Three Kingdoms: Madam, I am a decent person

Chapter 647 Ma Chao's Attack丨Chen Jiao Lost Contact

Yecheng.

The hall of government office.

Zhang Sui is handling official business these days.

Spring ploughing begins during this period, and Hebei is extremely busy everywhere.

As the lord, he was always building the character of Emperor Wen of Han, so he often took civil and military officials to participate in farming.

In the past, he would give himself a day or two off after each farming day.

Anyway, there are Ju Shou, Chen Deng and others to support us.

These people are much better at handling government affairs than he is.

He just needs to grasp the key points.

However, during this period of time, he didn't dare.

Because, just as the previous intelligence said, Ma Chao, as Cao Cao's vanguard, really led the Ma family army from Huaili, all the way to Mianchi, and confronted Wen Chou's main army stationed in Jiguan!

This time, the Ma family army led by Ma Chao had 3,000 cavalrymen alone!

There are nearly 10,000 infantrymen of various types.

This news was brought by someone from Sili.

This is an extremely large army.

Three thousand cavalrymen is a terrifying number.

Now, there are only about 6,000 cavalrymen in the entire Hebei Province!
Not to mention, Ma Chao grew up in Liang Province and was good at fighting on horseback.

Ma Chao himself was extremely brave and also had some strategy.

Zhang Sui had to know the movements of Ma Chao and Wen Chou every day.

He was afraid that Wen Chou would not listen to advice and insist on going to war with Ma Chao.

Fortunately, the news coming from Jiguan during this period was very simple: everything was fine.

However, there was one thing that made Zhang Sui, Ju Shou, Chen Deng, Liu Ye, Chen Gong and others feel uneasy.

That is, in addition to Wen Chou, the person who originally sent the news back to Jiguan was also the military advisor Chen Jiao.

Chen Jiao’s reply frequency is very stable: basically once every three days, and each time he will explain the various events that happened in the past three days.

But now, Chen Jiao hasn't replied to the message for ten days.

Qilin Pavilion Master Chen Deng has already sent people to Jiguan to investigate.

Zhang Sui has had trouble sleeping these days.

To be honest, on the battlefield, he was a little bit unsure about other people leading the battle.

He is more confident in himself.

He felt reassured only after he had seen and heard it with his own ears on the battlefield.

But now, it is unrealistic for him to go to the battlefield in person.

The area he is in now is so large that there are enemies everywhere.

It is impossible for him to create a clone and go to different places by himself.

Therefore, he could only be patient and place his hopes on others.

Of course, the most important reason why he was willing to sit in Yecheng was the historical Zhuge Liang.

In history, Zhuge Liang was in charge of both military and political affairs in his later years, and he had to handle most things personally.

Although there was a reason that Shu Han lacked talent.

However, if Zhuge Liang did not boldly delegate power, the mediocre people would have no chance to make mistakes, no chance to grow, and would only become more mediocre.

This led to a severe shortage of talent in the late Shu Han Dynasty.

Therefore, even though Zhang Sui did not like it, he still listened to the advice of Ju Su and others and gave the opportunity to make merit to his generals.

Even if you make mistakes.

At least these generals should be given the opportunity to grow.

Just as Zhang Sui was reviewing official business with some impatience, Lu Xun walked in holding a bamboo tube.

Zhang Sui hurriedly stood up and asked, "Is there any news about Chen Jiao in Jiguan?"

Lu Xun shook his head.

Zhang Sui was a little disappointed, so he sat down and leaned on the table.

Seeing Zhang Sui like this, Lu Xun comforted him softly, "Sir, don't worry."

"No news now is the best news."

"Besides, the people from Qilin Pavilion have been gone for several days. It's time for them to come back."

“Besides, General Wen Chou is one of the four lieutenant generals and the commander of the Second Legion. He has commanded troops for many years and will not make mistakes easily.” Zhang Sui then perked up and glanced at Lu Xun.

That's what it says.

However, as a person who traveled through time from two thousand years later, he knew the ending of Wen Chou in the original history.

Historically, Wen Chou, as one of the Four Pillars of Hebei, went to war with Cao Cao after Yan Liang was killed by Guan Yu, but was killed in the chaos.

There is no record of who killed him.

However, the fact that he was killed in the chaos of war also shows some of Wen Chou's abilities.

Among the many generals in Hebei today, Wen Chou is the one he is most worried about.

Yan Liang, Zhang He and Gao Lan all had deep friendships with him.

If he says one, none of the three can say two.

The only person he wasn't close to was Wen Chou.

To be exact, there was hardly any personal relationship.

In his early years when he was still under Yuan Shao, Wen Chou even disdained him and even looked down on him.

He had thought more than once about kicking Wen Chou out of the four generals and replacing him with Zhao Yun.

However, firstly, Wen Chou himself is the most experienced among the many military generals in Hebei.

Secondly, Wen Chou has not made any major mistakes so far.

Thirdly, during the previous melee in Yecheng, Wen Chou was also a comrade-in-arms who fought side by side with him.

Fourthly, Wen Chou was a good friend of Yan Liang who was as close as a brother.

For many reasons, he didn't dare to think about it.

It was also from Wen Chou that Zhang Sui realized the frustration of being a local overlord but not being able to do whatever he wanted.

With a long sigh, Zhang Sui suppressed his restlessness and said to Lu Xun, "Where did the news come from today?"

Lu Xun then hurriedly opened the lid of the bamboo tube, took out a piece of cloth from it, shook it open, confirmed that there was nothing unusual, and handed it to Zhang Sui, saying, "It's from Xia Pi."

Zhang Sui said "oh" and took a glance.

Xia Pi?

That’s Tian Feng.

Tian Feng is in charge of Xuzhou, and the situation is very stable.

In addition, Zhang Liao had just defeated Sun Quan's army of 100,000 with only 6,000 troops.

He was completely confident about Xuzhou.

Sure enough, there was no dangerous news in it.

In this piece of cloth, Tian Feng first explained the current situation in Xuzhou in one sentence: very good.

The recruitment of 10,000 soldiers is also nearing completion.

This time, the recruitment campaign offered generous rewards, which was something Xuzhou had never experienced before.

At first, the people didn't believe it.

Tian Feng personally went out to explain to the people of Xuzhou about Zhang Sui's actions in recruiting 3,000 new soldiers in Zhongshan County, and only then did the people believe it.

Afterwards, Tian Feng confessed something that surprised Zhang Sui.

That is: Sun Quan, the lord of Jiangdong, sent an envoy, Lu Fan, to Xiapi to meet Tian Feng and seek marriage! Sun Quan was willing to marry his half-sister Sun Ren to Zhang Sui in order to seek an alliance between Jiangdong and Hebei and to stop the war.

Zhang Sui read the contents of the note several times before he was sure that he was not seeing things.

Jiangdong had just recently launched a large-scale attack on Guangling, Lujiang and other places.

Why did they suddenly take the initiative to propose marriage and alliance?
Moreover, Sun Quan's own sister was sent over for marriage.

Although he couldn't figure it out, Zhang Sui didn't get bothered.

Looking at Lu Xun, Zhang Sui said, "When you preside over the morning meeting tomorrow, add the marriage with Jiangdong to the agenda."

After Zhang Sui finished speaking, he threw the cloth strip to Lu Xun and said, "Go and get busy!"

Lu Xun took the cloth, took a look at it, said "oh", and turned away.

Zhang Suize continued to handle official business.

Afterwards, Zhang Sui lay on the table and slept for a while.

I don’t know how long I slept before Zhang Sui was pushed awake by someone.

Zhang Sui raised his head in a daze.

He saw Chen Deng and Ju Shou standing in front of him, both of them looked unhappy.

(End of this chapter)