After getting Jiang Wei's plan, Yang Fu went to find Cao Zhen early the next morning.

As a fortress in Liangzhou, Chencang was originally very strong.

Later, Cao Zhen deduced that the northern expedition of the Han army in Japan was very likely to regard Chencang as the first target, so he mobilized a lot of manpower and material resources to strengthen Chencang's city defense.

Cao Zhen's method of strengthening the city defense of Chencang is also very simple, that is, to learn from Zhuge Liang and Guan Yu's method, and build another outer city outside the city wall of Chencang.

Cao Zhen regards Mi Yang as his biggest opponent in his life, and he must have a very in-depth understanding of Mi Yang's past achievements.

The first battle Mi Yang fought was now regarded as the best example of defensive counterattack in the world.

Regarding Mi Yang's battle for fame, Cao Zhen has studied it no less than ten times in the past.

Through many studies of Cao Zhen, he learned that the reason why Mi Yang won a big victory in the battle of public security was not only because of his proper command, but also because of the special city defense of the public security city, so that Mi Yang had no worries.

Without this, Mi Yang would not have dared to divide his troops and attack the camp.

Cao Zhen is a general who is good at learning, and since he knows that the special nature of public security and city defense can greatly benefit the defending side, then there is no reason for him not to learn this.

So after pacifying Hexi, Cao Zhen put most of his energy on expanding the outer city of Chencang.

Cao Wei has a lot of talents, and they have no shortage of architects.

In addition, Cao Wei's national strength is strong, so it may take a long time for Ji Han to work, but under Cao Zhen's supervision, it has already achieved initial results in half a year.

Cao Zhen, who was standing outside Chencang City, looked at the majestic city wall with a rough outline in front of him, and a satisfied smile appeared on his face.

This wall, which can be called the heavenly moat, will be the key to his defeat of the Han army in the future.

Thinking of this, Cao Zhen turned to his henchman Hao Zhaoyan behind him and said, "When the construction of the outer city of Chencang is completed, Gu will let you be the guard of Chencang."

Do you have the confidence to be lonely in the future, to resist the soldiers of the thief army for the Great Wei? ”

Hao Zhao, the word Bodao, Taiyuan people.

Hao Zhao joined the army as a young man, first served as the governor of the department, and later made many military exploits, and was gradually promoted to a miscellaneous general.

In the first year of Zhangwu, a major rebellion broke out in Hexi, and Hao Zhao, who led the troops to guard Hexi, repeatedly defeated the rebels and successfully stabilized the situation in some parts of Hexi.

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If it weren't for this premise, the whole territory of Hexi might have raised the flag of rebellion, and it would have been more difficult for Cao Zhen to quell the Hexi Rebellion later.

Because of Hao Zhao's military exploits, Cao Zhen appreciated him after he leveled Hexi, and transferred him to his side.

When he became the leader of Guanzhong, Cao Zhen's command can be said to be full of talents, but he looks at Hao Zhao and Cao Zhen differently.

Because of the other look in his heart, Cao Zhen handed over the important task of guarding Chen Cang to Hao Zhao.

After all, no matter how strong a city is, if there is a problem with the defenders, it is useless.

In the face of Cao Zhen's inquiry, Hao Zhao's face showed resoluteness, and he would not pretend to refuse as a northerner.

Hao Zhao bowed to Cao Zhen and said: "The minister is in one day, and Chen Cang is in one day." ”

Hao Zhao's words are very straightforward, but they reveal a kind of heroism in the city.

Hearing Hao Zhao's majestic words, Cao Zhen couldn't help laughing.

"Why bother."

In Cao Zhen's opinion, there is a large amount of ordnance, grain and grass hoarded in the Chen Cang, and it is guarded by two strong city walls.

As long as Hao Zhao can play normally, then no matter how good Mi Yang is, it is not difficult for Hao Zhao to defend Chen Cang, and Hao Zhao does not have to be willing to die.

It's just that there is no boss who will not like the subordinates who do things with their orders.

So Cao Zhen smiled and patted Hao Zhao's shoulder and said, "As long as you can defend Chen Cang in the future, you will be promoted to marquis." ”

For his favorite subordinates, Cao Zhen has always been stingy with rewards.

And with Cao Zhen's current status in the Great Wei, the effectiveness he promised was no less than that of the Wei Emperor Cao Pi.

After hearing Cao Zhen's promise to himself, Rao is Hao Zhao, who has always been resolute, also showed a little joy on his face.

Becoming a marquis is the dream of any man in the world.

Seeing that Hao Zhao was successfully beaten by him, Cao Zhen originally wanted to ask Hao Zhao a few words about the strategy of guarding Chen Cang in the future, but at this time, the personal guard came to Cao Zhen to report to him:

"Yang Liangzhou asks to see."

When Cao Zhen heard the news, he was still a little surprised for a while.

Although Yang Fu is his confidant, but if there is nothing important, Yang Fu will not take the initiative to see him.

After realizing this, Cao Zhen left Hao Zhao to continue to supervise the construction of the Chencang City Wall, and he himself came to Yang Fu under the leadership of his personal guards.

Seeing Cao Zhen's arrival, Yang Fu immediately bowed to Cao Zhen, and after a bow, Yang Fu said to Cao Zhenyan:

"If you have an important matter, please ask the general to decide."

Hearing Yang Fu say this, Cao Zhen willingly dispersed the surrounding idle people.

After only himself and Cao Zhen were left in the field, Yang Fu opened his mouth to inform Cao Zhen of Jiang Wei's strategy.

It's just that when talking about the strategy, Yang Fu did not say that the strategy came from Jiang Wei.

This is because Yang Fu knows Cao Zhen very well.

Cao Zhen, who was brought up by Cao Cao, was the same as Cao Cao, and he looked down on the celebrities who were not worthy of the name of the world.

In this regard, Cao Zhen is very similar to Cao Rong.

It is obvious that Jiang Wei currently belongs to this type.

As the auspicious king in the hearts of the ancients, the unicorn is the head of the five spirits, and its status in the hearts of the world is higher than that of the dragon.

Even a handsome man like Mi Yang, the world only praises him as a deer, how can Jiang Wei be praised as a "young lin"?

Although Yang Fu knew that Jiang Wei's strategy was excellent, in Yang Fu's heart, he was worried that Cao Zhen would hesitate about this strategy because of his preferences, and this would be self-defeating.

This kind of thing was very common among the superiors in the past, and no matter how good the superiors were, they were also human beings, and it was inevitable that they would be affected by their personal likes and dislikes.

In order not to let this worry come true, Yang Fu wanted to offer this strategy to Cao Zhen in his own name first.

If this strategy succeeds in the end, then when the time comes, he will say Jiang Wei's merits, which is the best of both worlds.

And as Yang Fu expected, after Cao Zhen listened to Yang Fu's plan, his face immediately appeared happy.

Cao Zhen felt that Yang Fu's strategy was very feasible.

Cao Zhen has this opinion, on the one hand, because of his own insight, and on the other hand, because this strategy was offered by Yang Fu.

Because of Yang Fu's past achievements, his strategy is easy to make people more convinced.

After listening to Yang Fu's strategy, Cao Zhen excitedly paced in front of Yang Fu with a fist high-five.

He is thinking about how to translate this strategy into practical steps.

If you want to do this, there is one person who can't be avoided, and that person is Cao Pi.

After all, this strategy involves the diplomatic level between countries, and only Cao Pi has the right to decide at this level.

So what Cao Zhen has to think about now is how to persuade Cao Pi to accept this strategy.

It stands to reason that with Cao Zhen's current position in Great Wei, it is not difficult to do this, but Cao Zhen knows that this strategy runs counter to the strategy of today's Great Wei.

Now the situation in the world is still dominated by Cao Wei's family, but Ji Han is not the separatist regime in history that was regarded as a joke by all Cao Wei's ministers.

Although the Cao Wei government and the opposition still have such a contemptuous title as "Shu Xiaoguo'er", after several successive defeats, such a contempt is insufficient compared with history.

It can even be said that now there is a situation in which Cao Wei and the opposition are "afraid of Shu like a tiger".

And most of this status quo is caused by Mi Yang.

"Yang knows the variables, predicts the battle situation, and it is better to calculate, since Emperor Wei is afraid of it."

This is a psychological consensus of the Cao Wei government and the opposition today.

can make Cao Wei, who regards himself as the Zhengshuo of China, have this kind of consensus, which shows how deep the psychological shadow Mi Yang caused to Cao Wei in the past.

It is precisely because of this psychological consensus that Cao Wei's current strategy is to "take defense as offense".

Perhaps at first, this strategy was only supported by a few people such as Jia Xu, but after the painful lessons of the past few defeats, this strategy has now become the opinion of most of Cao Wei's courtiers.

Cao Zhen would not be afraid of Mi Yang, so afraid that he would not dare to attack.

It's just that Cao Zhen knew that once he rashly proposed a plan to take the initiative to march south, he would definitely be stopped by many ministers in the government and the opposition.

Especially after knowing that he was going to take the initiative to attack Hanzhong, where Mi Yang was located, Cao Zhen could almost foresee how much resistance this strategy would encounter.

Didn't the two famous generals, Lu Meng and Cao Ren, all die when attacking Miyang?

So he had to think of a safe way.

After pondering and meditating, Cao Zhen finally came up with an idea, that is, he would go back to Luoyang in person and advise Cao Pi on the benefits of this strategy.

Thinking of this, Cao Zhen turned his head and said to Yang Fuyan: "Yishan, Lone is going to go back to Luoyang."

Before Gu returns to Luoyang, Gu will issue a military order, asking you to temporarily preside over the military administration of Liangzhou, hoping that you will not let Gu down. ”

Hearing Cao Zhen's order, Yang Fu immediately promised Cao Zhen: "The minister will not disgrace his mission." ”

Yang Fu knew that the reason why Cao Zhen wanted to rush back to Luoyang was probably because of the strategy he had offered today.

So Cao Zhen won't leave Guanzhong for too long.

It's just that Mi Yang is here, even if he leaves not long ago, Cao Zhen will inevitably not be able to let go of Liangzhou.

Cao Zhen continued to instruct Yang Fudao: "You have to keep the matter of Lone's departure from Liangzhou more secret.

It's just that you can't hide Mi Yang for long if you want to come to this matter, so you must remember not to take the initiative before Lone comes back, no matter what happens.

Especially in the four aspects of Guanzhong, it is necessary to send heavy troops to defend, and there must be no lightheartedness. ”

When Cao Zhen said this, his face was full of solemnity.

In Cao Zhen's opinion, it is necessary for him to return to Luoyang temporarily, but the safety of Liangzhou after he leaves cannot be ignored.

However, as long as Yang Fu can hold on, then under his carefully arranged defense line, Liang Jun will not be able to get any benefits.

In particular, Liangzhou is still implementing reforms, and it is unlikely that it will take the initiative to attack.

Cao Zhen instructed again, making Yang Fu's face more dignified than Cao Zhen.

Cao Zhen asked him to temporarily preside over the overall situation of Liangzhou, which was a kind of trust to him.

But if something happens to Liangzhou during his stay in Liangzhou, then his future will basically be ruined.

Therefore, Yang Fu had to be cautious about what Cao Zhen instructed.

Yang Fu bowed to Cao Zhen again: "Don't worry, the general, the minister will not be negligent." ”

Seeing that Yang Fu made two guarantees in a row, Cao Zhen's heart settled down.

With Yang Fu's intelligence, as long as he does not disobey his generals' orders, it is safe to come to Liangzhou.

In fact, currently in Guanzhong, Cao Zhen is the number one, and the second in command is not Yang Fu, but the Anxi general Xiahou Nan who guards Chang'an.

According to common sense, after Cao Zhen left, the defense of Liangzhou should be taken over by Xiahou Nan.

It's just that Cao Zhen knows his brother-in-law very well, and this brother-in-law doesn't know anything about military strategy.

In this case, how dare Cao Zhen hand Liangzhou into his hands.

However, although Xiahou Nan is not familiar with military affairs, he is a good hand in governing life.

Recently, the autumn harvest in Guanzhong and the manpower and material resources for the construction of the outer city of Chencang are all raised by Xiahou Nan.

Under Xiahou Nan's financing, Cao Zhen never worried about the logistics situation.

If it weren't for this point, Xiahou Nan would have been sent back to Luoyang by Cao Zhen.

Seeing that the defense of Liangzhou was properly arranged, Cao Zhen summoned his personal guards.

The matter of returning to Luoyang is urgent.

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Mi Yang didn't know that Cao Wei was brewing a big conspiracy about him.

He was inspecting Liangzhou, and soon after receiving a letter from Zhuge Liang.

I have to say that since Zhuge Liang knew the content of Mi Yang's new policy, the contact with Mi Yang has become extremely frequent.

Some of those contacts are purely related to Mi Yang's clay pot porridge.

Zhuge Liang in history is such a person, for those who are close to him, even if he is in the enemy camp, he will still write letters of greetings from time to time.

The content of some letters has been passed down to future generations to be known by future generations, and from the content of those letterheads, it can be seen that Zhuge Liang is also a person who loves to chat in private.

For example, he often wrote to Zhuge Jin, telling him about his troubles in raising children, and reminded Zhuge Jin to take care of Zhuge Ke and not let him let himself go too far......

Such Zhuge Liang is very flesh and blood.

And the reason why Zhuge Liang often writes to Mi Yang recently is because of his promise to Mi Yang at the beginning.

"As long as Mi Yang can satisfy him in terms of governance, then Mi Yang will become his first disciple."

Perhaps Miyang's new policy is being implemented, and it has not yet shown its corresponding superiority, but it is obvious that Miyang's new policy embodies the concept of "putting the people first", which is very impressive.

As long as the Tao is right, then the corresponding technique is biased, and it is harmless.

It can be said that at this moment, in Zhuge Liang's heart, he already regarded Mi Yang as a disciple who inherited his mantle.

Since he is a disciple, Zhuge Liang will not be stingy with his care and love for Mi Yang.

Of course, the identities of Zhuge Liang and Mi Yang are special, so in the letterheads exchanged between the two, a large part of them also talked about official affairs.

For example, the letterhead Mi Yang received today is Zhuge Liang's previous reply to his suggestion to divide his troops south to Chengdu.

In this reply letter, Zhuge Liang first affirmed Mi Yang's loyalty and filial piety, but he also specially reminded Mi Yang in the letter:

The pacification of Nanzhong is important, but the defense of Hanzhong should not be careless.

In particular, the two fortresses of Yinping and Yang'an Pass must be defended by heavy troops to prevent the enemy from sneaking attack.

After seeing Zhuge Liang's reminder, a sigh appeared in Mi Yang's heart.

If Zhuge Liang was still there when Deng Ai and Zhong Hui marched south in history, or if his arrangement was not destroyed, how could Ji Han perish!