The remaining noble clans were all afraid of being retaliated by Cao Cao. After discussing the results overnight, they planned to capture Qi County first.
As a means of joining Liu Hong's career.
After everything is ready.
That night, the nobles dispatched their own private soldiers, quietly killed the city guards and captured the city gate.
Then all the people related to Cao Cao in Qi County were killed, leaving no one alive.
All this was recorded by Jin Yiwei who was hiding in secret, and the letter was sent to the nearest Le'an County.
Le'an County, in the county governor's mansion.
Chen Gong looked at the letter in his hand with a look of satisfaction on his face.
He had a further understanding of Jin Yiwei's ability to do things.
The development of Jinyiwei over the years has already penetrated into all aspects of Qingzhou.
Just a simple strategy made Cao Cao and the nobles incompatible with each other. If this sword is used at the critical moment, it can be more useful than tens of thousands of elites.
Immediately, everything he knew was sent to Liu Hong.
At the same time, let Li Guang lead 10,000 elite troops to Qi County to capture it.
The soldiers are very fast, and he wants to capture Qi County before Cao Cao can react.
By then, even if Cao Cao had reacted, Qi County had fallen into his hands, and the situation had been decided. Even if Cao Cao was angry again, he could only be furious.
After the order was given, Li Guang immediately led 10,000 elite troops and rode straight into Qijun.
The counties of Qijun had long been controlled by the nobles. When they saw Li Guang leading 10,000 elite troops, holding the Yanzhou flag, they immediately opened the city gates to welcome him.
Cui Hao, the head of the Cui family, as a representative, after welcoming Li Guang into the city, he led the heads of the major noble families out to greet him.
"The thief Cao is stupid and ignorant, and a traitor. We abandon the dark and turn to the light, and take refuge in Ming Degong."
Li Guang glanced at these people and nodded calmly.
"To prevent fraud, all city gates will be manned by my soldiers and horses. I'm sorry."
The heads of the major gentry families were all right. After all, they had sincerely planned to take refuge with Liu Hong.
Seeing this, Li Guang directly arranged people to take control of the city, and then galloped to the next place.
Before coming here, Chen Gong had already given instructions not to stay in one place for too long, otherwise things would change.
Cui Zhen felt unhappy when he saw Li Guang riding away.
"It's just a dog under Liu Hong, but he dares to be so arrogant, what kind of air is he!"
"Shut up, you bastard!"
Cui Hao interrupted Cui Zhen coldly.
"Nowadays, we are no longer in the past, living under someone else's roof, so we have to know how to watch people's actions."
"Even if the other party is Liu Hong's dog, we can't offend him now."
Cui Zhen hesitated to speak, but seeing Cui Hao's furious look, he had no choice but to give up.
Just a few days.
The entire Qi County was successfully taken over by Li Guang, and the land of Qingzhou successfully took over four counties!
Beihai County, in the Prefecture Mufu.
"Sir, urgent report!"
The spies hurried to meet him.
"What's the matter?"
Cao Cao looked at the impatient spy and felt uneasy, frowning and asked.
"Sir, the Qingzhou nobles suddenly rebelled, killed the county governor Cao Feng, and seized the county checkpoints to surrender to Liu Hong."
The spy said with a cry.
Upon hearing this, Cao Cao stood up suddenly, his face full of disbelief, and veins bulging on his forehead.
"Old thief Liu Hong!!!"
Cao Cao roared angrily, so angry that he fainted.
When he woke up in his room, he threw everything in sight out.
"These nobles deserve to die!!!"
Throwing things was not enough to vent his anger, so he drew his sword and slashed at anything he saw in the room.
All the servants hid aside tremblingly, not daring to come forward easily, for fear that Cao Cao would accidentally remove his head.
After Cao Cao finished venting his anger, he threw his sword to the ground.
"Let Yuan Rang and Miaocai come to see me!"
The servants took orders and left quickly.
Not long after, Xia Houdun and Xia Houyuan walked in quickly and saluted with clasped fists.
"Lord!"
"You two each lead 20,000 elite troops and take over all the counties in Qingzhou!"
"Those who disobey the order will be killed without mercy, no matter who they are!"
Cao Cao ordered sharply.
"Yes, my lord!"
The two looked at each other and took the order to leave.
Originally, he was not planning to take strong medicine, but was planning to take it slowly.
However, after this incident, he knew that what these nobles said was as untrustworthy as bullshit.
The current plan must be to take the entire power of Qingzhou into his own hands.
If another incident happened to Qijun, he would die without knowing how.
After watching Xiahou Dun and others leave, Cao Cao slumped down on the messy bed.
Although he was sad that his clan brother died, what he cared about more than this was that he had lost another county.
Through his hands, Qingzhou has lost three counties in a row.
Thinking of this, Cao Cao's face became ferocious. He hated these Qingzhou nobles deeply.
However, all developments in Qijun were so rapid that he didn't even react, and Qijun was gone.
The Qingzhou nobles betrayed them as soon as they said they would, and then killed people and captured the city overnight, followed by Liu Hong's army.
This chain after another is too much of a coincidence, and someone must be secretly planning it.
The more paranoid Cao Cao thought about it, the more wrong he became. Everyone thought he was a traitor.
Even the cronies around you are very likely to cooperate with others to harm you.
Let Mao Jie come immediately.
Soon Mao Jie came to Cao Cao's room.
"Xiao Xian, please go and investigate what happened in Qi County. I think there must be a lot to do with it!"
"Everyone involved in this matter, whether they are nobles or my cronies, will be captured!"
Cao Cao ordered firmly.
"Yes, my lord."
Mao Jie took the order and left.
After handling the matter, the anger in Cao Cao's heart decreased slightly.
After all, he was a man who had seen the world and endured Liu Hong's severe beatings. He quickly recovered his sanity.
Now he has to think carefully about Qingzhou's next trend.
Qingzhou has jurisdiction over several counties, but now more than half of it is in Liu Hong's hands. He only has the three counties of Donglai, Leling and Beihai left in his hands.
Now that Qi County has been captured and Qingzhou's defense line has been lost, Beihai faces the threat of Liu Hong's troops.
If Liu Hong captures another county, then his position as Qingzhou Shepherd will basically exist in name only.
In such a desperate situation, Liu Hong's troops and horses were so strong that it was impossible to regain the lost land.
Cao Cao couldn't help but focus on Xuzhou.
The current situation in Qingzhou makes it almost impossible to break the situation by oneself.
Today's plan can only gain a firm foundation by plotting Xuzhou.
However, if you want to capture Xuzhou, you must be enemies with Tao Qian. Being attacked on both sides, the situation may be worse or better.
All because, now he has no choice.
Rather than being gradually eaten up by Liu Hong, it is better to take risks and seize Xuzhou!
Xuzhou Mu Tao Qian, this person is weak and incompetent, with a small army and few generals. With his ability, he may not be able to replace him!
Once Xuzhou is successfully captured, the current dilemma will disappear.
How to capture Xuzhou is the top priority now.
After all, Tao Qian's reputation in Xuzhou is not low, and he is supported by the nobles. It is not as simple as Qingzhou to seize Xuzhou.
On the other side, Mao Jie was ordered to lead thousands of elites to arrest and imprison all relevant personnel involved in the matter.
It's just that no one cares about the servants of the nobles and the hotel proprietors who can't get on the stage.
Including Cao Cao, everyone's eyes were fixed on it, including the nobles and officials from various places.
As a result, Cao Cao was so angry that he mistakenly killed a group of nobles and his cronies.
This move further intensified the conflict between Cao Cao and the nobles.
In addition, Xiahou Dun and Xiahou Yuan powerfully seized the position, which made countless nobles resent them.
For a time, all the Qingzhou nobles were dissatisfied with Cao Cao.
It's just that due to Cao Cao's great power now, he dare not act rashly for the time being.
