Cao Cao, the son of Wei Tianzi, beheaded Xie Zheng and sacrificed the banner to leave the division, and soon after leaving Luoyang, he felt bored.

Of course, it was not the first time that Cao Cao led the army to the expedition, but before that, he had crossed the horse and crossed the lance, personally encouraged and spurred the soldiers, personally planned the marching route with the strategists, and transported grain and grass, and lived a very fulfilling life. However, this time with the respect of the Son of Heaven, he was forced to sit in the canopy chariot, served by the attendants and eunuchs, and the specific affairs of the march were also in charge of the division.

So he called the staff officer Fu Zhu and Jiang Ji to sit in the car and asked them: "If Qing and the others are planning for Liu Bei, what should they do?" "Let's analyze the battle situation and kill time.

Jiang Ji said: "If you have this opportunity, you will enter Yongyong in a big way." If the minister is Liu Bei, he should be sent to the north, and if he still lives in Shu, it will be a great disadvantage in the war. "Cao Cao said yes, Liu Bei will also go to Guanzhong, so you still stopped my relatives from conquering in the first place?

Jiang Zitong hurriedly defended: "Your Majesty is the true Son of Heaven, bearing the weight of the world, Liu Bei usurped the ear, how can it be compared?" ”

Cao Cao didn't bother to continue on this topic, so he asked what then? When Liu Bei arrives in Guanzhong, how will you suggest him fight? Jiang Ji said: "We must march east to enter Chang'an, and then seize the Baling Tomb, and plug the Dao Road and Changmen to block Your Majesty's aid." If General Le can defend Anling, the ministers will recapture Chang'an with His Majesty, and they will be able to do nothing if they are the enemy; General Ruole can't defend it, and I'm afraid the situation is in danger. ”

Jiang Zitong talked eloquently, but the frustrated Zifu next to him was always silent. Cao Cao frowned, and then asked Frustrated: "Zifu still thinks about the Yuan family, and refuses to be used by me?" ”

Fu Zhu was startled when he heard this, and hurriedly bowed down and kowtowed: "The minister doesn't dare." The ministers received the grace of His Majesty, so that they would not die, but they could still survive to this day, and resume the expedition. Dare not to repay Your Majesty? ”

Fu Zhu was originally a loyal minister of the Yuan family, but when Yuan Shao fled north, he was caught by Cao Jun, and then Xun was stunned, which choked him to dispel the idea of begging for death for the time being. Since then, under Cao Cao, he has been the county commander and has been the state assassin. After many years of managing the people, staying away from disputes, he has been 15 years old, and he has reached his twilight years. If you want to say that his feelings for Yuan Shao now, it is just a cup of wine during the New Year's Festival.

Besides, Yuan Shao died of illness by himself, and he was not killed by Cao Cao himself - as for Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang's brothers. Fu Zhu has always looked down on them, and he will no longer regard them as his own young masters, and hate Cao Cao for killing these people directly or indirectly.

He didn't speak just now, firstly, because he was not an old minister of the Cao family, so it was not easy to express his opinions rashly, and secondly, he did not agree with what Jiang Ji said.

Now listening to Cao Cao's words, there were thorns in it, and he hurriedly fell to the ground to plead guilty. Then he said: "What the minister sees, the solid and the son are also different." ”

Cao Cao said "different", okay - "Qing and others can express their own opinions." It doesn't hurt that I should choose what is good and follow it. ”

So he said: "If the minister is planning for Liu Bei, he will enter Chang'an in the east, and make a plan for him." ”

Why? Because although they captured the strategic city of Chang'an, they did not cause much damage to the strength of our army - I heard that most of the defenders of Chang'an had fled out of the city, and Taifu was gathering one after another. And even if this army is completely wiped out, it will only be 30,000 or 40,000 people, and for the current Wei Dynasty, losing 30,000 or 40,000 people is really not to the point of breaking the muscles and bones.

"The minister heard that it was Taiwei Zeng Yun: 'Save the land and lose people. People and land are lost; If you save people and lose land, you can finish it. 'Today, General Zhang and Xu Er are in Chencang, no less than 30,000 people, and Liangzhou can still get 30,000 or 40,000 people. Therefore, if you are ready to enter Chang'an, your majesty will lead the tiger to reject it, and then there will be Zhang and Xu to scratch it with guerrillas, and you can live for a long time? According to the minister's expectations, there is no day of death. ”

If I were Liu Bei's staff officer, I would definitely suggest that he abandon Chang'an City and attack the west with all his might, taking advantage of the low morale of our army after the initial defeat, and the two generals Zhang and Xu defending Chencang, and not daring to abandon the defense to twist into a rope with the Liangzhou army, and strive to break them one by one. When the time comes, occupy Longshang, advance to Liangzhou, recruit Qianghu cavalry, and then move to the eastern part of the country with a commanding position...... To put it mildly, once Liu Bei successfully completed the first two steps, then we may not be able to stop the third step.

In fact, this is also the established strategy of Zhuge Kongming's northern expedition to Cao Wei in the original history, that is, to occupy Long first, and then take cool, gradually reverse the trend of small and big, and then go all out to the east after accumulating enough. If you consider the problem from this angle, Wei Yan's "Meridian Valley Strategy" will inevitably have too much appetite, and if he wants to eat the entire west of Xianyang in one bite, the success coefficient will be greatly reduced.

Of course, that was also based on the fact that Cao Wei's main focus at that time was in the direction of Eastern Wu, and Yongliang did not have a heavy army group, so it was a little more convenient to eat. Today's Cao Wei is to prevent Lu Bu from returning to the east, and secondly, he has already had a plan to attack Hanzhong from Yong and Liang, so there are still 60,000 or 70,000 soldiers and horses west of Chencang, and Liu Bei takes advantage of the gap to attack, there may be a certain possibility of victory, and it is not realistic to want to plug Chang'an first and then fight.

Therefore, he said in frustration: "If Liu Bei goes west, His Majesty will take Chang'an and chase after him. If Liu Beidong enters Chang'an, it is necessary to realize my luck, and all the armies will work together to think that it will be a long-term dispute; If you can't cross the Weishui River even though you are in the east, you can be safe. ”

Cao Cao nodded: "What Zifu said is true, what a peerless countryman!" "I think that Yuan Shao refused to listen to you back then, and even failed, Lao Tzu is different from Yuan Benchu, and he can best adopt advice. Immediately issued an edict, ordering the fast horse to rush to Xinfeng, asking Cao De to immediately send a group of soldiers and horses across Weishui to assist Lejin, and to inquire about the latest movements of the Shu army. As a result, Cao De followed the edict, opened it and took a look, and couldn't help nodding: "Cao Zidan sees things very clearly." "He has already left for Baling, so I will send him an order to rush across Weishui and support Lejin. It happened that the Shu general Shiren also sent a secret envoy who lost sincerity, and Cao De did not dare to be self-conscious, so he ordered him to be escorted to see Cao Cao, which could be decided by the Son of Heaven.

Besides, Cao Zhen, Lü Meng and others successfully crossed Weishui and sent people to connect with Le Jin in Anling City, but they did not enter Anling City, but they were stationed on the north bank of Weishui, and they were sandwiched by Anling. When Zhang Yide, who was on the front, heard the news, he hurriedly urged Liu Bei to come to help.

Liu Bei used Xu Shu's strategy to send the general Chen Shi to lead 3,000 foot soldiers to cross Weishui from near Huaili, go to reinforce Chang'an City in advance, and lead a large army to attack Lejin and Cao Zhen.

Why is this plot? Although Chang'an is south of Weishui, but west of Chang'an, the famous city of Dayi is mostly in Weibei, and there is only one county in Weinan. This is because the Weibei Plain west of Chang'an is vast and the road is smooth, but the terrain of Weinan is relatively rugged, and the mountains and rivers in front of it, the passage is narrow, and there is no big road. Under normal circumstances, from Liangzhou to Chang'an City, mostly along the north of Wei, to the south of Weiqiao. Therefore, if Liu Bei led the main force to cross the river in advance, one would have more soldiers and fewer ships, and delay the time, and the other was afraid that Lejin and Cao Zhen would take advantage of the situation to go straight forward and recapture Huaili, Wugong and other counties in Weibei, and then completely block the Shu army in the square inch of Weinan.

Especially on the same day, in order to gather all his strength to attack Chang'an, Pang Tong emptied the county, but was occupied by the county man Pang Yan led the family to occupy, and recruited soldiers and horses from the four townships, and re-made the county return to Wei - Pang Yan was recommended by Sima Yi and served as the Gongcao of Guanzhong County, and later returned home because of filial piety. Therefore, Xu Shu judged that if a small army was sent from Weinan to reinforce Chang'an, Pang Yan would not dare to scratch, and if the army advanced, maybe this Mr. Pang would have to fight to the death.

Moreover, even if the army successfully entered Chang'an and joined Pang Tong, when Cao Wei's eastern reinforcements arrived, and surrounded the north and south with Le Jin and Cao Zhen, Chang'an might also be a place of death - so it was the key to the battle to defeat Le and Cao in Weibei before the enemy came.

Sure enough, as Xu Shu expected, Chen Shi's 3,000 soldiers and horses successfully entered Chang'an City and reported to Pang Tong that the emperor had arrived in Weibei. Pang Tong was shocked when he heard the news: "Your Majesty is the west, how can you save me?!" I couldn't help but sigh: "This majesty is not willing to give up my reason." I want to die, I don't want to burden Your Majesty! If I die and your majesty can go west, why don't you die?! "Zhao Yun and the others hurriedly stopped, saying that it is too late for you to die now, the emperor has already come to the east, and he will not rush back if he turns around......

Zhao Yun suggested: "The former report Cao Zhen and others crossed to the north, Cao De was in Xinfeng, and most of the troops were to collect Xiahou Nan's old pawns, and their morale had fallen, and they would be unbearable to fight. General Chen led his troops to attack, and if he could capture Cao De, he might be able to coerce him into asking Cao Cao. Pang Tong said that this is a good idea, if Xinfeng can be captured, it can also delay the reinforcements from Cao Wei Dongfang to a certain extent, and win enough time for His Majesty to defeat Le Jin and Cao Zhen.

was discussing, Shiren went out to ask for an order, saying that General Chen was coming from afar, and the soldiers were tired, so I was afraid that I couldn't fight, so it was better for the last general to lead the army to attack Xinfeng, right? Pang Tong did not doubt that he had him, so he ordered Fu Wei to be the main general and Shiren to be the deputy general, and led the 3,000 soldiers and horses originally stationed in Chang'an to go west.

At this time, Cao De still had more than 10,000 soldiers and horses under his command in Xinfeng City, but as Zhao Yun expected, most of them were the original Chang'an defenders who had just been gathered, most of the equipment was lost, and the morale was extremely low. He originally wanted Cao Zhen and Lu Meng to lead the army in front, who thought that Cao and Lu Er would directly bypass Chang'an City and go to Weibei, when the news came, Cao Quji couldn't help but be shocked: "If the thief kills, how to deal with it?" ”

Fortunately, there was still Xiahou Shang by his side, and he immediately comforted Cao De, saying Taifu Don't worry, I estimate that the number of enemy troops in Chang'an City will not be too much, otherwise General Cao will not dare to go around the city to the north-" The last general, please command the troops and horses for Taifu, select the elite, and garrison Xinfeng. "Cao De said of course, of course, I don't know how to fight, so I rely on you, Boren.

However, Xiahou was still unable to stabilize the army's morale and complete the repair of the city fortifications, so Fu Wei led the army through Baling and arrived at Xinfeng City, and also ordered a number of banners to pretend to be more than 10,000 troops. Most of the Wei troops in Xinfeng City were timid, and no less than 100 people fled over the city overnight, Xiahou was still frowning, and planned to quickly protect Cao De to escape from the west gate as soon as he saw that the situation was not good.

But just when he was in a hurry, an arrow book was shot in, written by Shiren, saying that he was willing to assassinate Fu Wei early tomorrow morning and lead his troops to surrender to Wei...... (To be continued.) )