Three Kingdoms: I help Liu Bei grow thousands of miles

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Unexpectedly, Cao Cao had a broad mind. He shook his head and laughed until he almost lost his voice, "The horse is brave and invincible, just like Lu Bu resurrected. I was chased by him in Tongguan and cut off my beard and abandoned my robe. I heard that this person is your son?"

Han Sui was startled when he heard that, and said with an embarrassed smile: "Meng Qi mentioned about recognizing his adoptive father, but brother Shoucheng is far away in Yecheng, and I just take care of him. I can't count, I can't count..."

"Hahaha, it's good to adopt a horse as a foster son, one more person will do your filial piety for you..." Cao Cao continued to laugh.

Because the two laughed loudly, many people from the Kansai coalition army came close to watch, as if they were looking at something strange.

Seeing this, Cao Cao said magnanimously, "Would you like to see Mr. Cao? I am like a human being. I don't have four eyes and two mouths, but I have many ears."

Cao Cao and Han Sui chatted until dusk before returning. After returning to the camp, Ma Chao and other generals came to ask each other, and Han Sui told the truth that all the generals were suspicious.

The next day Cao Cao sent a letter to Han Sui again, and many places on the letter were smeared, and they were all important places.

Ma Chao was suspicious at first, but he became more confused after asking for the letter. He pointed to the smeared place and asked Han Sui: "Uncle, in the third paragraph of the letter, what are the black dots at the back? ?”

Han Sui smiled wryly: "Meng De's letter was sent just like this, and my uncle was puzzled by it. I was just about to write back to ask, and my nephew came over..."

"Uncle thinks I'm here early?"

"Meng Qi and I have the same love as father and son, how can we dislike each other..."

Ma Chao asked coldly: "Uncle and Bandit Cao have met and communicated. Has he told you when to withdraw? Our battalions have been cut off..."

"Meng Deshi didn't mention it, so I'll write to ask..."

Ma Chao raised his white robe behind him, and then rushed out of Han Sui's camp with a cold snort.

Han Sui was extremely upset, sparks seemed to burst out in his eyes, and he thought that you are so aggressive, how can you look like a father and son?Can you think of me when you are slaughtering horses and cattle?

The success of Cao Cao's divorce plan was not because of how clever Jia Xu's strategy was, but mainly because the Kansai coalition forces were not united. They all came together for their own interests.

For several days after that, Cao Cao asked Han Sui to chat alone in front of the battle, and continued to expand the effect of the alienation plan.

Cao Cao still refused to propose a peace, and no matter how stupid Han Sui was, he guessed that Cao Cao was plotting against him.

During the last meeting, Han Sui took the initiative to say: "When will the prime minister decide on a peace plan? Let's gossip alone for a few days before the battle, lest outsiders gossip..."

Cao Cao said seriously: "You and I are aboveboard, who dares to gossip?"

"After all, the prime minister has a high position and power, and he is afraid that there will be villains in the court, and he will go forward to offer slander in front of the emperor..." Han Sui deliberately used Cao Cao as an excuse to retreat.

"Gu now has the military power in his hands, how can a villain dare to stroke a tiger's beard? The emperor will not listen to slander..." Cao Cao thought that it was because I didn't want to, otherwise I would have replaced Liu Xie as emperor long ago.

Then Cao Cao waved his big hand forward, and the five thousand armored cavalry behind the formation marched a few steps forward neatly.

Ma Chao, Cheng Yin, Yang Qiu and others were watching every day. When they saw Cao Cao's attitude of showing weakness to the enemy, they were all shocked and terrified.

After Cao Cao showed his strength, he sent a letter to the Kansai Allied Forces the next day, and agreed to a decisive battle in Weinan two days later.

Han Sui put the letter of war on the table, he shook his head and sighed, "Cao Cao is too cunning, we have been deceived by him these days..."

All the generals were silent after hearing this, and they didn't know what to discuss with him these days.

Ma Chao picked up the letter of war with a cold face: "Thief Cao is a man who does not believe his words, but since he has come to invite a battle to die, let him taste the power of Xiliang's iron cavalry."

"Nephew Meng Qixian is right. The Xiliang cavalry has a great advantage in fighting in the wild. As long as everyone is united as one, they will definitely be able to drive the Cao thief out of Guanzhong."

Han Sui spoke uprightly, but unfortunately all the generals in the tent had lost their minds, and everyone planned to take a look first.

Chapter 234 Time Is Running Out

When the appointment date was reached, the Kansai Allied Forces lined up in Weinan. The nine chief generals were all lined up in brocade robes and armor.

Before the war, the generals took out the last food reserves, so that the starving Xiliang soldiers finally had a full meal.

Cao Cao, still wearing a red robe, was lazily surrounded by soldiers and faced the Kansai Allied Forces.

"Why did the prime minister break his promise?" Han Sui shouted on his horse.

Cao Cao looked up to the sky and laughed loudly: "The battle is up to me, not to the thieves. How can you rebels and thieves make decisions for me?"

"Uncle, what else do you have to say to this traitor? I'll kill him and turn him on his back." Ma Chao said disdainfully.

Han Sui quickly waved his hands: "Nephew, don't show off your courage..."

Before the words were finished, Ma Chao rushed out of the battle alone in white robe and silver armor. He pointed a gun at Cao Cao and shouted: "Traitor, don't you remember the shame of Tongguan? Today you can discard your red robe, and you can't cut off your beard again. Hurry up!" Send people out to die..."

Cao Cao leaned back slightly, pointed at Ma Chao with his whip, and praised: "This horse is extremely brave. It really looks like Lu Bu in the past..."

"Prime Minister, this person beheaded Xia Houjian and asked me to go out to avenge my nephew." Xia Houyuan asked for a fight.

Cao Cao didn't answer directly, but asked instead: "I have arranged for you to do it, have you done it?"

Xia Houyuan nodded and said: "I have ordered Wen Lie and Zidan to lead the tiger and leopard riders around as instructed by the prime minister. It is estimated that they will arrive at the battle site soon."

"Very good, now the horse is inviting a battle in front of the formation, you can go up and fight with it to delay the time, but be careful not to make mistakes." Cao Cao instructed.

Xia Houyuan was overjoyed when he heard that, he clasped his fists to lead the horse forward, and said confidently: "My lord knows well my martial arts skills, and Ma Chao will surely die by the sword if I go."

Seeing Xia Houyuan's bright armor, Ma Chao thought he was an incompetent sent to die, so he asked contemptuously, "Who are you? You can know your name."

"Xia Houyuan."

The three words are cold and cold, without any sloppy.

When Ma Chao heard that this person was also surnamed Xiahou, he couldn't help laughing wildly: "The Xiahou family are all sent to death? It's really boring..."

"Whoever insults me, Xiahou, I will destroy his family." Xiahouyuan raised his sword and came to fight Ma Chao.

The two soon fought fiercely together. Xia Houyuan's swordsmanship was superb and decisive, and he fought Ma Chao for five or six consecutive rounds, regardless of the outcome.

Ma Chao fought vigorously, thinking that this Xiahouyuan was a hundred times stronger than Xiahou, but unfortunately he was not my opponent. Suddenly his marksmanship was extremely fierce, and his vast offensive was like the Yellow River bursting its embankment, rushing down violently.

Han Sui couldn't help but nodded, he looked left and right at Yang Qiu, Li Kan and the others, as if telling them that Meng Qi recognized me as his father, and that my son is a brilliant old man with a good face.

This is the second time Cao Cao has seen Ma Chao's martial arts. Seeing that Xia Houyuan was tired of dealing with it, he hurriedly called Xu Huang and said, "This son is not weak Yan Liang, Wen Chou is comparable to Lu Bu. Gongming can help Miaocai by waiting for the opportunity. If If you still can't beat me, let Zhongkang take over you."

"Wei." Xu Huang cupped his fists to accept the order, and then fixed his eyes on Xia Houyuan and Ma Chao.

After Cao Cao finished speaking, he looked at Xu Chu's arm beside him, and Xu Chu replied straightforwardly: "Don't worry, my lord, the arrow wound on my arm has healed."

"Good." Cao Cao replied affirmatively.

After Xia Houyuan fought Ma Chao ten times, his sword skills and aura had been overwhelmed by the opponent's fierce spear, thinking that he must use tricks to defeat his opponent.

Xia Houyuan sold an opening and rushed back to the front. Xu Huang mistakenly thought that he was out of strength, so he raised his big ax and rushed over.

Ma Chao chased halfway and found that Cao Cao had another general, so he sneered and said, "Whether it's a wheel war? The Cao thief will stop here..."

Xia Houyuan and Xu Huang passed by, thinking that you came out too early to meet him.

Xu Huang just blocked Ma Chao's line of sight while running, Xia Houyuan stopped at Ma Chao and said Ma Chao, you are here, he took out his bow and arrow, aimed and shot.

The moment Xu Huang raised the axe, he suddenly felt a gust of wind under his armpit.

Whoosh.

Xia Houyuan's feathered arrow went straight towards Ma Chao, and he fell on the horse's back in response. The Kansai coalition army was in an uproar when they saw this, and the nervousness caused the horses to neigh.

Xu Huang saw that Xia Houyuan had been hit, so he raised his ax to take the head of the enemy. Such a good deed of picking up the head, he will reward him with wine later.

When the big ax fell rapidly, Ma Chao, who was 'shot', suddenly slanted, and saw Xia Houyuan's feather arrow in his mouth, and the iron spear in his hand pierced Xu Huang's face.

Surprised, Xu Huang could only change his strength hastily, and let the big ax change direction to resist Ma Chao's iron spear.

Clang...

Although Xu Huang successfully blocked Ma Chao's attack, due to the continuous use of greater force, a short vacuum period suddenly formed in the arm muscles.

Ma Chao's thrust was blocked and he was thrown to the left. Xu Huang was almost thrown off his horse due to the imbalance of strength.

When masters fight against each other, victory or defeat is in an instant.

Xu Huang was robbed by Ma Chao for two moves, and there was a lot of danger. I saw cold sweat on his forehead, and he had completely lost his tricks after only two or three rounds.

At the moment of Xu Huang's crisis, a halberd in the sky flew towards Ma Chao's face.

"Gongming leave quickly, Xu Chu is here." A shout came from behind Xu Huang.

The moment Ma Chao retracted the bullet and walked away with the halberd, Xu Huang took the opportunity to pat the horse and escape from the dangerous place, and Xu Chu who rushed over took his place.

"Aren't you the man who blocked Cao's thief in the river?" Ma Chao looked at Xu Chu coldly, and now he was even more shameless towards Cao Cao.

"My name is Xu Chu."

Ma Chao looked surprised: "Looking at your size, could it be that you are Cao's thief's Huhou?"

Xu Chu shouted: "You know my name, why don't you dismount and accept surrender?"

"Interesting, you won't change people again, right?" Ma Chao pointed his gun at Xu Chu. The fight with Xia Houyuan and Xu Huang just now was just a warm-up, and now the fighting spirit in his blood has just been awakened.

"Unless I die." Xu Chu said concisely.

Cao Cao didn't order anyone to take care of him just now, that's the rhythm of fighting Ma Chao to the end.

Ma Chao and Xu Chuqi met their opponents. They fought for forty or fifty rounds on the horse and then fought hand-to-hand off the horse. The two were sweating profusely in such a cold weather.

Xu Chu then took off his armor and continued to fight Ma Chao on horseback with his upper body bare. The soldiers on both sides shouted loudly at the same time.

After all, Ma Chao was young and powerful, and after seventy or eighty rounds, he gradually gained the upper hand.

At this time, Ma Dai shouted loudly from the back of the formation: "Brother, quickly withdraw, the Cao thief attacked the rear..."

Where can I hear that Ma Chao is dead now?Ma Dai then drove forward with Pang De at the same time. Seeing this, Cao Cao sent Xia Houyuan and Cao Hong out to snatch Xu Chu back.

Only at this time did Ma Chao realize that the formation in the rear was in disarray. Cao Zhen and Cao Xiu led the tiger and leopard cavalry to enter from the two wings, and the powerful impact completely suppressed the Xiliang cavalry.

The entire Kansai Allied Army was in chaos, and Ma Chao was so angry that he immediately shouted: "Cao thief, traitor, villain, traitor! I swear that I will capture you alive, eat your flesh, and sleep on your skin!"

Cao Cao, who was under the command of the opposite side, pointed at himself and said playfully, "Come on, horse, kill Cao thief."

Cao Cao then raised his hand, and the troops behind him rushed towards the Kansai Allied Forces like waves.

"We've been tricked, let's go, brother." Ma Dai reminded loudly.

The Kansai Allied Forces lacked military supplies, because they had long since run out of food, and now they were cut off from their formation, and were instantly defeated by Cao Jun on the frontal battlefield.

In this battle, the nine generals in Kansai were scattered, Cheng Yi and Li Kan were beheaded on the battlefield, Han Sui and Ma Chao fled back to Xiliang with their remnants, Yang Qiu returned to Anding, Cheng Yin, Hou Xuan, Ma Wan Fleeing to Hanzhong, Liang Xing fled to Lantian County.

At the same time that Cao Cao was victorious in Weinan, Lan Tian came to Zhixia's field and the lecture hall to inspect.

Gao Shun saw that he was non-stop and didn't spend much time with his family, so he couldn't help but asked: "Sir, since you came back from Jiangxia, you haven't stopped. Could it be that you are still worried about Jiaozhou? With Shamoke and Moon Fort here, Lu Meng didn't stop at all." Impossible to go any further."

Lan Tian shook his head and sighed, "Time is running out..."

Chapter 235 Prepare an Umbrella on a Sunny Day

The 16th year of Jian'an was an uneasy year. This year Liu was invited to enter Shu, and this year Cao Cao defeated the Kansai coalition forces.

The historical battle of Xichuan was not easy for Liu Bei, and the level of danger was even comparable to that of Cao Cao in Guandu. If Liu Zhang had a little political foresight and did not use so frequent tricks, Liu Bei might be defeated in Shu.

Lan Tian said that there is not much time, because Liu Bei and Liu Zhang have not much time to break up, and there is probably less than a year left.

If the time to collect Xichuan can be shortened as much as possible, it will have a positive impact on the collection of Hanzhong and Yizhou in the future.

After Liu Bei entered Shu, Liu Zhang added more than [-] troops to him. After parting from Fucheng, he went north to Jiameng Pass. Although he had no real plan to attack Zhang Lu, he did a lot of superficial efforts to make small troubles.

Although Liu Zhang has a cowardly personality, he is still the governor of a state. He is not completely at ease with Liu Bei, who is of the same clan. In addition to bringing tens of thousands of soldiers with him during the meeting, he sent Yang Huai and Gao Pei as supervisors after gifting Liu Bei with troops and horses. , In fact, it is secretly monitoring Liu Bei's actions.

Liu Bei used the pretext of conquering Zhang Lu at Jiameng Pass, but he was actually digesting the tens of thousands of soldiers sent by Liu Zhang.

"Sun Tzu's Art of War" says: The first is the Tao, the second is the sky, the third is the earth, the fourth is the general, and the fifth is the law.The Taoist makes the people agree with the superior, so they can die with them and live with them without fear of danger.

The Tao is the righteousness, that is, the teacher is famous.

Liu Bei is also waiting, which is the objective reason for him to refuse Pang Tong to capture Liu Zhang at the Fucheng banquet.

Lantian stayed in Jingzhou, in addition to guarding the rear area for Liu Bei, another important reason was to raise food, recruit soldiers, and build weapons and armor for him.

The south suffered from a severe drought. Although there are many rivers in Jingnan, the water level of the rivers dropped rapidly because the rainfall was mainly concentrated in July and August.

The agronomy disciples of Quanling Academy have basically spread all over Jingnan counties, but the coverage density is different. In addition to using the original water diversion irrigation technology, they also asked all villages to build water storage ponds at the request of Lantian. , in case the farmers get water in times of drought.

Lan Tian looked at the farmers carrying water for irrigation, and said meaningfully: "After the military workshops have been rolled out in the past few years, the grain storage in granaries in various places is not enough. I hope that all counties and counties will not be affected by the drought..."

"There is still some surplus food in Jiaozhou, and the consumption of thousands of Wuxi barbarians can't eat up Mr. Jingnan." Gao Shun comforted.

Lan Tian shook his head and said, "Of course Chief Sha's brutal soldiers are nothing to worry about. I am preparing military rations for my brother-in-law."

Gao Shun asked puzzledly: "Liu Shijun was invited to Sichuan, and Liu Zhang will supply the military supplies. Why do you need Jingzhou to send food?"

"The army and people in the middle of Shu have thought about it for a long time. Sooner or later, my brother-in-law will raise troops to seize Xichuan. At that time, the food will be exhausted." Lan Tian replied seriously.

"When is the master expected to raise his troops?" Gao Shun asked again.