Liu Gui hurriedly replied: "The general doesn't have to be polite!" ”

Immediately took out a silk silk from his arms, presented it to Yan Yan with both hands, Yan Yan took the silk silk, and looked at Liu Gui with a slight surprise, Liu Gui hugged his fists and said: "General, this is Your Majesty's order, take a look!" ”

Yan Yan nodded, and opened the silk silk with some trepidation, only to see that it was written that Yan Yan was the governor of the three armies, and the governor of Baima Pass had all military affairs! The officers and men of the three armed forces must follow their orders!

Seeing this order, Yan Yan's eyes immediately turned red, and he said excitedly: "Your Majesty treats the guilty general so leniently, the guilty general can only be repaid with death!" ”

Yan Yan put away Liu Zhang's order, stepped to the main seat and sat down, Liu Gui, Leng Bao and other generals were lined up on the left and right, Yan Yan asked Liu Gui: "General Liu, how many reinforcements have you brought?" ”

Liu Gui replied: "On the orders of His Majesty, the last general brought all the troops of Wuyang, Jialing, Zhuti, Jiangyang and Ba County, with a total strength of about 40,000 people!" ”

"Who is responsible for the logistics?" Yan Yan asked again.

"Your Majesty has ordered Fa Zheng to be the grain officer, and he is fully responsible for the grain and grass of the army!"

Yan Yan showed a look of surprise, "Your Majesty made Fa Zheng the grain official?" ”

Liu Gui nodded: "General, is there anything wrong with this?" ”

Yan Yan shook his head: "This is not!" It's just that Fa Zheng is the most important minister around His Majesty, forget it, I think Your Majesty attaches too much importance to Baima Pass! ”

Yan Yan raised his head and said to Leng Bao: "Immediately arrange a place for the army to be stationed!" ”

"Yes!" Leng Bud clenched his fists in response.

At about the same time as Yan Yan was talking to the others, Fa Zheng was sighing, just because Liu Zhang didn't listen to his advice. Instead, he was sent out to supervise the transportation of grain and grass.

On the night when Cao Ren and Tai Shici arrived at Baima Pass, Cao Cao received Cao Ren's flying pigeon message. At this moment, Cao Cao had returned to Jingzhou. Ma Chao, Dian Wei and other generals also returned to Jingzhou with Cao Cao, the main force of the Second Army of the Wei Army of about 30,000 people and a part of the Fifth Army of 20,000 remained in Chaisang County, the Third Army continued to camp in the Chibi camp, the other part of the Fifth Army retreated to Jingzhou, and the Wei army under the White Horse Pass was the First Army and the Second Army of more than 100,000 people.

It should be noted here that although the number of soldiers in each army is the same as before the war, many of the soldiers have been replaced by the Wu army and the Jingzhou army, and in this continuous months of war, all units of the Wei army have been reduced to varying degrees. Therefore, Cao Cao selected the strong from the army of Wu and Jingzhou to supplement the army.

Cao Cao frowned and said, "As Kong Ming expected!" Liu Zhang's reinforcements arrived at Baima Pass before Zixiao and Ziyi! As he spoke, Cao Cao handed the flying pigeon book in his hand to Hu Zhao.

Hu Zhao hugged his fists and saluted, took the flying pigeon from Cao Cao's hand, and asked Cao Cao after reading it: "Your Majesty, what are you going to do?" ”

Cao Cao walked to the door and thought, "I want to break the White Horse Pass as soon as possible!" However, the White Horse Pass is too dangerous, and it is difficult for our army to break through the White Horse Pass in a short period of time! And there are already problems with the food and grass of our army! That's why I've decided to take a truce for the time being! ”

Cao Cao immediately smiled and said: "In fact, in the past few months of fighting, our army has basically achieved the expected goal!" Jingzhou and Hanzhong fell into our hands, and Liu Qi fled to Jiangdong. Jingzhou's puppet Han existed in name only, Xichuan Hanzhong was captured by our army, and our army could look down on Xichuan in the future, and Chaisang also fell into the hands of our army. Even if because of the problem of water conservancy, it was not possible to directly send troops from Chaisang to build a business, but the power of Wu State was completely reduced to Wu County and Huiji County. It is only a matter of time before the remaining two countries are wiped out! ”

The problem of grain and grass for the Wei army was not entirely due to the burning of the grain base in Chaohu, where the grain was only a few hundred thousand quintals. The reason why the Wei army's food problems were mainly due to successive wars. As a result, there has not been much grain hoarded in the bottom of the warehouses, and the grain of the Wei army's campaign this year is basically all obtained from the spring harvest, so the Wei army's offensive cannot last too long.

It can be maintained for so long, or because the old capital of Wei still has enough excellent prime ministers of the three provinces and six Shangshu, otherwise, a few months ago, the Wei army would have returned to China because of the problem of grain and grass.

Hu Zhao nodded and said, "What Your Majesty said is extremely true!" After a pause, he analyzed: "Xichuan Liu Zhang is weak and has never had great ambitions, so the main enemy of our army at present is Jiangdong Sun Jian!" Therefore, Weichen thought that the main force should be stationed in Chaohu, Chibi, and Jingzhou, among which Jingzhou was also the base for the western attack on Sichuan, so he should hoard heavy troops! ”，

Cao Cao nodded, and thought for a while, "Let the First Legion, the Third Legion, the Xuanjia Cavalry, and the Wuhuan Cavalry be stationed in Jingzhou, and the Fourth Legion and the Xianbei Legion will continue to stay in Chaohu, by the way, as soon as possible, select the strong ones from the captives and send them to Zilong: the Second Legion and one of the Fifth Legions will garrison Chaisang: the other part of the Fifth Legion will be stationed in Baidi City and Hanzhong, Kong Ming, what do you think?" ”

The cavalry under the command of Wei now has a total of five formations, including the Imperial Forest Iron Cavalry, Xianbei, Wuhuan, Xiongnu and the early Xuanjia cavalry, all of which are about 50,000.

Hu Zhao thought for a moment and said, "It's better to only let the Second Army be stationed in Chaisang, while the main force of the Fifth Army is stationed in Hanzhong!" ”

Cao Cao nodded thoughtfully, "Well, it's better this way!" ”

Raising his head, he decided: "That's it!" Give orders to all armies at once! ”

Cao Cao's order was immediately transmitted to the armies, and Cao Ren, who was actively preparing for the siege of the city, received Cao Cao's order and gave the order to retreat in despair.

At the same time as the various Wei army units around Jingzhou were coordinating, Sun Jian used Pang Tong's strategy to raid Chaohu, but this time he failed to do so.

The two sides launched a major battle near Chaohu Lake, and although the Wei army was unfavorable in the water battle, it relied on strong infantry and cavalry to defeat Sun Jian's long-planned offensive.

Subsequently, Sun Jian led the army back to Jiangnan, and he would not go north again for the time being.

After Sun Jian retired from Jiangnan, he transferred some of the sailors to Chibi, Sun Jian felt that the danger in the direction of Chibi was much greater than here, and at the same time, Sun Jian ordered all the counties under his command to recruit strong men into the army, and let Huang Gai be responsible for the training of the whole army.

Then Sun Jian led a team of personal soldiers to return to Jianye!

In the palace of King Wu, Sun Jian suddenly asked Sun Ce on the side, "What about Zhongmou?" ”

Sun Ce smiled: "This second brother ran to find Pang Tong!" ”

"Oh? Zhongmou seems to be running to Shiyuan these days? ”

"That's true, the second brother and Pang Tong seem to be a pair of old friends! By the way, the father found that the second brother was quite good at internal affairs, although he was not as good as the princes above the court, but he was also very good! (To be continued......)