On December 16, the thirteenth year of Jian'an, Cao Cao, the prime minister of the Han Dynasty, finally ascended to the head of Xiakou.

Since the southward movement in July, the puppet Jingzhou Mu Liu Cong has tied his hands, and the eight counties have fallen to the wind, and the generals of Jingzhou, only Liu Bei fought in Xinye and Dangyang, and he colluded with Liu Qi, the puppet Jiangxia Taishou, and along the Han River, he built the defense line of Shiyang, Chukou and Xiakou.

This was originally a line of defense that could block hundreds of thousands of troops, however, in the past month, Shiyang and Chukou were all broken, and Xiakou, which was the strongest defense, was abandoned by Liu Bei.

Maybe someone calculated that Liu Bei would abandon the city, but no one could guess that Liu Bei would not do any damage and leave without committing any crime against Xiakou.

Cao Cao's health was much better, he patted the city bricks, looked left and right, and saw that there were many defensive facilities on the city wall, and the wooden cannon stones were still piled up on the city.

Looking at it, he suddenly smiled.

There was only one person with him, he was a character who didn't smile, just watched silently.

After laughing for a long time, Cao Cao found that no one asked, and he was a little embarrassed and coughed lightly.

At this time, Cao Wu and Zhao Yan went to the city together.

Cao Wuling moved and asked, "Why is my brother laughing?" ”

The eyebrows of the full pet jumped involuntarily, he saw Cao Wu seeing Cao Cao a few days ago, only telling jokes and not talking about business, and he had already put Cao Wu in the scope of the minister, and now Cao Wu said according to Cao Cao's heart, which made him dislike.

Cao Cao had a lot to talk about, listened to the inquiry, and said with a smile: "In the past, Lone and Xuande Gong feasted and drank, commenting on the heroes of the world, Xuande Gong was worried that Lone was suspicious of him, Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu, Liu Biao, Sun Ce, Liu Zhang, these are all capable people, and they were listed by him one by one, but they were not in Lone's eyes. Now that the time has passed, except for Liu Zhang, who is weak in Yizhou, all the monarchs have withered. Lonely and Xuande Gong have not seen each other for many years, but today, he is desperate to be chased by Lonely, but his demeanor is still the same. Not only can a strong man break his wrist, but also do not destroy Xiakou, leave grain and grass to relieve the people, leave a defense so that we can defend Jiangdong, and make the name of benevolence and righteousness spread all over the world. If we can see each other again in the future, Lone Dang will say another word to him—"

He looked at the Yangtze River and said loudly: "The heroes of the world, only the king and the Cao. You! ”

When the green plum boiled wine, the heroes surrounded Cao Cao, he said this, it was still a big talk, and now Jingzhou is pacified, and then look at this words, but it is heroic and unparalleled.

Liu Bei back then, like a lost dog, is the same now, but he has not changed his original intention, supporting the Han family, and promoting benevolence and righteousness in the world has always been his ideal.

These two people are worthy of the words of heroes in the world.

Cao Wu also sighed a lot, although Chibi was a miserable victory, but after all, he recovered Xiakou and completed all his strategic goals.

Today's Jiangdong has no Yangtze River barrier. This year, Cao's army also had to provide disaster relief, repair grain roads, and pacify the counties of Jingzhou, so it was difficult to continue the offensive. But when Cao Jun comes back next year, Yizhou in the upper reaches and Jiangdong in the lower reaches will already be meat on the chopping block.

Cao Wugang wanted to say something, but Zhao Yan had already taken the lead and said, "The prime minister is wise!" At a glance, he saw through Liu Xuande's wolf ambitions, his name is to abandon the city, but in fact, he can't win, so he just plays the trick of inviting people's hearts. Leaving the city defense equipment seems to be benevolent and righteous, but in fact, our army is a situation of attack, there are few opportunities to defend Xiakou, and there are many opportunities to go out of Chaisang, and leaving the city defense equipment is useless for our army! ”

Cao Wu glanced at Zhao Yan, thinking that this guy was really an eight-sided and exquisite character, Cao Cao was obviously boasting, he said the last sentence wisely, praised Cao and belittled Liu, and also showed that his army was completely able to take Xiakou, and he didn't need Liu Bei to abandon the city.

Full of favors, but his face was not very good-looking, and seeing that Zhao Yan and Cao Wu were quite close, he thought that Zhao Yan was just a peacemaker, and it took so long to fight Shiyang and Chukou, and Cao Wu was even more domineering, and there was something common between the ministers after all.

He didn't know how difficult it was to fight Shiyang and Chukou, and Xiakou's defensive strength was stronger than the two cities, and Cao Jun might not be able to win it after fighting for a year and a half.

Liu Bei abandoned the city, and Cao's army had to die tens of thousands of people.

Full of favor said: "Prime Minister, Liu Xuande's abandonment of the city does have a great impact on the overall situation, and it needs to be considered in the long run." ”

Cao Cao was emotional, interrupted by Manzhong, and said with a little displeasure: "The military power of the army has been handed over to the general of Beifu, and he is the one who listens to him." ”

I was stunned, but I didn't expect that the battle was over, and Cao Cao even said that he listened to Cao Wu, the relationship between the brothers was really so good?

In fact, this is also Cao Cao's test for Cao Wu, to see if Cao Wu can handle the post-war affairs.

And Cao Wu snorted and said with a smile: "Jia Junshi already has a way to do this. ”

"Oh?"

Cao Cao was interested, and he didn't know what Jia Xu could do.

Cao Wu slowly said the poisoner Jia Xu's countermeasure.

Liu Bei abandoned the city and took only 2,000 people with him, and the remaining thousands of soldiers were all integrated into the people.

These people were gradually pulled out by Zhao Yan to prevent them from gathering to do things.

Then Jia Xu arranged many Jingzhou soldiers to mix in with the people of Jiangxia to fill their vacancies.

In this expedition, the Jingzhou soldiers were also the majority, and they were sent into the people to publicize that Liu Bei took a large amount of gold, silver and jewelry when he abandoned the city, but left the people behind the palace.

Someone added fuel and vinegar, saying that in the battles of Shiyang and Chukou, Liu Bei also abandoned the city and fled, and he had long had the habit of abandoning the city.

In this way, the people of Jiangxia do not know the truth or falsehood, and Liu Bei's behavior is not a righteous act.

This is only the first step, how can it be so simple for the poisoner, he found the two thousand Yizhou soldiers brought by Zhang Song and let them go back, but before going back, he passed on to them the idea that Cao Cao was most afraid of Liu Bei in his life, and told them that the reason why he was afraid of Liu Bei was that he was afraid that Liu Bei would replace Cao Cao.

In this way, when these two thousand people return to Yizhou, Liu Zhang will inevitably know about it, since Cao Cao is afraid that Liu Bei will replace him, how can he deal with it?

This made Liu Zhang suspicious of Liu Bei and reduced the risk of Liu Bei entering Sichuan.

Jia Xu didn't care whether Liu Bei went to Cangwu to guard Wu Ju or made a detour into Sichuan, because no matter what, these two thousand soldiers would also walk in front of Liu Bei and give Liu Zhang a head start.

Liu Zhang was already timid and afraid, after hearing this, how could he dare to let Liu Bei enter Sichuan? The matter of borrowing troops has become empty talk.

After this set of combinations, Liu Bei's feat of abandoning the city is meaningless.

This is exactly the method of seeing the moves, Jia Xu's perfect play, which has already made Cao Wu admire, but it is not over yet.

What's even more shameless is that Jia Xu also ordered someone to spread the news that Sun Ce's widow Da Qiao, after being defeated on the water, fled to Xiakou, but was taken away by Liu Bei in retaliation that Liu Bei's water army was used as cannon fodder, and Yuan Lin died in the revenge of the rebellious army.

Da Qiao knew his identity, except for the first day of participating in the disaster relief, he never showed up again, how did the people of Jiangdong know where Da Qiao was, there were many rumors, and Jiangdong believed it.

In the eyes of Jiangdong people, Da Qiao, who is like the mother of the country, was kidnapped by Liu Bei in this way, which is the same shame as when Zhang Xiu's aunt was occupied by Cao Cao, and this Liangzi was concluded.

Jiangdong will definitely find Liu Bei to ask for someone, but where is Liu Bei's person, so that the contradiction between the Sun-Liu alliance will only get bigger and bigger.

Poisoner Jia Xu, a set of playing methods of adding oil and vinegar, so that Jiangxia, Yizhou, and Jiangdong were in the scheme at the same time.

After the strategy was finished, Man Chong finally stopped talking, and Cao Cao also nodded frequently, just because they found that for Liu Bei, a new dead end has been generated, even if he is really a hero in the world, it is difficult to cook without rice, and when Cao Jun consolidates Jingzhou, what can he do?

After the people of Jiangxia returned to their hearts, Jiangxia could attack and retreat and defend, what did Jiangdong count?

Liu Bei, Liu Zhang, Sun Quan, and Jia Xu calculated three families, which is really popular.

Especially the statement that Da Qiao was taken away made Cao Wu laugh, Jia Yuan and the enemy were expected to win, which was really poisonous, but it could perfectly break Liu Bei's design.

In the midst of the chaos, Liu Bei's pot was decided.

Man Chong thought a lot, because he knew that this strategy was come up with by Jia Xu, and he didn't admire Cao Wu, but he still gave his hand and said: "The general has a clear mind and has been taught." ”

Cao Wu returned the salute.

But Man Chong still didn't give up, he continued: "Prime Minister, in fact, compared to spreading rumors and slandering Liu Bei, the most important thing at the moment is to decide the next move of the army, the sergeants have been on the expedition in July, it has been five months, and it is time for the class teacher." ”