In the next few days, the Ma family almost became the center of exchange between the Jingzhou family, and the families who had no major conflicts with the Ma family came to visit with their own gifts. These family heads and Ma Zhen talked about the friendship between the two families for many years, and although there were some small misunderstandings before, it did not affect the harmonious relationship between the two families. I won't say much about the specific content, if you want to know, the news broadcasts of later generations are about the same tone.

No one wants not to give Ma Zhen face at this time, even Cai Mao and Kuai Yue also think highly of Ma Zhen. They admit that they underestimated Ma Zhen before, and a guy with a grass on the wall can actually seize the opportunity under their noses and realize the big move of turning over and becoming the master, which has to be admired.

But Cai Mao and Kuai Yue admired Liu Yu the most, originally the Jingzhou family made it clear that they wanted to wait for Liu Yu to return to Luoyang and return to the original state before, and they were determined to carry out the plan of not opposing or opposing and being a good citizen. But Liu Yu pushed Ma Zhen and his five sons out directly, and gave them such grace, which made the family unable to sit still. People's hearts are flesh and blood, looking at other people's infinite scenery, there are no points in their hearts? What's more, it's still the low-key Ma family who followed the big guy before? The Ma family can, why can't they? Cai Mao and Kuai Yue didn't know how many heads of the family they had met in the past two days, and without exception, they all hoped that Cai Mao and Kuai Yue would be able to recommend their children to the court to serve the court. The talent system of the Han Dynasty has always been the probationary system, and Liu Yu, as a later generation, knows the disadvantages of the probationary system, but he currently does not have the time and resources to change it. Cai Mao and Kuai Yue, who are members of one party, naturally have the obligation and right to recommend talents to serve the imperial court, although they don't know Liu Yu's true intentions, but all the families in Jingzhou are their subordinates, and having more Jingzhou scholars in the imperial court is also beneficial to Cai Mao and Kuai Yue. Therefore, Cai Mao and Kuai Yue recommended many children from Jingzhou families to Liu Yu.

And this is what Liu Yu wants, with the expansion of the territory, Liu Yu's officials are still insufficient, the purpose of this time is to let the Jingzhou family see the scenery of the red horse family, and obediently dedicate their own family talents. Of course, Liu Yu will not be good or bad, and he will get all his brains under his command, which must have been selected. The moral character is not high and the ability is not good, Liu Yu doesn't want it just because he has a background, so he rushed back directly. In addition to this condition, everything else is required, but it is not to be an official in Jingzhou, but to Qingzhou, Yanzhou, and Xiliang. The Jingzhou family didn't hope that their children could stay in Jingzhou as officials, and besides, the people they asked Cai Mao and Kuai Yue to recommend this time were not the most capable talents in the family. Good people naturally stay at home, wait for the opportunity, and they understand the truth that they can't put their eggs in one basket.

Well, no matter what, only Liu Yu will get the most benefits in the end. No one can compare with Liu Yu.

This is the reason why Cai Mao and Kuai Yue admire Liu Yu.

The rise of the Ma family has become a foregone conclusion, if you want to change, unless the owner of Jingzhou changes, but this situation seems to be very difficult at present.

Ma Zhen knew that Liu Yu wanted to use him as a model, so he simply made things bigger. Ma Tan could have gone to Luoyang quietly. But Ma Zhen invited all the families who had a decent relationship over and held a very large banquet to celebrate. Ma Jian is now like the children of a small place who were admitted to Tsinghua University and Peking University in later generations, and Ma Zhen's parents tossed hard, just afraid that others would not know. Anyway, this is also what His Majesty has allowed today, and no one will blame it.

After some tossing, the whole Jingzhou knew about the Ma family, and Ma Tan also set foot on the road to Luoyang amid the reluctance of many people waving goodbye.

Ma Zhen looked at the back of his youngest son, and when he thought of staying away from him, he didn't know when he would be able to come back, and the whole person was a little sad. Because Ma Jian is going to be a proton, only in this way can Liu Yu believe that his family has no two hearts, and at the same time, this is also a great opportunity for Ma Yan, and the sadness in Ma Zhen's heart is gone.

Jingzhou is in full swing here, and Yuzhou is also in full swing, but their hot meaning is the opposite.

Due to the flood in Shouchun, Cao Cao's strength was greatly affected, and he could no longer threaten Liu Yu in a short period of time. How could Liu Yu give up the great opportunity to take advantage of your illness and kill you. So Liu Yu immediately gave Sima Yi, Zhao Yun, and Jia Xu an order to attack Cao Cao.

And before Liu Yu's order reached the hands of these three people, they had already made a move against Cao Cao. Sima Yi, Zhao Yun, and Jia Xu all knew that Liu Yu would definitely not let Cao Cao go, and would definitely give them an order, but it would take a certain amount of time to convey the order, and the soldiers were fast, if they waited until Liu Yu's order arrived before making a move, they might lose a lot of opportunities and give Cao Cao time to prepare. So the three of them coincidentally thought that Cao Cao launched an attack.

For a time, the border of Yuzhou was stable except for the southeast, and everything else was full of beacons. Sima Yi of Runan led an army of 40,000 to fight out, breaking through many fortifications in one day, and the front of the army was directed at Shouchun. If Cao Cao hadn't arranged for Xiahou Yuan and Xiahou Yuan to focus on defending Liu Jun in the direction of Runan, Sima Yi might have been drinking a little wine under Shouchun City by now.

Sima Yi thought that he would encounter sniping, but Cao Jun's tenacity was beyond his expectations, and the leaders were actually Xiahou Yuan and Xiahou Xuan, these two generals cooperated tacitly, Sima Yi was unable to break through their defense line for a while, and could not achieve his set goal of entering Shouchun.

Xiahou Yuan and Xiahou Yuan just had only one thought, even if the whole army was annihilated, they would not allow a single Liu army to successfully break through their defense. Because apart from their defensive line, there was almost no other defense that could stop Liu Jun's defense until Shouchun. It means that they have failed, and the entire Yuzhou will be finished.

But Xiahou Yuan and Xiahou Yuan are also under great pressure. Sima Yi was very clever and would not blindly attack, he adopted the strategy of attacking the heart, constantly attacking Cao Jun with words, and constantly publicizing Cao Cao's losses. And the big horn invented by Liu Yu a long time ago came in handy at this time. Let's just think it was invented by Liu Yu. Sima Yi asked a large number of soldiers with loud voices to hold loudspeakers with amplification effects, and constantly shouted outside the range of an arrow from Cao's position, saying nothing more than that Shouchun's losses were huge, and Cao Cao was no longer able to resist Liu Yu, and now it was unnecessary to make this senseless resistance, or obediently obeyed Wang Shi. In this way, Cao Jun was quite distressed.

If it weren't for the fact that Xiahou Yuan and Xiahou Yuan had a very high prestige in the army, and they were not afraid of the army's discouragement, maybe Cao Jun would be panicked now. The commander is strong-willed, but some soldiers don't think so. They also have their own gossip, Shouchun's situation is not as easy as Cao Cao publicly said, and the actual situation is very serious. In addition, Sima Yi arranged for soldiers to preach outside the position day and night, and the morale of the soldiers was declining little by little.

For such a situation, Xiahou Yuan and Xiahoudun could only continue to wander among the soldiers, using their prestige and care for the soldiers to improve the morale of the soldiers, and there was no other way to do it. It works. The soldiers were all brought out by Xiahou Yuan and Xiahou Yuan, and they respected the two of them very much, and the two of them were the backbone of the soldiers. Compared with other generals, Xiahou Yuan and Xiahou Yuan can know more of the truth, both of them know that what Sima Yi said on the other side is true, and they are very powerless to defend themselves, so they simply don't defend themselves, and only tell the people below not to listen to the nonsense of the other side. Xiahou Yuan and Xiahou Yuan also thought about sending troops to attack when Liu Jun shouted to teach Sima Yi a good lesson, but Sima Yi was more shrewd than mosquitoes, and before Cao Jun could move, he withdrew the soldiers who shouted and sent an attacking force to strike first. Xiahou Yuan and Xiahou Yuan had to go on the defensive.

Because the comparison of forces between the two sides is almost the same, the two sides have been in a stalemate, and no one can help the other.

The defense line in the south of the country is stalemate, but the defense line in the north is not so optimistic.

After Jia Xu received Liu Yudai's will to make meritorious contributions, he began to continuously attack Cao Cao's Xiangcheng defense line. Jia Xu and Liu Jun of Gao Lan's subordinates, who were nested in Hongxian County, all attacked, with great intentions to break through Cao Cao's defense line. Cao Cao sat in Xiangcheng, not afraid of Jia Xu's attack at all, his troops were a little less, but the biggest advantage of Cao's army was that it had a strong city defense, and Liu Jun wanted to take a city, the price he needed to pay was high, not to mention that Cao Cao didn't want to give up any city at all. Cao Cao's defense line on the back of Yuzhou has been operating for a long time, and he has made great efforts, and the previous Hongxian County is just a stronghold outside the main defense line, and there will be no more without it, and it will have little impact on Cao Cao's defense. But Jia Xu just grasped this point, and took advantage of Cao Cao's negligence to send an elite team to drown Shouchun. Now Cao Cao will not give up any city, and he will not give Jia Xu or Liu Jun any chance.

The two sides have exhausted all kinds of strategies, agitating the law, attacking the east and the west, etc., you come and go, each calculating, and the army is also on fire with each other, but Cao Cao is very calm in the face of Jia Xu, relying on the dominant position of local combat to constantly weaken Jia Xu, and the losses on Jia Xu's side have become very large.

All along, Jia Xu has never miscalculated, and the battle with him is almost Jia Xu's side has taken advantage of it. But in the face of Cao Cao, Jia Xu felt the pressure for the first time. No matter how Jia Xu uses the strategy, Cao Cao is using a method, defense! In case you doubt life. At the same time, if Liu Jun is not careful, he may be given the opportunity by Cao Cao to teach a lesson. Jia Xu now finally understood why Liu Yu had been in front of him and said that Cao Cao was the most powerful enemy he had ever encountered in his life. Being able to block Jia Xu for so long, Cao Cao's ability can be seen.

has not opened the situation, Jia Xu is also ruthless, he doesn't use any schemes, just use his absolute advantage of being numerous and powerful, and fight with you Cao Cao. Jia Xu felt that Cao Cao's troops were limited, and as long as he didn't consider the losses on his side, it was strange that Cao Cao could hold on. Although this method is a bit shameless in Jia Xu's opinion, the dignified poisoner actually uses such a simple strategy, Jia Xu feels that he is going back more and more.

Would Cao Cao be afraid of Jia Xu's crowd tactics? It's not like that at all! Cao Cao's troops are not much, but he has a lot of other preparations. Consumables such as fire oil, wood, bows and arrows have long been piled up in the armament warehouse, Jia Xu wants to use crowd tactics, Cao Cao feels that Jia Xu will definitely regret it to death.

It turned out that Jia Xu's crowd tactics did not work, and a large number of Liu soldiers were slaughtered by Cao's army. Jia Xu didn't soften his heart because he saw such heavy losses, he was determined to continue.

In the end, at Gao Ran's request, Jia Xu temporarily stopped attacking.

Gao Ran counted the losses, but he didn't expect Jia Xu to use the crowd tactics to attack desperately, but Liu Jun lost more than 2,000 soldiers. When Gao Ran saw this number, his heart was dripping blood.

Unlike Jia Xu's side attacking Cao Cao at any cost, Yanzhou Mu Zhao Yun and Zhao Zilong's attack looked much milder.

It's not that Zhao Yun doesn't give up, but that Yanzhou can't take out many troops now. Most of Sima Yi's soldiers and horses in Runan were brought over by Yanzhou. Zhao Yun now has more than 10,000 troops on hand to attack Cao Cao.

Zhao Yun originally thought that Cao Cao's preparation was not sufficient, and in the situation of striking from three sides, Cao Cao would definitely fail. The news that can come from both Jia Xu and Sima Yi, Cao Cao does not seem to be embarrassed as he imagined, but responds very calmly. This situation shows that Cao Cao has not yet reached the point of exhaustion, and it is impossible for Liu Jun to quickly defeat Cao Cao. In view of this, Zhao Yun decisively adopted the tactics of constantly weakening, slowly depleting Cao Cao's strength.

After making this decision, Zhao Yun also sent someone to inform Sima Yi and Jia Xu, hoping that they would also use the method of value to deal with Cao Cao.

Sima Yi didn't hesitate, he felt that Zhao Yun's idea was right, as long as Cao Cao was slowly consumed to death, when Cao Cao's mountains were exhausted, wouldn't he let them fish and meat?

Jia Xu hesitated, he didn't know that Zhao Yun's plan was feasible, he had considered it before. It's just that this method is too slow, and Jia Xu's preference is the kind of strategy that can achieve quick results, so it was not implemented.

Jia Xu tactfully expressed his gratitude to Zhao Yun, but at the same time, he also felt that if he had the same attack mode as Zhao Yun, I was afraid that Cao Cao would be able to get some time to breathe, and Jia Xu said that he would attract Cao Cao's attention, so that Sima Yi and Zhao Yun could seize Cao Cao's flaws and take Yuzhou in one fell swoop.