Chapter 56: The Poisoner and the Adulterer (I)
"Wenhe, you once said that you could go to Luoyang to help me ask Cao Cao to surrender and save my life......" In the face of Cao Cao's tough forces, Li Dao is now really thinking of surrendering, of course, the premise is that his life can be guaranteed, and his current position cannot be lost too much, "You go and tell that Cao A, I, Li Dao, am willing to surrender him, but he must ensure that my Li Li's net worth is safe." If he wants to take away my current position as a great Sima, he can take it away, but at least he has to make me a former general, and he must retain my title of Marquis of Chiyang. ”
Jia Xu smiled, when is it, this lord of his own is still whimsical, he told him that he can guarantee his life in front of Cao Cao after surrendering, but that is based on the premise that Guo Yan's tens of thousands of troops are still there, and this surrender can ensure success. If Guo's army is not destroyed, the army of Li and Guo can reach 1120,000, and with Zhang Ji's troops, the army that can be put into the battlefield is 130,000, which is more than two and a half times that of Cao Cao's army. If there is such a huge disparity between the enemy and our forces, even if Cao Cao's army can fight, I am afraid that when fighting head-on, it will not be able to achieve victory, but will suffer heavy losses. In this case, Cao Cao must have had a lot of worries about going to war. If you go to the condition that "Li Dao surrenders, but his life must be saved", in order to preserve his own strength, Cao Cao, who does not want his army to suffer too much damage, will most likely agree.
But now the situation has changed greatly, and Guo Yan's army has been wiped out, and it is a fiasco in an instant. In this way, the morale of Cao Cao's army will inevitably be greatly boosted, and the soldiers in Li Wei's army know that the strength of his army is between Guo Yan's army, and I am afraid that they will become frightened when facing Cao's army. The balance of strength between the two sides has inevitably shifted sharply in favor of Cao Cao's side, and in the case of his absolute superiority, how could Cao Cao still tolerate Li Dao's life. What's more, a group of princes and nobles in Luoyang City have a deep bitter enmity with Li Dao, and they can't wait to quickly break Li Dao's body into ten thousand pieces, if he can exchange his life for his own advancement, Cao Cao will not do this unless his brain is filled with water.
Li Wei's idea of saving his life was stupid enough, but what Jia Xu didn't expect was that this was not the limit of his stupidity. Li Wei even hoped that he could mix with a former general under Cao Cao and keep his throne, but he didn't know that this was a pipe dream! The four generals of the front, rear, left and right, second only to Jiuqing in terms of rank, are inferior to the generals of Sizheng and Sizhen, but they are higher than the generals of Si'an and Siping. Although Cao Cao raised the army to serve as the king this time, he will definitely be rewarded for his meritorious deeds in the future, and his official position will inevitably be promoted. But at least at this time, his general position is General Zhendong, one of the generals of the Four Towns, and I heard that among the generals under him, the highest general is only General Wuwei. Li Dao is good, as soon as he speaks, he will be a former general whose status is only one order lower than Cao Cao, even if Cao Cao originally did not have the idea of killing Li Dao, after hearing such an immeasurable condition, I am afraid that he will be immediately aroused to kill intent.
The only way at the moment was to lead the troops to flee back to Chang'an, hold the city to the death, and wait for the enemy army to retreat. Jia Xu also knew that under such circumstances, he would most likely consider adopting Li Dao's proposal to withdraw troops from Chang'an again. But Jia Xu didn't do this, but chose to rot the idea in his stomach.
"No." Although he knew that he couldn't do anything, Jia Xu didn't say a word, and simply agreed to Li Wei's request to let him go and ask for surrender. He needed a chance, a chance to get out of Li Wei's tent, a chance to find another master, a chance to make better use of his talents.
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As Jia Xu expected, Cao Cao was snickering at Guo Yan's stupid behavior of leading the army to death.
"I'm worried about how to deal with the enemy's more than 100,000 troops, and Guo Adona will immediately solve my problems, which is really happy!" Cao Cao was in a good mood and teased everyone around him.
"Then the lord should reward him well, if you let all the heroes of the world know that a person who is so loyal to the lord, his final fate is to expose his body to the battlefield, and most of them still think that the lord intends to treat the meritorious ministers." Along with the topic of Cao Cao, Guo Jia also made a little joke.
"Hahahaha——!" When Cao Cao heard this, he was happy, and everyone else was amused by Guo Jia's words.
But it is true that as Cao Cao and Guo Jia said, Guo Yan's unauthorized dispatch of troops did a considerable favor to his own army. If Li Dao, Guo Yan, Zhang Ji and others joined forces, in the face of such a huge army, even if Cao Cao's army was superior to the opponent's combat strength, it could only temporarily avoid its edge, and it would never be possible to face it head-on.
In fact, after Cao Cao greeted the Han Emperor Liu Xie, he discussed countermeasures with his subordinates and made countless considerations, but he never had the intention of confronting the enemy. The decision-making discussed is basically inseparable from the word "anti-between", Li Dao and Guo Yan have a bad relationship to the extreme, although they stand together because of interest factors, but they can't talk about any trust between each other at all, as long as they use strategies and skillfully provoke the connection between the two, Cao Cao is sure to let the two sides turn against each other, and then seize the best opportunity to break it in one fell swoop.
But Guo Yan's stupid move omitted all these troublesome procedures. After their tens of thousands of troops were completely lost, although Li Dao and Zhang Ji's army was still slightly superior in numbers, their morale must have dropped to the extreme, and they had no chance of winning in front of their own army. In this regard, how could Cao Cao not "thank" Guo Yan.
"Lord Qi, someone asked to see him, and the other party claimed to be a messenger sent by Li Dao." Just when Cao Cao was about to say a few words, the guards outside reported inside.
"Li Dao's envoy? What is it for? Let him in. Cao Cao was slightly stunned when he heard this, the situation has developed to this kind of non-stop time, Li Dao will even send someone over, what is he for.
I saw a scribe who was nearly fifty years old slowly pacing in, and for a moment, all the eyes of everyone in the tent were focused on him.
"Doctor Guanglu Jia Xu, meet General Zhendong." Jia Xu bowed to Cao Cao and said without humility or arrogance.
Jia Xu? Whether it is Cao Cao or everyone here, they are no strangers to this name.
Hearing the name Jia Xu, Cao Cao looked at the other party with interest. And Jia Xu did not shy away from it, and his eyes were also carefully observed on Cao Cao.