Chapter 17o Xuzhou is in urgent need

After Wu Fan finished speaking, Cao Cao looked at Wu Fan without saying a word.

On the way back to Yecheng, Wu Fan thought of several plans on how to reply to Cao Cao. In the end, he decided to give up the initial plan to pretend to be stupid and said explicitly that he knew that Cao Cao let Guan Yu go, but he still chased Guan Yu. Because Wu Fan knew very well that Cao Cao's IQ must have known that he had already let Guan Yu go first before he killed Guan Yu. In this case, if he still pretended to be stupid, it would seem hypocritical. Since he knew that Cao Cao would not do anything to him, why should he do this?

Honest children are always liked, and Wu Fan wants to be an honest and good child this time.

The reason why Cao Cao looked at Wu Fan without saying anything was because he was surprised, because he thought Wu Fan would pretend to be confused with him, but he never expected that Wu Fan was so real that he not only told the truth, but also explained the interests of the matter so well. After a detailed analysis, it was really that way.

So, after half a minute of looking at Wu Fan, Cao Cao suddenly laughed and pointed at Wu Fan and said:

"Meng Xuan, Meng Xuan, do you know? I really want to get into your head and see what you are thinking about now."

Wu Fan also smiled and said:

"I'm wondering what the lord will do about Guan Yu's body next."

This reminded Cao Cao, nodded, and Cao Cao said:

"Yes, how do you deal with Guan Yu's body?"

At this time, when the curtain was lifted, Jia Xu hurried in from outside.

After Jia Xu learned that Wu Fan was back and went into the central army's books to meet Cao Cao alone, he was worried that Wu Fan would be punished, so he rushed over. He was now appointed as a military advisor by Cao Cao, and his status was different from that of ordinary military generals, so he was able to "break" into the tent.

Seeing Cao Cao and Wu Fan talking happily, Jia Xu breathed a sigh of relief. When Cao Cao saw Jia Xu, he asked:

"Wenhe, from your perspective, how should I deal with Guan Yu's body?"

Jia Xu had known that Guan Yu's body had been transported back by Wu Fan. After thinking for a moment, he said:

"The lord can bury Guan Yu with the courtesy of a marquis to show his respect for talents. In addition, Guan Yu traveled thousands of miles to join Liu Bei this time for righteousness. The lord can bury Guan Yu with great success, which can not only make the generals follow him as an example, but also win over the hearts of the people of the world. This is a result of many gains in one fell swoop."

Cao Cao nodded and said:

"Well, it's very good. I didn't expect that although Guan Yu did not contribute much to me during his lifetime, it would be of such use after his death. Meng Xuan, it's very right to transport Guan Yu's body back, and I should reward you."

Wu Fan shook his head and smiled bitterly, saying:

"The lord is joking. Not only can the lord not reward the minister, but he should also punish the minister for his crimes in this matter to show the majesty of the lord's laws. Otherwise, in the future, all the generals will take the minister as an example to act first and then report, and it will be difficult for the lord to control the three armies."

In fact, Cao Cao had thought of this step a long time ago, but if Wu Fan didn't say it, he would really not be able to directly punish Wu Fan. After all, Wu Fan did this right, and the reason for punishing him was to maintain his majesty.

In order to maintain his majesty, he was punished by the hero, especially a great hero, Cao Cao certainly would not do such a thing. However, if the hero himself proposed it, it would be to follow the flow and the king and his ministers acted for outsiders to see.

So, after hearing what Wu Fan said, Cao Cao couldn't help but look at Wu Fan with admiration. Then, Cao Cao stood up, came close to Wu Fan, poured a cup of tea for Wu Fan himself, held it with both hands and handed it to Wu Fan, and said:

"Meng Xuan, I will use tea instead of wine, I will toast you a cup"

Wu Fan took the teacup and drank it all in one go.

Cao Cao looked at Wu Fan for a long time, and he liked him more and more: he got Meng Xuan and won the treasure of the world. Cao Cao is now very glad that he met Wu Fan by chance, and then took Wu Fan back to his subordinates. Otherwise, if Wu Fan still stayed under Yuan Shao's tent today, he would be afraid that not only Hebei, but also the Central Plains would have been included in Yuan Shao's territory.

After laughing for a while, Cao Cao patted Wu Fan on the shoulder hard. At this time, Wu Fan remembered another thing and said to Cao Cao:

"Lord, Liu Bei's two wives were also escorted back by me, and are now in the city."

When Cao Cao saw this, he said oh, and then said thoughtfully:

"I heard that Liu Bei's two wives were quite handsome, especially Mi, who was a rare virtuous woman. I wonder if it was true?"

Wu Fan heard this, combined with Cao Cao's expression, and felt something was wrong: Boss Cao must have any thoughts about Liu Bei's two wives, right?

Jia Xu also saw the signs at this time and said to Cao Cao:

"Lord thinks twice, don't put your mind on these two women."

Cao Cao understood what Jia Xu meant, but he felt a little reluctant. For women, every man has different hobbies. Some people like fat, some people like thin, some people like green, and some people like mature. However, Cao Cao's likes good things, he tends to be a little...

Turning his head, Cao Cao said to Wu Fan:

"Meng Xuan, what do you think?"

Cao Cao is a person with status and it is difficult to say too straightforward about such topics about women, so he asked Wu Fan in this way.

Wu Fan said:

"Lord, Wenhe is right. The lord Xiong has the ambitions of the world and should not destroy his loyalty on these two women."

Cao Cao converged his eyebrows and thought for a moment, and finally sighed and said meaningfully:

"It's really the world that you get, and it's the world that you lose."

...

In the afternoon of that day, the craftsman was ordered by Cao Cao to carve a wooden head according to Guan Yu's image during his lifetime. Cao Cao put this head together with Guan Yu's headless corpse and buried it with a marquis' courtesy.

The funeral was very grand. All the civil and military officials of the Cao army tied white cloth and stood on both sides of the official road, watching Guan Yu's coffin carried by dozens of soldiers in mourning clothes gradually drifting away. During the period, the joys and joys of the rituals followed along, and paper money was spread like white frost and snow covering the place wherever they passed. Countless people in Ye City stopped and watched, and they were talking, and they praised Cao Cao's act of burying Guan Yu with great grave.

After the funeral, Cao Cao announced the punishment for Wu Fan in public: Wu Fan killed Guan Yu now, which violated the three agreement between Gu and Guan Yu and the original intention of letting Guan Yu go; however, he was thinking that Wu Fan fought against the east and west, repeatedly defeated the powerful enemy, and made outstanding achievements; and I didn't know that I had ordered Guan Yu to release him and accidentally killed Guan Yu. Therefore, he demoted his official position from General Anton to the fifth-rank military advisor General to the highest military official position of the military advisor General to show punishment; all generals must take it as a warning

Cao Cao's punishment on Wu Fan was actually only a reduction of part of Wu Fan's salary; as for the governor, Xiaoting Hou, and the third-rank official rank, none of these three positions with real power were moved, and most of the generals under Cao Cao could see it clearly.

However, while they could see clearly, they also deeply understood that with their little skill, it was not worth mentioning in front of Wu Fan. If the same thing was born to him, the result of the treatment would never be so light. In this regard, the play played by Cao Cao and Wu Fan completely achieved the expected effect, which further enhanced Cao Cao's prestige in the minds of the generals.

Afterwards, Cao Cao ordered people to escort Liu Bei's two wives to the border between Yecheng and Nanpi. Since the notice had been made in advance, Liu Bei, who had received the news, had already sent people to wait at the border and took the two wives back to Nanpi.

As for Liu Bei, what kind of sadness was Zhang Fei's way of learning about Guan Yu's death? I won't explain it here, just talk about Yecheng.

The day after Guan Yu was buried, Jinyang reported good news: Xiahou Yuan, the prefect of Shangdang, had successfully captured Jinyang and had more than 30,000 surrendered soldiers. At the same time, Xiahou Yuan asked Wu Fan for instructions who would be the prefect of Jinyang.

The reason why Xiahou Yuan captured Jinyang was not only one level different from the military generals under Xiahou Yuan, a few days ago, the prefect of Jinyang Tian Chou had received the order of Yuan Shao to withdraw his troops back to Yecheng, and transferred 40,000 70,000 70,000 70,000 70,000 70,000 70,000 70,000 70,000 70,000 70,000 70,000 70,000 70,000 70,000 70,000 70,000 70,000 70,000 70,000 70,000 70,000 70,000 70,000 70,000 70,000 70,000 70,000 7

As for the 40,000 troops sent by Jinyang, halfway through, they learned that Yecheng had been lost. Yuan Shao led all the generals to retreat back to Nanpi. The 40,000 troops hurriedly withdrew their troops back to Jinyang to relieve the danger of Jinyang. Unexpectedly, on the way, the 10,000 troops were ambushed by Xun You, except for more than 20,000 people killed in battle, the rest of the soldiers surrendered. Xiahou Yuan then led his army to continue to attack Jinyang. Under the interaction of a well railing and a siege car, the defense of Jinyang City was not supported, and the city finally broke into a new flag.

After the city was broken, more than 10,000 defenders surrendered in the city, and more than 30,000 soldiers surrendered in front of them were ambushed.

In addition, Tian Chou, the prefect of Jinyang, and Zhang Yan, also surrendered one after another, and the other prisoners who refused to surrender were released by Xiahou Yuan.

After receiving the letter, Wu Fan was happy and then wrote a handwritten appointment: Xiahou Yuan was appointed as the prefect of Jinyang, formerly under the command of the generals Wen Pin, Zang Ba, Lu Zhi, Xun You, and surrendered general Tian Chou and Zhang Yan stayed in Jinyang. The urban policy was to prevent the target of the city Ji under Yuan Shao's rule. Ji is the only enemy city bordering Jinyang. The journey between the two cities was seven days.

Since Shangdang had Jinyang in front and Hanoi in back, it was already a city in the rear, so there was no need to send multiple military generals to garrison. Wu Fan appointed Yang Biao, the former Xiahou Yuanliao general, as the prefect of Shangdang, and Chen Zhen, as his general, and the urban policy was to govern.

As a result, Cao Cao's legion policy for Wu Fan's Second Legion: the "Bingzhou Strategy" was successfully completed, less than a month ago, which surprised Cao Cao, who had originally set the deadline to three years, and was also very happy.

As the legion policy was completed, Wu Fan, the commander of the legion, was the governor of the army, directly obtained 2 achievements. In addition to Wu Fan's previous performance in the battle between Yuan and Cao and his performance in the capture of Yecheng, Wu Fan won a total of 3,761 achievements, with a total achievement of 26,874, and 3,126 points away from the second-rank official, far ahead of other civil and military officials under Cao Cao. Xiahou Dun, who ranked second in the achievements, was more than 12,000 less than Wu Fan's achievements.

As a result, Cao Cao immediately restored Wu Fan's position and decorated the treasures with a value of 15; the Qinglong Yanyue Sword is worth 2o. After the heavy armor decides, the value of the treasures is expressed in numbers, so it seems to be intuitive to reward Wu Fan as a compliment.

From Wu Fan being punished in front of him, not only has he been restored to his post, but he has also obtained a valuable treasure, which only takes one day. When Cao Cao's generals heard the news, they all admired him for not having the ability.

Just after rewarding Wu Fan, less than half a time, Pei Prefect Chen Gui sent someone to come and ask for trouble: Sun Jian set up a 120,000 army to attack Xuzhou, Pei and Xiapi cities in danger

Xuzhou is the location of the Central Plains granary. The spring sowing is over now. Just wait for the harvest of grain in autumn. You must not let Sun Jian take Xuzhou away at this time.
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