The full favor of the envoy to Koto returned with full remorse. www.biquge.info Although Sun Quan didn't say anything cursing to him, a tactful refusal still made Man Zhong realize a little, even if Sun Quan's strength suffered a great loss, his mouth was full of humility and said that he wanted to unite with his side, but in fact, he still couldn't completely listen to his own side of advice. The so-called soldiers are the courage of the country, and now that Sun Quan's soldiers have no way to take Li Sheng, how can he risk being attacked by Li Sheng's troops and sincerely follow his orders. Without the navy army that could resist Li Sheng, Jiangdong would have no way to speak loudly to Li Sheng. Especially in the current environment that requires him to provoke Li Sheng.

"I failed." Full of favor returned to Xuchang and bitterly asked Cao Cao for sin.

"What's wrong? Jiangdong side refuses to agree to our request? Cao Cao was amazed by this.

"Yes." Man nodded heavily.

"Why did it fail? This plan formulated by our side is very much in line with the interests of Jiangdong......" Cao Cao was extremely puzzled by this.

"Sun Quan said that he really wanted to cooperate with us, but he really couldn't afford to mess with Li Sheng. He didn't want to be attacked by Li Sheng as soon as he made a move on his side. He said that he was different from us, no matter how strong Li Sheng's army was, it was impossible for him to appear under the city of Xuchang in one day and night, and if there was any movement on his side, it would soon appear, and Li Sheng's army would appear in front of me under the city. For this, he Sun Quan seems to have had enough. However, because Li Sheng is still very strong, they can't agree to such a fact. Full Pet simply told Cao Cao what had happened.

"Sun Quan is scared." Cao Cao sighed, and then became careless: "Sun Quan is afraid, we can't be afraid." Let Jia Xu copy all the merchants on Li Sheng's side to me. At the same time, he issued an order to tell the merchants of the whole country that if anyone dared to enter another thing from Li Sheng, I would confiscate them. Cao Cao is not afraid of killing people. Cao Cao said and gritted his teeth with hatred.

The order was swiftly conveyed, and a storm ensued in Cao Cao's territory. Because Jia Xu's intelligence department had already conducted a series of investigations against Li Sheng's intelligence agencies, including Li Sheng's merchants here, Li Sheng's merchants were almost undoubtedly arrested, except for those who had long left Cao Cao's territory. For a while, not to mention Li Sheng's merchants in Cao Cao's territory, even the intelligence points of Li Sheng's white-clothed subordinates also suffered heavy losses -- the reintegrated intelligence organization "Huanglong" played an extremely important role in this storm against Li Sheng under the command of Jia Xu. For their contributions, Cao Cao saw joy in his eyes, and after receiving Jia Xu's report, he stroked his palms and laughed: "From now on, we have no worries, and we have ...... no worries."

The storm of looting carried out by Cao Cao blew from July of the 23rd year of Jian'an to October of the 24th year of Jian'an. During this whole year and three months, Cao Cao raided more than 23,000 merchants, killed more than 56,000 merchants who were "in chaos", confiscated materials equivalent to 25 million copper coins, and captured about 3,000 people in white. As far as Cao Cao's words are concerned, this time he can be said to have won a complete victory, completely solving the poison that Li Shengjun hid in his body.

"That's something to celebrate." For a few days in a row, Cao Cao's face was full of smiles, "Presumably Li Sheng is going to cry." ”

"Worth celebrating? I'm afraid Cao Cao will cry bitterly after a while. Cao Cao smiled, in his mind, Li Sheng, who had suffered a big loss, was definitely going to cry, but he didn't expect it after all, the current Li Sheng not only did not cry, but smiled and smiled, and seemed to be happier than him, Cao Cao. It's not that he, Li Sheng, is laughing alone, it's that he and his subordinates are laughing as well. For what Cao Cao did, Li Sheng had long expected it, and he also made a series of preparations for this, although the losses were still some, but they were definitely not as huge as Cao Cao announced, and he also had a series of counterattacks buried in Cao Cao's storm. The use of non-war means to attack Cao Cao's economic base was what Li Sheng was most willing to see.

"Hehe, that's the king's clever plan. Cao Cao only thought that the sword in his hand could cut off the merchant's head, but he didn't think that the money in the merchant's hand could also make his Cao Cao's territory extremely chaotic. Xu Shu said with a smile. As a staff officer under Li Sheng, the king of Tang, he participated in the formulation of Li Sheng's plan throughout the whole process. Although the matter of Cao Cao's use of such means against himself was proposed by Zhuge Liang, the response and implementation of this plan was carried out by Xu Shu. As for what kind of blow Cao Cao's side will suffer after the implementation of this plan, no one knows better than him Xu Shu except Li Sheng. It was precisely because he knew that Cao Cao's loss would be very huge if he continued like this, so he smiled so happily.

"Don't laugh, let's pay attention to what is not done on our side. It's a big plan, a big plan that has never been seen before. However, it is precisely because of this unprecedented plan that I am worried. Zhuge Liang said with a frown. Although he served as the commander of the army, Li Sheng did not cut off his name as a military general, but now he is in charge of the army and the government, and the power is very big, and this troublesome thing is very special, especially in this kind of innovation.

"Kong Ming, you have too many worries. If you continue like this, I'm afraid that Kong Ming will be exhausted to death. Li Sheng was really a little worried, and Zhuge Liang thought that there should be no problem in this matter, so he opened his mouth to persuade him.

"It is a great matter of the kingdom for the king to go to war. What the king is doing now is not a war on the surface, but in terms of the actual results, it is no less than a war. I can't help but worry about that. Zhuge Liang was not moved by Li Sheng: "It is right to implement a plan smoothly and think about it." Maybe we can't figure out everything, but it's still necessary to figure out a ** success. My lord, I know that we have money now, but even if we have money, we can't afford to toss all the time. ”

"Okay." Zhuge Liang covered a few big hats, Li Sheng was also out of line, he spread his hands and nodded the name of Luo Zhao standing on the other side: "Zhong Ming, this matter is mainly carried out by you Baiyi, and now that it is about to start, please directly introduce the preparation of the plan." ”

"Okay. I'll tell you about this battle! Luo Zhao, who was listening to Li Sheng's instructions, smiled slightly, but spread out the case file in his hand, picked up some important things from it, and told everyone: "This time our battle against Cao Cao was carried out to avenge Cao Cao's persecution of our merchants. The whole retaliatory operation is mainly divided into two aspects: military and economic, with the economic aspect as the main goal, and all military operations are carried out to achieve this goal. Generally speaking, our heart is divided into two parts, the first part is to send troops to Cao ** on a large scale, harassing Cao Cao at the place where we meet, so that Cao Cao feels that we are angry and rejuvenating. Although this part of the battle can be fought lively, but in reality, it would be better if the generals below could take a few of Cao Cao's county seats. Of course, taking the county seat is just a piggyback thing, and after the real fight, all people must take the task of destroying the enemy as the main task, and not think about the gains and losses of one city and one place. This time we were attacking on a small scale rather than a large-scale decisive battle with Cao Cao. The troops sent must be truly field elite. In this regard, our preliminary preparations were: to prepare in the northwest with 20,000 cavalry of the two generals Zhao Yun and Ma Dai as the main force of the Northwest Army; On the Hanzhong side, a mountain battalion from Wei Yan, an archery battalion from Huang Zhong, and an ordnance battalion from Pang De were used as the Hanzhong legions to cooperate with the attack of the Northwest Corps; In Jingzhou, Zhou Rui's cavalry battalion, Zhang Ren's infantry battalion, and the horse cavalry battalion from Hanzhong to support the past cavalry battalion formed the Hanzhong Legion to attack and harass the area of Xinye Wancheng; In addition, I asked Gan Ning to send the newly prepared ten gunboats to Zhou Li and Song De's 6th Naval Squadron to me to carry out harassing attacks along the coasts of Hebei, Qingdao and Xu, completely leaving Cao Cao in a precarious situation. We want to fight hard so that Cao Cao thinks that we are going to fight them in an all-out battle. According to the plan, we are going to carry out this part of the attack for a year, and in terms of the intensity of the attack, we plan to hit them hard three or four times first, and then control the intensity of the battle, and slowly make trouble with them. Didn't Cao Cao plunder our money just want to use it to recuperate and show his own power with peace of mind? We do this to prevent them from having the mind to pay attention to their own cultivation, and we want to keep their minds tense so that they can't figure out what we want to do to them. While carrying out military operations, I will let the merchants under my control, those forces that do not see anything on the surface, but in fact have long been secretly controlled by us, act at the same time, and use the war to raise the prices in Cao Cao's territory. At present, although Cao Cao's move is aimed at attacking us, the actual result is that the prices in his territory are constantly rising, and what we are doing in this regard is behind the upward momentum, pushing it up and muddying the market, completely giving Cao Cao a slap. This is an economic battle, but for this battle, the lord has made great efforts to transfer 100 million yuan from Luhan to carry out this battle. That's a lot of money. ”

Luo Zhao kept saying so much in one breath, but everyone except Li Sheng and Xu Shu was dumbfounded: "Big deals...... That's the real big deal. 100 million yuan is not a lot for Li Sheng, who now has an annual income of 400 million yuan, but it is also the normal income of Cao Cao's side in the past four years. With so much money thrown down, everyone knows what will happen to Cao Cao's side. Ay...... Poor Cao Cao's plan goes down, but internal and external troubles come together. But there's no way around it, who makes us have more copper on our side? After the shock in front of them passed, everyone felt some pity for Cao Cao, and they sighed, but they were somewhat gloating. After having the copper mine in Luhan, copper is not a rare object for Li Sheng, who used it to cast cannons, and 100 million copper coins are just a million catties of copper in the eyes of Li Sheng's people.

The storm of war began after the end of the hunt on Cao Cao's side, which was January 25. Prior to this, the continuous movements of the army on the Tang king's side had already been discovered by spies from all sides, and then presented to the hands of their respective monarchs. In the face of such a large-scale change, and this kind of change under strict protection, Cao Cao of Yecheng and Sun Quan of Jianye were taken aback. They all thought that Li Sheng was coming to attack them, so they hurriedly deployed their defenses, and for a while, countless armies were mobilized according to the orders of their respective monarchs. The entire January of the twenty-fifth year of Jian'an was disturbed by the Tang King.

Just when Cao Cao was nervously waiting for Li Sheng's attack, Sun Quan sneered and carried out his series of army rectification, when Li Sheng's army's movements suddenly calmed down. Once all the troops had reached their assigned positions, they did not seem to behave in any way, but they were stationed there for a series of daily trainings. These are the most basic trainings, and there is no pertinence at all, but Cao Cao and Sun Quan, who have obtained such information, have written and can't understand what Li Sheng is going to do.

If Li Sheng's sudden cessation of his movements is already very incomprehensible, then the next statement released by Li Sheng is even more puzzling. The official document is very high-sounding and imposing, but there is only one core of it, that is, Li Sheng intends to attack Cao Cao on March 20 to avenge Cao Cao's persecution of his own people.

"Is this true or false? If it is true, then why did Li Sheng write out the date of his own attack? If it was false, then why did he issue such a proclamation? For Li Sheng's announcement, both Cao Cao and Sun Quan were puzzled by this, especially Cao Cao's doubts were even stronger - he was originally a very suspicious person.

Under extreme doubt, Cao Cao couldn't help but express his doubts. Jia Xu looked at Cao Cao and listened to the thoughts in his mouth, but his heart quickly calculated. However, what Li Sheng did was really strange everywhere, although he relied on the integrated "Imperial Dragon" Jia Xu to get a lot of heavier information than before, but these information didn't seem to have any effect on analyzing the current battle situation. He thought about it for a long time, but still didn't come up with one, so he had no choice but to put this matter aside for the time being, and said to Cao Cao: "The king is only ten days away from March 20th, and it is too late for us to think about why Li Sheng did this." Let's put aside the matter of exploring the cause and think about how we should deal with it. ”

"Hmmm......! That's a good idea, too. Cao Cao nodded and fell silent. He thought and finally decided. It was still uncertain whether Li Shengjun's statement was true or false, which prevented Cao Cao from taking targeted measures, and had to choose a flexible conservative tactic to arrange it. He ordered all the troops to retreat, but to search the formation and prepare for defense at the second line of defense.

There's no way around it. To tell the truth, Cao Cao didn't want to fight Li Sheng at this time, he had just obtained a large amount of funds from Li Sheng, and he wanted to use these funds to show his strength, so that he had become a little depressed over the years, and the economy recovered, and where did he want his money to be invested in the bottomless pit of war again. However, Li Sheng's sudden attack made him have to put on such a posture. He is more concerned about the shrinkage of his own territory than the loss of money. Since Li Sheng put on a posture of attacking the city and fighting himself, Cao Cao had no choice but to win and prepare for the battle.

As for placing the troops on the second line instead of the first line, it was the result of Cao Cao's doubts about whether it was possible for Li Sheng's side to attack him. Regarding Li Sheng's abnormal statement, he always had some doubts about whether this was a blackmail to himself. Out of suspicion, Cao Cao was reluctant to keep his troops in combat readiness all the time. The city on the second line is about fifty or sixty miles away from the first line, which is naturally nothing for a simple combat unit, but for the baggage troops, this is an extra day's consumption. Although Cao Cao, whose economy had been weakened, received a large amount of money at once, he did not make all the arrangements, especially in terms of military expenditures. The transition from war to peace was the shift from peace to war, leaving Cao Cao's side in chaos in this regard. And this chaos turned into a tension in military spending, so Cao Cao had to calculate some things carefully. He could not have put his army at the front all the time for the sake of an uncertain fact. Because then his expenses will undoubtedly be much greater.

Time passed slowly, but Cao Cao's heart was to let go little by little, and Li Shengjun did not move in the three directions of Liangzhou, Hanzhong, and Jingzhou, which made Cao Cao have a lot less thoughts about Li Sheng's attack. “…… Perhaps Li Sheng's statement was a pure threat. Cao Cao thought so. He never thought that Li Sheng had used the tactics he had used to entertain Sun Quan on him.

March 20, the 25th year of Jian'an, passed in this way. From the day of the 20th to the 23rd, Cao Cao of Xuchang did not hear this related news. Li Shengjun's army seemed to be dormant, and there was no movement, which made Cao Cao more and more sure that Li Sheng's statement was just a threat and a pure statement. "We want to rest, and it's the same on Li Sheng's side. It's just that we killed their merchants, which made Li Sheng feel unhappy, so he gave such an order. Cao Cao has always thought so.

However, Cao Cao's feeling of happiness was shattered on the morning of the 24th. A horse newspaper from the east rushed into Xuchang City and reported the news of Haixi's attack by Li Sheng to Cao Cao's desk: on the morning of March 20, an inexplicable armed group appeared in the eastern city of Haixi with the banner of the Tang King. They ordered the county to order Zhao Jue to open the city and surrender. Zhao Jue was not allowed to lead 500 county soldiers out of the city to meet the chaos and disappear in the chaos. As a result, Haixi City was captured by Li Shengjun. After that, Li Shengjun opened the treasury of Haixi and plundered all the money in Haixi, and said: "Avenge the people who were killed by Cao thieves!" "Hercy is empty.

"Bastard!" Cao Cao was annoyed, he kicked out hard, but he was very out of shape, and kicked the case in front of him one by one: "How did Li Shengjun appear in Xuzhou?" Can anyone tell me? How the hell did they end up there? Which cat and dog played the banner of Li Sheng, or did the people in Xuzhou deliberately lie to me? ”

Cao Cao's anger was like a thunderbolt, which frightened the ministers under Cao Cao's steps to the point that they trembled, and no one dared to answer. The storm of erections quickly passed without anyone responding, and Cao Cao finally calmed down his anger a little. Although his face was still gloomy, he no longer spoke. He stared fiercely at the case table that he kicked over, seemed to be looking at something, and seemed to be thinking about something, and he was speechless for a while.