Yan Pu did not choose to answer Zhang Lu's inquiry head-on, but asked rhetorically:

"In the past, there were Ma Chao and Han Sui's rebellion in the west of Guanzhong, and Yuan Shao and Cao Cao invaded in the east.

"I might as well too." Zhang Luxu replied gloomily.

"Then the Hanzhong soldiers will fight a fierce battle with the division of the hundred battles in Kansai, who will win?"

"The Kansai soldiers are strong, far better than Hanzhong."

"Compared with Hanzhong, Kansai has a wide land? How much food and grass are there? Who are the households? ”

"None of them are as good as people."

"Ugh." Yan Pu also sighed, "Since these masters all understand, then the masters think that Hanzhong is weak and strong, how many chances of winning are there?" Even if generals such as Zhang and Yang can repel the enemy army outside Yangping Pass, what can they do, Guanxi is powerful, and there will be ten times and a hundred times the number of troops coming in the future, and even that Yan Yanming personally led the army to conquer and ask for the guilt, Shi Jun thought that at that time, with the power of the whole territory of Hanzhong, could he still resist? ”

"This-" After listening to Yan Pu's analysis, Zhang Lu was speechless. At this time, he was even more uneasy in his heart than he had just thought, and the idea of surrender also took over, but because he still had scruples, he said:

"What Yan Jun said is very true, it's just that Hanzhong sent troops to attack Wudu before, and now he is rejecting the enemy outside Yangping Pass, and the two families have already formed a grudge, even if I have the heart to surrender, but how do I know that Yan Yanming of Chang'an can accept the surrender without sin?"

Yan Pu seemed to have an answer to this question in his heart, and he said quite confidently: "In Pu's opinion, although Hanzhong has surrendered, there are still Liu Zhang's disciples in Shudi, Yan Yanming is by no means a short-sighted villain, and he will definitely follow the example of the horse bones in Qianjin City. If the master has the intention of testing Chang'an, he is dull and willing to follow the work of dogs and horses. ”

Speaking of which, Zhang Lu and Yan Pu's hearts have already been revealed, but this time Zhang Lu did not give a quick reply, he thought about it for a long time, but finally failed to make up his mind, just coping with it and saying:

"This matter is very important, we have to take it slowly, see how the situation changes next, and then make a decision."

···

Zhang Lu, who was facing the pressure of a strong enemy, was unable to decide whether to fight or surrender, while Cao Cao, the capital of Xu, who was far away from the mountains and thousands of miles away, had already made the decision to fight hard and send troops to Nanyang.

At present, the alliance of Yan Yan and Jingxiang Liu Biao in Guanxi, one west and one south, seriously threatens the peace of the Xudu court, although various remarks in the palace to move the capital to avoid the enemy's edge appear from time to time, but Cao Cao is never willing to let the majesty of the Xudu court and Sikong Mansion be swept away in this form of a nest, so after a short year of recuperation, he once again recruited the soldiers and horses of Yan and Yu, and sent troops to the south, preparing to recover the northern border of Nanyang that was lost last year.

In fact, compared with the threat to the west and south of the Xudu court, there is no doubt that the threat from Yan Yan in Guanxi is more severe, and the light cavalry of the Xiliang army set off from Henan, and it does not take a day to attack the cities and towns of Yan and western Henan.

It was more urgent to remove the threat to the west of Xudu than to the enemy of Jingxiang to the south.

However, after experiencing the fiasco of the Gui clan, Cao Cao no longer dared to confront Guanxi on his own, coupled with Yuan Shao's illness and death, the Yuan brothers competed, and Hebei's strong reinforcements could not be counted on, Cao Cao could only choose the easy first and then the difficult, seize the opportunity of Guanxi to attack Hanzhong and have no intention of looking eastward, and preemptively launch an offensive against the enemy of Jingxiang occupying Nanyang.

It's just that Cao Cao didn't expect that the fierceness of this battle, which he hoped would be able to be resolved quickly, had exceeded the prediction of him and his advisors.

In October, Cao Cao personally led the army to the south, all the way like a bamboo, even Kexi'e, Bowang and other cities, but after the army arrived in Wancheng, it was met by the stubborn resistance of Liu Bei's soldiers and horses in the city, and during the siege of Wancheng, the reinforcements of Xiangyang and Guanxi arrived successively, echoing inside and outside, each other was the horn of the momentum, ready to jointly attack the Cao army.

Moreover, Yan Yan, who attached great importance to the movements of Cao's army, also sent his general Zhang Liao to lead a partial division to the east of Xudu and harass the rear of Cao Cao's army.

As a last resort, he could only attack and win, and Cao Jun, who could not retreat and repeat the mistakes of the past, launched a fierce battle with the soldiers and horses of Liu Bei, Wen Ping, Yang Feng and others for several days.

During the period, Cao Cao, who wanted to seize Wancheng first, retreated from the enemy according to the city, but even attacked Wancheng, Cao Cao, the commander of the three armies, once wore a strong and stubborn battle on the battlefield, personally supervised the battle, and ordered the elite infantry of the Chinese army to also attack, but still did not take Liu Bei and others led the troops to defend Wancheng, but his nephew Cao Anmin was hit in the head by the stone cannon in the city and died on the spot.

Immediately afterwards, in the subsequent night attack launched by the enemy general Yang Feng in Kansai, some of the new pawns in the army rioted, Cao Cao's eldest son Cao Ang was not afraid of danger, led the army to fight back, but unfortunately was shot by a stray arrow on the battlefield, the injury was serious, and he was already unconscious when he was carried back to the tent, and the ulcer doctor in the army rescued him for a long time, after all, he still failed to save his life.

However, even in the face of this tragic situation, Cao Cao, who was determined to conquer Wancheng and remove the threat from the south of Xudu, still did not waver in his heart, he endured the pain of the new loss of his son and nephew, inspired the subordinates, and soothed the disabled in the army, so that Cao's army became more and more frustrated and brave, turned grief and anger into strength, and turned defeat into victory in the battle for several days, and gradually achieved a clear advantage over the enemy in the battle array, and successively defeated the two support armies of Wenpin and Yang Feng outside Wancheng.

After that, Cao Cao, who won the victory in the battle array, did not rashly attack Wancheng again, but sent a surprise army to intercept the cavalry of Zhang Yun of the Jingxiang Rear Army to supervise the transportation of the baggage convoy to Wancheng, defeated the Jingxiang soldiers and horses, burned all the grain and grass transported by the Jingxiang Rear Army, and killed Zhang Yun and others to lose their armor and run away with their heads, and they were only spared.

Through this victory, the Cao army led by Cao Cao fully controlled the dominance of the battlefield, and Liu Bei, who learned that he had lost all his baggage, took the initiative to give up Wancheng in order to avoid shedding his own blood in Wancheng, risked death to break through the siege, joined the defeated army of Wenpin, and retired to Fancheng.

Seeing that the situation was unfavorable and fearful of being defeated by Cao's army again, Yang Fengjun in Guanxi also retreated overnight and retreated to Guanzhong along the Wuguan Road.

Zhang Liao, who attacked the rear of Cao's army, encountered a partial division in Yingchuan and encountered the forbidden department, and the two armies had many small-scale battles in Yingchuan, and the victory was not divided, and then after learning that the armies in Nanyang were defeated and retreated, Zhang Liao did not dare to fight, and quickly got rid of the entanglement of the enemy general Ban, and led the army back to Henan.

At this point, the battle for Nanyang in the seventh year of Jian'an, with Cao's army defeating Jingxiang and Guanxi soldiers and horses, won the victory and came to an end, Cao Cao left Li Tong, Zhao Yan, Du Xi and others to lead the soldiers and horses to re-build the Wancheng defense line, and lifted the threat to the south of the Xudu court.

Originally, in the opinion of Yan Xing and others, after Cao Cao's new defeat, in order to replenish his troops and accumulate grain, he would not dare to launch a large-scale offensive in the short term, but he did not expect that Cao Cao not only launched a campaign to recover Nanyang only one year later, but also had a strong will, and did not waver in the case of paying a heavy price in the early stage, and finally succeeded in capturing Wancheng and laid the victory of the southern front.

However, the world is unpredictable, the willows and flowers are bright and another village, although Yang Feng and Zhang Liao, who rescued Nanyang, although they were not able to retreat from the enemy and succeeded, but the Southern Expeditionary Army, which originally thought that they would return in vain, successfully captured Yangping Pass, the gateway to Hanzhong, and then won a series of battles and won the land of Hanzhong in one fell swoop.

It turned out that on the same day, when Yan Xing was unwilling to return to his division without merit, and summoned Cheng Gongying and Ma Dai generals to prepare for another night attack, it happened to coincide with Zhang Ling's death, and the Yangping Pass guards Zhang Wei, Yang Ang and others saw that the Southern Expeditionary Army was difficult to advance an inch, and they were arrogant, and they were busy with sacrifices and other things in the pass during the day, and it was inevitable that they would relax the defense of the pass at night, so they were actually succeeded by Cheng Gongying's light soldiers, and broke through the Yangping Pass, and the soldiers of the Southern Expeditionary Army who swarmed in were unstoppable, and they completely annihilated the Hanzhong guards in the pass that night, and captured Zhang Wei, Yang Ang and others who had no time to escape.

Yangping Pass was lost, Hanzhong was in danger, and Zhang Lu in Nanzheng City couldn't sit still, so he hurriedly found Gong Cao Yanpu to discuss the surrender of Guanxi Yanxing again, but this time Yan Pu changed his rhetoric and resolutely opposed Zhang Lu to surrender Nanzheng at this time, but persuaded Zhang Lu to abandon the city and flee south, and fled into Ba County along the Micang Road, and took refuge in Du Hao, Pu Hu and other Ban Yu barbarian commanders.

Zhang Lu was surprised by the change in Yan Pu's attitude before and after, and immediately asked:

"Jun tried his best to persuade me to return to Guanzhong before, why did you speak out against it today?"

Yan Pu explained: "Today, Yangping Pass has been broken, the soldiers and horses in the pass are difficult to fight, and the master is forced to surrender, and the merit will be light; It is better to flee south to defend Bazhong, and refuse to resist it, so that the Guanzhong army will know that Hanzhong is difficult to govern and Shu Road is difficult to do, and then surrender, there will be a lot of merit! ”

Zhang Luyan, who was in a panic, obeyed the plan, and immediately prepared to abandon the city and could not escape, and because he had already sprouted his will, he did not set fire to the cangzhi in the city, only brought a few soldiers and horses of Wudou Midao, abandoned Nanzheng City, and fled to Badi overnight along Micang Road.

After that, as Yan Pu expected, after Yan Xing led the army into Nanzheng, on the one hand, he deeply felt that the forces of the Five Dou Midao in Hanzhong were intertwined and difficult to govern; On the other hand, he had scruples about the steep geography of Bashu and did not dare to rush into the army, so he listened to the advice of Pei Ji, Gao Rou and others, and applied both soft and hard, not only sending troops to break through Shangyong, Fangling and other places, but also sending envoys into Badi to recruit Zhang Lu, the heavenly master of Wudou Midao, and promised a number of rich promises, which made Zhang Lu and a number of Ban Yu barbarian Qu Shuai surrender to the southern expeditionary army, and pacified the land of Hanzhong in one fell swoop.

Although Hanzhong is fixed, the five buckets of rice are not to be wary.

As a religion with a wide range of followers in Ba, Han and other places and once established a separatist regime, although the officers and men of the Southern Expeditionary Army were unable to take any drastic measures against Wudou Midao due to the situation, in view of the closed geography of Bashu and the influence of Zhang Lu and others on the barbarians of Ba and Han, the Hussar General's Mansion had to take precautions to take precautions.

After reading the good news and documents sent by the Southern Expeditionary Army, Yan Xing and his adviser Xun You and others had already decided to temporarily adopt the method of military management in Hanzhong, adding officials to Zhang Lu, Zhang Wei, Yan Pu and others who surrendered, and letting them move to Chang'an City with their families, so that the shogunate could monitor the affairs of the school nearby. In the next few years, some important Wudou Midao believers will also be on the move, and the Hussar General's Mansion will adopt a series of measures to eliminate the huge influence of Wudou Midao on Ba, Han and other places.

Regarding the departure and stay of the soldiers of the Southern Expedition, because the Battle of Nanyang has ended, the Hussar General's Mansion has not been in a hurry to transfer troops to consolidate Guanzhong and Sanhe, but has ordered Pei Ji, Yan Gui, Gao Rou and others to lead the army to stay behind, and secretly contact the soldiers and people of Shu, waiting for the opportunity to enter the land of Bashu.

The Pei family and the Gao family used to have talented people in Shu, and if they want to forge ahead and be easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the people are xenophobic in Bashu, it is necessary to use their fame and reputation to attack the heart and fight the relationship, and this task will cooperate with the two-pronged battle of the Shu campaign, which is the most important military action for the shogunate of Chang'an at present.

At the same time as secretly preparing for the battle of Shu with the Hussar General's Mansion, Xu Du, who won the victory in the Nanyang War, was also planning a large-scale relocation of the capital.

Xudu, Sikong House.

"Sikong, is it necessary to move the capital?"

Shang Shu Ling Xun Yu's face was gloomy, he sat on the seat, and raised his eyes to look at Cao Cao.

"Hmm."

After experiencing the pain of losing a child, Cao Cao, who had a haggard face, nodded, without much explanation, but those who knew him knew that this was Cao Sikong's performance after careful consideration.

Seeing this, Xun Yu also fell silent.

This time the Cao army was able to defeat the army of Jingxiang and Guanzhong in Nanyang, in addition to Cao Cao's outstanding command and the brave fighting of the Cao army's soldiers, Xun Yu, who was responsible for the logistics of the army, also made great contributions, even if he was attacked by the light cavalry under the command of the enemy general Zhang Liao from time to time to disturb the grain road, Xun Yu still did his best to organize the Yan and Yu civil service, and the rear generals sent the military rations to the Nanyang camp of the Cao army on time with the ban.

Xun Yu originally thought that after recovering Nanyang, the pressure on the Xudu court would be greatly reduced, but he didn't expect that Cao Cao, who led the army to return victoriously, hurriedly summoned his henchmen and advisers to plan the relocation of the capital.

Not to mention the huge project of moving the capital, which involves the interests of all parties, just in terms of the crumbling majesty of the Han Dynasty, it is also a huge damage.

If the relocation of the capital is carried out, then the capital of the Han court is the fourth migration in the past ten years, throughout the ages, there has never been an empire that frequently moves the capital to be able to maintain long-term stability, thinking from another dimension, it even faintly implies that the Great Han Dynasty has come to an end.

Guo Jia, who was on the side, saw that Xun Yu was silent, knowing that he was resistant to Cao Cao's behavior of moving the capital again, and immediately said:

"Lingjun, this imperial capital migration, Ming Gong is completely for the sake of the court and the Son of Heaven, Guanxi Shima is sharp, often has the intention of driving Xu Du for a long time, there are many enemy cavalry killed in Yingchuan before, and to get rid of the traitors in Guanxi, it is not an overnight effort, in order to protect the integrity of the Son of Heaven and the Manchu Dynasty, it is imperative for the court to move to other places!"