During the march of the Yan army, Zhuge Liang quietly pulled Pang Tong down in his tent, instructed his guards to take care of the portal for them, and then whispered to Pang Tong: "Shi Yuan, don't you think Cao Cao's dispatch this time is a little weird? ”

Pang Tong nodded and said: "That's right, Cao Cao is scheming, how can he risk the world's disapproval and be detrimental to the Son of Heaven?" Even if he has this heart, but now is not the best time, this is not like Cao Cao's style of doing things. ”

After a question and an answer, the two of them fell silent, each bowing their heads, thinking about Cao Cao's true purpose. After a long time, the two raised their heads at the same time, Huo Ran looked at each other, and said at the same time: "Could it be ......?"

They glanced at each other, and the two of them stopped what they wanted to say at the same time, and from each other's eyes, they knew that the other party's guess was exactly the same as their own. Pang Tong sighed lightly: "Perhaps, the variable will be in Liu Bei's body." Now after a year, Pang Tong has completely forgotten all kinds of unhappiness in the past, and when he talked about Liu Bei, Pang Tong's words were plain, neither disgust nor hatred.

"I'm afraid it's more than that, if our guess is true, I'm afraid Cao Cao has already arranged the internal response in Hanzhong, so that he can quickly take Hanzhong, and then use Hanzhong as a bait to try to provoke the contradiction between our army and Liu Bei." Zhuge Liang said worriedly.

Both of them are super people with outstanding intelligence in the world, Sima Hui once said, Wolong and phoenix, you can settle the world with one, and now the dragon and phoenix have joined forces, working together to assist Ao Lie, and the situation of Liu Bei in history is a little different, because of the premature fall of Pang Tong in history, the two have not been able to work together to create a great cause, and at that time in Liu Bei's heart, Zhuge Liang has always been the most valued by him, Pang Tong's status and authority, has always been subordinate to Zhuge Liang, which has led to some subtle changes between the two. Not fully open up to each other. But now, Ao Lie let Zhuge Liang sit in Jizhou, and let Pang Tong stay in Youzhou, both of them are important leaders of a large state, their status is comparable, but there is a slight difference in status, plus Ao Lie saved Pang Tong's life under Liu Bei's tricks, these factors add up to the cooperation of Wolong and Fengxiao, no matter how clever Guo Jia's strategy is. But it can't be the opponent of the two of them anyway.

It's a pity that even if Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong saw Cao Cao's intentions, they couldn't stop Ao Lie's advance, as Cao Cao expected, Ao Lie would never be able to stand by and watch at the risk of Liu Xie being controlled by Cao Cao, even if he knew that the future was unfortunate, Ao Lie still wouldn't stop marching, this was Ao Lie's only weakness, Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong were very clear. Ao Lie regarded the title of Han people as more important than life, and he would never allow the regime of the Han Dynasty to have a great earthquake-like turmoil, and he wanted to let thousands of Han people live a normal life. Cao Cao and Guo Jia also took advantage of Ao Lie. made a gesture that he could commit Chang'an at any time, forcing Ao Lie to sit idly by and join in this battle for Hanzhong.

"It's not okay to go on like this, we're too passive. was led by Cao Cao at any time. We need to look for flexibility. Pang Tong said softly. Zhuge Liang seemed to be thoughtful, and muttered: "How can I be flexible to make the overall situation safe?" "yes, how do you do that? Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong fell into deep thought......

Twenty miles outside the city of Hanzhong. Cao Cao had already set up camp here. Standing in front of the Chinese army camp, Cao Cao looked in the direction of Hanzhong and asked Guo Jia beside him in a low voice: "That Yang Song, it's time to take action tonight, right?" Guo Jia replied with a smile: "It's tonight." Early tomorrow morning, the banner of our army can be planted at the head of Hanzhong City. ”

With a low sigh, Cao Cao said: "It's a pity that the banner of our army can only be planted in Hanzhong City for a few days, and then it will be handed over to Liu Bei." Guo Jia said with a smile: "Don't worry, the battle of Hanzhong, who will kill the deer is not yet known, we can take Hanzhong back into our hands at any time according to the change of the situation." ”

Immediately, Cao Cao and Guo Jia let out a comfortable long smile at the same time.

Night, coming. In the dark night sky, there was no light in sight, it seemed that the heavens were also interested in helping Cao Cao, and tonight's night sky was covered with dark clouds, and the moon and stars were covered.

In the early hours of the morning, it was the darkest time of the long night, and the city gate of Hanzhong was slowly opened silently, and three flickering lights appeared in the city gate cave.

Guo Jia saw it clearly, and hurriedly stretched out his hand to point forward, and said to Cao Cao: "Lord, Yang Song has opened the city gate wide, and the code is normal." Needless to say, Cao Cao himself saw it, with a smile on his face, Cao Cao waved his hand suddenly, and firmly spit out two words: "March!" ”

After Cao Cao gave the order, Cao Ren led the Chinese army to immediately pounce, Xiahou Yuan led the army to respond on the left, Xiahou Yuan led the army to respond on the right, and Yan Liangwen and Chou guarded Cao Cao with guns and prancing horses to prevent variables.

When Cao Ren came to the city of Hanzhong, Yang Song's younger brother Yang Bai flashed out of the city gate cave and arched his hand towards Cao Ren and said: "General, Yang Bai, the younger brother of Yang Song, is here to guide the army in the name of his brother. Cao Ren was very unaccustomed to the ugly face of the Yang family brothers who betrayed the lord for glory, but Cao Ren had gradually grown into a qualified commander under Cao Cao's careful training, although he didn't like it in his heart, but his face did not show the slightest contempt, but with a friendly smile, he said to Yang Bai: "Then there is General Lao Yang, after the matter is completed, Cao Sikong promised you, there will be no less than half a penny." ”

Hearing Cao Ren say this, Yang Bai's heart blossomed, and he patted his ass with a smile: "Sikong is polite, the general is polite, this is what the villain brother should do, general, please enter the city." Later, the villain took the general to the Taishou Mansion and captured Zhang Lu. ”

Cao Ren nodded and said to Xiahoudun: "Yuan Rang, you lead the army to see the barracks, don't let the Hanzhong army come out." Xiahoudun nodded in understanding, beckoned and walked towards the city with his headquarters. Cao Ren turned his head to look at Xiahou Yuan again and ordered, "Miaocai, you take the men and horses to stare at the mansion of the Han Chinese military officials and cut off the connection between them." At the same time, patrol the streets, and if there are those who resist, there will be no forgiveness! Xiahou Yuan bowed his hand to Cao Ren and took the order.

After making arrangements, Cao Ren signaled to Yang Bai and asked him to take him straight to Zhang Lu's Taishou Mansion.

More than two hours later, the sky was bright, and Hanzhong was still the same Hanzhong, but the big banner on the head of the city had become Cao Cao's dragon tooth flag. After two hours of busyness, Cao Jun took Hanzhong City bloodlessly, which is inseparable from Guo Jia's previous series of plans, he made the Hanzhong soldiers become blind and deaf, Cao Jun's soldiers came to the city but they didn't know at all, Zhang Lu was coaxed by Yang Song, spending all day long, such a regime, it was only a matter of time before it went to extinction.

Cao Cao sat on the main seat of the main hall in the Taishou Mansion, looked down at Zhang Lu, who had become a prisoner, and said slowly: "Zhang Taishou, how do you feel at this moment?" ”

Zhang Lu's face was covered with filth, obviously he fled to take advantage of the chaos last night, but he failed to escape Cao Ren's arrangement, and was caught by Xiahou Yuan who was patrolling. Zhang Lu looked up at Cao Cao, and begged without dignity: "Zhang Lu is willing to surrender, Zhang Lu is willing to serve Cao Sikong......"

Cao Cao smiled and asked teasingly, "Don't you want to know how our army conquered Hanzhong City?" Zhang Lu didn't think about it, and patted his farts like a tide: "Of course it's Cao Sikong's wise and martial arts, summoning the heavenly soldiers and generals, oh, no, Cao Sikong's subordinates are all reincarnated as heavenly soldiers, so that the divine soldiers can descend on Hanzhong City......"

Interrupting Zhang Lu's flattery with a wave of his hand, Cao Cao turned his head and shouted to Xiahou Yuan: "Bring it up!" Xiahou Yuan waved to the bottom of the hall, and the four elite of the Tiger Guard Army walked up to the hall with Yang Song and Yang Bai brothers. After walking to the middle of the hall, Yang Song and Yang Bai knelt down in unison and said to Cao Cao: "Knock on Cao Sikong, I wish Sikong a smooth victory over Hanzhong City, Hanzhong is pacified, then the other counties will be demoralized, and Sikong will be based on Dongchuan, and it will be just around the corner." ”

Cao Cao looked at Yang Song with a smile, as if he had forgotten something, and asked: "By the way, the envoy sent by Ben Sikong before the war promised to give you some benefits on behalf of Ben Sikong, but you also know that this Sikong has a lot of opportunities and mundane things, and you may forget it for a while, you tell me, what reward do you want?" ”

Yang Songxi smiled and folded his hands and counted: "Sikong promised to give the villain a thousand catties of gold, and also promised to promote the villain to be Jiuqing, oh, by the way, Sikong also promised that he would never hurt the villain brother in the future." ”

Listening to Yang Song's words, Zhang Lu had completely understood, it was not Cao Jun who would descend from heaven at all, Hanzhong City fell so quickly, it was completely Yang Song, a traitor, who was making trouble! The person he trusts the most is him, Yan Pu has come to him several times, saying that Yang Song is harboring evil intentions, but what about himself? Not only did he not listen to Yan Pu's contrary advice, but he relegated Yan Pu to the northernmost part and made a small county order! Zhang Lu remembered all the past, and his feelings of remorse immediately rose and quickly overwhelmed him.

Looking at the look on Zhang Lu's face, Cao Cao had already guessed Zhang Lu's thoughts, and said without hesitation: "Come on, Brother Yang Song's buyer seeks glory, the crime is extremely heinous, pull it down and behead it to show the public, so that the soldiers and civilians can see the fate of the seller seeking glory." In addition, Yang Song is greedy for money, presumably there must be a huge amount of wealth hidden in his family, Miaocai, you take someone to raid his home! ”

Yang Songru looked at Cao Cao as if he was struck by lightning, and hurriedly defended: "Sikong, you can't, you promised not to hurt the villain, those rewards, the villain doesn't want it, don't want it all, the villain's family wealth is also gone, I am willing to give it to Sikong as military funds, please let the villain go......"

Cao Cao sneered: "Those who sell their masters and seek glory will be punished by everyone." Push it down, cut it! Guo Jiazhi, who was standing behind Cao Cao, said Cao Cao's thoughts, Yang Song's betrayal of the lord for glory is hateful, but this is not the only reason for Cao Cao to kill Yang Song, more importantly, if Yang Song is left, there will be many variables, today Yang Song can sell Zhang Lu to Cao Cao for the sake of high-ranking officials Houlu, who knows if he will betray Cao Cao to others for the same reason in the future? What's more, Liu Bei is coming, if Yang Song secretly colludes with Liu Bei, it will be detrimental to Cao Cao's established strategy, and maybe it will also destroy Cao Cao's plan to drive the tiger and devour the wolf. Cao Cao's mind is changeable and suspicious by nature, and under his command, the only one who can understand Cao Cao's mind so well is Guo Jia. (To be continued......)