"In the lower Wu Ding and the general as a neighbor, when he was young, his family was poor, and he was not less taken care of by Ling Zun, and he was grateful for his kindness when he was young, and he respected Ling Zun as an old father, and the general should not worry...... After Ling Zuncong moved to Chang'an, he was depressed, worried that the general would be threatened by the general, and he would become ill. I was specially ordered to send a pair of plain silk and told me to tell the general that his life was short, so don't worry. ”

After Wu Ding finished speaking, there was a dry blood stain in the middle of a white scroll. Yan Xing took it with trembling hands and looked at it carefully.

At this moment, Cao Cao suddenly turned out of the camp and said with a smile: "Why did General Yan leave the camp without permission and not greet the prime minister." ”

Wu Ding's face suddenly changed, and he said to Yan Xing: "You and I are our own masters, and today I took the risk to send a letter, and the Cao thief knew about it, and my life was suspended." Brother Yan save me! ”

When Yan Xing suddenly heard the news of his father, his heart was in turmoil, and he was grateful to Wu Ding for taking care of his father, and his reason became a mess on weekdays. I only think that what Wu Ding said is reasonable, the two armies are facing each other, you die and I die, Cao Cao found out that Wu Ding would let him live. Yan Xing didn't have time to think about it, and instinctively shouted, "Hurry up." ”

Yan Xing instinctively turned his body and stopped in the middle of the road.

"Catch him!" Cao Cao suddenly burst into tears, turned around with one finger and ran to the ground.

Suddenly, dozens of Chang'an fast horses galloped in the distance, and the knights on horseback shouted to Yan Xing: "The plan is leaked, General Yan will come quickly." ”

Yan Xing stood on the spot in a daze, unable to understand what was going on for a while, and just now Wu Ding turned over on the war horse, and wanted to ride the horse back to carry Yan Xing, countless Cao soldiers used it from all directions, and Wu Ding had no choice but to break through the gap.

Yan Xing had been staring intently at Chang'an Kuaima, and then looking at Cao Cao's uncertain face, Yan Xing felt that a catastrophe was coming, and he couldn't tell where Cao Cao's suspicions were aroused.

Cao Cao stepped forward with a gloomy face, and the Tiger Guards beside him drew their swords and surrounded Yan Xing in the center.

"Prime Minister, what is this? I am loyal to the Prime Minister. ”

"Who was that guy just now?"

Yan Xing replied honestly: "Wu Ding." ”

"Your classmates?"

"It's not. I didn't know him, he just sent news of my father. ”

"You don't know him, but you know his name?" Cao Cao scolded angrily.

"......" Yan Xing was suddenly speechless, the name Wu Ding was still told to him by the other party, he really didn't know this person.

"I heard that the other party sent a letter, what about the letter?" Cao Cao stretched out his hand in front of Yan Xing, and Yan Xing reluctantly handed Cao Cao the white silk pinched in the palm of his hand. Cao Cao unfolded it and looked at it, but there was not a single word, only the dry bloodstains were particularly eye-catching.

"Search!"

Several Tiger Guards collected Yan Xing's whole body, but found nothing. Cao Cao's face was fixed, and he was about to step forward to appease Yan Xing when a tiger guard took out a strip of cloth from the foot of Yan Xing who had just stepped on the ground.

"Prime Minister, there are words on this."

Cao Cao looked at it, and there was a row of small fonts written on the wooden strip: "Present your father's blood, I want Cao Thief's dog's head." ”

In just a few words, Cao Cao's face changed greatly. Combined with Yan Xingdi's attitude just now, Cao Cao felt that Yan Xing was still threatened by Lu Bu. Suddenly he was covered in a cold sweat, and unconsciously retreated a few steps away from Yan Xing.

"Pull it down and cut it!" Cao Cao's face changed greatly, and with a wave of his hand, several wolf-like sergeants stepped forward to hold down Yan Xing.

"The prime minister is clear, the prime minister is clear! The last general is loyal to the prime minister, and the prime minister kills me, and the loyal man is chilled! Yan Xing shouted, he was not afraid of death, but he was unwilling to die so badly, and he would be infamous for disloyalty after death.

"Prime Minister, a few days ago, a scout in our army reported: An old man from thousands of elite guards in Chang'an came by a path in the mountains." Li Dian suddenly stepped forward and said.

"When Yan Xing was in Xiliang, he was a well-known filial son. He once argued with Han Sui because of his father's concern......" Cheng Yu also said what he knew.

This sentence of filial piety completely drove Yan Xing into a dead end. Cao Cao closed his eyes and waved his hand, and the sergeant escorted Yan Xing into the camp. Yan Xingdi shouted and scolded endlessly, Cao Cao closed his eyes and pondered, and suddenly exclaimed: "Wait......"

As soon as the words fell, a sergeant lifted Yan Xing's head: "The anti-thief Yan Xing has been corrected!" ”

Cao Cao sighed and closed his eyes to prevent people from seeing the changes in his heart: "Let's all step down." I want to be quiet. ”

Cao Cao killed Yan Xing, and it was too late to regret it. When he thought that he didn't have many generals to adjust, he thought that this was Lu Bu's trick. Yan Xing was convicted by just one sentence of filial piety, and Cao Cao was full of remorse.

"Report! Chen stayed in Zhang Liao, and Wei Yanzheng led a large army south to attack the old capital Xuchang. ”

"Report, Wancheng urgently. The Chang'an army came out of Wuguan and was sweeping the counties of Nanyang, and it will soon arrive at Lushan and join the main force of Lu Bu in Xuanyuan Mountain. ”

When the two battle reports came, Cao Cao became more and more troubled. The enemy began to shrink the front and encircled Xiangcheng, where Cao Cao was located. Cao Cao also had a retreat to choose from, and there were many retreats to retreat from. Runan, Huainan, Xuzhou, and Qingzhou are all Cao Cao's sphere of influence, but Cao Cao and Lu Budi have the same idea. The two gradually felt old, and if they were undefeated this time, they didn't want the dispute between Chang'an and Yecheng to drag on to the next generation, and both of them hoped to decide the winner in their lifetime.

Cao Cao pulled out his sword, put it in front of him, looked at the bright sword body, and said in a deep voice: "What we have to do now is delay." Leave the opportunity to attack Cao Ren, not only to attack but also to attack in an all-round way, a fierce attack, an attack regardless of casualties, an incessant attack day and night, break through the Chang'an defense line, and break through the foundation of Lu Budi! ”

Cao Cao spoke passionately and wheezed violently for a moment.

"But the enemy is surrounded, it is better to retreat." Xun Yu suggested conservatively.

Cao Cao slammed his sword into the table and shouted, "No, victory is at hand." Lü Bu started a war on the third front, and it was rumored that Hanzhong was making peace with Liu Beiran, indicating that Chang'an had reached the edge of unbearable ground. All we have to do is attack, as the last straw that breaks the camel's back! ”

Cao Cao ordered Cao Pi, a garrison in Yanjin, to lead an army of 300,000 families to storm Henan and delay Zhang Liao's southward march. And the troops led by Zhang Liao are the troops with the largest number of people in Chang'an.

Cao Pi did not lose Cao Cao's expectations, organized the army into thirty echelons, day and night, regardless of casualties, and stormed the Chang'an camp in Chenliu, Zhongmu and other places. The two sides fought fiercely and bloodily for more than 20 days, with tens of thousands of casualties every day, which was a more cruel scene than the defeat of Khan Cao Cao and the defeat of Lushan and Lu Bu since the battle.

Before the decisive battle, the troops invested by both sides and the troops killed and wounded were close to the tragic situation of the battle of Guandu.

Chang'an received Zhang Liaodi's urgent war letter three times a day, with only two words: 'increase troops', and a column of young men set off from Tongguan and headed for Zhongmu. The old man of Chang'an looked at Huashan during the day, returned home at night, and did not see his heirs return from the battle.

Yecheng. Wantonly increase troops in Hebei, after the battle of Guandu gradually revived the population, in this battle, there are many complaints, there is no male in the family, the families continue to pull Zhuang Ding in Hebei, the streets and alleys, deep mountains and old forests, I can't see a man from ten to fifty years old, all the strong men are sent to the front.

A life-and-death battle, regardless of casualties, is being fought on both sides of the Yellow River.

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Chang'an has no generals available, and several fronts are launched at the same time, making it difficult for Chang'an, where civil and military forces gather, to bear the overload. Cao Ren expelled Zhang Yan to the border of Yanmen County, and Zhang Yan resisted, threatening to defect but had no intention of defecting, delaying Cao Ren's army's plan to fight for Chang'an in the west. Cao Ren can be regarded as having seen through this wall-head grass, since the news of Lu Bu's life reached Bingzhou, Zhang Yandi's counterattack has become more and more violent. Lu Bu lives for a day, Zhang Yan is afraid of Lu Bu's prestige, and he will not surrender for a day.

As a result, Cao Ren was unwilling to fight with Zhang Yan, an opportunist, in Yanmen, and in case Zhang Yan hid in the Black Mountain again, Cao Ren could only watch with his eyes. Therefore, Cao Cao decided to set up checkpoints in various dangerous places, gave up chasing Zhang Yandi, and led an army of 300,000 to assemble along the Yellow River, preparing to cross the Yellow River and attack Feng Yi.

Chen Gong pointed to the map and said: "We are in the west of the Yellow River, and there is Puban in the east of the Yellow River, with a radius of 100 miles, a horse and a flat river, and Cao Ren will walk out of here if he crosses the river." ”

Hao Zhao looked at the map and then at Chen Gong: "Why are you so sure?" ”

Chen Gong said with a smile: "Although I, Chang'an, have rowed rivers with Bingzhou and ruled for thousands of miles, but a large area of land in Bingzhou was opened up by Zhang Yan to grow wheat. Now outside Yanmen County, Cao Ren occupies all of them, and these wheat fields are also owned by Cao Cao's forces, and Cao Ren will not easily trample on his own grain. Therefore, you must go to Kasaka. ”

Although Hao Zhao was good at defense, he didn't understand Chen Gongdi's intentions for a while, so he asked, "Why do you think your lord can break it?" ”

"We can intercept and store water in the upper reaches of the Yellow River."

Hao Zhao looked at the bottom of Weishui outside Chang'an City, and pondered: "Now that spring and summer are alternate, the Wei River still has not much water, and the water flow of the Yellow River has plummeted, even if the water is stored, it is not an overnight thing, why did it drown Cao Ren's 300,000 army?" Moreover, Cao Ren is famous all over the world, he is a general of both civil and military affairs, if the army reaches the riverbank, it will be full of scouts to test the current, and it is easy to see through the plans of adults. ”

Chen Gong's expression froze: "It is precisely because Cao Ren is a wise general that he made this decision." Thou shalt set up empty camps along the west bank, and prepare more boats and boats. ”

Five days later, as Chen Gong expected, Cao Ren's 300,000 troops gathered in Pusaka.

Cao Ren sent scouts, and the scouts sent back the news: "Report to the general, the company camp on the west bank is seventy miles, the river bank is full of thunderbolt crossbow cars, and the boats on the river are covered all over the sky. ”

"Sure enough, it was fortified along the shore." Cao Ren muttered: "Why is there a boat in the middle of the river? Did you want to counterattack? Revisit! ”

As soon as the scout left the camp, Cao Ren's big tent was noisy, and Man Zhong took the lead in kneeling down to ask for his life: "Chen Gong is full of scheming, and although he is late in using his plans, he is unguardable. In the past, he fought alone with the power of the prime minister. A certain general dares to guarantee the head of the item, which is a suspicious plan. Chang'an increased its troops many times, and all the large armies were sent to the Henan battlefield. The last general, please be the vanguard! ”

Like Hao Zhao, Man Chong is good at defense, and since he joined the army. Only Cao Cao attacked others, few people dared to attack Cao Cao, and the full favor could not be played once so far. Cao Ren didn't know the ability of full favor, he only thought that he wanted to show himself and ignored it.