Han Xiang

Chapter 366

Seeing the three of them speaking in unison, Cao Cao couldn't help looking at Guo Jia.

It seems to say that your suggestion was rejected, are you going to save it?
Guo Jia turned around knowingly, cupped his hands at Zhang Liao, and asked, "Why are the generals so determined?"

"I met Long Xiang a few years ago. He was just a little Qu Hou at that time. He was able to manage Hefei like this in a few years. is not easy;

Sun Ce and Zhou Yu also failed to return before, but this time we stationed outside Hefei, we saw with our own eyes that Hefei is heavily fortified, since my lord wants to choose between Wan County and Hefei, I think it is better to be cautious.”

Zhang Liao had eye contact with Cao Chun and Han Hao when he was talking, and he consciously didn't express Xu Chu's oppressive power. After all, he couldn't show his prestige in front of Cao Cao.

Guo Jiaxuan had to ask: "The way to use soldiers is to attack the heart first, attack the city as the second, fight the heart first, and fight the soldiers next. Our army wiped out more than [-] people in Jiangdong, and you even killed Chen Wu and captured Wu Jing. , since Long Xiang is superior, he should be aware of the current affairs. How can he remain indifferent to Minggong Huwei now? I think we can try to persuade him to surrender. Since General Zhang has an old relationship with Long Xiang, maybe he can take on this important task?"

"no no no"

Zhang Liao hurriedly waved his hands and turned to Cao Cao: "My lord, when the general arrived in Hefei last month, he already persuaded Long Xiang to surrender. However, this man has the ability to argue, and the general is really helpless."

"My lord, what Wen Yuan said is true."

Cao Chun stood up to testify in time, and added: "Yuan Si and I were there at the time. Long Xiang is really difficult to deal with, and from what he said, it seems that he has confidence in Hefei and has no fear of us. At this time, we are persuaded to surrender. It should be in vain."

Seeing Han Hao nodding his head for confirmation, Cao Cao dismissed his thoughts about Hefei.

If there is enough food and grass, he really wants to fight Long Xiang, but Cao Cao is unwilling to take the risk if there is a safer choice.

"Since persuading surrender and storming Hefei are difficult, we should concentrate our forces to take Wan County, but" Cao Cao suddenly changed the subject, staring at Zhang Liao and asked, "I heard that Wen Yuan killed the enemy general Chen Wu? This man is really genuine. Chen Wu?"

"Well, it should be"

Zhang Liao didn't know about 'Chen Wu Burning the Boat' yet, so he was very surprised for a while. He thought for a while and added: "At the beginning, this person pretended to be Long Xiang and came to Shu County to provoke, and the general was later ordered to chase him to Hefei. It was Long Xiang who told Mo Let him be Chen Wu."

"We heard that too."

Seeing Cao Chun stand up to help again, Cao Cao frowned and nodded slightly, and asked again: "According to Jun Yi's report, the grain ship we parked in Bishui was also burned by Chen Wu. Now I can't figure out one thing. How did Chen Wu avoid so many soldiers and horses from west to east, and then join Wu Jing?

"I really don't know what the end will be"

Zhang Liao was embarrassed by the question, and immediately remembered that he had Chen Wu surrendering, so it should not be difficult to find him to confirm the confrontation, so he turned to look at Zhang Yun behind him.

Seeing Zhang Liao's questioning expression, Zhang He thought that Zhang Bo just heard that he didn't get any evidence, and it was hard to say whether he was really Chen Wu, so he rushed out to explain to Cao Cao.

"My lord, since Chen Wu was beheaded by General Zhang, his head is bloody and bloody, and the part of the last general is not easy to identify. It may be true as guessed. Chen Wu went to Shanshan alone to collude with Mei Cheng, burned the grain ship and Riding alone through the battle zone, that's why we didn't get spotted by our army's scouts."

"If that's the case, this Chen Wu is quite talented." Cao Cao didn't give a subjective evaluation.

The civil servants in the government office are divided into left and right sides. Guo Jia is the first among the civil servants, and Xia Houyuan is the head of the accompanying military officers. He has been listening and has not expressed his opinion just now. Seeing that Cao Chun has been protecting Zhang Liao and speaking, he wonders whether Zhang He has been at my disposal during this time. Don't you have to do something for him?

Thinking of this, Xia Houyuan stood up to smooth things over.

"My lord, Junyi's analysis is well-founded, and the facts should be like this. Anyway, now that Chen Wu is dead and Wu Jing has been captured, if you want to punish Mei Chengxing and ask for his crimes, the general is willing to invite you to go."

Cao Cao waved his hand and said no: "Meicheng is killing Yan Xiang in the front, burning our army's food ships in the back, and causing harm to the Huainan bandits in the countryside. He deserves to die, but not now. You can't divide your troops when attacking Wancheng. You should rush to Wan County as soon as possible. Take over from Zhang Xiu to command the siege."

"Wei." Xia Houyuan accepted the order happily.

Cao Cao then ordered the generals: "Gongming (Xu Huang), Junyi (Zhang He), Yuan Bo (Gao Lan), you lead your troops and Miaocai to return to their control, and take Wan County with me as soon as possible."

"only."

All the generals who were named responded in unison, and then followed Xia Houyuan.

Cao Cao left Zhang Liao, Cao Chun, Han Hao and others. Apart from not wanting them to take credit, he also had considerations of staying in Shu County to deal with Zhou Yu and subsequent relocation.

Now that Guo Jia's plan was abandoned, Cao Cao turned his attention to Jia Xu.

"Zhou Yu is a weirdo. When we dispatched troops to Hefei and Shu counties to be empty, he couldn't shrink back. On the contrary, Shu County has a large number of soldiers and horses, but he chose to show his whereabouts. According to the intelligence of the scouts this morning, those rats He has appeared in the northwest, and the soldiers on the warship are gathering by the lake, does Wenhe know Zhou Yu's intention?"

Jia Xu stroked his beard and thought for a while: "Ming public soldiers have always been uncertain about what is true and false. Zhou Yu's move may have the intention of probing, and there is a high probability that he will not dare to take the initiative to attack."

"Zhou Yu is a rare general who uses his troops steadily." Cao Cao affirmed, "If I hadn't been wary of this man, Wen Yuan and Zi He should all go to Wan County."

Jia Xu cupped his hands to comfort him: "There are enough troops to attack Wan County, and no more troops can be used. It is very right for Ming Gong to keep them. As long as the news of Wu Jing's capture comes back, Zhou Yu will not dare to come to Shu County to harass him." , Minggong can send people to discuss the exchange of prisoners, so as to buy time for General Miaocai."

Cao Cao frowned: "Using Wu Jing as a condition? What can Sun Quan give in exchange? He doesn't even care about his elder brother Sun He."

Jia Xu said to him: "Sun Quan doesn't care about it. You can only know after talking about it. Wu Jing is his uncle. Anyway, we can't recruit him. It's better to exchange for something more affordable. Money, land, armor, and warships are all fine. Or let its proton be exchanged."

"Proton?" Cao Cao looked surprised, "I never heard that Sun Quan had a son."

Jia Xu reminded in a low voice: "He doesn't have a son, but he has brothers."

"Brother? Wen and you are confused."

Cao Cao shook his head: "When Sun Quan came to power, there was a lot of disharmony within the Sun family. We took the initiative to take away threats for Sun Quan. Isn't this doing Sun Quan a favor?"

"I heard that before Sun Ce's death, Zhang Zhao and others supported Sun Yi's succession, which shows that this person has a strong foundation in Jiangdong. Unfortunately, he failed to fulfill his wish in the end, and Sun Yi couldn't help feeling resentful; At that time, the Ming public used Sun Yi's name to conquer Jiangdong, so who do Sun Jian and Sun Ce's former troops support?"

Seeing Jia Xu's smiling face, Cao Cao said in his heart that you old fox is really dark, no wonder he was in your hands in the first place.

Even I, Cao Cao, confessed to being killed, and Sun Quan's child was not killed?This is a conspiracy.

(End of this chapter)