0024 Preparation before the decisive battle
The soldier who delivered the letter listened to Cao Cao's words, and his heart was surprised, because, now on the northeast border, the Cao family army will immediately start a conflict with Liu Jing's Liu family army, and at this time, it is the time when the Cao family army is in danger, and there is an accident in the western border pass, which is a very headache, and it is not yet known who the victory or defeat belongs to. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
If Ma Teng, Han Sui and Liu Jing join forces to attack Cao's army, then Cao Cao will definitely fall into a miserable situation where he is invincible with two fists and four hands, and if this continues, Sizhou will be in danger of being destroyed.
The situation has reached such a critical moment, Cao Cao can still laugh, and he still laughs out loud, is this Cao Cao driven crazy by Ma Teng, Han Sui and Liu Jing? The dark area in the hearts of the soldiers who delivered the letter instantly spread.
Cao Cao said to Cheng Yu and Xun You: "Zhong Jian, Gongda, it's a good time for us to show our talents, seize this opportunity, win Ma Shoucheng and Han Wenyue in one fell swoop, and clear the obstacles for us to sweep away the heroes of the Northwest, and from then on, the entire Northwest will belong to us!" ”
Cheng Yu immediately said: "Now that the sheep has entered the tiger's mouth, we have to sharpen our knives next!" ”
Xun You said cautiously: "Right now, the lord still needs to send a letter to Liu Xuande, and then say it in good words, just to take advantage of this incident in the northwest to quell this war, presumably Liu Xuande is a benevolent and righteous person, and he will definitely not take advantage of this to sneak attack us."
In this way, friends are still friends, but the generals on both sides only have a little friction on the border issue, which is generally harmless, and Liu Xuande also got the result he wanted, I think he will definitely not continue to pursue it! ”
Cao Cao froze for a moment, then soothed: "Hey! Let's do it, I also hope that this matter can be solved smoothly and in the way we envisioned, but as the saying goes, 'It is up to man to make things happen, and heaven is to make things happen!' Then it's up to Providence! ”
Cao Cao listened to Xun You's opinion and sent Liu Jing a handwritten letter, explaining in detail the conflict between the two sides, and a series of unpleasant things that occurred in this matter, but also made a general summary, in the letter, Cao Cao's words and demeanor were calm and generous, courteous, not at all like a person who was going to fight with Liu Jing.
After Liu Jing received Cao Cao's letter, he couldn't help cursing Cao Cao in his heart, what kind of person Cao Cao is, others don't know, but he Liu Jing knows very well in his heart, and in his heart he said that Ma Teng and Han Sui's attack was Cao Cao's helplessness and chose to make a truce with Liu Jing.
Moreover, the fault for the conflict in this matter was also attributed to Cao Chun and Guan Yu, and he also had a big deal with Liu Jing about the impact of this matter, and Liu Xie personally gave him a letter to Cao Cao, and the mediation in the play was also written in the envelope.
This letter can be said to have been written to make Liu Jing feel depressed, okay, okay, you wrote this letter to me because you have something to do in the northwest, and the meaning of the letter is that I Liu Jing is grateful to you, originally with him in the autumn, why did you want to meet me in battle?
Liu Jing didn't understand why Cao Cao changed so quickly at this time, thanks to Liu Jing's later generations, he still had some understanding of Cao Cao's treacherous side, although Cao Cao's methods were not seen through by Liu Jing once, but Liu Jing knew that Cao Cao's short-handed encounter with him was not a whim, let alone a whim.
Therefore, Liu Jing instinctively thought that this was Cao Cao's deliberate, and Liu Jing guessed that behind this whole thing, there must be some conspiracy hidden by Cao Cao, or some ulterior plan.
Therefore, Liu Jing ordered Zhang Wuji to send people from the 'sticky pole' to Sizhou to investigate the specific movements of Cao Jun and why Cao Cao arranged such a powerful lineup.
The reason why Liu Jing is like this is also to make a heart understand, because he has decided to personally bring soldiers and horses to confront Cao Cao, Liu Jing does not let Zhuge Liang directly participate, not because Liu Jing does not want to do it with Cao Cao, but Liu Jing feels that the combat effectiveness of his current troops is not what it used to be.
Liu Jing wanted to try the combat power of the Shadowless Army that he had personally trained, after his use of modern training methods, coupled with the skillful equipment of the divine craftsman Pu Yuan, the combat effectiveness of the Shadowless Army would definitely be as strong as a thousand tempers, so that with Guan Yu's forty or fifty thousand soldiers and horses.
Liu Jing's first confrontation with Cao Cao, a total of nearly 70,000 soldiers and horses were prepared, which was not unprecedentedly grand, and in this battle, the generals under Liu Jing's command were also his henchmen, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Dian Wei and others, all of whom were the most loyal tiger generals to Liu Jing.
Liu Jing believed that with him fighting side by side with them, and the monarchs and ministers were united, the combat effectiveness of the Liu family army would definitely increase a lot.
Moreover, Zhuge Liang also sent Zhao Yun to command 5,000 elite soldiers, starting from Yanzhou and marching towards the border of Jizhou, which is expected to converge with Liu Jing at the Sizhou border.
After Liu Jing received the letter, he ordered the three armies to accelerate towards the northwest of Jizhou, because Liu Jing smelled a hint of victory in sight, if Cao Cao really thought that Liu Jing would be in his hands, then Cao Cao was very wrong.
Because, all along, Liu Jing has always wanted to find an opportunity to get rid of Cao Cao's henchman, although Liu Jing and Cao Cao have a good relationship, but this does not prevent Liu Jing from clearing the biggest obstacle to his future in the Central Plains.
Moreover, this time it was Cao Cao's fault first, and Liu Jing just took this opportunity to take advantage of the situation and attack Sizhou and Merge Prefecture in a big way, which is also understandable.
Liu Jing has been waiting for this opportunity for a long time, and this time Liu Jing gave up the opportunity to end Yuan Shu's political career with his own hands, and personally led the main force to run thousands of miles from the southeast of Jizhou to the southwest of Jizhou, the purpose is to firmly seize this rare opportunity and defeat Cao Cao.
Because Liu Jing's 'sticky pole' had already been explored, Ma Teng and Han Sui, who were far away in Yongzhou and Xiliang, had already been eyeing Cao Cao, and if Liu Jing started a war with Cao Cao, then these two terrible forces would definitely not sit idly and watch the tiger fight.
Ma Teng and Han Sui will definitely take the opportunity to invade Cao Cao's forces in Sizhou with the overall situation of soldiers and horses, and avenge the death of Bian Zhang at Cao Cao's hands.
In this way, Liu Jing, Ma Teng and Han Sui joined forces to get rid of Cao Cao, which also cleared an extremely powerful opponent for the three of them, and it was a very good result for any of the three of them. It was precisely because of this consideration that Liu Jing made up his mind to fight a decisive battle with Cao Cao.