Although Cao Xiu is a little proud, and he is a little confused about how many catties and taels he has, it doesn't mean that he is an idiot.

As for Zhou Yi's surrender letter, it was sent to Cao Xiu's hands, but Cao Xiu actually didn't believe it.

In the war between Eastern Wu and Cao Wei over the years, he has hardly been at a disadvantage, why did this Zhou Yi surrender so suddenly? !

Again, according to the information obtained by Cao Xiu, this Zhou Yi was born in Yangxian, Wu County, and fools know that Wu County is the basic plate of the Sun family in Jiangdong.

Wu Jun was born, and he was reused by Sun Quan, a general who assumed the responsibility of defending the territory on one side, you said that Sun Quan was suspicious of you, so you want to surrender, Cao Xiu can believe it unless his brain is in water? !

Therefore, Cao Xiu really didn't believe in Zhou Yi's surrender at the beginning.

But so be it. The geographical location of Dangtu County is too important.

As long as Dangtu County is taken, the defense on the northwest side of Shouchun City, an important town in Huainan, will be cleared, and a springboard for attacking Shouchun will be established.

After that, whether it was clearing the defenses around Shouchun or directly attacking Shouchun, there was a good base for advancement.

The most important thing is that when Tu County is not far from Runan, even if there is a conspiracy, as long as Cao Xiu withdraws his troops in time, he will not have much loss.

Therefore, although Cao Xiu did not trust Zhou Yi, he still replied to Zhou Yi in accordance with the persuasion process.

There is only one content, and that is to question Zhou Yi - why do I believe that you really want to take refuge in my Great Wei.

Then Cao Xiu received a reply from Zhou Yi in earnest words, as well as a truncated hair.

Zhou Yi broke off his ambition and expressed his sincerity to Cao Xiu.

This sincerity really moved Cao Xiu.

This is not in modern times, modern people have to cut their hair once a month, and they have long been used to it in the barbershop.

People who know a little bit about the ancient etiquette system know that this is an era that pays attention to "body hair and skin, and receives the parents".

By the way, cutting off the hair, in this era, was a very serious punishment, called a sage, and it was a very humiliating punishment.

Zhou Yi's broken hair is actually equivalent to using his head to assure Cao Xiu that he is truly surrendering.

In the face of such sincerity in surrender, Cao Xiu really believed it.

However, he only believed it a little, and he still didn't dare to fully believe Zhou Yi.

There's no way, the first two times were a bit miserable, whenever Cao Xiu felt that he had a chance to win, there would always be a person surnamed Zhou who jumped out to give him a slap in the face.

Although Zhou Yu is from the Lujiang Zhou family and Zhou Yi is from Wu County, the two are neither a family nor a grade, but, it's always right to be careful.

According to the information of the fine work, Zhou Yu is now stationed in Jiangxia, and has moved his administrative office from Xiling to Xiakou, putting on a posture that he may go north along the Han River to threaten Xiangyang, and it is indeed unlikely that he will come to Huainan to command the battle again. It is precisely based on this that Cao Xiu will have a half-believing attitude.

If Zhou Yu led the troops to Huainan, Cao Xiu would not believe Zhou Yi for half a word. It must be that Zhou Yu Lao'er is cheating again.

But now, Zhou Yu is not in Huainan, Cao Xiu suddenly felt that he might have the opportunity to do something to Huainan with Zhou Yi's surrender.

Even if it is done, it is not impossible to take back Huainan and cut off the connection between Qingxu and Jiangdong.

But this matter, Cao Xiu calmed down, thought about it carefully for a while, and felt that it was not so easy.

is still the same sentence, the court disagrees, Cao Xiu does not have the right to take a holiday, many things, he said not counted.

Cao Xiu can directly deploy the garrison of Runan, only 30,000 people, and if he wants to rely on these 30,000 people to attack Shouchun, even if there is Zhou Yi, the leading party, it is impossible to pose a substantial threat to Shouchun.

Secondly, Cao Xiu can dispatch the supply of grain and grass, only in Runan, to carry out a local defensive war, grain and grass is more than enough, but if he takes the initiative to attack, Cao Xiu's hoarded grain and grass can only support two months of combat military at most, if he cannot complete the purpose of the operation within two months, he must retreat.

Cao Xiu learned the lessons of the first two defeats, and he didn't dare to underestimate Shouchun's defense now.

In Cao Xiu's prediction, even if Zhou Yi surrendered sincerely and was willing to be the leading party, if it really didn't go well to attack Shouchun, it would take three or five months or even half a year to fight, and it would be a normal thing that the grain and grass reserves were not enough at all.

Finally, it is also the most fatal problem - Cao Xiu did not have the edict of the Son of Heaven, and second, he did not have the right to fake festivals, and launched a military operation against Soochow without authorization, and he had no righteous reputation.

There are too many unfavorable conditions in front of him, even if Cao Xiu wants to send troops, he needs to weigh it carefully.

But. Cao Xiu is Cao Xiu after all.

One is a flaw in character, arrogant and arrogant, and the other is stimulated by the war in Guanzhong, Cao Xiu also urgently needs to prove himself.

After weighing it again, Cao Xiu's inner desire finally prevailed over his reason, and he decided. Write.

Yes, write a letter, Cao Xiu is going to write a letter to someone.

One was to write a letter to his friend, Wang Ling, who guarded Xuchang, hoping that he could lend 10,000 troops to him, and at the same time provide some grain, grass and ordnance to support his troops in Huainan.

The other letter was addressed to Yanzhou Thorn Shi Jia Kui, who was stationed in Pengcheng.

The purpose was to seek Jia Kui's support and send troops to attack Huainan.

One thing to say, this is a very difficult thing, and the whole world knows that he Cao Xiu and Jia Kui are seriously incompatible.

With Cao Xiu's character, it is already an eye-popping thing to be able to write a letter to Jia Kui to give in and ask Jia Kui to send troops to deal with him.

And Jia Kui, when he received Cao Xiu's letter, even wondered if this was a very clumsy trick to trick the tiger away from the mountain by the Dongwu rats who pretended to be Cao Xiu's handwriting.

Why is this so unscientific, Cao Xiu, who is arrogant and lacks heart, will write a letter to himself?!

However, when Jia Kui carefully compared the fire paint of the letter with Cao Xiu's personal seal, and questioned the messenger who came to deliver the letter in detail, Jia Kui had to admit that this was really a letter written by Cao Xiu to himself.

And when Jia Kui carefully read the content of Cao Xiu's letter, Jia Kui also fell silent.

One thing to say, at first glance at the beginning of this letter, Jia Kui was quite scoffing. This Cao Xiu is messing around nonsense again without knowing the height of the sky.

Now that the war in the Great Wei counterattack is at a critical moment, all the attention of the Luoyang Sili generation is focused on the battle of Guanzhong, and all the logistics supplies are inclined to Guanzhong.

Under such circumstances, the first thing we should do to guard the border is to ensure the tranquility of the border, monitor the movements of Soochow as much as possible, and not repeat the mistakes of five years ago and cause unnecessary two-front battles.

Although Great Wei is strong, if it always fights on two fronts, it will be dragged down sooner or later.

Therefore, when Jia Kui saw that Cao Xiu wanted to take the initiative to provoke a war in Huainan, he immediately thought that Cao Xiu had started to make old mistakes again, and he was so happy.

originally didn't want to pay attention to this goods, but out of politeness, Jia Kui still insisted on reading the letter After reading it, Jia Kui thought that although Cao Xiu was a little inconsiderate this time, it was not completely unreasonable.

Cao Xiu mentioned one thing in the letter, which made Jia Kui empathize with him - Dongwu has been recuperating for many years, practicing the ability of soldiers and soldiers to fight on land, and if this goes on for a long time, it will become a big disaster in the east.

Cao Xiu can feel the things in Runan, Jia Kui is in Pengcheng, bordering Xiapi, Langya, Huainan and other places, of course he also feels it, and he understands the changes in Dongwu over the years, Jia Kui has a more intuitive and deep impression.

Indeed, we can't continue to let Soochow develop like this.

Don't look at the command of Jia Kui, Pengcheng now has a faint counterattack into Xiapi or Langya County, but Jia Kui knows very well in his heart that it is just a record made by relying on the speed advantage of the cavalry, and if he really wants him to launch a counterattack and recapture Xiapi or Langya County, Jia Kui is powerless.

Being able to maintain strategic initiative in the Pengcheng area is already Jia Kui's limit.

And even so, Jia Kui doesn't know how long his strategic initiative can be maintained.

Lu Xun of Xiapi County, is a person who is both civil and military, not only the use of soldiers is quite disciplined, but also the governance of the place is also very good, these years, under the governance of Lu Xun, Xiapi has slowly begun to restore the people's livelihood, regather the population, and resume transportation and trade.

And Langya County, that is Zhuge Jin's hometown, Zhuge Jin governs here, it is easier than Lu Xun, he can naturally get the help of the Langya County family.

Although Zhuge Jin is not as famous as his second brother, his own ability is not much worse, especially in terms of local governance, the scale of a county is not as good as Zhuge Jin's internal affairs talent.

The only shortcoming is probably that Zhuge Jin's military ability is very average, if Jia Kui wants to, he can open up the situation from Langya County, encroach on Langya County little by little, and expand military space for Pengcheng.

In fact, Jia Kui has also thought about this point, and even tried it.

But. Zhuge Jin's military ability is indeed average, but he has a clan brother, the guy named Zhuge Dan, who leads the troops to combat level, but it is not low at all.

Jia Kui's several attempts, all of which were broken by Zhuge Dan one by one, and he was beaten back, causing Jia Kui to lose more than 1,000 people, but he couldn't take a step forward in Langya County.

Zhuge Shi. There are so many talents!!

So much so that over the years, Jia Kui has always been very worried, and then indulge Dongwu like this, and wait until Dongwu trains the foot soldiers one day, or gets horses from the Shu thieves, and makes the cavalry Pengcheng in danger, and Yanzhou is also in danger.

Therefore, although Jia Kui felt that Cao Xiu's initiative to attack Runan at this time was still a little inappropriate, it was really necessary to take the initiative to attack.

Moreover, for Cao Xiu's battle plan this time, Jia Kui thinks that it may not be feasible.

This thing. Jia Kui felt that he couldn't decide alone, so he immediately sent someone to invite Jiang Ji, the protector of the Central Army, to come to discuss the matter.

(End of chapter)