After Le Jin was released, he returned to Xudu with 2,000 soldiers. The wound on his shoulder did not recover and looked very embarrassed.
The surrendered soldiers told Cao Cao about the situation. Cao Cao was shocked and summoned his advisers to discuss and said, "I think Yu Yi is just a yellow-mouthed child. Why can he defeat me with 500 soldiers?"
Everyone was talking, and this was indeed beyond everyone's seriousness. Seeing that no one answered, Cao Cao slapped the table and said, "Transfer my order, I will personally lead my troops to encircle Daoxiang Village!"
At this moment, someone reported that Le Jin was back.
When Le Jin saw Cao Cao, he remembered Yu Yi's instructions before, knelt on the ground and cried bitterly, saying, "Prime Minister save me!"
Cao Cao hurriedly stepped forward and helped him up and asked, "What the hell is going on?"
Le Jin said: "We attacked Daoxiang Village, but I didn't expect that Yu Yi had arranged many ambushes, which caused us to lose our troops. It was really my fault!"
Cao Cao turned around and sighed, "Failure is a military affairs, so what happened later?"
Le Jin said: "I led two thousand soldiers and horses straight in and finally broke through Daoxiang Village."
After hearing this, everyone was a little disbelief. Cheng Yu came out and said, "As long as you broke through Daoxiang Village, why are there no spoils? You are lying openly in front of the Prime Minister!"
Le Jin seemed a little aggrieved and said, "Look at the wound on my shoulder." After that, he took off his shirt and looked at it. Everyone saw that there was a big hole in the wound, and it was obvious that he was seriously injured.
Le Jin continued: "After I entered Daoxiang Village, Yu Yi and others had already run away, and they entered the Taihang Mountains."
Cao Cao nodded and asked, "It's a pity that I didn't catch Yu Yi, but I can use 500 troops to resist our 5,000 army. It seems that this person is not simple. Do you know him?"
All the strategists shook their heads and said they didn't know such a person at all. Only Cao Cao looked into the distance and recalled: "Dong Zhuo was in power back then, and Yu Yi was a celebrity around Emperor Ling. I asked Situ Wang Yun to borrow the Seven-Star Sword because
Lu Bu's sudden appearance led to the failure of the assassination. The situation was once very dangerous. It was Yu Yi who bribed the city gate guards and I was able to escape. I tried my best to win him over from behind, but he was Liu Bei's sworn brother and I had seen him once in Xuzhou.
, There was no news after that, now it seems that he is not that simple, and his wisdom may not be inferior to you."
Xun Yu said: "I am also paying great attention to this person. It is strange that he rarely finds out about his deeds in Daoxiang Village."
While discussing, there was a report again, saying that Xu Shu rode into Xuchang on a horse.
Yuyi, Cao Cao took Xun Yu, Cheng Yu and other groups of strategists out of the city to greet him. Xu Shu arrived at Cao Cao's mansion and paid homage to Cao Cao. Cao Cao said, "You are a wise man, why should you bend to Liu Bei?"
Xu Shu said: "When I was a child, I was escaping from all over the world. When I happened to go to Xinye, I helped Liu Bei. My old mother is here, and I am very grateful for her kindness."
Cao Cao said: "Now you are here, you can also serve your mother sooner or later and abide by filial piety. I can also have the opportunity to listen to your teachings."
Xu Shu left after thanking him, and went to his mother's place very anxiously and burst into tears.
Xu's mother was very surprised and asked, "Why did you come here?"
Xu Shu said: "I recently worked as a soldier in Liu Enjun. Because I received my mother's letter, I rushed to Xuchang overnight."
After hearing this, Xu's mother was furious and said, "I didn't expect you to wander around the world for so many years. I thought your studies would improve, but I didn't expect that it was not as good as before! Since you are studying, you should understand the principle that loyalty and filial piety cannot be achieved at the same time. Could it be that
I wonder if Cao Cao was a traitor who deceived the emperor and was unfair? Liu Bei's benevolence and righteousness are known to everyone in the world. He is also a relative of the Han Dynasty. Since you are his soldier, you should have been helping him. Now, for a forged letter,
It's so stupid that I don't know why, abandon the open and the dark, and make my own bad reputation! How can I meet you? You have defiled your ancestors and are not worthy of being born between heaven and earth!" After a scolding, Xu Shu was so arrogant
He didn't dare to go out, but just knelt on the ground and didn't dare to see his mother. Not long after, Xu's mother turned into the back hall.
Not long after, someone came out to report that Xu's mother had hanged herself. Xu Shu hurriedly entered and found that her mother had died for a long time.
When Xu Shu saw his mother passed away, he felt very sad and it took him a long time to recover.
After Cao Cao learned about this, he sent someone to bring gifts to express his condolences and arranged for someone to bury Xu Shu's mother in Nanyuan. Xu Shu didn't go anywhere and guarded the tomb specifically. He did not accept anything rewarded by Cao Cao.
Le Jin's incident made Cao Cao feel a little relieved about the situation in Hebei. After all, Yu Yi fled into the Taihang Mountains and there was no threat without the climate, so he discussed the attack to the south.
Xun Yu suggested: "The weather is still very cold now, and it is not the time to use troops. When spring comes, the troops will come and push forward."
Cao Cao adopted this suggestion. In order to make the army familiar with the waterway, he built a temporary pool with the water of the Zhang River, named Xuanwu Pool, and asked the soldiers to practice in it and prepare for the southern expedition.
In Xinye, Liu Bei was very sad after Xu Shu left. He was thinking about how to invite Kong Ming out of the mountain when he suddenly heard about Hebei.
It turned out that the situation in Daoxiang Village would always be reported to Liu Bei. He was very excited to learn that Yu Yi defeated Le Jin's five thousand troops with 300 soldiers and told Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun at the same time.
Everyone's faces were filled with smiles, and Zhang Fei even sighed: "Please invite my fourth brother back to be a soldier, which is ten times better than Fulong and Feng Chu."
Guan Yu just smiled and said, "My fourth brother is still very low-key around us. I didn't expect that he would have such skills."
Only Liu Bei regretted it very much and said, "I'm just stupid and have no talent to recognize my fourth brother."
Everyone was talking and prepared some gifts to go to Longzhong to find Zhuge Liang. Suddenly someone came to report that there was a gentleman outside the door with a tall crown and a big belt, and he came to visit him in a very good shape.
Liu Bei was overjoyed and said, "Is this Zhuge Kongming?"
So he sorted out his clothes and took everyone out to greet him in person. He saw that the man was not Kong Ming, but Sima Hui.
Sima Hui was a guide. Seeing that it was him, Liu Bei was also very happy, so he invited him to sit in the back hall and asked, "Since I bid farewell, I have never had the opportunity to visit you because of the busy military affairs. Today you came here on your own initiative.
, I must treat you well."
Sima Hui said: "I heard that Xu Shu was here and just passing by, so I came to meet him."
Liu Bei sighed, "Then you are late because Cao Cao imprisoned his mother, and then his mother wrote him a letter, so he went to Xuchang."