Domination of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 834 Between Allies 2
"I'm just a villager in the mountains, how can I compare with Zhongda's talent." Zhuge Liang said with a smile: "It took me a lot of effort to take down Chen Lan's [-] troops. I think back then, someone once Going deep into the grassland single-handedly, relying on a three-inch tongue, mobilized hundreds of thousands of grassland troops to go south, wiped out tens of thousands of elite troops under Gongsun Xu's command, and caused chaos in northern Xinjiang. Alas, I don't have the ability to do such things. Listen! Said that Gongsun Xu still hasn't given up on the investigation all these years, and I don't know if he has found anything. If I have a chance another day, I will definitely ask."

The originally lively big tent suddenly fell silent. Sima Yi's face was quite ugly, and the faces of other Cao Jun generals were also sullen, as if Zhuge Liang had mentioned some embarrassing things.

"Hahaha, okay, okay, well said." Cao Cao suddenly laughed and said, "I have seen the talent of Kong Ming again. Today we are all here to wipe out the rebels. I think it is better to continue to discuss how to win longevity." Spring, Ji Ling is known as the number one general in Huainan. I have fought against him many times, and found that this man's military use is quite satisfactory. Now he still has more than [-] troops in his hands, and Shouchun City has a high wall. I am afraid that it will also suffer heavy losses.

In my opinion, our army should leave an army to trap the enemy in the city, and then send elite troops south to attack Yuan Shu. At this time, Yuan Shu is like a bereaved dog. Leave a breather, Xuande, what do you think we should do? "

"It's up to Meng De to decide everything." Liu Bei replied calmly: "I will cooperate with you." "

"Okay, with Xuande's words, I feel relieved." Cao Cao nodded and smiled: "For the sake of safety, you and I will each leave a team here to besiege Shouchun, and then send elites south to attack Yuan Shu. Xuande , I don’t know how many people you plan to keep, you must know that there are still many enemy troops in the city, if there are fewer people left, our army’s rear will be in trouble.”

"Since that's the case, why bother?" Zhuge Liang looked at Sima Yi, then at Cao Cao and said with a smile, "Ji Ling won't fight, we just lured him to fight. If Yuan Shu is surrounded now, his life will be in danger at any time, presumably Ji Ling will definitely not be able to hold back, and will definitely break through by force, as long as he leaves the city, then we will have a chance to take him down."

"That's right." Sima Yi said hastily, "It's just that, to put Yuan Shu in a desperate situation and leave the main force to encircle and suppress Ji Ling, our army's strength is worrying. It seems that we must send a large army to pretend to attack Yuan Shu, and then stay behind The main forces set up traps outside the city and wait for Yuan Shu to leave the city."

"Since that's the case, should Xuande go south, or should he stay?" Cao Cao finally asked, "I have an army of [-], and it would be most appropriate to set up traps outside the city and wait for Ji Ling, but,,,,,, "

"I would like to lead the troops to go south." Liu Bei said suddenly: "Our army has been resting here for two days, and going south is the most suitable moment, please rest assured, this time, I will definitely trap Yuan Shu and force Ji Ling to go out of the city to rescue... ,"

In the middle of the night, in Liu Bei's big tent, Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang were still discussing the military situation. In Cao Cao's big tent before, they had confronted Cao Cao and his advisers head-on, although Cao Cao was the one who really talked to them It's just with Sima Yi, but Zhuge Liang knows that there must be shadows of Cao Cao's other counselors, Xun Yu, Cheng Yu, etc. who are not extremely smart people, Cao Cao will definitely consult these counselors before making a decision, so today in Cao Cao Everything that happened in the camp must be the meaning of the entire group that Cao Cao belongs to.

"My lord, it's too dangerous to go south to attack Yuan Shu. If you fail, you will lose all your foundation." Zhuge Liang looked at the map and frowned and said, "Cao Cao wants to use our army to consume Yuan Shu's strength, and then he will take advantage of it. Such intentions are not vicious, and going south this time may not be a good thing."

"We have no choice." Liu Bei nodded and said, "Our army is not as strong as Cao Cao's. If we rashly divide our forces, we will most likely be annexed by Cao Cao. Therefore, it is impossible for me to divide our troops. No matter what, Gathering with Cao Cao is definitely not good for our army, so we must avoid Cao Cao.

At present, the best way is to go south to attack Yuan Shu. Shouchun will be completely handed over to Cao Cao, hehe, he wants me to consume Yuan Shu's strength, then I will consume it slowly and let him wait, Kong Ming, You have to remember that we are here this time to strengthen our own strength, the war is dangerous, if we can avoid it, we can't afford it. "

The subordinates understand. "Zhuge Liang shook his feather fan and said with a smile: "After our army goes south, we can quickly send people to seize the pass leading to Yiyang. If there is any change in Cao Cao, our army can go west to Jingzhou to avoid these disasters. Huh, Cao Cao didn't want to As for the calculation, let him do the calculation well. If we are in a hurry, we will leave directly and leave the entire Yuzhou to Cao Cao. I will see how he will deal with Yuan Shu's army then. "

"Don't do this unless you have to." Liu Bei thought for a while and said, "If we break the relationship now, I'm afraid it will only make Yuan Shu cheaper, but if Cao Cao is really so ignorant, we don't have to hold back , hum, Cao Cao, do you really think I'm a soft persimmon..."

After Liu Bei led his army to the south, all the battles outside Shouchun City were handed over to Cao Jun. According to the advice of the counselors, Cao Cao withdrew the army in batches, pretending to go south to attack Yuan Shu.As a result, the defenders in Shouchun City fell into an embarrassing situation. They originally wanted to break through, but the outside of the city was full of enemy troops. There was no point for them to break through. Now the enemy army is retreating to attack Huainan, so they have no choice. Don't go south to support, but the road to the south is not so easy, and Ji Ling is also worrying now.

When the three parties were mobilizing, a group of cavalry was quietly entering the southern part of Xiapi from Guangling. The cavalry was so silent during the march that they couldn't hear it except for the clash of armor and weapons. Seeing the whispers of the soldiers, even the war horses were infected by the silence, and they didn't even neigh casually during the march.

Such an elite troop has appeared near Yuzhou at this moment. If Cao Cao and the others find out, there will definitely be a big disturbance, but now Cao Cao and the others are all focused on Shouchun and Huainan, and no one has the heart to pay attention to this area. In the flooded area, no one would have thought that there would be such an elite cavalry in this place, indeed, who could have predicted such a thing.

If Cao Cao knew that this cavalry belonged to the troops sent by the Beijiang Army to participate in the war against Yuan Shu, I am afraid he would also be surprised. After all, Cao Cao has not lent it to the Beijiang Army. He didn't know how the army went south.

(End of this chapter)