Cao Cao has never been an indecisive person. The suggestions made by Man Chong and Mao Jie do look crazy together, but they are the best way they can find now.

After Cao Cao thought carefully, he did find that he had no way out. Tongguan was in the hands of Liu Zhe, and Cao Ren was isolated in Yongzhou and had to take back Tongguan no matter what.

As for how to regain Tongguan, Cao Cao could think of only a strong attack. As for negotiations, with his understanding of Liu Zhe, the price he paid must be not much different from the price he fought, and it is even greater than the price of a strong attack.

Cao Cao had already experienced Liu Zhe's lion's mouth, so he had this idea and extinguished the idea of ​​bargaining.

Cao Cao looked at the sky and it was already afternoon. He said, "Tell me the order that the army will set sail now and strive to arrive at Tongguan before tomorrow night."

It is more than 140 miles from Hangu Pass to Tongguan, and it takes more than a day to march.

Cao Cao directly started to click: "Yu Jin!"

"The last one will be here!" Yu Jin bowed and left the list.

Cao Cao was very satisfied when he looked at the heroic Yu Jin. When he was attacking Zhang Xiu, Zhang Xiu rebelled. It was Yu Jin who led his men to block Zhang Xiu's pursuit and made great contributions. Cao Cao likes to bring him with him now when he goes to war.

Cao Cao looked at his beloved general and said, "Wenze (Yu Jin), I will give you 40,000 troops. Do you have the confidence to block Zhang Liao from the ferry camp?"

At the ferry camp at the bend of the Yellow River, Liu Zhe asked Zhang Liao to lead 30,000 troops to station, protect Fengling Ferry at the death. He could attack and retreat or defend, and could also support Tongguan.

If Cao Cao wanted to attack Tongguan, the 30,000 troops in the Ferry Camp would not be ignored. If there were a few, it would be easy to be besieged. Therefore, he had to send someone to block Zhang Liao from the Ferry Camp to block the contact between Zhang Liao and Liu Zhe, so as not to echo him with Liu Zhe.

However, it is not said that it can be stopped by blocking. Although Zhang Liao is not the most powerful general under Liu Zhe, he is not an ordinary cat or dog. His ability to be trusted by Liu Zhe and let him be stationed in this life-and-death position is enough to show Liu Zhe's trust in him, and at the same time, his ability, not to mention that Zhang Liao had extremely outstanding achievements when he attacked Yuan Shao.

Faced with such a general, Cao Cao did not give his subordinates a desperate order, but asked Yu Jin if he had confidence. It can be seen that Cao Cao did not have much confidence in his subordinates.

"Even if you fight for your own life, the general will stop Zhang Liao."

Yu Jin's eyes were firm and his expression was serious. Although his voice was not loud, he exuded an incomparable firmness, which was a belief that even if he gave his life, he would stop Zhang Liao.

All his subordinates said this, and Cao Cao had to nodded even if he had no confidence, otherwise he would easily hurt his subordinates' hearts.

"Since that's the case, I'll leave my back to you." Cao Cao said to the forbidden.

If Yu Jin could not intercept Zhang Liao, and let Zhang Liao lead his men out, Cao Cao would really be attacked from both sides. No matter how powerful Cao Cao was, it would be useless.

"Yes!" Yu Jin received the order.

"Cao Hong!"

Cao Cao turned his gaze to Cao Hong and said to him: "I ordered you to lead 5,000 people as the vanguard and travel overnight. Be sure to arrive at Tongguan early in the morning and set up a camp."

"Here!" Cao Hong accepted the order happily.

"Send someone to tell Cao Ren to withdraw his troops from Linjin, give up everything except Chang'an, and then concentrate the troops and attack Tongguan with me. It is necessary to capture Liu Zhe or even kill him."

Cao Cao continued to give orders and asked Man Chong to send a messenger to rush to tell Cao Ren overnight about his latest plan.

"Yes!" Man Chong received the order.

"This battle is related to the gains and losses of Yongzhou. I hope you can do your best to help me." After giving the order, Cao Cao stood up and bowed to all the subordinates present.

"Daily serve you!"

Everyone stood up together, and a solemn aura emanated.

"Set off!"

With Cao Cao's order, a 100,000 army set out in a mighty manner. At the same time, Cao Cao also sent people back to Xudu and planned to suspend the attack on Xuzhou. Everything was postponed until the attack on Tongguan came out. After all, he could not support the battle on both sides now.

The army on Cao Cao's side had just begun, and Liu Zhe received the news.

Liu Zhe asked Zhao Yun: "Cao Cao has arrived?"

"Yes, lord." Zhao Yun replied on the side.

Zhao Yun is actually the garrison of Tongguan now. Although Liu Zhe is here, it is impossible for Liu Zhe to do the big and small affairs of Tongguan, so the burden naturally falls into Zhao Yun's hands.

At the same time, since Liu Zhe was here, Zhao Yun was very nervous and serious. He asked about all matters, regardless of the big or small matters, and tried to avoid any misses in case of any mistakes.

When Cao Cao led a 100,000 army to move, Zhao Yun rushed to tell Liu Zhe as soon as he received the news.

"Don't worry, it's just a hundred thousand people." Liu Zhe didn't care at all.

The current soldiers and his guards in Tongguan have already reached 20,000 people. The tenacious defense of 20,000 people is enough to resist Cao Cao's 100,000 troops.
Chapter completed!