"Too much deception!"

In the last month of the seventeenth year of Jian'an of the Han Dynasty, Shouchun, who was supposed to be jubilant, revealed a dull smell in the lobby of Shouchun at this moment.

Cao Ying, who was sitting in the first place, had a frosty face, and the Chinese martial arts were all carefully served, and the atmosphere did not dare to make a sound. Just a month ago, Xun Yu, the chief strategist of the Cao family, known as Xiao He, one of the three masters of the early Han Dynasty, died, and died so strangely, exactly in the second month of his opposition to Cao Ying's claim to be the Duke of Wei. This makes the ministers careless, even Cheng Yu, who has always regarded himself as Cao Ying's teacher.

And the deepest feeling is the unlucky children Cao Zhen and Cao Xiu standing in the middle of the hall, Cao Ying's momentum in a high position for many years is unrestrained and cathartic on the two of them, and the cold sweat that seeps through the armor is like to clear the armor.

But was Cao Ying really swept away by anger? No, Cao Ying's heart at this moment is far calmer than the ministers imagined. In fact, his heart was not angry, but emotional, the older generation of the Cao family and the Xiahou family was getting older, and the younger generation still had to look at Cao Zhen, Cao Xiu, Xiahou Shang and others, but were they really Qiao Ren's opponents? Originally, it was okay to add Cao Zhang, but Cao Zhang's position was too embarrassing, if Cao Ying went, Cao Zhang might not have the opportunity to lead the troops in his life.

Cao Ying's heart is extremely nostalgic for the time when he was young, and he seems to have returned to the past when he thinks about it.

"Mengde?" At this time, the only people who dared to speak were Xiahoudun and Cheng Yu, and Cheng Yu could not directly call Cao Ying's expression, so the owner of this voice was self-evident.

"Oh!" Cao Ying, who came to his senses, found that Cao Zhen and Cao Xiu were still standing in the hall, "Zidan and Wenlie are seated!" Zilian is fine, right? ”

"Back to Prime Minister, General Cao is fine."

"Good. Wu Ren's adventure on the Shuojiang River this time is probably not just to deal with Zilian in Shaopikou, Wenyuan, you have fought with Qiao Ren many times, and Lone sent you to ask Zilian, I don't know if you can get anything? Cao Ying asked casually with a wisp of beard.

Zhang Liao hurriedly came out of the ranks, if he said who hated Qiao Ren the most in the field, if he said who was most familiar with Qiao Ren, it was also him Zhang Wenyuan. "Back to the prime minister, Qiao Ziyan uses deep trickery to often combine the positive with the odd. I expect that this time the Wu army came from afar, I'm afraid it was either to test the tactics or to find out the reality of our army! ”

"What does General Wenyuan mean by this?"

Zhang Liao heard the prestige, and saw that this person looked like an eagle and a wolf, but he looked very calm, and he was not too old to stand but had an extraordinary momentum, but Zhang Liaojiuzhen Hefei felt that this person was very angry.

"This is the lonely master's book, Sima Zhongda!" Cao Ying knew that Zhang Liao didn't know Sima Yi, so he opened his mouth to introduce.

"It turned out to be Sima Bada, and the end will be polite." Zhang Liao, the general of the state and the state, has heard the name of the Sima family in Hanoi like thunder, and the title of Sima Bada has also been heard for a long time, "That's the case, the last general listened to General Zilian's narration that the Wu army did not go to the field to line up in the wilderness, but lined up on the riverside with its back to the river boat. And the Wu army's building ships are said to have placed a burst of very powerful weapons, there are the former dynasty's giant crossbow relics of great power, the range is very long, the Wu army back to these ships, General Zilian's cavalry has not yet rushed, it is lost. ”

It was also thanks to Cao Hong's distance that he only saw the high-rise buildings and ships on the river, and did not take into account the chariots in the Wu army's formation, but made Zhang Liao's intelligence ignore the new weapon of the ballista.

"Fighting against the river?" Sima Yi's eagle eyes kept turning, and suddenly said as if he had gained something: "Prime Minister, the Wu army probably wants to rely on the advantages of its naval army to fight along the river, relying on the unknown giant crossbow, like a castle in the water, and fighting by the river is like fighting under the city, so as to offset the defects of the Wu army's poor field warfare." ”

"Humph!" Cao Ying snorted coldly, as if expressing his dissatisfaction with Qiao Ren, and said: "The generals will obey orders, and the army will go south to Hefei after the beginning of spring!" ”

"Whoa!"

Hundreds of miles away in Hefei, the same thing please but different reactions. At this moment, there was joy in the meeting hall of the Hefei Bureau, except for the loss of Gan Ning's cavalry and some of Xu Sheng's soldiers who were wounded by bows and arrows, no one was killed in this battle, what a record at this time!

Even the specific commanders of this battle, Xu Sheng and Gan Ning, were stunned by this huge result, and they danced for a while but couldn't say a word.

"Ahem!" The only one who can still stay awake is probably the Huainan Governor Qiao Ren who pretended to cough in front of him. "Generals, although there is a small victory in this battle, I hope you can not be arrogant or impatient, Cao Ying's 100,000 army is still eyeing Shouchun, after the stimulation of this battle, the governor does not expect that Cao Ying will pour a large army south in two months, but there will be a fierce battle!"

Joke, in later generations, Liu Yu's Qiyue array defeated the 30,000 elite cavalry of the Northern Wei Dynasty with 2,000 infantry. Compared with such a record, the results of Gan Ning and Xu Sheng can only be regarded as a small victory. However, the only thing to congratulate is that after this battle, the fear of Cao Jun in the Wu army has weakened, and Qiao Ren believes that there will always be a day when the momentum of the Jiangdong soldiers of the Western Chu overlord will be returned to the Wu army.

"The Grand Duke! There was plenty of food in the city, and the walls of the city had been built. It's just that there is one person who doesn't know what to do? Liu Ji asked with a bow.

"Alone?" Qiao Ren was still a little strange for a while, what is it that there is a person who is difficult to deal with.

Seeing that Qiao Ren didn't understand, Liu Ji had no choice but to explain: "Dudu, it is Zhang Xi, the general of Liyang." ”

"It turned out to be him!"

It's no wonder that after the Battle of Hefei, Zhang Xi of Liyang led the army to surrender, and all his soldiers were gathered and stationed with the Cao army in Hefei, and then the plague broke out in Hefei, and Qiao Ren himself was almost braided, where do you remember Zhang Xi's heat? After that, Qiao Ren began to reorganize the Cao army prisoners, and Zhang Xi, the commander of the light pole, was gorgeously ignored.

If Liu Ji hadn't mentioned it at this time, Qiao Ren would probably never have remembered this person, I really don't know if this is Zhang Xi's sadness or luck.

Before Cao Jun went south, Zhang Xi, the general of Cao Jun, was indeed in an awkward place. Due to Qiao Ren's neglect, Zhang Xi has not officially joined the Wu army until now, and is only under house arrest in the backyard as a prisoner.

"Zitong, how is this Zhang Xi?" Qiao Ren really has no influence on this Zhang Xi, so it is better to ask Jiang Ji.

Jiang Ji thought for a moment, and then replied: "It's just a middle-aged person, but he is quite cautious, otherwise he wouldn't have been appointed as General Zhaoyi by Cao Ying." ”

"The posture of a man?" Qiao Ren pondered the meaning of this person's posture, and after thinking about it, he felt that such a person would not be of great use in his own army, so it was better to dedicate it to Sun Ce, but this was also the first general of the general level of Cao Jun to surrender to the Wu army.

"Then send him to Jianye, please send the lord to the land!" With a wave of Qiao Ren's hand, Zhang Xi's fate was decided, and this feeling of mastering everything Qiao Ren liked it more and more.

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