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After sending Kong Rong away, the tense atmosphere was restored to the Tiger Prison Pass, and Cao Ying also sent Zhong Xuan back to Shouchun, but no position was arranged. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoZhong Xuan understood Cao Ying's thoughts, but he didn't complain. The unofficial is light, and he is happy and leisurely. With this time, he can study calligraphy, read and learn, and he is quite comfortable!

Zhong Miao was at ease, but Cao Ying was full of anger, in his opinion, he was tricked by Liu Zhang again! Some things are so helpless, he can only hope that Zhong Xuan's loyalty to him has not changed! Of course, Zhong Xuan's loyalty has never wavered, otherwise Liu Zhang would not have put him back!

As a prince, Cao Ying suffered such a big loss, how could he not want to take revenge? But his only means of retaliation was to attack Liu Zhang's pass. However, before Cao Ying could make a move, Liu Zhangjun had already moved. After holding on to Cao Jun for more than half a year, Liu Zhang also felt a little tired.

Harassed, with the support of Liu Zhang, Ma Chao and Pang De also led their troops out of the customs and joined Pang Tong. With an army of nearly 200,000, Pang Tong immediately launched a frantic attack on Cao's army. Whether it is grain or materials, anything related to Cao Zi cannot escape the poisonous hands of Pang Tong. The rear of Cao's army was in a hurry, and Lu Bu took Hua Xiong, Yan Liang, and Wen Chou to become a firefighting team, and they rushed to wherever there was a police.

However, Pang Tong was elusive, coupled with the speed of the cavalry, Lu Bu and others often flew into the air. Cao Ying received a war report every time, either it was burned here or robbed there, and what was even more infuriating was that Pang Tong and others never harmed the people, and even encouraged the people of Jingzhou and Yanzhou to go to Chang'an. The loss of resources has made Cao Ying full of anger, and the loss of people has made him even more angry. The unlucky Lu Bu and others became a punching bag, and they were often reprimanded by Cao Ying!

"Lord, it's not General Lu and the others' fault!" After receiving the battle report again, Cao Ying was already angry, and he was about to write a letter to reprimand Lu Bu and others, but Cheng Yu stood up and stopped him!

"It's not their fault?" Cao Ying said angrily: "Lu Fengxian is known as the first fierce general of the Han Dynasty, and he always boasts about his experience in cavalry, but now when he meets Liu Zhang's army, he is cowardly, and he can't even touch the shadow of the enemy, it's not his fault, is it his fault?" ”

"The prime minister is angry!" Cheng Yu smiled bitterly: "Although General Lu is quite good at cavalry command, his wisdom is really some... Na Pang Tong is known as Mr. Feng Yan, and there was a rumor that Wolong and Feng Yan have to settle the world. How could General Lu be Feng Xiao's opponent? If the prime minister always reprimands General Lu, I'm afraid he will be cold, you also know his surname, and he should focus on appeasement! ”

"Hmph..."Cao Ying snorted coldly, and threw the pen in his hand on the case, he understood what Cheng Yu meant, it was nothing more than saying that Lu Bu's mind was not enough. However, if Lu Bu's mind is enough, it will not be his turn to use it. Perhaps, he was already killed by Lu Bu! calmed down the anger in his heart, Cao Ying said in a deep voice: "Zhongde, now Pang Tong is harassing everywhere under the rule of this prime minister, although he has not invaded the city, some small villages have disappeared. Now, the prime minister and Liu Zhang are confronting, the people are the foundation, and the people must not be lost again, what do you say the prime minister should be? ”

"The best way is to destroy this enemy army, but..."Cheng Yu shook his head, if Pang Tong could be killed, he wouldn't have to worry!

Cao Hong said: "Prime Minister, in fact, you don't have to be so careful, although Pang Tong has caused a lot of trouble to our army, most of the places they disturbed are in Jingzhou, which belongs to Sun Quan's territory!" ”

"Stupid!" Cao Ying was angry, he pointed at Cao Hong and said: "Can you learn from Zixiao, if you don't understand, listen to it!" Pang Tong is indeed harassing Jingzhou, but the problem is that he can appear behind our army at any time! If our army is in the middle of a battle with Liu Zhang, and an army of 200,000 suddenly appears behind us, do you think we will still be spared? ”

"This..."Cao Hong touched his head and retreated, not that he didn't want to learn Cao Ren, but he dozed off as soon as he picked up the book. For generals, it is much harder to hold a pen than to hold a weapon!

"Alas..."Seeing Cao Hong's performance, Cao Ying sighed, and then he looked at the Xiahou brothers again, only when he saw Xiahou Yuan, he felt a little comforted in his heart. Among the clan generals, except for Cao Ren, Xiahou Yuan is the most self-motivated, and the other clan generals always have some defects, either lack of martial arts, or lack of resourcefulness, and then there are defects in surname!

"Prime Minister, although Pang Tong is elusive, he has an army of 200,000 after all, even if it is broken into pieces, it is easy to find. It is better to use the strategy of clearing the wilderness with strong walls, move the people outside the city into the city, and then let the cities communicate with beacon towers, as long as the Pang Tong army is found, immediately ignite the beacon fire, plus the support of General Lu Bu, it must be able to contain it! Xun You thought about it for a long time, and finally came up with a clever plan, but his clever plan required Cao Ying to consume a lot of money and food!

"Kiyono Fortified?" Cao Ying smiled bitterly; "Gongda, do you know how much food our army will lose if the wall is cleared? Not to mention the cost of relocating the people, let's just say that the rice planted outside the city today must be completely destroyed, otherwise it will be an enemy! Although there are only Jingzhou and Yanzhou, the losses are immeasurable! Those people who have lost their land and food are likely to fall into Liu Zhang's arms after we clear the wilderness, and this kind of loss is something our army cannot bear! ”

"Lord, the blunt knife cuts the flesh, the more you cut, the more it hurts!" A hint of coldness flashed in Cheng Yu's eyes, except that he didn't destroy a country with a poisonous plan like Jia Xu, and other places were no less than Jia Xu, especially in terms of poison! I only heard him say gloomily: "If we don't fortify the walls and clear the wilderness, Pang Tong will continue to plunder." When the time comes, we will still have to settle the people, and we will still have nothing! Now, we are strong and clear, although we hurt a little vitality, we can let Pang Tong not be fed! More than 100,000 soldiers eat horses and chew, which is not a small number! ”

"This..."Cao Ying was a little hesitant, he could hear it, Cheng Yu's opinion was correct, after thinking about it for a while, he slapped the table and said: "Zhongde, just do what Gongda wants, don't hear it again, which village and town was attacked by Pang Tong!" ”

"Yes!" Cheng Yu bowed and saluted, and he was about to go down to give the order!

"Wait!" Cao Ying frowned and said: "Don't forget to let the towns prepare a large number of horses to resist, Pang Tong can use cavalry to attack the city!" ”

"Prime Minister, do you need to dig a moat?" Hearing that the cavalry was attacking the city, Xun You suddenly reacted, he felt that it was better to have a deep ditch and a high fortress!

"Dig a moat and ask for someone!" Cao Ying frowned, he didn't want to launch a large-scale conscription.

"No problem!" Xun You said with a smile: "When Chang'an was rebuilt, Duke Qin used a method, which was to hire people to repair the city!" Now, we are preparing to clear the wilderness, and there is not much but nothing but a lot of people who have nothing to do! Why don't we mobilize the people, rest the city, and dig deeper moats? It doesn't take too much money, as long as you take care of a meal and send some corn, I think the people will definitely flock to it! In this way, it can also prevent the idle people from breaking the law and discipline! ”

"That's a great idea, so be it!" Although he was a little repulsed by Liu Zhang's idea, Cao Ying still agreed, after all, this matter was beneficial to him.

"Subordinates understood!" Cheng Yu immediately bowed down and gave Cao Ying's order. The gates of Caoyingzhai were wide open, the horses galloped in all directions, and the heralds brought the orders to the various cities!

Although Pang Tong also tried to attack the city, but with the prepared Cao army, the rejection of horses and ground thorns were moved to the city, and there were more spearmen and spearmen waiting for the city, and after several failures, he gave up the plan to attack the city, only to disturb outside the city.

Pang Tong wandered aimlessly in Jingzhou, and every time he saw a city, he had to disturb it. But the cities ignored him, and when they saw him, everyone would shrink back! Following Pang Tong's side, he has not fought with the enemy for nearly half a month. After another failed attack on the city, Zhang Fei grinned and said: "The eldest brother also said that Cao Ying is a hero, how can his subordinates be all wrecks, and they ran away before they fought, it's really annoying!" ”

", there's a kind of you going to attack the Cao army camp. Take these small towns to, you're really promising! Although they belong to the same army, Ma Chao still likes to quarrel with Zhang Fei. Today, Ma Chao only has two goals, one is to kill Xu Chu, and the other is to bully Zhang Fei! It's a pity that Zhang Fei is a little higher than Ma Chao in terms of martial arts or knowledge, so that until now, Ma Chao has not fulfilled his wish!

Zhang Fei pouted and said, "Why can't you get along with me, I also want to attack the Cao army camp, but the military advisor will let me?" If you can convince the military advisor, I will immediately lead the troops to clean up Cao Ying! ”

"Cut..."Ma Chao said disdainfully: "I will use the military division as a shield, look at your little interest!" ”

"As far as you are concerned, you can't even beat Xu Chu, and you will make noise in front of me!" Zhang Fei pursed his lips disdainfully, but Ma Chao was furious, he couldn't listen to others say that his skills were inferior!

"Who said I couldn't beat Xu Chu, but..." Ma Chao's eyes widened, as if he was going to eat people, but Zhang Fei waved his hand and didn't let him continue!

"Don't just do it, you fought with Xu Chu, and you didn't know the winner, it's not that you can't beat it? If you can beat Xu Chu, that kid will either run away or die, and you will have a hard mouth! Zhang Fei's mouth has always been angry and does not pay for his life, and he blocked Ma Chao back with one sentence!

"Zhang Yide, there is a kind of battle with me for three hundred rounds!" Ma Chao couldn't be excited, and a spear was about to find Zhang Fei to play with his life.

"Who is afraid of whom, there is a kind of you coming!" Zhang Fei is not a vegetarian, he will not let Ma Chao be arrogant.

"Enough!" Seeing that the two were about to fight, Pang Tong said with a headache; "If you have the strength to make it to Cao Jun, what kind of strength do you have to fight? Go and check how much military rations each army has, and if there is not enough military rations, we will withdraw first! ”

"Yes!" Zhang Fei and Ma Chao glared at each other and left together. Seeing that the two of them looked like children, Pang Tong shook his head helplessly. However, thankfully, the two are still very measured!

(To be continued)