"This is the meaning of the military advisor, the more we dare to fight here, the more panicked Cao Hong will be."

"In that case, the last general will go and prepare immediately."

After Chen Zhi finished answering Liu Bei, he had no scruples to go down to prepare for war, and before leaving, he shouted a few words at the pass, which made Cao Hong and the others wonder.

Could it be that Ma Teng and the others really didn't move?

Could it be that Gao Gan is really so defeated?

How many soldiers did Liu Bei bring back from Jingzhou?

A large number of questions lingered in everyone's minds.

They were originally full of confidence and thought that they could return to Guanzhong this time, but when they heard Liu Bei's conversation, everyone's mood changed instantly.

Cao Xiu saw everyone's doubts, and hurriedly relieved:

"Liu Bei appeared in Tongguan, which shows that the siege of Jingzhou has been solved, and the siege of Wei to save Zhao has been completed, as for whether or not Guanzhong can be defeated, it is already the icing on the cake, you don't have to care too much."

"But Gao Yuancai crossed the river and went around the back of 20,000 soldiers, and there was Shiren who surrendered as an internal response, what did he Liu Bei do to repel it? The 70,000 soldiers in Liangzhou don't need to be defended? Are Ma Teng and Han Sui all fools? ”

Seeing Cao Hong's face full of doubts, Cao Xiu wiped his beard, shook his head lightly and analyzed: "It's hard to say the specific situation, maybe it's really a bluff, but looking at what he just said, and he is confident that Chen Zhi will go out of the customs to fight, it seems that he has enough confidence, it is difficult to judge whether it is true or false, could it be that he and the generals of Liangzhou have secretly reached something?" ”

Cao Hong asked disdainfully: "What can Liu Bei give?" ”

"Don't forget the slogan he said not long ago, the so-called 'welcome the Son of Heaven, return to the old capital', maybe it is in the tone of the Son of Heaven, to make a wish to the generals of Liangzhou to be crowned officials."

Cao Xiuyan frowned, he didn't understand the situation in front of him.

Cao Hong glanced up at Liu Bei, and then snorted coldly at everyone: "Liu Bei wants to learn from the Lord to serve the princes of the Son of Heaven?" At the very least, he has to wait for the Son of Heaven to have it in his hands, such a nondescript behavior, can Ma Teng, Han Sui and others believe it? ”

"Who knows."

"Look, two generals, the door is closed and opened."

With Zhang Xiu's reminder, Cao Hong and Cao Xiu ended the discussion, and Chen Zhi was surrounded by a team of guards, riding a horse and pointing a gun at the front and shouting: "Chen Zhi is here, who was arguing to send him to death before, come to fight quickly." ”

Cao Hong immediately glanced at the people around him, this kind of thing the Cao family would not go, so Cao Xiu was the first to be ruled out.

The rest are Zhang Xiu, Lu Kuang, and Lu Xiang.

Although these three people were all demoted generals, Zhang Xiu not only led his troops to take the initiative to surrender, but his daughter also married Cao Cao's concubine Cao Jun, Lu Kuang and Lu Xiang had just defected, and they were forced to surrender helplessly.

Lu Kuang and Lu Xiang knew the rules, and after the two looked at each other, Lu Kuang took the lead in hugging his fists and asking for help: "General Cao, the last general is willing to behead Chen Zhi and dedicate it to his command." ”

"Good."

Seeing Cao Hong nodding affirmatively, Lu Kuang immediately took his horse and gun to fight Chen.

Lu Kuang is unknown in Hebei, and if Chen Zhi is not guarding Tongguan, he is not familiar to the outside world, and neither of them has a brilliant record, so after exchanging names, they directly fight together.

Cao Jun didn't know Chen Zhi's skills, but Liu Bei, who was watching the battle, knew it.

When he saw Lu Kuang walking on a horse and dancing with a gun, he knew that there should not be many catties and taels.

Sure enough, as soon as the two fought each other, Lu Kuang was stabbed to death with a shot.

Chen went to the chest of the horizontal gun and continued to shout arrogantly:

"That's it? Who else? ”

Seeing this, where could Lu Xiang endure it, he hurriedly hugged his fists and asked Cao Hong:

"General, Chen Zhi killed my brother, and the last general asked for revenge."

"Hmm"

Cao Hong saw that Chen Zhi's marksmanship was good, and said in his heart that you are equal to Lu Kuang's skills, so don't you rush forward to give people the results, he sighed for a moment and waved his hands noncommittally, turned to Zhang Xiu and said:

"General Lu has lost his brother, I'm afraid I can't use all my strength, it's best for General Zhang to fight."

"The last general commands."

Zhang Xiu quickly took the order.

As Liu Bei's guard, Chen Zhi had almost no chance to participate in the fight, and it was very refreshing to stab Lu Kuang to death just now, and he finally understood that Zhang Fei was so keen on this.

As soon as the feeling of bullying and domineering came up, the blood in his body seemed to burn.

However, Zhang Xiu is not weak.

He has superb marksmanship, Chen Zhi has to concentrate to deal with it, and the two have fought for more than 30 times without winning or losing.

Cao Hong saw that the sky was dark, and he was worried that Zhang Xiu would lose his voice and withdraw his troops.

When he returned to the big tent at night, Cao Hong sat without saying a word, he didn't expect Chen Zhi to be so able to fight.

The heart said that how many fierce generals are there under Liu Bei's command? Why is it so difficult to deal with casually?

Now that Liu Bei has returned to Shiguan, Tongguan will inevitably not be able to go through.

Cao Xiu and Lü Xiang buried Lü Kuang by the Yellow River, and when he settled down to patrol at night, he saw Cao Hong's black face when he entered the big tent.

"Still worried about Tongguan? I persuaded the general to want to open some, anyway, our goal has been achieved, even if Liu Bei is contained here, our task along the way can be regarded as a successful completion, I believe the main guild will understand. ”

"I just can't figure it out."

"If you can't figure it out, you don't want to, didn't Xu You recruit Shiren? He should have the answer there, the most important thing at the moment is to send the news back to Xudu and Hebei as soon as possible, and he has to ask the lord for advice on what to do in the future. ”

"Well, I listened to Wen Lie."

Because of Cao Cao's instructions, Cao Hong discussed with Cao Xiu on all matters big and small, and basically listened to the suggestions.

By the next day, although the Cao battalion was still outside Tongguan, no one went to fight again, but the soldiers of each battalion still insisted on training.

Seeing this, Liu Bei couldn't make up his mind, so he sent scouts to Huayin to ask for a plan, but Zhuge Liang pursued Gao Gan and did not return.

At dusk on the third day, Liu Bei and Chen Zhi were inspecting the Guan, and accidentally found a boat on the Yellow River in the north, which went down the river to the north of Caoying, and began to move to the south bank.

"Look, my lord, the ship is coming from upstream, maybe it's a high-level messenger."

"There was no news from the military division for two days, and I don't know if his pursuit went well, and the 5,000 soldiers ran around for 20 days, and they didn't know if they could hold on."

Liu Beiyan looked due north and was worried about Zhuge Liang.

Chen Zhi comforted and said: "The lord can rest assured, the military division has always been a last resort, since the senior cadres were defeated in Huayin, they should not be able to organize a counterattack, and the elite soldiers trained by General Guan should not be so easy to get tired, you can reward them more afterwards." ”

"Well, I hope so."

Liu Bei was sad when he was closed, and Cao Ying was really sad when he was closed.

The boat rowed to the south bank, and several soldiers took Shiren to see Cao Hong, bringing the news that the Gao cadres had defeated Huayin, abandoned Linjin, and finally crossed the river from Pubanjin and fled, and had retreated to Bingzhou.

Cao Hong and Cao Xiu were shocked when they heard it, and said in their hearts that what Liu Bei said was indeed true.

After a short period of astonishment, Cao Hong looked at Shiren and asked:

"General Shi can abandon the darkness and turn to the light, and the lord will definitely treat talents well, but there is one thing I can't figure out, you are Liu Bei's confidant, why were you persuaded by Xu Ziyuan? Don't worry about Chang'an's family? ”

"Ahem, Liu Xuande is known for his benevolence and righteousness, I think my family will not be implicated, as for being persuaded by Xu Ziyuan."

Shi Renxin said that he didn't ask you like this, but he had already thought about the topic and diverted the topic: "By the way, at noon today, when Mr. Xu was returning to Hedong, he accidentally fell into the Yellow River, and the river was turbulent and he was not rescued."

"What?"

Cao Hong and Cao Xiu's eyes widened, and they said in their hearts, what did Gao Gan do? The task was not completed but it was folded? And now to come back to such a thing?

The fact is that Xu Yu relied on Cao Cao's envoy and arrogantly said to the senior cadre's subordinates that he would get on the boat first, but was kicked into the water by the angry senior cadre.

Shiren happened to see it not far away, but Gao Gan had already determined the nature of the incident, and at that time he was still pretending to shout for help, but in fact, he was preventing Xu You from catching the boat, so that the other party could drink and sink to the bottom as soon as possible.

At this time, in Cao Ying, Shiren knew that he was alone, and he did not intend to demolish Gao Gan.

(End of chapter)