As a peerless hero, Cao Cao's ability to grasp the timing was the first at that time. As early as after the battle in Hanzhong, Cao Cao entered a period of recuperation, more than a year, Cao Cao recruited talents, and replenished fresh blood for the loss of intermediate force, in this period of more than a year, Cao Cao has promoted more than 50 civil and military generals, including two generals, deep Cao Cao's weight.

These two people, one named Li Jin, the word Zixian, is a native of Gaoxing County, Jiaozhou, and was born in a poor farming family. Hardship of life, created Li Jin's tenacious character, Li Jin entered the mountains alone when he was young for ten years, ten years later, practiced a stunt, served in the army in Jiaozhou, accumulated meritorious service from a nobody, promoted to the official position of riding the captain, and later because of the chaos of the government during the period of Emperor Liu Hong, Li Jin, who had great ambitions in his heart, resigned from his official position and began to travel in all directions, after several years of tossing and turning, he came to Yanzhou, he saw that Yanzhou politics were relatively clear, Cao Cao governed the army in a good way, so he joined the army again in Yanzhou, and it took three years, He returned to the position of the captain of the cavalry, and was later discovered by Xiahoudun and recommended to Cao Cao, who saw that Li Jin's martial arts were amazing, and he could fight Yan Liang and Wen Chou without falling behind, and he was shocked for a while, and immediately promoted him to the general of Huwei and followed him.

In history, Li Jin is also a real person, according to legend, his most brilliant record is that he fought with Lu Bu for more than 100 rounds, and repelled Lu Bu, of course, because of the arrival of Ao Lie, this incident did not really happen, and Lu Bu's current martial arts are far higher than those recorded in history, and whether Li Jin can fight with Lu Bu for a hundred more rounds is unknown.

Another person, named Yue Xi, is the son of the old master of the Shandong hermit Yue, whose name is Yuxiao. Yue Xi has been strong since he was a child, and when he became an adult, he built a trident with iron, and he was invincible with this halberd, and defeated more than a dozen famous generals one after another. Later, it attracted Cao Cao's attention, and Cao Cao personally rushed to the house of the old master Yue with gifts and asked Yue Xi to join the army. The old master Yue felt Cao Cao's sincerity, so he agreed, and Yue Xi became another general under Cao Cao. In the legends of later generations, this Yue Xi had fought dozens of rounds between Puyang and Lu Bu without winning or losing, and later in the battle of Changbanpo, Zhao Yun, who had seven in and seven out of five battles, rescued Cao Hong and other nine generals from Zhao Yun's gun one after another, which shows that his force is indeed outstanding.

Maybe it's also because of Ao Lie. Yue Xi did not appear on the battlefield where Zhao Yun was seven in and seven out, but in another time period, he was recruited by Cao Cao. Of course, it is impossible for Cao Cao to know the depiction of Yue Xi in later generations, but he clearly knows that Lu Dao Yue Xi's force is superior, because on the first day he came to Cao Ying, Yue Xi had a dispute with the arrogant Li Jin, and the two broke out into a shocking duel, and the battle was 300 rounds without a victory. The other generals of Cao Ying, who were watching, were dazzled. Later, under the mediation of Cao Cao, the two men stopped, and Yue Xi was also awarded the position of General Huben by Cao Cao, and Li Jin and Yue Xi admired each other's martial arts very much. As the saying goes, if you don't fight, you don't know each other, and since then, they have become brothers in life and death, and they have followed Cao Cao's side together.

After receiving the help of these two tiger generals, Cao Cao finally had a fierce general who could compete with the five tiger generals under Ao Lie's command. Coupled with more than a year of recuperation, Cao Cao's strength has greatly improved, and his soldiers are well fed. So, Cao Cao took advantage of Liu Xie's death and Ao Lie just took over the Han Dynasty, and proclaimed himself the king of Wei, separating the four prefectures of Qing, Xu, Yan and Henan, and dominating the Central Plains.

With the occurrence of Cao Cao's self-proclaimed King of Wei, two different voices appeared among the officials under Ao Lie's command, one voice advocated the elimination of Liu Bei, avenging the first emperor, and using the prestige of the Han Dynasty; Another part of the people believe that although Liu Bei is rebellious, he is the king of Hanzhong who was personally appointed by the first emperor after all, while Cao Cao is the self-proclaimed king of Wei, which is even more hateful than Liu Bei, so the top priority should be to treat Cao Cao as the first opponent and eliminate him as soon as possible.

These two opinions have a certain amount of truth, in fact, whether it is Liu Bei or Cao Cao, they are the first-class heroes in the world today, neither of these two people is easy to deal with, Ao Lie After careful consideration, he finally decided to use troops against Liu Bei first. There are two reasons to support his decision, first, Yizhou is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and now Liu Bei has not been able to get Yizhou for too long, and he must not have had time to deal with many details of the problem, in the battle, these details will expose the weaknesses of the Shu soldiers, so that the Han army can give them a fatal blow; If Liu Bei is allowed to operate for three or five years, all the dangerous passes are properly arranged, and then it will become more difficult to overcome, and maybe he will have to pay several times more than today in order to pacify Yizhou, and obtain the most decisive victory with the sacrifice of his subordinates, which has always been despised by Ao Lie, therefore, if you want to fight now, while Liu Bei has not yet fully gained a foothold, he will uproot his momentum!

Second, from a strategic point of view, if you want to fight Liu Bei, Sun Ce of Jiangdong can become a big helper, attacking, you can take advantage of Ao Lie to attract firepower, attack Liu Bei's Jingzhou, and let Liu Bei take care of this and lose the enemy's back; After all, with Sun Ce's Jiangdong tiger eyeing Cao Cao's back, Cao Cao will definitely have some scruples, and then Ao Lie will be able to curb Cao Cao's troubled waters and fish in troubled waters by arranging a defensive line from Jizhou, and he will not be able to get any substantial benefits.

Ao Lie explained these two bases to the civil and military officials, and finally got their approval, so the grand strategy of attacking Liu Bei and defending against Cao Cao was decided. Next, it's time for the specific arrangements.

This attack on Yizhou is the third time that Ao Lie has sent troops, the first two times were in vain, this time he must take Yizhou, this is Ao Lie's promise to Liu Xie and Zhu Jun. Therefore, before setting out on the expedition, Ao Lie spent half a month making detailed plans and deployments with Pang Tong, Xun Yu, Zhong Xuan and others.

In terms of soldiers, it is still mainly based on the four elite troops of the Northern Han Dynasty for attack and defense, among which the Blood Killing Army and the Longxiang Army went out with the army, and joined the Tiger Ben Army under the command of Liangzhou Mu Ma Chao as the main force; The naval army only used the 20,000 elites of the Qilin Army to go south along the Wei River as a countermeasure, after all, in Yizhou, there are countless rivers all over the place, which can allow the Qilin Army to show its strengths, as for the other 80,000 naval troops, they are to stay in Bohai Bay to guard against the Cao army in Qingzhou. At the same time, the other soldiers with the army, is mainly the soldiers of the three northern states, Guang, Ming, Tong three states can be said to be the rear of the Northern Han Dynasty, the least susceptible to invastation, from these three states to draw troops, will not weaken the defensive force of Cao Cao, and although the three northern states are economically backward, but the combat effectiveness is extremely strong, in view of the mountainous terrain in Yizhou, Ao Lie decided to draw 20,000 cavalry from the three northern states, 50,000 infantry troops, plus four elite troops, a total of 150,000 troops.

After the number of troops is decided, it is the specific general with the troops, the commanders of the four elite troops Lu Bu, Zhao Yun, Ma Chao and Gan Ning must be among them, in addition to them, Zhang Fei, Huang Zhong, Tai Shici, Zhang Liao, Xu Chu, Dian Wei and Ao Lie's disciple Jiang Wei will also go with the army, in terms of strategists, Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong, the two peerless think tanks, will definitely go together, in addition, Jia Xu and Xun Yu will also go together.

At the same time, Ao Lie also made adjustments to some other people, sending Gao Shun and Chen Gong to Bingzhou to assist Guo Huai in guarding Bingzhou; Send Tian Feng and Wei Yan to Jizhou to assist Xu Shu, Zhang He, and Xu Huang to resist Cao Cao's possible invasion from the front; sent Gongsun Zan and Deng Zhi to Liaodong to guard the Bohai Bay, and cooperate with the Northern Han naval army to prevent Cao Cao from launching an offensive by sea; The rest of the people, Wenchen led by Zhong Xuan, and Wu General Zhang Xiu, stayed in Yanjing together, so as to dispatch in the center and support the Quartet.

The day of the expedition was set on the 15th of two months later, that is, on the 15th day of October in the first year of Kangqian. In the past two months, Ao Lie blocked all the news to ensure that the upcoming crusade against Liu Bei would not be leaked, and the entire Northern Han Dynasty was in a state of looseness on the outside and tightness on the inside. Among them, the busiest will be the general as a prisoner, the new master craftsman Wang Hun in the next two months, is bound to be extremely hard, he will be with his deputy Ma Jun and nearly a thousand good craftsmen, day and night to rush to produce various types of weapons armor, as well as red-clothed ballistas and other heavy weapons necessary for attack and defense, and Ao Lie also issued an order to him to lift the ban, let him hurry up as soon as possible to produce 500 large, 10,000 small Heavenly Maidens scattered flowers, Ao Lie did not want to go to Yizhou for the third time is still in vain. To make the Heavenly Maiden Scattered Flowers is a technical work, the slightest carelessness will produce an explosion in the process of production, injuring their own people, for this reason, Wang Hun and Ma Jun went into battle, one is responsible for supervising the creation of other military resources, and the other is personally with two hundred highly loyal craftsmen, began to rush to make the Heavenly Maiden Scattered Flowers.

For these craftsmen, hard work is naturally harder, as the saying goes, supporting the boat to make iron and sell tofu is the three hardships of the world, and suddenly increased the workload, how can they not work hard? But they all know in their hearts that they can rely on their crafts to support their families, so that their families can have enough food and clothing, and live a life that is many times happier than before, not because of how clever their crafts are, but because of a happy life, they are inseparable from the wise leadership of the regent, without the regent, they are just a group of craftsmen who have fallen to the bottom of the people, therefore, no one complains about hard work, but meticulously completes the work in hand, and does their best, Let every weapon forged from your own hands be sharp enough, and make every piece of armor strong enough, so as to ensure that the Northern Han army can continue to be invincible and invincible.

The sense of honor of the country is instilled into the tools in their hands, and then through the tools, it is instilled in the armaments made by them, which is the only way for them to express their loyalty to their country...... (To be continued......)