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Chapter 664. Unexpected task

Don't go?

That was a urging person! A few minutes later, as if he was carrying a bag to his leader, Wang Hou still appeared in a hall where a rich family had not completely damaged and collapsed. In the command post that Mr. Cao temporarily recruited.

If it is difficult to be a leader, Cao Cao was still frowning at the map while the army outside was eating and drinking.

When Wang Hou arrived, Xiahou Yuan had already arrived.

"Xiangfu! You are looking for a son-in-law!"

He could not see the arrogant look he had just now, and he looked respectful and respectful. Wang Hou held his fists and bowed respectfully, which finally caused Cao Cao to raise his head from the cowhide map.

Lao Cao never talked nonsense, and clicked on the map and asked them directly.

"What do you think about the current form of Guanzhong?"

"The Prime Minister's army is unstoppable! The thieves in Guanzhong have been completely damaged, and the remnants of Liangzhou are not worth mentioning!"

When talking about this, Xiahou Yuan replied with great confidence, but after looking at the map, Wang Hou pulled his eyebrows slightly and asked in surprise.

"Xiangfu, but is there another wave of trouble in Jiangnan?"

Cao Cao didn't see the map of Yongliang, and the map of Yangzhou area. After the Battle of Red Cliff the previous year, Sun Wu's strength in Jiangnan was particularly enjoyable, and he also gained the population of Jingzhou. More importantly, from the early to late Three Kingdoms, the conflict between Cao Wei and Eastern Wu, in addition to the famous Guan Yu's Northern Expedition flooding and the seven armies that drowned the world, Wang Hou didn't remember much, but the unknown brought fear. God knew whether it was because of his arrival that the Eastern Wu had also mutated. Wang Hou asked with great fear.

"Oh, no, the Sun family won some small victory more than a year ago, and they were even more excited. They built water villages in Ruxukou, hoping to plan our Yanxu Central Plains. I want to go south to meet this blue-eyed child for a while!"

Mr. Cao was still so domineering! It turned out that Sun Quan did not take the initiative to fight the Northern Expedition, but it caused Cao Cao to be afraid enough, which shows that Sun Quan's preparation at Ruxukou this time had indeed posed a considerable threat.

However, it is no wonder that the Battle of Red Cliff rewritten the entire world, and Liu Biao's power was eroded. The biggest beneficiary of the war was Sun Wu. After this battle, the Wu State also gained the huge population and elite talents of Beijingzhou and became stronger.

However, when the direction of Jingzhou was developing, Sun Quan had reached the limit. After heading north and conquering Jiangling, Xiangfan became the last stronghold of Cao Wei in Jiangnan. However, this place was stationed by Cao Ren's main northern legion, protecting Yingchuan Xudu, which was not a good bone. In history, the Song army relied on the Twin Cities across the Yangtze River to resist the attack of the Mongolian army for 14 years, which shows that this place is difficult and dangerous.

If he couldn't break through the middle lane, Sun Quan was not a mediocre person, so he naturally had to explore other channels, so he focused on the generation of Yangzhou and Xuzhou, which was later generations! On the one hand, this is not far from Jiankang, where he established his capital, and took the initiative to attack instead of defending. On the other hand, Cao's army actually had not many troops guarding here! On the north side of Hefei City, only thousands of people were guarding Zhang Liao, Li Dianlejin and others.

Don’t think that if you occupy the entire north, and the population of 70% of China, Cao Cao really has more soldiers and generals. The north is the core of Central Plains civilization, but it is also the most stubborn part of the remaining forces of the aristocratic families in the Eastern Han Dynasty. It can be seen that Wang Hou went to Yanzhou to inspect the land tax, and the Han family in Wuyang alone mobilized 10,000 or 20,000 village heads to besiege him. It can be seen how serious the situation of these aristocratic families is.

The main support of the Cao Wei regime was these Guandong families. Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu gave up Chang'an and moved the capital to Luoyang under the pressure of these supporters. Cao Cao could not truly touch the bottom line of the aristocratic families. In the past two years, General Cao's consistent suppression policy became forced to win over because of his political desire to replace the Han Dynasty.

The wealthy families hid a considerable part of the resources and population in the north, which naturally weakened Cao Han's strength.

Now the total strength of Cao Han is only 400,000. However, excluding the county and state defense troops that are difficult to mobilize in each county and city, the remaining one is only more than 200,000. Cao Ren has 30,000 troops on the Yangtze River defense line to quell the Shangyao Rebellion in Bingzhou. Xiahou Yuan and Xu Huang divided 30,000 troops. Cao Cao brought another 70,000 troops to the expedition of Guanzhong. He left 30,000 troops to stay in Yecheng, and Xudu's defense troops were 20,000. The 200,000 troops had consumed 170,000 troops. The defensive and shock troops placed by Cao Cao even had only a few thousand troops in each state! The Yangzhou area in Ruxukou, Yangzhou, naturally became a breakthrough for the empty defense.

So I don’t have time to continue to wipe out Ma Chao and Han Sui’s remnants of power, and I’m eager to turn around and deal with the threat from Sun Quan. Mr. Cao really wants to return to the court!

Xiahou Yuan was a little weak now. Only with soldiers could he be strong. Now that Cao's army had just entered Guanzhong, he just massacred the troops of the Guanzhong warlords. The rule of defense of various counties and counties has not yet been established. General Cao was about to leave. It is unknown how many troops they left behind. Even if Ma Chao and Han Sui were defeated, they still had at least 20,000 troops. Moreover, the Ma family and Han family have been in the Western Qiang for many years and have a deep force. In a blink of an eye, they could get tens of thousands of troops out. It is an extremely difficult task to defend Guanzhong!

However, Cao Cao seemed to not expect him, and his eyes were all on Wang Hou, the unlucky son-in-law.

"Tuqiu, what do you think about the situation in Guanzhong?"

"Disaster!"

Wang Hou also spread his hands simply.

"It is easy to trap Guanzhong, just keep the four gates, but if you don't guard Liangzhou, you will just die in the grave. Ma Chao and Han are so powerful in Liangzhou. Qiang and Di are willing to serve him! There are many barbarian warriors! And the most dangerous enemy is not them, but the southwest!"

"Last year, the Prime Minister wanted to attack Hanzhong, and the governor of Yizhou Liu Zhang was afraid and invited Liu Bei from Jingzhou to join Sichuan to resist the Prime Minister together! If he didn't go out to seek urination, Liu Bei would turn against him and replace him! At that time, Liu Bei would occupy Jingchuan, and his next goal would be to go north to Guanzhong and seize Yongliang. At that time, Liu Bei and Ma Chao and Han Sui colluded with each other, attacked each other on both sides, and defended the land of Guanzhong. It would be too difficult!"

"Can Liu Bei really turn against Liu Zhang and fight with each other?"

It's rare! For the first time, Wang Hou's strategic vision came to Cao Cao. Even Cao Cao couldn't help but scream out for his judgment.

It has to be admitted that the best image management in this era is Liu Bei. When he entered Xuzhou, Tao Qian gave Xuzhou to him. Although Liu Biao was guarding against him, the famous scholars of Jingzhou all became one with him. Later, the main political forces of Shu were the Jingzhou faction, such as Ma Liang and Ma Su. Because of Liu Bei's "glorious image", it was comparable to Liu Bang's loyal elder brand at that time. Sun Wu did not dare to swallow Jingzhou in one breath.

He turned against Liu Zhang, who refused to accept others and attacked the Han clan relatives. To be honest, Cao Cao could not believe it for a while!

However, Wang Hou only used one sentence to persuade him.

"Liu Bei has great ambitions!"

In just one sentence, Cao Cao also understood that in the face of the great ambitions of the world, all benevolence, righteousness and morality are empty!

Holding his chin, Cao Cao seriously reconsidered the Southwest defense layout. However, just when Wang Hou was there, he "overwhelmed" Mr. Cao and was able to "see through" Liu Bei's behavior more than Cao Cao, Cao Cao's sudden words almost shocked Wang Hou's chin.

"I want to ask you to be the Grand Tour of Guanzhong! Supervise the two states of Yongliang!"

"What???"
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