Lei Yuan led two thousand troops, accompanied by three thousand troops from Lu Su and Lu Dai, and slowly passed through the Xiajiang River and sent it out of the Xiakou and crossed Yiling.

He and Lu Dai were both generals who were ordered by their lords to lead troops to support their allies. Of course, Duke Xuande was more shameful than Duke Wu, so Lu Dai's troops did not really go to the front line, but were mainly responsible for the transportation of food and fodder. But since the two had the same identities, they would inevitably talk about their combat experiences in Shu and Jianghuai.

Before his trip, Lei Yuan received a secret order, hoping to attract the main force of Cao's army to Jianghuai. However, Cao Gong went straight to Jingzhou and was not deceived by Lei Yuan. Therefore, Lei Yuan had nothing to hide in this regard.

He explained his situation of his war in Jianghuai, took them to see the capture of the battle, and saw various military preparations in Yidu and other places. He also took them across the river to Lexiang, and saw the cemetery where the soldiers who died in battle were buried and the manor where the injured soldiers were treated.

The continuous tombs of so many dead people left a deep impression on people. Lu Su prepared sacrifices that day and solemnly worshiped the dead. Later, when he visited the injured soldiers in Jianghuai, he also gave special gifts of wine, food and money to express his condolences.

At this time, officials had already arrived from Nanjun to pick him up, so Lei Yuan did not need to accompany him. Lu Su and others boarded the ship at Jiangjin Port and sailed along the river to Jianye, which only took a few days.

After about 20 years, news came from Jiangdong, Central Plains and other places one after another.

First, after a fierce argument, the side of Wu Hou finally politely sent the envoy of Xu Du, and submitted a letter to the title of Duke Wu, and prepared generous gifts to contribute to the court.

Immediately, there were various rumors in the Central Plains.

Because the people in the Jingxiang area were moved to the north by Cao Gong one after another, it was inconvenient to transmit information between the north and the south, so the rumors were absurd and many conflicts with each other. You had to piece together a large number of sporadic rumors to know what was about to happen in the north.

It turned out that Ma Chao's reply from Liangzhou came to Xudu first, which immediately caused chaos in the court, and many court officials made reproaches.

Interestingly, they blamed neither the Prime Minister Cao who was promoted to the title of preaching this time nor the new Secretary Dong Zhao who repeatedly called for the fifth grade of the ancient and architectural feudals. Instead, they were in Yecheng and were forced to take over as the former Weiwei Ma Teng, who was forced to take office as Liang Gong.

The memorial was like snowflakes in a moment. It was generally said that Cao Gong's virtue and desire were very clear, which is well known to the world. Ma Teng was incompetent in teaching his sons, so that his descendants were arrogant and even spoke nonsense, insulting Cao Gong's virtues and reputations. We think that this person first obtained a title of non-subject title with a different surname. In fact, virtue is not worthy of the position, so he should be stripped of his title as soon as possible and demoted him to a commoner.

For a moment, Ma Teng could not bear the pressure. One day he asked to see Prime Minister Cao, and he was guilty and begged to seize the title. Cao Gong actually laughed on the spot, saying that although the child of your family did not know the books, he was honest and cute. He immediately sent a letter to Chang'an, asking Deputy Prime Minister Cao Pi to present a gold cart, a drum cart, an axe cart and other honorary guards to the fake cold stallion Ma Chao.

This letter can only be talked about several words, and it is written for no reason.

But after Cao Pi received the letter, he summoned the general Cao Hong, the general who fought against the West, and the general Yan Xing, the general who suppressed the bandits, and gathered 10,000 elite troops from Chang'an to Fufeng, and then joined the remaining candidates of the ten generals of Guanzhong, Cheng Yin, Zhang Heng and Ma Wan, and continued to go west.

The deputy prime minister was stationed in Chang'an himself, and all kinds of military and political arrangements were naturally clear and neat. Cao Pi himself was indeed talented. Cao Hong, Yan Xing, Guo Huai and others were all old generals, so these ten thousand elite soldiers traveled day and night and went deep into Long County. Only when Ma Chao, who was in Didao, got the news.

He immediately returned quickly and finally intercepted the Cao army. Both sides made the procedures for awarding the ceremonial war, and they weighed each other. Ma Chao confirmed that the Cao army in Guanzhong was strong enough to deal with the situation, and Deputy Prime Minister Cao Pi could meet the prince of Liangzhou and witness the fierceness of the Lianglong hero.

This was held quickly. When the Xu Du court officials knew about the process and planned to criticize him, Cao Pi had already returned to Chang'an.

At this time, the letter of Wu Hou of Jiangdong came again. Jiangdong was full of cultural heritage, and Wu Hou's letter of Wu was naturally not as vulgar as Ma Chao. Seeing his words and meaning that Mr. Wu was also very firm. So many people breathed a sigh of relief.

Who knew that a few days later, Cao Gong presented a letter from Wu Hou to his close ministers in Yecheng. It is said that the letter reads: There is a system in the Han Dynasty, and he dare not disobey it; if there is a rise and fall, I would like to hear it respectfully.

Although he had only a few words, his words were so bold that Cao Gong shook his head and said, "I want me to stay above the fire!"

When these lines of words spread, not to mention the shock of Xu Du's court, even the people of Jingzhou were surprised. At this time, they brought a large number of Jiangdong specialties and set off for Shu Zhongcun to ask Mrs. Sun's envoy Zhuge Jin that had arrived in Jiangling. Pan Jun then went to question Zhuge Jin: Are these four sentences indeed written by the Marquis of Wu?

Zhuge Jin always looked humble and gentleman, and was not greasy to anyone, and his body was soft but not inferior. At that time, he replied: There is no such thing as this. The Marquis of Wu was a loyal minister of the Han Dynasty, which is well known to the world.

This king is not only the envoy of Wu Hou, but also the elder brother of General Zhuge Liang. Pan Jun may not have torn his face with him and scolded him, so he could only say goodbye. After he came out, he said angrily that such seemingly loyal people are the most difficult to get along with.

If they are dissatisfied, they are allies, and they must have etiquette. Jingzhou still treated each other as grandly as before and sent Zhuge Jin to Yizhou.

At this time, Xu Du reported another news that one day the city was on fire and the fire spread very quickly. The cavalry general Cao Zhang led his troops into the city to put out the fire. Although he tried his best, the officials in the city still burned many people to death. After learning about it, Cao Gong, who was in Yecheng, was furious and sent people to blame Cao Zhang.

Even people far away in Jingzhou understood that this fire must be caused for a reason, and the court officials who were burned to death must have been connected privately against Cao Cao.

The Han court was so fragile. What the court insisted on maintaining in the court was once again ignored by local princes; and when they wanted to confront Yecheng, they could not even seek a real confrontation, and the result was just a nameless fire.

Since Xu Du was forced to send envoys to feudal princes in various places, although there seemed to be no actual results, the only reputation left by the Han court was consumed a lot in this farce. No matter what Sun Quan and Ma Chao reacted, it proved that they were by no means the Han Dynasty could rely on. If Duke Xuande wanted to win over them, it might not last long.

On that day, a series of victories in Liangzhou, Hanzhong, Jiangling and other places seemed to have inexplicably disappeared. The slogan of anti-Cao Xinghan seemed to be less powerful than before.
Chapter completed!