Midsummer weather changes as soon as you say it.

It was originally a bright sun, but it turned into a heavy rain in the blink of an eye.

Cao Cao's mood also became particularly bad. The situation became too fast, so fast that Cao Cao and his staff were a little overwhelmed.

Liu Biao suffered a great defeat in February and lost his life to his son Liu Pan. Gong'an Water Village was attacked by Dong Shi Deng Dang, and Cai Mao's Jingzhou Navy was defeated. As a last resort, the Jingzhou Navy retreated from Wuling, and the waters in the Yunmengze area were already controlled by the Jinfan Camp in Ganning.

This is bad news!

But then, it was good news...

Liu Wei retreated to Nanzhong, borrowed 80,000 barbarian troops from the Southern Barbarian King Meng Dan in Jianning, and launched a counterattack on Xichuan!

However, Pang Tong was prepared to block the attack of the Southern Barbarians. At the end of March, Jia Long, the deputy governor of the Wunan Army, suddenly passed away.

Chengdu suddenly had no leader.

Fortunately, when Pang Tong occupied Xichuan, Dong Qi had already transferred Xu Rong, the prefect of the garrison county, from the Western Regions to Xichuan. However, Dong Qi did not establish a prefect, but instead ordered Xu Rong to be the military governor of Xichuan and to raise all military affairs in Yizhou. The political affairs in Chengdu were temporarily managed by Yan Pu, the prefect of Hanzhong.

At least for a while, Xichuan’s Wunan Army is afraid that it will not be able to leave Sichuan!

But the good times did not last long. Before Liu Biao could take a breath, Changsha Prefect Pan Jun announced his surrender to Guanzhong under the persuasion of Huan Jie. Then Shanyue attacked Guiyang again, and the prefect Liu Du was killed by Shanyue leader Xi Ni... But Xi Ni's Shanyue army was annexed by Zhang Ren.

After the Wuxi Barbarian Army stabilized Wuling, the troops pointed directly at Lingling...

The prefect of Lingling surrendered to Langkai City, and Zhang Renbing occupied Lingling without any blood. Liu Biao was so angry that he vomited blood on the spot when he heard the news.

Xiang Lang's confidant Xiang Jing's family was imprisoned. If Kuai Yue had not stopped him, Liu Biao would have killed someone on the spot!

The four counties in Jingnan were gone within ten months...

Then there was another good news. Sun Ce from Jiangdong actually gave up his past grudges and ordered Zhou Yu to be the commander-in-chief of the navy, send troops to Jingzhou, and assist Liu Biao. After entering Jingzhou, he lost to Gan Ning for three consecutive battles. Gan Ning had to gather his troops and retreat to Yunmengze.

Changes are so fast!

Cao Cao was still sighing, but Dong Qi created a Lumen Pavilion in Chang'an, which made all scholars in the world praise Dong Qi.

Just as he was preparing to try to reduce the impact of this incident on Xuchang... Pang Tong defeated Liu Wei and Meng Dan's troops in Nanzhong. The young general Luo Meng Zhang Yi captured Lai Min and Qin Mi, the subordinates of Liu Wei, and the general Yan Yan killed Leng Bao and Deng Xian, Liu Wei and Wu Yi, and left the city with naked backs to surrender.

Could it be that Wunan Army is about to break out of Xichuan?

Just when Liu Biao, Sun Ce, Cao Cao and others were worried, Pang Tong made a decision that no one could understand.

Gan Ben appointed Pang Tong as his military advisor, Yan Yan as his deputy governor, and Luo Meng Zhang Yi as his young general was the vanguard. In early May, he forced his troops to cross the Lu River and sent troops to Nanzhong.

Wunanjun actually went to fight against the Southern Barbarian King Meng Dan!

Cao Cao was really confused...

"Don't you tell me why the Wunan Army did not support Wuling, raid Jingxiang, and run to Jianning, and what was the purpose of?"

Lu Su didn't speak, and Xun You frowned.

The rest of the people were also frowning. Look at me, look at you, no one can figure out which one Wunanjun sings.

"Get the map!"

Lu Su and Xun You spoke almost at the same time, and they looked at each other and smiled slightly.

The personal guards presented the map and spread it out and hung it on the wall. Lu Su and Xun You squinted their eyes and paid attention, while Cao Cao also walked up to him.

In the shogunate, there was no sound.

Cao Cao suddenly sighed after a moment, "I understand... that despicable man, this plan is really vicious!"

Lu Su and Xun You seemed to see the clues.

The two looked at each other and smiled bitterly, "One step by step, one step first! Dong Xiping's trick is dangerous enough, but it is also cruel enough. The person who planned for Dong Qi was fully prepared. If they succeeded, I am afraid that Sun Bofu's backyard would be incredible."

"What's the meaning?"

Xun Yu walked over quickly and looked at the map, a little puzzled.

"Wenruo, if I'm not wrong, Dong Qi wants to open a path in Jianning, then go straight to Jiaozhi and capture Jiaozhou."

"Jiaozhi? Jiaozhou?"

Xun Yu looked at the map in confusion, "I'm afraid it's not that easy to go from Jianning to Jiaozhi. Not to mention anything else, how can I ensure the supply of this baggage? Without the supplement of this baggage, even if Dong Qi made a way, he would not be able to gain a foothold in Jiaozhi. What's more, even if he won the battle with the Southern Barbarians, his troops would be consumed very much. It was simply whimsical to attack Jiaozhi with exhausted soldiers."

Lu Su said in a deep voice: "But what if they conquered the Southern Barbarians?"

"ah?"

"Turn the Southern Barbarians to supply Jiaozhi, Zhang Ren captured Xi Ni and the Southern Barbarian King Shamoke, which is enough to restrain the Cangwu Guards and even the Yulin Guards. At that time, as long as the Southern Barbarians are willing to provide unrecorded and military forces, a strange army, Bengu will be released and can go straight to Jiaozhi along the Honghe River."

When Xun Yu heard this, he couldn't help but be stunned.

He is not good at military affairs, but it does not mean that he doesn't know. Otherwise, when his son Bian Zhao rebelled in Yanzhou, he would not be able to defend Puyang with his weak force. What Lu Su said was indeed possible. But it was very slim. Not to mention how long it would take to pacify the Southern Barbarians, but this idea would probably not be easily thought of by normal people.

Cao Cao gritted his teeth and whispered: "The despicable man is not an ordinary person. His subordinates are like him, all of whom are fantastic and arrogant..."

That's what Xun Yu could hear, but Cao Cao was afraid.

"Prime Minister, Prime Minister..."

"Ah, I'm fine, I'm fine!"

Cao Cao woke up, pondered for a while and said, "Immediately ordered someone to go to Jiangdong and tell Sun Ce that he would be careful of Jiaozhi's safety."

It seems that Cao Cao is afraid that he believes Dong Qi can do it.

"Who is it, who is planning for the despicable husband?"

Xun You said: "Prime Minister, I sent someone to investigate Guanzhong for several months, but I didn't get any results. However, I have some ideas now."

"oh?"

"This person must be someone Dong Qi trusts very much, and the time he has followed Dong Qi will not be short... I heard that Dong Qi regards Pang Tong as a brother, but he can actually use that man's words to let Pang Tong go deep into the barren land? It is only a few people who count Dong Qi's early counselors. Huang Shao is an unknown person and has passed away long ago. The person who has followed Dong Qi for the longest time is that Jia Xu."

"Jia Xu?"

This is almost a very strange name. Even Cao Cao almost forgot about this person's existence. Many of the strategists who had just joined the shogunate had never heard of it.

Xun Yu said: "But in the second year of Jian'an, the Chang'an Rebellion... in charge of the overall situation and forcibly imprisoned the King of the Western Han Dynasty? Didn't he be detained by Dong Qi after that incident, and has been around since then. Isn't he dead yet?"

Cao Cao smiled bitterly, "Wen Ruo is really an honest gentleman."

Lu Su was not very familiar with the name Jia Xu. He rubbed his fingers for a moment and asked in confusion: "Who is this Jia Xu?"

Cao Cao, Xun You and others smiled bitterly again.

"Zi Jing is indeed a good question. We don't know much about Jia Xu... I only heard that he was a strategist whom Dong Qi conquered before he entered Luoyang. Since then, there has been no trace. When the first time the Guandong princes alliance against Dong Zhuo in Chuping, Jia Xu appeared next to Dong Qi for the first time. At that time, Dong Qi was in Xingyang and had a hard battle with me."

Of course, Cao Cao would not say: Dong Qi beat me up so hard that he threw me away, jumped into the water and ran away to escape... Even that horse was a gift from Dong Qi.

"Oh, I have an impression when the Prime Minister said this! Later, when Wenda surrendered, he mentioned this person and said that Dong Qi treated Jia Xu as if he were a commander and obeyed the rules. Moreover, Li Tong admired Jia Xu very much, but after Xingyang, he disappeared again."

Cao Cao nodded, "That's right! Jia Xu did not appear after the Xingyang War. Now it seems that he must have been arranged by Dong Qi in the Western Regions. Dong Qi planned ahead and laid the foundation in the Western Regions. He was able to hand over his huge family business to Jia Xu to take charge, but it can be seen that he had great trust in Jia Xu. Later, when Dong Qi entered the Western Regions, we often heard about the names of Li Ru and Lu Zhi and others, and Jia Xu disappeared again.

The despicable man entered Guanzhong and showed off his strength outside the border, causing turmoil in Chang'an.

No one expected that Dong Qi would not hand over the power to his sworn brother Dian Wei, but asked Jia Xu to take charge of the overall situation. After the Chang'an Rebellion was quelled, Jia Xu was invaded into Duyou Form by Dong Qi for offending the King of the Western Han Dynasty. After that, Jia Xu never appeared again."

Xun You smiled helplessly and said softly: "The problem is that Jia Xu has almost never officially appeared in our field of vision. He knew his name at that time just because he had been a Lang in Luoyang, and no one paid too much attention to Jia Xu. Moreover, Jia Xu lived in seclusion and we had no idea about this guy at all, which was the biggest trouble."

"You mean..."

Yiji and others spoke halfway, but suddenly stopped talking.

It was just an illusion that Jia Xu was detained by Dong Qi. If it was really Jia Xu who was planning for Dong Qi, that is to say that when Guanzhong was not stable, Jia Xu was already planning the current situation. Since the second year of Jian'an, he has been hiding behind the scenes.

I started to have a headache, a headache!

Lu Su is a proud and arrogant person, but he can only sigh that he is not as good as Jia Xu's plan.

And now I want to find Jia Xu again and study Jia Xu... it is obviously too late. Xun You pondered for a moment and whispered in Cao Cao's ear: "Lord, judging from the current situation, should you let the second young master and the others come back? Maybe your identity has been exposed."

"no!"

Cao Cao flatly rejected it.

In the first year of Taiping, Cao Cao and his staff designed a plan.

The three studies in Chang'an were emerging, and it is said that what they taught was very practical. Cao Cao wanted to send someone to explore the reality of the three studies. On the one hand, he could figure out Dong Qi's intentions, and on the other hand, he could also take the opportunity to secretly learn some courses in the three studies. In any case, Dong Qi was always one step ahead of Cao Cao, which made him very distressed. The education of the three studies was undoubtedly his way to steal his teacher from Dong Qi.

Cao Cao's second son Cao Pi, Xiahou Yuan's second son Xiahou Ba, and Xun You's second son Xun Shi, the three of them smuggled into Chang'an together.

Cao Cao also wanted his son to come back safely.

However, if there was someone like Jia Xu around Dong Qi who was planning, who could explain clearly what the situation would be like?

Maybe Cao Pi and others have been discovered long ago!

But they did not make any moves, so Dong Qi did not take action. In this situation, as long as Cao Pi and the others took action, Dong Qi would definitely take action. Perhaps staying in Chang'an honestly would be more beneficial to them. Cao Cao frowned and kept slapping his forehead.

"What's going on in Runan?"

"It's still in stalemate... In addition, according to detailed returns, at the end of April, Lu Bu's family had already entered Jingzhao from Xuanyuan Pass, and now they are afraid that they will soon arrive in Chang'an. Lu Bu's whereabouts are difficult to capture. After several harassments in Nanyang, Liu Biao suffered heavy losses. Although Liu Biao has accepted our explanation, he is currently lying on a sickbed, so he is afraid... Moreover, Liu Biao has no way to control Liu Bei at all."

Cao Cao gritted his teeth, "Since that's the case, let Liu Bei look good!"

As he was talking, the sound of rapid footsteps came from outside the hall. Immediately afterwards, Cao Peng rushed into the hall with a blood-stained young general.

"Prime Minister, something is not good!"

"What's the matter panic?"

The school knelt in the hall and said sadly: "Prime Minister, my father Li Tong... was killed!"

"What?"

Cao Cao suddenly stood up, his eyes wide open. This school was Li Tong's eldest son, named Li Xu. Since the Battle of Luoyang, Li Tong has been stationed in Baima, Li Yang (now northeast of Jun County, Henan).

Li Xu cried and said, "Prime Minister, my father is stationed in Baima. Yuan Shao took General Yu Yuanjin as the vanguard and attacked Baima... Liu Yan, the prefect of Liyang (now Jun County, Henan Province), refused to reinforce. After my father's hard work for three days, Liu Yanxian Liyang surrendered, my father was killed by Yu Yuanjin, and the white horse was lost... Before the White Horse City was broken, my father ordered me to break through forcibly... When breaking through, my brother was also killed in battle. Please ask the Prime Minister to make the decision for me!"
Chapter completed!