Cao Cao camp in Yangping Pass.

Cao Cao looked at Xu Chu lying on the bed and sighed helplessly: "This is not your fault. Zhongkang, you should rest assured to heal your wounds!"

Not long ago, Zhuge Liang sent his subordinates Zhang Fei and others to take a detour to rob Cao Cao's food and grass. Speaking of the generals under Li Liubei's military level is more than one level higher than the generals under Cao Cao's. Liu Bei's military Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, Huang Zhong, Ma Chao and Wei Yan are all enemies of thousands of people. Only Xu Chu, under Cao Cao, can barely compete with them. As for Xu Huang, Xiahou Dun and others, although they are generals, the gap is still quite large compared to Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun.

Zhuge Liang seemed to be sure that there was no general under Cao Cao, so he sent Zhang Fei and others to take turns to rob the grain. Cao Cao had no choice but to send Xu Chu to protect the grain himself.

There are no strong generals in Cao's camp. Speaking of kung fu, Xu Chu is the first in Cao's camp. No one in Cao's camp is Xu Chu's opponent. Especially after a big battle with Ma Chao, the name of "Tiger Idiot" spread all over the world. Before they knew it, people returned Xu Chu to a general like Guan, Zhang and Zhao.

Xu Chu himself had his tail even raised to the sky, looking like he was the best in the world. As for Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun, he had long been taken seriously by Xu Chu. He heard that Zhang Fei often robbed grain, so Xu Chu wanted Zhang Fei to come and robbed grain and then beat Zhang Fei up.

Xu Chu like Zhang Fei, likes to drink. Before going to the war, Xu Chu drank a lot of it, but Zhang Fei really came to rob the grain. A drunk Xu Chu met Zhang Fei. As a result, it can be imagined that Xu Chu was poked a hole by Zhang Fei's snake spear, lost the food and grass, and ran back by himself.

Cao Cao walked out of Xu Chu's tent with a blue face. Now that Xu Chu has fallen, there is no strong general in his hand that can resist Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun and others.

First, Xiahou Yuan was defeated, but now Xu Chu was injured. Cao Cao suddenly remembered that the prime minister Guan Lu predicted that he would send troops this time was unfavorable, and he also said that he would give up a general. He had not yet felt it was still in mind, but he did not expect that what Guan Lu said would come true.

Since the rise of the army, Cao Cao has experienced countless failures and setbacks. He was impoverished in pursuit of Dong Zhuo, captured Chenliu by Lu Bu, and attacked Zhang Xiu twice, defeated Chibi, and even beaten by Ma Chao to cut off his beard and abandon his robe. Cao Cao's achievements today were also achieved through countless failures.

Thinking about the past failure experience, when pursuing Dong Zhuo, the entire army was wiped out. Zhang Xiu broke his son and general Dian Wei in the battle of Chibi. The 830,000 troops were destroyed in the battle of Chibi. The beard and robe were cut off by Ma Chao in front of Tongguan... It was so difficult at that time that he survived! Now it was just a small setback, what was there to be afraid of! Guan Lu was just a wise man. How could he believe what he said?

For a moment, a sense of heroism surged in Cao Cao's heart. In an instant, Cao Cao returned to the former heroic Cao Cao! The Cao Cao who dominated the world.

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Liu Bei's camp.

Although Cao Cao's army was close to him, there was not much war atmosphere in the camp. Huang Zhong and Wei Yan and others studied and played chess all day long. Although the two of them were limited all day long, there was no war for a general, so don't mention the discomfort.

The only more comfortable thing is Zhang Fei, who took people out of Yangping Pass all day to rob Cao Cao's grain transport brigade, which made Huang Zhong and Wei Yan and others envious.

Zhuge Liang had already ordered the army to station and defend Cao Cao. No one was allowed to fight, as if he was waiting for Cao Cao to attack and fight a protracted war.

At this time, Zhuge Liang's choice was undoubtedly very correct. In terms of military strength, although Liu Bei's troops were slightly less, the gap between the two sides was not very big. However, the food and grass between the two sides were quite different.

When Xu Huang retreated, he did not take away the food and grass from Nanzheng. These food and grass were accumulated by Zhang Lu over the years, and Yangping Pass was only a short distance from Nanzheng. With the food and grass supply from Nanzheng, Liu Bei was not afraid of a protracted war at all.

Although Cao Cao claimed to have a lot of troops and a lot of food, Cao Cao's food had to be transported from Yanzhou Sili, even Jizhou and other places. At that time, Cao Cao occupied the north and Daxing military farms, and the main places for military farming were Yanzhou and Sili. Therefore, although Cao Cao had food, he needed to transport it to Hanzhong remotely.

The transportation of grain and grass consumes extremely manpower and material resources. First of all, the people who transport grain have a good meal, and people eat horses and chew it, which consumes a lot of money. Moreover, the distance from Yanzhou to Yangping Pass is long, so transporting grain and grass takes time and effort. In comparison, Cao Cao consumes several times more than Liu Bei.

No matter how wealthy Cao was, he could not withstand such consumption. Besides, there was an Eastern Wu to the east. Zhuge Liang believed that in one or two years, Cao Cao would retreat and retreat his own troops.

In the big tent, Zhuge Liang looked carefully at the array map on the table.

Speaking of which, Zhuge Liang is really a very diligent person. He will do everything in all kinds of things in the camp. If it weren't for the fact that Pang Tong and others were in charge of Chengdu, Zhuge Liang would probably be in charge of Xichuan's government affairs.

In fact, it is no wonder that Zhuge Liang is a person who strives for excellence. It is difficult for ordinary people to meet Zhuge Liang's requirements. If you hand over the matter to your subordinates, Zhuge Liang always feels worried. Therefore, Zhuge Liang has always taken all the big and small things into his hands.

At this moment, a scholar walked in from outside. Zhuge Liang looked up and saw that it was Chen Zhen who came in.

Chen Zhen was from Nanyang. He was once a subordinate of Yuan Shao. When Liu Bei contacted Guan Yu, he allowed Guan Yu to rebel, Xu Du passed the five passes and kill six generals. Chen Zhen also participated. Later, Yuan Shao was defeated in the Battle of Guandu, and Chen Zhen surrendered to Liu Bei. At that time, Liu Bei had just defected to Liu Biao, and Chen Zhen was considered to have taken advantage of Liu Bei's in trouble, so Liu Bei has always trusted Chen Zhen very much.

However, Chen Zhen was average and had no talent. However, he was able to do things with ease and meticulousness. Therefore, after Liu Bei entered Shu, he arranged Chen Zhen under Zhuge Liang, the Grand Sima Mansion of the Left General, to be responsible for intelligence work.

Chen Zhen came to Zhuge Liang near and said, "Military advisor, you recently asked me to pay attention to the Shu family, and I discovered something."

Liu Bei sent troops to Hanzhong and took away a large number of military generals and soldiers. You should know that only a few years later, Liu Bei entered Sichuan. Maybe there would be a villain in Sichuan who would take advantage of Liu Bei's departure to jump out to cause trouble. Therefore, since sending troops, Zhuge Liang has always sent Chen Zhen to pay attention to the Shu family.

Zhuge Liang smiled. It would be strange if Liu Bei left and all the aristocratic families in Shu were kept honest! If these aristocratic families were not sure to be very loyal to Liu Bei, if they took advantage of Liu Bei's absence, these aristocratic families might be able to do it.

"Sit down and talk about something when you find it!" Zhuge Liang said to Chen Zhen.

"Military advisor, I found that during this period, there was a person who had been in contact with the aristocratic families in Shu!"

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