Whether it is Jia Xu's battle report or Lu Gong's report, there are some exaggerations.

In fact, Cao Ren was indeed beaten very badly, but after a few days, more than 8,000 people returned to Jiangling one after another.

These include some Jingzhou people who were captured and unwilling to hang out with Liu Bei's army, such as the loyal Zhang Yun.

After Zhang Yun got ashore, he hugged Cai Mao and cried, saying that he was unyielding after being captured, and fought with Liu Bei's army to the end. Finally, he secretly snatched a boat on a dark and windy night before he escaped. He had done a very good job in loyalty to Prime Minister Cao.

Cai Mao comforted Zhang Yun who was crying with the rain, and kept sneering in his heart. He thought to himself that Zhang Yun was so stupid. It would be fine if he didn't come back. If he came back, it would be embarrassing to everyone. If he came back, he would be unable to do anything in the future.

Cao Ren, who came back two days earlier than Zhang Yun, took off his shirt and carried a bundle of firewood on his back, and took a thorn to apologize to Cao Cao.

He told Cao Cao that, as Lu Ji said before, Zhang Yun was actually a spy of Liu Bei's army and the largest spy placed by Zhuge Liang in Cao's army.

This man was blindly commanding in the Battle of Xiakou, and Guan Ping was ambushed halfway, resulting in the complete destruction of the navy commanded by Cao Ren and countless people rebelled and fled.

After talking about Zhang Yun's problems, Cao Ren conducted self-examination and said that he was impatient and arbitrary in his work, he studied water war theory in a single way, and was not enough to go deep into ordinary soldiers, and his combat guidance on soldiers and generals was insufficient. Although he had done a certain amount of work, he still lacked a certain degree of pioneering and comprehensive and in-depth innovation. He asked Cao Cao to punish him.

Cao Cao was furious and snatched the firewood and beat Cao Ren hard. Cao Ren was dying and scolded Cao Ren for ruling responsibility, resulting in a great defeat. He was simply inferior to a pig or a dog.

Cao Cao is not stupid. If Zhang Yun was really an undercover agent, he would have to go out with Cao Chun that time. If Cao Ren goes out this time, he could have directly led 30,000 people to Liu Bei and handed over Cao Ren to receive the reward - all smart people can guess this matter. If Cao Cao also imitated Cao Ren and pushed all the responsibilities on Zhang Yun, it would be so stupid that he would be breathable.

Chang Diao carried Cao Ren back with fear of being dying, and kept beating in his heart, for fear that Cao Cao would put Cao Ren in prison in anger, and cut them all into venting his anger.

Unexpectedly, Cao Ren, who was dying, kept laughing along the way. Chang Diao thought that he had hit him in the head with a stick just now, and beat him up to be fooled.

"Are you okay, General?"

"Hmph, don't worry, some flesh and blood hurt." Cao Ren sneered, "Gian Ying, just put your heart in your stomach. If the Prime Minister is willing to hit me, it means that he has forgiven me.

If the Prime Minister really wants to deal with me, hehe, then it wouldn’t be a beat me in public. Don’t worry, if there is a reward in the future, I will definitely not forget your life-saving matter.”

Cao Cao beat Cao Ren in public, and he had dealt with Cao Hong with severe punishment before, which proved to everyone that he had no doubts about the people of Jingzhou.

Now rumors are everywhere in Jiangling. It is said that Cao Cao's southern expedition was to use the hands of Sun Quan and Liu Bei to kill all the people of Jingzhou to achieve the effect of stabilizing Jingzhou.

In addition, there are rumors that most of the aristocratic tribes in Jingzhou have turned to Liu Bei, and that as long as Cao's army sends troops, they will die inexplicably. Cao Chun and Jiao Chu are the best examples. If Chang Diao had not fought to the death, even Cao Ren would have died.

People with a little bit of IQ believe these rumors, but as we all know, most people love conspiracy theories. The news began to be quickly passed and continued to replenish, becoming more and more eye-catching, making the Jingzhou army more and more disconnected from the Cao army. In recent days, at least five major conflicts broke out, and the small conflicts between each other continued.

During the training of the Northern Army, when Cai Mao was in the water war, some Northern Army vomited due to seasickness, and some Northern Army soldiers would jump out and accused Cai Mao of sending people to poison the food.

According to military law, Cao Cao should have cut off the rumor-produced person, but that person was Cao Hong's personal guard. Cao Hong hid him directly in his tent, and he had food and accommodation in the same place, so Cao Cao had no choice but to do anything about it.

This hero has been fighting fiercely for many years and this is the first time he has encountered such a scene. For the first time, he deeply realized that the people's hearts are dispersed and the team is difficult to lead.

The Jingzhou navy had a total of more than 70,000, and the loss of more than 20,000 in this battle. The morale of the army was disintegrating, and the rifts among the people became bigger and bigger. But Zhang Yun came back at this time.

Although Zhang Yun is not a clan of Jingzhou, he still has a considerable reputation in the Jingzhou army.

As soon as he came back, all the lies that Cao Ren had made up before were self-defeating. Although Zhang Yun did not dare to accuse Cao Ren, the soldiers who fled back had a backbone and accused Cao Ren of blind command. Without listening to Xu Shu's advice, the slap slapped Cao Ren on the face, making Cao Ren's face swollen, and he wanted to tie Zhang Yun and give it to Cheng Yu directly.

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Seeing that the matter had reached an uncontrollable level, Cao Cao had no choice but to summon his staff and called General Fenwu, Cheng Yu, who had rushed back to Jiangling, to discuss the future advance and retreat of Cao's army.

Cao Cao opened the letter from Lu Ji, who had been "destroyed", on the table and asked Cheng Yu to read it first. Cheng Yu frowned and looked at it for a moment, shook his head and said:

"Does the Prime Minister believe in Xu Yuanzhi?"

Xu Shu used to protect Zhang Yun as a loyal minister. When Cao Rengang came back, everyone shouted at him and shouted to kill him.

But now that Zhang Yun has escaped, he has been called "Su Wu on the Jiangshan" by the Jingzhou army, and Xu Shu's reputation has also increased. Everyone who scolded Xu Shu before has been swollen on his face.

Cheng Yu put Xu Shu's loyal words and Lu Ji's blood-crying letter together. Cao Cao looked at him horizontally and felt even more hot on his face. He could only shake his head slowly and said frankly:

"I don't believe it. At that time, I didn't believe that this letter was written by Lu Ji. Now look at it, hey, it's true."

They are all their own staff, so Cao Cao naturally has no need to tell lies.

Xu Shu is not Zhang He, so he will do his best to deal with some documents that are not painful, but after surrendering, he will never be able to deal with his former master's affairs.

He admitted that his character weakness was captured by the enemy, whether it was Xu Shu or the so-called Lu Ji, it was just taking advantage of this to cause repeated trouble, resulting in heavy consequences, which greatly affected the unity of Cao's army.

Cheng Yu shook his head and smiled:

"Why wasn't it written by Lu Ji? The returning navy said that the young general named Lu Yi was fighting side by side with Guan Ping, who was Lu Ji's nephew.

I just received news from Jiangdong that after the battle in Changbanpo, Guan Ping went to Jiangdong and was summoned by Zhang Zhao immediately."

"Zhang Zhao!"

Cao Cao slapped the table, his turbid eyes were full of fierce murderous intent.

"What did you say? Zhang Zhao!"

Cheng Yu nodded slowly: "Yes, they didn't know what they had talked about, but Guan Ping did go to the banquet alone and did not take Zhuge Liang with him! Then, that person can testify!"

Zhang Zhao is famous in Jiangdong. He always interacts with elegant scholars and morals. It would be reasonable to meet Guan Ping when he met Zhuge Liang, but how could this be possible if he invited a lost warrior who had just been beaten to the banquet?

Chen Lin also exclaimed:

"I heard the legend of the people. Zhang Zibu intends to surrender to the court. Is it all fake?"

Cheng Yu's sinister eyes fell on Chen Lin's face and said with a smile:

“Nature is fake.”

"I finally understand one thing now, why does Zhang Zhaoming often say that he is devoted to the court, and has not made any achievements for so many years, and has frequently destroyed the prime minister's good things."

"He did everything he had to do with Zhou Yu before, and he was the leader of the Jiangdong rebels!
Chapter completed!