After receiving Zhang Bao's letter of persuasion, Cao Pi was furious, he tore the letter of persuasion to pieces, kicked off the table in front of him, and yelled: "Shaft! Shaft! I'm angry. ”

As the king of a country, he was despised by Zhang Bao, a yellow-haired boy, and he wanted to win without a fight, which was a slap in the face of Chi Guoguo. Since he was a child, he felt that he was superior, and he couldn't stand this kind of contempt or even ignorance from others.

He would rather someone else fight with him as soon as he comes up, and he would rather this person attack with all his might as soon as he comes up, than this dismissive attitude. As a descendant of the Cao family, he has his pride. At that time, Taizu occupied almost half of China's territory and coerced the Son of Heaven to order the princes. What a sight it was.

It's good for me, and it hasn't been a few years since I took over the foundation left by Taizu that I fell into this kind of field. Compared with the Shu army breaking into the pass, compared to being knocked on the door, what made him even more angry was the disdainful attitude of Zhang Bao towards him in the letter.

"Come on, prepare the horses, put on armor for me, and I will drive the expedition in person." Cao Pi roared angrily.

"Your Majesty, never!" Zhong Miao saw that Cao Pi had lost his mind, and hurriedly came out to stop him from doing even more irrational things.

"Zhong Aiqing, why did you stop me? Do you think I can't beat that hairy boy Zhang Bao?

Hmph, what the hell are those scouts for? It was falsely reported that the enemy army had 200,000 horses. Now it's finally figured out. He is only 70,000 or 80,000 people, and 50,000 are Xianbei people, not the original Shu army. There are more than 100,000 people in Chang'an City, twice as many as the enemy, can't they still beat 70,000 or 80,000 of them? ”

"Your Majesty." Zhong Xuan pleaded bitterly, "The way of using soldiers should be to attack the enemy's shortcomings with their own strengths." His Majesty went out of the city to fight with the Shu army in the field, and it was not difficult to win, but the difficult thing was to achieve victory at the smallest cost. Kill 1,000 enemies and lose 800, even if we have double the strength, but even if we can win, we will definitely lose a lot of troops.

Why should we waste our troops, wouldn't it be better to save them for the future to fight for the Central Plains? Besides, the Shu army suddenly appeared outside the city, besieging but not attacking, and I don't know what conspiracy they have.

I wonder they just deliberately want to lure His Majesty out, and then set up an ambush to wait for us to be fooled, Liu Chan Xiao'er has always been insidious and cunning with soldiers, and he likes to engage in those crooked ways and conspiracies the most, which is really necessary to guard against. ”

Zhong Xuan focused on persuading Cao Pi from the perspective that the enemy might set up an ambush outside the city. However, although he said this in his mouth, he actually thought something else in his heart. What he thought in his heart was that the field combat ability of the Shu army was too terrifying, and it was not something that the Wei army could compete with at all.

The Shu army had those terrible firearms, and the Wei army had repeatedly fought with them in the field, and had never won, even if it was several times the enemy's strength, it was ultimately a failure. This is also the main reason why Wei gave up the flower world of the Central Plains ~ and shrank to Guanzhong.

At that time, the idea was to rely on Xiongguan to defend the fortified city in order to eliminate the gap between the two sides in weapons. Now Cao Pi has forgotten the lesson of the past, and he actually wants to rely on twice the strength of the army to find someone to fight in the field, what is the difference between this and looking for death?

But he thought so, but he didn't dare to say this to Cao Pi. Cao Pi's self-esteem is too strong, and he is angry now, he has lost his mind, if he says this to him now, it is tantamount to adding fuel to the fire, and he has to act irrationally.

Zhong Xuan knew that the situation in Wei was now very bad, and he originally thought that he could keep the enemy out of the pass by relying on Xiongguan Jiancheng, but who knew that Cao Hong, the Cao royal family, was actually rebelled against and led the enemy to bypass Guancheng, and long ~ drive ~ straight ~ into Hanzhong, it is really not as good as heaven.

Now don't talk about going out to fight in the field, even if you defend the city, you may not be able to defend it. He knew that the Shu army had that terrible explosive~ poison, which blew up the city wall without any effort. Even with a capable person like Sima Yi, he led an army of 200,000 and couldn't resist the attack of the Shu army, let alone a little white face like Cao Pi.

Zhong Miao was very anxious to persuade Cao Pi, and Wang Lang, Hua Xin and other ministers also hurriedly joined the persuasion camp. In the end, Cao Pi was finally persuaded, and he gave up the idea of going out of the city to fight a decisive battle with the Shu army. Cao Pi was persuaded mainly because of Zhong Xuan's sentence "I am afraid that the Shu army set up an ambush outside the city and deliberately lure our army out of the city" played the biggest role.

"Humph! The people of Shu are good at intrigues and tricks, and I don't fall for them. After hearing Cao Pi's words, the ministers couldn't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief.

In the current situation, anyone can see that if they go out of the city and fight with the Shu army, the Wei army will definitely lose, and as soon as the Wei army loses, they will become slaves of the country. No one wants to be a slave to the country, even if the day comes a little later, and if they become a slave a day later, they can enjoy one more day in the city.

Therefore, none of them wanted Cao Pi to make this decision to hasten the demise of the Wei State. Cao Pi said again: "Now that the Shu army has come to the city, since you don't go out of the city to fight with them, what can you do to deal with it?" ”

I only heard Zhong Xuan say: "Your Majesty, the city wall of Chang'an is high and thick, and the Shu army has come from afar, and it is difficult to break through it in a short time." Weichen also once asked the master craftsman to understand the power of fire ~ medicine, and the old minister estimated that if he wanted to blow up the Chang'an city wall as wide as two carriages that could walk side by side, he needed a lot of fire ~ medicine.

The Shu army was all cavalry, lightly armed and simple, running long distances, for speed, in order to be able to surprise, they must not have carried too much baggage. Therefore, not to mention that they will carry a large amount of gun~, Lao Chen believes that they don't even bring much food.

That way, we don't have to worry about the walls being blown down. As long as we mobilize the whole army to hold on, and then mobilize the people to help defend the city, with hundreds of thousands of people, against tens of thousands of Shu troops, is there still a reason why we can't hold it?

As long as we hold the city for a certain period of time, as soon as the reinforcements from the Quartet arrive, then there will be a flank attack inside and outside, and the Shu army outside the city will die without a place to be buried. ”

Where does Zhong Miao know how to calculate the amount of blasting medication, where does he know the knowledge of blasting, he is just trying to persuade Cao Pi to open his mouth, but his nonsense guess is very close to the truth.

"Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful!" Cao Pi said three wonderful words in a row, he didn't know that Zhong Xuan was fooling him, and he believed it and said, "Come on, immediately send out an order for King Qin for eight hundred miles, and let the Quartet troops rush to Chang'an to come to King Qin." ”

"Slow!" Zhong Xuan said: "Your Majesty, the troops on the eastern front and the troops on the southern front are now facing off against the Shu army, if too many troops are transferred to King Qinwang in Chang'an, it is easy to give the Shu army on those two lines a chance." If the Shu army on both lines breaks through into Hanzhong, then the Great Wei is really in danger, please Your Majesty indicate in the edict of King Qin, so that they must leave enough men and horses to prevent the two Shu armies from taking advantage of the opportunity to attack. ”

Zhong Xuan, as a lieutenant in charge of the country~ military, is indeed a little expected, and immediately thought of a good countermeasure.

"Okay, okay, it's better for Zhong Aiqing to think thoughtfully, just follow Zhong Aiqing's words and deeds~ things. Please also ask Zhong Aiqing to preside over the defense of the city this time. Cao Pi said.