Xijing Luoyang, Jiedu Embassy Mansion, living room.

Lao Cao and Liu Yanqing re-entered with their arms, and everyone didn't ask where Lei Heng went, they all looked at Cao Cao, hoping that he would decide on the follow-up.

Lao Cao took out the Kyushu Flying Bird Diagram, presented the table case, and first explained the current situation, which was roughly similar to what he had said to the Zhao brothers before.

When everyone listened, they became more and more worried: after all, the Three Kingdoms attacked, and the Song Dynasty was defeated again and again, hundreds of thousands of elites, there was not much left, and now there were enemies on several sides, no matter how you look at it, it is a dead end.

Cao Cao's face did not change, he looked confident, pointed at Bianliang and said with a smile: "There is no need to pay attention to the place where the two tigers compete for food here." ”

When the words came out, I heard someone outside the door exclaiming: "Ah, this is my capital city, how can my brother ignore it?" ”

Everyone looked, but it was Zhao Kai, the virtuous king, who led the fifth, sixth and seventh brothers to the door.

The generals saluted.

The four princes didn't take a shelf, waved their hands and said: "The military situation is like fire, and the generals don't need to be polite." ”

Then he came in with a big grin, hugged his fist at Lao Cao and said: "Brother Wu, the imperial brother is in the palace with the queen mother and concubine, so that we can come here to listen, if Brother Wu has a clever plan, I and other brothers will tell the imperial brother and the queen mother in time, so that everyone in the palace can rest assured." came recklessly, and I hope my brother is not strange. ”

Cao Cao said with a smile: "Although you are the prince and the male of the Han family, now that you are dying, the countryside is still not able to stay out of it, let alone you?" It's a good thing to do. ”

pointed to Bianjing on the picture and said, "You wait and listen to my brother!" It is necessary to know that the husband can afford to take and put it down, and then he will see his mind. It seems that this Bianliang, if it is not lost, the brother naturally has to protect it, but since it has been lost, he simply plans to lose it. ”

He pointed his finger and said in a deep voice: "Don't forget that Jin Liao and Song seem to be killing lively, but in fact, as of now, it is just the word profit!" One wants to swallow Song soil for self-sufficiency, and the other is not enough to take advantage, but so! And between his two countries, it is really a national hatred and family hatred, and it will never die! This section is crucial! ”

Everyone was shocked when they heard this, and then they nodded one after another: Yes! The foundation of the Liao State has been cut off by the Jin State, but the Jin State will never see him revived, aren't the two countries the real mortal enemies?

Zhao Laoqi and Zhao Xu suddenly shouted: "Brother, if the Liao State descends the Jin State, isn't his strength even greater?" After all, Yelu Yanxi has fallen, and Yelu Chun will inevitably follow suit. ”

Cao Cao smiled faintly: "Old Seven, do you remember the sentence for your brother: since ancient times, there may be emperors who surrender to the enemy, but there is no hero who surrenders to the enemy!" ”

Everyone was shocked again, and several generals immediately showed the breath of iron and blood on their faces, and their eyes were faintly shining.

I listened to Cao Cao and said: "I look at Yelu Dashi, Xiao Gan and others, each with their own strategic pride, and they are by no means willing to live under the people, how can they be compared to the waste of Emperor Tianzuo?" ”

"Besides......" Lao Cao stretched out his finger and drew on the map: "He first occupied half of my Hebei wall, and then took the new capital in his hand, it is the time when he is complacent and wants to work hard. ”

He shook his head and smiled even more: "After talking about Yan Lou Room, although he claims to be more than ten thousand, in the final analysis, he is still a lone army. ”

"I don't want to ......" Zhao Laoqi thought for a moment and stuck out his tongue: "This is going to be defeated, but I will die!" ”

All the generals showed disdain, and his brothers couldn't help blushing and glaring at him angrily, but Cao Cao laughed and patted Zhao Laoqi on the shoulder: "Good boy, you are honest." However, you are still young, and you grew up in the deep palace and pampered, but you don't know that there are difficult things in the world, and there are more than death. ”

Zhao Laoqi was shocked: "Is there anything more terrible than death?" ”

Lin Chong looked at him with a stupid look, rushed up angrily, and shouted: "For example, although the enemy does not kill you, he wants to insult your wife and treat your children as pigs and dogs!" Isn't it worse than death! ”

Zhao Laoqi was startled, looked at Lin Chong blankly, and suddenly showed a look of happiness for a moment, patted his chest and said, "It's really terrible!" Scared this king too! Fortunately, this king has never married or had children, hehe. ”

After that, he looked at Zhao Kai: "Third brother, the royal brother is married to a daughter-in-law, do you think he is afraid?" ”

Zhao Kai was speechless and said, "Brother Huang is afraid that he will kill you...... Brother, don't bother with this idiot, please continue. ”

Cao Cao glanced at Zhao Laoqi with appreciation, and secretly said: I read history books, Liu Da'er is a good son, but he is a wonderful person, but unfortunately he has never seen it, and when he sees this son today, he can be relieved a little.

smiled and continued to point to Bianjing: "After talking about Yan Lou's room, this guy fought for thousands of miles, and the city fought hard for a long time, and was almost killed by my Ling Zhen brothers. ”

When everyone heard this, they each substituted into Lou's state of mind and nodded one after another.

Cao Cao said with a smile: "Therefore, before the victory of his two families is decided, he will inevitably bite here, so why should I bother with him?" It's Western Xia! ”

"If he robs Taiyuan, I will become an enclave in Youyun layout, and the brothers who stay there will be attacked up and down, and there will be no reinforcements, how can I support it?"

He followed his own path to the south again: "If he follows this road, Lou Room will no longer be alone!" Even if the Jin soldiers can't beat the Great Wall, they can also take the Western Xia and come in a big way, and at that time, north of the Yellow River, even if they are brothers, it will be difficult to preserve. ”

Everyone changed color when they heard this, Zhao Kai frowned even more, and suddenly said: "Brother, how about you only say that Taiyuan was lost, why don't you say Tongguan?" If Tongguan is lost, he will come east along the Yellow River, walk to Xijing, and then arrive in Zhengzhou, wouldn't it be faster to connect as one? ”

"Tongguan?" Lao Cao's expression suddenly sighed, and then a sense of confidence emerged: "Because no one knows Tongguan better than me!" ”

"Ladies and gentlemen, Wu will tell you about this Tongguan-"

Cao Cao stretched out his hand to point out the location of Tongguan, and said leisurely: "The location of Tongguan is bordered by the river in the north and the mountainside in the south. ”

"The river is the Yellow River, the mountain, the mountain is the Huashan!"

The Yellow River is in the shape of the word "several", and the Tongguan is located at the turning point of the horizontal bending hook "乚". ”

"Wait and see, the big river is rolling and falling from north to south, and now it folds, and it flows to the east, and there is Weishui flowing in, which increases the surging momentum."

"Hehe, do you know why it's called 'Tongguan'? Tell me, King Xian. ”

Zhao Kai thought for a while and said: "The "Water Scripture Note" contains, 'The river flows south in the Guan, Tongjiguan Mountain, because it is called Tongguan. ’”

Lao Cao smiled: "Worthy of the virtuous king!" That's it. If you look at it again, the Zhongtiao Mountain in the north of the Yellow River, from the west and east across the riverbank, is like a natural barrier, and the east is connected to Taihang and Taiyue, how dangerous is the situation? ”

"Because of this, this pass can be called the key of the three Qin, east into the Central Plains, west into the pass, must pass through here in and out, here the mountain peaks are connected, the valley is deep and the cliff is absolute, only this one sheep intestine path, only one car and one horse, the world's strange danger also!"

The picture of the flying bird is detailed, and Lao Cao said it even more clearly, and everyone listened to it in their ears, as if before the pass.

Liu Yanqing couldn't help but say, "Brother Xian! What a capable person can do anything, foolish brother remembers, I waited for the previous time to come to Xijing, and I have never been to Tongguan, right? How do you understand this? It seems that I have been in and out several times, and you may not understand. ”

Lao Cao smiled and said nothing, everyone only said that he was erudite and talented, but they didn't know that the person who built this pass was none other than him, Cao Cao Cao Mengde!

Tongguan is completed, Hangu is wasted, and the danger of Tongguan is far better than that of Hangu Pass in the past, and now the hall is full of people, there are rangers, champions, and generals of the Western Army, but if you talk about the understanding of Tongguan, in front of Lao Cao, they are really younger brothers.

Lao Cao continued: "Tongguan guard, you don't need him to be brave! If you want to break him, it is best to lure him into battle, and the brave will be full of blood and energy, and it is easy to be provoked, so it is taboo to ......"

Speaking of this, he suddenly stared, but he remembered that Ma Chao attacked and captured Chang'an, and Chang'an guarded Zhong Xuan retreated to Tongguan, and he sent Cao Hong Xu Huang to lead 10,000 troops to help guard.

At that time, Cao Ren advised: "Hong is restless, and I am afraid of making a mistake." But he didn't listen, so that Ma Chao scolded the three generations of the Cao family under the pass, and deliberately made a slack situation, which provoked Cao Hong to fight angrily.

It was precisely because of the loss of Tongguan that Lao Cao fell into passivity, and then he was killed into an eternal joke of cutting his beard and abandoning his robe.

In desperation, the soldiers were in danger, repeatedly crossing the Yellow River and Weishui, and marching riskily, so they were in danger several times, and they were defeated again and again, and finally relied on a discordant plan to provoke Ma Chao and Han Sui to turn against each other and make them infighting, so that they won by luck.

Thinking of this, he was already in a cold sweat, and said with a wry smile: "Fortunately, the little seed is more than a year old, and he has lost a few battles in a row before, so there must be no blood and courage to speak of, but he is not a cowardly coward, and guarding Tongguan is exactly wonderful!" ”

When the generals heard this, they all felt that it was strange, and they thought that the war general was a brave word, and Lao Cao counted the small species of Xianggong down, and came to a conclusion that "it couldn't be better", which can also be described as a strange theory.

"But!" Lao Cao shook his head, shook off his distracting thoughts, rubbed his palms and said with a smile: "Now that Tongguan is in my hands, it should be the unlucky people of Western Xia!" ”

He stretched out his hand and pointed at Taiyuan: "The danger of Tongguan, as long as the guards have the qualifications of Chinese people and do not seek merit, then there will be no fault!" The soldiers and horses of Western Xia, when they calculated, should have already hit their heads and broke their blood, so they had to fight Taiyuan! ”

"Fighting Taiyuan is far easier than fighting Tongguan!" Lao Cao took out the military book he had robbed before, and sneered: "The little Xianggong only said that the Xixia people had a heavy army to fight Tongguan and attacked Taiyuan with a partial division, which was the reason why he was defeated for a long time and became a frightened bird. ”

As soon as the words came out, everyone was stunned: You know Tongguan, you are well-informed, but you have never met with a small race, and you judged that it was a partial teacher who attacked Taiyuan based on him, and you concluded that he was a bird with a frightened bow, which is too much to underestimate this veteran who has fought all his life, right?

Lao Cao is full of words: "Everyone in the world regards the old and small species as famous generals, but Wu thinks otherwise." The Western Army has made meritorious contributions to defending the land, but it has been a disaster for a hundred years! If the two of them are not casters, can they have authority today? I look at the battles in his life, won the battles that should be won, lost the battles that should be lost, some of the victories and defeats, and most of them lost, such generals, but mediocre people, the Chong clan, the Zhe clan, the Yao clan...... And so it is. ”

When he said Yao's, his tone was stunned, and Liu Yanqing's old face turned red, knowing that he was the Liu family, he was afraid that he was also among them, but Lao Cao left himself a decent place.

Zhang Jun was born in the Western Army, and he was slightly angry when he heard the words, but after thinking about it, he couldn't say anything to refute it.

Lao Cao said with a smile: "Therefore, Wu expected that with the state of mind of a small kind of frightened bird, there was only the word Tongguan in his eyes, but because of the loss of Tongguan, the iron harrier and the step could go straight into the Central Plains, and he cared too much, so he decided that Xia Jun also thought about it as he thought, and he had to break through Tongguan." ”

"But he didn't want to think about it, Xixia was able to make a fortune this time, but it was the prestige of the Jin Kingdom, and the territory that the Jin Kingdom fancied, did he dare to rob it?"

Shaking his head as he spoke: "He doesn't dare!" Then why bother to call the Central Plains? ”

When everyone heard this, they let out an "oh" in unison, and they all felt open-minded.

Yes, do the Western Xia people still want to come to the Central Plains and participate in the Jinliao melee? Xixia took the land of Sanqin, and it was already a wave of food, why do you have to fight Tongguan to the death?

Zhao Kai patted his thigh: "Brother said this, the younger brother understood, so he fought Taiyuan, although he tried to take advantage of as much as possible, but more importantly, it was to repay the favor and help Jin Guo lay the passage from Yunzhou to Hedong Road!" ”

Cao Cao smiled: "King Xian! ”

After saying that, his face was solemn, and the murderous aura gradually steamed: "In this case, he beat his Taiyuan, and I will go out of my Tongguan!" The Tangut people bluffed outside Tongguan, but I went straight out, first defeated his army, and then smashed the foundation of the Tangut Dynasty! Didn't he want Taiyuan Mansion? Hehe, I'll go get Xingqing Mansion by myself! ”

When everyone heard this, they were all shocked.

They all thought that Cao Cao saw through what the Xia people thought, and the soldiers went out of Tongguan, and they were going to Taiyuan for a decisive battle.

Liu Yanqing exclaimed: "Ah, virtuous brother, you have to think twice!" ”

Lao Cao said with a smile: "Old brother, don't worry, Wu uses soldiers and never gambles on life and death." You must know that the small people of the Western Xia Kingdom are tired, and this time they suddenly became rich, from Li Qianshun to the following generals, they must be extremely arrogant, he has more than 100,000 soldiers and horses, and he has to garrison several times the territory of several times, and he wants to feint Tongguan, and he wants to attack Taiyuan, which has long been divided, he came in several ways, I only went all the way, and the fight was a surprise attack! He came back with reinforcements all the way, and I killed him all the way, and this battle ......"

Lao Cao slapped the table heavily: "Since I used Bianliang as bait and hooked Jin Liao, I won't take the opportunity to destroy Western Xia, what else will I do?" ”

The hall was full of people, except for Hu Sanniang, who was red and soft, and the rest were dumbfounded.

Everyone was talking about how to resist the armies of several countries, and they were elated for a long time, and in the end, they realized that what we were talking about was how to defend, and you actually wanted to destroy the country directly?

Even Hua Rong couldn't help but speak: "Brother, think twice!" If...... It's all here, naturally it's easy to say, now there are only a few thousand elites, and the state army has not been trained, how can you do such a career? ”

Lao Cao laughed and said, "Do you want to take a risk? Brother Qiao, don't tell me, you can't contact Li Zhu! ”

Qiao Daoqing raised his head and laughed: "How can the little brother let my brother down?" He left Bianliang by himself, and the two of us had already discussed the method of contact! With the talent of 'Mr. Golden Sword', he will never be too far from this! ”

This is exactly: Jishan Iron Horse is hidden in the south of the river, and the sound of hooves is cold in the northwest! Roaring ten thousand armies and dancing with gold, it is difficult to destroy the country.

(End of chapter)