After dealing with the matter of Yang Song's brothers, Cao Cao turned his attention to Zhang Lu. He could not use a knife to kill Zhang Lu like Yang Song. No matter what, Zhang Lu has been preaching in Hanzhong since his three generations, and there are many believers. If Zhang Lu is killed, it will definitely arouse public grievances and will inevitably affect Cao Cao's follow-up plan. Therefore, Cao Cao decided not to kill Zhang Lu for the time being. Even if he wanted to kill, he would have to wait until he gave Hanzhong to Liu Bei. At that time, the person who came to welcome the anger of hundreds of thousands of people in Hanzhong was Liu Bei.

After pondering for a moment, Cao Cao spoke, "Zhang Lu, you have been a prince in the area and have been guarding Dongchuan for many years, and you have made some contributions. We decided to give you a chance to make up for your merits. As long as you are willing to follow us, we will recommend you to the emperor as General Zhennan. How about it?"

Zhang Lu was naturally overjoyed when he survived the disaster. He quickly knelt down on the ground and saluted Cao Cao constantly, and said with gratitude: "Thank you for not killing Cao, Zhang Luming is grateful."

When Zhang Lu was able to survive, Liu Bei had already led his army to Guanghan. Guanghan bordered Hanzhong and was a county in the northernmost part of Yizhou. Liu Bei rode a white horse and ran wildly, and turned back from time to time to call on the soldiers under his command to speed up. The horse that Liu Bei sat down was not the BMW Lu. When Pang Tong was caught in an arrow, Lu had been shot and killed by Zhang Ren. However, Liu Bei's preference for riding a white horse was retained. The white horse he rode was secretly bought from Xiliang at a high price. Although it was not as good as Lu, it was also a rare good horse. Liu Bei named it the small Lu to commemorate the dead Lu horse. It can be seen that in Liu Bei's heart, Pang Tong was not even as good as Lu horse.

In front of him, the figure of probing a horse appeared, and ran straight to Liu Bei's horse, then turned over and fell down, and knelt down to the ground. He said to Liu Bei: "Reported to the lord, Cao's army was like a divine weapon that fell from the sky last night, and took down Hanzhong City overnight. This morning, another Anmin notice was posted. Most of the dozen counties in Hanzhong County had expressed their willingness to submit to Cao Cao."

The news that Liu Bei found when he discovered the horse was deliberately made for Liu Bei to show. He wanted Liu Bei to think that he wanted to lay a foundation in Hanzhong and occupy Hanzhong for a long time, so that he could lead Liu Bei to fall into his calculations. Facts proved that Cao Cao's wisdom and strategy were indeed better than Liu Bei. After hearing the news about the horse exploration, Liu Bei was furious and raised his horse whip and whipped hard on the small Lu's horse thigh, and shouted loudly: "The whole army speeds up, and before sunset tomorrow, we must rush to the city of Hanzhong!"

In fact, Liu Bei's ability to lead troops to fight is still good. This can be seen from his repeated defeats in the early stage but his spare energy to fight again and again. Although Liu Bei repeatedly failed in the early stage, he was able to regroup in the shortest time, which shows that he did have some skills. But the problem is that Liu Bei led troops to fight for more than 20 years ago, and the number of people commanded was only a few thousand. It can only be regarded as a small group of troops. He has become accustomed to the combat style of commanding small groups of troops. Now

After Liu Bei got most of Yizhou and Jingzhou, his troops had been rolling to nearly one million in a few years. Liu Bei was still far from adapting. This time, he completely followed the previous combat command. He used the 200,000 army as a raid team of 2,000 people, and asked the 200,000 army to travel hundreds of miles a day and night. This was obviously a bit difficult for people. Even if the 200,000 army felt as scheduled, it would probably turn into a last-minute crossbow.

This is not something that Liu Bei's subordinate Fa Zheng, Zhang Song and others could not see, but Hanzhong's military strategic position was too important. They all wanted to take Hanzhong into their own hands as soon as possible as the gateway to Yizhou to ensure the safety of Yizhou. Therefore, no one refuted Liu Bei's words and silently accepted the order to accelerate the march.

In the west of Hanzhong, Ma Chao was also on the way to march. After receiving Ao Lie's order, Ma Chao immediately divided the Hu Ben Lishen into two, and 10,000 people were stationed on the throat road from Guanzhong to Liangzhou to prevent Cao Cao from going north to attack Liangzhou. This part of the people was led by Ma Dai. The other 10,000 Hu Ben Lishen were incorporated into the army by Ma Chao, and together with the other 40,000 soldiers, under the leadership of Ma Chao, they rushed to Wudu County. After arriving in Wudu, Ma Chao met with Pang De. While the two were discussing the next action, the explorer suddenly came to report that Hanzhong City had fallen into Cao Cao's hands. This time, Cao Cao played a blitzkrieg, which was unexpected. When Ma Chao heard the news, he immediately led a army of 50,000 out of Wudu and headed straight for Hanzhong.

Most of the Yan army in Liangzhou were good at riding horses, and most of the soldiers were cavalry. Therefore, when Liu Bei ordered the speed of the march to speed up, Ma Chao had already arrived with his men and horses to Hanzhong first. When Ma Chao arrived, most counties in Hanzhong County had already followed Cao Cao under the guidance of their respective county magistrates. Only the county guarded by Yan Pu and the other two were still wandering. At that time, Yan Pu was scolded by Zhang Lu for giving Zhang Lu a rebellious advice, and finally was demoted to the farthest north of Hanzhong and the closest county to Liangzhou as a county magistrate. As a result, when Hanzhong City fell, Yan Pu, who was demoted, was unwilling to surrender to Cao Cao. It was truly a shame.

Yan Pu knew that the troops of two or three counties alone were far from enough to regain Hanzhong. What's more, Zhang Lu had already accepted Cao Cao's enthronement and became General Zhennan with great interest. Hanzhong had lost his original master. In the case of internal and external troubles, Yan Pu had no choice but to surrender to Ma Chao. Yan Pu still heard of Ao Lie's reputation. He knew that Ao Lie was a wise lord who compassionate the people. Moreover, after Ma Chao took over Liangzhou for a year, with the help of Chen Gong and Ma Dai, he managed Liangzhou. Although the methods were not very novel, they were basically copying the governance model of Yanjing's laws, the effect was very good. After this year's governance, the lives of the residents of Liangzhou had improved greatly compared to before, and the combat effectiveness and cohesion of the army also became stronger. Yan Pu saw all these, which was also the fundamental reason why he participated in Ao Lie.

With the help of Yan Pu, Ma Chao successfully gathered the troops from the three counties in the northeast of Hanzhong, then turned to the direction of Hanzhong City. After conquering two counties in a row, he came to the outside of Hanzhong City. After setting up a large camp outside Hanzhong City. After a little rest, Ma Chao led 10,000 tiger-believers to the camp and went straight to the city to challenge Cao Cao.

Facing Ma Chao's challenge, Cao Cao was a little distracted at the beginning, and only sent two deputy generals to force Ma Chao away with the crowd. He did not want to fight Ma Chao at this time. This affected the entire subsequent plan. Unexpectedly, Ma Chao, the Jin Jin of Xiliang, was really well-known. With just three moves, he killed two deputy generals of Cao Cao and lowered the horse. He then led 10,000 tigers into the flock of sheep and broke into the Cao army formation. Cao's army, who took the two deputy generals out of the city, killed all of them and shouted to her. They all scattered birds and beasts. Finally, the soldiers who returned to Hanzhong City lost 70% of them.

Ma Chao's arrogance and courage angered Cao Cao. Cao Cao decided to lead his troops out of the city to drive away Ma Chao. In order not to affect the pre-determined plan, Cao Cao only brought Xiahou Yuan, Yan Liang and Wen Chou with him, and brought 20,000 Cao troops out of the city to confront Ma Chao.

Seeing Cao Cao go out of the city, Ma Chao jumped into a horse with his gun and pointed at Cao Cao and shouted: "Cao thief! Why did the soldiers invade Hanzhong? Do you want to rebel or embezzle the territory of the King of Yan?" Hanzhong is adjacent to Sanfu area and two states, and can use troops in these two directions at any time. This is well-known.

Cao Cao laughed and said, "Ma! I am neither disrespectful to the emperor nor offend the King of Yan. I am just grateful to the people of Hanzhong, who live under the tyrannical rule of Zhang Lu all day long, and feel sad. Then I come to Hanzhong, intending to save the people of Hanzhong and the fire of water and fire, that's all."

Ma Chao said angrily: "Don't be so sweet about Cao's thief. You can hide your tricks from others. But you can't hide them from me, Ma Chao! Look at the gun!" Before he finished speaking, Ma Chao was sitting down and suddenly stepped on his four hooves, as if he was flying up and down. He rushed towards Cao Cao as fast as lightning. Ma Chao on the horse's back turned the tiger-headed golden spear in his hand, and the sharp spear tip was aimed at Cao Cao's heart.

Seeing Ma Chao say he should do it, Xiahou Yuan stopped doing it. He waved his sword and rode his horse to Cao Cao, slashing at the tip of Ma Chao's spear. The swords and guns collided, and a loud bang broke out, spreading towards the soldiers on both sides. The tiger-bearing soldiers seemed to have not heard of it, and their feet were still standing straight in place. However, the soldiers behind Cao Cao could not bear it. Many soldiers took two steps back and covered their ears to withstand the huge shock of this life. From this detail, it can be seen that the elite level of the tiger-bearing soldiers was far above the Cao army, and the two were judged to be judged.

Seeing Xiahou Yuan blocking his shot, Ma Chao conveyed the power from the knife and felt Xiahou Yuan’s extraordinary martial arts. The fighting spirit in his heart immediately burned, and he shouted loudly: “Come again!” Xiahou Yuan shook his big sword, snorted coldly, and replied: “Is it still afraid that you will not be able to do it?”

Then, one shot and one sword hit each other again. In the shadow of the sword, the two of them fought each other for more than 30 rounds, but they still had no choice but to win or lose. Once again, they passed by Xiahou Yuan. Ma Chao secretly thought in his heart: Xiahou Yuan is skilled in martial arts. If he didn't use the shooting skills taught by his second brother, he would probably not be able to fight him in a short time. With his thoughts, Ma Chao decided not to fight anymore. He pulled the reins and turned back to the horse's head with Sha Lifei.

The next moment, Ma Chao's momentum rose sharply. The tiger-fighting Zhan golden spear seemed to be burdened with a heavy burden of ten thousand pounds, and seemed particularly dull. He was lifted up by Ma Chao inch by inch. During the lifting process, a faint light appeared on the sharp spear tip. It was not until the spear tip was lifted up by Ma Chao and aimed at Xiahou Yuan that Ma Chao stopped moving, maintained the posture of pointing the spear at Xiahou Yuan, and shouted: "Can you dare to fight again?"

Xiahou Yuan was angry by Ma Chao. He waved his sword and kicked his legs hard on the horse's belly, rushing towards Ma Chao. Ma Chao looked at Xiahou Yuan's pace of war horses and secretly calculated the time in his heart. When Xiahou Yuan came to him three steps away, it was the best time for him to take action! Due to the physical limitations of humans in this era, Ma Chao could not cultivate internal energy, but Ma Chao's physique was quite special. Although he could not cultivate internal energy, he somehow found the method of using the secret energy by himself. Later,

After meeting Ao Lie in Luoyang and becoming sworn brothers with Ao Lie, Ao Lie tailored a set of White Tiger Roaring Sky Art for him based on Ma Chao's special physique. After this set of exercises is perfected, Ma Chao's strength, speed, and adaptability can be greatly improved. At the same time, Ma Chao can also become more handy in the use of dark energy. Now Ma Chao has not yet mastered this set of exercises to achieve great success, but it can already support Ma Chao to be able to use three dark energy in a row, which is enough!

Three steps! Xiahou Yuan was already within three steps of Ma Chao. Ma Chao's hand seemed to be carrying a tiger-headed golden spear weighing ten thousand pounds. Suddenly, he seemed to have removed all his strength and rushed towards Xiahou Yuan's chest as if he was taking off a rabbit. Because of his speed, a afterimage even appeared in the air. From a distance, the afterimage formed the shape of a tiger-headed sword. That's right, Ma Chao's White Tiger Roaring Sky Art was finally used, and he wanted to decide the outcome with one move!

Xiahou Yuan was startled by Ma Chao's quick gun. He wanted to change his sword, but it was too late. He quickly penetrated his arms and held the knife rod tightly with both hands, and used the knife rod to face Ma Chao's shot that was as fast as lightning and as powerful as a thousand pounds.

Dang--With Ma Chao's gun, which perfectly integrated speed and power, Xiahou Yuan's knife rod was broken by a blow, and a hidden force was transmitted into Xiahou Yuan's body along the broken knife rod, and hit him hard in the middle of his internal organs. Puchi--Xiahou Yuan vomited blood in his mouth, rolling and falling under the horse.
Chapter completed!