Deng Ai was sitting in his house at the moment.

In front of him were books of all kinds, as well as maps.

Deng Ai flipped through the books while looking at the map and marking it on the map.

His son Deng Zhong stood aside, his face full of sorrow.

Deng Zhong was really pitted by Deng Ai this time.

Because Deng Ai was exiled as the general of Zhenxi, Deng Zhong stayed in the temple, first as a speaker, and then assigned to the Ministry of Rites as a lang.

This would have been a good room for improvement, and besides, there was a lot of credit that could be made by the officials.

When the temple began the war to destroy Shu, the officials also began to make arrangements for the appointment of officials from all over Shu in advance.

Zheng Hao led many subordinate officials and began to summarize a list, which was full of officials who were suitable for promotion, and if they could pacify the Shu Kingdom, they could be directly selected from among them.

Deng Zhong has been busy with this matter for several months.

In the past few months, he has almost had to live in the Ministry of Officials, looking for the original achievements of the officials, comparing them with the places required by the locality, and dividing them one by one, he is extremely busy every day.

forgot to sleep and eat, followed many friends, rushed for a few months, and finally got out a few thick "personnel" lists.

These are not official lists, just lists of candidates for the ministry, but things are more troublesome than the official lists.

However, just after these were done, it was time for the emperor to start looking at these candidates for them, to start rewarding them, and to determine the credit.

Suddenly, someone found Deng Zhong and said that his father had made a mistake, and then took him out of Shangshutai and sent him here to wait for his father to be sent back.

Deng Zhong's mood at the moment is really indescribable.

Thinking of his work during this time, he wanted to have a friendly conversation with his old man.

But the old man had a very bad temper, and he didn't dare to do so.

Thinking of his next bleak life, Deng Zhong's face was full of sorrow.

Deng Ai took a sip of tea, put down the book in his hand, and glanced at his son.

"Loyal this, this, all these days, why have you been in the mansion all these days?"

Deng Zhong wanted to speak and stopped.

What do you think is the reason?

Deng Ai opened his mouth and said: "Your Majesty just punished me alone, no, I didn't ask you about it, you don't have to, you must worry, just go back to your ministry." ”

"They won't drive you out again."

Deng Zhong hesitated.

When no one came to invite him, he still didn't dare to go directly to Shangshutai, after all, he was still a sinful person.

Deng Ai was dissatisfied with his son's cowardice.

At this time, the messenger hurriedly arrived and invited Deng Ai to the temple.

Deng Ai stood up at this time, and Deng Zhong hurriedly stepped forward, "Father, my business"

Deng Ai waved his hand in displeasure and followed the people out of here.

Soon, Chen Qian and Deng Ai appeared in front of Cao Chao.

Cao Chao put the latest information from the south in front of them.

"Let's all take a look."

Chen Qian lowered his head and looked at it for a moment, then laughed, "Congratulations to Your Majesty, Jiaozhou will be decided without a fight!" ”

Deng Ai's face was a little solemn.

In fact, he was very helpless that the temple did not adopt his own strategy in the first place.

He believed that if he could adopt his own strategy at the beginning, gather troops after capturing Bashu and directly kill Jingnan, and attack from both sides, he would definitely be able to destroy Wu at the same time.

But his strategy seemed a little too crazy even to the equally radical Zhong Hui.

At this moment, Deng Ai pondered for a long time before he spoke: "Your Majesty, the State of Wu, the country sent troops to Jiaozhi, and they will only arrive faster than us, and when our army arrives, I am afraid that these uprisers have already been killed." ”

"Therefore, just sending people to meet them is not the way to keep Jiaozhou, the best way is to attack Jianye."

"Huh??"

Cao Chao and Chen Qian both looked at him in shock.

Deng Ai said seriously: "Your Majesty, no matter how many people die in Jingnan, Nan, Nan and Jiaozhou, and no matter how much land they lose, the important ministers and clans of the Wu State will not care too much." ”

"Because they all live in Jianye."

"The quickest way to end a war is to bypass these victims and go straight to the people who can make decisions."

"The kings of Wu are great, and the ministers don't care about the sacrifices of the soldiers, but they cherish their lives."

"Only by letting them feel threatened can the war end."

"For example, now that the land we have obtained in Jingnan is large enough, if we can still get Jiaozhou and connect these lands, then Wu can basically only retreat in Jiangdong and defend passively."

"How do you get Jiaozhou? Then the best way to make the other party feel that he can't send troops to Jiaozhou, is to make Jianye's important ministers feel that they are in danger, so as to solve the problem. ”

Deng Ai talked about his thoughts.

Deng Ai believed that orders should be given to Biqiu Jian and others, so that they could organize naval armies from all over the country to take the initiative to cross the river and fight, and point their swords at Jianye.

Of course, with the number of warships in Wei now, it is not so easy to defeat Wu in a water battle.

However, Deng Ai's purpose is not to take Jianye, as long as Jianye feels that the enemy may come to kill him, this is enough.

Under such circumstances, they would never dare to divide their troops and go to Jiaozhou.

And Wei was able to subdue Jiaozhi and other places without hurrying.

Chen Qian shook his head after listening to Deng Ai's strategy.

"No, no."

"Today, even if the warships in several theaters in the south are combined, it can't be said that they can win the naval army of the Wu State, in such a situation, how can they go out to fight?"

"If the enemy takes the opportunity to storm and defeat our naval army, not only Jiaozhi, but also a threat to everywhere, good things will become bad things!"

"I absolutely can't agree to such a risky behavior!"

Chen Qian's eyes were full of shock and anger.

He always felt that His Majesty was too partial to Deng Ai.

His previous actions in office were enough to punish his clan.

Your Majesty has to keep him, even if he keeps it, he still has to let him come over at this moment and participate in such an important event!

Deng Ai has never been a person who does things safely, and his ideas are always too radical and risky.

Cao Chao immediately hesitated.

Deng Ai glanced at Chen Qian, and then said seriously: "Your Majesty, please don't worry that things will fail. ”

"First of all, our navy is not without the strength to fight against the Wu State, Huainan fought with the Wu people many times, although it was not to the point of being able to attack, but it is not without any strength."

"Besides, since Your Majesty was in power, all localities have actually begun to build warships and begin to prepare for the great unification."

"The warships of Yu, Yang, Qing, and Xu combined, the number is not small, and in the face of Wu's warships, they will not collapse at the touch of a button."

"Besides, in these years, the State of Wu has suffered from turmoil, and a large number of generals and soldiers have defected, and these people have been well rewarded by His Majesty in the State of Wei!"

Deng Ai said seriously.

In fact, the situation of the Wu army is the opposite of the Wei army, in the Wei state, the most capable of fighting is the Chinese army, and they are the highest salary, while in the Wu state, the most capable of fighting are the foreign army, which is the legion formed by those generals with their own private soldiers.

And the army subordinate to the temple was treated very poorly, which is why when Sun Qi's younger brother wanted to take them to the Wei State, these people did not resist.

Cao Chao guessed that Sun Xiu was now crazy and wanted to deal with the big clan, and it was also because Sun Xiu's younger brothers took the core army belonging to the temple to Wei, which caused Sun Xiu to have a great sense of insecurity.

The army in the hands of the Wu clan exceeded the army in the hands of the emperor, so where could Sun Xiu still sit?

So he could only try his best to let Pu Yangxing harm these people and weaken their power.

Deng Ai continued: "These people used to have a very difficult life in the Wu State, but after arriving in the Wei State, Your Majesty gave them extremely high treatment, their morale was high, and they were all willing to fight for Your Majesty!" ”

"Now that these people are gathered and still in the water war, will they still worry about being defeated by the Wu State?"

Deng Ai analyzed: "In addition, because of the great battle in Jingnan, most of the warships of Wu are on the Jingzhou side, blocking Wang Ji and Wen Qin and others, there are not many sailors here in Jianye, Chen Gong is now afraid of the enemy's strength, and thinks that the enemy will wipe us out, I think, maybe there are more sailors in Huainan than in Jianye!" ”

"The most, most important thing is also the question of the generals."

"The generals of the Wu people can fight, but there are only a few people, all of them are in Jingzhou at the moment, Ding Feng wanted to return to Jianye, but Sun Xiu issued an edict not to allow it."

"Now the commander of Jianye is just a person like Zhang Bu, a person like him to command the army, even if it is a powerful army, it will not be the opponent of the general of the chariot cavalry."

Deng Ai talked about his reasons one by one.

He finally added: "Besides, Jianye is their royal city, and the enemy will not dare to despise it, even if we decide to withdraw our troops, they will not dare to pursue it, for fear that Jianye will lose." ”

"How could Chen Gong be so afraid?"

Deng Ai looked at Chen Qian.

At this moment, Chen Qian was a little speechless, although Deng Ai was crazy, what he said seemed to make sense.

Cao Chao pursed his lips and said: "In this matter, I still have to ask the general of the Che Cai, he is on the front line, and he should be the most familiar with these things." ”

"If only the ministries could be connected"

"Your Majesty, you must not let them fight together."

Deng Ai interrupted Cao Chao, he said seriously: "The battle line is too long, if you force them to cooperate, it will only cause a rout, let them fight their own, and there is no division of labor between them, as long as they are not their own people fighting their own people, it is enough to occupy an advantage, if Your Majesty is worried that Biqiu Jian will not be able to complete such a thing, you can let the minister go to Huainan"

Cao Chao suddenly sobered up.

It's okay to ask for advice, but if you want to go, forget it, let you go to Huainan, I'm afraid that you will lead the army to attack Jianye the next day.

However, what he said also seemed to have some truth, which made Wu bloom everywhere, and he did not dare to send troops to rescue, and brought their disadvantage in strength to the extreme.

It seems to be a bit of a trick??