defeat, or ······"

Patriarch He sighed: "I want to hand over the people and weapons and armor, but these are all I have saved with my family's savings for many years, if I pay it like this, I am afraid that my He family will have to continue to do the business of killing pigs!" ”

When He Jin was a general in Luoyang, he brought two younger brothers with him, but they all died like him, and now the head of the He family is also one of He Jin's younger brothers, and he is also the only survivor among the He brothers, but this survivor stayed in Nanyang to spread out his leaves, and he relied on his sister Queen He and several brothers He also accumulated a lot of wealth.

The patriarch of the Zhu family asked, "Brother He means to think of soldiers?" ”

Patriarch He said with a bitter face: "What's the use of my family raising troops? These more than 1,000 people were sent out, but they were afraid that they would run into Qin Feng's iron horse, and they would become powder in an instant! ”

Patriarch Zhu asked mysteriously, "What if the three of us join forces?" ”

Patriarch He looked at the Zhu family patriarch, then at the Dong family patriarch, and asked, "How many people do you have in each of you?" ”

The patriarch of the Dong family said: "I am one thousand five, and he is two thousand!" ”

"That's only three thousand five, what is enough for such a little person?" Patriarch He shook his head.

The patriarch of the Zhu family said with a smile: "There were few people when the Yellow Turban Incident happened, but when they raised the banner, there were countless responders everywhere immediately. Besides, is there anyone else to help us? ”

Patriarch He was stunned for a moment and asked, "Who is it?" ”

The patriarch of the Zhu family pointed to the northeast.

"Imperial court, Prime Minister Cao?" Patriarch He asked in a trembling voice.

Patriarch Zhu nodded, "It's up to Brother He to dare or not!" ”

Patriarch He couldn't make up his mind for a while, and asked, "How does Prime Minister Cao Cheng plan to help me?" ”

Patriarch Zhu said: "Just wait for me to raise troops, Prime Minister Cao Cheng will immediately send 100,000 troops, and then Qin Feng's brigade will definitely be transferred to deal with Prime Minister Cao, and when I wait for the army, there are countless responders, and we can gather 100,000 troops within a few days, and without Qin Feng's brigade to obstruct it, we will soon be able to break through Wancheng!" ”

Patriarch He thought about it for a long time, and finally agreed to raise troops together at the instigation of Patriarch Dong and Patriarch Zhu.

On the fifth day of the lunar month of this year, a total of 4,000 people from the He family, the Dong family and the Zhu family raised troops in Zhujiawu Fort, and sent people to spread the word to the counties of Nanyang, hoping that the counties would respond, and organized people to come to Zhujiabao to participate in the alliance and send troops to fight against Qin Feng.

Qin Feng couldn't help but laugh after receiving the report, he couldn't imagine that these three families were so bold, who gave them courage? With a rabble of less than 4,000 people, he wanted to fight to overthrow his rule in Nanyang?

In the lobby of the Taishou Mansion, Qin Feng looked at the generals under the hall with a smile and shouted, "Yang Zheng! ”

"The subordinates are here!" Yang Zheng stood up and hugged his fists in agreement.

Qin Feng took out a tiger talisman: "Order you to take the Fenwu battalion to trap Zhujiabao, temporarily besiege but not attack, if anyone comes out of the fort, they will all be killed!" ”

"Command!" Yang Zheng stepped forward and took the tiger talisman and retreated to the side.

Qin Feng said again: "These three families dare to do this, I am afraid that someone will support them, in my opinion, the soldiers and horses are only afraid that they must be ready to fight!" Mr. Yan, raise food and grass to carry the weight, be prepared! ”

Yan Xiang stood up and agreed: "No! ”

Sure enough, only a few days later, news came from the north that Cao Cao sent 100,000 troops to prepare to attack Nanyang.

"One hundred thousand?" Qin Feng looked at the information sent by Xi Zuo, and couldn't help but let out a sneer, "What about the deceitful ghost?" With Cao Cao's current family background, 100,000 soldiers and horses should be able to make it up, but is he just a day? Don't you need to be stationed everywhere? Yuan Shao in the north, Yuan Tan in the east, Sun Quan in the southeast, and Liu Bei in the south, don't he need to be guarded against? ”

Among the generals in the hall, Gan Ning stood up and said, "Lord, can this meticulous investigation still go wrong?" Cao Cao's army has already left Xudu, there are specific locations, marching routes, and the number of troops, which doesn't seem to be fake! ”

Xu Shu said with a smile: "General Gan, there shouldn't be a problem with the meticulous work, but they were deceived by Cao Cao, and during the march, they used a blindfold to conceal the real strength of the army to deceive the eyes of the enemy scouts, this kind of thing is not difficult for the commander of the army with superb means, and it is easy for Cao Cao to do this!" ”

"Not bad!" Yang Hong also nodded and agreed with Xu Shu's statement, and also thought that even if Cao Cao sent troops, it would be impossible to send an army of 100,000.

Qin Feng looked at a few strategists and asked, "Everyone, how should we deal with it next?" ”

Xu Shu arched his hand and said: "Lord, I thought that we should wait and see what happened for the time being!" ”

"I want to hear about it!" Qin Feng said.