Three Kingdoms, I'm really not a general!

Chapter 118 Sun Shiwan's Unavoidable Death
Ma Chao went crazy and killed people.

He stayed on the bamboo mountain for a day and a night, carefully avoiding Cao Cao's troops. It was really depressing for him.

Now that we can finally fight our way out, won’t we go crazy killing people?

It was such a pleasure to kill, when suddenly I saw a soldier horse running out in panic from afar.

Ma Chao saw through the firelight that the man was the candidate.

Hou Xuan was the one who followed Ma Chao to rise up in Xiliang to fight against Cao Cao, but later Ma Chao was defeated and had no choice but to surrender to Cao Cao.

Logically speaking, no one else can be blamed for this kind of surrender.

After all, others did fight for you, but you were defeated in the end, and they can't die with you.

But Ma Chao didn't care about that. He treated Hou Xuan as a traitor and killed him with his spear in hand.

Hou Xuan only saw a cold light coming from the darkness and subconsciously lowered his head to avoid it.

After a narrow escape, he saw the person coming with a pair of angry eyes staring at him. Who else could it be but Ma Chao?
He was panicking, knowing that he was no match for the enemy, but he shouted, "Mengqi, I surrendered to Cao Cao out of helplessness. Now that I see you today, I can give up the dark and join the light!"

Ma Chao was unmoved by what he heard. He rode forward again and pointed his spear at the candidates: "You thief, you dare to betray me? I will kill you today!"

Hou Xuan's heart trembled when he heard this, and when he saw the spear coming again, he turned around and wanted to run.

However, on the battlefield, one must avoid attacking someone from behind. This time, Hou Xuan is completely courting his own death.

He felt a pain in his back and looked down, only to see that Ma Chao's spear had pierced his body.

After Ma Chao captured one general, he immediately went to look for Cao's general. However, in the entire Cao camp, there was only this unlucky guy Hou.

In the Battle of Zhushan, Xing Daorong relied on a series of strategies such as "killing with praise", "ambush", and "night attack" to prevent Cao Hong from getting close to the city at the first sight, and directly defeated Cao Hong's 30,000 troops at the foot of Zhushan.

After Cao Hong's defeat, the morale of the army was low. He knew it was useless to go to Fang Ling, so he could only gather his troops and find Xiahou Yuan.

When Xiahou Yuan heard that Cao Hong was defeated by Xing Daorong at the foot of Zhushan Mountain, he was slightly surprised.

Although I knew that Xing Daorong was powerful, I never thought that Cao Hong would be defeated so quickly.

As far as he thought, the worst that could happen was that he would not be able to take the city and would be blocked outside it.

Any battle in the field will be lost immediately.

However, the situation has come to this point, and it is not the time to blame each other.

Xiahou Yuan immediately joined forces with Cao Hong and met up in Hanzhong.

On the other hand, Xing Daorong learned that Cao Hong and Xiahou Yuan had joined forces, and knew that this was not the time to drive away Cao's troops. He could only set up camp fifty miles outside Nanzheng and cooperate with Nanzheng.

As a result, Cao's army couldn't even surround the city of Nanzheng, and it became a simple confrontation between the two sides.

Xiahou Yuan tried to attack the city several times, but was either repelled by Huang Zhong and Wei Yan on the city wall, or threatened by Xing Daorong's army, so he did not dare to charge the city with all his strength.

There was really no solution at the moment.
The entire Battle of Hanzhong ended in a pure stalemate.

Logically speaking, this stalemate was actually quite good for Liu Bei.

After all, Yi and Jing have not been mobilized yet, and Hanzhong is able to hold out and achieve a stalemate, which is very beneficial to the recovery of people's livelihood on Liu Bei's side.

As for Cao Cao, Liu and Sun were still in the alliance period after all. If Cao Cao could not take Hanzhong or invested more troops, Sun Quan would definitely have some changes in his mind.

Not to mention that now that Cui Yan has surrendered to Liu Bei, Cao Cao's internal forces are already watching the outcome of the battle in Hanzhong.

If you can't get it, there will be real problems.

Yecheng. Cao Cao knew that the battle in Hanzhong was not going well, so he immediately summoned several important advisers to discuss the matter.

At this time, Your Highness, Cao Cao was sitting in the hall, with four people standing below him, namely Xun You, Cheng Yu, Jia Xu, and Sima Yi.

It is because Xing Daorong was not here. If he were here and saw the combination of these four people, he would probably get goose bumps and his hair would stand on end.

At that moment, Cao Cao said, "Hanzhong cannot be taken by force, and I am afraid that Jiangdong may take advantage of the situation. I cannot move the troops to defend Jiangdong. How should I deal with this situation?"

Xun You said, "In the past, Sun Quan joined forces with Liu Bei to fight against us because we were powerful and Liu Bei was weak, so he thought he could use Liu Bei."

"Now that Liu Bei has entered Sichuan, the situation has been broken."

"It is said that the Jingzhou occupied by Liu Bei was borrowed from Sun Quan. Sun Quan asked for it several times but was rejected by Liu Bei. He was already dissatisfied."

"In that case, we can make peace with Sun Quan and ask him to rebel against Liu and ally with Wei."

Cao Cao nodded slightly, then asked the other three people, "What do you think?"

Cheng Yu said, "News has come from Jiangdong that Sun Quan has gathered his troops and will attack Hefei soon. Negotiating peace now would be a sign of surrender. We can wait until we win a great victory in Hefei before sending people to Jiangdong."

Sun Quan has indeed worked hard in recent years.

Seeing Liu Bei and Cao Cao fighting in Hanzhong, he finally remembered to do his business.

We are now gathering a large army to attack Hefei.

This time they are really aggressive. It is said that they have assembled 100,000 troops and are determined to take Hefei with all their might!

Cao Cao was also very troubled by this matter. Hearing that Cheng Yu was confident, he could not help but ask: "Sun Quan has a large number of troops here. Can Zhang Liao defend Hefei?"

Cheng Yu nodded and said, "Zhou Yu died early. Sun Quan has great generals but no commander. If he leads the army himself, it will be even worse."

"Wei Gong is not calm. Even if he has an army of 100,000, it will be difficult to attack Hefei."

Seeing that Cheng Yu had said so much and was so decisive, Cao Cao stopped asking questions and just looked at Jia Xu.

Seeing Cao Cao's gaze on him, Jia Xu knew that he had no choice but to step forward and nod, saying, "If Zhang Liao wins the battle, we can quickly negotiate peace with Sun Quan. The land of Jiangdong is far from a concern, but Liu Bei's power is the real concern!"

Sima Yi didn't need Cao Cao to look over. Since the three people had discussed the strategy, it was finally his turn.

However, the other three had already said what they needed to say, so he really had nothing to say. After thinking for a while, he stepped forward and said, "King of Wei, I can go to Hefei to help General Zhang Liao and defeat Sun Quan!"

Cao Cao glanced at Sima Yi, but did not refuse, just nodded in agreement.

After the matter was settled, Cao Cao's face suddenly darkened again. After a brief thought, he looked at Xun You and asked, "Wen Ruo, how have you been these days?"

Xun You's face did not look good after hearing this, but he sighed and replied: "Thank you King Wei for your concern, but I will stay indoors."

After hearing this, Cao Cao frowned and snorted coldly, "He is stubborn and will not change! Let him be!"

After saying this, he still looked very angry. He just waved his hand and left the hall.

It was obvious that Xun Yu had become a thorn in Cao Cao's side. Whenever the topic was mentioned, he became very upset.

Xun You and others naturally knew it, but when they saw King Wei like this, they didn't say anything.

This core problem is really a problem between the two of them.

It would be great if you could solve it, but if you can't, you may never be able to solve it in your lifetime.

(End of this chapter)