In the king's tent, after Zhang Yuan received the information that Cao Ying had gone to the empty building, he was so excited that he was stunned, and the fierce battle spirit on the heroic face began to burn. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

"The king knows the ability of people, and he is convinced." Li Si also smiled and sighed.

Zhang Yuan laughed, and waved his order: "Since Feng Tan has succeeded, it should be no problem to touch the dragon if he wants to, this king expects that Liu Lao Thief will withdraw his troops within a few days, and give me a close monitoring of the situation in the secluded camp."

The edict was conveyed, and the generals of the Zhou army immediately sent a reprimand and strengthened the surveillance of the camp.

Soon, the latest movements of Youjun were sent to Zhang Yuan's case.

However, Liu Bei's latest move is a little strange for Zhang Yuan.

According to the Ming Bao of the Ming Dynasty, a large number of Youjun troops appeared on the avenue north of Yueyang, and they were heading north, which was clearly a large-scale retreat.

However, the rebuke near the enemy camp reported back, claiming that the camp had not been demolished, but that the camp had doubled its flags, and the camp wall could vaguely be seen.

"This is strange, Liu Bei, the old thief Liu, did he withdraw, or didn't he withdraw?" Zhang Yuan looked at the diametrically opposed information in his hand, and his brows condensed.

At this moment, Li Si walked into the tent with a strange smile on his face, and arched his hand: "King, Yuan Shang has sent a messenger here." ”

Yuan Shang's messenger?

At this juncture when Cao Cao had retreated and Liu Bei seemed to be retreating, Yuan Shang suddenly sent a messenger to Ruzhong Neng.

"Why, Yuan Shang's miscellaneous, won't it be because the reinforcements ran away, desperate and helpless, and want to surrender to this king." Zhang Yuan half-jokingly.

"The king is really right, Yuan Shang did send someone to ask for surrender." Li Si laughed.

Zhang Yuan's eyes lit up, and he suddenly became excited, and hurriedly asked Li Si to say more details.

It turned out that Yuan Shang really sent people to ask for surrender, but instead of surrendering unconditionally, he made several conditions.

Yuan Shang said that he was willing to take the initiative to cede Yueyang City, and even the entire Taiyuan County, as well as the counties of Vietnam, and most of the essence of Yuan Shang's sphere of influence were all dedicated to Zhang Yuan, and Zhang Yuan was called a tribute and surrendered to the state of Fan. 〈。

Yuan Shang's condition was that he hoped that Zhang Yuan would retain his title of Duke of Yue, and let him continue to keep the four counties of Yanmen, Dingxiang, Yunzhong, and Wuyuan, in the northern part of Yuan Shang's sphere of influence, as his fiefdoms.

Yuan Shang said that as long as Zhang Yuan agreed to his request, he would submit to Zhang Yuan from now on and guard the north for Zhang Yuan.

Zhang Yuan smiled.

What is subservient to the Great Zhou, and what is called a minister and a tribute, is just a false surrender that Yuan Shang was forced to do.

Yuan Shang knew that Yueyang would not be able to defend it, so he wanted Zhang Yuan to let him go and seize several counties in northern Vietnam with dangerous terrain, nominally as a minister, but in fact he continued to divide one side and took advantage of the opportunity.

However, if Zhang Yuan agreed to his conditions, he could end the battle of Huayue in the shortest possible time and take time to deal with the enemies of the remaining countries.

As for Yuan Shang, although the counties in the north of Vietnam are dangerous, they are poor mountains and bad waters, and the population is scarce, even if Yuan Shang is allowed to keep it, with those counties and Yuan Shang's ability, don't think about causing him any more threats.

It is not impossible to wait until the other princes are cleaned up in the future, and then free up their hands to destroy Yuan Shang.

Zhang Yuan was silent, but there was a certain suspicion in his eyebrows.

"Is the king worried that Yuan Shang is surrendering?" Li Si saw Zhang Yuan's guess.

Zhang Yuan nodded, "Yueyang City has not been besieged yet, and Yuan Shang has not yet reached the last step, so this king is indeed a little suspicious." ”

"The king's suspicions are also justified." Li Si smiled, "However, if Yuan Shangru really wants to surrender by fraud, he will surrender directly and unconditionally, and Zhong Ku will put forward so many conditions, he should know that with his current strength, he has no capital to make conditions with the king at all, and only by surrendering in Kaecheng can there be a way to live." ”

"This king originally thought the same way, but it was only in combination with the information he had just received about the Youjun that this king had to be suspicious." As he spoke, Zhang Yuan showed the two pieces of information to Li Si.

Li Si only glanced at it a few times, and there was a suspicious look in his eyes.

After pondering for a moment, Li Si threw the information on the case and sneered: "The king is right in his suspicions, Yuan Shang is indeed defrauding and surrendering, and he wants to take the opportunity to abandon the city and flee in the name of deception." ”

Yuan Shang wants to escape?

Zhang Yuan's eyes moved, and he motioned for Li Si to continue. ［。

Li Si said: "If Liu Bei's army is still there, Yuan Shang's hope is not extinguished, he will definitely not choose to surrender, let alone give up Yueyang City, Yuan Shang's surrender proves that Liu Bei's army has withdrawn, and the banner soldiers in the army must be just a bluff, I expect that the soldiers and horses will not be more than 5,000 at most." ”

"It makes sense, keep talking." Zhang Yuan nodded.

Li Si continued: "Besides, this camp of the hidden army, if Liu Bei has withdrawn, he should know that we will be aware sooner or later, and it is useless to bluff, so Si speculates that the one who stays in the camp must be Sima Yi." ”

"This king understands." Zhang Yuan was already enlightened, and sneered: "Sima Yi is afraid that we know that Liu Bei's army has left, and immediately encircle Yueyang, so he wants to bluff, and at the same time offer a plan to Yuan Shang in the city, let him deceive the king, so that the king can relax his vigilance, and then he can join forces with the outside, and answer Yuan Shang to break through and let the city not leave." ”

Li Si smiled but said nothing, obviously what Zhang Yuan said was exactly what he thought in his heart.

"Yuan Shang, Sima Yi, at this point, you still want to play yin with this king, it's good, then this king will accompany you to have enough."

In the big tent, Zhang Yuan's fierce and disdainful laughter sounded.

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Yueyang, Guogong Mansion.

The candle flame was dim, and the entire hall was filled with a kind of gloomy mood.

Yuan Shang held his forehead with his hand, sat on it with his eyes closed, and he remained motionless, like a lifeless statue.

The footsteps sounded, and the two of them, one article and one martial artist, hurriedly walked into the hall.

"Meet Yue Gong." The two of them looked solemn and bowed down in unison.

"Get up." Yuan Shang raised his hand weakly.

The two straightened up and looked up at Yuan Shang, looking at Yuan Shang's expression, it seemed that they had made some kind of decision.

"Yue Gong, Cao Cao has withdrawn his troops, there is news and rumors that Liu Bei has also withdrawn, Yue Gong urgently summoned us late at night, is it to discuss the countermeasures" The judge asked with a frown.

Yuan Shang opened his eyes, sighed lightly, and said helplessly: "This duke summoned you here to tell you that this duke has sent an envoy to the Zhou camp to ask Zhang Yuan to surrender. ”

As soon as these words came out, the two of them immediately changed color in shock.

"Yue Gong, that Zhang Yuan killed the lord, but you and I were against him, how could you surrender to him!" Lu Bu was the first to roar.

The judge also panicked: "Yue Gong, Zhang Yuan is brutal, if Yue Gong surrenders to him, he will be harmed, Zhong is not yet exhausted, Wei Zhong will easily surrender Zhang Yuan?" ”

The attitude of the two of them could not be more obvious, and they were both opposed to asking Zhang Yuan to surrender.