Cao Cao listened to Cheng Yu's words, endured the anger in his heart, and patted the letter on the case: "Well, if it weren't for Zhang Lu's usefulness, I would have killed him!" Zhang Wei also sent a letter, saying that after making preparations, he would go out of the camp and surrender! Let's wait to prepare, enter the Zhang Wei camp later, and tomorrow tomorrow, we will send troops to Nanzheng! ”

"No!" The generals will take the command.

Two hours later, Zhang Wei informed the soldiers and horses that they had been prepared and returned to Cao Cao.

Cao Cao did not doubt Zhang Wei's surrender, and led his troops into Zhang Wei's camp, and did not disarm his soldiers and horses, after all, with 20,000 troops, he was also an indispensable energy to deal with Liu Bei.

"Tomorrow the third watch will make dinner, the fifth watch will set off, the generals will rest early today, but the defense in the camp must not be slack, that's all, go down!" Cao Cao commanded a few words to the generals, waved his hand and ordered the generals to go down and rest.

Zhang Lu's brother Zhang Wei was also among them, and he retreated into the big tent and returned to his tent.

When Zhang Wei returned to the camp, he saw a person in the camp, and couldn't help but be surprised: "Zhang Bing, you are not in Nanzheng to serve your brother, why are you here!" ”

"Shh Zhang Bing hurriedly pulled Zhang Wei, came to the door and looked around, saw that there was no one around, then he was relieved, returned to the camp, and said to Zhang Wei: "I'm hurrying slowly, it's still a step late, the general will only arrive when he leads the troops to surrender, if only he arrived an hour early." ”

Zhang Wei was puzzled when he heard this, and asked, "What's wrong, what has changed?" ”

"After the lord sent someone to deliver the letter, he was coaxed by Yang Song, wanting to go out of the city to the north to surrender to Cao Gong, then Yang Song had already surrendered to Liu Bei, and secretly told Wei Yan to intercept and kill, now that the lord has been captured and surrendered to Liu Bei, he specially ordered me to come to deliver the letter and ask the general to be ......"

Zhang Bing said, took out the letter from his arms and handed it to Zhang Wei.

Zhang Wei took the letter, read it and said: "One will descend Cao, one will descend Liu, if my brother listens to me earlier, wouldn't it be good to surrender to Duke Liu?" Now it's ...... I've raised my troops to surrender now, and this shouldn't be easy to do. ”

It turned out that this Zhang Wei also supported Zhang Lu's surrender to Liu Bei.

In history, Zhang Lu wanted to surrender to Cao Cao, but Zhang Wei strongly opposed it.

The envoy Zhang Bing sighed and said: "Now that Nanzheng is in the hands of Liu Bei, and the general's wife is in Nanjun, this should be done, if you don't do it, you have to do it." ”

"Hmm!" Zhang Wei nodded and said: "This is natural, these days Cao Cao attacked my camp, and my soldiers and horses have suffered a lot of losses, if it wasn't for my brother's urgency, how would I surrender to Cao?" It's just that the letter said that if I want to lure Cao Cao into Baozhong, I will also enter the city at that time, and the fire will be together, how can I protect myself? ”

Zhang Bing smiled, took out another map from his arms, handed it to Zhang Wei and said: "General rest assured, Zhuge Kongming has already arranged, this is the topographic map of Baozhong, Zhuge Kongming has already instructed the generals before coming, and the places marked with red circles in the city have tunnels and water tanks, after the general enters the city, he can go to these places to take refuge, but he can be spared." ”

Zhang Wei took the map and said with a smile: "Okay, so I can rest assured!" You just follow me, Cao Cao is very strict with me, if you don't take advantage of my surrender to enter the camp, I'm afraid you won't be able to enter the camp. ”

"No!"

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The next day, Cao Cao led the army south to Nanzheng, leaving 3,000 soldiers and horses in the camp on this side of the Kei Valley to guard it, responsible for transporting grain, grass and baggage.

The soldiers and horses went all the way south, Cao Cao's 100,000 troops plus Zhang Wei's 20,000 people, there were many soldiers and horses, and the daily march was only thirty or forty miles, the speed was very slow, and it took five days to reach the boundary of Baozhong.

Cao Cao was in the middle of the army, resting in a large car, at this moment just after noon for more than an hour, only three o'clock in the future, Cao Cao ordered: "Okay, let's go here today, set up camp here, and leave tomorrow!" ”

This is the case with the march of the army, and it takes a lot of time for tens of thousands of people to set up camp, and when the camp is established, it will be evening.

And the speed of the march, not calculated at the fastest speed, but at the slowest speed, this is equivalent to the theory of a barrel, how much water can be held, depends on the shortest plank. For example, the slowest march is the baggage team, and how long Cao Cao's army can walk in a day depends on the marching speed of the baggage team.

If you abandon the baggage and march lightly, and rest at night without camping, the speed of the march of the army can be greatly increased.

Cao Cao gave the order, and the army stopped and prepared to set up camp.

Seeing this, Zhang Wei urged the horse to come to Cao Cao's side, and arched his hand: "Duke Wei, there is a city more than ten miles ahead, called Baozhong, the city is quite large, it can accommodate soldiers and horses, these days our marching speed is quite slow, it is better to go to Baozhong to rest, today you can travel ten miles more, you can also avoid the time to camp tomorrow, the army is in the city, you can also rest and recuperate." ”

"Hmm!" Cao Cao nodded when he heard this: "If you have a city, let's go into the city to rest, this marching speed is indeed too slow." ”

Zhang Wei arched his hand and said: "The last general will go and take care of you first!" Wei Gong, let's rest here first! ”

"Go ahead!" Cao Cao lay on the carriage and waved his hand, he was also old now, and the journey was tiring and quite tired.

However, Zhang Wei did not go alone, and there was no need for Cao Cao to say more, Cao Cao led a thousand armor soldiers to follow Zhang Wei.

This person is Han Hao, the protector of Cao Cao's command.

The Central Protector Army is equivalent to the general of the Central Army, Han Hao is Cao Cao's henchman, Xu Chu is Cao Cao's personal guard general, and Han Hao is Cao Cao's guard general.

One personal protection, one personal commander.

Han Hao is not very famous in history, but his status is above the five good generals, no less than Cao Ren, Xiahou Yuan and other generals.

In history, Cao Cao took Hanzhong, and the generals elected Han Hao to supervise Hanzhong and lead the generals, Cao Cao was reluctant to Han Hao, so he did not agree, so he left Xiahou Yuan to supervise Hanzhong. You must know that among these generals, there are Zhang He, Guo Huai and others, which shows their status and talent.

Zhang Wei and Han Hao arrived all the way to Baozhong, at this moment, Wei Yan and other generals had already arranged everything in the city two days ago, and there were soldiers and horses on the city, but they were already Shu soldiers.

"Who are you?" A Shu military captain at the head of the city saw Zhang Wei coming and shouted loudly.

"I am Zhang Wei is also, the one next to me is General Han of the Central Protector Army, Duke Wei will enter the city to rest later, and I will be specially ordered to take care of it!" Zhang Wei was afraid that the soldiers would be exposed, and he also introduced Han Hao beside him.

"In that case, I'll open the city!" As soon as the lieutenant heard this, he understood, and ordered the soldiers to open the city gates.

Han Hao took the lead in entering the city and looked at the situation in the city at the city gate.

I saw that in the city, there were still people on the streets, Han Hao's soldiers and horses entered the city, and those people suddenly returned home in a panic, and there was chaos on the street.

Seeing this, Han Hao breathed a sigh of relief and ordered to the soldiers: "Don't disturb the people!" ”

Zhang Wei was afraid that Han Hao would find something, so he followed him to the city and said to the captain: "Why don't you bring the general into the palace to prepare a residence for the Duke of Wei?" ”

"General, please!"

Han Hao nodded, and followed the soldiers to the mansion, Han Hao's main job in the city was to inspect the situation in the city, guard the mansion, and clear the unfavorable hazards for Cao Cao in advance.

As Han Hao entered the city, he said to the soldiers: "Patrol the city to see if there are any suspicious characters!" ”

"No!"

After Han Hao left, Zhang Wei hurriedly whispered to the captain: "What's the situation, have you arranged it properly!" ”

The lieutenant said in a low voice: "General Zhang, rest assured, before the generals came, the military division had already made careful arrangements, and there were soldiers and horses pretending to be ordinary people to avoid Cao Cao's suspicions, and all kinds of ignition equipment were well hidden.

The tall roof was covered with hay and oiled...... There is also fire oil on the wooden pillar, all in the hidden place in the city, unless Cao Jun investigates thoroughly, it will not be discovered, you just rest assured that the army and horses enter the city, and go to the place marked by the landlord to avoid the fire after nightfall. ”