As the protagonist of dealing with Zhang Ren, Zhang Xiu soon knew the plan of Jia Xu and Tian Feng, although he felt a little sorry for his senior brother, but now the two of them are their masters, even if they wave guns on the battlefield, they can't be merciful, so Zhang Xiu agreed to the arrangement of the two military advisors without objection.

Since Zhang Xiu listened to the persuasion of his master Tong Yuan and secretly took refuge in his inexplicable junior brother Zhao Xing, his life path has become wider and wider, and now he is in a high position and has become a well-known figure in the Jin military general system, at least among the top ten.

After Zhang Xiu arrived in Wudu, he secretly asked someone to send Zhang Ren a secret letter, in which he described in detail what happened to him after going down the mountain, and implicitly suggested that Zhang Ren might as well switch to Zhao Xing's camp, so that the four brothers could fight side by side in the future, avoiding the addition of swords and soldiers and hurting feelings.

It's a pity that Zhang Ren is an extremely firm and loyal person, when he was promoted and reused by the Sima family, he made up his mind to be loyal to the Sima family for the rest of his life, so he ignored the persuasion of the second junior brother at all. Zhang Ren asked the messenger to bring back only eight words to Zhang Xiu: "Each is his master, don't talk about personal friendship", which fully stated his position. In order to prevent others from secretly sowing discord, Zhang Ren also specially gave Sima Yi and Sima Fang two letters, explaining in detail his experience of acquaintance with Zhang Xiu, and made it clear that he would not take care of his personal feelings, and there was no brother on the battlefield.

Sima Fang and Sima Yi are both very city people, after receiving Zhang Ren's letter, they immediately sent someone to send Zhang Ren a letter of comfort and encouragement, saying that they had never doubted Zhang Ren's loyalty, but secretly let the spies go deep into Wudu and even Xiliang, carefully understand the situation of Zhang Xiu and Zhang Ji, and was sure that Zhang Ren and Zhang Xiu had not been in contact for a long time, so he put his mind at ease.

Zhao Hu took ten members of the team who were personally selected, dressed as Yanzhou traders, first made a detour to infiltrate Chencang in the Sili area, and then joined a caravan from Chang'an to Chengdu through Hanzhong in Chencang. If it comes to the ability to make up and stealth, the systematically trained Shadow Ops members are indeed highly skilled, and they are simply pretending to be like something, and it is difficult for people to find flaws.

Just ten days after Zhao Hu left Xiajiao, according to the established plan, Zhang Xiu took a team of guards and came to the city of Fuxian where Zhang Ren was stationed. Because he was a light cavalry, although there were only 500 people, Zhang Xiu was not worried at all that the senior brother would come from the city of Fu County with a large army to arrest him.

Zhang Xiu held a copper loudspeaker specially prepared for shouting, and shouted to the city: "Zhang Xiu, the commander of the Blue Wolf Army, is here, and I specially invite the senior brother Zhang Tingfu (Zhang Renzi) to go to the city for a talk!"

After Zhang Xiu finished shouting a sentence full of anger, the Yizhou army guarding the city all heard it clearly. Since it was the same disciple of the Metropolitan Governor, and he was the head of the famous Blue Wolf Army, the leader in charge of duty at the head of the city naturally did not dare not report it, he hurriedly ran to report to Zhang Ren, but was scolded by Zhang Ren and blasted out.

The little leader of the Yizhou army defending the city shouted to Zhang Xiu in the distance under the city: "Most of my family governors have said, where did you come from, hurry back to where you kid, and if you dare to howl under the city, immediately send troops out of the city to arrest you!"

Zhang Xiu listened to the words of the officers and soldiers guarding the city, and was not angry, and continued to shout with a loudspeaker: "Since Zhang Ren does not dare to come to see me, then please please pass me a few words for me - the master will come to Wudu to visit us in the near future, if there is still some conscience, the three of us master and apprentice will talk by the water in the Western Han Dynasty! If you dare not come for fear of death, I will not recognize you as a senior brother in the future!"

After Zhang Xiu shouted this paragraph, he swaggered away from Fuxian with five hundred cavalry. But when he shouted out, it was water that was spilled, and it could never be taken back. The defenders at the head of the city can hear clearly, Zhang Ren and him are the same brothers, and their master will come to Wudu to meet the two apprentices in a few days, how can this matter make people feel very strange?

Zhang Ren, who didn't go to the city to answer Zhang Xiu, was not at all able to do anything by his junior brother's Laipi behavior, he firmly believed that "the clear are self-purifying, and the turbid are self-turbid", so he didn't take what Zhang Xiu said seriously, and was busy defending against the affairs of the county.

There is no impermeable wall in the world, let alone shouting in plain sight. Soon after, Sima Yi received information about Zhang Xiu's trip to Fu County. Considering the current complicated situation in Wudu, Sima Yi scoffed at Zhang Xiu's obvious practice of sowing discord, and did not suspect Zhang Ren too much, but only ordered the secret agents of the Sima family in Fuxian County to pay more attention to Zhang Ren's abnormal behavior, and easily not let Zhang Ren see the clues of being watched.

After Zhang Xiu returned to Shanglu City, he informed Tian Feng, the military advisor, of what he had said in Fu County and Zhang Ren's reaction, and then asked Tian Feng what to do next. Tian Feng replied: "Now we can send soldiers and horses to explore downstream along the Western Han River, and try to make the movement as loud as possible, so that Zhang Ren, who is stationed in Fu County, can find it." ”

Subsequently, according to Tian Feng's instructions, Zhang Xiu personally led 2,000 men and horses from Shanglu City to explore the terrain along the Western Han River on the edge of the city.

Zhang Xiu explored the Western Han River with such fanfare, and soon the news reached Zhang Ren's ears. Although Zhang Ren felt a little strange about Zhang Xiu's move, he still firmly believed in his own judgment, thinking that Zhang Xiu's tricks were just to transfer his troops out of Fu County, and to plant an ambush in advance in a dangerous place, intending to launch a surprise attack. Zhang Xiu sat firmly on the Diaoyutai platform, made up his mind to stick to the county, and continued not to be moved by the actions of the blue wolf army.

A few days later, Zhang Xiu ordered people to make some rafts in Shanglu City, and from time to time let officers and soldiers ride rafts down the river, as if they were conducting a kind of drill. This obvious move can only indicate one situation, that is, the Blue Wolf Army is trying to take a raft down the river into the territory of Yizhou and attack Guanghan County.

Although he didn't want to believe that the Blue Wolf Army had the courage and courage to fight in the hinterland of Yizhou alone, because it involved the security of Yizhou itself, Zhang Ren still sent someone to Sima Yi with the intelligence obtained from reconnaissance and personal judgment analysis.

After reading Zhang Ren's letter, Sima Yi felt that Zhang Ren's analysis was very reasonable, and when he was about to reply to Zhang Ren, an astonishing news came from Chengdu, which made Sima Yi, who had always been calm, look great.

The news from Chengdu said: Sima Fang, the state pastor, was assassinated by gangsters, and now his life is in danger, and he may be in danger of hanging up at any time.