Chapter 643: Be the God of War of Xiaoyaojin? Or Zhang Wenyuan of Wei?

——Foolish brother doesn’t understand!

——You are not afraid of me, Yudi?

——What is Brother afraid of?

When Xia Houyuan's deafening voice reached Cao Cao's ears, his spirit was undoubtedly lifted a lot, and the light in his pupils became sharp.

——"Yes, Miaocai is right, Gu still has 400,000 knights, and Gu's territory is still the largest in the world?" 』

——‘What are you afraid of? Why should I be afraid of the Guan family father and son? How could I ever be afraid of the big-eared thief and Zhuge villagers? 』

Thinking of this, "Hahahaha"... Cao Cao burst into laughter. He met Xia Houyuan and saw an excited and excited Xia Houyuan. He slapped his shoulders heavily with both hands, "Miaocai, you are right. , With you here and Gu’s hundreds of thousands of troops here, why should Gu be afraid?”

Feeling Cao Cao's powerful palm rubbing on his shoulder...

Xia Houyuan's expression was still solemn, and he said solemnly, "Brother, don't worry, Mr. Jia and I are there at Hanzhong and Yangping Pass. Even if there are only more than 100,000 soldiers and horses, it is enough to kill the 200,000 Shu army of the big-eared thief." There is no armor left. I asked just now that there are more than 100,000 soldiers in Guanzhong, including the soldiers and horses returned by the eldest brother. If the eldest brother wants to take back Luoyang, he only needs to send a letter to Jizhou in the north. , he led the army down, and the elder brother gave the order to advance in both directions, how could Guan Yu resist? "

Xia Houyuan has always been an ultimate pragmatist.

He rose from poverty and gradually became the "Hussars General" of the Wei Dynasty today. Before becoming the commander of the Western Front battlefield, he fought in the north and south, put down the rebellion, and the troops he marched in haste. I'm afraid it's longer than an ordinary general's journey in a lifetime!

Diligence and frugality are his qualities, focusing on the big and letting go of the small in everything, and acting vigorously and resolutely are his methods.

In this situation, he directly stated his point of view.

Lost Luoyang? Lost the emperor? Afraid of birds? Just use the strength of the whole country to take it back!

only…

On this point, Cao Cao's idea was different from his.

Cao Cao said seriously: "I received the letter from Ziwen (Cao Zhang) when I was alone on the road. There are still the remnants of Wuhuan in the north, the five tribes of the southern Xiongnu, and the Xianbei Hulu who have been raiding the border every year. When the news of the fall of Luoyang reaches there, I wonder if these barbarians will have any bad thoughts! Ziwen's 200,000 soldiers have no intention of moving! Besides... Luoyang is newly defeated, the morale of the three armies is low, and the morale of the enemy is high. At this time, we should avoid its sharp edges and be patient...when the time comes, both Luoyang and the emperor will take it back sooner or later!"

Because of Xia Houyuan’s passionate and inspiring words;

Because I saw my good brother and brother-in-law Xia Houyuan...the silent Cao Cao disappeared, and in his place...Cao Cao became a brave and wise hero again.

The lost light in the eyes is back again...

Xia Houyuan heard that he was not in a hurry to counterattack Luoyang, and he was a little uninterested at the moment, but... as soon as his elder brother mentioned the word "timing", he vaguely understood.

Jia Xu, who has always been taciturn, pointed out the key to the problem, "General Xiahou, what do you mean by your Majesty... We, the Wei Dynasty, are in urgent need of a big victory! The Battle of Hanzhong... If we win, it will be enough to boost the morale of the three armies and prepare for the counterattack on Luoyang Create conditions! Your Majesty has high hopes for the general..."

This is what Cao Cao likes most about Jia Xu. When to speak, what to say, and when to shut up, this old poisoner knows very well.

The topic turned to the Battle of Hanzhong. Xia Houyuan patted his chest and assured Cao Cao, "I sent Heng'er (Xia Houheng) and Zidan (Cao Zhen) to Guanzhong to recruit Yongliang soldiers and horses just to make sure nothing went wrong. In fact...although the big-eared thief is coming, It's fierce, but it's just the end of the war, he has no food, haha... Mr. Jia's spy in Shu sent back information, and the Zhuge villagers didn't raise much food even if they devoted all their efforts in Bashu? , then Liu Bei doesn’t dare to go up to Dingjun Mountain, let alone forcefully break through the checkpoint I set!”

Speaking of this, Xia Houyuan's voice gained a bit more confidence, "On the other hand... We in Hanzhong have left a large amount of food and grass from the Five Pecks of Rice Cult. If we hold on, it will be enough for Hanzhong for ten years. Brother, don't worry. The day when the big-eared thief ran out of food was when I led the army to attack... This time, I will let him bury all 200,000 Shu troops here, and capture the big-eared thief alive to boost the morale of the three armies! "

The more Xia Houyuan talked, the more confident he became.

It’s no wonder that he is like this. In fact, the three armies have not moved, and the food and grass go first... What the army is most afraid of is not the unfavorable battle situation, but the supply of food and grass!

Before the farming system, Cao Cao was restricted by food and grass every time he went on a campaign.

He can understand this feeling best.

Looking at Xia Houyuan's firm eyes, Cao Cao was also deeply inspired, and he nodded heavily. "There are wonderful talents, and Hanzhong...is lonely and carefree!"

Following Cao Cao's words... Jia Xu nodded slowly, and Cheng Yu quickly raised the next topic, "Your Majesty, the war on the Western Front started in Hanzhong, and the situation in the Central Plains has been temporarily put on hold. But the most worrying thing now is Huainan. …I heard that fighting has started in Huainan, and it’s not easy to think that General Wenyuan is alone and unable to support himself…”

Cheng Yu just finished speaking.

Cao Cao's eyes narrowed, "On the way here, I was already driving to Huainan..."

"Brother, do you want General Zhang to defend Hefei? Or do you want to imitate the battle of Xiaoyaojin in the past and severely injure those Jiangdong rats?"

Xia Houyuan spoke directly.

"No!" Cao Cao replied without hesitation: "The current situation is different from that of the past. Once Luoyang is lost, the entire Wei front will inevitably retreat, and Hefei cannot be defended!"

"Then..." Xiahou Yuan opened his eyes wide, as if... He had a premonition of his elder brother Cao Cao's order in Huainan. He spoke faster, with a puzzled tone: "So Huainan will be given up like this?"

After saying this, Jia Xu and Cheng Yu looked at each other.

The two of them closed their mouths tacitly, with a sense of déjà vu that they saw through everything, understood everything, but said nothing.

But at this time, Cao Cao said coldly in a decisive tone:

"Let him go!"

"It is better to gather our troops and form a joint force to attack the invading enemy than to hold on reluctantly and lose soldiers and generals in Huainan..."

At this point, Cao Cao's voice was full of determination, "If the price of injuring the enemy's ten fingers is to break one of my fingers, then I would rather injure ten fingers! I must not break this most critical finger!"

Cao Cao's words seemed to be meaningful.

"Ten fingers" refers to Huainan, and the one finger he could not accept to be broken was Zhang Liao and Zhang Wenyuan.

"Brother... but..." Xiahou Yuan seemed to have something else to say.

"Hu..." Cao Cao stopped Xiahou Yuan from saying what he was going to say with a heavy breath, "Wenyuan is a righteous man, I value righteous men the most, Wenyuan must not be in trouble, I only hope that he can receive my imperial edict and flee to Xuzhou before the Jiangdong army forms a siege on Hefei! If so, even if I lose Huainan, I can wake up with a smile in my dreams!"

This...

As Cao Cao chanted these words, the whole room was silent, not only Jia Xu and Cheng Yu, but even Xiahou Yuan, who was emotional just now, could understand the difficulty and bitterness in his brother's heart when he made this decision.

What he can do now...is not to persuade his brother, but...but to win the battle in Hanzhong that is related to the rise and fall of the Wei Dynasty!

Regain the morale and fighting spirit of the three armies of the Wei Dynasty that have fallen to the bottom!

——"Brother, the current situation is really not easy for you! 』

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"Hahahaha...hahahaha..."

"Rat is rat, look, look, I just made a little move, and the rat from Jiangdong fled, hahaha..."

Huainan, outside Hefei.

Zhang Liao's laughter and roar startled several birds that were building nests on the branches.

Just now, he led the cavalry to attack and directly intercepted a Jiangdong army transporting baggage halfway, winning a great victory and seizing countless baggage and food.

On the other hand, those Jiangdong soldiers who were transporting baggage just raised their heads and saw that it was Zhang Liao rushing towards them. How could they have the intention to resist?

All the shield formations collapsed and disintegrated at that moment...

All the soldiers fled.

This battle...can be said to have once again demonstrated Zhang Liao's confidence.

He once again realized that he was still the god of war in Xiaoyaojin who made the children in Jiangdong stop crying. As long as he was still there, Huainan could still be defended and had not fallen!

"Rat, no matter how many people there are, even if the master has changed, they are still rats..."

"Hahahaha..."

Zhang Liao's heroic laughter continued.

"General Zhang is mighty..."

"General Zhang is mighty..."

A group of deputy generals bowed and praised him.

Yes...

In the current situation in Huainan, such a great victory led by General Zhang himself seems so precious.

"Report..." At this moment, a voice came.

The voice of the messenger came out almost at the same time as the arrival of the messenger.

"The edict of the King of Wei, 800 miles in expedited... 800 miles in expedited..."

The messenger broke into the big tent, panting and kneeling on one knee, quickly untied the bamboo basket behind him, and then handed the edict of the King of Wei in the bamboo basket to Zhang Liao.

Zhang Liao took it quickly...

Now, he is also extremely concerned about the safety of the king Cao Cao, but... at least the arrival of this letter can prove that the king is safe! As long as he is safe, that's good, it's more important than anything else!

Thinking of this, Zhang Liao was pleasantly surprised.

But... as the edict unfolded, as the words in the edict appeared in front of Zhang Liao, his eyes... only left with surprise, no longer a single word of "joy".

"General? Is the king safe?"

"General... General, what did the king order?"

As if seeing Zhang Liao's surprise, a group of deputy generals asked quickly.

But Zhang Liao, only him, seemed to have an indescribable complex emotion in his heart, because... in Cao Cao's edict, the most core words were:

- Abandon Jianghuai and retreat to Xuzhou immediately!

Abandon! Retreat!

Abandon? Retreat?

For a moment, Zhang Liao was stunned, as if... the scenes that had happened in Huainan in the past flashed before his eyes one by one like passing clouds and smoke.

Including the urgent message sent by Cao Cao when Sun's 100,000 troops were approaching - "When the enemy arrives, attack!"

Including, he, Zhang Wenyuan, hacked and rushed among Sun's 100,000 troops for a whole night and a morning. He was named "Zhang Babai" for that battle...

Including, the 100,000 troops were frightened! The children stopped crying! The rats in Jiangdong sighed at the river.

Huainan, this is... the place that Zhang Liao and his brothers exchanged for with blood and sweat, and the unyielding city defense they forged. Could it be... that they would just give up like this?

Zhang Liao's heart began to struggle.

He knew that Cao Cao's decision must have his reasons, perhaps from the overall strategic considerations, or perhaps because of other emergency situations.

However, giving up Huainan is undoubtedly a heavy blow to the soldiers who are fighting bloody on the front line and to Zhang Liao.

"General... General..."

The deputy generals are still asking...

Zhang Liao suddenly waved his hand, "You retreat first..."

"But, General..."

The deputy generals are still looking forward to the king's edict.

The soldiers under Zhang Liao are all heroes, none of them are afraid of death. Even if the king Cao Cao asks them to fight bloody and resist to the last moment, they will not blink or frown.

"Go out——"

Zhang Liao's voice became heavier and thicker...

This made all the deputy generals look at each other, as if they had guessed something, and walked out of the central army tent in a line with knowing looks.

On the other hand, Zhang Liao seemed to be lost in thought. He remembered the current situation, the days of fighting day and night on this land, and the great sacrifices they had made here.

Giving up Huainan means giving up all their efforts and sacrifices——

But…

Hehe, maybe, there is no but!

Zhang Liao may not be the war god of Xiaoyaojin in Huainan, but… he must be Zhang Wenyuan, the general of the Eastern Expedition of Wei!

I just thought of this.

“Tap tap…”

It was Xue Ti who heard that Zhang Liao’s expression was not right, so he came to the central army tent to ask, no… to be precise, to persuade him.

Who would have thought… before Xue Ti could open his mouth.

Zhang Liao’s hands, which were originally supporting the table, suddenly lifted up a little, and he said in a low voice, “According to the king’s decree, we give up Huainan and retreat to Xuzhou…”

Calm…

This is the calmest voice that Xue Ti has ever heard Zhang Liao chant.

“Wenyuan…”

Xue Ti wants to persuade him.

But Zhang Liao raised his hand to stop him from saying the next words, "Perhaps, the king is right. Instead of fighting a desperate battle in Hefei, it is better to break out to Xuzhou while the enemy has not yet surrounded us. Xuzhou... is the world of land warfare. If we stop the invading enemy there, we will have a better chance of winning! The most... most important thing is..."

Zhang Liao suddenly choked up when he finished speaking, as if he could not recite the last sentence, nor did he want to recite it.

Xue Ti, however, was clear in his heart...

Zhang Wenyuan's last sentence was... that the Wei Dynasty could not withstand another major defeat, and could not withstand the death of a commander!

That's right...

It was death!

It was this heroic and heroic word.

With this in mind, Xue Ti solemnly bowed to Zhang Liao, then turned around and shouted loudly: "General Zhang has ordered to abandon Hefei and immediately withdraw to Xuzhou... immediately withdraw to Xuzhou--"

The voice was hoarse. It was not just Zhang Liao who was unwilling to leave, including Xue Ti... including every soldier who had made achievements on this land. Their hearts were filled with helplessness and grief.

"Alas--"

"Alas--"

In just one hour, the densely packed black-armored army under the city of Hefei looked back at the plaque of Hefei City for the last time, leaving behind a deep sigh.

The most profound one was Zhang Liao and Zhang Wenyuan who did not look back, or to be more precise, could not bear to look back!

In this way, in history... the Huainan dispute that ran through the entire game between Wei and Wu in the Three Kingdoms ended at this moment... with the complete victory of the Han army!

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In Sichuan, Chengdu, an ordinary Taoist temple.

As soon as you enter the door, you will see a spacious hall. On both sides of the hall, there is a bronze crane incense burner with smoke curling from its beak. In the hall, there is a bronze bull square tripod. Above the tripod, the four characters "Sanxing Dahan" written in seal script are hung. The signature... is the handwriting of Zhuge Liang, the military advisor and general of Shuzhong.

In the past few days, Zhuge Liang would come here to burn incense and pray every day. First, he asked God to bless and protect the soldiers of Dahan, and second, he prayed... that the preparation of food could be smoother.

It is no exaggeration to say that this time... in less than three years after Liu Bei captured Bashu, and more than a year of war in Bazhong and Xiabian, he dispatched 200,000 troops to capture Hanzhong, the key point leading to the Central Plains in Shuzhong!

Zhuge Liang almost exhausted all his efforts -

In the whole Bashu, almost all men fought and women transported, and all the food and grass that could be raised were raised. If they could not be raised... then there was really no more.

But even so, the documents urging for food from the front line are constantly coming every day...

Zhuge Liang knows better than Liu Bei what the food that arrives on time means in this battle of Hanzhong.

But... he has done everything he can, and now all that is left is to pray.

"Alas..."

After burning incense and praying, Zhuge Liang slowly stood up and couldn't help but sighed.

Yang Yi, who was standing by, hurried to help him, and Zhuge Liang asked.

"Raising food and grass? Is there any new progress?"

"No..." Yang Yi could only tell the truth. He was just about to tell the latest problems he encountered, such as the non-cooperation of the Nanzhong and Nanman forces, and the food shipped to Chengdu was arbitrarily detained by the barbarian king Meng Huo. He had sent envoys to negotiate many times, but to no avail...

Yang Yi wanted to tell such matters...

But at this moment.

"Jingzhou urgent news..."

An urgent letter from Jingzhou was hurriedly delivered, and Yang Yi hurriedly took it, unfolded it quickly, and presented it to Zhuge Liang.

Zhuge Liang narrowed his eyes and looked at the text on the urgent document thoughtfully.

But...soon...

Zhuge Liang's expression changed from melancholy to surprise, and he exclaimed: "Okay, okay, Yunchang and his son have captured Luoyang and have received the emperor, okay...ok..."

surprise!

This was too surprising for Zhuge Liang.

You know, the Longzhong pair he made with Liu Bei was to go north in two ways, once out of the Qinling Mountains and into Guanzhong, and then out of Jingzhou to attack Luoyang in the north. Now... half of this strategy has been completed ahead of schedule.

Even the emperor won back...

Then, from this moment on, it will become justifiable for the Han army to attack Cao Cao! Will be able to gain support from all people of insight in the world!

This... is so important!

But the important thing is one thing, and suddenly, Zhuge Liang noticed another thing.

If…

If Yun Chang and Yun Qi have already reached Luoyang, and Longzhong has overfulfilled his strategy, then... wouldn't the pressure be on Xuande's side?

If Shuzhong can't break through...then...then Yun Chang will go deep alone.

So... then...

Grain… Grain——

For a moment, Zhuge Liang was a little dizzy. He...he had the feeling of watching Longzhong's strategic plan achieve great success step by step, but...but...it happened to be him...he was the one who was responsible for raising food and internal affairs. Lagging behind!

call…

Taking a deep breath, Zhuge Liang couldn't help but feel a little depressed and depressed.

But suddenly, he thought of something again.

He quickly turned to Yang Yi and did not mention the content of the urgent report. Instead, he asked solemnly: "Wei Gong (Yang Yi)? What are Adou and Ke'er doing recently?"

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