The First Military Division of the Three Kingdoms

"Who is it?" Pang De, behind Ma Chao, suddenly raised the big knife in his hand, and stared coldly at the roadside woods.

After hearing Pound's words, the others immediately became alert.

"Everyone, don't panic." A rough voice came from the woods, and then a middle-aged man walked out alone, and stopped ten meters away from Ma Chao and others.

"Are you General Ma Chao and others?" The middle-aged man clasped his fists and asked Ma Chao and others.

After hearing the middle-aged man's question, Ma Tie and others were about to attack, Ma Chao raised his hand to stop them, and then said: "I am Ma Chao, who are you?"

"Greetings to General Ma, I am the sixteenth minister of the emperor, and I am ordered to wait for General Ma here." After hearing Ma Chao's acknowledgment, the middle-aged man immediately clasped his fists in salute, and indicated his identity and purpose of coming.

"Liu Bei!" After Ma Chao heard this, his heart moved, and a figure appeared in his mind. Liu Zhang proclaimed himself emperor and established the Shu Han. After Liu Bei proclaimed himself emperor, he directly regarded himself as a great man, so Liu Bei is now the emperor of the great man.

"Who sent you to wait for me here? Why did you know I would come here?" Ma Chao frowned, and began to doubt the middle-aged man's words. Liu Bei was thousands of miles away, and he had just been defeated, so how could he send someone here to wait? he.

"I came here on the order of my prime minister, and the prime minister once said that if the general doesn't believe it, you can show this thing to the general." The sixteenth dark guard said, taking out a piece of ancient khaki-yellow jade, and holding it with both hands. , let Ma Chao watch.

"Major General, this is one of the gifts I gave to Mr. Ziming when he got married." Pang De immediately gave up the ancient jade, and Chen Ziming's figure naturally appeared in his head, the cold iron sword in his hand, Also, the heavy black iron armor on his body was given by Chen Ziming, and Ma Chao's suitcase was also given by Chen Ziming. Of course, Pang De has a deep memory of Chen Ziming, and he has a good impression of him.

"Why does Mr. Ziming know that I will pass by here, and when will he send you here to wait?" Ma Chao had already begun to believe in the identity of the secret guard Sixteen, and Chen Ziming's things could not be leaked out casually.

"I only received the order half a month ago. The prime minister calculated that the general will be defeated within a month and will enter Wei County from this area. He ordered me to wait for the general and send a letter." Dark Guard Sixteen After speaking, he took out a letter from his pocket.

Ma Dai immediately stepped forward and handed the letter to Ma Chao. Ma Chao glanced at the yellow cover, took a deep breath, opened the envelope, and took out two pieces of rice paper.

When he saw the contents of the first letter, his expression froze, and then he read it carefully, and handed it to Pang De and others to read, and he read the second letter.

"This..." After reading it, Ma Chao and the others were stunned, because the contents of the letter were so horrifying.

The first letter was written by Liu Bei himself. Liu Bei said that the reason why he did not send troops to help Ma Chao in time was because the Huns in the north invaded and Sun Ce's soldiers and horses were in the way in the south, making it difficult to increase troops to Hedong.

The second is that Ma Chao will be betrayed by others and be defeated, but Liu Bei has no evidence, because all this is Chen Ziming's guess, so he can't be a villain in vain, so as not to alienate the relationship between Ma Chao and the leaders of various ministries.

The third is to sincerely ask Ma Chao to go to Linzi and work together. In the future, he will definitely kill Cao Cao and avenge General Ma Teng.

The other letter was written by Chen Ziming himself. It only said three points. First, he has sent someone to pick up the family members of the Ma family in Fufeng safely. There is no danger. After Ma Chao settles down here, he can send someone to pick them up. Go back to reunite.

The second is that if Ma Chao votes for Zhang Lu, there is absolutely no chance of revenge, because Zhang Lu is too weak and incompetent.

The third is that if Ma Chao is willing to vote for Liu Bei, he should write a letter of recommendation to Dark Guard Sixteen and ask Dark Guard Sixteen to get it back. Then Ma Chao will continue to vote for Zhang Lu, gain Zhang Lu’s trust as soon as possible, grasp the military power, and wait for him next step instructions.

The hearts of Ma Chao and the others are now turbulent, and that Chen Ziming, a month ago, had figured out that Han Sui and the others would join Cao Cao and kill him in turn.It is also considered that Ma Chao will be desperate and will definitely join Zhang Lu, so he even sent someone here in advance to wait for him.

More importantly, Chen Ziming actually wanted him to pretend to serve Zhang Lu and gain military power, the purpose was self-evident.

What else could Ma Chao do if he didn't listen to Chen Ziming's arrangement now, not to mention that he saved his family and avenged him for killing his father, and he knew exactly what he was thinking.

Chapter 321 The Battle Clouds Are Closing

Chapter 321 The Battle Clouds Are Closing

Chen Ziming did everything for this sake, what else can Ma Chao say, besides, he first wanted to vote for Liu Bei, but Liu Bei was in the east, with Cao Cao's army blocking him, he didn't want to court death, so he chose the west Zhang Lu.

Now that Chen Ziming has arranged for him to return the mission, Ma Chao of course agreed, and immediately wrote a letter of allegiance to Liu Bei. Then, under the arrangement of the dark guard Sixteen, he disguised himself as a caravan and arrived safely in Hanzhong, where he officially served Zhang Lu under the account.

Moreover, under the arrangement of the hidden guards, Ma Chao sent a large amount of property to Zhang Lu's counselor Yang Song and the general Yang Bai. After Yang Song got Ma Chao's money, he relied on a clever mouth to say no to Zhang Lu No good words.

Moreover, there is no way for Ma Chao to defeat Cao Cao. In the end, Ma Chao’s internal problems are the reason for Ma Chao’s defeat. For such a strong general, Zhang Lu is of course willing to reuse him. Suo Xin agreed with Yang Song’s opinion and made Ma Chao a general. Ma Chao holds the military power in his hand and sits on one side, and Pang De and Ma Dai also gained considerable military power.

However, Yan Pu, a counselor of Zhang Lu, believed that Ma Chao and Cao Cao had a personal enmity, so he could not give too much military power, and he could not give up going to the east area connected to Wei County, so as not to attract Cao Cao's army.

In the end, Ma Chao's military power was still weakened a lot, but he was also a general with [-] troops in his hand. Everything was within Chen Ziming's expectations. As soon as Zhang Fei took Liangzhou, he could take Hanzhong.

Liangzhou's army was defeated, and Han Sui joined Cao Cao. Liangzhou was considered Cao Cao's territory, but Cao Cao had no chance to send people to take over Liangzhou, because Zhang Fei led an army of nearly 30 to Hedong, and met Tai Shici's [-] army in Hedong. and.

Nearly 40 soldiers and horses lined up east of the river, and the battle clouds were dense and murderous.

Cao Cao was not weak either, and almost all his advisers and generals were concentrated in the land of Hongnong, posing a battle to the death with Zhang Fei in Hongnong and Hedong.

Zhang Fei has Huang Zhong, Zhao Yun, Tai Shici, Zhang Liao, Zhang Xiu, Qu Yi and other fierce generals around him, but Cao Cao is not inferior to Zhang Fei's generals. Lu Bu, Xiahou Dun, Xiahouyuan, Xu Chu, Cao Hong, Cao Chun and others are also brave Unusual people.

This battle can already be regarded as a large-scale conflict between two groups. Except for the soldiers and horses left behind by each side, the rest were transferred to Hongnong, Hedong and other places.

Liu Bei's side is better. If he wants, Liu Bei can also spare 30 soldiers and horses to reinforce Zhang Fei, and the 20 navy has no combat missions.

However, Cao Cao's military strength was a bit tight. Except for the necessary soldiers and horses left in Yanzhou, Yuzhou, and Jingzhou, almost all the soldiers and horses that could be mobilized in his hands were transferred to Hongnong and other places.

Although this battle is not a decisive battle between the two sides, neither side dares to take it lightly. Neither Cao Cao nor Liu Bei can afford to lose.

If Cao Cao is defeated and the loss of soldiers and horses is too great, Liu Bei will definitely take the opportunity to send out all his troops and completely wipe out Cao Cao.Liu Bei's defeat will not be much better. Although there is no danger of extinction, the power accumulated with great difficulty will be exhausted, and it will no longer be possible to comprehensively suppress Cao Cao and Sun Ce at the same time.

The most important thing is that once Liu Bei loses the 40 troops in Zhang Fei's hands, he will not have the power to suppress the rapidly developing Cao Cao, and Cao Cao will completely control Liangzhou.

And once Cao Cao digested Liangzhou and Jingzhou, Hanzhong and Yizhou would never say a word to block Cao Cao's army. Even if Liu Bei sent troops to intervene, the effect would not be great.

If Cao Cao really occupied Yizhou and other places, Liu Bei would not be able to solve Cao Cao in a short period of time, and he would not be able to unify the world as soon as possible.

Therefore, neither Cao Cao nor Liu Bei can lose too many soldiers and horses, which also determines that Shuangfei will not easily launch a decisive battle.

Although Zhang Fei's strategic goal this time is Liangzhou, if there is a chance, he can directly kill Cao Cao, but the chance is not great.

"General, just received a secret report from the secret guards. General Cao Hong led 30 troops to garrison Luoyang, Henan County and other places. General Cao Chun led [-] troops to Fengling County to garrison. In Tongguan, Cao Cao himself led an army of [-] to garrison on the east side of Hongnong County, and the defense was very tight." In Zhang Fei's big tent, the generals are now gathered together with counselors, and the reviewers who are responsible for collecting military information from all walks of life have already sorted them out. Report Cao Jun's defense situation to Zhang Fei.

"Hmm." Zhang Fei's old face was expressionless, and he put on a majestic look. After all, he is now the commander-in-chief of an army of 40.

"Brother wants me to take Liangzhou, but Cao Aman was prepared and led an army of 30 to stop him. Feng Ling County, which entered Liangzhou, also has Cao Cao's army stationed there. Do you have a way to break it?" Zhang Fei said in Liu Bei The prestige in the group is still very high, and it is not the first time that he leads the army alone. Although there are often gossips that are not good for him, such as drinking in the army and getting drunk, he is often scolded by Liu Bei for this.

However, this does not affect Zhang Fei's status. You must know that Zhang Fei is Liu Bei's sworn brother and Liu Bei's most trusted general. He has followed Liu Bei since Liu Bei was a grasshopper. Ultimately, in the entire Liu Bei Group, only Guan Yu can overwhelm Zhang Fei.

Neither Zhang Liao nor Xu Huang is a veteran general. In addition to the ability to command troops, Zhang Fei is superior to both of them in terms of military exploits and martial arts. Not on Zhang Fei.

Zhang Fei's only shortcoming is good wine, and it is not so good. He is completely the kind of alcoholic who will not stop until he is drunk, and he likes to go crazy when he is drunk.

But this time he didn't dare to drink, because Liu Bei told him that if Zhang Fei dared to drink during the battle, then Guo Jia could immediately replace him as the commander of the army, and at the same time transfer Zhang Fei back to Linzi, from now on They will not send Zhang Fei to fight again.

Although Zhang Fei was reluctant, he still agreed with Liu Bei's words. Miraculously, he did not bring alcohol to the expedition this time, and he ordered that no alcohol should be allowed in the army except for medical alcohol, otherwise the military law would be enforced. In this way, Guo Jia, who is also an alcoholic, It was also unlucky, and he couldn't drink a sip of wine during the battle with Zhang Fei.

But Guo Jia also knew Zhang Fei's bad temper. If he rushed to drink in front of Zhang Fei and caused Zhang Fei's alcohol addiction, he would have nothing to do with Zhang Fei.

Although Liu Bei said that Zhang Fei would replace Zhang Fei's military power after drinking, Guo Jia would not take it seriously, and he was only a military adviser after all.

Chapter 322

Chapter 322

"General, Cao Cao has already guarded against us attacking Fengling County and Henan County. Now that Hongnong County has him leading 30 soldiers and horses, it can be said that we can attack and defend. He can calmly deploy troops to deal with it. The only way to deal with it is to fight against Cao Cao's army and find an opportunity to defeat Cao Cao's army. Only then can he capture Fengling County and then enter Liangzhou." Tian Feng thinks that Cao Cao's defense There is no good way to break through the formation, only to attack the front.

"In this case, let's gather a large army and attack Cao Aman." It doesn't matter when Zhang Fei arrives there. Anyway, he is now strong and strong, and he is not afraid of Cao Cao at all, and he has no idea of ​​preserving his strength at all. As long as he can complete the task, Everything else is secondary.