As a result, it can be imagined that Cao Ren led the army to wander around the valley for a day and a night, not only did he not find Ma Yunlu and Wang Baoyu, but he didn't even see a bird or a worm, and the wolf retreated from the original way.

After Wang Baoyu returned to Tongguan, he stayed with peace of mind, waiting for Cao Cao, who was far away in Chang'an, to come to meet, and this stay was half a month.

During this period, Cao Zhi came to Wang Baoyu to play a few times, and also brought a poem recently written that worried about the country and the people. got close to Cao Zhi, Wang Baoyu talked to him several times with his heart, and advised him to quit drinking several times. But every time Cao Zhi agreed very well, after going back, he was drunk, Wang Baoyu felt that it was difficult for him to become a big thing, so he shut up and stopped talking more.

Everyone has their own destiny, Cao Zhi's uninhibited and willful character is indeed difficult to serve as a generation of emperors, in comparison, the calm and ruthless Cao Pi is more suitable for succession.

Ma Chao was defeated and fled, the western expedition was victorious, and Cao Cao's nine turns were successful. Xun You couldn't stand it, and dared to persuade the prime minister to be calm, Ma Chao has the courage of Lu Bu, and he has won the hearts of the Qiang people, if he doesn't take the opportunity to continue to exterminate, he is afraid that he will come back one day.

After Cao Cao listened, he was unhappy in his heart and didn't say a word. Even if Xun You broke his mouth, he just didn't say anything, and he didn't even bother to raise his eyelids to look at him.

Xun You had no choice but to retreat, but his heart seemed to be gambling on a stone, because he could see that Cao Cao no longer trusted him as much as he used to.

If you don't do it, you won't die, in order to vent his anger, Xun Yu set up a dead horse to plant a flag and build a grave for Ma Chao, and Ma Chao turned his face in anger and started a big battle with Cao Cao.

Although Cao Cao won a complete victory in the end, Cao Cao was very disgusted with Xun You's assertive approach, which was nothing more than winning the battle, and because of the past feelings, he did not reprimand. Besides, the battle has reached such a point, Cao Cao doesn't want to fight anymore at all, although his words are reasonable, it still seems redundant.

Cao Cao recruited Yang Fu, who joined the army in Liangzhou, and ordered him to lead a total of 80,000 Western Liang soldiers to surrender to Jicheng to prevent Ma Chao's comeback, and ordered Wei Kang to serve as the assassin of Liangzhou and continue to recruit Ma Chao's old department.

At the same time, Cao Cao sent an order to Xiahou Yuan, the general who was attacking and pinning down Zhang Lu, and ordered him to return to the army and go north to conquer the remnants of Ma Chao and Han Sui.

Cao Cao wrote another table, detailing the hardships and achievements since the Western Expedition, and sent a messenger to Emperor Xian of Han, and then led the army back to Xudu.

The news spread quickly, and the major princes were deeply shocked when they learned that Cao Cao had defeated Ma Chao.

Hanzhong Zhang Lu is the closest to Xiliang, if it weren't for Xiahou Yuan's containment, he would definitely have to support Ma Chao. Now that he heard that Ma Chao was defeated, Zhang Lu was in a panic, and then heard that Cao Cao had withdrawn from the army, so he breathed a sigh of relief, and a hanging heart fell to the ground.

The strategist Yan Pu proposed to Zhang Lu to build yì, now that Ma Chao is newly defeated, he should give support and let him contain Cao Bing, then the rear will be worry-free, take this opportunity to attack Xichuan, stabilize the territory, and then claim the king.

Zhang Lu accepted Yan Pu's Jianyì, he originally had a grudge against Liu Zhang in Yizhou for killing his mother, and immediately began to train his soldiers and horses, preparing to attack Yizhou. At the same time, Zhang Lu sent people to send food and goods to secretly support Ma Chao, which was one of the important reasons why Ma Chao later defected to Zhang Lu.

The general Wen Ping and others were ordered to go south, and they did not clash with Liu Bei, but only confronted each other across the Han River for nearly a year. Hearing that Cao Cao defeated Xiliang Ma Chao, Liu Bei was also shocked, the north was stable, and he was afraid that Cao Cao would really move south soon.

Zhuge Liang was also worried about this matter, and when he heard that Zhang Lu was going to beat Liu Zhang, he gave Liu Bei a plan, asking him to write a letter to Liu Zhang, describing the feelings of the same clan, and at the same time guaranteeing that once Zhang Lu raised troops, he Liu Bei would never ignore it.

Although Liu Zhang was suspicious, he was afraid that the soldiers of Yizhou would be difficult to defeat Zhang Lu, so he had to invite Liu Bei to come to help, promising that he would never treat his brothers badly.

Liu Zhang's decision was tantamount to luring the wolf into the house, Liu Bei waited for this opportunity, and immediately led the army from Nanjun to Xichuan.

Liu Bei did not take Zhuge Liang with him on this trip, and he said that Jingzhou was the base camp and could not be lost, and the military advisor was the person he trusted the most, so that he could keep the land of Jingzhou together with Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and Zhao Yun.

Zhuge Liang didn't have a reason to disobey, but he was very unhappy in his heart, in his opinion, this move was just a manifestation of Liu Bei's distrust of him, and he didn't want him to establish a world-famous merit to seize Xichuan.

Huang Zhong and Wei Yan accompanied Liu Bei, and as for the strategists around Liu Bei, they were naturally Pang Tong. Speaking of which, Pang Tong's idea is very right, he and Zhuge Liang are quiet and moving, elegant and vulgar, which can be said to be very different styles, so the two can't talk about harmony. Now that he has the opportunity to establish great achievements, Pang Tong is naturally overjoyed.

But it was said that Zhang Liao's side, in order to cooperate with Cao Cao's attack on Ma Chao, harassed Sun Quan countless times, retreated, retreated, and really made Sun Quan tremble, the desk overturned several times, and the wine glass didn't know how much it was smashed. Sun Quan made up his mind that he would attack Cao Cao in the future!

Cao Cao returned to Xu Du, of course, he did not forget Wang Baoyu in Tongguan.

As soon as he entered Tongguan, Cao Ren came to report that Ma Yunlu disappeared near Death Valley, and Cao Cao sighed.

Cao Ren said tentatively again that when Guan Qi chased him to Death Valley, Wang Baoyu was also there, saying that he had not seen Ma Yunlu and his party. Cao Cao sighed again, he still trusted Wang Baoyu.

Cao Ren had the courage to speak out, suspecting that Wang Baoyu had let Ma Yunlu go, of course, there was no real evidence. But there were indeed many traces of horses passing by near Death Valley, and even some blood stains were found, how could Wang Baoyu not see anything? It doesn't make sense.

Cao Cao laughed at it, in addition to his trust in Wang Baoyu, that Ma Yunlu is just a generation of women, even if he lets it go, it can't set off too much turmoil at all.

Cao Ren was a little anxious, saying that Wang Baoyu's position was unclear, and he hoped that the prime minister would be more vigilant. Cao Cao disagreed, saying that the reason why Wang Baoyu went to Death Valley was because of his own orders, and Ma Chao's turn of face was not expected, it was an emergency, and it was nothing more than a coincidence that his sister escaped and passed by Death Valley.

Even if it is a coincidence, this is not the point of this case, the key is whether Wang Baoyu let Ma Yunlu go? Although Cao Ren was dissatisfied, seeing that Cao Cao was deliberately partial, he had to close his mouth and retreat.

It wasn't too long to be separated, but as soon as Cao Cao saw Wang Baoyu, he came up with a bear hug and looked very affectionate, and then he smiled and stretched out his little fat hand and asked, "Baoyu, can you get a gift for me from Lou Zibo?" ”