Han Xiang

Chapter 367

Seeing Jia Xu's tricks, Guo Jia was not far behind in expressing his views.

"Wenhe's plan is very good, but Hefei will be taken sooner or later. Then Chen Wu once pretended to be Long Xiang and went to Hefei. Why don't we blame Chen Wu's death?"

Cao Cao became interested, pointed at Guo Jia and asked, "How to blame him? Feng Xiao will explain in detail."

Guo Jia turned to look at Zhang Liao, and said meaningfully:

"Since Long Xiang knows that Chen Wu is pretending to be him, why not send someone to send the head to Hefei, I believe Long Xiang will be willing to accept it, and at the same time spread rumors to Chaohu, saying that when Chen Wu is chased and fled to Hefei, no matter what Long Xiang does An explanation will definitely plant a thorn in Sun Quan's heart."

Cao Cao questioned: "Is this really feasible? Divorce seems to be useless to them."

Guo Jia said with a smile: "As Wenhe analyzed just now, even brothers can have rifts, not to mention that Long Xiang and Sun Quan have their own ghosts? Besides, Zhou Yu and Long Xiang are not on good terms. Let's distract Jiangdong's monarchs and ministers. General Miaocai just buys time."

"It's fine, it's not too much."

Cao Cao immediately made a final decision and ordered Zhang Liao to send the head to Hefei with a beautiful wooden box.

At noon the next day, the gift-giving scout returned with the head.

The reason why they couldn't be sent to Hefei smoothly was because Jiangdong soldiers and horses were coming to Shu County on the way, so they had to turn back to the city to report the letter.

Zhou Yu's unreasonable behavior made Cao, who is good at using soldiers, puzzled.

Cao Cao was glad that there were soldiers in Shu County, and at the same time, he hurriedly called Guo Jia and Jia Xu to discuss and ask for advice.

"Feng Xiao, Wen He, Zhou Yu is acting weird, what do you think?"

After listening to Cao Cao's question, Guo Jia took the lead to answer: "Shu County has nearly [-] soldiers. Zhou Yu wanted to destroy the city with more than [-] troops. City warfare is not that easy."

Cao Cao frowned and asked: "Fengxiao let me guard the city?"

Guo Jia replied: "The fierce battle in Wan County is in full swing and we cannot divide our forces. Naturally, defending the city is the safest way. However, with Generals Zhang and Cao at home, it is okay to send them to fight instead of defending. I am afraid that Zhou Yu will temporarily increase troops from the east of the Yangtze River and put Shu County in a passive position."

"It makes sense."

Cao Cao twirled his beard and fell into deep thought, thinking that this time he has been pressing Jiangdong to fight, why should he defend at the end?

Seeing Cao Cao's hesitation, Jia Xu stepped forward and cupped his hands to remonstrate, "Don't worry, Duke Ming. In fact, if you want to stabilize Zhou Yu, you don't have to fight."

"Wenhe's plan to exchange prisoners?"

Cao Cao suddenly realized that the strategy discussed yesterday was still thinking about how to implement it, but he did not expect his opponent to come to his door.

Jia Xu nodded in affirmation: "General Zhang should lead the troops northward and stop Zhou Yu to negotiate on the spot, because Ming Gong and Sun Quan are not present, and any decision needs to be consulted back and forth. Wouldn't it be a delay? "

"Wonderful."

Cao Cao clapped his palms and smiled, and then pointed at Zhang Liao: "It's still the old rule. You and Zihe join forces to block Zhou Yu. If you can talk, talk patiently. If you want to fight, use the camera. In short, you can't retreat and rush forward. I believe you know it well."

Zhang Liao asked: "My lord, you don't have to worry about using troops at the end of the day, but please let me know the conditions for the exchange of prisoners."

"Well..." Cao Cao thought for a while, and said: "Wu Jing is a Jiangdong general after all, and it may be inappropriate to measure it with property. I think it is 20 hu in grain and grass, or Zhou Yu withdraws from Guangling. He is the prefect of Guangling in the imperial court, but he openly opposes the imperial army as an enemy, and if the negotiation fails, he will ask the Sun family to send his son to court."

"The end will be saved."

Zhang Liao nodded in response, and then asked again: "Zhou Yu led his troops to the south to block the way, so what about sending the leader to Hefei?"

Cao Cao didn't answer right away, but turned to look at Guo Jia, as if he was asking if he was going to see him off?
Guo Jia understood, cupped his hands and said: "Zhou Yu sent troops to Shu County, Sun Quan will be stationed in Hefei, the leader will naturally be sent, even if there is a detour, what a good reason to hinder."

Cao Cao immediately agreed: "Just do what Feng Xiao said, if you can't pass the blockade going north, let your people detour to Zipeng Mountain."

"only."

Zhang Liao was reminded to go out happily, and then he and Cao Chun once again marched northward, and soon encountered Zhou Yu, who had pretended to be Lu Su, [-] miles north of Shu County.

Zhou Yu's move against common sense was not because he didn't know the soldiers, nor did he know that Wu Jing had been wiped out, but that he decisively sent troops when the real Wu Jing returned to Chaohu.

Zhou Yu is like a chess master, his seemingly ordinary moves have been carefully calculated and analyzed.

He believed that when Cao Cao defeated Wu Jing and freed up Xia Houyuan, Zhang He and other troops, he must first attack Wan County with all his strength to cut off his minions, and finally join forces to besiege Chaohu, and then he would fall into a passive position.

Zhou Yu took the initiative to choose to divert troops, with the purpose of disrupting the rhythm of Cao's attack, delaying Yuan Shao's invasion of Hebei to create a threat, and forcing Cao Cao to withdraw from Huainan as a last resort, so that Wan County would have the hope of being saved.

If containment fails, or Wan County falls, Zhou Yu will decisively withdraw from Huainan, and then retreat to the front line of the Yangtze River.

Zhou Yu didn't know about the burning of the boat, but when Zhang Liao proposed to negotiate, he was keenly aware that Cao Jun might have a problem with food and grass, otherwise Zhang Liao would not ask for food.

Zhou Yu can also choose to fight Zhang Liao, but there is no guarantee that he will wipe out a powerful enemy with tiger and leopard cavalry.

Wu Jing defeated all of Yuan Shu's old troops that Sun Quan surrendered, while Zhou Yu couldn't play too much with Sun Jian and Sun Ce's old troops.

After Zhou Yu thought it over, he still stopped to chat with Zhang Liao.

At the very least, Zhang Liao and Cao Chun were restrained and did not increase troops in Wan County to put pressure on Sun He, even though they knew that the Wu Jing in Cao Cao's hand was fake.

Zhang Liao asked for 20 hu of grain, but Zhou Yu refused without asking for instructions.

The two experienced a lot of bargaining, and the two sides initially reached an oral agreement of [-] hu.

Although Zhou Yu fully agreed, he said that he would send someone back to ask for instructions. He wanted to use Sun Quan's mouth to lower the price again.

Zhang Liao said on the surface that he wanted to ask for instructions, but he was very satisfied with the result in his heart. After all, it took time to raise [-] Dendrobium grain, and even if his procrastinating task was completed, the urgent need would be relieved if he really received the grain.

Both Sun and Cao had their own ghosts and asked for instructions. Cao Cao coyly agreed to [-] hu, but Sun Quan offered an insulting price of [-] hu, and then the first round of negotiations collapsed.

The first round of begging for food failed, and the second round Zhang Liao asked for land.

Since Zhou Yu's Guangling County was involved, he refused without hesitation. Abandoning Guangling would be tantamount to showing his back and waiting for a stab, and Chen Deng could threaten the rear of Wu County again.

Both rounds of negotiations failed, and Zhang Liaotu asked Sun Quan for a proton.

Zhou Yu laughed directly after hearing this: "General Zhang doesn't know something. So far, my lord has not had a man and a half woman. How can he be sent to Xudu to serve the emperor? You should ask Cao Sikong to make a new condition."

"That's wrong. Sun Zhongmou succeeded Sun Bofu. If he doesn't have a son, he must have brothers, right?"

(End of this chapter)