We agreed that you, a weak strategist, would fight against three heroes by yourself?

"You are a very smart man!"

Xi Yu smiled: "You also know that I may doubt what you do!"

"But you should also know one thing. As early as ten years ago, your father and I had a very good relationship!"

"Of course I understand this matter."

A soft light flashed in Cao Xian's eyes: "I actually understand why my father asked me to marry you! This is no different from Heqing! In fact, my father also wants to go back ten years ago!"

Xi Yu was slightly startled.

You can't go back at all!

"That's actually understandable."

Xiyu didn't say much.

"My father and some elders in the family will always mention your name! And if you marry me, then I can visit my father with you in the future!"

"decide as things go."

Xi Yu's eyes were slightly cold: "If you are going to do this, then I may not do anything to you in the future."

He turned around and was about to leave, but suddenly he heard footsteps behind him. Cao Xian, who was wearing red clothes, rushed over and hugged his waist, as if not letting him go.

"If I really can't meet my father, then I can accept it!"

"Are you ready?"

Xi Yu's eyes moved slightly: "What do you have in mind?"

"There is a saying, if you marry a chicken, you will follow the chicken. If you marry a dog, you will follow the dog. Since I am already your wife, I must make you feel comfortable. The situation in the world has nothing to do with me! I just want to stay at home quietly!"

Cao Xian said softly: "But you must be careful about sister Jingshu! She was raised by her father, and she also has different responsibilities!"

Although her tone was gentle, Xi Yu was also a little surprised that she actually revealed the matter like this.

"I also understand one thing. If I really want to blend in with you, I can't hold anything back!"

"This is what my father told me."

"What did Prime Minister Cao say?"

Xi Yu frowned, indeed a little surprised.

In fact, he can also draw a message from it, that is, he and Cao Cao may not be able to reconcile.

"Fine!"

Xi Yu said no more and blew out the candles.

This beautiful night passed by in a snap.

The next day was the wedding with He Jingshu, which was not much different.

After the completion of these two marriages, there were two more buildings on the theater side, and the space was expanded, and it was quite harmonious.

Everyone was praising Xi Yu's gorgeous house, but no one said Xi Yu was an extravagant person.

After all, Xuzhou is now very prosperous and not as poor as before, and the people live and work in peace and contentment.

After three months.

Cao Cao was once again persuaded by the ministers to advance.

Xi Yu did not send a letter of objection at this time. Xun Yu alone opposed this and refused the appointment to become the Third Duke.

Cao Cao had no choice but to refuse.

To be honest, half of the process is done. If there is one more time, Cao Cao will directly agree to this and become Wei Gong.

There is no way to stop this matter. Ma Teng, Liu Bei and others could not stop it even if they were anxious.

If you object, there is no way to spread it.

Three days later, Xun Yu made an unexpected and reasonable choice. He hung his seal in the mansion and left.

And Cao Cao seemed to be a lot tired.

He sat at home, watching the spring snow melt, and just laughed.

Xu Chu was serving wine next to him, his eyes a little uncomfortable: "Lord! Don't drink so much! It's already late at night!"

"Drink a little more."

Cao Cao glanced at Xu Chu and said with a complicated tone: "Zhong Kang, I even feel that one day you will leave me!"

Xu Chu scratched his head and said, "I won't do such a thing!"

"Don't worry!"

"You!" Cao Cao patted him on the shoulder and asked again: "Then do you think I am an ugly person?"

"For my own ideas, I gave up my friends and forced them to leave!"

Xu Chu's expression was still a little dazed, and there was a hint of boredom in his tone: "I actually don't understand this either! But I know that there is no reason why you did this!"

"And there is no such thing as both worlds!"

"This surprises me a little!"

Cao Cao laughed and said: "Others think you are a martial arts idiot, but I feel that they are really wrong. You are truly transparent!"

"Let's go, help me back! I'm starting to have a headache again now!"

After Cao Cao captured the north, he occupied Youzhou, and the vassal states of Liaodong also belonged to him. At the same time, he also shocked those groups in the north.

To be honest, the nomads on the grasslands have become much more disciplined. They can only do normal business with Cao Cao and do not dare to rob or wreak havoc anymore.

Moreover, due to the bitter cold outside the Great Wall, it became difficult to even raise horses, and they even had to go south to buy fodder.

Therefore, during this year, the two places under Xi Yu's rule also harvested countless gold, silver, ore, and even some exquisite commodities from the West.

At this time, there was no longer any food crisis outside of Qingzhou and Xuzhou. Cao Cao asked for another 400,000 shi of food, and he was quite polite.

After he became the Duke of Wei, he designated Yecheng as his capital and took over all his wives and children, thus establishing the core of the political power.

And the emperor seems to have been ignored.

In spring, Cao Song passed away.

Xi Yu didn't have money to pay homage, so he just set up a memorial tablet at home. To be honest, Xi Yu had a deeper relationship with him.

Of course, he also tried to find ways to extend his life by ten years.

It can be considered that the two owe each other nothing.

It's a kind of fate.

After Xun Yu gave up his official position, he came to Xuzhou and became a teacher. He even took over his family. His relationship with Xi Yu became very good, and he even understood what it meant to be in a prosperous age.

Besides lecturing, he would also chat with Xiyu.

They even said that it would be a good thing if the emperor also came to Xuzhou.

He even said that some "earth masters" and "feng shui masters" believed that there were dragon energy and dragon veins in Qingxu.

However, this was not quite appropriate, and no one dared to say it openly.

It was June.

Emperor Xian issued an edict to merge the fourteen states, and at the same time restored the original nine states system. The biggest change was to assign all Bingzhou and Youzhou to Jizhou.

Wei Guo now has a lot of momentum.

Even Cao Cao was building ancestral temples and other buildings.

Although it is only a feudal country, it does have a certain degree of autonomy.

The world is indeed gradually changing political power.

However, Xi Yu understood that Cao Cao would not stand on his own feet, and he would probably leave this matter to future generations.

Moreover, the current Cao family clan members support Cao Pi.

Few people choose Cao Ang. After all, he has stayed in Xuzhou for too long.

Not only did he not help them deliver some news, he even refused to be promoted for the first time.

To be honest, war is a very troublesome thing.

In fact, Cao Cao has made all preparations. Whether he can achieve great success depends on going south!

Those members of the Cao family and the Xiahou family are also waiting to go south!

More than a month passed quickly. Xiahou Dun led his cavalry to recapture Wancheng, and then sent troops to Xinye and other places.

Liu Bei was also unable to support him.

After retreating for almost four months, Liu Bei retreated directly south in order to preserve his strength.

Cao Cao's 100,000 advance troops rushed all the way to pursue and kill Jingzhou's soldiers and horses, beating them to the ground.

There are still 500,000 soldiers and horses to follow. Due to the abundant food and grass, there will be no problem even if they fight for a year.

In addition to this incident, Cao Cao also transferred Zhang Liao back to fight in a guerrilla style.

In fact, Zhang Liao now only has 8,000 men, but all of them are elite and invincible in Jingzhou.

Each time they advance to a stage, they will build a small stronghold.

After seven days of slaughter, they were resisted.

Zhang Liao and Xia Houyuan's nearly 20,000 cavalry were wiped out by the shield formation on Hulupo!

To be honest, Guan Yu has been waiting for this opportunity for more than a year.

It can be considered as fierce as the tip of a needle against the awn of wheat!

And the formation that Liu Bei had prepared for so long would not be broken through so easily!

Xia Houyuan and Zhang Liao directly lost more than half of their men, and most of the dead were even trampled to death.

This incident also caused the soldiers to stop for a while, and Liu Bei fled directly to Jiangxia.

This incident made the people in Jingzhou extremely panicked.

After Liu Bei, Guan Yu and others arrived in Jiangxia, they joined Liu Qi.

In fact, Liu Qi's side was already in a critical situation. When Liu Bei and others came, they also started to discuss.

There were not many people in the government office in Xiangyang. Liu Biao looked very old and had become very broken due to long-term hard work.

He didn't know how to solve the problem, and he couldn't see the world being unified. He felt painful and uncomfortable in his heart.

After all, they have 300,000 soldiers and horses in their territory, but they dare not go to war with Cao Cao.

It's Cai who's causing trouble!

When Liu Bei and his two brothers came here, Liu Biao had been waiting for a long time.

After entering, Liu Bei saluted and said: "Brother, I have to ask you! Are you willing to resist Cao Cao?"

"To be honest, Nanyang has been in crisis for a long time. If we can't get help from others, we will be in dire straits! And you will become a sinner!"

"What nonsense are you talking about?"

Cai Mao's eyes were full of fire and he roared angrily.

The reason why he waited for Liu Bei to come over was to stop him from thinking.

Otherwise, Liu Biao always thinks about fighting Cao Cao, so what!

There is simply no way to defeat Cao Cao!

It is better to surrender to Cao Cao in order to gain some benefits.

"Lord, we absolutely cannot do this! This guy is a lone evil star. Wasn't Gongsun Zan defeated by him? Tao Qian was also defeated!"

"Now, he will bring disaster to our side again!"

Cai Mao's eyes were extremely cold: "If we tie him up and send him to Cao Cao, we will definitely get a reward!"

There was a chill in Liu Bei's eyes: "Brother Emperor, the Han Dynasty is now in name only! We have an sworn enemy with that Cao thief! If you really surrender, how can you be worthy of my ancestors of the Han Dynasty?"

Liu Biao's gloomy eyes lit up, and his expression became much more determined: "I will definitely not surrender!"

"My lord, you are confused! There is no way we can compare with that Cao Cao. Once we start a war, we will only fall into trouble!"

Cai Mao was so anxious that he had been trying to persuade him for so long, but he couldn't resist Liu Bei's words!

"This must not be the case!"

Liu Bei's expression was full of coldness: "It's because the big man has people like you that he becomes like this! You are the general, how can you be such a coward?"

Zhang Fei also stepped forward, pulled out the knife in his hand, and slashed at Cai Mao.

To be honest, Cai Mao was unable to resist, and was directly put to the neck by the knife.

Zhang Fei even increased his strength and cut off his head directly.

The guards rushed over and stopped Zhang Fei directly.

Liu Biao was confused, and so was Liu Bei, feeling a little depressed.

"Xuande, you are so confused!"

Liu Biao jumped up and down anxiously, his expression was very nervous and his whole body was trembling.

Liu Bei gritted his teeth and said: "Surrendering to Cao Cao is equivalent to betraying the great man. My third brother killed him, there is nothing wrong! He was even helping the emperor brother!"

Liu Biao had nothing to say. He knew that doing so would definitely cause chaos in Jingzhou.

And Cai will definitely take advantage of it to cause trouble.

"Brother Imperial, don't you know what year it is now? If we don't have the means to be ruthless, we will be in trouble! Once we make up our minds to fight against Cao Cao, we cannot allow civil strife to happen!"

There was a hint of dullness in Liu Bei's voice: "Cao Cao is definitely not invincible! I caused Xia Houyuan and Zhang Liao to suffer a big loss half a month ago! If we work together, it is not impossible to win!"

"In this case!"

Liu Biao hesitated, but finally chose to believe Liu Bei and nodded seriously.

"Then let's work together to fight against Cao!"

In this year, Jingzhou can be considered to have exerted its strength, and it can be considered that all forces have joined forces to fight to the death with Cao Cao.

The Cao army that entered Jingzhou was also repulsed, and Shengcai lost three thousand horses and various horse equipment.

Even a lot of bows and crossbows were lost.

To be honest, the crossbows produced in Xuzhou are very important to them.

Although it cannot be used to attack fortresses, it will have great advantages in guerrilla warfare.

But it finally stopped Cao Jun's pace.

They stopped at Wancheng.

Cao Cao established a military camp there. To be honest, it was already an empty city because all the people had gone to Jiangxia.

Cao Cao and the people around him were walking on the muddy path.

It had rained just now, and there was still moisture in the air.

Their expressions were not particularly good, and they even had a sense of anger.

Zhang Liao and Xia Houyuan failed before, and to be honest, they were a little depressed. They even had ugly expressions because of several consecutive defeats during this period.

"To be honest, this place is no different from before!"

Cao Cao shook off the rain and went to the government office again. All the people behind him followed him, but they were also very silent.

That's what they thought.

Jingzhou will definitely surrender

But unexpectedly, after Liu Bei passed by, the situation suddenly changed.

If Jinzhou wants to fight stubbornly, it was probably just pretending before, hoping to get them to relax their vigilance.

It is for this reason that Cao Cao was killed with 50,000 soldiers and horses.

Cao Cao's eyes were also very sinister.

He also remembered Xi Yu's previous evaluation of Liu Bei.

"This man is definitely not mediocre!"

It seems that is indeed the case.

Cao Cao sighed: "It's really dark under the lamp!"

He smiled at the people on his left and right again: "This Liu Xuande is by no means a mediocre person. Although he is rather annoying, I am indeed very interested in competing with him!"

Cheng Yu sighed, and then whispered: "If this is the case, we shouldn't come out!"

"Cheng Yu, what did you say!"

Cao Cao's eyes were angry: "You say it again?"

"I, I, I didn't say much!"

"Ha!" Cao Cao sneered: "Do you think I let Liu Bei go because I was careless?"

Isn't that true?

Everyone was a little confused.

Xi Zhicai didn't know what Cao Cao was thinking, and felt that this was a bit far-fetched.

Is this forcibly establishing one's own image?

Cao Cao's expression was calm: "The reason why I let him go is not because I couldn't catch him at the time, but because this guy is not enough to be afraid of!"

Cao Cao put his hands behind his back and said, "I have heard before that Liu Bei swept all the people to Jiangxia! But no one there can help him!"

Cheng Yu whispered: "However, Liu Qi has stocked up troops there. Now he has nearly 100,000 troops. He is also mobilizing shipbuilders to build large ships. It is very likely that they will go to Jiangdong!"

"If Liu Bei colludes with Sun Ce, then we may be in some trouble!"

"Report!"

Another soldier's call came. Everyone turned to look, and one man rushed over and said with a nervous expression: "Lord! Something is wrong!"

"As far as we know, Liu Bei killed Cai Mao, and now he takes Cai Mao's place, and the two of them jointly suppressed all the nobles!"

"They are even already deploying and are ready to fight to the death!"

"Fight to the death?"

Cao Cao's expression changed at that time.

And what he said before.

Looking at it now, he felt like he had been slapped.

Cao Cao's face turned green and red. He pulled out the long sword in his hand and chopped off one of the stone statue's legs with one strike. He shouted loudly: "I'm just a commoner selling grass, but you dare to call me a clan member!"

"How dare you ruin my plan!"

"Are you looking for death?"

"Gather all the troops to me and knock down Xiangyang first!"

"I will crush Liu Biao to ashes. After capturing Liu Bei, I will make him suffer the most horrific punishment in the world!"

In anger, Cao Cao made the wrong decision.

In the next period of time, none of his men would be able to rest.

The following spring.

This year's spring is not as lively as before, there are no red lanterns, and there is no laughter of the people. Jinzhou is not as peaceful and peaceful as before.

Cao Cao's troops and defenders fought almost every day, fighting at various levels.

To be honest, Jinzhou has not experienced much battle at all in these years. At most, it has only eradicated civil strife and thieves.

Therefore, a lot of food and grass have been accumulated. However, this year's war also caused terrible losses to soldiers and horses.

Cao Cao probably didn't expect that his ambitious move would usher in such fierce resistance!

He even wanted to send everyone to attack the city many times, but after being attacked by dead soldiers, his siege equipment was burned.

I can only adjust other things!

But if we need to bring in baggage, it will definitely take a long time.