Chapter 358 Shocks all departments! [Subscribe]

"The Yizhou army was attacked by our army in Pingyuan County. Liu Bei was injured and fled south."

"Xu Yi and Hu You of Yizhou, two armies, surrendered to Wei in battle. Ma Chao and Gao Shun have led their troops to reoccupy Pingyuan County."

Guo Jia, Jia Xu and others all smiled, the results of the battle were in line with expectations.

"Send an order to continue pursuing Liu Bei and defeat the Yizhou army again."

The information soldier quickly went down to pass on the order.

Cao Cao said again: "Go and inform Miaocai and Junyi (Zhang He)'s troops, and let them lead their own troops and act according to the plan."

At this time, Zhang Lu came in from outside the hall and sat down on one side.

Cao Cao asked him to come and gave him a mission.

Zhang Lu glanced at the cowhide map hanging on the wall.

It is all about the deduction of combat steps.

Cao's army's strategic arrangements were based on a large amount of deductions and the collection of information about both the enemy and ourselves.

This kind of pre-war calculations is an extremely complex science.

On the map, there are three deep red battle routes, which were drawn by Cao Cao himself.

What shocked Zhang Lu was that the predictions for two of the routes had been confirmed tonight.

They are Pingyuan County south of Bashan Mountain. Cao's army attacked Liu, and as a result, Liu Bei was defeated and fled.

Cao Cao also made an estimate of his escape route.

The subsequent pursuit is happening!

The second battle line was for Liu Bei to send a troop to attack, hoping to use internal support to seize Yangping Pass.

These two routes, one offensive and one defensive, were Cao Cao's prediction of the battle situation before the war.

I marked it on the map a few days ago.

When the real confrontation unfolded, it was highly consistent with Cao Cao's prediction.

This made Zhang Lu secretly excited.

When he first joined Cao, he wanted to borrow the power of Cao Wei to protect Hanzhong, not because he really wanted to serve Cao.

However, after coming into contact with Cao Cao, he was quickly controlled.

At this time, Cao Cao was discussing the next strategy with everyone. Zhang Lu was listening on the side. The more he listened, the more excited he became, and his eyes lit up.

Guo Jia suddenly asked Cao Cao: "My king, in the subsequent battle with Yizhou, do you still want to use the people under Liu Bei's command who have secretly surrendered to us?"

Zhang Lu finally couldn't help asking, "Your Majesty, why do we have so many generals in Yizhou?"

Although Yizhou was in Liu Bei's hands, there seemed to be quite a few spies from Cao's camp under his command.

This is somewhat unreasonable.

Why did Cao Ying attract so many generals from Yizhou to surrender?
The reason was actually Liu Zhang, the former governor of Yizhou.

Who did Liu Zhang hate the most after Yizhou was taken away from him?

Undoubtedly they are Liu Bei, Fa Zheng and Zhang Song.

The three of them joined forces and seized Yizhou from him.

In Liu Zhang's opinion, Liu Bei was ungrateful.

He took the initiative to invite Liu Bei, but Liu Bei took Yizhou away from him.

After losing Yizhou, Liu Zhang hated Liu Bei to the core.

Jia Xu and Guo Jia both had the ability to see through people's hearts, and they both saw the opportunity. They both gave Cao the same advice, starting with Liu Zhang and dealing with Yizhou.

After Liu Zhang offered Yizhou, Liu Bei would never kill him for the sake of others and himself.

Liu Zhang was forced to move to Jingzhou and was kicked out of the power center of Yizhou.

The spy in Cao's camp then secretly contacted Liu Zhang.

Liu Zhang wanted to take revenge on Liu Bei, so he made a list of people in Yizhou who might still be loyal to him, added a handwritten letter, and gave it to the spies in Cao's camp.

Cao Ying followed the map and used this list to persuade the enemy to surrender, which, together with Liu Zhang's letter, was very convincing.

In addition, Cao's camp was already powerful, while Liu Zhang was cowardly and unable to accomplish anything.

But the Liu family has been operating in Yizhou for a long time.

When he presented the city to Liu Bei, many of his subjects cried bitterly and said they were willing to live and die with Yizhou.

He wrote letters to some old ministers, and Cao's camp recruited people based on the letters. There were so many people who surrendered to Cao that Liu Bei's men were like a sieve. Any number of people who showed up would be soldiers who had surrendered to Cao's camp.

As for Liu Bei, his foundation was too shallow and he had been in power in Yizhou for a short time, so it was impossible for him to replace all the original team in Yizhou.

So he was tricked and put at a disadvantage.

At this time, Guo Jia asked Zhang Lu in front of him whether he should use other hidden players, but he was actually cooperating with Cao Cao.

After hearing the inside story, Zhang Lu's pupils shrank slightly.

If we put ourselves in other people's shoes, we can know that some of his subordinates may have secretly defected to Cao.

Even if he had other thoughts, he couldn't escape Cao Cao's control.

The simple cooperation between Cao Cao and Guo Jia allowed them to control Zhang Lu firmly.

"Gongqi, you will lead the army immediately and march to the southwest to cooperate with our troops!" Cao Cao ordered.

Zhang Lu stood up solemnly and accepted the order.

"Okay, that's it for tonight."

Cao Cao said to everyone, "Liu Bei has made many preparations to seize Hanzhong. He will not be willing to fail like this. He must have other plans. All the troops must not be careless. Follow the previous agreement and do not slack off."

Everyone agreed in unison, bowed one by one and left.

After everyone left, the Qi in Cao Cao's body circulated, and a totem dragon emerged and rose into the sky towards the southwest.

As Cao Cao's practice improved day by day, his totem dragon was able to always be in harmony with some kind of mysterious energy between heaven and earth.

He is a thing of destiny, between reality and illusion.

When it merges into the night sky, clouds and mist follow the dragon, covering a hundred miles in an instant.

Above Yangping Pass, a real dragon quietly appeared and soared above the clouds.

He pressed down the clouds, and the dragon's eyes opened and looked down.

Outside Yangping Pass, there were cries of killing everywhere.

Under Liu Bei's command, Lei Tong led his troops to capture Yangping Pass.

The city gate opened, and the person who rushed out was naturally Le Jin, who was ordered to garrison Yangping.

The two sides engaged in a fierce battle at Yangping Pass.

Lei Tong fought and retreated, trying to retreat back to the mountains.

After dawn, Lei Tong's troops were ambushed by a group of soldiers led by Le Jin, and their retreat was cut off. Lei Tong was killed on the spot and beheaded by Le Jin.

morning.

Boss Cao was sitting in a study room in Hanzhong City, reading a book.

Among the many scrolls of ancient sages that I obtained from the Kong family last time were twelve scrolls of Lu Ban’s scrolls.

After reading it, Cao Cao discovered that the Xunzhu was a special artifact that Lu Ban and Mo Zi had studied and made together.

Lu Ban recorded the production method in a scroll of bamboo slips.

But it is demanding and almost impossible to replicate.

In addition, the scroll also records several ways of using the Xunzhu.

Including using the main bead to control several other secondary beads.

It can also sense the approximate locations of the other beads based on the main bead, so there is hope of finding them back if they are lost.

These methods were lost when passed down to later generations, and Cao Cao did not know about them at the time.

Now that I have read this scroll, I know that the message beads were originally made for the purpose of military communication.

But it is too difficult to find multiple pearls from the same clam or turtle.

Therefore, there are only three sets of Xunzhu handed down from generation to generation.

Both sets are in Cao Cao's hands.

After reading it, he mastered several more uses of the communication beads, which could make communication safer.

Cao Cao then took back Lu Ban's message and turned his attention to the eagle's body, paying attention to the changes on the grassland.

After Zhang Liao's surprise attack on the Eastern Xianbei, nearly half of his troops, led by Zhang Xiu, escorted the spoils back to the camp.

Zhang Liao himself led the rest of the elite troops and headed westward, preparing to respond and meet up with Zhao Yun.

Zhao Yun originally received orders from Cao Cao and marched his troops northward from Bingzhou into the territory of the Xianbei people.

At the end of April, the vast grassland has survived the cold winter and is blooming with a hint of green.

The Xianbei tribes set up camp in areas with abundant grass and water, preparing for the coming summer by fattening cattle, sheep and horses.

The territory of the Central Xianbei was vast, from the northern part of Han territory all the way to Lake Baikal, all of which were Xianbei lands.

Hundreds of tribes live scattered throughout the area.

They gather troops in times of war and rest and recuperate in peacetime.

The Hanjiang tribe was a medium-sized Xianbei tribe located in the rear of the Xianbei, thousands of miles away from the northern border of Han territory.

The area where it is located is full of cattle and sheep.

The Hanjiang tribe was a vassal tribe under the Central Xianbei King's tribe.

Their tribal camps are usually within two to three hundred miles of the royal territory.

The current Zhong Xianbei is composed of many tribes. The few families that can be called the royal family are all relatives who were enfeoffed during the period of Tan Shihuai's unification. They are also the most powerful families in Zhong Xianbei.

They divided the fertile land of the grassland together.

The sun is rising.

In the Hanjiang tribe, there was a child of seven or eight years old who was chewing dried meat made from prairie mice.

He was squatting outside the tent to bask in the sun, when he suddenly froze and stared blankly into the distance.

As far as the eye can see, there is a team, wearing armor and holding sharp weapons, approaching at a rapid speed.

It was a Han army led by Zhao Yun.

"That army is coming again!" the child shouted.

The Hanjiang troops soon sounded the battle cry.

The women, children and the elderly in the tribe also raised their wooden spears and took defensive postures as if they were facing a powerful enemy.

This was not the first time they had seen this Han army.

Many days ago, this Han army appeared in the rear of the Xianbei and wandered around the Wangzhang tribe.

During the process, there was also a brief battle with the troops of the Wangzhang tribe.

The Wangzhang tribe gathered its troops and contacted another Wangzhang tribe, hoping to capture this Han army. Only then did they learn that the other Wangzhang tribe had already been harassed and attacked by this Han army.

The two tribes joined forces and sent out troops to engage in battle against the Han army.

The surrounding Xianbei tribes all thought that they could defeat the Han army this time.

Unexpectedly, the opponent not only engaged in battle several times, came and went calmly, but also still refused to leave.

On the grassland, they chased and clashed with the troops of the two kings from time to time, resulting in casualties on both sides.

The news spread quickly on the grassland.

In March, just after the cold winter, the Xianbei people sent cavalry south to explore the northern border of Han territory.

Cao Cao then gave the order to Zhao Yun to lead elite cavalry to attack and penetrate deep into the Xianbei people's territory.

This is the most powerful response.

You come to harass and investigate me, and I will also harass and investigate you, without giving in at all.

Zhao Yun set out from Bingzhou in the north, like a sharp blade piercing into the grassland. For a whole month, he rode his horse across the grassland, crossed the Xianbei territory, looted supplies along the way, and replenished his consumption.

Many grassland tribes had seen traces of Zhao Yun's troops, but none of them could stop this Han army.

Cao Cao blessed Zhao Yun with military power and luck, and sometimes assisted him, helping him improve his marching ability, galloping around on the grassland and showing off his power.

Cao Cao also released a large eagle in the sky to point out the direction and detect the enemy situation.

Therefore, no matter how the Xianbei people surrounded them, Zhao Yun would discover them in advance and avoid them.

Zhao Yun rode his horse repeatedly on the grassland without any danger of getting lost.

Cao Cao asked Zhao Yun to do this in order to demonstrate the Wei army's military strength and its ability to carry out long-distance raids, to show off its military power and to intimidate the Xianbei.

Cao Cao wanted to let the Xianbei know that the Wei cavalry under his command could arrive at the Xianbei's doorstep at any time.

The Wei army had the strength to attack any Xianbei king's tribe.

On the grassland in April, the Xianbei tribes were in an uproar.

The Han army penetrated deep into the grasslands, and they were helpless.

This formed a huge contrast with their self-awareness of their strength and their belief that they could plunder Han territory by marching their troops south.

At this time, the news that the Eastern Xianbei were defeated and their tribe was destroyed spread throughout the Central Xianbei again.

On the grasslands this spring, the news that the Wei army had infiltrated their rear and destroyed the Eastern Xianbei was like a bomb, shaking the hundreds of Xianbei tribes.

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