In Cao Cao's view, Huarongdao was the most dangerous time in his life. In the past, whether he was pursuing Dong Zhuo and meeting Fu or losing to Zhang Xiu in Wancheng, Cao Cao eventually escaped by relying on himself and his generals to fight to the death. However, when Huarongdao did that time, Cao Cao's fate was completely in the hands of Guan Yu. For Cao Cao, this was the first time in his life that Cao Cao put his life into the hands of others.

Cao Cao made a summary afterwards. Adou once saw Cao Cao's summary of Huarongdao in "Meng De's new book". In Cao Cao's opinion, he chose to go to Huarongdao not because he was careless, but because he was too conceited, too trusted his judgment, and too underestimated the enemy.

Although Xu Sheng and Zhu Ran are not Cao Cao, these two are much stronger than Mi Fang. What Adou bets is that these two people underestimate the enemy when facing Mi Fang.

However, for safety reasons, Adou decided to go back alone to check it out to ensure that this trick was successful.

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Dangyang.

Xu Sheng and Zhu Ran led their troops to Dangyang.

"The two generals have two roads ahead. One is to go east to Xiangyang, and the other is to go east to Shangyong. Which one should we go?"

Xu Sheng nodded and said to the veterans under him: "You go and check it out and see which path Mi Fang and the others are taking!"

These veterans have been marching for many years and are experienced. They can easily judge the enemy's movements from the traces on the ground. Moreover, these people are from Jingzhou and are familiar with local roads.

After a while, the veteran came back to report: "Reporting to the general, I have never seen which path Mi Fang is taking!"

"Can't see it? What's going on?"

"The general has no traces of Mi Fang and the others passing through on both roads. We have investigated them, let alone horse hoof prints, not even footprints! I guess Mi Fang doesn't want us to discover his whereabouts, so he deliberately wiped the traces away!"

"Hmph! I didn't expect that Mi Fang was so cautious!" Xu Shengdao.

Zhu Ran said beside him: "After all, Mi Fang has followed Liu Bei for many years. He has participated in many major and large battles since Xuzhou and now. He is rich in experience. Although this person is not very talented, he seems to be a little clever!"

Xu Sheng nodded: "Since that's the case, how about we two split into two groups to pursue us?"

Before Zhu Ran agreed, the school next to him pointed northwest and said, "General, look at where!"

Xu Sheng and Zhu Ran looked to the west and saw smoke rising from afar, rising into the sky, gradually becoming blurred as they grew higher and higher.

"It's the smoke from cooking! Someone is cooking!" Xu Sheng frowned: "So many smoke from cooking, I think it must be Mi Fang who left here and started cooking! Let's chase here!"

"Let's wait!" Zhu Ran immediately stopped Xu Sheng, and Xu Sheng looked at Zhu Ran in confusion.

"If I expected it was right, this must be Mi Fang's plan to doubt the soldiers! Look, Mi Fang wiped away all the traces of the intersection, so naturally he didn't want us to find out which road he was taking. If I were Mi Fang, how dare I make a fire and cook at this time? Once we see the smoke from cooking, everything he did before will be in vain! Mi Fang has been leading the army for thirty years and will never make such a mistake!"

"Then what do you mean?" Xu Sheng nodded. Zhu Ran's words made a lot of sense. After all, Mi Fang has been a soldier for thirty years. How could such a person make such a low-level mistake?

"This is Mi Fang's old suspicion array and sent someone to the west to make a fire. The purpose is to lead us to the west. If what I expected is right, Mi Fang must have gone east and prepared to go to Maicheng and then go to Guan Yu in Jingzhou!"

Xu Sheng looked at Zhu Ran with admiration. Zhu Ran’s words made a lot of sense. Xu Sheng said, “Then let’s chase east immediately!”

In the distance, A Dou lay on the ground, watching Xu Sheng and Zhu Ran's army advance eastward, with a smile on his face.

Cao Cao summarized it well. A arrogant soldier will be defeated. A proud general will be suspicious. Once a general is too confident, he will often be suspicious, have many extra ideas and make many extra judgments. Zhu Ran in front of him is a good example.

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Jiangling City.

Zhou Tai was injured, and Sun Quan immediately sent more than a dozen doctors from Jiangdong. After all, Zhou Tai saved Sun Quan's life back then, and Sun Quan still took good care of this general.

After handling military affairs, Lu Meng first came to Zhou Tai's residence. Now everything went smoothly. The police and Jiangling were taken down, but the losses of the Jiangdong Army were almost zero. In Lu Meng's view, his plan this time was very successful. The key below was to wait until Guan Yu returned to defense and then annihilate Guan Yu's army, and his mission was completed.

However, the only drawback is that he hurt Zhou Tai. When Lu Meng remembered the descriptions of the soldiers who came back with Zhou Tai, he felt a little incredible. Zhou Tai was a general of Jiangdong and had a strong martial arts skills, but he was defeated by the hands of a fifteen or sixteen-year-old child Shan!

At the age of fifteen or sixteen, the hair has not grown even yet. Lu Meng believes that even Lu Bu will definitely not be able to beat Zhou Tai now when he was fifteen or sixteen.

And looking at Zhou Tai's chest, the heart protection glasses were smashed to pieces, and the whole chest was covered in blood and some parts were broken. This did not look like it was caused by a gun at all. Instead, heavy weapons such as sledgehammers could cause such shocking injuries!

A 15 or 16-year-old child could cause such terrifying damage with one blow with an iron spear! If he had been waiting for him to spend ten or eight years... Thinking of this, Lu Meng didn't even dare to continue thinking about it.

At the age of fifteen or sixteen, he was dressed in white and black swords. It seemed that Guan Yu, Jingzhou, did not have such a person. Such martial arts should definitely not be an unknown person. Who is this child? There is no such person in Jingzhou. Could it be that he came from Yizhou? Thinking of this, Lu Meng immediately called Yu Fan.

"Governor Lu, are you looking for me?" Yu Fan heard that Lu Meng was looking for him and rushed over immediately.

"Zhongxiang, go and help me find someone. There is a boy in Yizhou, who is fifteen or sixteen years old, wearing a black sword in white!" Lu Meng said.

Yu Fei was stunned: "Governor Lu, is that all?"

Lu Meng nodded, but Yu Feng's face became bitter: "Governor Lu, Yizhou is so big and there are so many people, only this little clue, finding someone is like finding a needle in a haystack!"

"Zhongxiang, this person can be with Mi Fang, probably not an unknown person. He is so young and should not have an official. I think this person should be the son of an official in Yizhou, and this official should know Mi Fang. You just need to send those officials who entered Shu with Liu Bei to see if there are any of their sons who are suitable for this dress!"

Yu nodded. When Lu Meng said this, the scope became much smaller and easier to find.

"By the way, Governor Lu, I heard that General Zhou Tai was injured by this young man. I wonder how General Zhou Tai was injured?"

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Chapter 3 is delivered, and there will be Chapter 4 before 10 o'clock!
Chapter completed!