In 211, Cao Cao, who had recovered from the Battle of Chibi, saw that Jingzhou and Yangzhou had been occupied by Sun and Liu, and that Jiaozhou had also been pacified by Sun Quan, so he decided to ignore these two difficult bones and start with Yizhou in the west to unify the whole country.

Yizhou has a total of nine counties and three subject countries. The so-called vassal states, unlike feudal states, were counties set aside by the Han Dynasty for ethnic minorities, similar to the current autonomous regions. Yizhou, Liangzhou, and Youzhou in the border areas all have the setting of subject states.

Among the nine counties of Yizhou, the northernmost is Hanzhong County, where the Taishou Zhang Lu has been ** after Liu Yan's son Liu Zhang ascended the throne, Liu Zhang has fought with him for many years, and has not yet been completed.

"Let's go to fight Zhang Lu, as long as we can get Hanzhong, the window of Yizhou will be opened by us." Cao Cao said.

At this time, Gao Rou said: "Prime Minister, Liangzhou has always been a situation of warlord melee, and our troops are going west, they must think that we are going to fight them, it is better to appease them first, and then send troops." ”

Cao Cao didn't listen to Gao Rou's words, because he just wanted to see if this group of guys in Liangzhou would be obedient. If you don't obey, just extinguish it.

Sure enough, as soon as Cao Cao's side transferred troops, those warlords in Liangzhou thought that Cao Cao was coming to destroy him, and more than ten warlords such as Ma, Han Sui, Hou Xuan, Cheng Yin, Yang Qiu, Li Kan, Zhang Heng, Liang Xing, Cheng Yi, and Ma Wan rebelled together, with as many as 100,000 troops.

Cao Cao saw that this group of bastards in Liangzhou really dared to rebel, and immediately sent Cao Ren as the general of Anxi, first supervising the generals to resist, and then ordered Cao Pi to guard Yecheng, assisted by Cheng Yu, and led the army to follow.

Here I want to say that since Cao Cao pacified Yuan Shao, the base camp has been moved to Yuan Shao's lair, Yecheng, Jizhou. Because this side is far from Jingzhou and Yangzhou, it is safe and wealthy. But the emperor has always been in Xudu, and the two are not together. Sun Quan in the south, however, moved his base camp to Moling County in this year, and built a stone town in 212 and changed Moling to Jianye.

Since then, the glorious history of Jianye has begun. Wu, the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and later the Southern Dynasties Song, Qi, Liang, Chen, the entire six dynasties, all took this city as the national capital, and this ancient capital of the six dynasties is naturally our Nanjing City. Later, when Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty was proclaimed emperor, it was still the capital, and it was not moved until Zhu Di rebelled. In modern times, this city has also become the capital of China.

Cao Cao led his troops to war with the people of Liangzhou, and whenever he heard that a warlord from Liangzhou had come, he was overjoyed. Everyone saw that Cao Cao saw that there were many enemies, and they were not sad but happy, and asked together.

Cao Cao said with a smile: "Liangzhou is so remote, if they don't come, we will fight, and we may not be able to settle down in a few years." Now that they're all here, it's just one go, and there's no need to bother, so I'm happy! ”

However, Cao Cao's happiness soon turned to sadness, because the horse was too fierce and he couldn't beat it.

At this time, Shen Feng also followed Cao Cao and fought against Ma with Cao Cao. And the army on the other side, except for NPCs, is basically Lin Feng's troops, he knows that Lin Feng wants to rewrite history, but he will not give him such an opportunity.

After several fierce battles, the two armies were at a standstill and could not defeat the enemy. Cao Cao used Jia Xu to divide Han Sui and Ma, and then the two sides fought several fierce battles, Cao Cao broke the enemy, beheaded Chengyi, Li Kan and others, Ma fled to Liangzhou, and Yang Qiu fled to Anding.

Cao Cao continued to march and settle down, Yang Qiu surrendered, and he was ready to go to Liangzhou to chase the horse, but at this time, he suddenly heard that Tian Yin and Su Bo of Jizhou Hejian State had rebelled, and the entire Jizhou, even Youzhou, was in turmoil.

This is amazing, Jizhou is Cao Cao's base camp, and there can be no trouble, so Cao Cao will return to the division immediately. At this time, Yang Fu, a military officer in Liangzhou, said to Cao Cao: "Horses are as brave as Han Xin and Yingbu, and they have a very good relationship with the Qiang people and the Hu people. ”

Cao Cao knew that Yang Fu was right, but there was an accident in his hometown, so he had no time to make more arrangements, so he hurriedly went back.

Although Cao Cao fought with Ma and failed to conquer Hanzhong, Liu Zhang of Yizhou soon heard about it. He understood that if Cao Cao really came to fight Hanzhong and Zhang Lu was destroyed, then his Yizhou would be in danger.

At this time, Yizhou is Zhang Song. Zhang Song is very short, ugly-looking, and usually very debauched in his speech and deeds, but he is very capable, and he has always looked down on the weak Liu Zhang. When Cao Cao arrived in Jingzhou and Liu Cong surrendered, Liu Zhang sent Zhang Song to make friends. When Zhang Song arrived in Jingzhou, he wanted to vote for Cao Cao, but Cao Cao saw that Jingzhou had been decided, thinking that Yizhou and Yangzhou were just a matter of blink of an eye, so he ignored Zhang Song at all.

Zhang Song saw that Cao Cao did not treat himself as a human being, and he felt very aggrieved, so he persuaded Liu Zhang to cut off contact with Cao Cao. This time, Liu Zhang was worried that Zhang Lu would be destroyed by Cao Cao, so he immediately suggested that Liu Zhang invite Liu Bei to come and kill Zhang Lu, so that everything could be worry-free.

"Please Liu Bei to destroy Zhang Lu? Good idea! Who can be on my side? Liu Zhang asked.

"Fa Zheng is okay." Zhang Song replied.

Fa Zheng was a person who took refuge in Yizhou during the war in the Sanfu area, he was very talented, but Liu Zhang didn't know how to appreciate it, and he didn't reuse him at all. Zhang Song has a good relationship with Fa Zheng, and the two often complain about Liu Zhang together. This time, Liu Zhang wanted to find out the person who made Liu Bei, and Zhang Song immediately let Fa Zheng take the top.

So Liu Zhang sent Fa Zheng to envoy Liu Bei. As soon as Fa Zheng arrived at Liu Bei, he was immediately impressed by Liu Bei's eloquence. He suggested that Liu Bei attack Yizhou, because Liu Zhang was cowardly, and Zhang Song was another driver in the state, Liu Zhang's right and left hand. Don't drive the internal response, this is not like playing? ”

Liu Bei listened to Fa Zheng's words and hesitated, then Pang Tong said: "Jingzhou is desolate, the characters are exhausted, there are Sun Che riding in the east, and Cao Cao in the north, it is difficult to achieve the will." Today, Yizhou has a million household registrations, thousands of miles of fertile soil, and countless wealth, if you can get it, the great cause can be achieved! ”

Liu Bei said: "Don't I know what you said? But the person who is now in trouble with me is Cao Cao. in a hurry, I'll be lenient; with violence, I take kindness; me, I'll be loyal. Every time you go against it, you can do it. Now because of a Yizhou, the untrustworthy righteousness is not very good? ”

Pang Tong said: "Now that the world is in chaos, it is not enough to be rigid and trustworthy." And it is not a weak force, and the master of the strategy is mediocre, which is the general trend. If we get Yizhou and give Liu Zhang a big territory, it won't be sorry for him. But we don't take, sooner or later we have to cheapen others! ”

Liu Bei nodded, left Zhuge Liang, Guan Yu and others to guard Jingzhou, and led tens of thousands of people to Yizhou. When Sun Quan heard that Liu Bei had traveled west, he welcomed Sun Shangxiang back to Wu and asked her to take Liu Chan as a hostage. Of course, Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun refused, and went together to stop Liu Chan back.

In 212, Cao Cao returned to Yecheng, Jizhou, but the thieves had been destroyed by Cao Pi's Jia Xin. Cao Cao, who had a false alarm, was not idle, and continued to prepare to unify the country, and he planned to go east to conquer Sun Quan this time.

And Liu Bei arrived in Yizhou at this time, and the troops were not far from Hanzhong County, but he never fought Zhang Lu, and he privately met with famous people and ministers in Yizhou all day long, and he was widely popular.

At this time, the news that Cao Cao was preparing to go east to conquer Sun Quan came, and Liu Bei immediately said to Liu Zhang: "Cao Cao is going to fight Sun Che to ride, I want to go back to help with this matter, you hurry up and lend me some soldiers!" ”

Liu Zhang was furious when he heard this: "I will add troops and generals to you, and let you help me fight Zhang Lu, you took my soldiers, my generals, and you didn't fight a single battle, so you want to run?" If you run away, you still have to ask for soldiers and food? Are you so stupid to me? If you want to go back, you can, but if you want me to add more troops to you, it's absolutely impossible! ”

When Liu Bei heard that Liu Zhang didn't give him soldiers, he immediately gathered his subordinates together and said: "We ran here from Jingzhou to help Liu Yizhou fight Zhang Lu, but now there is trouble in the country, Cao Cao is attacking, and he refuses to support us even with some troops, can you bear this matter?" ”

The ministers all said: "Of course I can't bear it! ”

So Pang Tong offered Liu Beijin three plans, the middle and the bottom, and Liu Bei adopted the plan, turned his face with Liu Zhang, and the two sides fought. During this period, Zhang Songtong's matter with Liu Bei was revealed by Liu Zhang, so Liu Zhang beheaded him.

In 213, Cao Cao led an army of 400,000 to conquer Sun Quan. Although Sun Quan has no Zhou Yu, he still has to live. However, this time his strength was stronger than before, and he raised 70,000 troops to meet the enemy. The two armies confronted each other along the river for more than a month, and Cao Cao saw that Sun Quan's troops were neat and tidy, and the military discipline was strict, which made people fearful, and sighed: "Giving birth to a son should be like Sun Zhongmou, like Liu Jingsheng's son, he is a pig and a dog!" ”

Cao Cao was the same age as Sun Quan's father, Sun Jian, and was nearly sixty years old at this time, so he naturally hoped to have a good heir. Seeing Sun Quan at this time, and then thinking of Liu Biao's son, it is inevitable to have such feelings.

At this time, Sun Quan wrote a letter to Cao Cao, which said: "Spring water is born, and the public should go." ”

On the back, he wrote: "If you don't die under your feet, you can't be alone." ”

Cao Cao laughed when he saw Sun Quan's letter, and said to his generals: "Sun Quan does not bully orphans. So he led his troops back to the north.

When going to Sun Quan, Dong Zhao and others asked the imperial court to make Cao Cao the Duke of Wei, Xun Yu disagreed, and then in the process of the expedition, Xun Yu died inexplicably. Cao Cao moved back to the dynasty and was immediately named the Duke of Wei, further from the position of prime minister.

At this time, the horses in the west had already killed the Liangzhou Thorn History, Taishou, and claimed to be the general of Zhengxi, led and merged the state pastor, and supervised the Liangzhou military, and Liangzhou was in chaos, but Jiang Xu, Yang Fu, Zhao Ang, Yin Feng, Li Jun and others worked together to destroy the horse, and the horse had to go south to Zhang Lu. Cao Cao rewarded the generals for their merits, and the marquis eleven gave Yang Fu the marquis of Guannei.

In 214, Ma borrowed troops from Zhang Lu and wanted to continue to capture Liangzhou, but Xiahou Yuan defeated him. In the south, Zhuge Liang, Zhang Fei and others all ran to Yizhou to help, Liu Bei finally captured Chengdu, the last state-level warlord in the Three Kingdoms was destroyed, and the world officially entered the hands of Cao, Liu, and Sun.

This year, Cao Cao continued to plan to attack Sun Quan, and he wanted to get rid of Sun Quan very much. r1152