Smart people always save their lives first, and Sima Yi is no exception, but before agreeing, he still thought about it and said: "The words of the eldest prince make Yi panic, and Yi also has the heart to repay, but the family is still in Wei..."

"It's okay, I have my own arrangements for this matter, just to keep you safe and meet you in Dongwu." Sun Ce did wave his hand at this moment, and at this point, Zhou Yu had already made a move, so naturally he didn't hesitate to say it.

Hearing this, Sima Yi knew that he was afraid that his family had been controlled by Sun Ce, although he didn't know what kind of method they used, but even so, where could he disagree, and immediately bowed down to the ground and said: "Yi has seen the eldest prince." ”

"Hahaha." This time, Sun Ce didn't stretch out his hand immediately, but waited for the other party to kneel down completely, and then bent his arms and said, "Zhongda, please get up quickly." With the help of Zhongda today, it is like a dragon giving birth to wings! ”

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And the state of Jinyang City.

In the palace, Zhang Chao received the battle report sent by Guo Jia, and learned the news that Cao Pi had killed himself and the 500,000 army was destroyed, and his face couldn't help but show a trace of relief.

He who knows history will not know that the Three Kingdoms were finally unified by the so-called Jin State, and the Jin State was established by this Cao Pi, so this person will not die, and he is really a little worried about whether history will repeat itself.

Now that Cao Pi has died, this concern can be dispelled.

"Zhongkang, is there any news about Sima Yi?" Putting Cao Pi's matter aside for the time being, Zhang Chao asked another person he cared about. Jin Yang was eventually replaced by Sima Zhao, and Sima Yi, as his father, was still alive, which was already a threat.

Xu Chu, the chief of the guard, had already presented a secret music at this moment and said: "Your Majesty, this is the news from the members of the Tianyan that we arranged in Runan, that Sima Yi's family suddenly disappeared, and after investigation, it turned out to be Zhou Yu of Eastern Wu who took advantage of Cao Cao's illness and the chaos in Runan City, which bought off the guards in the city and sent Sima Yi's wife and children out of the city. ”

After taking over the secret music, Zhang Chao listened to Xu Chu's narration while watching, with a stunned expression on his face, "Oh, Zhou Yu is also involved, hehe, interesting, it seems that they are not ambitious." ”

When he said this, Zhang Chao's eyes were already shining. Just as Zhou Yu guessed, Zhang Chao would not allow the emergence of a country within a country, and he would not allow someone in his sphere of influence to only pay tribute to himself and have his own regime, even if Sun Jian was one of his father-in-law.

Zhang Chao is a person who does great things, his goal is to carry forward the Celestial Empire, what he wants to do is to expand the territory, let everyone know the name of the Celestial Empire, and let their people be respected wherever they go.

If such an idea is to be realized, it will naturally be difficult, but as long as the efforts are not impossible to achieve, that is, they are ready to expand their territory, then how can they still allow disobedient forces to exist in their own country?

did not move Sun Wu, precisely because everyone is not adjacent. This is the case with the so-called outbred attack.

But if you don't move now, it doesn't mean that you won't move in the future, if the other party intends to provoke, then no matter if you are at the ends of the earth, Zhang Chao will not let it go. Just like this time Zhou Yu made a move and took Sima Yi's family, wouldn't that mean that this person has now fallen into the hands of Sun Wu?

"Where are they now?" Zhang Chao thought that once Sima Yi and Dongwu were united, it would be a problem for his henchmen in the future, and he felt a little unhappy, so he asked Xu Chu on the side.

"Back to the emperor, they should have just left Runan not far away, and they have not yet reached the side of the Yangtze River." Xu Chu clenched his fists and returned respectfully.

"Okay, I ordered to go down, gather the nearby Tianyan intelligence officers, snatch Sima Yi's family for me, and tell them that they should do this at the expense of revealing their identities, in short, they will never be allowed to cross the river. And don't hurt his family. Zhang Chao said lightly. He would never allow Sima Yi to work hard for Eastern Wu, although with the current strength of the Celestial Empire, he was not afraid of such an opponent, but if he could clearly prevent it, he would indeed wait for trouble to grow, this was indeed not his personality.

"Yes." After Xu Chu agreed, he turned around and went to do it. Zhang Chao sat back on the dragon chair, and now that Cao Cao has been hit hard and Cao Pi has been killed, it is also time to consider destroying the Wei State.

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Runan, Yuzhou.

The news of the second son, Cao Pi, who killed himself in Ye County, Qingzhou, has been reported, and even his body was sent to the border between Qingzhou and Xuzhou by the soldiers of the Celestial Empire, and is now heading towards Runan City.

Hearing the news of his son's suicide, Cao Cao, who was already in poor health, was seriously ill and bedridden again, and under repeated blows, coupled with a serious illness with headaches, his energy was not as good as day by day, and under the leaderless group of dragons, the situation of Wei was also worse day by day.

Wei took the initiative to launch an offensive against the Celestial Empire, but it was completely collapsed in just half a year, and the loss of troops was greatly damaged.

In contrast, the Celestial Empire did take the opportunity to occupy the two major states of Gon and Qing, and its territory was not limited to the north, and began to extend towards the Central Plains.

The reason for the defeat of the Wei State is self-evident, and it is all caused by the instability of the army and the strength of the explosives. In view of these characteristics, Liu Bei, Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty, summoned Zhuge Liang to discuss countermeasures. If this can defeat Cao Cao, why can't he defeat him?

Liu Bei has great ambitions, and through his own hard work, he has a place to live, and even established the Later Han Dynasty as he wished, all of which seems to be an earth-shattering achievement. However, when he was born at the wrong time, he actually met a genius like Zhang Chao, in contrast, his Han Dynasty seemed to be in danger and could collapse at any time.

originally thought that Cao Cao and Zhang Chao fought, and the Han Dynasty could reap the benefits of the fisherman, but who would have thought that the war would end so soon, although he said that he wished that both would be defeated in his heart, but when he saw the Wei army defeated so badly and the Celestial Empire won a complete victory, he couldn't help but be shocked.

The defeat of the Wei State could not pose any threat to the Celestial Empire in a short period of time, Liu Bei began to worry about whether the Celestial Empire would attack him Han Dynasty, if he really did this, he could do what he could, so he called Zhuge Liang to the front to discuss the way to deal with it.

Compared with Liu Bei's sad face, Zhuge Liang was indeed like a spring breeze, his face was indifferent, as if he didn't feel any crisis at all.

It is precisely because of Zhuge Liang's attitude that Liu Bei's hanging heart has been put down a lot, think about it, if even the prime minister is panicked, doesn't that mean that the Han family is in danger?

"The prime minister is here, give me a seat." Seeing that shaking the white goose feather fan, a general Zhuge Liang of a master outside the world appeared on the stage, Liu Bei immediately had a happy face, as if no matter what difficulties there were, as long as this person came, they could be solved.

"Your Majesty." Zhuge Liang didn't have too much politeness, and after just apologizing, he sat down in front of the big chair that was moved.

Zhuge Liang was right in front of him, which made Liu Bei's confidence a lot more complete, but when he thought of Cao Cao's defeat, he couldn't help but sigh and said: "Prime Minister, now that the Wei army is defeated, and the Celestial Empire troops are entering the Central Plains, what can I do?" ”

Long before he came, Zhuge Liang thought of Liu Bei's intention to summon him, and now seeing that he was really panicked about this matter, he immediately smiled and hugged his fists and said: "The emperor is not in a hurry, the Wei army is defeated, there is a reason for it, we only need to learn from it and guard against it, and we will not follow in its footsteps." ”

Seeing that Zhuge Liang was full of confidence, for some reason, Liu Bei's original panicked emotions were eliminated a lot at this moment. Then he looked at it with hopeful eyes, obviously knowing that the prime minister would not have anything to say next.

Sure enough, Zhuge Liang continued: "Liangguan Wei's defeat is nothing more than two points. The first is the unstable morale of the army, and the second is the power of explosives of the Celestial Empire. ”

"Hmm." Listening to his words, Liu Bei couldn't help nodding, this is indeed the case. Recruiting millions of soldiers, but fighting in a hurry because of food and grass and military salaries, such an army has limited combat strength, and defeat seems to be a reasonable thing.

After seeing Liu Bei nodding, Zhuge Liang smiled again: "The emperor can't reach it, although the Celestial Empire can defeat the Wei army, it may not be able to beat my Han Dynasty." ”

Liu Bei originally wanted to ask about this matter, what he was worried about was the defeat of the Wei army, if they faced the army of the Celestial Empire, would it be like the defeated Wei army repeating the mistakes of the past, but now after hearing Zhuge Liang's analysis, he knew that the prime minister had already prepared, and he couldn't help but relax his originally nervous face.

Zhuge Liang has indeed been prepared for a long time, he is a very good observer and brainstorm. As early as when the Celestial Empire and the Wei State had just gone up, he analyzed the conclusion that the latter was afraid of losing this battle. It's just that what he didn't expect was that the Wei State would be defeated so quickly, and in his opinion, it would take at least two to three years for the Wei State to be defeated after this battle, but he never thought that it would be over in just over half a year.

The end of the war so quickly was indeed unexpected, and Zhuge Liang did not have more time to prepare, but fortunately, the Celestial Empire fought with Wei not long after the war with Rus, and now he has swallowed the two states of Gon and Qing, I am afraid that he is now in a hurry to digest everything, so that he can't immediately find time to deal with himself, so that he has a time to prepare, and if he can be given five to ten years, he can guarantee that all the cities in Yizhou and Jingzhou will be re-strengthened, At that time, although it could not be said that this mysterious weapon would be kept out of the city, at least the power of the explosives could be slowed down.

The only regret is that the transformation of important cities requires a lot of money, and for this, Zhuge Liang doesn't know if Liu Bei will agree, just when he was still thinking about how to convince the other party, people called him, so things are much easier.