Now Lao Cao is very entangled, entangled in whether to send troops to Hanzhong, or to leave troops to guard against Liaoxi. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info And on this issue, the group of strategists under Lao Cao's current command also said everything, but they made Lao Cao a little swaying. And for no reason, Lao Cao also sighed secretly in his heart.

Lao Cao had five major strategists in the early stage, namely Xun Yu, Xun You, Guo Jia, Cheng Yu, and Jia Xu. By the twentieth year of Jian'an, Guo Jia died of illness among the five strategists, Xun Yu and Xun You were dug into the corner by Lu Ren, and only Cheng Yu and Jia Xu were left by Lao Cao's side. It's just these two, Cheng Yu's personality is too strong and flamboyant, and Jia Xu is always a low-key and low-key and low-key, and many times it is not so easy to use. And on this issue, the opinions of these two people are just the opposite of their style of doing things, Cheng Yu said that he would leave troops to guard against Lu Ren, but Jia Xu said that he should not worry about Lu Ren, and he should seize Hanzhong as soon as possible.

I won't talk much about those messy arguments and analyses, anyway, Lao Cao's head is getting bigger and bigger. At this time, a letter sent by Sima Yibu made Lao Cao immediately make a decision - send troops to Hanzhong!

What kind of analysis did Sima Yi make? First of all, Sima Yi analyzed the geographical environment of the central Shu region and the western Liaoning region, which roughly means that the remote and bitter cold of western Liaoning, the degree of development in all aspects is very low, at that time, it was a barren wasteland, and there were many nomadic tribes, even if Lu Ren won a battle not long ago, but if he wants to gain a foothold and develop in western Liaoning and threaten Lao Cao's territory, it will take several years to develop and develop.

On the other hand, in Shuzhong, where the climate is good, the land is fertile, and the degree of development in all aspects is relatively high, it belongs to the land that can be used directly, once it is taken down by Liu Bei, Liu Bei will immediately be able to form a strong combat effectiveness, and the threat to Lao Cao will not be a little bit. That is to say, in terms of land use capacity, Shuzhong is higher than Liaoxi.

Then Sima Yi analyzed the relationship between Lu Ren and Lao Cao, as well as between Liu Bei and Lao Cao. Lu Ren and Lao Cao have always had a very close relationship in all aspects of politics, military, economy, culture, etc., and the most direct place is that Lu Ren has quite amazing business profits in Lao Cao's territory, which directly leads to Lu Ren is unlikely to turn against Lao Cao;

On the other hand, Liu Bei and Lao Cao are mortal enemies...... Hey, I don't need to say much about that. Anyway, from the perspective of diplomatic relations, Sima Yi's point of view is that it is definitely Liu Bei and not Lu Ren who need to be guarded against.

Well, in fact, these analyses made by Sima Yi have also been made by people in Lao Cao's camp, but Sima Yi was the assassin of Xuzhou in Xuzhou, and he belonged to the front-line figure in dealing with Lu Ren, and the sources of intelligence at hand were more extensive and sufficient, so when making the analysis, there were naturally more objective factors at hand, and the analysis was more careful, and the persuasive strength would of course be higher.

But what really made Lao Cao decide to attack Hanzhong was another urgent piece of information sent by Sima Yi:

"Liaodong Gongsun Yuan led 30,000 troops and is on his way to Chrysanthemum Port, and the battle of Chrysanthemum Port has to continue."

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The information Sima Yi obtained was correct, but it could not be regarded as absolutely accurate.

A more accurate situation should actually be that when Bu Dugen launched an attack on Chrysanthemum Harbor, Gongsun Yuan led his men and horses to join the battle as reinforcements and went together to deal with Lu Ren's Chrysanthemum Harbor in western Liaoning.

This was supposed to be a reasonable strategy, but it was a series of problems.

First of all, Budugen thinks that there are only about 10,000 defenders in Chrysanthemum Port, and there are more than 50,000 tribesmen and horses he has gathered, so he can easily take down Chrysanthemum Port, and then collect the rich materials in Chrysanthemum Port, all of which have become his Budugen's spoils, and there is no need to distribute them to Gongsun Yuan. So Bu Dugen didn't wait for Gongsun Yuan to come over, and launched an attack on Chrysanthemum Port in advance. Of course, the final battle did not go as smoothly as Budugen thought.

However, the offensive and defensive battle of Chrysanthemum Port lasted for two months, and Gongsun's territory in Liaodong was not too far from Chrysanthemum Port in western Liaoning, even if the road was not so easy to walk at that time, Gongsun Yuan only had to rush a little, and he could have rushed to Chrysanthemum Port in the middle of the first battle of Chrysanthemum Port to join Budugen.

At this time, the problem was that the main force of Gan Ning and Deng Ai sent by Lu Ren had already arrived at Jeju Island. To be honest, Jeju Island is still seven or eight hundred kilometers away from Lelang in Liaodong, that is, Dalian and Lushun in later generations, but for Yizhou's shipping capacity, the seven or eight hundred kilometers of sea journey is at most a matter of two or three days. In other words, Lu Ren's main force could attack the southernmost tip of the Liaodong Peninsula at any time.

Because of this, when the Liaodong side felt the threat of the troops from Lu Ren, how could they dare to let Gongsun Yuan bring tens of thousands of horses to Chrysanthemum Port? Therefore, Gongsun Yuan's troops stayed on the west side of Liaodong, probably close to the position of Shenyang, so that they could retreat at any time for defensive operations, and they could not take care of Budugen, who was attacking Chrysanthemum Port in western Liaoning.

Then the heavy snow fell in western Liaoning, and the road was blocked by heavy snow, and Gongsun Yuan couldn't get through it even if he thought about it, so he stayed in the previous position. The information obtained by Sima Yi's caravan in Liaodong was not very detailed, and the result of the analysis was that Gongsun Yuan wanted to fight Chrysanthemum Harbor, and it was very likely that he wanted to take advantage of the fact that the war in Chrysanthemum Harbor had just ended, and Tuoba Yu and the Xianbei tribe had not yet recovered after the loss of strength to pick up a big bargain.

It is not surprising that such a conclusion will be drawn, when there was a war in those years, there were too many things to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, and then to sit on the mountain to reap the benefits of the fishermen, and even Sima Yi thought that Gongsun Yuan wanted to reap the profits of the fishermen after analysis. And the fight between Gongsun Yuan and Lu Ren is not as simple as Bu Dugen's siege of Chrysanthemum Port, because this will mean that the war between Lu Ren and Liaodong is in full swing, and no one knows how long it will last.

Therefore, when Lao Cao received the news, he immediately made the decision to send troops to Hanzhong. As for Lu Ren and Liaodong, Lao Cao will still adopt a method of persuading on the surface, but secretly lighting the fire.

I won't talk much about this, just say that at this moment, on a certain piece of sea, although the sea breeze in the early spring in the north is still bitter, there is a young general standing proudly on the bow of the ship, observing the situation on the shore through a telescope. After a long time, the young general snorted for no reason and said in a low voice:

"Lu Lingqi? As a man's husband, how can I, Deng Ai, be inferior to you!? ”

But all people will always have a conceit and arrogance in their hearts, but there will be differences in how to show this conceit and arrogance. Some people are proud, some are secretly proud, and then there will be a difference in the degree of arrogance and conceit. Of course, there are also people who are not proud. But to be honest, the people who are not proud in this world are basically infinitely close to zero, because people who have no conceit and arrogance are basically "walking dead" whose hearts have died......

Let's take an example like this. In the life of modern society, many grassroots civilians have to swallow their anger in front of their bosses or bosses in order to survive, but this does not mean that they are the so-called "suffer". Once it exceeds a certain limit of bearing, it is not uncommon to fire the boss in anger, which is actually the conceit and arrogance in people's hearts, but in order to survive, people have to forcibly suppress this conceit and arrogance.

And then what? Don't you see that in many online games, there are as many "trumpet battles" as many as stars in the sky just because of a little thing? This is because there is no responsibility in the virtual society of the Internet, and there are no worries and psychological burdens, so it has become a big stage for everyone to vent their depression without any worries?

Pull it off, pull it back. There were many arrogant people in the Three Kingdoms era at the end of the Han Dynasty, and the representative figure of Ming Ao was naturally the second brother Guan Gong, who first recommended us, and as soon as the arrogance came up, almost no one could suppress him; The next ones such as Zhou Yu and Wei Yan are also well-known to everyone, but Zhou Yu met the destined nemesis Brother Pig, and Wei Yan was still alive when Liu Bei and Brother Pig were still alive...... Proud is proud, but don't dare to be excessive. And after Brother Pig's death, it is better to say that Wei Yan wants to rebel, but it is better to say that Wei Yan is driven by his conceit and arrogance, and wants to prove to everyone that he is actually better than others.

After Ming Ao finished speaking, he was naturally secretly arrogant, and the arrogant character should push Sima Yi. Sima Yi's ability to forbear is absolutely super-first-class in the Three Kingdoms, and under normal circumstances, he would hardly show anything in front of people, if it weren't for the fact that he firmly held the power of Cao Wei after Brother Zhu's death, and then came to a few "bold words" when he conquered Liaodong and passed through his hometown......

It seems that I don't know where to go, the person we want to talk about here is Deng Ai. Deng Aima, speaking of which, also belongs to a character as arrogant as Sima Yi...... It can also be understood as sullen. In short, Deng Ai rarely shows any arrogance in front of people, but Deng Ai's arrogance is deeply engraved in his bones. Like according to the original history, Deng Ai was just a small official in charge of some chores when he first appeared in Cao Wei when he was a teenager, but Deng Ai was able to manage quite well, which attracted the attention of others, and then was promoted by Sima Yi because of his outstanding military talent.

Of course, the current Deng Ai is from Yizhou. Born in poverty, he was unexpectedly discovered by Lu Ren, and then deliberately taught and promoted, and then ......

How so? Perhaps it should be said that Deng Ai's goal is to "find an opportunity to prove himself, and then justifiably stand out", and Yizhou in Lu Ren's palm is actually very suitable for Deng Ai's idea. This time Deng Ai came to the north, it was a great opportunity for Deng Ai, wanting to prove to everyone that he had real talent and hard work, not simply relying on Lu Ren's master-apprentice relationship.

Just take a closer look at Lu Ren's Northern Legion, but it is not difficult to find that Deng Ai is actually in a very awkward position.

In Lu Ren's Northern Legion, Deng Ai is undoubtedly in the class of a high-level general, but the question is who are the generals of the Northern Legion? Gan Ning, Zhang Xiu, Zhao Yu, and Lu Lingqi are all old qualifications in Lu Ren's hands, and neither qualifications nor ability can be compared to Deng Ai at this time.

Another example is Murong Ziying and Tuoba Yu, in terms of qualifications, they may not be as good as Deng Ai, but you have to think about the fame and lineage of these two goods among the Xianbei tribe in the western Liaoning region, this is not something that Deng Ai can compare, at least in many places, they have done things that Deng Ai can't do.

All in all, Deng Ai is undoubtedly the last among the high-level generals of the Northern Army, and he is basically equivalent to a deputy general with a relatively high status. To put it mildly, Deng Ai has the share of defending the city or something, and the things of rushing into battle to kill the enemy and making meritorious contributions are basically not Deng Ai's share...... At least that's what Deng Ai himself thinks.

Of course, although Deng Ai was a little unwilling to do this, he was just unwilling. Because Deng Ai knows very well that with his current qualifications and identity, it is relatively rare to become a high-level general of Lu Ren's Northern Army and guard the city. If you want to change to other candidates, you don't have enough qualifications or background or something, with Deng Ai's current benchmark, it's great to be a partial general or something, you have your share in running errands, but the big job of earning merit is basically no fun.

In this regard, Deng Ai originally had no opinion, but coincidentally, Lu Lingqi and Zhao Yu's previous battle in Chrysanthemum Port really stimulated Deng Ai.

In terms of identity, Lu Lingqi's identity is relatively special, and Lu Ren cannot escape the suspicion of "nepotism". However, in that era, it was common for the younger generations to follow the elders or something, and people with no background like Deng Ai couldn't complain about anything, but the key problem was...... Lu Lingqi is a woman!

Feudal society was originally male superiority and inferiority to women, although Yizhou under Lu Ren's rule said that due to Lu Ren's long-term "poisoning", coupled with some chaotic factors, its social atmosphere is relatively close to "equality between men and women", and the psychological superiority of men in the face of women is actually only not as exaggerated as elsewhere. For people like Deng Ai, who "immigrated" to Yizhou halfway, on this kind of issue, it is not so much "regarded as equal" to women, but rather a kind of appreciation with a bit of "gender superiority".

This time Deng Ai came to the north, in terms of his position identity, he is actually a cut higher than Lu Lingqi, after all, the current Deng Ai is the chief general of the army corps fighting in Liaodong, and Lu Lingqi is only the chief general guarding Chrysanthemum Port, but because Lu Lingqi and Lu Ren have a "kinship" relationship, the gap in this position is basically flattened. And then together with the reason why Deng Ai knew that he was not ranked among the high-level generals, Deng Ai had always regarded Lu Lingqi as a competitor. In addition, due to the mentality of "gender superiority", Deng Ai more or less looks down on Lu Lingqi.

But it was this Lu Lingqi, who was more or less despised by Deng Ai, but she beautifully leveled Budugen's 50,000 army, and incorporated nearly 40,000 Xianbei tribes, Deng Ai When he heard the news, although he didn't show anything on his face, the shock in his heart was really a few points heavier than anyone else.

Deng Ai changed his disdain for Lu Lingqi in his heart, and naturally had a little more respect for Lu Lingqi. But it is precisely because of his respect that in turn stimulates Deng Ai's conceit and arrogance. You must know that Deng Ai has always thought that he is definitely no worse than Lu Lingqi, so what Lu Lingqi can do, he Deng Ai can also do, and he will definitely do better than Lu Lingqi, all he lacks is an opportunity.

Young people are often vigorous, and their arrogance and conceit are also very strong. If Deng Ai at this time is Deng Ai, who has fought with Jiang Wei many times after ten or twenty years and has become old, maybe it will not be so uncomfortable, but the problem is that Deng Ai at this time is only in his twenties, and it is the youngest and most vigorous time, and the strength of the desperate strength in his bones is probably not something that others can understand.

In addition, putting aside Deng Ai's selfishness of wanting to make a name for himself, Deng Ai has another idea - to fight? It's better for women to hide behind our men's backs! A man's husband, if he wants a woman to go into battle and fight hard, then what kind of man is he meowing!?

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It was about ten o'clock in the evening when Deng Ai received the news of the scout's return from the scouts, and in less than three hours after Deng Ai gave the order to march at full speed, the fleet arrived at the predetermined landing site, and it was about four or five o'clock in the morning when the sky was dark.

Of course, this is only Deng Ai's main force. As a general with great military talent, Deng Ai would not be stupid to make some low-level mistakes. Before the main fleet docked, Deng Ai had already sent light boats and scouts to reconnoitre. When the main fleet was about to land, Deng Ai also received a return from the scouts.

Xisai Mountain Road, is a throat road between Youzhou and Liaodong, although not as dangerous and exaggerated as the plank road in Shuzhong, but the significance of its main road is undoubted. Deng Ai, as one of the people who participated in the conspiracy between Chen Gong and Xun You in Liaodong, sent people to explore the terrain of Xisai Mountain very early, and also knew that Gongsun Yuan had built a walled city on the mountain road of Xisai Mountain. Now since he wants to intercept Gongsun Yuan, whether he can capture this walled city in time is the key.

Of course, Deng Aike wasn't stupid enough to attack the walled city from the front. The Yizhou Legion has an advantage at sea, and if you don't take advantage of it, you will be the stupid of the fools. Therefore, the landing site chosen by Deng Ai was at the rear of the walled city, and the news that the scouts had come back made Deng Ai even more ecstatic at this moment:

"What? There are only more than a thousand defenders in the walled city, and they are all lazy and careless? ”

Of course, Deng Aike wasn't stupid enough to attack the walled city from the front. The Yizhou Legion has an advantage at sea, and if you don't take advantage of it, you will be the stupid of the fools. Therefore, the landing site chosen by Deng Ai was at the rear of the walled city, and the news that the scouts had come back made Deng Ai even more ecstatic at this moment:

"What? There are only more than a thousand defenders in the walled city, and they are all lazy and careless? (To be continued.) )