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In mid-November, it was the first snow since the beginning of winter in Yedu. The crystal clear white snow fluttered from the sky, sprinkling the whole city. Although the snow was not heavy, its arrival made many people suddenly realize that the severe winter was coming.

It was the fifth day that Cao Cao returned to Yedu. Perhaps because he was really not used to Jianghuai, his condition became heavier in Shouchun, but after returning to Yedu, his condition improved. Although his body was still very thin, his complexion gradually improved.

Cao Cao stood in front of the window with a cane, staring at the snowflakes falling outside the window, his eyes full of worry. It was already snowing in the north, so what about the situation in Hefei. He just received news from Hefei this morning. Shi Zai told him in the letter that the Han army did not evacuate Hefei, but was stationed at Ruxukou.

Whether the Han army was in Hefei or Ruxukou, there was no difference in Cao Cao's opinion, and he could launch an attack at any time. Now that the severe winter is approaching, the grain harvest is bad this year, and the famine is destined to occur next spring, but the battle is still continuing. Cao Cao is deeply worried about how long the Cao army can hold on.

What made Cao Cao even more worried was that there seemed to be disharmonious voices within the Cao army in Hefei. Cao Pi said something implicitly in the letter: Hefei has a lot of grain and Shouchun has a little grain. He planned to transfer some of the grain in Hefei to Shouchun, but Zhang Liao politely declined.

Cao Cao certainly understood the huge risks behind this small incident. There was a conflict within the Cao army. No wonder Liu Jing withdrew his troops to Ruxukou. He obviously also saw internal conflicts in the Cao army.

In order to attach importance to the Hefei Battle, Cao Cao invested resources and troops at all costs in order to protect this important southeastern town and prevent the Han army from opening the southeastern gate of the Central Plains.

Although the failure of the Hefei battle will bring serious consequences, compared with the internal strife of Cao's army, the defeat of Hefei seems insignificant. The internal strife of Cao's army means that Cao's army is destruction and that it means the beginning of the collapse of Wei. This is something that Cao Cao will never tolerate.

Now that internal strife in Cao's army has begun to appear, he will extinguish this sign no matter what, but what to do, Cao Cao is unsure of his mind for a moment.

At this time, his daughter Cao Xian walked behind his father and carefully put a big cloak on him. Cao Cao turned around and looked at his daughter lovingly, and smiled and said, "Help me go to Quetai for a walk, the room makes me feel bored."

Cao Xian nodded and helped his father walk slowly towards Quetai. Several maids followed them with Qingluo umbrellas. Cao Cao walked to the stone railing. A thin layer of snow had accumulated on the railing. Cao Cao looked at the white Xuanwu Pool in the distance. The lake water had a thick layer of ice. Dozens of large ships were frozen in the lake water. The sky became gray and connected to the lake surface.

At this time, Cao Cao looked back at his daughter, and he found that his daughter was very silent and rarely spoke. "Xian'er was not feeling well, so go and rest." Cao Cao said to his daughter with concern.

Cao Xian shook his head, lowered his head and whispered: "Daughter is fine."

Cao Cao stared at her for a moment and sighed softly in his heart. His daughter should have gotten married in April, but the battle of Hefei broke out and her marriage was left unresolved. The marriage seemed to be gone. Cao Cao felt sorry for his daughter, so he held her hand and smiled softly: "You are my precious daughter. The young talent who wants to marry you is like a crucian carp across the river. You don't have to worry about not being able to get married."

Cao Xian pulled his hand back and shook his head, but tears came out. She turned her head away, quickly wiped away the tears, and forced a smile and said, "My daughter is just taking good care of her father and doesn't want to get married."

"Silly boy, how can women not get married?"

Cao Cao understood her thoughts, patted the back of her hand gently, and comforted her with a smile: "Actually, your marriage has not ended, it has been temporarily delayed, and Liu Jing has not returned the marriage letter. It's not that when the battle ends, I believe you should get married."

Cao Xian lowered his head and said nothing, and helped his father walk slowly. Cao Cao no longer proposed marriage. He looked at the snowflakes flying all over the sky and said with a smile: "My biggest wish is that you brothers and sisters can form a united heart and stop fighting. In this way, I can rest in peace after the New Year."

Cao Xian bit his lips gently, as if he wanted to say something, but he couldn't say it. Cao Cao felt that she wanted to say something but stopped, so he asked, "What do you want to say?"

"My daughter wants to say that since the father has decided to succeed to the throne, he should let the elder brother do it. It's very difficult for the elder brother to do it now."

"What happened?" Cao Cao asked with a serious expression.

"My daughter knew that the grain prices in Yedu had soared, and all the officials scolded the eldest brother for being incompetent, but as soon as my father came back, the grain prices fell immediately. Has my father thought about the reason?"

Cao Cao laughed and said, "I did nothing after I came back, so why did the grain price fall?"

"The problem is here. In fact, the elder brother did a lot of things and issued a lot of orders, but no one was willing to execute them. But as soon as my father came back, the people below were scared and immediately executed the elder brother's order. As a result, the grain price fell. Father, the elder brother has no right."

Cao Cao was a little unhappy and said, "Xian'er, don't ask about government affairs."

Cao Xian did not obey. She wanted to say to her father if she had too much in her heart. She bit her lips and said, "Even if my father is angry, I want to say, since my father wants his brother to be united, why should he let his second brother take charge of military power in Youzhou? Doesn't his father know the consequences in the future?"

"Don't say it again"

Cao Cao shouted angrily, pushed Cao Xian away, and scolded her angrily: "I said, don't ask about government affairs. No matter whether you are in Wei or Han, I will never allow you to participate in government affairs."

Cao Xian knelt down and said in tears: "Father, my daughter is not asking about government affairs, but is afraid that her brothers will be killed in the future."

Cao Xian's words deeply hurt Cao Cao's heart. His eyes turned dark and he almost fainted. Two maids hurriedly supported him. He shook his head and said, "Help me go back."

Two maids supported Cao Cao and walked towards the room. Only Cao Xian was still kneeling on the ground, tears fell down. She was sad for the misfortune of her marriage and was also sad for the deep conflict between her brothers. She was sad for a moment and she began to cry. Only the snowflakes fell on her body and head.

After a long time, the two maids ran out of the room, stepped forward and helped Cao Xian up, comforted her in a low voice, and slowly returned to her room. Cao Cao stood in front of the window and looked at his daughter with tears on his face, and couldn't help but sigh softly.

He slowly sat at the table, thought for a while, and picked up his pen and wrote a handwritten letter to Hefei.

Hefei City began the handover ceremony. Due to the arrival of Cao Cao's order, Zhang Liao and Xu Huang were transferred back to Yedu, appointed Cao Ren as the commander of Hefei and Cao Zhen as the commander of Shouchun. Zhang Liao had no choice but to transfer the military power of Hefei to Cao Ren. Cao Cao also gave Cao Pi the right to appoint and remove him in the order. Except for Hefei and Shouchun, the rest of the generals were appointed and removed by the order.

Cao Pi immediately appointed Niu Jin as the deputy general of Hefei, and demoted Zang Ba to the deputy commander of logistics in Hefei. Cao Pi appointed Wang Lang as the sacrificial sacrificial sect of the army, and Xin Pi as Sima, controlling the military's confidentiality. At this point, Cao Pi completely controlled Hefei and Shouchun's army, and Zhang Liao was forced to leave Hefei sadly.

The news soon reached Ruxukou. When Liu Jing learned that Cao's army had changed its generals, he immediately ordered Gan Ning and Pang De to advance together by land and land, and then cut off the connection between Shouchun and Hefei. Gan Ning led a thousand navy troops and five fast ships, and Pang De led a seven thousand cavalry and two armies set off overnight and headed north quickly.

Two days later, the wind turned to the west wind. Liu Jing immediately seized this opportunity, worshiped the water god in the river, and led another 150,000 troops, and thousands of warships headed north to fight toward Hefei City again.

When the Han army withdrew, the first thing Zhang Liao did was to restore the original river channel and clear the newly formed waterways between Feihu and Xiaojin, so that the canal water and lake water would flow back to Hefei, and the moat was filled with river water.

Although Cao Ren took over Zhang Liao's military power, he was also an experienced general. He still implemented the various strategies set by Zhang Liao before, without changing. The only thing that changed was that the generals of the army, all the generals above the military marquis were cleaned up and replaced by his confidant generals. The famous generals were transferred from Hefei, allowing Cao Ren to completely control this 50,000 army.

In addition, due to the imbalance of grain reserves in Shouchun and Hefei, Cao Pi ordered the transportation of 100,000 stones of grain from Hefei to Shouchun to solve the problem of insufficient food and grass in the Shouchun army.

At night, a grain transport fleet sailed quietly in the canal. This fleet is composed of stone civilian ships. The ships are not large, but there are many, with more than two ships, which can transport tens of thousands of stones of grain at one time.

This is the second time the fleet transported the grain from ten thousand stones to Shouchun. This is the second batch of ten thousand stones. In addition to the famous boatman, each grain transport ship has ten Cao army soldiers guarding it.

In addition, there are two thousand army guards on both sides of the canal, and a total of five thousand army guards this grain transport team, which can be called a heavy guard.

At this time, the fleet had already left Hefei forty miles. If you travel ten miles northward, you would enter Shaopi Lake. At this moment, a dull thunder suddenly came from the distance. Many sleeping Cao soldiers woke up one after another and stood up to look at the shore. They heard that the muffled thunder was coming from the south.
Chapter completed!