Han Xiang

Chapter 374

"intimidate?"

Cao Cao shook his head lightly, stroked his beard and analyzed: "This person started in the infancy, living in the chaotic Huainan, but he is more persistent than Liu Bei. I'm afraid he can't be scared."

Guo Jia was taken aback, and asked, "Comparing him to Liu Bei? Is it too much?"

Cao Cao looked dignified, and muttered to himself: "Of course Liu Bei is still better, but Long Xiang can stand out in Huainan, and even an opponent like Zhou Yu has a headache. It has to be said that he is a talent. Unfortunately, he has not been able to be used by me. I don't know. What is he trying to do? He should be content with his background as a sheriff."

Guo Jia cupped his hands and said again: "Duke Ming, I recently heard a piece of news that Long Xiang's father was killed in the battle of Kuangting. It seems that he regarded you as an enemy who killed his father, so he has been unwilling to belong to the court."

"What? Can this be blamed on me? Then Cao has countless enemies."

Cao Cao's face was bitter after saying that, and he said in his heart that Long Xiang is really small-minded. No wonder he has been huddled in Hefei all these years and has not thought about making progress. sentence.

Seeing that Boss Cao was noncommittal, Guo Jia continued: "I thought that intimidation would work, we should try it out. Anyway, going north is easy, why not stay in Hefei for a day or two? You don't have to send troops to attack the city."

"Don't attack the city, just stationed outside the city?" Cao Cao asked with vacant eyes: "Are we no longer refugees?"

Guo Jia persuaded: "It's good to try Long Xiang's reaction. Anyway, sooner or later he will seek Hefei. This time, it should be rehearsed in advance. In addition, with the words you just said to divorce Sun Quan, Long Xiang can still go to Lujiang to take up the post. This is his The excuse I made at the beginning."

"Forget it." Cao Cao nodded slightly: "Today's verbal battle with Zhou Lang has fallen, and Long Xiang is even more idiotic. I can't lower my status to talk to him, or I can only let Wen Yuan pass it on."

"Well, our army will be stationed here for a day or two. Maybe General Zhang can ask for some food. Duke Ming will clear the Lujiang River for Long Xiang. According to the etiquette, he should go out of the city to work in the army."

After listening to Guo Jia's proposal, Cao Cao shook his head and snorted coldly: "You can try it, I guess there is not much hope."

After Cao Cao said that, he summoned Zhang Liao and told him to go to Hefei first to persuade him to surrender.

Zhang Liao was very confident this time, because Cao Cao led a large army as his backing. I believe Long Xiang would not be as hard-spoken as before when he saw the [-] to [-] troops.

Walking to the south gate of Hefei, Zhang Liao saw the city gate closed tightly and the suspension bridge raised, and thought that Long Xiang's intelligence work was really good, and he responded so quickly.

This is the dimensionality reduction effect of the telescope. When Cao Cao approached Chaohu Lake and was discovered by Hefei sentry, Long Xiang immediately deployed city defenses to prepare for a rainy day.

There were not many troops in the old city of Hefei. Last time, in order to go to Bishui to burn food and ships, more than a thousand elite soldiers were selected from Lei Xu and Xu Chu's command, which made the already stretched defenders even worse.

At this time, Tang Xun and Lei Xuzang had not returned from Mount Lu, and the old city of Hefei was facing tremendous defensive pressure.

Long Xiang thought that mosquitoes are also meat, so he asked Qin Yilu to bring Junqiu's only [-] county soldiers to the old city, and secretly ordered Chen Lan to send troops from Quanjiao and Fuling to station in the northern area of ​​Junqiu on standby.

If it really came to the day when he couldn't hold on, Chen Lan would rush to support according to the signal.

Seeing Xu Chu standing beside Long Xiang, Zhang Liao recalled that day when the flying stone broke the flag and felt lingering fear, so he deliberately moved away from the moat by another foot.

Without waiting for Zhang Liao to open his mouth, Long Xiang asked first: "In less than a month, General Zhang actually visited Hefei twice, but today there are only a few hundred riders following him, what is his intention?"

Zhang Liao clasped his fists in salute, and said with a smile, "I'm here for a special announcement."

"Where does the joy come from?"

Long Xiang narrowed his eyes, puzzled.

Zhang Liao went straight to the point: "Cao Sikong has flattened the Lujiang River for the general, and you are a veritable prefect of Lujiang River. Isn't it worth celebrating?"

"Er, so."

Long Xiang hesitating and noncommittal, at the same time madly began to use his brains, thinking about what excuses to use to prevaricate.

Seeing this, Long Xiang was stunned by Zhang Liao, and happily revealed another big news.

"Cao Sikong is bringing an army of tens of thousands to suppress the rebellion. Yunqi logically wants to go out of the city to serve us. Cao Sikong chose to send troops to Huainan because of your request."

"Do I have it?" Long Xiang began to pretend to be stupid.

"Inspector Liu personally wrote the letter. There is no way this matter is false. Have you forgotten? But the war is over, so it doesn't matter if you forget, but the matter of laboring is still to be hoped."

Long Xiang interrupted Zhang Liao, cupping his fists bitterly: "General Zhang, please report back to Sikong. The situation in Hefei is not very good. I'm afraid we won't be able to bring out good things for the army."

"Knowing that you are very difficult, there is always some food and rice?"

Zhang Liao knew that Long Xiang was very slippery, so he thought of a way to deal with it on the way, but he underestimated Long Xiang's lower limit.

I only heard Long Xiang reply embarrassingly: "A little rice can be collected, but after all, Sikong has an army of ten thousand, this is not enough, I am embarrassed to say it."

"How many? Say it boldly."

"The torrential rains have reduced production in the past two years, and the people have been frugal for a long time. I can only dig out some of my rations. How about a dendrobium?"

The population under Long Xiang's rule was tens of thousands, Zhang Liao originally thought that there would be hundreds or even thousands of dendrobium, but he didn't expect the other party to dare to say so.

A hu grain?Tens of thousands of troops are divided into one tablet per person?
Zhang Liao mistakenly thought he had heard it wrong, and asked in a deep voice to confirm: "How much did General Long say just now?"

Long Xiang raised one finger first, and then raised the second finger: "I say one hu. At most two hu."

"Long Yunqi, are you kidding me?" Zhang Liao shouted angrily.

"No really."

The actor Long Xiang had an upper body expression and waved his hands sincerely.

"There is a food shortage in Hefei. It's really difficult at the moment. It's all my fault that I am building a new city in a hurry to order people to build a new city, but unfortunately the weather is not good."

Zhang Liao frowned after hearing this, and he saw Hefei Xincheng from afar when he was chasing Wu Jing, so he didn't know if Long Xiang's words were true or not, but he didn't believe that there were only a few hu in storage.

At this moment, Long Xiang added pitifully: "General Zhang please explain to me that two hu rice is my limit. Unfortunately, both of my wives are pregnant, so we can't let them go hungry during pregnancy, right?"

"I will report the truth. As for what the lord will say, I don't know. You can do it yourself."

Zhang Liao was speechless, thinking that you are shameless, he clasped his fists perfunctorily, then turned his horse's head to leave, but turned back after taking two steps.

"Yunqi's life is so difficult, why bother to stay here? How about you get back with me and enjoy the blessings? For the sake of our acquaintance, I guarantee that you will have no worries about food and clothing in the future, at least you won't let your wife and children go hungry. "

"Since General Zhang wants to help, why don't you ask the court to tie up the salary. I remember the county guard should be two thousand shi? It can be converted into rice grain. As for the other things you mentioned, we can wait until the two wives give birth."

Long Xiang climbed up the pole, Zhang Liao's scalp felt numb, he clapped his hands and said hello, and hurried away in embarrassment.

(End of this chapter)