Three Kingdoms, I'm really not a general!

Chapter 441: The Cao family is doomed!
On top of Tongguan, Zhong Yao was trembling with fear, watching Zhang Fei approaching step by step, with all kinds of thoughts in his mind.

So when Zhang Fei came over, Zhong Yao still looked conflicted.

Zhang Fei saw the guard in front of him with a tangled face. He thought that this guy was quite capable and almost saw through him, so he asked, "General Cao, who are you?"

Zhong Yao replied subconsciously: "I am Zhong Yao, the Minister of Justice of the Great Wei."

Zhang Fei laughed when he heard this: "What a joke! There is only the Han Dynasty in this world, where does the Wei Dynasty come from?"

"Besides, there is only the saying of the Tingwei, not the saying of the Tingwei Qing!"

Zhang Fei is right.

The so-called Tingwei is the name of an official position in the judicial trial institution, and was also called Dali in the Western Han Dynasty.

It was first established in the Qin State during the Warring States Period and continued in the Qin Dynasty and Western Han Dynasty.

The nine ministers are the chiefs of the highest judicial institution in the central government. They compile the number of cases judged nationwide and are in charge of matters related to the imperial prison and the revision of laws and decrees. Their subordinate officials include the Zheng and the Zuo and You Jian.

However, during the Wei Dynasty, he was indeed called Tingwei Qing as a respectful title.

But in Zhang Fei's ears, it sounded a bit unorthodox and not worth listening to.

Zhong Yao's face darkened slightly as he listened to Zhang Fei's words.

After all, this guy was very teasing and indulgent, so Zhong Yao naturally couldn't be in a good mood.

This guy Zhong Yao is actually quite famous.

First, his family is quite powerful, and second, this guy does have some real skills.

Apart from other things, Zhong Yao's calligraphy skills are truly world-famous.

Zhong Yao learned calligraphy from Cao Xi, Cai Yong and Liu Desheng, and he learned from their strengths and was good at official script, regular script and running script.

He has in-depth and thorough research on the composition and structure of calligraphy.

People in aristocratic families often say that his calligraphy is clever, interesting, delicate, dense, profound, natural and without any artificiality.

His regular script writing style and structure have a strong flavor of official script, and his style is simple and simple. He has been regarded as a model by the past dynasties and is known as the "ancestor of formal script".

Anyway...

To briefly evaluate his calligraphy skills, he was later called "Zhong Wang" together with Wang Xizhi.

This shows Zhong Yao's ability.

However, Zhang Fei did not care about Zhong Hui's calligraphy attainments. He just called out to Zhong Yao and said, "Since you are defeated today, you should stay in Tongguan with me and be obedient."

"I won't ask you whether you surrender or not. I will ask you after we capture Chang'an."

Zhong Yao felt relieved when he heard Zhang Fei say this.

If Zhang Fei asked him to surrender right now, he would not be willing to do so. But he also felt it was not worth it if he had to die if he did not surrender.

Although Zhong Yao was from a noble family in Yingchuan and was a staunch supporter of the Cao family, he had to think twice when it came to a critical moment involving his own life.

Zhang Fei threw himself aside and looked like he was ready to do nothing, which actually echoed Zhong Yao's thoughts.

only…

If Tongguan is taken, won't Chang'an be surrounded?

Thinking about this...

Zhong Yao suddenly felt that the Cao family was in danger...

...

Not only Zhong Yao felt the danger, but Zhang He and others in Chang'an also felt the danger.

The news of Cao Hong's defeat spread back to Chang'an.

Just as Zhang Fei expected, it was impossible for him to control every Cao soldier, and there would always be one or two missed.

Fortunately, these Cao soldiers who escaped subconsciously returned to Chang'an and did not go to Tongguan.

This allowed Zhang Fei's plan to succeed and was not exposed.

However, no matter what, when they learned that Cao Hong had died in battle, they were all filled with grief and anger, and their hearts were heavy, and no one looked happy.

After a while, Zhang He took the lead and said, "General Cao died in the battle, and Weinan was not taken back. Is Tongguan in danger?"

When Xu Huang saw someone speaking, he hurriedly said, "Let's not talk about General Cao Hong's current situation first. The key is what's happening in Tongguan!" There was naturally nothing wrong with what Xu Huang said!
The life and death of this general is certainly not as important as the gain or loss of Tongguan.

But the problem is that the Cao family doesn’t see it that way!

For example, Cao Xiu... at the moment was concerned about Cao Hong's life and death first. After hearing Xu Huang's words, he suddenly felt unhappy.

He narrowed his glasses immediately and was about to step forward to refute Xu Huang.

However, before he could say anything, Sima Yi took over the conversation and said, "It was my fault that I should not have used Cao Hong as a reinforcement to rush to Tongguan!"

"Alas! I didn't expect that his army was so careless during the march that even Zhang Fei, that reckless man, could sneak attack him."

"Now his life and death are small, Tongguan is big!"

"We need to know the news of Tongguan as soon as possible. Please ask Gongming to go and scout and find out the situation."

This conversation directly characterized Cao Hong's behavior.

Delay important things!

A worthy death!

Cao Xiu was naturally unhappy when he heard this, but everyone was anxious to know the developments in Tongguan, so they didn't care about Cao Hong's death.

Xu Huang said quickly: "I'll go right away."

After saying that, he turned around and went to Tongguan without stopping.

only…

Although they went to Tongguan to gather information, each of them looked extremely heavy.

Everyone knows...

I’m afraid Tongguan is going to be lost!
But no one noticed that although Sima Yi looked a little worried, he actually didn't look worried at all.

On the contrary...

A little bit smug...it seems like everything is as expected.

This expression is indeed difficult to be captured by others, but Cao Xiu has been looking at Sima Yi's expression and can see it clearly!
I couldn't help but think in my heart: "This guy... definitely asked General Cao Hong to go on purpose!"

Once this thought came to his mind, Cao Xiu could no longer control himself.

Cao Zhen...Cao Hong...got into trouble one after another!
From this, it can be seen that Sima Yi seems to be targeting the generals of the Cao family!
Of course, the members of the Cao family did not die at the hands of Sima Yi, but at the hands of the enemy.

Of course…

Cao Xiu vaguely felt that all these things were planned by Sima Yi.

If this is really the case...it is targeted, absolutely targeted!
Cao Xiu had a feeling that Sima Yi was going to kill all the generals in Cao's army one by one!
But this matter was just Cao Xiu's guess and there was no basis for it at all.

He could only keep it in his heart.

...

Xu Huang's scouts returned quickly, but the news they brought was quite bad.

Tongguan is lost!

The Han army actually completed the siege of Chang'an!

This matter made everyone very worried.

Zhang He, Xu Huang, and Yu Jin all looked uglier than the other.

The situation was so bad that Yu Jin even began to blame Cao Hong for his carelessness.

But he said: "If Cao Hong had not been so careless, how could he have lost Tongguan!"

"Today he is dead, what shall we do?"

It really is true that Cao Hong is dead.

If he didn't die, I don't know how he would be blamed.

Sima Yi said: "Cao Hong died for his country, so let's not talk about it. Now we have to take the initiative to attack if we want to resolve the crisis here."

"Everyone... I have a plan now, and everyone please listen to it."

(End of this chapter)