Since Cao Cao and Liu Bei have decided to give Liu Biao some color. Then it is necessary to finalize the troops and the commander who will attack Jingzhou in the south, and they can't rush over like a swarm of bees, which makes people laugh and be generous.

After some discussion, Cao Cao decided to personally serve as the commander of the attack on Liu Biao in Jingzhou, Cao Cao's side sent 70,000 troops, and Liu Bei's side sent 50,000 troops, adding up to 120,000 troops. The coach is Cao Cao, and the deputy coach naturally needs Liu Bei's side to introduce a candidate. After repeated consideration, Liu Bei most accurately sent his sworn brother Gao Ran to fight. In Liu Bei's mind, the most suitable deputy marshal is Zhang Fei, but Zhang Fei bears the heavy responsibility of defending Yuzhou with Xiahou Yuan, and now Xuzhou's actions towards Zhang Liao and Sun Ce are very suspicious, and at this sensitive time, Liu Bei easily does not dare to let Zhang Fei leave.

In the direction of Yangzhou, now the veteran Han Rong is in the Ming place, but in fact, Zhuge Liang is specifically responsible. With Liu Bei's understanding of Zhuge Liang, he believed that Yangzhou, where Kong Ming was the most responsible for the situation, was definitely the most suitable candidate, and if it was someone else, he would definitely not be able to resist the endless various means of Zhang Liao in Xuzhou.

Although Gao Ran's resourcefulness is slightly insufficient, he is loyal to Liu Bei, and this attack on Liu Biao has Cao Cao, the old fox, personally out of the horse, and Gao Ran does not need to spend his brains, he just needs to complete the corresponding combat tasks according to Cao Cao's deployment. Liu Bei thinks that Cao Cao is not going to play those small tricks of "eliminating one and the other" at such a critical time, after all, everyone is a grasshopper tied to a rope.

Lao Cao is out of the horse, a top man.

But isn't it, Liu Bei's current first-class generals are Zhuge Kongming, and the rest of the military divisions that should have been under his command were quietly dug into the corner by Zhao Xing. Xu Shu is one, Pang Tongyi is one, and Ma Jian is one, not to mention Guan Yu and Zhao Yun, who were accepted a long time ago, and later Wei Yan and Ma Chao. It can be said that a small half of Zhao Xing's old family was scavenged from the big ears.

On the other hand, Lao Cao, although Zhao Xing poached Guo Jia, Zhang Liao, Zhang He and Dian Wei and other big bulls, but after all, the family has a solid background, and now there are first-class strategists such as Erxun, Cheng Yu, Liu Ye, Xi Zhicai, Jiang Ji, etc., and there are also Xiahou brothers, Cao Ren, Cao Hong, Cao Chun, Cao Zhen, Cao Zhang, Xu Chu, Yu Ban, Li Dian, Le Jin, Lu Qian, Pan Feng, Niu Jin and a large number of generals.

It can be said that Cao Cao's team is second only to Zhao Xing. Now that the general wants to raise troops to the south to exterminate Liu Biao of Jingzhou who despises the authority of the imperial court, he naturally has to bring some more powerful civil and military men to follow. This is Cao Cao's first battle since he was promoted to the high position of general, and he must fight beautifully and neatly to shock the world's young people.

Cao Cao was originally a person who knew the army and knew the army, and his military strategy was second only to Zhao Xing and Sima Yi among the leaders of all parties, and he was also very powerful. This time he went south, and he also brought two strategists, Xi Zhicai and Cheng Yu, which can be described as a tiger with wings. In terms of military generals, Cao Cao personally selected Xu Chu, Cao Hong, Cao Chun, Le Jin, Pan Feng and Niu Jin and others, who were also all together, which was very good.

With Liu Biao's current situation of being attacked from several sides, if he knew that Cao Heizi looked up to him so much, he personally led an army of 120,000 from the north, but he was afraid that he would lose sleep at night.

Because he had to knock Yuan Shu in Nanyang first, Cao Cao simply sent an official letter to Yuan Shu, asking him to prepare a batch of grain for the 120,000 army of the imperial court in Wancheng, the seat of Nanyang County, and Lao Cao would personally lead his troops to fetch it when he passed by.

This is Cao Cao's bamboo pole that is clearly knocking on Yuan Shu.

When Yuan Shu received the official document from the General's Mansion, he was furious at that time, and he angrily rushed to the messenger who sent the letter and shouted: "My fiefdom is only a county, how can it be compared with the imperial court's possession of the world's nine states! Since the imperial court is going to send troops to attack Liu Jingsheng, then the grain and grass should be taken from the treasury of the Han Dynasty, why let me prepare grain and grass for the army?"

The messenger who sent the letter to Yuan Shu was not an ordinary official, this person's name was Hua Xin, but a famous person equivalent to Guan Ning and Bing Yuan, the great sacrificial wine of Taihang Academy (equivalent to the current senior professor), these three people were called "Yilong" when they studied together, and Hua Xin was the dragon head.

When Hua Xin came, he expected that Yuan Shu would be furious when he saw Cao Cao's letter, but he was not afraid. Today's Yuan family is declining day by day, Yuan Shu is just a water dog, and he has long since lost the prestige of Yuan Kui when he was in the court.

Hua Xin calmly reminded Yuan Shu and said: "Please also ask the king of Huainan to think twice, if the general leads the army to Wancheng and does not see the required grain and grass, and delays the army to attack Liu Biao in the south, I am afraid that he will be stationed in Wancheng, I don't know how the king of Huainan will deal with it at that time?"

Hua Xin's words were subtle, but if you listen carefully, you can see that they are threatening. Yuan Shu was not a pig's head, he immediately heard the other party's disapproving attitude and the threatening taste in his words, and was about to eat Hua Xin in anger, but was stopped by his eldest son Yuan Yao.

Yuan Shu's face was so angry that he turned into a pig's liver color, but he didn't dare to really turn his face with Cao Cao, so he had to leave with his sleeves up, leaving Yuan Yao and Hua Xin to discuss specific matters.

Yuan Shu still didn't understand that his collusion with Xu Gongmen's assassination of Sun Jian had been exposed, and the father and son of the Sun family in Jiangdong were sharpening their knives and preparing to use his head to relieve their anger. Now he is just being squeezed by Cao Cao a little, and it won't be long before even the days of power and fortune will be completely deprived of him.

It didn't take long for the imperial court to issue an announcement to the world, claiming that Liu Biao of Jingzhou did not listen to the orders of the imperial court, and placed Liu Xie, the king of Xiangyang, in a remote and dilapidated new wild place for a long time.

As soon as the news came out, the world shook.

The Sima family of Yizhou first jumped out to express their support, then Yuan Shu of Nanyang also expressed their understanding and support, and finally Sun Jian of Wuzhou also expressed his support.

It was Sima Yi's idea to ask the imperial court to attack Jingzhou, and the Sima family naturally wanted to vigorously support it; although Yuan Shu was beaten by Cao Cao, he also coveted Jingzhou, not to mention that even the grain and grass were prepared for the imperial court, and this verbal support had to keep up; although Sun Jian formed an alliance with the Jin State, he did not know to what extent Zhao Xing supported Liu Biao in private, even if it was to confuse the outside world, he had to express his support. Anyway, verbal support can't play a role, it's just to make the court feel face-saving.

Zhao Xing, who had already begun to secretly prepare for military warfare, learned of this, his face was light, and he said to Lu Xun: "Bo Yan, now the situation in Jingzhou is more critical, Ziming (Lu Meng) is in danger in Xiangyang, it seems that you and Zhao Gang need to personally lead the Tianyi army from Fangling into Jingzhou to assist." ”

Lu Xun immediately received the order and immediately returned to Hanzhong, preparing to go to Xiangyang with Zhao Gang and the brand-new Tianyi army to show his skills.