In the afternoon of the same day, Zhang Xi rode alone to send Guo Huai back to the camp. It was a real gift, Zhang Xi personally sent Guo Huai to the gate of Cao Jun's camp, and then the two said goodbye at the gate of the camp, and Zhang Xi rode back to his camp alone.

At noon on the next day, Zhang Xi invited Guo Huai to go out again, and swore an oath to the sky in front of the two armies, saying that the women's clothing gambling contract would be invalid, and in the future, each would rely on their ability to compete on the battlefield.

After doing this, it doesn't mean that all the aftermath is over.

In the Wei military camp, because too many soldiers saw Guo Huai go deep into the enemy camp, although he was sent back with a gift, it hurt his morale somewhat.

If it weren't for Guo Huai saying that there would be no winner or loser in this battle, and the next day Zhang Xi, the chief general of the Shu army, took the initiative to invite General Guo Huai to swear to cancel the gambling contract in front of the two armies, then rumors would have spread in the Wei army camp.

But even so, Guo Huai had to spend a lot of effort on sorting out military affairs in the army and boosting the morale of the army. After that, there will be no such confrontation, and the Shu army will definitely attack in a big way.

And on the Han side, Zhang Xi also has a lot of aftermath matters to do.

First of all, this battle, although the final result was inconclusive, but the merit book in the army still has to be credited, especially Chen Shi, desperately blocking the rush launched by Wen Qin, and suffered five or six wounds on his body, and he has reached the point where he can't play for a while without recuperation.

People are fighting desperately, you can't help but give credit to others.

In the same situation, there are Feng Xi, Zhang Nan, and more than 300 soldiers who were killed or injured in this battle, and those who should be rewarded should be rewarded, and those who should be given bereavement pensions should be compensated, and the merits of these soldiers cannot be erased because the results of this war are not over.

After finishing the work of remembering, Zhang Xi had to write a special letter to Liu Bei, explaining the reason and asking for guilt.

Of course, this matter, according to Liu Bei's consistent personality and temper, there is a high probability that he will only persuade him with good words and symbolically make some punishments. One thing to say, our Emperor Ji Han is actually not so fair and strict, he has always been very partial to his favorite subordinates.

In history, Fa Zheng, Huang Quan, Jian Yong, Wei Yan, which one did not have any black material, but Liu Bei should not be able to see it, but some unlucky people, such as Peng Yang and Zhang Yu, because of a wrong sentence, Liu Bei cut it directly, and Zhuge Liang couldn't persuade him.

But there are some things that you should do as a courtier, and you can't do less.

As for the rest of the aftermath in the army, there are Zhuge Liang and Zhang Fei, Chen Zhi is in charge, and Zhang Xi doesn't have to be so busy with Guo Huai in this regard.

Within a few days, Liu Bei, who was in the camp at the Baochuan crossing, sent his will to Zhang Fei and others in the camp of Wuzhangyuan Highland.

Officially appointed the general Zhang Fei as the commander of the Wuzhangyuan highland camp, Zhuge Liang as the military division, and then ordered the appointment of the former general Zhang Xi as the front governor, and led the army to attack the Cao army camp on the east side of the Wuzhangyuan mountain road.

The whole intention is just a formal appointment of the existing division of labor in Wuzhangyuan, and the punishment for Zhang Xi is just to let Zhang Xi go to the current ministry governor, which is basically no different from no punishment.

For the credit of Chen Shi, Zhang Nan, Feng Xi and others, Liu Bei accepted all of them and has been registered.

It is inconvenient to award rewards during the war, which is not conducive to the stability of the army's morale, but it has been registered, which means that Liu Bei recognized their merits, and when the rewards were awarded after the war, their share was indispensable.

Sure enough, Liu Bei is still so well, it's not easy to say.

However, after Zhang Xi took over the work of the former governor, he had to immediately launch an attack on the mountain road camp on the east side where Guo Huai was located, not only to follow the will, but also to prevent Guo Huai from leaving this side again.

It is necessary to contain Guo Huai and the main force of the Chinese army here, and not give Guo Huai time to think about the situation behind him, which is the main strategic purpose of the entire Wuzhangyuan battlefield.

All this is to create an excellent strategic environment for Wei Yan, who raided Chen Cangdao.

At this time, Wei Yan had already led the troops and quickly entered Chencang Dao, and it would only take two or three days at most to reach the small town of Chencang Dao where Xiahou Nan was stationed.

The small town of Chencang Road is not a pass. Chencang Road is narrow and difficult to walk, there is no need to build a pass, and a small city is enough to block the entire Chencang Road.

In these years, repairing the pass is a big project that costs money and grain, even if it is the size of Cao Wei, it will not be able to build a pass on Chencang Road.

Although this small city of Chencang Road is small, it does not mean that this small city is not strong Cao Zhen personally guarded the place for five years, even if it was just an inconspicuous small city at the beginning, in the past five years, after Cao Zhen's continuous reinforcement, the current Chencang City is also quite solid.

Combined with the topography of Chencang Road, Chencang City is located in the narrowest place where Chencang Road is interrupted.

Well, the premise is that this "husband" cannot be a "coward".

For example, Xiahou Mao.

Xiahou Nan is a person, at the beginning, even if it was Cao Zhen, he didn't know what this person's ability was, at least judging from the rumors, this person was not that kind of incompetent.

But Zhuge Qian, who has been working with Xiahou Nan for almost a year, has a very say in this.

Xiahou Nan is a person, don't look at him sitting and talking on weekdays, he has a bit of a celebrity style, but this person actually only has two things in his head.

One is "money", preferably a full amount of five baht coins produced in Shuzhong.

The other is "name", and he likes his subordinates the most to slap him on the back.

Real governance of local capacity. I'm sorry, Zhuge Qian can't see it at all.

But the problem is that although Zhuge Qian can see that Xiahou Nan is not very reliable, Zhuge Qian has no way to deal with Xiahou Nan.

After all, he is the husband of the eldest princess of Dawei, and he is a real royal nobleman, not a little Zhuge can evaluate it.

Therefore, even if Xiahou Nan has been drinking and having fun every day since he took office, talking loudly but not doing anything, Zhuge Qian can't say a word, and he can't persuade him.

Even, Zhuge Qian still has to take on the defense and daily work of the entire Chen Cangcheng, which is equivalent to one person doing the work of two people, but he does not have the right like Xiahou Nan.

In this case, the person who really does the work will be very uncomfortable, after all, what you do, not only do you have no reputation, it is not your own to do a good job, and it is your own fault if you don't do it well.

Can. One thing to say, when Cao Zhendu asked him to come to Chen Cangcheng, didn't he let him assist Xiahou Nan.

Therefore, although Zhuge Qian complained about Xiahou Nan, he couldn't help but do what he should do.

If that's all there is to it, then Zhuge Qian has nothing to say. Xiahou Nan doesn't want to see himself, he doesn't do things, but it doesn't matter if he takes the credit, as long as Cao Zhendu knows his contributions.

Anyway, Zhuge Qian is not Xiahou Nan's confidant, he is Cao Zhendu's person.

But there are some things, in the end, some of them have broken through the bottom line that Zhuge Qian can accept.

Xiahou Nan settled down for three months after entering Chencang City, and then resolutely stretched out his hand to the treasury.

Reselling military rations, although Zhuge Qian can't accept it, but who makes Xiahou Nan a privileged class, although Zhuge Qian can't accept it, he can only endure it, as long as Xiahou Nan doesn't go too far, leave enough military food for the 5,000 defenders.

But then, Xiahou Nan's reselling of ordnance was a bit intolerable to Zhuge Qian.

If it is a large-scale sale of standard ordnance, it is definitely impossible to sell it to one's own family, and there is no need for that at all.

Even if it is sold to local bandits and bandits, people can't afford to buy it, not to mention whether they can afford it, they won't use it that much.

Reselling ordnance must be sold to hostile forces, and near Qishan, the person who can have the strength to eat this batch of standard ordnance must be a Shu thief.

In addition, after Xiahou Nan resold the ordnance, he got the full amount of five baht in Shuzhong. Where did the ordnance go, do you still need to ask?!

This Zhuge Qian really couldn't bear it, he secretly wrote a secret letter to Cao Zhen, detailing Xiahou Nan's crime of reselling weapons, hoping that Cao Zhen would be punished.

And then there was no then.

Zhuge Qian did not receive any reply from Cao Zhen, just as Cao Zhen never received this letter.

Zhuge Qian, although he is not as smart as his two distant relatives who are famous in the world, but he is not a stupid person after all, what Cao Zhen's attitude means, Zhuge Qian is already very clear.

Since Cao Zhendu has turned a blind eye to this matter, what can his little Zhuge Qian do?!

And now that the treasury is under the direct control of Xiahou Nan, even if Zhuge Qian sues the Son of Heaven, he can't come up with enough evidence to prove that Xiahou Mao did sell the ordnance to the Shu thieves.

Now Zhuge Qian can only hope that Xiahou Nan will not empty the treasury, and when it is time to use it, there is not enough military food and ordnance, and it will really be fatal.

But every time Zhuge Qian tentatively asked Xiahou Qian about this, Xiahou Qian would never give Zhuge Qian a good look, and directly reprimanded Zhuge Qian several times, almost saying that Zhuge Qian would be less nosy.

Zhuge Qian was both worried and helpless about this.

It's not that Zhuge Qian is loyal to Da Wei, but Zhuge Qian doesn't understand, what does this Chen Cangshou think? !

Now the Shu army is launching the Northern Expedition, and the Shu Han Emperor Liu Bei is even more personally driving, and the front line is in a state of combat readiness.

Although judging from the current intelligence, the direction of attack of the main army of the Shu army is Baochuan Road, which is still a little far from Chencang Road. But if someone really calls and sells all the food and ordnance, what can we resist?!

It's not a question of loyalty, it's a question of one's own future and one's own life.

Do you really think that even if the Shu army catches him, they won't do anything to him?!

If that's the case. Zhuge Qian remembered that it seemed that his distant relative had also written a letter to him a few months ago

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