"According to the general's instructions, Yun Zeng transferred 20,000 troops to Shangyong, and made the illusion of heavy troops gathering with 10,000 of them at night and on the same day. Brother Han Sheng had also raised the general's battle flag on Shangyong.

"Zhao Yun pointed to the sand table and explained in detail, "According to the latest returns, Cao's army seemed to have begun to react. The number of troops garrisons on the border between Nanyang and Shangyong and Xiangyang is increasing..."

"Is there anything wrong with Hanzhong?" I nodded and continued to ask.

As soon as the emperor ascended the throne, I stopped in Lujiang for a while and took Deng Ai to return to Xiangyang.

After temporarily entrusting his power as the Shaofu to the Shaofu Chief (the main assistant of the Shaofu), Empress Jian Yong, he set out with me and continued to assist me in the affairs of Jingzhou.

"The Cao army in Hanzhong has a tendency to gather in Anyang, and should be preventing our army from invading Hanzhong, but no other Cao army has found any signs of reinforcement of Hanzhong." Zhao Yun said with some confusion.

"This is not surprising..." Pang Tong smiled and explained to Zhao Yun, "Cao Cao is currently going to both entangle with Gongsun Kang, and guard against Han Sui's possible rebellion, and of course the threat from our army.

Xiliang, Youzhou, Yangzhou, Jingzhou...every place has to restrain Cao Cao's troops. Even if Cao Cao has a land of nine provinces, his troops are still limited, so it is normal that he cannot draw troops for a while.

And if you just stick to it, with Xiahou Yuan's ability, you can still hold on in two or three months..."

"What the military advisor is right..." Zhao Yun nodded, and still habitually called Pang Tong the military advisor, "I wonder what progress will be in the war between Cao Cao and Gongsun Kang?"

“According to strength.

Of course, Cao Cao is much stronger than Gongsun Kangkang, but this time the war in their place was also strange, and the result was not so easy to predict..." Pang Tong held the short beard under his chin and said with a smile, "But this is exactly the purpose of our feint attack on Hanzhong!"

"Zilong, he sent a letter to Hansheng, ordered him to lead 20,000 troops into Hanzhong after receiving the order. Maintain the speed of 15 miles a day, but there is no need to rush to attack, just make the momentum bigger.

"I pondered for a moment and gave an order to Zhao Yun, "In addition, you personally lead the wind cavalry to harass Nanyang to the north. If necessary, you can attack Runan, with the goal of restraining and consuming Nanyang and Runan's Cao army.

You don’t need to give back everything, you can decide on the right time.”

"No!" Zhao Yun responded with a sigh.

Under normal circumstances, once Hanzhong is attacked, my Lord Taishan can request the nearest reinforcements, which are the garrisons in Chang'an and Wancheng.

The troops in Chang'an seem to have been transferred to Tianshui to shock Han Sui. In this way, the only thing that can be expected is the Cao army stationed in Wancheng.

The purpose of using the Fengqi Army to harass Nanyang and Runan was to enhance the credibility of our army in capturing Hanzhong.

"Shi Yuan. You immediately write a cursive letter and order the fast horse to send it to Suiding. Please ask Zhang Lu to show the illusion that our army has entered Bazhong and merged with him!"

"The general's play is done in full..." Pang Tong quickly understood my intention, nodded and laughed, "As a result, Cao Cao was even more confused.

It won’t take long to see some clues in the war in Youzhou…”

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In the following days, Jingzhou's fine work network was fully operational. A large amount of true and false news was constantly passed on to Cao Cao's rule. With the ability of Cao Cao and his group of counselors.

It should be possible to draw a "conclusion" from these numerous news - our army "really" is going to attack Hanzhong! Whether Cao Cao believes it or not, it is certain that he will never dare to be indifferent to it.

Although the Fengqi Army's harassment against Nanyang and Runan did not achieve much results, the Cao army in these two counties was restrained.

Nanyang Prefect Man Chong and Runan Prefect Li Dian tried to encircle and annihilate the Fengqi Army with their superior forces, but Zhao Yun fully implemented our strategic intentions and always missed the Cao army, which means that he fled thousands of miles away.

Nanyang, which is dominated by infantry, and Runan garrisons. It is impossible to pose a substantial threat to Zhao Yun who intends to guerrillas. Man Chong, who is very troubled, is Li Dian.

After following the rhythm of the Wind Cavalry for 6 or 7 days, he finally gave up his unrealistic intention of encirclement and annihilation. After breaking the troops into pieces, he divided several cities on the front line and began to implement passive defense.

In Hanzhong, since we couldn't figure out which part of Hanzhong or Brazil was the main attack direction of our army and Zhang Ludi, my "Shan" had to disperse our troops and defend both places at the same time.

Perhaps because of the lack of troops, Cao's army almost did not take the initiative.

Corresponding to them, the 20,000 army led by Huang Zhong was extremely slow, and after Zhang Lu hoarded heavy troops at the Luoqi Pass, he just bluffed and did not take any substantial action at all.

The result of this was that after half a month, there was no real battle in Hanzhong.

Just as I was about to kill the Wuqian Flying Army, who had already sneaked into the depths of Daba Mountain, to make a real raid on Hanzhong, so as not to let Cao Cao see through our army's actual intentions, the battle situation in Youzhou came from the detailed report.

Xiahou Dun, who had always endured Gongsun Kang, suddenly launched a fierce attack on the Liaodong Army.

With Xiahou Dun's personal support, Xu Huang led the elite cavalry of Cao's army to avoid the main force of the Liaodong Army and carried out a surprise attack on the troops of the Sanhan, Goguryeo and other troops under the command of Yu Gongsun Kang. Without much effort, these vassals, which could only be called mobs, were defeated.

Then Xu Huang led his army to bypass the main battlefield without stopping and headed straight to the hinterland of Liaodong.

Although Gongsun Kang was willing to return to the rescue, he was dragged to Changli by Xiahou Dun. In addition, the defeat of the Goguryeo army had a great impact on the morale of the army. He could only watch Xu Huang enter Liaodong County.

When two consecutive cities were broken (although I don’t know the details, these two cities were probably "scared". After all, the cavalry was not good at siegeing the city), Xu Huang’s military attack had already pointed directly at the Liaodong Prefecture, and Gongsun Kang could no longer sit still and quickly sent an envoy to ask Cao Cao for peace.

By the time the news came back, the battle between the Liaodong Army and the Cao Army seemed to have stopped.

It was sent back along with the battle situation.

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"I was really hit by Lu Zijing..." Pang Tong used his knuckles to blast the intelligence books in his hand and said with a chuckle, "Gongsun Zhenbei really wants to use us as a gun.

He was also bewitching the lord's dying in the north, and wanted to ask the lord to provide food, grass and weapons. It turned out to be just for such a little bit of a ghost. Now, the fox's tail is exposed..."

"Brother Shi Yuan is sure the news is true?" Ma Liang looked at Pang Tong with a little confusion.

"Pang Shaofu is right!" Sima Yi, who had been silent for a while, suddenly spoke, "This news should not be groundless. If nothing unexpected happens, this news may have been spread by Cao Cao himself."

Although Sima Yi's identity cannot be exposed, the object of concealment must not include Ma Liang, who has been promoted to the chief of the General's Mansion of the West (Pang Tong, as one of the nine ministers, naturally cannot serve as the chief of the General's Mansion of the West).

"If it were spread by Cao Cao, why did he delay it until now? If the news was true, I thought Gongsun Kang would have raised the conditions to Cao Cao to know about it long ago?" Ma Liang said in confusion.

"Haha..." Pang Tong smiled and explained. "If Cao Cao had spread this news early in the morning, how many people would believe it? Others can easily think that this was just a means taken by Cao Cao to prevent his lord from sending troops.

But now the situation is different. Gongsun Kang took the initiative to seek peace and ceasefire, which invisibly increased the authenticity of the news.

Moreover, Hanzhong, Nanyang, Runan is currently facing the threat of our Jingzhou army, and Pengcheng is also facing the threat of the Yangzhou and Guangling army. Cao Cao needs to use this news to ease the situation.

"So that's it!" Ma Liang thought for a moment, nodded understandingly, and then said to me, "General. Since that's the case, can we let the two generals Zhao Yun and Huang Zhong withdraw back to Jingzhou?"

"No hurry..." I woke up from my thoughts and said in a deep voice, "Cao Cao cannot transfer the troops from the northern border back in a short period of time, and will not pose a great threat to Zilong and Hansheng.

Moreover, if Gongsun Kang is not kind, we cannot be unrighteous."

Speaking of this, a smile appeared on the corner of my mouth: "At least, I still have to do a good job on the surface!"

Pang Tong and Sima Yi looked at each other, and then both of them couldn't help laughing. After Ma Liang was slightly stunned, he would also feel overwhelmed and showed a smile.

At least, in this battle against Cao Cao, our army insisted on being longer than Gongsun Kang. Even if we finally retreated, we would not be in a moral way...

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In the following days, news about the war in Youzhou continued to spread to Xiangyang. The ceasefire between the Liaodong Army and the Cao Army has been confirmed. The Liaodong Army has begun to retreat in a panic.

According to the news from the Liaodong area, Gongsun Kang's condition for the successful reunion was to mortgage his second son Gongsun Yuan as a hostage to Cao Cao. Cao Cao seemed to intend to ced the small part of Liaoxi County to Gongsun Kang as a condition for comfort.

This absurd war with conspiracy came to an end. Gongsun Kang, who was the lord of Liaodong, also revealed his two-faced and three-pointed and full of ambitions but unparalleled talent.

On July 12, the first year of Zhanghe (207), Zhao Yun withdrew back to Xiangyang.

On July 15, Huang Zhong withdrew to Shangyong. At the same time, his second brother and Wei Yan also lifted the feint attack on Pengcheng County, Xuzhou, and withdrew to Shouchun and Guangling respectively.

Then, the world entered a short period of truce. Cao Cao needed to take this opportunity to stabilize the hearts of the people inside, while we needed to accumulate military strength and prepare for the next step of the strategy.

The other forces between Cao and Liu are naturally afraid to have any abnormal movements...

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In mid-August, the weather changes abnormally.

The Central Plains prefectures and counties, which had not seen a few drops of rain in the entire June and July months, suddenly saw a large amount of rainfall starting from the fourth day of the August 1999. It continued for seven or eight consecutive days. The rivers of the Huai River, Ying River, Han River, Ru River, Yu River, Luo River, Wen River and other water systems surged, and a large area of ​​farmland was flooded, and the grain that was about to be harvested was facing a dead end.
Chapter completed!