After some discussion among the ministers, Liu Hou finally made up his mind to accept Cao Xiu's surrender. The reason why Liu Hou publicly stated it was that he adopted Buqi's statement and used Cao Xiu's matter of buying horse bones with his thousands of dollars to promote the world's return. Everyone has no opinion on this, even Deng Zhi no longer insists on his opinion.

Although Deng Zhi adheres to the viewpoint of virtue and talent, he is not a person who knows how to be flexible, and knows that this matter has gone beyond the meaning of the matter itself and has important political significance. Politics, on the other hand, often means a lot of compromises. In this matter, he wisely chose to put the overall situation first, and made appropriate compromises and concessions in order to unify the overall situation of the world as soon as possible.

In this way, Liu Hou forgave Cao Xiu's sins and officially took him into his subordinate. However, for well-known reasons, he was not allowed to lead the troops into battle, but put him in the Ninth Brigade as a deputy brigade commander. This 9th Brigade was originally composed of Wei troops and was stationed in the vicinity of Xiangyang and Maicheng.

Now that there is no war over there, it can be said that it is basically safe, and Liu Hou ordered them to move north to Wancheng to garrison. Cao Xiu's position as a deputy in this brigade is equivalent to an idle position. Liu Hou arranged it like this, firstly, because he hadn't been able to fully trust him, and wanted to observe him for a while.

Second, there are many places where the Hong army is different from the Wei army, and it can even be said that many places are subversive changes, and Cao Xiu needs to learn a lot if he wants to lead a Hong army's troops. Therefore, let him be idle first, and also give him time to slowly learn the various rules of the Hong Army.

Cao Xiu's matter came to an end, and Liu Hou continued to lead the troops on the Northern Expedition. As for Runan City, Liu Hou handed it over to the Eighth Brigade to deal with the aftermath. The Eighth Brigade was originally a cold weapon unit composed of troops surrendered by the Wei State, and it was not used as the main force in combat in peacetime, which was suitable for this kind of work of receiving cities and reorganizing prisoners.

There are also 10,000 or 20,000 captured Wei soldiers this time, and it is believed that after the reorganization, two more brigades can come out, which can be used to defend the newly occupied city.

Liu Hou rushed to Xuchang with a large team of men non-stop, wanting to catch the last train of the siege and make some more battles. As the capital of the Wei State, Xuchang's city walls are higher and thicker than those of Runan, and there will naturally be no shortage of facilities such as urn cities, even if the moat is particularly deep and wide.

Such a fortified city is simply a nightmare for the besieging party, especially Zhang Fei and Pang Tong's army are only half-firearms troops, except for thunderbolts and a few fire~cannons, those fire~guns, Keqiu killing rocket artillery, Angry Birds and other advanced weapons are all gone.

However, the hot air balloon was robbed by Zhang Feiqiang and used for reconnaissance. But this is still not enough to attack a fortified city like Xuchang. Due to the moat, it was more difficult for the demolition team to blast the gates and walls.

What's more, the walls of Xuchang are outrageously thick, and it is not easy to blast them. Therefore, Liu Hou estimated that he could still catch up, and it was impossible for Zhang Fei and Pang Tong to capture the city so quickly.

Who knows, things happened again beyond his expectations, when he led the troops to the city of Xuchang, he saw the dragon flag of the Han Dynasty fluttering on the head of the city - the Shu army had already occupied Xuchang City.

Liu Hou was surprised, he didn't expect Zhang Fei and Pang Tong to be so fast, and immediately sent someone to inquire, and it turned out that General Wei, who was guarding Xuchang, had surrendered. Zhang Fei and Pang Tong occupied Xuchang without bloodshed, but because they had just entered the city and had not completely controlled the entire city, Zhang Fei and Pang Tong had not yet come and sent a report to the little emperor.

Receiving this news, Liu Hou was not happy but felt very depressed, why did he fight to the death in Runan City, lost so many rattan armor soldiers, and almost broke the vulture bone, a fierce general, but Zhang Fei and Pang Tong did not make much effort, and surrendered as soon as the tiger body shook the enemy.

Is it because he is young enough to be angry? Zhang Fei doesn't seem to be so domineering, why did Wei Guo descend so easily. If you let Zhang Fei know Liu Hou's heart, you have to be angry.

Without losing a single soldier, I will help you take this capital, what else do you want? How can you get cheap and sell well?

Not long after, Zhang Fei and Pang Tong both came out of the city, and Liu Hou asked them to sit down in the handsome tent, boiled a pot of tea, and quietly listened to their detailed reports, only then did they know the ins and outs of this matter. The defenders of Xuchang were quite numerous, with 70,000 or 80,000 horses.

It's a pity that the guards are Xiahou Ba and Xiahou Shang, a pair of difficult brothers. Both of them are now difficult to take on the task, so surrender has become a natural thing. Why do you have to add the word "now" before you become a big job? There's a reason for that, ladies and gentlemen, listen to me slowly.

These two people were originally considered to be more promising people in the second generation of Cao Wei Group, and they were both reused by Cao Cao and Cao Pi. Therefore, they were originally people who could take on great responsibilities, but for various reasons, they are now decadent.

Xiahou Ba, the word Zhongquan, the second son of Xiahou Yuan, the general of Zhengxi, in the original historical time and space, he later served as the official of Wei to the right general, the protector of Shu, the marquis of Bochang Pavilion, and stationed in Longxi, which can be regarded as a unique one.

Who knew that the good times would not last long, in the first year of Jiaping (249), Sima Yi launched a coup d'état and killed Cao Shuang. Xiahou Xuan, the general of Zhengxi, was transferred to the court, and Guo Huai, the assassin of Yongzhou, succeeded him as the general of Zhengxi. Xiahou Xuan is Xiahou Ba's cousin and Cao Shuang's cousin. Xiahouba was treated favorably by Cao Shuang in the past, and he was at odds with Guo Huai.

After Cao Shuang was killed by Sima Yi, he was uneasy and defected to Shu Han in desperation, and was appointed as a general of the chariot cavalry.

From this description, we can know that, first, Xiahou Ba will indeed be successful in the future, becoming a great official in Wei and being reused in Shu. But for now, he's still young, and not comparable to him in his prime; Second, this person will surrender to Shu in the future.

In this time and space, although Xiahou Ba is young, he can be regarded as a beginner, although he is leading the troops under Sima Yi, but he can be regarded as an independent leader of 50,000 troops, which is already one of the few important generals in the Wei army.

It's a pity that his troops were repeatedly attacked by the Shu army, and each time they were almost wiped out, retreating all the way to several cities, but they were all chased by the Shu army like a shadow, and broke through the cities he was stationed in again and again. Luckily, he managed to escape with his life every time, and this good fortune really made his relationship with Lady Luck really doubtful.

However, escape is escape, but every time he escapes, it causes irreversible damage to his soul, and when he escapes more times, he will slowly form a habit, which is the origin of "a certain run". Xiahou Ba is no exception, he escaped from the Shu army again and again, and successfully transformed from a domineering young general to "Xiahou Ranran".

This time the Shu army besieged the city, he was already frightened, and the first thing he thought of was how to break through and escape. And another guard, Xiahou Shang, is a lover, which has to be said to be an alternative, or a strange one, in the period of the Three Kingdoms, when the Jin Ge Iron Horse was the main theme.