"Prime Minister, the plague has become an expanding trend in the army, and many people have been killed by the disease, and the doctor recommends that the sick soldiers and the healthy people be isolated as soon as possible, otherwise the plague will continue to spread."

Cao Cao could be said to be anxious after listening to Li Dian's report. In fact, he had similar worries at the beginning of the army when he had vomiting and diarrhea due to water and soil adaptation, but as time passed, this emergency spread like a wildfire in the crowd, and it was out of control.

"How many sick soldiers are there now?" Cao Cao asked.

"Prime Minister, so far 3,000 people have died of illness, there are still more than 6,000 seriously ill people, more than 8,000 people with mild symptoms, and even more people who have symptoms of infection."

"Hiss......"

Cao Cao took a breath of cool air, anxious in his heart, and then looked at the current commanders of the navy, Yu Ban and Mao Jue.

"How's the chain of wires prepared? Are our soldiers accustomed to fighting on boats? ”

Seeing this, Yu Ban hurriedly stepped forward.

"I would like to report to the Prime Minister that we have made a group of ten warships, and not only connected them with iron chains, but also laid wooden planks on them to reduce the shaking caused by the wind and waves, and our soldiers have the basic habit of walking on the surface of the ships to fight, and even riding horses."

Cao Cao showed a smile on his face when he heard this, and exhaled: "Seeing that the temperature on the river is getting lower and lower, and winter is approaching, we must completely take Jiangdong before spring comes, and this battle will play a decisive role." The order is given, all the soldiers are stepping up their drills, and our army will attack at any time. ”

"Yes, Prime Minister."

Cao Cao was also a little anxious in his heart, the expanding plague made him unwilling to continue to delay, and wanted to sweep away the threat of Jiangdong and Liu Bei as soon as possible with a thunderous force, so that no one in the entire Central Plains would be his opponent Cao Mengde, and like Xichuan Liu Zhang, Xiliang Ma Teng and the like, he had not taken it seriously.

However, at this moment, a soldier walked quickly into the camp tent, knelt down on one knee and said: "Prime Minister, just now there is a small boat sneakily docked on the opposite side, and it was taken down by my patrol soldiers, this person said that he came to deliver a letter. ”

"Deliver a letter?"

Cao Cao narrowed his eyes slightly, and asked people to take the letter in front of him and open it.

He quickly glanced at the content of the letter, his pupils shrank suddenly, and he said happily: "God help me, God help me~!" ”

The few strategists and generals standing on the side didn't know what news their lord had seen, and they were so happy? Their eyes were full of curiosity.

Cao Cao waved the letter in his hand and said: "This is written by Huang Gai, a veteran of Jiangdong, who said in the letter that Zhou Yu'er used the position of governor of this war to squeeze out and suppress them, the old ministers of Eastern Wu, and the slightest political disagreement will be retaliated against."

Yesterday, Huang Gai, the former parliament of the army, only collided with him for a few words, and was dragged to the barracks to be whipped, this Huang Gai was angry, ready to switch to our army, and agreed on the time of surrender, when the rocket was the number, leading the troops to defect in front of the formation, to help our army successfully take Jiangdong! ”

As soon as Cao Cao said this, Xun You, Cheng Yu and Jia Xu next to him not only did not have a trace of joy, but had strange expressions.

Cheng Yu, who has an upright personality, couldn't bear it at first, and stepped forward and said: "Prime Minister, this letter is full of doubts, so Huang Gaimo doesn't want to surrender?" ”

The smile on Cao Cao's face narrowed a little and said: "It's not impossible to surrender by fraud, but Zhongde, you must know that our army defeated Yuan Shao in the Battle of Guandu, and pacified the north with a thunderous momentum, at that time, we were few and outnumbered and still able to achieve victory, and now we have several times the opponent's elite soldiers, and there are so many first-class strategists in the world and so many fierce generals to complement each other, how can we be defeated?" It is not strange that there are people in the city of Soochow who come to descend, those who know the times are handsome, and good birds choose trees to perch, and it is strange if they can always work together. ”

"But the other party didn't descend early or late, but came to land when our army's iron lock and ship plague was rampant, and this timing was a little too weird."

Cao Cao waved his hand and said: "Needless to say, I will let people verify whether what Huang Gai said is true, but whether he really surrenders or surrenders by fraud, our army cannot drag on any longer, we should take advantage of the fact that the plague has not yet harmed the fundamentals, and the whole army will launch a general attack." ”

"Prime Minister......

"Alright, let's all step aside."

Cao Cao didn't want to say more, although Cheng Yu had the heart to stop it, he also knew that it was difficult for others to change what his father-in-law decided.

After everyone in the military tent had retreated, Cao Cao sat alone in the main seat, his fingers tapping lightly, as if he was thinking about something and waiting for something.

I don't know how long it took, a footstep entered the big tent from far and near, and when he was far away, he said: "Prime Minister, I have something to report." ”

Cao Cao's face was overjoyed, and he hurriedly said: "Berning came really fast, come in quickly." ”

Cao Cao summoned Man Zhong in, and the latter didn't wait for him to ask, and took the initiative to say: "Prime Minister, it has been found out, that Huang Gai did have a dislike with Zhou Yu, and was tied up in the barracks in public to be whipped, and the injury was not light. ”

"Oh, so there's a good chance that Huang Gai's surrender is true."

Faced with Cao Cao's question, he did not answer it, he knew that the prime minister was talking to himself.

After Cao Cao got the news of the full favor, although he also felt that Huang Gai's defection was still suspicious, he couldn't wait, and he didn't dare to wait any longer, he had to defeat the enemy before the army was defeated by the plague.

And the two armies are fighting, this kind of mutiny is also very common, even when Cao Cao and Yuan Shao were at war, he himself was at a disadvantage, and many people wrote to Yuan Shao to say that they wanted to surrender, and now he is powerful, and it is normal for someone in Eastern Wu to surrender.

Cao Cao squinted and thought for a while, then slapped his leg with his palm and said, "Okay!" That's it, Berning, write a secret letter for me and send it to Huang Gai, saying that I accept him to bring people to surrender, as long as he can successfully defeat Zhou Yu this time, he will sit in the post of Jiangdong Governor in the future. ”

"Yes, Prime Minister, I'll do it."

In the Chibi military camp, Huang Gai, who was covered in wounds, really received a reply from Cao Cao, and the two determined the specific time and signal of Surrender, and the development of this war seemed to be unstoppable.

And Zhao Yi's side, specifically asked Huang Gai to come to an assault boat, not only that, but he also found some gasoline from the warehouse and poured it on the haystack of the assault boat, and then combined with Huang Gai's search for oil, sulfur, smoke and other things, the periphery was wrapped in a cloth curtain, once he saw the sparks, it would definitely burn like maggots attached to the bones, as long as Cao Cao's fleet was stained with even a little bit, the small wind was blowing, and even if he wanted to, he couldn't extinguish it.

The time has come to the day agreed between Huang Gai and Cao Cao, just after noon on this day, the thick fog on the river moved horizontally, the cold wind was whining, Zhou Yu and others stood on the platform of the military camp, looking at the river with solemn expressions.

Zhao Yi also stood in it, his eyes fixed on the handsome flag that was blown by the wind on the edge of the barracks.

Suddenly, the flag fluttering in the wind shook for a while, and after a while, under the action of the cold wind, it began to flutter in the other direction, and the wind direction really changed!

"East wind! Dudu, it's really Dongfeng! Mr. Zhuge borrowed the east wind to come! ”

Huang Gai couldn't hide his excitement when he saw the sudden change in the wind direction of the river, and Lu Su also turned around to look at Zhao Yi with wide eyes, and his horror was not hidden at all.

And although Zhou Yu tried his best to control it, his slightly narrowed eyes could still see the shock in his heart.

At this moment, he was also more determined to take Zhao Yi's life, maybe after this battle, or maybe in this battle, no matter what, such a person can't easily put him back, once there is any change in the future, no one wants to be an enemy of a person who can use the immortal method.