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In this battle to pacify the Southern Barbarians, the Second Legion suffered huge casualties; even the N-Rich Corps, which had been led by Wu Fan himself, had nearly 100,000 people died in battle.

This was unique in previous battles.

As a result, the two troops, the 140,000 Xun Cavalrymen, are currently only about 100,000 left.

Of course, there are still two troops.

The 100,000 Xun Cavalry who have experienced fierce battles have all had their individual experiences of more than 900, whether they are individual soldiers or overall combat power, far surpassing other archers and cavalry units.

In other words, these 100,000 people of Xun cavalry have represented the highest level of bow and riding in the world

Hearing Wu Fan's order, the 100,000 cavalrymen shouted in unison, and with the sound of a deafening attack of thousands of horses, the 100,000 cavalrymen had already raised the dust and smoke that covered the sky and the sun, leaving the large army and heading towards the north quickly.

This time, no one came to persuade Wu Fan; anyone could see that he would definitely not be able to persuade him. The situation in Hebei was indeed too unexpected, and he did not expect Sima Yi to do so ruthlessly.

Qiao, Diao Chan and Lu Lingqi sat together in a spacious carriage, which followed Wu Fan's general chariot. Therefore, the three women naturally heard and saw the words of seriously injured Tiger and Leopard Cavalry and Wu Fan's subsequent actions.

Until the 100,000 cavalrymen in their sight were no longer visible, Qiao then put down the curtain and sighed with depression and worry.

After calming down alone for a while, Qiao raised her head to look at Diao Chan, and then looked at Lu Lingqi, thinking of Wu Fan's four wives besides herself, either beautiful country or both martial arts, or married early, and had true feelings for trouble... In short, after comparison, it seemed that she had no advantage.

This made Qiao feel a sense of crisis in vain.

However, after thinking about it again, no matter what advantages these four wives have, they cannot communicate with Wu Fan in their ideological barriers. In other words, they are both time travelers in the same world, but they cannot surpass them no matter what.

Thinking of this, Qiao couldn't help but feel a little proud.

Facts have also proved that Wu Fan loves the most about these five wives. This is not necessary to prove it with too many examples. A woman's sensitivity makes Qiao know that her intuition is absolutely wrong.

While thinking about it, Diao Chan next to her saw Qiao looking worried, she pursed her lips and chuckled:

"The fourth sister doesn't need to worry. Meng Xuan's martial arts skills are now with 100,000 cavalrymen, and Hebei is the second legion. I think Meng Xuan's trip will definitely be just a surprise."

Lu Lingqi also pulled Qiao's hand at this time and said:

"Yes, the fourth sister, you have been together with Meng Xuan for a short time. I don't know that he is very good at martial arts. The fourth sister just needs to wait for the good news with us. But the eldest sister, Ying'er and the fifth sister are the real worrying points."

Qiao actually thought that Wu Fan should be in danger when he went to Hebei, otherwise he would not have been thinking about his position among the five women. He smiled at Diao Chan and Lu Lingqi, pretending to be correct by their words, and his expression looked as if he was absurd.

So he sat upright in the car, looking like a virtuous person. As for his freedom and freedom when he was alone with Wu Fan, he did not dare to show it at all, so as not to be distant by Diao Chan and Lu Lingqi as alienated.

...

Besides, Wu Fan rode his horse in front to lead a hundred thousand cavalry to run. Along the way, Wu Fan's generals urged the horse to come and wanted to return to Hebei with Wu Fan.

In other words, it means to show its position and stand with Wu Fan and publicly fight against Sima Yi and Cao Pi.

Cao Pi's original letter was replaced by Sima Yi. In this way, Wu Fan and his subordinates did not know what Cao Pi was now. They could only intuitively believe that Cao Pi might not be as united as Sima Yi. But this is just a guess, and Cao Pi cannot be excluded from hostility.

However, Wu Fan did not expect that this matter involved too many people. After all, Cao Pi and Sima Yi's goal was to point directly at themselves. In addition, Cao Pi's special identity, if his subordinates stood on their side, it would be equivalent to discarding all the achievements he had obtained from fighting for the Cao family. Although Wu Fan was confident in helping Cao Chong to the throne, but the man's plan was not as good as the Tianshuoyi. If he failed?

This favor is too great. And once I agree to the requests of these people, what should I do if the remaining generals and ministers who do not want to be involved in this power struggle? I can only stand on my own side because the situation goes against their true wishes.

For this reason, Wu Fan did not want his subordinates to be involved in this incident. It is also for this reason that Wu Fan has never made any arrangements against Sima Yi and Cao Pi to the Hebei territory and his former subordinates. One of the reasons is as mentioned above; secondly, Wu Fan is also like his subordinates, but he did not expect Sima Yi to do such a terrible thing with the mentality of defeating the enemy.

So, Wu Fan persuaded the dozens of military generals who rushed to hear the news. In the end, there were actually several military generals who really wanted to go with Wu Fan, and the time for surrendering to Cao Cao was short and his achievements were low. Only then did Wu Fan reluctantly agree to the request of these people.

These people are: Zhao Yun, Gan Ning, Taishi Ci, Ling Tong, and Ding Feng.

Of course, in addition to these people, Wu Fan must have persuaded his sworn brothers, Hua Xiong and Yan Liang, who could not go back, also walked forward with Wu Fan.

So, a group of eight people led a hundred thousand fast cavalry to travel day and night to Hebei.

Due to the rush of march, the 100,000 cavalry did not carry any food and grass. However, this was not enough to constitute a problem. The cities we passed along the way were the best supply stations, and there were whistle horses walking in front to inform the prefects and county magistrates of each city to prepare the required food and grass in advance. Therefore, the 100,000 people did not waste any time because of the supply of food and grass. Instead, because they did not carry any baggage, the travel speed was much faster.

Seven days later, Wu Fan led the 100,000 troops to Yecheng and led his army directly into the city from Nancheng.

Yecheng was originally a city in Hebei and was affiliated with the Second Legion under Wu Fan. Since Emperor Xian was stationed here, Cao also stayed in this city in the later period, so Wu Fan gave the city to the First Legion. After Cao's death, Cao Pi, the only son who stayed by his side, took the post of temporary position as the prefect of the city for granted.

Although the officials in the city were replaced by the First Legion, a considerable number of the soldiers guarding the city still belonged to the Second Legion. Seeing Wu Fan back, these soldiers cheered one by one. Wu Fanji rushed straight to the palace amid the cheers of the soldiers guarding the city and the people in the city.

When he arrived at the entrance of the palace city, Wu Fan didn't even get off his horse, shouted "Gao", Jueying neighed and rushed into the city.

The guards of the palace city belonged to the First Legion. Seeing Wu Fan like this, he was interested in asking. But seeing Wu Fan's angry look, Zhao Yun and others following him were all riding their horses. The guards knew that things were definitely not simple. They opened their mouths, and in the eyes of Wu Fan's scanding over, they immediately choked back what they wanted to say, and watched Wu Fan lead his generals to rush in.

It was not until the entrance of the main hall that Wu Fan jumped off the horse's back and walked into the hall with a real dragon and flickering. Standing at the entrance of the hall, looking around, the entire main hall was empty, with only one person sitting on the main hall, Liu Fu.

Liu Fu was a civil servant in the First Legion. He was in the wilderness in Chenliu. After being discovered by Cao Zhi, he succeeded in becoming a successful person. This is a typical literati who has never been to the battlefield and has been in the rear. Suddenly, he saw Wu Fan and other military generals rushing into the hall with bright weapons, Liu Fu was immediately relieved.

"Where is Sima Yi?"

Wu Fan quickly looked at Liu Fu and suddenly asked.

Liu Fu was shocked by the question, woke up and hesitated:

"Uh... Lord Changshi left the city three days ago and has not returned yet."

"Where is Ziheng?"

Wu Fan asked again.

Liu Fu said:

"I went out of the city with Lord Changshi, and stayed here to temporarily handle the affairs of the city as the prefect."

When Wu Fan heard this, he was angry and swung his empty left hand to his side. With a "boom", the heavy vermilion palace flew out of the frame and rolled forty or fifty meters away, falling on the bluestone ground outside the hall and split into pieces.

Turning around, Wu Fan was about to leave the hall and lead his army to Cui Yangyang's hometown in Jinyang. Liu Fu, who had been unaware of the situation, was still trembling at this time, but he still plucked up his courage to ask:

"Governor Wu, I wonder why you led the generals to the hall with weapons?"

Liu Fu is now the prefect of Yecheng, and he can guess with his feet that there must be a major incident in Wu Fan. For this reason, he must ask a question so that he will not be able to make trouble after Cao Pi comes back.

Wu Fan stopped, turned around and looked at Liu Fu, and said coldly:

"You'd better pray that this has nothing to do with you."

At this time, Wu Fan was in a state of anger and was not as humble as ever to his colleagues. At this time, anyone who didn't have eyes to provoke him would really be disgusted with his life.

After leaving this sentence, Wu Fan led everyone out of Yecheng and headed straight for Bingzhou.

...

Let’s talk about it in two ways, let’s talk about Cao Pi and Sima Yi.

Long before Wu Fan decided to attack Yunnan City, he had already asked Wu Qiong, the servant from Cao Pi's mansion to return to Yecheng.

Although it has been confirmed that the letter sent was forged by Sima Yi, it is unknown what Cao Pi wrote the original letter. In addition, Cao Pi was standing with Sima Yi from the beginning, so Wu Fan could not take Cao Pi lightly.

So, when Wu Fan asked Wu Qiong to return to Yecheng, he said nothing or made any statement. He only asked Wu Qiong to tell Cao Pi that the letter had been received. There was nothing else.

Because Wu Qiong was riding alone, he walked quickly along the way, and Wu Fan returned to Yecheng five days in advance.

Cao Pi was waiting for Wu Qiong's news in Yecheng, and he was looking forward to it. Seeing that Wu Qiong was back, he hurriedly asked Wu Fan if he had replied?

Wu Qiong shook his head and said that Governor Wu did not give any letters.

When Cao Pi heard this, his heart was mostly cold. Looking at the south for a long time, he finally turned his head slowly and looked at Wu Qiong and said:

"Then... what did the Eighth Uncle say after seeing the letter? How did he express his expression? Let me tell you in detail."

Wu Qiong said truthfully:

"Reply to Master, when Governor Wu saw the letter at first, he was extremely angry. He held the letter in his hand and his knuckles clattered. Later, Governor Wu ordered people to find it again. At that time, in addition to Governor Wu, there were two other people in the hall. This time Governor Wu did not speak, but one of the two asked if he had ever contacted others."

Although Wu Qiong could not name Xun You and Ju Su, Cao Pi knew that he must be a counselor under Wu Fan when he thought about it. He was puzzled by the question about Wu Qiong, "Have you ever contacted others?" What does this mean?

After Cao Pi was suspicious for a while, he couldn't think of what the question meant, so he asked Wu Qiong how he answered it. Wu Qiong didn't hide it. In fact, he didn't know that Sima Yi and Cao Pi were now in disagreement, and said bluntly that Sima Yi had drunk with him, which caused him to be drunk all night.

Cao Pi was shocked when he heard this and asked Wu Qiong if the letter on him had ever been seen by Sima Yi?

Wu Qiong answered confidently: The letter has been good. Before leaving, I had carefully looked at the hot-lacquered seal on the envelope, and it was intact.

Wu Fan made a mistake here. He should have written a letter to Cao Pi, implying: Your original letter from Cao Pi was dropped by Sima Yi, and I received a letter made by Sima Yi; and I don’t know what you want to say to me at all.

As the saying goes, a wise man must have a memorial. When Wu Fan learned that Sima Yi sent troops to Cui Yangyang's hometown, he was in a hurry and was eager to attack Yunnan, so he neglected this.

Let’s take a step back, if Guo Jia was by Wu Fan at that time, he should be able to remind Wu Fan. However, Wu Fan’s advisers such as Guo Jia, Zhou Yu, Lu Xun, and Xu Shu were all in the other two cities, so they didn’t know that Cao Pi had sent a letter to Yunnan.

It just fits the saying that man's calculation is not as good as God's calculation.

Besides, Cao Pi felt relieved when he learned that the letter was not seen by Sima Yi. When he thought that Wu Fan was extremely angry when he saw his letter, Cao Pi couldn't help but shake his head secretly, thinking that Wu Fan was worried about the incident that he had been pestering Qiao back then. In addition, he colluded with Sima Yi to assassinate him in the previous episode, so he refused to forgive him at all. In Wu Fan's opinion, his words of asking for forgiveness were extremely shameless.

"You can't live if you commit sins yourself. You can't live if you commit sins yourself."

In Wu Qiong's puzzled eyes, Cao Pi murmured to himself and left with a staggering pace.

On the second day after that, Sima Yi received the news that Wu Fan had led 100,000 cavalry to return to Hebei day and night; at the same time, Sima Yi sent people to capture Cui Yangyang and his daughter, but had not returned yet, so he must have not caught anyone.

So, Sima Yi came to find Cao Pi and asked Cao Pi and himself to lead his army out of the city and personally go to Bingzhou to arrest Cui Yangyang and his daughter. Only by capturing this mother and daughter can we have hope of life. Otherwise, once Wu Fan leads his army, we will immediately die without a complete body.

Cao Pi had no idea now, so he followed Sima Yi to Bingzhou with some of the first army in Yecheng.
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