Under the words of the public, Cao Cao ordered: "Since no one has any objections, then this expedition, Yu Ban led the Qingzhou soldiers as the front army, and Dian Wei and Ziwei went out with me." ”

Cao Cao didn't bring too many people, and there were many generals under him, but they also had their own tasks. Cao Ren and Lejin sat in Runan to clear out the bandits in Yuzhou and the remnants of Yuan Shu. Xiahou Yuan is in Yanzhou, and Xiahou Yuan is in Luoyang, so there are not many people who can use Cao Cao.

But Cao Cao was not afraid, he brought a lot of soldiers, Qingzhou soldiers alone brought 30,000, with a good general like Yu Ban, I believe that Zhang Xiu can be easily defeated.

As for bringing Dian Wei and his son Cao Ang, Dian Wei is just in case, with such a fierce general by his side, Cao Cao can rest assured. I heard that Zhang Xiu's subordinates also had a fierce general Hu Che'er who was brave and championed the three armies, and he brought Dian Wei because he was afraid that this Hu Che'er would raid his Chinese army.

As for bringing Cao Ang, it was to cultivate Cao Ang.

Cao Ang, as Cao Cao's eldest son, was born to inherit Cao Cao's position.

Cao Ang was intelligent and modest, and was seven or eight years older than his younger brothers, so he was especially loved by Cao Cao. Cao Cao often took Cao Ang with him to teach, and even when he went on expeditions, he took him with him to cultivate his abilities.

Cao Ang also lived up to Cao Cao's expectations, his ability was extremely outstanding, and he was promoted to filial piety when he was crowned at the age of twenty. Of course, it may be because his father is Cao Cao's relationship, but Cao Cao is not a person who protects calves, he wants to train Cao Ang as his successor, he must train him, if Cao Ang's talent is insufficient, Cao Cao will not agree.

Therefore, judging from Cao Cao's love for Cao Ang, Cao Ang is indeed excellent. Looking at his later attitude towards Cao Pi, Cao Zhi, Cao Chong and others, it can be seen that Cao Cao likes all virtuous and talented sons.

Cao Ang was also very happy to learn that his father was going to take him to war. But he had a calm personality and didn't show it, but his brother Cao Anmin was very excited.

Cao Anmin is Cao Cao's nephew, because Cao Cao gave birth to a son Cao Shuo within seven or eight years since he gave birth to Cao Ang, but because Mrs. Liu had a difficult birth when she gave birth to Cao Shuo, Cao Cao did not like Cao Shuo.

The ancients paid attention to having many sons and blessings, Cao Cao only had two sons in the past few years, and one didn't like it, so he took Cao Anmin with him to raise him.

"Ziyu, now my uncle is crusading against Wancheng, I will definitely make a great contribution to repay my uncle's years of teaching!" Cao Anmin said gratefully.

Cao Ang shook his head lightly, "Your heart is good, but Wancheng is not better than Xuchang, and the war is dangerous, so you should be more careful and don't be careless." ”

Cao Anmin said a little disappreciatively: "Zi Yu is too worried, Zhang Xiubing is not more than 10,000 soldiers, and there will be two or three people, I am afraid that he is not Yu Wenze's opponent." ”

Cao Ang laughed, "Yu Wenze is indeed a good general in the world, and he is not comparable to ordinary generals!" ”

Cao Jun's movements were soon discovered by Zhang Xiu, and he said to Jia Xu: "Cao Cao is here, he is definitely not a good person, how can I retreat from the enemy?" ”

Jia Xu glanced at Zhang Xiu and said, "You can make the general Zhang Xian lead his troops to fortify in Huashui to prevent Cao's army from crossing the river." ”

Zhang Xiu nodded, the terrain of Nanyang County is flat, except for Jiancheng, there is no only water in the geographical advantage. If Cao Cao can't be blocked in the water, he can only hold Wancheng and Wancheng for a long time.

Zhang Xian is a general under Zhang Xiu and a member of the Zhang Xiu clan. He was the general of the army as early as the Zhang Ji period, and when Zhang Ji died, his official position was much higher than Zhang Xiuke, if he didn't want to fight, it would be difficult for Zhang Xiu to take over the power.

With such a veteran, Zhang Xiu is very relieved. He directly asked Zhang Xian to take his troops and horses to defend in Shuishui.

Zhang Yi was also transferred to Zhang Xian's subordinates, and after a few months of improvement, his riding and archery ability has been greatly improved. Riding archery, the main improvement is horse riding and archery, now he can freely maneuver horses like a warrior who has been riding horses for many years, with only two legs, he can ride the horse wildly, and he will also play a variety of difficult actions, such as catching up with a galloping horse, then jumping up, and then jumping down from the other side.

The ability of archery has been greatly improved, not only in mounted archery, but also in foot archery, and even more accurate than mounted archery.

Because when he was in the city, Zhang Yi was promoted because he killed the enemy, and now he has become a general, of course, he has no soldiers. According to the Han law, there were twenty lords before the marquis, and the more than ten lords in front of them were basically to kill one person and promote one level. Therefore, it is very convenient to upgrade the title in the early stage. However, it is a bit difficult to promote the position, because the competition is too fierce, and if you want to be promoted and get real power, you not only need military merit, but also need to be favored by officials.

Zhang Yi was obviously not favored by Zhang Xiu, the impression he left on Zhang Xiu before was indeed very bad, although Zhang Xiu didn't know that Zhang Ji's death was because of Zhang Yi, but Zhang Yi's clumsy appearance before he remembered it vividly. But fortunately, Zhang Xiu saw the face of his relatives and gave Zhang Yi a lot of money, so that he could easily survive in Wancheng.

Zhang Yi followed Zhang Xian to Huashui, Zhang Xian really had rich experience in marching, found a high ground on the edge of Shuishui and set up camp, and excluded the exploration horses, looking for various places that could cross the river in the upstream and downstream, and then monitored it.

However, Zhang Xian's opponent is much more clever than Zhang Xian.

Yu Ban, known as the five good generals in later generations, if it weren't for the stain of his surrender to Guan Yu, he would definitely be the first. He was the second of the five good generals to defect to Cao Cao, the first was Le Jin, who defected to Cao Cao during the period of seeking Dong.

Yu Ban defected to Cao Cao when Cao Cao crusaded against the Yellow Turban in Qingzhou, and every battle must be defeated, although there are weak chickens like the Yellow Turban Haoshuai among the opponents, there are also generals under Yuan Shu, and even defeated Gao Shun. And Yu Ban is good at training, Qingzhou soldiers are adapted from Qingzhou Yellow Turbans and belong to Juntun soldiers. But Yu Ban trained these soldiers to be elite all the time, and they are very famous in history.

Yu Ban naturally knew that Zhang Xiu's soldiers and horses might be fortified in Shuishui, so he had already sent people to cross the river first. You must know that it will take time for the news of Cao Cao's army to spread from Xuchang to Wancheng, and Yu Ban took advantage of this time difference to let some people cross the river and hide in a hidden place.

When Cao Cao's army arrived at the river crossing, these hidden soldiers came out of the hiding place, expelled Zhang Xian's scouts, and used the terrain to form a battle formation to cover the crossing of the river.

When Zhang Xian received the news, he looked at the tens of thousands of troops who had already crossed the water, and he also felt helpless. He only had more than 3,000 people, and he attacked with more than 3,000 people, and the tens of thousands of people who had already prepared were simply looking for death.

There was no way, Zhang Xian had no choice but to withdraw to Wancheng, and while withdrawing the army, he also sent someone to inform Zhang Xiu to make preparations.