If it was according to the original historical process, Lao Cao would have completely completed Zhang Lu in Hanzhong in November of the twentieth year of Jian'an, and then returned to the army in December. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The current situation is almost the same as the original process in terms of time, at most it is only a few months late. But whether it is Lao Cao in the original process or Lao Cao in the current situation, they are all sighing at Shu.

"Vested Long, looking back at Shuhu?"

This is what Lao Cao said in the historical records. And Lao Cao doesn't want to take Shuzhong? Definitely not! It's not that Lao Cao doesn't want to attack Shuzhong, and the timing was so good at that time, it is strange that Lao Cao's character would not want to take the opportunity to capture Shu. The main reason that really forced Lao Cao to give up attacking Shuzhong while Liu Bei's foothold in Shuzhong was that Lao Cao's base camp was very unstable, so that Lao Cao had to give up such a good fighter and hurriedly return to Yecheng to engage in political struggle.

This was the case when Jian'an captured Hanzhong in the twentieth year, and the same was true for the Hanzhong battle in the twenty-fourth year of Jian'an. But now, there is one more thing that makes Lao Cao a big headache and he is often nervous, that is, Liaodong has basically fallen into the hands of Lu Ren.

If in the original history, Lao Cao could grit his teeth again when he captured Hanzhong and the soldiers could be pointed directly at Shuzhong, and temporarily ignore the political struggle in the rear, then the current Lao Cao had to lead his troops back to Hebei as soon as possible. Not for anything else, the reason is that Lu Ren, who occupies the entire western and eastern Liaoning, can pose too much threat to Hebei and Lao Cao's base camp, so big that Lao Cao must bring the main army back to Hebei and redeploy all the defensive lines.

Anyone who understands military affairs, or who is more familiar with the history of this area, should know that the military bloc that occupies the Liangliao region is a huge threat to the North China Plain region headed by the river. It is true that there is also a Shanhaiguan front in the northeast of Hebei that can contain attacks from the direction of Liangliao, so the Shanhaiguan line has always been an important town among the ancient military towns in China, and the Shanhaiguan line is now in the hands of Lao Cao.

But at this time, I have to think of another thing, that is, Lu Ren's gray and strong sea ability during this period. If it is according to the general mode of war, it is very inconvenient to attack the first line of Shanhaiguan from the direction of Liangliao, but if Lu Ren really wants to make any moves, with his own maritime capabilities, he can completely skip the first line of Shanhaiguan and not fight, and instead send troops to land on the Jiaodong Peninsula or Xuzhou area, and go directly to the back of Shanhaiguan. In other words, the deployment of those war patterns, strategies or tactics at that time was probably of little practical significance to Lu Ren.

These are on the military level, and on the political level...... It's time for Lao Cao to have a headache again. Why? The reason is that Lu Ren arranged to send Gongsun Yuan to Xu Du, and the news also reached Lao Cao at this time. Lao Cao is an excellent politician, and when he put a few key figures, such as Xun Yu, and certain things together, he naturally immediately understood Lu Ren's intention to play such a hand. If a few words are forced to be at this time, it can be understood that Lao Cao seems to see Lu Ren saying to himself:

"Lao Cao, you can take it easy! There are some things that you can do in moderation! If you really dare to go to a certain step, then I am ready to make a move on you Lao Cao! ”

All in all, Lao Cao has a very, very headache at this time. Originally, according to Lao Cao's plan, he took Hanzhong this time, and he was ready to return to the army and take advantage of this military exploit to ascend to the throne, but in the original history, Lao Cao promoted the duke to the prince after taking Hanzhong and returning to the army. But now that Lu Ren has inserted such a lever in, Lao Cao has to think carefully about the matter of ascending to the throne.

In addition, there is something to mention, that is, Lao Cao knew that Lu Ren would definitely make a move on Liaodong, but he never thought that Lu Ren would take Liaodong down so quickly. Of course, this has a lot to do with Lao Cao's historical limitations. To be precise, under the war mode at that time, Lao Cao extrapolated the time it would take for Lu Ren to take Liaodong out of common sense, and the result was that Lao Cao thought that when he finished fighting Hanzhong and returned to Hebei, Lu Ren should still be entangled with Gongsun Yuan.

After all, in the eyes of common sense at that time, the place in Liaodong was far away and difficult to fight, and if you really want to drive the troops over, you are afraid that you will not be able to achieve any results after a year and a half. Like Sima Yi killed Zhuge Liang in the later period of the Three Kingdoms, the next analysis of the use of troops in Liaodong was "go to 100 days, return to 100 days, fight for 100 days, rest for 60 days, so one year is enough". And Sima Yi's military ability may not be worse than Lao Cao, right? Therefore, Sima Yi's time estimation of the Liaodong issue can also be roughly cited as Lao Cao's estimation of the time of the war on the Liaodong side. If you want to make it clearer, it is roughly that Lao Cao thinks that Lu Ren will take Liaodong for more than half a year from the time of the official war with Liaodong.

Lao Cao also has ideas about the Liangliao region, so Lao Cao also made such a judgment, that is, if he didn't leave the Hebei region with his troops, Lu Ren would probably not have the courage to make a move against Liaodong...... But don't say it, Lu Ren was really Lao Cao at that time, if he didn't lead troops to fight Hanzhong, Lu Ren didn't dare to make a move against Liaodong, so he had been playing a diplomatic cannon with Emperor Liu Xie, and then Lao Cao gave birth to something that was not an illusion, but an illusion. Anyway, Lao Cao was relieved to lead the troops to fight Hanzhong.

And Lao Cao's idea at this time was that when he finished fighting Hanzhong and led his troops back to Hebei, Lu Ren and Gongsun Yuan should still be fighting fiercely on the territory of Liaodong, and it is very likely that both sides have been exhausted, so Lao Cao can easily take the soldiers over and reap the benefits of the fisherman. At the very least, he can also act as a peacemaker in the middle of the two sides, and then reap the benefits.

But what about the actual situation? Here I want to make it clear again that the "Namba Boat" incident arranged by Lu Ren was in the autumn of the nineteenth year of Jian'an, August/September, and then Lu Ren was deliberately engaged in the east and west, and the time dragged on to the spring and summer communication of the twenty years of Jian'an.

Originally, Lu Ren was planning to launch an attack on Liaodong after the Dragon Boat Festival and avoid fighting in the cold winter season of Liaodong as much as possible, but due to the unexpected appearance of "him", Lu Ren was delayed for more than three months, so Lu Ren's real war against Liaodong was already September of the 20th year of Jian'an.

Although it was because of the accident that Lu Ren was delayed for three months, the delay of these three months also strengthened Lao Cao's confidence that he could rush back to Hebei in time to wait for the fisherman's profit. But the final result was that it only took about three months for Lu Ren to take down the entire Liaodong. And such a result is really too unexpected for Lao Cao. Lao Cao is a human being, not a god, he really killed Lao Cao, and Lao Cao couldn't imagine that Lu Ren would be able to take Liaodong in only three months.

So is it Lu Ren who uses soldiers like a god? Definitely not. In fact, Lu Ren himself knew very well that his military ability was actually very insufficient, and Lu Ren had a plug-in and had a bottom on some things, so in the face of the actual situation that he had been delayed for three months here, Lu Ren also had to use the backup plan for winter operations.

It can only be said that Lu Ren's ability to have such results has a lot to do with the fact that Lu Ren played so many tricks in the early stage and made unusually sufficient preparations. It is precisely because of the corresponding preparations that Lu Ren's attack on Liaodong is like an electromagnetic cannon that has accumulated enough energy, and then there is a "one-shot KO".

Let's talk about these situations here, let's just say that Lao Cao is rubbing his head at this moment, absentmindedly listening to the suggestions of the staff on the next battle situation. And at this moment, although Liu Ye is gone, Sima Yi is still in Xuzhou in front of the assassin history, and he did not suggest that Lao Cao should seize the opportunity to attack Shu as in Hanzhong as the original historical process, lest Liu Bei get a breather and become stronger and bigger in Shu, but there are still many people with insight who are suggesting that Lao Cao should attack Shuzhong at this time. It's just that how can they understand Lao Cao's worries about the interior and exterior of his base camp at this time?

The messy arguments outside made Lao Cao's head more and more headaches, and finally simply waved his hand to signal the staff to dismiss the meeting, and Lao Cao himself ran to the porch to blow the cold wind of December to slow down his brain.

Some people like to listen to some beautiful and soothing music to soothe their mood when they are upset, and Lao Cao is such a person. At this time, it's a little inconvenient to find the musician band or something, but this is not a problem, because in Zhang Lu's collection, which is now Lao Cao's trophies, there is a gramophone produced in Yizhou. It's just that compared to the ones that Lu Ren gave to Lao Cao, Zhang Lu's collection is a bit insufficient, after all, what Lu Ren gave to Lao Cao is a limited edition, but Zhang Lu's collection is only a public version.

Of course, this does not affect the quality of the music played on the record. But after seeing Lao Cao's entourage putting on a record, Lao Cao shook his head and said that he didn't want to listen to the current song, and then he looked for it in the record box carried by his entourage and turned out Lu Lan's "Wish". By the way, this song "Wish" is Lu Lan's classic track, and the general meaning is just like modern people will think of "Flower Heart" and "Friends" when they mention Zhou Huajian, and "Nunchuck" when they mention Jay Chou.

In the beautiful and lyrical singing, Lao Cao's boredom has subsided a little. When the song was played, Lao Cao also remembered that Jiang Ji in Hefei had a letter before, but because the war in Hanzhong was not going well at that time, what Jiang Ji's letter said was not about the war situation, but about some conventional political news, and Lao Cao threw it aside first. And at this time, I suddenly remembered, but I also remembered that Jiang Ji mentioned in his letter that he sneaked to Jianye and watched Lu Lan's concert to bid farewell to Jiangdong at that time.

Now that the war in Hanzhong has been decided, Lao Cao is idle, and listening to the song here made Lao Cao suddenly think of Xiao Lulan, so he asked his entourage to find Jiang Ji's letter and take a closer look. And after seeing it, Lao Cao's brows were twisted, and his expression became very strange.

As mentioned earlier, Sun Quan decided to hold such a big concert at that time, in addition to acting for Lao Cao to show Lao Cao and let Lao Cao know that Sun Quan and Lu Ren were very harmonious, there was also another layer of intention to demonstrate and shout to Lao Cao at the cultural level. And this intention of the latter, where can the literati on Lao Cao's side not see it? If it is explained that the war of swords and guns is fought for whose fists are hard, then this matter is to fight for who has more face and who wants more scenery.

I have to say that Lao Cao's face was really beaten by Sun Quan this time. How light is it? According to Jiang Ji's statement in this letter, the literati in Jiangbei felt that their faces were gloomy, and they were all ashamed of why there was no such cultural festival on their side. Literati, it doesn't matter if they are poor, because "a gentleman is poor, but he is happy to be poor", but this kind of thing that was slapped in the face at the cultural level really made them a little unbearable. It's like saying that if you are a reader, and one side says that you have not read a certain classic, but the other side says that you have not read it, you will naturally be despised by the other party.

Lao Cao is also a person who attaches great importance to things at the cultural level, first of all, Lao Cao himself is a poet and writer, and for Lao Cao, doing a good job in his own cultural level will also help Lao Cao's rule and related talent training. With these factors, now that Sun Quan has slapped him in the face at the cultural level, how can Lao Cao's face be better? So some of the boredom had just faded before, and suddenly it returned to Lao Cao's body.

"Why is my father so worried?"

Lao Cao Ying went over and saw that it was his baby son Cao Chong who came over with a bowl of hot soup. Originally, Cao Chong stayed in Yecheng to train the football team, but a few months ago he was called to Hanzhong by Lao Cao because of some things, which means that Cao Chong, who is almost 20 years old this year, will also follow the army to experience it, and after the spring of the next year, he will give Cao Chong an official crown salute, so Cao Chong will follow Lao Cao's side at this time.

Cao Chong Cao Cangshu is Lao Cao's favorite son, and even intends to let Cao Chong take over his class, which is one of the main reasons why Lao Cao will deliberately call Cao Chong to his side to join the army, because in that era, it was better to establish prestige with the army. And Lao Cao was feeling bored at this time, seeing that his favorite son was so filial to bring hot soup to himself, the frown that was tightly locked under the warmth of his heart also stretched out slightly, moved his body and patted the vacant couch again, and said with a smile: "Chong'er, come here to sit." ”

Cao Chong did as he said, first waiting for Lao Cao to drink a few sips of hot soup, and then asked, "Why did my father lock his eyebrows just now?" ”

Lao Cao didn't say anything, just handed Jiang Ji's letter to Cao Chong. With Cao Chong's cleverness, where can he not understand the twists and turns in this? So after reading it, Cao Chong couldn't help frowning, and sighed lightly: "Sun Quan is also too deceitful!" Is there no one in the land north of the river who deceived me? ”

Lao Cao moved his lips, originally wanted to say something or something, but in the end he couldn't say it. This kind of thing of tearing each other apart and slapping each other in the face at the cultural level is, of course, to pay tribute to each other in a culturally important way. Although there are definitely a lot of literati and well-known scholars under Lao Cao, this cultural festival organized by Sun Quan really makes Lao Cao not know how to slap Sun Quan's face back.

A poetry contest or something? Not fresh enough! Moreover, the poetry contest is easy to be copied by the other party, the second seems to have no impact on the ordinary people, and the third is ...... People are playing music and rhythm festivals, but you are here to engage in poetry and lyrics that ordinary people can't be interested in, it seems that the lips of the cow can't match the horse's mouth, right?

Among them, there is also a very important one, that is, Lao Cao can't get a big name like Lu Lan here. In fact, Sun Quan doesn't have a big name to support the scene, but Sun Quan can borrow a big name from Lu Ren, and the meaning is a little different. This is like saying that Lao Cao and Sun Quan, two big companies, want to shoot commercials to attract attention, although Lao Cao's strength does not have a wrist, although Sun Quan can invite a wrist to shoot, so the audience generally chooses to watch which side of the East?

As for the fact that Lao Cao can cultivate a wrist by himself...... I'm sorry, no matter how eloquent your old Cao is, he is really not Lu Ren's opponent in this kind of thing, and it is impossible for him to have the vision and insight in this area like Lu Ren. To put it mildly, if you don't know that the wrist hasn't been cultivated yet, your old Cao can't help but sleep with the wrist that is going to be cultivated first, and not only sleep, but also be included in the harem easily. Let this wrist come to the forefront, pick another one, and then do this cycle again.

Another one, Lu Lan is already famous at this time, and Lu Lan's name is known all over China, doesn't this even Zhang Lu have a gramophone and Lu Lan's records in his hands? Lu Lan's name has reached this level, even if Lao Cao is now determined to cultivate a wrist that can match it, and he doesn't have a few years of hard work to operate carefully and successfully hold it, how can he compete with Lu Lan?

Therefore, if you want Lao Cao to take out a wrist like Lu Lan, and let this wrist go to the corresponding cultural ceremony, it is unrealistic and impossible. And at this time, being slapped in the face by Sun Quan for such a time, Lao Cao also felt powerless to fight back, so he could only be depressed here.

How smart is Cao Chong? So at this time, I more or less understood some of Lao Cao's thoughts, but it didn't seem realistic to want Cao Chong to come up with some good ideas. And Cao Chong thought about it very carefully for a while, and suddenly said tentatively to Lao Cao: "Father, why don't we also invite Miss Lan to Wei Realm for a tour, although it can't overshadow Sun Quan's limelight, but at least it can earn back some face, but I don't know what my father wants?" ”

Lao Cao was stunned, but immediately shook his head with a wry smile......