Three Kingdoms, I'm really not a general!

Chapter 399 Ambush
Cao Zhi was talented, but Xing Daorong naturally did not love him to such an extent.

The reason why he has such an attitude towards Cao Zhi is because Cao Zhi is useful!

This guy... is the unstable factor that causes discord in the Cao family.

Although being alive may not be of much use, it is definitely more useful than being dead.

As for how to use…

As I said, if you can’t figure it out, just leave it to Zhuge Liang.

I have taken on so many things for him, I should ask him to think of some solutions for me.

Now he spoke kindly, and seeing that Cao Zhi's complexion had improved a lot, his expression changed, and he continued: "Zijian has suffered a lot, this time... are we going to send you to Cao's camp?"

As soon as these words were spoken, Cao Zhi's face changed drastically!

What is Cao Zhen here for?

It is good to attack Sun Quan, but the key is to take our own!

If I send myself back, wouldn't that mean I would die?

He immediately shouted: "General...if you send me to Cao's camp, it means Cao Zhi will die!"

"My brother...will definitely kill me..."

Xing Daorong pretended to be surprised.

But he shouted: "You and Cao Pi are not blood brothers, why do you want to kill each other?"

Cao Zhi also took the risk.

Anyway, he couldn't go back to the north right now, and seeing that Xing Daorong was quite kind, he said bluntly: "He is afraid that I will take his throne, so he wants to kill me."

In fact, Cao Zhi really just picked up a life-saving straw and his mind was no longer clear.

Just take the Cao family’s little tricks, who doesn’t know about them?

However, Xing Daorong just nodded in realization, and then sighed, "If that's the case, this fight between brothers is truly something that heaven and earth cannot tolerate."

"Well... Zijian, just go back to Jiangdong first, or your family will take you away and put your life in danger."

Cao Zhi breathed a sigh of relief. After months of tension, he finally relaxed a little.

He was so busy expressing his gratitude that he no longer had the desire to fight with Cao Pi as he had in the past.

...

After Xing Daorong captured Hefei and Cao Zhi, he sent someone to send Cao Zhi back to Moling, and at the same time sent someone to report military intelligence to Chengdu to inform the situation of the war there.

In fact, it's not just Xing Daorong who's making moves right now. Just as Guan Ping who came last time said, Guan Yu in Jingzhou also has something.

However, Sima Yi and Cao Ren were leading the troops in Wancheng, so Guan Yu did not seem to gain any advantage.

On the other side in Chang'an...Ma Chao also seemed to have tried to send troops from Chencang.

However, Chang'an had high walls and thick fortifications, and Xiahou Yuan's cousin Xiahou Shang was in charge, so Chang'an didn't gain any advantage.

It can be said that the only progress...is on Xing Daorong's side.

But in fact, the war here has not yet ended. Cao Zhen's army is still outside the city of Hefei. Now that Sun Quan and Cao Zhi are gone, Cao Zhen can no longer be his "steady commander" and naturally has to take action against the Jiangdong army.

So even though Xing Daorong took Hefei, it was not time to celebrate.

...

Although it is not time for Xing Daorong to celebrate yet, things are moving in a good direction after all.

As for Cao Ying...

The news that Hefei was captured, Sun Quan died in battle, and Cao Zhi was missing was like a bolt from the blue!

Especially for Cao Zhen, this news was really a life-threatening thing.

At this moment, he had an ugly look on his face. Sitting in the big tent, he was confused in his mind.

The people of Hefei fought desperately but failed to capture it. As a result, Xing Daorong took the city quietly and secretly, and no one knew how he did it!

More importantly...Cao Zhi was also lost.

Although there was no military defeat, the purpose of Cao Zhen's expedition was not achieved!

In this situation, how could Cao Zhen look good?

What made him feel even worse was that Yu Jin had a sarcastic look on his face.

"General... I advised him several times before, and Xing Daorong brought a few soldiers here. This is a good opportunity to attack him!"

"I didn't expect that my efforts would not be rewarded with your humble advice, Marshal."

"Now that the city has been breached by Xing Daorong and the people have been captured by him, I really don't know what to do."

Cao Zhen blamed Yu Jin in his heart.

Originally, when Xing Daorong came to challenge him, he was going to send troops to fight back.

As long as they respond to the enemy, they will find that Xing Daorong has only deployed a decoy force in front of them.

However, because of Yu Jin, he became too suspicious and fell into Xing Daorong's trap of confusing the enemy with his own troops.

What’s hateful is that Yu Jin is still making sarcastic remarks!
Cao Zhen was filled with hatred, but he could not find any point to refute Yu Jin, so he could only say: "Now that things have come to this, we should not blame each other, but should first think of a way to defeat the enemy."

Upon hearing this, Yu Jin closed his eyes, crossed his arms and said, "Xing Daorong is currently guarding the city. If Cao Zhi is captured by him, he will be sent to Jiangdong much earlier."

"At this point, I really don't have any way to defeat the enemy."

Yu Jin really doesn't have the method to defeat the enemy, but...

What he said was somewhat hurtful.

Zhang He and Xu Huang became anxious when they saw the "open and secret struggles" before their eyes.

It’s just that these two people have tried to persuade him countless times, and now the war has suffered setbacks one after another, and they are a little discouraged for a while, and they don’t want to persuade him anymore.

Besides...

Things have developed to this point. If you really let the two veterans choose who is on the right side and who is wrong, I'm afraid they will support Yu Jin more.

To put it bluntly, without mentioning anything else, losing the war and being plotted against is the greatest sin!

Nothing else is a reason.

Seeing that Zhang He and Xu Huang were silent, Cao Zhen thought to himself that if these three generals were dissatisfied with him, and most of the soldiers in the army were brought by them, he was afraid that he would not be able to issue military orders in the future.

Thinking in this way, Cao Zhen could only compromise for the time being.

But he looked at everyone and said, "I made a mistake earlier because I didn't think it through properly. But now that Xing Daorong has taken the lead, I can't just admit defeat."

"The land of Hefei is closely related to the safety of Huaixi. We cannot just hand it over to others like this."

"Although we have no plan now, we should work hard day and night to think of a way to defeat the enemy."

Hearing Cao Zhen admit that he did have a problem, Yu Jin and the other two were stunned.

Especially Yu Jin, who had always been dissatisfied with the fact that Cao Zhen, a young boy, was the commander-in-chief. Now that he saw that Cao Zhen was finally suppressed by the momentum, his resentment finally subsided a little.

After a long silence, he finally responded, "Actually, it's not a big deal that Cao Zhi was taken to Jiangdong by Xing Daorong."

"On the contrary, there is no need to ask the King of Wei to really raise the butcher knife against his own brother and invite criticism."

"It's just that the city has been lost, which is indeed a bit troublesome. We can't always station troops to monitor the movements in the city."

"So we have to find a way to take Hefei back."

Finally, we reached a consensus!

After hearing Yu Jin stop his sarcastic remarks, the group of people finally stopped focusing on internal conflicts and started to think about how to deal with the current situation.

only…

It is not so easy to defeat Xing Daorong.

Both Cao Zhen and Yu Jin knew that attacking by force without any strategy would definitely not work.

(End of this chapter)