Chapter 1209 Six Years

The five years of Xingping passed quietly, but the ensuing six years of Xingping were not a good year for Cao Cao.

Since its great defeat to the Ma family last year, it has been surrounded and trapped by 400,000 Ma family troops, both wounded and defeated by soldiers. Hundreds of thousands of Qingzhou soldiers were left in Jizhou. In the end, even they almost became a ghost under the gun of Ma Chao, which is really a fiasco that Cao Cao has never suffered since he unified his troops. He lost face and couldn't raise his head, and his vitality was so hurt that he couldn't straighten his back. In particular, Cao Tai's negotiations also lost power and humiliated the country, directly turning all the previous situation into a joke.

If possible, Cao Cao really wants God to strike a thunder and kill Ma Chao and all his Ma soldiers.

Before the trauma of the war could recover, it encountered a natural disaster. Maybe the winter of Xingping was not too cold, and the locust eggs were not frozen to death, or maybe God intended to give the world a fair life. In July, a group of locusts covered the sky in Yanzhou, like rolling dark clouds and furious storms. Wherever they passed, they chewed grass and ate trees. In the blink of an eye, the ground was empty, and there was not even a grain pole left. The people were eaten hungry and cold, and they cried all over the field. They helped the old and the children to flee to Sizhou, Qingzhou and Xuzhou, and the people who starved to death along the way blocked the canal. Cao Cao stood on Xuchang City and couldn't help but feel sad when he looked at this tragic vision.

What's more sad is that Cao Cao is still the one who held the emperor hostage. Historically, locust plagues have been regarded as the failure of German politics, and emperors should have made their own edicts. However, the world knows that the emperor has lived in the deep palace for a long time, and the decrees are all decided by the Sikong government. For a while, Cao Cao was pushed to the tip of the storm, and those old men began to stir up rumors again.

What made Cao Cao unbearable was that this civil unrest was only aimed at Cao. However, Cao reported that the folk customs all over the world have pointed to the orthodoxy of the Han Dynasty! - In front of the previous case of the disaster fighting locusts in Majia Town, people suddenly found that the Han Dynasty and Cao Sikong did not have strong measures to displace the people when facing the natural disaster. Therefore, for a while, the Ma family did nothing, but successfully suppressed the prestige of the Han Dynasty and raised its reputation.

Cao Cao and his staff were worried about this. At this time, Cao's relationship with the Han Dynasty did enter a very unfriendly node. Last year, after Ren Jun analyzed that Liu Xie still had a desire to cut off the Cao family, Cao Cao took a cooler approach to the emperor and limited Liu Xie's power to the deep palace. However, the more so, the more opposed the ministers. Although Dong Chengyi's resistance has been completely eliminated, there seems to be a new force on the court.

Most obviously, Cao Cao thought that Yang Biao, who had a lot of connections with the Ma family, was not a good thing. Cao Cao thought that he could have an indescribable contact with Yang Biao about the assassination. What's more, Cao Cao recently found that Yang Biao had been avoiding himself, and even after the locust plague, he was sick and would never go to court unless His Majesty spoke.

There is also Kong Rong, a young man who narrowly escaped when Dong Cheng's faction was cut off. Recently, he took on the posture of reviving the Han Dynasty, and declared that it was a great mission, just like his 20th ancestor Kongqiu Zizi to revive Zhou Li - this made Cao very angry with Kong Rong, but it was because Kong Rong was Shilin. You can't do it with the identity of a famous host.

The main force of Cao's middle and lower levels is the people in Shilin. The imperial examination of the Ma family has won the hearts of the poor scholars in the world, and the huge wild students have spared no effort to pour into the holy place in Chang'an's heart. On the one hand, Cao Cao also learned the way of reforming talents, and on the other hand, he also needed to attract the children of those scholars in the name of Kong Rong.

This embarrassing and angry reality made Cao Cao in the court from time to time, showing a murderous intention for Kong Rong. In order to deter Kong Rong, Cao Cao also deliberately dismissed Sikong Zhangxi and killed Zhao Yan, a councilman who liked to make comments. But Kong Rong saw this and scolded Cao even more for eliminating dissidents and bullying the king.

For all this, Cao Cao was anxious and hated it in his heart. Since the beginning of this year, small-scale rebellions have begun to appear in various places. The yellow scarf thief in Yanzhou still has faint signs of resurgence, and the people at the bottom of Xuzhou also have voices calling for Uncle Liu to return... In the face of many crises, Cao Cao and his staff unanimously agreed that a victory must be won to stabilize Cao's position. Strengthen Cao Cao's prestige and transfer the contradictions under his rule.

So Cao turned his eyes to Yuan Tan in Qingzhou - although Cao Cao currently seems to have internal and external troubles, compared with Yuan Tan, he is still very powerful. In particular, Yuan Tan, a thing that remembers not remembering to eat and beating, after Cao Cao married his daughter to him, actually took it as merit that he did not send troops to Jizhou to attack Cao. And this guy is really dishonest and disobedient. It's really just right to fight against him.

In September, Cao Cao ordered Cao Ren, the general of Zhendong, and Zhang Yu, General Pingdi, to leave Mount Tai, and Xiahou Dun, the general of Zhennan, to leave Qi County. He personally led 30,000 elite soldiers from Qingzhou, led Cao Zhen, Cao Tai, Xia Hou Shang, Li Dian and others as the Chinese army and sent troops to Xu Chang. Cao Cao's use of force again is still very powerful. Under the three-way army, Qingzhou was in a hurry. Yuan Tan was originally a man who was addicted to killing incompetence. At this time, there was only Wang Xiu's counselor under the account, and he never listened to advice. In the face of Cao Cao's offensive, Yuan Tan immediately became furious and personally led 50,000 troops to fight against each other.

However, before facing Cao Cao's main force and encountering Cao Ren, Yuan Tan saw that Cao's military weapon was far better than his own. Two thousand tigers and leopards rode a charge, and 10,000 infantry were killed and abandoned their armor. Yuan Tan couldn't figure out why he didn't even have a chance to fight against him, so he lost inexplicably. After that, he had no choice but to retreat to Huang County, Donglai County, and firmly defended the clear field.

Cao's army came in person. On the one hand, he ordered the soldiers to pile up earth mountains and dig tunnels. They set up roofless high-rise buildings near the city and fired arrows into the city. The soldiers and defenders of the city were shocked. On the other hand, they sent their own generals who could be used to fighting led their troops out and quickly occupied the surrounding counties and counties. After being trapped for two months, Yuan Tan suddenly found that he had even broken the way back. He was discouraged and took his wife's route.

After Cao's daughter entered Cao's camp, instead of pleading for Yuan Tan, she shared the defense deployment of Donglai County. Cao Cao knew his own enemy and first pretended to agree to Yuan Tan to surrender, and sent Cao Tai to lead 500 tigers and leopards to escort his daughter back to Huang County. Yuan Tan was overjoyed and held a banquet to drink with Cao Tai. Cao Tai then poured down Yuan Tan and tied him up. After that, he fraudulently opened the city gate to lead Cao's army into the city, and Qingzhou was flattened.

This battle can be said to be the only highlight of the year. Cao Cao once again used his genius-like combat skills to let the world see who the traitor they despised most in their hearts was, which greatly shocked the eager hearts of those who could only talk about scholars and doctors in the court.

However, the war that probably destroyed Yuan's year was so strange that the world, which was already a little numb, did not have much feelings about this war. Everyone felt that this year, the two talented teenagers, Bei Ma Chao and Nan Sun Ce, did not take action, and there seemed to be no war in the world to comment on.

Cao Cao beat Yuan Tan? Isn't the result already doomed?

What, have you been playing for more than three months?

The level is so stinky that it should be done in a month...

In this way, in the regret of the world, six years of Xingping passed quietly. The Ma family and Sun Ce, whom they had high expectations, have always been very quiet. It was not until after the Spring Festival that another news suddenly broke out that the ordinary world had a talk after dinner: Jiangdong's little bully and the beautiful prince Zhou Yu wanted to marry the second daughter of Qiao Guolao!

After the news reached Chang'an, Ma Chao suddenly raised his head from the government affairs and asked Diao Chan, "I remember you said at the beginning that Li Junyou was either Mi Zhang, or Da Qiao?"

Diao Chan was also suddenly calm, but then his face calmed down. Youyou said, "It seems that what should come is still coming. Yes, that big Joe should be sure that it is undoubtedly Li Junyou, the little lover you miss in your previous life..."