Cao Cao asked Hu Zhao: "Kong Ming, the target of this battle is the Xichuan coalition army!" What are your plans? ”

Hu Zhao smiled, and then explained the plan and the plan in his belly.

Cao Cao laughed, "Okay! If this plan can be successfully implemented, it will not only be able to completely annihilate the Xichuan coalition army, but also attack Shuzhong! ”

Dian Wei and Xu Chu on the side glanced at each other, and whispered together with deep feelings: "It's really treacherous!" ”

When Hu Zhao heard this, he could only smile helplessly and shake his head.

Tai Shi Ci on the side clenched his fists and asked, "Your Majesty, has the army already arrived here?" ”

Cao Cao smiled: "How can it be so fast!" 50,000 cavalry arrived here on horseback, and the large army would not arrive until two days later. Speaking of this, Cao Cao remembered something and asked Hu Zhaodao: "Kong Ming, should you send Meng Qi and them a flying pigeon biography?" ”

Hu Zhao nodded and said, "It should be so!" He ordered 50,000 officers and men of the Fifth Army to continue marching this way, creating a momentum of hundreds of thousands of troops with great fanfare, and ordered the First and Second Army Corps to stop at Xiaoling and act according to the plan! ”

Cao Cao nodded and said to Hu Zhao: "Then there is Lao Kongming, you draft the order!" ”

Hu Zhao saluted and said: "Weichen obeys!" ”

Immediately sat down in front of a low table on the left side of the sand table, lifted the wolf and spread out the rice paper, and wrote a paper order with a brush, Hu Zhao stood up and presented the written order with both hands: "Your Majesty!" ”

Cao Cao took the order, read it carefully, took out a seal from his bosom and stamped it at the bottom right of the order.

"Someone!" Cao Cao raised his voice, and a herald immediately lifted the curtain and entered, and bowed: "Your Majesty." What to expect? ”

Cao Cao handed the order to the herald and said, "Give this to General Ma Chao immediately!" ”

"Yes!" The herald took the order with both hands. Exited the big tent.

Cao Cao turned around and saw Xu Chu and Tai Shici discussing something in front of the sand table. So he walked up: "Zhongkang, Ziyi, what are you two talking about?" ”

Tai Shici and Xu Chu stopped discussing, clasped their fists together and said, "Your Majesty! ”

Cao Cao nodded, stood in front of the sand table and looked at the sand table in front of him, which reflected the topography of Yizhou, Jingzhou, and Jiaozhou, and asked, "What were you talking about just now?"

Tai Shi Ci said: "The last general told General Xu that this sand table is really exquisite!" ”

Cao Cao laughed: "If it's not more refined, then it's better to use a map, why waste time and effort to make this sand table!" ”

Cao Cao's words made everyone present nod in deep understanding.

Cao Cao said: "The Ministry of Industry is rushing to produce sand tables that reflect the topography of various places, and strive to popularize this combined sand table to all major armies in the future!" ”

Cao Cao paused suddenly, looked at Tai Shici, Dian Wei, Xu Chu and other generals and said: "The Ministry of Industry is still rushing to control the sand table in the Western Regions and even the west of the Western Regions!" ”

Tai Shici, Dian Wei, and Xu Chu were bright-eyed. Dian Wei patted his chest excitedly, opening up territory or something, it is simply the favorite of military generals in this era.

"Your Majesty, do you plan to march west in the future?" Hu Zhao, who had just been loyal to Great Wei for a short time, asked in some surprise when he heard this.

Hu Zhaocai entered Cao Cao's Great Wei circle, so he was not very clear about some of Cao Cao's long-term strategies.

Cao Cao nodded and said, "Kong Ming, since you have become an important minister of my Great Wei, then you should also know the future strategy of my Great Wei!" Not bad. I do intend to march west at the right time after I have conquered the world! I hope to create an immortal cause in my lifetime that no one has ever done before! ”

To Cao Cao's surprise, Hu Zhao did not object at the beginning like the others, and he showed a thoughtful expression.

Cao Cao did not disturb him, but sat down on the main seat. After sipping tea, Xu Chu, Tai Shici, and Dian Wei were lying on the sand table discussing the strategy of attacking and retreating.

After a moment, Hu Zhao raised his head. Cao Cao put down the tea bowl and said with a smile: "I believe that Mr. Kong Ming must have figured it out!" ”

Hu Zhao nodded. He said thoughtfully: "Your Majesty's strategy is to attack instead of defend, and you want to take advantage of the strength of my Central Plains to cut off all possible threats!" Follow the example of harvesting grasslands for the mainland. I don't know if what Weichen said is right? ”

Cao Cao's eyes lit up, and he smiled: "Kong Ming, who knows me!" However, I have another purpose in doing this, which is to gather the wealth of the world in China, and only in this way can I maintain the strength of my China for a longer period of time! ”

Hu Zhao nodded thoughtfully, smiled slightly, and asked, "Isn't Your Majesty worried that the scholars and literati will criticize Your Majesty for being reckless and silent?" The scholars and doctors will surely say that although the kingdom is great and warlike, it will perish! ”

Cao Cao smiled disdainfully: "How can the swallow bird know the ambition of the magpie, how can the shrimp and crab have the anger of the dragon!" At this moment, Cao Cao's body exuded a kind of momentum that people looked up to, the kind of momentum that thousands of people were looking forward to, so that Hu Zhao couldn't help but have an urge to bow.

Cao Cao said to Hu Zhao: "Although the emperors of the past went on the expedition, they cared too much about the so-called benevolence and righteousness, so that although they won, they spent a lot of money to make ends meet!" It's worth the loss! I will never repeat the mistakes of the past in the future! ”

Of course, Cao Cao, who said this, did not see Hu Zhao's somewhat unnatural look, to be honest, in China in the classical period, before the Tang Dynasty, although there was benevolence and righteousness, but it was just a fig leaf taken out by the emperors and officials at that time, just like the Westerners in later generations accumulated similar wealth, and after entering the civilized world, they took out human rights to cover it, and they were not so red. Bare. It's naked.

Before the Jin Dynasty, whether it was the Han Dynasty for more than 400 years, or the Qin Dynasty, which collapsed after only a decade of unification of the world, the political systems of these two countries, except for the abnormal development of the late Eastern Han Dynasty, were actually classical militarism, and the emperors who appeared under such a political system could not talk about benevolence and righteousness.

If this is really the case, there will be no countries in the Western Regions that will destroy their countries and their clans because they can't help the Han Dynasty a little, and there will be no Qin Tianxia who has just pacified, and immediately dispatched troops from the north and south to conquer those barren places at that time.

The Han people really emphasize benevolence and righteousness to throw aside the interests of the country, in fact, after the Song Dynasty, although the Song Dynasty is not willing to use force, it can be said that the degree of wealth is the richest among all dynasties, the Song Dynasty's military strength is not only the most in all dynasties, but also the best equipment, and even spare money to support those criminals, not only that, in addition to the huge army, the Song Dynasty also has a huge fleet, and the sea dynasty at that time in the society can be said to be shocking to the world!

Not only that, but the two states of Liao and Jin were completely corrupted by the Song Dynasty's uninterrupted silver offensive for hundreds of years, and were eventually replaced by their successors. (To be continued......)