Zhang Ning was inexplicably clever by Wang Xu's stunned questioning, and glanced at him suspiciously, before he continued again: "I just said that if you try your best to eat the big cake that is difficult to get, it is likely that the big cake will not be eaten, and the small cake will not have a chance to eat, so it is better to eat the easy to get small cake first!" ”

"This is it! It's just not right here! Wang Xu stood up and exclaimed. Cao Cao, Cao Cao! I said why are you willing to waste so much, knowing that I will not go all out to the south, you still have to spend so much time, it turns out that you helped Jiangdong is a weasel to give a New Year's greeting to the chicken, and you are not well-intentioned! You don't want me to lose control, but you want Jiangdong to take it lightly and get out of control! ”

At this time, all the doubts in his mind dissipated, and the qiē that happened before and after was also connected, happy or uncontrollable, excited like a child, dancing with his hands, and even when Zhang Ning was stunned, he suddenly ran over, hugged her, and kissed the pink cheek fiercely.

"Hahaha! Ning'er, you've helped me a lot! ”

As soon as the words fell, he had already rushed out of the study, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Zhang Ning was stunned.

What did he just do?

He kisses me?

Wrong! He was rude to me just now!

Zhang Ning reacted quickly, and in an instant, he was ashamed and angry, and suddenly rushed up and chased out: "Wang Xu, I want to kill you with my own hands!" ”

It's a pity that when she figured it out, the daylilies were cold! Wang Xu is long gone!

"Humph! This scoundrel! ”

Zhang Ning was so angry that he stomped his feet, but after scolding, his mood gradually calmed down, but a strange feeling faintly rose, recalling the previous moment. I can't tell you what it's like.

"He looked so stupid just now. What a general! ”

She babbled to herself. Standing there alone, his eyes were distracted, his expression was dull, and his originally cold cheeks were slightly smiling, even more silly!

It's just that she is also very moving at the moment!

At this time, she completely forgot about everything else, and the scene just now lingered in her mind, perhaps even she didn't even notice it. Her stupid smile at the moment is called happiness!

Wang Xu didn't think about that, just now he took advantage of the joy in his heart, and took advantage of it, and completely put it aside in the blink of an eye, thinking about the current shape.

After a while, he found Xue Zong, told his speculation, and asked for his opinion.

Xue Zong was also extremely surprised, but hardly thought about it. It was already admonished: "Lord! What a chance! Truce, stop fighting immediately! The current situation is not good for both sides. If we continue to fight, the situation will inevitably get out of control, Cao Cao is ready, but we don't have a way to deal with that situation. ”

"What if we can quickly defeat the soldiers and horses of the Sun family?" Wang Xu asked unwillingly.

"Impossible!" Xue Zong shook his head and sighed: "The reputation of the Shi family in Jiaozhou is very high, and the people love them very much, in Jiaozhou, Shi Xie's prestige now is only comparable to Zhao Tuo back then, our only advantage is that the soldiers are stronger, the generals are more capable, and the Shi family and the Jiangdong coalition army cannot be unified with each other, so there is today's situation!" But in fact, the time, place, and people are all in the hands of the scholars. ”

"Now, the Shi family is attached to Jiangdong, and everything is planned and commanded by Jiangdong, so our advantages will be completely weakened, and if we continue to fight, we will definitely fall into a passive situation, not to mention further results, I am afraid that the victory in our hands now will also be lost. Therefore, in the humble opinion of the ministers, they should take this opportunity to make peace with Jiangdong, wait for the place they currently control, and obtain the support of the people and the Baiyue people, and then wait for the opportunity to move. ”

Wang Xu hesitated for a moment and asked back: "But Jiangdong has Huainan as a containment, as long as we let him know Cao Cao's strategy, he will be frightened, and he will not dare to send reinforcements again, and it is difficult to scruple about Jiaozhou, wouldn't it be a pity to let go of such an opportunity!" ”

"Lord!" Xue Zong was very stubborn, and persuaded with a firm expression: "Having said that, but now that the Jiaozhou army is all under the command and dispatch of Jiangdong, and the strength is slightly stronger than ours, can the lord be completely sure of defeating it?" ”

"That's not true, the matter of the battle array, I don't dare to say absolutely! But the probability of victory is still very great, after all, the combat power of the Jiaozhou Army is obviously weaker, and it is more of an auxiliary role, only Jiangdong's elite soldiers are the core combat power! Wang Xu said truthfully.

"That's true, but what if the people support them?" Xue Zong asked again.

"Shi Xie really has that much prestige?" Wang Xu questioned.

Xue Zong smiled, but his tone was extremely affirmative: "If the lord doesn't believe this matter, you can go and visit and see how the people of Jiaozhou respect Shixie!" The people of Yulin County are willing to remain neutral, but also because the minister has governed this place for the past two years, and he has been conscientious and sincere for the people! ”

"The people of Jiaozhou and the west of Hepu will not give any support to the ministers, not to mention anything else, if the two armies really fight, as long as Shixie ascends to the heights, the people in other regions will inevitably respond in groups, and we will not only face the enemy army, but also internal instability."

"Although the people are stingy with their lives, and if they fail to gather, no one will riot, but the lord thinks that Jiangdong Neng Chen will give up these favorable conditions? If he sends his subordinates to various villages and pavilions to take the lead in raising trouble, we will face countless riots and lack skills! The food and materials to be stockpiled are quickly exhausted, and the people do not listen to the orders of the lord, how can they be taxed? How to get new supplements, can we continue to be escorted from Jingzhou to fill this hole that cannot be plugged? ”

"Besides, how does the lord control these territories? If it is a strong suppression, not to mention a complete loss of popular support, where will there be enough troops to suppress it in an all-round way? If they don't care, then they will correspond with the Shi family inside and outside anytime and anywhere, and supporting the Shi family is equivalent to supporting Jiangdong! ”

"In the past few days, the ministers have been unable to sleep at night, that is, they are worried about how to deal with it next, they didn't think that there are such huge hidden dangers in the rear of Jiangdong, this is the opportunity of the truce, and in the future, the ministers and others will carefully govern the areas under their current control, stabilize the people, and naturalize the people's hearts before they can fight! For the people, as long as the lord can let them live a good life in the same way, they will no longer object, at least they will maintain neutrality between the lord and the scholar's family, and whoever rules will listen to whomever he wants. ”

"Is there really no other way? Quickly reverse the shape shì? Wang Xu frowned.

Xue Zong said urgently: "No! The minister thought that Zhuge Kongming's entire deployment was like a chain of buckles. None of them can be defeated. If one of the links is broken. Then this set of links must be broken. Today's shape is like this, Cangwu is controlled by the Sun family, and the Shi family is attached to Jiangdong, which means that all the next deployments are destroyed, and the opportunity to forge ahead is lost, and the situation has developed so far, and it is impossible to start from scratch. The shape shì is forced and cannot be changed. ”

I don't know why, hearing this, Wang Xu remembered the historical Ma Tan Lost Street Pavilion, Zhuge Liang's strongest, most powerful, and most dominant one in several Northern Expeditions, just because of the mistake of that link, the previous efforts were abandoned, and it can be said that Zhuge Liang was so angry that he vomited blood, and he could only cut Ma Tan according to military law!

What an imaginary shape is today, it's just one thing. It's just that, the only difference is. This time it was not in the hands of its own people, but in the hands of a third party. At the same time, the probability of success this time is much greater than that of Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition in history.

Wang Xu can think very clearly intellectually, but he can't think about it, the feeling of being one step away from success, but falling down makes him very unwilling.

"In this way, let's send a message to Zhuge Liang, Pang Tong, and Xiangyang first, so that everyone can think about it and see if there is a remedy before making a decision!"

"This ......" Xue Zong sighed helplessly and nodded in response: "No!" ”

The secret letter came out in a very short period of time, but it was only two days before the news came from Xiangyang.

When Wang Xu got the letter from Xiangyang from Xue Zong, he was a little incredulous: "Is this true or fake?" How can Xiangyang be so fast? ”

"The minister doesn't know, if it's true, then it should be before the lord's secret letter arrived in Xiangyang, and it came from there!" Xue Zong was also confused.

Wang Xu frowned, said no more, and quickly opened the letter to check it.

The content of the letter is very small, but it is a joint letter written by Zhuge Liang, Fu Zhu, Tian Feng, Xu Shu, and Chen Deng.

Lord Mingjian: When the ministers heard about Kong Ming's strategy, they deeply admired it, and if there was no accident, they should do their best! Just regret that the success falls short and stops in the cangwu, the lord will be unwilling in his heart, but this is the destiny of heaven and cannot be disobeyed! In today's situation, the lord should retreat and seek the second, strive to protect the existing places, be benevolent and appeased, and wait for the people to return to their hearts and then make good plans! If you still can't do it, I implore the lord to retreat from Yulin, just defend this county, and fight again in the future, and also take the lead. Xue Zong has governed Yulin for many years, and he has won the hearts of the people, and the people will not abandon him, which is enough to resist the enemy! Ponder carefully!

After reading the letter, Wang Xu's face was slightly bitter.

Xue Zong didn't know why, and asked worriedly: "Lord, Taiwei Guo has a letter, but what about Jiangdong?" ”

"This letter is written by Guo Jia himself, and it is indeed a matter of Jiangdong, but judging by his words, he should have written immediately after knowing the Jiaozhou War, and he has not yet received the secret letter from me two days ago, and they don't know Cao Cao's plot yet, and they don't know what happened in Huainan!"

Saying that, Wang Xu sighed, shook his head and continued: "However, what they mean is to protect the land in their hands now, wait for it to stabilize and get the support of the people, and then make a good plan, if you can't hold it like this, then retreat to Yulin, and use your prestige here to resist Jiangdong!" ”

"Huh......" Xue Zong breathed a long sigh of relief when he heard this, his face was full of joy, and he persuaded while the iron was hot: "Lord, what Taiwei Guo said is right, now is not the time to continue the conquest of Jiaozhou, if he knows the hidden troubles in Jiangdong, he will definitely support the Lord Gongyan and peace!" ”

"Yes!"

Wang Xu nodded lightly and didn't say anything more.

Since then, the replies of Pang Tong and Zhuge Liang have also been sent successively.

Pang Tong's is very simple, and he only said one sentence: Jiangdong now occupies the time, place, and people, and there are many capable and good generals, which is really difficult to overcome, and it is not suitable to fight again!

Zhuge Liang explained a lot, and analyzed the current situation in the letter, which is roughly similar to Xue Zong's, which means to strike the war and make peace.

Although Wang Xu was unwilling, it did not mean that he would be reckless, seeing that everyone thought so, he decisively decided to stop the war, after all, intellectually speaking, even he felt that it was not good to continue the war.

failed to include all the hinterland of Jiaozhou in the hands of the Shijia before they were annexed to Jiangdong, even if this layout failed, the ownership of Cangwu County was the focus of the decision.

However, even so, the gains of this southern expedition are also huge, at least Yulin County, Jiaozhi County, and the western part of Hepu County, and the western half of Jiaozhou are already under his control...... (To be continued......)