It is said that after Jiang Gan stole the book, he rushed to Xuchang non-stop, and under Chen Jiao's arrangement, he met Cao Cao as quickly as possible. After the greetings, Jiang Gan presented the letter to Cao Cao with both hands.

Cao Cao unfolded the letter and looked at it, and was immediately shocked. He calmly encouraged Jiang Gan, and then asked Chen Jiao to take him down to rest.

After Jiang went down, Cao Cao's face instantly became gloomy. Those who knew him well knew that this was a precursor to his anger. Cao Cao read the letter in his hand carefully, and reason told him that the letter was not necessarily true.

But what kind of person is Cao Cao, I'd rather bear the people of the world than let the people of the world bear me, and in his heart he only killed by mistake and did not let go. Whether it's true or not, Cao Cao's heart has already moved to kill, poor Cai Mao didn't know that he had gone out of Jingzhou and his sister, but now he was about to lose his life by a fake letter from Zhou Yu.

Cao Cao was not at ease to send someone to clean up Cai Mao, he was afraid that Cai Mao's dying counterattack would mess up Xiangyang City, so Cao Cao took his guards and set off from Xuchang to Jingzhou the next day.

Cai Mao didn't know that Cao Cao's trip was to kill him, he heard that Cao Cao and his party were coming, although he was a little puzzled, but still welcomed Cao Cao into the state pastoral mansion in the most enthusiastic way.

Cao Cao entered the state pastor's mansion and asked Cai Mao to find Zhang Yun together, Cai Mao did not doubt him, and immediately sent someone to Shuizhai to find his nephew Zhang Yun. Seeing that the two of them had arrived, Cao Cao nodded secretly, took out the letter from his arms and fell to Cai Mao's feet.

Cai Mao trembled and picked up the letter and looked at it, and was suddenly frightened. Without saying a word, he knelt down on his knees and said, "My lord, Mao definitely doesn't dare to do this unrighteous act!" All this is Zhou Yu's conspiracy, he wants to get rid of the last general! O Lord Enlightenment! As he spoke, he began to kowtow.

Cao Cao looked at Cai Mao condescendingly, and he was muttering in his heart at this time: "Could it be that this is really Zhou Yu's plan?" Thinking of this, Cao Cao glanced at Zhang Yun, who was standing aside stupidly, as if he didn't know that there would be such a thing.

After a while, Cai Mao's forehead was already blurred with flesh and blood, and Cao Cao stopped Cai Mao and said: "Okay, no need to act, no matter whether the letter was written by you or not, in order to avoid suspicion, the affairs of the navy army will be temporarily handed over to others to take care of from today onwards." ”

"Yes, yes! Thank you for not killing. Cai Mao and Zhang Yun kowtowed to Cao Cao together. Cao Cao didn't kill the two in the end, but he dismissed their affairs, and privately sent someone to secretly monitor their every move.

The naval army Cao Cao was handed over to the general to come in and command. The changes in Xiangyang City can't be hidden from the eyes of people with hearts, Zhou Yu knew about this side on the third day, he didn't expect that his seemingly simple plan to divide the world really came true. The only fly in the ointment is that he failed to take the lives of Cai Mao and Zhang Yun.

Cao Cao rarely came to Jingzhou once, taking advantage of this time to have free Cao Cao was ready to recruit some young talents in Jingzhou, so Cao Cao established a recruitment hall in Xiangyang City and also issued a recruitment order: no matter the background, no matter the virtue, the only move! As soon as this move came out, all counties in Jingzhou were shaken. Many talented people rushed to Xiangyangcheng.

Cao Cao saw the continuous flow of people in China and Japan in the Zhaoxian Pavilion, and he was immediately overjoyed. He decided that if this could really recruit talents, then after returning to Xuchang, he would build another recruitment hall and implement the recruitment order as a standing talent recruitment method!

In this way, after three days in a row, more than 50 talents of various types were recruited, among which Ma Liang and Ma Jian of the Ma family were favored by Cao Cao. These two people are indeed talented, Ma Jian is even more intelligent than Ma Liang, the only bad thing is that he is so young that he has some ambitions in his eyes.

Therefore, Cao Cao arranged Ma Liang as the Sima in the army, and took Ma Jian with him, intending to sharpen his temperament and then use it greatly. Zhou Yu stepped up military training in Jiangxia and was ready to go out at any time. But before he could make a move, Liu Bei made the first move!

After Liu Bei heard that Cao Cao had sent troops to attack Hanzhong, he immediately felt bad. Zhuge Liang suggested that Liu Bei immediately send reinforcements to Shuzhong to reinforce Han Fei. But Jia Xu put forward a different opinion, he said to Liu Bei: "My lord, the situation in Shuzhong is delicate, and a rash increase of troops may not only not help Zicong, but will attract Liu Zhang's jealousy, thus increasing the difficulty of fortifying everywhere to seize Yizhou." ”

Liu Bei nodded and said, "What about Yiwen He's opinion?" ”

"Didn't the lord hear about Wei Wei to save Zhao? As long as we send troops to attack Cao Cao and he has to return to the army to meet the attack, Cao's army will have no time to take care of Hanzhong. When the time comes, it will inevitably meet the opportunity to act. ”

When Liu Bei heard this, he was overjoyed, and immediately smiled: "Okay, just follow the plan of Wenhe." But where does Wen He think our army should attack? ”

Jia Xu smiled and said, "Lord, how is Yecheng?" ”

Yecheng was once the capital of Yuan Shao, built for a long time, the city wall is tall, and the city has a lot of reserves. After Yuan Shao's third son, Yuan Shang, offered the city and Cao Cao, he was taken by Cao Cao to Xuchang to settle in Xuchang, and it is said that he was sealed an unknown little Hou, and it is estimated that he will not be able to leave Xuchang City when he dies of old age.

At this time, Yecheng had Cao Cao's third son Cao Zhang, who was assisted by the strategists Xu You, Xun Chen and Mao Kei. Xu You and Xun Chen are both resourceful, and the mustard who can write and martial arts makes Yecheng like an iron bucket by them. Not only that, Cao Zhang also often led troops to attack and harass the Julu area, and Chen Yan in Julu City asked Liu Bei for help many times for this. Later, Liu Bei sent Gao Ran to Julu to stabilize the form, but Gao Ran had fought Cao Zhang three times without a win, and it seemed that he could not help Cao Zhang alone.

As soon as Jia Xu mentioned Yecheng, a lot of information flashed in Liu Bei's mind. He nodded immediately and said: "Yecheng is indeed a good choice, Cao Cao's third son is here, I don't think he will die without help." Okay, Lone will send a letter to the second brother and ask him to lead his troops to attack Yecheng. ”

Guan Yu has been uncomfortable recently, and he has the heart to take Fan Yangcheng down, and he is afraid of angering Lu Bu. At this time, Lü Bu made a name for himself on the grassland, and the Huns were driven by him to a hundred miles away from Mayi City, and then he established a huge horse farm outside Mayi City, with as many as 30,000 horses in the field alone.

After Guan Yu learned about it, he also sent someone to buy horses, and Lu Bu saw that Guan Yu sent someone to come and didn't say anything else, and immediately sold 5,000 war horses to him. Because of this, Guan Yu didn't want to have a stiff relationship with Lu Bu, so he had been hesitant to take down Fan Yangcheng.

Just when he hesitated, Liu Bei's letter arrived, Guan Yu unfolded it and looked at the present and was overjoyed, so Guan Yu immediately gathered his troops and led the army to Yecheng to kill.

(End of chapter)