On the third day after Fei Yao's army arrived at Yangping Pass, Cao Zhen, who had been traveling day and night, finally led his army outside Yangping Pass.

Cao Zhen didn't brag.

The Wei army is worthy of the title of elite soldiers, and Cao Zhen himself is worthy of the reputation of a famous general, but in a few days, Cao Zhen can lead 5,000 Wei troops to Yangping Pass, such a march speed is no worse than the original Wei Yan.

When Cao Zhen led the army and Fei Yao to converge, Cao Zhen immediately asked Fei Yao if there had been any changes in the Han army in the past few days.

Cao Zhen asked, and Fei Yao naturally didn't dare to hide it.

He reported truthfully: "In the past few days, the guards of Yangping Pass have only been patrolling on a daily basis, and there is nothing abnormal. ”

"Has the number of thieves on the city walls increased?"

Cao Zhen continued to ask.

Fei Yao immediately replied truthfully: "No." ”

After hearing Fei Yao's report, Cao Zhen was surprised.

He had already deduced that Mi Yang wanted to repeat his old tricks and defeat Cao Hong's army by deception.

Since Mi Yang had this kind of purpose in mind, when he knew that he would lead a large army to help, he would definitely not be without countermeasures.

At the very least, you have to have a mindset of valuing, and you can also strengthen some garrisons on the city walls!

What does it mean that everything is business as usual?

Do you look down on him Cao Zhen?

Cao Zhen was not happy all of a sudden.

Mi Yang's reaction was unusual, this kind of unusualness was beyond Cao Zhen's expectations, and at the same time, it also made Cao Zhen's heart uneasy.

The current situation, everything is as usual, is the situation that Cao Zhen is most unwilling to see.

Soldiers are impermanent and changeable.

Many people in the world like to plan and act later, and they all want to plan everything clearly before the start of the war, and let things develop as he expected, step by step.

Ordinary people think that people who can do this are the best generals.

But no one in the world can do that.

Because the essence of war is a contest between treacherous and changeable people's hearts, on this basis, who in the world dares to say that they can have everything in their hands before the war?

Just as Wu Yi used Xianguan as a bait to lure Cao Hong, if he had planned before, Mi Yang should now be ambushing Cao Hong's army with all his might.

But even if Mi Yang took many things into account, Cao Zhen's sudden arrival with a large army also made this matter a great variable.

However, although the arrival of Cao Zhen's army made Mi Yang want to ambush Cao Hong's army, which became a difficult thing to do, the real famous general lies in knowing how to adapt to changes and see moves.

So Mi Yang immediately formulated corresponding tactical adjustments according to the changes in the situation.

When Mi Yang made the corresponding tactical adjustments, it was now Cao Zhen's turn to see the move.

Cao Zhen led the army this time, and did not take Liu Ye with him.

But before he set off with the army, Liu Ye once said: Liu Ye thought that when Cao Zhen led the army to Yangping Pass, Mi Yang could choose nothing more than two paths.

One is to ambush Cao Hong's army first, and the other is to abandon the plan to ambush Cao Hong's army and instead strengthen the defense behind Yangping Pass.

According to the two paths that Mi Yang will choose, Liu Ye also presented corresponding strategies.

It's just that when Cao Zhen led the army to Yangping Pass, Cao Zhen found that Mi Yang didn't act according to Liu Ye's inference at all, and he directly chose the third way - ignoring.

Cao Zhen didn't think that Mi Yang would not receive the news of the arrival of his army in advance, so everything in the Han army at the moment is as usual, which is a deliberate attitude of disregard by Mi Yang - whether you come or not, I will continue to do my thing.

Mi Yang's strategy is completely outside Cao Zhen's plan, and when the original plan cannot be continued, Cao Zhen can only make corresponding moves according to the changes in the current situation.

This is a challenge that Mi Yang invisibly launched to Cao Zhen, a challenge exclusive to famous generals.

Looking at the Yangpingguan city wall where the number of troops has not increased or decreased, Cao Zhen's whispered voice of inquiry seems to have appeared in Cao Zhen's mind - Cao Zidan, what should you do next?

Although Cao Zhen had been leading the army in Guanzhong before, he had seen Mi Yang.

That year was the twenty-fourth year of Jian'an.

On the Han River in the twenty-fourth year of Jian'an, the old King of Wei and the King of Hanzhong each brought two of their own sons and nephews to meet.

At that time, Mi Yang was a fledgling, but he had already passed the public security battle and shocked the world.

I still remember that day, Cao Zhen and Mi Yang were only a few steps away, and when Emperor Wu was talking to Liu Bei, Cao Zhen had been secretly observing Mi Yang.

Cao Zhen knew why Emperor Wu took him with him that day, in order to let him have a good look at Mi Yang, the enemy of Cao Wei who came to Japan.

In a trance, several years passed, and Cao Zhen had become Cao Wei's general, becoming the first person in Cao Wei other than Cao Pi, but he never forgot the meeting on the Han River that day.

Thinking of this, the corners of Cao Zhen's mouth inadvertently showed a smile.

His originally flustered heart instantly settled down.

He was the person left by Emperor Wu who was qualified to become an opponent with Mi Yang, how could he be flustered because of a momentary surprise?

When his heart settled down, Cao Zhen's thoughts became extremely clear.

It is impossible for Mi Yang to be indifferent to his arrival, and the reason why Mi Yang wants to behave as usual is to disturb his judgment.

After the mind is clear, many things will naturally be figured out.

After understanding Mi Yang's intentions, Cao Zhen was not in a hurry.

Maybe he doesn't know the other side of Yangping Pass, what kind of situation is now, but he can judge it by the actions of the Han army on his side.

No matter how Mi Yang set up the Ecstasy Array, the lack of troops was far from his biggest weakness, and it was impossible for Mi Yang to send heavy troops to garrison the pass, and also send heavy troops to ambush Cao Hong's department.

As long as this fact does not change, then what does he have to worry about?

After calming down his emotions, Cao Zhen gave an order to Fei Yao:

"Sent someone to Guannei to ask to see Mi Yang, and said that Lone wanted to see him."

"As the story back then, he and I each carried one person to meet each other."

Hearing Cao Zhen's order, Fei Yao reminded: "Now that my army is lined up, I am afraid that the thieves will not meet." ”

Fei Yao's hesitation made Cao Zhen laugh.

"He's Mi Yang! Will he be afraid? ”

Cao Zhen's words unabashedly reveal a deep appreciation for Mi Yang.

"Send somebody, and he'll see you."

Because I wanted to test him, and he wanted to test me very much.

Who made the two of them equal opponents?

After finishing speaking, Cao Zhen returned to the big tent with a confident face.

Maybe he was not at the height of Cao Zhen, Fei Yao couldn't understand Cao Zhen's confidence, but he still followed Cao Zhen's instructions and sent a messenger towards Yangping Pass.

When Mi Yang in the pass learned that Cao Zhen had sent a messenger to see him, he was not surprised.

With Cao Zhen's ability, perhaps it was a little difficult to guess that he was in Yangping Pass at first because of the limitations of intelligence, but with the collection and aggregation of a lot of information, Cao Zhen would guess this sooner or later.

And Mi Yang never thought of hiding this from Cao Zhen.

Mi Yang met with Cao Zhen's envoy, and then heard Cao Zhen's request from the envoy's mouth.

After hearing Cao Zhen's request, Mi Yang felt that things had become interesting.

Cao Zhen suddenly wanted to meet, thinking that it was not just to catch up.

Cao really wanted to see himself and find out more information.

And this is enough to prove that Cao Zhen was not affected by his suspicious tactics, at least at the moment his mind is very calm.

This made Mi Yang's heart also appear in his appreciation for Cao Zhen.

But Mi Yang also felt that Cao Zhen's performance was taken for granted.

Many people in later generations thought that Sima Yi was Zhuge Liang's biggest opponent, but in fact, this was not right, before Cao Zhen died, it was Cao Zhen who thwarted Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition several times.

And when Cao Zhen went south in history, Zhuge Liang also played a twelve-point spirit to deal with it.

This is enough to prove that Cao Zhen must be quite outstanding in terms of military strategy alone, and he is worthy of Cao Cao's expectations of him before his death.

Cao Zhen is definitely qualified to be Mi Yang's opponent.

Mi Yang ignored the eye signals of Fa Miao and the others, and agreed to Cao Zhen's envoy's request with a smile.

Cao really wanted to test him, how could he not be?

After Cao Zhen's envoy left satisfied, Fa Miao immediately persuaded Mi Yang: "Uncle Mu has a big man's hope, how can he come out lightly? ”

Saying that, Fa Miao wanted to quote scriptures and classics to dissuade Mi Yang, but Mi Yang insisted on going his own way.

Mi Yang turned his eyes to Wei Yan and said, "Tomorrow, you and I will go out to meet Cao Zhen together." ”

Faced with Mi Yang's roll call, Wei Yan responded in a deep voice.

After naming Wei Yan, Mi Yang waved his hand to disperse the others.

After everyone else left, Mi Yang looked at a heavy crossbow machine on the table, and his eyes were full of brilliance.

Cao Zhen has tens of thousands of Wei troops as his confidence, and since he dares to lure Cao Zhen's army to come, why doesn't he have the confidence?

The night went by in a flash.

When the morning sunlight of the second day shone on the mottled black walls of Yangping Pass, the gate of Yangping Pass also quietly opened.

Mi Yang, under Wei Yan's escort, walked step by step towards Cao Zhen, who had been waiting outside the gate early.

Cao Zhen didn't break his promise, he only brought Wang Shuang by his side.

Cao Zhen is not a villain, he took the initiative to let the Wei army outside the pass take a hundred steps back, so that Mi Yang would not have to worry about it, there would be cold arrows to kill him.

Of course, Cao Zhen also put the place where he met in an open space a hundred steps away from Yangping Pass.

Both are looking forward to this meeting, but at the same time they are also on the lookout for each other all the time.

At a distance of 100 steps, Mi Yang drove a horse, and soon came to Cao Zhen's side.

Neither of them was wearing armor today, but both were wearing civilian clothes.

When Cao Zhen saw Mi Yang coming, he stretched out his hand to help him and motioned for Mi Yang to sit down.

Mi Yang didn't doubt him, so he sat directly opposite Cao Zhen.

And Wei Yan and Wang Shuang, the two fierce generals, as the guards of their own generals, each stared at each other intently with the hilt of the knife.

When Mi Yang sat down, he found that Cao Zhen was not meeting friends with wine today, but with chess.

Go is a kind of entertainment that everyone in the world loves, and it is also an entertainment activity that many famous generals are good at.

Cao Zhen has this arrangement, which can be said to correspond to the identities of him and Mi Yang.

Mi Yang has been taught Fazheng since he was a child, and he is certainly not a novice to Go.

Mi Yang was not restrained in front of Cao Zhen, as if he and Cao Zhen had not seen each other for many years, Mi Yang reached out and took the chess barrel with white chess on the chessboard to him.

Seeing that Mi Yang was out of sight, Cao Zhen couldn't help laughing.

It is rude for others to be like this in front of him, but Mi Yang is like this in front of him, which makes him feel that Mi Yang is informal.

And Mi Yang's deliberate choice of white chess to keep black chess for himself also made Cao Zhen see Mi Yang's deep meaning.

It's just that Cao Zhen doesn't care about this deep meaning at all.

Black is black, and he is happy.

Because according to the rules of the chessboard, the black one goes first, which seems to indicate that this battle of the southern expedition, which has attracted the attention of the world, was provoked by Allah Cao.

With a "snap", without any old words, Cao Zhen instantly landed a black flag on the chessboard symbolizing the world.

Cao Zhen landed the first black flag in the middle of the chessboard, which was not a very good start, but it was a domineering start.

China is respected, with the strong national strength of the Great Wei today, in the world, it is naturally the Great Wei for the respect.

Faced with Cao Zhen's provocative first move, Mi Yang didn't seem to care at all, and did not rush to drop next to the black flag, but chose to sprinkle the first white piece on the corner of the chessboard.

Mi Yang's move made Cao Zhen see the deep meaning that Mi Yang wanted to express.

It is good for Cao Wei to occupy the world today, but the Han can also restore Sheji in the borderland, and then grow step by step, until finally the Great Wei who is in the middle of the world is surrounded.

This is Mi Yang's counterattack to Cao Zhen's provocation, and it is also Mi Yang's challenge to Cao Zhen's self-confidence.

When you meet an opponent in chess, it is not only about comparing the level of chess skills, but also about the fierce collision of personal ideals.

Just as black and white have been clear since ancient times, Mi Yang and Cao Zhen, due to the difference in their positions, decided that they can only be undying enemies in this life.

At first, neither of them spoke, not even a greeting, only the constant sound of chess between the two sounded.

This scene made Wei Yan and Wang Shuang very puzzled, what would they see without speaking?

With the increasing number of black and white on the chessboard, it seems that two naturally hostile black dragons and white dragons have appeared on the chessboard, catching and killing each other.

People who don't know chess can't understand the sinister situation on the chessboard now, only the chess players Mi Yang and Cao Zhen have a deep understanding of the situation on the chessboard.

The black dragon is fierce and attacks all the way, and the white dragon is flexible and defends everywhere.

After an unknown amount of time, the battlefield between the black dragon and the white dragon shifted to the northwest position on the chessboard.

When they were in the field, both of them subconsciously did not fall into the chess side, because the northwest position was the position of Cao Hong's army at the moment.

In this place, the attack and defense are easy to shape!

The white dragon no longer pays attention to defense everywhere, and even gives up defense completely, as if it wants to completely occupy this position.

However, the black dragon changed his aggressive offensive attitude and began to defend in this corner, bound to protect this place that represented a different meaning.

In the face of the black dragon's tenacious defense, the white dragon's offensive became more and more fierce, and it can be seen from Mi Yang's fall that he has an attitude of not reaching his goal and vowing not to give up.

So the situation on the chessboard became anxious for a while.

When it was Cao Zhen's turn to fall again, he did not drop the chess piece that represented hope.

Because if he insisted on guarding that corner of the place, then the shadows he had originally arranged on the other chessboards would also be destroyed in an instant.

Pulling a hair and moving the whole body, such a serious consequence made Cao Zhen have to hesitate.

When hesitating, Mi Yang took the initiative to say the first sentence he said after meeting Cao Zhen:

"He's here."

This sentence made Cao Zhen's hand holding the black chess piece tremble.

Cao Zhen knew that he in Mi Yang's mouth was referring to Cao Hong.

And he arrived at three words, indicating that Cao Hong's army had been successfully lured by Mi Yang.

What will Mi Yang do next?

On the chessboard, didn't Mi Yang show his intentions obviously?

After saying these three words, Mi Yang looked up at the sky.

The time for chess always passed quickly, and before you knew it, it was getting dark.

It's time to go back to dinner.

Mi Yang was the first to stand up.

Sensing Mi Yang's movements, Cao Zhen raised his head to look at Mi Yang.

Mi Yang's attitude was already clear to him.

When Mi Yang turned around, Cao Zhen suddenly said to Mi Yang:

"Back in the Han River, Emperor Wu once felt that if Mi Gong could obey his call back then, maybe you would become his favorite nephew."

Although Mi Yang is not surnamed Cao, Cao Zhen was not at the beginning.

As long as Cao Cao really likes someone, he likes to recognize his son the most, so Cao Cao would say this back then.

After saying this, Cao Zhen paused for a moment, and then continued: "And you and I may also become best friends, Da Wei, with the assistance of you and me, will be invincible for all generations." ”

Cao Zhen said his deepest thoughts to Mi Yang.

Cao Zhen has hatred and jealousy for Mi Yang, but he also has appreciation.

Heroes cherish each other, after realizing Mi Yang's excellence, Cao Zhen is really like Cao Cao back then, and often regrets Mi Zhu's refusal to call.

After Mi Yang heard Cao Zhen's words with his back to him, Mi Yang was silent for a while after listening, and then he turned to Cao Zhen and bowed.

Although he is an opponent, Cao Zhen's appreciation for him is not mixed with the slightest evil thoughts.

In this case, Mi Yang didn't mind releasing some kindness to Cao Zhen because of Cao Zhen's appreciation for him.

But after a bow, Mi Yang resolutely continued to turn around and walk towards Yangping Pass.

He heard the pull in Cao Zhen's words, but unfortunately, the Tao is different, and it is difficult to walk together.

Looking at Mi Yang's resolute back, the smile on Cao Zhen's face gradually disappeared, and his eyes became cold again.

Private appreciation must not be above the general interests of the country, which Cao Zhen and Mi Yang adhere to.

When Mi Yang entered the customs, Cao Zhen asked Wang Shuang to put away the chessboard that had not yet been played, and instructed not to let their chess pieces be misplaced.

Then Cao Zhen also turned around and walked towards the Wei army camp behind him.

When Cao Zhen entered the Wei army camp, a military order soon reached the ears of every Wei army:

"Intensify your training and always be ready for battle."

On the third day after Cao Zhen met with Mi Yang, Cao Zhen, who was reviewing military affairs in the camp, suddenly received a shocking news.

The Han army on the wall of Yangping Pass withdrew!

When he heard the news, Cao Zhen stood up in shock.

Is Mi Yang finally going to do it?

Cao Zhen hurriedly followed behind Fei Yao and came to investigate outside the camp.

When he came to the outside of the camp, he saw that many Han soldiers had disappeared on the wall of Yangping Pass, which was originally guarded by Han troops.

The Yangpingguan city wall, which was originally heavily guarded, was full of loopholes in Cao Zhen's eyes at this moment, like an empty city.

After seeing this scene, Liu Ye's judgment instantly appeared in Cao Zhen's mind: if the Han army wanted to attack the hussar general, it was bound to mobilize a large number of Han troops to ambush them.

Isn't this scene happening in his eyes now supporting Liu Ye's judgment?

But at this moment, Cao Zhen hesitated.

In the chessboard duel a few days ago, he had already told Mi Yang with his actions that Cao Hong would definitely be saved.

In this case, will Mi Yang still insist on sending troops to ambush Cao Hong?

Wouldn't it?

Thinking of the confrontation on the chessboard that day, Mi Yang's desperate and indomitable attitude on the chessboard, Cao Zhenxin became nervous.

Looking at so many battles Mi Yang has fought, in terms of adventurous spirit, he has never lost to any famous general in the world.

Maybe this may be Mi Yang's trick to lure the enemy, but with Mi Yang's usual style, this is more like Mi Yang's suspicious strategy!

deliberately withdrew the Han army on the city wall, making himself think that this was his plan to lure the enemy, but in fact, Mi Yang really led the elite Han army to ambush Cao Hong's army.

Mi Yang did this to make himself suspicious and not dare to rashly attack Yangping Pass.

And there is no need to delay for too long, as long as it can be delayed for a while, then Miyang's purpose will be achieved!

When Mi Yang took the initiative to withdraw the guards of Yangping Pass, for a while, two extremely contradictory ideas kept colliding in Cao Zhen's mind.

Is this empty city a ploy to lure the enemy, or a ploy to suspect soldiers?

For a while, all kinds of possibilities appeared in Cao Zhen's mind.

At this time, Cao Zhen remembered a past incident in the Battle of Hanzhong.

During the Hanzhong War, Zhao Yun's camp was besieged by a large number of Wei troops, and at that time Zhao Yun made a surprising move.

Zhao Yun ordered the camp gate to be opened, and then the Han army was silenced.

Seeing this situation, the commander of the Cao army at that time suspected that Zhao Yun had an ambush, so he retreated, and Zhao Yun took the opportunity to lead the army to pursue and defeat the Cao army.

Before a historian wrote a story for the world, not much is known about this story.

But Cao Zhen knew it, because he was the party.

And Mi Yang must also know that the world knows that Zhao Yun has a good relationship with him.

So on the premise of having a success, will Mi Yang learn from Zhao Yun's old tricks and make a big show of the city?

The empty city plan that is difficult to distinguish between fiction and reality makes Cao Zhen have more and more headaches.

But because he knew Zhao Yun's case, in Cao Zhen's heart, his judgment gradually leaned towards Mi Yang's suspicious plan.

When this thought took hold in his mind, Cao Zhen realized one more thing, did he still have a choice?

Cao Hong's army may be in danger, if he misses the opportunity to save Cao Hong because of hesitation, then once the middle route army is broken by Mi Yang's army, then let's not talk about what kind of blow the morale of the Wei army will suffer.

If there is no Middle Route Army to block the Yizhou reinforcements and get the Mi Yang of the reinforcements, it will be even more like a tiger with wings, and it will be difficult to deal with.

As time passed, Cao Zhen made a decision in his heart.

Cao Zhen came to the chessboard that had not been played that day, and held high the sunspot that he had been carrying with him since that day, and then he did not hesitate to hit the sunspot on the chessboard where it was besieged by the white dragon.

If it must be saved, then saved!

6000 words complete.

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