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The time entered the middle of September in the fourth year of Jian'an, Xuzhou.

When the battlefield in the Central Plains gradually quieted down, the battlefield in Xuzhou suddenly burst into smoke.

After Cao Chun and Ren Jun led their troops to capture Pengcheng, Le Jin and Liu Xun immediately led the army to kill Xiapi.

At this moment, Chen Gong suddenly led his troops to capture Peiguo Xiaopei, and went south along the Surabaya River to kill Pengcheng.

Cao Chun was shocked, and while urgently telling Le Jin to come back to help, he led the army to block the attack.

Before Le Jin returned to help Pengcheng, an urgent report was sent from Langya State, and Qingzhou Zang Ba led the army all the way to attack the city and kill the village to Kaiyang.

At this moment, the minister of Langya did not know that Xuzhou had changed hands, and still asked Jian Yong to send troops to support as soon as possible in the letter.

Cao Chun immediately made a decision, gave up the Langya Kingdom, and let Li Tong lead the army to Tancheng in the East China Sea to defend it. He rendezvoused with Le Jin and Liu Xun and went all out to face Chen Gong.

The two sides fought fiercely near Ruseong on the banks of the Surabaya River.

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Cao Cao led his army day and night, from Yanzhou Chenliu County to the south, through Yuzhou Liang State, Pei State to Xuzhou Pengcheng.

Ren Jun, who stayed in Pengcheng, went out of the city to greet him, and learned that the coalition army was defeated in the Central Plains and that Pingyang Pavilion lost more than 200,000 men and horses in the first battle, and he couldn't help but be stunned and his face was full of horror.

"What about Xuzhou? Can the Northern Frontier Army show signs of attack? ”

Cao Cao didn't want to mention the sadness of the Central Plains anymore, and immediately asked about the recent situation in Xuzhou.

Ren Jun reluctantly calmed down his emotions and reported to Cao that the two armies of Chen Gong and Zang Ba were attacking Xuzhou together, and he said: "The Northern Xinjiang Army has begun to attack. Now Zihe and Wenqian are staying in the city to block Chen Gong, and Wenda and Zitai are leading their troops to Tancheng in the East China Sea, intending to block Zang Ba's army in the Jiqiu area. ”

"Zang Ba hit Kaiyang so quickly?" Cao Cao turned his head to look at Cheng Yu and the others in surprise, and asked suspiciously, "Does he have wings to fly?" According to the calculation of time, if he and Chen Deng crossed the river together to fight the Ganling Kingdom in Jizhou, he would have just received the news of our defeat in the Central Plains. Is it ......?"

Cao Cao suddenly thought of something, hesitated for a moment, and said in disbelief: "Didn't he go to Jizhou and stay in Beihai all the time?" ”

Cao Cao's heart was cold, if this was really the case, it meant that what they had been getting was fake news before, Zang Ba was not deceived by Beijiang at all, he was just acting in a play with Beijiang.

"He must have been in Beihai all the time, and he didn't go to Jizhou at all, we were deceived." Cheng Yu said without thinking, "Chen Deng is either killed or arrested by Zang Ba." ”

"My lord, immediately send troops to the East China Sea, I am afraid that it will be too late." Xi Zhicai also said eagerly, "Zang Ba has long been prepared to attack Xuzhou, and Li Tong and Liu Xun may not be able to stop it." We have just taken Pengcheng and Xiapi, and the other counties do not know that Xuzhou has changed hands, once the Xuzhou army in the East China Sea and Langya knows the truth and defects to the battle, Zang Ba may drive straight into Pengcheng and kill Pengcheng. ”

Cao Cao thought for a while, and did not immediately order the army to support the East China Sea, but asked Cao Hong to rush to Liucheng with a large group of men and horses. Chen Gong's army is more than a hundred miles away, and he must be dealt with first no matter what.

After Cao Cao entered the city, he sent someone to invite Zhu Ling into the palace.

When Zhu Ling arrived in Pengcheng, he found that something was wrong, Jian Yong and the officials of Xuzhou Mansion did not see any of them, and it was Ren Jun who went out of the city to greet Cao Cao, obviously Xuzhou had been controlled by Cao Cao's people. It seems that Cao Cao was ready to wait for an opportunity to seize Xuzhou long before the decisive battle in the Central Plains.

Zhu Ling was weak at the moment, so he could only hold back his anger and not say a word.

Cao Cao spoke bluntly in front of Zhu Ling, told the conflict between himself and Yuan Shao, and finally said: "In order to survive, I decided to take the opportunity to take Xuzhou." My purpose in doing this is not to occupy Xuzhou and drive Xuande and you away, but to prevent Yuan Shao from annexing Xuzhou. ”

"Once the Central Plains War is won, Yuan Shao's strength will be doubled, and I, Xuande, and Liu Biao of Jingzhou will be annexed by him one by one sooner or later. Xuande and I will bear the brunt of the battle, and we will be the target of Yuan Shao's killing as soon as the war ends. However, if I take Xuzhou first, Yuan Shao will not be able to sweep Jianghuai in the near future, let alone kill Xuande, on the contrary, he will help Xuande attack me and recover Xuzhou. ”

"As long as Xuande returns to Xuzhou, I will return Xuzhou to him, and then I will go to Jiujiang and Yangzhou to find a place to live. After I defeated Yan Xiang and captured the two counties of Jiujiang and Lujiang, I could not only attack Yuan Shao's strength, but also build three alliances with Liu Biao in Jingzhou and Brother Xuande to compete with Yuan Shao, so as to prevent him from usurping the Han Dynasty. ”

Cao Cao repeated what he had said that he had persuaded Liu Biao to send troops to attack the Northern Xinjiang Army in Junyi City that day.

Zhu Ling asked, "Do Liu Jingsheng and my father-in-law know about this matter?" ”

Zhu Ling was dizzy by Cao Cao's words, especially when this matter was involved in Yuan Shao's possible usurpation of the Han Sheji, which made him feel even more complicated.

"Yes." Cao Cao nodded vigorously and said very calmly, "If Wenbo has any doubts, he can urgently write to Liu Jingsheng and Brother Xuande to confirm." ”

"However, now that the Great War in the Central Plains has been lost, Yuan Shao, like us, has been dealt a heavy blow, and we need to build a stronger alliance against Hebei, so the previous strategy can no longer be used. Although Cao Chun and others still took Xuzhou according to the original plan, Xuzhou is still Xuande's brother's. As long as Brother Xuande comes back and Xuzhou is safe and sound, I will take the army to Jiujiang. I will never break my oath and take the initiative to provoke infighting and overthrow the society, please rest assured about this. ”

Zhu Ling will be skeptical. These things were too complicated, and it was the first time he had heard of some court insiders, and for a while he couldn't be sure whether what Cao Cao said was true or not.

Taking advantage of Zhu Ling's trance, Cao Cao said his purpose: "Zang Ba deceived us, Chen Deng is more auspicious and less auspicious, and now the situation in Langya is extremely critical, I need Wenbo to immediately rush to the East China Sea and Langya to reorganize the Xuzhou army, and beat Zang Ba out of Xuzhou with Liu Xun and Li Tong." ”

This request is acceptable to Zhu Ling, now the common enemy of the two sides is Hebei, it is the Northern Frontier Army, regardless of whether Cao Cao has the intention to occupy Xuzhou or not, in the current situation, the first priority of both sides is to work together to hold Xuzhou, otherwise everyone will be finished together.

"I want to see Xianhe first." Zhu Ling said, "If you want to hold Xuzhou, you can't rely on the army alone." ”

Cao Cao saw that Zhu Ling agreed, and said very happily: "Okay, I'll go with you to see Xianhe." ”

People are under the roof, have to bow their heads, especially the failure of the Central Plains War, all parties are facing the dilemma of survival, and the community is also in danger.

Jian Yong is an understanding person, so after he got Cao Cao's oath, he believed in Cao Cao, and immediately came forward to convene the subordinates of Xuzhou Prefecture at all levels, on the one hand, to raise grain and grass for the army, and on the other hand, to inform the Xuzhou Mansions, temporarily by Prime Minister Cao Cao to lead the Xuzhou military and government, and the two sides worked together to defend Xuzhou.

Cao Cao asked Cheng Yu, Jian Yong and Xiahou Yuan, who was gradually recovering from his injuries, to stay in Pengcheng, and asked Man Chong and Xiahou Yuan to rush to Xiapi with 3,000 men and horses to garrison Huaishui. Let Mao Jue rush to Shouchun with a letter and ask for grain and grass from Yan Xiang, the assassin of Yangzhou, if Yan Xiang refuses to give it, then there is just an excuse to attack Jiujiang.

Cao Cao's deployment also won the trust of Jian Yong and Zhu Ling to a certain extent.

After arranging the affairs of Pengcheng, Cao Cao immediately went to stay in the city in person. Zhu Ling took 5,000 new soldiers and hurried to the East China Sea to meet Cao Bao to reorganize the Xuzhou army.

Chen Gong saw that Cao Cao had personally killed him, and hurriedly withdrew his troops. His troops were insufficient, and he couldn't defeat Cao Cao at all, so he could only give up the strategy of attacking Xuzhou.

At the same time as the retreat, Chen Gongfeige sent a message to the general Li Yi, asking for reinforcements to prevent Cao Cao from taking the opportunity to counterattack Yanzhou.

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The time soon entered the second half of September, and Zang Ba's attack on the East China Sea was blocked, and he retreated to Kaiyang in Langya. Zhu Ling and Liu Xun did not continue to attack because of food and grass, but stationed troops on the hill and confronted the Qingzhou army from afar.

At the same time, in the Yin battlefield of Henan, in order to let Hu Qi return to the desert as soon as possible, the Northern Xinjiang Army advanced very fast, but then the battles on the battlefields gradually stopped.

After Yuan Shao rushed to Yuzhou with Liu Biao's army, because of the limited strength and low morale, he could only order his headquarters army to stick to the line of Guancheng, Xingyang and Aocang.

Faced with a strong city, the exhausted division of the Northern Xinjiang Army had neither sufficient physical strength, sufficient food, grass and ordnance, nor absolute superiority, so it could only abandon the attack.

Soon, Zhang Fei led his army to retreat to Yuanwu and Yangwu. Zhang Yan retreated to Zhongmu and Junyi.

After Guan Yu and Lü Bu met, he led his army all the way south, Lianke Kaifeng, Chenliu, and Yongqiu, and then went south along the Langtang Canal to kill Xuchang. At this moment, Liu Biao and Chen Lin had already met in Xuchang, and the two had gathered about 60,000 troops and stationed troops in Yanling City on the north bank of the Weishui River.

Guan Yu hesitated for a long time, but finally decided to give up the attack and led the army to retreat to Chenliu.

Around the same time, Dingtao City.

After the general moved to Dingtao, Li Yi immediately took the officials of the two prefectures to enter the company.

At the first military meeting of Dingtao Xingyuan, Jia Xu analyzed and summarized the successes and failures of the Central Plains War, in which he mentioned a thing that made everyone feel very lucky.

It turned out that Liu Pan, the general of Jingzhou, was captured by Gongsun Xu's men in the process of fleeing, and after his identity was identified, he was sent to Jia Xu.

In his conversation with Jia Xu, Liu Pan talked about Wei Xu's surprise attack on Xuchang with cavalry on the orders of Li E and Lu Bu. The sneak attack on the northern Xinjiang cavalry burned down the grain and grass camp in Xuchang, and the coalition army fell into a grain and grass crisis. Although Yuan Shao and Liu Biao concealed this incident, Liu Biao later feared that the army would be defeated on all fronts, and he went against the norm and actively sought a decisive battle.

In other words, even if the Northern Frontier Army had not tricked the coalition forces into burning the grain and grass in the old city and Wuchao, the coalition forces would have launched a decisive battle. (To be continued.) )