Hearing that Zhang Liao finally agreed to surrender, Xu Shu, Zhao Yun, Tai Shici, Lu Lingqi, Wei Xu, Song Xian, Hou Cheng and others were all overjoyed.

Xu Shu, Zhao Yun, and Tai Shi Ci are mainly because of Zhang Liao's ability, although this person is not as wise as Xu Shu, and his courage is not as good as Zhao Yun and Tai Shici, but he is not weak in terms of using troops compared to any of the three, and even slightly exceeded.

And Lu Lingqi's happiness is not only because of Zhang Liao's talent, but also because Zhang Liao, the first brave general under her father's account and who she regarded as a relative, was finally in the same camp as her again.

Wei Xu, Song Xian, Hou Cheng and others were also happy, because they belonged to the eight strong generals under Lu Bu's tent at the beginning, and later Hao Meng rebelled and was killed, Cheng Lian and Cao Xing died in the battle of Xiapi, and the four of them and Zang Ba surrendered to Cao Cao, and the eight strong generals collapsed.

But later, when Zhang Liao was ordered to guard Huainan, Wei Xu and the other three were still assigned to Zhang Liao's account as generals, but later in the Battle of Lu'an, Cao Ren was defeated, and the three of them were defeated by Tai Shi Ci one after another, and were captured by Tai Shi Ci and surrendered, and since then they have been enemies of Zhang Liao. Now that the old brothers are together again, they are naturally overjoyed.

With the surrender of Zhang Liao, his tens of thousands of soldiers naturally collapsed, and this ambush and pursuit of the battle was finally over, after some discussion, Xu Shu decided to temporarily lead the army to garrison Zhuyi, and Zhao Yun together with Liu Qi to report the detailed battle report to Liu Qi, waiting for Liu Qi's next order.

However, it was said that Liu Qi got Zhao Yun's battle report in Yingyin, and heard that Huainan was pacified and Zhang Liao's entire army was annihilated, so he accepted the persuasion of Xu Shu, Zhao Yun, Lu Lingqi and others in desperation, and led the people to surrender. I couldn't help but be overjoyed, when it was decided to appoint Zhang Liao as the general of Andong and lead Pengcheng Taishou, so that he led more than 10,000 troops who surrendered to the Han Dynasty in the entire Battle of Zhuyi and 20,000 soldiers from Pengcheng were still stationed in Pengcheng, waiting for an opportunity to plot against Peiguo, and Tai Shici was the Taishou of Qianjun. The generals Wei Xu, Song Xian, Hou Cheng and others, and the 20,000-strong army Zhu Shou Qianjun, waiting for an opportunity to plot against the Liang State, while Zhao Yun was appointed as the assassin of Yanzhou, leading Runan Taishou, holding the festival, leading 5,000 cavalry and the garrison of Qianjun to Runan to defend the town, waiting for the opportunity to plot against Chen Liu, and was responsible for supervising the military forces of Runan, Qianjun and Pengcheng.

At the same time, at Xu Shu's request. Liu Ye was renamed as the assassin of Yangzhou, and Xu Shu was transferred to the rank of Sili Lieutenant, Henan Yin, and the rank of squire of the leading army, and Xun You, who had just taken refuge, was also appointed as the Guanglu doctor, and the palm was discussed, and the gold medal purple ribbon was added, and the number was the golden purple Guanglu doctor, from the third grade.

And Lü Meng's army was requisitioned to Yingyin. It was merged with Liu Qi's army, except for the 70,000 regular army. Another 50,000 government soldiers, a total of 120,000 people, step by step, marched towards Cao Hong's Yangzhai station, the army came to Cao Hong's camp ten miles away from the village, and immediately ordered someone to give Cao Hong a letter of war. Order him to lead the army to surrender, otherwise, "the army will pass through the border, and you will not be left with any armor of the army and horses under your command." ”

Cao Hong, who received Liu Qi's battle letter, couldn't help but look like dirt and his hands trembled. The sweat on his head dripped down and soaked the war book.

Fortunately, Sima Yi still maintained his composure, and said slowly: "Go back and tell your king of Chu, your army is coming violently, with 100,000 people, you can take it yourself, you don't have to do this method." ”

After finishing speaking, Sima Yi directly ordered the guests to be sent off.

After the envoy retreated, Cao Hong said in a panic: "Zhongda, you have also seen, now Liu Qi personally led 100,000 people to attack the city, the land of Yangzhai projectiles, and our army has only 30,000 troops, if it fights with it, it is tantamount to hitting a stone with an egg, and Liu Qi broke my son and brother, and even went down to Runan, Qiaojun, Huainan, and other places, morale is flourishing, although our army can't hold out, but it can't hold on for a long time." Now the enemy is strong and I am weak, but what can I do about it? ”

Sima Yi retreated left and right, and then sighed softly: "Even so, the lord has entrusted us with great trust, how can we run away without a fight?" Yang Zhai is the gateway to Luoyang, once lost, hundreds of miles of land will no longer be in danger to defend, so it is equivalent to us directly giving Luoyang to Liu Qi, general, you think about it, Luoyang is the Son of Heaven station, once the Son of Heaven is obtained by Liu Qi, then my Great Wei will immediately be accused of rebellion, and the lord has been serving the Son of Heaven for many years to order the political advantage of not being a minister will be lost. ”

"So what do we do? Do you stick to Yang Zhai? If stubbornly defending can really bring life to Brother Meng De, Ben will definitely choose this path without hesitation, but we have no hope of victory at all, our elite of the Qingzhou army is almost exhausted, if after this battle, all of our 30,000 sergeants are dead, what else do we use to defend Yangzhai? Liu Qi's territory is so vast, and the population is several times that of ours, so it is completely possible to recruit troops again, but what about us? Do we still have troops? ”

Cao Hong said that he was emotional, and angrily slammed his fist on the table, and then choked up and said: "Many of these sergeants are veterans that I brought over from the beginning when Chen Liu's army was raised, and they have fought for more than ten years, and they have paid too much for me to fight in the south and the north, but what have they gained?" Their wives and sons had no support, but just guarded a few acres of thin fields allocated by the government to survive. However, there is still a glimmer of hope for their wives and children, hoping that when the world is peaceful, their husbands and fathers will return to spend their old age with them. But once they die, all hope is dashed in an instant, can you reflect the pain in the hearts of the families of those soldiers? ”

Although Cao Hong said it impassionedly, but Sima Yi knew the true meaning of his words, Cao Hong has always been stingy, and he regarded the army he created as a treasure, if it was to protect Cao Cao and make meritorious contributions, of course he would sacrifice and fight without hesitation, but here even if his army was all dead, it would not be possible to make any contributions, but would be punished by Cao Cao, how could they be sacrificed here casually?

But Sima Yi had his plans, and said to Cao Hong with a straight face: "The general is the brother of the lord, and the lord's business is about to be the cause of the army, so if you think about military affairs as the lord's great cause, how can you be stingy with the soldiers around you?" Besides, once the success is achieved, how can it be possible not to die in a war? Of course, the discussion of the lower officials to defend is not a stubborn defense, but to pay a certain price to find out a big secret in Liu Qi's army. To tell the truth, the last general will not believe in this matter, the last general believes that Liu Qi must have a big secret, as long as we can find out this big secret of Liu Qi, we will definitely make great contributions to the main government, and our reward will be indispensable at that time, and as long as we plan well in advance, I believe that we can minimize the loss, maybe we still have hope to turn defeat into victory and break Liu Qi. ”

Cao Hong's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he said happily: "It turns out that Zhong Dagong has already made arrangements, and the loss-making generals are still here in a hurry, hehe, in fact, Zhong Dagong is right, once the success will be ten thousand bones, it is absolutely impossible to make meritorious contributions without sacrifice in this world, and the Praetorian Guards and Xiao Guards under Liu Qi can be regarded as the world's first-class elite soldiers, right?" However, when attacking Chang'an, it also suffered heavy losses. In fact, Zhong Dagong was able to come up with a clever plan that could not only probe the secrets of Liu Qi's army, but also minimize losses, which was already very remarkable. What's more, I am the younger brother of King Wei, and the national crisis is at the head, how can I not worry about my brother? It's just that I don't know what Zhong Dagong's plan is, can I give advice? ”

At this time, Cao Hongli's words were at the head, and he didn't care about what to say about sergeants, family members, etc., and the righteous indignation of his words was replaced by a smile, and even the title was changed to "Zhong Dagong".

Regarding the changes before and after Cao Hong, Sima Yi pretended not to know, and then quietly said to Cao Hong: "This time we may need the cooperation of the people, the general had better plan in advance, choose the men in the city to pretend to be sergeants, once the city is broken, immediately arrange for them to redo our defeated soldiers and escape, of course, in order to be able to better hide from the Chu army, it is best to have our sergeants, and our main force is arranged in the city, pretending to be the people, but at night the army gathered, sneak attack Liu Qi's camp, Even if Liu Qi has the most elite soldiers in the world, he will definitely be defeated, so that the general will not only find out the secret of the enemy's siege, but also defeat Liu Qi, and will definitely make a great achievement. ”

Cao Hong laughed when he heard this, and said admiringly: "Zhong Dagong is really worthy of the first think tank under Brother Mengde's account, and he can even think of this kind of clever plan, haha, our army can not only see their siege weapons with our own eyes when the enemy is attacking the city, which allows us to have a guard in the future, but also ambush the strange soldiers and break Liu Qi. ”

Although Sima Yi knew that Cao Hongnai was touting, he was also relatively complacent in his heart, because this was a wonderful plan that he had come up with after thinking hard for several days, and if this wonderful plan was replaced by an opponent, such as his lord Cao Cao, and the previous Lu Bu and others, he would definitely not succeed, because these people all liked to slaughter the city after the siege, but this Chu king Liu Qi was hypocritical and righteous, and he had never slaughtered the city once, and this time it would definitely not be, otherwise the banner he played to protect the people of the Han Dynasty would be self-defeating. And as long as they don't commit any offense against the people, how can they think that there are enemy troops hidden among these people? What's more, he had already arranged for the "Wei Army" to escape when Liu Qi broke the city, how could Liu Qi think that those "Wei Army" had already been used by him?

"Hehe, Liu Qi, this is my first battle after Sima Yi came out of the mountain, and this battle will use your defeat to promote my name." A smile appeared on the corner of Sima Yi's mouth, and he thought silently. (To be continued......)