Lu Bu was really depressed for three or five days because of the major negative news that "the emperor will no longer be granted a new provincial governor from then on." He was really disappointed for three or five days and could not even make contributions in war.

After all, Lu Bu is a person who can't hide his grudges and can't hide his troubles in his heart. Even if he makes contributions, he will never be promoted. This will be a big blow to him. Even if Chen Gong repeatedly reminds him that he should act and expresses his loyalty to Yuan Shao, he will inevitably have flaws if he can't resist Lu Bu's poor acting skills.

During this depression, the two armies stood on both sides of the Bian River, Guandu Ferry Crossing, and held each other.

...

Lu Bu's slow movements, and of course, both the enemy and us also saw it.

As early as the stalemate began, Yuan Shao noticed some abnormalities in Liyang Camp on the north bank of the Yellow River.

In order to conquer Cao Cao this time, Yuan Shao himself went south from his old nest in Yecheng to Liyang to supervise the battle.

However, considering that the enemy situation of the front army was unclear and Cao Cao's will to resist was not clear, Yuan Shao himself did not cross the river rashly, but just stayed at the ferry on the north bank of the river.

This place is only 100 miles away from Sour Jujube and only 160 miles away from Guandu, so the transportation is very convenient and it will not delay military intelligence. Even if the messenger does not ride a fast horse on the relay, he can still make a round trip in two days.

This is also the norm for fighting in the wealthy areas of the eastern Central Plains - like Liu Bei, who fought in Yizhou all year round, often only had a county town apart at a distance of 180 miles. It is very common. When you arrive in Liangzhou, you will have a terrible depth of 300 miles apart.

On both sides of the Yellow River, the area with the highest population density in China at the end of the Han Dynasty had the most developed agricultural production, on average, only 30 or 50 miles away. The four counties between Yanjin and Guandu also passed through the entire Dongjun, which was only 160 far away. (The main reason is that the east county is too narrow in the north and south direction, and the total thickness is only 2 counties, seventy miles wide)

The situation of Lu Bu's slowing down quickly fell into Yuan Shao's eyes. Yuan Shao couldn't rub the sand in his eyes, so he immediately summoned Tian Feng, Ju Shu, Guo Tu and Xu You to discuss the matter.

"What should Lu Bu do if he is not on the way? The officials thought he had any plans? Could it be that this person was indeed determined to be independent? When I saw him killing Ding Yuan and Dong Zhuo, and abandoning Wang Yun in the face of danger, I knew that although this person was good at fighting, he was unreliable!"

When Guo Tu heard this, he immediately flattered Yuan Shao: "Ming Gong is far-sighted and predicts things like a god, and he is extremely accurate in his view. However, now Lu Bu is leading his troops in front of the army, so he must beware of being forced to surrender to the enemy.

If he surrendered to Cao, it would not be too difficult to deal with. The Ming Duke's army was like a dragon and tiger, and even Lu Bu and Cao Cao were surrendered. He was afraid that he would join forces with Zhang Miao and join Zhu Yan and be directly under the jurisdiction of the court, so he would lose in vain. Maybe Chenliu County would be directly under the jurisdiction of the emperor from now on.

It is better to slowly plan for it, or to rise openly and descend secretly, gradually seize his military power, and even suggest that Lu Bu is a middle- and senior general in the court, so that he cannot take away his troops."

Yuan Shao touched his beard, and Guo Tu's words were completely in line with him, but he couldn't listen anymore. The main reason was that he had indeed made Lu Bu a lot of cheap labor in the past two years. Bingzhou was also the one that Lu Bu used the main efforts to help him fight, and he had not yet fulfilled the reward.

Yuan Shao was hesitating, and another adviser in the tent jumped out and scolded Guo Tu for making a mistake. Yuan Shao looked at him quickly, and it was Xu You.

"Mr. Guo is really nonsense!" Xu You denounced, "Mr. Ming is helping the world with great righteousness. If you have merits and mistakes, you should be punished. Why can you not understand the rewards and punishments? If you have not received any previous achievements, even if Lu Bu is lazy, you should pretend to do it without realizing it. You will give Lu Bu a chance to repent and reform yourself. If you do not regret it, then the song is in Lu Bu, and the world will be obvious to all, and it is not too late to blame it-"

Xu You said this and turned to Yuan Shao and bowed: "I beg the Ming Gong to immediately report to the emperor Lu Bu as the Bingzhou defense envoy and give him the general the title."

After Xu You finished speaking, Ju Su also said in a high-level way: "Sun Tzu said: Those who are capable of being the ones but the king won. The front-line military aircraft have changed rapidly, and it is inevitable that the offensive will be urgent. Moreover, after I heard that after Lu Bu arrived at Guandu, he had already challenged Cao Cao. It was Cao's army that was firmly cleared and cleared the countryside and defended across the Bian River to avoid war. Lu Bu was unable to make progress for the time being, so he really couldn't blame him."

In the end, Tian Feng didn't say anything at all, but just sneered in his heart: I've said long ago that Lu Bu's man is not worthy of great use. He could win Zhang Yan with both Qu Yi and Yan Liang and Wen Chou. The lord is just greedy! He can't bear to make a choice if he makes a little money!

However, Tian Feng thought so in his heart, not that he was unfaithful to Yuan Shao, but that Tian Feng has a bad temper and has bad interpersonal relationships. He was particularly furious when he met someone like Lu Bu, so Tian Feng did not participate in any topic about Lu Bu.

Yuan Shao finally approved Ju Su's request. Guo Tu did not flatter him this time, so he quickly tried every means to change his words and praise Yuan Shao's new decision, and thought in his heart how to plot against Ju Su Xu You next time.

"Ju Su is too important under the lord's account. As a military supervisor, he is powerful and has to find an opportunity to persuade his lord privately to avoid being undermined by Ju Su." Guo Tu thought to himself.

...

After Yuan Shao agreed to Ju Su's report, just four days later, Lu Bu, who was stalemate on the Guandu front line, received a commendation envoy sent by Yuan Shao.

It doesn't take four days to go from Liyang to Guandu, so during this period, Yuan Shao sent people to Luoyang from Liyang first, and then back from Luoyang to Guandu. In order to hurry up, he also used the Kuaima Post Station to relay.

Because they had been in stalemate for several days, there were many generals on the front line. Lu Bu was stationed in Guandu, Yan Liang, and Wen Chou in Xiao Huang and Wai Huang, all of whom were lined up along the north bank of the Bian River.

The Cao army also worked hard on the south bank, sent many troops to garrison, and assembled no less than 50,000 to 60,000 main combat troops.

Cao Cao himself camped at Guandu, Linbian River Ferry, south of Junyi County. His two younger brothers were stationed in Chenliu County, and the Xiahou brothers were stationed in Yongqiu County, confronting Yuan army in Xiaohuang and outer Huang counties on the north bank of the Bian River.

In general, Cao Cao led Xu Chu, Yu Jin, Le Jin, Cao Xiu, and confronted Lu Bu, Zhang Liao, and Wei Yue.

Cao Hong, Cao Ren, Cao Chun and Yan Liang confront each other.

Xiahou Yuan, Xiahou Dun, Li Dian confronted Wen Chou.

However, because Yan Liang and Wen Chou had no chance to cross the river to attack, they happened to be in their camp that day, but Lu Bu's big deal to discuss military aircraft.

Because Yan Liang and Wen Chou have a relatively low background, he has respected Lu Bu and Que Yi and other senior generals in the camp in the past two years.

These brainless warriors are often less curved than civil officials, and they are purely impressed by the strong. Who makes the literary world no first and the martial arts no second? Yan Liang and Wen Chou can see that Lu Bu is much better than them.

Lu Bu was drinking and treating each other. The imperial envoy arrived. Lu Bu certainly had to come out respectfully to welcome him. Yan Liang and Wen Chou also went out to watch the fun.

Before he arrived at the gate, Lu Bu saw Zhang Miao, the court angel, and Xu You, the private envoy of Yuan Shao, come together. Lu Bu hurriedly bowed and then asked about his purpose.

Zhang Miao launched his order and said roughly: "There are General Hu Ben and General Wen Hou Lu Bu... After the remarks of General Yuan Shao, the Cavalry, he was approved as General Anbei and the Bingzhou Defense Envoy. Don't let me down."

Then, Chen Gong was appointed as the prefect of Chen Liu. This enthronement caught Chen Gong, who was next to Lu Bu, a little unexpected.

In fact, after Yuan Shao handed over the letter to Lu Bu for the title of official, the emperor took the initiative to buy one free one and add it under Zhu Jun's persuasion. Zhu Jun was persuaded by Zhang Miao, believing that this could ease the conflict between Yuan and Cao and add a buffer zone to the court's direct jurisdiction.

What did Zhang Miao think: I and Yuan Shao and Cao Cao have a grudge. When I go back to become the prefect of Chenliu, I will definitely become the target of public criticism, but Chen Gong only has a grudge with Cao Cao and is a subordinate of Yuan Shao. At the same time, Chen Gong was once his confidant aide. Even if Chen Gong has changed his mind now, Chen Gong is the prefect of Chenliu, which means that Zhang Miao secretly restored his influence on Chenliu County.

For Yuan Shao, this was "the emperor recognizing his control over Chenliu again", and it was the emperor who showed goodwill to Yuan Shao and was happy to see him.

Lu Bu was originally resentful of not being the Shangzhou Prime Minister, but now he has a defensive envoy, which is far from being able to make up for it. However, he has the title of General Anbei, which seems to be acceptable.

After Zhang Miao finished speaking, there was a banquet that greeted the crowd. When the banquet was about to end, Xu You caught another opportunity alone and privately represented Yuan Shao to win over Lu Bu.

Xu You pulled Lu Bu aside: "Fengxian, General Cavalry has used his honors. He missed the title of Bingzhou Governor, and was caught off guard. Unexpectedly, Li Su, under Liu Bei's command, actually suggested that Your Majesty no longer enfeoffed the governor of the states again--Li Su is too bad.

In order to make up for Fengxian, General Cavalry specially submitted an order overnight to add General Anbei to you. This time, as long as you defeat Cao Cao and let Cao Cao completely admit his account, you can still claim you as General Zhenbei!"

That's the general of the four towns!

Lu Bu, a guy who was staring at the wealth and glory, thought of the high position of the generals of the four towns, no longer cared about the gap between the Bingzhou governor and the defensive envoy.

"As long as we become General Zhenbei and serve as the defensive envoy, the future governor of Bingzhou will not dare to restrain me, right? It is basically the same as the governor of the state, and the rank of general will be free."

He immediately said that if he was ready today, he would strengthen the Bian River and attack Cao's camp.

...

Lu Bu didn't know that while he was determined to work hard for Yuan Shao when he saw profit, Cao Cao was also adjusting his attitude towards Yuan Shao's army and deciding on the final battle and attitude.

On the south bank of the Bian River, Guandui was in the camp of Cao's army. Cao Cao was quite dissatisfied with the failure of Xun Yu's attempt to file diplomatic complaints in Luoyang's court at the beginning of this month.

Before Yuan and Cao started the war, Cao Cao made a plan to "let Yuan Shao accept the conditions of ceding only six counties" in exchange for both sides not to fight. Now Yuan Shao has occupied all the six counties that Cao Cao took the initiative to give in, and has also lengthened Yuan Shao's logistics supplies, but Yuan Shao is still aggressive.

In the court, the emperor actually listened to Zhang Miao's words and made Chen Gong the prefect of Chenliu. This was a back priest that Cao Cao could not have imagined. This made him finally realize a problem. Although he was the most innocent person among the main princes today, the one who advocated the emperor the most.

However, among other powerless factions that "do not belong to the main princes", there are still many people who are well-known in character design and loyalty to the emperor, just like Cao Cao!

Needless to say, Zhu Jun, and like Cao Cao, Zhang Miao also attacked Dong Shouyi faction and was the initiator. Later, he took the initiative to join Zhu Jun.

Compared with Zhang Miao, Cao Cao had no advantage in his loyalty to the emperor.

No wonder Xun Yu tried his best to lobby the emperor, but he still couldn't let the emperor take back his life of "giving Chenliu County to Chengong for management."

"Haha, the emperor is thinking of independence. For the emperor, if he could leave Yuan Shao's territory for the princes who were not absolutely loyal to him without paying other costs, he would be willing to leave Yuan Shao's territory to me who were relatively loyal to him.

But if it can be left to Zhang Miao and Zhu Jun's ministers who are not even the princes and are completely willing to be directly under the emperor's jurisdiction, then even the interests of me, the "relatively more loyal princes" can be sacrificed slightly in the eyes of the emperor!

After all, no matter how loyal the princes are, they are still princes. How can they compare to direct ministers who are not even princes!"

Cao Cao had completely seen through his value in the eyes of the emperor.

Since this is the case, don’t blame the king for not being a king or a minister.

Cao Cao brought Sima Lang, the envoy who was originally planned to be sent to Yuan Shao, and before Sima Lang set off, he gave Sima Lang some other conditions.

Then, Cao Cao came to Guo Jia and asked Guo Jia how to use war to promote peace to a limited extent. It would be best to make Yuan Shao retreat when he was in trouble, and not to let Yuan Shao be embarrassed in front of the world and give him a step.
Chapter completed!