Cao Zhen was not Cao Cao's biological son, he was just one of Cao Cao's many adopted sons.

Everyone in the world knows that Cao Cao was a good wife when he was alive, especially the kind of wife who gave birth.

Therefore, Cao Cao, who has been romantic all his life, not only accepted many beautiful women, but also adopted many adopted sons generously.

Of course, Cao Zhen can become Cao Cao's adopted son, not because of this reason, but because his biological father once had a life-saving grace for Cao Cao.

It's just that although Cao Zhen became Cao Cao's adopted son for a very upright reason, among Cao Cao's many adopted sons, only Cao Zhen was given the surname Cao by Cao Cao.

Moreover, Cao Cao gave Cao Zhen the word Zidan, and the generation of his character is exactly the same as Cao Cao's four sons-in-law.

Even Cao Zhen has eaten and lived with Cao Cao's four sons-in-law since he was a child, and his relationship with Cao Pi is the most friendly.

In ancient times, being able to be given a family name essentially means that Cao Zhen has truly become a member of the Cao clan and is completely beyond the boundaries of adopted sons.

The most important thing is that Cao Cao treats Cao Zhen exactly the same as Cao Pi and other biological sons, which shows how much Cao Cao loves Cao Zhen.

Cao Cao loved Cao Zhen so much, not only because Cao Zhen's biological father had a life-saving grace for him, but also because Cao Cao saw that Cao Zhen was a talent that could be created.

is a great talent enough to defend the Great Wei Sheji after his death.

When Cao Pi ascended the throne of Wei, he immediately appointed Cao Zhen as the general of Zhenxi, and supervised the military forces of Yongzhou and Liangzhou.

Later, Cao Pi appointed Zou Qi, the Taishou of Anding, as the assassin of the history, and Zhang Jin, a native of Zhangye County, held the Taishou hostage in Jiuquan and rebelled, leading the army to prevent Zou Qi from taking office.

Cao Zhen sent Fei Yao to march to quell Zhang Jin's rebellion.

Because of this exploit, Cao Zhen was named the Marquis of Dongxiang by Cao Pi.

This happened during the Xiangfan War between the Han and Wei armies.

After Cao Pi left Wancheng and returned to Luoyang, Cao Pi worried that the Guanzhong region would be unstable due to the defeat of the Wei army in the battle of Xiangfan.

He immediately worshiped Cao Zhen as the general of the expedition to the west, and sat in Chang'an to supervise the military in Guanzhong.

Cao Pi's prediction was not wrong, just after the disastrous defeat of the Wei army in the Xiangfan battle spread all over the world, there were many rebellions in Cao Wei's internal places.

Among them, the rebellion in Guanzhong and Hexi was the most serious.

Just a few months ago, Zhiyuanduo, Lu Shui, Feng Xian and other Hu formed a coalition to cause chaos in Hexi.

At that time, Cao Zhen had just returned to Chang'an, and at that time, Cao Wei's iron cavalry in Guanzhong was taken away by Zhang He with 10,000, and the military strength in Guanzhong was quite weak.

Therefore, after the huge rebellion occurred, all the Cao Wei officials in Guanzhong dissuaded Cao Zhen from fighting again in the future.

The Cao Wei officials were deeply afraid of another big defeat in Guanzhong, in that case, Cao Wei's social affairs would be really threatened.

However, Cao Zhen tried his best to defy public opinion, and insisted on setting the strategy of taking the initiative with the bold adverbial sentence of "Cao's clan relatives should die for Cao's family".

Cao Zhen personally led the generals to lead an army of 30,000 to attack the Zhuhu coalition army, fought for thousands of miles, and finally won a complete victory and completely quelled the rebellion in Hexi.

In this battle, the Wei army beheaded more than 50,000 people, and obtained 100,000 livestock, 1.11 million sheep, and 80,000 cattle, which completely played Cao Zhen's prestige.

When the war report reached Luoyang, Cao Pi, who was originally very depressed, was very happy when he learned the news, and he laughed at the court meeting and said to the ministers:

"My strategy is within the curtain, and the generals are fighting thousands of miles away, and their corresponding proportions are in accordance with the festival. Before and after the war was captured, there was no such thing. ”

This is the first time that Cao Pi has been so happy in front of his ministers since he succeeded to the throne.

In addition to being happy, Cao Pi immediately issued an edict to promote Cao Zhen to the general of the army, supervise all Chinese and foreign military, fake the festival, and continue to sit in Guanzhong.

Since then, Cao Zhen has become the highest military commander of Cao Wei.

The reason why Cao Pi was so ecstatic about Cao Zhen's battle report was that Cao Zhen's results were indeed very rich.

It is also because this battle has played the prestige of the Wei army, which has a far-reaching stabilizing effect on the current Cao Wei Sheji.

After winning this battle, the road between the Western Regions and Cao Wei was officially opened.

He could use this path to let the Western Regions send envoys to pay tribute to the vassals, and gradually restore the rule of the Chinese nation in the Western Regions, which was enough to greatly strengthen the legitimacy of Cao Wei in the world.

In addition, this big win is his first hearty big win since taking the throne.

This great victory was enough for the Wei army to come out of the shadow of repeated defeats before, and it could also greatly deter the local disobedient people.

Cao Pi was right, when this Hexi victory spread all over the world, the local turmoil within Cao Wei instantly calmed down.

The Wei army is still strong.

And this kind of far-reaching influence is invisibly raising Cao Zhen's prestige in the world.

Before this great victory, although Cao Zhen was repeatedly trusted by Cao Cao and Cao Pi, he did not have a very dazzling record to set off his status.

Therefore, when he supervised the military affairs in Guanzhong, the hearts of the people in Guanzhong were not very stable.

After all, the Guanzhong states are adjacent to Liangzhou, and there is a big enemy in Liangzhou.

With Mi Yang's past records, the Guanzhong states actually have little confidence in whether Cao Zhen will be able to resist Mi Yang's attack in the future.

But now it's different.

With this great victory on his body, many people in the Cao Wei government and the opposition began to have high hopes for Cao Zhen, hoping that he could become the guardian saint of Cao Wei to resist Mi Yang's attacks in the future.

After all, many Cao Wei ministers knew that before Cao Cao died, he had specially seen Mi Yang.

On that day, he brought Cao Zhen and Xiahou Shang there, Cao Cao's intentions were self-evident, Cao Zhen and Xiahou Shang were the candidates in his heart who stayed to fight Mi Yang in the future.

Now Xiahou Shang still doesn't mention it.

Therefore, Cao Wei's government and the opposition are now pinning their high hopes on Cao Zhen.

Of course, Cao Zhen knows the high hopes of the government and the opposition.

And even if he doesn't have the high hopes of those people, Cao Zhen regards Mi Yang as the enemy of life and death in his heart.

This hostility originated from the meeting of the two dragons that day, and with Mi Yang's repeated victories against Wei, Cao Zhen's hostility towards Mi Yang in his heart also grew.

"You must guard against him for the rest of your life."

This is Cao Cao's warning to Cao Zhen before he died, and Cao Zhen has never forgotten this warning for a day.

It was precisely because of the strong hostility and attention in his heart that Cao Zhen spent a lot of money to install spies in Liangzhou after learning that Mi Yang had become the pastor of Liangzhou, and investigated Mi Yang's every move.

Under this kind of careful preparation in advance, Cao Zhen learned of the incident in Liangzhou almost before anyone else.

Of course, Cao Zhen was able to learn about the changes in Liangzhou so quickly, and because he was now in Chencang City, not far from Liangzhou.

The words of Ming Xiu Plank Road and Dark Chen Cang represent a classic battle example, and also herald the beginning of a great dynasty.

At that time, the soldier Han Xin used this tactic to successfully bring the Han army out of Hanzhong, and officially launched the clarion call to crusade against the overlord of Western Chu.

For this, it is impossible for Cao Zhen, who is familiar with military books, not to know.

Therefore, although the topography of Chencang Road has changed a lot due to a major earthquake, he still regards Chencang as a stronghold for the Han army in the coming days.

With the attention in his heart, Cao Zhen immediately summoned a group of civil ministers and military generals to come to Chencang City soon after quelling the Hexi Rebellion.

He ordered a large amount of manpower to be transferred from Guanzhong to repair the city defense of Chencang.

When Cao Zhen, who was inspecting the defense of Chencang, learned that there was urgent information delivered in Liangzhou, he hurriedly put down the defense map of Chencang in his hand and took the urgent information from the spies as quickly as possible.

At this moment, Cao Zhen thought that Mi Yang's army was about to attack Guanzhong.

Although Taiwei Jia Xu had analyzed, the Han army should recuperate for several years after the Battle of Xiangfan and accumulate strength.

But Mi Yang has always been known for being good at surprise soldiers, so if he suddenly launched a surprise attack on Guanzhong, it would be expected by Cao Zhen.

After all, it can be seen from the previous intelligence that in the past six months, Mi Yang has been streamlining soldiers in Nanzheng, stressing military training, and his behavior is very much like a sign that he is going to do a big job.

But when the content of the information was read, the content of the information greatly exceeded Cao Zhen's expectations.

Mi Yang sent troops well, but his direction of sending troops was not Guanzhong, but those places in Liangzhou.

After realizing how much turmoil this would bring to Liangzhou, Cao Zhen immediately ordered the summoning of the civil and military ministers who were currently in Chencang.

Under Cao Zhen's summoning, many of the ministers of Guanzhong, who were originally busy with their own affairs, immediately came to the meeting hall in Chen Cangcheng.

After seeing that all the ministers had arrived, Cao Zhen passed the information in his hand to his right-hand man one by one.

The first person to see this information was not Xiahou Nan, whose status in Guanzhong was only below Cao Zhen, but a scribe with a pluralized face.

This scribe Yang Fu, whose name is Yishan, is a person from Tianshui Ji County.

Yang Fu's family is a well-known family in Liangzhou, so he was able to serve as a Liangzhou practitioner when he was young.

Later, he was gradually promoted to Liangzhou because of his political achievements.

If this was the case, Cao Zhen would not have valued him so much.

The most important thing for Cao Wei is celebrities.

What Yang Fu really caught Cao Zhen's attention was that when Ma Chao swept Liangzhou, it was Yang Fu who contributed a lot to it, which made Ma Chao finally lose in hatred.

The most important thing is that when Cao Zhenli proposed to send troops, almost all the ministers in Guanzhong opposed his move.

At that time, Yang Fu was one of the few courtiers who supported him, and the reason why Cao Zhen was able to move thousands of miles was because Yang Fu relieved him of the pressure of logistics.

Every case is enough to prove that Yang Fu is a rare talent.

Because of this, after Cao Zhen became the number one in Guanzhong, he strongly recommended Yang Fu to Cao Pi.

Now Cao Zhen is the Dinghai Divine Needle in Cao Pi's heart, as long as Cao Zhen asks for it, he has nothing to disagree.

So just a month ago, Cao Pi's edict arrived, worshiping Yang Fu as the protector of Guanzhong, Liangzhou Assassin History, and becoming Cao Wei's de facto second-in-command in Guanzhong.

Cao Zhen's trust to Yang Fu is obvious to all, he actually doesn't care much about the reaction of other ministers after reading this information, but he is particularly concerned about Yang Fu's opinion on this matter.

After Yang Fu read the contents of the information, a look of surprise first appeared on his face.

He didn't expect Mi Yang to suddenly come to this trick.

But then, a solemn look appeared on his face.

However, on the contrary to Yang Fu, after reading the contents of the information, Wang Shuang, Hao Zhao, Fei Yao and other generals present all had joy on their faces.

Among the generals present, Wang Shuang's personality is the most popular.

Wang Shuang, the word is complete, he and Yang Fu are generally from the Liangzhou Wang family.

But unlike Yang Fu, Wang Shuang has loved swords and horses since he was a child, and when he grew up, he was nine feet long, with a bear's waist and a tiger's back, not at all like a child from a scholar family.

When Cao Zhen suppressed the Hexi rebellion a few months ago, he recruited talents in Liangzhou, and it was at that time that Wang Shuang joined Cao Zhen's army.

And after Wang Shuang joined Cao Zhen's army, he was good at a pair of meteor hammers, because of his own bravery, he repeatedly made military exploits, and even Chayu, one of the leaders of the Hu clan in Hexi, was beheaded by him himself.

Because of such military exploits, Wang Shuang gradually got Cao Zhen's attention.

Wang Shuang, who is only thirty years old now, is already a partial general.

After reading the contents of the information, Wang Shuang, who had a straightforward personality, immediately stood up and said to Cao Zhen, who was sitting at the top:

"The thieves dare to mess with Liangzhou, and now that Liangzhou is unstable, it is a good time for our army to attack Liangzhou!"

Wang Shuang's voice was like a bell, because the voice was too loud, and his suggestion reverberated in the council room.

Listening to the reverberation, the faces of the generals present all showed a look of approval.

Although Wang Shuang is five big and three rough on the surface, he is from a scholar clan after all, and he still has basic knowledge.

Everyone in the world knew that attacking local tyrants would definitely cause a lot of civil strife.

And if the enemy has civil strife, it is indeed an excellent time to attack.

In addition, the autumn harvest in Guanzhong is gradually coming to an end, and the granaries in Guanzhong are abundantly stocked, which has the necessary conditions for the Wei army's expedition.

In addition, due to the complete victory in the first battle of Hexi, the morale of the Wei army in Guanzhong is currently very high.

Under these three favorable conditions, it is normal for Wang Shuanghui to take the initiative to suggest that Cao Zhen conquer Liangzhou.

It's just that even if his confidant will come out to make suggestions, Cao Zhen just smiled and asked Wang Shuang to sit down first.

Then he looked at Yang Fu.

He had been waiting for the advice of this thinker.

Seeing that Cao Zhen was looking at himself, Yang Fu had already thought about everything at this time, so he got up and bowed to Cao Zhen and said:

"Whoever fights will know the right time and the right place.

Although the people now lie in our army, the time and place are all in the Liang army.

Therefore, our army must not go to war without authorization. ”

Hearing that Yang Fu actually said something to stop him from sending troops, a little surprise appeared on Cao Zhen's face.

You must know that Yang Fu would suggest that he would take the initiative to attack when the rebels were strong, and the current situation was favorable to the Wei army, why did he become "Lord Peace" again?

Cao Zhen motioned to Yang Fu with his eyes to continue.

After receiving the signal, Yang Fu continued:

"Now it is September in Guanzhong and Hanzhong, which is the rainy season.

If our army wants to march from Guanzhong to Hanzhong, it is nothing more than to go through one of the four roads in Guanzhong.

And the roads in the middle of the four roads will be muddy and difficult to travel in the rainy season, and then they will inevitably slow down the march of our army, and the slow soldiers will be dangerous. ”

After saying this, Yang Fu continued to say to Cao Zhenyan:

"The above is the time of the day, but in terms of geographical advantages, if the general wants to capture Hanzhong, he must first capture Yangping Pass.

The terrain of Yangping Pass is difficult, which is not conducive to the deployment of the army.

When Taizu and Liu Bei captured Hanzhong, they were both blocked by Yangping Pass, which shows that Yangping Pass is easy to defend and difficult to attack. ”

"Mi Yang is a famous general in the world, even if there is chaos in Liangzhou, it will involve a lot of his energy, but with the importance of Yangping Pass, it is impossible for him not to place heavy troops in Yangping Pass.

The danger and the enemy are heavy, how can Hanzhong be so easy to take?

In addition, Mi Yang has always had the means and is extremely supported by the sergeants under his command, and the people on the western border are in awe of him.

If you don't make careful preparations after your army is dispatched, once the army is trapped outside Yangping Pass and cannot advance or retreat, then the Liangzhou counties may no longer be owned by the state. ”