In front of Tongguan, in Cao Jun's camp, Cao ** was staring at the map of the Central Plains that had been drawn with a lot of money in the tent, frowning and pondering.

In addition to Cao **'s subordinate place at the moment, Yuan Shao of Jizhou, Lu Bu of Qingzhou, Yellow Turban of Yuzhou, Liu Biao of Jingzhou, and Qin Xu of Xuzhou, who was actually controlled by Lu Bu's forces, almost surrounded Yanzhou in the middle. If Cao ** wants to move the capital to Xu County, which has been determined in advance, after welcoming the Son of Heaven, and still want to do something, he will inevitably face these five forces.

First of all, the Yellow Turbans in Yuzhou are the weakest. Especially after the remnants of the Xuzhou Yellow Turban entered Yuzhou, Yuzhou, which was already a puddle of muddy water, was stirred into a pot of porridge. And these Yellow Turban thieves, who have already divided one county and one county each, but are still fighting each other, as long as Cao ** can pull out his hand, under the sweep of the army, Qingzhi will inevitably be like autumn wind and falling leaves. What's more, Xu County is already in Yuzhou, which gives Cao ** a good excuse to take over Yuzhou.

The second is Jingzhou Liu Biao. The land of Jingzhou, where Liu Biao is based, is one of the largest states in the Han Dynasty, with sharp armor, and Xiangyang, the place of governance, is even more advantageous to the great river, and is rich in the world. And although Liu Biao is known as the world's best man, but the older he gets, he tends to be a conservative person, except for last year, Yuan Shu annoyed Liu Biao for some reason, making Liu Biao crazy and drove Yuan Shu and the Southern Xiongnu coalition army from Nanyang to Huaisi, that is, even the uncle and nephew of Zhang Ji of the Xiliang Army captured Wancheng, which is only two hundred miles away from Xinye, the outer city of Xiangyang, and did not see Liu Biao move, which can be seen, at least in a short period of time, between his own forces and Liu Biao, the possibility of a war is very small.

Then there is Jizhou, and now Jizhou Yuan Shao has made up his mind to grab credit with himself and pick peaches. At the latest, early in the morning, perhaps Yuan Shao's forward cavalry Yan Liang's department will arrive here. Although in the name of helping allies, fools can see Yuan Shao's purpose. Whether Cao Yuan can still maintain the alliance relationship between Cao Yuan is still two words. Moreover, if Yuan Shao is really abnormal, he should be a "warm-hearted" and help Cao ** welcome the Son of Heaven to Xu County, then how to deal with the relationship between Ji and Yanzhou, and whether Yuan Shao will tolerate his allies controlling Yanzhou, Yuzhou, Sili and other places, and it is very likely that he may surpass himself in military and political strength, is also a rather headache.

But what Cao ** couldn't understand the most was Qingzhou and Xuzhou, which were "entrenched" by Lu Bujun's forces. Qingzhou used to be in the palm of Cao **, and even made a plan to take advantage of the ravages of the Qingzhou Yellow Turban to take Qingzhou into his own hands, but unexpectedly put a position for his ally Yuan Shao out of thin air, and gave Qingzhou to Lu Bu for nothing. Originally, Cao ** didn't think much about the forces of Lu Bu's army who rushed out of Chang'an and shrunk into Hanoi at the beginning, but in order to counter Yuan Shao, who regretted a little, he opened his mouth to borrow Yanzhou to provide Lu Bu with convenience to go to Qingzhou. As a result, Yuan Shao gave in, and Cao ** immediately attacked in three ways and attacked Lu Bu blatantly.

I thought that this would be the best time for the first Yanzhou pastor to get Qingzhou, but unexpectedly, in the battle of the Nameless Valley, there was a big reversal of the situation, and the army of 40,000 was beaten by a little-known boy with 400 troops, which became the beginning of his nightmare. Followed by several battles, Cao **, who knew the strategy of the army, was like meeting a nemesis, losing consecutive battles, and finally had to rely on the son of his own family as a proton to reluctantly make peace with Qingzhou, which has always been the most painful old wound in Cao **'s heart.

Then Xuzhou was in turmoil, and was chasing Yuan Shu in Yuzhou, intending to clean up the Yellow Turban in Yuzhou by the way. Unexpectedly, it was this nameless boy Qin Xu who made himself memorize his name on his sleeve, and he took the ** luck, not only tore his "righteousness" flag to pieces, but also took the matter of Chang'an as a "threat", not only gained great fame, but also got the benefits of betraying the party and hiding, and later took Xuzhou himself! So Lu Bu too, is he crazy? Such a clear need to curb and must eliminate the usurpation of power in the bud, but he was not suspected by Lu Bu, and he took the initiative to calm down the remarks of the outside world to "help" him, and single-mindedly cited this Qin Xu as the assassin of Xuzhou and the general of Fenwu? hurts his son-in-law to this, and Lu Wenhou can be regarded as a wonderful flower in the late Han Dynasty.

And now, Yuan Shao didn't know which of the strategies of the lacked virtuous strategists before, and wanted to invite Lu Bu, who had a complicated relationship with Yanzhou, to send troops to meet the Son of Heaven, the purpose was to make himself unable to take care of each other and make him get the plan. Fortunately, Lu Bu is quite reasonable, and with the "participation" of his precious son Cao Ang, he successfully shattered Yuan Shao's tricks, so he could only keep a shy face, and pretend that the things he had done before, such as wanting to set up another son of heaven and fighting with Chang'an Li and Guo Yan, had not happened, and put on the shelf of the alliance leader of the princes to fight against Dong Zhuo, and wanted to come and grab credit from himself. It's really good to bully Lao Cao!

Look at it, as long as Tongguan can be captured, Chang'an, the Son of Heaven! It's like a ** beauty, isn't it for our old Cao to be ravaged? Oh no, it's appeasement!

But Tongguan! ……

Cao **'s eyes turned from the map to his own military camp only five miles away, the peak is like a knife between the two mountains of the huge black object, under the light of the pine oil torch, like a giant across the road to Chang'an Cao **, making it difficult for Cao Jun to advance for more than a month.

The war between Bai Yue is still unfavorable, those Xiliang defenders seem to be crazy, and it obviously looks perfunctory before, only by virtue of the Tongguan Wall Gaomen Jian was not broken by Cao **, one by one as if they were beaten with chicken blood, causing huge casualties to the soldiers of the Cao army, so that Cao ** had to withdraw his troops several hours in advance, cultivate his military strength, and try to fight again.

It seems that the idea of capturing Tongguan before the arrival of Yuan Shao's forward cavalry cannot be implemented, so he can only find another way to prevent Yuan Shao, the old friend, from getting cheap, Cao ** rubbed his head with a faint pain, and he was also extremely worried! I don't know where my baby son Cao Ang is, but don't meet those people.

"My lord! Lord! The eldest prince has arrived! Just as Cao ** wanted to punish the person who had ordered no one not to disturb and dared to interrupt his train of thought, he suddenly realized that Cao Ang was mentioned in this person's words.

"What do you say? Zixiu is here? In what place? This is ...... Ahem, let him come and see so-and-so! Cao ** was still worried just now, as if he had put down a big stone, relaxed and comfortable, and even had no idea of punishing the herald soldier just now, his face flashed with joy, but he forced a majestic gesture, and commanded: "Wait! Wen Ruo's previous letter didn't explain, do you know who escorted Zixiu here? There will be a reward! ”

"This ...... Lord, the last general happens to recognize it! Seeing Cao ** asking, this night patrol general flashed a little embarrassed on his face, and when he saw Cao **'s urging to ask, he lowered his head and said: "The eldest prince also asked the last general to report to the lord, the Han Xuzhou Assassin History, General Fenwu ......"

"Qin Xu, that kid is here too? Didn't you come with Ang'er? Cao ** didn't wait for the young general to finish speaking, his narrow eyes were round, it was him Cao **, he thought about everyone, and he didn't expect that it would be Qin Xu who sent Cao Ang here. What is this kid going to do? Didn't you resist coming to Chang'an when you stayed in Chen? It's a loyal minister of the Han Dynasty again, and it's a set of things that the Son of Heaven said about foreign troops, how could he be here?

"My lord?" Seeing that Cao ** was distracted by the news that Qin Xu followed, the young general didn't dare to remind him loudly, so he could only whisper to the side and say: "Lord, why don't you go back to the eldest prince and say that the lord has already rested?" ”

"Humph! Licentious! Cao ** snorted violently, a trace of fierceness flashed in his long narrow eyes, until he stared at this young general with sweat overflowing, and the two trembling trembles, and said coldly: "Do you have to be Cao Mouyi to smile and be generous?" Qin Thorn History is not far away, and escorting my son here must be to help Cao! You, immediately notify the generals above the lieutenant colonel and above, put on a certain full guard of honor, open the camp door, and receive Qin Assassin Shi into the barracks! ”

"No!" This little general was stared at by Cao ** just now, and almost thought that he was about to be pulled out by Cao **, and after getting Cao **'s order, he actually crawled out of the door, and he didn't notice Cao **'s whisper in the tent at all: "Qin Xu, hum!" Since the past can't overwhelm you, let you taste the taste of killing! ”

"Woo ......" night is already very deep, Cao ** military camp, the soldiers who have been sleeping were awakened by a sound of welcoming drums and trumpets, I don't understand what important people have come in the army, so that his own father-in-law General Cao is not afraid of the danger of bombing the camp in the middle of the night, with such a grand etiquette to greet, have emerged from the military tent, just to see what is the holy arrival.

"Brother, listen, it's my father who is welcoming you with the gift of welcoming the princes in the Zhou ceremony!" Cao Ang, who was on the horse, said happily beside Qin Xu. And Cheng Yu, who had a gloomy face on the side, showed a somewhat smug look at the corner of his mouth, and his gaze at Qin Xu was a little more ruthless. After listening to Cao Ang's words, the soldiers of the Xiandeng Battalion who followed these more than ten horses looked at Cao Ang's guards beside him, although they were all tired on their faces, but they were full of pride.

Greet? The Gift of the Princes? Qin Xu, who had been galloping on a horse for most of the night, still felt a little relieved after seeing Cao Ying, where would Qin someone know what the courtesy of the princes was, but he roughly understood the courtesy of Duke Zhou, and after listening to Cao Ang's explanation, he had a little bad premonition in his heart.

Nothing to be courteous, either annihilation or theft!

Regardless of Cao **'s intentions, Qin Xu finally got in touch with Cao **, and in the land of Jingzhao south of Tongguan, Yan Liang had a black face, looking at the twenty war horses with the Yanzhou brand that were collected by the soldiers under his command, and ran for hundreds of miles, except for these war horses, he didn't even see a single Cao Jun hair, seeing the exhausted appearance of his subordinates, Yan Liang's beard was about to smoke: "What is going on with this TM?" Who led the way? What about Cao Jun!!? ”

…… (To be continued.) )