After all, a lot of procedures are required for immortals to descend to the earth. From gathering to allowing transit, it is inevitable that it takes a long time.
According to the conversion of the immortal timeline, it would take them at least half a year to reach the mortal world.
Of course, Xie Xin received the mission prompt from the system as soon as they were dispatched.
"This time it's Five Hundred Taiyi Sanxian...it's a bit tricky..." Xie Xin smiled faintly.
Tricky, it was indeed tricky in the past. However, now he is given more than half a year to prepare. If he can catch him by surprise, he may be able to annihilate him in one fell swoop. Even if it doesn't work, at least there is no room for detours.
"Come here!" Xie Xin has finished tempering his body at this moment, so there is no need to continue soaking in the practice room.
"What are the orders from the master?" Two inner disciples who were responsible for taking care of Xie Xin's daily life rushed to Xie Xin's presence as soon as possible.
"Immediately call on the three hundred inner disciples and follow me out to do something! Of course, the cultivation level must be above the foundation building stage!" Xie Xin ordered.
"Okay, Master, please wait a moment!" The two disciples accepted the order happily and immediately went to convey the order.
Not long after, 300 specially selected disciples gathered around Xie Xin. Most of them were in the early stage of foundation building, and a few were in the middle stage of foundation building. Only those who joined the earliest could have cultivation levels above the golden elixir stage.
for.
"I won't tell you any more nonsense. Someone comes and causes trouble. I can't handle it alone.
Of course, there is no need for you to take action, because with your level of cultivation, you are just delivering food to them, which is of no help, and will also hold me back.
Fortunately, they will not arrive for more than half a year, and we have enough time to prepare. So I will arrange a series of gifts to entertain their arrival. And this long preparation work requires your cooperation. This is what I
The reason for calling you here.
Okay, let’s not talk nonsense, let’s go with me!” Xie Xin said to everyone with satisfaction when he saw that everyone remained calm at all times.
Because most of the disciples have not learned the escape method, they can only use special flying magic weapons to carry them. The speed is a bit slow, but when they rush to the game place specially prepared by Xie Xin, they still have a lot of time to slowly prepare the so-called gifts.
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Xie Xin and his disciples were busy, while Cao Cao and Yuan Shao were fighting fiercely.
The days of food shortage finally passed, and after spending a lot of property, Cao Cao obtained enough food through Nanyang County first.
Yuan Shao was a little late, but the Zhen family, a large grain merchant in Hebei, was not a traitor. In order to ease the conflict with Yuan Shao, he also tried his best to provide grain and fodder for him. Cao Cao was only three days late, and the grain and fodder was replenished.
During the period of confrontation between the two sides, Cao Cao sent an envoy and signed an alliance with Gongsun Sheng. To this end, he promised to only occupy the land of Bingzhou, while Yizhou would be given to Gongsun Sheng.
Gongsun Sheng weighed it up and finally agreed to Cao Cao's suggestion.
After the two sides reached an alliance, Gongsun Sheng even sold Cao Cao 10,000 Youzhou army horses at a price slightly higher than the market price. For this reason, Cao Cao almost sent people to plow all the ancient tombs under his command.
"Haha, what kind of wind brought Brother Xu here?" One day, Cao Cao warmly received an unexpected guest.
"Of course it's the style of a winner! Brother, I'm here to announce the good news to you, Brother Cao!" Xu You was polite to Cao Cao without any fear.
The two were considered good friends at first, and they had many contacts when they were in Luoyang. It's just that the Xu family made a bet on the Yuan family, not his old Cao family.
"Brother Xu, I'm afraid it won't be cheap?" Cao Cao asked with a smile.
"It's not too expensive. A good official position, some gold and silver, a beautiful woman in a mansion, etc. will suffice." Xu You was not polite.
"It's okay, as long as your happiness can be exchanged for this!" Cao Cao was naturally not stingy.
In fact, with the money and food he currently has, he can continue to fight for up to three months.
Once it exceeds three months, he will have to retreat without retreating because there is no food for the soldiers. In addition, wartime is different from daily life. Soldiers who originally only need to provide food and clothing have to pay some money to them during wartime.
, this will undoubtedly increase the pressure on Cao Cao.
No money? Are you sure a group of free soldiers will be willing to fight to the death?! In the cold weapon period, if you don’t dare to fight, your opponent’s momentum will be half weaker. As long as the opponent’s command does not make mistakes, then it is very likely that you will be the one to do this.
One side was defeated first.
Victory in one battle was the goal set by Cao Cao. In order to find the right time, he waited until now.
"I know where Yuan Shao stores his grain!" Xu You said with a smile.
"Seriously? Who is the guard?" Cao Cao shouted in surprise.
"The location is Wuchao, and the guard is Chunyu Qiong!" Xu You said, stroking his beard.
"God help me!" Cao Cao was overjoyed to hear that he was an old acquaintance.
"Lord, this guard..." Guo Jia stepped forward and asked.
"I used to have an old acquaintance from Luoyang who was reckless and arrogant! What's even more rare is that this person is addicted to alcohol. If he is placed in a place like Wuchao where the eight poles have nothing to do with the front line, he will be soaked in alcohol every day.
It’s inside the jar!” Cao Cao explained with a smile.
"So, God is really helping my lord!" Guo Jia was also very happy.
The greater Cao Cao's power, the greater the benefits that his ministers can obtain.
After learning the location of Yuan's army's supplies, Cao Cao immediately wrote a letter to Xu You and took it to Xuchang. After giving it to Xun Yu, he was responsible for Xu You's official position, rewards and other arrangements.
As for himself, he gathered his troops and set off at starry night to raid the Crow's Nest.
As for the so-called ally Gongsun Sheng, he sent someone to inform him in advance of his raid on Yuan Jun's food road, and asked him to send troops to Yizhou at the appropriate time.
When Gongsun Sheng received the letter, the news that Cao Jun successfully raided Wuchao also came.
"Let's see if Cao Mengde's words are true this time!" Gongsun Sheng slapped the letter on the desk and immediately announced that the entire army would attack!
Soon, 30,000 cavalry, 40,000 infantry and 10,000 white horse followers, armed with sufficient siege equipment, set out from Fan Yang and went south to attack Yizhou.
Five days later, Gongsun Du quickly ordered his 30,000 troops, set out from Qingzhou and went north to attack Yizhou.
Cao Cao also became ruthless and personally led his generals to fight against Wuchao. He defeated Wuchao's defense in one fell swoop, set fire to Yuan's army's food and grass, and even surrendered Zhang He and Gao Lan, who came to rescue but failed.
Taking advantage of Yuan Jun's morale in chaos, Cao Cao led all his troops to attack directly in 201 AD.
At this moment, the morale of Yuan's army was exhausted, and their morale was unstable. In addition, at this moment, Yizhou was attacked by Youzhou, Yanzhou and Qingzhou respectively. The soldiers were in panic all day long, and in the final battle, they were completely defeated by Cao Cao.
In this battle, Cao Cao wiped out more than 40,000 enemies and killed more than 30,000 surrendered soldiers. The reason why he did this was because he had no choice but to feed the 30,000 surrendered soldiers.
And if they are put back, they will be gathered by Yuan Shao immediately, and it will be much more difficult to attack Yizhou.
Yuan Shao finally escaped with 7,000 cavalry, but unwilling to do so, he vomited blood and died halfway back.
Yuan Tan seized the inheritance right immediately, and Yuan Xi, a lowly person, naturally turned to Yuan Tan. Only Yuan Shang was left dejected and fled to Bingzhou with a group of confidants.
Cao Cao stopped at Wei County, so he took Guo Jia's advice to take a good rest and beware of Gongsun Sheng's attack.
Gongsun Sheng and Gongsun Du also acted as if there was no one in the area, and quickly captured most of the territory of Xindu, Bohai, Qinghe, Guangping, etc. Then they arrived outside Wei County and confronted Cao Jun.
Gongsun Sheng did not take the initiative to attack, but sent an envoy to ask Cao Cao, wasn't the alliance made by the Gongsun family to capture Yizhou? Why did you cross the border?!
Cao Cao immediately replied: The key to the battle of Guandu was that Cao's army attacked Wuchao. It was a great credit to the Cao family. It is understandable that they occupied so many places?
Originally, Gongsun Sheng really planned to attack by force, but at this time, the Hu people who had been resting for several years organized about 50,000 troops to invade Youzhou outside the pass because they did not have enough iron weapons.
Gongsun Zan couldn't support it anymore and asked Gongsun Sheng for support.
In desperation, Gongsun Sheng could only lead his troops back. And Cao Cao did not take the opportunity to attack the place that Gongsun Sheng captured. After all, he had too many things to deal with.
Whether it was to appease people's hearts, digest the results of the victory, or worry about money and food issues, this limited his ambition to further expand outwards.
The Yuan family has been in decline since then, and has obviously entered a countdown to its demise.
By this time, the general trend of the world was slowly becoming clearer.
Liu Biao of Jingzhou was old and did not really control the power in Jingzhou, so there was nothing to fear. The reason why no one attacked them was simply because Jingzhou was used by Liu Bian as a testing ground for his peaceful evolution plan, which ensured that he would not be attacked by force.
overthrow.
Liu Bei only occupies one Jiangxia County at the moment, but he is still in a precarious situation. He also knows that he lacks someone who can make suggestions, but he has been looking for him hard. As long as he does not have a capable strategist for a day, his failure will be over.
It's destined.
Sun Quan took away his brother's power, but the land in Jiangdong still needs to be integrated. Moreover, the local big families are very repulsive to outsiders, so if the Sun family cannot gain a foothold in Jiangdong, they will naturally have no chance of becoming the world leader. What's more, they will have to face threats from
The problem of the Vietnamese people.
Cao Cao won the Battle of Guandu, and what awaits him is the further expansion of his power. But before that, the economic crisis is a problem that he must handle properly. Once it is not handled well, it will be very dangerous.
Gongsun Sheng was still troubled by disasters. Although a letter of thanks helped him attract firepower, the slightest spark leaked still caused his rule to suffer from either an occasional plague or a severe drought. If there were no plagues and severe droughts,
, he would directly encounter the Hu people going south. To put it simply, Gongsun Sheng was dragged to Hebei by Tiandao, and also to Qingzhou.
Liu Bian's situation is slightly better. He dominates the three states of Yong, Liang and Yi, and has hundreds of thousands of warriors under his command who dare to fight.
It's just that Liu Bian is not in a hurry to go out and attack the Guandong princes, but quietly develops his own territory. After all, the three states under his command are all vast and sparsely populated places, and the north is where the Qiang people live. If he doesn't manage it well,
There are still a lot of troubles.
Moreover, under Xie Hua's suggestion, he plans to reopen the Silk Road in the near future and restore the trade between the Han Dynasty and Central Asia and Europe. At the same time, he is also conducting experiments on Jingzhou to see if he can conquer Jingzhou without spending a single soldier.
Eat this piece of fat.
At this moment in China, it is clear that the princes are still rising up, but in fact the heroes who are qualified to aspire to the throne have already come to a conclusion.
A new round of investment is obviously about to begin.