Cao Pi would not sit still, Han Fei knew it from the beginning. Therefore, he has not taken the initiative to attack Xuchang City, firstly, to consume the grain, grass and patience in the city, and secondly, to wait for reinforcements to arrive.

The exchange of prisoners for food was carried out very smoothly because of Mu Qing's participation, and it took only three days from the beginning of the negotiations, and 13,000 quintals of grain were exchanged for 13,000 prisoners. Of course, among them, Han Fei planted no less than a hundred spies and shadows. Mu Qing was also favored by Cao Pi because of this meritorious service, and he was one of the masterminds, and there was a faint tendency to succeed Sima Yi.

After the prisoners were replaced, Han Fei pushed out the five catapults that had been built in order to disgust Cao Pi, and he had to blast a few stones every day, although he didn't kill much, but the head of Xuchang City changed color when he heard the stone, which was also considered to have achieved his goal.

In this way, half a month later, the reinforcements arrived at the Qi army camp, accompanied by Han Fei's second wife Huang Yueying. Huang Yueying didn't come for nothing this time, she brought Han Fei a sharp weapon to steal the city.

This is an object similar to the speargun of later generations, it is somewhat similar to the repeater machine, it can fire an iron claw to the top of the city, the iron claw is attached to the rope behind it, once it is grasped, it can make people climb the rope to climb up the city.

Han Fei was overjoyed when he saw the sharp weapon brought by Huang Yueying, and he still had a plan in his heart on how to take Xuchang City. It's just that before the plan on his side can be implemented, an urgent letter from the shadow arrives. It turned out that Sun Quan sent the governor Zhou Yu to lead 50,000 men and horses along the Yangtze River to attack Fuling City. Fuling City was under the rule of Ba County, and now after being captured by the Wu army, Ba County Taishou Yan Yan immediately asked Guan Yu in Chengdu for help.

Guan Yu didn't dare to ignore it, and immediately led an army of 10,000 to reinforce Ba County after receiving Yan Yan's call for help. At the same time, he urgently ordered Zhao Yun in Hanzhong and Zhang Ren in the Sword Pavilion to do a good job of defense, he was afraid that Cao Jun would also take advantage of this time to attack. really let Guan Yu guess correctly, just after the Wu army sent troops, Cao Ren and Cao Zhang in Chang'an City led the army straight to Hanzhong. The dark clouds of the great war instantly enveloped the entire southwest.

In Hanzhong City, Zhao Yun and Fa Zheng had also received the news at this time, seeing that Cao's army was pressing, Zhao Yun personally patrolled the city to boost morale. But even so, there are still some people in Hanzhong City who are panicking.

"General Zhao has worked hard! There are 30,000 infantry in the city, and with 3,000 cavalry, it stands to reason that defending the city is not a problem, but why are people still panicking in the city? Fa Zheng asked suspiciously.

Zhao Yun smiled bitterly: "Hey, I really hate that Han Junshi is not here!" Otherwise, he alone could have set an army of 100,000, and with him in charge, such a situation would definitely not have occurred. ”

Fa Zheng also smiled bitterly when he heard this: "What General Zhao said is reasonable, but now that he is far away in Yanzhou, the so-called distant water can't quench the thirst of the near, and in the end we still have to rely on ourselves!" ”

"I'm afraid that's the only way to go! By the way, sir, you go to the Yang family again and ask them to return the food they borrowed before, and now the Cao army is attacking the food. Zhao Yun thought for a while and said. Before, the Yang family borrowed 100,000 quintals of grain from Zhao Yun because the grain harvested in the autumn was not put into storage, and it had not been returned before, but now that the war is imminent, Zhao Yun obviously does not plan to let them drag it any longer. It's just that he didn't know that the previous grain had been sold by the Yang family, and it was the merchants from Yongzhou who bought the grain at a high price, and behind it was Guo Jia's handiwork. Cao Cao's death hit Guo Jia very hard, making his original illness even worse.

But Guo Jia was unwilling, he thought that he would do his part for the Wei State again when he was dying, so he should repay Cao Cao's kindness back then. So he planned everything, and now despite Cao Ren's dissuasion, he followed the army to the city of Hanzhong with his sick body.

Every time he looked at the skinny Guo Jia, who was still staying up all night thinking about how to break the city, Cao Ren couldn't help but secretly decided that he must take Hanzhong this time!

Time went back for another three days, and Zhao Yun finally knew that the Yang family had no food. This news directly made his heart half cold, and while trying to find a way to remedy it, on the other hand, he immediately wrote to Jiang Jian in Tianshui City, thinking that he could borrow some food and grass from him for emergency purposes.

After Jiang Jian received Zhao Yun's letter, he immediately prepared to send someone to send food over. At this time, his son Jiang Wei stopped him and said: "Father, this matter is not proper, the Cao army is now under the city of Hanzhong." I'm afraid that if you rush to send food, you will not only not be able to enter Hanzhong City, but you will also be an enemy! After Jiang Wei apprenticed to Han Fei, Han Fei personally took him for a while, and later after he returned to Qingzhou, Jiang Weiquan returned to his parents. But all the books he read were arranged for him by Han Fei, not only that, but the two had correspondence every month, and Han Fei insisted on supervising and checking his studies no matter how busy he was. Therefore, Jiang Wei's knowledge has grown rapidly in the past few years, and his father Jiang Jian no longer treats him as a child.

Now seeing that Jiang Wei opened his mouth to stop him, he asked, "Then in my son's opinion, won't you borrow this grain?" ”

"Of course not, my father is now attacking the Cao army, if Hanzhong fell because my father did not borrow food, then how can my father bear this responsibility? Therefore, the grain still has to be borrowed, but it cannot be sent blatantly. ”

Jiang Jian heard that what his son said was reasonable, so he asked: "Then in my son's opinion, how to send this grain?" Jiang Weiluo pondered: "Father, don't worry about this in advance, Cao Jun is also a person who always has slackness or mistakes, first of all, we must send elite troops to figure out the movements of Cao Jun, the more detailed the better!" Another is to contact General Zhao to make an appointment, let's eat these Cao troops in one sentence! In this way, the food will naturally be able to reach the city.

Jiang Jian patted his thigh and shouted happily: "Good plan, it is worthy of my family's unicorn, just do what you say!" After Jiang Jian finished speaking, he immediately arranged manpower, and while he went to deliver a letter to Zhao Yun, he sent his elite scouts to inquire about Cao Jun's movements.

(End of chapter)