Zhang Miao felt that his Chenliu County was in a rush, and he could attack and defend, and he didn't have to be afraid of anyone. He just waited for Cao Cao and Lu Bu to fight to the death in Puyang. Then he would stand up and reap the benefits of the fisherman, and it would be unhappy!

But I didn't expect that Cao Zhi would come so quickly, and he would attack him before Cao Cao and Lu Bu had decided to decide.

Since we came to the door, there was nothing to be afraid of. It was dawning at this time, and a light orange glow fell onto the terrace. The owl's screams disappeared, and the little sparrows that were rising up were chirping.

Zhang Miao decided to fight Cao Zhi. His Chenliu commanded 17 counties. He had more than 20,000 troops and more than 100,000 people. The entire Chenliu City County Government had rich grain reserves and well-connected transportation. Cao Zhi had only 20,000 troops. Zhang Miao did not think that he did not have the strength to fight with him.

Indeed, Chenliu is not that easy to fight, and Cao Zhi is also worried about which direction Chenliu starts.

"The governor of Caozhou, Chenliu City is the capital of Chenliu County, and it is also a must-see place for us to visit. However, Zhang Miao, the grandson and grandson of Chenliu City, operated here for three generations. Behind the high walls of the city, it is easy to defend but difficult to attack, and it is not easy to seize. It is better for us to start the Xiangyi first. Xiangyi is guarded by Zhang Miao's younger brother Zhang Chao. Taking it down will also mean that it will be a shocking force to the Zhang family!"

When Xun Yu finished speaking, he looked at Cao Zhi, Cao Zhi nodded slightly, turned around and asked Jia Xu who was standing in a dark place forever.

Jia Xu usually didn't speak when he was Xun Yu or other generals. But even this guy who didn't speak much, Xun Yu knew deeply about this guy's power and understood that Cao Zhi attached great importance to this person's opinions. Whenever he encountered military and political affairs, he would usually ask him.

Jia Xu squinted his eyes and smiled while nodding in recognition of Xun Yu's plan. He bowed to Cao Zhi and said, "Brother Wen Ruo's knocking on the mountain is so as to shake the tiger Shengmiao. When the lord takes down Xiangyi, don't forget to leave Zhang Chao and let him escape back to Zhang Miao's place, so that they can still feel lingering. "

Cao Zhi was stunned. Jia Xu was not always instilling in Cao Zhi that if Chenliu was taken down and Zhang Miao's lineage, he would definitely destroy the three tribes of his family and would never be rude. Moreover, the starting point of Jia Xu's request for Cao Zhi to do this was not entirely to shock the rebels in Yanzhou, but to say what to do, and the greater significance was to please his brother Cao Cao.

Cao Cao is his elder brother, what should I please? However, this strategist who is known for his ruthlessness is not aimless. He has asked Cao Zhi privately if Cao Cao had any mistakes in the battle with Lu Bu, whether he had ever thought of replacing Cao Cao, leading these Yanzhou military officials, and continuing to fight.

This question shocked Cao Zhi, and then he remembered the news that Cao Cao was injured and sick.

"Brother won't die so early, haha..."

This is what Cao Zhi told Jia Xu based on the development of history. But Jia Xu insisted that Cao Zhi should "consider" himself. No one could say anything on the battlefield. Moreover, he had seen Cao Cao's wives, concubines and children in Juancheng. His words were very direct. Cao Cao's descendants were still young, so his uncle must stand up at a critical moment to contribute to the hard-earned glory and foundation of the Cao family.

Jia Xu's words were a bit implicit, but Cao Zhi could understand that Jia Xu was hinting that he was ready to take over Cao Cao at any time and take charge of everything he had.

Cao Zhi did not take Jia Xu's thoughts seriously. Not to mention that Cao Cao would not die until he was 60 years old, but there was something wrong with him now. He could accept Cao Cao's only 100,000 soldiers and 200,000 soldiers. Cao Cao's Yanzhou now has only three or four cities under control, so how can he have the idea of ​​foundation?

But Jia Xu did not stop his actions. Although there are not many Yanzhou strategists and generals who can be dispatched by Cao Zhi now, Jia Xu still took advantage of this opportunity to contact them and was developing mutual understanding, trying to enhance their friendship in the future.

Jia Xu made special friends with Xun Yu, Ren Jun and others to cooperate with Cao Zhi's military and political officials and generals in Yanzhou who went to Chenliu this time.

But for some reason, Jia Xu asked Cao Zhi to give Zhang Chao a way out again so that Zhang Miao could have hope of peace talks?

Jia Xu did not answer Cao Zhi's doubts, but Xun Yu explained to Jia Xu's words: "Judge Jia wants to arouse Zhang Miao's sense of comfort... Zhang Miao is indeed a person who is not enterprising, but it is probably difficult for him to want to be comfortable at this time..."

But Jia Xu insisted on letting Zhang Miao see that even if he was defeated, he would have hope of survival. Cao's army quickly surrounded Xiangyi.

Xiangyi has always been Zhang Chao's territory. Zhang Chao, Xu Si and Wang Kai have always maintained a good relationship with Chen Gong. They are all officials in Yanzhou. The first squad of officials who were instigated to rebel against Chen Gong this time were the three of them.

Several of them once made vows to form loyal friends, but Chen Gong knew that the Zhang brothers were not the materials for the heroes, so he didn't have much hope for them. He fulfilled some empty promises and followed Lu Bu.

Zhang Miao and Zhang Chao are also people with no ambitions. They dare not even chew on Chen Gong’s breach of contract. They just need to keep their territory and live some comfortable life. They have always lived in their own world and are full of beautiful imaginations about life.

Zhang Chao was even more greedy for life and death. As soon as Cao's vanguard arrived at the city of Xiangyi under the leadership of Xu Chu, Zhang Chao climbed up the city wall and stood on a bush of arrows to watch. There were so many people in black, shouting and killing the city. Although there was no real harm, it looked really scary.

Zhang Chao secretly estimated that the enemy's vanguard had 5,000 pairs of people, and his Xiangyi City defenders had only 5,000. It seemed that he could not defend this city. He was outnumbered and could not be able to fight. Zhang Chao would not wait to die in Xiangyi City. Before Cao Zhi's subsequent army arrived, he abandoned the city and ran away and fled to Chenliu to find his elder brother Zhang Miao to protect him.

When Cao Ren and Ren Jun arrived in Xiangyi, Xu Chu proudly boasted about how to capture Xiangyi City without bloodshed.

When Cao Zhi arrived the next day, he stood on the city tower of Xiangyi City, he couldn't help but sigh after listening to Xu Chu's report: Why is Zhang Chao so brave that he ran away without even being beaten and has not taken away his subordinates yet.

The poor Xiangyi soldiers had just waved goodbye to their families, thinking that it would be impossible to see most of their families alive. Unexpectedly, Zhang Chao, who was guarding Xiangyi, fled without fighting. The Xiangyi generals who lost their chief general immediately went out of the city to surrender without thinking.

Cao Zhi nodded indifferently about this battle result. Unexpectedly, the battle against Chenliu County was more smooth than expected. Before anyone could die, he had land to settle down. In this way, the logistics supply would be free of worries.

Through abundant preparations, ten days later, Cao Zhi's army set out again and released directly into Chenliu County. Zhang Miao was also prepared to fight by actively mobilizing troops and generals.

"The central army is still thirty-five miles away from Chenliu City. It is estimated that it will be dark when they arrive in Chenliu City. We can't arrive today, so we will camp on the spot?" Zhao Yun, who had just been transferred from Danyang, was accompanying Cao Zhi to command the rear army, and was asking Cao Zhi for the arrangements of the march.

Cao Zhi, who was discussing military affairs with Jia Xu and Xun Yu in a low voice, said casually: "You make arrangements!"

Zhao Yun said "Yes!" and was about to take the order and left, he heard a raft of troops outside the tent, and then he heard the reports of soldiers outside the tent entering the tent: "The former army was appointed Sima to ask for a meeting!"

After Cao Zhi was stunned, he still shouted "Please hurry up".

Ren Sima is Ren Jun. In fact, Cao Zhi knew each other early, but the two had never really met each other. Two years ago, when Cao Zhi returned from Meiwu, he forced himself to pass through Zhongmu, who was Yang Yuan as the county magistrate at that time, and Ren Jun was Yang Yuan's chief clerk at that time.

Although Ren Jun used to be a civil servant, he was quite insightful about military affairs. Later, after following Cao Cao, Cao Cao appointed him as Sima and actually led his troops to fight. When talking about the encounter between Cao Zhi and him, both of them found it very funny. They were both on their own and fought to the death without meeting each other, but now they fight side by side together. This is probably fate.

Ren Jun is calm in his work, Cao Cao trusts Ren Jun very much and marrys his cousin to him. When Guo Gong, Lu Bu and others surrounded Juancheng, before Xiahou Dun returned to defense, Ren Jun took on the task of defending Juancheng.

This time when attacking Chenliu City, Cao Zhi knew that it was different from Xiangyi, so the deputy added to Xu Chu in the front army was Ren Jun to enhance the strength of the front army. But at this time, the front army that had just arrived in Chenliu City, why did Ren Jun suddenly turn back to the rear army and come to find Cao Zhi?

When Cao Zhi and others were wondering what happened before, Ren Junyi came in and reported: "The front army has captured Chenliu's periphery!"

"What?" Don't say that Cao Zhi was surprised, everyone in the tent was shocked. Why did the troops that had just arrived have already taken down Chenliu's periphery? Didn't Zhang Miao arrange troops outside the city?

"What's going on? Boda (Ren Jun's character) tell me slowly!"

Cao Zhi directly had a premonition that this might be the result of Xu Chu's greed for success and progress.

Cao Zhi was right, but this time Cao Zhi mistakenly blamed Xu Chu for being greedy for making progress. However, any general would be greedy for making progress when he saw such a formation.

As the capital of Chenliu County, the entire city is naturally very large. In addition, three generations of Zhang Miao family have worked hard to manage it here, Chenliu City is already very large. It is not inferior to any state city. Due to the overpopulation, it is impossible to live in so many residents in the city. Therefore, Chenliu City, like other large cities, has built a large number of houses, courtyards, and markets outside the main city. When there is no war, the city is as prosperous as the city. However, as long as there is a war, the residents outside the city and farmers in nearby villages often have to hide in the city. In order not to leave anything useful to the enemy, usually, the houses outside the city will be demolished before the enemy attacks. This may be similar to the scorched earth method of Zaozi, but this is a common practice for the guarding of the city.
Chapter completed!