Summary of the previous chapter: Ma Xiaoquan's letter to Liu Bei concealed another information, which was discovered by Fa Zheng. Liu Bei, in accordance with Ma Xiaoquan's hidden information, stormed Yangping Pass and finally captured Yangping Pass

Although +++++++++++++++++++++++ Cao Cao's loss of Yangping Pass had been expected, he didn't expect it to come so quickly. In September of the 23rd year of Emperor Jian'an of the Han Dynasty, Cao Cao, the king of Wei, rushed to Chang'an and personally commanded the battle against Liu Bei.

At this time, the Shu army is no longer the passive Shu army before, since the capture of Yangping Pass, the connection between Bashu and Long, a lot of material transportation of the Shu army has become smooth, but Liu Bei knows very well in his heart that if he wants Cao Cao to retreat completely, he also has to take the target he wants the most, and it is also the target he has to get - Hanzhong.

There were scouts on both sides, and naturally they also found out a lot of news about each other, and Liu Bei must have been nervous when he learned that Cao Cao was in Chang'an.

Liu Bei has been a horse for half his life, he can not care about anyone, he can not be afraid of anyone, but Cao Cao, Liu Bei is cowardly when he hears the name.

Although he was cowardly, Liu Bei said that he would not give up this time, after all, Hanzhong is the key place of Shu, if he can't take Hanzhong, Shu will be robbed in the future.

On the Cao Cao side, on the one hand, he was intensively deploying the strategy of resisting Shu, but on the other hand, he had to be distracted to deal with the sudden rebellion.

A few days after Cao Cao arrived in Chang'an, Hou Yin, the defender of Wancheng, rebelled. At present, in the Cao army, the main forces are all concentrated on the sideline: Cao Zhang in the north is fighting fiercely with Wuhuan, although he has won many battles but is too far away, he can't come; Zhang Liao in the east was monitoring Dongwu with a sick body, not to mention that there were not too many troops, so he couldn't come; Xiahou Yuan in the west is also overwhelmed now, and the crowd is even less thinking about it, Cao Cao still decided to order Cao Ren, the guard of Fancheng in the south, to go to Wancheng to suppress Hou Yin.

Cao Cao's move was undoubtedly a risk, after all, it was Guan Yu who was confronting Cao Ren.

Good guy, Second Master Guan's fierceness is known to the world. Cao Cao was afraid that as soon as Cao Ren left Fancheng with his front foot, Guan Yu would follow up with his back foot, but if Wancheng was not saved, Wanluo would definitely be lost one after another.

Cao Cao's foothold is basically in the Wanluo area, although Fancheng is also important, but with Liu Bei and Sun Quan secretly fighting each other and restraining each other, Cao Cao feels that even if he loses it, he will not lose too much, after all, he only got one-third of the Jingzhou area.

Liu Bei, who has a different mentality from Cao Cao, doesn't have so much time to spend on Cao Cao, since Cao ** doesn't come, I will continue to attack Hanzhong, although the Yangping Pass has been broken, but Xiahou Yuan is still holding back, so that Liu Bei can't go to Hanzhong Shun for a while

Just when the two armies were facing each other, Ma Xiaoquan, a Shangxian lord who was far away in Yecheng, suddenly sent his fourth son Ma Qiang to send a letter to Cao Cao.

No one knew the content of the letter, and all the staff officers of General Cao's army only saw Cao Cao unfold the letter of Lord Shangxian and glanced at it, so they burned the letter to the candlestick.

After reading the letter, Cao Cao's expression was very solemn, but then Cao Cao laughed.

The generals were very puzzled, and they all stepped forward to verify the content of the letter from the Immortal Lord.

Cao Cao shook his head, didn't give anyone any answer, and went to sleep with his hands behind his back.

This night, Cao Cao slept most peacefully and slept the longest, but he scared the guards who had been serving Cao Cao so much that they didn't close their eyes all night.

Cao Cao once said that he "dreamed of killing", and it did happen that Cao Cao woke up in a dream and killed people, so although the guards wanted to come forward to take a closer look at the sleeping situation of the lord, they were afraid of giving away their lives, so it caused Cao Cao to rarely sleep well, and the guards couldn't sleep all night.

The next day, Cao Cao walked into the council hall in good spirits and shared some of his thoughts with the soldiers.

When the generals heard this, they were puzzled: "King Wei, do we really want to give up Hanzhong?" ”

Cao Cao smiled: "Sometimes giving up is not necessarily a bad thing, but well, giving up can't be said to be a casual abandonment."

Generals, you look at me, I look at you, and I am even more curious about the letter from Lord Shangxian, but the letter has been burned by King Wei, even if I want to read it, I can't read it

Yecheng, the compound of the Ma family.

Ma Xiaoquan leisurely carried a kettle to water the flowers, but next to him stood the puffing Seventh Lady Tsing Yi.

"Stinky Xianggong, Qiang'er helped me to complete the book well, you have to let him go to Cao Cao's hum~~"

Ma Xiaoquan put down the kettle with a smile, stretched his waist and said: "Wife Tsing Yi, do you know how much Cao Cao needs my letter, you must know that you are a princess, I am an immortal, how many people beg me to tell their fortunes, I don't do it."

"Shh Tsing Yi pouted and said, "Everyone else thinks you are an immortal, so I don't think you are, what kind of person is Xianggong, except for Sister Yue'er and Sister Ling'er, I know best, hum"

Ma Xiaoquan smashed his mouth and said: "Look at what you are talking about, I send Qiang'er out is also a workout, after all, that stinky boy has a bit of an introverted personality, and it is not a bad thing to go out for a run, and to see and understand!" ”

"Humph! The prime minister will instruct people! Tsing Yi stuck out his tongue and walked away.

Ma Xiaoquan shook his head, this Tsing Yi wife, a person in her thirties, is even more like a sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl, hey~~ This woman, if she has been spoiled, she really won't grow up, hehe

Ma Xiaoquan picked up the kettle and was just about to continue watering the flowers, when Tsing Yi flashed in front of Ma Xiaoquan with a loud breath.

"Wow~~" Ma Xiaoquan was taken aback, although he knew that the Seventh Lady Tsing Yi had a "speed" superpower that could not be explained in this era or even in his time, but he was still frightened by Tsing Yi.

Tsing Yi grinned, stretched out his little hand and said, "Xianggong, Tsing Yi picked two plums just now for you to taste." ”

"Plum?" Ma Xiaoquan asked, "Where did the plums come from in the north, who are you fooling?" ”

Tsing Yi bit her lip and stretched out her little hand, sure enough, there were two plums, but they were not yet ripe, and there was obvious cyan hanging on them.

Ma Xiaoquan snorted in a pretended gesture, raised his eyebrows and said, "It's okay to be courteous, the person who comes is not good?" Say, what do you want to do? ”

Tsing Yi's pretty face flushed, and she said angrily: "If you eat plums, I will say that I have nothing to offer, forget it, I won't give you food!" Hum! ”

Ma Xiaoquan was afraid of sourness and didn't like to eat plums, Tsing Yi said so, but he was very happy to make a gesture to Tsing Yi's wife.

"You! Hum! Tsing Yi pouted and said, "I don't care, if you want to eat, you must eat!" ”

Ma Xiaoquan waved his hand again and again: "Don't eat, don't eat!" ”

"You have to eat if you don't eat!"

"Don't eat it!"

"If you don't eat it, I'll ignore you!"

"Ignore it, ignore it! I'll go find the other ladies! ”

"Soul light Ma Xiaoquan, can't you tell the truth?"

Ma Xiaoquan was stunned for a moment, raised his head, put down the kettle and looked at Tsing Yi: "Honest? What's the truth? ”

"Hmph, you asked Qiang'er to send a letter to Cao Cao, I asked you what was written in the letter, and you just didn't tell me! Hum! ”

"Oh~~" When Ma Xiaoquan heard it, it suddenly dawned on him, after a long time, Mrs. Tsing Yi wanted to know the content of her letter to Cao Cao.

"You really want to know?" Ma Xiaoquan looked at Tsing Yi.

"Hmm~" Tsing Yi nodded heavily.

Ma Xiaoquan smiled, picked up a small wooden stick, and wrote a few words on the ground.

Tsing Yi came up and took a look, and said with some surprise: "That's what I wrote?" ”

"Well, what else would you write?"

Tsing Yi sighed in disappointment.

Ma Xiaoquan hugged Tsing Yi and said: "Wife Tsing Yi, this doesn't mean anything in your opinion, but Cao Cao saw it, and he definitely has to thank me, maybe, that old boy is sneezing and thinking about me at the moment, do you believe it?" ”

Tsing Yi was amused by Ma Xiaoquan's words, and reached out and tapped on Ma Xiaoquan's head: "You have a poor mouth!" ”

"Hey, hey!"

Changan.

"Ah sneeze~~" Cao Cao rubbed his nose, shook his head and said, "Why do I sneeze when I think of that demon way, is that demon way saying bad things about me behind my back?" ”

Cao Cao's side, the chief bookkeeper Yang Xiu said: "King Wei, his subordinates think so!" ”

Cao Cao frowned, a little unhappy in his heart, although he said that the immortal master was not, but he was grateful to him in his heart. Cao Cao didn't mean to complain, but he had known Ma Xiaoquan for so many years, and he was used to being called "demon and demonic" in private, that's all.

Yang Xiu's eyes were also alive, and when he saw Cao Cao's displeasure, he quickly changed his words and said: "King Wei, your subordinates mean that you have a large number of adults, and you never worry about the immortals."

Cao Cao liked to listen to what Yang Xiu said, Cao Cao smiled and nodded, acquiescing to Yang Xiu's flattery, but in his heart, he always had a big question.

In the contact with Ma Xiaoquan, Cao Cao did rarely deal with Ma Xiaoquan, of course, except for the few times Cao Cao thought that he was calculated by Ma Xiaoquan and lost a few sums of money to Ma Xiaoquan by betting maniacs. However, after knowing Lord Shangxian for so many years, Cao Cao felt more and more that Lord Shangxian was a person, a pure and pure person, not what everyone said about Lord Shangxian.

Cao Cao once asked Ma Xiaoquan about this issue, Ma Xiaoquan just smiled at the time, and did not answer Cao Cao's words positively, after Cao Cao asked again and again, the other party said a word, a sentence that made Cao Cao willing and unwilling.

Ma Xiaoquan said at the time: "Xiao Cao, when you leave, it is also the time when I leave, and at that time, I will answer all the doubts in your heart to you." ”