Chapter 227 Zhongda, Kong Mingqi came out of the mountain

Although starting tomorrow, all the princes will launch large-scale troops, Wu Fan and Cao are stepping up their troops to deploy troops to prepare for the upcoming war.

However, this is the man's business, and the women around the man have not been greatly affected.

Today, Cai Yan also brought Cao Chong to Wancheng to visit Wu Fan's family, to put it more specifically, Wu Fan's three wives.

Wu Fan's three wives and Cai Yan are both sisterly and have a good relationship. Although Cai Yan often "runs away from home" after marriage, she often no longer travels around like before, but comes to reunite with the three sisters. Every time she comes, she has to stay for about five to seven days. Cao Chong also particularly likes to go out with Cai Yan, so Cai Yan takes Cao Chong to the Wu Mansion almost every time, and this time is no exception.

Cai Yan came to Wu's mansion to meet with three sisters. Cao Chong was not like having nothing to do every time. In fact, he also liked to come to Wu's mansion because Wu Fan's daughter Wu Ying was the same age as Cao Chong, but she was born one month later than Cao Chong, and the two children had a very happy time together.

Women always have endless topics to talk about when they are together. If men don’t talk about these topics, Wu Fan will naturally not ask that boring. At this time, Wu Fan’s three wives and Cai Yan were having a happy chat while tasting plum wine in the lobby. Wu Fan locked himself in the study and read the information sent back by spies from various forces.

Wu Fan was already familiar with these information and had to read them almost every day, but the war was about to come. After Wu Fan arranged today's military orders, he had nothing to do and took the information one more time.

At this time, a letter written by Boss Wu Fan and the elder brother Cao, who had been accused of the charity, was sent to Wu Fan by a postman to the mansion. After receiving it, the servants sent it to Wu Fan.

Wu Fan put down the information sent by the spy first, took apart the letter and looked at it.

As usual, the main content in the letter is reminiscing, but at the end of the letter, Cao mentioned a man named Sima Yi.

Seeing the three words Sima Yi, Wu Fan's heart was moved.

Wu Fan is now a famous figure. Last year, Wu Fan is ranked third in the top ten famous scholars, second only to Cao and Yuan Shao. When it comes to Wu Fan, no one knows anyone in the world? Although Sima Yi is a great figure in the history of the Three Kingdoms, he is now a young man in front of Wu Fan. Of course, Wu Fan does not have any respect for Sima Yi. The reason why he felt moved was that a month ago, Wu Fan's best friend, Tian Feng, the prefect of Hanoi, also mentioned Sima Yi in his letter.

In his letter at that time, Tian Feng said that when he was receiving a mission in the restaurant, he accidentally met Sima Yi, an opposition person. Through conversation, Tian Feng found that Sima Yi had a good conversation and had lofty knowledge, so he proposed to him for invitations to go to the emperor. However, Sima Yi rejected Tian Feng.

When Wu Fan learned the news, he didn't feel much regret. After all, although Sima Yi was an excellent military talent, he was also an excellent power scheming. After the Three Kingdoms returned to Jin, Wei, Shu and Wu were busy, but in the end it was a favorable Sima family. Wu Fan was inevitably worried about Sima Yi because of this matter, so the news of Sima Yi's failure to log in to Sima Yi may be a good thing in Wu Fan's opinion.

After recalling this incident in my mind, I wondered what the reason for Cao to mention Sima Yi would be, so Wu Fan continued to read the letter.

Cao is famous for cherishing talents. In the letter, he highly praised Sima Yi who he accidentally discovered while exploring Chenliu. He wrote nearly half of the letter paper. In the end, Cao Daochu, Sima Yi has now agreed to his invitation to Dengyong, and is currently serving in Chenliu.

After reading the letter, Wu Fan put it down and sighed secretly.

Cao naturally didn't know the special character of Sima Yi, and he showed his joy in the letters. At present, Sima Yi has joined Cao's camp. Although Wu Fan knew that this person's future development direction was very likely, he could not propose to Cao to kill this person or exile him. After all, Sima Yi has no conditions for seeking power at all.

I can only wait for the future to focus on this person. Perhaps history has been changed a lot by myself, which may lead to Sima Yi being unable to embark on the road of power and conspiracy in the end.

Wu Fan will never tolerate the blockbuster he built for his boss that he was cheaper in the end. If he really found out that Sima Yi had a historical tendency to make a scheming, Wu Fan would erase it at all costs!

Just as he thought of this, Wu Ying's voice came from outside the window, shouting "Jia, Jia", as if riding a horse. Wu Fan was a little surprised. Wu Ying was only four years old and had never allowed Wu Ying to ride a horse. Who is so bold that he dares to let Wu Ying ride a horse without asking for instructions?

Thinking of this, Wu Fan stood up and walked out of the study.

Outside the study was a small courtyard with flowers and plants, and a rockery, forming a beautiful scenery like a paradise. As soon as Wu Fan walked out of the house, he saw Wu Ying at a glance, but he was riding on Cao Chong. Under Wu Ying's command, Cao Chong carried Wu Ying back and forth on the ground.

This scene really surprised Wu Fan. He hurried over and said to Wu Ying:

"Ying'er, get off Cang Shu quickly!"

Cao Chong will be a man who will be a prince in the future, and it is not impossible for him to become the heir to the Cao Wei regime. Once he recalled his childhood, he was ridden by a woman, what's going on? A typical childhood psychological shadow.

As a result, Wu Fan's tone was very stern, so that Wu Ying would never dare to ride Cao Chong again.

Although Wu Fan usually favors Wu Ying very much, when Wu Ying made a mistake, Wu Fan's attitude was very clear and even strict. Wu Fan had a secret agreement with his three wives for this: When you are really angry, you must not stand up and plead for mercy, so as not to let Wu Ying be afraid. Afterwards, it will be not too late to comfort Wu Ying when you leave.

Because his daughter is good at teaching, Wu Ying is very obedient and does not have the perverse and domineering attitude of some second-generation children of officials. Seeing that his father Wu Fan was angry, Wu Ying hurriedly came down from Cao Chong's back, lowered his head to Wu Fan, knelt down, and stretched out his hands and palms upwards, and took the initiative to ask his father to punish him.

Cao Chong, who had been getting up from the ground, saw this scene and hurriedly said to Wu Fan:

"Uncle, the so-called "someone is good at the beginning, but it is similar to each other, and the habits are far away. Yingmei is actually not at fault. Besides, Chong'er agreed to Yingmei's horse riding game, so he asked her not to punish Yingmei. If her uncle insists on punishing her, please put half of the punishment on Chong'er."

While speaking, Cao Chong also came to Wu Fan, knelt down and pleaded with mercy, and at the same time, he followed Wu Ying's appearance and stretched out his hands to Wu Fan.

After all, Cao Chong is only four years old, and the meaning of citing classics is inevitably somewhat deviated, but he can quote classics at this time. This is difficult for children of this age to do.

While Wu Fan secretly praised Cao Chong for his cleverness, he could not ignore Cao Chong who knelt down and begged for mercy. He first helped Cao Chong up, and then helped Wu Ying up, saying to Wu Ying:

"This time, Kura Shu pleads for you, so I won't care about you for the sake of my father. However, I don't want to see such a thing for the second time, otherwise I will have to be severely punished. Do you hear it clearly?"

Wu Ying nodded quickly and said that he had heard clearly. Wu Fan then stretched out his face that had been stern and asked the two of them to continue playing. Cao Chong and Wu Ying immediately looked at each other, showed a happy smile, and then ran away holding hands and jumped away.

Wu Fan looked at the backs of the two little guys holding hands, and showed a knowing smile on his face, and said in his heart: This is the legendary childhood sweetheart, haha, the beautiful memory of childhood. I just don’t know what the relationship between these two little guys will develop when they grow up, and whether it will...

Forget it, don’t think so far. Have you forgotten what I said back then? I support my daughter in a free relationship and choose a partner freely. In this regard, I should not be as good as the salted carrot.

At this time, a civil servant in the army came to Wu's mansion with the information just sent by the Xinye spy. After Wu Fan took the information, he returned to the study to watch.

There are two cities of different forces connected to Wancheng, namely Chang'an of Ma Teng and Xinye of Liu Bei. Although Chang'an is bordered by Wancheng, the distance between the two cities is far, and there is also a close-range Luoyang that is also connected to Chang'an. A few days ago, Wu Fan issued a new urban policy to Luoyang prefect Zhang Liao: Liangzhou's strategy includes Chang'an and Tianshui. From tomorrow, Zhang Liao will use troops to Chang'an. In this way, Wu Fan only needs to pay close attention to Liu Bei's Xinye.

Before this, the Xinye intelligence in Wu Fan's hand was a month ago. Although Wu Fan did not expect much from the information sent at this time, it is said that knowing yourself and your enemy will never be defeated. It is not harmful to know more about the enemy.

Sitting in front of the desk, Wu Fan unfolded the information, and the various military and political indexes of Xinye City appeared in front of him, and there was almost no change from the situation he had already mastered. However, when Wu Fan saw the number of active personnel in Xinye City, he frowned slightly, and saw that the number of active personnel in Xinye City changed from ten to twelve.

Who will be the two people added? Wu Fan opened the list of active military generals in Xinye and compared them one by one.

The ten people who appeared in front did not change at all, namely: Liu Bei, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, Guan Ping, Sun Qian, Jian Yong, Sima Lang, Chuan Yao, Qing Fang, and Qing Zhu. However, the two people who appeared behind made Wu Fan's eyes widen.

These two people are: Xu Shu and Zhuge Liang.

Although Xu Shu was also a capable minister, Wu Fan did not take him too seriously. The demon Zhuge Liang was the key target for Wu Fan to pay attention.

Before, Wu Fan had been calculating Zhuge Liang's age, and he was only sixteen years old this year. As long as he could capture Jingxiang as soon as possible, Liu Bei could not trigger the plot of "Three Visits to the Thatched Cottage", Zhuge Liang would not come out of the mountain.

Unexpectedly, Liu Bei, the boy, had to invite Zhuge Liang out by himself. With this demon, I wonder how many soldiers and horses my Cao army would lose from this, and how many years would it be later to unify the world. God really doesn't bless Cao.

Wu Fan raised his head and sighed deeply.

...

The next day, the military camp outside Wancheng City.

The array of 470,000 main troops was boundless, plus nearly 100,000 left-behind troops in Wancheng, and more than 500,000 troops gathered around the Wancheng parade to listen to Wu Fan’s pre-war speech.

"...This battle is the first step for our Cao army to unify the world! All soldiers should not work together to kill the enemy, clear all obstacles, fulfill the long-cherished wish of unification by all people, and also rule the world and peace!"

The pre-war speech lasted for about ten minutes. As soon as Wu Fan finished speaking, more than 500,000 troops raised their weapons to the sky, and at the same time shouted and shouted, and their momentum resounded throughout the world and shook the mountains and rivers!

Afterwards, Wu Fan immediately issued an order to march towards Xinye!

This time, there were not only 470,000 main troops, but also 30,000 other troops, led by Han Sui and his eight cavalry under the command of the Qiben. The 500,000 troops marched, and the scale was not described as large. Often, the front troops had already walked a hundred miles, but the rear troops were still on standby.

With such a large-scale army, Wu Fan naturally could not lead the army in the central army as before. Instead, he divided 130,000 vanguard troops and handed them over to the vanguard officer Li Zhan, and the remaining 370,000 troops were then commanded by Wu Fan in the middle army.

Just talking about the pioneer officer Li Zhan, who is a proud disciple of Wu Fan, has great abilities. After three years of training and growth, the attributes of the five-circle have been improved to a certain extent, namely:

Command: 97+1

Force: 96+2

Intelligence: 87+2

Politics: 85+1

Charm: 85+3

The number in "" is the value that has increased in these three years.

Such a high five-circle has made Li Zhan the existence of the entire Cao army second only to Wu Fan, and is even much higher than Luoyang prefect Zhang Liao. However, Li Zhan is still 24 years younger and has little combat experience and still needs training. This time, the reason why Wu Fan made Li Zhan the pioneer was to deliberately give Li Zhan a chance to train.

In addition, Li Zhan married Ling'er the year before yesterday, and the two lovers finally got married, and their relationship with Wu Fan is closer. With this relationship, coupled with Li Zhan's excellent five-dimensional situation, Wu Fan naturally has to support Li Zhan more in order to grow into his right-hand man in the future.

There were quite a few military generals assigned to Li Zhan, with a total of thirteen, namely: Zhang Ren, Wen Pin, Zang Ba, Zhang Xiu, Han Sui, Liang Xing, Houxuan, Cheng Yin, Li Kan, Zhang Heng, Cheng Yi, Ma Wan, and Yang Qiu.

The 130,000 vanguard troops led by Li Zhan were 50,000 cavalry, 50,000 heavy cavalry, and 30,000 infantry and archers led by Han Sui and his eight cavalry.

As for Wu Fan, there are not many subordinate generals, only six, namely: Hua Xiong, Yan Liang, Wen Chou, Zhou Tai, Lu Lingqi, and Guo Jia. However, all of these six people are capable, and they are first-class generals or military advisors.

The 370,000 troops led by Wu Fan were: 70,000 Qingzhou fighters, 50,000 fast cavalry, 50,000 heavy cavalry, 100,000 guards, and 100,000 Rong crossbow soldiers.

Besides, the 130,000 vanguard troops led by Li Zhan were relatively small and the speed of traveling faster. They arrived in front of Bowang slope north of Xinye Castle in five days.

After setting up camp north of Bowangpo, Li Zhan remained motionless and waited for the army led by Wu Fan to come to meet. Just because Wu Fan had already explained to him before leaving: the terrain here in Bowangpo was dangerous and was the mouthpiece of Xinye City, and Liu Bei's army would definitely not allow him to make mistakes easily. Zhuge Liang, the subordinate of Liu Bei, was very good at strategy. Remember not to face the enemy impulse to avoid being ambushed.

Although there was a battle of Zhuge Liang to burn Bowangpo in "historical". However, the world has been changed a lot by Wu Fan at present, and Wu Fan was not sure whether Zhuge Liang would use his old tricks again in Bowang, so it was difficult to directly tell Li Zhan 'beware of Zhuge Liang's use of fire attack' to prevent Li Zhan from losing sight of one thing, and instead hit Zhuge Liang's other strategies.

Following Wu Fan's instructions, Li Zhan set up camp in Bowangpo North and stopped moving his troops. Liu Bei had already learned of Wu Fan's troops from Wancheng. At this time, accompanied by Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun and others, he came to Bowangpo to climb high and look at Li Zhan's vanguard camp.

The blue Cao army flag was waving in the wind, and the soldiers in the army were all energetic, with bright armor and sharp weapons, and shining with cold light under the sun. You can tell at a glance that your combat power is good.

Liu Bei looked around for a long time and sighed:

"Most of the soldiers recruited by Ma Wu Fan of Hebei are from Hebei, and this vanguard force is already hard for me to resist. Moreover, Wu Fan also led heavy troops to come from behind. How can this be better?"

Zhuge Liang shook his feather fan beside him and chuckled:

"Why do you need to worry about the lord? We can just take a plan to get it away."

Zhuge Liang has just surrendered to Liu Bei. Liu Bei only knows that Zhuge Liang has a strong governance and does not know how great military talent he has. After hearing what Zhuge Liang said, Liu Bei said with confusion:

"Sir, really have such confidence?"

Zhuge Liang laughed:

"The army has no jokes."

Liu Bei said happily:

"Since that's the case, please do your trick quickly."

Zhuge Liang shook his feather fan and said with a smile:

"This plan requires the cooperation of several generals and soldiers, and the orders are prohibited and there must be no delay. The lord is also asked to grant Liang the right to command troops and punish them."

Zhuge Liang's official position is very low now, only at the seventh rank, and he cannot intimidate Liu Bei's generals, so he asked Liu Bei for power, which is normal. However, Zhuge Liang has no experience in the battle now. He is just a scholar who is only sixteen years old and has such a confident attitude, which inevitably makes Liu Bei's generals dissatisfied.

Zhang Fei said in a rough voice:

"My elder brother asked you to use tricks and use tricks. What other rights do you need? If you feel that your official position is too low to subdue the three armies, you can tell my elder brother the strategy. Isn't it the same for my elder brother to implement it?"

Zhuge Liang didn't look at Zhang Fei, but just smiled but didn't say anything. Liu Bei felt that although Zhang Fei was rough, hesitant, so hesitated. Seeing this, Sun Qian next to him immediately stepped forward and whispered to Liu Bei:

"Lord, since Mr. Kong Ming is highly praised by local Wenxiong and has extraordinary behavior and speaking, he must be not a mediocre person. The lord might as well believe him once, and it also shows that the lord is unquestionable and generous. If it succeeds, it is best. If it fails, then Xinye will be difficult to defend, and the lord will then lead his troops to retreat."

When Liu Bei heard Sun Qian say this, he nodded, and then said to the generals around him:
Chapter completed!