When Zhuge Liang burned thousands of Cao Cao's troops in Xinye, and brought his men to Xiangyang, Liu Biao actually died of illness.

Then, Liu Biao's subordinates, led by Cai Mao, supported Liu Biao's second son Liu Cong to inherit Liu Biao's position, and sent people to discuss surrender with Cao Cao.

Yiji brought this information to Liu Bei as soon as possible, forcing Liu Bei to change the direction of retreat halfway and retreat to Jiangxia.

Cao Cao's army then, because Liu Bei was just a partial army, he did not send tiger and leopard cavalry to chase him like in history. In order to prevent the people in Xiangyang from changing their minds, he immediately took the army to Xiangyang and took over Xiangyang. In this way, he captured most of Jingzhou without any blood.

However, the joy of seizing Jingzhou had not lasted long, and the news of Liu Zhe sending troops to Hanzhong was sent back. This news was like a cold water, extinguishing the joy of Cao Cao's capture of Jingzhou.

Before Cao Cao went south, he thought Liu Zhe had no time to take care of him and went south happily.

As a result, everything was deliberately pretended to show him. This conclusion made Cao Cao want to vomit blood. The position of Hanzhong is very important. Cao Cao didn't know that with Hanzhong, he could directly capture Yizhou.

It’s just that Cao Cao did not have the ability to seize Hanzhong, so he selectively ignored Hanzhong. At the same time, Cao Cao also hoped that Liu Zhe would forget the existence of Hanzhong.

However, Liu Zhe did not forget Hanzhong and took advantage of Cao Cao's journey south to seize Hanzhong.

After capturing Liu Zhe in Hanzhong, his strength increased a little more.

Although Cao Cao went south and captured most of Jingzhou and his strength also increased, the distance between him and Liu Zhe did not shorten.

A headache, a headache, really a headache.

After Liu Bei retreated to Jiangxia, he introduced Liu Qi as the heir to Jingzhou, which officially led to Jingzhou's division.

Cao Cao naturally would not allow Liu Bei to continue to occupy Jiangxia and split Jingzhou.

He endured the headache and led the army eastward, preparing to annihilate Liu Bei in one fell swoop and recover Jiangxia.

When he arrived in Jiangling, he received another bad news, and Liu Bei seemed to have signs of joining forces with Sun Quan.

This news finally gave Cao Cao a headache and could not act. The army could only station in Jiangling, and he praised it for its change.

Liu Bei's strength has been weakened a lot in the Battle of Xinye, and even if he can get Jiangxia, it will be difficult to recover immediately.

Although Sun Quan's strength is stronger than Liu Bei, he is not as good as Cao Cao.

However, when the two join forces, it will be a big trouble.

Just when Cao Cao was not considering how to solve the two troubles of Liu Bei and Sun Quan, news of Liu Zhe being recruited was coming.

"Damn Liu Zhe, what tricks does he want to play?"

After Cao Cao came to his senses, he greeted Liu Zhe again.

For Cao Cao, Liu Zhe was a super trouble, because of Liu Zhe's existence, Cao Cao's headache became increasingly serious.

"Go and let Sima Yi and Yang Xiu come to see me." Cao Cao ordered.

Since moving south, Sima Yi and Yang Xiu have performed better and better. Although some aspects are still relatively naive, in Cao Cao's opinion, the two of them have less experience. As long as they accumulate more experience, they can be better.

Therefore, after winning Xiangyang, Cao Cao asked Jiang Ji to assist Cao Ang in handling matters of big and small in Xiangyang, while he took Sima Yi and Yang Xiu to set off together to prepare to attack Jiangxia.

Now, Cao Cao felt that his head was getting more and more painful and could not concentrate on thinking, so he called the two of them to listen to their opinions.

Although it was a piece of information about recruiting a son-in-law, it was related to Liu Zhe and Cao Cao did not dare to despise him at all.

There is no way, Liu Zhe is too powerful, Cao Cao has to be careful.

Just like now, he just wants to go south to take revenge and occupy some territory to narrow the gap in strength with Liu Zhe.

But Liu Zhe didn't give him a chance to get closer. He went south and Liu Zhe also advanced north. He won Jingzhou and Liu Zhe also took Hanzhong into his pocket.

Hanzhong has an important position, no worse than Jingzhou's status.

Of course, Hanzhong's strength cannot be compared with Jingzhou's strength. If Cao Cao's victory in Jingzhou will definitely increase his strength a lot. But Cao Cao could not be happy.

Because he once again learned about Liu Zhe's methods, he actually deceived him, made him foolishly and went south.

If Cao Cao knew that Liu Zhe's target was Hanzhong, he would never go south. He would rather not go to Jingzhou than to restrain Liu Zhe and not let him seize Hanzhong.

Liu Zhe, who won Hanzhong, could easily reach into Yizhou in the future. Once Liu Zhe captured Yizhou, who else could stop Liu Zhe in the world?

After capturing Yizhou, Liu Zhe could easily send troops from Yizhou, enter Jingzhou, and then attack him from both sides. Where can Cao Cao have the strength to defend Liu Zhe?

Shortly after Liu Zhe returned to Youzhou, he was about to rush to tell the world that he wanted to recruit a son-in-law?

Cao Cao did not think that the matter was simply expressed on the surface, and there must be any conspiracy.

I was afraid that this conspiracy was targeting him, so Cao Cao did not dare to take it lightly.

After receiving Cao Cao's order, Sima Yi and Yang Xiu came one after another. They did not come together, and their relationship was not that good.

After the two of them came in one after another, no one looked at each other.  ..
Chapter completed!