In the simulated scene...

After the Battle of Jingzhou, Jiao Zhongqing (Lu Bu) was busy rectifying the interior and forming a naval army; On the one hand, he held on to Jianghan with Liu Biao, and at the same time collected Jiaozhou to the south.

I was busy with affairs for a while, and I had no time to look north.

Soon a year passed, and the time came to the winter of the fourth year of Jian'an.

The situation in the world at this time is like this.

In the south of the Yangtze River, Jiao Zhongqing has almost all of Jingyang's 19 counties in three continents. It has 200,000 soldiers and horses, hundreds of generals, and its strength is amazing.

Liu Biao is located in Nanjun and Zhangling two counties, and there are 50,000 sailors under his command, and his power should not be underestimated.

Zhang Xiu is entrenched in the north of Nanyang County, with 20,000 soldiers and horses.

In Yongliang and Yizhou, more than a dozen princes such as Han Sui and Ma Chao were entrenched in the area from Guanzhong to Xiliang; Zhang Lu was entrenched in Hanzhong County and the Bazhong Pasir region (northern part of the Sichuan Plain), Liu Zhang occupied most of central Yizhou (southern and eastern Sichuan Plain), and the four counties further south of Yizhou were autonomous territory of the barbarians.

In Hebei, Yuan Shao successfully destroyed Gongsun Zhan, and began to look at the Central Plains according to the four northern continents.

In the Central Plains, the three princes of Cao Cao, Lü Bu, and Zhang Xiu coexisted.

Cao Cao deserved to be the top military strategist of this era, and seeing that there was no hope of eliminating Lü Bu, he immediately turned his war with Lü Bu into a jade silk and formed an alliance to resist the common strong enemy Yuan Shao. Xuzhou Mu Lü Bu was responsible for resisting pressure from the flanks, that is, Yuan Shaojun from the Qingzhou side, and Cao Cao was mainly responsible for resisting pressure from the front, that is, from Guandu and Hanoi from Yuan Shaojun.

Only Wancheng Zhang Xiu is still in a wait-and-see state.

Zhang Xiu's original plan was to follow Jia Xu's advice to join Cao Cao, but when he found that Cao Cao only had one state in Yanzhou and most of Yuzhou, and his power was not as strong as expected, and a more powerful prince Jiao Zhongqing suddenly rose in the south, Zhang Xiu hesitated, and no matter how Jia Xu persuaded him, he decided to take a look at what he was saying.

At this time, Jiao Zhongqing sent Lu Su as a lobbyist, on the grounds that "Yuan Shao is powerful and will not be reused", "he has a grudge against Cao Cao, and if he votes, he will be liquidated in the future", successfully dispelled Zhang Xiu's idea of defecting to Yuan Cao's family, and persuaded Zhang Xiu to send troops south to attack Liu Biao.

Zhang Xiu quickly moved, compared to defecting to Yuan Shao not being reused and the risks he would face in the future to Cao Cao, thinking about it, he still felt that it was safer to defect to Jiao Zhongqing. If he didn't have more choices, he felt that he was between Yuan Cao, and he should probably choose Cao Cao, right? But now there are better options, so why not? Compared with the Yuan and Cao families, the future of defecting to Jiao Zhongqing is undoubtedly brighter.

- Because Jiao Zhongqing's army is known for its naval army, and the Xiliang Iron Cavalry under his command is the type of troops that the former is in urgent need.

Zhang Xiu did not hesitate for too long, and was persuaded by Lu Su to decide to send troops to Keri and take down Liu Biao.

Lu Su was overjoyed, and when he was leaving, he glanced at Jia Xu and found that the latter's face was blue and ugly, as if someone had destroyed a well-designed plan.

But no matter what, Zhang Xiu has already decided to take refuge in Jiao Zhongqing, no matter how resourceful Jia Xu is, even if he has no last resort, he is just a strategist, and he can't change the mind of the lord Zhang Xiu.

Under the attack of Jiao Zhongqing and Zhang Xiu, Liu Biao retreated one after another, and the already small territory became smaller and smaller. Soon he was trapped in the lonely city of Xiangyang, struggling to support.

At the same time, Cao Cao and Yuan Shao began to hold each other in Guandu, during which there were frequent battles.

The time soon came to the fifth year of Jian'an.

The Jiaozhang coalition has besieged Xiangyang for eight months. The hearts of the people in the city are scattered, and there are constantly big clans sending people out of the city to express their intention to take refuge in Jiao Zhongqing, and even Liu Biao's brother-in-law Cai Mao also sent people to express their intention to take refuge.

Seeing that the general trend had gone, Liu Biao finally couldn't stand it anymore and chose to surrender in Kaesong.

Since then, Jiao Zhongqing has taken the entire territory of Jingzhou, and his power has become more prosperous. Subsequently, he sent an envoy to Cao's camp in Guandu, expressing his willingness to take advantage of Luoyang and send troops to Hedong to protect Cao Cao's flank and help him resist Yuan Shao.

Cao Cao now fully knew that the real purpose of Jiao Zhongqing's play in Xiaopeicheng two years ago was to attack the east and the west to plot against Jingzhou, which made him depressed, but also secretly sighed that the latter was extremely resourceful, and in just a few years, he rose like a comet, swept Jing Yang, sat down in the southern world, and became a prince who could influence the general trend of the world.

Based on Jiao Zhongqing's calculating character, Cao Cao believed that the former's plan to use Luoyang to send troops to fight against Yuan Shao this time was definitely not all well-intentioned, and must have hidden ulterior motives.

This attempt is very likely to be a plan of "destroying Yu on a false path", to resist Yuan Shao in the Ming Dynasty, and to actually map the surrounding area of Luoyang, so as to cut off the possibility of his future troops going to Guanzhong.

Cao Cao had the heart to refuse this proposal, but he was afraid that Jiao Zhongqing would turn his head and join forces with Yuan Shao to attack him, so he had to pinch his nose and agree to this proposal, so he named Jiao Zhongqing as the general of Zhennan in the name of Liu Xie, the son of heaven, and the governor Jing Yang handed over the affairs of the three states and sent troops to resist Yuan.

Therefore, Jiao Zhongqing dispatched troops and sent Zhang Xiu to lead 20,000 troops, to occupy Luoyang in the north, cross the Yellow River and Chen Bing to the east of the river, and border with Gao Gan, the nephew of Yuan Shao, who occupied Bingzhou, and fought many times.

Under the combined attack of Jiao, Cao, and Lu, the battle of Guandu ended with Yuan Shao's defeat.

After the war, Jiao Zhongqing withdrew all his soldiers and horses to Jingzhou, and even returned the prosperous city of Luoyang to Cao Cao, showing that he was concentrating on the development of internal affairs, respecting the imperial court, and had no intention of competing for hegemony in the Central Plains.

This made Cao Cao breathe a sigh of relief, and once suspected that he had mistaken Jiao Zhongqing, who was still as committed to the Han family as always, and perhaps not so ambitious.

However, thinking so, Cao Cao did not relax his vigilance against Jiao Zhongqing. Although the latter had never led an army to attack him, and the Chen soldier Xiaopei two years ago had already proved to be an actor, but even so, Cao Cao still listed Jiao Zhongqing as the most dangerous opponent and was always on guard.

Another year has passed in the blink of an eye.

In the sixth year of Jian'an (201), Cao Cao launched the Battle of Cangting in Hebei and defeated Yuan Shao again. Then he returned to Yanzhou and continued to wait for the opportunity silently.

In the same year, Liu Bei left Yuan Shao and led 3,000 people from Runan to Jingzhou, where he was arranged by Jiao Zhongqing to be stationed in Xinye.

Before this, Jiao Zhongqing took the first step to recruit all the well-known talents such as Zhuge Liang, Pang Tong, Xu Shu, Huang Zhong, Wei Yan, and Wenpin, and vigorously promoted them, each with its own use.

Liu Bei walked around Xinye, and he didn't see a single talented hair, so he stayed in Xinye Town every day and sighed, sighing that his life was not at the right time, and his ambition was difficult to pay.

Time flies.

Another year has passed in the blink of an eye, and it has been seven years of Jian'an.

Cao Cao finally waited for a golden opportunity.

In May, Yuan Shao fell ill and died, and Hebei was immediately divided into four. Yuan Shao's three sons and nephews each have a state, each of them acting separately, and plotting with each other.

At the same time, Cao Cao found that Jiao Zhongqing was trying to attack Yizhou, and personally led tens of thousands of sailors to fight Liu Zhang in Jiangzhou, and had no time to look north.

Then I felt that the opportunity had come.

Cao Cao hurriedly sent an envoy to Xuzhou Mu Lu Bu to attack Hebei, and agreed to divide the land equally between the two families after taking Hebei.

Lu Bu was overjoyed, immediately raised troops to the north, the army marched to the territory of Qingzhou, suddenly encountered Cao Cao's 100,000 army ambush, was defeated and retreated to Xuzhou, and was pursued by Cao Cao all the way, with lightning speed to wipe out in Xiapi.

Since then, Cao Cao has finally cleared the hidden danger of Lu Bu.

Cao Cao held his hands behind his back, standing in the wind at the head of Xiapi City, looking at the rushing Surabaya, he was full of spirit for a while, and couldn't help but look up to the sky and laugh.

He thought that he had grasped the timing very accurately, and by the time Jiao Zhongqing reacted, he had already taken all the five states of the Central Plains, including Xu, Qing, Henan, Yan, and Si. Then, if the generals of Yuan Shao were defeated one by one, they could sit on the land of Bazhou and instantly reverse the situation of worrying all day long. After that, you can free up your hands to clean up Jiao Zhongqing.

This timing to eliminate Lu Bu is not perfect.

Cao Ying's strategists also felt that Cao Cao's operation was very exciting, and they all praised "Prime Minister Wisdom" and "Prime Minister Shenwu".

Only Guo Jia's face was full of gloom, and he wanted to speak and stopped, and he couldn't help but have an ominous premonition in his heart.

This hunch soon became a reality.

A herald ran up from the city in a panic, interrupted Cao Cao's wild laughter, and said: "Report ~ Lord, five days ago, Zhennan General Jiao Zhongqing raised 300,000 troops to Xu Du, Xun Yu... Xun Gong has opened the city to surrender... His Majesty and hundreds of civil and military officials, as well as the families of the lord and the generals, have all been controlled by General Zhennan. At this moment, Jiao Zhongqing is leading an army of 200,000 to march to Xuzhou with Sun Ce, Tai Shici, Zhou Yu, Zhang Xiu, Lu Xun, Xu Shu, Pang Tong and other generals..."

Yes???

The home was stolen again?

Cao Cao's laughter stopped abruptly, his whole person froze, his face was full of disbelief, and his whole heart seemed to have fallen into the abyss, sinking uncontrollably.

Finished.

It's all over!

Regarding the situation that Jiao Zhongqing was obviously fighting fiercely with Liu Zhang in Yizhou, but suddenly appeared in Yanzhou, Cao Cao guessed the truth in an instant, and he didn't need to think about it to know that Jiao Zhongqing must be using the strategy of "attacking the east and attacking the west" and "hiding from the sky and crossing the sea" against him, taking advantage of his eagerness to eliminate Lu Bu and get out of the predicament, pretending to fight with Liu Zhang in Yizhou, so that he could relax his vigilance and attack Lu Bu, and then give a fatal blow at the critical moment.

In order to maximize the lethality of this plan to attack Yanzhou, Jiao Zhongqing even gave up getting hands on Runan, Luoyang, Hedong and other places, and has been deliberately low-key and low-key in recent years...

Insidious, this guy is so insidious!

"Shaft... His mother! ”

"I swear to you!"

Cao Cao angrily drew his sword and shouted desperately: "Pass my general's order, and the whole army will attack!" Sortie!! ”

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