Cao Cao did not launch a strong attack on Hulao Pass, not because he was afraid of Ye Zheng, but because he suffered too much loss in attacking Hulao. Moreover, once Hulao is captured, Ye Zhao's main force will arrive. At that time, Cao Cao will have a full-scale battle with Ye Zhao. He has no plans yet. His troops are not as easy to mobilize in all directions, but it is not as easy as Ye Zhao's mobilization. Moreover, this war will not only be Luoyang, Daijun and Hanoi, which will become the front lines of both sides, and Cao Cao has not yet made a good plan.

Therefore, Cao Cao chose Xun You's plan and joined forces with Lu Bu to fight. If Lu Bu could break through Yique Pass, even if Ye Zhao fought at this moment, there would be Lu Bu in front. Although Lu Bu was at the bottom of the princes, there was still a reason why he had not been annexed for so many years.

When it comes to leading troops to fight, Lu Bu is indeed a good player. When he was fighting for Runan with Sun Ce, Sun Ce was almost beaten to death by Lu Bu. I heard that he is still cultivating now.

If Lu Bu and Ye Zhao faced each other, it would still cause some trouble for Ye Zhao. Moreover, the grievances between the two sides had already formed in Luoyang as early as Luoyang. In addition, Lu Bu has been entrenched in Nanyang over the years, but he has had many conflicts with Ye Zhao. Cao Cao is still optimistic about this alliance.

However, Cao Cao actually asked his son Cao Ang to go to the candidate for the mission to Nanyang, in the event of everyone's surprise.

Although I was a little surprised, I thought about it and everyone knew it. It was obvious that Cao Cao was stimulated by Ye Zheng. Your Ye Zhao's son was able to lead the army alone. If my Cao Cao's son could not achieve some results at this time, wouldn't it mean that my Cao Cao's son is not as good as your Ye Zhao's son?

In short, Cao Ang is twenty-three years older than Ye Zheng. Cao Cao is also very concerned about the training of his sons. As the eldest son, Cao Ang received no worse education than Ye Zheng since childhood. The only difference is that Cao Cao is not as cruel to his son as Ye Zheng. Therefore, although Cao Ang has been on the battlefield, he mostly follows Cao Cao and has no experience in leading troops alone. From this point of view, Cao Ang is worse than Ye Zheng.

So, this time, Cao Cao handed over the alliance with Lu Bu to Cao Ang, and hoped that Cao Ang could grow up quickly through this matter.

Cao Ang was not vague. The next morning, he bid farewell to Cao Cao and took his personal guards to Nanyang, preparing to persuade Lu Bu to attack Ye Zheng with Cao Cao.

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Lu Bu has been doing well in Nanyang in recent years. Putting aside the fact that he likes to kill his boss, among the heroes in this troubled times, Lu Bu really doesn’t have much ambition. He just can’t stand the constraints and others look down on him. Overall, he is the kind of person who is at ease with a small wealth.

In recent years, with the popularity of books, there is no need to look at the face of those scholars. Even Lu Bu can attract many talents from poor families. Since he can select talents from the people, why should he praise the stinky feet of scholars?

Therefore, although Lu Bu was very unhappy with Ye Zhao, Lu Bu learned the fastest in the system of selecting talents in Guanzhong. He had no scholars under his command, and Lu Bu lacked talents, so he naturally could find many private talents who had self-taught but no way to go.

However, as the territory gradually stabilized and after conquering Runan, the momentum rose sharply, and Lu Bu had no ambition to continue to make progress. He was mainly controlled by two great gods in the north. Even if Lu Bu was arrogant, he knew that there was a gap between him and Ye Zhao and Cao Cao. Therefore, although he had been constantly in conflict with Ye Zhao, he had never thought about going to war with Ye Zhao. Although Wei Ji used many methods to bribe Gao Sheng, he wanted to persuade Lu Bu to encircle Hanzhong, cut off Ye Zhao's retreat, and then plan for Shuzhong, but Lu Bu didn't listen much.

Every day, I either accompany my beautiful wife and concubines to enjoy the gentle land, or take a group of brothers to hunt.

As for Liu Biao in the south, Lu Bu didn't care about it. Or, after Liu Biao fought with Lu Bu several times, both sides tacitly stopped the army.

There were Han River and Bai River between the two sides. When the troops in Jingzhou arrived at the boundary of Nanyang, they were naturally pressed to the ground by Lu Bu. However, most of the soldiers under Lu Bu came from the north and were not familiar with water wars. If they wanted to cross the river to fight Liu Biao, crossing the river was a problem. After a while, Lu Bu gave up and asked Hou Cheng to guard Xinye, he would sit in Wancheng, practice martial arts without any work, and accompany his wives and concubines to do some physical and mental exercises, so that life would not be too free.

The only thing that made him unhappy was that in the Yingchuan area, Cao Cao's soldiers came to harass him from time to time, and did not kill people, but set fire to the fields. What made Lu Bu even more confused was that a group of Lu Bu's men appeared in Cao Cao's place, causing a large number of refugees to appear.

The general Cheng Lian under Lu Bu was guarding Yingchuan area. For this reason, Lu Bu also wrote a letter to ask if Cheng Lian had a conflict with Cao Cao privately, but Cheng Lian was also confused.

Lu Bu could only ask Jia Xu. Judging from his opinion on this matter, he always felt that there was a conspiracy behind it.

"The lord's concern is reasonable. Now that Cao Cao and Ye Zhao are about to fight, it is impossible to anger your lord for no reason." Jia Xu said a few words indifferently, but did not give a complete answer.

"In this way, it must be Ye Zhao who was provoking it?" Lu Bu raised his eyebrows when he heard this.

Jia Xu smiled but said nothing. Although Jia Xu was forced to be a counselor for Lu Bu in Nanyang due to the force of oppression of Lu Bu, he never thought that Lu Bu was capable of winning the world. In so many years, Lu Bu had many opportunities to be abandoned by Lu Bu.

It is understandable that Ye Zhao and Lu Bu are not easy to mess with, but you can find some soft persimmons to pinch it. The navy on Liu Biao's side is not easy to deal with, but Jingzhou is not Jiangdong, and it is mainly based on land warfare. If Lu Bu really wants to fight Liu Biao, two mere rivers are not the Yangtze River and the Yellow River, and he can't stop it.

If Lu Bu could take over the entire Jingzhou, even if he was not as good as Ye Zhao and Cao Cao, it would not be Lu Bu's turn to become the princes at the bottom, but instead let Sun Ce come from behind?

But Lu Bu just watched Ye Zhao pacify Xiliang, Bingzhou, Cao Cao swept across the Central Plains, and seized the land of the river/north. Sun Ce rose step by step in Jiangdong, and everyone was developing. Only Lu Bu and Liu Biao were just holding the mentality of relying on their old capital. Seeing the world's pattern change day by day, they were not enterprising.

Liu Biao is old, but you, Lu Bu, are in your prime, but you are not enterprising. The only thing you defeated Yuan Shu was because of Yuan Shu's teasing. Jia Xu really couldn't see any future for such a lord.

If Lu Bu could take advantage of the northern princes being busy enclosing land and occupy Jingzhou five years ago, and then use the Jingzhou navy to invade Jiangdong, with Lu Bu's ability and Jia Xu's plan, it might not be impossible to destroy the combination of Sun Ce and Zhou Yu. At that time, the world will be divided into three parts, and Lu Bu can occupy Jiangdong, Jingzhou, Cao Cao and Ye Zhao.

Jia Xu once mentioned it in a vague way, but Lu Bu only thought it was in front of him. After all, Jia Xu was not a straight minister, and he would not do it by tying to force him to death. Since Lu Bu did not have this idea, Jia Xu would never say anything more. Anyway, in this world, no one can survive if anyone leaves him. At least Jia Xu doesn't feel that he can't survive if he leaves Lu Bu. At worst, he can change his boss. Moreover, the situation in the world has reached this point, basically, there is nothing Lu Bu has to do.

Lu Bu didn't know that the strategist who was most trusted by him had already developed the idea of ​​choosing a new boss. Seeing Jia Xu smiling and saying harshly, he said: "It must be Ye Zhao, no doubt that this person is best at. This is such a trick to sow discord."

Jia Xu was speechless when he heard this. Although he also felt that this matter was mostly caused by Ye Zhao, Lu Bu's words were simply emotional. Cao Cao was no worse than Ye Zhao's method of sowing discord.

He nodded silently, Jia Xu didn't want to say anything more.

"Lord." A guard walked in and clasped his fists at Lu Bu and said.

"What's the matter?" Lu Bu turned his head and looked at his guard.

"There is an envoy from Xuchang to ask for a visit!" The personal guard bowed.

"Empress Xuchang? What are they here to do?" Lu Bu looked at Jia Xu in confusion.

Jia Xu thought for a while and said, "Now that Cao Gong and Prime Minister Ye are about to go to war, I must have come to invite the lord to take action together."

"Let's take action together?" Lu Bu frowned when he heard this. Originally, he was watching the fire from the other side of the river and watching the fun. It would be best if both sides could end up hurting both sides and let him get some benefits. Now Cao Cao sent someone to bring him into the gang, Lu Bu was a little reluctant.

He wanted to chase people, but was stopped by Jia Xu and said, "Lord, no matter what, he is the envoy of Duke Cao after all. This is just a matter of chasing people, Yu Li is not in line with him!"

When Lu Bu heard this, he waved his hand impatiently and said, "Since that's the case, let the envoy of Cao Cao come in."

"Here!" the guard agreed and turned around and left.

Lu Bu took Jia Xu to the main hall. Since he wanted to receive the envoy, he naturally had to be more formal.

Soon, a young man in his twenties walked in under the guidance of his personal guards and bowed calmly to Lu Bu: "I have met General Cavalry!"

Lu Bu frowned slightly: "Meng De sent You to come, but because of the Yingchuan bandits?"

After so many years of ups and downs, Lu Bu is not really brainless, especially since he has been a lord in recent years, many political affairs and social events that should be held, Lu Bu cannot avoid, so he did not directly say that he formed an alliance, but instead used the bandits in Yingchuan who made trouble and pretended to be the soldiers of both sides to tell the story.

Bandits?

Cao Ang was slightly stunned and thought for a while, "I came in a hurry, but I didn't hear about the bandits. I'm here on the order of my lord, but I have a happy event to report to General Cavalry?"

"Happy event?" Lu Bu raised his eyebrows and said, "Where does the joy come from?"

"My lord has already requested the edict from Your Majesty, and appointed Wei Xu, the general under the tent, as the captain of the Sili School." Cao Ang said with a smile.

"Sili Captain?" Lu Bu glanced at Jia Xu, then looked at Cao Ang and said, "It's indeed a happy event. After Meng De captured Luoyang, I will ask Wei Xu to take office."

Ye Zhao had sent people to start rebuilding Luoyang, and had fought with Cao Cao's troops and seized Hulao Pass. The news had already spread. Now that he gave him the Sili Captain, it was obvious that he was asking him to join Ye Zhaohuo. Although Lu Bu was not as politically as other princes, he was not completely idiot.
Chapter completed!