Optimization System of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 161
"Meng De, now that Liu Bei is the king of Wei, he has been ordered to attack Yuan Shao, and Yuan Shao is restrained by Zhang Lan. If Yuan Shao is defeated, then Liu Bei will surely become the great enemy of Japan and us."

Cao Cao glanced at Xi Zhicai, and then sighed deeply, "I don't know, it's just that I can't quench my thirst if I'm far away. It's in the east, and I'm in the west. Things can't see each other."

Xi Zhicai laughed and said, "Didn't Meng De forget Li Ru in Chang'an City?"

Cao Cao was taken aback for a moment, then overjoyed, he stared at Xi Zhicai and asked, "Could it be Zhicai's words?"

Xi Zhicai nodded with a smile.

Cao Cao saw the expression on his face, and said, "Well, let's gather troops and horses to attack Li Ru."

"Plop" Xi Zhicai fell to the ground and vomited blood.

He saw Cao Cao laughed and said, "I was just joking, why should Zhicai be like this, hahahaha"

Xi Zhicai wiped the cold sweat off his brow, and smiled awkwardly.

"I want to lead troops eastward, what is Zhicai's intention?"

"Great!"

"Okay, come here, pass on my general order, the whole army will set off tomorrow and return to Hanzhong"

"Yes"

The herald turned and left, announcing the whole army.

When Li Ru heard the news of Cao Cao's retreat, he couldn't help being overjoyed, and immediately sent someone to find out the truth. When he learned that Cao Cao had really retreated, he immediately gathered his troops and sent troops to Tongguan.

The guard at Tongguan was named Xue Yong, and he was a member of Jingzhou An people. He was good at using a mountain-chopping axe, weighing 58 catties.

Li Ru led the army to Tongguan, Xue Yong led the troops out, and Li Ru ordered Zhang Ying, who had rebelled against Cao, to fight.

The two horses met, and the fight lasted no more than 50 rounds. Xue Yong was stabbed under the horse by Zhang Ying, and then Li Ru gave an order to take Tongguan.

The morale of the army finally recovered, and the haze of the previous battle with Cao Cao was swept away. It is still a good saying, not afraid of ignorance, but afraid of comparing goods.

The fighting power of Li Ru's army is not afraid or strong, but their opponent is Cao Cao, so they are still a little worse.

After breaking through Tongguan, Li Ru did not stop, leaving Li Su to guard Tongguan, and then continued to lead the army forward and marched into Hangu Pass.

Jia Zhou, the guard of Hangu Pass, was also a fierce general, but he was good at the art of war. Seeing that Li Ru's army had broken through Tongguan, he dared not go out to fight and defended Hangu Pass to the death.

After Liu Bei heard the news, he asked Sima Yi about his plan, and Sima Yi said, "Hangu Pass is difficult to break through for a while, so we only need to send a skilled warrior to go there."

Hearing this, Liu Bei cried. Now the territory is big, but there are not many real capable ministers and generals. Guan Yu guards Bingzhou, Zhang Fei follows him to fight, and Xiang Feng guards Guangping. Where can I find manpower to defend the letter? Guguan.

Sima Yi seemed to see what was on Liu Bei's mind, and said with a chuckle, "It's inconvenient for our army, and if Hangu Pass is broken, Luoyang will be hard to protect. The emperor will definitely send his capable people and strangers to help. King Wei doesn't have to worry."

After listening to Sima Yi's words, Liu Bei was relieved.

This is true, Liu Xie is different today, he still has some capable people under his command, and these people don't listen to his orders, so if he sends them out quickly, he will be even more powerful.

Therefore, Liu Bei no longer hesitated, and began to fight Yuan Shao wholeheartedly.

Sure enough, when Liu Xie heard that Li Ru led troops to station outside Hangu Pass, he was very anxious and immediately sent Wang Yue to lead troops to fight.

Wang Yue is a fan of officials, seeing such a good opportunity to make meritorious service, naturally he would not refuse, and led 3000 people straight to Hangu Pass.

Seeing that Li Ru did not turn around and attack Luoyang, as Xi Zhicai had expected, Cao Cao was so relieved that he led his troops towards Shangyong.

Liu Biao naturally refused to give up his territory easily, so he ordered Wenpin to stop him.

At the time of Sun Jian's death, Sun Ce and others pushed him on Liu Biao's body, and they attacked Liu Biao almost at the same time.

A group of rebels under Liu Biao, seeing the encirclement and suppression by the three armies, naturally made secret plans in their hearts and began to persuade Liu Biao to surrender.

Liu Biao fought against Sun Jian all the year round, so Sun Ce's side was immediately excluded by them, and Yuan Shu was not the master, so he was also excluded by them. In the end, only Cao Cao was left. They once again staged a persuasion to surrender to Cao.

Although facing enemies on three sides, Liu Biao was still unwilling to give in so easily. He ordered Huang Zu to guard Jiangxia to block Sun Ce, Cai Mao to guard Nanyang to block Yuan Shu, and personally led the army to fight Cao Cao.

Liu Biao came to Shangyong, stood on the top of the wall, looked at Cao Cao, and asked, "Why did Mengde invade our border?"

"Is Liu Jingzhou old? Don't you know that I am the king of Shu?"

Liu Biao was a little confused by Cao Cao's words. What does this offending my border have to do with whether the king of Shu is not the king of Shu?
"What's the meaning of this?"

"I am the king of Shu, and you are the governor. Why don't you come out of the city to greet him? If you don't have the heart to oppose the Han?"

Liu Biao was frightened into a cold sweat by Cao Cao's words. He is a real royalist, because he himself is a member of the Han family, and he felt really uncomfortable to be dismissed by such a certain big hat.

But Cao Cao was right. According to the official position of the big man, he really needed to go out of the city to pay a visit, but today is different from the past, so naturally it is impossible to really do that.

Therefore, Liu Biao just snorted coldly, and said, "You must be a big hat. You will occupy various places and proclaim yourself a king, but you still want to gain my Jingzhou. Wouldn't you be ashamed? Fight as you want, don't talk nonsense."

After speaking, Liu Biao turned and left.

Cao Cao also turned around and entered the camp, and ordered to attack the city.

The screen turns to Yanzhou again.

Zhang Lan led Ma Chao to garrison white horses to contain Yuan Shao, and Yuan Shao also cooperated, leaving behind Gao Lan, Han Meng, and Shen Pei to lead an army of [-] to garrison Liyang to prevent Zhang Lan from making small moves behind his back.

Then he settled down and began to arrange government affairs.

However, government affairs are very difficult, because Zhang Lan offended all the aristocratic Tu families in the world before, but now the aristocratic Tu families in the world are in charge, so it can be said that they control the local economy.

If the family of the Tu nationality doesn't cooperate, Zhang Lan can only use the method of killing chickens and monkeys, but it can't be too much. Dogs can jump over walls in a hurry, let alone people, and if they are all taken care of, what will happen to the economy? The economic system must collapse.

Therefore, Zhang Lan selected a few aristocratic families who were said to be big or small, and began to beat them. The aristocratic families must be in line with the surface, but behind the scenes.

There is no other way, since you are disobedient, you can only resort to violence.

In a fit of anger, Zhang Lan put all the family in prison, pending further trial.

After entering the prison, Zhang Lan was not in a hurry to make a decision. She neither beat nor scolded her. Lan issued a death order and was not allowed to say a word to them.

The other aristocratic families must not be reconciled, so they began to gather and prepare to make a big fuss about Zhang Lan.

(End of this chapter)