The 20,000 Cao army has been besieged in Chaohu Lake for more than ten days, and they dare not go ashore before they can cut it off, and now they can only barely survive by catching some fish and shrimp, but this will not last long.

Cao Pi was very troubled and in a very bad mood; He has been insomnia for several nights in a row, and the whole person has been sold around, with two dark circles under his eyes, looking sluggish. These days, bad news has come one after another, first Cao Ren's army was suddenly wiped out in Nanjun, then the bad news that the counties in the south of the Yangtze River have defected, and now there is the military situation that the Chaohu water army is trapped. Cao Pi was anxious and didn't know what to do!

Sima Yi hurriedly came in, clasped his fists and bowed: "Lord! ”

Cao Pi hurriedly asked, "Sir, have you heard the news that the Chaohu Navy has been besieged?" ”

Sima Yi nodded, "I heard!" Now that the south is already Lu Bu's world, the 20,000 horses are enclosed in Chaohu Lake, and there is no hope! ”

Cao Pi frowned and said, "I was about to send a navy to pick them up from the sea!" ”

Sima Yi hurriedly said: "Lord Mingjian, this move is not only futile, but it may also put more troops in a desperate situation!" I am sure that Lu Bu has already made arrangements along the river, just waiting for our army to rescue the navy to appear. ”

Cao Pi walked to the desk, sat down in a daze, and muttered: "Lu Bu's army is like a broken bamboo, and our army is retreating one after another!" Not long ago, we still controlled half of the country, and now there are only Xuzhou and Qingzhou left! There is no hope for us! ”

Seeing that Cao Pi was discouraged, Sima Yi hurriedly cheered him up and said, "Don't be discouraged, lord! The lord also has an army of nearly one million and countless loyal and brave generals and resourceful ministers, as long as we persevere, there will always be a day when defeat will turn into victory! ”

Cao Pi smiled bitterly and muttered, "I thought the same thing a few months ago, but now ......" shook his head, cheered up, and said to Sima Yi: "Let's discuss the strategy." ”

Sima Yi pondered: "Lu Bu's next target must be Xuzhou!" ”

Cao Pi frowned and asked, "Can we hold on?" ”

Sima Yi smiled bitterly, shook his head and said, "It's difficult!" Lu Bu will definitely attack Xuzhou from three sides, Xuzhou and Qingzhou are separated by a wide Surabaya, and Qingzhou's soldiers and horses are inconvenient to support, and the isolated city of Xuzhou cannot support it at all. ”

Cao Pi rubbed his head and said with great annoyance: "The most hateful thing is my good brother, his rebellion in Qingzhou has not been quelled so far!" Seeing that those people couldn't hold on anymore, they suddenly burst out with amazing fighting spirit for some reason, and they insisted on it until now! When will Qingzhou City be taken, it is also a bottomless matter! ”

Sima Yi pondered: "According to the information we have obtained, it is said that there are some unknown characters in the city, and those should be Lu Bu's people......"

Cao Pi was taken aback, "How is this possible?" How could Lu Bu's army bypass our army's heavy defense line and enter Qingzhou City? ”

Sima Yi said: "The lord is in a panic. Those should be just a small group of Lu Bu's army, although we have a tight defense, but they can still sneak a small group of men into Qingzhou City! Then he frowned, "I speculate that Prince Cao Zhi may have surrendered to Lu Bu, so the morale of the city will be greatly boosted!" With those 20,000 or 30,000 horses, it is impossible to take Qingzhou City, and we can't allocate more soldiers and horses and more money and food to reinforce now! For now, they can only stop the attack and contain the rebels in Qingzhou. Let's concentrate on dealing with Lu Bu's main force in front of us! ”

Cao Pi frowned and nodded, and glanced up at Sima Yi, "How should Xuzhou be guarded?" ”

Sima Yi was silent for a long time and said, "I have a plan, I need to concentrate all the big civilian ships. ……”

Cao Pi showed a puzzled look, and hurriedly asked: "What is the clever plan of sir, tell it quickly, don't make me anxious!" ”

Sima Yi walked to the map, and Cao Pi hurriedly got up and walked to the map.

Sima Yi pointed to Huainan and said, "There is an army led by Zhang Liao here, and soon, the army that conquered Jiangnan will also come here, geometrically forming an astonishing large army." There is no doubt that this large army will launch a fierce attack on Xuzhou from the southern front! Then he pointed to Pei County, "There are 100,000 blue wolf troops stationed here with Ma Chao." The finger moved to Yanzhou again, "Jia Xu's hundreds of thousands of troops are here." I estimate that at most, a part of Jia Xu and Ma Chao's army will be transferred to Xuzhou to help in the war. So our opportunity is in the South. Fingers moved to Jiangnan and patted, "We want to take the opportunity to recapture Jiangnan!" ”

Cao Pi frowned, "How is this possible?" ”

Sima Yi smiled: "Leaving a force that dares to fight to the death to defend Xuzhou, but secretly transferred a large number of troops out of it, crossed Surabaya, entered Qingzhou, boarded the ship from the sea near Donghai County, and then hundreds of thousands of troops went south along the coast and entered the Yangtze River. Then the army was divided into two parts, the smaller one traced the Huai River and attacked Huainan directly, while the main army landed on the shore, first capturing Wu County and Jianye, and then marching all the way west. There will not be many enemy troops defending the south of the Yangtze River, and they are all newly surrendered troops, so it is very sure to attack like this! ”

Cao Pi said excitedly: "This plan is wonderful! If it is a qiē shun lì, it will be turned over in an instant! ”

Sima Yi shook his head and said: "I can't talk about turning the tables, it's just to win us breathing time and room to maneuver!" ”

Cao Pi said: "Just do what Mr. wants!" ”

……

Zhang Lang has come to Huainan. Every day, reports from all over the world continue to be sent to Zhang Lang's hands, and according to these reports, Zhang Lang's army and countless people of grain and grass are converging in Huainan. Sima Yi was right, Zhang Lang was ready to gather all the troops in the south, and then go north to attack Xuzhou.

At the same time as the southern army was mobilized, the north was not idle, and the army stationed in Yangzhou had already moved forward, putting on a posture of preparing to storm Dongping. Zhuge Mengxue, who had reorganized 300,000 Cao troops in Xuchang, received Zhang Lang's order to transfer troops and led 300,000 reorganized troops to leave Xuchang and advance to Dongping. Cao Pi does not yet know the existence of this army.

At this moment, far away in Luoyang, Yan Yuyao and Diao Chan were all sitting in the courtyard in a daze. They haven't seen their Lang Jun for a long time, their hearts are empty, and when they make up every day, they always can't help but sigh when they look at the beauty in the mirror.

A burst of cheerful laughter suddenly came. Pulled back the minds of a few lonely women. Following the prestige, I saw a little boy and a little girl chasing among the flowers in front of me. The boy was born to Diao Chan, this is Zhang Lang's eldest son, and the girl is indeed Yan Yuyao's good child, a few months older than the boy. The boy suddenly fell to the ground, and the girl frowned and said in a crisp voice: "Shame, shame! I don't cry when I fall! ”