The edict sent from Luoyang to Wancheng only took about ten days to be delivered to Zhang Liao.

And Zhang Liao looked at such an edict, it was really . I can only smile bitterly.

Let yourself take the initiative to fight Guan Yu. Does the Son of Heaven know what kind of situation he is facing now?!

Yes, there are more than 30,000 soldiers in his hands, but Guan Yu on the other side, that is so easy to deal with?!

Zhang Liao did not deliberately ignore Cao Pi's private message before, but because Zhang Liao himself was not sure that he could break Guan Yu's 50,000 army with 30,000 soldiers in the case of a field battle.

But nowadays. This is an edict.

Edicts are not the same as private messages, and there is no room for bargaining.

Although, in these years, there is also a saying that "the general is outside, and the king's order is not affected", Zhang Liao, as a veteran of the two dynasties, has enough qualifications. But Zhang Liao is not surnamed Cao, he will not do this.

In the Cao Cao era, Zhang Liao relied not only on his ability, but also on his criteria for dealing with the world.

First, Zhang Liao's order to Cao Cao was to carry it out without any discount.

Cao Cao asked him to lead the troops to charge in the first battle of White Wolf Mountain, and without saying a word, he led the troops to rush towards the Wuhuan cavalry, and directly broke through the enemy formation, and the formation was slashed.

When Cao Cao asked him to defend Hefei, he took the initiative to fight against Sun Quan, and Zhang Liao dared to rush at Sun Quan's Chinese army with 800 men, without any discount.

Second, the relationship between Zhang Liao and Cao Jun's generals is actually not very good.

Zhang Liao was born as a general, and it was destined that he would not be able to mix with veteran figures like Zhuxia Hou Cao, and among the generals with foreign surnames, Zhang Liao's popularity was actually very inferior.

Zhang Liao has a grudge against Li Dian, this is a matter on the bright side.

When Zhang Liao was serving under Lu Bu, he once killed Li Dian's uncle and clansmen during the Battle of Yanzhou, and the two were mortal enemies.

And the relationship between Zhang Liao and Yu Ban and Le Jin is not very good, when Cao Cao went south to Jingzhou, he ordered three people to be stationed in three places, but each of these three people felt that they should be the main generals, and no one obeyed anyone, and they quarreled and litigated every day. Cao Cao had no choice but to send Zhao Yan as a peacemaker and command them as a military horse for the southern expedition, which barely stopped.

Not to mention, Zhang Liao even had a dislike with his own protector Wu Zhou. Let's put it this way, in addition to Zhang Liao's relationship with Xu Huang and Guan Yu, he is really not popular within Cao Ying.

This is also the reason why Zhang Liao, as a general with a foreign surname, can be the first to become the commander of the front army - Cao Cao can rest assured.

Therefore, it is absolutely impossible for Zhang Liao to disobey Cao Pi's edict, and even Zhang Liao knows that if he plays any trick of "the general will be outside, the king's order will not be affected", then there will definitely be more people who fall into the well afterwards than those who help him speak.

That's why we have to fight.

But the question is, how to fight?!

The requirements of the Great Wei Tianzi are not easy to meet.

If he just asked Zhang Liao to repel Guan Yu, although Zhang Liao also felt very embarrassed, he could always find a way to try.

30,000 to 50,000, although the troops are in a weak position, but in the field, command is also a key to victory or defeat, Zhang Liao does not feel that his command ability is really worse than Guan Yu.

But Cao Pi's request was: After Zhang Liao repelled Guan Yu, he immediately led his troops to Chang'an to support.

This means that Zhang Liao not only has to repel Zhang Liao, but also has to ensure that the damage to his subordinates is not too great.

Otherwise, once the two sides fought fiercely and fought a defeat and wounded out, even if Guan Yu was repulsed, Zhang Liao would not have enough troops to support the defense of Chang'an.

This requires. It's really excessive.

The Shu general on the opposite side is not a cat or a dog, that is Guan Yu, who is powerful in Huaxia, and Guan Yu, who almost moved the capital to Emperor Taizu Wu. Are you serious?!

It is not easy to defend the Nanyang defense system that I have established, and it is not easy to block Guan Yu's attack, and now you are asking me to give up the defense system and take the initiative to fight, and you also require me to win a big victory, and the most important thing is that my own losses are not too big. Why don't you wash and sleep early, you really have everything in your dreams.

After receiving the edict, Zhang Liao really felt more and more aggrieved the more he thought about it, and the more he thought about it, the more anxious he became.

This kind of daydream-like thought, what did the Son of Heaven eat and eat his brain, and would give such an order?!

But the edict has been issued, and it is impossible for Zhang Liao to disobey, so he has to find a way to implement it.

After thinking about it, Zhang Liao felt that the conventional routine of using soldiers should not work.

The only way is probably to find an opportunity to fight with Guan Yu and fight for Guan Yu, so that he may be able to destroy the morale of the entire Jingzhou Shu thieves, so as to win easily.

But let's do it. It's not that easy.

When Guan Yu beheaded Yan Liang in the array, Zhang Liaoke was watching from the flank of Guan Yujun. But anyone who has seen Guan Yu's formation behead Yan Liang with his own eyes is not a general of the Cao army, there is no one who does not admire Guan Yu's martial bravery.

The gold content of "Shao Zhu can't be a general" is not blown out, but Zhang Liao saw it with his own eyes.

Although Guan Yu is now in his early sixties and Zhang Liao is only in his fifties, theoretically speaking, Guan Yu's force value should have regressed a lot, but Zhang Liao is still not absolutely sure that he can kill Guan Yu on the spot.

As long as he was sure of this, when Guan Yu was fighting before, Zhang Liao had already promised Guan Yu to go to fight alone.

But now, Guan Yu has not come to the camp gate for several days to fight, but Zhang Liao needs to seek a battle with Guan Yu.

What the hell is this called?!

There was no way, Zhang Liao had to pick up the pen and personally wrote a letter to Guan Yu, agreeing to Guan Yu's appointment.

Yes, promise to fight. Here Zhang Liao moved a cautious eye.

Although it is said that more than a month ago, in front of the two armies, he had clearly rejected Guan Yu's heads-up request, but Guan Yu didn't accept it, and he came to the camp every day to fight during that time.

So, in fact, this can also be seen as Guan Yu continuing to fight against him.

Now the situation is different, Zhang Liao was forced by Cao Pi, and he had to use a heads-up method to solve this problem Zhang Liao had to be cheeky and wrote to tell Guan Yu that he agreed to Guan Yu's heads-up request, let Guan Yu choose the time and place, and the two fought.

In this, Zhang Liao can also be regarded as a small use of Guan Yu's arrogant temperament, since Guan Yu took the initiative to put forward the heads-up, and he, Zhang Liao, agreed "reluctantly", then Guan Yu will definitely not use Zhang Liao's previous rhetoric to prevaricate.

The second master is such a person, he is the most faithful, and if he says it himself, he will grit his teeth and honor it for you.

I have to say that Zhang Liao really understands Guan Yu.

When Guan Yu received Zhang Liao's reply and promised to make an appointment, he almost didn't think about anything else, and he had to agree on the spot, and reply to the letter about the time to go head-on.

Fortunately, Zhang Liao's reply was considered a military situation, and Guan Yu did not read it privately like a private letter, but called Xu Shu, Deng Ai and others to discuss together, which gave Deng Ai and Xu Shu the opportunity to dissuade.

Seriously, sometimes, Deng Ai really doesn't understand how his father-in-law's brain circuits grow.

Boy!!!

Is his father-in-law crazy or what, this kind of brain-dead request, why did he agree to go?!

"The general thinks twice!!" Deng Ai hurriedly persuaded, "This time is different from the past. In the past, the great generals wanted a quick victory, and it was really helpless to do this risky plan. Today, General Yongkou has led 20,000 elite soldiers to come, only three days away from here, and Wang Tingshi has also led 20,000 troops from Jiangling to the north, and can reach Fancheng within ten days. When the army gathers, there are only 30,000 Wei thieves, what is the way?! If the general agrees to the covenant of the Liao Pifu, wouldn't he give up his strengths and take his weaknesses, and this is not what the general does!! ”

What Deng Ai said is really the truth.

Kou Feng and Meng Da in this time and space, there is no reason not to send reinforcements at all, and there is no excuse for not sending reinforcements.

In history, Liu Feng Mengda did not send troops to rescue Guan Yu, on the one hand, it was a matter of personal grievances, on the other hand, it was true that at that time, they had just conquered the three eastern counties, and the people's hearts and the army were unstable, so they rashly sent troops to aid Guan Yu, and the three eastern counties could rebel at any time.

But in this time and space, Kou Feng is not called Liu Feng, naturally there is no personal grudge, and Kou Feng has been in control of the three eastern counties for several years with the help of Dong Yun, which can basically be said to be deep-rooted, and there is no possibility of recovery.

And more importantly, today's Guan Yu is the general of the Han Dynasty.

The general, in charge of the country's military power, transferred Kou Feng to lead the troops to support the Nanyang battlefield, if Kou Feng dared not go, no matter what the legitimate reason was, Zhang Xi would not be able to protect him, and even Dong Yun had the right to directly give his military power and lead the troops to reinforce Guan Yu himself.

Although Kou Feng is a little reckless, he is not a fool, if he can't figure out this little thing, Liu Bei can rest assured that he will guard the three eastern counties?!

Therefore, as soon as Kou Feng received Guan Yu's general order, he left Dong Yun to control Shangyong's government affairs, and ordered Meng Da to take charge of the defense of the three counties, and he immediately set off with the whole army to help the Nanyang battlefield.

Because Nanyang County is relatively close to Xincheng County and has the convenience of Hanshui transportation, Kou Feng probably has about three days to reach the front line of the Nanyang battlefield.

Relatively far away, Wang Ji, the assassin of Jingzhou who was sitting in Jiangling City, had also completed the army at this time, leaving Xi Zhen and Xi Hong to deal with government affairs, and ordered Zhang Ren, Pan Jun, Li Qiu and others to take charge of the key passes, not to move lightly, and he personally led an army of 20,000 people, with Shi Bao as the vanguard, left Jiangling, and went north to support Guan Yu.

In other words, there will be more than ten days at most, and the number of soldiers under Guan Yu's account will surge to 90,000.

Compare 90,000 to 30,000, three to one. If Guan Yu wasn't brainless, would he be able to agree to Zhang Liao's heads-up invitation?!

(End of chapter)