"Cao Mengde! Do you still remember me, Lu Fengxian?"

Lu Bu sneered and urged the Red Rabbit Horse to take Cao Cao straight. Xu Chu, who was beside Cao Cao, hurriedly waved his sword to meet him, but Lu Bu's horse speed was extremely high, and Xu Chu almost fought on the spot. With just one move, he slashed Xu Chu to the side. Lu Bu smiled disdainfully, and didn't even look at Xu Chu, and continued to kill Cao Cao.

"Ming Gong retreated quickly!!"

The guards beside Cao Cao pulled Cao Cao's reins and ran away. The entire Cao army was in chaos under the impact of Lu Bu's Iron Cavalry.

From sending troops to Xuzhou to retreating back to Yanzhou, the Yanzhou army went through dozens of battles and walked hundreds of miles. It was already at the end of its strength. More importantly, many people returned to Yanzhou and saw that the cities along the way betrayed Cao Cao, and began to worry about their families.

The reason why Guan Yu lost Jingzhou immediately collapsed because the soldiers' family fell into the enemy's hands, and the army had no desire to fight and just wanted to run away home.

Therefore, Sun Tzu's art of war is full of words. If there is no war in the scattered land, the princes will fight their own land, which means they will be scattered land. In other words, try not to fight on their own territory. Those who are in the army will easily escape and return home.

You are not a cabinet force, don't think of being an exception.

Under the intersection of several factors, the Lu Bu army was as if they entered a deserted land, killing Cao's army for dozens of miles until Xun Yu in Juancheng City got the news and sent Xiahou Dun to lead his army to support him. In addition, it was dark, which made the Lu cavalry, who had been so excited to kill, withdraw the troops.

Seeing Lu Bu withdraw his troops, Chen Gong said to Lu Bu, "Cao Cao was defeated, and it was a great time to siege Juancheng and annihilate Cao's army. Why did Mr. Wen retreat?"

Lu Bu smiled and said, "Cao Cao is just like this, why worry? Juancheng City has high food and enough food, so don't worry for a moment."

As he said that, Lu Bu was going back to Puyang. He had been away from home for two days, and his wife had to miss him, so she had to go back as soon as possible.

This made Chen Gong so angry that he could only spit lotus flowers behind his back, cursing, and helpless.

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"Where is the Ming Gong? Where is the Ming Gong??"

"Ming Gong!!!"

"Meng De!!!"

Countless Cao troops shouted everywhere on torches, looking for Cao Cao who had been missing for a day. However, Cao Cao, who had been dragging him by guard Sima Louyi, was dared to come out of his head. Seeing that the person who was looking for him was his subordinate, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

"Lu Sima, thanks to you this time." Cao Cao sighed and said, "I thought Lu Bu was brave but not resourceful, but I didn't expect that after he and Chen Gong joined forces, they were so terrible."

"Ming Gong, I think something is strange..." Lou Yi said to Cao Cao, "Has Lu Bu withdrawn his troops? Otherwise, he would see our soldiers scattered and search for Ming Gong everywhere, and he would definitely attack and kill him again."

Cao Cao was stunned and clapped his hands and said, "Miao! Wonderful!! Go, go back to the camp quickly!"

After finding Cao Cao, the Cao army suddenly had a backbone. Xun Yu waited in Juancheng until Cao Cao returned, and his heart was relieved.

"Hahaha! Wenruo, then Lu Bu is quite brave, which is beyond my expectations." Cao Cao laughed and held Xun Yu's hand and walked in, expressing his gratitude to Xun Yu for defending Juancheng with intimate expression.

"It's good that Ming Gong is fine. Lu Bu's bravery and Chen Gong's firefly wisdom. When Ming Gong comes back, he will definitely be able to defeat the thief army!"

"Hahaha, Wenruo is right, everyone!" Cao Cao stopped and looked at his civil and military officials, and found that most of their eyes were full of fatigue and pessimism.

"I used to regard Lu Bu as a character, after all, he killed Dong Zhuo who I couldn't kill.

But now, I find that he is just like that!

Think about it, if Lu Bu wins a big victory just now, he should have taken advantage of the victory, but now he withdraws his troops back to Puyang, his ambition is like a dog, but our ambition is to support the Han Dynasty and quell the world. One side is a swallow and sparrow, and the other side is a wild geese. How can the swallow and sparrow be better than the wild geese? Do you think it is right?"

Cao Cao's optimism made Cao's military and civil servants nodded. Yes, would Lu Bu take everyone to support the Han Dynasty and pacify the world? Does he have such ambition?

Seeing that the atmosphere of the crowd had eased a lot, Cao Cao said to Xun Yu, "How about Dong'a?"

"Dong'a has sufficient food and grass, enough to support the military for one year."

Cao Cao breathed a sigh of relief. He could not feel panic when he had food in his hand.

"Wenruo, you said, how should we fight Zhang Miao and others next?"

Xun Yu Fuxu said, "Lu Bu's truly elite troops are the cavalry. Yanzhou is flat and suitable for his cavalry to fight. Therefore, we must fight quickly and defend against cavalry, attack east and west, first restore Dongping and Taishan, wait until the morale of the army is restored, then attack Puyang!"

Cao Cao recognized Xun Yu's strategy. He looked to the north and sighed, "I don't know what happened in the war in Hebei."

The rebellion in Dongjun and the blockade of the Yellow River made Cao Cao lose information exchanges with Hebei.

He hoped that Ma Qiang could fight Yuan Shao a little longer, and it would be better to fight for ten or eight years, giving him plenty of time.

Time would have been slower.

At this moment, Xuzhou on the other side was also thinking about this question.

Cao Cao's plan to alienate his letters quickly began to ferment in Xuzhou.

Tao Qian was not a kind boss. When Cao Cao was threatening, he would rely on Lu Zhi and Liu Bei. However, when the news of civil strife in Yanzhou and Cao Cao could no longer attack Xuzhou came, he immediately felt the threat of Lu Zhi, who had made great achievements in military affairs.

Especially Liu Bei.

Liu Bei likes to make friends with heroes and scholars on weekdays, and has the foundation of Pei State, and is strong and brave. He has become a leader in Xuzhou.

Tao Qian's command of Xuzhou was relied on his local fellow countrymen, namely Danyang. Just like the local gentry in Yanzhou, the local gentry in Hebei, the local gentry in Xuzhou did not like Tao Qian.

Because Tao Qian himself led a team, he infringed on the interests of the local gentry in Xuzhou.

Moreover, in the Danyang system brought by Tao Qian, there are bastards like Su Rong who thinks about eating and taking cues all day long, enforcing the law violently, and then using people's fat and ointment to overhaul the Buddha's statue and watch the temples to seek blessings from the Buddha.

This made the Xuzhou local faction urgently hope to find someone to replace Tao Qian.

Liu Bei, who had not many direct descendants, immediately entered the sight of these people after Cao Cao's letter.

Especially not long ago, something big happened.

It turned out that when Cao Cao attacked Xuzhou, after receiving the news of Lu Zhi's defeat, Zu Rong led tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians to flee south to Guangling.

As an official in Xuzhou, Zhao Yu, the governor of Guangling County, naturally received it and took Zuo Rong to see the scenery of Guangling.

Seeing this, Guangling is good, and it is a treasure of Tianbao. Zhao Yu is another weak scholar. Brothers, let me rob!

Zu Rong directly chopped Zhao Yu at the wine table, and then ordered the soldiers to plunder everywhere. This caused the Guangling gentry and the Xuzhou gentry who had been married for hundreds of years collectively hated Tao Qian who was indulging in Zu Rong.

The most important thing is that even if such a thing happened, Tao Qian did not do anything to Zurong. He just went to Zurong's official position, and Zurong brought a large amount of plundered property to Yangzhou to surrender to Xue Li, who was stationed in Moling at this time, and became a prince of Yangzhou.

If there is such a state governor in Xuzhou, there will be no peace!
Chapter completed!