After Guan Yu arrived in Yizhou, he continued Han Fei's relaxed ethnic policy, so that both barbarians and Qiang people were more sincerely integrated into the lineup of Qi State. In particular, the Wudang Fei Army has now expanded to 20,000 people, of which 15,000 are Southern Barbarians, which also makes Meng You's power in the army soar, and he faintly fights against Wang Ping.

Guan Yu knew about the problems in the Wudangfei army, but he didn't stop it, and the army has always had the final say on whose fist is bigger. There is no absolute force, even if Guan Yu supports Wang Ping.

Fortunately, Meng You and his brother Meng Yu were completely subdued by Han Fei, so he didn't have the intention of replacing Wang Ping. But this is only the current situation, if it is a long time, it is unknown whether there will be any variables.

Ma Chao's injury is healed, and now Liangzhou has been combed very well by Ma Chao, but after his injury healed, Guan Yu decided not to let him continue to guard in Liangzhou, but changed the general Zhang Ren to go. Ma Chao returned to Hanzhong City with Yang Huai and replaced Zhao Yun to guard Hanzhong City, while Zhao Yun was transferred back to Chengdu by Guan Yu.

Guan Yu's series of actions made the generals of the Qi army have a deeper understanding of their territory, and also made some people who originally had other ideas completely break their thoughts.

Seeing that Liu Beijun would become stronger and stronger if this continued, Cao Cao finally couldn't sit still, so he sent a secret envoy to see Sun Quan. It is necessary to discuss with Sun Quan to unite against Liu Bei's Qi army. Sun Quan also knew that he alone was not an opponent of Qi at all.

So when Cao Cao's secret envoy came, Sun Quan agreed to form an alliance with Cao Cao without hesitation. With Sun Quan's consent, Cao Cao's envoy was relieved. Then, according to Cao Cao's request, he proposed to invite Sun Quan to secretly go to Jingzhou for a meeting.

A month later, Cao Cao secretly came to Xiangyang City in Jingzhou, and Sun Quan also secretly rushed to Jiangxia County. With the arrival of the two, the situation in Jingzhou became delicate. Because the previous secrecy work was good, it was not until Cao Cao and Sun Quan appeared in the city that Liu Bei got the exact news.

On the same day that Liu Bei got the news, Cao Cao and Sun Quan made an appointment to meet thirty miles outside Xiangyang City. The two discussed for a total of two hours, and except for the two henchmen they each carried, no one else knew the content of the answer.

However, it is conceivable that their next target must be Liu Bei's Qi State. It's just that at this time there is still none, and there is still no definite sign of the transfer of troops from these two countries.

At this time, Jia Xu and the shadows under his command received the highest order from Liu Bei personally, and they must find out the next military plan of the Cao and Sun families, as well as the specific direction in which they want to attack. Jia Xu and his shadows were completely mobilized.

Every day, news from all walks of life is piled up like snowflakes on Jia Xu's desk. Jia Xu had to pick out of them every night, and the information he thought was useful would be handed over to Liu Bei to deal with. Tonight, Jia Xu was checking the daily intelligence as usual, and it turned out that he found an order under Cao Cao's command. This immediately attracted Jia Xu's attention, and it turned out that it was none other than the military advisor Guo Jia, who was transferred back to Yanzhou.

Jia Xu immediately realized that it was likely to start from Yanzhou. Liu Bei listened to Jia Xu's analysis, and immediately nodded happily: "Okay, Wenhe, this time you are attacking again." After Liu Bei finished speaking, he immediately hurried and the strategists came to discuss the matter. However, I don't know whether it was intentional or unintentional, Liu Bei did not let Han Fei be notified to come to the meeting.

Regarding Liu Bei's decision, everyone naturally didn't say much. However, after the strategists learned of Cao Cao's actions, the strategists immediately divided into two factions, one of which encouraged Liu Bei to strike first and immediately go to attack Cao's army's city. The other faction is to let Liu Bei temporarily hold his troops and wait for Cao Jun's intentions to become obvious before sending out the army. Liu Bei felt that what both parties said was very reasonable, but how to decide was a little difficult for him.

Jia Xu was very sorry at the moment, he felt that if Han Fei was here, he would definitely have a perfect solution. Liu Bei finally decided to stay put, and he had to wait for Cao Cao's intentions to be completely exposed before he made a preemptive attack.

As a result, Cao's army had not moved, and Sun Quan's Eastern Wu sent troops. Zhou Yu and Huang Zhong sent troops together, and an army of 50,000 attacked Jianye City. The Great War ensued.

Liu Bei's side responded quickly, and he immediately ordered Zhang Heqin to lead 30,000 reinforcements to dare to rescue Jianye City. Coupled with the original 20,000 soldiers and general Tai Shici in Jianye City, it stands to reason that it is enough to keep the city from being lost.

So after sending Zhang He, Liu Bei focused on dealing with Cao Cao. But at this moment, the news came that Zhang He's army was attacked, and it was none other than Cao Cao's general Xu Huang who attacked him!

It turned out that the siege of Dongwu was just to cover the Cao army's reinforcements, not to mention the loss of most of the 30,000 horses, Zhang He himself was seriously injured.

Liu Bei was furious when he heard this, and he was going to personally lead the army to go to the conquest, and at this time Cao Cao sent troops, he had Cao Hong as the vanguard, and personally led the army to take Shanyang City.

Zhang Ji, the defender of Shanyang, was outnumbered by the city, and after holding on for three days, the city was broken, and Zhang Ji died in the chaos. Cao's troops pointed directly at Xuzhou, and the Eastern Wu army did not fight against Jianye at this time, and the army bypassed Jianye and rushed to Xuzhou to kill.

Chen Deng in Xuzhou immediately asked Liu Bei for help, and in the face of the double attack of the Cao army and the Eastern Wu army, Liu Bei reactivated Han Fei without reluctance.

Han Fei gave orders when he was in danger, he asked Liu Bei for the three generals Ju Yida, Zhang Xiu and the three generals Zhang Fei, and then led an army of 30,000 to Xuzhou. At this time, the Cao army was storming Pengcheng, and the Pengcheng guard was Cao Bao's nephew Cao Tian, who had a lot of Cao family's business in Pengcheng, so Cao Bao took out half of the elite Danyang soldiers under his command and put them under Cao Tian.

It was precisely because he had 5,000 Danyang soldiers that he was able to hold out under the onslaught of Cao's army until Han Fei led his troops to arrive. Cao Cao learned that it was Han Fei who led the army to come, and suddenly new and old hatreds came to his heart. At this moment, he was no longer delusional about recruiting Han Fei, Cao Cao had only one thought in his heart, that is, he must kill Han Fei and cut off one of Liu Bei's arms.

Therefore, after Han Fei led his troops, Cao Cao not only did not stop the siege, but increased the intensity of the project. Han Fei sent the third general Zhang Fei to relieve the siege of Pengcheng, Zhang Fei led the army to go, but was desperately blocked by Cao Hong, Cao Zhen and others with troops, and finally returned in vain.

(End of chapter)