three kings

Chapter 398 Three pillars stand together to unify the world (final chapter)

The Prime Minister's Mansion in Chang'an City.

Cao Cao rested his head on one hand and his body kept shaking. Since Cao Ren died in battle and Xi Chuan returned to his grandson, Cao Cao's headache became more and more serious, like ten thousand needles, unbearable.

As time went by, Cao Cao felt that the world was getting farther and farther away from him.

"My lord, your health is important, you should go to rest. Let Zhicai take care of these trivial matters." The counselor Xi Zhicai couldn't bear to see Cao Cao so uncomfortable.

Cao Cao sighed, "The timing is unpredictable now. Xichuan made a mistake, and the Hulao fell. The morale of our soldiers is unstable. If I don't take responsibility for myself and set an example myself, how can I stabilize the morale of the army?"

Cao Cao put the documents in his hands aside, leaned on the big chair and closed his eyes to rest his mind. After feeling his headache relieved a bit, he asked, "How is the situation in Hanzhong?"

Before Xi Zhicai could speak, Cao Cao emphasized: "To tell the truth, you can't hide it."

Xi Zhicai was silent for a while, and replied: "Not optimistic. Sun Can's political methods are very different from those when he first debuted. He ruled Sichuan with Sichuan people, and married the sister of Wu Yi from the Wang family of Xichuan, and controlled it with political marriage. Living in Xichuan made Xichuan become one. At the same time, Xu Shu was stationed in Xichuan, and from time to time sent large troops into the hinterland of our Hanzhong to make trouble. Xu Shu is very talented, and his march is extremely cautious. He is erratic, and our army can hardly find him , and was captured by him several times, and hundreds of grain fields were destroyed by them."

"Damn it!" Cao Cao slammed the table and said angrily, "They want to cut us off completely. I didn't expect that Sun Ziyu would be so heartless." This is also an advantage of words, he knows that if the situation is reversed, he will Do it more unfeelingly.

"Also, all places in Sun Can's territory are preparing food and grass, and there may be big actions in the near future." Seeing that Cao Cao's headache has passed, Xi Zhicai said the information hidden in his heart.

At this time, Cheng Yu walked into the conference hall quickly, and said with a serious expression: "My lord, Sun Can divides his troops into three groups to attack Liu Bei. This is Liu Bei's distress letter."

In March of the 15th year of Jian'an.

Sun Can dispatched an army of 40 to the north, and temporarily formed three armies. Zhou Yu and Lu Xun led 20 troops to attack Baima; Xu Huang and Zhao Yun led [-] troops to attack Nanpi;

When Cao Cao heard the news, he immediately mobilized his army to support Liu Bei, but when the army arrived in Luoyang, he received news that Cheriji was attacking Liangzhou.

As a last resort, Cao Cao asked Xia Houyuan to lead part of the army and horses to reinforce, but the battle situation was beyond Cao Cao's expectation. Cheriji used his troops to stealthily not only defeated Xia Houyuan's reinforcements, but also took Liangzhou in one fell swoop.

After Cao Cao got the news, he cried out in grief, "Heaven is dead to me!" The headache recurred and he fainted to the ground.After waking up, Liu Bei gave up reinforcements and went to recover the lost ground.

Liu Bei learned that Cao Cao could not reinforce, so he adopted Pang Tong's plan to defeat them one by one, and launched an attack.

But Sun Can's three-way army seemed to have been arranged in advance. Once Liu Bei's army attacked one army, the other two armies would step up their offensive, and the attacked army would stick to their positions, preventing Liu Bei from taking any advantage.

The plan of defeating them one by one not only failed, but also accelerated the speed of Sun Can's attack.

Liu Bei suffered a great loss, and learned to behave himself. He changed from attack to defense, planning to use Yecheng to block the offensive of Sun Can's army.

At this time, Liu Hua offered a strategy of water attack, pumping up the water of the Zhang River to flood the city of Ye.

On a moonless night, Sun Can ordered an army of 15 to dig the Zhang River.At dawn the next day, thousands of floods rushed down.The flood broke through the gate of Yecheng, and Sun Canjun swarmed in.

In order to save Liu Bei, Guan Yu was besieged by Sun Can's army.

Sun Can cherished his talent and personally begged him to surrender.

However, Guan Yu had a lonely personality and was extremely affectionate. He was powerless to break through and killed himself with a sword. Three soldiers under his command actually followed him away at the same time. The scene was extremely heroic.

Liu Bei was heartbroken when he learned that Guan Yu had committed suicide. Under the instigation of his third brother Zhang Yan, he ignored Pang Tong and Ju Shou's good words and insisted on sending troops to avenge Guan Yu's blood.

Ju Shou spoke with death and crashed to death in front of the hall.Liu Bei woke up and turned to guard Yijing.

Sun Can listened to Zhuge Liang and Guo Jia's good advice, defended and did not attack, and used the tactics of cutting off food and encircling the city to deal with Liu Bei who was trapped in Youdou.

Three months later, the grain and grass in Yijing were cut off, and all the rats and horses were eaten up.

Zhuge Liang personally entered the city to persuade him to surrender. Liu Bei Nian ordered the innocent people and soldiers in the city to surrender, but because he could not avenge Guan Yu, he burned down the city guard's mansion and turned it into ashes together with the raging fire.

Zhang Yan hated Sun Can to the bone. When Sun Can took over Yi Jing, he assassinated him with a sword, but was stopped by Xu Chu and executed on the spot.

Pang Tong was disheartened and went back to hiding without a trace.

It took Sun Can a year to finally decide on the Northland.

In the 17th year of Jian'an, without Sun Can's permission, Jia Xu secretly set up a divorce plan with Liu Hua.

It turned out that when Jia Xu went to the Qiang people in person, he turned himself into a servant, and used the most sycophant men in his "poison camp" to please Cheriji, and secretly planned to make him Cheriji's adviser.

With the help of Jia Xu, Cheriji defeated Cao Cao several times.But Jia Xu was alone after all, unable to defeat the group of Cao Cao's army. Only 25 of those who were killed by Cherigi defeated an army of [-] and fled back.

During several confrontations, Jia Xu sensitively discovered that Cao Cao had the intention to weaken the Ma family army, so he always paid attention to it, and he told Ma Chao about Cao Cao's intention to weaken the Ma family army.

After Ma Chao learned about the incident, Lima questioned Cao Cao without any respect.

Cao Cao escaped with clever words, but Ma Chao believed his words and did not pursue the matter.But Ma Chao left a very bad impression in Cao Cao's heart.

Later, Jia Xu forged the letter between Ma Teng and Xiandi Liu Xie. Cao Cao didn't notice for a while and beheaded Ma Teng. When he woke up, it was too late.

Immediately, in the name of reward, Ma Chao was summoned to Chang'an to kill the grass, but Jia Xu had already informed Ma Chao secretly.

When Ma Chao learned that his father had been killed by Cao Cao, he knew that his strength was not enough to deal with Cao Cao, so he personally led his army and horses to capture Tongguan, and dedicated the gateway into Guanzhong to Sun Can.

In August of the same year, Sun Can raised 70 soldiers from all over the country to conquer Cao Cao.

At this time, Cao Cao was seriously injured by the battle against Cheriji, and his overall army strength was only 20.

The disparity in strength is too great. In addition, Sun Can has countless good ministers and fierce generals to assist him. Cao Jun suffered heavy losses in three battles and three victories. The Xiahou brothers, Cao Ang, Cao Pi, Cao Zhang, and Dian Wei all died in battle.

Sun Canjun also lost countless good generals, including veteran Huang Zhong, former Liu Bei's general Wei Yan and other generals.

Cao Cao retreated steadily and was trapped in Chang'an.

In November, the city was broken, and the army entered the capital of Chang'an.

Prime Minister's House.

Sun Can looked at Cao Cao's last line of defense with joy and sadness in his heart. He was happy that the world would soon be unified, and sad that he wanted to personally order the removal of Cao Cao, the only confidant he admired.

"General, the prime minister has an invitation." Dong Zhao said to Sun Can with a dead face.

Sun Can was taken aback for a moment, and then said: "Zhongkang, Zilong, and Wenyuan each bring two hundred relatives, follow me in."

Zhuge Liang and others tried their best to dissuade them.

Sun Can said with a smile: "It's okay, Cao Cao is doomed to fail, he won't do this, besides, you are away, and Zhongkang, Zilong, and Wenyuan are here?"

After all, he strode in.

Arriving at the meeting hall, Cao Cao sat alone in the hall, and there were wine and dishes in front of the hall.

"You guys are waiting outside!" Sun Can came to the hall alone, looked at the aging Cao Cao, "Meng De..." I just called my name, but I don't know what to say?
Cao Cao looked free and easy, as if letting go of something, "Do you remember the last time we drank together?"

"Remember!" Sun Can said, "That was in the alliance of princes, it has been more than 20 years."

"Yeah! It's been more than 20 years, and we haven't had a good drink together for more than 20 years." Cao Cao was lost in memory, speechless for a long time, and said after a long time: "Although you and I are hostile, Cao still regards you as his first confidant , dare you have a drink with me?"

"Of course!" Sun Can could not refuse, and came to the desk, he knew that Cao Cao would not harm him now, because he had already lost, even if he killed himself now, he would not be able to make a comeback.Since it's useless, why bother.If you want to lose, you have to lose gracefully.

He picked up a cup of wine on the table, but was stopped by Cao Cao, "This is yours, this is mine."

Cao Cao moved another cup of wine in front of Sun Can, and took the cup from Sun Can's hand, "Damn, thank you for your trust, just let me help you once."

Cao Cao drank the wine in one gulp, Sun Can also drank the wine in one gulp, and strode out.He knew that Cao Cao would not be able to get up when he was drunk.

The moment Sun Can left the prime minister's mansion, the palace caught fire.The fire burned quickly, and when the fire was extinguished, Emperor Xian had already been burned to death, and along with Emperor Xian, there was also the "Han Clan Genealogy".

The world has been unified so far, because the "Han family genealogy" has been destroyed, and the Han family lineage cannot be verified. Among the known descendants of the Han family, no one has the talent to govern the world.

In the two years of the Han Dynasty, there was no emperor, and Sun Can handled all matters big and small.

Two years later, the world was in great order, and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment. Letters of Wanmin urging Sun Can to ascend the throne came from various states and counties.

Xun Yu, Guo Jia and other important officials knelt together with Sun Zhe’s hermitage for three days and three nights before the thatched hut, and the nearby people rushed to hear about it. Within three days, 60 volunteers gathered around Hulukou. Finally, Sun Zhe nodded in agreement, but There is a condition that the country name cannot be changed.Whether it is now or in the future, Sun Zhe will always be a Hanchen.

In the 20th year of Jian'an, Sun Can ascended the throne as emperor in Luoyang, known as "Xin Han" in history.

During Sun Can's reign, he was determined to forge ahead, worked hard, followed the example of his ancestors to govern the country with inaction, paying equal attention to civil and military affairs, using benevolent government internally, and exercising gentleness externally, preferential treatment, education, assimilation, and expanding the land thousands of miles. Huns, Qiang, Karasuma, etc. The country is all Han people.

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Conclusion:
I'm sorry, fellow book lovers, Tianhao has let everyone down. This book is indeed not as good as the previous one, but I would say that the energy of this book far surpasses the previous one.

The main reason is that Tianhao miscalculated and wrote the Three Kingdoms again.In this book, I have been trying my best to get rid of the shadow left by the previous book. As a result, the more I deliberately changed the article, the more I changed it. s level.

But anyone who is familiar with Tianhao knows that Tianhao really tried his best. In the last few months, I didn't even log on to QQ, just to save some time for writing.

But I haven't written it yet, sorry.

However, with this experience, I believe that the next book will definitely get better.For the sake of my book friends who have been silently supporting me, Tianhao will definitely continue to write.

(End of this chapter)