The soldiers and horses of Yizhou retreated, even if the soldiers and horses of the two realms were unwilling to fight, the situation was stabilized and no longer led to war.

Xu Zhen moved to Hanzhong, repaired the government office, and hoarded heavy troops.

The people of Hanzhong originally planned to make trouble and did not accept it, but Xu Zhen directly brought 500,000 people with him, these people were still displaced more than ten years ago, and they were all people who had no fixed place to live and their homes had already been destroyed.

The predecessor was the Yellow Turban family members who came to Yanzhou from Qingxu, and many of them were retired from the thieves of the year.

When these people arrived in Hanzhong, they simply occupied the magpie's nest, and they didn't regard themselves as outsiders at all, and these Hanzhong residents didn't dare to provoke them at all.

Soon they got along with each other, and the land of the government office was redistributed to be used as a reward for tuntian.

Xu Zhen's method of tuntian, although it is also to take these homeless people away, but with the annual reward to select a group of people to settle down proudly.

Of course, there are not many, and there are still millions of people who belong to Xu Zhen's hoarders every year, and these people cultivate and harvest enough to survive in a year.

……

Yecheng.

Cao Cao moved to Yecheng, Wei County, that is, where the fief is now, after the defeat, entered the stage of defense and internal governance, with Cao's current soldiers and horses, soldiers, civil and military forces, even if it is not enough to send troops to seize the world, but still occupies a great advantage.

There will be no gains and losses in defending for a long time, and the army will be easily dispatched to defend, even Xu Zhen will not dare to make a move, and the Sun-Liu Alliance will stop at Hefei.

After stabilizing the situation in this way, it is natural that there will be no panic and no more panic, and it will continue to carry out internal affairs, so that the territory will be solid and rich, and the troops and horses will be stockpiled to prepare for the future.

At this time, although Cao Cao said that he was at ease, he also understood that people must have near-term worries if they have no long-term concerns, and they don't think about what will happen after this, then it will be even more difficult.

Cao Cao knew that once Chibi was defeated, he wanted to dominate the world in the prime of life, but he could only become a bubble, and for the victory of Chibi, he gave up Bowen.

For him, this is the biggest loss, if he had listened to Xu Zhen's strategy, he would not have forced a rapid attack, but slowly stationed troops to stock up on food.

Not only can it gradually eat away at the waiting plane, but it can also make Xu Zhen not stay away from him, although he can't do anything to him, but at least it won't make him feel cold.

To this day, how could Cao Cao still not understand that Xu Bowen had come to this point, either he had changed, or there was a mistake in the link where Cao Zhen appeared at that time.

The relationship between the two has reached the point of no return, and now Xu Zhen's family background is no longer the same, so naturally he can no longer fight each other.

Not long after, Guo Jia came back from outside, with a letter in his hand, Guo Jia has experienced a lot of vicissitudes this year, and it is far from being as glorious and relaxed as Xun Yu, who gradually let go of his responsibilities in Yecheng.

He sent Xu Zhen's letter, and he has been corresponding, telling him whether he has it or not, but it is not inferior, with Cao Cao's character, at most he will inform Xu Zhen very obscurely, hoping that he will be transferred to Jizhou and be his companion.

But Xu Zhen has always used the uneven border of Xiliang, and his title is in Wuwei, so he can't go back rashly, wait a few years, and make some political achievements.

This kind of rhetoric is actually a refusal, Cao Cao can't rashly give an order in the name of the Son of Heaven, if this is the case, it is on the last road, as long as Xu Zhen refuses, then the fact of self-reliance is confirmed.

And this road is still Cao **, so it is difficult for the two to come to this point, they are just testing each other, Cao Cao has lost that kind of self-confidence and can control Xu Zhen.

Raising a tiger is a good way to describe it.

"Still not agree?"

"That's right," Guo Jia said with a wry smile, and then revealed a little other news, "Bowen has now set his sights on Yizhou, and his soldiers and horses have sent 50,000 to Hanzhong to help Liu Zhang sweep away Zhang Lu of the Wudoumi Taoist Sect, and it seems that there are already results." ”

"The news is far away, it will arrive in the next few days, I have sent people out to step up investigation, we have placed people in Xiliang, and it has been reduced a lot."

"Bervine really ......"

Guo Jia shook his head helplessly, "It's very thorough." ”

"How thorough?"

Cao Cao was puzzled, he knew what Guo Jia meant, but he still wanted to hear what this so-called thoroughness meant.

He still wanted to hear Feng Xiao say it himself.

"Xiliang still has a few spies, but in Yizhou, basically no, if he enters Yizhou, based on this, we will find out the news in the future, I am afraid it will take a lot of effort, so from now on Bowen's food, armaments, battle formations and even his new civil and military weapons, we will not know."

"Bowen will be on the table, but it's not like what he says is what he says, it's hard to find out."

Guo Jia's face was embarrassed, and his originally slightly handsome face was full of sadness, and his scalp was tingling when he thought of these arrangements.

At that time, Xun Yu stepped down from any of the incidents, and promoted hundreds of school affairs to enter Jizhou, in order to monitor Xu Zhen, hibernate secretly, like a winter insect, and not show any horses, in order to prevent changes in the future.

Who knew that Xu Zhen was directly transferred to Youzhou, and then went all the way, and soon after arriving in Bingzhou, he entered Liangzhou to live.

How far away from Jizhou, the hand of the school affairs can't reach him at all, and now he wants to seize Hanzhong, and then enter Yizhou.

Nayizhou is a country of abundance, rich in products, and there are lofty mountains and mountains, rolling mountains, blocking the surrounding marching road intersections, if you rashly send troops, you will inevitably be hit hard.

The spies sent are likely to be investigated as soon as they enter Yizhou, and to put it bluntly, Guo Jia suspects that Xu Zhen still has a trusted intelligence agency.

After all, this school was also trained by him at the beginning, and many people are still grateful for Xu Zhen's kindness, which is very important in this era, and it is a way to give people food.

Since he can train to do school affairs, then he is in Yizhou or Xiliang, there are a lot of fierce soldiers, and he must be able to have other institutions.

The spies on the side of Xu Du, it must also be a vicious battle, and if you want information in the future, it is not so simple, and without intelligence, you can't know its inside story, and you can't spread rumors.

Of course, he didn't dare to attack rashly, and Xu Zhen was young and the prime minister was old, and in ten or decades, I am afraid that the situation will change greatly.

"Tsk, this kid, really has a vicious gaze, but what else can't he think of?"

Cao Cao laughed instead, as if it wasn't serious, but Guo Jia didn't have such a big heart, and he already felt that the future was even more gloomy.

I'm afraid it's impossible to reconcile with him.

After all, this is not a matter between the prime minister and the chariot, these are already two factions.

And Xu Zhen's faction has grown up in the war, and there is no need to be lucky about his loyalty, they are all old foxes, and it can be seen at a glance that there are nearly 500,000 people under him, and 300,000 can sacrifice himself at any time.

The other 200,000, sooner or later, will be like this.

Xu Zhen's ability to collect his heart is no less than that of the prime minister.

"Prime Minister, the only way to do it now is not to fight with Bowen, to always be friends, and to draw this boundary between us and him, and the Taihang Mountains are exactly the boundary."

"Yes," Cao Cao nodded thoughtfully, "I only care about the Central Plains, and he wants his Yizhou, but I still want to see where Bowen's talent is now." ”

"Tell Yuan Rang to withdraw him."

"Ordered Zixiao to defend Nanyang, withdraw the army, defend Nanyang and Hefei, no longer move troops against Liu Bei, and let him out."

Cao Cao's face has darkened, and it is no longer the time when he would regret and sigh when he mentioned Xu Zhen, and he was always reluctant to say a bad word about him.

Guo Jia is in the dark situation, and this glance is enough to see that the prime minister has moved his mind about the layout, and he suddenly realized that he has been paying attention to the general trend and has not let Xu Zhen go because of guilt.

On the surface, the summarization of the letter is only an illusion.

Otherwise, how could the eyes be so vicious.

Release Liu Bei.

What a strategy.

As long as the pressure on Jingzhou is relaxed, Liu Bei will inevitably no longer focus on the garrison of Jingzhou, but turn elsewhere, Jiangdong he naturally can't take, then the only thing he can go to is Yizhou.

"Liu Zhang of Yizhou is Liu Bei's clansman, just like when he entered Jingzhou to seek Liu Biao's help, Liu Bei will inevitably seek Yizhou."

"Conspiracy...... There is no need to say it so ugly, Liu Jiyu has always been weak, not good at governance, kind and loving the people, not a king who works hard to govern," Cao Cao smiled and waved his hand, and said, "But Liu Bei is." ”

"Liu Xuande, not only knows how to enrich the country and strengthen the people, but also knows how to fight, Jingzhou he will definitely fight, I want to see, Liu Bei can get at least half of Jingzhou, so what should Bowen do!"

Guo Jia was silent for a long time, frowning in thought, and when he stretched out, he still asked for a question, "Then, which of them wins, and we can benefit?" ”

"Whoever wins, we all benefit."

Cao Cao answered him directly, and showed a smile again, "Because I will send troops to capture Jingzhou at the most critical time!" ”

"I see......"

Guo Jia took a deep breath and bowed his hand.

"The thought of the prime minister makes me dizzy and immensely admired."

If this is the case, Liu Bei's victory will be difficult to care about, while Xu Zhen's victory will make Liu Bei have no way out.

Jingzhou will inevitably lose, but fortunately, in such a difficult situation, it will win again.

The prime minister is really broad-minded.

Now, it's up to Berwen to break the game.

There is only one way to break the game.

Fast!

As long as he is fast enough, then we will be too late, but can he really continue to continue this rapid military power?

Hardly.

……

After January, the Jingzhou general changed his defense, withdrew the brave Xiahou Yuanrang, and replaced the calm and generous Cao Ren to guard the border, and let the soldiers and horses retreat ten miles to the city instead of continuing the attack.

Liu Bei breathed a sigh of relief, and observed for more than ten days, but he didn't see any movement of Cao's army, and there were not many flags on the city gate, but the military strength on duty changed more every day.

After civil and military deliberation, it was decided that Cao Ren did not intend to fight them to the death, but only to hold the southern part of Cao Cao's border.

At this time, Lu Su sent someone across the river and sent a message across the river again.

Only then did Liu Bei know that Hefei's defense was almost like this, and basically had no idea of counterattacking again, but after retracting the soldiers and horses back to the riverbank.

The meaning of Jiangdong is too obvious.

Liu Bei realized what Lu Su meant on the spot, and there might not be any more wars this year, which was urging him to quickly find a new place to settle down and let Jingzhou out.

But Liu Bei couldn't go to the road immediately, and he had to see what kind of medicine was being sold in Cao Cao's gourd.

After thinking about it for a while, it was finally Xianhe who mentioned Xu Zhen again, which made Liu Bei's heart sink and figure out the intention, although he only got a little bit of news about Du and Xiliang, which was not enough to become intelligence, but with his intelligence and instinctive judgment on the general trend, Liu Bei could speculate that this was a matter between Cao Cao and Xu Zhen.

The rift between them is not small, so Cao Cao shrinks his forces and does not let go of an inch of land, which means that he is also forcing Liu Bei to find another place.

For him, the best place is Yizhou, which is owned by Liu Zhang, who is also a relative of the Liu family, and Liu Jiyu is an incompetent king, at least in troubled times.

is like Liu Yu back then, there are benevolent and righteous officials who love the people, but they don't have the talent to conquer the world, otherwise he was given thirteen years to prepare, how could he still shrink in Yizhou.

After getting this judgment, when Liu Bei summoned Guan Yu to tell him about the matter, he finally sighed and said sincerely: "I know that Cao Cao drove me to chase Xu Zhen in order to check and balance, but I can't help but go, Yun Chang knows why." ”

"Big brother doesn't have to ask Yun Chang, the troubled times have followed for twenty years, why do you need to ask the way back, where the brother goes, Yun Chang will go."

Guan Yu stroked his beard lightly, smiled calmly, but seemed to have guessed something, and continued: "However, guarding the land of Jingxiang still needs to be guarded by a general. ”

"Yide followed his brother into Yizhou, this is the place where my brother really takes off, and it is not Jingzhou."

"Cloud Chief!"

Liu Bei was quite moved to hold Guan Yu's hand, his face was full of excitement, he knew Yun Chang's temperament, and he would not say anything against it, but he didn't expect to hear such touching words today.

"But I still have to say," Liu Bei sighed, "because we really need Yizhou to settle down, and if Xu Zhen gets Yizhou, he will be as stable as Mount Tai from now on." ”

"Yun Chang, Jingzhou is up to you."

"It's all up to my brother's orders, this farewell, goodbye in the future, Yun Chang will die, and he should also defend Jingzhou."

The two clasped their hands tightly, Liu Bei looked at him affectionately, how many words between brothers seemed redundant at this time, and the word benevolence and righteousness were in their hearts, all of which were qualities that made people die without regrets.

……

A few days later, a person in Yizhou sent a letter to Liu Bei.

This person's name is Liu Ba, who was originally a famous scholar in Jingzhou, and had taught many young scholars such as Zhou Budo, who was proficient in scriptures and other works, and also knew the art of war.

I, a general who dared to go to the battlefield to fight, secretly befriended Liu Bei.

It was already like this when he was in Xiangyang, and Liu Bei visited him many times in those years, but in the end, only Liu Ba was willing to have a long talk with him late at night, and he interacted with his ideals many times.

After the Cao family entered Jingzhou, Liu Ba fled to Yizhou for refuge first, and was regarded as a guest, and now he also has his own power cultivation in Yizhou, and he is not alone.

After he received Liu Bei's letter, he immediately replied.

According to the letter, this merit may be feasible and worth a fight.

Having such a reply suddenly greatly increased Liu Bei's confidence.

In the spring of this year, he began to ask for directions to Yizhou, and the results he got at this moment were not too bad.

If it is possible to succeed in the effort, then the matter is completely worth the attempt, after all, there is no other way out now.

(End of chapter)