In fact, Xiahouba's worries are superfluous, with Cao Liang here, and with such a good son-in-law as Yanghu, how can he let his family suffer.

As early as before the Gaopingling Incident, Cao Liangjiang had already secretly operated, moving Xiahouba's family, a lot of secrets, to Shangdang, and then resettled in Jinyang, and now they have settled in Jinyang.

After learning that Xiahou Ba had defected to Shu, Sima Yi was of course very angry, and immediately instructed the Weiwei Mansion to go to Xiahou Ba's house to arrest people.

But the fact is that the monk ran away, the temple was gone, and when the people from the Weiwei Mansion rushed to Xiahou Ba's house, they found that Xiahou Ba's family had long since disappeared except for a few old and deaf slaves.

Sima Yi couldn't help but be depressed, Cao Liang and his subordinates' families escaped, which can naturally be attributed to Cao Liang's planning in advance, but Xiahou Ba is far away in Guanlong, and it seems that he is not in line with Cao Liang, how can he disappear for no reason? Could it be that Xiahouba's defection was not improvised, but premeditated?

However, for Sima Yi, this little thing is not enough for him to worry, after all, he still has a lot of big things waiting for him to do, the change of Gao Pingling brought Sima Yi supreme power, but it also added a lot of tricky affairs, for an old man who is nearly seventy years old, physical strength and energy have become his great enemy, Sima Yi can only concentrate on doing big things, as for those small things of sesame mung beans, he can only abandon them.

Yanghu knew that Xiahou Ba had escaped from Guo Huai's pursuit, so he was naturally relieved, whether he stayed in Wei or fled to Shu, as long as he could be safe, he would already be lucky.

However, Cao Liang told Yanghu that there was no need to worry about Xiahouba's career, he was definitely treated better in Shu than in Wei.

Yanghu was puzzled, it stands to reason that Xiahouba's surrender to Shu is not a big problem in preserving his personality, because between the three kingdoms, there are often defectors who abandon the country, and in order to win over these defectors between the three kingdoms, they often give preferential treatment to those who surrender and give them high-ranking officials, but often these officials are just fictitious and do not have much actual power, so Yanghu is very suspicious of what Cao Liang said about the treatment than Wei.

After all, Xiahou Ba is already a general in the Wei State, and the right general is also the protector of the Shu army, the highest military general under the command of the general of the west, can it be said that when it comes to the Shu State, there can still be an army under his command?

Cao Liang said with a smile: "Uncle, didn't I tell you, Ling Taishan has a niece, and now he is the queen of Shu, so that Taishan has arrived in Shu, it is also a relative, there is such a thigh of the queen to hold, and you are still worried about not being able to step into the clouds and fly Huang Tengda?" ”

Yang Hu said suspiciously: "I asked my mother-in-law about this, they don't know that there is such a relative, brother-in-law Mo didn't you deliberately coax me and made it up, right?" ”

Cao Liang smiled mysteriously and said: "It is estimated that Ling Taishan didn't know before he entered Shu, but who is your brother-in-law, I am the nephew of the emperor of Shu, how can such a secret thing be hidden from me?" ”

Cao Liang's identity, many people know, after all, Liu Ying is Liu Bei's daughter, was captured by Cao Chun in Changbanpo, Cao Cao gave Liu Ying to Cao Chun in recognition of his merits, and married Cao Yan when he grew up.

But the nephew is the nephew, but Cao Liang has never had the opportunity to recognize this family, not to mention that it is far away, just because of the hostile relationship between Wei and Shu, so Cao Liang has never had the opportunity to call his uncle until now.

Due to the blockage of the news, Xiahou Ba's departure is like a mud cow entering the sea, there is no news, life and death are uncertain, Cao Liang is even if he talks nonsense, and Yanghu has always been suspicious. However, Cao Liang's words are somewhat of a comfort to Yanghu, if Xiahou Ba can really be safe, then Yanghu can be relieved.

In the real history, after Xiahou Ba defected, Sima Yi did not kill them all, but he still exiled Xiahou Ba's two sons to Daifang, which is a bitter cold place on the extreme side, and the chance of survival is very small.

Now the situation is much better, Xiahou Ba's wife and children have not only been placed in Jinyang, but also one of Xiahouba's two sons has become a gongcao in Taiyuan County, and the other has become the chief secretary in the Assassin's Mansion, and the future career is promising.

After the end of the battle of Shangdang, Cao Liang and Yang Huju did not return to Jinyang, but stayed in Shangdang, after all, Shangdang, who had experienced a big war, was in ruins, and after Cao Liang did a good job in the reconstruction of the army, the defense system of Shangdang also needed to be redeployed on a large scale.

Sima Yi only temporarily evacuated Bingzhou because of the rebellion of Linghuyu and Wang Ling, and after the evacuation, he also set up heavy troops in Hanoi, Hedong and Pingyang, together with Lu Dai, the general of Zhenbei in Jizhou, to form a semi-encirclement of Bingzhou, that is to say, the crisis situation in Bingzhou did not disappear because of Sima Yi's withdrawal, but the two sides suspended their troops and temporarily eased it.

Cao Liang knew that Sima Yi's withdrawal was only temporary, and after the Huainan Rebellion was quelled, it would definitely make a comeback, and the defensive task in front of the Bingzhou army was still quite severe.

Someone once suggested to Cao Liang that this time Sima Yi conquered Huainan, Luoyang must be empty, and took this opportunity to gather all the troops to attack Luoyang, as long as Luoyang can be conquered, it will be no problem to pacify the world.

In this regard, Cao Liang is smile, this plan, it sounds very beautiful, but it is really difficult to implement, even if Sima Yi mobilizes the main force to go to Huainan, but Luoyang is the capital, with Sima Yi's caution, how can he not stay behind the soldiers and horses, even if he pours all the military strength of the state army south, wants to conquer Luoyang, try to climb to the sky.

What's more, Sima Yi had already made defensive arrangements for Bingzhou before leaving, Chen Qian in Hanoi, Hu Fen in Pingyang, Chen Tai in Hedong and Lu Dai in Jizhou, none of them are vegetarians, once the Bingzhou army poured out of the nest and Bingzhou was empty, these guys would inevitably take advantage of the situation and take advantage of the fire to rob.

Therefore, at this stage, the state is still in the period of strategic defense, and does not have the ability to attack strategic offense for the time being, and the proposer of the attack on Luoyang, probably a military visionary, did not recognize the cruelty of the situation between the enemy and us, and thought that a big pie had fallen from the sky when he saw the slightest opportunity, but he did not know that before he recognized the essence of the "pie", this pie was likely to be a trap.

Rice needs to be eaten one bite at a time, and war is never a game for speculators, who may win once or twice, but never in the end.