Han Xiang

Chapter 375 Jiang Qian Guo Jia Said Lu Su

Xu Chu witnessed Zhang Liao being deflated throughout the whole process, and seeing the other party 'escaping' in a panic, he couldn't help cupping his fists and complimenting Long Xiang:

"Has the general learned from Mi Heng? Your mouth is too powerful."

"Ahem, thanks to Zhongkang's reminder, if Cao Cao sends someone to Xincheng to persuade him to surrender, you can let You Zhengping deal with it."

Long Xiang finished speaking and took out a few silk books from his bosom, on which were recorded various commonly used semaphores, as well as semaphores with the names of major officials, intending to let Xu Chu use the binoculars to deliver the message.

"Forget it, I'll come in person."

After Long Xiang finished speaking, he put the silk book into his arms again. The semaphore was negotiated with Lu Su himself, and he was worried that Xu Chu could not convey it accurately and it would be self-defeating.

Seeing that Long Xiang was about to rush to the West Tower, Xu Chu clasped his fists and reminded: "General, go and come back quickly. Zhang Liao was driven away by you just now, and maybe he will lead the army to attack soon."

Long Xiang patted Xu Chu's arm to comfort him: "Uncle Xi and Yuan Duan haven't come back yet, Hefei's defense depends entirely on you, use Qin Yilu and Liu Fu."

"The final general will definitely go all out, but I am more used to general dispatching." Xu Chu nodded in agreement.

Long Xiang smiled leisurely: "I'm just going to pass on a message, and it's not like I'm gone forever. I should be able to return before Cao Jun arrives. If Cao Jun arrives first, you can hold on."

Xu Chu naively asked: "How is it stable?"

Long Xiang replied: "The colder your expression is, the more you pretend to be deep, the less Cao Cao dares to move."

"But you didn't seem to be like this just now, your posture was very low." Xu Chu scratched his cheeks, thinking that we are different?
Long Xiang patiently explained: "I was being modest on purpose so that Zhang Liao could not figure it out. You must be indifferent as a guard, understand?"

"I seem to understand." Xu Chu nodded slightly.

Long Xiang didn't expect Xu Chuzhen to understand, he said in his heart that it's fine to keep his usual style, your flying stone stunt is very powerful, as long as you stand on the top of the wall and don't get angry.

Hurrying to the west tower, I saw the Xincheng messenger outside the city.

Why didn't Zijing send a message with a semaphore?
With suspicion, Long Xiang asked someone to open the door and put the suspension bridge. Since we can communicate face to face, there is no need to use complicated semaphore to send messages.

It wasn't until the messenger entered the city to report that Long Xiang didn't know why Lu Su sent someone to deliver the message. In fact, because the amount of information was relatively large, the semaphore might not be able to be translated.

The scouts with mirrors sent by Xincheng found a large number of people in the northern part of Zipeng Mountain.

They helped the old and the young and were driven northward. Lu Su speculated that Cao Cao would abandon the southern part of the Lujiang River. He believed that the burning of grain in Bishui had been successful. There are few defenders in the old city of Xiang, so we must deal with the coming threats carefully.

The news of Lu Su was like timely rain, which gave Long Xiang confidence in his heart, and he also understood why Zhang Liao came to ask for labor, and he dared to come to Hefei to beg without food?

Long Xiang communicated the news of Zhang Liao and Cao Jun with the messenger, ordered Lu Su to immediately manage the new city during the war, and suggested using Ni Heng to deal with Cao Cao's messenger.

With the help of the telescope, Hefei has an advantage in intelligence, but also creates a time difference.

Zhang Liao returned to Cao Cao's side and relayed what Long Xiang had said.

Cao Cao was furious after hearing this: "One dendrobium and two dendrobiums? What does Long Xiang think of us? Homeless beggars? If you despise me so much, I will break through Hefei and kill him!"

"Duke Ming, calm down. I heard that Hefei is a strong city. Our army is about to run out of food at this time. We must not act recklessly. If we attack Hefei rashly, Zhou Yu will lead his troops to attack again."

Jia Xu is usually reticent, but he is very active when it comes to his own safety. Although the words stopped abruptly at the end, Cao Cao understood the meaning.

"Hefei will fight sooner or later, but not now." Cao Cao shook his head in response to Jia Xu: "Although it is not a real fight, I still want to teach Long Xiang some lessons. Does Wenhe have any good suggestions?"

Jia Xu thought for a while and replied: "According to what General Zhang said, the lack of food in Longxiang is due to the large-scale construction and construction of a new city, and the outer city wall has already been built. Why didn't Duke Ming send someone to investigate in detail? Maybe there are still imperfections. If we find the weak point and take this new city, we can move the Shouchun defense line south to Hefei, thereby limiting the future development of Longxiang."

"Miao, Miao, it has to be Wenhe." Cao Cao clapped his palms and smiled.

Cao Cao then sent several teams of scouts to the new city, and at night they camped in the south between the old and new cities. The camp was about three miles away from the two cities, completely unaware that Long Xiang and Lu Su had already revealed and controlled them in real time.

Since the camp was very close to the two cities, Cao Cao personally inspected the camp after setting up the camp to ensure that there were no omissions in the defense at night. He didn't want to make a fool of himself before leaving Huainan and go back with a bad reputation.

After Cao Cao settled the defense himself, he returned to the big tent to have dinner with several generals and advisers.

Since the army was almost out of cooking, all the generals in the tent drank gruel, not to mention how many grains of rice the ordinary soldiers knew, and basically they could only drink a full glass of water.

Although porridge is good to cool off in summer, it doesn't make you hungry if you have a lot of water, so there is no condition to fight Hefei at this time.

After drinking a bowl of porridge, Cao Cao wiped his mouth with his hand, and then began to share information.

"I kind of believe Long Xiang's words. The new city of Hefei is several times larger than the old city, and the city walls are all made of bricks and stones. Our sentry ran around a few times and found no flaws. The new city was built with such specifications. How could Long Xiang not be short of food?

But now there is a problem. The new city seems to be stronger than the old city. It is impossible to attack in a short time. Lu Su, Long Xiang's think tank, is guarding there. The distance between the two cities is only five miles. It seems to be a corner. No clever tricks? "

There was silence inside the tent, and night insects were screaming outside the tent, and the scene was once very embarrassing.

Guo Jia then cupped his hands and said, "Lu Su and Long Xiang are guarding two cities separately. This person should be quite ambitious, unlike Long Xiang who is of humble origin and is a scoundrel. It may be feasible to send eloquent people to talk about it."

Cao Cao nodded and asked back: "Feng Xiao is outstanding in eloquence, can you go through it for me?"

"I don't know Lu Su at all. I'm afraid I'll be responsible for the entrustment of Duke Ming. It's best to find someone from Jianghuai." When Guo Jia was talking, he couldn't help looking at the young man in the last seat in the corner.

Cao Cao followed Guo Jia's line of sight, and it turned out to be Jiang Gan, the governor of Liu Fu's conquest, who seemed to be from Jiujiang Shouchun.

"Zi Yi? Do you know Lu Zijing?"

Jiang Gan got up hurriedly, cupped his hands and replied: "Lu Zijing is about the same age as me, and we met once in Shouchun. If Mr. Ming trusts you, I would like to go there, but I can't guarantee that it will happen."

"It's okay."

Cao Cao waved his hand: "I will let Feng Xiao go with you, and you will cooperate with each other tomorrow so that we can take care of you."

"only."

"only."

Jiang Gan and Guo Jia responded successively.

After disbanding the accounts, Cao Cao asked Guo Jia to teach Jiang Gan face-to-face advice, but he didn't know that Jiang Gan was known for his eloquence.

The next day, the two went away in high spirits and returned disappointed.

Mi Heng fought one against two in the Xincheng city, spraying Guo Jia and Jiang Gan to pieces, and the two returned to the camp in desperation.

When Cao Cao heard that it was Ni Heng, he thought of this guy beating the drum naked, and he comforted Guo and Jiang: "You Zhengping is indeed difficult to deal with. I didn't expect this annoying idiot to find a home with Long Xiang. This can be regarded as a kindred spirit."

Cao Chun saw the needles and persuaded him: "My lord, since neither Lu Su nor Long Xiang can persuade us to surrender, and our military rations have bottomed out, why don't we just retreat?"

"Now?" Cao Cao shook his head lightly: "The soldiers worked so hard to set up the camp, how could they leave overnight? It's not too late to leave until tomorrow."

At the top of the old city of Hefei, Long Xiang looked at it for a while with a binoculars in his hand, and then ordered Xu Chu: "Zhongkang, ask someone to kill a pig."

(End of this chapter)