The army headed south, arrived in Shangdang from Jinyang, and finally came to Duanzi City in Hedong. There was no change in visiting the old place again, after all, it only took only three months.

"The last general is paying homage to the general!" Cao Cao has led his headquarters to come. Those who are accompanying the army include Cao Hong and Xiahou Dun, Xiahou Yuan and Cao Ren, as well as Cao Chun, who are also worried that Dong Zhuo will take the opportunity to go north.

The number of people is only one thousand, which is the result of Liu Tao's request. Anyway, he just went to the army to fight, so Cao Cao certainly had no objection to this. The more soldiers left behind, the more peace of mind he could be.

"Ma Dai, Zhang He and Zhao Yun, you three are temporarily under Cao Cao's command to listen to it." After Liu Tao exchanged greetings with Cao Cao, he immediately issued an order.

"Here!" The three of them didn't expect that they had arranged this way, but they didn't dare to say too much and led their troops over.

"This time, you and I pretend to have a bad relationship. If you have any private communication, you can send someone to inform me." Liu Tao looked at Cao Cao, "In addition, this time, you should be close to Yuan Shao."

"I will understand!" Cao Cao was also a good person and soon understood Liu Tao's intention.

On the one hand, he bought a surprise soldier and used it at critical moments; at the same time, he dispersed his troops so that it would not be too conspicuous; in the end, he pretended that the two belonged to the two camps, and in order to plot against Liu Tao, Yuan Shao must come forward to win him over.

"The deadline is this time to challenge Dong, and everything will return to normal. There is no need to play long-term, just Yuan Shao is not worth my careful treatment against him." Liu Tao immediately emphasized.

Fortunately, Cao Cao had to be cautious if he changed him, so as not to be careful three years later. By then, Cao Cao's general situation had already been completed and there were a lot of civil and military officials under his command. At this time, he said he wanted to return to his command and listen to him. Whether the civil and military officials under his command would be willing to do so was a different story.

A good subordinate, but the undercover agent ended up becoming his biggest opponent. Liu Tao did not do such a loss-making business.

"I will understand!" Cao Cao nodded, and he could feel Liu Tao's concerns.

No, it is normal for any king to be concerned about his subordinates who have high autonomy. If he shows full trust, he will worry about whether there is any conspiracy.

"Stay in Duanzi City for two days first, and there is still a soldier who has not come." Liu Tao immediately ordered.

"Okay!" Cao Cao nodded, and was surprised that anyone else hadn't come? Liu Tao went south and shouldn't he bring all the troops he should bring? Who is it worth waiting for him here for two days.

Two days later, when Cao Cao came to Duanzi City with a completely different army from the Han army, he suddenly realized. At the same time, he was more surprised. Unexpectedly, Liu Tao actually transferred the Huns to the south.

No, no, no, he was able to mobilize the Hun soldiers, and this was the key. Cao Cao saw with his own eyes that the two Hun generals looked respectful to Liu Tao, which was definitely a relationship of superiors and subordinates, rather than a relationship of cooperation or even requests such as borrowing troops.

"Introduction..." Liu Tao brought the two of them to Cao Cao, "These two are the Zuoxian King Hu Chuquan, and the Youxian King Gou Bei, respectively. This time, as a guest army, follow us south... This is the prefect of Hedong under my command, Cao Cao, General Jianwei."

"Good to meet, lucky to meet!" Both sides greeted each other, but Cao Cao was secretly happy. When Liu Tao introduced him just now, he pointed out that he was Jianwei's "General". This means that his official position has been promoted again?

"Meng De has taken over the entire Hedong territory, and it is also appropriate to be promoted to general." Liu Tao obviously noticed Cao Cao's expression, so he smiled and ordered someone to hand over the official seal and waist card to Cao Cao.

"General Xie, the last general will definitely not let down the general's high expectations!" Cao Cao took it happily and then made a solemn promise.

"How long is it before the alliance?" Liu Tao simply sootheed Cao Cao's emotions before attracting Guo Jia to ask.

"There are more than twenty days left, and there is plenty of time." Guo Jia replied. Although this alliance was released by Zong Zheng and the Third Duke last year, it was officially proposed this time, which was King Chen and Liu Chong. It was probably the beginning of the year that the letter was delivered to Liu Tao.

The agreement was to meet in the Suzuki in Soyzao, which probably took into account the distance between the princes. As for the Yizhou Muslim, he would fight if he wanted to fight, anyway, the premise was that he could leave Hanzhong. If someone restrained Dong Zhuo in the rear, he could not take into account both the beginning and the end.

It is only early March, and there are more than 20 days left before the established alliance time. This period should be based on spring plowing in the Central Plains as the standard. After all, they can almost start farming in February, unlike Bingzhou, north of Taiyuan, and only in March.

Generally, in April, spring plowing is over, and it is time to slack farming. As long as spring plowing is not delayed, even if you lose, you don’t have to worry about not having food when you come back.

However, this time was a bit of a loss for Liu Tao. After all, he had to temporarily draw 10,000 civilians, which would somewhat hinder the progress of spring farming. For this reason, Xun Yu had already predicted that the left-behind soldiers would help farm and make up for the lack of manpower.

"Since that's the case, then go to Hanoi County." Liu Tao nodded, then said to Cao Cao and others.

"Is the general trying to..." The allusion of "fake Taoism to attack Guo" flashed out in Cao Cao's mind.

"We went south, and Hanoi couldn't get around it. Besides, Bingzhou's grain production is limited, so I need more grain production land." Liu Tao explained a little. Jizhou is actually the best choice, but he is not able to withstand it at the moment.

The sudden expansion of the army of 30,000 is probably in a bad way as the economy and potential of Bingzhou. Yes, but the finances are tight and his other policies cannot be promoted is the problem. After all, he is not like other princes, with military expenditure accounting for at least 70%!

It is also possible to draw border troops, at least 20,000 soldiers can be drawn, but Yunzhong, Wuyuan and Yanmen are in a state of unprepared defense. At that time, don’t wait for the roots to fight, and Zhu Yan can spit him to death with his saliva.

So before there was enough troops, Pingyang County, Hedong County and Hanoi County were Liu Tao's grain production land to fill the grain use problem in Bingzhou.

Of course, you can also buy it directly from Jizhou, but now it's okay, no one will guarantee that the princes there will continue to tolerate it, and a large amount of grain will be transported from Jizhou to Bingzhou... It is Liu Tao's good habit as always.

"So that's it..." Cao Cao probably understood.

"Besides, Wang Kuang is also a Han minister, right?" Liu Tao said with a smile. Especially Wang Kuang, who has not served as the prefect of Hanoi for a long time. It seems that he took office last year, and was the court at that time, and was strictly controlled by Dong Zhuo.

This even gave Liu Tao a good excuse to come directly to ask the other party whether he was a Han minister or a traitor. Regardless of whether Wang Kuang surrendered or not, Liu Tao would not let him continue to serve as the prefect of Hanoi.

On the third day, the army marched eastward and entered Hanoi County. Including the auxiliary soldiers, a team of about 20,000 people entered Hanoi, and Wang Kuang had to wait for the battle. He left five thousand soldiers in Huai County, and he took five hundred cavalry to test.

Knowing that it was the army that went south to attack Dong Zhuo, I breathed a sigh of relief, but Liu Tao came forward and asked in person: "Premier Wang, don't say polite words. I will ask you... Are you a Han minister or a traitor?"

Meow, it's really a false way to attack Guo! What should I do? I'm so panicked! When Wang Kuang heard this, he was sweating coldly...
Chapter completed!