Chapter 66: Sun Cao and Peace

"King, Hanzhong urgent! Liu Bei sent Zhang Fei, Ma Chao and other generals to attack the ......"

Just when Sun Quan received the news of Lu Su's death, Cao Cao also received the news that Liu Bei was attacking Hanzhong in the camp of Cao's army in Misukou.

"Hehe, Zhang Feima Chao is a brave and unscrupulous person. I have wonderful talents sitting in Hanzhong, don't worry, Zilian, Wenlie and Zidan and others can be suited! ”

After looking at the battle report written on ice muscle paper in his hand, Cao Cao didn't seem to care too much about the war in Hanzhong.

"King, although Zhang Feima Chao's generation is not to worry, Liu Bei is the hero of the world...... Chengdu is only a stone's throw away from Hanzhong, and the king still needs to take precautions early! ”

Seeing that Cao Cao didn't take the war in Hanzhong to heart, Jia Xu, who was in charge of the military division, couldn't help but remind with a solemn face.

"Well, Wen He has a point. Liu Bei has obtained water now, which is not compared to the past, and it is indeed not to be underestimated. It's just ...... right now."

After Jia Xu's reminder, Cao Cao also paid new attention to this opponent who was once praised by himself as 'the only hero in the world and the only one who cares about his ears'.

It's just that if he is asked to give up the current southern expedition that has cost hundreds of thousands of troops and countless money and food, he is unwilling.

After all, this is the first expedition he called the queen, if this is a futile, it will be too difficult to hang on face, right?

"King, Jiangdong is just a disease of scabies, and Liu Beifang is a confidant! And now that Lu Su is dead, and the two families of Sun and Liu have completely lost harmony due to Jiaozhou, as long as the king shows a little favor to Sun Quan, he can easily be subdued......"

Seeing that Cao Cao was still hesitating, Jia Xu, who was not in agreement with and optimistic about this southern expedition, immediately used the discord between the Sun and Liu families as the basis for admonishing Cao Cao again.

"King Qiyu, Sun Quan sent an envoy to ask for a meeting!"

Just when Cao Cao was still hesitating whether to continue the stalemate with Sun Quan or withdraw his troops to fight in order to fight Liu Bei, the news of Sun Quan's envoy coming came from outside the tent.

"Congratulations to the king, Sun Quan will come here to ask for surrender!"

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"Your subordinate Xu Shen, I've seen the king!"

In the camp of the Cao army, Xu Shen, the commander who was appointed by Sun Quan to come to 'ask for peace', this time he put his posture in place, and he regarded himself as a 'subordinate'.

"Haha, your General Sun has the heart to beg, why is it late?"

Hearing Xu Shen's title of 'subordinate', seeing that the matter was really expected by Jia Xu, Cao Cao, who was in a good mood, couldn't help but his tail.

"King, now the spring water is alive again!"

Hearing Cao Cao's humiliating inquiry, Xu Shen did not answer directly, but told Cao Cao about the weather 'inexplicably'.

Speaking of which, although Xu Shen was indeed appointed by Sun Quan to come to 'ask for peace', this statement of 'begging to surrender' is indeed too ugly.

Therefore, in the face of Cao Cao's ridicule, Xu Shen was neither humble nor arrogant in quoting the content of Sun Quan's letter to 'dissuade' Cao Cao during the first battle of Sun Cao's mustache.

"Haha, Ziming was born with a sharp mouth...... Today, I want to cross the Hengjiang River, if I can go to Gusu with General Sun and hunt the garden of Changzhou, I am willing to be enough! ”

Seeing that Xu Shen only resolved his intentional difficulties with a simple sentence, Cao Cao didn't care, and then the conversation changed and gave him a threatening disappointment again.

'Hmph, if you can break through the blockade of my Jiangdong Navy and cross the river, how can you babble here? ’

Hearing Cao Cao's threatening words of a dead duck, Xu Shen, who didn't care, couldn't help but sneer secretly in his heart.

"Hehe, if the king crosses the river and travels to Gusu, won't he be a bad man after the death of Qin? Such a thing that is afraid of the world! ”

People are under the eaves and have to bow their heads. After all, he came to 'ask for peace', and it was naturally impossible for Xu Shen to show his thoughts from the bottom of his heart. Regarding Cao Cao's naked threat, Xu Shen rolled his eyes, and then replied euphemistically with the matter of winning the government and his husband's errand.

"Zi Ming is unique, and there are so many talents in Jiangdong! Hahahaha......"

Seeing that Ma Wei couldn't work this time, Cao Cao immediately put away this trick and laughed.

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"There is no grudge between Wei and Wu, all because of Liu Bei, the two families have quarrels. Today, the general of my family can't bear the suffering of the people and the misery of their lives, so he specially ordered me to come to the king of Wei to ask for peace ......"

After experiencing some difficulties that Cao Cao failed to succeed, Xu Shen also officially presented Sun Quan's 'letter of invitation and peace' to Cao Cao.

"Haha, if Zhongmou wakes up as soon as possible, why will the Wei and Wu families meet each other...... You can go back and tell Zhongmou that he will wait for the lone soldier to come to Hanchuan one day, and he can fight with the lone head and tail to take Jingzhou together. After the deed is completed, the territory will be divided and the territory will not be invaded! ”

After reading Sun Quan's 'letter of invitation for peace', Cao Cao, who already had a decision in his heart, also decisively agreed to Sun Quan's 'request for peace', and also sent him an invitation to share Jingzhou.

"Thanks to the king's good intentions, my general will hunt Jingzhou with the king one day!"

After hearing Cao Cao's invitation to share Jingzhou, Xu Shen also agreed to it.

There is no way, with the death of Lu Su, a staunch supporter of the Sun-Liu Alliance, there is no longer a pro-Liu faction in Jiangdong, and the rise of the 'Shu Liu faction' has become an inevitable fact.

"In addition, I heard that General Zixiao has a very good daughter, and the general of my family wants to ask the king for his younger brother Sun Jizuo, and it is good for the two families to marry again......"

In the end, after Cao Cao agreed to Sun Quan's 'please make peace', Xu Shen spoke again and acted as a matchmaker for Sun Cao's two families.

"Hahahaha, this is a good thing......"

In this way, just a few days after Lu Su, a supporter of the Sun-Liu Alliance, died, following the sneak attack on the four counties of Jingnan the year before last, Sun Quan once again openly betrayed the Sun-Liu alliance and fell to Cao Cao's side.

In a 'harmonious' atmosphere, not only did he formally reach an agreement with Cao Cao to surrender, but the two sides also married again, opening another 'honeymoon period' between Sun Cao.

Of course, both Cao Cao and Sun Quan knew very well that this reconciliation between the two sides was only temporary or superficial.

Therefore, after accepting Sun Quan's nominal surrender request for peace, Cao Cao still left Xiahoudun, Cao Ren, and Zhang Liao to garrison Juchao after withdrawing his troops.

And Sun Quan's side also left Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin to continue to guard the strategic location of Weixukou.

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"A country cannot be without a king for a day, and an army cannot be without a general for a day. Now that Zijing is gone, Ziming, I ordered you to be the governor of the capital, take over Zijing to garrison Lukou, and prevent the Jingzhou army from continuing to go south to support ......"

After leaving Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin to guard the gate of Jianye, Sun Quan immediately appointed LΓΌ Meng, a staunch 'anti-Liu faction', to succeed him as the governor of Jingzhou, which was close to Jingzhou.

It can be seen that with the death of Lu Su, Sun Quan also officially put the 'recovery' of Jingzhou on the agenda.

As for Shanyue, who rebelled at the instigation of Cao Cao, he handed it over to He Qi, an old acquaintance of Shanyue, to deal with.

On the contrary, Lu Xun, a little-known niece and son-in-law, was appointed by him as the commander and sent out to deal with Guan Ping and Deng Ai, who were 'invading' Jiaozhou.