Three Kingdoms: I help Liu Bei grow thousands of miles

At the beginning of February of the following year, Chen Qun took a package of "Cao Xiu's Letters" and went to the Luoyang Harem to look for Cao Pi's face.

There are constant wars in various places, and there are often memorials to urge food and soldiers. Cao Pi became numb after hearing too much, and directly claimed that he was sick and hid in the harem instead of going to court, but he couldn't see Chen Qun.

When Chen Qun submitted the letter to the imperial case, Cao Pi only looked at it briefly with empty eyes, and then said lazily: "Since it was requested by the great Sima, Changwen will follow the arrangement."

"Your Majesty, Wen Lie will be urging food every few days. The treasuries of the counties have been emptied, and the ministers mobilized the big clan to donate some. It seems that it is not enough..."

Before Chen Qun finished speaking, he was interrupted by Cao Pi raising his hand, "Da Sima's opponent is Guan Yu, and the military supplies must be satisfied as much as possible. Otherwise, if he is defeated by the red-faced thief, Jingzhou soldiers and horses will be able to march to Luoyang. As for Tongguan, Changwen also dispatches the military supplies and military sources requested by Huainan Zou as appropriate, and I have a headache, please step down first..."

"Uh... only..." Chen Qun bowed and retreated.

Chen Qun's original intention was not to reduce Cao Xiu's military supplies, but that Wei State was not limited to Henan. In the past few years, it had almost continued to fight abroad. No matter how rich Henan was, it would soon be hollowed out. He hoped that the counties in Hebei would also provide support. It's a pity that Cao Pi didn't understand, Chen Qun planned to come back in a few days.

Walking out of Cao Pi's bedroom, he happened to see Sima Zhao standing on the porch.

Chen Qun walked over quickly, held the other side's skirt and whispered: "In the face of national crisis, what should your Majesty do if you don't go to court for a long time? I think he has a lot of trust in his nephew, you need to persuade him a lot."

"Your Majesty is upset. My nephew is no more than a courtier, so how dare I intervene in the affairs of the court." Sima Zhao deliberately evaded.

Chen Qun frowned and raised his tone, "Don't dare to intervene in the government? If my nephew did not do those things last year, if I hadn't been in the dark, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to live smoothly until now. In the name of investigating cases for His Majesty, how many innocent people have you killed unjustly? When I have no points in my heart?"

"They deserve to die." Sima Zhao's eyes darkened.

"These people have nothing to do with Sima Miemen, they just obtained official positions and land normally. I can understand that my nephew wants to take revenge, but it is too late. You must help me persuade His Majesty, otherwise I will not help you with the Sima family's case. Cover up." Chen Qun directly used a threatening tone.

"Uncle Chen, don't get angry, my nephew will try to persuade him, but it may not be effective." Sima Zhao softened his tone immediately when he saw Chen Qun's anger. He didn't have enough rights now, and he couldn't do without Chen Qun's support.

"Do your best."

Chapter 933 Unwilling to be humiliated as City King

Looking at Chen Qun's leaving back, Sima Zhao's eyes flickered with gloom.

Sima Zhao wasn't afraid of Chen Qun's threats at all. Now that his entire family was dead and his body was mutilated, the only thing that kept him alive was hatred, so he wasn't afraid of anything.

The reason why he still listened to Chen Qun's words was that what Sima Zhao valued was the power in the other party's hands. Only when the power was firmly held like Zhao Gao, could he do whatever he wanted.

There are constant border troubles in the state of Wei, and frequent riots among the people in the country. Sima Zhao showed his signs early last year, and interested people secretly came to him.

Eunuchs had no heirs, so they were able to intervene in politics and power, all relying on the emperor's tacit support. The emperor liked to cultivate eunuchs, either to fight against the civil official group, or to check and balance foreign relatives.

Because eunuchs have no roots, they can easily become political victims. Sima Zhao was educated by Sima Yi when he was young, and he knew that officials should not only rely on the emperor, but also win over civil servants or generals, so that they can do what Zhao Gao did.

Sima Zhao liquidated the small gentry in Luoyang and the minions of the big families in Henan, and was appreciated by the gentry in Hebei. They secretly contacted this young man and they encouraged Cao Pi to move the capital back to Yecheng. If you can't, you can still rely on the Yellow River to block the Han army.

Yecheng is one of the places where the Sima family exterminated the family. The proposal of the scholars in Hebei coincided with Sima Zhao. On the surface, he promised Chen Qun to actively manage the government, but privately informed the scholars in Hebei. Seeing the emperor for a long time, the news of moving the capital was slowly talked about by Cao Pi.

Han Zhangwu three years, Wei Huangchu six years.

At the end of February, the Central Plains was still freezing, but Cao Xiu of Wancheng couldn't sit still. He mobilized troops and horses to cross the river from the south of Wancheng, and detoured along the direction of the river to find Guan Yu for a decisive battle.

Jingzhou soldiers and horses have been stationed in Bowang for two months, and they don't appear to be starving, freezing or collapsing at all, while Wancheng's military and food reserves continue to decrease. What's more dangerous is that they are cut off from the Central Plains, and there is no reply from the direction of Runan.

Cao Xiu first admitted his weakness in the war of attrition, and the Wei army built a pontoon bridge to cross the river along the position where Zhang He cut off the flow. Cao Xiu thought that even if he could not capture Bowang City, he could send a partial army to bypass the city during the war and go to the Central Plains to report Nanyang. battle situation.

Cao Xiu also planned to take time out of the garrisons in Yingchuan, Chenliu, Hanoi, Shanyang and other counties, and choose a general to integrate the county soldiers and Nanyang Wei soldiers to attack Guan Yu back and forth.

The small-scale mobilization and reconnaissance of the Wei army can be handled by Guan Ping himself, but this time the Wei soldiers in Wancheng came out in full force, so he could only shrink the scope of activities and report back to Bowang to Guan Yu for handling.

Cao Xiu took Rencheng King Cao Zhang as the vanguard in the front, and left general Zhang Yun cut off the rear to protect the food. Cao Xiu commanded a total of [-] soldiers and horses in the Chinese army, and marched towards Bowang City after crossing the river.

The battle in the Central Plains and the hedging of the army formations have no bunkers or concealed objects to cover them.

According to Guan Yu's style of avoiding the main force and attacking the weak points last year, Cao Xiu was sure that Guan Yu's soldiers would stick to Bowang, and the Wei army could simply attack the city for a few days to put pressure.

It doesn't matter whether Bowang can be captured or not, just take the opportunity to send the information back to the Central Plains, and recruit Nanyang's military rations from the counties.

Bowang was dry, cold and windy in winter, but the defenders inside and outside the city lived comfortably, because Guan Yu made the whole army eat three meals a day, which was better than the treatment they received during wartime.

According to the supply of Cao Xiu's [-] soldiers from all over the Central Plains, the food sent in these two months is too much, and the official warehouses of Bowang and Duyang can't hold it at all, and it is easy to be damp and deteriorate when stored in the wild.

In addition to increasing the daily food supply, Guan Yu also distributed it to the poor people. His prestige in the Central Plains was already high, and with the kindness of donating food, Li Shu was determined to become a Han family.

From the troubled times at the end of the Han Dynasty, Nanyang County was successively ruled by Yuan Shu, Liu Biao, Zhang Xiu, and Cao Cao. The warlords continued to exploit the people, and even slaughtered the city from time to time. 54 households, 243 million people), became Shura’s purgatory, starving and dying everywhere, and no rooster crowed for thousands of miles.

During the Central Plains War, the people of Nanyang fled for their lives, mainly to Nanjun, Hanzhong, Runan and other places. It almost became a scene of ten houses and nine empty houses. Now most of the people in Nanyang are refugees from Hebei and Sanfu.

The former regards the people as nothing, while the latter distributes rice and millet to the people.

Which one is better and which is inferior shall be judged.

Cao Zhang led a vanguard of [-] people and arrived [-] miles south of Bowang. He found that Guan Yu did not refuse to defend the city as Cao Xiu had speculated, but took the initiative to form a formation here. Not less than our own.

"Great Sima made another miscalculation. Guan Yu is probably old, and his actions have repeatedly violated the art of war. How dare you fight us head-on with few people? Today, this king just became famous." Cao Zhang looked at the general beside him and stroked his beard and laughed. .

"King Rencheng, the general sees that Jingzhou's soldiers and horses are well-prepared and their strength is still higher than ours. Why don't we wait for the main force of Da Sima to arrive before we attack?" The general saw that Guan Yu was frightened, and gently reminded Cao Zhang not to underestimate the enemy. .

"How pedantic are you? When the first emperor was alive in the past, this king often defeated the army independently. How is Wen Lie (Cao Xiu) better than me? Guan Yu is arrogant and arrogant. When the king fights in front of the battle, he will definitely be inspired to fight. , even if you can’t kill him on the spot, you have to exhaust his vitality like Zhang Yun did when he fought against Yan Yan.” Cao Zhang snorted coldly.

During Cao Cao's lifetime, Cao Zhang often led troops to fight alone. Whether it was conquering Wuhuan or suppressing rebellion in various places, he almost never experienced defeat. However, due to his embarrassing status, Cao Pi was removed from the military power after he succeeded. , Drinking in the fief all day, depressed.

What is even more ironic is that Xia Houshang, Cao Zhang's former general, is now the general of Zhengdong and the governor of Xu Yang, and has become an important military minister guarding one side, but he actually wants to be inferior to Cao Xiu. Few people can understand Qu.

When the state of Wei was in danger, Cao Zhang put aside his suspicions and was ordered to come to Nanyang. He planned to have a good fight, but Guan Yu's tactics surprised him. He will not let go of this opportunity, he will use actual actions to prove that he is better than Cao Xiu.

General Pi was so refuted by Cao Zhang that he didn't dare to answer back, so he could only follow the opponent and greet him slowly.

When he was about to approach, Cao Zhang called several generals to his side and told them to perform their duties for a while. After fighting or beheading the generals in front of the battle, he would use the weapons in his hands to issue orders to let the generals press down on the enemy when they were defeated.

Wearing exquisite fish-scale armor, Cao Zhang rode a Dawan horse, which was a tribute from the Western Regions, and slowly walked to the front of the two armies with a halberd in his hand. Provocative action.

"The traitor Guan Yu, see this king so far, why don't you get off your horse and be bound?" Cao Zhang mocked loudly.

Unexpectedly, Guan Yu did not get angry, but spit out two words with doubts on his face: "This halberd..."

Chapter 934 Canglong breaks the army through Cao Zhang

Cao Zhang raised the weapon in his hand, and said jokingly, "General Guan still knows this thing? Did you feel scared when you saw this weapon? Once Lu Bu died, everyone you saw would sell their heads and be crazy."

Guan Yu rubbed his beard with empty eyes, and responded coldly: "I heard that Cao Mengde's Huang Xu'er is good at martial arts, so it is due to Fang Tian's contribution to painting halberds? This is the first time I heard that his skills depend on foreign objects. When did Guan be afraid?" What about Lu Bu?"

Regarding Guan Yu's ridicule, Cao Zhang had already prepared his words to reply: "Huh? You don't need to rely on external things? I'm afraid that you have killed the general and killed the enemy, but the red rabbit horse has helped a lot. Why don't you dare to ride it now? Are you dying of old age? Huh..."

At the end of Cao Zhang's speech, he suddenly found that the immature young general Guan Yu was riding a horse that looked like the red rabbit back then.

"Hahaha..." Guan Yu suddenly burst out laughing.

"Red-faced thief, what are you laughing at?" Cao Zhang shouted suspiciously.

Guan Yu sneered contemptuously: "Guan thinks of Hua Xiong, who looks similar to you and talks a lot. Could it be that you also have Qiang Hu blood? Guan was only a horse archer back then, and he could still kill the enemy on an ordinary horse."

"Stop talking nonsense, you claim to be invincible in the world, do you dare to go out and fight me?" Cao Zhang was stunned by Guan Yu, so he could only point Fang Tian's painted halberd forward, directly revealing his true thoughts.

Guan Yu pressed the reins calmly, looked at Cao Zhang repeatedly and replied calmly: "I have some old friends with your father. As an elder, Guan Mou can't bully the younger ones with big ones. Guan Mou asked a junior to compare with you."

"Junior?"

Seeing that Guan Yu was not fooled, Cao Zhang was about to speak out, but saw two generals behind Guan Yu suddenly approaching him.

"Father……"

"Uncle..."

Guan Yu shook his head slightly at Guan Ping, turned around and said to Lan Ji seriously: "Cao Zhang is holding your father's weapon, I will give this opportunity to Zhong Ling, don't disappoint me."

"Uncle, don't worry." Lan Ji clasped his fists with his halberd, and led his horse forward.

After Lan Ji entered the battle, the soldiers of the two armies began to whisper because he and Cao Zhang were similar in appearance.

Cao Zhang looked Lan Ji up and down, and found that the other party's attire was more like Lu Bu's. He also deliberately imitated Lu Bu's attire after getting Fang Tian's halberd, but now he was pointed at like a fake. Recalling Zhang Hu's battle report in Nanyang, Cao Zhang Faintly guessed Lan Ji's identity.

"Are you the young general Lan Ji who fought Zhang Liao for [-] rounds?" Cao Zhang frowned.

"Since you know my name, why don't you dismount and be bound?" Lan Ji gave a soft drink full of breath.

Cao Zhang said angrily, "Sure enough, it's Guan Yu's general. He's as mad as ever. You bullied Zhang Liao, and you thought you were invincible? It's not your turn to show off your strength in this world."

"So what about a child? You yellow-bearded bastard, don't have a hard mouth all over your body."

Lan Ji gathered the strengths of all the families. He liked to go wild since he was a child, and his kung fu was ridiculously strong. Zhuge Liang once wrote an article to slander Cao Pi in the "Yangtze River News". At this time, he was inspired by Guan Yu and directly applied it. On Cao Zhang.

"Bastard, you are looking for death." Cao Zhang was furious when he heard the wild species.

"Hurry up? Don't be convinced. Let's talk about the facts. I know your mother came from a prostitute family, and Cao Cao never had a yellow beard. How do you explain the yellow hair on your face? If you say you have no blood of a barbarian, who will believe it? Hahaha. " Lan Ji's voice was loud, and he swayed from side to side when speaking, deliberately making Cao Zhang ugly.

Guan Ping moved closer to Guan Yu and sighed in a low voice: "Who did Zhong Ling learn from? He is so good at messing around..."

"This child is bold and unruly, maybe he was influenced by his third brother..." Guan Yu didn't know how to comment, and thought that being able to provoke with words was also a skill.

"Shut up, I'm going to kill you today." Cao Zhang gritted his teeth, raised his halberd and charged at Lan Ji.

"Good time." Lan Ji put his legs between the horse's belly and greeted him.

There was a piercing clang, and the two painted halberds collided violently. As soon as Lan Ji and Cao Zhangfu fought, they knew each other's depth. Cao Zhang found that the rude boy in front of him was not weaker than himself in his middle age.

Both of them use the same type of weapon, and it will be obvious who is stronger and who is weaker. Cao Zhang originally used the crescent heavy halberd, but after getting Fang Tian's painted halberd, he still adheres to the tactics of "strengthening miracles" and bullying ordinary forces His opponent is quite easy to use, but today he unfortunately met Lan Ji who has been playing with halberds since he was a child.

Lan Ji has both strength and skill, and after a few rounds, he gained the upper hand in moves.

Cao Zhang became more frightened as he fought more and more. He didn't expect the skill of drawing a halberd to be so changeable. He was almost stabbed by Lan Ji several times, but he still persisted with his strong strength.

Thirty rounds of fierce fighting had been going on, and Cao Zhang was already dripping with sweat. He remembered that Zhang Liao had fought with the opponent for three hundred times. At this moment, Cao Zhang suddenly admired Zhang Liao, and said in his heart that he had been completely reckless just now. , Don't treat him as a child.

Cao Zhang reckoned that he would be stabbed by Lan Ji's ever-changing halberd technique after a hundred rounds or so, but he was too embarrassed to retreat just now after boasting in front of others.

"Yellow-bearded wild species, you have the guts to use my father's Fang Tian painting halberd, but unfortunately you don't have the ability of my father at all. It's really disappointing." Lan Ji never forgot to taunt.

Maybe because he thought of Lv Bu repeatedly, Cao Zhang kept telling himself subconsciously, "You have no ability to defeat the real Lv Bu, and you also have the ability to defeat the little Lv Bu. You are bringing yourself a shame by using Fang Tian's halberd."

"Impossible, if the late emperor could kill Lu Bu, this king can kill his grandson." Cao Zhang shook his head frantically and shouted, trying to get rid of his wild thoughts during the battle.

At the moment when Cao Zhang was in ecstasy, he only felt a chill in his chest, followed by a sharp tingling pain. The Canglong Pojunhalberd pierced his elite armor.

"It's impossible, my king's armor is..." Cao Zhang wanted to say that his armor is very strong, especially with the chest mirror on his chest, it is almost impossible to be pierced by a sharp weapon, but Lan Ji turned the impossible into reality .

Lan Ji was able to pierce the heart-guard mirror. Apart from his own strength, he had to thank Gao Shun who gave him the Canglong Breaking Army Halberd. He added meteorite iron as an auxiliary material when the weapon was forged, making the spear tip of this weapon sharp and strong. .

The Canglong Pojun halberd drew back, and Cao Zhang's hot blood spurted out from his chest. He quickly covered his chest with his left hand, followed by his right hand, and Fang Tian's painted halberd just fell to the ground.

When Cao Zhang was on the verge of falling, a glint of blue light flashed in his misty eyes, and he saw Lan Ji turn around and hold the halberd and stab again, precisely piercing Cao Zhang's neck.

This blow killed Cao Zhang on the spot.

Although Lan Tian has never taught Lan Ji martial arts, he has taught him the tricks of facing the enemy. If he can use one move first, he will not use the second move. I'm cruel, but if you can't beat it, you have to admit defeat decisively, don't care about the so-called face.

Although Lan Tian has a deep love for licking the calf, Lan Ji has been trained to excel in martial arts, and it is almost impossible to admit defeat on the battlefield.

Chapter 935 I'm afraid Guan Yu won't cooperate

Although Cao Zhang was not the general of the army, his status surpassed that of Cao Xiu, and he had always been known as an inappropriate husband. He was suddenly beheaded by Lan Ji in front of the battle, which caused an uproar in the Wei army.

Before the battle, the general failed and died, which affected Xia Houyuan who was comparable to Dingjunshan. The Wei army officers and soldiers looked at each other in blank dismay, and Guan Yu took advantage of the situation to command Jingzhou soldiers to charge forward.

Pang De and Guan Ping led Qingqi straight to the two wings of the Wei army, while Guan Yu led the main force of Jingzhou to attack from the front.

Lan Ji's beheading broke the balance of morale between the two armies. The soldiers in Jingzhou charged while spraying white mist and roaring.

The sound of horseshoes, footsteps, and screams combined to make the earth tremble, as if spring thunder was about to wake up hibernating animals.

The vanguard general of the Wei army was beheaded. Although the generals, lieutenant generals, and lieutenants in the army who were responsible for the specific command of the battle tried their best to restrain their subordinates from panic, these people did not have the deterrent power of Cao Zhang. Facing the menacing Jingzhou army, they had poor psychological quality. The soldiers were the first to collapse.

With restless restlessness, the soldiers retreated unconsciously, and the original neat formation of the Wei army was deformed accordingly.

Lacking a strong commander-in-chief, the chaotic Wei army could not stop the Jingzhou soldiers. The Wei army was defeated as soon as the battle broke out, and then spread and expanded like a virus. Difficult to get.

Tens of thousands of troops are chasing and fighting from north to south on the plain. The scene is like the same number of lions hunting and killing migrating wildebeest on the African grasslands.

The soldiers of the Han and Wei dynasties all wore winter clothes, and the heavy clothes affected the speed of movement. Those who fled the Wei army and died under the sword were far less than those who were trampled and trampled by their own soldiers. This moment fully embodies the law of the jungle in nature. Survive at the moment.

Cao Zhang's [-] vanguard retreated like a tide, Guan Yu led the Jingzhou soldiers in pursuit, covering more than ten miles away, and saw that the south was covered by banners, and Cao Xiu's [-] main force was approaching.

"Yuan Jian, send an order to pursue all the troops immediately, drive Wei Guo's rout, try to see if you can disrupt Cao Xiu's army formation, follow the military order flag for a while, the red flag will continue to advance, and the yellow flag will immediately withdraw the troops and return to Bowang." Guan Yu called Liao Hua to order.

"The last general will pass on the order." Liao Hua clasped his fists and left.

Seeing Cao Xiu's main force enter the field, the defeated Wei soldiers could counterattack normally, but the Jingzhou soldiers chased after them with weapons. He did not dare to turn around and fight back against Guan Yu.

Cao Xiu had already received the news that Cao Zhang was beheaded at the sentry scout, so he urged the main force to march quickly.

The fact that Cao Zhang was killed has become a reality, and Cao Xiu has no time to think about how Cao Pi will be punished. At this moment, he is most concerned about the current battle situation. He is very worried that the former army will be chaotic, but his idea has really become a reality.

"Order all the armies to stabilize the chaos, and the defeated soldiers who dare to attack their own army will be killed without mercy." Cao Xiu drew his sword and shouted awe-inspiringly.