The military attache of the Cao Army quickly reported the information.

At this time, the one who rushed to preside over the overall situation had been replaced by Cao Ren.

Cao Ren's current identity is the general of the expedition to the south, and he is on the fake festival.

This official position is incredible, and it is basically a member of the Jingzhou region.

However, Cao Ren did not have many soldiers in his hands.

Because Jingzhou is not Cao Cao's main direction of attack, the reason is very simple, Jingzhou is the land of four wars.

If you want to attack Jingzhou, it is easy to be attacked by enemies from all sides, and after you take Jingzhou, you will be attacked by enemies from all sides.

And after conquering Jingzhou, a very painful problem is that this will separate Liu Bei and Sun Quan.

Liu Bei and Sun Quan have no more entanglements, and the two can work together to fight Uncle Cao.

In this way, didn't Cao Cao make trouble for himself

Jingzhou is the upper reaches of Yangzhou, and half of it has the Yangtze River.

As long as Jingzhou is won, Yangzhou's Yangtze River natural insurance will be meaningless.

No matter how powerful your Jiangdong naval army is, as long as I cross the river from Jingzhou and then go to fight you on land, then you will have a fool's play.

It is precisely because everyone understands this truth that a man of great talent like Sun Quan will never put his lifeblood in Liu Bei's hands.

As for Liu Bei

He has been running around for most of his life, and it is not easy to have the territory of Jingzhou, which is his lifeline.

It's as if Lao Sun ran to Lao Liu next door and said, your little brother poses a major threat to our security, you cut it off.

You think Liu Bei can agree

As long as the Jingzhou problem exists, it will be impossible for the Sun and Liu families to achieve real peace.

Uncle Cao saw through this precisely because he saw through this, so although he let Cao Ren go as a Menghu midlaner, he never had the intention of breaking through in the middle.

Instead, try to squeeze from two lines.

Especially on the road, because although the terrain is difficult to walk on the road and the location is dangerous, after all, it is a fight on land, and Cao Jun is still somewhat sure.

As long as the upper road is broken and then the middle road is broken, the large water army of the Sun family on the lower road will be meaningless.

Cao Wei's forces had the right idea at the beginning, constantly oppressing and encroaching on Liu Bei's territory, and focusing on defense against Sun Quan on the lower road.

Later, after Cao Pi came to power, he was tricked by Sun Quan's letter, and then he was furious and repeatedly raised his army to crusade against Eastern Wu.

But no matter how the center of gravity of the two lines changes, Cao Ren in the middle laner was basically calm and lonely except for being teased by Guan Yu once.

Therefore, Cao Ren's soldiers will not be many.

According to the general configuration of this era, if a lieutenant can have 800 to 1,000 men, Zhonglang will have 2,000 to 3,000 men, partial generals can have 3,000 to 5,000 men, and miscellaneous generals can have 5,000 to 8,000 people.

According to Ma Zhong's estimates, there are a lot of three or four partial generals under Cao Ren.

In other words, the size of Cao Ren's troops should be between 10,000 and 20,000.

These soldiers also had to defend various strategic points in Northern Jingzhou, and the remaining squeezed out men and horses were about 5,000 to 12,000 at most.

Such a force size did not allow Cao Ren to fight to his heart's content.

Cao Ren was actually very entangled, and fighting Jingzhou did not conform to Cao Jun's grand strategic thinking. But now that Liu Bei's army is far away in Sichuan, Guan Yu packed up and took the rest of the people to fight Lu Su to the death.

The entire Jingzhou is like an empty shell egg, as long as Chen Dao in front of him is penetrated, then Jingzhou will be completely left to him to wreak havoc.

Chen to, who is hehe

At first, Cao Ren was able to resist such a temptation, but later heard that Jiangling was in chaos and was beaten down by a mere envoy group of less than 1,000 people.

As a generation of famous generals, Cao Ren finally couldn't bear it anymore.

Jiangling, who had no choice but to give up the front, has always been a pain in his heart, and now that the great opportunity is ahead, how can he not give it a try.

As long as Gangneung is occupied and can be firmly defended, a new situation may not be opened.

Cao Ren's attack really went smoothly, Chen Zhi on the opposite side was really vulnerable, and Dangyang, known as Jingmen, was easily taken.

The army then encountered this strange stronghold just before Wheat City.

According to Niu Jin, it is not difficult to fight, but it is time-consuming, and I am afraid that the casualties paid are somewhat disproportionate.

But it doesn't matter, Cao Ren doesn't have many mobile troops in his hands, and the idea of fighting itself is to sabotage, since it is difficult to attack, it is completely possible to sabotage in all directions.

Just as he was about to divide his troops and plunder.

There was a strange infighting in the camp opposite.

Seeing this, Cao Ren did not rush to attack, but calmly pulled the team aside and waited. Before the scouts could bring more news, a patrolling marquis brought a group of people, saying that they had come to surrender.

And when I inquired, they seemed to have blocked a big fish this time.

Cao Ren hurriedly called people up, and when he looked closely, it was just a group of seventeen or eighteen-year-old young people.

Cao Ren was a little suspicious, the one who can do the things of the state must be an old and respectful person, how can he do things so rashly, is it a fraud

Thinking about it, Cao Ren immediately shouted, you are not small, you dare to come and surrender

Hearing the mighty official above say this, it startled those powerful sons and nephews.

These characters who were originally useful were incontinent several on the spot.

Some people even shouted for mercy and said that they wanted to surrender.

It's really a surrender, and I really can't beat it

It's none of my business, I'm really surrendering

Cao Ren looked at the bear-like appearance of the gang below, and his heart was even more suspicious.

If you want to say that the other party really surrendered, I'm afraid that the leader has already rushed to show his loyalty, how can he let such a few useless guys come over.

If you want to talk about deception, with these people, can they deceive me Cao Ren

Cao Renzheng was puzzled, and suddenly found a long stout guy standing tall in the middle.

Cao Ren squinted his eyes slightly, and asked loudly, who are you

Zhang Da was originally born bold, and said fearlessly, I am Sima's attendant, and I came with me this time.

Cao Ren frowned slightly, what Sima is he here

As he spoke, he glanced at the gang of gentlemen.

Zhang Da raised his voice and said that Sima did not come, but Sima asked me to convey his thoughts.

Of course, a little Sima is not qualified to talk to Cao Ren about conditions, Cao Ren ignored this topic at all, frowned and asked, what about Pan Ren, how did he say whether he wanted to surrender.

Now those gentlemen can find the performance almost, and rush to answer.

General, Master Pan was also there at the time, and he didn't object when he said he would surrender

That's it, I think Master Pan is also going to surrender, we really surrendered

General, Sima nodded, Pan definitely didn't dare to say anything else, we told the truth, we didn't lie at all

Cao Ren listened even more confused, what kind of mess is this. To be continued.