Can I get to the other side?

Gao Lan's arrival attracted the attention of everyone in Tai'an Palace. To be precise, they were attracted by the "good news" he said.

"Great victory in Yangzhou?"

Liu Xie's eyes lit up when he heard this. He was about to stand up and leave, but he sat back down again and asked with a little urgency: "Ai Qing, come quickly!"

It had been a long time since he heard any good news.

And it’s a great victory!

What can be called a great victory are at least battles involving more than ten thousand people, and the locations are in Yangzhou. Could it be that Zhang Liao and Sun Quan teamed up to defeat Cao Cao?

Gao Lan looked excited, clasped his fists and said, "Reporting to your majesty, the traitor Sun Quan pretended to surrender and launched an attack while General Zhang Liao was stationed in Huainan County to appease the people."

"Thirty thousand troops besieged Hefei City for five days. When General Zhang Liao and others came to the battlefield in person, General Huang asked General Huang to cut off his retreat, then led 800 warriors to charge into the battle, and finally captured Sun Quan alive!"

"In this battle, we killed 7,000 enemies and captured more than 20,000 enemy troops. Sun Quan and his generals all surrendered!"

"Recover the entire territory of Xuzhou and recover the three counties in Jiangbei!"

"Right now, General Zhang Liao is escorting Sun Quan and a group of enemy generals to return home in triumph. They will arrive in Yecheng soon!"

After Gao Lan finished speaking, there was silence in the hall.

All the civil and military officials were stunned. They looked at each other and communicated with their eyes to confirm whether they had heard correctly.

Eight hundred to thirty thousand? Capture the thief alive?

This is simply a fantasy!

Thirty thousand people are not thirty thousand pigs. Even if he was as brave as Lu Bu, he could only defeat Sun Ce's ten thousand people with a thousand riders and behead him.

And Zhang Liao defeated 30,000 by 800 and captured Sun Quan alive. This was not only one and a half times more difficult than Lu Bu's killing of Sun Ce?

"Congratulations, Your Majesty! Congratulations, Your Majesty!"

Cui Yan reacted the fastest. After being shocked, he excitedly said to Liu Xie: "Sun Quan has been captured, and all three counties of Xuzhou and Jiangbei have been recovered!"

"Your Majesty is one step closer to unifying the world and regaining the country of Han Dynasty!"

Cui Yan faced Liu Xie and bowed.

After hearing this, the ministers also came to their senses one after another. While secretly cursing Cui Yan for speaking so quickly, they congratulated Liu Xie.

"General Zhang Liao is so powerful that he is not weak to Duke Wen!"

"Eight hundred breaks thirty thousand. This is not only the bravery of General Zhang Liao, but also God's help for my great man and His Majesty, so that the blue-eyed thief was defeated!"

"The Han Dynasty will last ten thousand years, Your Majesty will last ten thousand years!"

"Unification of the world is just around the corner!"

"If Your Majesty hadn't asked General Zhang Liao to attack Sun Quan, how could we have achieved such a great victory? I think most of the credit for the victory in this battle belongs to Your Majesty!"

The ministers flattered and flattered constantly.

There were some exaggerations at the beginning, but later they basically praised Liu Xie for how wise and powerful he was, and how God protected the great man in order to achieve such a great victory.

Although Liu Xie would not really listen to these flattery and felt that this victory was really his own contribution, he was very happy in his heart.

He knew that it was right to let Zhang He replace Zhang Liao to guard Bingzhou. To deal with Sun Quan, a capricious blue-eyed thief, Zhang Liao had to be the most effective.

It's a pity that Sun Shiwan became Sun Sanwan.

If Zhang Liao does not have any more outstanding achievements in the future, it may be difficult to enter the martial arts temple after death.

Putting away these random thoughts, Liu Xie continued to ask: "What are the trends over there with Cao Cao?"

"The Cao thieves are stationed in Jiangdong and there has been no movement for the time being." Gao Lan replied: "But there is news from Yanzhou that Cao's army has evacuated from Guandu and is heading towards Jingzhou."

"Now Duke Wen has crossed Guandu and entered Benxu County, and Yuzhou is about to be recovered."

Hearing this, Liu Xie frowned.

Cao Jun from Guandu went to Jingzhou?

After some contemplation, he said to Gao Lan: "Send an order to Duke Wen to station troops and horses in Yuzhou for precaution, and then return to the court with our troops."

"This time I win against the thieves, I will reward the meritorious ministers."

Although Lu Bu failed to destroy Cao Cao, he also gained the two major states of Yanzhou and Yuzhou and recovered the Central Plains region.

It happened that Zhang Liao had made great achievements and needed to be rewarded. It would be better to recall Lu Bu and Zhuge Liang together and discuss how to deal with Cao Cao.

"promise!"

Gao Lan cupped his fists and accepted the order.

…

After the court meeting, the officials dispersed.

Yang Biao and his son walked out of the palace together, but all the officials avoided them intentionally or unintentionally.

Even Fu Wan snorted coldly when he saw Yang Biao, without even giving him a good look, and left with Dong Zhong instead.

This made Yang Xiu, who was about to salute, look slightly embarrassed.

After Fu finished and walked away, he lowered his voice and said to Yang Biao on the side: "Father, did we do a little... too much today?"

In fact, his original idea was just to donate all the land developed by the Yang clan to the national treasury, and he did not think about taking this opportunity to gain any profits.

It was his father Yang Biao who suggested that he donate it publicly at the court meeting, take the initiative to plead guilty to the emperor, and then perform such a show.

Whether you plead guilty or not, the outcome is completely different.

If you don't apologize, it's just that the Yang family donated the land they obtained through pioneering and did not harm the interests of other aristocratic families.

But choosing to plead guilty gave the emperor a good reason to punish the major families. After all, they had the example of the Yang family in front of them.

The benefits obtained by doing this were of course huge. He directly entered the central government and participated in politics, and gained the favor of the emperor; but at the same time, he also received hostility from other aristocratic families.

Because their Yang family stepped on everyone's heads this time and regarded them all as stepping stones.

"Dezu, you are still too young."

Yang Biao's expression was calm. He squinted his eyes and looked at the officials walking on the straight imperial road in front of him. He spoke lightly.

"Life is a process of being isolated and helpless. You have grown a lot more than before. You can already stand on your own, but your heart is not cruel enough."

"Do you believe it? If they think of this method before us, they will do it more ruthlessly than us?"

Yang Xiu was silent with a complicated expression.

Yang Biao looked at him deeply and said earnestly: "Dezu, you will walk on your own path in the future. Right and wrong, success and failure, survival and death, every step must be judged by yourself."

"Don't be assimilated by the bustling crowd, don't be swayed by the crowd, and be firm in your beliefs and path."

"If you can't succeed, you will be destroyed by ashes, and let the wind and frost carve your eyebrows."

"I have made the last effort to send you to the center and to the emperor. The future depends on you."

Yang Biao didn't care how many people would be offended by this matter today, because to put it bluntly, it was all a struggle for interests. Those people were heartbroken about the interests they lost, and they were jealous of the interests of their Yang family.

"I understand, father."

Yang Xiu nodded solemnly.

...

Yuzhou, Xu County.

This Yuzhou seat, once the base camp of Cao Cao, has now been captured by Lu Bu's army.

It may not be quite accurate to say that it was a direct occupation. The process was extremely smooth and there was no resistance.

Because Cao Cao's troops had already withdrawn from Xu County, and only some city defenders remained. How could they dare to resist when they saw Lu Bu leading a large army to attack?

Directly open the city gate to welcome the king's army into the city.

The first thing Lu Bu did after entering the city was to lead his troops to raid Cao Cao's house, but unfortunately he found nothing, only an empty mansion.

"Another wasted trip!"

Lu Bu kicked over a table and couldn't help cursing, his tone full of unconcealed depression.

Although he had long known that Cao Cao was no longer in Xu County and had gone to Jiangdong, he still felt extremely annoyed when he saw the mansion without a person.

This feeling was like a punch on cotton.

He came here to make merit this time, but he fought from Yanzhou to Yuzhou, and encountered an eight-door golden lock formation from beginning to end, and he couldn't break it.

Later, when Zhuge Liang and Zhao Yun broke the Eight-Gate Golden Lock Formation and began to attack Guandu, he thought he could finally make a big move, but soon the Cao army stationed at Guandu also retreated.

He led his troops into Yuzhou unimpeded, fought all the way to Cao Cao's lair, and got another empty city.

There were no enemies, no food, no civilians.

There was nothing valuable!

Zhao Yun, who was standing by, comforted him: "Don't be angry, Lord Wen. The purpose of our trip is to capture Yanzhou and Yuzhou."

"At least we have captured two states."

It would have been better if Zhao Yun didn't comfort him. Once he comforted him, Lu Bu became even more depressed and said sullenly: "The problem is that these two states were not captured by us at all. It was Cao thieves who didn't resist."

"And I can't even show off such a record. If I dare to brag to the outside world that I captured two states, Zhang Wenyuan will laugh his teeth off when he knows it."

It would have been fine if we encountered resistance from the enemy.

The key is that we didn't encounter anything.

The only enemy they encountered in Guandu was defeated by Zhao Yun and Zhuge Liang, which had little to do with him. He was just paddling from beginning to end.

So how could he not feel depressed?

Zhao Yun didn't know how to comfort him, so he could only pat Lu Bu on the shoulder, and then went down to lead the troops to continue searching Cao Cao's mansion to see if they could find some letters or something like that.

Lu Bu placed his Fang Tian Hua Ji across his legs, sat on the steps outside the lobby and sighed, feeling very depressed.

At this time, Sima Yi and Zhuge Liang came over.

Lu Bu said to them weakly: "I have searched the mansion, there is no one at all, everything has been emptied, and we have made another trip in vain."

"Two military advisors, why don't we go to Xuzhou to help Zhang Wenyuan fight Sun Quan's kid, there is really no war to fight in Yuzhou."

He really couldn't stay in Yuzhou anymore.

Zhuge Liang said, "Lord Wen, there is news from Yecheng. Your Majesty asked us to..."

"Your Majesty's news?"

Lü Bu immediately stood up and interrupted Zhuge Liang before he finished speaking, his eyes shining, "Did Zhang Wenyuan lose the battle and Your Majesty asked me to go and help him?"

"Hahaha! I knew that guy was useless!"

When Lu Bu heard the emperor's order, his first thought was that Zhang Liao couldn't win, and the emperor asked him to go and help.

Or that was what he wanted to hear most in his heart.

Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi looked at each other, and Sima Yi continued, "That's not the case. General Zhang won a great victory in Yangzhou, defeating Sun Quan's 30,000 with 800 people."

"General Zhang not only captured Sun Quan alive, but also captured tens of thousands of soldiers, recovered the entire territory of Xuzhou and the three counties in Jiangbei, and now he has returned to the court."

"Your Majesty means that we have taken Yuzhou, and the war here is basically over, so let us return to Yecheng as well."

Sima Yi briefly explained the situation.

Lu Bu's body trembled, his eyes widened like bells.

Even the Fang Tian Hua Ji in his hand fell to the ground.

He stared at Sima Yi, trembling his lips and asked: "What did you say? Zhang Liao defeated 30,000 enemy troops with 800 men? And captured Sun Quan alive?"

Sima Yi was frightened by Lu Bu's gaze, nodded stiffly, and said: "The decree sent by His Majesty said so..."

After listening to this, Lu Bu stood there blankly as if struck by lightning, as if he had lost all his energy in an instant.

After a while, he came back to his senses, beating his chest and stamping his feet while cursing: "Cao thief! Blue-eyed thief! You misled me ah ah ah——"

Lu Bu's face was ferocious and extremely angry.

He didn't get any credit this time, but Zhang Liao got the great merit of defeating 30,000 with 800 men, and even captured Sun Quan alive!

This is something he has never done!

He can already imagine how Zhang Liao will be arrogant and show off in front of him the next time he meets him, so how can he not be angry?

It's all Cao Cao's cowardice and Sun Quan's waste!

After the anger, frustration followed. Lu Bu said to Sima Yi and Zhuge Liang with a drooping face: "Two military advisors, why don't you go back and I will continue to guard Yuzhou."

"I haven't made any achievements, I really don't have the face to go back to see His Majesty."

It's secondary to not having the face to see the emperor. He mainly doesn't want to see Zhang Liao's smug face, so it's better to avoid the limelight first.

Zhuge Liang smiled and said: "This is the will of His Majesty. Besides, there is no war in Yuzhou. There is no point for Wen Gong to stay here."

"Alas..."

Lu Bu sighed, knowing that he couldn't escape this time, so he could only grab the Fang Tian Huaji on the ground and walked out of Cao's house listlessly.

Zhuge Liang looked at Lu Bu's departing back and smiled faintly at Sima Yi: "Although Lord Wen is a bit rough, he is also a wonderful person with a true temperament."

After spending some time with Lu Bu, he found that Lu Bu was a very good person, but he was a little ambitious, and other than that, he didn't have any deep thoughts.

And after breaking the Eight Gates Golden Lock Formation, he also respected him and would not be stubborn and unconvinced.

Sima Yi did not comment and did not take up this topic. Instead, he asked: "The Cao army in Guandu retreated to Jingzhou. Kongming, what do you think they are going to do?"

This time, he and Zhuge Liang were both studying how to break Guandu, but before they could figure out a solution, the Cao army in Guandu withdrew first.

However, the direction of retreat was incredible, because this Cao army did not retreat to Yangzhou, but to Jingzhou.

Jingzhou was Liu Biao's sphere of influence.

Liu Biao was dead, and his son Liu Cong succeeded to the throne and supported the pseudo-emperor. The situation in Jingzhou was very complicated.

What exactly did Cao Jun plan to do in Jingzhou?

I have been working and writing at the same time for the past few months, and my body is a bit exhausted, so I have slowed down the pace of updating recently. Please forgive me, I will try to update more