Summary of the previous chapter: Cao Cao personally conquered Liu Bei, and Ma Xiaoquan took this opportunity to write a letter to Xiahou Yuan, and Xiahou Yuan thoroughly investigated the officers and soldiers in the army according to the content of Ma Xiaoquan's letter

++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Xiahou Yuan unfolded the roster and looked at it carefully, and hummed several times before he threw the roster on the table with a "snap".

"I didn't expect so many miscellaneous people to be mixed in the army, well~~ Thanks to the reminder of Lord Shangxian!" Xiahou Yuan exhaled heavily and ordered, "Report this matter to King Wei!" ”

Cao Cao soon received a report from Xiahou Yuan, and Cao Cao was also horrified when he learned that there were miscellaneous people in the army.

Shangxian Lord Ma Xiaoquan once told himself, saying that Lu Xian's heart was vicious and acting strangely, and today he installed the shadow guard in his army, and tomorrow he may install the shadow guard by his side.

The lack of effective security guarantees is what Cao Cao cannot tolerate the most.

"Pass my order, and from today onwards, we will continue to thoroughly investigate everyone in the army, including the generals!"

After giving the order, Cao Cao felt a little more relaxed.

In the following days, Cao Cao and Liu Bei were consuming on the one hand, and on the other hand, he focused on the thorough investigation work within the army.

Not long after Liu Bei took Yizhou, and Yizhou was not a rich place, while Cao Cao was in a large territory in the north, with money and food. If you want to fight a war of attrition, Cao Cao can afford it, but Liu Bei can't afford it.

The two armies lasted for several days, and although Liu Bei had some partial victories, he could not hurt Cao Cao's muscles and bones.

Late at night, Liu Bei convened his staff officers to discuss countermeasures.

Fa Zhengdao: "My lord, my subordinates think that our first task is to take Yangping Pass!" ”

Fa Zheng's words were unanimously affirmed by all the soldiers.

Liu Bei nodded: "Yangping Pass is the only way to pass through Long, and it is easy to defend and difficult to attack, what you said, I understand very well, but Yangping Pass is a natural risk, how easy is it to win?" Moreover, our grain and grass cannot afford to attack for a long time. ”

Zhao Yun said: "Lord, it's better for us to encircle Yangpingguan, so that the chances of victory will be greater." ”

Liu Bei didn't answer quickly, but looked at everyone, looked at the opinion again, and saw that Fa Zheng nodded in agreement, and Liu Bei said: "Then follow what Zilong said." ”

At night the next day, when Cao's army was thoroughly investigating the personnel in the army, Liu Bei suddenly attacked Yangping Pass with a large army.

Xiahou Yuan, the guard general of the Guan, was a little caught off guard, but after all, the experience was there, and after a little adjustment, Xiahou Yuan quickly made a response and deployment.

From the beginning of the thorough investigation to the present, Xiahou Yuan has found a total of more than 20 unknown people, although Xiahou Yuan cannot guarantee that all the shadow guards are listed, but at least they have played a role in killing chickens and monkeys.

Looking at the more than two dozen people in front of him, Xiahou Yuan said: "There may be people among you who I misunderstood, but now that the war is urgent, I need you to prove your innocence to me, that is to say, you must show that you are loyal, so as to alleviate your misunderstanding in my heart, so" Xiahou Yuan pointed to the closed door, "I want a few of you to go and guard the closed door for us, can you do it?" Dare to do it? ”

Before these two dozen people could speak, Xu Huang couldn't sit still: "General, you have to think twice, Yangping Pass is the most critical point of this pass, once it is lost, we will"

Before Xu Huang finished speaking, Xiahou Yuan stretched out his hand to stop him: "I believe they can hold it!" With that, Xiahou Yuan waved his hand at the two dozen people.

Xu Huang was very uneasy, and stepped forward and said, "General, I ask to guard the gate with these twenty or so people." ”

Xiahou Yuan nodded: "I also have this intention, but Ah Gongming (Xu Huang's words), there is one more thing I have to tell you."

Xiahou Yuan said two words in Xu Huang's ear, Xu Huang listened, his eyes widened, and he asked a little incredulously: "General, although this is good, but it is too risky, not to mention, Lord Shangxian, he did not mention this matter in his letter, how can you be sure that Lord Shangxian said it?" ”

Xiahou Yuan laughed, took out the letter written by Ma Xiaoquan to him from his arms, unfolded it, and pointed out the first word of each column to Xu Huang according to the reading order.

Xu Huang read out the words of Xiahou Yuan's fingers one by one with some confusion, and halfway through the reading, he couldn't help but exclaim.

"This" Xu Huang shook his head incredulously, "General, how can you understand the intentions of Lord Shangxian?" ”

Xiahou Yuan laughed, and said with some stinky fart: "This is the tacit understanding, hehe, presumably Lord Shangxian must be proud of me now for seeing the meaning of his letter, haha"

Yecheng, the compound of the Ma family.

"Ah sneeze~~" Ma Xiaoquan rubbed his nose and said to himself, "As long as I sneeze, someone will definitely talk about me"

Beside Ma Xiaoquan, Mrs. Mingyue Hua Yue said angrily: "How old are you, why are you still poor?" ”

Ma Xiaoquan said disapprerovingly: "Originally, madam, do you dare to say that you don't miss me?" ”

Hua Yuexin glanced at Ma Xiaoquan: "I see you every day these days, and I'm almost annoyed by you, what is there to think~"

"Ah~~" Ma Xiaoquan pretended to be sad, "It turns out that I am such a person in my wife's heart, hey, so sad, hey~~"

Hua Yuexin pinched Ma Xiaoquan: "Okay, don't be stinky and poor, by the way, I see that you wrote that letter to Xiahou Yuan a few days ago, do you really think there are Lu Xian's people in Cao's army?" ”

Ma Xiaoquan nodded: "Lu Xian should have gotten something that he shouldn't have, so it is necessary for me to remind Xiahou Yuan, presumably now my reminder Cao Cao has also received it." ”

"Then why don't you just give it to Cao Cao?"

Ma Xiaoquan smiled slightly: "Some things, if they are too direct, will make the other party disgusted Cao Cao is already suspicious, plus now that he is old and suspicious, I remind him so directly, he will definitely be dissatisfied in his heart"

Hua Yuexin asked, "Then Xianggong, don't you think that Xiahou Yuan will definitely tell Cao Cao about your letter?" ”

Ma Xiaoquan nodded and smiled: "Xiahou Yuan will definitely say it, but because there is a procedure in the middle, Cao Cao will respect me instead."

Hua Yuexin sighed several times: "Then there is no other implicit meaning in your letter?" ”

Ma Xiaoquan shook his head and said with certainty: "What kind of letter can I write with this literary talent?" ”

Hua Yuexin smiled and shook her head: "That's not necessarily~"

"Oh, Madame, do you see what?"

Hua Yuexin cleared her throat and recited the letter written by Ma Xiaoquan to Xiahou Yuan word for word.

Ma Xiaoquan was surprised, the seventh lady Tsing Yi has the ability to never forget, and when will the wife Hua Yuexin also have it?

"Madam, you~~"

Hua Yue's heart blushed: "Mmmm, Xianggong, in fact, Yue'er also has the ability to never forget!" ”

Ma Xiaoquan shook his head incredulously, he had lived with Hua Yuexin for more than 20 years, and he didn't know that she had this ability, really

"Why didn't Madame say it earlier?" Ma Xiaoquan complained a little.

"Xianggong never asked me?" Hua Yuexin replied with a rhetorical question.

"Well~ Let's not talk about this, ma'am, what do you see from my letter?"

Hua Yuexin glared at Ma Xiaoquan suspiciously: "Xianggong, you really don't know?" ”

Ma Xiaoquan spread his hands: "If I really knew, I wouldn't ask you like this!" ”

"Okay!" Hua Yuexin asked someone to bring pen and ink paper, and gently wrote Ma Xiaoquan's letter silently on the paper, after silently writing, Hua Yuexin pointed to the first word of each column on the letter and said: "Xianggong, please see~~"

Ma Xiaoquan came up without knowing why, read it in the order of Hua Yuexin's fingers, and couldn't help shouting: "I'm next to the Olympics~~ What's the situation?" ”

Hua Yuexin slapped Ma Xiaoquan's head: "How do you speak?" What's going on? You wrote it yourself, you ask me? ”

Ma Xiaoquan rubbed his head, laughing more ugly than crying: "Madam, I really don't know." ”

Hua Yuexin pursed her lips: "How can that Xianggong write such a letter, really, could it be that someone taught you to write it?" ”

Ma Xiaoquan nodded, and was just about to say "yes", but suddenly reacted, and quickly shook his head and said, "How is it possible, I must have written it myself." ”

"Forget it! Hum! Hua Yuexin crumpled the paper into a ball and walked away proudly.

Ma Xiaoquan smiled bitterly, and asked in his heart: "Dog day things, look at what kind of mess you taught me, Madame can see it, but I don't know anything." ”

In the left eye, Yuan was quite dissatisfied with the voice of the voice: "The soul is light Ma Xiaoquan, I kindly taught you to write, you still complain so much, think about how long you held back that day?" You wrote four words in an hour, an hour! You say you say"

"Alright, alright, alright! Don't say it, hey hey, you taught me to write, the meaning of the first word in each column, did you think about it? ”

"Nonsense, you guy with an IQ of 90!"

“”

Ma Xiaoquan's judgment was not wrong, Cao Cao did have a brief suspicion after receiving Xiahou Yuan's report, but soon Cao Cao was relieved, and the reason was as Ma Xiaoquan said - there was a procedure in between.

At this time, Cao Jun had changed from his previous passivity to a confrontation with Liu Beijun.

Among them, the successful defense of Yangping Pass established great confidence in Cao Jun.

As soon as Cao Cao inquired, he learned that at the gate of Yangping, there were only Xu Huang and more than 20 people in charge of guarding the door.

Cao Cao sighed, thought about it carefully, and suddenly remembered the letter that Ma Xiaoquan wrote to Xiahou Yuan.