Cao Cao threw the book in his hand to the ground fiercely, his eyes steaming with rage.

Ma Teng raised 200,000 troops to attack Chang'an, and Sun Jian raised 100,000 troops to attack Hefei!

Although Xinye City is small, Liu Bei tried his best to defend it, and it was difficult to conquer it for a while. He led a large army to attack for half a month, and more than 30% of the 150,000 soldiers were lost, and the city was finally broken in sight. Unexpectedly, at such a critical time, Ma Teng and Sun Jian actually came together, leaving his rear in a precarious situation in an instant.

Cao Cao was unwilling, his soldiers suffered a lot of casualties, and the defenders on Xinye City suffered heavy losses? On the other hand, the equipment in Shinno Castle has been almost exhausted, and yesterday they even began to remove the tiles from the houses as throwing objects to defend the city. Cao Cao believed that as long as he gave a few more days of effort, he would be able to capture Xinye City, and then use Xinye as a springboard to drive straight into Jingzhou and take the entire Jingzhou in one go.

But the sudden intervention of Ma Teng and Sun Jian changed the whole situation in an instant. It will take a few more days, and he will indeed be able to capture Xinye City, but if Chang'an and Hefei are lost, and Ma Teng and Sun Jian's armies attack Xuchang, their entire rear will be in danger of being completely lost, and even if they lead the army to take the entire territory of Jingzhou, what is the point?

He is now coercing the Son of Heaven and ordering the princes, as if he is the most powerful overlord in the world, but if Xuchang falls and the Han Emperor changes hands, then even if he captures the entire territory of Jingzhou, he can only be an ordinary prince living in a corner.

"Ma Teng, Sun Jian, deceive people too much!" Cao Cao roared loudly, his tone full of indignation.

A cadre of civil and military stood on both sides, and no one squeaked. They don't know what to say at this point, and any words of consolation are nothing more than useless nonsense in the present situation.

Guo Jia and Jia Xu's brows furrowed slightly, obviously, they both noticed a hint of unusualness.

"Fengxiao, Wenhe, what do you think of?" Cao Cao looked at the expressions of the two and knew that they were thinking, so he asked.

When Jia Xu heard Cao Cao's inquiry, he set his sights on Guo Jia. He still adheres to his usual low-key style, as long as Cao Cao does not explicitly name him, so that he must speak, he must not say it.

Guo Jia saw Jia Xu's gaze and smiled bitterly, this Jia Wenhe is still the same old picture.

But since Jia Xu adhered to the principle of keeping silent, then he had to explain it himself, so Guo Jia took a step forward and said: "Jia thinks that the fact that Ma Teng and Sun Jian sent troops at the same time is quite strange. ”

"Oh? What do you mean? After hearing Guo Jia say the word strange, Cao Cao tried to suppress the anger in his heart, and after thinking about it carefully, the whole thing really seemed very wrong.

When he attacked Jingzhou, Ma Teng and Sun Jian actually attacked the border together, is this just a coincidence?

When he went out to Jingzhou by himself, although the troops in the rear were weakened, they were not completely unprepared. In fact, since the elimination of Yuan Shao, he has more strength than the other princes, and now although he personally leads the army south, he can also send a lot of soldiers and horses to garrison the rear city at the same time. Chang'an and Hefei are both strategic locations, and they cannot be captured in a moment, and even if the enemy army can take advantage of the opportunity to conquer the city and conquer the city by heading south, it will inevitably pay a great price.

Sun Jian's attack on Hefei is quite reasonable, although Sun Jian and Liu Biao do not deal with each other, but the so-called cold lips and teeth, and say that he and Sun Jian have a grudge against their son, he took advantage of his southward to attack Hefei desperately, which is also reasonable.

But Ma Teng sent troops to attack Chang'an, which seemed very strange. Cao Cao also dealt with Ma Teng and had some knowledge of his character. Ma Tengqi looks heroic and rough on the outside, but in fact he is also a cautious character, and he will not easily offend opponents who are stronger than him. If he didn't have a full interest, how could he choose to fight with himself?

What's more, according to the news, Ma Teng dispatched 200,000 troops this time, and it is estimated that all the Qiang soldiers in Liangzhou were sent, which is quite a decisive battle. There is no deep hatred between himself and him, is it worth his big fight? Allegiance to the Han family? This reason is at most to coax a three-year-old child.

No, no, there's a hint of conspiracy in it.

"Maybe we're in a big game." Guo Jia said thoughtfully, "The other party has jointly designed it from the beginning, and as soon as we attack Jingzhou in a big way, Ma Teng and Sun Jian will echo each other from afar, and launch an attack when my rear is a little empty, intending to destroy my foundation." ”

Cao Cao nodded, obviously agreeing with Guo Jia's words.

But the question is, who is the person who can plan such a big layout? Who is behind this, and at the same time he is completely ignorant of this, completely kept in the dark, until the opponent's army is overwhelmed, and suddenly realizes that he has fallen into the dilemma of being attacked on both sides.

Is there such a capable person in the whole world?

"Who is the one who laid this outbreak......" Cao Cao muttered softly while thinking about those hidden talents in the world?

"The man of the layout...... Yes. Looking at Cao Cao's expression, Gao Shun's mind suddenly flashed with inspiration, and an extremely loud name came to mind.

Could it be that it's him?

That great talent who has been praised and praised by future generations, has he already gone out of the mountain?

Zhuge Liang, the person who planned this layout and put Cao Cao in such a predicament, could it be Zhuge Liang?

Thinking that Zhuge Liang might have become his enemy, Gao Shun couldn't help but feel palpitations. Zhuge Liang's reputation in later generations can be described as magnificent, "do your best, and then die", "die before you get out of the school, and make the hero full of tears", words and sentences related to Zhuge Liang flashed in Gao Shun's mind one after another at this moment.

Zhuge is wise and close to demons, if such a genius has really stood on the opposite side of Cao Cao, then Cao Cao has undoubtedly added an extremely difficult opponent.

Could it be that Zhuge Kongming is in this Xinye City in front of him?

Cao Cao had the experience of Xiahoudun's past, and his march was extremely cautious, and there were two major masterminds in Cao's army, Jia Xu and Guo Jia, who would not easily have the opportunity to make mistakes, so Zhuge Liang did not come up with a plan to thwart Cao's army outside Xinye City. And the method of defending the city can be described as the same, nothing more than rolling wood, falling stones, shooting arrows, splashing oil, etc., so after entering the battle of defending the city, Zhuge Liang failed to have any outstanding performance.

Therefore, Zhuge Liang was still not famous at this time, and Cao Cao and others did not know that there was a great talent in Xinye Town that was enough to be famous for future generations.

"The whole army retreats." Although he was unwilling to accept such a result, Cao Cao had no choice, he had to return to Chang'an and Hefei. The combined strength of Ma Teng's army and Sun Jian's army reached 300,000 people, and although the troops left in Chang'an and Hefei were not small, they were still quite weak in the face of the huge number of enemy troops. The other two lines were attacked together, and if he didn't lead the army back, Xun Yu might not be able to send too many men and horses to rescue the two places at the same time.

"My lord, I think it's better to leave some troops behind and guard Wancheng." After Cao Cao gave the order for the whole army to retreat, Guo Jia stepped forward again and advised.

"Why?" Cao Cao asked.

"I'm afraid that Liu Bei will take advantage of the time when we are entangled with Ma Teng and Sun Jian, and lead the army to attack Wancheng." Guo Jia explained slowly.

When Cao Cao heard this, his heart sank. Liu Bei will intervene again? If that happens, you will not be fighting on two sides, but on three sides.

Once Wancheng is breached, then Liu Bei also has the possibility of going north to attack Xuchang.

"Feng Xiao's words are wrong, thinking that Xinye City was attacked by our army day and night, and the defenders in the city suffered countless casualties. Now that Liu Bei can pull out the men and horses, I am afraid that he can't even make up 20,000, how can he capture Wancheng? Regarding Guo Jia's remarks to beware of Liu Bei, Cao Cao had not yet expressed his opinion, but Xiahoudun disagreed.

"Liu Bei may not have soldiers, but Liu Biao definitely has." Guo Jia's expression revealed a rare trace of solemnity.

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