Chapter 652: Only Defeating Xiahou Yuan? That Would Be Too Boring!

Shuzhong, Chengdu.

Yang Yi presented the military report to Zhuge Liang with joy on his face, "Military advisor, good news from the front line. Yun Qi and Adou cut off the Shu brocade. The batch of grain and grass obtained in the Central Plains arrived as expected. Fazheng's military advisor pretended to have run out of grain and retreated to attract the enemy's attack." , was ambushed, the enemy general Zhang He was killed by random arrows, and the two sons of the enemy general Xia Houyuan, Xia Houheng and Xia Houcheng, were captured by the three generals and General Zilong, and they were escorted back to Shuzhong! A great victory... In short, this is a great victory!"

Yang Yi's words made Zhuge Liang startled. He subconsciously put down the bamboo slips he was holding in his hand. He was half surprised and half surprised. A smile appeared on his face. Forget it, it’s not difficult to win this battle!”

He spoke and unfolded the battle report.

The above explains in detail where the food was transported from, what obstacles were encountered in the process, and how it was transported in secret...

Each of these gave Zhuge Liang a shocking feeling.

It’s hard to imagine that Zhuge Liang couldn’t raise or transport food for 200,000 people through the narrow mountain roads.

But unfortunately, this problem was solved easily because of these merchants from the Central Plains.

call…

Zhuge Liang exhaled a long breath as if he was relieved. He ordered Yang Yi, "Send this battle report to Adou as soon as possible. There is no hidden meaning of praise for him in every line in the letter. We should also serve as General Zuo's Mansion." Draft a letter of commendation, I will write it, Mr. Wei... go and send it to Adou!"

Yang Yi nodded repeatedly, "Master Adou has indeed grown a lot and become more refined since he became a student of Master Yunqi!"

At this point, he bowed: "Then, I will resign -"

After Yang Yi withdrew, Zhuge Liang's expression was extremely complicated, as if he was moved and sad because his "Longzhong Pair" had completely changed from idea to reality.

In fact, in the current situation, this is the closest he has ever come to being right.

And his Longzhong plan was to attack Wei from Bashu and Jingzhou from the north...

Longzhong has never been a staged victory.

Once this strategic goal is achieved and Chang'an and Luoyang are captured, the Wei Dynasty will completely collapse in terms of momentum, morality, popularity and morale.

The Han army will sweep across the north with the force of wind and clouds...

The unification of the world and the return of three parts to the Han Dynasty will be infinitely close to being realized on that day——

From this perspective, the Battle of Hanzhong was already a decisive battle between Han and Wei!

Thinking of this, Zhuge Liang couldn't help but sigh: "There are only three points left to return to the Han Dynasty, and only this hurdle is left..."

"The sky treats me well, and it treats the big man well—"

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Yang Yi took the battle report and the notice from General Zuo's Mansion and walked step by step into Liu Chan's villa on the outskirts of Chengdu.

From a distance, I heard Liu Chan shouting, "The Southern Barbarians are invading, hehe, shall we go out and kill them? If we don't go out and kill them, I, the traitor, will take over the whole place!"

It was as if Liu Chan was playing Three Kingdoms with Zhuge Ke and a group of servants.

He is "Ming Nei", he is about to win, and in the excitement...

Because it was an urgent matter and a good thing, Yang Yi entered the room and said directly: "Uncle Liu Huang achieved a great victory on the front line. The young master has made great achievements in transporting grain this time. It can be said that he has made a great contribution..."

Yang Yi was quite happy and encouraging when he said this, but Liu Chan just replied dully: "Oh..."

Then he still looked at the deck of cards and played the cards again, "Next card, I will play a salvo of thousands of arrows. Which one of you can still dodge?"

Uh... Yang Yi was a little confused.

——"Is Mr. Adou so indifferent to such a big matter?" 』

yes…

In stark contrast to Yang Yi's excitement, Liu Chan looked very calm, as if all this... was just a matter of course.

It's like, Uncle Liu Huang's victory on the front line was just a routine operation, and he could just tie up a dog to command!

Well…

Yang Yi was a little embarrassed. He felt that he was a little redundant...or that he came at the wrong time.

Zhuge Ke noticed Yang Yi's embarrassment. He waved his hand and said, "No more fun, no more fun. How can you be so lucky? Three southern barbarians invaded at the beginning, and one fired thousands of arrows. How can you still play?"

Hearing Zhuge Ke admit defeat, Liu Chan stood up with great satisfaction. He chirped and muttered, "My master taught me that as long as I win, luck is also part of my strength!"

At this point, he turned his attention to Yang Yi.

"What are you doing here, Yang Changshi?"

Damn it, for a moment, he forgot all about what Yang Yi just said.

"Oh..." Yang Yi didn't mind, and repeated again: "Uncle Liu Huang won the victory in Hanzhong. The young master transported the grain in time, which can be said to have made a great contribution!"

"What? Yang Changshi means that my father defeated Hanzhong?"

Liu Chan's rhetorical question made Yang Yi's jaw drop...

What is this?

This is completely irrelevant!

From Yang Yi's surprised expression, Liu Chan saw something, and immediately shook his head, spreading his hands as if he hated his father, "All the food has been delivered, and there is another 200,000 troops. The soldiers are well-prepared and the food is sufficient. Even if So... Hanzhong has not been defeated, what on earth does my father do for a living? It’s so shameless!”

At this point, he looked directly into Yang Yi's eyes full of mockery, "My father? Can he do it? If not, just come back honestly and replace it with someone else. Otherwise, we can't protect everything... Hanzhong has been defeated long ago!"

Well…

Liu Chan's words made Yang Yi sweat.

Haha...hehehe in his heart.

With a "Gudong" sound, Yang Yi felt that he couldn't stay here any longer, so he quickly handed over and left.

As Yang Yi walked away.

Zhuge Ke walked to Liu Chan's side and said softly, "It's too much to say..."

"Oh..." Liu Chan continued to spread his hands helplessly, "I also hate my father for not being able to make steel. Speaking of which, have those three thousand steel swords and three thousand cowhide soft armors been forged? A letter from Master Yun Qi came, I’m already a little impatient for this Hanzhong battlefield.”

"In two days, it should be completed. The training of those people is almost done...mountain warfare is what they are best at."

Hear Zhuge Ke's answer.

Liu Chan's eyes gleamed, "Oh, that's great...Brother Yuan Xun, without further ado...let's take people to the Hanzhong battlefield in two days—"

Liu Chan couldn't wait...

Different from him in history, Liu Chan here has experienced the battlefield, participated in the battlefield personally, and tasted the taste of victory. It is no exaggeration to say that this taste is... intoxicating!

Zhuge Ke was a little surprised and asked quickly: "Young Master is also going?"

"I forged this sword, supervised the forging of this soft armor, and this song was recruited in my name. I...of course I'm going!" Liu Chan slapped his chest, "I can't fall for my master. Prestige, right?”

As soon as he said this, Zhuge Ke wanted to persuade him.

But at this moment.

"Report, urgent matter from Jingzhou, eight hundred miles urgent -"

Hmm... As soon as he heard that it was an urgent message from Jingzhou, Liu Chan turned around with a "swish", which was in stark contrast to his attitude when he heard the urgent message from Hanzhong.

After all, the urgent message from Hanzhong was sent by the old man who hates iron and cannot be transformed into steel.

But the urgent message from Jingzhou was sent by his master Guan Lin, who he loved ten times more than his relatives, friends, and brothers!

"how?"

Zhuge Ke quickly stepped forward.

Liu Chan had already unfolded the letter and stared at it. After reading the last word, he murmured: "Master Yun Qi is going to cause trouble again!"

Zhuge Ke took the letter and scanned it roughly.

Indeed, just as Adou said, Guan Lin's next plan has begun again...

This time the target is Hanzhong, Xia Houyuan, and Cao Mengde——

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Luoyang City, outside the study room of the Guan family's mansion.

Lu Xun frowned and leaned on the railing, holding a cup of fish food in his hand, but he never put it into the pond. He seemed to have suddenly fallen into deep thought.

In other words, he was thinking about something, thinking about Guan Lin... Those words were so pretentious that he couldn't even understand them.

——"Rather than worrying about whether they will guess me or not? Why don't I take the initiative to guide them... into the trap of this habit?"

These are Guan Lin's original words.

Lu Xun couldn't figure it out... As the clouds rolled and relaxed in the sky, his thoughts couldn't help but go back to the night when he talked with Guan Lin.

The opening remarks were these pretentious words from Guan Lin's mouth.

Lu Xun was confused, so he took the initiative to ask: "What Yun Qi means is that instead of worrying that Cao Cao will make more guesses, calculations, and strategies because of you, why not lead them to attack your weaknesses directly?"

"It's not a weakness!" Guan Lin smiled, "I took the initiative to reveal a flaw... This is also called, please enter the urn! Catch the turtle in the urn!"

"Then... how to guide it?" Lu Xun questioned again, "I'm afraid that your plan will cause that celebrity to be exposed!"

"This is the main premise to avoid exposing him!" Guan Lin said lightly: "But don't forget, we still have a candidate!"

"who?"

"Ma Su!" Guan Lin said decisively: "In the future, Li Miao will still be of great use, but Ma Su is different. Even if he can severely damage Ni Wei at once, it will not only complete his self-salvation, but also affect the development of the situation. Very helpful!”

"You mean to use Ma Su to guide Ni Wei into a trap, and then capture Hanzhong in one fell swoop and defeat Xia Houyuan?"

"It would be too boring to just defeat Xia Houyuan..." Guan Lin smiled particularly heartily, "I think that when the food and grass are delivered, Xia Houyuan will be defeated. At this time, Cao Cao can still sit still in Chang'an City What? Simply force him to lead troops to Hanzhong, and then it will be our turn to ambush from all sides and catch them all in one go—"

Now, one day has passed since this conversation.

But Guan Lin's words still echoed in his mind... Lu Xun couldn't calm down for a long time.

He didn't know Guan Lin's specific plan.

The only thing he knew was that in this plan, Guan Lin's target was only Cao Cao!

Shoot the man first and shoot the horse——

To capture the thief, capture the king first——

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Chang'an City is still in that prison.

In the past few days, Li Miao would come here every day, nominally trying to persuade Ma Su to surrender, but in fact, he was telling him the secret mission from Guan Lin.

Finally, after hearing the complete plan, Ma Su, who always relied on his talent and arrogance, couldn't help but make a "gudong" sound, swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and couldn't help lowering his voice and sighed: "It turns out that before the Battle of Hanzhong, I...I It is already part of Master Yunqi’s plan!”

Indeed, the entire plot almost shocked Ma Su's jaw.

This is no longer taking one step and looking at three steps, this is simply taking one step and looking at thirty steps, and these thirty steps... each step is calculated with incomparable accuracy.

Ma Su swallowed deeply with a "gulp". "So what I have to do is... tell Cao Cao the false news about "God of War" and "Yun Bie Chuan"?"

"This is not false news." Li Miao narrowed his eyes faintly. "These are all true and can withstand investigation and scrutiny. They are enough for you to gain Cao Cao's trust, and enough for me to regain this trust!"

Yes...

Because of the secret passage, Cao Cao's trust in Li Miao, Cao Pi, and Cao Zhi has been greatly reduced to a certain extent.

Not only Ma Su, but Li Miao also needs to regain this trust.

This whole plan is to kill three birds with one stone!

As Li Miao's voice fell, Ma Su couldn't help but close his teeth tightly.

He clenched his teeth, as if...even if he was still in this dark prison, he could already feel the battlefield that was ten times colder than here!

That was...the silent battlefield that was about to belong to him!

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"Lost, lost, lost again——"

In Chang'an City, Cao Cao's extremely angry roar could be heard from a distance. The roar shook the rubble, and even the birds perched near the palace fled in fear!

Cheng Yu's expression was not good either. He frowned and said, "After this defeat, although Hanzhong still has tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, the morale has dropped. In addition, Liu Bei climbed Dingjun Mountain and I don't know how to solve the problem of food. I think... General Xiahou must be in a difficult situation now! But... thanks to the king's divine calculation, otherwise... if General Xiahou came out of the mountain, then... he would probably be beheaded like Zhang He, and so... the battle in Hanzhong would be completely collapsed!"

Cheng Yu reported the current situation as always.

As for what to do next? That depends on Cao Cao's choice.

Seeing Cao Cao's expression, Zhong Yao, the governor of Chang'an City and the prime minister of Wei, frowned and asked the messenger, "How did the Shu army collect food? Did General Xiahou investigate it clearly?"

Yes... this is the key!

It is the key to the strategic misjudgment of the Wei army.

Zhong Yao pointed out this point incisively, which also made Cao Cao look sideways again...

However, in response to them, the messenger shook his head repeatedly, "Now that Dingjun Mountain has fallen, the entire Shu Road has been cut off. If you want to investigate again... I'm afraid it's not easy! Therefore... the food of the Shu army..."

Without waiting for the messenger to finish speaking.

Cao Cao's brows tightened, and he said bitterly: "It seems that my guess is right, and this is not the first time that Wei has encountered such a situation. In the past few years, as long as Guan Lin participated in the conspiracy, every time it was like this?"

"Survival in desperate situations, turning the tide... Often when the enemy is most careless, a cold arrow is suddenly shot... In one fell swoop, the world is turned upside down, hehe, I used Zhang He's life, the two young generals Xiahou Heng and Xiahou Cheng, and the souls of more than 30,000 soldiers were buried in Shu Road... Just then I verified this fact..."

"Whether it is the air transportation of the flying ball or the magic, as long as Guan Lin is involved, no matter what rare things are, I am not surprised at all! Haha, haha..."

When saying this, Cao Cao's tone was full of anger at first, but later, especially in the last sentence, his tone has become extremely calm.

It seems that he has calmed down.

Yes...

This is not the first time he has suffered from Guan Lin.

I'm used to it. It's very cruel and I'm very unwilling, but... I'm used to it——

It's a habit that makes Cao Cao unable to get angry!

"My king..." Cheng Yu nodded, expressing his support for Cao Cao's inference. He tried to analyze it, "Then... next, the actions of the Shu army will most likely be..."

Just at this moment...

With a "clang", a guard pushed the door open and saw Cao Cao. He immediately knelt on one knee and reported: "My king, Mr. Li Miao wants to see you——"

"Li Hannan?" Cao Cao chanted his name, and then his eyes flashed.

It seems that during this period of time, the war was intensive, and Cao Cao had not taken care of the Luoyang tunnel that Li Miao, Cao Pi, and Cao Zhi had secretly set up for the position of the prince!

Whether this tunnel was involved in the rebellion in Luoyang City was still an unknown.

Therefore, in the entire Hanzhong battlefield, Cao Cao did not ask for the advice of Li Miao, Cao Pi, and Cao Zhi. In the final analysis, Cao Cao was suspicious of them.

"Mr. Li's request for an audience at this time may be for something important."

Cheng Yu added...

He still trusted Li Miao, because Li Miao's identity was too clean. He angrily criticized Liu Bei, insulted Zhuge Liang, and was stripped of his clothes and humiliated by Guan Lin. These are indisputable facts.

If he was said to be a traitor, at least...Cheng Yu would not believe it a hundred or a thousand times.

"Rumor——"

Following Cao Cao's low voice.

Li Miao walked in quickly, took a deep breath, and then bowed to Cao Cao, "Your Majesty, I have successfully persuaded Shu's military officer Ma Su to surrender..."

Hmm...

When this sentence was raised, Cao Cao was suspicious, his eyes narrowed, and he muttered in his heart.

——『Persuading Ma Su to surrender at this time? Li Hannan? Are you teasing me like a three-year-old kid? 』

It seems that because of Li Miao's words, Cao Cao has become more suspicious of him.

But, this suspicion was born quickly and disappeared quickly...

At the moment when Li Miao chanted the next sentence, all the suspicions disappeared at this moment.

"Your Majesty, according to what Ma Su said, Guan Lin, the rebellious son of the Guan family, once gave Shu general Zhang Fei an autobiography called "Fighting the God of War". It was precisely because of this book "Fighting the God of War" that Zhang Fei conquered Sanba, Capturing Zitong, if there is divine help when attacking Xiabian City, he will win consecutive battles... According to legend, this book "God of War" completely predicted the direction of the entire battle of Sanba, Zitong, and Xiabian in every detail, and everything was unpredictable. No!"

Li Miao's voice became firmer and thicker every time, "I heard such information and did not dare to hide it. I immediately came to report to the king whether there is a "Fighting God of War", and whether the Shu thief Zhang Fei is because of "Fighting God of War" As for Lien Zhan and Lianjie, it is not difficult to investigate this! Whether Ma Di’s words are true or not, the king will find out immediately!”

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…(End of chapter)