The years have migrated, and now it is the 'spring' of the fourteenth year of Jian'an (209 AD).

Four years ago, although the Jiangdong Army was defeated by Cao's army, it had to withdraw from Chengdu, thus losing the opportunity to occupy Yizhou. However, Ba County, which was captured by the Jiangdong Army before, was still firmly in its hands. Ba County is the southeast barrier of Yizhou, and occupying Ba County, the Jiangdong Army has the ability to attack Chengdu at any time, and even launch an invasion of the entire Yizhou.

Therefore, Li Yan attached great importance to the defense of the south of Chengdu, and set up several beacon towers within 20 miles of the east, south, and west of Chengdu City, and once the enemy was found, he immediately ignited the beacon fire, so that Chengdu City could have time to prepare for battle.

In the past four years, the Jiangdong Army of Ba County has launched several small-scale invasions of Yizhou, but under the command of Li Yan and the strategy of Sima Yi, they all returned without losing their troops.

The Jiangdong Army suffered the heaviest losses, losing one general, several military marquises, and more than 2,000 soldiers killed in the battle.

Since then, the Jiangdong Army has not launched many attacks on Chengdu.

However, the threat to Yizhou is not only the Jiangdong Army in Bajun City, but also the Nanban is also a big problem.

During Liu Zhang's reign, the Nanban would often find some unhappiness in Yizhou, while the cowardly Liu Zhang often promised money and food to quell the troubles. Now that Yizhou has changed hands, neither Li Yan nor Cao 'Cao' will naturally seek peace with the Nanban in the form of such grievances, so the Nanban will also launch aggression in Yizhou from time to time.

The soldiers in Chengdu City wanted to defend against the Jiangdong Army, and it was difficult to 'draw' manpower to deal with the Nanban, so they could only ask Cao 'Cao' to send reinforcements. Cao 'Cao' intended to eliminate the scourge of the Nanban in one fell swoop, and took Xiahou Yuan, Cao Zhang, and others as generals, led 10,000 troops, and went to exterminate the Nanban.

After the army arrived in Chengdu, Sima Yi joined it as a staff officer.

10,000 soldiers, which is not a lot of numbers, to go to a strange place to fight, extremely dangerous, can be said to be a very unwise move. However, at present, Meng Huo is still young and has not become the leader of the Nanban, and the leader of the Nanban at this time is a mediocre person who is dizzy, and there is no real unity among the various tribes of the Nanban. Sima Yi used his unpredictable tricks and used various means to drive a wedge between the tribes of the Southern Barbarians, causing the Southern Barbarians to be unstable, and finally the strange soldiers came out and pacified the Southern Barbarians in one fell swoop.

Like the last battle of Pingqiang, in the course of this Pingban war, Cao Zhang's performance was still the most prominent, successively beheading several barbarian generals, and even Meng Shu, the most courageous among the younger generation of the Southern Barbarians, was also killed by him.

After the Nanban leader surrendered, in order to show his sincerity, he offered his 'daughter' Zhurong, and Cao Zhangzhi took her as a concubine.

Cao Zhang made great achievements and earned a beauty, which can be said to be the most beautiful person in this war.

After returning to Xuchang, Xiahou Yuan, Cao Zhang, and other generals should be rewarded. Cao Zhang was named General of Weinan and awarded the title of Marquis of Yanling. Although General Weinan's position was not very high, Cao Zhangnian was only nineteen years old at that time, and he was definitely young and promising.

You must know that Gao Shun, the current No. 1 general of the Cao Army, was not even a general at the age of nineteen.

Of course, in the current world, the number of martial artists who have been named generals is not as rare as it was twenty years ago, but the vast majority of them are also miscellaneous generals, and it is unique for Cao Zhang to obtain such a status at such an age.

In the past four years, an earth-shattering event has happened!

Cao '' by the Duke of Wei, Jin Jue as the King of Wei!

In the first month of the thirteenth year of Jian'an, the Son of Heaven canonized Cao 'Cao' as the king of Wei, 30,000 households, located on the princes and kings, did not call the ministers, did not worship the edict, and worshiped the world with the crown of the Son of Heaven, the car uniform, the flag, the ritual and music suburbs, and the entry and exit were called the police, the temple, the ancestors, and the wax were all like the Han system, the national capital Yecheng, and the princes were all feudal marquis.

Less than three years after Cao 'Cao' was crowned Duke of Wei, he was promoted to king, and the people of the world could only be intimidated by Cao Cao's irresistible power in addition to sighing. At this point, the last vestiges of illusion in the hearts of those ministers who were loyal to the Han family were shattered. Everyone knows that Wei replacing Han is only a matter of time after all.

It's a pity that the general trend of the world is like this, how can it be easily stopped!

In July of the thirteenth year of Jian'an, Cao 'Cao' became king for half a year, Sun Jian was not far behind, and he said that his contribution to Sheji was not inferior to Cao's 'Cao', and he was asked to be named King Wu. Cao 'Cao' was furious when he saw the edict, tore up Sun Jian's invitation on the spot, and scolded loudly: "Sun Jian lives in a corner, he can't help the monarch to Kuang Sheji, and he can't govern the place to calm the people, how can he be virtuous, and dare to compete with me!" ”

Cao 'Cao' ordered the Son of Heaven to issue an edict to cut Sun Jian's title and call it "rebellion". Anyone who clings to Sun Jian is a "traitor to the party"!

When Sun Jian heard the news, he was also furious, and finally he stopped asking for the Son of Heaven and proclaimed himself King of Wu in September.

Before Sun insisted on being the king, Liu Bei met him and said that Cao's '' to call the king was a rebellious act, and the lord was a loyal minister of the Han family who should not follow suit. Sun Jian was already bent on becoming the king at this time, and he couldn't listen to half of what Liu Bei said, not to mention that Liu Bei's advice was too selfish, and Sun Jian wouldn't care.

Liu Bei repeatedly persuaded him, Sun Jian was irritable and angry, and loudly reprimanded him, and finally Liu Bei retreated in panic.