Shu Chen

The people who were most worried about Wu's defeat were Cao Rui and Sima Yi of Wei.

Although they had expected that it would be impossible for Jiangdong to break through the Han army's fortified road to rescue Shangyong City, they could not have expected that the Wu army would lose so badly!
It was so miserable that Wei Guo couldn't bear to look directly at it.

After all, Jiangdong, where more than [-] soldiers were killed and injured, and [-] soldiers were still trapped in Shangyong, could no longer allow Wei to implement the previously set strategy!

Cao Rui and Sima Yi were very worried about this.

Also responded quickly.

One is to urgently order Xiahou Ba's tribe, who exited at the southern end of Ziwu Valley, to contact Tang Zi in Shangyong City quickly, so that he can make a decisive decision on whether to return to Wei.

If he is willing to return, Sima Yi will send some troops back into the Ziwu Valley to join Xiahouba and take him into the pass.

If you don't want to, forget it.

With the defeat of Jiangdong, Tang Zibu was not the focus of the war.

The other is to let Wang Chang, the general who conquered the South, and Hu Zhi, the governor of Jingzhou, immediately lead their troops to Wudang County on the South Qinling Mountains to station, making the intention that Wei Guo will attack the three eastern counties.

At the same time, send envoys to Xiangyang City and invite Jiangdong to attack Bashu together.

And the conditions for the two companies to work together are extremely generous.

If the recapture of the three eastern counties will continue to be owned by the state of Wu, the luggage or prisoners captured before the battle and the harvest from cleaning the battlefield will all belong to Jiangdong.In terms of battle arrangements, the Wei army in the south of Qinling Mountains is the main attack, and Wu only needs to send [-] to [-] troops to contain Bashu's troops on Bashan North Road.

In this way, it can almost be regarded as Wei Guo sending troops to conquer Shu for Wu Guo!
But Jiangdong's monarchs and ministers are not without schemes.

Especially in this kind of intrigue of the three-party game, Wu Guojun and his ministers can be regarded as the most adept at steering the helm.

Sun Quan directly rejected Wei Guo's invitation.

And in the reply letter, on the grounds that the Xiahouba tribe rejected Zhu Ran's request for assistance, he angrily denounced Wei Guo as an untrustworthy person, claiming that Wu Guo would no longer defend Wei Guo from Bashu's military front.

If Wei Guo dared to press or threaten, Wu Guo, who had suffered heavy losses, had no choice but to dedicate Xiangyang City to the Han army. .

Cao Rui and Sima Yi were speechless at such a reply.

Although they all knew that it was impossible for Sun Quan to surrender to the Han army, and the Han army would not take Xiangyang City into its pocket at this time.

But they really didn't say why Jiangdong sent troops.

In other words, Sun Quan, Lu Xun and others understood the essence of the battle before the battle, and the initiative won by the strong men who lost [-] to [-] soldiers cut off their wrists, so that the Wei State no longer had room for coercion and temptation.

But in any case, it is impossible for Wei Guo to let the war in the three eastern counties disappear.

If the tens of thousands of troops of the Han army cannot be restrained here, what is the point of Wei Guo's previous transfer of the Jingxiang front to Jiangdong?Continue to consume Bashu's war heritage, so that Wei has the opportunity to regain the strategic goal of Guanzhong, how to achieve it?

Therefore, even though Jiangdong's attitude was extremely firm, Wei's envoys to and from Wuchang still looked at each other; and Cao Rui's promise to Jiangdong to send troops was getting richer each time.

The time came to the end of spring and February in the repeated negotiations between Wei and Wu.

Tang Zibu, who was trapped in Shangyong, surrendered the whole city.

This is what all three parties expected.

The Wu army who came to the rescue also stopped, and the Wei army Xiahou Ba's troops who supported him also retreated into the middle of the valley road, and the food and fodder in Shangyong City were exhausted, so Tang Zi didn't even have a chance to fight to the death.

Perhaps, it is to appease the hearts of soldiers.

After Sun Quan learned of this, he imitated Emperor Zhaolie Liu Bei and said with emotion, "I am responsible for the consultation, but I am not responsible for the consultation", and did not hold his family members who stayed in Wudi accountable for this incident.

After Cao Rui and Sima Yi learned about it, they immediately felt that it was more difficult to persuade Jiangdong to return to the army.

Without him.

Without a reason to rescue Tang Zibu, Jiangdong soldiers sent troops for some reason!

The three eastern counties, which have experienced many battles between the Han and Wei Dynasties, now have no Li Shu and the soil is not fertile. For the strategic significance of Wu, it is a pity to say that it is a pity that the food is tasteless.

Therefore, after Cao Ruisi thought about it, he planned to send Sima Shi, who was previously an envoy to Jiangdong, to Wuchang again.

He returned Lujiang County in the north of the Yangtze River to Sun Quan, with Shu County and Chaohu Lake as the boundary.

The counties of the Dabie Mountains to the west of Chaohu Lake, such as Shuxian, Juchao, Wancheng, and Xunyang, are densely covered with water. During the previous Wei-Wu war, it proved that even if the Wei State occupied it, it would be difficult to defend it.

It's better to take this as sincerity, so that Jiangdong can send troops to disturb Shu again.

Quan should be the price to be paid for expelling Nishu from Guanzhong.

But not long after Sima Shi set off, before he crossed Jiangling City, Cao Rui sent someone to call him back.

The situation has changed again!

So that Wei Guo does not need to show any sincerity, and Sun Quan will send troops as scheduled.

Yes, Jiangdong had to fight.

Gein captured the Han army in the three counties in the west and three counties in the east of Jiaozhou, and had no intention of stopping.

However, when Jiangdong returned from the strike, the Han army began to deal with post-war affairs.

For example, the Guan Xing Department dismantled the camp and returned to Fangling City to garrison, and followed the previous agreement to protect the Jingman tribes and migrate to the three eastern counties; while the Zheng Pu Department continued to guard the Damshui River Valley, busy repairing the camp and Fortifications, etc., to prevent Wei Guo from sending Jingyu ministries to Wudang County.

But he himself returned outside Shangyong City.

The prime minister summoned him.

The person who sent the letter was Zhuge Pan who was brought by the prime minister and acted as a clerk.

When Zheng Pufu saw him, he was immediately shocked.

He is especially good at deciphering the essence of things from clues, and of course he also smelled something unusual from Zhuge Pan coming in person.

According to common sense, the prime minister should send a small official on duty to deliver the letter!
Let Zhuge Pan come here~
If there is no accident, it is the little official on duty who cannot be separated.

Combined with the fact that it is now the season of the alternation of winter and spring, the prime minister may be suffering from illness, and it is difficult to leave the small official on duty.
In this regard, Zheng Pu did not dare to neglect.

After briefly explaining the general's affairs, Zhuge Pan and Zhuge rushed to Shangyong County.

Along the way, Zhuge Pan burst into tears when he pretended to be someone else.

The prime minister's condition was more serious than he had imagined.

Before the beginning of spring, when the Prime Minister was lighting up the lamp to act as an agent for the affairs of the army and the court, he fainted once.

Fortunately, the young official on duty followed Huang's instructions and often gave the prime minister extra meals after nightfall, so he discovered it early, and hurriedly called the imperial physician who followed in the army to treat him.

The cause of the fainting was the sickness caused by the prime minister's long-night sorrow and sigh, and the lack of energy after old age.

After the prime minister woke up, the imperial physician also advised that the current prime minister should transfer all affairs to others.The implication is that the prime minister's physical condition is already close to exhaustion.

But the prime minister was noncommittal about this suggestion, and just told them to keep silent on the matter.

There is nothing wrong with thinking about it.

At the critical juncture of inducing Wei Guo to initiate the decisive battle in Guanzhong, the prime minister would not let his physical condition induce turmoil in the army, so that the victory fell short.

As for Zhuge Pan, after learning about this incident, it was after spring, before the Han-Wu war was decided, the prime minister fainted again, and he happened to be serving by his side.

"Let's hope the guards don't say anything about this matter."

After Zhuge Pan explained the matter in detail, he still said, "My father summoned the guard to return today to discuss the matter of persuading Shangyong City to surrender, not to let the guard return to sit in command."

Of course Zheng Pu knew the importance of it.

If Zhuge Pan hadn't been sent by his father Zhuge Qiao to travel to Longyou and lived in the Julu's courtyard in Luomen for a period of time, and taught him as a teacher, I'm afraid he would not have told him about it.

Along the way, he didn't say much.

In order to prevent Zhuge Pan from inadvertently revealing the sadness of "the son wants to support but the relatives will not wait" and be noticed by others.

It seems that the prime minister is deliberately hiding his physical condition from Zheng Pu.

The meeting time with Zheng Pu was only half a quarter of an hour.

Instruct Zheng Pu to be in charge of persuading the surrender of the Tang Zibu in Shangyong City, and ask him to think about how to promote the war between Wei and Wu, so that the Han army can stay in the three eastern counties and Wei Guo will not be surprised that Guanzhong is a strategy to lure the enemy.

Since then, they will not meet again.

He also claimed that if Zheng Pu wanted to earn something, he could just send it in the form of a book on the grounds that he was not feeling well recently.

No need to come in for a meeting again.

Zheng Pu, who was well aware of this, obeyed his orders.

Sometimes, it is more considerate to be ignorant than to be ignorant.

And compared to "everything is for your own good" persuasion and advice, trying to make others' expectations and long-cherished wishes come true is the real "for your own good".

Therefore, Zheng Pu also began to seize the day and night.

Regarding the surrender of Tang Zibu in Shangyong City, his approach was very hostile.

Different from the prime minister's siege, he directly asked the soldiers to surround the city on all sides, and only after forming a crossbow array did he throw the letter of surrender into the city.

The letter is very short, only a few words.

"The rescuers Lu Xun and Zhu Ran are all defeated. Do you want to surrender? Do you want to die?"

Without promising any treatment of surrender, without making any promise to treat the captives harshly, Tang Zi was asked to choose between death and life.

Inevitably, Tang Zi was furious for a while after reading the letter.

It's just that the anger didn't last long.

In the situation of "people are killed by swords and I am fish and meat", why bother to anger others when the chance of victory is certain?
After thinking about it alone, he took a pen and replied with a sentence of "what if I surrender, so what if I die" and sent it out of the city, which is probably a bargain for the treatment after surrender.

Those who are determined to die will not reply.

But Zheng Pu still didn't give him a satisfactory answer.

It is just claiming that the great Han has always been benevolent and righteous, and taking Jiang Wei's official worship as General Zhengxi and Zhou Tai once guarding Chengdu inside and outside as examples, so that he does not need to be disturbed by others.

And at the end of the letter, I added a stroke, "Spring plowing is coming!"

It was this unrelated addition that made Tang Zi no longer hesitate, and let the soldiers abandon their weapons and come out of the city to surrender.

Because he knew that the biggest problem for the Han army was the lack of food and fodder.

And Zheng Pu's "spring plowing is coming" is claiming that if Tang Zi does not surrender and delays the Han army's spring plowing, then the Han army will have no food left to house the prisoners!

Only slaughter it, or pit it.