When the soldiers on the city tower saw that Cao Cao had returned, they were all overjoyed, and hurriedly opened the city gate and let Cao Cao and others enter the city.

Someone had already gone to the government to inform Taiyuan that Wang Ling was too guarded, Wang Ling learned that Cao Cao had returned, and hurried to the city gate to greet him, but after all, he was still a step late, he just ran out of the gate of the palace, and he bumped into Cao Cao riding a war horse head-on, surrounded by Dian Wei, Cao Hong, two generals, and a person dressed as a scribe, it was Xu You.

"See the lord!" Wang Ling hurriedly stepped forward to pay respects.

Since Wang Ling returned to Cao Cao, he was appointed as the Jinyang Order, and has been a conscientious official, doing things safely and steadily, although he did not accept Cao Cao in his heart at that time, but after all, the life of his entire clan is in the hands of Cao Cao, in order to protect the clan, Wang Ling has to do his best for Cao Cao.

But over time, Wang Ling and Cao Cao came into contact for a long time, and found that Cao Cao was not as he thought at the beginning, but a man of great talent, but lacked a platform to display his ambitions.

In handling many government affairs, Wang Ling and Cao Cao basically agreed on the same opinions. Under Cao Cao's account, there are resourceful people such as Xun Yu, Xun You, Guo Jia, Cheng Yu, and Man Chong, and they are Cao Cao's henchmen, but Cao Cao's position of Jinyang Ling was directly handed over to Wang Ling, which shows Cao Cao's trust in Wang Ling.

In addition, after Cao Cao left Taiyuan, he promoted Wang Ling to be a taishou and gave Wang Ling full power, at this point, Wang Ling was deeply moved by Cao Cao.

Since then, Wang Ling has been working hard for Cao Cao, and Cao Cao has let his son Cao Pi marry Wang Ling's sister in order to get closer to Wang Ling. The two became in-laws all of a sudden.

Cao Cao enveloped Wang Ling like this. It also made the rest of the state families feel jealous. So they sent talents to Cao Cao one after another, striving to surpass Wang Ling's status.

Although all the big families took the initiative to ask Cao Cao for officials, the ability of his children could not be compared with Wang Ling, at most they were only a county commander and county lieutenant, and there were no talented people.

Because of these, Wang Ling became the leader of the Bingzhou family in one fell swoop, and the status of the Wang family was also improved, and Wang Ling also had the legacy of his uncle Wang Yun. Handle official affairs vigorously and resolutely, have a clear eye, and govern the place according to the law.

In addition, Wang Ling was meritocratic and did not avoid relatives, and successively recommended his two cousins to serve as Jinyang Ling and Jinyang Lieutenant.

The one who led the army to resist Tai Shici and Xu Huang this time was the cousin who served as the captain of Jinyang.

It is precisely because of this cousin who served as the captain of Jinyang as the leading general that Tai Shici and Xu Huang were effectively blocked in the official road and fell into a dilemma. And at the same time, it created a lot of time for Cao Cao's return.

Cao Cao turned over and dismounted, and grabbed Wang Ling's hand. exchanged a few words of greetings, and then walked straight to the mansion.

As he walked, Wang Ling reported to Cao Cao the current situation: Xiahoudun and Guo Jia led the army still stationed outside Yanmen Pass, and had confronted the Xianbei people for more than ten days, and successfully repelled many attacks by the Xianbei people.

Wang Yong, the commander of Jinyang, led the army to fortify layer by layer on the road to Taiyuan, and successfully stopped the advance of Tai Shici and Xu Huang, but the enemy's offensive was very fierce, and Wang Yong was afraid that he would not be able to support it for long.

The Huns have been secretly assembling troops recently, and they are probably preparing to make a move.

After Cao Cao heard Wang Ling's report, he fell into deep contemplation, because Zhang Yan was leading the army to pursue Xun Yu and others, and he didn't know what the situation was at present, and there had been no news for two days.

It can be said that the current Cao Cao is on the verge of extinction, and if the Huns suddenly betray his trust and lead an army to attack Jinyang, Cao Cao will directly fall into a situation from which he will never recover.

Cao Cao gathered the generals and discussed these things, Wang Ling, Xu You, Man Zhong and others expressed their opinions, and their opinions were basically the same, that is, they must first send people to stabilize the Huns, only by stabilizing the Huns first, Cao Cao can free his hands to concentrate on dealing with Zhang Yan.

As for the Xianbei people, if they can't break through the Yanmen Pass, they don't want to enter the hinterland of Bingzhou, and there are Xiahoudun and Guo Jia guarding there, so they shouldn't worry. In short, it is the Huns who are most worried now.

For this reason, full of favor and a plan, he said, the Xiongnu's Shan is a lustful person, for the marriage of the big Yan clan is mediocre, can not meet the needs of the Xiongnu Shan Yu, just Cao Cao has a daughter beautiful as a flower, so he suggested that Cao Cao marry his daughter to the Xiongnu Shan Yu.

When Cao Cao heard this, he was extremely angry and scolded: "My daughter is a golden branch and jade leaf, how can she marry these Hu chiefs!" ”

Wang Ling and Xu You both persuaded each other, which made Cao Cao reluctant to calm his anger, and then, Xu You analyzed the situation at that time for Cao Cao, and thought that marrying a girl was a very correct choice. If Cao Cao was unwilling to marry his own daughter, he would choose a beautiful woman in the city, consider her a righteous daughter, and marry her to the Xiongnu.

Cao Cao agreed very much with Xu Yu's suggestion, and then asked Wang Ling to handle the matter, select a beautiful woman in one day, and then hand it over to Manzhong, let Manzhong send the Xiongnu to marry his daughter to Xiongnu Shan Yu.

A day later, Wang Ling really found a beautiful woman and handed it over to Man Pet, who told the beauty about the current situation and told her that this woman's actions would save thousands of people in the entire Bingzhou.

The woman was moved by the full favor, so she agreed to the full favor, and then the full pet found a group of maidservants to dress it up, not daring to say that the country was overwhelmed, but it was also a shameful flower in the closed moon.

Without further ado, Man Chong took this woman and some gifts and hurried to the Xiongnu station, and on the way, he told the beauty a lot of things about etiquette and Cao Cao's family, so that the beauty could remember it, for fear that it would make the Xiongnu suspicious.

And Cao Cao rewarded the woman's family, and the matter was stopped.

In the evening of the same day, a scout came to the city and brought a bad news, Wang Yong, the captain of Jinyang, was defeated and killed, and Tai Shici and Xu Huang led the army to drive straight in, and all the counties could not resist along the way, and went straight to Jinyang.

As soon as the scout's voice fell, another scout came in from outside the door and reported to Cao Cao that Zhang Yan led the army to disguise himself as Cao's army, and cut the pass along the way to capture the village, and had broken through the three passes of Taiyuan, and would arrive at the city of Jinyang in a few days.

Blessings are incomparable, and disasters are not singular.

The bad news on both sides made Cao Cao feel worried.

"What's the situation with Xun Yu's army?" Cao Cao hurriedly asked.

The scout informed Cao Cao of the news he had heard: "Xun Yu's army was annihilated, Xun Yu was killed by Han Fan, and surrendered to the enemy with his head, but the enemy killed Han Fan." In addition, Liang Qi was beheaded by Zhang Liao, Xun Chen was captured, and more than 10,000 troops were captured in Jingcheng County because they were put with sweat medicine in their meals, so the whole army was captured and had surrendered to the enemy. The people who cut the pass and seized the village this time were all done by those surrendered soldiers. ”

After Cao Cao heard this, he shouted indignantly: "Wen Ruo, Xiu Ruo! I'm sorry for you, I shouldn't have left you behind......"

Seeing Cao Cao so sad, Wang Ling and Xu You persuaded together: "Lord, people can't be resurrected after death, Xun Yu won't die in vain, as long as we are united, defeat Zhang Yan, and kill him, we can avenge Xun Yu." ”

Cao Cao frowned, his face was gloomy, there were not many troops in Jinyang City, and they were basically taken to Yanmen Pass by Xiahoudun and Guo Jia, Zhang Yan's army had already been killed, and he had captured the three passes of Taiyuan, so in order to prevent Xiahoudun and Guo Jia from sending troops to rescue, they would inevitably be fortified layer by layer in Taiyuan Sanguan, and it would be difficult for Xiahoudun and Guo Jia's army to enter Jinyang.

In this way, Zhang Yan's army besieged the city, attacking day and night, and the other party also had a powerful weapon such as a thunderbolt, whether it was a siege or a field battle, Cao Cao would not be Zhang Yanjun's opponent. However, he left Wang Lun, who was responsible for creating thunderbolts, in Xun Yu's army, Xun Yu's army was completely annihilated, and he didn't know whether Wang Lun was alive or dead, but he lost Liliang who competed with Zhang Yanjun.

Cao Cao pondered for a moment, and suddenly thought of an idea, and at this juncture, he could only make a desperate bet.

Didn't the Xianbei people ask for gold, silver and jewelry, he would give the Xianbei people gold and silver jewelry, as long as the Xianbei people could withdraw their troops.

So, Cao Cao asked Wang Ling to open the treasury, filled the treasury with three carts of gold, silver and jewelry, and asked Xu You to lead a hundred tigers and leopards to ride and escort the three carts of gold, silver and jewelry along the waterway, go upriver along the Fenshui, go to Yanmen Pass to give all these gold, silver and jewels to the Xianbei people, and then let Xiahoudun and Guo Jia lead the army down the river and come to Jinyang City to support.

Xu You received the order, rode with a hundred tigers and leopards, and then secretly transported all the three carts of gold, silver and jewelry out of the city, and took a big boat to transport the gold, silver and jewelry to Yanmen Pass.

The next day, Zhang Yan led the army to arrive at the city of Jinyang, the whole city of Jinyang was under martial law, and the army of Tai Shici and Xu Huang also arrived, the two armies were combined into one, all under the command of Zhang Yan, tens of thousands of troops, camped outside the city of Jinyang, but the soldiers were not in a hurry to attack.

In the big tent, many generals gathered, Zhang Yan ordered some important tasks one by one, most of them were based on defense, and ordered Zhang Liao, Xu Chu, and Gan Ning to take the army to search for saltpeter, sulfur, and charcoal within a radius of 100 miles, and bring back as much as he wanted, he was ready to make gunpowder on the spot, wrapped it in cloth, and prepared to make explosives, blow up Jinyang City, and strive to capture Jinyang City within one day, and completely end Cao Cao's fate!

Cao Cao stood on the tower of Jinyang City, looking at the enemy army outside the city, and saw that the enemy army did not attack, and he didn't know what the hell was doing.

At the same time, Cao Cao was also worried about Xu You, hoping that Xu You could reach Yanmen Pass as soon as possible, and then the reinforcements of Xiahoudun and Guo Jia arrived in Jinyang as soon as possible.

At this moment, Jinyang City has become a lonely city, Cao Cao is completely trapped here, and this has also become a line of defense for him, his family, and the foundation are here, he has prepared for the worst, and fought with Zhang Yan here to the end! (To be continued......)