"The prime minister has been defeated! Cao's army is defeated! When everyone patrolled in their own camp and walked together, one person lined up in front of Xu Zhen and sent the news back.

The prime minister's southern expedition failed unexpectedly, making a stepping stone for Zhou Gongjin in Jiangdong and achieving his name through the ages.

Such a big event shocked the world.

Looking at this person again, it was Cao Zhen who came from the camp, shouting loudly, he wanted to go back.

Go back to Xu Capital immediately, that's why there is such a big fanfare.

Fortunately, Xu Zhen has been leading soldiers in the army for a long time, and has trained thousands of elite warriors, Cao Zhen may not be a famous general through the ages, but he will definitely be able to be the commander of the army.

Xu Zhen was a little reluctant, but only a little.

"I already know," everyone was in the forefront, Xu Zhen looked down at Cao Zidan with his hands behind his back, this person should have died, but it was his own leniency that allowed him to live again, otherwise he would definitely die.

"What are your intentions?"

"I, I ......"

Cao Zhen's face was confused, he also wanted to ask himself this question, what else could he do at this time? If you continue to stay in Xiliang, I am afraid that you will be removed from the Cao family in the future.

Back then, his father used his life to save the prime minister in exchange for his own future, but then he was almost killed because something leaked, and now he is receiving kindness in Xiliang, but he can't always do his best.

Now you have to make a choice.

The rider is not a person who likes to twist, and he can't afford to get tangled with himself.

"Can't ride back to the army and Xu Capital?"

Cao Zhen's face was suspicious, and he immediately got up and looked at Xu Zhen, his face was slightly dissatisfied, "The Cao family is defeated, and you need to ride back to stabilize the army's heart, if you go back at this time, it is the greatest kindness." ”

"I should guard the Xiliang border, do not let thieves trouble the rear, only the stability of the rear is the greatest merit, at this time the prime minister returns to the army, it is enough to make people's hearts settled, Jingzhou? Jingzhou itself does not belong to the Cao family, Liu Biao has been in Jingzhou for many years, and has gained countless fame in his hands, his achievements cannot be buried, even if it is a change of dynasty, it is impossible to be forgotten, not to mention that it is only more than a year. ”

Xu Zhen's words were strong and powerful, and the trick was clear, and there was no hesitation in his heart, he really didn't plan to go back at all.

After hearing these words, Cao Zhen already understood that it may not be possible for them to return to the point where they were at the beginning.

Maybe it's really because of himself, if he hadn't leaked out at that time and hadn't been discovered by Zhang Liao, there would have been no follow-up of these things.

The rider would not go so resolutely, and at this time he deeply understood that his last departure was with great fanfare, and he did not worry about any follow-up pursuers.

He is looking at how many enemies there are in Jingzhou, how many people dare to do something to him, and even more to see if the Cao family will also participate in it.

Once you participate, there is no need for any explanation, and it is natural to take advantage of the situation.

"Alas," Cao Zhen finally sighed, his fists clenched but he couldn't hang down, and he glanced at Xu Zhen a few more times with some longing, knowing that there was no way to persuade him.

After more than a year with Xu Zhen, he saw how Xu Zhen in Xiliang insisted on training and managing politics day and night.

A real military and political talent, he has no teacher.

To be reasonable, Cao Zhen only understood that in this world, both the art of war and academics, there is a family study, and the Cao family is very deep, and he was able to enter Cao Cao's knees and be his son, and many of Cao's resources are open to him.

After training soldiers in the army, he will always study hard to enrich himself, and strive to understand and grow with combat experience.

This is still a family study, there are ancestors to teach, and even the male lord Cao Cao personally teaches, but it can't compare to Xu Zhen.

What surprised him was that Xu Zhen had no teacher, but he was able to accept Kong Ming as a disciple and teach him to become a talent, and now he can take charge of himself.

These are all things that make Cao Zhen admire.

This time, of course, these news will also be transmitted to Xudu for the general embankment.

However, now when he thinks of fighting Xu Zhen in the future, he will feel fear and fear, at least he has a lot of fear in his heart.

At this moment, Xu Zhen saw that he didn't speak, so he didn't ask any more questions, and stepped forward directly, and watched the new armored cavalry gun formation with Ma Chao.

This is again on the basis of the armor cavalry, changing the previous ring head knife and spear, and directly creating a powerful and heavy cavalry spear, which is used for charging into battle.

I don't plan to leave the camp for a while.

Cao Zhen had heard of the cavalry gun, but he had never dared to inquire in the camp, so he had only heard about it, and had never seen it.

After a stick of incense, someone came to inform Cao Zhen that the soldiers and horses he led had been taken over by Huang Xu, who was the son of Huang Zhong, a loyal general, and inherited Huang Zhong's swordsmanship, horsemanship, and archery.

inherited Xu Zhen's ring head knife, Zhao Yun's spear skills, Dian Wei's method of practicing strength, and Jia Xu's teaching scriptures, together with Jia Ji and other young people.

and can read books on the first floor of the Ten Thousand Scrolls Building at any time, and these alone are enough to make many scholars envious and even jealous.

can be described as a young man who holds the moon in the stars.

Knowing that it was him, Cao Zhen could only smile bitterly, this is the successor cultivated by his own family, Huang Xu's life was saved by Xu Zhen, and it can be regarded as half of him.

So Cao Zhen left quickly.

After knowing Cao Cao's defeat, Cao Chong seemed to have moved his mind, but he had read too many books on scriptures, and he had also been taught by many famous teachers in Jizhou, Youzhou, and Xiliang, so he understood the importance of the teacher's kindness, and it was inconvenient to mention it, so he could only continue to stay in Wanjuanlou to read books.

Xu Zhen didn't ask for the time being, but only knew his mind through Cao Jie.

During this period of time, Xu Du's side also seemed to be afraid that Xiliang's troops would be threatened, so he did not say anything to Xu Zhen, but only issued a letter to commend Xu Zhen for transferring 200,000 stone military rations from the land of Sanzhou to the south to help the army attack the city, and rewarded 500 catties of gold.

There was no change in the title, and there was no mention of any movement in Xiliang, and even Cao Cao did not write a letter, as if he trusted Xu Zhen in every way.

The last layer of window paper between the two has not yet been pierced.

At this time, Xu Du had nothing to do.

The only thing that can be done is to hold the south.

The only result that the Sun and Liu families can achieve is most of Jingzhou, Wancheng still has Zhang Xiu guarding the town, this is not an easy to defeat the lord, at least Wancheng has been running for several years, the people's hearts are deep-rooted, and they will not give in easily, as long as one foot is still in Jingzhou, it will not collapse easily.

If it doesn't collapse, then this Chibi defeat will only become a turning point, a turning point for Sun Liu to have some capital.

For myself, I get a lot of time.

Sun Liu chased after Cao Cao, but he really couldn't kill him, so the situation collapsed.

In June, he chased and killed, and since August, he has already given up the pursuit, and let Cao Cao withdraw his troops, and Xiahoudun, who was replaced to guard the south, also understands it very well.

Judging from his many years of experience in fighting evil battles, as long as he defends the city, he can hold a line of defense and let Sun Liu fight for profit.

Because neither side will continue to pursue and kill without scruples and give up conquering the city, most of the land in Jingzhou will be the first to be ceded to them, and retreat to Nanjun.

It was the last military order given by Cao Cao before he left for the north.

Xiahoudun is in an extremely solid execution.

Sure enough, in less than a month, only Zhou Yu was still attacking Nanjun, he thought that he could take advantage of the victory to pursue, but he couldn't attack it for a long time.

And Liu Bei turned his head to take the remaining three counties in the south, and the speed was faster than the victory and marched without losing any momentum, which made Zhou Yu angry.

The battle was fought by the Jiangdong army and the people with one heart and the same enemy, and Liu Bei's Jiangxia was just a response, of course, the original momentum was to let the side threaten Cao Cao's soldiers and horses, but the merit was too fast.

At this point, although Zhou Yu blamed Liu Bei on his lips and hyped up his speculative thoughts, he had to fear this person in his heart, this was his only chance, if he didn't seize it, he would always be a small prince.

In this life, he can only give people advice, but fortunately, he caught it.

Hurriedly took several counties.

For Xiahoudun, giving up many territories has also stabilized the current situation, so the current south has entered a rather strange balance.

The real undercurrent is surging between Cao and Sun Liu.

It's between Sun and Liu.

At this point, Cao Cao could finally breathe a sigh of relief, and after more than ten days of continuous trouble, he slowly eased up.

At this time, Xu Du experienced two assassination incidents, but they were all gone.

One is the dead soldiers who were loyal to Liu Biao in Jingzhou, designed for Mrs. Cai and Liu Cong, and the other is the dead soldiers who were not completely cleared by Ma Teng in Xiliang.

As for whether this has anything to do with Xu Zhen, Cao Cao did not pursue it.

But he understood that Xu Zhen really couldn't hold it down after this defeat.

Cao Ang came back from Jizhou at this time, and specially reported to his father about Xu Zhen's various movements in the past few months.

coincided with Cao Song's inability to go to the ground, sick in bed, and for the first time in the same room between three generations, he had a long talk about the future situation.

Of course, Cao Song could only listen and sigh.

Whenever Xu Zhen was mentioned, he would sigh a lot, and when he talked about the situation, he would shut up and listen, mixed with deep worry.

"At least, before Chibi, I didn't see Xu Zhen move south, he was just expanding outward, guarding the Xiliang border, and not letting foreigners have the opportunity to bully the border people."

"Relying on the Great Wall, mountain hazards and other places, garrisoning and building roads to facilitate passage is our deployment at the 800-mile pass of Taihang in Jizhou, but they have all failed."

Cao Ang still sighed when he said this.

My heart hurts.

The Jizhou he took over was not as rich as when Xu Zhen was located, and this year's harvest was not good, far less spectacular than the three warehouses full of millet and mountains of cloth.

Even cotton can't be grown, so he can only rely on the business road to welcome the Xiliang riding merchants, fortunately, Xu Zhen has not cut off the riding merchants, otherwise the prosperity of Jizhou will be completely gone.

In this situation, he also went to prepare for a non-existent big war, which cost a lot of money, but did not get a good result, how can the person in charge not regret it.

And Xu Zhen, where he is looking at now, he can't guess at all.

"It's not a pity, there is no need to be so heartbroken," Cao Cao raised his eyelids, and wanted to blurt out some vulgar words, but thinking that his son was also older, he gave up.

He thought in his heart, Lao Tzu's hundreds of thousands of troops were defeated and burned like this, which is a great shame, and it is just a matter of sleeping for half a month when he comes home, what can you do if you lose some military resources.

It's just money, food, I don't have a year to save every year, I occupy the Central Plains, and I will still be the biggest male lord in the future, but I can continue to expand the border and seek progress in stability, but now I can no longer act rashly.

"Now, the matter of entering the Duke of Wei will continue."

"My son thinks that it can't continue, my father should stabilize for a few more years, and first find a way to take back Youzhou, it depends on where Xu Zhen is planning, if it is Jizhou, then within a few years, there will definitely be a war with Youzhou."

"If he doesn't look at Jizhou, but wants Sichuan, Shu and Yizhou, then Youzhou will be far away, and we can take its inconvenience and replace it."

"If you enter the Duke of Wei, people's hearts will inevitably be mourned a lot, if it is under the whole world, the hearts of scholars have nowhere to go, it doesn't matter, but now that Xu Zhen is still there, wouldn't he push people to him in vain?"

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"The Cui family has Cui Yan in Xudu, and Cui Lin in Xiliang."

"The same is true of the Zhen family, the Ma family, the Pang family, and the Hongnong Yang family, his 10,000-volume pavilion called Tongquetai has a lot of books donated by Yang Xiu, how dare my father act rashly."

Cao Cao was silent, but this matter has been pushed to this point, the three resignations have passed, if you don't act, in a few years, people will forget, and you will have to say three more resignations.

Under the command of the martial arts, the meaning of persuasion is deep, it is nothing more than to want to share the merits as soon as possible, to protect the territory with a defensive position, and to gain another few decades, for them, it seems that it is not a fatal matter who belongs in the world in the future.

As long as the family is still there, there is no grudge, and the clan can always survive forever, if you don't take the throne at this time, you can't achieve what you have longed for for many years, and you will have to let your son go again in the future.

Xu Bowen is now powerful, but he doesn't say that he wants to attack.

Once he sends troops to fight me, he will not also be an unrighteous army, and how many people around him will abandon him.

Berwen was a man of feathers, and from his refusal to give up his self-discipline and devotion to public service over the years, it is clear how a man who has not accepted any gifts for ten years, and who has never bent the law for personal gain, could be willing to tarnish his reputation.

And what about the dispersion of people's hearts?

"You don't know Xu Zhen," Cao Cao sank his face, his hands and ten fingers crossed in front of him, his face was unprecedentedly solemn.

"He's not going to attack me, at least not on his own initiative."

"If you want to attack, a few months ago, it is the best time, otherwise, why do I want you to guard the main road of Jizhou Pass with heavy troops," Cao Cao looked at Cao Ang confidently, with a teaching tone, "Observing people should behave in words and deeds, Xu Zhen has not changed for so many years, and he will not let his heart collapse if he is disciplined like a day." ”

"It is imperative for me to enter the position of the public, Xu Zhen will not take the opportunity to commit it, this is also me forcing him, no matter what, my trip is not without precedent, and it is His Majesty's will to commend many years of merits, he should be congratulated."

"If Xu Zhen is against it, then it is naturally self-reliance, so people's hearts will also leave him, don't forget, how many people around him are recommended by me?"

"Once it falls apart, it's just a lose-lose situation, and he won't take this step."

Or rather, he wouldn't let me be so torn apart.

Take a gamble, Xu Bowen will never hurt me ruthlessly!

Cao Cao secretly gritted his teeth at this time, but on the surface, he never let anyone see that he was modest.

There is indeed an element of gambling this time.

But Cao Cao was right.

After the edict was issued, the Son of Heaven sent a messenger to send a message to Xu Zhen and asked for a reply, but Xu Zhen did not recover, and sent 30,000 horsemen to beat the neighboring Qiang Hu for more than a month.