Xu Chu witnessed Zhang Liao being deflated throughout the whole process, and when he saw the other party 'running away' in embarrassment, he couldn't help but clench his fists and compliment Long Xiang:

"Did the general learn from Youheng? You're a terrible mouth."

"Ahem, thanks to Zhong Kang's reminder, if Cao Cao sends someone to Xincheng to persuade him to surrender, he can let you deal with it."

Long Xiang took out a few silk books from his arms, which recorded various commonly used flags, as well as flags with the names of major officials, and planned to let Xu Chu take the clairvoyant mirror to deliver the message.

"Forget it, I'll come in person."

Long Xiang took the silk book into his arms again, those flag words were negotiated with Lu Su, and he was worried that Xu Chu would not be able to convey them accurately and would be self-defeating.

Seeing that Long Xiang was about to rush to Xicheng Tower, Xu Chu hugged his fists and reminded: "General, go and come back quickly, Zhang Liao was angry with you just now, maybe he will soon lead the army to attack." ”

Long Xiang patted Xu Chu's arm and comforted: "Uncle Yu and Yuan Duan haven't come back yet, Hefei's defense depends on you, and Qin Yilu and Liu Fu are all used." ”

"The last general must go all out, but I'm more used to the general's dispatch." Xu Chu should be reconciled.

Long Xiang smiled leisurely: "I'm just going to spread the news, and it's not like it's gone, I should be able to return before Cao Jun arrives, if Cao Jun arrives first, you will be stable." ”

Xu Chu asked: "How stable?" ”

Long Xiang replied: "The more cold your expression is, the more you pretend to be deep, the more Cao Cao dare not move." ”

"But you didn't seem to be like that just now, your posture was very low." Xu Chu scratched his cheeks, and said in his heart, aren't we different?

Long Xiang patiently explained: "I am deliberately humble, so that Zhang Liao is confused, you must be indifferent as a guard, understand?" ”

"It seems to understand," Xu Chu bowed slightly.

Long Xiang didn't expect Xu Chu to really understand, and said in his heart that it was okay to maintain his usual style, your flying stone stunt was strong and suppressive, as long as you stood at the head of the city and didn't get angry.

Hurried to the West City Tower, and saw the messenger of the new city outside the city.

Why didn't Zijing spread the message?

Long Xiang asked people to open the door and put the suspension bridge with suspicion, since they can communicate face-to-face, they don't have to use complicated flags to send messages.

It wasn't until the messenger entered the city to report that Long Xiang didn't know why Lu Su sent someone to deliver the message, because the amount of information was relatively large, and the flag language might not be able to be translated.

The mirror-wielding sentinel sent by Xincheng found a large number of people in the north of Zipeng Mountain.

They were driven north with the old and the young, Lu Su guessed that Cao Cao was going to abandon the south of the Lujiang River, thinking that the burning of grain in the water had been successful, and the grain and grass of Cao's army were estimated to have been exhausted, and they might retreat to Shouchun in the near future.

Lu Su's news was like timely rain, which made Long Xiang feel confident, and he also understood why Zhang Liao came to ask for the labor army, and dared to come to Hefei to beg for food?

Long Xiang exchanged the news of Zhang Liao and Cao Jun with the messengers, instructed Lu Su to immediately carry out wartime management of the new city, and suggested that You Heng should be used to deal with Cao Cao's envoys.

With the help of clairvoyance, Hefei has an advantage in intelligence, but also creates a time difference.

Zhang Liao returned to Cao Cao and relayed Long Xiang's words as they were.

Cao Cao was furious when he heard this: "One and two? What are we? Are the outcasts beggars? If you despise us so much, I will break through Hefei and behead him! ”

"Ming Gong is angry, I heard that the city of Hefei is strong, and our army is about to run out of cooking at this time, so you must not act recklessly, if you rashly attack Hefei, Zhou Yu will lead troops to attack again."

Jia Xu usually speaks little, but he is very active when it comes to his own safety, although the words come to an abrupt end later, Cao Cao has understood the meaning.

"Hefei will fight sooner or later, but not now." Cao Cao shook his head and responded to Jia Xu: "Although it's not a real fight, I still want to teach Long Xiang some lessons, does Wen He have any good suggestions?" ”

Jia Xu thought for a while and replied: "According to General Zhang, Longxiang's lack of food is due to the construction of a new city due to a large number of civil projects, and the outer city wall has been built, why didn't Ming Gong send someone to investigate in detail?" Maybe there are still imperfections, let's find the weakness to take this new city, and then we can move the Shouchun defense line south to Hefei, so as to limit the future development of Longxiang. ”

"Wonderful, wonderful, it has to be Wenhe." Cao Cao stroked his palms and smiled.

Cao Cao then sent a number of sentry spies to the new city, and at night camped in the middle of the old and new cities, the camp was about three miles away from the two cities, and he didn't know that it had been controlled by Long Xiang and Lu Su in real time.

Since the camp was very close to the two cities, Cao Cao personally inspected after setting up camp to make sure that there were no omissions in the defense at night, and he didn't want to make a fool of himself before leaving Huainan and go back with a bad reputation.

Cao Cao personally settled the defense before returning to the big tent to have dinner with several generals and strategists.

Due to the fact that the army was almost out of cooking, the gruel that the generals of the Great Tent drank, not to mention that ordinary soldiers knew a few grains of rice, could basically only drink one water to be full.

Although gruel is good in summer, this thing is not hungry because of the water, so there is no condition to fight Hefei at this time.

After drinking a bowl of porridge, Cao Cao directly wiped his mouth with his hand, and then began to share information.

"I kind of believe in Long Xiang's words, the new city of Hefei is several times larger than the old city, and the city wall is all made of bricks and stones, our sentinels ran a few laps and did not find flaws, with such specifications to build the new city, Long Xiang Yan can not lack food?

But now the problem comes, the new city seems to be stronger than the old city, it is impossible to attack it in a short time, Long Xiang's think tank Lu Su is guarding over there, the two cities are only five miles apart, it seems to be a corner trend, do you have a clever plan to outwit? ”

There was silence inside the tent, and the night insects outside the tent were screaming wildly, and the scene was very embarrassing for a while.

Guo Jia arched his hand and said: "Lu Su and Long Xiang are guarding the two cities, this person should be quite ambitious, not like Long Xiang from a humble background and acting as a scoundrel, you can send a person of eloquence to say it, maybe it can be done."

Cao Cao nodded and asked, "Feng Xiao's defense is outstanding, can you go for me?" ”

"I don't know Lu Su at all, I'm just afraid that I will be entrusted by the Ming Gong, it's best to find someone with Jianghuai" When Guo Jia spoke, he couldn't help but look at the corner, the young man in the last seat.

Cao Cao followed Guo Jia's line of sight, and it turned out to be Jiang Gan, the official of the state capital established by Liu Fu, who seemed to be a person from Jiujiang Shouchun, who served as a guide for the army this time.

"Ziyi? Do you know Lu Zijing? ”

Jiang Gan hurriedly got up and replied: "Lu Zijing is the same age as me, and he once had a relationship in Shouchun, if Ming Gong trusts me, I am willing to go for a walk, but I dare not guarantee that it will be done."

"It doesn't matter."

Cao Cao waved his hand: "I will let Fengxiao go with you, and tomorrow you will cooperate with each other, so that you can take care of each other." ”

"Yui."

"Yui."

Jiang Gan and Guo Jia responded successively.

After the account was dispersed, Cao Cao asked Guo Jia to teach Jiang Gan face-to-face, but he didn't know that Jiang Gan was known for his arguments.

The next day, the two took advantage of the excitement and returned home.

You Heng fought one against two in the new city, spraying Guo Jia and Jiang Gan all over their bodies, and the two returned to the camp in a gray manner.

Cao Cao heard that it was You Heng, and remembered that this guy was beating the drum naked, so he comforted Guo and Jiang: "You Zhengping is really difficult to deal with, I didn't expect this annoying fool to find a home here in Long Xiang, which can be regarded as a similar smell."

Cao Chun saw the stitches and persuaded him: "Lord, since Lu Su and Long Xiang can't persuade them to surrender, and our military rations have bottomed out, why don't we retreat?" ”

"Now?" Cao Cao shook his head lightly: "The soldiers have worked hard to set up camp, how can they leave overnight?" It's not too late to wait until tomorrow."

At the head of the old city of Hefei, Long Xiang held a clairvoyant mirror and looked at it for a while, and then ordered Xu Chu: "Zhongkang, call someone to kill a pig." ”

(End of chapter)