Let's say that Cao Cao personally led a large army to conquer Yuan Shu, and the troops arrived at the border of Yuzhou, and Liu Bei led troops to welcome him early and presented Han Xian and Yang Feng's heads.

Cao Cao asked in surprise: "How to get the heads of the two?" ”

Liu Bei said: "Lu Bu ordered the two to live in Yidu and Langya, and they didn't want the two to rob in the two places, and the people were resentful, so they designed to capture them." ”

Cao Cao said: "Cruelty to the people, of course." ”

Liu Beibei said that after setting up a "Hongmen Banquet" to capture the two, he said: "I wanted to capture them and present them to Meng De for disposal." I didn't want the two thieves to slander Meng De with foul language, so I was angry and killed him, and I came to ask for guilt. ”

Cao Cao remembered Yang Feng's recommendation of himself, and sighed for a while: "Xuande is doing harm for the community, what is the crime?" ”

Cao Cao then worked hard for Liu Bei, and joined forces with Liu Bei to the Xuzhou border, and Lu Bu went out to greet him.

Cao Cao soothed with kind words, named Lu Bu as the general of Zuo, and promised to replace the seal ribbon after returning the capital, and Lu Bu was overjoyed.

Cao Cao divided Lu Bu's army on the left and Liu Bei's army on the right, and ordered Xiahou and Yu Ban to be the vanguard, and the pro-unified army was in the center, ordering all armies not to disturb the people along the way, and marched towards Shouchun to attack Yuan Shu.

Cao Cao's army went all the way to the head of Shouchun, and Yuan Shu led the army to meet the battle, but was defeated by Cao's army and retreated to the city.

Yuan Shu saw that Lu Bu led troops to attack the east, Liu Bei led troops to attack the south, and Cao Cao led his army to attack the north, forming a siege on three sides.

Yang Hong said: "After years of disasters and famines, there is not much grain and grass in the city at present, and it is difficult to support the needs of so many soldiers. Today, the army is pressing, and Shouchun is attacked on three sides, and it is difficult to resist the enemy. It is better to stay in the army and defend it, and not to fight. The enemy army came from afar, and it was difficult to supply food and grass, and it would change in a long time. His Majesty also led the Imperial Forest Army to cross the Huai River and temporarily avoid its sharpness. ”

According to the plan, Yuan Shu left Li Feng, Le Zhuo, Liang Gang, and Chen Ji to lead 100,000 soldiers and horses to stick to Shouchun, and led the rest of the generals to carry the treasury of gold, silver and jewelry, and crossed the Huai River.

Cao Cao led the army to attack on three sides, but Yuan's army could not hold out, and the two sides faced each other and could not hold each other.

Let's say that Sun Ce heard that King Yilang was coming, and hurriedly welcomed in.

Wang Yu first conveyed Cao Cao's greetings, and then read the edict of Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, appointing Sun Ce as the commander of the cavalry, taking over his father's title Marquis Wucheng, and concurrently serving as the chief inspector of the Huiji, and ordered him to crusade against Yuan Shu together with Lü Bu and Chen Yu.

Sun Ce thanked him, but felt that he commanded so many soldiers and horses, and his position as a cavalry lieutenant was a bit low, and he wanted to get the title of general, so he made someone reveal this meaning to Wang Xiao.

When Wang Xiao came, he had already received an order from Cao Cao, and immediately announced in the name of the emperor that Sun Cequan would act as the general of the Ming and Han dynasties.

At that time, Chen Yu's army was stationed in Haixi (now Donghai, Jiangsu), and Sun Ce, according to the requirements of the edict, reorganized his troops and horses, and went to meet with Lu Bu and Chen Yu, plan military aircraft, and participate in the situation.

But when he led his army to Qiantang, the situation changed, and it turned out that Chen Yu wanted to take the opportunity to seize Sun Ce's territory.

Chen Yu, whose name is Gongwei, was a native of Huaipu (now Lianshuixi, Jiangsu), and successively served as Yilang, Yangzhou Thorn Shi, Wujun Taishou, and General Anton.

Chen Yu received an edict to cooperate with Cao Cao with Sun Ce and Lü Bu to defeat Yuan Shu, but he sent people to secretly cross the river and take more than 30 seals to Danyang, Xuancheng, Jingxian, Lingyang, Shi'an, Yixian, Shexian and other places, and Yan Baihu of Wucheng County (now Wuxingnan, Zhejiang), etc., so that they could act as internal responses, and as soon as Sun Ce's troops were deployed, they would immediately capture their counties.

When Sun Ce discovered this conspiracy, he was furious and sent Lü Fan and Xu Yi to lead troops directly to Haixi, breaking Chen Yu and capturing more than 4,000 of his soldiers, wives and children, relatives, etc., Chen Yu fled north to Yuan Shao.

Sun Ce was delayed in dealing with this sudden incident and failed to rush to Shouchun Hewei Yuanshu in time.

However, it was said that Cao Cao attacked Shouchun and urged the army to fight quickly.

However, Li Feng and the others did not come out of the door, and they held each other for a long time, and the 170,000 army consumed a huge amount of food every day.

The counties were famine, the people were not full, and Cao Cao's army was strictly disciplined, and it was not allowed to loot, and the food was exhausted.

Ren Jun, the grain governor, has been following the collection and transportation of grain and grass since Cao Cao started his army, and has done his best.

Ren Jun was generous and measured, and when there was a famine, he often took in the bones of his friends, and his poor relatives near and far were helped by him, and his faithfulness was praised; can see the essence of things, every time he states things to Cao Cao, he is organized and reasonable, and he is often praised. Cao Cao trusted him very closely and married his sister to Ren Jun.

Seeing the lack of food in the army, as Cao Cao's brother-in-law, Ren Jun was very anxious, and urgently ordered the department to take the book to his hometown Zhongmu, and let Ren Xun, the cousin of the county commander at the time, raise food and send it to the army.

At that time, Zhongmu also suffered a famine, and Ren Xun worked day and night, doing everything possible to raise 50 carts of grain, and transporting it to the army with his generals, but it was a drop in the bucket.

Cao Cao sent a letter to Sun Ce again, borrowing 100,000 yuan of grain and rice, but it was still not enough.

Ren Jun had no choice but to tell Cao Cao the truth.

Cao Cao said: "If there are more soldiers and less food, it may not last long." Thou shalt think and the right to solve the urgency of the moment. ”

Ren Jun returned to the camp and wandered alone, frowning.

His subordinate Cangguan Wang Yuan followed Ren Jun as his confidant when he was in Zhongmu, and then followed Ren Jun to respond to Cao Cao and manage military rations, and there was no mistake.

Wang Yuan saw that Ren Jun, who was usually generous, was worried, and offered a plan and said: "You can break the big Hu into two, and use the small Hu to distribute military rations, which can extend the time by half." ”

Ren Jun said: "If the military rations are withheld, the military law is violated, and the sergeant complains, the prime minister will inevitably blame, and I am afraid that he will inevitably be blamed." ”

Wang Gao said: "Up to now, it is a step to slow down, and as for the rest, we will talk about it later." ”

Ren Jun was silent, uncommittal.

The next day, Wang Yuan took it upon himself to use Xiaohu to distribute military rations to various battalions.

For a day, the sergeant was in an uproar, and they all complained: "The prime minister deducted military rations and deceived the sergeants." ”

Cao Cao urgently summoned Ren Jun to question.

Ren Jun said: "My subordinates have nothing to do, so they made this decision." ”

Cao Cao was silent.

Ren Jun felt that the situation was serious, and hurriedly went to the granary to discuss with Wang Yuan.

Who knows, as soon as I entered the warehouse door, I saw Wang Yuan's corpse at the warehouse door, and a letter cloud was placed next to him: "I stole military food and sold it, and distributed it with Xiaohu." Today, when the incident happened, he knew that he had failed to live up to the trust of Prime Minister Cao Cheng and General Ren, and he would die to apologize for his crime. ”

Ren Junqiang endured his grief and took the letter to Cao Cao urgently.

Cao Cao read the letter, his heart was sad, he thought for a moment, and tearfully ordered to cut off Wang Yuan's head, hang it on a high pole, and make a list to show it: "Cangguan Wang Yuan, the prison guard steals himself, deliberately uses Xiao Hu, and has been beheaded according to military law." ”

The sergeants cheered, and the grievances were settled.

Cao Cao treated Wang Yuan's wife well, and Ren Jun asked his subordinates to transport Wang Yuan's body back to Zhongmu, so that Ren Xun could be buried and his family members were compensated.

Although Cao Cao calmed the grievances of the sergeants with the head of Wang Yuan, he knew that the military rations were difficult to last, and ordered the generals of all departments: "If the city cannot be broken within three days, they will all be beheaded!" and personally came to the city to urge the armies to move stones and soil, and fill in the trenches.

Cao Cao whipped and commanded the siege of the city, the arrows and stones on the city were like rain, and two members of the city were afraid to retreat, and Cao Cao was cut down under the city on the spot, and personally dismounted to transport soil and fill the pit.

The sergeants were encouraged and all rushed forward, and the prestige of the army was greatly boosted.

Besides, Lü Bu led his army to attack in the east.

The last time Chen Gong conspired with Yuan Shu's envoy and persuaded Lu Bu to send his daughter to marry Yuan Shu immediately, he was dissuaded and recovered by Chen Qi and was blamed; Lü Bu defeated Yuan Shu's seven-way army according to Chen Jue's plan, and Chen Gong knew that he had lost trust, so he persuaded Lü Bu to step up the destruction of the city and return to the army as soon as possible on the grounds of lack of food.

Lu Bu didn't listen to it, went to the city gate every day to shout and kill, and then led the sergeants to the countryside to loot and make up for military supplies.

It is said that Liu Bei did not attack the south, and when he heard that Cao Cao was attacking the city in the north, he left Zhang Fei to feint at the south gate, and led the army to the west gate with Guan Yu to ambush to prevent the enemy from breaking the city and escaping.

In the city, the Yuan Shu Department guarded the four gates of Li Feng, Le Zhuo, Liang Gang, and Chen Ji.

Li Feng, the defender of the north gate, was attacked by Cao Cao, and the battle situation was tight, so he sent people to Sanmen to transfer troops for reinforcements.

Seeing that there was no army attacking at the West Gate, he led the soldiers of the headquarters to open the door and flee westward, but was ambushed by Liu Bei.

Le on the horse straight to take Liu Bei, Guan Yu dance knife to meet the attack, less than three, Guan Yu knife split music under the horse.

Liu Bei took advantage of the situation to break into the door and went to the south gate to meet Zhang Fei.

Li Feng was shocked when he heard the report and had no intention of defending the city.

Cao Cao commanded the front, and the soldiers scrambled to be the first, climbed the city to fight, locked the lock, opened the city gate, and the brigade poured in. In the melee, Li Feng, Liang Gang, and Chen Ji were captured, and Cao Cao ordered Yu to be beheaded.

The city was broken, and Cao Cao set out to calm the people on the one hand, and burned the forged palace and forbidden items on the other hand.

All the gold, silver and jewels in the treasury were looted by Yuan Shu and taken away, leaving only some food and other military materials left for the defenders.

Cao Cao ordered Ren Jun to count it as a military force to pursue Yuan Shu from Huai.

Xun Yu saw that Cao Cao still had the intention of continuing to march, and persuaded: "There have been droughts for many years, and the supply of military food is difficult. If the army enters again, it will inevitably work the army and injure the people, and it will be unfavorable to the war. It is better to return to Xudu for the time being, and wait until the wheat is ripe next spring and the military rations are full, and then you can try again. ”

Cao Cao was still hesitating, and Ren Jun said: "The inventory of military resources in the city has been completed, plus the rest of our army, it can only support half a month." ”

Cao Hong also reported to Ma Zhi: "Zhang Xiu relied on Liu Biao to take revenge, Nanyang and Jiangling counties rebelled, Cao Hong lost Zhang Xiu several times in a row, and he came to report the emergency." ”

Cao Cao just listened to Ren Jun's warning, knowing that the army was short of food, absorbing Xiaohu's loose grain, causing resentment and lessons, and preventing Zhang Xiu from attacking, so he used the strategy of suspicious soldiers to make people anxious to write to Sun Ce, so that he could set up a formation across the river, claiming to attack Liu Biao, as a suspicious soldier, so that Zhang Xiu returned to the army to rescue, did not dare to advance rashly, and relied on Xun Yu's words to teach the teacher on the same day.

Before leaving, Cao Cao ordered Liu Bei to remain stationed in Xiaopei, and became brothers with Lu Bu, helping each other, relying on each other, and no longer resenting each other.

Lu Bu also mentioned the matter of the ribbon, and Cao Cao promised to handle it after returning to the capital, so he led the army back to Xuzhou.

Liu Bei said goodbye to Cao Cao and said: "Forced by Lu Bu, he sincerely surrendered to the prime minister and was treated favorably." If you go to Xiaopei again, won't you fall into the mouth of the tiger again? ”

Cao Cao Mi said to Liu Bei: "I let Xuande guard Xiaopei, which is a plan to dig a pit and wait for the tiger." Chen Jue's father and son are the internal response arranged by me, and Xuande only has to discuss with him to eradicate Lu Bu, and I am a foreign aid. Don't leak it, don't lose it. ”

Liu Bei saw that Cao Cao trusted him so much, so he led the army to Xiaopei with Guan Yu and Zhang Fei. Exactly: digging a pit and waiting for the tiger's plan, sitting and watching the dragon and tiger fight. I want to know if Liu Bei and Lu Bu can get along with each other, and look at the next decomposition.

Author's note: In accordance with the creative principles of the self-defined historical novel "The Legend of the Three Kingdoms at the Late Han Dynasty", all the names of people and places that are clearly recorded in historical materials are subject to the historical records, and strive for the consistency of literary truth and historical truth, such as Zhang Fei's character Yide, and "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is mistaken for "Yide"; Fan Qiang, "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is mistaken for "Fan Jiang", this book is based on the records of "Three Kingdoms", and is corrected to Yide and Fan Qiang. Ren Jun's word "Jun", the historical record should be next to the word "mountain", but due to the restriction of sensitive words in the Internet text, it was modified to "Jun" next to the word "person". I don't know how to express the online article, so that some readers questioned it as "it doesn't seem like an online article", so as to explain it.