"Intimidation?"

Cao Cao shook his head lightly, and analyzed his beard: "This person started from the end of Wei, in the chaotic Huainan, but he can still hold on to it than Liu Bei, but I am afraid that I will not be able to scare him."

Guo Jia was stunned and asked, "Compare him with Liu Bei?" Is it too much? ”

Cao Cao's face was solemn, and he muttered to himself: "Of course, Liu Bei is still better, but Long Xiang can stand out in Huainan, even an opponent like Zhou Yu has a headache, I have to say that he is a talent, but unfortunately he has not been able to use me, I don't know what he wants?" He was born to be a county guard, and he should be content."

Guo Jia arched his hand and said again: "Ming Gong, I recently heard a news that the father of Long Xiang was killed in the battle of Kuangting, and it seems that you are regarded as the enemy who killed your father, so he has always been unwilling to belong to the imperial court. ”

"What? Can that also be counted on my head? That Cao's enemies are innumerable. ”

Cao Cao's face was bitter, and he said that Long Xiang is really a small belly, no wonder he has been shrinking in Hefei for many years, and he has decided to make achievements in the future.

Seeing that Boss Cao was noncommittal, Guo Jia continued: "I think that whether intimidation works or not, you should give it a try, anyway, it is also very easy to go north, why don't you stay in Hefei for a day or two?" You don't have to send troops to attack the city."

"Not to attack the city, but to be stationed outside the city?" Cao Cao asked with empty eyes: "Are we no longer homeless?" ”

Guo Jia persuaded: "It's okay to try Long Xiang's reaction, anyway, sooner or later you have to seek Hefei, this time it should be rehearsed in advance, and with the words you just separated Sun Quan, you can still let Long Xiang go to Lujiang to take office, this is the excuse he made at the beginning." ”

"That's fine." Cao Cao bowed slightly: "Today's battle with Zhou Lang has come to an end, and Long Xiang is even more of a rat's belly, I can't surrender my identity to talk to him, or I can only let Wen Yuan go to pass it on." ”

"Well, our army will be stationed here for a day or two, maybe let General Zhang ask for some food, and Ming Gong will clear the Lujiang obstacle for Long Xiang, and he should go out of the city to work according to the courtesy."

After listening to Guo Jia's proposal, Cao Cao shook his head and snorted coldly: "You can give it a try, I guess there is not much hope." ”

Cao Cao summoned Zhang Liao and told him to go to Hefei to persuade him to surrender.

Zhang Liao is very confident this time, because Cao Cao has the backing of the army, I believe that when Long Xiang sees the 20,000 or 30,000 troops, his mouth should not be as hard as before.

Walking to the south gate of Hefei, Zhang Liao saw the city gate closed and the drawbridge raised, and said in his heart that Long Xiang's intelligence work was really good, and he reacted so quickly.

This is the dimensionality reduction strike effect of the clairvoyant, when Cao Cao was soon discovered by Hefei sentinels in front of Chaohu, Long Xiang took precautions and immediately arranged city defenses.

The old city of Hefei had not many troops, and the previous time in order to go to the water to burn grain and ships, more than 1,000 elite soldiers were selected from Lei Xu and Xu Chu, which made the already overstretched defenders even worse.

At this time, Tang Yu and Lei Xu hid in Lishan and did not return, and the old city of Hefei was facing huge defensive pressure.

Long Xiangxin said that mosquitoes are also meat, so Qin Yilu took Junxuan's only 500 county soldiers into the old city, and secretly ordered Chen Lan to send troops from Quanjiao and Fuling to be stationed in the northern area of Junqiu.

If it really comes to the day when he can't hold it, Chen Lan will rush to support according to the signal.

Seeing Xu Chu standing beside Long Xiang, Zhang Liao remembered that Feishi had palpitations when the flag was broken, so he deliberately stayed away from the moat.

Without waiting for Zhang Liao to speak, Long Xiang preemptively asked: "In less than a month, General Zhang actually visited Hefei twice, but only a few hundred horsemen followed today, what is the intention?" ”

Zhang Liao hugged his fists and said with a smile: "Special good news." ”

"Where does the joy come from?"

Long Xiang narrowed his eyes, puzzled.

Zhang Liao got straight to the point: "Cao Sikong has leveled the Lujiang River for the general, and you are already a veritable Lujiang Taishou, isn't it worth celebrating?" ”

"Uh, that's right."

Long Xiang was noncommittal, and at the same time frantically began to turn his brain, thinking about what excuse to prevaricate.

Seeing this, Zhang Liao was stunned and happily threw out another bombshell news.

"Cao Sikong is coming with tens of thousands of counterinsurgency troops, Yunqi logically wants to go out of the city to work for us, Cao Sikong just received your request, so he chose to send troops to Huainan"

"Do I have one?" Long Xiang began to pretend to be stupid.

"Liu Tingshi personally wrote the book, this matter cannot be fake, haven't you forgotten? But the war is over, and it doesn't matter if you forget it, but the matter of the labor army is still hopeful."

Long Xiang interrupted Zhang Liao and clenched his fists with a bitter face: "Please General Zhang return to Sikong, the situation in Hefei is not very good, I'm afraid I won't be able to get good things out of the army."

"I know you're in a difficult situation, but there's always some food, right?"

Zhang Liao knew that Long Xiang was very slippery, so he thought of a response on the way, but he underestimated Long Xiang's lower limit.

I only heard Long Xiang reply embarrassedly: "I can make up a little rice and grain, but after all, Sikong has an army of 10,000 people, and this point is not enough, I am embarrassed to say it."

"How many? You say it boldly. ”

"In the past two years, the heavy rain has reduced production, and the people have been frugal for a long time, so I can only cut out some of my rations, what about it?"

Long Xiang ruled a population of more than 100,000 people, Zhang Liao originally thought that no matter how few, there would be hundreds or thousands of hundreds, but he didn't expect the other party to really dare to say it.

A piece of grain? Tens of thousands of troops each share a grain?

Zhang Liao mistakenly thought that he had misheard, and asked in a deep voice to confirm: "How much did General Long say just now?" ”

Long Xiang first erected a finger, and then erected a second one: "I said a hu. Two at most."

"Long Yunqi, are you kidding me?" Zhang Liao shouted angrily.

"No, not really."

The Dragon Shadow Emperor had a facial expression and waved his hand sincerely.

"Hefei is short of food, and it is really difficult at present, and I am blamed for building a large number of buildings, and I am in a hurry to order people to build a new city, but unfortunately the weather is not good."

Zhang Liao frowned and was silent after hearing this, he had seen Hefei Xincheng from afar when he was chasing Wu Jing, so he didn't know whether Long Xiang's words were true or false for a while, but he didn't believe that there were only a few grains in stock.

At this moment, Long Xiang added pitifully: "General Lao Zhang helped me explain, two rice is really my limit, unfortunately my two wives are pregnant, so I can't let them go hungry during pregnancy, right?" ”

"I will report it truthfully, as for what the lord says, I don't know, you can do it yourself"

Zhang Liao was directly speechless, and said in his heart that your kid is shameless enough, he clenched his fists perfunctorily, and then turned the horse's head to leave, but just took two steps and turned back.

"Yunqi's life is so difficult, why bother to stay here? Why don't you go back with me and enjoy all the blessings? For the sake of acquaintance, I promise that you will have no worries about food and clothing in the future, at least you will not let your wife and children starve. ”

"Since General Zhang has the heart to help, why don't you let the court tie the knot, I remember that the county guard should be two thousand stones? You can fold it all into rice, and as for the other things you said, I'll talk about it when the two ladies give birth."

Long Xiang climbed up the pole, heard Zhang Liao's scalp tingling, and gave him a good answer, and then beat the horse away in embarrassment.

(End of chapter)