Three Kingdoms New Emperor

Chapter 504 The Eve of the Conspiracy

Liu Xie has been in a very restless mood for the past two days, but he doesn't know why.

Right now, everything is favorable to the situation of the Han Dynasty.Xiahoudun's barracks still existed on the surface, but in fact it was just a fortress on the beach, and it didn't need a blow from the Han army's turbulent waves.Even just a small high tide can destroy Xiahou Dun's barracks.

As a result, at the military meeting every night, everyone was no longer talking about how to defeat Xiahou Dun, but how to cut off one finger rather than hurting ten fingers, thinking about how to use the last general attack to break this battle into a routine The defeat, but how to completely annihilate this Cao army as much as possible.

In the northern part of Yanzhou, the progress is also quite smooth.Since Puyang feasted the people and stabilized the hearts of the people, Liu Xie once again ordered Lu Bu to take command and lead his Bingzhou soldiers to attack Zang Hong.

Zang Hong didn't have much reputation in history, but he did an incident that made future generations very angry.Moreover, he is also considered a famous minister of the Han Dynasty, and he took refuge in Yuan Shao, but because he was sent by Zhang Chao to Youzhou to contact Liu Yu when he was discussing the Dong League, and because Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zan could not fight well, Yuan Shao valued and appointed him as a subordinate. .But in fact, he had a good personal relationship with Zhang Chao, and in history he rebelled against Yuan Shao because Yuan Shao didn't save Zhang Chao.

In response to this, after Liu Xie wrote a letter, he asked Zhang Chao to write another letter.The meaning of the two letters is to gently persuade Zang Hong to abandon the dark and turn to the bright, so as to save his fame and integrity.Coupled with Lu Bu's resurgence and his soldiers' fronts like fire, Zang Hong was intimidated by such literary attacks and military forces, and retreated in succession.Many county towns in Dongjun were looking forward to the wind, and many guards had already abandoned the city and fled before fighting.

The reason for this was that Zang Hong's mind was in a mess and he had no intention of fighting.Secondly, after Lu Bu came back, he changed his face and strictly enforced military discipline. Instead of looting the people, he raised the banner of punishing the people and punishing crimes.As a result, Lu Bu didn't look like he was fighting a war in Dongjun.At the beginning, Lu Bu reported in detail how many beheads were beheaded when attacking a certain city. Later, it was all about occupying and winning a certain city, and even lost the words of fighting.

The last thing is that Chen Gong also sent back the news that after he burned Cao Cao into a mess, he brought Zang Ba and others into Langya.

In fact, Liu Xie didn't quite agree with this strategy, but in order to deal with Cao Cao, he had to harden his heart and be a villain of history.A fire in Taishan City did burn down a city.But more importantly, it burned out Cao Cao's momentum, making Cao Cao's strategy of first west and then east aborted.

The two counties of Rencheng and Shanyang were also plagued by locusts, and Cao Cao would not gain much advantage if they captured them.However, the county of Mount Tai suffered less from locust plagues, and because Zang Ba was stationed, its supplies and food were also the most abundant.Now Zang Ba has withdrawn as a whole, leaving only a burnt Taishan City to Cao Cao, and he has nothing to gain except to make Cao Cao busy.

Even, Cao Cao's reputation will be hit hard again.Although Chen Gong set the fire, Liu Xie would not admit it even if he was killed.And because Cao Cao had slaughtered Xuzhou before, even if such a shit basin was forced to be held on his head, Cao Cao would not be able to argue with it.In this way, the situation that Cao Cao had just improved might even worsen.

Of course, in doing so, Liu Xie is undoubtedly a villain.But it is a pity that history has always been so cruel, true and false are not as simple and clear as black and white.

Everything looked perfect, but it was too perfect that made Liu Xie faintly feel uneasy.He sat silently in the tent of the Chinese army, feeling as if he had been wrapped up by an invisible huge conspiracy, and it was difficult for him to even breathe.

What made him most uncomfortable was that he couldn't see what was wrong at all.It seems that all the circumstances are telling him that he will win [-]% in this campaign against Cao Cao.In the second and a half years of crossing, he will strangle the most difficult villain in the history of the Three Kingdoms to death in the bud.

But after carefully comprehending the experience of the past two years, Liu Xie knew that there must be something strange: there is no absolute in the world, if there is, someone deliberately gave you such an illusion.Let you fall into the trap, blindly not seeing the cold light behind you.

Now that I think about it carefully, I also know that the two places Xun You and Jia Xu mentioned are the biggest weaknesses in the current situation of the Han Dynasty.Liu Xie quickly transferred the two of them to the place they predicted, hoping to be stopped before the conspiracy broke out.

After all, at this moment, he has no choice but to take precautions.

Thinking of this time, the tent door has already been opened.The generals and counselors who came rushing in all had smiles on their faces, reflecting Liu Xie's melancholy but rather sinister.

After a simple salute, everyone also felt the strangeness of Liu Xie.But Zhang Xiu, who was in white robe and silver armor, was still indifferent as always, and asked for instructions on the matter: "Your Majesty, I wonder if my department will still be attacked and harassed at night tonight?"

Liu Xie was slightly taken aback, and when Zhang Xiu asked for instructions for the second time, he replied, "How is Xiahoudun's barracks now?"

"The morale of the army is slack, the soldiers have no fighting spirit, and deserters are not uncommon." Zhang Xiu first replied objectively, and then added his own judgment: "Xiahou's barracks are like rotten trees. Just a light grip can turn them into dust."

"That's good," Liu Xie nodded lightly, stood up suddenly and unconsciously, and said, "You don't need to attack the camp tonight, Jin Yiwei will spread the matter of Mount Tai to the public. All the troops lie down and sleep peacefully tonight, and tomorrow I will gather the army All together, defeat Xiahou Dun in one fell swoop!"

"Your Majesty?" Xu Rong was puzzled by Liu Xie's sudden change of purpose. He clasped his fists and asked, "These days we are surveying the terrain and wanting to surround and annihilate the enemy army. Why tonight?"

"I can't explain why, but I always feel that we have been trapped in Puyang for too long, and it has been so long that I feel uneasy..." Liu Xie unintentionally expressed his worry, but after reacting, he immediately explained: "Unless we can capture Xiahou Dun, Cao Ren and others, defeat and mass annihilation will actually have the same impact on the overall situation. However, if the time cost is taken into account, I think we should break through the enemy camp as soon as possible and fight Cao Cao. Fang Wei wants to nuclear."

All the generals and advisers looked at each other, and they all understood Liu Xie's meaning: If Chen Gong hadn't succeeded before, it would be best for them to gather and wipe out Xiahou Dun.But now that Cao Cao's army has rushed here in a panic, defeating Xiahou Dun quickly before that will undoubtedly deal another heavy blow to Cao Jun.If you only want to cut off one finger, you may change in the middle of the day. Once you do that, the loss outweighs the gain.

Therefore, the suburbs of Puyang were extremely quiet that night.

Equally quiet was the prefect's mansion in Chenliu City.However, the tranquility here is only on the surface, in a secret room in the mansion, it is very unquiet.

Guo Jia held a copper spoon and tapped the wine pot rhythmically: "Mr. Zhang, you started this matter from the beginning to the end. Now that it has reached this point, should it end with you?"

Zhang Miao sat on his knees opposite Guo Jia, his face still looked calm, but the slightly shaking wine bottle in his hand betrayed his true state of mind at the moment.Facing Guo Jia's unrestrained but sharp eyes, Zhang Miao suddenly poured all the warm wine from the wine bottle into his stomach, and suddenly roared at Zhang Miao: "Why do you all force me like this? "

Guo Jia was dissatisfied at this moment, and pouted his lips and said, "It's reasonable, how could we force you to do this? Chen Gong had a clever mouth and didn't pay anything, so Zhang Junshou gave up the big one. Yanzhou. But we brought General Yuan’s autographed letter and the lives of more than a hundred family members of Zhang Junshou. No matter how you look at it, this is our revenge with virtue. Prefect Zang, do you think so?”

The person sitting next to Guo Jia at this moment is none other than Zang Hong, the prefect of Dongjun appointed by Yuan Shaoxin.Zhang Miao also didn't know why this person who was supposed to have a fierce fight with Lu Bu suddenly appeared in front of his eyes.

Zang Hong's face looked almost the same as Zhang Miao's, the only difference was that Zhang Miao was frightened and corrupted, while Zang Hong was as sad as death.He was glanced lightly by Guo Jia, and suddenly a sliver of hatred was ignited, but it was a pity that the sliver of hatred was quickly extinguished: "Meng Zhuo, you and I are both fish and meat now, and the family and relatives are all in their hands." In the hands. In order to be safe, I can only take advantage of the trend..."

"Follow the trend?!" Zhang Miao's anger suddenly rushed to Zang Hong: "You follow the trend, is it to make me rebel again and again, and abandon all loyalty and integrity?"

"Scary, you can't say that..." Guo Jia suddenly laughed out loud, filled with endless contempt and strength, and then he suddenly moved forward, his eyes stretched directly in front of Zhang Miao's pupils: "You say so, It seems that you are really a man of integrity!"

(End of this chapter)