After some preparations, Cao Cao then ordered the whole army to be vegetarian, with Cao Ren and others as the vanguard, and sent 50,000 troops to Xuzhou, which can be described as killing and looting along the way, and slaughtering 100,000 Xuzhou people in the name of avenging his father. In the eyes of Cao Cao, Cheng Yu and others, they originally wanted to mourn the victory of the soldiers, and at the same time to deter Xuzhou by slaughtering, so that the entire Xuzhou would surrender in battle.

As a result, Xuzhou was indeed shocked, and the people were terrified because they did not know, and the scholars rushed to tell each other in the hope of escaping Cao Cao's butcher's knife. Tao Qian and Liu Bei both retreated to the East China Sea in a panic.

However, the wealthy families of Yanzhou also saw Cao Cao's brutal side, especially the Chen Palace, the representative of the scholars. He originally had a lot of complaints about Cao Cao's entry into Yanzhou, and felt that Cao Cao did not treat the Yanzhou wealthy family well, but now that he saw Cao Cao slaughtering all the way to the past, he had a way to expel Cao Cao in his heart.

So Chen Gong took the opportunity of Cao Cao's expedition and began to contact the local wealthy families in Yanzhou, most of whom were willing to follow Chen Gong, and Chen Gong persuaded Chen to stay too close to Zhang Miao. Zhang Miao is Cao Cao's friend, but the deaths of Liu Dai and Bao Xin are unknown, plus Yuan Shao is Cao Cao's boss, Yuan Shao wants Zhang Miao's life several times, Zhang Miao is worried that one day Cao ???????????????? Cao Hui carried out Yuan Shao's order and killed himself. Chen Gong even believed in Chen Gong and prepared to send troops together to respond.

With the support of Chen Liutaishou Zhang Miao and the wealthy families of Yanzhou, Chen Gong made a bold decision to welcome Wen Hou Lu Bu into Yanzhou. In Chen Gong's view, Lu Bu's martial arts are unique in the world, but he has no foundation, just like when he assisted Wang Yun to kill Dong Zhuo, he Lu Bu's merit is the greatest, but he has no chance to record Shang Shushi, and at the same time, he has to bear the anger of all the soldiers of the Xiliang Legion.

Chen Gong felt that people like Lu Bu were easy to control, at least much easier than Cao Cao.

Lu Bu was held up by Yuan Shu as the Yanzhou assassin before the start of the melee in Nanyang and Runan, and now Chen Gong represents the Yanzhou wealthy family, and represents Chen Liutai to guard Zhang Miao to welcome him into Yanzhou, of course Lu Bu has no reason to refuse.

So Lü Bu led all his soldiers from Lu to the west and directly rushed to Jibei, and Zhang Miao also led his troops to attack Shanyang.

Because Cao Cao's foundation in Yanzhou was not solid before, with Chen Gong and Zhang Miao connecting from it, coupled with Lu Bu's prestige in the world, many counties and counties fell to the wind.

In just one month, Lu Bu occupied all the prefectures in Yanzhou except for Dong County. Even Dongjun only has three county seats left, if it weren't for Xiahoudun desperately holding Puyang, then the entire Yanzhou would have been taken by the Lü Bu coalition army.

Cao Cao, who got the news, was also shocked into a cold sweat, although he had occupied more than a dozen county towns in Xuzhou, but because of Tao Qian's strategic contraction, his army did not get enough food and grass, and the continuous slaughter made the people of Xuzhou very repulsive to Cao Cao.

Cao Cao understood that he had to take Yanzhou back as soon as possible, otherwise he would have no place to stand. Then the speed at which Lü Bu devoured Yanzhou greatly exceeded Cao Cao's thoughts, and when he led his troops to reach Renchengguo, the scouts came to report that Lü Bu's army had blocked the way forward, and there were tens of thousands of garrisons in Rencheng.

Cao Cao knew that Lu Buka was on the way to his own reinforcements, and this was to ask Ah Jing to block out of Yanzhou and slowly digest it.

Of course, Cao Cao couldn't help Lu Bu slowly digest Yanzhou, so he led his troops to storm Rencheng, but he suffered heavy losses but couldn't help Lu Bu's army.

The desperate Cao Cao got another bad news, that is, Yuan Shu was also preparing to go north, and part of the troops had arrived in the country of Lu!

At this time, Cao Cao stood up and persuaded Cao Cao to give up Yanzhou directly and go to Hebei to join Yuan Shao.

In the face of everyone who continued to pay for the attack on Yanzhou, Cao Cao was really a little shaken. Although the strategist Cheng Yu tried hard to persuade Cao Cao not to give up. However, after entering Xuzhou, the 50,000 people who went out fought for more than a dozen long battles, with nearly 10,000 casualties, and lost several thousand people when attacking Rencheng.

At such a rate of loss, even if Cao Cao could lead his troops to Dongjun smoothly, he would not be able to stop the snowballing growth of Lu Bu's army.

Just when Cao Cao was in despair, more than a dozen horsemen surrounded a young man and walked into the military tent outside Cao Cao's city.

At the same time, when I got the news that Chen Gong and Zhang Miao joined forces to welcome Lu Bu into Yanzhou in Luoyang, I had to sigh how terrifying the inertia of history was.

However, since Zhang Miao led his troops to leave Chenliu, of course he had no reason for Xu Nan, so he ordered Zhang Liao to lead 12,000 heavy cavalry directly into the border between Dongjun and Jibei to cut off Lu Bu's army???????????????? The team's connection with Dongjun and Chen Liu.

Then Zhao Yun and Wei Yun led all the troops to pounce on Chen Liu. It is also Zhang Miao's carelessness, or Zhang Miao, Chen Gong and others underestimate Wei Xuan, thinking that although the kiss scene was selected by the Son of Heaven, the current court is a mess. In order to cooperate with Lü Bu's attack, Zhang Miao sent 15,000 elites in Chen Liucheng to Shanyang and other places to assist Lü Bu in attacking.

When more than 20,000 elite Wei Xuanjun appeared in Chenliu, many counties in Chenliu also fell to the wind.

When Zhao Yun and Wei Yun Shuailiang arrived at the city of Chenliu with more than 20,000 cavalry, the defenders in the city heard that it was General Che who was ordered by the Son of Heaven to assist Chen Liu. After several entanglements, these people finally surrendered when the first wave of Weiyun's infantry attacked the city. Wei Xuan then used powerful scouts to block Chenliu's connections with other counties.

Cao Cao didn't know Guo Jia, but he had heard of Guo Jia's name. And as soon as Guo Jia met, he tried his best to dissuade Cao Cao from giving up Yanzhou in a hurry like Cheng Yu, and went directly to the north to join Yuan Shao.

Cao Cao was also unwilling to take refuge in Yuan Shao like this in his heart. But he was more interested in why Shi Shi, as Wei Xuan's brother-in-law and the head of the general's mansion, appeared here.

Guo Jia did not have an appetite, and directly said Wei Xuan's plan and specific demands for sending troops.

At this time, Cao Cao had already lost to only his pants, where did he care about what conditions, so he agreed to Guo Jia.

Guo Jia said unhurriedly: "General Ming, Jia came on behalf of my lord to give General Ming a big gift. However, General Ming needs to agree to several conditions for my lord after defeating the Lü Bu coalition army and retaking Yanzhou. ”

Cao Cao smiled bitterly, and there was no more choice, so he said, "Please also ask Mr. Guo to speak clearly." ”

Guo Jia glanced at the tall but gloomy Cheng Yu and said: "Although General Ming still has thirty or forty thousand soldiers and horses at the moment, Lu Bu's army is like a snowball with the assistance of Chen Gong, and if it is delayed, even if all the lecturers of my lord are invested in Yanzhou, he will not be able to help General Ming recapture Yanzhou."

Therefore, my lord sent more than 10,000 cavalry at the same time as Zhang Miao marched east and Lü Bu went north, stuck on the main road leading to Dongjun with Lü Bu's army. That is to say, there are only 10,000 people under Lu Bu's command and Zhang Miao's 10,000 people besieging Dongjun now.

As long as General Zhang Wenyuan's heavy cavalry blocks Lü Bu's reinforcements, General Ming will return to Dongjun from Shanyang to the west, and part of Lü Bu's troops besieging Dongjun and Zhang Miao's people may flee in a hurry. ”

Cao Cao's face was stunned, he didn't expect Wei Xuanhui to directly dispatch tens of thousands of people to join the Yanzhou battlefield without asking for reinforcements.

If Wei Xuan could really jam Lu Bu's other armies into the east county, then the east county would not fall soon.

But Guo Jia said that they had already conquered what the hell Chen Liu, so he asked, "What do you ask for Zhong Dao to help like this?" ”

Guo Jia said: "My lord asked General Ming to take Chen Liu as a thank you gift after the war. ”

The corners of Cao Cao's mouth twitched, this Wei Xuanxin was really black. But Cao Cao was not angry, because although Zhang Miao was subordinate to Cao Cao before, he was actually highly governed. Wei Xuan's this can be regarded as encircling Wei to save Zhao and fishing in troubled waters, he naturally won't spit it out if he takes Chen Liu, at least he doesn't get greater benefits???????????????? Not before.

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So Cao Cao decided to skip this question and asked directly, "Is there anything else?" ”

Guo Jia nodded and said: "My lord admires General Ming very much, and thinks that General Ming has the military talent to catch fish and the heroic spirit of monopolizing eight buckets. Therefore, what my lord wants is to ask General Ming to promise that if it does not go well in Yanzhou, it will not be possible to recapture Yanzhou or even Dongjun, and I will also ask General Ming to join my lord and bring peace to the world for the court and the Son of Heaven. ”

Cao Cao frowned, he had seen people wooing people, but he had never seen such a conditionality. But Wei Xuan was also telling the truth, because the first thing many of his subordinates thought of when they got the news that Lu Bu occupied Yanzhou was to take refuge in Yuan Shao.

But Cao Cao understood that Wei Xuan, who owned the land of Sanzhou and had the Son of Heaven in hand, naturally had a much brighter future than Yuan Shao. Therefore, Guo Jia's request cannot be regarded as despising Cao Cao, but rather appreciating Cao Cao's talent.

"What else does Nakado have to say?"

The country loves to laugh and said: "General Ming doesn't dare to omit it in front of Jia." Before the lord was lucky, let Jia tell General Ming:

Brother Meng Dewu, if Lü Bu is rampant, he is willing to lead troops into Yan to expel Lü Bu. If the elder brother can make a comeback, the younger brother is willing to provide food and grass equipment. I only ask his brother to represent the court to crusade against the disobedient brother when he can stand on the side of the court's righteousness.

If you return at this time, the brother and the brother will take charge of the world's soldiers and horses to sweep the heroes. If you and my brother see the battlefield in detail, if your brother is defeated, you can't take refuge in others! ”

Hearing this, Cao Cao was stunned, what kind of requirements did Wei Xuan have, the root is some requirements that cannot be restrained or temporarily unrealizable, so he asked Guo Jia: "Can Mr. Guo solve his doubts?" ”

Guo Jia said with a smile: "What my lord means, although the world is now competing for the deer, it must be my lord who wins in the end." The lord wanted to persuade General Ming to gather under the banner of the Son of Heaven as soon as possible to open peace for all generations. No matter how strong Yuan Shao is, he is just a chaotic minister and thief, and no matter how fierce Lu Bu is, he can't kill anyone in front of more than a dozen fierce generals of the lord. The lord of my family has the saint of three or five Qiudan, and General Ming has the wisdom to abandon illness and good peace, and should cooperate as soon as possible! ”

Now Cao Cao understands it, but Wei Xuan compares himself to the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, Confucius, and Zhou Gong, and it is really immodest to think that he will become a resourceful person such as Zhang Liang and Chen Ping.