Cao Cao took Shi Huan, Han Hao, and Xiahou Dun, who lost his left eye, towards Xu Ding, and stopped after a few dozen feet.

Cao Cao asked: "Bokang came to Juancheng without notifying him in advance, so I'm ready to entertain him. Now that Juancheng is still making trouble, Bokang will wait for an hour for now. Then I will stop for Bokang in Juancheng. Host a banquet and have fun with the wine."

"Mengde! I won't go in Juancheng, drink and chat, I think Donglai is suitable, why don't you go in too!" Xu Ding urged his horse out of the battle and said with a smile.

Cao Cao said: "Bokang really wants to stop me. I let the eastern part out with the scriptures. Bokang won't be so unkind."

"Meng De, I heard that the cities and counties in Jiyin County respect you very much. Now Jiyin and Shanyang are in your hands. Seeing that the plague of locusts is coming, let's call for a truce and give the people a way to survive. "Xu Ding ignored Cao Cao's emotional card, and instead pulled out the world.

Cao Cao pondered slightly, Xu Ding's meaning was obvious, he would not advance westward, but he could not allow himself to take back all the western part of Yanzhou.

Xu Ding needs a stable west, not a unified west under Cao Cao's name.

Just as Cao Cao was hesitating, news of Cao Ren was sent from the direction of Qiuqiu.

The visitor whispered to Cao Cao: "My lord, Fan County is under siege. The general asked me to ask you whether he will return to aid Fan County or Juancheng!"

Reporting to Qiuyi was captured by Cao Ren, but Xu Ding's troops surrounded Fan County. Cao Ren, who received the news, did not know Xu Ding's intentions, so he had to send someone to ask for instructions.

"Can Bokang let me think about it? This is not a matter of one person?" Cao Cao said.

Xu Ding nodded slightly: "Of course, but Meng De's time waits for no one, hurry up!"

Cao Cao led everyone back to the main formation, and asked Liu Ye, "Zi Yang, Xu Ding won't give up. He doesn't want me to take back Juancheng. Now that the troops are encircling Fan County, do you think we should stop attacking Juancheng?"

Liu Ye said: "My lord, stop attacking the city. The Marquis of Weihai may not really attack Fan County, but we are attacking Juancheng, so he will definitely attack us. Why don't you stop and save your strength?"

Cao Cao was still a little unwilling, seeing that Juancheng was about to be broken, and Lu Bu was about to be defeated, Xu Ding suddenly came out with only 5000 troops.

Do you want to do your best, and you will be hurt by both defeats.

Liu Ye said: "The lord Jiyin is basically recovered by us. I think we can abandon Fan County and Yuncheng, and go directly to Jiyin Dingtao, temporarily avoiding the military power of Marquis Weihai, so that Lu Bu can directly contact him. We have no conflict with Weihaihou.

At that time, I will be looking for an opportunity to recover Chenliu, in a certain Puyang and Juancheng. "

"That's it." Cao Cao felt very sleepy, making such a helpless decision, it is easy to haggard.

Soon Cao Jun stopped attacking the city and withdrew all of them.

Cao, Xu, and Lv's armies were silent for two days in Juancheng.

Soon the Qingzhou army that surrounded Fan County also withdrew, and Cao Jun in Fan County withdrew to Yuncheng with Cao Cao's family, and then retreated from Yuncheng to Dingtao.

The Xu Ding Department directly took over Fan County, but did not take Yuncheng.

After that, Lu Bu didn't take Yuncheng, and Cao Cao didn't take over. For a while, Yuncheng became a three-way zone.

On the second day of the armistice, bad news came from all over the world that everyone didn't want to hear, and they didn't want to accept it from the bottom of their hearts.

A plague of locusts broke out in Yanzhou.

The army of locusts that broke through the ground flapped their wings and waved their fangs, eating up all the green vegetation on the ground, leaving only the bark for the local people.

The continuous drought since last year has made the land less lush.

Fortunately, the water was moistened with the return of spring, and the green plants that had just grown on the earth were not enough for the locust army, and the locust army began to spread aimlessly around and fly far away.

It attacked every village, town, and county overwhelmingly, as if it wanted to destroy the entire human world...

Cao, Xu, Lu, and the three parties set up tents on a temporary earthen platform built outside the city and sat down to discuss urgent countermeasures.

No one can gloat in the face of natural disasters, and no one can avoid them.

Because the locust plague hurts the real Han people and their foundation for survival.

"Everyone, I didn't lie to you. The locust plague is here. The army of locusts has attacked one county after another. We need to resist this natural disaster and save our people?" Xu Ding looked at Cao Cao and then at Lu Bu.

Lu Bu clasped his fists and said, "Of course, the locusts will never die, so don't even think about growing crops in the field this year. No one will have any food to harvest, and everyone will go hungry."

Just won half of Yanzhou, and was snatched back a quarter by Cao Cao.

Now there is another plague of locusts, you say you are annoying or not, Lu Bu is very depressed.

I, Lu Bu, just found a corner to develop, why is it so difficult.

But at the same time, he was more willing to discuss with Xu Ding how to deal with the locust plague.

Otherwise, the territories he laid down would be the same as if they hadn't been fought.

Cao Cao stood up, bowed deeply to Xu Ding, and said, "Bokang is here, you have to apologize to you, everything you said is right, we were temporarily in trouble."

Before the plague of locusts came, Cao Cao didn't know what was going on, but when it really came, Cao Cao's pressure also increased, and his mood became more painful.

Although he only has two counties now, in the face of such a natural disaster, everyone would feel very sad.

What is a hero?

It means being able to take it up and put it down, and never be relentless when it should be ruthless.

But when it's time to be gentle, you can also let go of your grudges.

Xu Ding said: "Now is not the time for Meng De to talk about this. Let the matter pass. Now let's discuss how to deal with it."

Cao Cao nodded slightly, and then said: "Since Bokang, you have predicted this disaster, you must have some countermeasures!"

Xu Ding said: "Of course, last year, we in Qingzhou started to kill the locust eggs. Before the heavy snow came, we plowed the land deeply, so that the winter snow could cover the locust eggs as much as possible, and killed potential locusts.

At the same time, we in Qingzhou strongly encouraged the people to raise chickens, and put the chickens in the ground, and the chickens pecked and wiped out most of the eggs.

It can be said that it is almost impossible for me to have locusts raging in Qingzhou now.

Because even if the locusts entered Qingzhou, they would be eaten by a large number of poultry raised by the people.

"Amazing! Really amazing. I didn't expect Bokang to have such a special method to prevent locust plagues. It's wonderful!" Cao Cao didn't expect that preventing locust plagues was so simple, and he could not help but complained in a low voice:

"Since Bokang has this method, why didn't he tell us earlier?"

Xu Ding confirmed: "No? I remember that I had someone publish the preventive measures in the Donglai Monthly and Xunbao. It is impossible not to have them.

Besides, I told everyone that I don't think the states and counties in the world will pay attention to doing it in my way. "

"Ahem! Maybe I missed it." When mentioning the newspaper, Cao Cao couldn't help coughing a few times, his face a little embarrassed.

Everyone doesn't believe the severe drought and locust plague that Xu Ding said, so naturally they won't learn his preventive measures.

You must know that this not only requires the energy of the officials under the rule, but also spends money to support the people in raising poultry.

That in itself is a large expense.

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