Peek at my diary, Cao Cao dominates the Three Kingdoms

The last time the system had a separate reminder for Yuxi, it made Lu Yan think that he might be rewarded for returning Yuxi to Emperor Xian.

However, the final facts proved that Lu Yan himself thought too much...

Just when Lu Yan was thinking about how to create something that would be beneficial to the country and the people, and enrich his merits, Taichang Yang Biao suddenly walked in.

Seeing that Yang Biao was coming, Lu Yan quickly got up and got down from the main seat, bowed and bowed to his disciples and said, "Ah, what kind of wind brought you here today?"

Facing Yang Biao, Lu Yan was still very respectful.

Now this old man is not only a great Confucianist in the world, but also the dean of the Taiyuan Academy, and the head of scholars in the world. His reputation is now very important, and he cannot be easily offended.

"Lu Changsheng!" The old man glared at him as soon as he came in, making Lu Yan's heart skip a beat, "Are you still offended after all..."

Lu Yan accompanied him with a smile and asked, "Eh...what advice do you have?"

"Why didn't you notify me of my disciple and son being recruited?" Yang Biao asked, staring at Lu Yan's eyes.

Facing the majesty of the old man, Lu Yan carefully explained: "This... is a matter of urgency. The main reason is that this Northern Expedition is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for them to experience. If they miss this time, it may be difficult to meet them in the future."

"Hmph!" Yang Biao obviously didn't buy Lu Yan's account, and said, "My son Yang Xiu, my closed disciple Zhuge Liang, you transfer the two people I value most into the army at once, if something happens... ..."

Lu Yan hurriedly interrupted: "Bah, bah, that's too unlucky! Don't think about it, I will keep them by Cao Gong's side, how could something happen?"

But he didn't want to, Yang Biao was even more heartbroken and said: "The old man is most worried about Cao Mengde! You should know that Cao Mengde is the best to take risks. He has led the army alone to rob people's rear several times.

Just look at how he dared to chase and kill Dong Zhuo with a few thousand cavalry back then. In recent years, he also raided Wuchao and lured the enemy with Cangting...

When is this not a close call?

Put my son and disciples by his side?How can the old man rest assured! ! "

"That's right!" Lu Yan suddenly realized when he heard the words, that Lao Cao himself is not a worry-free master, and it may be more dangerous than usual to put him by his side...

Thinking of this, Lu Yan immediately repaired the situation: "Forget it, when the time comes to rendezvous with Mr. Cao, I will find an excuse to get them back. From now on, I will only take them to discuss military affairs, and not take them to the battlefield. What do you think?"

When Yang Biao heard this, his stinky face slowly melted away, and he said, "It's not too bad... It's not that I'm protecting my shortcomings, it's that they shouldn't have lost their lives on the battlefield before their talent for revenge was revealed."

"Yes, yes, you are right!"

Just as Lu Yan breathed a sigh of relief, Yang Biao suddenly asked, "By the way, what do you think of Sima Yi?"

How about Sima Yi?Lu Yan was taken aback when he heard the words, and thought, "That's a wolf!"

Not only did he kill Zhuge Liang and cut off the greatest hope of the Northern Expedition of the Shu Kingdom, but he also secretly conspired to seize the country of Cao Wei, and finally let his son return to Jin with three points and become the king of a country.

The founder of the final winner of the Three Kingdoms, what do you think of him?

Lu Yan wanted to say this very much, but he was afraid that Yang Biao would hit someone, so he finally suppressed this slightly nasty thought, after all, this matter was too bizarre and terrifying.

"Sima Yi's talent is Kong Ming's lifelong enemy." Lu Yan thought for a while, and said an ambiguous sentence.

After Yang Biao heard this, he was silent for a long time before he opened his mouth and said, "Sima Yi is a man with a deep city, and he has the appearance of an eagle watching a wolf, I'm afraid he is not a kind man!"

At this time, people place great importance on face appearance and so on, especially Pang Tong...a great talent in the world, but he was repeatedly rejected by Cao Cao and Sun Quan because of his appearance.Even Liu Bei, who is known as the most knowledgeable person, showed a little disgust in his eyes at the beginning, which hurt Pang Tong's sensitive heart.

According to legend, people with faces like eagles, wolves, and wolves are often extremely rich, ruthless, and greedy... This is one of the faces that all the ancients detested.

Yang Biao had seen Sima Yi's eagle-eyed look when he turned his head by accident, and because of this, he was quite concerned and afraid of Sima Yi on weekdays.

Hearing Lu Yan say that Sima Yi is Zhuge Liang's biggest rival in his life at this moment, Yang Biao's worry suddenly became deeper.

But Lu Yan always believed in his heart that Sima Yi's seizure of Cao Wei's regime was actually a general trend.

Cao Wei's successors were not as good as one generation after another, and the later nine-rank Zhongzheng system completely allowed the family to monopolize the court, and it made the Cao family no longer able to control and control the family.

This is the backlash from the aristocratic family, not just Sima Yi's greed and scheming,

In the form shown in the middle and late stages of Cao Wei, even if Sima Yi does not appear, there may be powerful officials represented by other wealthy families.

But now it is very different. The family is firmly suppressed by Cao Cao and Lu Yan. As long as the imperial examination system is improved later, it will be as difficult as heaven for the family to form a monopoly again.

Without the huge resources and contacts of the aristocratic family behind him, what kind of storm can he cause by himself, Sima Yi?

Moreover, Cao Cao's next generation successor is Cao Ang,

When Cao Ang was by Lu Yan's side, he was deeply influenced by Lu Yan's "harmful family theory", and he would never relax his suppression of the family.

The establishment of the Tai Academy, as well as the management schools in various places, will inculcate this kind of knowledge overtly and covertly, and everyone will be vigilant against the aristocratic family.With supervision from all walks of life, it will be more difficult for the aristocratic family to gain power than to reach the sky.

Therefore, for Sima Yi, although there are still some precautions to be taken, there is no need to overcorrect.

"Sima Yi is just a brat right now... You know that the purpose of setting up military and political subjects is not only to teach knowledge, but also to establish a great goal of life and values." When Lu Yan said this, he couldn't help but think of Those omnipotent political commissars of the later generations... suddenly smiled and said: "Or, do you always have doubts about your level of teaching and educating people?"

Yang Biao finally let go of his old face, and suddenly he stiffened again, saying: "Nonsense, I have always believed in my ability to teach and educate people! Sima Yi is just a young man with some abilities, how can I not hold him? "

"That's it!" Lu Yan spread his hands and said, "I believe that under your words and deeds, Sima Yi will definitely become a role model like Zhuge Liang who is loyal to the emperor and patriotic, dedicated to the country and family, and dies!"

"Dedicate yourself to death, and die..." Yang Biao chewed on the words that Lu Yan said unintentionally, and immediately said "tsk tsk" twice: "Your boy usually looks ignorant, lazy and fishy, ​​I can't think of it." There are always some memorable words to say.”

The more he thought about it, the more Yang Biao felt that this sentence fit the style of a literati, so he said with emotion: "It's really a good aphorism. I will write it down and hang it in the Taiyuan Academy when I go back. outlook on life, values..."

"I'll wipe it!" Lu Yan was startled, and immediately said with shame: "I've prostituted Zhuge Liang again for nothing, I'm ashamed..."

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Jian'an five years, May.

Cao Cao kissed 15 troops,

Take Xi Zhicai, Xun You and others as eagle dogs;

With Lu Yan, Zhao Yun, Xia Houyuan and others as minions, the troops stationed on white horses pointed at Liyang and Jizhou with swords, and the whole world was shocked for a while!

The Yuan family in Hebei is even more panicked, and the internal shock is endless!

Chapter 275 Three armies attack Yuan!

Seemingly overnight, Cao Cao began to move again and again.

The secret operations put in by the major forces under Cao Cao's rule also continuously handed over the detected information back to their masters.Cao Cao's soldiers, horses, food and grass from all over the country kept gathering towards the white horse. In half a month, 15 troops were gathered on the white horse line one after another!

What's more terrible is that this does not include Cao Ren Zhang Yan in Hanoi, Cao Hong in Xuchang, Li Tong in Wancheng, and the soldiers and horses left behind by Shou Chunxia Hou Dun and Guangling Liu Xun.If all of them are counted together, doesn't that mean that the strength of Cao Cao's troops has exceeded 30 to [-]?!

You know, except for the soldiers in the field, Cao Cao has always pursued the policy of elite soldiers. His regular troops are all elites in iron armor!

It has been more than a year since the battle between Guandu and Cangting, and Cao Cao has recovered so quickly, and his strength has not only not weakened, but even steadily increased.

Back then, even the Xiliang Army under the command of Dong Zhuo, the most powerful army in the world, had only about [-]% armor, and most of them were leather armor or cloth armor, and less than [-]% of the real iron armor.

Based on Dong Zhuo's army of 50, Dong Zhuo's most elite flying bear army should be all armored, with a number of about [-] to [-].

This is already a very terrifying force.

But look at Cao Cao now, all his troops are in iron armor, not counting Lu Yan's group of monsters in heavy armor...

He, Cao Cao, is so well-equipped with soldiers and food. If Yuan Shao loses, who else in this world will be his opponent?

How can this be fatal!

It's just killing people!

Most of the soldiers of the other princes are still in cloth armor and leather armor. When you compare the gap, a feeling of being difficult to fight rises from the bottom of your heart.

The moment the princes of the Han Dynasty received these pieces of information, their hearts felt as if they had fallen into an ice cellar, and they were beyond shocked by Cao Cao's strength.

Jian'an five years, May.

The emperor issued an edict ordering Cao Cao to raise troops to attack the rebel Yuan Shao, and at the same time called on the princes of the world to assist Cao Cao in the attack on Yuan Shao!

As the edict was spread all over the world, Qingzhou Mu and Wenhou Lu Bu immediately responded to the call to unite with Cao Cao to attack Yuan Shao, but it was only Yiyou Lu Bu who responded to the emperor's call.

Chenliu County sent out all the elite troops, with Lu Yan as the commander, leading [-] elite cavalry and [-] elite infantry, a total of [-] troops went north to attack Yuan Shao.

Under Cao Cao's command, Xia Houyuan, Zhang Liao, Le Jin, Yu Jin and other generals mainly led an army of 15 to attack Yuan Shao northward. By the time the [-] troops were assembled, it was already mid-May.

A series of generals who surrendered from Yuan Shao, such as Zhang He and Gao Lan, did not want to meet their old masters in battle, and chose to stay in Xuchang and other places.Xun Yu and Cheng Yu also stayed in Xuchang to sit in the rear this time, ensuring that the army's food, grass and ordnance should be supplied.

In the last Cangting battle, after Cao Cao retreated to Henan, Liyang, located on the north bank of the Yellow River, was once again occupied by Yuan Jun.

It is the later general Jiang Qi who is stationed in Liyang now, but there are less than 3 soldiers stationed in Liyang.

Seeing that Cao's army on the opposite side already numbered more than [-], Jiang Qi's heart was shaken, and at the same time, the letter asking for help floated like snowflakes to Yuan Shao in Yecheng.

But Yuan Shao couldn't send more soldiers to reinforce Jiang Qi at this moment, because he also received a request for help from Hanoi high-ranking officers and Yuan Tan from Pingyuan County.

Jian'an five years, June,

Cao Cao in Yanzhou, Cao Ren and Zhang Yan in Hanoi, and Lv Bu in Qingzhou all marched out, pointing their swords at Yecheng, Jizhou, Yuan Shao's stronghold!

In the General's Mansion, Yuan Shao was venting his anger.

"Boom!!"

"It's sputtering!"

Yuan Shao, who had white beard and hair, threw out everything he could touch, and roared angrily with red eyes: "Damn Cao Aman, damn Black Mountain Army, damn Lu Bu! One day, I will catch you all in one go. Cut to pieces!!

The three armies came out together, Yuan Shao was caught off guard, unable to look after each other.

Located in Gaogan, Hanoi County, relying on the checkpoints and strong cities, it can still barely resist the attacks of Cao Ren and Zhang Yan; Yuan Tan in Pingyuan County, it is very difficult to deal with Lu Bu, but under Xin Ping's suggestion, he defends Pingyuan County with strong walls and clear fields. Let Lu Bu not advance an inch.Only Jiang Qi in the middle of the road, Liyang City is small and shallow, and there are few defenders, so it is impossible to stop Cao Jun from crossing the river.

After crossing the Yellow River, Cao Jun began to use trebuchets to bombard Liyang City indiscriminately. In less than three days, Jiang Qi led his army to abandon the city and fled.

After Cao Cao's army occupied Li Duong City, they divided into an army of 3 people from Chuan and Lejin, and marched towards Chaoge, intending to attack the high-ranking officials who occupied the northern part of Hanoi County together with Cao Ren and Zhang Yan.

The remaining 12 troops marched northward, pointing directly at Yecheng, the heart of the Yuan Group.

Two years ago, it was Yuan Shao who led an army of nearly 50 to attack Cao Cao in the south. Two years later, it was Cao Cao who led an army of 10,000+ to go north to attack Yuan Shao... It was just a saying: Feng Shui turns, come to my house the next year.

Along the way, Cao Cao adopted Lu Yan's strategy and strictly ordered his soldiers not to disturb the people. Anyone who disobeyed the order would be beheaded directly to make an example of others.Moreover, every time Cao Jun captured a city, he would distribute the land of the original noble gentry to the local people.

This series of actions made the people in Hebei no longer resist the arrival of Cao Cao, and even the people in some places looked forward to the early arrival of Cao Jun, because they also wanted to divide the land from the landlords.

Originally, Cao Cao had a bad relationship with the Hebei family, and he felt no guilt in cleaning them up.

Not only the fields, but even their belongings Cao Cao simply took out and rewarded the lieutenants, whether it was his own soldiers, Zhang Yan's Black Mountain Army, or even some Yuan Shao surrendered troops who were willing to participate in the Northern Expedition.

Now Cao Cao was not only respected by the local people, but even many Yuan Jun's defeated troops joined Cao Jun one after another.

After all, the vast majority of Yuan Jun's soldiers were from ordinary people. After Cao Jun entered Jizhou, not only did he not disturb the people, but he also distributed land to the people and property to the soldiers. They have vested interests, so of course they will become active and hardworking.

When did a high-ranking family leader like Yuan Shao care about the interests of ordinary people and soldiers? In their view, being able to farm for ordinary people and give soldiers a good meal is considered a great kindness.

But as soon as Cao Cao came, the gap between the two was immediately reflected.

The people in Hebei suddenly realized that the rumors from the south were true, and that there really was such a good ruler in this world! After Cao Cao’s military order was issued, Zhang Yan, the Black Mountain Army, also consciously obeyed. He is also from Hebei. There are also hundreds of thousands of ordinary people. If he acts recklessly, he may not be able to get the support of so many people at all.

Surprisingly, it was Lu Bu of Qingzhou.

Pingyuan county could not be conquered for a while, so Lu Bu followed Chen Gong's suggestion and divided his troops to occupy other counties.

Originally, they acted a bit cruel and tyrannical as before, but after seeing the effects of Cao Cao's series of policies, Lu Bu also promulgated the same decree against all opinions.

Sure enough, this trick worked quickly,

People in Pingyuan County gradually no longer hostile to Lu Bu's army

Even the people in some counties took the initiative to open the city gates to welcome Lv Bu's army into the city, which greatly accelerated the speed at which Lv Bu's army occupied Pingyuan County.

Chapter 276 Meeting Ye City

Cao Cao's three-way army made rapid progress, and the smoothness of the Northern Expedition exceeded everyone's expectations, including Cao Cao and Yuan Shao himself.

Yuan Shao never dreamed that Cao Cao would raise more than [-] troops just over a year after the war.What he didn't expect was that he ordered Gao Gan to deal with Zhang Yan, and he actually directly forced Zhang Yan to secretly join Cao Cao... Yuan Shao felt regretful all of a sudden.

But it was too late to regret.

Cao Cao, Lu Bu, and Zhang Yan were coming so fiercely that Yuan Shao had to issue an urgent order to Yuan Xi in Youzhou to lead an army of [-], and sent envoys to Wuhuan, the three counties, to ask them to send troops to reinforce Yecheng.

As for Yuan Tan from Pingyuan County and high officials from Hanoi County...Yuan Shao himself is too busy to take care of himself, so how can he take care of the two of them?

When Youzhou resisted Wuhuan, Yuan Shao ordered Yuan Xi to examine and send away tens of thousands of people.

Later, Yuan Shao saw that the Black Mountain Army was not pleasing to his eyes, so he ordered the high officials guarding Bingzhou and half of Hanoi County to beat Zhang Yan.

As a result, Zhang Yan voted for Cao Cao in a rage, and Cao Cao took advantage of the situation to pull up the three armies to attack Jizhou.

Yuan Shao's troops in Jizhou were dispersed, and the troops of Bingzhou were dragged in Hanoi. Before he could mobilize the troops of Youzhou to defend, he was attacked by Cao Cao's army into Jizhou

In just over half a month, important towns such as Liyang, Chaoge, Neihuang, and Dangyin in Jizhou fell one after another, and Yuan Jun retreated steadily, while Cao Jun became stronger as he fought like a broken bamboo.

But as the front line deepened, Cao Cao also became cautious.

You must know that the deeper the battle line is drawn, the longer one's own supply line will be, and the easier it will be to be harassed by the enemy.