For twenty-seven days, it was only a few days when Cao's army really attacked Hefei City, and most of the rest of the time the two sides just looked at each other affectionately on the city wall. Even the common generals are not single-handed, Cao Cao himself knows that if the generals are only half a catty and eight taels on both sides, he has Tiger Idiot, Zhang Liao, Xiahoudun and other generals, Qiao Ren also has Huang Zhong, Gan Ning, Dai Gang, etc., all of which are roughly the same situation, and it is not interesting to compare. Therefore, in desperation, he had no choice but to besiege but not attack, and thought hard about how to break the city.

When the army was first entered, one by one they were arrogant and regarded the Wu army as nothing, thinking that these southern barbarians were only powerful in water warfare, and land warfare was all a pile of paste, but who would have thought that Hefei would become so seamless and difficult to start under Qiao Ren's construction, and even the combat power of the Huainan Wu army was no less than some of the Central Plains princes in the past, and the brave Cao army in the world was only a line away.

"Urgent! Liyang Emergency! ”

In view of Cao Jun's performance, Qiao Ren only needed to arrange one general to inspect the city tower every day, and the rest of the generals were struggling to find a way to defeat the enemy in the lobby.

"What's the news?" Liyang's urgent report, Qiao Ren has been waiting for a long time.

"Report! Back to the former general, the Supreme has broken through Zang Ba to recapture Liyang, and the army has marched towards Shouchun! "This messenger is obviously not a soldier of Huainan Wu but a soldier of Jianye, otherwise he would never call Qiao Ren to an official position.

"Shouchun!!" When Jiang Ji heard the name of this place, his eyes flashed, and he obviously had already gained.

At this time, Sun Lang, the Taishou of Hefei beside him, asked, "But what's wrong?" ”

However, Qiao Ren still remembered that the messenger was still in the hall, "You go down first!" After seeing the messenger's back go away, Qiao Ren said to Sun Lang: "The lord wants to close the door and beat the dog this time!" Good morning, you see that Lu Du supervised the troops out of Yiyang, in order to force Manchu back to the border of Runan, our army is stationed in the west of Hefei Lujiang is also in the hands of our army, and Guangling in the east is also in the hands of our army. If you get Shouchun, the 100,000 Cao troops in Huainan will be locked up here! ”

Everyone looked at the place where Qiao Ren pointed to it, and what Qiao Ren was referring to was the vast Huainan Plain north of Chaohu Lake east of Shaobi, but this encirclement network was not without loopholes, Liyang was on the Yangtze River behind Hefei, and Guangling was further east, that is to say, there was no Wu army in the east of Hefei, and Cao Cao's army could enter Xuzhou from Huaiyin east. However, this is also Zhou Yu's plan, this battle is not to seek how many Cao troops can be killed or injured, but to take Huainan and seek a base for the Wu army to go north. After all, if the Wu army was engaged in a battle with the Cao army on land, the one-to-one battle loss would be considered a proper command, and the purpose of Sun Ce and Zhou Yu was only to force the Cao army back. Because neither Sun Ce nor Cao Cao is a fool, they will not be here to fight and cheapen Liu Bei, who is still in Yizhou. Don't look at Liu Bei is now busy pacifying Nanzhong, but Guan Yu's 30,000 army is still idle, and he can go north to Xuluo and take Jiangxia in the south at any time.

"Our ship is faster than Cao Jun's horse, the news is about half a day faster, Cao Cao is afraid that he will get the news tonight, it seems that we need to plan!" Qiao Ren said directly.

Dai Gang rolled his eyes and said: "Why don't you take advantage of the retreat of the Cao army, and our army will cover up in the back!" As soon as he said nothing, Dai Gang felt that something was wrong, Cao Cao was not an ordinary person, but a commander who had experienced a hundred battles, how could he be a little unprepared. Then he spoke again: "I'm afraid that Cao Jun will also have an ambush after the break." ”

You have to finish everything alone, and the generals in the hall are no longer able to complain.

"That's it!" Qiao Ren directly interrupted Dai Gang's self-talk, "Although Cao Jun entered the urn, he took the sixth layer of the Han Dynasty, and his strength should not be humiliated. If Cao Cao is forced to be in a hurry, then our army may not be able to win, and it is best to force him back. ”

"What the Metropolitan Governor said is very true, in my opinion, Cao Cao did not come to the south this time to conquer Jiangdong. There may be a motive to recapture fat, but more than that, I am afraid it is to deter our army. Jiang Ji raised his hand and said loudly, "In Cao Cao's heart, the trouble is Liu Bei, Guan Yu Zhannan County can send troops to Xu Luo at any time, and Liu Bei can take Yizhou to the north to seize Hanzhong and become Gaozu." Even if our army enters the Central Plains in the north, it may not be able to resist the powerful cavalry of the Northern Army, so Cao Cao's southern expedition is to demonstrate to Wu Hou. He wanted to go through this battle to show that after the defeat of the Battle of Chibi, he Cao Cao did not break his muscles and bones, and he could immediately dispatch troops and form an encirclement. ”

Qiao Ren recalled that Cao Cao's achievements in Huainan in the future did not seem to be a big war, quite a bit of a tiger and a snake tail, and then thought of Cao Cao did not have five or six years to live, it is conceivable that although Cao Cao is still known as 'the old man and the ambition of thousands of miles', I am afraid that it is already the twilight of the martyr.

"What Zitong said is reasonable, Cao Cao is more than sixty years old, I'm afraid he has long been unable to do it! Since October last year, Cao Cao has been in command of the army for nearly half a year, and at his current age and body, I am afraid that he will not be able to endure a hard battle for long. "In fact, at a deeper level, Cao Cao at this moment has no ambition, he is just doing the last defense. In order to leave a better foundation for the successor, because the current Cao Cao is in a state of confusion and contradictions, whether to be a Hanchen or the founder of the country, this question has made Cao Cao pay too much.

"And what should our army do?" Xu Sheng, another famous general with good wisdom, asked.

"Send the letter!" Qiao Ren had an idea and said, "Old General Huang will go to Cao Zhai tomorrow to deliver a letter for this governor. ”

"War book?" Gan Ning took it for granted, but unfortunately when everyone gathered around, it was beyond everyone's expectations.

Uncle Junjian:

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·················· Since the Han Dynasty and Ling, he has lost his way, the government has gone out of many ways, the eunuch rebellion has stopped, Dong Zhuo's disaster has been revived, and Yuan and Liu have not been punished, Yuan and Liu have been separated, and the world is afraid of it, but my lord and the prince and Liu Bei are three people. This Wen Zhuo has whale salamander, the Son of Heaven anyway, I mean that the public should sweep away the remnants, award the royal family, help the Son of Heaven, and the spirit of the temple society, retreat to the vassal country, without losing the Spring and Autumn Hajj Festival. And the foot is the will to bully the orphan, coerce the Son of Heaven, in order to order the world, vainly quote the calendar, constructing the fate, laughing at the foolishness of Wang Mang in the past, and now sighing at the foot of the car is also overturned. The old marriage between the servant and the public, coupled with the same interests, but I heard that I asked for Jiuxi, Najiao Fang, not only the comrades were disappointed, but also the world was even from home. Although Liu Bei's soldiers are few, but the servants look at them as people, eloquent, broad and tolerant, clumsy in attacking, skillful in controlling people, with the aftermath of the Han Gaozu, supplemented by Kong Ming, not measurable, and with loyalty and righteousness not for the past, the servants think that the sea is now hopeful, but the prince and my lord are two ears. My lord has Zhang Zhao, just like Kong Ming of Bei, left and right, so as to do great things, the affairs of the national Chinese martial arts, to do their best, and to see the sect to kill Zhao and Bei, the servants are also mad. There is an old proverb: "Auxiliary cars depend on each other, and the lips are dead and the teeth are cold." My lord and Liu Bei really have the potential to be tongues and teeth. ····················'

Everyone in the hall already understands that Qiao Ren is preparing to reason with Cao Cao, we and Liu Bei are still allies, two to one, you are here with us to let Liu Bei pick peaches, it is better to go back to be your Qi Huan and Jin Wen.

As soon as the hand was lifted to finish writing, Qiao Ren was slowly drying the ink on the silk book, as if he had thought of something again, and picked up the pen and wrote, "Spring water is born, and the public should go quickly." Uncle is not dead, and his heart is not at peace.'" Qiao Ren wrote his name on it, and his nephew knocked on it, so it was written, and it was handed over to Jia Hua to sew up, just waiting for Huang Zhong to deliver the letter tomorrow.

However, Huang Zhong didn't really run to deliver the letter, he naturally went out of the city to challenge, and shot it with an arrow in front of Cao Junzhai, no one would be stupid enough to run to the enemy camp to deliver the letter at such a time! Although the two armies did not kill the envoys when they fought, who had complied with it, not to mention that Sun Shao had also killed Cao Cao's messenger. I only need Cao Cao to say that Sun Ce and I belong to the same Hanchen, where did the two armies come from, your lord Sun Ce eats Hanlu and is not loyal to the king, and he is really not a minister to cut Jiangdong. After a great righteousness, even if the messenger is beheaded, there is nothing to say.

Therefore, the letter in Qiao Ren's mouth was just to ask Huang Zhong to take some cavalry to walk around outside Cao Junzhai or in front of the battle, and shoot the letter over.