At the end of the twenty-first year of Jian'an, Liu Bei showed his scum-like command skills here, but the magnificent Northern Expedition to Hanzhong stopped at Yangping Pass. Around March, Zhang Fei and Ma Chao changed their camp to Gushan, claiming to cut off the back road of Cao's army, although Cao Hong wanted to attack Wu Lan in Xiazhi, but everyone was suspicious of Zhang Fei's actions, but Cao Xiu thought that if the enemy wanted to cut off the rear road of the army, he should ambush the army; He also said, 'Now that they are so threatening, it is better to attack the enemy as soon as possible before they have joined forces.' Cao Hong greatly agreed with this, and attacked Wu Lan's army with all his might, killing Lei Tong, Ren Kui and others, Wu Lan fled to the Di tribe and was killed by the local people.

Due to Wu Lan's defeat and killing, Zhang Fei and Ma Chao, two macho brothers, were unable to support themselves and withdrew their troops in April. At that time, Liu Bei was still confronting Xiahou Yuan and could not be saved. In July, Liu Bei sent Chen Shi and others to attack Ma Mingge, but they were defeated by Xu Huang, and some of the soldiers even fell into the valley while fleeing. Liu Bei led ten elite troops and could not conquer Zhang He, who was stationed in Guangshi, and for a time Liu Beijun's Hanzhong strategy almost fell into a dead valley.

Liu Bei, who was helpless, had no choice but to ask Zhuge Liang in Shu for help, and in early August, Liu Bei hurriedly sent a letter to Chengdu asking for reinforcements. Fortunately, Zhuge Liang accepted Yang Hong's opinion that "if there is no Hanzhong, there is no Shu", and immediately sent 40,000 troops to rescue. Liu Bei, who had received a large number of fresh troops, continued to confront Xiahou Yuan's less than 40,000 Cao troops with 40,000 reinforcements and 30,000 remnants.

"Rubbish! What a rubbish! "Sun Ce of the inner hall of the Duke of Wu's mansion has an angry look on his face, if you want to ask what is angry? Annoyed Liu Bei is indisputable. "Liu Xuande personally raised more than 50,000 troops to go north, and it took a year to even defeat Yangping Pass, and he was beaten by Xiahou Yuan to lose his armor and lose his armor along the way, which is simply a waste."

Of course, Sun Ce is qualified to say so, since the beginning of the army, Sun Ce has basically never fought a battle to bully more and less, and even if there is, it is a complete victory, compared to Cao Ying and Sun Ce, Liu Bei's command ability is indeed the same as his ancestors, rotten scum. In the past, Liu Bang led the princes' coalition army of 560,000 to attack Chu, which could be defeated by Xiang Yu's 30,000 people; It is also reasonable that Liu Bei can't defeat Xiahou Yuan's 40,000 people.

"Supreme, although Liu Xuande is incompetent, it is a good alliance of our army, and its occupation of Bashu is greatly beneficial to our side, so it is better for our army to support one or two." Zhuge Jin, who felt that Sun Gan couldn't stand Liu Beijun, spoke.

"Liu Bei can't even deal with Xiahou Yuan, it's really useless, it's better to let the Metropolitan Governor (now the Metropolitan Governor is only Lu Meng) take Nanjun, take advantage of Cao Liu's stalemate in Hanzhong, take Jingzhou in one fell swoop, and become the trend of Chu." Lu Fan also spoke.

The ministers in the hall watched the No. 3 and No. 4 characters of the Huaisi faction go toe-for-tat, and they couldn't figure out their heads for a while, and even thought that Huai and Si had a disagreement.

"Supreme, our army still has an alliance with Liu Bei, and it has only been reconciled with Cao Gong, so it is not appropriate to send troops to fight." Qiao Ren, who had just turned thirty-three (imaginary years old), also grew a short beard, and his exquisite court dress looked quite dignified as a Han official. "It's not difficult to solve Hanzhong, although Xiahou Yuan is prosperous for a while, but Liu Bei has Fa Zheng as the mastermind, and Zhuge Liang is behind the governor, it is not difficult to defeat him. Therefore, the only thing to worry about is Cao Gong's reinforcements, intelligence shows that Cao Gong intends to personally lead the army to sit in Chang'an, if Cao Gong is in person, lest Liu Bei be defeated, so how to drag Cao Gong is the key. ”

"Oh?" Seeing that Sun Ce still looked humble and accepting of words, Lu Su couldn't help but say: "I don't know what the hussars have to say!?" ”

"It's not hard, it's not hard. I have three strategies to contain Cao Gong, one of them, Cao Gong has millions of people, with the Son of Heaven to order not to be subordinate, recruit talents, reuse the poor family, and damage the interests of many families, there must be many old ministers in Xu Du who are dissatisfied with Cao Gong's good governance, and send a person to Xu Du to incite these Hanchen rebellions, and coerce the Son of Heaven to control Ying Xu to crusade against Cao Gong, presumably Cao Gong will not dare to go west easily! Second, Guan Yu has been fighting in Nanjun for many years, and he has been idle in recent years, so it is better to fund his northern expedition to Xu Luo, and complement each other with the old ministers in the Xu Du court. With Guan Yu's courage and Xu Shu's wisdom, Xiangfan's Cao Ren and Wen Ping may be difficult to resist. As for the third, the Wuhuan of the three counties in the north seems to have not been very stable in the past two years, and it is not bad to incite it, but the hearts of non-my race will be different, and this is really the next Zeer. ”

"Ziyan is very calculating, presumably King Wei will also be too busy! Ha ha! "Since ancient times, there has never been a shortage of support, but it is really rare to have such a miserable cheer as Sun Kuang.

The king of Wei is Cao Ying, in April this year, the Han Emperor canonized Cao Ying as the king of Wei, 30,000 households, located on the princes and kings, do not call the ministers, do not worship the edict, with the crown of the Son of Heaven, the car uniform, the flag, the suburbs of the world of ceremonies, in and out of the call the police, the temple, the ancestors, the wax are all like the Han system, the capital of Yecheng.

Therefore, Sun Kuang, Cao Ren's son-in-law, will call him the King of Wei, and his agreement with Qiao Ren's opinion is a little surprising to Qiao Ren, in his impression Sun Kuang seems to be a little afraid of his wife, and it is his father-in-law Cao Ren who guards Xiangfan, he actually agrees with Qiao Ren's opinion of inciting Guan Yu to go north to Xiangfan, isn't he afraid to go back at night?

"Well, who should I send when I see these things?" Sun Ce finally spoke, and directly affirmed Qiao Ren's countermeasures.

"Xu Du Ren has been selected, Mr. Dongdong's son Zhang Xuan, once served in Xu Du with his father, and he is very clear about Xu Du's doorway, and in recent years, he has served as a big bank in Da Honglu to be responsible for the affairs of the Han family, and Ren thinks that he can take on this important responsibility."

Zhang Zhao was Sun Quan's teacher, and Zhang Hong was Sun Ce's teacher. After Zhang Hong's death, Zhang Xuan was completely attached to the Zhang family of Wu County, and Zhang Wen became famous in the past few years, completely subdued the clan elders, and mastered all the rights of the Zhang family.

"Zhang Xuan?" Sun Ce has a deep affection for Zhang Hong, and he is obviously happy to have the opportunity to promote his son. "Okay, I'm done. What about the other two? ”

"Guan Yu's place is the simplest, Lao Ziyu is a trip, presumably Guan Yu and Xu Shu are also worried about Liu Bei's situation in Hanzhong! However, the side of Daijun (the head of the three counties of Wuhuan) is quite a headache. ”

"It's enough to have two conveniences, and it's best if people of different races don't need it." Zhou Yu was apparently a Han nationalist and had an aversion to contact with other races.

"Good! Ziyu can prepare, and Lone can be regarded as helping Liu Xuande. "Jingzhou's Guan Yu army can have losses, for Sun Ce is happy to see, the harder they fight in Jingxiang, the better the Wu army will come forward to harvest the heads in the end, it is best that Guan Yu and Cao Ren will lose both, and the Wu army will just take all the four counties of Jingxiang (Nanyang, Xiangyang, Nanxiang, Nanjun)

The court was dispersed, and it was not appropriate to say so, and the meeting was dismissed. Everyone left, but Qiao Ren was left behind by Sun Ce, and the most terrifying thing was that Zhou Yu also left a look called asking for more blessings when he left.

"Brother-in-law, tell me what's the matter?" Sun Ce is still very friendly in private, so Qiao Ren is very passing.

"What can I do" Sun Curator smiled, got up and said, "After finishing the business and solving the problem, my generation should drink him three cups to celebrate." Let's go, Lone has already booked a banquet! ”

"Scheduled?" When Qiao Ren heard this, he was very surprised, pointed to the lingering clouds in the sky and said, "Drinking, it's okay to drink in the house, if you want to go to the Renfu, it's okay, but on this cold day, why don't you have to go outside to drink,..."

Sun Ce walked up to Qiao Ren's side, smiled and said, "Drinking in your and my mansions, I can't drink my surname even if I want to, how can I be comfortable outside." Let's go! After that, he pushed Qiao Ren to the outside of the hall, saying that although Da Qiao was not as strict as Xiao Qiao, there were also some restrictions, for example, Sun Ce could not drink more than one urn.

"Okay, okay, I'll go, don't worry! Ay! Don't push it! Qiao Ren was very helpless to go out.

"Wait, stop!" Sun Ce exclaimed, as if he remembered something, and said to Qiao Ren. "Wait for me in a moment!" Then without saying a word, he walked straight to the inner courtyard, leaving only Qiao Ren who was confused.

It didn't take long for Sun Ce to come back, holding two dark robes in his hands, and when he walked up to Qiao Ren's side, he threw one to him.

"What is this?" Qiao Ren unfolded the robe. This is a robe, it's clearly a silk cloak, just like a mage's robe.

Looking at Qiao Ren's suspicious gaze, Sun Ce sneered, "It's windy outside, and Ziyan is weak and weak. If you get sick because of this, won't your sister have to blame me? ”

Why didn't you say that earlier when I went to Tianyiju with you to drink and hunt in the deep forest? Besides, he Qiao Ren hadn't reached that point, Qiao Ren put on his cloak in confusion, only to see that the cloak actually covered his whole body.

"How can it be so big!" Qiao Ren suddenly had a premonition that he didn't want to.

"It's not big, it's just right!" Sun Ce also put on his cloak, and walked out with Qiao Ren as he spoke, which made Qiao Ren's ominous premonition stronger and stronger, how could he be like a thief, and left through the side door, looking at the waiter who opened the door for the two, as if he was as careful as a thief.

Out of the Wu Mansion (Palace), the two of them did not ride a car or horse, so they braved the cold wind and walked for a full quarter of an hour.

Just when Qiao Ren really didn't want to leave. Suddenly, Sun Ce, who was beside him, said happily, "It's here." This is it! ”

Qiao Ren lifted the part of the cloak that covered his eyes, glanced at the building in front of him, and this glance almost stared out his eyes, and said in a lost voice. "Brother-in-law. You... You brought me here."

Sun Ce seemed to be a little embarrassed, and didn't answer Qiao Ren's words, pulling him and walking inside. 'Oh my God', looking at the warblers and Yanyan inside, Qiao Ren smiled bitterly in his heart. Recalling Zhou Yu's appearance of running wildly and his eyes full of meaning, Qiao Ren finally knew that Zhou Yu had accompanied Sun Ce a few times!

The so-called Yingying Yanyan is understood by men, and the place where Sun Ce Weifu visited privately is self-evident, which is called Goolan or Jiaofang in the Han Dynasty. (I don't know what the Han Dynasty is called) Sun Ce is really bold, he actually found an official camp, you must know that the official camp is under the control of Taile Ling, and Taile Ling's boss is Taichang Zhang Zhao.

The important matter was known to Zhang Zhao, and Qiao Ren didn't dare to imagine what kind of 'bloody rain' it would be according to Zhang Gong's surname. The most important thing is that he actually pulled his shirtmate and his wife, brother and brother-in-law here successively, admire!