"But fortunately, this time, Liu Zhang, as in the past, did not want to hurt the people's livelihood, so he only used 100,000 troops, and we may not have no chance of victory."

"So, do you think Cao Zhang can stop the Sichuan army?" Cao Cao asked.

Guo Jia shook his head: "It is absolutely impossible to stop it, not only Cao Zhang can't stop it, even if the lord sends Xun Yu, Xun You, Cheng Yu and other strategists, Sima Yi, the old fox, Zhang Liao, Yu Ban and other generals, it is impossible to stop it."

Cao Zhang only has 100,000 troops, and if he is transferred again, the defense of our army on the Yellow River will be loosened, and the Sichuan army will definitely launch a full-scale attack immediately.

Cao Zhang's soldiers and horses are all the elite of our army, and they are veterans left behind in the past, which is already the maximum we can do.

But even so, Cao Zhang's soldiers and horses were no match for the Sichuan army.

As far as I know, all the Sichuan troops dispatched this time are elite, including the previous heavy cavalry and rattan armor army, Xiliang cavalry, Yumen cavalry, and the army that Liu Zhang brought back from the Western Regions this time, all equipped with Dawan horses, no matter the cavalry and infantry, they are invincible in the world.

Relying on our 100,000 troops and Wu Jun's more than 20,000 soldiers and horses, we will definitely be defeated. ”

Cao Cao was silent, thinking that when he faced off with Yuan Shaoguandu, Liu Zhang had just left Sichuan, and at that time he told Liu Bei that there were only two heroes in the world, himself and Liu Bei, and Liu Zhang was just a guardian dog under the jade steps, and he never thought that Liu Zhang would become a threat.

When the battle of Guanzhong, what he thought was Liu Bei had died at the hands of Liu Zhang, the strength of the two armies was about the same at that time, and he also thought that Liu Zhang was not his opponent, and he also wrote poems in battle.

Until now, I am afraid that the body of the hero Liu Bei has turned into white bones, and Liu Zhang has more than 700,000 troops. The footprint of the army's westward expedition reached Dawan. Repeatedly defeated himself. Now there are 100,000 troops plus one Wu Jun, and they can't stop the 100,000 Sichuan army, the world is really impermanent, and the changes are so fast.

Cao Cao sighed and said to Guo Jia: "Fengxiao, I remember that Liu Zhang won a few times before, and the rest of the civil and military forces did not think much of the Sichuan army, only you were interested in the Sichuan army. From the first Liu Zhangjiangzhou massacre, you think differently from other literati strategists, why? Is it true that people call you a ghost, unpredictable, and don't need a basis for everything? ”

Guo Jia didn't expect Cao Cao to suddenly ask this, and said with a smile: "What kind of ghost, if it is a ghost, how can the lord fall into such a situation."

At the beginning of the Jiangzhou massacre, Liu Zhang almost did things that others would not dare to think of, and everyone considered this matter from a political point of view. Feeling that doing so is tantamount to suicide.

They never thought about the specific cause and effect of this matter, and the family went from the early years of the Han Dynasty to the present. It has already deteriorated, getting bigger and bigger but more and more decaying, as long as anyone with a little brain knows that the world is a disaster, but no one dares to touch this disaster, for fear of setting themselves on fire.

Liu Zhang went to bang bang, so everyone felt that Liu Zhang was burned, so they laughed at his indiscretion, it was like a big man in the village who was always doing evil, and no one dared to put him in a way.

Suddenly, one day, a thin man beat this big man, and then the rest of the village laughed at this thin man, did the lord think it should be? ”

Cao Cao was silent and frowned.

"Of course, the war of the princes is not a village fight, so it doesn't hurt to laugh, it's just because Guo Jia is from a poor family and has some feelings about the behavior of the clan, so he thinks differently from others.

This is the reason why I didn't laugh at Liu Zhang in the Jiangzhou massacre at the beginning, it was purely a perceptual understanding, without any basis, so what the lord said was unpredictable, and I felt that Guo Jia looked up to Liu Zhang at that time, and that was to promote Guo Jia.

At that time, Guo Jia just admired Liu Zhang a little, but he also thought that Liu Zhang had killed himself.

But later after the Battle of Jingzhou, when Xiangyang was massacred, everyone still didn't think so, at that time Guo Jia felt that something was wrong, a thin man committed suicide to attack the big man, but after a fight under the same situation, the thin man didn't die, isn't this thin man worthy of attention?

At that time, Guo Jia began to pay attention to Liu Zhang, thinking about how far Liu Zhang could go.

Guo Jia had been under Yuan Shao's account before, and knew that Yuan Shao was not a climate, so his mind was not on Hebei at all, but all on Xichuan.

In the first year of the large-scale rebellion in Jingyi Erzhou and Liu Zhang's successful suppression of the rebellion, Guo Jia was already sure that Liu Zhang would become the lord's biggest enemy.

Although Jingyi Erzhou was poor and white at that time, the recovery speed exceeded my imagination, although the family was gone, the people were not chaotic, but the production enthusiasm was higher, more united, and more supportive of the Sichuan army, what is this sign? This is a sign of rebirth from a cocoon, a sign of new life.

In other words, the thin man killed the big man, and his wounds are healing quickly, and a thin man who can kill a strong man can't pose a threat to another strong man?

The effect of the land decree is that the people have more land to plant, there is less group of exploiters on it, the people engaged in direct production and the grain handed over to the government treasury increases, and the people's taxes are reduced.

And Guo Jia looked at the title of Liu Zhang's four imperial examinations, it was really flexible, the lord was an enlightened person, and he should know that Dong Zhongshu respected Confucianism alone, and he had changed the original Confucianism beyond recognition, and Liu Zhang basically deposed Confucianism, but it seemed to have resumed the original Confucianism activity.

To put it simply, the four imperial examinations are the effect of the ruler achieving the effect of 'the world's talents in the pocket', which is much more clever than the recruitment order issued by the lord.

There are also other policies of the Sichuan army, and many initiatives in commercial agriculture, which we cannot achieve.

If such people cannot be regarded as our great enemies, then we are a little too arrogant. ”

"In the year when Liu Zhang put down the rebellion, I didn't regard him as a great enemy." Cao Cao said a word, with some self-deprecation in his tone, and said to Guo Jia: "Fengxiao, speaking from the heart, do you also think that Liu Zhang is the master?" ”

Guo Jia didn't know how to speak for a while, so he didn't speak.

Cao Cao said again: "If you are given another chance, me and Liu Zhang, who will you choose?" ”

"The lord is a generation of heroes, and Guo Jia will never betray him in this life." Guo Jia bowed solemnly to Cao Cao.

"Get up, I already know." Cao Cao supported his forehead with his hands, feeling that his head disease was faintly attacking again. It's been a long time. Cao Cao suddenly raised his head and said to Guo Jia: "Fengxiao." I want to surrender. ”

"What...... Yes. Guo Jia was stunned for a long time, looking at Cao Cao in shock, following Cao Cao for more than ten years, Guo Jia never thought that the word "surrender" would pop out of Cao Cao's mouth, and it sounded very serious, and Lingju who was stroking the qin on the side also raised his head in shock.

After a long silence, Guo Jia asked in a hesitant manner, "Lord, you." You're not serious, are you? Is it trying to deceive you? This will definitely not work, Liu Zhang and Huang Yueying are both ......"

"I'm serious." Cao Cao affirmed that he took his hand away from his forehead, squeezed the handle of the chair, and pinched it tighter and tighter: "Fengxiao, I was also born in the world, and I have been used to seeing the behavior of the world since I was a child, but I deeply look down on the behavior of the world.

So later, I took the lead and gave an order to meritocracy, and I hired people regardless of their background. But I was not as decisive as Liu Zhang, although I looked down on some of the actions of the clan at that time. But I also know that the clan has wealth, talent, and pen, and if you want to achieve great things, you can only use them.

So although I use the cold door, I am very tolerant of the world, although I use the cold door, but I also turn a blind eye to the cold family under my command and are excluded by the children of the world, and occasionally with the mud, just like the contradiction between you and Chen Qun.

But now, Liu Zhang's success has made me wake up, Liu Zhang, a royal family, dare to trample the family under his feet, I was born in a small family, and I was afraid of it, thinking back to the beginning, I thought I was very domineering, and I was the only hero in the world.

But what I did at that time, now I think about it, is all a cowardly thing, a compromised thing.

Lingju just said that I was domineering and outward, but now I feel that I am very strong and inward, and I am full of majesty outside, but when it comes to dealing with the affairs of the internal ministers, I have become a coward.

I am deeply ashamed.

Fengxiao, you're right, since the defeat in the Battle of Guanzhong, I have been carefully analyzing the Sichuan army and analyzing Liu Zhang, but there are some things I don't want to admit.

The four imperial examinations, the land order, the introduction of various new crops in agriculture, new planting, various measures to encourage farming, commercial workshop merchants, and even craftsmen in the craftsman's house can be feuded.

Xiqiang, Nanban, Western Regions.

Whether it is internal affairs, military affairs, merits to the Han Empire, and the courage and courage of being the master, I have lost, what else am I not convinced?

If Liu Zhang rules the world, even I know that it will be a new world, at least more dynamic than the world after my Cao Cao ruled.

We are now the guardians of the world.

At the beginning, I ridiculed Liu Zhang for being a guard dog under the jade steps, but I, Cao Cao, am now the guard dog of the family family, much lower than the guard dog under the jade steps.

Last time Zhang Liao was defeated, I have thought about it a lot these days, and Lingju's words also touched me, we and Jiangdong, now we can be described as a sentence of lingering, isn't it too much?

In this case, it can't be beaten, but it is preventing the development of history, so why bother? It's better to surrender, before surrendering, kill Sima Yi, Sima Hui, Zhuge Ci, Chen Qun, Wu Qian, and these people, even if my Cao Cao is worthy of the Han Dynasty, I have washed away the shame of the past. ”

"My lord." Guo Jia looked at Cao Cao and said in a deep voice: "To be honest, Guo Jia never wanted to fight with the Sichuan army, the lord wants to belong to Liu Zhang, Guo Jia is still looking forward to it, no matter what Liu Zhang will do to Guo Jia after surrendering, but ......"

Guo Jia suddenly knelt down and kowtowed to the ground: "The lord must not surrender, with Liu Zhang's temperament, the lord surrenders, there is no physiology, not only the lord will die, but the son of the lord, the Cao clan and the Xiahou clan will no longer exist."

Because even if Liu Zhang knew why the lord surrendered and knew that the lord was out of justice, Liu Zhang would kill for his own great cause and for the long-term peace and stability of the world in the future.

How terrible would it be for a person who could not even take his own life for the sake of the continuation of the New Deal?

Liu Zhang is such a person, does the lord think that such a person will let us who threaten him go? Guo Jia never hesitated to die, and he was ready to die at the hands of the Sichuan army, and he believed that the lord was not a person who was afraid of death.

But the lord must think about your relatives, think about the Wenchen military generals who have followed him for more than ten years, not to mention Cao Ren, Cao Hong, Xiahou Yuan and other clans, other Xun Yu, Xun You, Zhang Liao, Xu Huang, which of these people is not a threat from Liu Zhang? Surely I will die.

And we may not have a chance to turn the tables, although the Sichuan army is now the strongest in the world, as long as we succeed in stopping the Sichuan army in this battle of Xiahetao, we will have a long buffer time, and it is difficult to predict who will win or lose. ”

"Are we going to fight on the side of injustice all the time? Fengxiao, I'm not afraid to tell you, I, Cao Cao, have never felt this way before, but now I feel very weak and painful to fight with Liu Zhang, do you understand this feeling? ”

"How can I not understand that Guo Jia has the same feeling as the lord, but even so, we have to fight hard, the lord only feels this way now, Guo Jia already had this feeling before the battle of Guanzhong, but we didn't take the initiative to ask Ying to fight, because we are destined to stand on the opposite side of Liu Zhang."

Guo Jia took a deep breath and said to Cao Cao: "My lord, since ancient times, there has been no demon and no way, no evil and no good, no evil and no good.

At that time, Shang Ying's reform of the law, there were conservatives to obstruct it, and Daqin, with its advanced system, did not have to sweep the six countries, and the establishment of the Great Wall benefited thousands of generations, but it was not that the people complained and finally resisted.

Emperor Xiaowu attacked the Xiongnu Dawan and swept through southern Xinjiang and Korea, but it didn't provoke resistance, Wang Mang's new law, who can say that he didn't want to change the status quo?

Since anyone who wants to achieve great things is reborn from the fire, and the frost breaks through the spring in winter, why is Liu Zhang an exception, if the new deal is realized without any difficulties, will the new deal be so easy to gain a foothold?

We are Liu Zhang's last stumbling block, it depends on whether Liu Zhang can wade through, if even we can't be destroyed, why should he Liu Zhang change the world?

We used our blood to pave the way for Liu Zhang's new policy, at least the civil and military generals who were loyal to the lord died on the battlefield. ”

Guo Jia stood up and said to Cao Cao: "Lord, this is the war, if it wins, it means that Liu Zhang has not yet reached the fire, if it is defeated, we will really survive, and then the lord will stop at that time." ”

Cao Cao listened to Guo Jia's generous statement, slowly came out of the shadow of decadence, and slapped the arm of the chair hard: "Okay, the last battle." ”

Guo Jia nodded, both of them rekindled their fighting spirit, Guo Jia took out the lower river loop and said to Cao Cao: "This time, our 100,000 army will not be Liu Zhang's opponent, so we can only rely on reinforcements." ”

"Reinforcements? Where are the reinforcements? ”

"That's a lot." Guo Jia said: "If Liu Zhang attacks and annexes the state, it will not only border us, the Yuan brothers, Wuhuan, Xianbei, and even Liaodong Gongsun Kang, cavalry can reach."

I believe that these forces don't want us to perish, right? If we are destroyed, Wuhuan Xianbei should think of the fate of Xiqiang and Nanban now, can the Yuan brothers still divide one side? (To be continued......)