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Chapter 770 Today, Liang saw off His Majesty

Cao Wei's war situation in Hebei was completely corrupted.

Because of Cao Zhen and Wang Jun, Hebei, which originally had sufficient troops and horses, now brought all its troops into external defense.

When the Eight Paths of Taihang fell and Cao Zhen was unable to return to his army, the whole of Hebei actually presented an extremely empty environment.

In addition, the scourge of Mi Fang has been constantly interfering with Deng Yang in Jizhou and other places over the years, resulting in the family in Jizhou being unable to lose its head.

Cao Wei, who started his career in the Central Plains, already had some grudges against the Hebei family, and now he is even more wary.

Under this situation, the aristocratic families in Hebei were expanding their strength in order to protect themselves. Cao Wei suppressed them in officialdom and prevented their power from continuing to expand infinitely.

It could have been maintained forever, but because Mi Fang gave too much, the price was too suitable.

As a result, they raised too many people and had insufficient food and grass.

Feeding so many people requires more land.

And when Mi Fang set the price of his efforts at a very low price, a large number of wealthy families discovered something.

That is to say, it is more appropriate to have slaves than to feed those tenants.

The tenants gave them land to cultivate and left some food for them, and the two parties reached a strange relationship.

The aristocratic families protected and used the tenants, while the common people in the tenant households relied on the aristocratic families for their lives, and at the same time they were not so bullied.

Even under certain circumstances, it was easier for them to follow a wealthy family than to follow the imperial court.

But because of Mi Fang's intervention, the slaves did not need dignity or leave their own food and money.

They belong to their masters, and all they need is a whip and a mouthful of food to make them do whatever they want.

And this group of people even wanted to thank these wealthy families for giving them clothes and such "fine" rations.
This situation creates a second consequence.

A large number of aristocratic families have gone from taking the land and the people into their pockets, and now only want the land and refuse the people to join.

For a time, although the land of Hebei seemed peaceful, there were countless refugees invisibly, and the boiling resentment of the people was really shocking.

It's a pity that in the face of powerful enemies and the deception of many forces below, Cao Pi, who had already gone to Jiuquan and was blasted by Cao Mengde, didn't care.

Cao Rui, who had never stopped since he took office, didn't care.

Until this time, Zhuge Liang entered the land of Hebei, directly breaking the current tranquility of the land of Hebei, and wiped out a large number of forces.

Captured a large number of bandits and bandits, and then captured more than forty forts along the way.

In front of the powerful ordnance and the elite Han army, those soldiers and horses composed of slaves directly exposed a problem that had never been exposed before.

That's cowardice!

They did not dare to fight the Han army. Even though the fort was strong, a large number of soldiers still fell due to the incompetence of the soldiers.

Zhuge Liang annihilated these forts, destroyed the barriers of these aristocratic families, and re-measured and divided the large amounts of land in their hands.

But they were not completely exterminated.

Instead, after retaining their main lines, they allowed them to start relying on knowledge to enter the court and enter official careers again, just like hundreds of years ago.

Of course, the family classics in their homes will also be included in the Imperial Academy of the Han Dynasty in the future.

When this incident began, a large number of Hebei people seemed to see their own hope and rushed to surrender. There were even many cities where people directly attacked the city gates.

Thereby welcoming the Han soldiers and horses into the city.

Cities were conquered one after another, and those who refused to surrender could not stop Zhuge Liang for a long time. The troops were insufficient and the people's minds changed, and there was a huge gap in morale.

This led to the rapid fall of Hebei.Before Cao Zhen returned to the army completely, Zhuge Liang had already cut off all his way back.

He was completely blocked in Daijun.

Guan Xing and Zhang Bao attacked again, leading Liaodong troops and horses directly into Youzhou.

This time, the younger members of the Xiahou family were unable to resist the attack from Guan Xing, Zhang Bao and Wang Jun.

They wanted to evacuate Hebei but found that they were also blocked on their way back.

Facing such a situation, those two strange women, Xin Xianying and Zhao's widow Wang Yi, who are not inferior to men, can only persuade the people around them to stick to it.

And when Cao Zhen found out that the commander-in-chief of Zhuge Liang's partial division was actually the young junior Wang Jun whom he had been extremely optimistic about.

All the doubts in my heart suddenly became clear.

There was also an unconcealable bitter smile on his face.

"It's funny. It's really funny. I never thought it would turn out like this."

Cao Zhen, who wanted to understand how he got into this situation step by step, could no longer think any more except for showing a bitter smile.

"Army. Attack!"

Cao Zhen gave an order, and Cao Jun, who had almost no hope of survival, began a crazy attack.

At the same time, Xia Houxuan and others on the other side also started to attack, trying to rush from the side to join Cao Zhen.

Faced with such a "crazy" Cao army, Zhuge Liang directly took over the command. One army acted as two sides, suppressing Cao Zhen's attack with one hand.

The other side blocked all the attack routes of Xia Houxuan and others, and was determined not to allow any of Cao's troops to join Cao Zhen and others.

This battle was very brutal.

Ma Chao, Ma Dai, Jiang Wei and others rushed over directly, and Tian Yu, Xiang Chong and others came to join them.

Encircle and suppress Cao Zhen's troops.

The Han army under Zhuge Liang successively killed many generals such as Ma Yong, Suo Zhan, and Xi Gu.

Other middle-level generals such as Colonel Zhonglang lost more than a hundred people.

The Qiang leaders under the Han army suffered heavy casualties. They were the most courageous in killing, not only charging ahead and killing many times, but also under Zhang Fei's influence, they only attacked but not defended.

At one time, dozens of Qiang tribe leaders were killed and nearly [-]% of them were injured.

But their deaths resulted in the annihilation of Cao Zhen's entire army.

Yan Zhi, Wang Qi, Xian Yusi, Mu Bing and other famous ministers and generals under Cao Zhen were either killed in battle or captured alive by the Han army.

Cao Zhen's two younger brothers, Cao Bin and Cao Fan, were killed in battle.

In addition to the eldest son Cao Shuang who stayed in Luoyang, the second son Cao Xi and the third son Cao Xun were killed on the spot one after another.

Cao Ze and Cao Yan were also seriously injured and were unable to resist in the end.

Only one Yao'er is left with Cao Shuang at his home in Luoyang.

Finally, in July of the first year of Jianxing of the Han Dynasty.

Zhuge Liang looked at Cao Wei's famous general Cao Zhen, who was seriously injured and still struggling to hold on despite being heavily surrounded, and finally waved his feather fan.

"Today, Liang bid farewell to His Majesty with the foundation of Cao Wei!"

(End of this chapter)