Chapter 340 Cao Mengde won without fighting

Hearing this, Liao Hua thought for a while and said respectfully to Liu Bei, "Uncle Liu, Hua has lived here for several years, and has not found such talents!" There are talents in Yingchuan County, but they have been carved up by Yuan Shao and Cao Cao..."

Of course, Liu Bei knows what Liao Hua refers to: Xun Yu, Xun You, Guo Jia, Tian Feng, Guo Tu and other super counselors. Such counselors will not follow Liu Bei: one is to follow Liu Bei to suffer, and the other is to follow Liu Bei. With Liu Bei's strength, they can't give full play to their talents. The effort is not flattering, and life is in danger. Even if they are willing, the virtuous Liu Bei will not agree.

What Liu Bei needs is a wise man with low birth and extraordinary talent. After that, Liu Bei chatted with Liao Hua again. In this way, Liu Bei successfully recruited Liao Hua and conquered Woniuling, and the mountain thieves near Yingchuan County and Runan City were completely eliminated. As a result, Liu Bei's troops soared to 20,000, and the warehouse was full of military supplies. Liu Bei found the feeling of getting rich overnight.

After finally having a decent city, Liu Bei rectified the team and optimized resources while promulgating a recruitment order to select all kinds of talents. As for the rise of Liu Bei, Cao Cao, the new hegemon in the north, had no time to pay attention to him, while Liu Biao, a new upstart in Jingzhou, tacitly allowed Liu Bei, who was also a relative of the royal family, to develop in Runan. Because Liu Bei was so strong, he could serve as the first gateway for Jingzhou to resist Cao Cao's army. There is no need to pay a penny, no need to pay a soldier. Liu Biao is willing to do such a business!

The ancient and magnificent Luoyang City. According to Guo Jia's plan, Cao Cao's side was not in a hurry to attack the city, but gathered in a town dozens of miles south of Luoyang City.

Seeing that victory was imminent, Guo Jia, the most important counselor around him, broke out of serious illness and was sent back to Xuchang. Cao Cao himself was a little depressed. At the beginning, Cao Cao did not take the plan of Xu You, a counselor, but adopted the plan of Guo Jia and others, steadily and gradually advancing, encroaching on Yuan Shao's territory.

In the face of Cao Cao's strong attack, Yuan Shao's side inevitably messed up and did a lot of stupid and evil things that hurt nature and lost the hearts of the people. Every time Yuan Shao's side retreated to a city, he increased taxes and forced the strong men to join the army. If there was resistance from the rich clans, Yuan Shao ordered him to kill him all. Yuan Shao's mentality at this time was Yes: If you don't have a good life, you don't want to have a good life... Yuan Shao himself returned to Luoyang City and the first thing he did was to kill the counselor Tian Feng of the nine clans. The reason is: At the beginning, Tian Feng urged Yuan Shao not to start a war against Cao Cao. At the same time, Tian Feng predicted that Yuan Shao would be defeated!

Yuan Shao's move made Tian Feng's enemies Guo Tu, the trial pair and others extremely happy, while Tian Feng's good friend Chang Shi Jushu and others were very frustrated. They all returned to their hometown one by one...

In the past two years, Cao Jun has won every day, while Yuan Jun has been defeated again and again. In the predicament, Yuan Shao's words and deeds are becoming more and more out of line and unpopular. It's getting more and more difficult... This situation is what Cao Cao expects. It is better to make Yuan Shao crazy and his reputation plummet than to defeat him directly. This situation is difficult to happen... Yuan Shao has greatly lost the hearts of the people, and Cao Cao Cao's reputation is indeed increasing day by day, changing day by day and ten days.

Yuan Shao didn't care about his predicament. In the past two years, he was still immersed in chagrin: Why did he fail in the battle of Guandu? Cao Cao, who was not as good as himself in all aspects, finally fought back against the Jedi and defeated his million troops in one fell swoop? Why is that? ... In the past two years, Yuan Shao ignored his image and indulged in wine and sex all day long. The geisha he played with were forcibly obtained from the rich clans...

When Cao Cao led his army to arrive near Luoyang City, Yuan Shao finally couldn't bear the pressure and was seriously ill in bed. At this time, his two sons, Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang, fought for the right to succeed. At the same time, the civilian generals of Yuan Shao's side were also divided into two camps.

It is precisely because of the emergence of such a camp in Yuan Shao's camp, Guo Jia reviewed the situation and suggested that Cao Cao temporarily stop attacking Luoyang City, adopt the strategy of "watching the fire across the shore", quietly watch the changes in Yuan Shao's camp, watch the competition of snipe and clams, and finally get the benefits of the fisherman...

It was at this time that Guo Jia fell ill without warning. Guo Jia's condition makes Cao Cao extremely worried. On this day, Cao Cao was reading the secret report from Luoyang City. The secret report said: Last night, Yuan Shao, who was seriously ill in bed, was assassinated and his head was plundered by the assassins. This morning, Yuan Shao's body was not cold, and his two sons led their troops to fight fiercely in the Xuanwu Gate of the palace... Originally, the two were equally strong, but because Chunyu Qiong supported his nephew Yuan Shang, Yuan Shang finally defeated his brother Yuan Tan. , Yuan Tan was defeated, withdrew from Luoyang City, and fled north...

In the infighting of the Yuan family, perhaps other people, from the grassroots to the powerful, will feel happy and happy, while Cao Cao is worried. Because in recent years, due to his sons - Cao Pi, Cao Zhi, Cao Zhang, etc., there have also been disharmonious factors between them, and they have also begun to fight in the open and secret... Cao Cao naturally knows the temperament of the children: In comparison, Cao Pi is good at forbearance, Cao Zhi is full of talent, and Cao Zhang is brave and good at fighting. For power, Cao Zhang, the super general, is very simple, while Cao Pi and Cao Zhi have a strong interest in it.

When attacking Songyang City at the beginning, Cao Cao had notified his soldiers in advance that after the capture of the city, he would safely send Rong Mi, the most beautiful woman in Songyang City, to his central army account... As a result, Cao's army captured Songyang City as he wished, but Cao Pi took Ying Mi as his own. For this reason, Cao Cao was extremely dissatisfied with Cao Pi. But he can't deal with Cao Pi. Because when Cao Pi saw Yu Mi, Yu Mi had already married Yuan Tan. It can be said that Cao Pi robbed Yu Mi from Yuan Tan. Cao Pi said that Yu Mi was already an extortion for the body of the remnant flowers and defeat of Liu. He was not worthy of serving Cao Cao Cao, so he took the best beauty Rong Mi as his own...

As a well-known talented woman and beauty, Cao Zhi and Cao Zhang have also admired them for a long time, but they were taken the lead by Cao Pi and forcibly occupied them. They are also extremely dissatisfied with Cao Pi's behavior. Cao Zhang's temperament is simple. He is just sulking and passes for a while. However, Cao Zhi, who is docile, hates him and can't dream at night...

Thinking of the bullshit between his sons, Cao Cao's head began to hurt again. At the beginning, development, ** and end of some things, Cao Cao can also see through at a glance, but it is one thing to see through, and it is another thing to successfully resolve the contradictions: his three sons can make conflicts for a beautiful woman today, so in the future, the three of them will definitely fight for power... Thinking of this Chu: Cao Cao saw the bloody scene of fighting in the same room. Therefore, he didn't understand the struggle of the royal family before - they were all blood relatives. Why did they meet each other? Nowadays, due to the high position and the subtle changes in various things, Cao Cao can feel... This feeling, as if Cao Cao likes to play with women after the victory of the battle, can only be understood by Hitler and Napoleon in later generations.

Cao Cao understands what he can achieve today: first is his own ambition decision, and second, it is also closely related to the emergence of family talents; his family's "eight tiger generals" have made great contributions to his rise; but his rise now also has hidden dangers, this kind of hidden The problem is the younger generation from the family...

In such a situation, Cao Cao finally felt the state of mind of successful people in history: it turned out that they were also troubled, and this kind of troubles could not be solved overnight... As a talented Cao Cao, in the face of this hidden danger, this kind of trouble can only be solved step by step. Before the hidden danger breaks out, he has to be the strongest and the best... to establish great achievements comparable to the three emperors and five emperors!

Cao Cao stared at the location of Luoyang City on the military map, and then rested peacefully under the service of the maid. Two days later, a great good news spread from the front line to Cao Cao Cao's ears: Since Yuan Shao's super general Chun Yuqiong helped his nephew Yuan Shang defeat his brother Yuan Tan, and Yuan Tan led the army to leave Luoyang City, Yuan Shang also led the army to leave Luoyang City at the suggestion of his uncle Chunyu Qiong. The trees fell and scattered, and various relatives of the Yuan family saw that the general trend had gone. They were afraid of the retaliation of the Cao army in the future, so they also left Luoyang City one after another: either chasing the two brothers of the Yuan family, or burying their surnames under their names, scattered in the red dust and mountains...

In this case, although Yuan Shang ordered the soldiers and civilians of Luoyang City to sacrifice their lives to resist Cao's army before leaving Luoyang City, Yuan Shang left Luoyang City. The officials and rich families in the city opened the gate tacitly, opened the lights, beat drums and cannons, and welcomed Cao's army to enter Luoyang City!

When Cao Cao heard the news, he was stunned on the spot: because he and many civilian generals under his account had imagined all kinds of occupation of Luoyang City before, but he did not think of this way - Luoyang City Army democratically opened the city gate and dedicated Luoyang City to Cao Cao!

After a burst of stunnedness, Cao Cao's heart was occupied by surprise. How long has it been? Don't you have such joy? ... In the face of the sudden surprise, all the haze in Cao Cao's heart swept away. When the long history Xun Yu came to the Chinese military tent, Cao Cao issued an order through Xun Yu's hand: ordered Cao Ren and Xia Hou Chun to lead the tiger and leopard cavalry to quickly rush to Luoyang City, and strive for the fastest time to receive the city, while maintaining the stability of Luoyang City; Zhang Liao and Xu Huang were ordered to lead 20,000 infantry to Luoyang City as soon as possible... And Cao Cao Under the protection of the bodyguard commander Xu Zhu and his son Cao Zhang, he led 30,000 Chinese army troops to gather in Luoyang City... In this way, the task was entrusted to Xia Houyuan, Cao Hong and other generals.

At this time, Cao Jun's generals Yu Jin and Le Jin were still recovering from their wounds. Their trauma has been cured, and they are still continuing to recuperate...

All the way, Cao Cao's army phalanx finally came to Luoyang City. Chinese phalanx: Under the protection of the super fierce general Xu Zhu, Cao Cao rode his claws and flew to the front of the team. Behind Cao Cao and Xu Chu were Changshi Xun Yu, Jianjun Xun You and other counselors. In order to maintain majesty and suppress the scene, Cao Cao's phalanx marched very slowly: from the suspension bridge in Luoyang City to the gate of the city, less than two kilometers away, Cao Cao and his party actually walked half a column of incense.