In the spring of 213 AD, Cao Cao commanded 100,000 cavalry and 200,000 infantry, and went straight to Xiliang, while Xiahou Yuan commanded 300,000 infantry and Lu Xun commanded 100,000 sailors to attack Yizhou! Embark on the final battle for unification.

When the news came out, Xiliang shook and Yizhou shook.

On the way to Xiliang, Zuo Xiaoyou looked at the people who were sowing in spring, and every one of them had a smile on their faces, and their eyes were filled with infinite longing for the future.

"It's all brought to them by a virtuous son-in-law." Cao Cao said with a smile: "If it weren't for the virtuous son-in-law who improved the farming method and doubled the income of the people, how could the people have eaten as much as they do now." ”

Zuo Xiaoyou shook his head: "Even if there are thousands of benefits, there must be a leader with great determination and courage to order and promote." The father-in-law is under the greatest pressure and suffers from the resistance of the world's noble clans, and the father-in-law is the one who has the greatest credit. ”

"Haha, the old man is not a good person, so the virtuous son-in-law doesn't have to be a sycophant." When he said this, he smiled on his face. The king likes to be slapped by his courtiers, and Cao Cao is no exception.

After a month's march, Cao Cao had already led the army to the Wei River, across the river from the Xiliang cavalry.

"Looks like we're going to have to find a way to cross the river." Facing the wide Wei River, Cao Cao stroked his long beard, turned his head and asked, "Is there a good plan for a virtuous son-in-law?" ”

Zuo Xiaoyou shook his head: "The time, the people, and everything are in me, but it's hard to say before this location is clearly explored." After a pause: "My father-in-law can gather people who understand the terrain of this place, and make a decision after controlling the terrain." ”

"Hmm." Cao Cao nodded, ordered the whole army to camp on the spot, and then asked the local officials for questioning.

The current Cao Cao is much stronger than when he conquered Han Sui and Ma Chao in the west, and the 100,000 cavalry alone is not comparable in history, coupled with the strong civil and military forces, crossing the river is not a big problem for Cao Cao. After using some tricks and spending seven days, Cao Cao successfully led his army across the Wei River, resulting in Han Sui and Ma Chao having no danger to defend. The rest really depends on strength.

Seeing that Cao Cao had crossed the Wei River, Han Sui and Ma Chao were extremely nervous, and immediately gathered all the capable men to prepare for battle.

The day after Cao Cao crossed the river, he sent a letter to Han Sui, inviting Han Sui to answer in front of the two armies the next day. Because Cao Cao's tone was very polite, he let the messenger leave the Xiliang military camp safely.

The two armies are at war, and they do not come to the enemy. But at this time, not many people believe in that set, if it is good to say good things, it is fine, if you are arrogant in words, it is very likely to be killed. For example, during the Battle of Chibi, Cao Cao sent a letter of surrender to Sun Quan, and received a blank piece of paper from a messenger sent by Sun Quan. It means to say: if you want to fight, you will fight, and there will be less nonsense.

Then this hapless messenger was killed by Cao Cao. Die unjustly!

Since Cao Cao was good at talking, the next day the two armies were on both sides, and Cao Cao and Han Sui stepped forward one after another, talking about the past in Luoyang with a smile from a distance of ten meters. It was an old thing from a few decades ago, and Han Sui was also an old person, it was rare to meet old acquaintances, and when he talked about old things, he couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion, and chatted with Cao Cao for a while.

After chatting for almost an hour, Ma Chao, who was chatting, was shocked, and Cao Cao saw that the heat was almost over, so he hugged his fist to Han Sui and said: "Brother Wen Yue, you and I have been friends for many years, I don't want to fight with Brother Wen Yue, but I just want to dominate the world, but this battle has to be fought, I hope Brother Wen Yue can see the situation clearly, and go with the sky, then Liangzhou is very fortunate, and the world is very fortunate." ”

Han Sui was silent.

"It's difficult to deal with Brother Zhiwen, so let's do it!" Cao Cao said: "Cao will set aside ten days for Brother Wen Yue, and after ten days, I hope Brother Wen will give Cao an answer." If Brother Wen Yue goes with the sky, then Cao will never treat Brother Wen Yue badly, and I hope that Brother Wen Yue will focus on the lives of the people in the world, and even more importantly, for the descendants of the Han family. ”

Cao Cao's last sentence gave Han Sui a great shock, he glanced at Cao Cao deeply, and clenched his fists: "Meng De is kind, so he will definitely consider it seriously." Whether it succeeds or fails, there will be an answer within 10 days. ”

Cao Cao clenched his fists and surrendered his hands, and Han Sui returned to their respective battles.

When Han Sui returned to the main formation, Ma Chao immediately stepped forward and asked, "What did Uncle and Cao Cao say?" ”

"Nothing." Han Sui shook his head, unwilling to say more, he really wanted to seriously think about Cao Cao's suggestion.

Now Cao Cao is away from dominating the world, only Liangzhou and Yizhou are left, although Yizhou has mountains and rivers and natural dangers, but also trapped himself in it and cannot get out, sooner or later he was forced by Cao Cao, and Liangzhou was Cao Cao crossed the Wei River, without the heavenly immortals to block, can only rely on hard power to divide the superior. But it is clear that Cao Cao's 100,000 cavalry and 200,000 infantry are well-equipped soldiers in a hundred battles, and they are very powerful! The entire Xiliang is only more than 100,000 cavalry, and the equipment is very bad, if you really fight, you don't have to think about the consequences.

And the power of Cao Cao's last sentence is too great, he Han Sui is already old, and he doesn't have a few years to live, but what about his descendants? If he makes a mistake in decision-making and affects future generations, how can he face his children and grandchildren?

After Han Sui left with a heavy heart, Ma Chao's face was cloudy. Ma Chao's strategy is not very good, and his political acumen is not very good, but his suspicion and vigilance against Han Sui are very heavy. The coalition forces are not good at this, and their hearts are not aligned. When you encounter something, it's easy to fight on your own. Historically, Cao Cao used a relatively clumsy discord strategy to split the Korean and Malaysian coalition forces, which was to see this point.

Because of the 'agreement' between Cao Cao and Han Sui, the two sides did not go to war for three days, but Cao Cao sent a letter to Han Sui on the third day.

When Han Sui saw this battle report, he suddenly sighed weakly and took the initiative to find Ma Chao.

Ma Chao had just learned that Han Sui had received a letter from Cao Cao, and was in doubt, but when he saw Han Sui taking the initiative to come to the door, he couldn't help but be stunned: "What happened to my uncle?" ”

Han Sui sighed and handed the battle report in his hand to Ma Chao, and when Ma Chao finished reading the battle report, he was as silent as Han Sui.

There are only eight words on the battle report: Liu Zhang dedicated the city, and Yizhou was pacified.

Originally, Cao Cao wanted to write a letter to Han Sui according to Zuo Xiaoyou's strategy, but not long ago, Xiahou Yuan sent a messenger to Chang'an and sent it to Cao Cao's military camp as soon as possible.

Cao Cao received the battle report, and immediately looked up to the sky and smiled: "God help me!" ”

Zuo Xiaoyou looked at the battle report, which described in detail the situation of conquering Yizhou, in fact, it was very simple, when Xiahou Yuan led the army into Hanzhong, he fought with Zhang Lu in Hanzhong, and then won the battle in a daze.

The reason why it was confusing was because Zhang Lu originally relied on the geographical advantage and condescendingly faced Cao Jun, and he could have held on for a period of time, but maybe God blessed Cao Cao, Zhang Lujun's camp actually sprang out of a group of wild deer, causing Zhang Lujun to mutiny, and then Xiahou Yuan tried to tackle the problem, but there was no resistance at all, so he knocked down the camp.

Winning is a mess.

After that, it was simple, Zhang Lu's checkpoints were gone, and the county could only surrender, and Xiahou Yuan won the battle, and everything went very smoothly.

Under the persuasion of Zhang Song and other surrenderers, he chose the way of non-resistance and welcomed Cao's army into Chengdu and the phenomenon of opening the city.

From the time Xiahou Yuan entered Hanzhong to Liu Zhang's surrender, it took only twenty-five days. Then Xiahou Yuan wrote a letter to report the results of this battle, and sent it to Cao Cao, which took another seven days.

In thirty-two days, Yizhou was pacified, and now in addition to Xiliang, Cao Cao has conquered the world, just waiting for the recovery of Xiliang, and the world will be unified.

As the saying goes, people are not as good as heaven, Cao Cao didn't expect Xiahou Yuan to pacify Yizhou so easily and quickly, so the letter that should have been scribbled and altered became a war report sent by Cao Cao.

Seeing this battle report, not only Han Sui was silent, but Ma Chao was also silent.

Even Jin Ma Chao, who is not afraid of heaven and earth, knows that things are not easy to do, let alone Han Sui and Manying Wenwu.

Han Sui sighed and said, "Although surrender is not done by warriors, we also have to think about ourselves and future generations. I have an old relationship with Cao Cao, and if you and I lead the army to surrender, he will treat us well. Meng Qi thought about it. ”

After speaking, Han Sui left the Ma Chaoda camp and returned to his camp.

Han Sui is cunning and cunning, he knows what to do to suit his own interests, in this situation, he knows that surrender is the best choice, and he is almost seventy years old, and he has no years to live, so it is time to plan for his retirement.

And Ma Chao is now in his thirties, less than forty years old, and it is when he is in the prime of life, asking him to surrender before the battle is honest, it is a bit difficult for him as a martial artist.

But Han Sui was right, he didn't think about himself, he also had to think about the Ma family. Can't just kill the Ma family with him for his own selfishness, or even be exterminated, right?

Ma Chao fell into a long hesitation, and did not leave the camp for two days, which made his brother Ma Dai and sister Ma Yunlu very worried.

"Brother." On the third day, Ma Yunlu broke into the handsome tent, faced Ma Chao, and said, "What is my brother worried about?" ”

Seeing his young and beautiful sister, Ma Chao sighed: "To fall, or not to fall?" That's a problem. ”

Ma Yunlu: "......"

After Ma Yunlu learned about the current situation, he was also a little crazy.

Surrender? Aggrieved!

Not to surrender? Estimated to die.

Between being aggrieved and sending him to death, Rao is Ma Yunlu will also be swaying, not to mention Ma Chao, who has mastered the life and death of the army and the commander of the first army, so it is really difficult.

However, the two brothers and sisters didn't seem to be embarrassed for long, because the next day, Cao Cao sent a letter to Ma Chao, and after reading the content of the letter, Ma Chao's eyes changed when he looked at Ma Yunlu.

"What does my brother think of me?" Ma Yunlu was inexplicable.

Ma Chao touched his chin, looked at his sister carefully, nodded again and again, and finally showed a smile on his face: "Sister, come out with me tomorrow to answer." (To be continued.) )