609. The strategy is being implemented
Zhu Wei, Cao Cao, and Liu Bei finally agreed with Zhu Wei's strategy, and also set a strategy for Cao Cao to contact Chen Deng, a strategist around Lu Bu.
However, in order to cooperate with this strategy, Zhu Wei and Cao Cao also need to act and cooperate, so that Lu Bu and Yuan Shu can believe that they can find the opportunity, so under the planning of Guo Jia, Cheng Yu, and Jia Xu here, a fake drama plan has been set.
At the moment, this meeting of the three overlords can be regarded as a meeting that can be recorded in history, uh, maybe not necessarily, anyway, Liu Bei is in this world, I am afraid that it is impossible to have any future emperor's order.
Well, anyway, the three-party meeting is over, in the eyes of outsiders, Zhu Wei and Cao Cao are all angry and lead the troops away, and Liu Bei seems to be angry and lead the troops back to the camp, and this three-party meeting does not seem to have any good results.
Then words came from Cao Cao's side, saying that Zhu Wei secretly communicated with Lu Bu, but he was really a half-hearted person, and it was not enough to join forces with him.
And Zhu Wei also deliberately spread the word, Cao Cao took advantage of the power of the Son of Heaven to oppress people, intending to use others as pawns and steal the victory by himself, which was really ill-intentioned, so Zhu Wei's army quelled the rebellion for the Son of Heaven, without the help of Cao Cao's power, Wei Zi should use his own strength to attack Shouchun or something.
However, it seems that it was also because of the wrestling between Zhu Wei and Cao Cao, and after the two sides went back, they both launched a fierce offensive against Shouchun City.
Cao Cao's side finally filled in the moat outside the north gate of Shouchun, and then sent troops to attack the urn city outside the north gate of Shouchun City, and Zhu Wei's side launched siege arrow towers, thunderbolt stone throwers and other siege equipment, and also shot indiscriminately at the south gate of Shouchun.
Zhu Wei even threw a lot of letters in the direction of the south gate of Shouchun City, wrapped in gravel and Jinpa, which was written with "The Jiangnan army will break Shouchun in seven days, and if the soldiers and civilians in the city want to live, they can climb the city to live", which seems to have a bit of persuasion to surrender the soldiers and people in Shouchun City, and let them climb the wall to escape for their lives.
And Zhang Xun, the general of Yuan Shu who guarded the south gate of Shouchun, naturally asked his soldiers to gather this kind of brocade one after another, and it could not be easily spread.
But Zhang Xun couldn't help but have a little bit of emotion about Zhu Wei's proposal to break Shouchun in seven days, he felt that Zhu Wei should not say such words for no reason, then Zhu Wei should have a certain degree of confidence that he could attack Shouchun City within seven days.
In fact, seeing the anti-arrow fortifications erected by Zhu Wei's army under the south gate wall of Shouchun City, and seeing that Zhu Wei's army did not attack the city with all its might, Zhang Xun also guessed that Zhu Wei's army was probably digging the city, so it would be possible to dig through the city wall within seven days.
Thinking of this, Zhang Xun was also a little panicked, so he reported the news to Yuan Shu as soon as possible, and then accelerated the construction of the second line of defense located in the city inside the city wall.
But in a hurry, how could it be possible to construct a defense line comparable to a city wall.
This had to make Zhang Xun think about how he should lead his troops in the area of Shouchun Nancheng to resist the attack of Zhu Wei's army in the southern city area of Shouchun, and start street battles with Zhu Wei's army.
But as expected in the tripartite discussion between Zhu Wei, Cao Cao, and Liu Bei, Zhu Wei's threat to the south gate of Shouchun City had already made Yuan Shu a little panicked.
Yuan Shu originally relied on the solidity of Shouchun City to dare to sit in the city and hold on, but now Shouchun City can't stop the invasion of Zhu Wei's army, so where does Yuan Shu dare to die.
Yang Hong, the strategist under Yuan Shu, also seemed to be a little greedy for life and afraid of death, and persuaded Yuan Shu to leave a few generals to defend the city, and where to break through the siege and escape from the encirclement of Zhu Wei, Cao Cao, and Liu Bei.
According to Yang Hong, the Son of Heaven is not in danger, and the safety of the Son of Heaven is the most important.
In this way, Yuan Shu was indeed moved by Yang Hong's words, but the problem was that Yuan Shu couldn't find a place to escape for a while.
At the same time, just when Zhu Wei and Cao Cao pretended to strengthen the siege, Zhu Wei and Cao Cao's two armies built two adjacent military villages on the periphery of Lu Bu's military fortress, and it seemed that they also made some mutual defenses.
Under the instructions of the upper echelons of both sides, the soldiers of the two armies often scolded each other, as if both sides were accusing each other of being untrustworthy and unwilling to launch an attack on Lu Bu's army, so it was naturally difficult to jointly besiege Lu Bu's army.
This also seems to have given Lu Bu an opportunity, maybe they can take advantage of the discord between the two armies of Zhu Wei and Cao Cao to find an opportunity to highlight the encirclement constructed by the two armies.
Anyway, now, according to the strategy jointly determined by Zhu Wei, Cao Cao, and Liu Bei, the external environment that needs to be prepared has been arranged, and then it depends on whether the internal specific strategy can be carried out smoothly.
It's just that in the process of waiting, Zhu Wei doesn't know whether Cao Cao's side has contacted Chen Deng, whether Chen Deng has made suggestions on Lu Bu's side, and whether he has acted according to the plan.
However, while waiting for news from Zhu Wei's side, Liu Bei's side sent an envoy to Zhu Wei's side, and Mi Zhu was still the envoy.
This time Mi Zhu asked to see, but the thing written in the greeting post was about Xuzhou, so Zhu Wei was curious to let Mi Zhu come to see, and as a result, Mi Zhu went to Zhu Wei's military tent, and on behalf of Liu Bei, he proposed to Zhu Wei the intention of alliing against Cao Cao to seek Xuzhou.
It turned out that Liu Bei had learned from Cao Cao that Cao Cao had contacted Chen Deng and began to act according to the strategy, but Liu Bei had some gains and losses in his heart about this matter.
Obviously, Liu Bei was worried that after this strategy succeeded, Shouchun Yuan Shu was eliminated, and Lu Bu was killed again, so Cao Cao was very likely to use Chen Deng's connections in Xuzhou to take advantage of the opportunity to seek the land of Xuzhou.
Therefore, Mi Zhu came to Zhu Wei's side this time, on behalf of Liu Bei, to show goodwill to Zhu Wei, hoping that after the end of the Shouchun War, the alliance between the two sides would prevent Cao Cao from entering Xuzhou.
According to Mi Zhu's original statement, it was hoped that Zhu Wei would support Liu Bei to become the lord of Xuzhou again, and then Liu Bei would be willing to cede the Xia Pi Kingdom to Zhu Wei, and Liu Bei would have the three counties of Pengcheng, Xiaopei, and Donghai.
At the same time, Liu Bei was willing to serve as the precursor of Zhu Wei in Xuzhou to resist Cao Cao and Yuan Shao, as long as the alliance between the two sides was good, they could also join forces to rescue the Son of Heaven from Xu Du controlled by Cao Cao, and finally restore the Han dynasty.
Zhu Wei naturally didn't expect Liu Bei to make such a request at this time, in fact, Zhu Wei already had a plan on his side, and after solving Shouchun Yuan Shu and Lu Bu, he used Chen Deng's relationship to annex Xuzhou and try to subdue Zhang Liao and other old generals of Lu Bu who stayed in Xuzhou.
After all, Chen Deng was originally a person from Zhu Wei's side, although this time he was ostensibly helping Cao Cao deal with Lu Bu and Yuan Shu, in fact, he was just using Cao Cao to solve the Shouchun War, and in the future, Chen Deng would naturally put aside Cao Cao and go all out to help Zhu Wei seek Xuzhou......