Cao Cao was confused before, so some people couldn't understand Sun Quan's intentions, his political wisdom was originally a little clear, but now he was reminded by a few capable generals, and suddenly understood what Sun Quan was thinking.

Sun Quan had no intention of fighting the Wei Dynasty at this time.

The reason why he sent troops regardless of it was to win a battle, and then step on the shoulders of the Wei Dynasty and ascend to the throne step by step.

I have to say that Sun Quan's trick is ruthless and spicy enough.

If this battle is lost, then the previous Feng Chan and coronation will become a step for Sun Quan to ascend the throne as the emperor.

"Sun Zhongmou's courage is getting bigger and bigger!" Cao Cao narrowed his eyes and said in a deep voice: "Is he so confident that he is not afraid of backfire?" ”

Wu Jun is elite, and Wei Jun is not vegetarian.

When it comes to fighting, it is not certain who wins and who loses, if he wins, it is good, but if he loses, he will be equivalent to sending a halo to the Wei Dynasty, and it is not far from bowing down to his subordinates.

"Your Majesty!"

Xi Zhicai stood up and arched his hand: "Now that the Wei Dynasty has sealed the world one step ahead of the Wu State, it is carried by the heavens, and the heavens are ordered, if he Wu wants to turn things around, he has to take a risk!" ”

"If he wants to fight, I will accompany him to fight, become a king and defeat the king, we should fight a vanguard encounter for the decisive battle of Wei and Wu in the future, am I still afraid that he will not succeed!"

Cao Cao's face became resolute and resolute, and he asked, "Since Sun Quan doesn't have the heart to fight with me, where do you think he will focus on fighting?" ”

Since it is not a full-scale war, then the Wu army will definitely focus on attacking one side and fighting an earth-shattering victory in order to build momentum for Sun Quan's ascension to the throne.

After all, they don't have so many troops to start a full-scale campaign.

"Qingzhou!"

When the five people under the hall heard this, they glanced at each other one after another, and then spit out two words in unison.

"Qingzhou?"

Cao Cao listened. His expression suddenly became solemn: "Why is this?" ”

"Your Majesty, the Wu army pressed up from Nanyang, and also put Ju Yi on Mount Tai, the momentum is high, flowers bloom on all sides, and the fight is called lively. But only Qingzhou is the quietest! ”

Xi Zhicai analyzed in a deep voice: "The main force of the Wu army adjacent to Qingzhou is the Flame Army of the seven main forces of the Wu State, since it is Ju Yi who fights Mount Tai, where is He Qi, the main general of the Flame Army?" Thinking about it, I can only say that He Qi is in Qingzhou! ”

"Also, according to the battle report of our ghost pawns, it is estimated that the Wu army in Mount Tai has only one division and more than 10,000 people!" Jia Xu added.

"A division. More than 10,000 people? ”

Cao Cao was suddenly a little furious, kicked over the bookcase in front of him, and said coldly in a solemn voice: "Is he Zang Xuangao eating, more than 10,000 people in the Wu army pressed him tens of thousands of elite soldiers to fight, and he was swallowed tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, I want to cut him!" ”

"Your Majesty is angry!"

Everyone hurriedly bowed their heads and knelt down.

Xi Zhicai raised his head, arched his hand, and said, "Your Majesty." Zang Ba's defeat was actually due to his meritorious service. He wanted to recapture Lang Evil, and his heart was commendable, but he ran into the fierce general Ju Yi of Wu Guo, and this defeat was not a crime! ”

"Humph!"

Cao Cao snorted coldly and calmed down the anger in his heart a little: "Put aside the matter of Mount Tai, let's talk about Qingzhou first!" ”

"Your Majesty. There is another reason why we think that the purpose of Wu's army is Qingzhou, and now our navy in Qingzhou has a small scale, especially General Cai Mao's move to raze Wu and turn the East China Sea upside down. For this reason, the Wu Navy also paid a lot of costs to quell the sea trouble.

Wu has always regarded the sea area as their territory, and now that our navy has developed, it will more or less become a hidden danger for Wu State, and if Qingzhou is defeated, it will destroy the development trend of our Wei Dynasty navy, killing two birds with one stone, why not! ”

Guo Jia analyzed carefully.

"In this way, this battle is mainly in Qingzhou!"

The light of Cao Cao's pupils condensed, and he said coldly: "Then I am in Qingzhou, have a good fight with Sun Zhongmou, break the myth of the Wu Navy, and the Wei Dynasty will be even more vigorous!" ”

"Your Majesty, the navy of the Wu Kingdom is the best in the world, and it must not be underestimated!"

Xi Zhicai reminded the way.

"There are more than 50,000 navies in Qingzhou, and there are more than 20,000 soldiers and horses under the command of Qingzhou Thorn Shi Che, not entering the sea area, there should be no problem in dealing with the flame army of Wu State, but the main general is only Cai Deju, I am a little worried, who will go to help?"

Cao Cao asked.

"Your Majesty, the minister is willing to go and fight with He Qi!"

Guo Jia arched his hand and said: "He Qi, this person, is the former general of Wu State, famous for pacifying Shanyue, and is also famous in Wu State, it is rumored that King Wu values this person very much, and he and Gan Ning will be trained as the chief admiral of the navy. ”

"Good!"

Cao Cao nodded and said: "Now that Guanzhong has been decided, and the affairs of the court and the central government have gradually stabilized, the Taiwei and the general can't leave the capital, you can take a trip!" ”

"Wechen will definitely not disappoint Your Majesty!"

Guo Jia's delicate eyes were rippling with layers of faint battle intent.

"Your Majesty, there is one more point, in terms of Mount Tai, the Wu army has achieved such a great result now, it may not be a feint, Zang Ba has lost this battle, the momentum has been lost, and someone needs to be sent to assist!"

Xi Zhicai said in a low voice: "Actually, Zang Ba is not weak, in our Wei Dynasty, he is also a strong general, but he is definitely not Ju Yi's opponent, they haven't even figured out how many soldiers and horses Ju Yi has, they have been defeated for a while, tens of thousands of soldiers and horses are lost, like this, even if Qingzhou is kept, Taishan will be defeated." ”

"Juyi?"

Cao Cao gritted his teeth a little for this name: "It's a pity, the former Jizhou War actually let Sun Zhongmou Huang Que be behind and take this strong general under his command!" ”

"Your Majesty, the minister is willing to deal with Ju Yi!"

Tian Feng thought about it, he felt that Cao Cao's eyes fell on him, so he stood up calmly and said: "A certain family has a deep relationship with this person, and they know him quite finely, and everyone in the world thinks that Ju Yi is just an arrogant and domineering general, but in fact, although this person advocates attacking, he is undoubtedly cautious and scheming in the arrangement of troops. Not under our General Zhang, Zang Ba is not his opponent, it is normal, but Zang Ba's main force is still in Fenggao, with the assistance of Weichen, if he does not increase his troops. Take him too, not impossible! ”

He is familiar with all the tactics of Ju Yi, and it is not difficult to deal with Ju Yi.

"Wen Yuan, what do you think, how is this person?"

"The last general and he haven't officially fought each other!"

Zhang Liao said calmly: "But the Battle of Guandu and the Battle of Yecheng have vaguely collided with each other, without this person, Yuan Benchu would not have been able to get out of Guandu." In Yecheng, we don't have to worry too much about causing huge casualties, and there are very few people in our Wei Dynasty who can deal with this person! ”

"Yuan Hao, after all, you have a relationship with him, I don't want to embarrass you!"

"Your Majesty, neither I nor Frustration, until now. still regards Ju Yi as a close friend, but between public and private. Weichen is clearly divided, each is his master, life and death have no complaints, meet on the battlefield, and do his best to fight, he is a real friend! ”

Tian Feng said firmly.

"Then I'm sorry for you!"

Cao Cao nodded with satisfaction. If Tian Feng said that he had no friendship with Ju Yi at all, he would be worried, but Tian Feng's calmness made his suspicions disappear completely: "Now the soldiers and horses in Guanzhong and Kyoto cannot be mobilized, and the only thing I can help you is five thousand tigers and leopards." Even if I can't get back Juyi's head, I hope to take back Lang Xie! ”

"Minister, I will do my best for this battle!" Tian Feng's voice became extremely sharp.

After this battle was agreed, Tian Feng and Guo Jia hurriedly went down to prepare, and Jia Xu also went to prepare for their most detailed news in Qingzhou and Taishan.

Zhang Liao and Xi Zhicai stayed in the Qingxin Palace.

"Wenyuan, Zhicai!" Cao Cao looked at the two of them and said in a deep voice: "If the Wei Dynasty wants to fight to the death with the Wu State, it must unite as one, whether it is the court or the military, I must rectify it!" ”

"How does Your Majesty want to straighten things out?" Zhang Liao asked: "The army is a double-sided blade, once it is not done well, it will hurt the court!" ”

"As far as I know, many generals under the command of the Cao family and the Xiahou family have some empty salaries, right?" Cao Cao asked coldly.

"Your Majesty, there are indeed a lot of such behaviors, but they are not serious!" Xi Zhicai said: "If you want to eliminate it, I'm afraid you can only follow the example of Wu Guo and clean up the military!" ”

"This must not be!" Zhang Liao hurriedly shook his head and said: "Your Majesty, the national conditions are different, the set of the Wu State is not suitable for our Wei Dynasty, and painting a tiger is not an anti-dog, that will make our Wei Dynasty self-inflicted!" ”

"And Your Majesty will also fall into the name of an imitator!" Xi Zhicai said.

"I understand these!"

Cao Cao nodded, he was still very sober about this, but he couldn't watch those wood-moths affect the combat effectiveness of the Wei army: "But Wen Yuan Zhicai, think about it, this year's battle, from Xuzhou Youzhou to Merge Zhou, Wu has now surpassed our Wei Dynasty in terms of military strength."

Sun Zhongmou was in the army of Wu State, and it was not unreasonable to implement new changes and sweeps, we should follow suit, or we still have to learn, as long as we can make the Wei Dynasty strong, I don't want to be in this face! ”

"Your Majesty, the ministers will think about it!"

Xi Zhicai and Zhang Liao looked at each other and nodded.

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Jinling City.

Sun Quan, the king of Wu, also urgently convened the generals in the Military Aircraft Pavilion to discuss and plan the battle of Qingzhou.

"This is the battle report that Qingzhou just came back, let's take a good look at it!" Sun Quan sat at the head of the main hall, his handsome face was a little ugly.

"Cai Mao is not fooled?"

"Gather your forces and stick to Huangxian?"

The battle report that Qingzhou He Qi personally sent back to the generals who were looking at them couldn't help but be a little surprised.

"This Cai Mao is not only not fooled, but he also took the initiative to let go of Dongmu City, forcing the soldiers and horses ambushed by General He on the sea to not get up, so he retreats as advances!"

Xu Shu, director of the General Staff Department, sighed.

"We may have underestimated this former defeated general!"

Sun Quan's amber eyes burst out with a touch of coldness: "This person can be regarded as suffering a loss and growing wise, and it is even more difficult to entangle than when he was in Chibi!" ”

Cai Mao, in history, he was a little green leaf of soy sauce, which brought out super talents such as Zhuge Liang and Zhou Yu, but he didn't expect that after the defeat of Chibi, he could grow to this point.

In the first battle of Qingzhou, He Qi's plan was to use the 10th Division to land in Dongmu City, create a main force in Dongmu, and then lure the Wei navy out of Laizhou Bay. Ambush and fight it.

This strategy is very good, and Chen Heng of the Tenth Flame Division also did a good job, but unfortunately, because of Cai Mao's prudence, this battle fell short.

Cai Mao did send troops, and he asked Wu Anguo to lead 5,000 soldiers and horses to reinforce Dongmu. Wu Anguo was ambushed by Chen Heng on the way, but he fought his way out of the encirclement with his strong combat effectiveness.

This somewhat made Cai Mao think that the main force of the Wu army was in Dongmu, but Cai Mao's reaction later exceeded He Qi's expectations, he did not send troops, but tightened his troops and withdrew from Dongmu City.

This time, He Qi is out of line, and the terrain of Laizhou Bay is a little dangerous. The fight can be hit, but the casualties are certainly not small.

It was because of this hesitation that he lost the best opportunity to enter Qingzhou.

"The battle of Qingzhou is not ideal, but the battle outside the city of Taishan Feiguo is very relieving!"

Chen Gong looked at the front-line battle report carefully, and said with a smile: "Lord Taiwei just used the strength of two regiments to swallow Zang Ba's tens of thousands of elites in one go, forcing Zang Ba not to dare to move lightly. You can only stick to Fenggao Fortress! ”

"Zang Ba was scared of being beaten, and he definitely didn't dare to go north to support. But now the situation in Qingzhou is not good for our army! ”

Sun He, the squire of the military department, said in a deep voice: "General He Qi is worried about the casualties being too large, so he doesn't want to forcibly attack Laizhou Bay, resulting in the loss of fighters, and now the situation is a bit stalemate, and the Wei army is probably already reacting, and wants to enter it......"

"It's become an uphill battle. And it's a tough battle on land! ”

Pan Feng said categorically.

"Even if it's a tough battle, this battle will have to be fought!"

Sun Quan waved his hand, without any hesitation, and said coldly: "Even if Wei Jun reacts, it will take time to prepare." Pan Feng, send a letter to He Qi, within three days, you must enter Qingzhou, this is a military order! ”

"No!"

Pan Feng nodded, but there was a hint of worry in his expression: "King, our navy is definitely strong at sea, but once it lands, its combat effectiveness will definitely be leveled by the Wei army."

This battle may not get the result we want, and if they drag on for ten days and eight months, the Wei army has soldiers and horses in Yanzhou and Jizhou, and they can be quickly reinforced, should we increase our troops! ”

"Troops, where do we increase them from?" Sun Quan asked.

"Northeast Wild Lion Camp!"

Lu Jun, the secretary of the military department, said in a low voice: "The Crazy Lion Army is the closest place to the Qingzhou battlefield!" ”

"I'm afraid the mad lion camp is more than enough but not enough!"

Sun Quan shook his head: "Goguryeo has just been stable, and it needs to be heavily guarded, and the Buyeo people in the north are also a little impatient, so they must be guarded, and the grassland is not very peaceful, in addition to the previous operation to clear the pirates of the Mahan and Wa Kingdoms, they have already lent a division of troops, and now they can't take out more troops to assist He Qi!" ”

"How is the Youzhou Blood Wolf Camp?"

Xu Shu said: "It won't take too long for the soldiers and horses of Youzhou to go south!" ”

"That's even more unlikely!"

Sun Quan said coldly: "Huang Zhong guards the land of the two states, the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses of the Blood Wolf Army, one soldier breaks two soldiers to use, if anyone dares to borrow troops from him, he will be desperate!" ”

"I'm afraid it's impossible to increase the troops!" Pan Feng sighed and said, "Now I can only look at General He!" ”

"Qingzhou?"

Sun Quan's left index finger twitched rhythmically on the round conference table, and his thoughts were a little uneasy.

He didn't doubt He Qi's ability, but the Wei Dynasty was full of talents, and it was definitely not to be underestimated, and the current situation really didn't seem to be able to pin all his hopes on the battle of Qingzhou.

Thankfully, he still has one move.

Maybe whether his coronation to the throne at the beginning of next year can go smoothly depends on whether Lu Bu can fight a resounding battle in Yuzhou.

If Lu Bu's raid battle can be fought well, even if Qingzhou can't get in, it may not be the worst outcome.

At least, it will not affect his coronation to the throne.

"Sun Ben!"

"Wechen is here!" Sun Ben, director of the Logistics Department, was on standby.

"The latest production in Longquan Workshop, how many of those Divine Machine Horse Crossbows are there now?" Sun Quan asked.

This is a strong crossbow that is used immediately, one-handed operation, in terms of use, and accurate, long range, huge lethality, in August, it was only studied from the workshop, and now it is still being explored, and it has not yet been mass-produced.

"There are less than 2,000 of the Logistics Department presented!"

"Send it to Jingzhou, to Lu Bu!" Sun Quan said lightly.

"No!"

When Sun Ben heard this, he was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly nodded his head. (To be continued......)