A thousand-year-old family that began with the Battle of Makino

Chapter 394 Ambition regains its foundation and follows good advice to meet the challenge

Let's talk about the last time, Yuan Shao wrote to persuade Cao Cao to bring his family to Jizhou as a friend, but he was dissuaded by Cheng Yu, Guo Jia and other close advisers.

"My lord, you must not lose heart. Although Yanzhou has been lost now, we still have tens of thousands of troops in our hands. Lu Bu is a warrior and has no talent for governance. Sooner or later, the officials and people in the state will be dissatisfied."

Cheng Yu sat on his seat and cupped his hands in front of Cao Cao.

"But now the army is short of food and supplies, and there is a locust plague. What can we do?"

Cao Cao lowered his head, not knowing what he was thinking.

"Lord." Cao Cao looked up and saw that it was Guo Jia who was speaking. He said affectionately: "Have you forgotten the more than one million Qingzhou people who live in our fields?"

Cao Cao was stunned. Yes, the millions of Qingzhou soldiers and civilians he had recruited in previous years were now settling down in Dong'a in the form of farming.

Although Puyang and other counties were lost, the civilian villages were not. In addition, tens of thousands of soldiers could be stationed on the spot to solve the food and grass problem first, and then start the military strategy in the spring of next year.

Thinking of this, Cao Cao regained his confidence, looked at the generals and counselors in the hall with burning eyes, and said loudly:
"It was only then that I fell into confusion and almost lost my mind. Now we still have millions of civilian villages, plus tens of thousands of military camps in hand, the food and grass problem can be easily solved.

Cheng Yu! "

"Lord!"

"The Honshu Mu now appoints you as the Diannong Captain, with full responsibility for the tens of thousands of soldiers stationed in the fields. Send a letter to Li Dian of Dong'a, appointing him as the Diannong Captain and ordering him to deliver grain and grass.

Let's hold on until next spring. As long as this crop of grain is planted, there will be no problem with next year's military rations. "

"My lord is wise!"

The second year of Xingping
Liu Xie has returned to Luoyang City, but after Dong Zhuo burned it, Luoyang City has become a ruin. He can only live in the home of Zhao Zhong, a regular servant in his hometown, as a temporary camp.

In addition, all the people in the city were moved to Chang'an, and the entire Luoyang City was like a ghost, without a single person or a grain of food.

After Liu Xie boarded Wushejin to the north of Luoyang, Bai's 5,000 battalion had already left. Therefore, the only people defending Luoyang now were thousands of Yang Feng, Zhang Yang and others summoned by Liu Xie.

Because there was no food, the ministers had to go out to find food for Liu Xie and other important ministers to enjoy.

Hearing that Lü Bu had occupied Yanzhou, Liu Xie was very happy and sent an edict to Lü Bu to come and serve the king.

But now that Cao Cao's troops were approaching the city, Lu Bu had no time to take care of Liu Xie, so he waited for a month or two and saw no response.

Liu Xie had no choice but to issue an edict and ask other county governors and state pastors to come to the king.

New Year
Cao Cao once again mobilized his army to attack Puyang. Just when Lu Bu thought that he could successfully resist Cao Cao this time, he did not expect that his rough management methods and unskilled ways of coaxing him would make the wealthy people in Puyang City not buy it.

One night, the Tian family in Puyang City quietly opened a city gate and let Cao Jun into the city.

Lu Bu was stabbed in the back again, and Puyang City fell. Lu Bu led Chen Gong and hundreds of cavalry to retreat to Shanyang County.

Later, Cao Cao gradually pacified Dongjun, and then led troops to attack Chenliujun. Zhang Miao, the prefect of Chenliu, led the attack, but was severely defeated and fled to Yuan Shu.

June
While Cao Cao's soldiers were out harvesting wheat, Lu Bu and Chen Gong led more than 10,000 men to attack Cao Cao.

The situation is critical. There are only more than a thousand people in Cao Cao's camp and it is difficult to defend the camp.

So Cao Cao ordered the women to go up to the low wall of the city to defend the city. There were less than a thousand soldiers in the camp and they all showed fearlessness by the camp.

There is a large embankment to the west of Cao Jun's camp, and a dense and deep forest to the south.

Lü Bu knew that Cao Cao's army had passed by, and suspected that Cao Cao had an ambush in the woods, so he said to his subordinates: "Cao Cao is very cunning, we don't want to enter the ambush circle." Then he led the army to the south of Tunnel for more than ten miles.

The next day, Lu Bu came to challenge again. Cao Cao ambushed half of his soldiers behind the embankment, and the other half of his soldiers were exposed outside the embankment and set up a formation.

When Lu Bu's army approached, Cao Cao ordered his light troops to challenge. After the two armies fought together, the ambush troops climbed onto the embankment and charged out. The infantry and cavalry charged together, defeating Lu Bu's army, and pursued them to Lu Bu's camp before returning.

Lu Bu retreated that night.

Cao Cao sent people to follow Lu Bu's defeated army and regained Shanyang County in one fell swoop. Lu Bu had no choice but to go and join Xuzhou Mu Liu Bei.

After retaking Yanzhou and dealing with some urgent matters, Cao Cao was free to deal with the edicts issued by Liu Xie for several months.

"It has been several months since the emperor issued the edict. Now there are no princes coming to pay homage to the king. The princes in the world are not fools. There must be something disadvantageous to them.

Therefore, my subordinates believe that they should be consistent with the princes of the world to avoid becoming the target of public criticism. "

One of Cao Cao's advisers analyzed it this way.

"Lord, I thought that our army had just taken back Yanzhou, and some things had not been sorted out. If we accept these thousands of people rashly, it would not only affect our food and grass, but also greatly strain our energy. Therefore, I also think that welcoming the emperor ,inappropriate."

"It's very true. The Bai family promised us that after we welcome the emperor, we can give Qingzhou to us. But now, there is a gap between our army and the Bai family. If we go to welcome the emperor, we can't get Qingzhou. So we Why bother doing such a thankless thing?

Besides, since the emperor moved westward, all the powerful officials in the imperial court, whether it was Dong Zhuo, Li Jue, Guo Si or others, all had a bad end and had a bad reputation. Now our army already has a bad reputation. If it is again Those ministers slandered me, and I am afraid Yanzhou will not be stable internally. "

Facing the objections of many of his subordinates, Cao Cao saw Xun Yu sitting firmly on the Diaoyutai: "Wen Ruo, what do you think?"

Xun Yu slightly cupped his hands and said: "Ming Gong, I advocate welcoming the emperor." "Please elaborate."

"My lord, it's possible that he forgot Mao Jie's advice."

"You mean..."

"Exactly, you should follow the emperor's orders and disobey the ministers, cultivate the fields, and raise the military resources. Mao Jie's proposal is the policy of the king. The lord only needs to comply with it to determine the chaos in the world and relieve the suffering of all people."

Later, Cheng Yu, Guo Jia and others also advised Cao Cao to go west to meet the emperor so that he could hold a trump card.

Finally, Cao Cao made up his mind: "Order Cao Hong to immediately lead his troops westward to Luoyang to greet the emperor. Remember, you must treat each other with courtesy and do not violate etiquette or rules!"

July
Cao Hong led thousands of troops out of Dongjun to the west, but they were blocked by General Dong Cheng and Yuan Shu's general Chang Nu near Xuanmen Pass.

August
In order to contain the domineering generals such as Han Xian, Dong Cheng secretly summoned Cao Cao to Luoyang.

September
Cao Cao led more than 10,000 troops. With Dong Cheng's support, he successfully arrived in Luoyang and presented a supply of food and supplies. This moved Liu Xie, who had lived a savage life in Luoyang for several months.

Due to Cao Cao's strong military strength, Yang Feng, Han Xian, Zhang Yang and others did not dare to speak freely.

A few days later, Cao Cao reported Han Xian and Zhang Yang's crimes to Liu Xie. Han Xian fled overnight to Yang Feng's military camp, but was pardoned by Liu Xie for his role in escorting him.

Cao Cao then killed the ministers Taichong, Shangshu Feng Shuo, and Yilang Houqi who had threatened Liu Xie, and granted Dong Cheng and other thirteen people the rank of marquis.

Liu Xie appointed Cao Cao as Yanzhou Mu, Sili Xiaowei, and Lu Shangshu on the spot.

At Dong Zhao's suggestion, Liu Xie agreed to Cao Cao's suggestion to move the capital to Xu County because Luoyang was burned and could no longer exist as the capital.

October
Cao Cao escorted Liu Xie to Xu County.

On the way, Liu Xie made Cao Cao a general and a Marquis of Wuping.

Yang Feng was very dissatisfied with the move and planned to block the road, but failed.

At the end of the month, Cao Cao ordered Cao Hong to lead troops to attack Yang Feng. Yang Feng was defeated and died.

November

When the chariots arrived in Xu County, Cao Cao was promoted to Sikong, a chariot and cavalry general, and took charge of the government. At the same time, Xu County was changed to Xu Du, and the reign name was changed to "Jian'an".

At the same time, Liu Bei was appointed as Xuzhou Mu and Zhendong General, and he was granted the title of Tinghou of Yicheng to separate Liu Bei and Yuan Shu.

Sure enough, when Yuan Shu heard about Liu Bei's visit from Cao Cao, he thought that Liu Bei had abandoned the alliance and defected to Cao Cao, so he led his army to attack.

The two armies held a stalemate in Xuyi and Huaiyin for more than a month, each with its own victory or defeat, but Liu Bei sent Guan Yu to resist. In the end, Yuan Shujun returned without success.

The second year of Jian'an
New Year
Cao Cao took advantage of Yuan Shu's recent dispatch of troops to Liu Bei and was not well prepared, so he obtained Liu Xie's edict and used the imperial court's orders to pacify the Yellow Turban Army He Yi, Liu Pi and other troops in the Runan and Yingchuan areas.

In the end, half of Yuzhou was captured, which made Yuan Shu very angry. However, due to the strength of Cao's army and the powerful weapon of the imperial court, which offended Liu Bei, he did not dare to act rashly.

Just when Cao Cao led his troops to wipe out Yingchuan and Runan counties.

In Xuzhou, Liu Bei, who was stationed in Xiapi, welcomed an unprecedented guest.

"Brother, take a look at me. Is there anything rude about me?" Liu Bei nervously asked Bai Jin, who was also stiff.

Bai Jin smiled bitterly and said: "My lord, I have never seen this Bai family before. Look at me, I'm not much better than you."

But Liu Bei didn't seem to hear what Bai Jin said, and continued to adjust his already smooth robes.

In addition to Liu Bei and Bai Jin, those greeted outside the door were Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, Jian Yong, Mi Zhu, Chen Qun and other Xuzhou civil and military officials, who were also behind.

Even though he is as arrogant as Guan Yu and as reckless as Zhang Fei, he is now staying quietly behind Liu Bei, not daring to say a word for fear of conflicting with the upcoming noble son.

In addition to these people, there were also Lu Bu and Chen Gong who had recently settled in Xuzhou. They were also recruited by Liu Bei. Although Zhang Fei was very used to seeing Lu Bu, on this occasion, Zhang Fei was uncharacteristically quiet and did not say a word. Satire.

And Lu Bu was also very nervous. After all, in Zhenbei Mansion, next to General Baima, what he heard the most was the glorious history of the Bai family.

Why send food to the people thousands of miles away, sacrifice one's life for the country, why thousands of years of ancient tribes still exist, etc. It can be said that in the north, you don't have to socialize with the Bai family, but you will definitely not have heard of the Bai family. name, and the story of Bai.

After being driven away by Cao Cao in Yanzhou, Lu Bu came to Xuzhou and was taken in by Liu Bei, who sent him to settle his troops and horses in Xiaopei.

Originally, he thought of seizing Liu Bei's Xuzhou when he had the opportunity, but now that Bai Shizi came to visit him in person, his plan was about to change. After looking at each other with Chen Gong, he made up his mind.

You must know that in this world, the people who can be received by the Bai family are either the royal family, the emperor, or the top heroes of the party.

If you are an ordinary person or anyone else, even if you meet Bai Shizi, he will not easily reveal his identity to you. As long as you reveal your identity, it means that your virtues, talents, or status have been recognized by him.

Just as everyone was whispering, a voice turned their attention: "Here we come!"

I saw a dozen extremely ordinary carriages, protected by hundreds of elite soldiers, slowly driving towards me.

(End of this chapter)