Now Cao Cao and Liu Bei. One is in Xuchang, one is in Luoyang, one is commanding and dispatching the Han army, and the other is in control of the Han government, but the target direction is to point to Zhao Xing north of the Yellow River.

Although I don't know how many times Cao Cao and Liu Bei will talk about themselves a day, Zhao Xing, who has returned to Crouching Tiger City safely after completing his patrol, has been talking about Cao Cao and Liu Bei a lot recently.

Zhao Xing's "patrol around the sea" brought about by the political and economic benefits are very considerable. It not only enhanced his prestige and status in the areas under his control, but also pointed out the direction for the future development and construction of various states, and also boosted the morale of the military and condensed the confidence of hundreds of military and political officials in various localities.

Of course, Zhao Xing also encountered some accidents and hiccups during the inspection, such as when he arrived in Linzi City, Qingzhou, he encountered a thrilling assassination.

The assassin blended in with the crowd welcoming King Pingxi, and when Zhao Xing's motorcade passed under the eaves of an inn somewhere on the street, he suddenly shot several powerful arrows from several windows, and slammed into one of Zhao Xing's face-revealing carriages, only to be blocked by the seemingly transparent light veil on the carriage.

Zhao Xing's carriage was specially designed by Ma Jun and others. On the left and right sides of the carriage, the walls of the carriage are at the same height as the people's heads, and two windows are deliberately set aside to be several feet square, so that Zhao Xing can also wave to the welcoming people on both sides while sitting in the carriage. But these two open windows are not really hollowed out, but are equipped with two layers of "bulletproof glass"!

In fact, the Jin Kingdom had not yet mastered the technology of firing white glass at this time, and it was impossible for there to be such a high-precision product as "bulletproof glass", and the four transparent colorless refractions installed on Zhao Xing's carriage were polished from the giant colorless crystals carefully selected by spending a huge amount of money! Between the two layers of crystal plates, a layer of protective facilities similar to iron window screens was also installed, although they were fine and invisible, they were very strong and difficult to break.

Using the phenomenon of "refraction" on the principle of optics, plus the strength of two layers of crystals, and the barrier of a layer of steel wire mesh in the middle, any cold weapon that shoots from the outside can't help Zhao Xing. If you want to deal with Zhao Xing's carriage, you must use "human/body bombs/bombs" or bury a large amount of explosives in a certain place.

As soon as the arrows broke through the air, the shadow team members guarding both sides of Zhao Xing's convoy immediately raised their crossbows and fired a ruthless shot at those windows, while Zhao Yun, Dian Wei and others jumped up from the back of a horse or a cow, like a stone projectile fired by a slingshot, and went straight to the second floor of the inn.

Rao was skilled by Zhao Yun and Dian Wei, but when they broke into the suspicious rooms on the third floor, they were still a step late. The killers hiding on the top floor of the inn have all been killed, some have been shot by the Shadow Members' crossbows, and some have committed suicide by swallowing highly toxic substances.

As a result, even though the Shadow Officers have many interrogation methods, they are useless, and it is difficult to find out who is behind the assassination.

In fact, this was only the first in a series of assassinations against Zhao Xing, and several assassinations of various forms awaited Zhao Xing on his way back to Crouching Tiger City from Jizhou. Of course, that's all for later.

Although Zhao Xing left Qingzhou unharmed, Zhao Yun, who was the actual leader of Qingzhou, was very annoyed, and he was not slapped in the face in front of many people! The third brother finally came to Qingzhou, and everyone wanted to have a good party with great interest, but they were disturbed by the sudden assassination. Although Zhao Xing didn't care, and comforted Zhao Yun, Dian Wei and Gao Shun in turn, he taught them how to swallow this breath in their hearts?

Since he couldn't find the mastermind behind the scenes, Zhao Yun needed to express his serious dissatisfaction to those guys hiding behind the scenes, so he directly spread his anger on Cao Renjun, who was stationed not far from Linzi, according to the reasoning method of "who benefits, who is the mastermind".

Zhao Yun sent a messenger to the Caoren garrison in Laiwu to issue a war letter, claiming that five days later, General Zhao Zilong of the Qingzhou Army would lead 5,000 warriors to break through the Eight Gates Golden Lock Array, so that the Cao army could hurry up and prepare when the time was not up, and save the time to lose too ugly!

Look at this messenger's arrogance, he simply treats Cao Ren as if he doesn't exist! When the two armies fight, they always pay attention to a surprise attack, so that the defending side will be in a hurry and suffer even more heavy losses. Zhao Yun acted in such a high-profile manner, unless he had absolute certainty and confidence, it was really not an easy thing to break through Cao Ren's Eight Gates Golden Lock Great Array with only five thousand people.

It stands to reason that Zhao Yun's temperament is not so flamboyant?

In fact, this time Zhao Yun came to break the formation in a high-profile manner, but it was just a pretext to play!

Soon after Cao Ren laid down the "Eight Gates Golden Lock" array in Laiwu, Guo Jia, the division of the army, quietly went to conduct reconnaissance in detail, and taught the method of breaking the formation to major generals such as Zhao Yun, Dian Wei and Gao Shun. In fact, even if Guo Jia didn't have an idea, Zhao Yun could break Cao Ren's big array on his own. And with Guo Jia's analysis and guidance, it has become very easy to break this big array.

said that Zhao Yun used the topic to play, which was a small task left to him by Zhao Xing when he left. Since the Montenegrin Army and the Xiong Zhen Army returned to the Jizhou Battlefield and the Xuzhou Battlefield one after another, the garrisons of the neighboring Hebei, Qingzhou, and Xuzhou were very nervous, and everyone stared at each other, always paying attention to the movements of the two armies, but inadvertently ignoring the Marine Brigade originally stationed in Jizhou and the Qinghuai Army stationed in Xuzhou.

In order to further attract everyone's attention and gain more time for the sudden disappearance of the Marine Brigade and the Qinghuai Army, Zhao Yun used the pretext of Zhao Xing's assassination in Qingzhou to prepare to focus the eyes of his forces on the land of Qingzhou under the guise of breaking the "Eight Gates Golden Lock" array.

In terms of tactical use, easily breaking the "Eight Gates Golden Lock" array with absolute force can not only have the effect of deterring Cao's army, but also make people who don't know what to do think that Zhao Xing is preparing to use Qingzhou as a breakthrough to launch an attack on Cao Cao's inherent territory. In fact, the Cao army will not have much damage after breaking the formation, and similarly, the Donglai army that came to break the formation will not have much damage.

In other words, the symbolic significance of breaking the formation is much higher than the military value, and it will not really cause a large-scale war outbreak between the Cao army and the Qingzhou corps.

Although Zhao Yun already had full confidence in breaking the formation in his heart, according to his always calm and meticulous character, he still mobilized 10,000 elite cavalry from the Flying Tiger Army, and selected 5,000 heavy infantry and 10,000 longbow soldiers from the Donglai Army, a total of 25,000 men and horses to go to Laiwu.

Cao Ren, who was presiding over the big array, heard that Zhao Yunzhen personally led the team to Laiwu, and his heart suddenly pinched.