It stands to reason that Zhang Xiu should be in Wancheng at this moment, why did he come to his Runan at this time.

This inevitably made Yuan Yao full of curiosity.

Then he looked at Zhang Xiu in front of him, and then asked Zhang Xiu in an uncertain tone.

"Your Excellency is Xuanwei Hou Zhang Xiu?"

When Zhang Xiu heard Yuan Yao's words, she immediately showed surprise.

"You've heard of me?"

"Jokes, Xuanwei Hou's name, can be described as thunderous, how could you not have heard of it."

"Please also ask Xuanwei Hou to forgive his sins, come here, but the kid is so lazy, come on, come on, please hurry up, let's go into the city for a while."

Yuan Yao immediately made an inviting gesture, wanting to lead Zhang Xiu into the city.

The other party only brought three or two escorts, and he dared to come to his Runan, obviously without any malicious intent, as the host, Yuan Yao naturally had to entertain the other party well.

See why the other party came, and at the same time understand the situation on Nanyang's side.

Zhang Xiu seemed to be here for Yuan Yao, and after seeing Yuan Yao's invitation, he didn't refuse, nodded, and quickly agreed.

With a few guards not far away, he followed Yuan Yao into Shangcai County.

Yuan Yao left Ji Ling and Liu Ye behind, and continued to preside over the repair of the city tower outside the city, while he, under the protection of Zhou Tai, entered the city to feast Zhang Xiu.

Shangcai County, in the city office.

Yuan Yao had already ordered someone to prepare a table of wine and food, sat on the main seat by himself, and filled himself with a glass of wine first.

Then he picked up the wine bottle and toasted to Zhang Xiu.

"Xuanwei Hou, I have admired the name for a long time, and when I see it today, I am fortunate to meet it."

Zhang Xiu glanced at Yuan Yao, and also picked up the wine bottle.

"I'm ashamed, I'm ashamed, I'm just a lost dog, but Yuan Taishou, admirable, with thousands of people, defeated the 30,000 army of the Cao army, such a fierce record, looking at the entire Han Dynasty, few people can do it."

Zhang Xiu came up and complimented Yuan Yao.

Yuan Yao listened to Zhang Xiu talk about this, and subconsciously thought about it in his heart, and probably guessed a few points about Zhang Xiu's intention.

According to Yuan Yao's understanding of history, although Cao Cao suffered a big loss when he attacked Zhang Xiu in the second year of Jian'an. died the eldest son Cao Ang and the guard Dian Wei, but he did not give up because of this, but held a grudge against Zhang Xiu even more, so in March of the third year of Jian'an, he raised troops to attack Zhang Xiu again.

And according to Yuan Yao's knowledge, Cao's army attacked in a big way, and in just one month, it hit the downstairs of Zhang Xiu's city and surrounded Zhang Xiu.

If it weren't for this time, Yuan Shao of Hebei heard the news and sent troops to attack Xuchang, so that Cao Cao had to withdraw his troops, presumably Zhang Xiu only had two months left to live.

Presumably Cao Cao was already on the way to attack Nanyang at this time, and began to collect soldiers and horses and dispatch grain and grass.

Zhang Xiu estimated that he wanted to come to him to form an alliance against Cao Cao.

"Xuanwei Hou is serious, it's just a fluke to win that Cao Mengde once, if you really want to compete with him, with my current strength, there is still a little short."

Yuan Yao didn't hold it up, and in Zhang Xiu's compliments, he still recognized his position clearly, and knew how many catties and taels he had.

Although his current strength is much stronger than a year ago, this strength is still slightly insufficient compared to Cao Cao.

Yuan Yao only occupied one county in Runan, while Cao Cao occupied Yanzhou, Yuzhou, Sili and other places.

is larger than his territory, not to mention the territory, just the soldiers and horses, Cao Cao can easily recruit 100,000 troops, while Yuan Yao has 20,000 soldiers and horses, which is a little stretched.

Therefore, Yuan Yao only wants to compete with Cao Cao head-on, and it is unlikely that he will be able to compete with Cao Cao in a short time.

It can only be said that the attack is insufficient, and the defense of the city is more than enough.

"Yuan Taishou doesn't have to be modest, being able to recapture Runan from Cao Agui's hands shows that your strength is extraordinary."

"Last year, that Cao Apu also led the army to Nanyang to fight with me, wanting to occupy my Nanyang land, originally I didn't want to meet each other, I wanted to avoid the people from encountering war, who knew that Cao Apu was too deceitful, forcing me to raise troops to fight with it."

"Hateful, let the thief escape, and only killed his eldest son Cao Ang."

Zhang Xiu saw Yuan Yao say this, and talked about his glorious past, he knew how to describe his justice, obviously he couldn't see Cao Cao playing with his aunt, but he didn't want to let the people encounter soldiers.

Although Yuan Yao knew these things, he didn't deliberately break them.

Instead, he listened patiently, and after Zhang Xiu finished speaking, Yuan Yao continued to talk to him.

"Xuanwei Hou is worthy of being Xuanwei Hou, much more powerful than me, and being able to kill Cao Cao's eldest son is already a great feat."

"Cao thief coerced the Son of Heaven to order the princes, named Han Chen, but he was actually a Han thief, but unfortunately he couldn't kill him!"

Yuan Yao also expressed regret to Zhang Xiu.

When Zhang Xiu saw Yuan Yao say this, she was immediately overjoyed, and the more she looked at Yuan Yao, the more pleasing it became.

Then he directly said his intention.

"Yuan Yao, you kid, the more I look at it, the more pleasing it is, that's right, then Cao Cao is a thief!"

"I'm not going to hide it, I came to you this time, in fact, I wanted to form an alliance with you!"

"Alliance?"

Yuan Yao pretended to be surprised, revealing a look of doubt.

Listening to Zhang Xiu's words, Yuan Yao's heart was unusually calm, and as he expected, Zhang Xiu's intention was to find him to form an alliance.

"Last year, I defeated Cao's army and dealt Cao Cao a heavy blow, and Cao Cao didn't rush to trouble me at that time, the main reason was that your father was emperor."

"Yuan Shu is the emperor, Cao Thief represents the Han family, and naturally wants to raise an army to fight against your father, so I have to breathe, if Cao Thief wins the battle in your father's hands and occupies a part of the territory, he estimates that it will take some time to digest these territories, but unfortunately he was defeated by you, and now he can only hold his breath, and naturally he will turn his head and clean me up."

"I estimate that in less than three months, Cao Cao will definitely raise troops to invade my Nanyang County again, and it will inevitably be another fierce battle at that time."

Zhang Xiu can mix with the princes of one side, although he may not be very smart, but Zhang Xiu has an extremely powerful military advisor.

This person is Jia Xu, the strongest poisoner in the Three Kingdoms!

has Jia Xu to give advice to Zhang Xiu, and it is difficult for Zhang Xiu to die.

Therefore, Zhang Xiu was able to understand the situation, and at the slightest opportunity, he came to Yuan Yao's territory and sought an alliance.

When Zhang Xiu said these words, Yuan Yao was already guessing in his heart that these words were definitely not something that Zhang Xiu, a martial artist with five big and three coarse skills, could say.

Behind this, there must be the shadow of Jia Xu.

Jia Xu came to him to seek an alliance against Cao Cao!

This is not a bad thing for Yuan Yao.