The contradictions in Shandong, which were originally hidden under the water, have now been completely intensified.
Before the incident broke out, Cui Yan was somewhat confused and worried, but after the storm started, he calmed down and looked at the bloody storm that he had rolled up with his hands coldly, without any hesitation in his heart.
Once the plan starts and hesitates a little, he will die!
After the Liu Xie's edict was issued, Cui Yan watched the changes in the situation almost every day.
Everything is going well now.
Although Jizhou, Qingzhou and Xuzhou did not communicate in advance, they had a tacit cooperation with each other and wanted to expel Cao Cao first!
After all, it is not the first time they have done this by getting up together to lift the table.
When Dong Zhuo was in charge, it was also a manifesto that was to raise troops from all over the country!
Cui Yan even planned that if Cao Cao wanted to resist stubbornly, he would immediately pass the imperial edict of Emperor Liu Xie to let the kings everywhere serve!
Xu County will become the stable point in the vortex...
Yuzhou, Guanzhong, Qingzhou, Xuzhou, Yangzhou.
Cao Cao, Fei Qian, Zang Ba, Chen Su, and Sun Quan.
The world will be stirred up again!
And Jizhou will follow the emperor Liu Xie closely and present his knees to the winner.
Or, present the emperor...
As long as the Emperor Liu Xie is preserved in this storm vortex, the Cui Yan and Cui family can have an explanation for the Han Dynasty, which naturally ensures that the Jizhou faction can stand on the side of the final winner and get the most plump piece of meat in this storm!
Therefore, every evening, Cui Yan would look at the bloody sunset in the sky, then fall asleep peacefully, pretending to be a peaceful and good person who stays out of the matter.
Even if his strategy would lead to countless people who died because of it, his family would be destroyed, but he could still call himself a good person.
Until tonight.
While sleeping soundly, Cui Yan was suddenly awakened by the low-pitched voice. Cui Yan did not turn over and hold the short blade under the pillow, but then reacted and called himself the clan's brother Cui Lin.
The oil lamp was dark, illuminating Cui Lin's worried face.
During these days, Cui Lin was hidden under Cui Yan's shadow and ran around to contact her. It seemed that she had not had a good rest for a long time. Not only was her face tired, her eyes were deep, but she even spoke a little hoarse, her brows were tightly locked into the character "Shizawa", "Brother, something is wrong!"
Cui Yan let go of the short blade, turned over and sat up, rubbed his face with his hands, "Don't panic... What happened?"
Seeing that Cui Yan was still calm, Cui Lin calmed down a little and said in a low voice: "Old thief Cao was originally hiding in Chenliu! Now he is sending troops to Yangping! It seems that he is going to continue north and point directly to Leping!"
Cui Yan's originally calm expression suddenly changed when he heard this!
This is different from what Cui Yan originally thought!
Damn it!
To the north of Leping is Qinghe County!
Tobu Castle!
Cui Yan immediately felt like someone knocked on his head, and his eyes turned black!
But even so, Cui Yan immediately tried his best to calm himself down and breathed deeply.
Whenever there is a big deal, you will be calm. This sentence is not just a saying. The more you are, the more you should be calm when encountering things. Once you are panicked, you may be more and more wrong!
Cao Cao, Cao Mengde!
Do you want to dig the Cui family’s ancestral tomb?!
Damn it! Kill it!
Cui Yan quickly thought about the front and back in his mind...
Although he was in Xu County, it seemed to be under Cao Cao's sword, but it was safer, because unless Cao Cao wanted to rebel, he wanted to completely tear off the fig leaf covered with the "Emperor" on his body. Otherwise, if he wanted to attack Cui Yan in a place like Xu County with many people and complicated relationships, he was afraid that it would be Cao Cao's actions that would immediately turn the world in Jizhou!
You know, Cui Yan has a proton left in Xu County, and Cao Cao also has a child and his wife who stays in Jizhou!
Both sides have nuclear weapons. If they really fight, they will suffer losses. Holding them in their hands and not sending them is called mutual threats, and everyone can sit down and talk peacefully.
Not to mention the court, there are Ren Jun’s military farming soldiers around Xu County, but there are also sand mixed with Jizhou...
Therefore, Cui Yan's original plan was to force Cao Cao to sit down and talk.
Cui Yan's "begging for bones" is actually a similar strategy to the fact that after Dong Zhuo entered Beijing, the Yang family and the Yuan family secretly asked their subordinates to resign. After all, it is already spring, and the next spring plowing requires not only one or two people. Could it be that Cao Cao himself would personally cultivate hundreds of thousands of acres of farmland in Jizhou?
Politics is the art of compromise.
Cui Yan wanted to make Cao Cao compromise, but he never expected that Cao Cao would choose to fight!
Simply put, it was like Cui Yan secretly greeting a group of people, preparing to take advantage of Cao Cao's weakness, put Cao Cao in a sack, and beat him up, so that Cao Cao was honest and knew how to respect who was the boss. But unexpectedly, Cao Cao drove a big one as soon as he came up, stared at Cui's hometown and rushed straight to him. It seemed that even if he was beaten to the point of bleeding, he would still make Cui's hometown Dongwu a hundred miles apart!
This is actually Cui Yan doesn't understand Cao Cao's nature enough.
Of course, Cui Yan is not a keyboard warrior, and it is impossible for him to have such detailed information as later generations. He can analyze and study from the beginning of Cao Cao's time as a captain in the city gate until Cao Cao's death, so Cui Yan could only formulate strategies according to his understanding of Cao Cao. So he did not expect that Cao Cao's first reaction would be to bite the bullet and fight for the bleeding!
This is completely incompatible with the habits of Shandong gentry, and can even be called recklessness!
What to do now?
Should we watch the fall of Dongwu and the century-old foundation of Cui's family turn into ashes, or should we urgently contact hidden forces around Xu County and turn back to rescue our hometown in Jizhou?
Cui Yan raised his head and stared at Cui Lin, "Although Cao's actions are cruel, they are really cowardly! If Cao's thief is very sure, why don't he raise his troops directly to Xu County?!"
When Cui Lin heard this, he said, "If the thief Cao disrupted Yuzhou here, then Shandong would definitely belong to the cavalry!"
This is a very simple truth.
Cao Cao's basic foundation is now the half-dead Yanzhou and the weak Yuzhou.
There is a war in Jingzhou, and it is difficult to clone it.
There is Zang Ba in Qingzhou, who looks and is in harmony with his spirit.
There is a Chen family in Xuzhou, and it is a disobedience to Cao Cao.
Jizhou is now equivalent to completely turning against Cao Cao...
Of course, Cao Cao and Cao Cao's subordinates wanted to kill Cui Yan, but in Xu County, it is inevitable that they would be afraid of being attacked. If Yuzhou is in chaos, then Cao Cao would basically have no rear!
So this is why Cui Yan has always stayed in Yuzhou and Xu County, because this is the Eye of the Storm!
Now……
Cui Yan nodded, and then showed a bit of ferocity on his face, "Since Cao thief ignores the lives of the people, why should we talk about benevolence and righteousness to the thief? At this time... it is no longer good!"
All tactics are ultimately about changing homes!
"News are coming out immediately! The thief Cao is unrighteous and slaughteres the people! It is time to fight against the thief and eliminate the rebellion!"
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This spring of the tenth year of Taixing seems to be colder than usual.
This cold weather seems to indicate that this spring this year will be the most miserable blood in Shandong.
Xun Yu sat in the courtyard, from the dim sky, and then in the cold wind in the morning, waiting for the morning light to flash.
He felt cold.
It's not just the coldness on the body.
Too many people have fallen down on this road.
Xun Yu felt that he was betting with a monster named Future at his deskmate.
Of course, this "future" does not refer to Fei Qian.
Xun Yu could not have thought that Fei Qian came from the future. He just felt that he was betting on his future, Cao Cao's future, and the future of the Han Dynasty.
He came from a prominent family and received good education and influence since childhood.
The Xun family enjoyed a high reputation and status during the Eastern Han Dynasty. Xun Yu's grandfather Xun Shu was famous for his erudition and talent and noble character. Growing up in such a family environment, Xun Yu showed extraordinary talents and extraordinary ambitions since he was a child.
All of this seems to show that Xun Yu will have a bright future...
But is that really the case?
When he was young, he thought so at one time, but now he doesn't think so.
As time goes by, Xun Yu sees many of his fellow travelers, either heading on another path, or have turned into fragments of memory and fall into dust.
How many people have gone from being shining to being dull.
How many people have changed from thousands of people to everyone’s beating.
Those miserable and humble people suddenly became powerful ink in history one day, cushioning the old and dilapidated vehicle wheels of the Great Man, almost overturning them.
Xun Yu was like a groom on this dilapidated vehicle, facing the wind and rain, all over his body, trying his best to maintain the fire in his heart, and also trying his best to prevent himself from falling to death on the road due to the severe cold wind and snow...
Many people have been so fierce that they thought they were writing history, but they found that history was in and out of them, changing their shape.
Betting against the future is undoubtedly cruel.
Once you make a wrong bet, your life will be as light as a feather.
This is the second time Xun Yu has placed a bet...
For the first time, he abandoned Yuan Shao and bet on Cao Cao.
At that time, Yuan Shao was at its peak!
But Xun Yu realized that Yuan Shao was indeed "at the peak of the sky", but he was about to set west soon. Although Xun Yu was not sure when Yuan Shao would collapse and decline at that time, he knew that Yuan Shao's momentum was inevitable, so Xun Yu chose Cao Cao and chose Cao Mengde, which was not many people paid attention to and not many people noticed.
The Jizhou gentry who bet on Yuan Shao lost, and lost all their money. The closer they stood to Yuan Shao, the more miserable they became. After following Yuan Shao’s glory, there was a lifetime of desolation and desolation.
A lesson from the past...
But what's the use?
The great man Xun Yu, who had clearly seen the overturning Yuan's vehicle, fell on the side of the road. However, when he was driving the carriage, he still could not fully control the operation of the vehicle!
This is his second bet.
And like the gentry around Yuan's family back then, he had no choice.
The children of the gentry in Shandong often have spiritual "greatness" and fantasize about their strength, which can change the whole world, and kill decisively and unambiguously, but in fact...
Xun Yu looked at the tree in the yard.
Under the tree, there is wine.
Buried by Guo Jia.
Xun Yu thought it was strange back then.
Because Guo Jia, as a drunkard, can still save wine and still have to be buried, which is undoubtedly a strange thing.
"Why not bury it in your own yard?" Xun Yu asked at the time.
Guo Jiazhen said, "When I buried it in my yard, I will dig it out and drink it? How could it be buried for a long time?"
this……
It seems to make sense.
But after burying for a long time, why is it for?
Guo Jia said that this is a gambling debt.
Then Xun Yu was silent...
Ah, the heaven and earth are ruthless, in the past, in the present, in the future.
Only people have feelings.
Fei Qian is also from a gentry!
In a sense, Fei Qian is a complete traitor! He betrayed his gentry!
Xun Yu did not believe that Fei could succeed because Xun Yu knew that even if there were no gentry, family, family, teachers and students, and cliques, as long as people were still there and interests remained, there would definitely be people who would gather on the edge of authority to eliminate dissidents and breed bureaucrats.
Feiqian cannot succeed!
Xun Yu was sure again. But he also knew that the reason why he was sure again and again was that he had already begun to suspect that he had taken the wrong path!
This road...
Outside the courtyard, there were rapid footsteps, and then someone whispered, "Lingjun! Cui is moving!"
The confusion and worry in Xun Yu's eyes gradually faded away, and then turned into flames rising, "Okay! Do what you want to do as planned!"
"only!"
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As Cao's army advanced all the way to Qinghe County, it gradually became unsmooth.
In the margins of Jizhou, there are not many forts and private soldiers. Often some miscellaneous soldiers and people who are bound to capture the forts. However, as they are closer to the prosperous areas of Jizhou, especially those near Qinghe County, it has begun to be more difficult to chew.
Moreover, there were also some decent soldiers and even cavalry among these forts!
When Cao Cao could not bring in many cavalry, some of them could even pull out nearly a hundred cavalry among these forts!
Cao Hong became more and more angry when he saw this!
Back then, the gentry of these local people wanted to wear the most torn clothes on their bodies and the smelliest river mud on their faces, just to show that they were so poor that they had no fig leaf...
But now look at it!
How did this fucking cavalry appear in front of you?
"kill!"
Cao Hong rushed forward, put down his helmet and armor, waved his long sword in his hand, and activated his war horses and rushed towards the cavalry in the fortress.
The war horse under Cao Hong's crotch is also captured.
Those guys in Shandong who had been shouting that they had nothing but had no drops before were all filled with fat!
Food, weapons, war horses!
Damn it, damn it!
"Everything deserves to die!"
Cao Hong yelled and rushed straight to the fort cavalry with his subordinates.
The horse's hooves roared like thunder rolling.
The sharp blades of the spear and the sword shine with cold light.
The fort cavalry used to oppress ordinary people and ordinary soldiers is not a big problem, but when they face Cao Hong, it is like a horse monkey meeting a chimpanzee, which is not at the same level as a level of equivalent!
Although most of these fort cavalry are light armored, and their riding skills may be slightly more flexible than Cao Hong and others, that's all. After fighting, they were beaten up and screamed, and they didn't have much strength to fight back!
Cao Hong had no intention of surrendering these fort cavalry. He only wanted these guys' war horses, and he didn't want these people at all!
Cao Hong went deep into Jizhou with a small number of soldiers. The risk was originally extremely high, and he also had to control the people who were entangled. He had absolutely no intention to check whether these surrendered soldiers were loyal!
Therefore, the only way to treat these private soldiers from the fort is to kill them all!
There are already many people who die at Cao Hong's hands, and he doesn't care about killing more people.
When the cavalry rushed forward, they could only move forward and continue one after another. Once they lost their courage, they would lose much lethality.
Cao Hong led the army to charge, and just one or two waves of sprints and trampling back and forth, completely defeating the formation and morale of the fort cavalry. Many of the fort cavalry were killed on the spot, while the rest of the fort cavalry fled in panic...
Cao Hong shook off the blood stained from the long sword and pointed to the fort that closed the city gate and pulled the suspension bridge not far away. "The whole army attacked! After breaking the fort, everyone could eat enough! The lord only took half of the property, food and grass! The rest were equal!"
『Oh oh oh oh!』
The sound of beast-like shouts sounded, and the old scene in Xuzhou seemed to reappear in Jizhou.
House search and family extermination!
Cao Zhang followed Cao Hong, and at the beginning, he was a little confused. He still had some pity for these gentry gentry in Jizhou, but when he discovered that he had found military rations in the granaries of these gentry in Jizhou!
Those that disappeared inexplicably and those whose names were lost should be military rations to be transported to the frontline!
Some even have not even removed the logo on the package!
How did these people get it?!
How dare they?!
At this time, Cao Zhang truly realized why Cao Cao and Cao Hong were so angry, and also guessed that Cao Cao and Cao Hong might have known all this a long time ago...
Why can't these guys be at peace and honest?
Why do these things?
Cao Zhang couldn't figure it out.
What he didn't understand even more was that these people thought they were not wrong, and that they were Cao Cao and Cao's army.
"Cao Thief...you must die a little...ahhhhh...
"The old thief... is irreconcilable..."
"I'm under the Nine Netherworld... I'm waiting for the thief to come..."
In the distance, some noisy sounds howled before dying, full of resentment.
Cao Zhang listened with a expressionless face.
If curses and insults can really make people die, then they have already died thousands of times.
This is their fault, so they deserve to die.
Cao Zhang no longer pity these guys, but deep in Cao Zhang's heart, there was a trace of doubt, like a stubborn stone in a deep pool, which is not visible on weekdays, but it does not mean that it does not exist...
They were wrong, so what about us?
We're right?
Cao Zhang didn't know.
As blood and fire spread, further apart, a team of Cao army commanders were rushing towards Cao Hong and Cao Zhang's position...