Cheng Yu, Xun Yu, Xun You and others heard from Cao Cao that Guo Jia had 400 soldiers who could reach the 30,000 army, and they all urged Cao Cao to see it. Cao Cao himself wanted to see it, so he brought these people to the door a few days later.

I was at home accepting the kneeling of Wei Yan and Zhao Yu. Wei Yan is usually steady, but he is anxious about marrying a wife. A few days ago, when I protected Cao Song a few days ago, when I saw Zhao Yu also, I surrounded me and asked me to make the decision. I was very stunning to stop until I achieved my goal. I teased him for a long time and agreed.

After the family informed Cao Cao, he came to greet him. As soon as he entered the inner hall, Xun Yu, Xun You and the others discovered the wine that had been opened to celebrate the marriage between Wei Yan and Zhao Yu. The two said, "What a good thing Guo Fengxiao, I asked you for the snow lotus jade liquid that I owe my brother several times and said it was gone. What is this?"

I said, "This is what my family brought the day before yesterday. I originally planned to deliver it to you in the next few days."

Cao Cao looked at the wine in the bowl and said, "I believe that this thing can prolong my life?"

I said, "Drinking this product can relieve headaches for a long time, but I don't know whether it can prolong life." After that, I asked my family to pour a bowl for each guest.

Cheng Yu took a sip and said, "This wine is fresh and sweet. It is said that it was brewed by the Tianshan alchemist with snow lotus. However, I have seen the snow lotus. It is a white and flawless thing. The wine is dark red in color. It seems to be just a lie from the wine seller."

I gritted my teeth and said, "In order to make this product sweet, I added some honey. When brewed, the original color is yellow. After storage, it turns into a dark red after a while."

Cao Cao smiled and said nothing at the bottom of the bowl, thinking that he had already tasted the mystery.

Xiahou Dun said: "Listen to the lord, Mr. Fengxiao boasted that 400 soldiers could reach 30,000 troops. Today, lord and we come to see it."

He also cheered and said, "Yes! General Yuan Rang said it well. Today, he must see it with his own eyes. If the 30,000 troops are not delayed by the lord's affairs, he will definitely punish you for deceiving."

Looking at my friends and Cao Cao's eager eyes, I said in embarrassment: "It's not Jiazang's personal opinion, but my four hundred pieces have been sent out. As for whether it can really match the 30,000 army, you will know at a glance."

When the whole group heard that I had sent people out, they had to do it. Anyway, the soldiers knew the truth as soon as they arrived, but the remaining brothers were unhappy. Each of them blackmailed me two jars of wine before leaving in disappointment. A few days later, Cao Cao left Cao Ren, Cheng Yu, Xun Yu and others to guard Yanzhou, and Chen Gong was also sent back to Dongjun, and the army marched straight to Xuzhou.

Tao Qian of Xuzhou had a friend a few days ago, and Cao Cao led a large army to come, and was very frightened. He ordered people to ask for help from many sources. His ally Gongsun Zan sent his subordinate Qingzhou Governor Tian Kai to rescue him. Tian Kai was timid and did not dare to go, so he sent Liu Bei to Xuzhou. Liu Bei was helping Kong Rong to suppress the Yellow Turban in Beihai. After receiving the news, he immediately led his troops and 2,000 troops supported by Gongsun Zan to Xuzhou. Another Jiujiang prefect Bian Ran, who had a close relationship with Tao Qian. He heard that Xuzhou was in trouble and led 5,000 troops to rescue him. Cao was furious and asked Xiahou Dun to lead Wei Yan to intercept him on the road.

Cao Cao's army went all the way to the city. When he captured the first town, nine out of ten households fled, and the remaining people in the city were very hostile, which made people very discouraged. Cao Cao ordered the army to station outside the city and asked me, "Fengxiao, our army is now entering the Xuzhou border. If the food road cannot be smooth, how can we fight against Tao Qian? What about yours? "

I gently shook the feather fan and said, "The lord is in a hurry, and it will be clear within half a day."

Cao Cao disbelief: "If you cannot appease the people of this city within half a day, you can only massacre the people within a radius of dozens of miles in order to protect the food road."

At this moment, someone came to report that the fleeing people had returned home one after another. Cao Cao was surprised and hurriedly led civil and military officials to the city gate to inspect. He saw the people walking from the road with smiles on their faces. When Cao Cao under the flags outside the city gate knelt down and kowtowed, he continued to walk into the city.

Cao Cao stroked his beard and said, "I haven't seen such a strange thing in ten years of war."

A group of people walking from far away from a distance with a light-paced bamboo board, simple and cheerful songs came from the group: "Hey...hey... from the south, from the north, from the east, from the west, uncle, uncle, old aunt, little brother, little sister, girl, young man, old grandma...hey...hey... Cao Gong raised his troops to avenge his brother, and did not violate the people's grain, hey...hey... the people live and work in peace and happiness. They will not pay grain after this autumn. Within three years, they will be exempted from taxes and no military service. Cao Gong will not kill innocent people. Hey...hey... Go back to his hometown, go back to his hometown, and don't go back to his hometown, and there is no sorrow, no residence, no rice and grain, it's good to stay at home for a thousand days, and it's difficult to go out for half a day..."

Long before the army entered the army, I let the little girls in the female barracks sneak into Xuzhou in batches under the protection of others, and hid near the towns where the army was going to pass. As soon as the Xuzhou army retreated, they immediately started to write a quick-row book on all roads to comfort the fleeing people. With the sweet smiles and cheerful quick-row book on the female barracks, Cao Cao's plan to safeguard the people spread to every commoner. The story of three people becoming tigers tells us that people are easy to believe in the legend of following the crowd. The hostility towards Cao Cao, an uninvited guest, changed in a short time. What the people in troubled times care about most is not who will rule themselves, but whether they can have a meal and whether they can survive.

Cao Cao and all the civil and military officials looked at the girls wearing military uniforms holding bamboo boards and were stunned. I walked to Cao Cao and said, "Lord, can my 'troupe' be worth 30,000 troops?"

Cao Cao grabbed my wrist and said, "It should be done, it should be done, so why should it be done 30,000, or 100,000. I used the filial piety to test the gods and ghosts. After this, even if I return without success this time, I will come to Xuzhou again next time, and the city will definitely be overthrowing the city on the way."

Looking back at the people returning to the city one after another, I couldn't help but sigh at the simplicity of these fellow villagers. Anyone who has a trace of life will have difficulty in living. The attachment to land and home makes them rather believe that these hearsays are true than risking home. The effect of a few small bamboo boards in this era of extreme cultural and entertainment is much better than the publicity ten or hundreds of times in radio and television that will be thousands of years later.

Tao Qian heard that more than ten towns after Cao's army entered Xuzhou were either surrendered or conquered. Yancheng was not ashamed of protection and wanted to open the city to surrender. As soon as Liu Bei arrived with his troops, he dispatched thousands of elite Danyang soldiers under his command to fight to the death. According to the history I know, the three brothers of Liu Bei should have arrived when Cao Cao besieged Yancheng. And the reason why Liu Bei arrived before Cao's army was not because he came too early, but because Cao's army did not come at all.

It turned out that before sending troops, I had already contacted Cheng Yu and Xun Yu to have a secret talk. I asked them to pay more attention to the movements of local officials such as Zhang Miao and Wan Qian, especially Chen Gong. If the army set off, he would return to Dongjun after the army was launched. If he went to Chenliu, he would immediately send a probe to the front to report that there was something wrong in Yanzhou.

Since Lu Bu was forced to escape from Chang'an, he spread everywhere like a wandering sweat. First he ran to Yuan Shu, but Yuan Shu thought he was not famous and drove him out. Then he ran to Yuan Shao to surrender. Yuan Shao accepted him and asked him to attack Zhang Yan in Changshan. Lu Bu himself fought for one battle. However, after receiving Yuan Shao's reward, his arrogance was rebellious again, and he was squeezed out by Yuan Shao's subordinates. Lu Bu went to join Zhang Yang again, but within a few days he heard that Zhang Yang received the imperial edict from the court to kill him, which scared Lu Bu so much that he took people away overnight. Chen Gong did sneak to Chenliu to contact the prefect Zhang Miao after the army went on a war and secretly talked about the matter of welcoming Lu Bu to Yanzhou. Just when Lu Bu was worried that he should surrender to the boss, he got the letter from Chen Gong and Zhang Miao to invite him to Yanzhou.
Chapter completed!