Cheng'an, the ancient name of the hill.

Compared to the major cities near him, it seemed to be extraordinarily low-key.

And it is indeed low-key, except for a ruined city, it can be said that there is nothing to grow.

Cheng'an was originally one of the counties of Chenliu County, but it was removed.

So now only a dry city remains, and the local county guard remembers it and stationed some soldiers and horses here.

I can't remember it, but it was a place for the people and merchants to rest temporarily.

But the geographical location of this place is particularly important to Liu Wei at this time.

This is also the place where Xun Yu selected the garrison according to the map.

From this place to the north, the army can reach Jiyin County, which has the reputation of "among the world", and the adjacent Jibei country.

The distance in a straight line to the east is only a hundred miles away, and there is a single father in Shanyang County.

From the southeast down, is the Liang Kingdom.

From Cheng'an to Jiyin County, the straight-line distance to Liang is about the same, and the cavalry only needs two or three days to arrive.

In other words, if the two of them, King Jibei and King Liang, want to challenge Liu Wei's hard power.

Liu Wei will be able to let them see the guards of the Great Han in the shortest possible time!

After the army was stationed in Cheng'an City, Liu Wei had already sent a horse to travel to Jiyin County, Shanyang, and Liangguo.

But any road that can be passed by war horses is the object of reconnaissance for prospecting horses.

"Your Majesty." Cao Renjian walked into the big tent of the Chinese army, saluted and said: "Shan Father City chose to hold on, and did not choose to go out of the city to meet the vanguard army led by Zhang Ji and Duan Xuan. ”

Liu Wei was only wearing a thin straight jacket, and was carefully polishing the high-grade wild mutton fat jade he had just obtained.

He's going to make a piece that he can hold in his hand when he's bored, and pierce the enemy's temple when he's in danger.

"Is there any movement in other counties of Shanyang County?" Liu Wei asked.

Cao Ren's gaze paused for a moment on the jade in Liu Wei's hand, and said, "Back to Your Majesty, there is no news for the time being. ”

"Then let Duan Xuan and Zhang Ji surround them temporarily, and startle the birds and beasts in the grass first." Liu Wei carefully polished the jade in his hand and said to Cao Ren.

"Yui!" Cao Ren replied, and then said: "Your Majesty, the Tanma who went to Shanyang also carried an inaccurate message, according to a group of merchants who crossed the border with a single father, they met Liang Wangmi's car driving in a single father. ”

"Liang Wangmi?" Liu Wei's movements paused for a moment, "Zhao Ye, send a message to King Liang and King Jibei, tell them that I have arrived in Cheng'an, and I really want to see the two princes and kings, and let them leave to Cheng'an as soon as possible." ”

"Yui!" Zhao Ye bowed and answered.

"The minister retired." Cao Ren also took the opportunity to say.

Out of the big tent of the Chinese army, Cao Ren found Cao Cao, who was serving as a supervisor and at the same time personally repairing the city wall.

"Finest pine wine, some?" Cao Ren took out a wine jar from his arms and greeted Cao Cao with a smile.

Cao Cao was shirtless, and he was repairing the giant tree with Luo Bao and other generals.

Seeing Cao Ren coming, he took off the sweat towel around his neck, rubbed it on his face a few times, and said heartily: "Then you must have to come some, when will you come back?" ”

"Fang Cai, I just met Your Majesty, I don't think about my brother, I specially brought a bottle of good wine for my brother." Cao Ren said.

Cao Cao sneered, "How can I eat alone?" ”

As he spoke, he beckoned Luo Bao and other generals to come over and eat a bowl together.

Everyone came over with a smile and complimented Cao Cao.

Not a big bowl of wine, each person covered the bottom of the bowl, and it was gone.

After everyone dispersed, Cao Cao took the little wine in his bowl, took a sip, and said to Cao Ren with a look of enjoyment: "Your kid's nose is really good, when you go out, you can always get some good wine for me to eat." ”

"Who told you that you are not only capable, but also my brother!" Cao Ren teased with a smile.

Cao Cao chuckled and was noncommittal, "What interesting news have you brought back, let's hear about it!" ”

"I knew my brother must be curious." Cao Ren laughed.

Cao Cao said: "Although the planing wood is good, I can't really keep doing it." ”

"My brother's guess is not wrong, Yuan Yu really chose to help Yuan Shao, however, it is rumored that Liang Wangmi also appeared in Shan Father City." Cao Ren repeated what he said to the emperor to Cao Cao.

Cao Cao smashed his mouth twice, carefully smacked the taste of the wine exploding in his mouth, and said after tasting it for a while: "Liang Wangmi, Your Majesty has always wanted to get rid of the vassal states, and King Liang has directly stuffed the handle into His Majesty's hands." ”

He turned his head to look at Cao Ren and asked, "Your Majesty shouldn't let go of this God-given opportunity, right?" ”

"Exactly, Your Majesty issued an edict to the King of Liang and the King of Jibei to meet him." Cao Ren said.

When Cao Cao heard this, he laughed, "I have to go to see Your Majesty, except for the errand of Liang Guo, who else can I be?" ”

"Brother, aren't you selling me!" Cao Ren persuaded softly.

Cao Cao glanced at Cao Ren, "Do you think Your Majesty will not know?" It's all trivial, let's be honest. Your Majesty didn't tell you not to tell anyone, did you? It's just something that I knew earlier and knew later. ”

"It seems to be the same, but the others don't know yet, I have already told my brother first, will it not be good?" Cao Ren asked.

Cao Cao pursed his lips, "You and I are brothers, and it is reasonable to know it earlier." ”

"If I, Cao Cao, can use my own strength to make all the vassal states in the world get rid of the country, there will be my name on the history!"

Cao Ren: ......

Cao Cao took the last sip of wine and tasted it in his mouth for a while, then swallowed it slowly.

"The general trend of the world is like this, Your Majesty is not a good person, before I walked out of Luoyang, I didn't expect Your Majesty's reputation to be so bad. If I don't know the truth, I'm afraid I will also join those so-called rebels and rebel against Your Majesty. Cao Cao sighed slightly.

"But who would have thought that the initiator of all this turned out to be Your Majesty, and this was all done by him on purpose!"

"He wants to destroy the princes of the world who support the army and respect themselves, and he wants to destroy the vassal states, such a heroic lord, how can I Cao Cao not make a royal car for him?!"

"And, can you imagine? Your Majesty has been planning for this since last year! ”

Cao Ren's heart swayed when he was said, "But in this way, Your Majesty's reputation may be completely finished." ”

"In this world, there have always been kings and defeats, and Qin Shi Huang still has people to worship, do you think his reputation is very good? When His Majesty's great cause is accomplished, he raises his arms and exhales, and no one in this world dares to say any gossip. Cao Cao said disdainfully.

"Don't care about the so-called reputation, you are the real hero and hero in this world! Those things, like the clothes on our bodies, are just shame. But those scholars like to make their clothes bells and whistles, like a peacock. ”

"But really? They don't even count as birds, they can't fly. ”

Cao Ren couldn't help but wonder.

When he was fine, he always liked to ask Cao Cao for some things.

What Cao Cao said was not only reasonable, but also interesting.

……

Single Parent City.

When the envoy left with the emperor's will, Zhang Ji clenched his fists fiercely, "The emperor is just entertaining me!" ”

"What does it mean that the great credit is right in front of us, but we are not allowed to take it?!"

Compared with Zhang Ji, Zhang Xiu's nephew should calm down, he persuaded, "Uncle, don't be impatient, I think Your Majesty's consideration should not be so simple, if he just wants to entertain us, there is no need to go through such a big effort." ”

"We don't need to spend so much time on entertainment, but we need to kill us." Zhang Ji glared and shouted, "On the contrary, today is a ghost and a god, and I must also oppose him!" ”

"Are you still going to stop me?" Zhang Ji waved his finger and almost poked it directly into Duan Xuan's face.

Duan Xuan nodded very calmly, "I will." ”

"It's fine." Zhang Ji laughed cruelly, "It's a big deal, let's see who wins or loses between you and me." When you die, your family is small, I will take care of it for you. ”

"I thank you for your kindness, but you may not be able to wait for that day." Duan Xuan was calm and calm, and even had some dislike for Zhang Ji.

"We'll see!" Zhang Ji shouted viciously, "It's just a single father city, in less than ten days, even if I use my front teeth, I can crush it, and let us deliberately pretend to be weak?" That's bullying! ”

"Uncle." Zhang Xiu looked at Zhang Ji helplessly and said, "Do you think it is possible that this is the tactic used by the good Geng Yi (Yan) to attack Lixia City?" ”

Zhang Ji was stunned, and asked with a confused expression, "What are you talking about?" ”

Zhang Xiu was a little helpless.

Duan Xuan almost laughed on the side, "Let you read more military books, you have to show off your martial arts all day long, show off your teeth and claws, look at it, even your nephews will despise you!" ”

"You're despising me?!" Zhang Ji stared at Zhang Xiu unkindly, and asked word by word.

Zhang Xiu shook his head again and again, "Uncle misunderstood, I don't mean that." ”

"You!" Zhang Ji turned his head and scolded Duan Xuan.

Duan Xuan was not annoyed, but said to Zhang Xiu: "What tactics did you use to attack Lixia City back then?" Tell me about it! ”

"So you don't know, don't you claim to be omnipotent, how come there are things you don't know?" Zhang Ji pulled back a set and immediately mocked unscrupulously.

"But I know more than you do." Duan Xuan said lightly, "The art of war in the world is like a vast sea, how can I know everything?" At least I'm not like you, I don't know anything. ”

Zhang Ji grinned angrily, gritted his teeth and said: "Labor and management can crown the three armies with only one brave word, you don't need to know so much, courage is enough!" ”

"If you have courage and no strategy, you can call it a horseman!" Duan Xuan said sarcastically with a light smile.

"You old, go, let's do it outside the door and talk about it." Zhang Jiqi's head was about to smoke.

Zhang Xiu saw that these two people were like children, and the trouble was endless, so she hurriedly persuaded: "Two, two, otherwise let's discuss how to fight this battle first?" If we can understand His Majesty's plan, we can also act in an opportunistic manner, right? ”

"You say." Duan Xuan said.

Zhang Xiu looked at Zhang Ji......

Zhang Ji glared at Duan Xuan angrily, and then said reluctantly, "You said yours." ”

Zhang Xiu coughed lightly and said, "It's good to wait for Geng Yi's attack on the past situation, I have carefully compared it, and it is actually very similar to us now." Lixia City is tall and strong, and it is an absolutely difficult bone to gnaw. ”

"After observing for a while, he ordered the three armies, set a date and decided to attack Juli instead, and at the same time deliberately let go of a few prisoners in the camp."

After the captives fled back to Lixia City, they told Fei Yi, the defender of Lixia at that time, the news of when they were going to attack Juli. After that day came, Fei Yi personally led an army of 30,000 to aid Juli, but was ambushed by Hao Hou and led the army halfway, and the Fei army was defeated, and Fei Yi was killed in battle. ”

"I used this strategy to easily take Lixia City, and at the same time used Fei Yi's head to deceive Juli City, and decided two cities in one battle!"

After hearing this, Zhang Ji frowned and shouted, "This is not the same." The Emperor didn't let us attack any other city, but pretended to attack the city, but didn't let us actually attack it. ”

Duan Xuan tapped his temples and said disgustedly: "With this thing on your neck, how can there be exactly the same war?" It's already very similar. ”

"Come, tell me, what's the resemblance? If you can't say that you are ugly today, labor and management will not be finished with you! Zhang Ji's anger really came up, and he slammed the table in front of him.

"Your Majesty is like a good candidate, his real first purpose is not the city of single fathers, but reinforcements! This reinforcement, which may be Liu Dai or Yuan Shao, will destroy the reinforcements first, and then attack Shan Father. Duan Xuan said, "Isn't this almost identical?" ”

"Who's going to fight the reinforcements? The emperor won't let us move our nest! Zhang Ji shouted.

Duan Xuan and Zhang Xiuqi brushed together, and looked at Zhang Ji with a faint gaze.

After Zhang Ji finished shouting, he suddenly reacted, "Riding a horse, I almost forgot, we are still followed by tens of thousands of troops, damn it." ”

Duan Xuan, Zhang Xiu: ......