Hao Zhao's ability is beyond doubt.

Historically, Hao Zhao relied on thousands of people to guard Chen Cang and repelled the second Northern Expedition launched by Zhuge Liang.

Although it is said that Zhuge Liang of this Northern Expedition is only to respond to the military operation on the side of Eastern Wu, and a strategic Northern Expedition launched has no intention of wanting to die, but don't forget, Zhuge Liang led tens of thousands of people to attack Chencang Road, and at the same time, Zhuge Liang personally commanded the operation, and all kinds of siege weapons were also used, and he fought for two months.

And Hao Zhao, who has only a thousand subordinates, although he has a geographical advantage, but with such a large disparity in troops, being able to hold Chen Cang under Zhuge Liang's attack is itself a manifestation of his ability.

And in this time and space, Hao Zhao was unlucky and did not catch up with the Chen Cang Guard Battle, and Hao Zhao in this time and space was still serving under the command of Su Ze, the captain of the Qiang Protector appointed by Cao Wei.

But even so, Hao Zhao also made Zhao Yun suffer when he attacked Liangzhou.

If it weren't for the Han army's completion of the goal of breaking the dragon during a northern expedition, Liangzhou lost foreign aid, causing Su Ze to have no intention of fighting, plus the local warlords in Liangzhou fought back, and Su had no choice but to surrender. This Liangzhou is really not so easy to build.

Hao Zhao was also recommended to Liu Bei by Zhao Yun with his excellent ability to defend the city, and became a very important front-line checkpoint at that time, the defender of Shangqi City.

But now, the Second Northern Expedition of the Han Dynasty has reached Guanzhong, although Shangtai City is located at the junction of Qinzhou and Yongzhou, it is also an important position, but Hao Zhao has such great ability, and he continues to be a guard in a hinterland city, which is somewhat condescending.

Originally, Zhang Xi had the intention to transfer Hao Zhao to Chang'an to listen to it, but due to Hao Zhao's qualifications and status within Liu Bei's group, Zhang Xi could not reuse Hao Zhao like Liu Yin and Hu Zun.

Liu Yin and Hu Zun have their own big families behind them, and Hao Zhao. He doesn't even come from a humble background, he is just a big-headed soldier who has grown up from the bottom.

But, where is the ability of the people, this time the five-way response envoy is only one candidate left, and Zhang Yi happened to make a recommendation, so Zhang Xi took advantage of the situation and transferred Hao Zhao to serve as the one way to the answer.

The defender of a city, the general of Yamen, has the responsibility of answering all the way, no one should raise objections, right?!

In this way, Zhang Xi urgently transferred Hao Zhao to Chang'an to complete the division arrangement of the five-way receiving envoy.

After Hao Zhao arrived in Chang'an, the envoys of the Fifth Route divided their respective defense areas in the Zuo Fengyi area under Zhang Xi's arrangement, and agreed on their respective areas of responsibility.

After determining these things, these five routes should make the leading troops set off, and went to their own defense areas, fortified on the spot, and trained their soldiers.

At this time, the snow in Guanzhong began to melt slowly.

Zhang Xi's main concern is still not to prevent Cao Wei's invasion.

As the snow begins to melt, the resettlement of the victims in various localities must begin immediately, otherwise the spring ploughing will be delayed and this year's harvest will be affected again.

Tens of thousands of people who fled to Chang'an, Zhang Xi personally arranged for these people to return to their hometowns.

Chen Yi and Jiang Wan were not staying in Chang'an at this time, and the two of them were ordered by Zhang Xi, one went to Zuo Fengyi, and the other went to Youfufeng, inspected the place, and urged the local officials to carry out the work of resettlement and development of spring ploughing for the people after the disaster.

By the way, some people, who should settle accounts, should also be calculated.

Nowadays, Yongzhou's top priority is still to ensure people's livelihood, as for the strategy, Zhang Xi still adopts a more conservative defensive strategy, if Cao Wei does not move, Yongzhou soldiers will try not to move.

At this time, Cao Wei was also hesitating.

Regarding the snowstorm in Yongzhou, Cao Pi, who was in Chang'an, had already received information.

Although it is not to gloat, Cao Pi still has the idea of "taking advantage of your illness to kill you".

Yongzhou has just experienced a heavy snowstorm, and Yongzhou is definitely weak now, and needs time to recover and recuperate.

According to the strategy proposed by Sima Yi, Yongzhou cannot be allowed to slow down and become the granary and eastward base of Shu thieves, so it is necessary to take advantage of Yongzhou's inability to withdraw and attack Yongzhou as much as possible to prevent Yongzhou from resuming production.

Again, after the snow disaster in Yongzhou, unless the Shu thieves really ignore the people and don't care about disaster relief, otherwise, all kinds of materials, money and grain in Yongzhou will inevitably be consumed on a large scale, and to ensure the resettlement of the people, it will not be possible to take into account the defense of Yongzhou, and to ensure the defense of Yongzhou, it will inevitably delay the rescue and resettlement of the people.

If you don't send troops at this time, that's the real brain that lets the donkey kick.

Therefore, when the heavy snow in the Central Plains region was exhausted, and the Yongzhou area was still snowing, but it did not delay the dispatch of troops, Cao Pi thought about whether to directly launch Sima Yi's strategy and let Guo Huai in Wuguan and Wang Chang in Tongguan send troops to harass the Yongzhou area.

But this matter, let Liu Ye persuade him to go back.

Liu Ye doesn't object to Cao Pi sending troops, the key is that you also score points.

The snow disaster thing, it won't just float in front of Tongguan and Wuguan and stop, and the Sili area has no impact at all. There is also no shortage of snow in the Hedong area.

It's just that it's not as big as Yongzhou, and it's not as long as it has been down.

Liu Ye didn't understand what the Xiaoice River period was, but he knew that this year's Si Affiliated area was much colder than in previous years, and although it would not be as large as Yongzhou's, this year's Si Affiliated People's life was not easy.

At this moment, it's better not to use the sword as much as possible.

Again, Sima Yi's strategy is to exhaust Shu, not to attack Shu, but the Hu people in the north have already attacked Liangzhou, but Jiangdong in the south still does not move.

If we send troops to attack Guanzhong now, we will bring all the reinforcements of the Shu thieves to Guanzhong. That's to make a wedding dress for the people of Soochow.

Don't look back, we can't beat Guanzhong, but we helped Dongwu occupy Jingzhou, that's what stealing chickens can't do without losing rice.

It's better to wait first, and wait until the Dongwu side makes a move, and the Shu thieves are attacked on both sides, and then we will send troops, even if we can't counterattack the attack, we will be able to gnaw a piece of meat in Guanzhong.

In this way, it is the best situation for the Great Wei.

I have to say that what Liu Ye said is indeed reasonable, and after Jiang Ji, who had just returned from the envoy of Eastern Wu, also agreed with Liu Ye's statement, Cao Pi was indeed a little shaken.

And coincidentally, at this time, Wang Chang of Tongguan sent a report to Cao Pi in Luoyang, saying that the 10,000 elite northern army of the Shu thieves suddenly turned into pieces, distributed throughout Zuo Fengyi, and the purpose was unknown.

Wang Chang didn't know what the Shu thieves were going to do when they suddenly scattered the elite around Zuo Fengyi, but considering that the Shu thieves in Chang'an were guarded by Zhang Xi, this person had always been cautious in using troops, and such a strange strategy for using troops was obviously not in line with Zhang Xi's combat style.

Either Zhang Xi is brainless and blindly commands by himself, or the Shu thief has other plans.

Obviously, Wang Chang is not brainless, so he doesn't believe that Zhang Xi will be brainless and blindly commanded, it must be that the Shu thief has some big moves in the spring, Zhang Xi is laying out in advance.

And the entire Zuo Fengyi area, facing Tongguan, although Wang Chang couldn't figure out what Zhang Xi was going to do, but one thing Wang Chang was sure of was that nine times out of ten the Shu thieves came to Tongguan.

Except for Tongguan, in the entire Zuo Fengyi area, there is no other place worth letting Shu thieves attack.

What Zhang Xi's strategy was, Wang Chang couldn't figure it out, but Wang Chang definitely didn't dare to be careless, while stepping up the deployment of Tongguan, he hurried to the court and asked the court to decide.

And Cao Pi also had a lawsuit after receiving Wang Chang's report.

It is impossible for Cao Pi to think that Zhang Xi is brain-dead, just a small number of troops stationed in Guanzhong, and he dares to commit the taboo of the soldiers, this must be a trick of the Shu thief.

But the question is, what is the Shu thief going to do?!

Cao Pi didn't dare to be careless, and immediately summoned Liu Ye, Jiang Ji, Cao Zhen, and Xiahou Shang to discuss the military situation.

Actually, Cao Pi originally wanted to invite Jia Xu, an old fox, to come over and ask about this, but last winter was too cold, not to mention the snow disaster in Yongzhou, and the Central Plains region was also cold enough.

Jia Xu is also old in the end, his health is not as good as before, since he fell ill in winter, his condition has been repeated, and he doesn't know if he can survive until the beginning of spring.

Again, since Cao Pi adopted Sima Yi's strategy and went south to contact Eastern Wu to form an alliance to attack Shu Han, Jia Xu has been closed. Cao Pi actually knew in his heart that Jia Xu, the old fox, was still dissatisfied in his heart.

At the beginning, Jia Xu rushed to Luoyang despite his old age, and offered Cao Pi a plan to "retreat", one of which was that he could not give in to Soochow.

Who let Jia Xu be the captain at the beginning, Sun Quan had no virtue in his mouth, not to say that Jia Xu was a "man without virtue", he was a captain and there was no one in the Great Wei The old fox held a grudge.

is somewhat of a personal grudge, plus Cao Pi has been losing since he ascended the throne, and he lost Liangzhou and Yongzhou, and he really needs a victory to inspire people and personal grievances are mixed with national affairs, so Jia Xu suggested that he should take his hand out of the battle in Guanzhong, turn his head and cut down the Jiangdong rats, and recapture the lost Qingxu Erzhou.

First, it is convenient for Cao Pi to establish his prestige. Compared with the difficult Shu thieves, the boatmen in Jiangdong who can only operate the boat must be much easier to deal with.

But who knew that after Cao Pi withdrew from Guanzhong, he turned his head and went to negotiate peace with Sun Quan.

When the old man saw this posture, he immediately kept silent, even if Jia Xu was healthy now, it was estimated that Cao Pi had invited him, and he couldn't ask any strategy.

Therefore, Cao Pi also knew in his heart that it was better not to invite Jia Xu, because when the time came, the province would not be able to ask the plan, and the monarchs and ministers would be ugly.

The four of them were summoned, and Cao Pi's attitude was also obvious - think about it, what tricks are the Shu thieves playing?!

And Liu Ye and the other four, after reading Wang Chang's recital, they all fell into contemplation.

What the hell does this Zhang Yuanchang want to do?!

(End of chapter)