After Guan Yu arrived in Yizhou, he continued Han Fei's loose ethnic policy, which made both the barbarians and the Qiang people more sincerely integrate into the Qi lineup. Especially the Wudang Fei Army, which has now expanded to 20,000, of which 15,000 were southern barbarians, which also caused Meng You's power in the army to rise greatly and he vaguely compete with Wang Ping.

Guan Yu knew about the problem in Wudang Fei Army, but he did not stop it. The army always had the final say of who has the biggest fist. Without absolute force, what could Guan Yu support Wang Ping?

Fortunately, Meng You and his brother Meng Huo were completely defeated by Han Fei, so he did not want to replace Wang Ping. But this is just the current situation. It is unknown whether there will be any variables after a long time.

Ma Chao's injury has healed. Now Liangzhou has been well-tied by Ma Chao. However, after his injury has healed, Guan Yu decided not to let him continue to guard Liangzhou, but instead changed to General Zhang Ren to go. Ma Chao and Yang Huai returned to Hanzhong City together to replace Zhao Yun to guard Hanzhong City, while Zhao Yun was transferred back to Chengdu by Guan Yu.

Guan Yu's series of actions made the Qi army generals have a deeper understanding of their territory, and also made some people who had other ideas completely cut off their thoughts.

Seeing that Liu Bei's army would become stronger and stronger, Cao Cao finally couldn't sit still, so he sent a secret envoy to meet Sun Quan and wanted to discuss with Sun Quan to join forces to deal with Liu Bei's Qi army. Sun Quan also knew that he was not a rival to Qi State at all because of himself.

So when Cao Cao's secret envoy came, Sun Quan agreed to form an alliance with Cao Cao without hesitation. After Sun Quan agreed, Cao Cao's envoy felt relieved. Then, according to Cao Cao's request, he asked Sun Quan to secretly go to Jingzhou to meet.

A month later, Cao Cao secretly arrived at Xiangyang City in Jingzhou, and Sun Quan also secretly arrived in Jiangxia County. With the arrival of the two, the situation in Jingzhou became subtle. Because the previous confidentiality work was done well, it was not until Cao Cao and Sun Quan appeared in the city that Liu Bei got the exact news.

On the same day when Liu Bei received the news, Cao Cao and Sun Quan made an appointment to meet thirty miles outside Xiangyang City. The two discussed for a total of two hours. Except for the two confidants they each brought, the others had no idea what to do about the answer.

However, it can be imagined that their next goal must be Liu Bei's Qi State. However, at this time, there is still no sign of military transfer between the two countries.

At this time, Jia Xu and the Shadow under his command received the highest order issued by Liu Bei himself, and it is necessary to figure out the next military advisor plan of the Cao and Sun families and the specific direction of their attack. Jia Xu and the Shadow under his command completely mobilized.

Every day, news filled Jia Xu's desk like snowflakes. Jia Xu had to select them every night, and the information he thought was useful was handed over to Liu Bei for processing. Tonight, Jia Xu was checking the daily information as usual, but he found a transfer order under Cao Cao's command. This immediately attracted Jia Xu's attention. It turned out that it was not someone else who was transferred, but Guo Jia, who was transferred back to Yanzhou.

Jia Xu immediately realized that it was very likely that he would start from Yanzhou. After hearing Jia Xu's analysis, Liu Bei nodded happily and said, "Okay, Wenhe, you are attacking again this time." After Liu Bei said that, he immediately rushed to discuss matters. However, whether it was intentional or unintentional, Liu Bei did not ask Han Fei to come for the meeting.

Of course, everyone would not say much about Liu Bei's decision. However, after the strategists learned about Cao Cao's actions, the strategists immediately divided into two factions. One of them encouraged Liu Bei to take action first and immediately attack Cao's city. The other faction asked Liu Bei to hold on for the time being, waiting for Cao's army to make a clear intention and then go out to the army. Liu Bei felt that what both sides said made sense, but how to decide was a little stumped.

Jia Xu felt very regretful at this moment. He felt that if Han Fei was here, he would have a perfect solution. Liu Bei finally decided not to move his troops. He had to wait until Cao Cao's intention was completely exposed before he could take action.

As a result, Cao's army had not yet moved, and Sun Quan's Eastern Wu sent troops. Zhou Yu and Huang Zhong sent troops together, and a 50,000 army attacked Jianye City. The battle began immediately.

Liu Bei responded very quickly, and he immediately ordered Zhang He to lead 30,000 reinforcements to rescue Jianye City. In addition, the original 20,000 soldiers and general Taishi Ci in Jianye City were enough to save the city.

So after sending Zhang He, Liu Bei focused his main energy on dealing with Cao Cao. But at this moment, news came that Zhang He's army was attacked, and it was not someone else who attacked him, Cao Cao's general Xu Huang!

It turned out that the Eastern Wu besieged the city to cover the Cao army's aid. Not to mention the losses of most of the 30,000 troops, Zhang He himself was seriously injured.

After hearing this, Liu Bei was furious and was about to lead a large army to conquer. At this time, Cao Cao sent troops. With Cao Hong as the vanguard, he personally led the army to capture Shanyang City.

The commander of Shanyang, Zhang Ji, defended the city to the death, but was outnumbered. After three days of defending, the city was broken, and Zhang Ji died in the chaos. The Cao army's troops pointed directly at Xuzhou, and the Eastern Wu army did not attack Jianye City at this time, and the army bypassed Jianye and rushed to Xuzhou to kill.

Chen Deng from Xuzhou immediately asked Liu Bei for help. Faced with the double attacks from Cao's army and the Eastern Wu army, Liu Bei reactivated Han Fei without permission.

Han Fei was ordered by the emperor, and he asked Liu Bei for general Ju Yida, Zhang Xiu and the third general Zhang Fei, and then led an army of 30,000 to Xuzhou. At this time, the Cao army was attacking Pengcheng, and the guard of Pengcheng was Cao Bao's nephew Cao Tian. There were many Cao family's businesses in Pengcheng, so Cao Bao took out half of the elite Danyang soldiers he was doing and placed under Cao Tian.

It was precisely because of the five thousand Danyang soldiers that he could persevere under the fierce attack of Cao's army until Han Fei led his troops to arrive. Cao Cao learned that Han Fei led his army to come, and new and old hatreds surged into his heart. At this moment, he no longer wanted to surrender Han Fei. Cao Cao had only one thought in his heart, that was to kill Han Fei and cut off one of Liu Bei's arms.

Therefore, after Han Fei led his troops to arrive, Cao Cao not only did not stop siege, but instead increased the efforts of the project. Han Fei sent the third general Zhang Fei to relieve Pengcheng's siege. Zhang Fei led his army to go, but was blocked by Cao Hong, Cao Zhen and others, and eventually returned in vain.

(End of this chapter)
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